Someone called ChatGPT “Grand Theft Autocorrect” and I laughed way too long at that.

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

Elon Musk just raided America's doomsday seed vault.

Yes, you read that right. The vault meant to protect humanity’s last defense against agricultural collapse, stripped and sabotaged.

This isn't hyperbole. The seed bunker held our future. Our protection from famine, disease, climate disasters, destroyed by reckless arrogance.

Elon Musk fired critical scientists, placing centuries of agricultural heritage at immediate risk.

America relied on those seeds. America relied on those scientists. America relied on that bunker.

62,000 unique wheat strains, 600,000 genetic lines, our lifeline in a crisis, now endangered.

Without regular care, these seeds die. Without these seeds, we lose our ability to respond to threats.

Without that ability, we lose food security itself.

This is a direct assault on humanity's survival.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) treated our collective security as disposable, gambling with millions of lives. Farmers, families, and children. Everyone is harmed.

If you're thinking someone else will handle this, you're wrong. If you're assuming private industry will step in, you're wrong.

If you're comfortable waiting to act, you're complicit.

Apathy won't fix this, waiting won't reverse it.

You must immediately demand:
- Full reinstatement of the fired scientists.
- Secured federal funding protecting the seed vault permanently.
- Legislative safeguards ensuring this can never happen again.

Call your representatives. Share this message. Demand accountability from Musk, DOGE, and our government.

Act now, because your future depends on it. Your children's survival, planet's stability, and the nation's integrity are at stake.

It is urgent, necessary, and morally essential.

Stand up, speak out, and fight for our shared future.

Acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney,
Attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault,
Held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present,
Didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media,
Stopped holding press briefings for months at a time,
“Ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power,
Led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform,
Claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers,
Tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course,
Suggested that the government nuke hurricanes,
Suggested that wind turbines cause cancer,
Said that he had a special aptitude for science,
Fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure,
Blurted out classified information to Russian officials,
Tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida,
Fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban,
Hired Stephen Miller,
Openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them,
Interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel,
Abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war,
Tried to get Russia back into the G7,
Held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden,
Seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive,
Lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated,
Falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t,
Shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies,
Still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan,
Still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks,”
Forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID,
Told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,”
Screwed up the Census wording,
Withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic,
Did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule: “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,”
Allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act,
Seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican,
Stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win,
Constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president, (which presumably includes four that were assassinated, and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump),
Claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened,
Said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake,
Claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him,
Claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President,
Created a commission to whitewash American history,
Retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain,
Claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there,
Hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent "Bowling Green Massacre" as a reason to ban Muslims,
Had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others,
Bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties,
Apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House,
Stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians,
Falsely claimed Biden wanted to de-fund the police,
Said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about,
Tried to rescind protection from DREAMers,
Gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic,
Tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax,
Said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states,
Deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented,
Claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln,
Touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile, which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile, or may not exist at all,
Retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile,
Forced through security clearances for his family,
Suggested that police officers should rough up suspects,
Suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs,
Tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender identification,
Suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher,
Nominated a climate change skeptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy,
Retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event,
Hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags,
Accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address,
Claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter,
because they were “spending too much time” on Russia,
Mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault,
Obsessed over low-flow toilets,
Ordered the re-release of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release,
Called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek),
Hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech,
Took advice from the MyPillow guy,
Claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists,
Said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure,
Never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign,
Falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, though he, (himself), votes by mail,
Announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest,
Insulted the leader of Canada,
Insulted the leader of France,
Insulted the leader of Britain,
Insulted the leader of Germany,
Insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!),
Falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues,
Blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually,
Continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders,
Said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked,
Left a NATO summit early in a huff,
Stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that,
Called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary,
Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise,
and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.
But other than that. . . 🤷🏽‍♀️ He was a great President 😃
All documented - - I would LOVE for anyone to show me proof that any of these are WRONG, and I will correct the Record Book of what Trump did! /2

Gary Reber posted:

