Rick Rosner: So, it’s the day after, and Trump has won. You noticed during our chat before we started taping that I was nodding off because I didn’t get much sleep last night. Carole was freaking out, grabbing me, and asking, “What are we going to do? What’s going to happen?” She was also telling me I need to delete thousands of my tweets out of fear that I might get into trouble with the regime for all the anti-Trump tweeting I did.

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: But even if you deleted all your tweets, there’s still an archive. They don’t just disappear.

Rosner: So, yes, it was a disastrous night. Harris came in about 10 million votes below what I expected and lost all the swing states. Liberal America is in shock, and MAGA America is gloating, saying, “We told you so.”

Four more years. On one hand, you hope he’ll be gracious in victory. On the other hand, he won’t be. I was watching Kimmel’s monologue, Seth Meyers, and The Daily Show. They’re all saying the same thing—that it’s going to be bad, but eventually, it’ll end in four years.

What more can we say that we haven’t already said 50 times before? It’s getting repetitive. But I won’t be saying it on Twitter anymore. I used to consider it my responsibility to get people worked up enough about how terrible he is so they would go vote for Harris. That time has passed.

I’m going back to using Twitter for its original, lighthearted purpose—messing up movie titles by changing one letter, like back when Twitter was fun. I just hope that if an information force comes looking for enemies of the state, they don’t search more than a few months back in my Twitter history. From now on, my Twitter is going to be wholesome.

Carole wants to move up our timeline for finding a place to live in England, which means cleaning out this place. It doesn’t make financial sense to leave it vacant while we’re in England. Especially with the upcoming Olympics, there will be a gold rush to rent out homes to wealthy families looking for a place to stay. We could probably get $20,000 a month for our place in 2028. Today, we even threw out an Encyclopedia Britannica to free up a bookshelf. It felt strange to discard all that knowledge, but now all of it fits on our phones. 

The LLMs, or Large Language Models, are like tiny encyclopedias—just friendlier. How many of the people watching this have interacted with AIs? They’re not conscious, but they’re friendly and eager to help. They’re a pleasure to interact with. So, what else is there to say? I know what to say: AI. By reelecting Trump, we’ve proven that we can’t be trusted to make good decisions for ourselves. It makes you wish for the rapid advent of AI that subtly guides us with propaganda into doing the least foolish thing.

In this case, that would have meant not voting for Donald Trump. AI isn’t powerful enough yet to achieve that level of influence. But give it five years, and it might be able to sway us into making smarter choices.

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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org

Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com

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