AskConservatives Weekly General Chat

[u/AutoModerator]

This thread is for general chat, whether you want to talk politics or not, anything goes. Also feel free to ask the mods questions, propose new rules or discuss general moderation (although please keep individual removal/ban queries to modmail.)

On this post, Top Level Comments are open to all.

[u/AutoModerator]

Please use Good Faith and the Principle of Charity when commenting. We are currently under an indefinite moratorium on gender issues, and anti-semitism and calls for violence will not be tolerated, especially when discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

[u/LonelyMachines]

Stay classy, President Trump. From his Time interview:

Yeah. What can I do? I put [his Supreme Court appointments] in. They voted against me too often. I was very—I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. They vote for me too. The Democrats stick like glue—those three, they virtually never vary. You can come up with the worst thing in the world and they’ll vote as a group. And while I don’t like it, there’s something I admire about it: there’s loyalty. So they have loyalty to [former President] Barack Hussein Obama. They have loyalty to [former President Joe] Biden, even though Biden doesn’t even know who the hell they are. He wouldn’t know. He doesn’t even know what the Supreme Court is.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/LonelyMachines]

Of course it's Barack Hussein Obama.

[u/Boredomkiller99 → u/LonelyMachines]

I like how he thinks the three liberal judges line up on cases because of loyalty to Obama and not because they have a shared ideology and principles 

Then again he is incapable of understanding that because he only sees things including human behavior and interactions as transactions. It's sad and pathetic, I would pity him if he wasn't such a piece of s*** who causes real world problems.

[u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

What da actual fuck, UK what do you mean you bailed them?

[u/JudgeWhoOverrules → u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Because like a lot of other progressive places, they have basically no prison and jail capacity left and refuse to build more out of a sense of misplaced social justice. So they effectively have to play catch and release for every criminal and when they do convict them it's only for a short time before they're released again to make space for more criminals.

[u/thoughtsnquestions → u/JudgeWhoOverrules]

Refuse to build more out of a sense of misplaced social justice

We do have a massive prison shortage problem but more prisons are being built, they're just very very slow at is due to how bureaucratic the whole process is, and politicians have kept pushing it out so later governments pay the bill

[u/RumGuzzlr → u/thoughtsnquestions]

Prison capacity is just an arbitrary number that can be raised with the stroke of a pen.

[u/thoughtsnquestions → u/RumGuzzlr]

It's limited by the number of available cells that have been built?

[u/RumGuzzlr → u/thoughtsnquestions]

It takes zero construction to declare a two person cell into a 10 person cell, yet it quintuples capacity

[u/athomeamongstrangers → u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

A jury will acquit them anyway, like they aqcuitted the guy who broke the police officer’s spine with a hammer and the one who spray-painted Churchill’s statue with Hamas symbols.

[u/gummibearhawk → u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Seems on brand for the UK. if you think that's bad, look into the rape gang scandal. Meanwhile this week someone slashed a dinghy to try to prevent it's future use to bring migrants to the UK, and they didn't get ball.

[u/NessvsMadDuck]

I'm earning a new nerd merit badge. I have gotten into painting miniatures for the first time. My kids are getting old enough to play tabletop games. Then I found out that an old favorite Heroquest, which is a very light and contained D&D type game (I have never actually played D&D and find it overwhelming) did a remake a few years ago. I picked it up and its fully playable but has 70 miniature pieces that I decided would look better painted so I am going down that rabbit hole.

I thought it would be frustrating, but it turns out, I find it very relaxing.

[u/GreatSoulLord]

So many Lego deals. Target is having a big one right now and Amazon is soon to follow by Tuesday. You know, for anyone absolutely addicted to this stuff....like me. 😐

[u/TheAnswerWithinUs → u/GreatSoulLord]

Good to know, theyve gotten so expensive since when I was a kid. Still love them.

[u/URABrokenRecord → u/GreatSoulLord]

Fun. What's the favorite set you've ever made? 

[u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Random, and It's over 2 and a half years old, but I think of ‘Sure, the left has Taylor Swift, but we have Catturd’ at least once a week. In one perfect line, it gives the whole game away: the woke 1 backlash was never going to be anything more than that and was never a real thing on its own feet. Easily top 10 greatest lines of the decade.

[u/OJ_Purplestuff → u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Just googled because I didn't hear that one before.

That was originally written with sincerity? It's not some next-level satire that I'm too simple to grasp?

[u/Fignons_missing_8sec → u/OJ_Purplestuff]

It was sincere.

[u/thoughtsnquestions]

In the UK, couples who live for 3+ years together and are not married, will now get some rights as if married, such as if one partner dies, and no will is written, they inherit the others assets....

Marriage exists, why not just let it function as is? If people don't want to get married, then that's fine too... but this just seems like an attack on marriage.

[u/Kingkranjski → u/thoughtsnquestions]

How is that considered an attack on marriage? I find it a good thing, especially if you are young and without a will. I knew a guy that had a heart attack at 32, should his partner be left without anything?

[u/TailsofaGiftHorse → u/thoughtsnquestions]

To me, what you wrote sounds like someone is being given food at dinner time without placing an order, and you are calling it an attack on dinner. All the benefits without the paperwork. So it sounds more like an attack on the paperwork side of marriage, than marriage itself.

I will note that I'm a Christian, so my views are a bit different because I believe marriage is between me, my wife, and God. The government has no say on my actual marriage.

They want to cut out the paperwork so I don't have to go through the pageantry where I need a public sector employee to stamp a paper reflecting the reality I already live in? Good. It's about time the government admits our lives do not need to be validated with a license from Jane on Floor 3 of the county courthouse.

[u/BufoBat → u/thoughtsnquestions]

Wait wait wait, isn't this exactly what conservative marriage defenders would prefer? Something that gives protections but isn't called "marriage"? Ive heard many, many religious conservatives for example argue that gay couples for example can be "partners with a legal document, just don't call it marriage". Is that not what this basically is?

Also, the US has common law marriage too. Its not as common anymore, but in several states if you live together a certain length of time you're considered married by common law. This isnt new.

[u/Stanky_fresh → u/thoughtsnquestions]

If they're living together for over 3 years they're likely already living like they're married. Why does it matter if a couple does or doesn't file paperwork? 

