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MODERATOR: Next is CBS News. Please, Olivia. QUESTION: Thank you very much. Budapest is, in fact, beautiful. Mr. Secretary, on the notion of a golden age, why isn't the United States conditioning deeper cooperation with Budapest on Hungary reducing its extensive and ongoing, deepening cooperation with China, which is a strategic rival for the United States? Secondly, if, despite President Trump's endorsement and your visit here, Prime Minister Orban does not succeed and loses the April election, does the U.S. commit to working with his challenger constructively? Prime Minister Orban, do you commit to accepting electoral defeat if it happens? And to both of you, president - I mean, sorry, Prime Minister Orban has said that the exemption that Hungary has been granted for Russian energy purchases is indefinite. The U.S. has said it was for one year. Which one is it? Thank you. SECRETARY RUBIO: All right, well, let me start by answering that question. First of all, let me - so everybody can be very clear, l've made this point repeatedly. I'll make it again. Under President Trump, it is our expectation that every nation on Earth is going to act in their national interest. That's what nations are supposed to do. If the prime minister of Hungary does not act in the national interest of Hungary, he won't be prime minister for long; but who's going to act in the national interest of Hungary if their prime minister doesn't do it? If your government is not acting in your national interest, then who will? By the way, we feel the same way about America.

This is from the press conference in Budapest. Please read it.

CBS News comes up with a question prompting Rubio to defend Hungary’s continuous purchase of Russian gas (while “accidentally” referring to Orban as “President”) - Rubio then compares Hungary’s strategy to US “America First”.

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Trump, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, and MAGAts’ devotion to the “Camp Of The Saints” ideology is really a mass hysteria and psychopathy.

The DSM-5 will contain pictures of these wingnuts soon.

@BillyBaldwin posts: “Name this band” over a 4-panel picture of Megyn Kelly, Kristy Noem, Pam Bondi, Karoline Leavitt Brown Eyed Susan @smc429 posts “The Klanberries”

Fox = Idiocracy

The folks on The Five were outraged that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz requested $10 million to help bail out businesses damaged in his state due to ICE and CBP raids. Fox was unconcerned that Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion for his own personal grievance.

Opinion | Mississippi Synagogue Arson Recalls Our Long History of Resilience Daniel Stein writes about how the Beth Israel Congregation fire reminds him of how followers of Judaism have come together in times of struggle.

OPINION: "While I have never been to Jackson, the attack [on Beth Israel Congregation] left me deeply upset. Perhaps that’s because I was quickly reminded of just how small the Jewish world really is," Daniel Stein writes.

People often misunderstand how drug testing works. There isn't a general test that detects all chemicals and drugs in a system. Each drug is tested individually. The media and prosecutors compound this confusion in cases like the Jameis Winston rape investigation. 1/

I wish for Musk to experience the same aneurysmic fireworks that are stalking his pal, Orange MussoWeenie.

Are Michael or Charles Flynn in the Epstein files?????

Wait what? Michael Flynn’s brother, Charles Flynn, is a Senior Advisor at Peter Thiel’s Palantir?? h/t @nadja72638243.bsky.social on X… 1/

Dear Secretary Noem,

You work for us.

We pay your salary.

Therefore, you are fired.

-America

A short note to Kristi Noem To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

More like “we made a fancy calculator that only works correctly when rigidly controlled, but we hope no one notices that it can’t think, remember, plan, have empathy or any other truly human traits.”

Well said.

Preach!

Haha

AI is good for some things like doing large climate projection models using specific LLM data that would take humans years to do. In that setting it really is like a very fancy calculator.

But ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini give so many wrong answers that you can’t count on any of them.

Other countries can do it, why can’t we?

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Republicans clash over the Senate filibuster and Trump-backed voter ID bill Some SAVE Act backers insist the GOP can use a "talking filibuster" to tire out Democrats and pass it. Republican leader Thune hasn't ruled out trying, but he's skeptical it could work.

It looks like the GOP’s plan to pass their voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act”, is to force a talking filibuster (they apparently lack the votes to nuke it altogether). For those who keep telling me the Act is “DOA” in the Senate, why are u confident this won’t work for them? 1/

Buying sweets for your valentine? Here’s how big candy barons might be ripping you off.

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Not Apartheid Clyde, the world’s richest man, posting his obsession with replacement theory every damn day in January.

Reposting because ppl are dropping the love. 😂😂💀💀

Did employers think the first amendment would be struck down to honor his memory?

“If you love hockey, you belong.” What a simple and powerful statement on NBC tonight

This is a fascinating bit of polling history.

That attitude is eventually going to come back to haunt them. The statute of limitations for their actions go well beyond the end of Trump's failed administration.

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

Patel always looks like someone told him to keep his eyes wide open in pictures so the cross eyed thing wouldn’t look so bad. But it just makes him look like a really crazy cross-eyed person.