Senator Marco Rubio tells a dog it’s a “pain in the ass.” The dog, named Triumph, fires back by asking Rubio to announce his next foreign attack so it can bet on Polymarket.

• Marco Rubio called Triumph the Insult Comic Dog "a pain in the ass" on stage, and Triumph clapped back asking him to announce his next bombing target so people could bet on it via Polymarket.
• The joke exposes how Polymarket lets users wager real money on geopolitical/war outcomes, turning conflict into a speculative side hustle.
• The bit skewers Rubio's hawkish foreign-policy posture by linking it directly to detached, profit-driven betting on real-world violence.

This article explains how to install and configure the open-source Hermes AI agent on your own server and use it to run a self-improving weather-trading bot on Polymarket. It covers Hermes’s memory, skill-creation, and always-on execution features, then walks through cloning a weather bot repo, setting up wallets, approvals, and trading prompts.

• Claims a $100 → $5,000 result from running a self-learning weather-trading bot on Polymarket via Hermes Agent.
• Hermes auto-generates and refines markdown "skill" files roughly every 15 tool calls, unlike OpenClaw which needs manual skill installs and third-party memory add-ons.
• Setup is pitched as under 5 minutes on a rented VPS: SSH in, run a one-line install script, pick ChatGPT or Claude, connect a messaging gateway (Telegram/Slack), and launch.
• The bot workflow scans forecasts across 20 cities and uses expected value plus Kelly Criterion sizing to generate trade alerts.

A trader on Polymarket made a $400,000 profit by betting on Nicolás Maduro's capture shortly before the U.S. operation was announced, raising questions about potential insider trading. Experts are divided on whether the trader had access to classified information, highlighting the regulatory challenges in monitoring prediction markets compared to traditional financial markets. Concerns about political connections, particularly with the Trump administration, further complicate oversight and enforcement of insider trading rules.

• A trader turned a $32,000 bet into $400,000 profit by wagering on Maduro's capture just hours before the operation was publicly announced, and the account, created only weeks earlier, remains untraceable.
• The CFTC has far fewer resources than the SEC to monitor prediction markets, making abuses like this harder to catch than traditional insider trading.
• Trump family ties to Polymarket (including Donald Trump Jr.'s advisory role and investment) raise conflict-of-interest concerns just as the administration has taken a more lenient regulatory stance than Biden's, including dropped investigations.
• This echoes prior suspicious Polymarket activity, such as a bet that capitalized on search trends, showing a pattern of possible market manipulation that's difficult to prove.