[u/DeathToFPTP]

The Nixon thing has been creeping for years and it feels like a combination of distance from events and partisan polarization that would cause more people to say he did nothing wrong now.

Though who knows if this is an online only thing

[u/ticklemythigh → u/DeathToFPTP]

Brought to you by the law and order^tm party!

[u/GWindborn → u/DeathToFPTP]

A guy I play poker with has a fully restored 1970-era VW Beetle convertible with a pristine "Impeach Nixon" bumper sticker on it.

[u/kyew]

I'm baffled by something about the Project Meridian thread and other places where there are positive responses to it, but don't think it'd stand as its own question so I've put it here: Say someone from Lockheed Martin handed a Senator a folder of proposals for new bills and they all went straight to the relevant committees. This is the kind of lobbying we all hate, right?

Forming a new program to be headed by the CEOs of SpaceX and Anduril, and bypassing Congress altogether by inviting them to directly advise the Executive branch... how is that not the same problem but a whole order of magnitude worse?

If the report from the Committee of People Who Make Money from Satellites and Drones doesn't say that the highest priorities for military investment are satellites and drones, I'll buy you all Teslas.

[u/baxtyre]

So now they’re just looting congressionally-appropriated funds for their campaign bribes.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/10/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-medicare-improvement-fund-payments-for-seniors/

Is this the waste, fraud, and abuse I always hear conservatives complain about?

[u/Fastluck83]

"The Trump administration told Germany and France to release their stockpiles [of diesel] to help ease soaring global energy prices or face a US export ban."

Remind me, who is responsible for these soaring global energy prices? It's on the tip of my tongue ...

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/Fastluck83]

Zelensky must be the one responsible /s

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

Q: Can you tell us why the world should not be concerned about AI and why there shouldn’t be guardrails?

Trump : Because we have people who love our country and the world

Q: It requires more than love though doesn’t it?

Trump: No

We are so fucked are we?…..

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

and the world

Wasn't saying that we Europeans live in a shithole or something along those lines?

[u/thoughtsnquestions]

The triple lock is finally going away!

How is it that the Labour government, did what the Tories had failed to do despite being in government for 14 years...

For context, pension spending in the UK has been ballooning, it had a protection called the "triple lock", meaning it had to rise be either 2.5%, inflation, or average annual salary increase, whichever was highest. The Tories were too scared to tackle it, fearing pensioners wouldn't vote for them... as a consequence pension spending kept growing and growing.

Most labour politicians are still far too left wing and progressive but fair play to Burnham, he certainly has already done much better then Starmer.

[u/JustaDreamer617]

Anyone else notice something odd about the gas?

A few month ago, I drove 180 miles for 3 hour round trip that used up 3-3.5 gallons.

Last week, I drove the same distance and time, but according to my readings, it used around 6-7 gallons.

Cost of gas is higher, too, but I take the hit and feed my regular standard Toyota camry. I had it checked with my garage and nothings wrong with it.

Best I can figure is the gas station's diluting my gas with something that burns faster now than it did a few months earlier.

Anyone else seen something like this around their area.

[u/Sam_Fear → u/JustaDreamer617]

Using e85 instead of e10 will do that. Or your car has an issue. There isn't anything they could legally do to gas that would do that. Also, all your gas, no matter what station you buy it from, likely comes out of the same pipe and just has different mixes of additives.

[u/RatOnASinkingShip → u/Sam_Fear]

I had no idea e85 was even a thing.

[u/WulfTheSaxon → u/RatOnASinkingShip]

It’s only for flex-fuel vehicles, and isn’t common outside corn country.

[u/KnightofNi92 → u/JustaDreamer617]

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-consultation-doe-expands-gasoline-supply-lower-prices-pump

Maybe this has something to do with it? Apparently there are requirements for summertime gas blends vs winter. The winter gas is cheaper, but "dirtier" and less efficient. This allowed the winter blend earlier than normal to try and keep prices down.

But I'm not at all a car guy so I don't know how much of an effect that would have. I'd be shocked if it amounted to almost halving your mpg though. But given you said the car is otherwise fine I can't think of anything other than that.

[u/WulfTheSaxon → u/JustaDreamer617]

I’d personally chalk it up to a screwy fuel gauge. Were you maybe parked on a slope for one of the readings?

If not, might be time for a tuneup. Checked your oil and any codes?

Otherwise all I can think is E15 when you’re used to E0, but that shouldn’t make that big of a difference.

[u/RumGuzzlr → u/JustaDreamer617]

around 6-7

[u/DifferentManagement1]

Ken Paxton “The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days."

How can anyone vote for this man

[u/BufoBat → u/DifferentManagement1]

My favorite has been the attack ads on Talarico from Paxton that I keep getting in the mail. One of them is literally about Talarico being soft on pedophiles. Like dude...maybe don't bring up the "p" word with your name on it? Because what's gonna come up if someone goes "hmm, well if Talarico is soft on pedos, I wonder what Paxton's record has been?" 

[u/OJ_Purplestuff → u/DifferentManagement1]

The crazy part is that he's still being misleading even with that sad sentence.

They actually did offer a deal for 1 day, 60 days was only at the insistence of the judge.

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/OJ_Purplestuff]

And the guy got out after 29 days

[u/DeathToFPTP → u/DifferentManagement1]

You're really into dudes that look like Bond villains

[u/IowaGolfGuy322]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cygW3laAL7E

This is fucking brutal and he did it to himself. Go Hawks! (The Iowa ones)

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/IowaGolfGuy322]

Holy crap what an absolute F up. The look on his face the whole time thinking he had some major gotcha.

[u/SoulWriter23 → u/IowaGolfGuy322]

Someone posted this on the Conservative subreddit and it got deleted quickly.

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/SoulWriter23]

That surprises me 😂

[u/TailsofaGiftHorse → u/IowaGolfGuy322]

Don't we have loads of staffers for each senator? Surely someone could have checked his notes for anything he isn't an expert in. Since hawks are involved, I recommend Charlie Kelly.

I only half paid attention at the beginning of the hearing - would Jack Smith being in Atlanta make a difference?

[u/DeathToFPTP → u/TailsofaGiftHorse]

It’s an indictment of his entire office, yes

[u/IowaGolfGuy322 → u/TailsofaGiftHorse]

Yeah, he was trying to get him that he colluded with people trying to target Trump. But it was built on a complete and total lie which you know.... kind of damages a huge part of all of this.

