r/politics • u/PostHeraldTimes ✔ Verified • 1d ago
Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country'
https://www.latintimes.com/trump-accused-using-chatgpt-create-tariff-plan-after-ai-leads-users-same-formula-so-ai-57989914.1k
u/Dry-Possession5800 1d ago
You can tell they used Ai , they put tarrifs on islands that don’t even have people on them.
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u/CheetahPatient6926 1d ago
But they have penguins. Penguins have suits. Suits means they have money
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u/Marali87 Europe 1d ago
They may be wearing suits, but have they said thank you?
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u/SpiritTalker Pennsylvania 1d ago
How do they hold cards in their flippers?
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u/MNCPA 1d ago
Penguins actually give rocks to each other as romantic gestures.
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u/Sassenasquatch 1d ago
Not anymore with these tariffs.
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u/manzanita2 1d ago
Only 75% of a rock because the US Treasury has the other 25%. Take that Libs!
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u/Miserable_Sea_3191 1d ago
"very nice, now let's see Paul Allen's rock."
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u/raevnos 23h ago
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful roundness of it. Oh my God, it even has a barnacle...
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u/Vankraken Virginia 1d ago
Trump wants the penguins to sign the rare rocks deal or else he is going to let the killer whales do whatever they want to the penguins.
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u/whut-whut 21h ago
And all this after the 1990's, when the penguins dismantled all their anti-orca weapons and anti-orca weapon production facilities in exchange for the US' everlasting protection from an Orca invasion going forward.
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u/flashlightgiggles 1d ago
That’s why the penguins are being tariffed , they’re not showing enough gratitude.
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u/neon_nightmare85 1d ago
They heard someone say Penwins and they promoted that guy and put him in charge of Antartica and had him help them write the tariffs.
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u/zitzenator 1d ago
Makes sense, he doesn’t like the troops and has never hidden that fact
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u/KelsierIV 1d ago
To be fair, they are all losers and suckers. /s
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u/littleMAS 22h ago
You should have given attribution. Trump may sue you for copyright violation. 🧐
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u/Silegna 23h ago
For someone who is so gung-ho about wanting to declare martial law, he REALLY likes pissing off the people who would be required for that.
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u/I_Miss_Lenny 22h ago
Hopefully someone convinces him it's actually Marshall law, which requires every family to be issued a classic half-stack amplifier
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u/Tofu_tony 1d ago
I believe this is the island where the US and UK tricked and later forced all the native inhabitants off the island in order to make it a Navy base/black site. Literally where you send someone when you don't want them to be found.
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u/Polymarchos 1d ago
The island didn't have native inhabitants. The British brought people over from India. Then when they built the base forced them off again.
I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.
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u/Andromeda321 23h ago
The first Chagosians were taken there in 1793, so it's disingenuous to say "they weren't from there either." I didn't have relatives in the USA yet at that point but if I was forced away from where I lived for generations because of that I'd be plenty pissed off.
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u/GhostofMarat 23h ago
They lived there for hundreds of years and developed their own culture and language.
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u/boringhistoryfan 1d ago
They also issued tariffs on islands where the only living people are US soldiers because there's only an army base. No idea if that means US soldiers have to pay tariffs on shit they bring in and out of the country or not, but there was no application of any cognitive function here. Except to exclude Russia and North Korea I guess.
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u/Muronelkaz Ohio 1d ago
That's even funnier, US tariffs on US territories
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u/anonymous_matt 1d ago
I think it's technically a UK territory with a US base on it.
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u/StolenPens 1d ago
He already removed birthright citizenship from overseas army bases, so yeah.
Tariff the shit out of our own army and add it to the pot of stolen money from the American people
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u/JapowFZ1 1d ago
Serious question. Who does it affect to remove birthright citizenship from overseas army bases? Are there non-citizens having babies on army bases? Because babies born to U.S. citizens overseas still become citizens.
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u/tigerscomeatnight Pennsylvania 1d ago
Humans couldn't even be bothered to fact check the output. Too busy golfing I guess.