I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency before and I still am.
But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurrection against the government,
Mismanaged a pandemic that killed over a million Americans,
Called neo-Nazis “very fine people,”
Separated children from their families,
Lost those children in the bureaucracy,
Tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church,
Tried to block all Muslims from entering the country,
Got impeached,
Got impeached again,
Had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history,
Pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden,
Fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia,
Bragged about firing the FBI director on TV,
Took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community,
Diverted military funding to build his wall,
Caused the longest government shutdown in US history,
Called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,”
Lied over 30,000 times,
Banned transgender people from serving in the military,
Ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions,
Vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers,
Refused to release his tax returns,
Increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion,
Had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history,
Called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers,
Coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist,
Refused to concede the 2020 election,
Hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House,
Walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl,
Suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID,
Abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey,
Pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans,
Incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic,
Withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords,
Withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal,
Withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances,
Insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter,
Pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op,
Failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies,
Called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries,
Called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,”
Claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere,
Forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader,
Believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,
Berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe,
Suggested the US should buy Greenland,
Colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices, after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges,
Repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,”
Claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases,
Violated the emoluments clause,
Thought that Nambia was a country,
Told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public,
Called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution,
Nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet,
Nominated a corrupt head of the EPA,
Nominated a corrupt head of HHS,
Nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department,
Nominated a corrupt head of the USDA,
Praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies,
Refused to allow the presidential transition to begin,
Insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death,
Spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president,
Falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote,
Called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,”
Falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year,
Considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions,
Mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID,
Locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones,
Used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,”
Hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser,
Pardoned several of his shady associates,
Gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his bat shit crazy conspiracy theories,
Got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!),
Had a Secretary of State who called him a moron,
Forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history,
Botched the COVID vaccine rollout,
Tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him,
Charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties,
Constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate,
Claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear,
Called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,”
Used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise,
Opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling,
Got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers,
Claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US,
Ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings,
Blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining,
Redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle,
Got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,”
Threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution,
Botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,
Threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them,
Pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes,
Thought that the Virgin islands had a President,
Drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane,
Allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing,
Rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos,
Pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID,
Rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers,
Held blatant campaign rallies at the White House,
Tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man,
Refused to attend his successors’ inauguration,
Nominated the worst Education Secretary in history,
Threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted,
Attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci,
Promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t),
Allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues,
Struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble,
Called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,”
Threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders,
Went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic,
Claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,”
Seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution,
Demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director,
Praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles,
Completely gutted the Voice of America,
Placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service,
Claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower,
Suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country,
Suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public,
Overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported,
Reduced the number of refugees the US accepts,
Insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames,
Gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address,
Named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties,
Eliminated the White House office of pandemic response,
Used soldiers as campaign props,
Fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him,
Demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade,
Hired a shit ton of white nationalists,
Politicized the civil service,
Did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government,
Falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts,
Claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won,
Insulted reporters of color,
Insulted women reporters, insulted women reporters of color,
Suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs,
Attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him,
Summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House, to pressure them to overturn the election,
Spent countless hours every day watching Fox News,
Refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas,
Hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer,
Tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him, /1

#coup

The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University.

Everybody I know should read this accurate and enlightening piece...

“I’m going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.

Trump, as most of us know, is the credited author of "The Art of the Deal," a book that was actually ghost written by a man named Tony Schwartz, who was given access to Trump and wrote based upon his observations. If you've read The Art of the Deal, or if you've followed Trump lately, you'll know, even if you didn't know the label, that he sees all dealmaking as what we call "distributive bargaining."

Distributive bargaining always has a winner and a loser. It happens when there is a fixed quantity of something and two sides are fighting over how it gets distributed. Think of it as a pie and you're fighting over who gets how many pieces. In Trump's world, the bargaining was for a building, or for construction work, or subcontractors. He perceives a successful bargain as one in which there is a winner and a loser, so if he pays less than the seller wants, he wins. The more he saves the more he wins.

The other type of bargaining is called integrative bargaining. In integrative bargaining the two sides don't have a complete conflict of interest, and it is possible to reach mutually beneficial agreements. Think of it, not a single pie to be divided by two hungry people, but as a baker and a caterer negotiating over how many pies will be baked at what prices, and the nature of their ongoing relationship after this one gig is over.

The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can other countries. He can't demand they not respond. There is no defined end to the negotiation and there is no simple winner and loser. There are always more pies to be baked. Further, negotiations aren't binary. China's choices aren't (a) buy soybeans from US farmers, or (b) don't buy soybeans. They can also (c) buy soybeans from Russia, or Argentina, or Brazil, or Canada, etc. That completely strips the distributive bargainer of his power to win or lose, to control the negotiation.

One of the risks of distributive bargaining is bad will. In a one-time distributive bargain, e.g. negotiating with the cabinet maker in your casino about whether you're going to pay his whole bill or demand a discount, you don't have to worry about your ongoing credibility or the next deal. If you do that to the cabinet maker, you can bet he won't agree to do the cabinets in your next casino, and you're going to have to find another cabinet maker.

There isn't another Canada.

So when you approach international negotiation, in a world as complex as ours, with integrated economies and multiple buyers and sellers, you simply must approach them through integrative bargaining. If you attempt distributive bargaining, success is impossible. And we see that already.

Trump has raised tariffs on China. China responded, in addition to raising tariffs on US goods, by dropping all its soybean orders from the US and buying them from Russia. The effect is not only to cause tremendous harm to US farmers, but also to increase Russian revenue, making Russia less susceptible to sanctions and boycotts, increasing its economic and political power in the world, and reducing ours. Trump saw steel and aluminum and thought it would be an easy win, BECAUSE HE SAW ONLY STEEL AND ALUMINUM - HE SEES EVERY NEGOTIATION AS DISTRIBUTIVE. China saw it as integrative, and integrated Russia and its soybean purchase orders into a far more complex negotiation ecosystem.

Trump has the same weakness politically. For every winner there must be a loser. And that's just not how politics works, not over the long run.

For people who study negotiations, this is incredibly basic stuff, negotiations 101, definitions you learn before you even start talking about styles and tactics. And here's another huge problem for us.

Trump is utterly convinced that his experience in a closely held real estate company has prepared him to run a nation, and therefore he rejects the advice of people who spent entire careers studying the nuances of international negotiations and diplomacy. But the leaders on the other side of the table have not eschewed expertise, they have embraced it. And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it.

From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn't even bringing checkers to a chess match. He's bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.”

— David Honig

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