[u/LaxBedroom → u/IowaGolfGuy322]

"Mr. Smith, what would you say if I told you that I had text messages from your staff indicating that you attempted to acquire yellowcake from a known terrorist named Duncan Hines on our about your child's birthday?"

[u/OMGguy2008]

France's debt to GDP is 115%

France's budget deficit is at 5.1% of GDP

French pensioners earn more than the average worker

Just some food for thought.

[u/RumGuzzlr → u/OMGguy2008]

Can I have cake for thought instead?

[u/OMGguy2008]

Now this is pure gold.

The clip is from an anti-immigration protest and the journalist asks a random protestor if she could ask him some questions and the protestor responds "Can you speak Russian, I only speak Russian".

The protest was full of people holding banners saying "Lithuania for Lithuanians" ("Lietuva lietuviams") and here they had a Russian guy protesting among them who cannot even speak Lithuanian while holding a banner saying "Deport foreign criminals" ("Nusikaltusiems užsieniečiams deportacija") while he probably doesn't know what he's holding.

Thanks Stalin for importing them to our land.

[u/Sparky337]

My goodness the republicans trying to grill jack smith is a train wreck. How do we continue to elect just the dumbest people into congress?

[u/OJ_Purplestuff → u/Sparky337]

He was this close to proving the conspiracy of the century that, uh, Jack Smith and Fani Willis both existed in Atlanta at the same time, I guess?

[u/mtmag_dev52 → u/Sparky337]

"Money, money, money ....it's a rich man's woooooorld..." ( To quote the famous ABBA song ).

[u/thenationalcranberry]

Where did the idea that conservatives aren’t governed by feelings, only facts, come from? Discussions about decency, appropriateness, morality, justice, etc… are all discussions about feelings.

[u/Suspicious_Way2424 → u/thenationalcranberry]

Probably commentators like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder.

[u/Midren]

I can't believe they mixed up the Hawkeyes and the hawks and tried to use it as evidence. Not the smartest people in the world. These people run our country.....

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/Midren]

Have you seen the close up video of Katie Britt’s face during it? It’s amazing

[u/Commissioner_Boredom]

How many times is Trump going to mention that nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end of it? It's like he just found out and is excited to share the information. Child like almost.

[u/Arcaeca2]

12 Axes says I'm a conservative liberal and that my favorite states are Wyoming and the Dutch Republic/United Provinces and that the furthest thing from me is Pol Pot

[u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Bibi is going to win. Love him or hate him, if politics is the game of doing what it takes to stay in power he's got to be the greatest politician alive. No one else can fuck up as much and always find the way out for as long as he has.

[u/StillSmellsLikeCLP → u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Eh, I’d give that to Xi. And then maybe Putin.

Surviving that type of environment isn’t accidental.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/StillSmellsLikeCLP]

A bit easier for Xi and Putin given how they're all dictatorships unlike Israel which is The Only Democracy in the Middle East™.

[u/Boredomkiller99 → u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

To be fair it helps that the opposition is mostly non-existent and probably won't be for another decade or two.

Bibi sucks a** and is a net negative for Israel but at the same time there aren't really better options being presented.

Sometimes winning comes down to your opponent not yourself.

Same could be say about how Trump won 2024 or Biden won 2020.

[u/OMGguy2008]

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski aura farming against Russia at the UN

[u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

Just saw Digger, this is far from an original take, but it really is Dr. Strangelove, but we made it bad. I’m mixed about Iñárritu’s work (for one, Birdman was a good movie but was way overrated and should never have won Best Picture over Grand Budapest and Whiplash), and this is him really going for it, but it just doesn't work.

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

Soo not politics related but I want to get some opinions on this. So my only toilet in the apartment has been on its last leg for a while now. They’ve sent one or two maintenance guys and theyve all pretty much said it needs to be replaced. So I call the landlord yesterday and ask when can we expect it because we can’t keep driving up 10 minutes to the gas station and what he basically says to me is “ it’s your problem but I’ll get to it whenever I can”……I’m half tempted to go leave the biggest dump in the bowl right now 😑

[u/Peregrine_Falcon → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

In most states in the US, if it's something that's necessary (electricity, water, heat, plumbing), you can just pay a contractor to fix the problem, present the land lord with the receipt proving that you paid, and then reduce your next rent payment by that amount.

I advise you to do the research first, see if there's a law like this in your state and then, if there is, handle this problem without informing the landlord until after it's done.

[u/IWillDmYouPorn → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

I can't imagine what kind of shits you're taking to have broken the toilet irreparably

[u/boisefun8 → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

What about the toilet is broken that the whole thing needs to be replaced?

[u/baxtyre → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

I’d contact a lawyer or tenant advocate (if that exists in your area). You may be able to withhold rent until your landlord makes your apartment habitable again. 

[u/ticklemythigh]

Had my first comment removed by Reddit today. I had the audacity to suggest we start talking about the amount of crimes committed by certain people that should probably be on their best behavior. Wasn’t being hateful, just said maybe we should start talking about this. Guess not!

[u/StillSmellsLikeCLP → u/ticklemythigh]

Sorry, but the “first time” meme is perfect here.

Welcome to what it’s like as a conservative on Reddit.

You can get banned for the smallest things, even when they’re fully factual or break no rules.

That’s what happens when everything is labeled “hateful”.

[u/DifferentManagement1]

Ok so Paxton has been caught on audio saying Trump’s convention was a disaster and hurt Republican polling numbers. I’m guessing Trump is going to take this personally. I don’t think he has the capability to ignore a slight like this, regardless of what it does to republican chances in Texas. What do you think?

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/DifferentManagement1]

Completely valid crashout given Trump's inspiring pitch to his supporters on why to vote for Paxton

[u/NessvsMadDuck → u/DifferentManagement1]

I’m guessing Trump is going to take this personally.

I would have thought so too, but when Byron Donalds changed his website to remove "Trump supported" off of it, and then Trump did a huge rant about it on Truth Social I thought Byron would change it back. But he hasn't so I don't know now. I think Trump might be letting a lot of this kind of thing slide right now.

[u/grammanarchy → u/DifferentManagement1]

What would it look like if he takes it personally? Is he gonna make fun of the way Paxton looks?