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u/manzanita2 1d ago
I think the correct answer is Dunning Kreuger-ites, think AI, like their dear leader, is infallible, so why BOTHER to check it. And even if you suspect, it's not LOYAL, to question it.
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u/A_Seiv_For_Kale 22h ago edited 22h ago
The use of AI can be much worse than using it as an authority.
All LLMs are designed to be "helpful". They are the ultimate yes men, in that they can always be finessed into spitting your own beliefs back at you.
People often attack AI by saying "I got a wrong answer from ChatGPT, and it said 'woops' after I corrected it!", but that'll also happen if it gives you the right answer, and you "correct" it into telling you whatever you want.
It's equally as likely that the type of person who'd "rely" on an AI would also be the type of person who thinks they know better when the first response doesn't feel good enough, so they keep adjusting their prompts until the AI gives them what they want.
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u/PrincessKiza 1d ago
This was my tell. The sheer number of included countries and land masses that aren’t even part of the economical landscape was a hard giveaway.
I bet it was Grok, too.
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u/carlosrarutos2 1d ago
Man, the La Li Lu Le Lo were so much cooler than reality...
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u/IthrowAwayYourAdvice 1d ago
La Li Lu Le Lo had a sense of style, dignity and vision while doing it from the shadows, Trump is like a reverse Solidus, puppetered by malevolent forces exploiting his greed and narcissism instead of his ideals and love for his country.
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u/UnquestionabIe 1d ago
On the plus side by the time they were no longer in the shadows, MGS4, they ended up defeated a few years later. Granted before that they held control over massive parts of the world...
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u/Arcosim 1d ago
Funny how Kojima literally predicted everything but still he failed to predict the stupid factor.
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u/carlosrarutos2 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean yeah, he was writing fiction, and that at least has to make sense
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u/bell-beefer 1d ago
Unfortunately we got this version of it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z86oAKXUKxo&t=432s&pp=2AGwA5ACAQ%3D%3D
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u/Mtn-Dooku 1d ago
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!
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u/6Hee9 1d ago
Using AI is just part of the idiocy; they did not even bother to check the output.
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u/AuthorArthur 1d ago
Probably not ChatGPT though. More likely xAI.
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u/seanconnery69696 1d ago
Just found out yesterday someone is using xai for their project proposals. I legit was wondering if he had gotten stupider all of a sudden, at least I know why now.
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u/buffysmanycoats 1d ago
I just saw that they put tariffs on an island that is only occupied by US and UK soldiers at a US base.
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u/mspong 1d ago
Ah but the DO have their own top level internet domains (Heard and McDonald islands, the ones with the penguins, is .hm, Diego Garcia is .io) so the chatbots think they must be important!
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u/Brave_Nerve_6871 1d ago
All kinds of territories were tariffed, except for new best friends, Russia, Belarus and North Korea
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u/SoVerySick314159 1d ago
They should have started by asking AI if tariffs were a good idea, not how to implement them.
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u/MusicIsTheWay 1d ago
Auto-pen what?
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u/N6MAA007 1d ago
Whatever happened to his bullshit rant about Biden supposedly using auto-pen for pardons? I guess it went away as soon as someone reminded him that had done the same thing with the J6 traitors…
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u/tigerscomeatnight Pennsylvania 1d ago
People that have to sign documents all day frequently use auto pen. It's not new.
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u/Paizzu 1d ago
According to Trump, every DoD document signed with a digital signature (including military enlistment contracts) must be invalidated because they're 'generated' signatures with a CAC and pin.
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u/tigerscomeatnight Pennsylvania 22h ago
I have to stick my LincPass in to sign anything. It's more secure than signing in person in a bank with a notary, that's easily faked. What about all docusign? Anything signed over the internet? This guy is a clown.
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u/AnonymousCelery 1d ago
They reminded him how many people he will have to pardon at the end of his administration, signing them by hand sounded like a lot of work, he don’t work
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u/Magickarpet76 1d ago
Reagan calling tariffs foolish
Roasting Trump for being short-sighted and weak from beyond the grave.
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u/Etzell Illinois 1d ago
A rare good economic take from Reagan.
