I realized today that the only AI I interact with is against my will. I don't really understand any of this. Is ChatGPT a place on the internet? Don't tell me. I don't care and I don't want to know. I think the is the hill I'll never find that I'm gonna die on.

Same clowns, different circus.

Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.

I remember Dana Bash, in the first week of the pandemic—after *we knew* Trump had dismantled our response capability and spent months lying about the threat to public health—glazing him for giving one relatively normal speech and scolding anyone who was still skeptical, who demanded more from her.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?

ETTD

Trying to enjoy life while also being in a constant state of anxious readiness to celebrate the deaths of terrible people.

I do agree with Trump that “These Country hating sleazebags should pay a big price for the damage done.”

The private equity play for FIFA is to turn the majority of players into replaceable gig workers who exist to churn out increasingly bad product until the market burns out. It’s what they’ve done to healthcare workers in hospitals and writers in Hollywood.

They’re fucking.

“But enough about Bernie Moreno’s daughter…”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We'll be hitting them. We'll be hitting them very hard. At some point they're gonna say, 'We just can't take it anymore.'"

American Golden Age

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"

This is just a public demand to get greased.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Asked recently how much deference the White House should expect for the remainder of his time in Congress, Cornyn replied with a wry grin: ‘Loyalty is a two-way street.’” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

By July 2022 the US had 3100 deaths/million people; South Korea had 476. Not-coincidentally, I think, South Korea has also been able to impeach and remove two presidents in the last ten years. www.statista.com/statistics/1...

COVID-19 deaths per capita by country| Statista

COVID deaths worldwide were highest in Peru, topping a list that compares deaths per million in 210 countries worldwide.

statista.com

Aside from the national humiliation of Republican Senators relitigating Fauci in 2026, this is such a sweaty moment. You can see Moreno and his staff preparing this line and thinking it would make him look tough and not like a guy who supports the guy who abused his daughter and grandkid.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

“…they run away from the most extreme GOP positions like the plague.”

Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · last wk.

The GOP is acting like the most extreme DSA positions like abolishing prisons are mainstream Democratic policies when they themselves run away from the most extreme GOP positions like they’re the plague.

Grief-dreaming very powerfully.

This is like when they take one photo of the model and then use it for all the clothes.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: A statement from the Office of the Attending Physician says Mitch McConnell "is not yet medically cleared to leave the rehab facility and return to the office." A photo from McConnell's office:

U.S. soldiers are now for photo ops and war crimes. If you’re killed the administration will either say that your last words were, “Thank you, Mr. President,” or they’ll dismiss you as a loser who embarrassed them and, Trump, Inc. style, cook the books to erase you.

“The number of public assassination attempts has been quite low, considering.”

I’d love to see the Abraham Accords get the public scrutiny they deserve, rather than be accepted as some thoughtful peace agreement. It was lazy Kushner work. They explicitly ignored the most critical regional issue, the Palestinians, to make trade deals between ruling family crime syndicates.

At some point he’s just going to blurt out the n-word and Peter Baker will contextualize it in “the partisan culture war.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Q: Do you think it's appropriate to subpoena family members of journalists to find out information? TRUMP: I don't know. Barack Hussein Obama did it all the time. He went after journalists and nobody said anything about it.

I’m doing this the minute I get off the Elizabeth line from Heathrow.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

If I spend more than three days in the UK, I involuntarily start saying "cheers"

there's something especially insidious about centrists joining with fascists to denounce a bunch of left Jews as antisemitic.

Like a good right wing troll, the more you dislike Alexi, the stronger he gets.

This is also an endorsement of any retaliatory Iranian-sponsored terrorism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

** Rubio endorses war crimes ** During a gaggle at ASEAN, Rubio was given repeated opportunities to rule out the US will commit war crimes in Iran "Iran's policy is an eye for an eye. The president's policy is a head for an eye. They are going to suffer," he said Here a clip of Rubio's responses:

There are too many insults to decent, functional society every day to keep up, which is the point, etc. But any Democrat who’d said something that aggressively wrong about anything would have it hung around their presidency until it drowned.

Most countries would hire a new Sporting Director before signing a coach for the next World Cup, but—as Poch and his agents know—we’re still a very insecure soccer country.

Soccertown Media@soccertownmedia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Should US Soccer re-sign Pochettino? Our answer…may shock you.

“I’ll churn out an all-white ODYSSEY after this one wins a bunch of awards” is the perfect Elon business model. Who will care? He just barges into fields he knows nothing about and imposes his limited, impaired will. It’s ‘most-recalled car brand, useless tunnels, exploding rockets’ stuff.

Yelling “SCOREBOARD!!!” about spending over $100 billion in six months to kill thousands of innocent people, cripple international trade, and make the world unsafe for your citizens.

Yelling “SCOREBOARD!!!” about spending over $100 billion in six months to kill thousands of innocent people, cripple international trade, and make the world unsafe for your citizens.