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Zorro

(18,699 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:01 PM Mar 3

Trump's DOJ Humiliated After Botching Basic Words in Filing

An emergency motion failed to spell multiple basic words correctly.

The Justice Department found itself red-faced after a court filing was riddled with basic spelling errors.

An emergency motion filed to the 6th District Court by the Department of Justice last week failed to spell multiple basic words correctly, spelling voters as “votors,” United States as “United Staes,” and emergency as “emeregency.”

The emergency appeal was filed after a Michigan judge refused to force the state to hand over records that contained personal voter information such as dates of birth, addresses, and Social Security numbers.

The Trump administration is attempting to force states to hand over personal information on tens of millions of voters across the country ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The DOJ has defended the outreach, arguing that full access to the data is necessary to enforce federal statutes that require states to keep their voter rolls current and free of ineligible registrations.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-doj-humiliated-after-botching-basic-words-in-filing/

Must be graduates of Liberty and Regent University law schools.
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Trump's DOJ Humiliated After Botching Basic Words in Filing (Original Post) Zorro Mar 3 OP
Unbelievable underpants Mar 3 #1
But they passed the LOYALITY TEST, and that is what matters in this regeime Attilatheblond Mar 3 #2
Correct. SergeStorms Mar 3 #11
maybe interns from Liberty U. mountain grammy Mar 3 #12
That's what you get when your staff and attorneys MineralMan Mar 3 #3
AI misspells things, too. Ocelot II Mar 3 #4
Yeah, and don't get me started on spell checkers... Wounded Bear Mar 3 #8
They're NEVER wrong, you know? SeattleVet Mar 3 #19
That's fucking hilarious... Wounded Bear Mar 3 #23
Stupid fucks incapable of basic intelligence Blue Owl Mar 3 #5
They can't good help there days Historic NY Mar 3 #6
Looks like they used grok ai. mwmisses4289 Mar 3 #7
I don't think so PatSeg Mar 3 #14
Bring toothbrushes to your court appearances Aviation Pro Mar 3 #9
Toothbrushes, yes. Aristus Mar 3 #10
Home schooled morons.... AZ8theist Mar 3 #13
Thank you so much forr posting the classic "Morans" image. I've missed seeing it. Kudos, sir. FadedMullet Mar 3 #20
Might have been typed from voice recognition moniss Mar 3 #15
Speech to text swong19104 Mar 3 #18
Spell check is DEI propaganda. Real men don't conform to woke orthography, Gaugamela Mar 3 #16
Don't they swong19104 Mar 3 #17
Dum bass BHDem53 Mar 3 #21
"We don't need no education..." 3825-87867 Mar 3 #22

Attilatheblond

(8,889 posts)
2. But they passed the LOYALITY TEST, and that is what matters in this regeime
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:06 PM
Mar 3

I would not be too surprised if some of them don't make stupid mistakes so their even dumber bosses can correct the easy stuff and not catch the whoppers.

SergeStorms

(20,599 posts)
11. Correct.
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:40 PM
Mar 3

They can be dumb as a ball of lint, but if they pledge allegiance to The Big Orange Fascist Pig 🐖 they'll have a position in republican party politics for life.

🤪 Dog bless Orange Jebus.

Ocelot II

(130,572 posts)
4. AI misspells things, too.
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:17 PM
Mar 3

Those Liberty U grads whose grade point averages don't matter are probably using ChatGPT and aren't bright enough to find and fix its mistakes.

SeattleVet

(5,903 posts)
19. They're NEVER wrong, you know?
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:11 PM
Mar 3

From an ancient UseNet post:


Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Wounded Bear

(64,345 posts)
23. That's fucking hilarious...
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 07:21 PM
Mar 3


I normally run my gear with spell checkers off. I will occasionally run single words I'm a bit unsure of through it, but never a block of text of any size. Complete lack of any sense of syntax or context.

Aviation Pro

(15,591 posts)
9. Bring toothbrushes to your court appearances
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:26 PM
Mar 3

In 2029, you fucking morans [sic]; you’re going to need them where you’re going.

swong19104

(625 posts)
18. Speech to text
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 05:08 PM
Mar 3

Would not enter in a misspelled word. I worked with a guy who misspelled a word and blamed autocorrect. Autocorrect might choose the wrong word, but it can’t directly misspell a word. Autocorrect might choose “there” for “their”. But it won’t ever offer up “ther”.

Gaugamela

(3,516 posts)
16. Spell check is DEI propaganda. Real men don't conform to woke orthography,
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 04:55 PM
Mar 3

they spell it like they feel it.

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