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| Navi Pillay, this year's Peace Nobelist |
Once again Trump got passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize. No big surprise given he started two wars and played an active role in a third. Still, his Trumpness was upset. He called it a big mistake and to drive his point home imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, as this year's recipient of Nobel's most prestigious award, Navi Pillay, is an International Court Jurist.
He's in a really vindictive mood these days. He thinks Ukraine hasn't gone far enough in appeasing Russia and decided to buy diesel from Putin's oil empire. Trump hopes that this will help offset the cost at the pump, which has hit a new high. He announced this latest deal like it was a real game changer, but few are buying it.
He had earlier chastised Ukraine for blowing up too many oil refineries and fuel storage tanks inside Russia, saying that this was the reason Americans were paying so much for diesel and unleaded gas. He claimed he had full control over the Strait of Hormuz so that Iran was no longer the cause for the fuel shortage. When it was put to him that this was not the reason for high fuel costs, he just shouted fake news, or artificial news as he now likes to call it, thinking he is so clever with words.
Trump also renewed calls for Ukraine to hold elections, claiming Zelensky isn't the legitimate president. Sounds like he had quite a chat with Vlad as these were all the Kremlin's talking points. It just makes you wonder what the purpose was of Jared and Steve spending so much time in Moscow. I assume they got more than just a few barrels of diesel gasoline.
As you know, he rebranded artificial intelligence. He said it sounded fake to him. So now he calls it superintelligence and expects everyone to call it that too. Otherwise, they are the enemy. Everyone is an enemy who doesn't agree with Trump even if superintelligence is already a term to describe when artificial intelligence exceeds the intelligence of all humans across all domains and thereby becomes an autonomous force that could seriously threaten our lives. This is what AI, or should I say SI doomers are warning us against.
Trump says no problem. These SI companies can manage the monsters they are creating. He should know as he has the highest IQ in the world. Yes, he actually said that. He was apparently bequeathed this "superintelligence" from his uncle, a former professor at MIT. Very good genes. Very good.
Some years ago, he believed he could absorb intelligence through osmosis. At that time he was crediting his brother (Mary Trump's father) as being the smart one in the family, but that he could absorb this intelligence as it ran through their family veins, or something like that. It meant he didn't need to read books or study issues like normal persons. He had a very good intuitive sense of everything and could just feel what the right answer was. It didn't matter that he was wrong most of the time.
Who's to argue? Anyone who does soon finds himself out the door. This is why "Leon" Musk has come crawling back to Trump after leaving in a big huff last year after he felt he wasn't getting the credit he deserved for all he did for Trump. It was a pretty ugly incident and many of us thought this was the end of that 'bromance' that carried Trump through an election he shouldn't have won. Musk took credit for that too. Here he is back in the White House, ready to take the US military into the 22nd century.
All this would be laughable if these persons couldn't inflict harm on the world, but as we know that is not the case. Trump has inflicted a great deal of harm on the world and plans to inflict even more harm being the mendacious man-child that he is. All because we aren't taking him seriously enough.
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| The Orange Plague by sculptor Jens Galschiot |
If there is anything Trump hates more than anything in the world it is being made fun of. Everywhere you turn people are making fun of him. Most recently this faux golden statue of him at the UN Parliament in Strasbourg, simply entitled "The Orange Plague."
He also thinks the Nobel Prize Committee is making fun of him by selecting some nobody from South Africa over him for its most prestigious award. Navi Pillay joked that maybe she should share the award with him, as Marina Corina Machado did last year.
Machado thought Trump might go so far as to install her as the new leader of Venezuela when he took over the country this past January, but Trump was fine with Delcy Rodriguez, who chose not to protest the invasion of her country.
Anyway, here we are wondering what will happen next in this topsy-turvy world of Trumpledom that changes from one moment to the next. He's convinced he can save the midterms for the Republicans despite most polls indicated the opposite. What do they know? He's the smartest guy in the world and he has "superintelligence" on his side. When you have that nothing can stop you, especially nasty Democratic Socialists, which he considers the "biggest threat to our nation there is." His syntax not mine.
I suppose he needs Putin and Musk to overcome these "communists" and restore good old fashioned capitalism, which has worked for thousands of years. Barring election interference, which seems a very real possibility, Trump should have to swallow a very bitter pill this November. Maybe the reality will start seeping into the thin walls of Trump's golden White House that he is not as popular as he thinks. It is up to Vlad and Leon to push back that reality at least for another two years.
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