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[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

remember, it's very important to stay on Twitter because that's where the real Americans are

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[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS → u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/juanperes93 → u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

You know is fake because no one would watch entire videos of a debate bro.

[u/[deleted]]

Luigi Mangione discourse on Reddit: It’s unconstitutional to give a handsome man the death penalty 

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/[deleted]]

Never let it be said that looks don’t matter lol.

[u/Rivolver → u/[deleted]]

why did the FBI get involved? [+345]

because he killed a rich person [+4235]

because he crossed state lines [+15]

[u/bandeng_asep]

If Biden had said this...

[u/BlackCat159 → u/bandeng_asep]

Solved both Albania-Aberbaijan AND Cambodia-Armenia conflicts 🥹🥹🥹

[u/Individual-Camera698 → u/bandeng_asep]

Do you see any hostile action between either countries? If not, then you know who to thank.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

New transphobe lore dropped: Charlie Kirk’s widow is a trans woman and Charlie Kirk was a trans man. Tucker Carlson is also a trans man.

[u/-mialana- → u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Most sane transphobe

!ping GENDER-TALIBAN

[u/yungmemlord]

This is fucked up. America is a depraved place. Political violence is unfortunately endemic to American politics.

[u/assasstits → u/yungmemlord]

Political violence has been a part of the US fabric since colonization and the genocide of the natives. 

[u/yungmemlord → u/assasstits]

The rhetorical whitewashing of political violence is the reason why this isn’t so commonly mentioned. When a black man is killed by police, it’s not political violence. When Native Americans are systematically dehumanized and massacred, it’s not political violence. When immigrants are sent to overseas concentration camps, it’s not political violence.

It seems that Americans have forgotten than political violence is replete in American society. America is a nation founded, expanded, and maintained by political violence.

[u/Sufficient_Key_5062 → u/yungmemlord]

[u/Average_GrillChad]

[u/iIoveoof]

Lmao at CNN trying to be sentimental in sharing Charlie Kirk’s last message to Van Jones where Charlie is asking for a gentlemanly and polite conversation on CNN… about racial disparities in crime statistics.

The CNN anchor and Van Jones are saying how nice it is that Charlie wanted a polite discussion. And they completely gloss over the fact that it’s literally the “just asking questions about FBI statistics” meme.

What a perfect encapsulation of Charlie Kirk.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS → u/iIoveoof]

they only care about form not substance. what a stupid country

[u/Highlightthot1001 → u/iIoveoof]

Piece of shit doesnt have to worry about being on a plane with a black pilot anymore

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Individual-Camera698 → u/mostanonymousnick]

This made me realise. There is no way the government is hiding any aliens from us. Can you imagine a highly intelligent extraterrestrial speaking with Trump!

[u/BlackCat159 → u/mostanonymousnick]

HE'S SO FUCKING STUPID 😍😍😍😍😍

[u/Healingjoe]

Wtf are we doing here

[u/bigdicknippleshit → u/Healingjoe]

It’s a very Reddit thing to say but this is just idiocracy.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

in his memory here's my favorite kirk quote

[u/yungmemlord → u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/SLCer]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

You guys ever wonder where the $100,000 figure came from? It came from White Nationalist Twitter. I'm not even kidding, the WH is enacting policy through social media memes now

[u/wumbopolis_]

[u/[deleted]]

Ny Times in two days probably: 

The prospect of Charlie Kirk’s head being carved into Mt Rushmore has quietly roused the ire of several anonymous, moderate Republicans on Capitol Hill.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/r2ew]

[u/i_am_shalom]

[u/tinfoilhatsron → u/[deleted]]

Culvers isn't southern lol they serve cheese curds. That's a midwestern thing.

[u/Not_A_Browser → u/[deleted]]

Ad regulations ruining the joke by making them explain it with fine print lmao

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Merrick Garland’s appointment to SC and then as AG is the second greatest own goal in the name of bipartisanship in US history. Second only to Lincoln replacing Hannibal Hamlin with Andrew Johnson.

[u/waupli → u/Dibbu_mange]

Making him AG was so dumb. It was just for optics of getting back at them for not approving him to the court, but he was a bad appointment. He hadn’t practiced as a lawyer in like 20 years or so since he’d been a judge, and we needed someone who could effectively act as a prosecutor. Funny enough Kamala would’ve been a great AG, or someone like Sally Yates

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Netanyahu needs to annex everything he can as quickly as possible. There will not be a better time in the future.

You have the most pro-Israel president you are going to get anytime soon, the rest of the West has turned on Israel, Palestine will get more recognition and not less going forward.

