{"id":24831,"date":"2025-06-06T17:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=24831"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:49:24","slug":"meltdown-reign-of-errors-people-trump-doesnt-want-to-exist-harari-on-humans-in-1000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/06\/meltdown-reign-of-errors-people-trump-doesnt-want-to-exist-harari-on-humans-in-1000-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown; Reign of Errors; People Trump doesn&#8217;t want to exist; Harari on humans in 1000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Details of the Trump\/Musk meltdown;<\/li>\n<li>The Trump administration&#8217;s reign of errors;<\/li>\n<li>Such as DOGE firing people and quickly hiring them back;<\/li>\n<li>The people Trump doesn&#8217;t want to exist;<\/li>\n<li>Yuval Noah Harari on how humans won&#8217;t exist in 1000 years, perhaps not even 100.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>Heather Cox Richardson, <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/june-5-2025\">June 5, 2025<\/a>, summarizes the Trump Musk public fight. Selection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Musk\u2019s behavior is erratic in its own right, but if there is anything but pique behind it, it appears he is threatening Trump by making a play to control the Republican Party. In response to a post by conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer suggesting that Republican lawmakers are unsure if they should side with Trump or Musk, Musk wrote: \u201cOh and some food for thought as they ponder that question: Trump has 3.5 years left as President, but I will be around for 40+ years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Economist Robert Reich had perhaps the best summary of the fight today when he noted, \u201cThat any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists\u2014and that they both individually wield such massive power\u2014is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then, as Richardson does, she segues to history: to FDR&#8217;s fireside chat on June 5 1944, discussing the progress of the war. Rome had fallen to Allied troops.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Familiar themes, today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6YXRGE7ZLXAIZ3JQ6YW6UUTBFM.JPG&amp;w=916\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post, Dana Milbank, 6 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/06\/06\/trump-mistakes-noem-rfk\/\">They are not good at this<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Nearly five months into Trump\u2019s new reign of error, his administration\u2019s mistakes are multiplying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most recently a list released by Kristi Noem about sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it immediately became clear that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golocalprov.com\/news\/SEE-THE-FULL-LIST-Trump-Designated-Sanctuary-Jurisdictions-Defying-Feder\">list of more than 500 states<\/a>, counties and cities was riddled with errors: misspellings, cities and counties mistaken for each other, and places that don\u2019t exist. Cincinnati <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/local-news\/cincinnatti-warren-and-cambell-counties-on-federal-list-of-sanctuary-jurisdictions\">became \u201cCincinnatti,\u201d<\/a> Campbell County (Kentucky) became \u201cCambell\u201d County, Greeley County (Nebraska) became \u201cGreenley\u201d County, Takoma Park (Maryland) became \u201cTacoma\u201d Park, while \u201cMartinsville County\u201d (Virginia) was invented. And so on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GTCT74HWZZD3RO7WYZ6MSUCXD4\" data-el=\"text\" data-scroll-pos=\"3\" data-scroll-measured=\"true\">Worse, scores of the \u201csanctuary politicians\u201d she called out turned out to be leaders of MAGA counties and towns with no sanctuary policies on their books. Complaints poured in from Trump allies across the country. \u201cYou don\u2019t have <a class=\"js-itid-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/2025\/05\/30\/immigration-sanctuary-jurisdictions-reaction\/25524362-3d86-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html\">that many mistakes<\/a> on such an important federal document,\u201d said Pat Burns, the Trump-backing mayor of the right-wing stronghold of Huntington Beach, California, mislabeled as a sanctuary city. He told the Associated Press that \u201csomebody\u2019s got to answer\u201d for this \u201cnegligent\u201d behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that. The only answer was to disappear the list this week, leaving behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sanctuary-jurisdictions\">\u201cPage Not Found\u201d<\/a> error.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, Trump hires only the best people!<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on with more and more examples. RFK Jr&#8217;s report with citations that were AI hallucinations. Trump&#8217;s list of tariff nations that included an island occupied only by penguins. The Education Secretary who didn&#8217;t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Karoline Leavitt unaware of the results of the South Korean election. Noem again and again. She&#8217;s the one who wears a cowboy hat indoors and who famously shot her dog. What has American government come to?<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>And a big example in particular.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/BE2UMBQNZRNDZJ474UKAZNQ7MQ.JPG&amp;w=916\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post, 6 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/06\/06\/doge-staff-cuts-rehiring-federal-workers\/\">Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Across the government, officials are rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Early this spring, the Food and Drug Administration fired nearly 50 workers in the Office of Regulatory Policy \u2014 only to turn around and order them back to the office with one day\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n<p>After dismissing thousands of probationary employees for fabricated \u201cperformance\u201d issues, the IRS reversed course and told them to show up to work in late May.