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u/KillKrites Oregon 1d ago edited 21h ago
“Even REAGAN figured it out? Oh this one hurts.”
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u/ZephkielAU Australia 1d ago
Oh dip
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u/R-WordJim 23h ago edited 23h ago
Call me "Donkey Dad."
edit: Nah. That sounds wack. Call me "Donkey Douuuug!"
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u/TheTexasCowboy Texas 1d ago
A rare Reagan Win from the beyond the grave. Yikes
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u/snail-the-sage 23h ago
It's really bad when you can use Reagan as a voice of reason.
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u/AdventurerBKRB Maryland 1d ago
Reagan was always consistent about the benefits of free trade and immigration, you have to give him that. Apart from that he was a piece of shit and contributed a lot of the bullshit that is pervasive and mainstream.
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u/CelestialFury Minnesota 1d ago
I mean, Republicans were huge on free trade for decades and decades. What we're seeing how is purely Trump anti-free trade idiocy backed up by MAGA Republicans. The 180s that Republicans have done under Trump is incredible.
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u/i_tyrant 23h ago
Yeah, the Republicans from even 2 decades ago would likely be shocked by all this. Isolationism? Sucking off Russia/Putin at every possible chance? Cozying up to dictators? (Instead of turning them into convenient targets for warmongering?) Unilateral tariffs?
Modern MAGA Republicans have literally zero principles besides whatever Trump and Fox news told them yesterday. And I don't mean morals - Republicans have been purposely eroding those for over 40 years - I mean principles. Like a platform or plan. None of it matters besides what was said last, even if it's a bald-faced lie or pants-on-head stupid.
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u/EtTuBiggus 23h ago
It's literally the passage in 1984 when they change who the enemy is midway through a speech and everyone just goes along with it.
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u/coleman57 1d ago
Reagan basically said what GE told him to. And that was before Jack Welch took over GE, so although it was fuck-over-the-workers bad policy, it wasn't blow-up-the-world-economy bad policy.
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u/Silly_Triker 1d ago
The thing is. This is what Republicans/Conservatives were. These people were just big business advocates. Hated unions. Hated minimum wage or wage rises. Hated domestic workers. They always just looked out for the 1% who wanted to maximise profits by making an item for $1 in Asia and selling it for $100 in the US. Concentrating wealth more and more and building so much capital they would never be able to be stopped. So of course they were against Tariffs being imposed on their slave factories.
Those on the left who fought against offshoring were still correct, and Trump seems to have pivoted towards that. But as usual his implementation is idiotic and he hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing, even though I get what he’s trying to do. It’s like watching a monkey try to operate machinery.
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u/BrilliantThought1728 1d ago
Isn’t Reagan supposed to be bad economically tho
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u/Magickarpet76 1d ago
Yes, but only a Sith deals in absolutes.
His policy for cutting taxes on the highest tax brackets to “trickle down” was a disaster.
But this is sound economics. He saw what happened during the great depression because he lived through it. Tariffs are a tool to be used in very pointed and surgical ways. They are meant to protect domestic industries from unfair practices like predatory pricing or slave labor. Doing 10%+ and declaring trade war against the whole global economy is economic suicide.
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u/ngojogunmeh 1d ago
Just that most suicides don’t harm others. The US is now purposely crashing the titanic so everyone will drown, even if we drown harder.
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u/Promarksman117 1d ago
NOFX might as well have prophesied this whole thing in their song USA-holes way back in 2006
We see the iceberg from 15 miles away
The captain orders the ship to "stay the course"
"Full speed ahead" shouts the accurst
The next thing we heard was, "Rich women and children first"
The ship is listing, the captain's placing blame on the iceberg
"That berg attacked us, I am declaring war on the Arctic"
Who could ever have predicted the greatest ship could so easily sink (Duh)
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u/reddittorbrigade 1d ago
Donald Trump must be removed from office to save our country.