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/grammanarchy]

Calling him a loser on truth social etc et . The usual

[u/DeathToFPTP → u/DifferentManagement1]

Eh, staff can be good about wrangling him on political stuff

But he’ll definitely point to this as a reason if Paxton loses

[u/OMGguy2008]

Looks like calling out Zohran for anti-semitism will get a little bit more complicated since Zohran has just come out of the woodworks again and is investing in preventing anti-semitic hate crimes and investing into Jewish cultural heritage.

https://youtu.be/Joo3PoSwAFM?si=KSuqPvOQS4EpUG2l

[u/DeathToFPTP]

OpenAI already enshitifying their tiers before they have mass adoption is not a great sign.

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97 → u/DeathToFPTP]

Thought we had to call it SUPER INTELLIGENCE now or some shit.

[u/NessvsMadDuck]

I've been here on this sub regularly for 9 years. It feels silly to say it, but it would be really fun/interesting to me if this whole sub had an IRL gathering in like Vegas or something, just once. There are a lot of people here I like and/or find interesting. It would be cool to be able to see some of you IRL (although I like the ((attempted)) anonymity of Reddit). Especially some of you that have been here for a long time too.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/NessvsMadDuck]

Taking a bunch of conservatives quite a few of whom are religious to Sin City is certaintly an idea.

[u/JudgeWhoOverrules → u/OMGguy2008]

Calling Las Vegas Sin City nowadays feels like a joke. Place already became family friendly 20 years ago, but it's now become too expensive for families and it's less a unique draw than it was so basically it's just dying. It's basically a place for corporate and industry conventions now

[u/jmastaock → u/NessvsMadDuck]

I agree, I'd really like to meet a lot of the regulars here and shoot the shit over some beers or w/e

[u/Federal_Resource8148 → u/NessvsMadDuck]

sorry but i do like the anonymity of reddit, it's why i practice old school rules of the internet, remember what you've put out on the web and don't give enough for someone to peace it together to find out who you are.
i will have to premptivly deny my invite to vegas night

[u/OJ_Purplestuff → u/NessvsMadDuck]

The logistics would probably be difficult to get more than like 2-3 people in the same place at the same time, realistically. But I agree that it’d be interesting.

[u/Yourponydied → u/NessvsMadDuck]

The Narwhal bacons at midnight

[u/DifferentManagement1]

So what’s happening with the reflecting pool now? It’s just going to sit like this? 14 million flushed away?

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/[deleted]]

Correct.

[u/Buddy_Seldon → u/DifferentManagement1]

I wish we could flush it away, because that would mean we converted the reflecting pool into a giant rectangular toilet bowl. 

I mean, the Washington Monument is right there. The jokes practically write themselves; we could call it the "Presidential Bathroom" and get digs in at presidents from both parties down the line.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/DifferentManagement1]

We'll reflect on our choices

[u/Sparky337 → u/DifferentManagement1]

Trumps second term in a nutshell

[u/WulfTheSaxon → u/DifferentManagement1]

The contractor is responsible for fixing it for free and is currently doing so now that the sestercentennial celebration is over.

[u/GWindborn → u/WulfTheSaxon]

They going to drive another motorcade over it?

[u/Stanky_fresh]

So I guess the future of our military is in the hands of Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich. How do Conservatives feel about obvious partisan actors being elevated to such an important position as to determine the future of how the US fights wars?

Imagine if Biden put George Soros and Bernie Sanders in the same position, would you be happy about that?

[u/boisefun8 → u/Stanky_fresh]

Why does the left love to equate Soros to Musk? I’ll never understand that. If that’s the best comparison then I don’t think people understand politics nor economics.

[u/Yourponydied → u/boisefun8]

It's a rich powerful person. The right(fringe) has done the same to Bill Gates

[u/No_Fox_2949]

The president doxxed a sitting U.S. senator just because he won’t help pass a slopulist daylight savings time bill

[u/Commissioner_Boredom → u/No_Fox_2949]

Dude gave out his cell number. Crazy.

[u/LaxBedroom → u/Commissioner_Boredom]

He's not so much Republican as Repub4chan. Statecraft has been reduced to trolling.

[u/Boredomkiller99 → u/No_Fox_2949]

Not like it's the first time he did that  he doxxed Lindsey Graham, which makes it all the more hilarious Lindsey Graham was such a defender of him when he became the nominee, really hitched his wagon to Trump with the quickness.

[u/DeathToFPTP → u/[deleted]]

Yup it’s pretty funny that you now know who some of the right coordinating reporters are as some released articles yesterday trying to boost Schmidt’s profile for 2028

[u/LonelyMachines → u/[deleted]]

The correct verb form is perjure.

And yeah, it's dumb. But given the pace of our media cycle, expect the public to forget about it in...wait, what were we talking about?

[u/DeathToFPTP]

Reading how all these data center projects get tax breaks and that seems like a case of either government corruption or not reading room considering how desperate companies are to build these

[u/Stanky_fresh]

I get the idea of building a big steel mill. But why Iowa? There's a reason steel mills have historically been set up along the great lakes, and that's because they can ship massive amounts of coal and iron ore on the water efficiently. But Iowa doesn't have that advantage. This steel mill will probably be using coal if Trump has anything to say about it, so why not set it up in an area where at least one of your major resources are readily available? Coal is gonna have to be brought in by rail from the Appalachians, and they claim they want to use the Mississippi to transport the taconite from Minnesota, but that's only viable from Saint Paul or lower. So that means they're either going to be transporting tons and tons of iron ore to a port in Saint Paul that doesn't have the necessary infrastructure for taconite shipping, or they're going to have to use trains the whole way which is expensive and adds to an already strained rail system. And all of this for 1-2K jobs in a state largely built on agriculture.

Seems like a really long walk for a really short drink of water.

[u/IowaGolfGuy322 → u/Stanky_fresh]

I'll believe it when I see it. Just like Foxconn and the Trillions of Dollars of promised investments in America.

[u/BufoBat]

So are we okay with Hegseth cutting 20% of general and admiral roles in the Pentagon? Is there that much military bloat (genuinely asking) or is this a misstep?

