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Republicans Face Mass Protests at Home and Abroad!

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Republicans Face Mass Protests at Home and Abroad!

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Tonight, Donald Trump's trip to Ireland set off a whole lot more protest than we first realized. Sharp exchanges in a jab at the United Kingdom over the Falklands. At the same time, the people building artificial intelligence are telling us to slow down before it's too late. And let me tell you something. I never thought that I would see on a random Saturday, three major AI heads from Elon Musk to Sam Altman to Dario Modi at Anthropic all come out and say, slow the hell down on my question is, what happened? Why now? And it comes as Ted Cruz's boot. So is Roger Marshall, a Republican son, from Kentucky, and much more. If you can, as always, subscribe to support this work. I have even more conservatives coming up to me over the past 24 hours, seeing our videos, seeing our channel saying, we're watching you, we're not watching Fox anymore. And to me, when I hear that, it honestly means the world to me. You know, more means the world to me when young people come up to me. 12 years old, 15 years old, 16 years old with their parents and say,

I don't get my news anywhere else, but I do get it from you. I wouldn't get my news elsewhere. Otherwise. And so thank you so much for giving me this platform. If you can, I know I ask a lot, but if you can't subscribe, that would mean the world to me. Today, Donald Trump's trip to Ireland did not go quietly. And he was basically booed out of Ireland in a way. Rosie O'Donnell, who moved to Ireland after Trump returned to the White House publicly, bled back the protest, telling the Irish independent, quote, the country must protest. Here are some scenes from the protest today. She called on Irish president Catherine Connolly to speak truth to power when meeting with Trump, saying, I don't think she should drop what she believes in to be polite to a madman. He's like a mad king that has destroyed the country. Trump himself made news of his own. While these protests were happening, well, videos like these were going viral on the internet. Donald Trump met with the Irish Prime Minister. Remember this morning I said he wanted a united Ireland saying it would be fantastic. Well, he went on to bring up the Falkland Islands between Argentina and the United Kingdom saying he thinks he could probably be able

to settle it if tensions flare again. A comment that landed as a jab at Britain aimed at his frustration that London has stayed out of the war against Iran. He sat down today face to face with President Connolly, a former protestor who has previously called Trump a bully. Afterwards Connolly told him directly that quote, the strong view of the Irish people that normalization of war and genocide can never be accepted. She gave him a book of poems by the late Michael Longley that includes the poem, ceasefire. Meanwhile, thousands marched through Dublin waving Irish and Palestinian flags, Chaiting, Donald Trump is not welcome here. Eric Trump pushed back from the family's golf course, telling RTE, it is the largest employer in the area confirming that his father will be returning to Ireland next year for the Ryder Cup, even though people may not want him there. And it comes this afternoon as something major happened. Out of nowhere, Anthropic CEO Dario Amote Anthropic is one of the largest AI companies in the world. Published a 3,800 word essay calling on the entire AI industry to slow down.

He wrote quote, in part, right here, we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models. Progress will still seem fast and we must make wise use of the time we gain. He writes in part that given the accelerated rate of AI capability, it is my worried that in six to 12 months, a swarm of AI bots could be quote capable of taking over the entire internet with the persistent botnet. Now AI technology, LLM's, all of this stuff, I've been talking about it for several weeks now, the need for regulation and how members of Congress want there to be regulation. It can be confusing. And I get it. I often am confused reading some of these posts as well. So I want to break it down to you as bare bones as possible. Right now, AI companies led by Dario Modi, Elon Musk, Sam Altman at OpenAI, they're realizing that the technology that they created is getting too dangerous.

And at a point, AI models become smarter than humans. When that point comes, there's really no going back. And so what they're saying, why today, not sure, they want AI companies to bring an independent evaluators, give an employee level access to verify the safety practices at these companies. He's calling on global coordination, even with authoritarian governments to set common standards. But what's remarkable is how fast the industry got by him. Elon Musk said Dario is right. OpenAI, Sam Altman posted that this has been a primary topic of discussion that we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. The executives at these companies are literally saying all in unison. It's time to regulate AI. Something happened in the question is what? Now part of it is when anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned days before today, posting publicly saying that AI earnestly could kill all of us by the end of the decade.

And that it's not a marketing stunt. Saying it's a very real possibility that AI systems can learn to improve themselves without human help within the next year or two. Adding there's a chance that we can all die. And then this morning we learned about another incident in which OpenAI swarms targeted another company going after a software company trying to get user data and user information from that software company. Now not everyone is buying that set in concern for safety. Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong argued this year that the fear is more about locking in the market and locking in a market share than altruism, asking bluntly what better way to create demand than to create a problem. The question is we don't know what happens next. We don't know what happens next. And it comes this afternoon as Republicans are facing major issues on the campaign trail. For example Roger Marshall, a doctor, sender from Kansas, faced protests at a recent

state fair debate. Those are common common business practices. We would go a year before we would ever send somebody over. Ladies and gentlemen. And it also happens as Trump supporters were asked a simple question about the rising gas prices where diesel has now hit a record of $7 on average in Washington, $8 on average in California, $9.99 and some gas stations. Take a listen. Thoughts on the higher gas prices. Well, when Obama was in here, he said Americans are going to $4.5. Well, you know, he said it right out loud. Remember that when he said Americans are going to $4.5 a gallon? I don't think Trump has anything to do with this. I think they're just doing this to make them look bad. Who?

Deliberals. Deliberals are controlling the gas prices? No, I think the liberals are doing it all. Are you a Trump supporter or not? I'm just trying to understand though. Who's doing the raising the gas prices to make Trump look bad? Who do you think is? I don't know. I have no idea. You don't think it has anything to do with Iran? Trump doesn't control the gas prices. That's true. He doesn't just control the gas prices. But they've gone up since the war in Iran. I don't think it's gone up. I mean, the truck's got to pay for their gas and it gets to the consumer, which is us, you know. Do you blame Trump for that? No. No. No, I don't. Who do you think is that fault? I have no idea. I don't blame Trump, though. We'll see who thinks who's that fault for gas prices when it comes to November. We'd love to learn from you who you think is that fault. As always, if you can't subscribe, support this work like, comment, share, more updates coming soon.

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