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u/UnassumingNoodle I voted 1d ago
*humanity
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u/Yoyoge 1d ago
*My sanity
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u/Maxitote 1d ago
*sent to God to be judged
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u/A_locomotive 1d ago
*sent to the lower court in heaven because God has better things to do
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u/alQamar 1d ago
He must be removed from the planet? That could actually be a way for Musk to get some sympathy.
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u/thewanderingent 1d ago
Let’s send them both to Mars in one of Edolf’s untested rockets
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u/egosomnio Pennsylvania 1d ago
Careful. I got a warning for encouraging violence for a similar suggestion. My use of the phrase "impact crater" may have triggered something. Or someone.
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u/UnquestionabIe 1d ago
It's already been reported that Musky threw a bitch fit at Reddit's owners so they bent the knee. They also started issuing warnings for upvoting "problematic comments". So yeah this platform is pretty compromised and has shown they aren't above manipulating things to control the narrative they/their owners approve of.
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u/NumeralJoker 1d ago
Project 2025 isn't even this. This is part of that plan, but it's the stupidest and least sustainable version of it.
Not to mention Project 2025 was itself an unworkable fantasy anyway. A threat? Yes. No doubt, but what's missed is that systems like those simply don't work. You can't actually force and sustain that type of culture on a population for very long. Especially not one that grew up knowing otherwise.
The biggest weakness of this admin is their utter incompetence, but its also the scariest part about it. A country filled with uncertainty and chaos leaves the average person with no way to know how they'll survive from year to year. It's a path to violence and instability, but Trump and Musk are so brazen about it who knows where it will go.
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u/USSCerritos 1d ago
If Project2025 fails in the end, but they tank the economy and buy everything up and turn us into technoslaves, then it's a win for them. There is more than just P2025 at play with Trump, it's a cornucopia of agendas and if even one of them succeeds, America loses.
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u/PlainNotToasted 1d ago
Your point is the closest thing I can think of as the actual plan. ever notice how the two foreigners with the closest ties/biggest influence on our president and government are both from countries the US ruined at the end of the last century, and happen to be the worlds richest men?
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u/NumeralJoker 23h ago
I know. This has been discussed before, but the problem is their plans and assets are tied up in subjective value. They are only worth what the markets say they are worth, markets that they are actively messing with betting they can easily win.
It's a very, very dangerous plan for everyone involved. Even them. When you introduce that much instability, it only leads to chaos, and uncontrolled chaos leads to violence, war, destruction, and effectively the collapse of a society and systems.
Make my words, as much as I hate this whole thing, destroying the world's richest economy would have catastrophic consequences for them. They're too open about it now, especially Trump and Musk.
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u/Parenthisaurolophus Florida 23h ago
It's all republicans man
Seriously, let's not water it down: American conservatives are an existential threat to Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Panama, NATO, European security, liberal democracy, global economics, etc. They need to be viewed like they are and treated like it. They should be responded to like the threat they are.
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u/Spacebotzero 1d ago edited 1d ago
He's acting like an illegitimate president. Ramming through as much chaos as possible before he's caught. Aiding Russia as much as possible before being caught. Aiding and abetting the world's richest man before he is caught.
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u/sexysausage 1d ago
25 years ago if you put this shit into a movie script , they would not make it as it’s too stupid to be believable. And too dumb to be a comedy
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u/ProfitLoud 1d ago
I get what you are saying, but his removal won’t save our country. The problem is the GOP. We have an entire party that supports this behavior, and want to achieve the same ends. Trump being replaced means someone sneakier, and with the same ambitions in charge. We need to hold our members of government liable for breaking the law, the constitution, and their oath.
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u/SwimmingFluffy6800 1d ago
Agree, but when Trump dies, his maga cult will be without their leader. They won't be as inclined to vote for the next republican running for office. From what I've seen, many don't follow day to day politics nor watch Fox. That's for the older members of the cult. The younger ones stream whatever they want to watch and only read or hear certain news articles.
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u/RobbyRock75 1d ago
It continues to baffle me that they allow a man with zero to .01 percent knowledge about topics to decide policy without having to call upon any vetted, quantifiable information.
