TACO. I also understand that it’s very “nasty’” to hurt widdle Donny’s fee-fees by asking him about this acronym. When will people understand that a five-year old is sitting in the Oval Office? Linda McMahon is adept at kissing his ass.
Is anyone else mildly distressed that he’s leaving behind his coterie of Musk minions, unsupervised, at DOGE and various government departments they’ve invaded?
I read that story on NOTUS. Really awful stuff. I need to huff Puppy’s belly to recover.
Americans are fine with death camps as long nobody they know gets sent there. It is a sort of a NIMBY. Deport all migrants but not my migrant worker/friend/spouse.
I actually fed the report through AI earlier this morning.
1. Citation Hallucination and Inaccuracy
- Multiple claims are supported by citations that, while plausible in appearance, are either misattributed, outdated, misrepresented, or obscure. For example:
- A few cited studies have titles or journal details that don’t align with the authors listed.
- Others cite meta-analyses with overly generalized conclusions, not reflecting nuance in the actual studies.
- Several sources seem stacked unnaturally—with five or more back-to-back citations, some of questionable relevance or consistency.
2. Overgeneralization and Inflated Precision
- The report often makes sweeping conclusions (e.g., “70% of children’s calories come from ultra-processed foods”) without contextualizing demographic or geographic variance, and without acknowledging limitations of the studies cited.
- Many graphs and statistics are presented with undue certainty, reflecting a rhetorical style typical of generative AI text trained to “sound authoritative.”
3. Inconsistent Tone and Style
- The tone swings from bureaucratic and formal to alarmist and sensational, which can reflect patchwork authorship—or AI-generated drafts that were only lightly edited.
- Phrases like “radical transparency”, “chronically stressed, sick, and isolated generation”, and “food-like substances” evoke rhetorical exaggeration inconsistent with typical White House agency-authored reports.
4. Formatting Anomalies
- There are irregular citation formats, suggesting a possible automated generation or copy/paste from disparate sources (some in APA, others like footnotes, some with incomplete DOIs or broken links).
- Page structure shows repetition in structure typical of AI content, such as repeated sections listing “three key reasons” or “five drivers,” often with forced symmetry.
Could a Human Have Written This?
Absolutely—but likely with the aid of AI tools, templates, or ghostwriters without domain-specific expertise. The stylistic polish, coupled with the frequent overreach in scientific claims and citation oddities, strongly resembles AI-generated drafting passed through a light human editorial layer.
Verdict
While it cannot be definitively proven without authorship data, the combination of citation issues, rhetorical inflation, inconsistent tone, and formatting quirks strongly suggests that AI-assisted drafting is likely—especially given the volume and uniform structure of complex scientific claims across so many domains.
If you’d like, I can provide a rewritten, factual summary of the report that corrects misleading elements or identify false claims line-by-line.
4o
The MM headline “Huge Blow To Trump’s Illegal Tariff War” seems a bit overstated according to what I’ve been reading elsewhere. Trump will appeal, it could head to SCOTUS, but 1) it won’t affect targeted tariffs like aluminum and cars, and 2) he might be able to just shift the tariffs under a different law instead of national emergency. Here’s a first take on it from NYT, free gifted link:
Chaos vs. Hope: America’s Trading Partners React Cautiously to Tariff Block
President Trump’s threat to impose big charges — including 50 percent on the European Union — was in question after judges blocked his across-the-board levies.
He has a full-to-bursting roster of bootlickers, ballwashers, fluffers and ass-kissers.
Those clowns will, at least in some cases, awaken one day to what pathetic embarrassments they have been
Elon Musk will really be gone only when DOGE stops its rampage across the US government.
Proverbial old saw, don’t hold your breadth. Obvious fascist billionaire support was causing some image problems, but it is still there.
Lots of commentary yesterday that the kidnappers would face state charges if Trump pardons them.
The DC press isn’t, that’s for sure.
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahposner.bsky.social/post/3lqcuvqjhnk2u
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No story – ZERO – should take at face values that DOGE is or was about creating “efficiency” in government. The MAGA project is to destroy the government. This is not a hidden agenda! Any story that ignores that and pretends DOGE is about cutting costs is an utter journalistic failure.
May 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
He is sending convict felons to Supermax? I thought that prison wasn’t tough enough? And we had to send the worst of the worst to Alcatraz.
I assume Alcatraz was the concept of a plan and it will be ready in two week? Part of infrastructure week?
The difference though it is a lengthy process including publication and comment. And is limited to 15% I believe.
Check yer tariffs there, donnie boy.
Here’s my “nasty” question:
Are the “savings” from DOGE, rescinded university funds, cancelled contracts going to big, beautiful tax cuts? That won’t make him as mad as TACO, but he won’t like it.
Hard to believe it’s months since DOGE started and no one - NO ONE - has looked into this.
The thing that has been bothered me all along is that tariffs are a tax paid by Americans, and only Congress has the authority set taxes and duties. So arbitrarily a 10% worldwide tariff is something he cannot do without Congress.
MM: “ * President Trump pardoned former Rep. Michael Grimm, the Staten Island Republican who resigned from Congress in 2015 and did prison time for tax fraud. Grimm was paralyzed last year in a horseback riding accident. Trump has now pardoned a total of nine members of Congress convicted of corruption and/or tax crimes.”
I’ll bet William Jefferson — he of the money found in his freezer — is PISSED. Maybe he needs to kick back a few G’s.
He could care less about sick or dying toddlers. Remember this old chestnut from only a few years back?
https://www.salon.com/2020/06/16/trump-cut-off-nephews-medical-care-for-cerebral-palsy-during-dispute-over-inheritances-report_partner/
If tRump would cut off medical care to his own nephew he surely could care less about someone else’s child. Plus he probably gives himself even more pats on the back for the child being Mexican I’d say, mostly because he knows it excites his base, Stephen Miller and his own vindictiveness.
I dunno, that solution to the classic trolley problem has a distinct Kobayashi Maru cheater smell, doesn’t it?