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Aaron Rupar

@aaron.rupar
13 posts
2025-04-09
Trump on the midterms: “I really think we're helped a lot by the tariffs situation.  It's great.”
2025-04-09 View on X
CNN

The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET on April 9 after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariffs

President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …

2025-01-21
Get a load of how CNBC is covering the Trump memecoin grift.  Watching this, you'd have no idea how egregiously corrupt it is.  Total normalization.
2025-01-21 View on X
Noahpinion

How purchasing Trump's memecoin, of which he reportedly holds $50B+ at January 19 prices, could be used to buy favors without actually transferring him funds

Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money.  —  Financial disclosure: I hold a modest amount of BTC and ETH.

Get a load of how CNBC is covering the Trump memecoin grift.  Watching this, you'd have no idea how egregiously corrupt it is.  Total normalization.
2025-01-21 View on X
Politico

CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”

Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Micha...

I would be more inclined to give Elon the benefit of the doubt over the Sieg Heil salute if he hadn't just endorsed the closest thing Germany has today to the Nazi party
2025-01-21 View on X
Gizmodo

During a speech after Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk delivered what many saw as two “Nazi salutes”; Musk posted a three-minute video of his speech to X

The billionaire Tesla CEO has a history of racist comments. … Elon Musk gave what appeared to be Nazi salutes …

2025-01-20
Get a load of how CNBC is covering the Trump memecoin grift.  Watching this, you'd have no idea how egregiously corrupt it is.  Total normalization.
2025-01-20 View on X
Politico

CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a $9B+ market cap, is still in the top 25 most valuable cryptocurrencies; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”

Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night.  Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.

2025-01-11
Biden on Meta ending fact-checking: “Telling the truth matters ... it's just completely contrary to everything America's about.  We want to tell the truth.  We haven't always done it as a nation, but we want to tell the truth ... I think it's really shameful.”
2025-01-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Biden assailed Meta over its move to end third-party fact-checking on its social media platforms in the US, saying “it's really shameful”

Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg :

Biden on Meta ending fact-checking: “Telling the truth matters ... it's just completely contrary to everything America's about.  We want to tell the truth.  We haven't always done it as a nation, but we want to tell the truth ... I think it's really shameful.”
2025-01-11 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail Zuckerberg's sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet

After visiting President-elect Donald J. Trump in November, Mr. Zuckerberg decided to relax Meta's speech policies.

2025-01-10
Markwayne Mullin says Mark Zuckerberg reached out to him to ask if they can “get in the cage and fight” and “spar” together.  He also says Zuckerberg spoke with Trump about Meta's new moderation policies just before they were announced.
2025-01-10 View on X
404 Media

Sources: many of Meta's employees are furious about its moderation changes allowing “allegations of mental illness” when based on “gender or sexual orientation”

See Substack as another illustration [embedded post] Olivier Simard-Casanova / @o.simardcasanova.net : While I don't dispute that there's a contingent of fascists in the Silicon Va...

Markwayne Mullin says Mark Zuckerberg reached out to him to ask if they can “get in the cage and fight” and “spar” together.  He also says Zuckerberg spoke with Trump about Meta's new moderation policies just before they were announced.
2025-01-10 View on X
The Intercept

A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more

Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …

2024-06-10
Some real talk about this platform: It has become clear to me that as an account that posts about politics, it's impossible to grow an audience...I think it's safe to say at this point that Threads simply is not a suitable replacement for twitter.  It's disappointing but the reach of political accounts is totally throttled
2024-06-10 View on X
NOTUS

X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads

2024-03-16
“That is an out and out lie” — Rand Paul and Brian Kilmeade get into a heated exchange about TikTok, with Paul going as far as to accuse Kilmeade of “defaming” TikTok.  Kilmeade is visibly taken aback by the allegation.
2024-03-16 View on X
Gizmodo

Lawyers warn that the bill to ban TikTok unless it's sold gives POTUS unchecked power to ban any app or website the President deems a “national security threat”

“That is an out and out lie” — Rand Paul and Brian Kilmeade get into a heated exchange about TikTok, with Paul going as far as to accuse Kilmeade of “defaming” TikTok.  Kilmeade is visibly taken aback by the allegation.
2024-03-16 View on X
New York Times

The TikTok divestment bill's progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor

Legislation to force TikTok's Chinese owner to sell the app or have it banned in the United States sailed through the House, but the Senate has no plans to move hastily.

2023-08-11
Linda Yaccarino on CNBC: “By all objective metrics, X is a much healthier and safer platform than it was a year ago.”  (This is a lie.)
2023-08-11 View on X
CNBC

An interview with X CEO Linda Yaccarino on having “autonomy” under Elon Musk, planning to add video calls, payments between users, brands returning, and more

- X CEO Linda Yaccarino explained to CNBC on Thursday why the company decided to get rid of its Twitter branding.