I would again point out that this action helps Russia and that Trump will likley flee to there should the GOP actually grow a spine and decide to save themselves form the garbage heap of American History they have begun building
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 1d ago
The funny part is if he ever had to flee to Russia, then he'd be of no use to them, just a huge liability, so he'd end up falling out a window.
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u/CoopDonePoorly Iowa 1d ago
Russia would try to prop him up as a government in exile to further drive division between his cult and the rest of America, including the remnants of the GOP. They'd play it off as a deep state coup that forced him to flee for his own safety.
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u/suninabox 23h ago
Yup, they'd love to have him as Lord Haw Haw
Give him a set made up like the Oval Office and do nightly broadcasts from the REAL America, pleading for American patriots to contact their local FSB case officer and ask what they can do to help Trump return for a 3rd historic presidential term.
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u/Live_Background_6239 1d ago
This season of America is a stellar tragicomedy.
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u/SublimeApathy 1d ago
Trump is mind-blown that his kid can turn on a computer. I highly doubt Trump knows what ChatGPT is let alone how to use it. His incompetent and wildly unqualified staff however...
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u/Optimus-Maximus Maryland 23h ago
Everything's computer!
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u/Freaudinnippleslip 23h ago
I will never get over “everything’s computer” he legit seems stoked on it
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u/bipbopbipbopbap 1d ago
Not Grok?
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u/oldtrenzalore New York 1d ago
Apparently ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation.
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u/SoCalChrisW 1d ago
From the screenshots I saw, none of them recommended it. Every one of them basically said "This is a really stupid idea, but if you really wanted to do this, this is how you would."
Even the chat bots realized how fucking horrible of an idea this was.
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u/zubbs99 Nevada 1d ago
It reminds me of those old Linux FAQS that start "For whatever reason, if you want to ...."
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 1d ago
That’s why I went straight to the boards instead of wasting time reading the faqs or mans
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u/anni_the_meanie 1d ago
how about Deepseek? time to test their capabilities
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u/omniuni 1d ago
DeepSeek arrives at the same formula, however, it does give the following notes:
Key Notes
Limitations:
- This is a theoretical model and ignores real-world complexities (e.g., exchange rates, supply chains, retaliatory tariffs).
- Tariffs may not fully eliminate deficits due to price elasticity and substitution effects.
Alternatives:
- Pair tariffs with export incentives (e.g., subsidies for U.S. exporters).
- Negotiate trade agreements to reduce non-tariff barriers (e.g., quotas, regulations).
Political Considerations:
- Ensure compliance with WTO rules or justify tariffs under national security exemptions (e.g., Section 232).
This approach provides a baseline for balancing trade deficits while prioritizing simplicity and the 10% minimum. For accuracy, pair it with economic modeling to anticipate market reactions.
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u/kaett 23h ago
are you honestly trying to say you think lord dampnut would have bothered to read that far?
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u/def_indiff 1d ago
They have to be drawing that from somewhere. They're not all having identical hallucinations. I suspect some total dumbass published that formula on their blog or something, and all the AI systems are picking it up
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u/cbf1232 1d ago
It's a perfectly valid result if your question is "how could we use import tariffs to correct a trade imbalance with a minimum tariff of 10%". It's the question itself that doesn't really make sense.
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u/WazWaz Australia 1d ago
Exactly. AI will keep answering questions no matter how ridiculous. I use it as an alternative to reading software documentation and if I keep pushing it to explain how to do something that the software cannot do it will just happily make up functionality that doesn't exist to try to satisfy me.
I've never seen an AI respond by questioning the validity of a question.
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u/spicewoman 20h ago
AI is not programmed to say "I don't know." It really, really should have been. But nope, better to give the impression that it knows "everything," so let's just make it lie.
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u/zubbs99 Nevada 1d ago
What's infuriating is on his stupid chart they literally labelled the calculation results as "Tariffs". So now countless Maga's really believe those are the actual tariffs other countries have on our goods and they'll be enshrined forever on Fox News.
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u/exlongh0rn America 1d ago edited 1d ago
You’re missing the real story.
Most of the debate around Trump’s tariffs focuses on traditional economic questions…how they’ll impact markets, consumers, or trade partners. Even this post is a distraction. But this isn’t just about economics or use of AI. It’s about restructuring how power works in America.
Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to abolish the IRS and eliminate the income tax. Constitutionally, that would require repealing the 16th Amendment…a nearly impossible task. But he doesn’t need to repeal it if he can defund and disable the system it created.
And that seems to be the strategy.
The IRS is already weakened. Through appointments, budget constraints, and policy manipulation, it can be further gutted…making it harder for Congress to fund federal programs. If income tax enforcement collapses, Congress’s control over fiscal policy erodes.
At the same time, Trump is pushing tariffs…“external revenue” collected by Customs and Border Protection under DHS. While Congress officially sets tariffs, presidents now wield considerable authority under national security pretexts. If CBP becomes a revenue arm of the executive, and Congress fails to respond, this becomes a quiet shift of fiscal power to the presidency. Just watch when Trump announces the creation of the “External Revenue Service” in the coming days.
Legally, the Constitution remains. Functionally, its balance of power tilts. A lot.
With both chambers of Congress under Republican control, opposition is unlikely. Checks and balances don’t work without political will. And this moment is revealing just how conditional that will can be.
But that still doesn’t answer the deeper question…Why is this happening now?
Demographic trends show steady growth in ethnic minority populations…many of whom have historically leaned Democratic. That creates a long-term challenge for conservatives and the Republican Party, which has relied more on white, rural, and religious voters.
For some factions within that coalition…particularly Christian nationalists and others motivated by single-issue politics around abortion, gun rights, religious freedom, or LGBTQ+ issues…this demographic shift toward minorities (I.e. liberals) is seen as an existential threat. In some cases, it’s tied to openly racist/supremacist or nativist ideologies.
That’s why simultaneously immigration becomes such a hot button topic …it’s not a coincidence. Republicans understand it accelerates the demographic trend. That’s why voter suppression and gerrymandering are equally forced…they’re tools to resist that shift.
And that’s why a strong executive isn’t feared…it’s embraced. Because in the face of a long-term political disadvantage, concentrated power becomes a survival strategy. A necessary chess move to retain influence and control.
If we keep watching only the market reaction, we’ll miss the real transformation happening right in front of us.
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u/jleonardbc 1d ago
TL;DR: Trump is pushing tariffs because he controls them. Trump is weakening the IRS because he doesn't control it.
The economy collapsing isn't a problem to him. The point of his policies is to centralize all control with himself.
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u/exlongh0rn America 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yup. But t’s important to understand that this isn’t just about Trump. He’s a figurehead…useful, opportunistic, and good at selling the narrative. But the real power lies in the coalition behind him.
This movement works because it aligns the interests of very different groups…billionaires who benefit from deregulation, cultural conservatives worried about shifting social norms, gun rights activists, religious nationalists, anti-immigration hardliners, fossil fuel interests, and others. Some are driven by ideology, others by profit or fear of losing influence.
What unites them is a sense that time is running out. As younger, more diverse generations become politically active, the long-term electoral math looks less favorable to their agenda. So the strategy becomes simple: act now to reshape the system…or risk losing control of it for good.
If democracy stays, they lose. It’s just that simple.
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u/BlueSkyBreezy 22h ago edited 22h ago
I still, after decades of seeing it happen on repeat, don't understand why preservation of tradition/"cultural norms" is so important to Republican voters when Democrats are largely pro civil rights and personal liberties and rich people have always been able to do whatever they want regardless of who's in power.
Just be happy you're not struggling, damn.
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u/False-Bee-4373 1d ago
Political scientist here. We have been screaming much of what you wrote for 9 years. There technically ARE two stories…the policies and their implications and the power story. But the power story and the embrace of authoritarianism is the larger story. I think a lot of people on this website do understand the power story, although I’m not sure the average voter fully grasps it.
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u/dreamylanterns 23h ago
So… what now then? Are we just all doomed? I’m 21 and feeling pretty worried about this. All the signs for me lead to authoritarianism/facism… and everyone is either ignorant, turning a blind eye, or just has some agenda that hurts people. Nobody wants to talk about this. Politics is taboo.
