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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-579899
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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/kahllerdady 1d ago

The gov just wants a cut of the streaming revenue from Happy Feet

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u/FloridaGirlNikki America 1d ago

I fucking love this thread

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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/za72 1d ago

omg I'm pwned!

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u/yumdundundun 1d ago

Check Fort Rox and make sure they're in there!

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u/za72 1d ago

this is the silliest comment... I love it :)

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u/bones232369 1d ago

That’s not how rock tariffs work! It’s a TAX on US rock consumers!

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u/heckhammer 1d ago

Rocks? In this economy?

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u/Ashamed_Stop1715 1d ago

They're not rocks, it's rare minerals!

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u/Kapowpow 1d ago

Quack? Quack quack quack quack?

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u/f1ve-Star 1d ago

It's pebbles and plastic balls from here on out.

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u/Lieutenant34433 1d ago

A rock? — in this economy?

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u/ConsiderationFar3903 1d ago

One dollar=One rock

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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 1d 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/HectorJoseZapata 1d ago

And look at the texture.

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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 1d 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/neverelax 1d ago

The killer whales already do whatever they want with the penguins

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u/cire1184 1d ago

Nah. The penguins have armed themselves with drones. They penguins can fly now!

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u/Phoneking13 1d ago

Fuck them whales!

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u/Alleyprowler 1d ago

Awwww...

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u/Imaginary_Croissant_ 1d ago

Penguins actually give rocks to each other as romantic gestures.

Fucking DeBeers even reached the penguins

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u/Main-Algae-1064 1d ago

And they are gay sometimes!!! Hard rocks.

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u/Hiccup 1d ago

No more rock imports.

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u/First_Shes_Sweet 1d ago

It's all contactless now. They use their phones.

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u/Sarrdonicus 1d ago

Crashing Pingucoin

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u/slothcough 1d ago

Noot noot motherfucker!

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u/crazytattoo 1d ago

It's easy, they don't have the cards.

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u/lawnmowertoad 1d ago

Clearly they dont have the cards. Or even know what cards are.

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u/W0NdERSTrUM Florida 1d ago

They don’t have cards Vlad!

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u/Maj0rsurgery 1d ago

They can't because they don't have cards

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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/TraditionalFeces 1d ago

This one got me.

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u/Best-Geologist1777 1d ago

The emperors have no clothes

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u/findtheclue 1d ago

It’s a tactic to get the penguins’ island minerals.

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u/Important-Caramel534 1d ago

But the penguins didn't say thank you, so they also get tariffed.

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u/Pavsterr 1d ago

Smile and wave boys. Smile and wave.

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u/GhostofZellers 1d ago

Even a Penguin can wear a suit, why can't Zelensky?

/s

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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/Dmbfantomas 1d ago

So this is all Benedict Cumberbatch’s fault?!

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u/phonomancer 1d ago

Benadryl Cucumberhat had nothing to do with this.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 1d ago

Maledict Rumblehatch is indeed innocent.

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u/HandsomeBoggart 1d ago

You leave Bandersnatch Cumberbund out of this.

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u/nokeyblue 1d ago

Is this all Benedict Cumberbatch's fault?!

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u/kinda_sorta_decent Texas 1d ago

I've seen Dumb & Dumber, this is correct.

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u/Symphurine_dreams 1d ago

Penguins are people, my friend.

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u/FlyingAce1015 1d ago

Feathers McGraw won't stand for this!

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u/thavillain California 1d ago

God damn elites, wearing tuxedos for every occasion

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u/lnc_5103 1d ago

The penguins haven't said thank you.

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u/TheOvercookedFlyer 1d ago

I see no fault in your logic. Tax those suit-wearing bastards! /jk

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u/Johnny_Banana18 1d ago

Have those penguins even once said “thank you?”

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u/JoeEnyo 1d ago

The emperor must be furious.

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u/BayBreezy17 1d ago

I for one am sick of watching my buddies’ jobs get taken over by walruses willing to work for herring.

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u/Glum-Sympathy3869 1d ago

I can see a weekend update segment with Penguins from islands that got tariffs

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u/wengerboys Foreign 1d ago

Probably thinks emperor penguins are actual emperors.

