What’s My Line?

By Not Sure

29 March 2026

What’s my line? I’m a working man in my prime…cleaning windows.

No! Not the Van Morrison song “Cleaning Windows” from 1981 (released 1982), but the American panel game show that ran from 1950 to 1967. Celebrity panelists wore blindfolds and had to probe to find out the occupation (line of work) of a mystery guest. They were only allowed to ask yes/no questions. Let’s go!

Are you a member of the Republican party?

Yes.

In 2016-17, were you United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump? Yes! In that position did you have a role in determining the first year of the administration's foreign policy, especially regarding Middle East policy? Yes! Were you also an Assistant to the President and Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives? Yes!

Were you born in the United States?

No.

In Davos, Switzerland in January of 2026, when speaking about your new job, did you wear a scoop neck top (plunging), a very short skirt, and high-heeled black leather boots?

Yes!

Were you involved in the George W. Bush presidential campaign of 2000? Yes.

At the age of 29 (and the youngest ever to receive this appointment), did you become Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel, a senior staff position at the White House? Yes. Were you Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs? Yes. Was this a State Department job? Yes.

Did George W. Bush paint your portrait and include it in his 2021 book about immigrants entitled, Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants?

Yes!

Are you a member of the Council on Foreign Relations?

Yes!

The Trilateral Commission?

Yes!

Did you leave government in 2007 to become a managing director at Goldman Sachs despite having no education and background in finance? Yes! At Goldman Sachs did you lead one of the world’s largest foundations? Yes! Did you also lead their charitable giving fund? Yes!

Were you on an Aspen Institute Panel with Madeleine Albright in 2014 on reforming public policy? Yes. Were you wearing Jimmy Choo wedges averaging $875 a pair? (Blank stare).

Are you the board chair of the Robin Hood Foundation? No! Were you ever? Yes!

Were you mentored by Condoleezza Rice? Yes! In 2017, were you part of the ‘core four’ who drafted a plan for a comprehensive Middle East peace, along with Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman? Yes! Were you called Ivanka Trump’s ‘woman in the White House?’ Yes!

Are you married to a U.S. Senator? Yes. Is this your second marriage? Yes. Do you speak Arabic? Yes.

Were you on the Advisory Council of the George W. Bush Presidential Center? Yes!

Were you on the short list to replace Nikki Haley as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations? Yes. In 2019, were you considered for an appointment as the first female president of the World Bank? Yes. Were you also considered to be appointed White House Chief of Staff? Yes.

Were you a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader sometime between 2005 and 2010? Yes.

For your 2026 speech at WEF in Davos, were those Dolce & Gabanna knee-high boots that retail for $1945? No. Were they Jimmy Choos, $1795? No. Christian Louboutin, $2450? No! Saint Laurent, $1990? (The questioning continued and the mystery was never solved).

Have you been a recurring participant in panels at the Aspen Security Forum, hosted by the Aspen Institute, sharing your insights on Middle East policy, U.S. foreign relations, and regional dynamics? Yes.

On December 19, 2025, did you resign your position as board member of Meta Platforms? Yes.

Are you Dina Habib Powell McCormick, the President and Vice-Chairman of Meta since January of 2026?

Yes!!

If you like wonderfully touching, heart-warming and inspiring stories of rags to riches, immigrants-making-good, women’s empowerment, mentoring-makes-all-the-difference, and you like these stories told to you by the cheeriest, chirpiest, most rah-rah ‘this is the best country ever,’ super-fine-clothes-wearing, non-stop, smooth-talking champion of small town colleges, local initiatives, pepped up policy and peace in the Middle East, super-can-do, then Dina Powell is your gal.

Mommy and Daddy Habib left Egypt when Dina was four, seeking a better place to raise a family. Coptic Christians, the story goes they settled in Dallas, Texas, and worked hard running a convenience store so that their girls could get educated at a private Catholic school. She achieved American citizenship at the age of 17, and then, the sky was literally the limit.

