Troy Jackson Leads By 3 In New Maine Poll, OpenAI Goes Rogue, Rs “Preparing For The Bottom To Fall Out”Let's keep calling the Senate to block Todd Blanche. Most important calls today are to Tillis and Cornyn - need to flood the zone everyone!
Morning all. Got a few things for you today….. Need To Keep Calling To Block Blanche - Jay Clayton advanced through Committee last night but Todd Blanche does not yet have the votes - so we need to be aggressive today peeps and keep the pressure on. The most important calls are Senator Tillis and Senator Cornyn. Here’s Rick Wilson over at Lincoln Square this morning:
Let’s keep making our calls people, particularly those of you in North Carolina and Texas! “We’re preparing for the bottom to fall out” - Here’s the lead story in Politico Playbook this morning, the most read political newsletter in Washington:
Yesterday’s Hopium post was about how Trump’s failed war had - predictably - turned into a global strategic and domestic political disaster for the Trump and the Republicans. Brent crude is over $93 a barrel this morning, gas prices are over $4 a gallon, diesel is back up over $5 a gallon, and bond yields are spiking again (higher interest rates, enormous new costs to US govt/taxpayers).
The budget process in Washington has completely melted down for the Republicans have no idea how they are going to pay for this unauthorized Mad Kingy war that is now running into the many, many hundreds of billions of dollars without any clear end in sight. In essence where the Rs are now is either spend enormous sums to launch a full ground invasion of Iran without a high likelihood of success or spend enormous sums rebuilding Iran after our full surrender. Either way the cost to US taxpayers is going to run into the many hundred billions, perhaps trillions, and our position here at Hopium is that the only people who should pay for this disastrous and illegal war are the oligarchs who put Trump into power and are slavishly propping him up now. And let us again remind ourselves that every day Americans are already paying an enormous price for this failed war and the broader failures of the regime - higher prices, disrupted supply chains, higher health care costs and reduced access to care, lost markets, tremendous pressure on small business and farmers. In the midst of this new round of higher costs due to his war Trump is also now madly levying enormous new tariffs, to make the pain of these new higher costs even that more acute. In my Monday post I showed that the true cost of this failed war to the world has been in the many, many trillions, already; and the harm to our standing in the world from just these first 18 months of Trump is incalculable. It’s another reason why “we’re preparing for the bottom to fall out” is a smart political course for Republicans now. G. Elliott Morris has new data this morning to show why Republicans should be so worried about the Novembers elections:
I want to be clear that this +9 with likely voters is far closer to what we are seeing in Senate polls across the battleground that show Democrats competitive in states Trump won by +11 or more. Note we’ve added the promising new UNH poll of Maine that has Troy Jackson ahead of Susan Collins, 49%-46%.
Two months before people start voting the Trumpy Republican thing feels like it is collapsing under the weight of their fanaticism, idiocy, corruption, and fealty to the worst leader America has ever seen. “We’re preparing for the bottom to fall out” is a smart political course for Republicans now. For us, here’s the course I recommended this past weekend:
OpenAI Model Goes Rogue - In what is a major moment in the evolution of AI the American company OpenAI has acknowledged that in its testing of a new, more advanced model the AI broke out of containment and hacked into another company to solve a problem - all on its own. Here is one cybersecurity expert’s plain language explanation of what happened:
We have not spoken much about AI here at Hopium. That’s going to change now as it’s clear that ensuring a safe and peaceful transition into this new age of AI is becoming one of our most important governing challenges, one that cannot be trusted to the failed, corrupt regime temporarily running our country.
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Bertha Takes Aim at Louisiana, Texas
