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Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’
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I don't know that its ever been quite as much a moron as this guy. Dubba was dumb, but not "rip out USaid" dumb.
Love 'em or hate 'em, most presidents (or at least their cabinets) understood that the laws and institutions of the country were all broadly weighted in their favor, even if that meant occasionally accepting this or that particular limitation.
No. He just put the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association in charge of FEMA right before one of the worst hurricanes in the nation's history. Then he put John Bolton, a man even Donald Trump dunked on as a war-mongering idiot asshole, into the position of UN Ambassador. Oh, and he put Scalia - a man who recited 15th century poetry to defend a moratorium on gay marriage - on the SC. Oh, and don't forget putting Jeff Gannon in the White House press pool.
You are off your fucking rocker if you think Bush 43 either understood or respected the laws and institutions of the country. We were dealing with a Constitutional Crisis every other week during the last two years of his Presidency.
Go back to Reagan, Nixon, fucking Eisenhower. Nevermind how corrupt and mendacious folks in the LBJ and Carter and Clinton administrations ended up being. It's all the same shit, different days.
Trump feels worse because we're so far removed from the Golden Era of the New Deal that we've forgotten politicians can even be "good" in a proper sense. And when even the gritty Cold War jerk-off of the 1980s are a distant memory, we've forgotten that we're all supposed to be playing on the same team even if we don't like the Head Coach. It's the naked infighting that makes this modern moment suck so much. Sending gestapo in to drag women by their hair and shoot paramedics in the face is shit you do in Vietnam or Iraq, not LA or Minnesota.
Trump is Imperialism coming home to the Core. But the policies are as American as Apple Pie.
I did not mean to say he "respected" them, far from it. But he did successfully reshape them. Bush did more to redefine US policy in the 21st century than any other president to come after. What does it matter that he ran up against constitutional crises, when the Democratic administration to succeed him just adopted most of his changes as the new normal?
I'm trying to say that while Bush reshaped and redefined US institutions for those to come after, Trump is just breaking them. There is no way for a successor administration to use USaid, because there just is no USaid anymore. And I suspect Dems will shrug and accept that world as the new normal as well (hell, they'll probably keep ICE largely unchanged and claim its different now that they're in the drivers seat).