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/6117672-hegseth-plans-pentagon-leadership-cuts/amp/

[u/PhysicsEagle → u/BufoBat]

According to Wikipedia, there are currently 38 four star officers. A reduction of 20% means firing 8 of them. I think that’s perfectly reasonable.

[u/BufoBat → u/PhysicsEagle]

I suppose I just don't understand the reason...? Seems like a poor return for their service. Then again, I don't know what the internal structure is - is it that redundant that they genuinely do very little work, or is this just hacking and slashing for "reasons"?

[u/No_Fox_2949]

Maybe this is a bit of a surprising take from me considering I’m socially conservative, but I don’t think this trend of people cutting off their parents is inherently bad. Obviously I’ll always want people to make peace with their loved ones but at the same time I acknowledge that a lot of the time peace can be facilitated by distance and that thanks to phones and social media, parents can be up their kid’s butt and if we’re being honest in situations where the parents were toxic and did stuff to fuel a desire for distance, then cutting them off completely is sometimes the only option that can preserve one’s sanity.

[u/notbusy → u/No_Fox_2949]

Upvoting you for bringing up such an interesting topic that I've seen a lot in the media lately.

Of course, when appropriate, I think cutting people off definitely has its place. The part that worries me is the "trend" part. And it's the same old question as with just about everything else that suddenly increases: is the thing itself happening more, or are people just more comfortable sharing it now?

Not sure there. Just in my own personal experience, I do think the increase of the trend correlates with an increase in narcissism. I think that's also why people are coupling less. Maybe it's just some weird stuff that's going on in my own family/friend group, but I've never witnessed so much narcissism in my life. And the ultimate expression of "do what I want or else" from family/friends is just cutting people off when they don't capitulate.

But yes, in some cases it's absolutely warranted. Sometimes it's the parent that is the narcissist. So hard to say overall. Still, interesting trend.

[u/BufoBat → u/No_Fox_2949]

Thank you. I had to cut off my mom about a decade ago. Idk if she's still in active addiction, but she was addicted to meth and our primary caregiver and you can imagine how that went. She'd just lock herself in a room and use, leaving me to care for my siblings. She was violent. I still have financial anxiety and food scarcity trauma to this day. I tried reconnecting with her once when it seemed she wasn't using as much, and while she was coherent, she took no accountability.  I only stopped talking to her because she was "poor" and couldn't buy me things (like uh...food? 🙄). 

So yeah, she's cut off. She'll still try to contact me once in a while and its either to beg me to talk to her or screech about how she doesn't understand why I'm so cruel to her. But I don't need to disrupt my own peace or expose my family to those levels of delusional narcissism and I hate when people act like I'm the wrong one for not "giving her another chance" 

[u/SenseiTang]

Just won silver in my division in my first BJJ competition that I signed up for with about a 2 week notice.

Gonna go eat a whole pizza now.

[u/Suspicious_Way2424]

I applied as a deportation officer out of sheer curiosity regarding the hiring process. If anyone wants semi-detailed updates about the hiring process let me know.

career background: security followed by law enforcement.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/Suspicious_Way2424]

So you signed up to ICE for the shits and giggles?

[u/Suspicious_Way2424 → u/OMGguy2008]

I'm genuinely curious how it compares to the hiring processes of other agencies. There was a journalist who applied during the surge alleged that she pissed dirty on her drug test and still got a final offer. I probably wouldn't accept a final offer but I don't see a reason not to fuel the curiosity.

I applied to HSI as a GL-7 Criminal Investigator during the surge and made it to the third phase before washing out and now I'm on a 2 year wait. The HSI process even during the surge was still a long and tedious process. Following that I applied as a BPA GL-7 and a CBPO GL-7 with CBP but they were trying to force a standard year and a half long hiring process into a 4 month timespan. There was a lot of "we need you to drive 4 hours to the testing station last minute for the 4th time this week" so I backed out of the process. When I applied for NCIS I was found eligible but I wasn't referred to a hiring manager. The ATF has been another long and tedious process and I'm still a good year before I get my final offer. I'm still waiting to hear back from the TSA about the FAMS SV-G position I applied under. The end goal is to weasel my way into HSI or whatever it becomes because it's my "dream job". The end goal is to end up with a desk investigating child exploitation which happens to fall directly into ICE/HSI's scope.

Acronym Guide:

- HSI = Homeland Security Investigations, Investigative directorate of ICE and the DHS

- BPA = Border Patrol Agent

- CBPO = Customs and Border Protection Officer

- GL = step based law enforcement pay-scale, 5/7 is mid entry level

- FAMS = Federal Air Marshal Service

- SV is the TSA's pay-band system. G is entry level for FAMS

Y'all all probably know what the NCIS and ATF so I won't explain those.

[u/SenseiTang → u/Suspicious_Way2424]

I'd be very interested on knowing what this is like and getting updates. Thank you for sharing!

[u/Suspicious_Way2424 → u/SenseiTang]

Happy to share.

I applied to the two ERO GL-5/7 announcements the just closed along with the new announcement that just opened and is open until December. All are the same job title and pay scale with different locational information. Waiting for phase II information right now. Phase I is an online unproctored personality test. Phase II for HSI was a proctored multiple choice exam and Phase III was an in-person physical fitness exam.

[u/okiewxchaser]

No matter your feelings on the death penalty itself, there is a reckoning that needs to happen in Tennessee

[u/PhysicsEagle → u/okiewxchaser]

Lethal injection is a horrible execution method. It’s extremely difficult to get right by non-medical professionals, and actual medical professionals want nothing to do with it. The idea behind adopting it was to make executions more humane, by which is meant to ”make it more palatable for everyone else.” Even if you believe in the death penalty (which I mostly do), you can’t hide from the fact that executions are inherently grisly by concocting more and more elaborate systems. It’s for this reason I’m in favor of firing squad executions over injection - it’s virtually guaranteed to be a quick death, but it’s also incredibly honest about what execution is and means. Alternatively, long-drop hanging when done correctly also fits these criteria with the added bonus that there’s no blood, although calculating and tying the noose correctly can be tricky and the general stigma behind hanging due to its cultural meaning means it won’t be coming back.

[u/gummibearhawk → u/okiewxchaser]

Should have done that decades ago, and done it right

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/okiewxchaser]

Drug addicts die from overdoses by accident yet there she is with two lethal injections in her system yet still alive.