<\/p>\n<p>And some staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development, dismantled in the first days of the Trump administration by a gleeful Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the U.S. DOGE Service, checked their inboxes this month to find an unexpected offer: Would you consider returning \u2014 to work for the State Department?<\/p>\n<p>Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE\u2019s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently this is happening so often that most examples don&#8217;t make the news.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Who are the people who support Trump and what his team are doing? Are they unaware of their incompetence? What is it that&#8217;s more important to them than competence? They prefer incompetence as long as Trump and his team hate the same people they do?<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>For example. This is the essence of fascism, and white supremacy. Why doesn&#8217;t this bother more people??<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/SEMVXP7KN5AAXEHVIDJ5FBGVPE.gif&amp;high_res=true&amp;w=1920\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Post, Amanda Shendruk and Catherine Rampell, 6 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/interactive\/2025\/trump-deletions-government-records-defense-photos\/\">Here are the people Trump doesn\u2019t want to exist<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Women, people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community are main targets&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"ONRE3N5MNNCKDDSD5FNPZKJW6M\" class=\"wpds-c-foYyTm wpds-c-foYyTm-idAgRsb-css\" data-component=\"Text\" data-file=\"custom-template-components\/src\/Text\/Text.js\" data-style=\"stitches\" data-contentid=\"ONRE3N5MNNCKDDSD5FNPZKJW6M\" data-scroll-pos=\"0\" data-scroll-measured=\"true\">When the Trump administration encounters a group it doesn\u2019t respect or care for, oftentimes it just deletes them \u2014 specifically, the very record of their existence.<\/p>\n<p id=\"BHKSLEV4KNDXLLTU2D5GZGMHH4\" class=\"wpds-c-foYyTm wpds-c-foYyTm-idAgRsb-css\" data-component=\"Text\" data-file=\"custom-template-components\/src\/Text\/Text.js\" data-style=\"stitches\" data-contentid=\"BHKSLEV4KNDXLLTU2D5GZGMHH4\" data-scroll-pos=\"1\" data-scroll-measured=\"true\">For example, when the Defense Department was asked to <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2025\/Feb\/27\/2003652943\/-1\/-1\/1\/DIGITAL-CONTENT-REFRESH.PDF?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\">cull all DEI-related content<\/a> from its websites, it removed approximately 26,000 images. A list of the deleted photos was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\">given to the Associated Press<\/a>. About 19,000 of them included descriptions, and our analysis found that 4 out of 5 depicted women, people in the LGBTQ+ community and racial minorities. We recovered a handful of the photos so you can see what\u2019s missing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The bulk of the piece is an interactive set of photos with captions. Ending:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is part of a broader campaign to delete the statistical and visual evidence of undesirables, or at least those who may not fit into President Donald Trump\u2019s conception of the new American \u201cgolden age.\u201d Entire demographics are being scrubbed from records of both America\u2019s past and present \u2014 including people of color, transgender people, women, immigrants and people with disabilities. They are now among America\u2019s \u201cmissing persons.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, other categories of people Trump wants to disappear cannot be easily photographed. The scientists. The smart people.<\/p>\n<p>As a gay and as an educated relatively smart person, I would be cancelled twice by the Trump administration, if they got around to finding me.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Finally for today, a video on Facebook from Yuval Noah Harari, who takes the big picture.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fbharari6jun25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/fbharari6jun25-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/752643617095810\">What Will Humans Be Like in a Thousand Years?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll copy the description; I don&#8217;t have time to transcribe everything Harari says.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Historian and author Yuval Noah Harari said he believes humans in their current form won\u2019t exist in 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Beat\u201d with MSNBC anchor Ari Melber, the intellectual discussed the rise of artificial intelligence and how humans will adapt to new technologies. Harari said that humans \u201cabsolutely won\u2019t be around\u201d in 1,000 years in their current form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we survive for 1,000 years, we will change ourselves so radically that we will no longer be Homo sapiens, we\u2019ll be something else,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said due to climate change, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology, future human beings will be of a different species similar to how today\u2019s humans are different from Neanderthals or chimpanzees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the perspective that the best of science fiction tries to achieve. And what I&#8217;m trying to capture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of the Trump\/Musk meltdown; The Trump administration&#8217;s reign of errors; Such as DOGE firing people and quickly hiring them back; The people Trump doesn&#8217;t want to exist; Yuval Noah Harari on how humans won&#8217;t exist in 1000 years, perhaps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/06\/meltdown-reign-of-errors-people-trump-doesnt-want-to-exist-harari-on-humans-in-1000-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,90,18,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authoritarianism","category-conservatives","category-lunacy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25302,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions\/25302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}