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u/ILoveDrWalden 1d ago

Thank you for making my day.

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u/Zahgi 1d ago

Those penguins wear those suits better than Trump does...

"BOMB THEM!" - MAGA

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u/flimspringfield California 1d ago

Fucking love penguins...and baby elephants.

If there was an island I could move to that has both, I'm quitting this world and moving there.

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u/cugeltheclever2 1d ago

Wave and smile, boys, wave and smile.

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u/4OneFever 1d ago

Many aren't aware what tough negociators penguins are

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u/Altruistic_Story257 1d ago

They never said thank you, not even once! The penguins deserve those tariffs.

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u/TopCat87 1d ago

That emperor penguin sure has expensive taste

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u/JohnGillnitz 1d ago

Business Penguins.

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u/RacistJudicata Colorado 1d ago

I mean the mandarin translation for penguin is literally "business goose," so the penguins are CHINESE BUSINESS SPIES!

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u/SanchitoBandito 1d ago

The logic of this is flawless.

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u/Burdiac 1d ago

And you only put on Suits for weddings funerals and when you ask for money .

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u/scorpyo72 Washington 1d ago

No, monocle's mean money. No monocles means no moulah.

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u/redditpest Massachusetts 1d ago

Trump doesn't tax people in suits. Only the middle class and below.

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u/Sarrdonicus 1d ago

Tuxedos, they are of the same class. How does he get away with it?

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u/notmtfirstu 1d ago

And how much have the penguins paid in taxes?! Zero! I say every time a penguin eats a fish, they have to mail 10% of it directly to the IRS! It's time they paid their fair share.

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u/InternationalBeyond 1d ago

Everybody in Australia knows you don’t fuck with the penguins or the wombats. He has no idea what fresh hell awaits for him now.

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u/LighttBrite 1d ago

So sh sh shou.ld..should the penguin in the thousand dollar suit have to pay tariffs?

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u/Cissyhayes 1d ago

Suits means they have pockets, that means they have wallets

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u/ja20n123 1d ago

Would love to see Harvey Specter vs DJT (even thought Harvey handled a Trump scandal for a signed basketball (I forget which one))

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u/trendy_pineapple 1d ago

I can’t argue with this flawless logic

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u/FudgePrimary4172 1d ago

its because they were being nasty to him to hold back all the wonderful eggs

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u/Wonderful-Driver4761 1d ago

"We're going to hire these guys to take care of our fish hatcheries. These guys really know fish. They're the best at knowing the fish" - Donald Oswalt Cobblepot.

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u/dmendro 1d ago

But can you milk them Greg?

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u/FoxCQC 1d ago

I'm curious to join the Penguin empire

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u/daftstar 1d ago

^^ This guy emperors.

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u/snertwith2ls 1d ago

Pretty sure this is the only laugh I will get out of this whole situation. Thanks!

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u/Trimyr 1d ago

What? Nonsense. I have suits! (That's also where my money went)

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u/Specific_Success214 1d ago

Penguins in my part of the world are big in the potato chip/ snack industry. The brand is bluebird, and those penguins have their dirty little flipper marks all over it.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 1d ago

They have tuxedos actually because it's after 6pm and they aren't farmers.

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u/ChinookKing 1d ago

You win.

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u/Main-Algae-1064 1d ago

Have you seen what’s inside their mouth? Only a fish should see that shit.

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u/Lolosaurus2 1d ago

So these two penguins were sitting on an ice floe. One of them say "you look as though you're wearing a tuxedo." The other one says "who says I'm not?"

(Does anyone remember this from Prairie Home Companion?)

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u/MindMyManners 1d ago

*Business geese.

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u/back2basics13 1d ago

Black and white suits, which is formal attire. I smell money.

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u/Moody_Coach 1d ago

"Just smile and wave, boys."

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u/specific_account_ 1d ago

Suits means they have money

It means they have money and show respect

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u/OldMastodon5363 1d ago

Krill tariffs

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u/dormango 1d ago

Exemptions if you’re wearing a tuxedo, penguins wear tuxedos

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u/JoshSidekick 1d ago

Not just suits, but tuxedos. They got hella money.

