# How has the disgraced, CONVICTED FELON, former but once again President Trump pissed you off today? (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [February 6, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964 "2025-02-06T18:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 306
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6124 "2026-10-09T21:09:20Z")
That was my assumption too. To his chilish mind “artificial” = bad (you know like fake news) “super” = cool like Super Man n’ stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6125 "2026-10-09T21:12:50Z")
It may simply be that Trump will stumble over the word artificial so he’s promoting super as easier to say. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6126 "2026-10-09T21:14:07Z")
Maybe it’s been too long since he renamed something, so it was time? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6127 "2026-10-09T21:14:27Z")
That’s just as plausible an explanation as anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6128 "2026-10-09T22:04:29Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I wonder how long before Trump himself is caught calling it AI. He wouldn’t be embarrassed being caught saying “AI” any more than he’s embarrassed to be caught voting by mail, after calling it “cheating” and “corrupt as hell.” > [@romansperson](#): > > Following in the footsteps of the dictators Agent Orange admires most, no doubt. Yes, brutality must be public if you want to control the populace. > [@](#): > > I cited Hegseth’s celebration of irrationalism and machismo, identified by Umberto Eco as two key elements of what he calls “Ur-Fascism.” > > Another familiar feature of fascism is the transformation of politics into spectacle. Fascism wants to reduce active citizens to passive observers, indeed into voyeurs—especially voyeurs of cruelty and death. Such degradation of a democratic public is key to fascism’s project and to its success. > > This has been understood for a long time. The Roman Empire … > **[Hegseth Wants You to Watch a Snuff Film](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-wants-you-to-watch-a-snuff-film-execution-hasan-hood-national-conservatism-israel-hazony-america-first)** > > Neo-fascism as spectacles of violence. And to @Q.Q.Switcheroo --good reference! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6129 "2026-10-09T22:52:25Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Maybe it’s been too long since he renamed something, so it was time? Yeah, it’s this, plus AI is in the news a lot and he’s not involved, so he had to be involved. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6130 "2026-10-09T23:12:19Z")
By Monday (12th) he’ll go back to AI like nothing ever came out of that putrescent piehole. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6131 "2026-10-09T23:56:40Z")
Maybe he wants to keep the name “artificial intelligence” for his own thought process? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6132 "2026-10-09T23:57:26Z")
True enough. It certainly isn’t human. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6133 "2026-10-10T00:01:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > You’re expecting someone to investigate the workings of his brain? Don’t ask for much, do you? That way lies madness. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6134 "2026-10-10T00:44:44Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > Maybe it’s been too long since he renamed something, so it was time? > > Yeah, it’s this, plus AI is in the news a lot and he’s not involved, so he had to be involved. And demonstrate that he has such authority over the country that he can dictate the public discourse. He really does want to be “revered” like a dictator. > **[Trump says he wants 'my people' to sit at attention for him like people do...](https://www.wbtv.com/story/38433646/trump-says-he-wants-my-people-to-sit-at-attention-for-him-like-people-do-for-kim-jong-un/?outputType=amp)** > > President Trump declared in a spur-of-the-moment interview with "Fox and Friends" Friday morning that he wants people to sit at attention for him like they do for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6135 "2026-10-10T01:34:33Z")
Of course, that goes back to his first term, but I’m sure it’s ‘now more than ever.’ ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6136 "2026-10-10T09:17:24Z")
Simple logic folks. > I am very clever with a bigly high IQ. > The Artificial Intelligence is more intelligent than me. > → Therefore it must be Super Intelligence. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6137 "2026-10-10T15:50:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Just a total WAG, but I think the term “artificial” equates to “fake” or “inferior” to him. Ironically, ‘artificial’ once meant something crafted with human skill, **art** istry, technical ability, etc., instead of something fake and inferior. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6138 "2026-10-10T16:09:43Z")
In his last couple of rallies, Trump has specifically said that they are going to fuck with the elections if they don’t like the outcome. What form that will take is anyone’s guess, but brace yourselves for armed interference and confiscated voting machines. This fucker will stop at nothing. Also, if you are voting on election day, make sure your ballot has zero stray marks on it when you get it. Planted election workers may make an unobtrusive mark somewhere on the ballot, which will render it void. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6139 "2026-10-10T16:30:30Z")
ISTM only a fool would wait to vote on Nov 3 if they had any choice. Those are the votes easiest to mess with. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6140 "2026-10-10T17:09:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Maybe he wants to keep the name “artificial intelligence” for his own thought process? > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > True enough. It certainly isn’t human. It also isn’t intelligence. Or thought. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6141 "2026-10-10T17:12:13Z")
EXACTLY! A couple of my friends here at The Home have said, oh la di da they’re not sure if they want to mail in their ballot or wait until election day. Somehow it seems more patriotic to vote in person. I say mail in the G. D. Ballot right now! You don’t know what election day is going to be like. You might get sick, or break your leg, or your car could have a flat tire. You do not want to take a chance on somehow not being able to vote on that day. And anyway, in spite of the problems with the mail, I trust the ballot to get there through the mail more than I trust it getting to the right place by sticking it in a box out in the open in some building somewhere. I don’t think that my concerns are inappropriate in this day and time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6142 "2026-10-10T17:15:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Also, if you are voting on election day, make sure your ballot has zero stray marks on it when you get it. Planted election workers may make an unobtrusive mark somewhere on the ballot, which will render it void. We use the drop box at the fire station, and we put our ballots in before Election Day. Everyone should verify their voter registration, especially in contested states. > **[Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.org](https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/)** > > It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you take care of that too. Fast, free, secure, non-partisan. I just checked (again), and I got a green checkmark, a message saying I’m registered to vote, and my name and address on the registration. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-has-the-disgraced-convicted-felon-former-but-once-again-president-trump-pissed-you-off-today-part-2/1013964/6143 "2026-10-10T17:18:24Z")
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