Of course, there are some odd nuances to the foundation myth. Her father was a captain in the Egyptian army and Dina said, ‘though he wasn’t high level’ he was instrumental in advising Anwar Sadat before his November 1977 trip to Jerusalem which led to the Camp David Accords signed in September 1978, becoming the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in 1979. Her mother is described as a public servant and trained psychologist.

Dina attended University of Texas at Austin and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta (3D?, 3xD?) Sorority. At various locations of the sorority, there’ve been a few scandals over the years (girls will be girls) including racial discrimination, blackface at parties, and drunkenness, but for the most part the members appear to be committed to ‘truth, self-sacrifice and friendship each day as they share a lifelong journey of service, sisterhood and growth.’

When you look at Dina’s resumé, you don’t see deep knowledge or expertise on any particular subject. It’s the bio of a world-class cheerleader, a networker who started early and must have a digital Rolodex (remember those?) that requires a quantum cooling system.

Redux 256, Alan Watt’s talk from June 9, 2019:

Powers of the Air:

"We're so Wired, so Fired and 5G Mired,

Surveyed, Betrayed, Pulse-Fried Tired.

Who organizers the organizers?

We know that protests are organized but what we can’t often know is who is organizing, and more importantly funding, the organizers? In 2021, the 5G Global Protest Day was started, and people by the thousands demanded someone put an end to 5G. One of the main outcries in 2020-21 was that 5G weakened the immune system and caused the Covid virus to spread more quickly. This was quickly labeled the ‘5G Conspiracy Theory’ and anyone protesting concerns such as general health risks, cancers, environmental damage, or military application is called a conspiracy theorist.

We’re told 6G is to be low-latency, high-bandwidth, and the rollout of this is touted as ‘around 2030’ or ‘the early 2030s.’ It is the infrastructure necessary for massive AI operations, immersive communication and intelligent industrial robots. Rather than be an ‘add-on’ like 5G, AI will be embedded across all layers of the network, allowing for real-time adaptation, self-optimizing, self-healing, and intelligent resource allocation. I don’t understand that either…but it goes something like this: AI built into the architecture of the system allows for ultra-reliable, low-latency control of smart factories, digital twins (that’s a virtual replica of any physical object or process, and that would include you), and enables coordination of autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) and robotics.

In military applications, its uses would include swarm coordination of drones, and secure connectivity for ‘situational awareness’ and precision targeting.

Meta

In Latin, meta is a cone, pyramid, conical column, or turning point at a circus race, serving as a goal, boundary, or end.

In Greek, (μετά) meta is a preposition: ‘with,’ ‘among,’ ‘after,’ or ‘in the midst of,’ and a prefix: ‘beyond,’ ‘transcending,’ or ‘self-referential,’ as in metaphysics and metamorphosis.

Last week, Meta laid off several hundred more workers and its Metaverse division is essentially offline. Meta is quickly moving to put its focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has committed billions to this new directive. Building of the Prometheus data center in Ohio is set to commence this year. This center will support Meta’s advanced AI training. Work is underway in Louisiana on their largest data center to date, Hyperion. This will deliver 5 gigawatts of compute capacity to power next-generation AI models and Meta’s pursuit of superintelligence.

Prometheus was the Titan god of fire; he defied Olympus and gave fire to humanity. (Keep it! We’re gonna figure this one out ourselves, in a cave, with a couple of sticks). For his defiance, Zeus punished him. Will Meta’s Prometheus get chained to a rock and have its ever-regenerating liver eaten daily by a giant eagle? One can wish. Hyperion and his son Helios both personify the sun. The name Hyperion in Greek derives from ὑπέρ (hypér), ‘above.’ As above…

There’s so much mythmaking involved in the creation of stars. Facebook was created in young Mark’s dormitory room, a movie was made about the Boy Wonder. There’s a factory that cranks out his look: a return to 90s rapper with loose-fitting black t-shirts and big gold chains. T-shirts with Latin and Greek sayings. Dollars to donuts the man is not fluent in either classic language:

‘Carthago delenda est’ (Carthage must be destroyed), ‘pathei mathos’ (learning through suffering), and ‘Aut Zuck aut nihil’ (‘Either Zuck or nothing,’ from ‘Caesar or nothing’).

