Solid Gold Robot

Solid Gold Robot

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AI researcher from back before it was cool. Just kidding, it was always cool.

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Voters are going to respond to how Republicans are addressing the key issues that we all care about.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Joe Mitchell: "Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa."

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Q: There's a report that FEMA is telling states to prepare to handle disasters on their own. Any reaction? OSSOFF: So the Trump administration is telling folks across the country to prepare to fend for themselves while taxpayer dollars are sent to back Don Jr & Eric's mining interest in Kazakhstan?

At this point, everyone seems to have just normalized the idea of the President offering bribes to voters. This is just how it is, isn't it? Trump does outrageous things, we all act shocked, and then we shrug and ignore it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

No one has ever had as punchable a face as Hassett.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

KERNEN: You have never seen Americans so sour on the economy HASSETT: The thing about the sour -- when you look at surveys, Dems think we're in the Great Depression. Republicans think things are fine. So surveys have lost their value. It's a very very strong economy, one of the strongest we've seen

When I first saw the text of this post, I assumed that Trump was posting videos of ice dogs attacking migrants or something. Terrible, but on brand. But this is even more unhinged. It's just random people being attacked by lions and stuff in zoos. When is everyone gonna admit he's unwell?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

The president is now posting snuff videos of animals maiming humans

Dems should start campaigning on statements like this, and just say, "The GOP doesn't even know that the war with Iran is affecting oil prices."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Chris Wright: "We're in a crisis right now with a shortage of diesel because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine"

It's insane that we elected this imbecile twice, and we're gonna get another global pandemic.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: What is the US going to do about the risk of bubonic plague coming from Russia? TRUMP: Well we're looking at it very strongly

Recall this, in 2020, where Trump struggled to walk down a ramp, later claiming that it was slippery due to weather, even though you can see that it's a perfectly sunny day. youtu.be/6bqvGXGN4DA?...

youtu.beTrump's ramp walk: a "slippery" slope | AFPYouTube video by AFP News Agency
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"I can go ramp, I can go stairs" -- Trump's audience in Texas gives him an extremely tepid round of applause as he brags about being able to go up stairs without falling

Anyone gonna comment on the fact that Pete Hegseth stands with the posture of a toy action figure instead of a normal person? Is this supposed to be some hard core Alpha bro move?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

No real military leader would define leadership like this. The fact that Hegseth thinks this is leadership highlights how mindlessly superficial his understanding of any of this stuff is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Telling someone to get in shape or shave or fix their uniform or start busting their ass -- that's not discrimination. That's leadership"

It's worth saying here: The only people obsessed with this stuff are weirdos in Trump's administration.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."

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A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

This is a great example of what the entire GOP is at this point in history. They're just a bunch of unserious imbeciles who can't do even the basic legwork that should be a minimum requirement for their jobs. Schmitt concocts this conspiracy theory and presents it without even basic fact checking.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

Here's the question to ask: What kind of fraud could you commit by signing up for health insurance and not using it? There's no way for a criminal to somehow make money from such an act.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

Most Datacenters only employ around 50 on-site employees. The idea that they are going to bring a bunch of good jobs is a pure fiction.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on data centers: "Unfortunately, I don't think the American people are digesting all of the information. I mean, look, nothing against golfers out there, but golf courses use 40 times more water than data centers ... we welcome them"

To anyone in the press, Franklin's quote seems relevant to you guys. "We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately" ~Benjamin Franklin, 1776

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW, and Politico ... from the White House as a result of their constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS!"

Markwayne Mullin: "Those individuals came into the country the white way."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: He's a US citizen MARKWAYNE MULLIN: He wasn't arrested BASH: He was arrested. He was later released, but he was arrested. Do Americans need to carry around proof of citizenship now? MULLIN: If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear

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lol -- Enten unpacks how everyone hates Pete Hegseth, who has a -25 net approval rating, including -43 with independents

Look, people are upset that Patel walked out of a Senate hearing, but I think we all need to acknowledge that those beers aren't gonna drink themselves.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

unreal -- Kash Patel packs up his stuff *while Schiff is still trying to ask him questions* in an effort to exit the hearing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

VARGAS: Does giving people $5,000 increase the deficit or debt? BESSENT: I believe there are ways to do it without increasing the debt or deficit VARGAS: Such as? BESSENT: That's in process right now VARGAS: So it's somehow mysteriously or magically occur?

Kash Patel is arguing that so many FBI applicants had sex with animals, that disqualifying them for beastiality wouldn't let them find any agents. So, according to the Director of the FBI, if you encounter an FBI agent, they probably had sex with animals.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal? P: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them K: I'm trying to understand why you did this.

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I think tearing down Trump's monstrosities, and scraping all that gold crap off the walls, would be healthy symbolism about recovering the country. In addition, fire all his appointees. He's the guy who wanted Schedule F - the next Dem POTUS should use it, then cancel Schedule F. But use it first.

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Donald Trump makes President Camacho from Idiocracy look like Abraham Lincoln.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder & higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings &, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!"

I'm just gonna throw this out there. If Canada wanted to engage trunk on his own level, and just start arbitrarily renaming things, I bet most of the world, and a ton of Americans, would play along. Mississippi River? Canada River. Colorado River? Canada River West. Mall of America? Do it.

It's absolutely insane that we elected someone who is so narcissistic and oblivious that he'd post this without realizing that the reason everyone is mad at the GOP is because of him. This is what happens when you get all your news from Natalie.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

a post from President Trump: "I don't think the GOP fully grasp how badly they are fucking up right now"

If only someone like Cassidy had been given an opportunity to stop anti vax messaging coming from HHS.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Cassidy on Trump's painfully ignorant comments about vaccines: "If it wasn't so potentially tragic, you would break out laughing ... it is wrong on so many levels"

The president can never ask Todd Blanche to cross an ethical line if Blanche has no ethical lines.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: Can you pledge the DOJ will always act independently of the WH? BLANCHE: No, I'm not going to pledge that WELKER: So if the president asked you do to something that you feel crosses an ethical or legal line, would you do it? BLANCHE: He would never do that. He never has. He never will.

It seems absurd to have to say this, since it was only 6 years ago, but A MILLION AMERICANS DIED. We remember that a MILLION Americans died from Covid, right?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true

The courts seem like they are going to protect Trump from direct repercussions for his obvious corruption. But, EVERY single person who purchases early access to his social media posts absolutely can and should be prosecuted for insider trading when this is all over.