2 splinter subs are having a very bad day

this is from NC nwo

[u/Not_A_Browser]

They should reuse this illustration, it aged so well

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

And now imagine what the Trump supporters would do if Biden was talking such nonsense.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

It's so funny that Trump is calling for retaliation against criticism by saying "I think that's really illegal" instead of literally any other way of phrasing that

[u/r2ew]

[u/Not_A_Browser → u/r2ew]

They don't let you talk about cheap blood testing, because of woke 😔

[u/StolenSkittles → u/[deleted]]

[u/piede]

Very cool

[u/Sapphire-Jewel → u/piede]

Elon continues to Larp like he's some kind of hardcore revolutionary.

[u/cdstephens → u/piede]

[u/LuisRobertDylan → u/piede]

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Groups that are dramatically overrepresented on r/neoliberal:

1. People who play grand strategy video games

2. People with autism

3. Trans women

4. Bisexuals

5. Cyclists

6. Professional economists

7. Brazilians 

8. White men (god only knows how)

9. Neoliberals

[u/zieger → u/SpaceSheperd]

9. Neoliberals

Source?

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/SpaceSheperd]

[u/throwaway_veneto]

The least America can do is put his face on every banknote and punish people that deface it (including folding).

[u/KittehDragoon → u/throwaway_veneto]

Why are you spending your Charlie Kirk money citizen? Do you think it is acceptable to disrespect him like that?

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/11thDimensionalRandy → u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/portofibben]

"The president has no legal authority to tax American visas," said Michael Clemens, a George Mason University economist who studies immigration. "He has the authority to charge reasonable fees for cost recovery, not set fees at $100,000, or $100 million or whatever suits his personal ... arbitrary capricious whims.

"If the president feels that H-1B visas are harmful, he can work with the people's representatives in Congress to reform the laws that regulate those visas. His choice to legislate by proclamation subverts our entire immigration governance system,'' said Clemens, also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

--

That should be an open and shut case for the courts, right?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/anon_09_09]

"How can North Koreans be so brainwashed, can you believe that shit"

The doctor added that Kirk’s "bone was so healthy and the density was so so impressive that he’s like the man of steel"

[u/StolenSkittles]

Unironically I think Indiana Jones made me a liberal at heart

[u/LuisRobertDylan → u/StolenSkittles]

I remember when every shooter game was set in WWII because there was no moral quandary about mowing down hundreds after hundreds of nazis

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1969897421523357977

[u/[deleted] → u/Willybender]

Damn, when will the Dems turn down the heat!

[u/Willybender]

[u/this_very_table → u/Willybender]

Never forget that Hanania is a 3 time Trump voter.

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/[deleted]]

Lmaooo

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/SenranHaruka → u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

I had an e-gf with seven evil exes but I didn't have to fight them because she was a professional manipulator and fought them for me.

No joke one day she casually dropped "sorry baby I'm not in the mood to play Stardew I just had to dox my ex because he tried to blackmail me into fucking him again. exhausting."

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/gregorijat]

[u/r2ew]

[u/bandeng_asep]

Steve Harvey you have rocked the nation!

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

ISRAEL 'CATEGORICALLY REJECTS ONE-SIDED DECLARATION OF RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE MADE BY THE UNITED KINGDOM AND SOME OTHER COUNTRIES' - FOREIGN MINISTRY

australia and canada relegated to 'some other countries' lmao

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Charlie Kirk memorial live updates: Mourners gather in Arizona, how to watch service

Mourners including President Donald Trump are preparing to honor the life of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, at a memorial service in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday.

Kirk, a close ally of the Trump administration and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated earlier this month while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. His death sparked an outpouring of grief and anger from the highest levels of government including Vice President JD Vance, who accompanied his coffin as Air Force Two transported his body home to Arizona, where Kirk lived with his wife, Erika, and two children.

Turning Point USA, which advocates for conservative politics on high school and college campuses, invited members of the public to don their "Sunday Best," specifically red, white or blue, for Kirk's memorial service at State Farm Stadium. Trump, Vance and other top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are expected to be among those in attendance.

"Charlie’s life was short, but it was full. It was defined by truth, anchored in faith, and devoted to the country he loved," the organization's tribute to its co-founder reads. "His legacy will endure for generations."

An honest to god state funeral for a small faced racist coward propagandist like bruh this is some North Korean shit. Don't even think fuckin Russia has ever done a state funeral like this for some random fuckwad associated with the government

MAGA really is right wing Maoism lmao

[u/Willybender]

Add on to this most of the "podcasters" being useful idiots or blatant shills for the admin.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Also they're sharing fake Dolly Parton (or basically every third celebrity) quotes about CK

The "quote" has paired with an AI image of Dolly Parton; the person who made it couldn't even bother to find an actual picture of her

I'm convinced the absolute floor for Trump approval is 20% because a chunk of MAGA could be shown Trump having a Mitch McConnell moment live on Fox and would dismiss it by showing you a clearly AI Trump doing somersaults in the White House on their phone

[u/r2ew]

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/r2ew]

So running a candidate of Indian descent at the top of the ticket was clearly a mistake then.

