[ExI] Trump Says a Smart President Is All That’s Needed to Rein In A.I.

[John Clark]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 4:15 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> John I perceive you might feel a lot better if I would post something,
> anything critical of the current POTUS.  Very well, I shall. [...] The
> current POTUS would need to cut a trillion dollars out of this year’s
> budget and another trillion out of next year’s budget.  He would of course
> not get that past congress, so the government would be shut down for the
> entire four years of his second term.  Meanwhile, he would need to order
> the US military overseas to come home, shut down all foreign bases, lay off
> most of the military, decimate the executive branch bureaucracy.  These are
> things that POTUS controls.  The changes needed are that drastic.  Elon
> told us the truth: that is how drastic the cuts must be.  *
>

*Spike, I can hardly believe what I'm reading with my own eyes!  Do you
really believe we'd be better off if POTUS had done all that? You criticize
Donald for not doing all those loony things, but you STILL DO NOT criticize
him for doing one particularly incredibly stupid thing, paying $2 billion
to stop construction of a clean power plant that was 90% completed. *

*> Elon was telling the truth.  The guy who hired him ignored his advice,
> pretending we can outgrow our own government’s debt.  *


*From that and other evidence it is now pretty clear that although he has
occasional flashes of genius Elon Musk is not mentally stable *

*> I am of the opinion that the debt will outgrow us.*


*It's amazing. Here we are only about 30 months from the AI Singularity
(the AI Apocalypse may turn out to be a better term) and you're still
getting all hot and bothered over a triviality like deficit spending, which
is of no more importance than other trivialities like global warming, or
illegal immigration, or excessive wokeness, or the White House ballroom, or
street crime, or men in women's sports.  There is something much more
important to worry about.*


*John K Clark*
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