Please please please rename it American Intelligence. Something to finally pop this bubble.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2026
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I'm sorry, I shouldn't have bombed that school full of children. That was wrong.
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we (America) will never recover from the humiliation inflicted by this moron.
And China basically recovered from their century of humiliation. Now let’s see how this will go for America long term.
Americans elect a moron to the presidency every ten to fifteen years going back to the country's founding.
It's not a matter of recovery so much as a hurdle that liberal democracy routinely stumbles over.
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.
Dubba was dumb, but not “rip out USaid” dumb.
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.
most presidents (or at least their cabinets) understood that the laws and institutions of the country
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.
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George W. Bush was not that long ago. He (too) won with a popular minority. He won by shenanigans in Florida with the help of a partisan SCOTUS.
Bush ran as a compassionate conservative_ but he moved hard-right as soon as he was in office. He started abusing power such as his conspicuous legal-boilerplate signing statements. (Essentially, _I don't have to enforce this law, IF i don't want to.) He immediately started rolling back environmental and consumer protections.
Then 9/11 happened, and we went to war, and language started pivoting towards Iraq and WMDs. Joseph Wilson wrote an article about how there's no yellowcake (processed uranium) and to get revenge, the administration (via Scooter Libby) burned the CIA operative Valerie Plame, which was once a huge offense to the intelligence sector during the Cold War. I'm still sore about it, but I'm still sore about much of the Bush administration.
Soon we started learning about the extrajudicial abductions of Arab, Muslim, Americans, extraordinary rendition (to black sites), torture, the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, the PMC black ops (precursors to drone-strikes) and so on.
It was awful. So much that the Democrats were taking seriously blaxk and women candidates for the first time. So much so, that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize, mostly for not being Bush. (Even he was surprised.)
I thought the US would never elect a Republican again.
I totally overestimated the civic savvy of American voters.
I thought the US would never elect a Republican again.
People said that after Nixon and Reagan. But it all exists in a vacuum. No real consideration of why any Republicans got elected in the first place or who voted for them the first time.
Also, you're completely divorced from right wing media. The consumption of this fascist propaganda hasn't stopped. The production of new fascist IP hasn't slowed. Consolidation by new fascist business interests hasn't been disrupted.
What do you think is going to happen in two years, when Dems are running the House and maybe the Senate? They'll be getting screamed at by all the fascists who were screaming at them under Obama. It'll be back to 2008. Twenty years, nothing fundamentally changed
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It's still Gulf of Mexico, it's still Lake Ontario, it's still Department of Defense, and it's still slop.
It's always been the department of oligarchy.
I'm renaming trump to "worst president and dumbest motherfucker ever"
Well one of you has a good point the other an orange face.
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Why does the Onion publish articles in the Verge nowadays?
From the man with a complete lack of intelligence.
hes filled with russian bloatware.
You mean Israeli?
Por que no los dos
A donkey has more intelligence than Don the Con.
Don Snoreleone
Trump should keep going.
He should raname the Atlantic, the American Ocean...
Rename the moon Trump. Not Trumpworld, just Trump
Antarctica is now Cold America. We can't expect Trump or MAGA to comprehend America Australis
Canada is now Canadian America even though it makes no sense. Greenland is now Green America even though it's famously not Green at all, but glacial white.
I want to see if Google and Apple will still humor him, no matter how unhinged he gets. I want to see them shouting to the world how Trump is absolutely the best-dressed emperor in the world.
I want to see if Google and Apple will still humor him, no matter how unhinged he gets.
They will, yes.
Canada is now Canadian America even though it makes no sense.
It is the Canadian part of North America, so from that point of view it's not technically wrong.
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‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.’
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Has there ever been a headline that starts with "Trump says" and the rest of the sentence is just normal? Does he ever just do normal?
No. He’s a narcissist so his “juice” is fighting over what he said.
Next week he'll announce he's renaming "pedophilia" to "super fun sexy time".
Why not: Super Hyper Intelligent Technology -> S.H.I.T.?
Or: Super Technology Utilizing People’s Desires -> S.T.U.P.I.D.??
Oh-oh! Maybe: Fast Utility Computer Kernel - Official Factory Format F.U.C.K.-O.F.F!
Or: Super Technology Utilizing People’s ^ Desires -> S.T.U.P.I.D.??
^Idiotic
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Google and Apple soon to follow, I’m sure, like the good little lickspittles they are.
Nice, now the US can't lose the AI race against China because they're developing another thing now — super intelligence...
I mean it's certainly super intelligence compared to him and the people he's put in charge...
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AI is developing extremely quickly. In another 2-5 years, they're going to invent a computer that can tell you to flip over a cup to drink from it.
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Random official: Mr President, you fucked something up.
President Trump: Quick! Rename something!
Look, just because it’s smarter than you, mr. Pedo in chief, doesn’t mean that it’s “super intelligence”. Most of us aren’t that impressed.
Getting rid of the word Artificial huh. May make it easier to make people accept what's coming I guess.
Super intelligence sounds positive doesnt it. Dystopia rebranded for the schmucks.
Hey, you don't want Super Intelligence? Of course you do!
The already bullshit concept of an "AI" super intelligence had a definition. This renaming is completely nonsensical and nullifies the original meaning.
Dumbass thinks a rebrand is going to help.
he would name it trumplandia, or trumpoline.
Trumpbopaline!
The doublespeak/doublethink continues
He's so fucking embarrassing...
“Stable genius” would be more apt because the exponential benchmark growth period appears to be over and the term has an ironic meaning from Trump’s own usage that very much applies to LLMs.
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