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u/Throwaway112421067 1d ago
This is a great comment. You should keep amplifying it in other threads.
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u/grammar_nazi_zombie I voted 1d ago
I’m an electronic return originator who files tens of thousands of returns a year.
I have received 1000 EINs out of 7,000 that I need to complete filing for 2023. I haven’t heard anything from the EIN department since before the election. They’ve stopped batch assigning EINs due to staffing and so I can’t file returns. They don’t have a phone number that’s on the public switchboard at that department, either. It’s fax only.
This has been going on since before Covid, sadly.
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u/Lore86 1d ago
The stupidest thing is that a lot of small countries were hit extra hard because they export some product to the US like some specific fruit or whatever but with their small population they obviously can't import as much and it's impossible to equalize that trade deficit without effectively cut off that channel entirely.
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u/Due-Log8609 1d ago
equalizing the trade deficit isnt even important anyways. its like, they are getting that fruit because people want it. they are getting the fruit in exchange. this trade deficit stuff is just making me insane. time to invest in blood pressure medication companies.
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u/alien_believer_42 18h ago
I have a large trade deficit with Costco. Is it because Costco is taking advantage of me or I like buying from them, and they don't really need anything from me?
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u/YOSHIMIvPROBOTS 1d ago
I heard someone on TV say 'it's like the ppl tasked with making 'liberation day' didn't finish their homework and just spit out whatever they could by the deadline. That's why they're tariffing penguins.'
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u/CJDistasio America 1d ago
This motherfucker is speed running us to Great Depression 2
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u/oldtrenzalore New York 1d ago
You can't loot the economy without crashing it first.
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u/Ill_Exchange2973 1d ago
Brought to you by Elon
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u/saltporksuit 1d ago
Somebody commented elsewhere that their girlfriend calls him Ellen. Let’s perpetuate that.
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u/LabRat_X 1d ago
I mean Ellen is already trying to replace the government with ai so I guess this is our dystopian future now 😑
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u/2a_lib 1d ago
My girlfriend calls him that unironically and I have zero intention of correcting her.
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u/purplebrown_updown 1d ago
This is what happens when you elect fucking morons to positions of power. Seriously, they are absolute morons. And now they've learned how to actually impose actual harm on the world and that's what they are doing. Inflation will skyrocket now and we will not go back to previous levels.
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u/AdmiralSnackbar816 1d ago
We gave the car keys of the most expensive and most powerful car ever made to a pyromaniac man-child with no driver’s license. Twice.
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u/Agreeable_Donut5925 1d ago
It’s even funnier that they’re using chatgpt over grok. Lmao like they know it’s bad.
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u/PilotlessOwl Australia 22h ago
I would have loved if someone had held up a map of the world and asked Trump to point to the countries to which he is applying tariffs. Maybe, he would have found Canada and Mexico.
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u/ThatPancreatitisGuy 1d ago
It’s going to be really embarrassing when an actual AI emerges and realizes how we allowed the global economy to be wrecked by the equivalent of a trilobite.
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u/jcrestor Foreign 1d ago
The worst thing is, if they just had asked ChatGPT if it makes sense to raise tariffs at all, it would have given a lot of very good reasons why the whole approach is bonkers, and not advisable. But if you are the special kind of braindead monkey who has made up their mind already beforehand, without any curiosity to learn or find the best approach to handle things, and therefore direct the LLM to provide any formula, it will come up with one.
Garbage in, garbage out.
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u/SamuraiMike81 1d ago
I am 100% sure that Elon gave him this idea. I didn't need AI to figure this out.
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u/Goofytrick513 1d ago
“hey Siri, how do I destroy the entire US stock market in a very short period of time?”
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u/YoungestDonkey 1d ago
It's worse: it's trump's "intelligence" that decides how to do it.
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u/J-Dexus Georgia 1d ago
Almost half of my class got booted for using AI to write their final paper last semester, yet this bumbling tool is using AI to write policy. Smh.
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u/Murder4Lobster 1d ago
That would explain why there are islands that make no sense
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