This is a lovely conspiracy theory, to be sure, that Jonah Goldberg is peddling:
After you heard President Obama’s call for a hike in the minimum wage, you probably wondered the same thing I did: Was Obama sent from the future by Skynet to prepare humanity for its ultimate dominion by robots?
Jonah then discusses how more expensive labor leads to robotic solutions. ATMs, of course. Now table-tablets to order food and pay the bill, as he discusses like this is some policy piece, or something.
Even hamburger cooking and assembling robots are out there. I've read.
Although the much-discussed Amazon delivery drones will not happen. Lawyers will follow those aircraft with their whirling blades of personal injury lawsuits everywhere they go.
Please, this would have been considered clever but unbelievable if the story had been released on April 1, 2014.
But back to Skynet.
If someone (or something) other than President Obama (ACORN? The Alliance of Computer Organized Robotic Networks?) is strengthening the robotic cogs of Skynet by pushing up wages too much in a high-unemployment era, we can at least be grateful that President Obama has sabotaged Skynet's development to control all the new robots.
Seriously, the vast integrated computer program to integrate federal and state data in near real time, known as the Obamacare website, has been wrecked too thoroughly to ever become a self-aware Skynet, even if paired with NSA data.
This would even explain the whole "birther thing" with the president's birth certificate. Those guys weren't nuts--they just had no idea how wrong about what was being hidden! What if President Obama's real birth certificate was belatedly discovered and it noted a birth date of some time in 1981, and it took years to fix all the errors to make sure nobody suspected he was sent from the future? Why else would it be kept hidden for so long?
This has to be the president's plan to save us. "Forward with me, if you want to live." What's better for our health than avoiding robotic slaughter?
Nobody could actually create such a clusterfuck of healthcare.gov on accident, could they?