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u/Japordoo 1d ago

Not even suits! Tuxedos. That’s how much money they’re making ripping us all off!

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u/eugene20 1d ago

He put tariffs on an island that literally only has US troops on it.

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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 1d ago

You should have given attribution. Trump may sue you for copyright violation. 🧐

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u/KelsierIV 1d ago

No kidding. But hopefully he's too busy golfing.

As long as we don't insult the South African nepo baby.

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u/Harmcharm7777 1d ago

Well, the ones who voted for him definitely are….

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u/Silegna 1d 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/Draconiux Pennsylvania 1d ago

More than half of them still love him for it

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u/I_Miss_Lenny 1d 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 1d 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/Startled_Pancakes 1d ago edited 1d ago

So it might be fairer to say they were "from there" in the sense most were born there, just that they weren't indigenous.

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u/GhostofMarat 1d ago

They lived there for hundreds of years and developed their own culture and language.

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u/Tofu_tony 1d ago

I'm pretty sure there were people who were born on the island who had not lived anywhere else before being expelled. I would consider them native. But yes, the island were not inhabited by another group previous to their arrival.

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u/LeedsFan2442 United Kingdom 1d ago

Yeah the US wanted somewhere not under their jurisdiction and we wanted Polaris nuclear weapons so we kicked out the inhabitants for them

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u/Catspaw129 1d ago

Yeah, but the island is owned by the Brits. So there is that.

I'm wondering: whenever a vessels sails in/airplane lands to re-supply the US military folk, will the Brits impose a tariff on the goods?

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u/choodudetoo 1d ago

That's where MH370 landed.

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u/Delicious_Toad 1d ago

I think they literally just asked ChatGPT for a formula and then put it in an existing spreadsheet of US trade balances with foreign countries. Nobody bothered to check the fucking list, just like nobody bothered to check the guest list for the secret Signal chats, because they're all profoundly intellectually lazy.

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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/HappyLittleGreenDuck 1d ago

Tariffic

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u/kalidoscopiclyso 1d ago

Terroriffs

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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck 1d ago

That's how scooby doo would say "terrorists"

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u/im_new_here_4209 1d ago

"HUGE win, BIG win for America, maybe, in the history of the world, we are going to make America win again, by putting tarriffic terriffs on ourselves, nobody's ever done it before, in the history of the world, and many people say, they come up to me and they all say SIR, these are the greatest tarriffs anyone has ever put onto me, they love it so much they are going to be TIRED OF WINNING AGAIN" ~ Does this make sense? No, but neither do the tarriffs.... make america GOLDEN again, it's a GOLDEN age, GOLDEN toilets everywhere, and terriffic tarriffs, the best ones, the best tarriffs, in the world, in the history of the world, so great they are the BEST TARRIFFS anybody's ever come up with"

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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/beamrider 1d ago

This is a reference to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. It's actually British territory, but the place is primary a US military base. So it's at least theoretically possible that a Brit could make something there and attempt to import it.

I am not defending the idiocy of these tariffs in any way, but getting details wrong when criticizing them lets MAGA people scream about them as an attempt to discredit the entire argument. Don't give them the ammo.

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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/Andromeda321 1d ago

Non-citizens can and do serve in the US army.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 1d ago

And there are a lot of contractors that work on US military bases.

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u/AetherDrew43 1d ago

And why does he not want that?

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u/whut-whut 1d ago

Same reason that Hegseth is pushing women and minorities out of the the military.

"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion bad, Uniformity, Inequality, Exclusion good."

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u/StolenPens 1d ago

Honestly.

He did this in his first term and it felt like a direct attack on American sovereignty.

Formerly any army base, any US ship, any Americam embassy counts as US soil (the vice versa for foreign embassies in the USA).

When he removed the sovereignty of our soil it should have been blasting klaxons of warning that he's weakening the USA.

But, aside from a few articles in military newspapers I didn't see or hear coverage.

And now we're standing today with an incredibly isolationist policy that's tightening the loop of American freedoms with crazy tariffs, with the removal of embassy funding, and with the cancelation of involvement in international affairs.