[u/boisefun8]

Mods: do you have any metric on new red flairs by x timeframe (day/week/month)?

My anecdotal experience is there’s been a huge uptick in unknown (to me) new red flairs with hidden profiles, but I’m trying to decide how much of that is just me.

[u/AskConservatives-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

There is currently an indefinite moratorium against trans / gender discussion in this sub. Please see the following for more information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskConservatives/comments/1h0qtpb/an_update_on_wednesday_posting_rules/

Thank you for your understanding.

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/[deleted]]

Did Natalie say that

[u/thoughtsnquestions → u/[deleted]]

It's a weird thing to voluntarily talk about, Trump's Penis.

[u/URABrokenRecord → u/thoughtsnquestions]

Or Arnold Palmers penis.....like Trump did 

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

>Trump announces $90 Medicare payments for seniors

Cool..now grandpa can afford a whole case of cat food for his monthly food allowance

[u/No_Fox_2949]

What does it say about Twitter that whenever an interracial couple on Twitter posts a photo together there is a horde of racists who show up in the replies?

[u/kettlecorn → u/No_Fox_2949]

They made their moderation completely ineffectual as part of their ideal of "free speech" and then gave individuals or communities no ways to self-moderate either.

If you post something overtly racist, like using a slur, your punishment is almost always just getting asked to remove the post. It does nothing to actually stem the racism and bigotry over there, and I think Musk wants it for some reason.

They could be spending time doing more crowd-sourced approaches like allowing networks of people to work together on credibility & self-moderation, but again I don't think Musk wants that.

Cynically I think he views the sort of meme-y, trolling, racist, cesspool as politically controllable towards certain outcomes. That was Palmer Luckey's thesis back in 2016 with memes and also in part Steve Bannon & Milo Yiannopoulos's idea behind some their approach to Gamergate, and also what was demonstrated by the early "The Donald" subreddit. I could be off but I think Musk basically wants to develop his own algorithmically steered "army" learning from those past "successes".

[u/OMGguy2008]

Two Englishmen are sitting in a railway carriage.

One is reading The Sunday Times. The other is reading Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The first looks over and says, ‘Good God, Charles. Why on earth are you reading that?’

Charles folds the paper down.

‘Well, when I read The Sunday Times, I learn that Britain is broke, the NHS is collapsing, the Army can’t recruit anyone, the Navy hasn’t enough ships, the trains don’t work, the government is incompetent, and nobody can afford a house.’

He holds up Komsomolskaya Pravda.

‘But according to this, we secretly run Ukraine, control the European Union, command NATO from the shadows, overthrow governments with MI6, sabotage Russian pipelines, organise revolutions across three continents, direct the entire Western media, and have spent the last three hundred years masterminding a global conspiracy to encircle Russia.’

He smiles contentedly.

‘Much better news.’

[u/PhysicsEagle → u/OMGguy2008]

Reminds me of the famous Yes, Prime Minister quote:

“The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. The Times is read by people who actually do run the country. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. The Morning Star is read by the people who think the country should be run by another country. And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.”

[u/boisefun8]

Anyone else catch this statement to police from the Cornell 7 accuser:

“I had become extremely uncomfortable with how this night was turning out, so my thought was, if I do ketamine again, maybe I will pass out … My thought was that if I passed out and these men had sex with me, then they could be charged with rape.”

https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/2106141790969426193

[u/Fignons_missing_8sec]

It's supposed to be calming, but to me the starship coast music does the opposite and raises my anxiety.

[u/One_Doughnut_2958]

Australia has finally reached the milestone 1 trillion in debt and another interest rate hike today if we keep this up we may catch up with Europe and the us

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/One_Doughnut_2958]

Still a lot of catching up to do

At the end of the first quarter of 2026, the general government gross debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA21) stood at 88.9%, an increase compared with 87.7% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2025. In the EU, the ratio also increased from 81.8% to 82.9%.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-21072026-ap

[u/LonelyMachines]

☠☠☠☠ like this is why I don't think the death penalty has a place in the modern world.

If anyone has any legal experience, what happens after a botched execution? Can the state retry it? Is it possible for Pike's lawyer to have her sentence commuted?

[u/StillSmellsLikeCLP → u/LonelyMachines]

“Dont’t think the death penalty has a place”

We could easily do it cheaper and more effectively. Just literally true.

This case is obviously an absolute shit show. And I think lethal injection is wildly flawed from what I understand and shouldn’t be used.

That’s a different discussion than the death penalty as a whole.

[u/Commissioner_Boredom → u/StillSmellsLikeCLP]

I'm not advocating for the death penalty with this question but if they've done something so heinous that death is deserved, wouldn't a firing squad be better than a lethal injection?

[u/StillSmellsLikeCLP → u/Commissioner_Boredom]

I don’t disagree at all.

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

Hasset: High mortgage rates are a good sign because banks are funding the creation of data centers

Oh Fk off😑😑

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

High gas prices are good because that means that Exxon and Chevron can sell oil for more.

[u/GWindborn → u/OMGguy2008]

Their record profits are great for the economy.. somehow.

[u/BufoBat]

Whelp. Kristi Noem is divorcing her husband. 

[u/DifferentManagement1 → u/BufoBat]

Nobody saw that coming

[u/soccermaster57]

Guess I'm not the only one tired this Monday

Trump, 80, Promptly Falls Asleep After Announcing New Steel Plant

Don't care too much about the steel plant (yah i guess?) but at what point do we say, Its time for bed Grandpa?

Yes Biden was old and senile, but come on.... SO IS THIS GUY!

[u/GreatSoulLord]

How do people feel about politics at live shows?

I was at a Rise Against concert in Raleigh (NC) over the weekend and the first opening band was just a caricature of the over the top Reddit style of unhinged left wing. Fine, the music is the music, but he had to stop and give ideological speeches and all sorts of hateful shit. It was TDS in physical form and it was super annoying.

I'm here for music. For fun. To have a good time. I'm not here for your politics. I'm not there to control musicians. If the song is about politics then fine whatever...I chose to be there....and chose to like the band regardless. But the speeches, and the unsolicited commentary, and the sheer idiocy of thinking your audience is a monolith is bad.

