[FRIAM] The lies of Trump and ecDNA

[glen]

I'm fond of eyeball attempts to determine whether images are from generative AI. Your 1st one definitely looks like it. The 2nd one, I can't tell. (It's cheating to look at the alt description or the filename.) But the very prominent slur on the coin kinda sorta gives it away. DALL-E is obviously not very safe ... or maybe it's been trained on too much UK/Aussie content.

On 2/29/24 09:11, Steve Smith wrote:
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>> Focus on getting the majority in Congress so he can be impeached.
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> If Trump's base manages to bully their way into putting him back in office, I think we will be experiencing precisely the canonical "tyranny of the majority over the minority" in the worst way, which of course, is what many of those insurrection-supporting folks are feeling (righteously or not) about the current scene.
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> In 2000 I wasn't happy to see Bush-II take the reins (or have them handed over by the Supreme court over hanging chad nuances?) but I felt it was an inevitable swing of the political pendulum and besides "how bad could it be?", then came 9/11 (encouraged/forced by the hyper-hawk agendas of the right-wing "mandate"?) and the Rummy/Wolfey/Cheney thuggery (with Bush as their puppet front man?).
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> I was fed up with Clinton for more reasons than his mis-handling of his young intern (my own daughters roughly the same age) and felt Gore had some of his cooties by association.  I still voted for him (first vote since I helped Reagan knock Carter out of the park against my ultimate best interests) but my morbid fascination watching all of Florida and the rest of the country watching the coin-toss land on-edge and blowing it as hard as they could to knock it over (right or left) to their preference.
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> I was not happy with the way it turned out in the Supreme Court but by that time might not have been that happy if the coin had blown over the other way...  However come the 9/11 response, Iraq Invasion, I was embarrassed by my complacency/fatalism.  Today feels vaguely similar.
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>>> On Feb 29, 2024, at 7:08 AM, glen<gepropella at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> This is exactly why Trump needs to stay on the ballot(s) and be defeated by a "normal" election. Every cry of Martyr is more fuel for the much smarter younger traitors waiting in the wings. Or, if he is elected again, those of us in a position to bolster whatever Rule of Law we have left will need support.
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>>>> On 2/28/24 20:11, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>>>> I went looking for depressing news in 1924, you know, lying politicians and cancerous social movements:
>>>> April 1<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1>
>>>>   * Adolf Hitler<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler>  is sentenced to 5 years in Landsberg Prison<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsberg_Prison>  in Germany for his participation in the 1923<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923>  Beer Hall Putsch<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch>  (he serves less than 9 months).
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