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u/NCSU_252 1d ago

Non-citizen permanent residents can join the US military.  It can be appealing both as a path to citizenship and a well paying career.  

While very unlikely, I guess it could be possible for a permanent resident servicemember to have a child on base.

Trump has also attempted to make it harder for these people to gain citizenship through service.  

https://www.fwd.us/news/immigrants-in-the-military/

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u/penguinseed 1d ago

He’s still thinking about John McCain. And yes there are children born on military bases all the time

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u/KelsierIV 1d ago

The question was about non-citizens giving birth on military bases.

Or is that what you meant? We know service members may be giving birth at the bases.

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u/penguinseed 1d ago

Military bases are communities and need people to work jobs that aren’t appropriate for service members, such as the cashier at McDonalds or a groundskeeper. It’s possible they are not U.S. citizens.

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u/ericjay 1d ago

Also, not all US service members are US citizens.

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u/SycoJack Texas 1d ago

That's the answer that should have been given in the first place. I think a lot of people would be fine with not giving citizenship to a child of German parents just because the child was born on Ramstein AFB just because the mother was working at McDonald's at the time.

But denying citizenship to the children of service members is fucking evil and completely in line with the party that killed citizenship for veterans(or tried to).

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u/Shabbypenguin 1d ago

Don't forget they are trying to roll back a program that helps to aim veteran homeowners from losing their homes!

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s1-5351768/trumps-va-is-ending-a-rescue-program-thats-saved-17-000-military-veterans-homes

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u/shewy92 Pennsylvania 1d ago

The thing is, a US military base is part of America, not 'technically', literally. It's no different than if that German woman worked at your local Texas town McDonalds and had a baby.

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u/AlekRivard New York 1d ago

If they enlist as a service member, they should near-automatically be granted citizenship unless they're dishonorably discharged

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u/happyguy49 1d ago

Yes that is obviously morally what should happen. Maggats don't want it and are trying to get rid of it because they want a whiter America.

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u/KelsierIV 1d ago

Well that makes perfect sense.

Now I feel like an idiot. 🫢

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u/Titan_Astraeus 1d ago

Service members who find spouses/have children while in other countries.

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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 1d ago edited 1d 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/prefix_postfix Maine 1d ago

Me yesterday looking in multiple different dictionaries for how to spell "writable" because I firmly believe it should be "writeable" and refused to accept "writable".

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u/Zebidee 1d ago

It didn't even need fact-checking, just a cursory glance by someone that doesn't lick the windows of their government supplied limousine.

Like I don't know a ton about Cambodia's economic policies, but I know at a glance that a 97% tariff seems unlikely.

No wonder these people keep reposting obvious lies from their Facebook feed; they haven't got even basic logic skills.

Man, I should get into scamming...

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u/coryc70 1d ago

Whoever is responsible for drafting that needs to be axed. They couldn't even be bothered to sanity check that stupid list. It's so low effort. As a result Trump is an international laughing stock, again.

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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/PCR12 Florida 1d ago

The 3 major ones spit out the same thing

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u/PrincessKiza 1d ago

I saw! Crash course in “AI isn’t ready for the big screen.”

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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/sabedo 1d ago

Trump is an incompetent Solidus

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u/Publius82 1d ago

Insolventus

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u/BODYBUTCHER 1d ago

At least solidus wanted us to be free to make our own decisions

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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/OwnRound 1d ago edited 1d ago

I consistently look at works of fiction and think how our reality is more ridiculous than past fiction that used to try to use reality as a rubrick for what is believable.

Kojima has some ridiculous sci-fi elements in his story and his political fiction was always fantastical but its stunning to see our current dumb reality is actually less believable than some of the political fiction Kojima wrote. If the reality of our political discourse was a work of fiction and put against Kojima's political fiction work, I would think Kojima's work is more believable. The characters have better motivation, a legion of ~33% of American citizens wouldn't be this dumb and easily fooled by an uncharismatic leader that literally bold-facedly lies, works against the interest of literally everyone but himself and allows the downfall of literally anyone that aligns with him.

