The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

State of the Union

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I got one word for you. Skynet

 

Just noting that major AI apps like Claude/Anthropic, GPT/OpenAI, and Gemini/Google may not be the best thing for the Defense Department unless we want a WOPR scenario from War Games.

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ding-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

How much more "willing" are AIs? 95% of the simulations ended with nukes being deployed.

 

Best money saving move since Trump took office

 

I don't know what worse, he's still lying about who pays the tariffs...or people clapping for the lie.

 

"plastics"

 

I'm ready for this

 

I’ve sold real estate for a guy who nobody would take serious or talk to. Had holes in his shirt and drove a shitty Honda. Guy paid 3 million plus worth of homes for his whole family. Never judge anyone by materialistic items. You just never know.

I’ve seen people drive 150k cars who couldn’t afford a thing. Some people care what others think, others don’t.

 

SMDH

Rocket River

 

[CBS] At least 10 FBI staffers who worked on Mar-a-Lago documents case are fired, sources say

At least 10 FBI employees who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified records after he left the White House in 2021 were fired on Wednesday, multiple sources told CBS News.

The firings came after Reuters reported that the FBI had subpoenaed records of phone calls made by FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles when they were still both private citizens as part of Smith's probe into Trump.

The Reuters article quoted Patel, who alleged that the FBI had secretly subpoenaed his phone records "using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight." The Reuters article added that it had not independently verified any of Patel's claims.

Patel did not provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the staff who were terminated.

Special Counsel Jack Smith oversaw two federal probes into now-President Trump. One case alleged he unlawfully tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, while the other focused on his retention of classified documents and efforts to obstruct the Justice Department when it asked him to return the files.

All of the FBI agents and analysts who were fired on Wednesday were involved with the classified documents case.

CBS News confirmed with a source familiar with the matter that Wiles' records were reviewed as part of the documents case, but was unable to verify whether Patel's were. In the case involving the 2020 election, known as Arctic Frost, Patel's records were not subpoenaed, the source added.​

 

When you can't win, cheat.


White House 'circulating' 17-page executive order draft to declare emergency over voting

 

Oh look, the thing that we told you would happen might be happening.

 

I suppose that's part of the aim -- replace a progressive tax that leans more on the people to whom much was given with a more flat tax policy that shifts the burden to the middle class.

I don't know about racist. The problem I have with it is that we have this Bill of Rights that guarantees certain protections from government regardless of your citizenry. Trump was asking us to support the abrogation of civil rights of non-citizens, which strikes me as deeply unAmerican.

 

Gravy. OpenAI, Google, and xAI have already adopted the Pentagon’s "all lawful use" language, which effectively allows unrestricted military use.

Just a few years ago, leading AI scientists and founders such as Musk, Jeff Dean, Ilya Sutskever, and Mustafa Suleyman, along with thousands of researchers and hundreds of founders of robotics and AI companies, including those from OpenAI and Google, signed open letters warning against lethal autonomous use. Now, it appears that among the major companies, only Anthropic is maintaining that position.

 

ND they call themselves, "Christians." @K9Texan

 

"But, I still support them wholeheartedly because, God forbid, I'm asked to not be a dick to other people."

 

Friday's deadline is here. Anthropic said no. No surprise, Musk is a hypocrite.

Anthropic says it will not accede to Pentagon demands as deadline looms | AP News

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei drew a sharp red line 24 hours before the deadline, declaring his company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s final demand to allow unrestricted use of its technology.

If Amodei doesn’t budge, military officials have warned they will not just pull Anthropic’s contract but also “deem them a supply chain risk,” a designation typically stamped on foreign adversaries that could derail the company’s critical partnerships with other businesses.

And if Amodei were to cave, he could lose trust in the booming AI industry, particularly from top talent drawn to the company for its promises of responsibly building better-than-human AI that, without safeguards, could pose catastrophic dangers.

Anthropic said it sought narrow assurances from the Pentagon that Claude won’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. But after months of private talks exploded into public debate, it said in a Thursday statement that new contract language “framed as compromise was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.”

That was after Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, posted on social media that “we will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions.” Anthropic has “until 5:01 p.m. ET on Friday to decide” if it would meet the demands or face consequences, Parnell said.

That message hasn’t resonated in much of Silicon Valley, where a growing number of tech workers from Anthropic’s top rivals, OpenAI and Google, voiced support for Amodei’s stand late Thursday in an open letter.

Musk sided with the Trump administration on Friday, saying on his social media platform X that “Anthropic hates Western Civilization” after Michael drew attention to a previous version of Claude’s guiding principles that encouraged “consideration of non-Western perspectives.” All of the leading AI models, including Musk’s Grok and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are programmed with a set of instructions that guide a chatbot’s values and behavior. Anthropic calls that guidance a constitution.

Amodei said Thursday that “those latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.” He said he hopes the Pentagon will reconsider given Claude’s value to the military, but, if not, Anthropic “will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider.”