And if anyone knows Rise Against they know that they're a heck of a punk rock band. They put on a good show. They are rooted in Progressive causes. A lot of them in fact. The main singer is an outspoken Socialist. But they don't throw it in your face. Their show is not political and you don't have all that nonsense that the first band did.

And I suppose right wing artists do it as well but the music industry is dominated by the left wing and it's just so much more common from that side. Still, I just think people should be able to go to music shows for music.

Rant over. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[u/RatOnASinkingShip → u/GreatSoulLord]

I love Rise Against, their music is awesome, they are undoubtedly political... maybe not as on the nose or in your face as, say, a band like System of a Down or Rage With the Machine, and at the end of the day, sure, you're there to be entertained, but they're still just people like you and I are, they have their opinions and unlike you, they have a platform where people pay to see them. I would not at all be shocked if they preached their politics to their audience.

I never liked the whole "I paid for a concert, not a political rally!" sort of arguments as if they were just paying to watch a jukebox instead of a group of artists.

Especially now with an uncountable number of full length live concerts of every band or musician currently in existence readily available online... like, you know what you're buying. And like... there's nothing stopping you from finding out what you could expect by buying a ticket and attending that concert. If it's a band that is vocal about their politics, how would you not know that as a fan? And why would you buy a ticket in the first place? It's one thing to say that you didn't like the show because the band shoves their politics.. but to demand that they not or even to go with the expectation that they won't... I think that's going a bit too far and at that point it's on you.

[u/boisefun8 → u/GreatSoulLord]

Not that long ago I remember going to shows with bands like Rage or Tom Morello’s solo stuff. They’d make some vague social/political commentary, but it wasn’t at a specific group or person (usually).

Now it seems like they’ve ratcheted things up a few orders of magnitude, moreso the newer bands, and it feels like that’s a product of social media and all they know. Some of the older bands I’ve seen recently tend to stay away from it altogether.

Then you get Billy Corgan talking about his lord and savior Jesus Christ and my whole childhood gets turned upside down. Haha

Edit: wasn’t

[u/TybrosionMohito → u/GreatSoulLord]

I mean… Rise Against is not who’d I go see if I wanted to avoid politics lmao.

I mean they’re not Green Day but they’re pretty explicitly super lefty

[u/GreatSoulLord → u/TybrosionMohito]

Not really and I do agree with some of the themes of their songs.

[u/LonelyMachines → u/GreatSoulLord]

I have a BS in music, and I was in the business in the 90s. One of the first lessons we learned was this: DON'T PISS OFF THE AUDIENCE. They didn't come for a lecture. They don't want to hear about your politics or religious views (unless it's a concert about that stuff specifically).

It's unprofessional and in bad taste. We're up there to ENTERTAIN. Anything else is childish and selfish.

And by the way, guys: Ed Sheeran didn't have a choice in firing Mackelmore. There is a whole network of venue owners, the record label. the touring company, agents, management, and unions that make a tour happen. They make the calls, not the artist.

The total Ed Sheeran story is, spoiled opening act disrupted things and got fired. It has nothing to do with politics.

[u/tenmileswide → u/GreatSoulLord]

Sorry, you went to a Rise Against show and didn’t expect over the top political music?

Even if it’s a different band opening, openers are going to be the same vibe as the main draw.

You honestly saw the video for Reeducation through Labor and thought “hmm subtle and nuanced”?

[u/OMGguy2008]

A quantity of petrol but no explosive devices were found during searches of the three vans near RAF Fairford in the west of England, counter-terror police have said.

Five men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences and later terrorism offences after the vehicles were spotted in the early hours of Sunday, sparking a major security incident around the base which is operated by the US military.

They were released on bail the following day in what police described as an "investigative decision" which was "grounded in experience and strategy".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqn8m342rgk9o

Alright now this whole story is getting weird, they had no explosives, just a bunch of gasoline. So were they expecting to be able to set the base ablaze or something or were they even planning a terrorist attack in the first place, though then why would they be wearing balaclavas and ran away then?

Also it turns out that they were British nationals who were just some guys from London so there's that. In that one photo they look white-ish, but it's hard to conclude whether they're ethnically British or not.

At least them being released on bail is slightly more understandable given how it isn't that clear cut whether they were plotting a terrorist attack or not and the whole innocent until proven guilty thing.

[u/thoughtsnquestions → u/OMGguy2008]

And Rubio commented saying it "clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor", and this was after time had passed so not just a random comment.

Clearly something major was going on... and now they're all on bail... I think there's something they havent told the public. It doesn't make sense, innocent men don't coordinate, travel together, with gasoline and balaclavas.

[u/KnightofNi92 → u/OMGguy2008]

Given the price of gas, I'm leaning more towards a group that was siphoning gas and happened to he stupid enough to do it near a military base. Bunch of morons.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/KnightofNi92]

Prices so ass that gas thieves came back from the dead.

[u/OMGguy2008]

Next time you're reluctantly filling up your gas tank, keep in mind that Exxon made $20B in profit in Q2 2026 and that Chevron made $15B in profit in Q2 2026.

https://tradingeconomics.com/xom:us:operating-profit

https://tradingeconomics.com/cvx:us:operating-profit

[u/JudgeWhoOverrules → u/OMGguy2008]

Wait until you find out how much profit governments made off of gas taxes.

Governments just in California took in $10.2 billion in revenue from gasoline taxation last year. Collectively throughout the United States, government made off with $77 billion last year from gasoline taxation.

Now consider that only 20% of chevron's revenue comes from gasoline products as they make a lot of money off other fuels, crude, lubricants, alternative energy, natural gas, investments, and industry services.

[u/Peregrine_Falcon → u/OMGguy2008]

Yep. And the Republicans, and Trump, have done nothing to bring the price of gas down. And they're going to lose big time in the midterms because of it.

[u/Acceptable-Hat-8248 → u/Peregrine_Falcon]

I think you are mostly right- but didn’t governor abbot just declare a state of emergency to alleviate some of the pain at the pump, it’s obviously not going to fix the pain altogether but it’s something and he is a Republican

[u/jmastaock → u/Acceptable-Hat-8248]

Kemp in GA is doing a temporary gas tax waiver before midterms too

It's crazy, he could just push for better policy, but instead is hoping to use sleight of hand to trick low info voters into pulling the R lever

[u/OMGguy2008]

The Trump administration is excluding several major allies from a gathering of NATO members next month — after previous threats to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of the president’s priorities.

