Mel Gibson Jack Ford Danica Patrick
they build personal walls as high as the Babel Tower
they probably say variations of F The Common People
thinking they are advancing America by dragging
the gutter talking rambling carcass of Donald John Trump
towards a finish line that isn’t what they imagine
not the climax of a rancid second term in office
to enable them to Keep What’s Theirs
instead they’re pulling Trump towards what he dreads
denials, delays, clang of prison door, silence
Here’s Peter Baker pushing THE NEW YORK TIMES reporter analysis envelope:
Sometimes lost amid all the shouting of a high-octane campaign heading into its final couple of weeks is that simple if mind-bending fact. America for the first time in its history may send a criminal to the Oval Office and entrust him with the nuclear codes. What would once have been automatically disqualifying barely seems to slow Mr. Trump down in his comeback march for a second term that he says will be devoted to “retribution.”
let your Artificial Intelligence do your thinking and deciding for you plus you can put it to work making what Guillermo Del Toro called screensavers but you with little background in art appreciation will call it genius pixel painting then you can feed your AI old movies and movie star photos to create a mediocre teaming of Alan Ladd and Humphrey Bogart and dunderheadedly claim it’s better than movies made with real people and real settings and after that you can fly to a foreign country to not learn the language but speak your native linguistics into a translator app and, once you’ve returned home, yon can tell your math teacher you don’t need to waste hours proving theorems because there’s AI to save time for you and as you persist in believing your Artificial Intelligence is all the computer power you need with no more reason to read and figure and learn, then you’ll find yourself easily led and, eventually, easily enslaved