The star-making machine has a wardrobe department, so Zuckerberg gets t-shirts with Latin slogans, Nvidia’s Jenson Huang gets black leather jackets, and Elon Musk gets ever-weirder haircuts.

Have you heard Mark Zuckerberg speak? He should pursue intelligence before he goes after superintelligence. There’s a debate whether intelligence is fixed (native, possessed at birth), but fixed or flexible, Zuck is simply not the brightest bulb on the marquee.

Superintelligence is the hypothetical agent which possesses intelligence surpassing the most gifted human minds, the near perfect supercomputer. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg claim this will be here in just a few years, but then again, back in 2021 when ‘bulbus obscurus Zuck’ changed the name of Facebook to Meta he said we’d all be living in the Metaverse soon.

I wonder if Elon Musk had a chance to speak with Dina Powell at Davos? It was there, earlier this year, that Musk opined we’ll all have personal robots by 2027 or 2028.

When I stumbled on Dina Powell, I thought, ‘Oh, maybe she’s the brains.’ But it turns out that Dina Habib Powell McCormick is the cheerleader of the operation. In her syrupy voice, she says things like ‘AI is a group sport.’ and ‘The construction needed for data centers to power all this growth will take at least 500,000 electricians.’ She smiles and giggles when she tells us that Mark has moved his desk out with the programmers. ‘He’s coding again!’ ‘Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, he’s our man. If he can’t code it, nobody can.’

Dina’s enthusiasm is contagious when she assures us that AI is necessary for national security, the building spree won’t hurt the environment, they’re ‘sensitive’ to the needs of the community and have promised Trump, and you, that you will not suffer grid failure or increased electricity costs. ‘Delta, delta delta! We’re the sisters with the trendiest shoes!’

An Alan Watt shortcut from his Cutting Through books, ‘We are not going under world government, we’ve been there for a long, long time.’ Except in the Cutting Through books, Alan put that in ALL CAPS, bold. As Carroll Quigley described in Tragedy and Hope this is the new feudal system and CEOs will be our feudal overlords (and overladies, with knee-high boots, black, pointy-toed, heck of a spiked heel). There’s no complaints department.

Yes, it was good to see the ruling against Meta last week, when a Los Angeles jury said that Meta (and YouTube) deliberately design addictive products that harm people, but the damages of $6 million, with Meta paying 70% and YouTube picking up the remainder, is like pennies for a company spending billions on data centers in their pursuit of superintelligence.

The new infrastructure, AI built into everything, seamlessly and autonomously calculating and correcting in real time, will soon make CCTV, QR, GPS look like old-school add-ons. 15-minute cities, rationing of everything, austerity lockdowns, depopulation in earnest.

Somewhere on Olympus, the gods survey and determine. Who to share fire with this year? For a season (in Titan years) they let ‘bulbus obscurus Zuck’ practice Mixed Martial Arts, raise fancy cows in Hawaii, and go hydrofoiling between TV interviews and photo shoots, where he plays the role of Boy Wonder. Dina gets a generous clothing allowance.

Additional reading and viewing:

Meta’s $27 Billion Datacenter Is Wreaking Havoc on a Louisiana Town

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-hyperion-data-center-louisiana

Five Questions with Dina Powell McCormick

https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/five-questions-with-dina-powell-mccormick

The Refugee and Immigrant Stories of Madeleine Albright, Dina Powell McCormick, and Ezinne Uzo-Okoro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwMbfcZFTNk

Senator McCormick emerges as vocal advocate for Jewish voters in the Senate

https://jewishinsider.com/2025/03/dave-mccormick-pennsylvania-gop-senator-israel-jewish-voters/

Meta exec on how AI will reshape America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWHp4s4fgIM