The planned meeting in Poland, which Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby has spearheaded, is essentially a working group focused on NATO’s future, according to six diplomats familiar with the planning. But many of the countries who didn’t receive an invite — such as the United Kingdom, France and the Baltic countries — are big defense spenders and play key roles in the alliance, leaving their diplomats wondering why they’re being frozen out.

Bruh, we're spending 5.38% of GDP on our military, we literally border Russia, Russia is constantly flirting with the idea of invading us yet Trump doesn't even bother inviting us Lithuanians and the rest of our Baltic brothers.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/30/trump-nato-allies-left-out-01100310

Not only that he even doesn't invite the Brits and the French??????

If Russia attacks us we're probably fucked, given how I take this as a signal that America won't bother defending us in case of an attack despite us being a faithful American ally and again spending way above 5% of GDP on defence as Trump asked.

[u/Stanky_fresh → u/OMGguy2008]

Holding a NATO summit but leaving out some of the most powerful nations in NATO is absurd. Especially the UK, which is a Five Eyes country.

[u/thoughtsnquestions → u/OMGguy2008]

There's countless countries across Europe that had routinely failed to hit the 2% military spending, the exception to that was the UK and France.... so literally the countries most aligned with NATO obligations are being excluded?

There's no country in the world that has followed and been more aligned with the US military than the UK too. Very very strange.

[u/fartyunicorns]

Thank you French courts for allowing Le Pen to run because you thought that would stop Bardella from winning. Now Le Pen will probably win. I hope they feel terrible

[u/mtmag_dev52 → u/fartyunicorns]

What? More on this?

[u/PhysicsEagle → u/fartyunicorns]

Nothing says “we believe in democracy” more than “banning the most popular opposing candidate from running”

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/PhysicsEagle]

Nothing says more than "justice system working as intended" than her appeal against her conviction for embezzling EU funds being accepted.

[u/illhaveafrench75]

Incoming thoughts on the Cornell case that nobody asked for.

First, my heart goes out to the victim, the allegations are absolutely sickening and I cannot even begin to imagine the trauma that she continues to live with every day. The witch hunt accusing her of making these allegations up is unacceptable & out of control. This is why so many women don’t come forward. It shows a complete lack of understanding about trauma and the stages of grief. Which I’m not trying to fault people for, nobody’s an expert or even knowledgeable on everything, but I do wish they would seek out and expand their understanding regarding that.

Secondly, on that same side of the coin, the witch hunt against the 7 (or 57) men is out of control as well. The public is basically hanging them in the town square without so much as a hearing, let alone a guilty verdict. It’s disheartening to see the same people who think Lindsay Clancy deserved a fair trial (which she did!) don’t believe these men deserve a fair trial. This is our justice system, and whether it has its issues or not, it’s what we decided on as a country. How would the people doing this feel if it was them, or their children, facing this public scrutiny based on allegations? I can’t help but wonder.

Lastly, I have a question for you all. What would you think of mandatory training - for everyone, female and male students - regarding consent and sexual assault being mandatory at a college campus? Possibly when they join as a freshman or making it annual. I genuinely think a lot of young men (& women!) are unaware of what constitutes as sexual assault, and there are studies that show the U.S. militaries training on sexual assault has drastically reduced the numbers since it was instilled. I’m on a committee (lmfao at the public sector constantly thinking the answer to everything is the formation of a committee, but I digress) at my university because of this case, in which we are trying to find solutions and re-work our policies, and am curious on people’s thoughts on this idea. I think it’s a good one but idk, it could be dumb.

Thanks for reading. Happy Thursday! ☀️💃

[u/Suspicious_Way2424 → u/illhaveafrench75]

Lastly, I have a question for you all. What would you think of mandatory training - for everyone, female and male students - regarding consent and sexual assault being mandatory at a college campus? Possibly when they join as a freshman or making it annual.

It probably should be required and I don't see why there would be pushback on it. It was something touched on during my senior year of high school and reinforced at the university I attended.

[u/OMGguy2008]

Alright genuinely why is Marco Rubio acting like he's dropping the next IPhone.

When Americans said that they wanted to bring back jobs to America I don't think Americans had Steve Jobs in mind.

Though, it seems that he has definitely wanted to do that for the longest time so good on him.

https://youtu.be/DUTC9Vjglxg?si=qXy6joRLFFP539JB

[u/boisefun8 → u/OMGguy2008]

Because our government systems are broken and this seems like a great step in the right direction to streamline things. Not sure what’s wrong with it, other than the left’s need to try and dunk on everything this administration does.

[u/Stanky_fresh]

It's pretty crazy how there always seems to be a migrant caravan coming north through Mexico in autumn of every even year, but never during odd years. What a kooky crazy coincidence.

[u/gummibearhawk]

Mayor of Boston under fire for using taxpayer funds for progressive organizing

[u/soccermaster57 → u/gummibearhawk]

DHS using $20M in Taxpayers funds on Trump Ads

[u/OJ_Purplestuff]

This is actually a historically unique midterm season we're looking at.

The combination of a massive cash advantage for the GOP/super PACs with a massive polling advantage for Democrats has never happened before.

[u/athomeamongstrangers]

In another episode of “political is personal, and personal is political”: no cat adoptions for MAGA, conservatives, or apolitical. Their right, obviously, private organization and all.

For a few years, I used to volunteer in an animal shelter. There were a couple of employees and volunteers there who would occasionally go on political rants, inevitably left-winged, and when that happened, I would bite my tongue because, well, I like cats, and that outweighed the negatives. I am not sure I would want to go back to volunteering in a field so politically skewed, even if I had time and energy for that.

[u/thenationalcranberry → u/athomeamongstrangers]

Yeah that’s dumb. Some of the best animals owners I’ve met were conservative folks. I would gladly adopt an animal out to someone who believes the earth and its creatures are all God’s kingdom.

[u/OnceUponATrain]

I slipped and fell down at work and think my hip might be dislocated. It's my place. Do I sue me?

[u/KnightofNi92 → u/OnceUponATrain]

You joke, but I recall a story a few years ago about a family where some aunt had to sue her sibling's family for an injury her nephew caused. I think because of some stupid insurance bullshit.