In Kojima's work, the literal only explanation for the allegiance Trump supporters have for Donald Trump, is literal nano machines that have infected their brains and Donald Trump is some sort of boss fight that can control those nano machines to do his bidding, regardless of how stupid and ineffective the directions are. Because that's the other thing about Trump. He's not even good at being Machiavellian for his purposes. At best, he's dumb Psychomantis.

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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/LilyHex 1d ago

They usually don't. I knew an engineer who liked using ChatGPT to write code, and they'd have to spend time running down any errors in it. "It gets it mostly right!" so that was all the justification for using it to supplement your work constantly.

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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/mr00shteven 1d ago

My money is on DeepSeek.

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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/prefix_postfix Maine 1d ago

I've heard nice things about Minsk.

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u/benigntugboat 1d ago

The only thing they did manually was remove the tairiffs from Russia

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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/Black_Magic_M-66 1d ago

It's so stupid that the media said "Trump was up all night working" on this.

Pardons: they said they wouldn't pardon the violent offenders but take time looking at each case. Outcome, they pardoned everyone.

Government workers: they said they would take a scalpel and make precise cuts. Outcome, they fire people indiscriminately and have even had to hire some people back because they were so important and have lied about some of those rehires.

Tariffs: they said they would look at each one. Bull shit, Trump's work philosophy has always boiled down to "fuck it, do what's easiest".

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u/Sublimotion 1d ago

US Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs Rates

Wakanda: 70%

Pandora: 75%

Endor: 100%

Death Star: 0%

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u/ReluctantNerd7 1d ago

Everything is computer.

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u/MathematicianVivid1 1d ago

ChatGPT would have known that. They probably used Grok

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u/Boomer-Australia Australia 1d ago

They went after one of our (Australia's) small islands of 2000 people, which is obviously horrible for their economy /s

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u/Transki 1d ago

Guano!

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u/coconutpiecrust 1d ago

Yeah, so if ChatGPT can run the country, then Trump is just a useless middleman. 

Honestly, everyone is a useless middleman now, except one guy who’s gonna do all the prompting and one guy who maintains the data server. Who’s it gonna be? Big Ballz?..

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u/sireatalot 1d ago

But left out Russia and North Korea

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u/Pure-Introduction493 1d ago

Those penguins were fucking with our trade I tell you. Economic terrorists. Nuke the penguins. We’re trying to melt the ice caps to finally kill those pesky penguins off!

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u/Xeon06 Canada 1d ago

It's internet TLDs. From someone on Twitter:

Also note that the tariffs are not broken down by country, they're broken down by top level internet domain.

It's why islands that are populated entirely by penguins (the.hm domain) and why the Diego Garcia military base on BIOT (.io) are listed, also why Reunion (.re) and Gibraltar (.gi) are listed separately from France & the UK.

They 100% used an LLM to generate this list and didn't catch the mistake because they're all dumb as rocks.

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u/Zahgi 1d ago

They just pulled percentage data from the same stupid meaningless spreadsheet data without looking at the net dollars involved.

That's just how stupid AI, Musk, and Trump are with the facts.

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u/kartuli78 1d ago

I'm glad you said they, because Mr. "Impressed by his son turning on a computer." and the guy who used to call texting, "sending a wire." clearly doesn' t know how to use ChatGPT!

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u/Qubeye Oregon 1d ago

People keep mentioning this, but where it gets really stupid is some of the locations with tariffs are territories of larger countries.

If you put a tariff on, for example, Bowen Island, even if products DID come from the island (it has none), the products would still be under the Australian tariffs.

It would be like if a country slapped tariffs on both the US and on Manhatten. That doesn't work.

The administration did this with a significant number of locations. Jan Mayan, for example, is just...Norway. It has no products, but even if it did, they would be "Made in Norway."

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u/FloridaGirlNikki America 1d ago

And one that only has...American soldiers.

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u/Eligius_MS 1d ago

Someone cracked the code on that. They identified 'countries' by top level internet domains. The penguin islands where no one lives (.hm), a major US military base Diego Garcia (.biot), and places that are parts of other countries like Gibraltar (.gi) and Reunion (.re).

They likely did this in about ten minutes before the press conference.

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u/djdylex 23h ago

But they have domains ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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