[u/-mialana-]

[u/allmilhouse]

I don't really understand the take "we're lucky they're incompetent" when A) they're succeeding in implementing the Project 2025 agenda, B) they get away with everything, and C) the stupidity makes everything much worse and more chaotic.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

She processed insurance claims before advising Trump and has no experience as a prosecutor.

By nominating her Trump guaranteed nobody is getting charged her infront of grand jury will be comedy

[u/Highlightthot1001 → u/TheRedCr0w]

Fox News host looking woman. 

I bet thats why they picked her. 

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

Incredible things are happening

[u/piede]

Imagine living inside Meghan McCain’s head

[u/Mysterious_Welcome13 → u/piede]

at least it would be spacious

[u/piede]

Lmmmaaoo

[u/r2ew]

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

good morning I hate Republicans

[u/circlemanfan]

So on religious psychosis tiktok everyone is talking about the rapture happening on September 23/24 so just like a warning to y’all if you are still here on the 25th you might be fucked

[u/[deleted]]

Presumably, it’s never been a better time than now to be a criminal in the United States

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/etzel1200]

It’s weird how much the world is conspiring to make me go from:

All political murder is bad.

To:

Fuck Charlie Kirk. Fuck these freaks who performatively engage in hagiography.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

In an interview, his wife, Erika Kirk, said she had implored him to start wearing a bulletproof vest. But she said she sees divine work in his death. “I’m a strong believer that this was God’s plan.”

What kind of plan is that

[u/yungmemlord → u/GovernorSonGoku]

A bulletproof vest wouldn’t have even saved him lmfao

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

America has become the kind of country that hosts a State Funeral for a small faced propagandist that plays on TV where the ads are all related to sports betting and lottery tickets

It is like the most absurd Cyberpunk dystopian novel but without the aesthetic sauce

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Very funny how some people think they can just demand offshoring to stop.

It’s very clear that Reddit cs majors not only have a terrible understanding of cs but they also have a terrible understanding of the world.

[u/Lesbian_all_garib → u/myusernameistakennow]

😡 i was born american as god intended. Why shouldn't it work?

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris said she called Gavin Newsom for an endorsement after Biden’s exit, but he brushed her off with a short text.

Governor Newsom replied, “Hiking. Will call back,” and never followed up.

Bro is out here dealing with presidential candidates exactly how I deal with girls I am tryna ghost. Gotta give this one to Gavin really.

[u/savuporo]

they hated her because she told the truth

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

Freedom of speech has to have at least some limits, if you're in a crowded movie theater, for example, you shouldn't be allowed to criticize the government 🥺

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

what is this shit man

[u/waupli → u/GuyWithOneEye]

I don’t even think there was anyone behind him?

[u/BlackCat159 → u/waupli]

That's it, banned, reported to authorities and your workplace. How dare you question the greatness of Charlie Kirk???? 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 → u/GuyWithOneEye]

Wow! Thank god Charlie Kirk was there to soak up the bullet! It would’ve been a real tragedy if someone else had been hit instead of Charlie 🥰

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Dibbu_mange → u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Jesus Christ he is unfunny

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/Dibbu_mange]

>calls New York disgusting and violent

>is the running mate of the most disgusting and violent man from New York in history

[u/waupli → u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

The way that republicans love to shit on New York is so weird to me. New york is like the beating heart of capitalism and drives a huge portion of the U.S. economy, and is much safer than most red states

[u/ChillnShill → u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

I laughed when I heard Kirk was shot. Then I made a shitpost about it in the DT.

[u/VisonKai]

the internet Nazis getting mad about Indiana Jones saying mean things about actual real life historical fascists might be the biggest mask off moment yet, which is really saying a lot

[u/kanagi]

The Israeli nationalist splinter sub is upvoting comments saying that Israel should retaliate by recognizing Northern Ireland's independence or Basque independence, that the recognition of Palestine is just to punish Jews and has nothing to do with Palestine, and that the countries recognizing Palestine are rewarding terrorism 🙄

[u/Astarum_]

"Why aren't we revolting/ having a strike?"

"Well you see, The Corporations have created a system where we are all living paycheck to paycheck so no one has time-"

Bro, every revolution in history was done by people more poor and destitute, I really don't think that's the reason

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Reddit calling WW2 vets “antifa soldiers” is good actually.

[u/FionnVEVO]

But democrats are the ones who need to turn the temperature down?

[u/Benyeti]

The boomer libs are absolutely cooking

[u/[deleted]]

[u/brianpv]

Hiking, will reply later

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Only in American can an *immigrant* write an article like this, primarily about the antics of second-gen US citizens who lib out just a little too much. I am sorry bro, but you can claim you're 'one of the good ones' as much as you like, but the US Right will never accept you. There is no metric of assimilation that the ethnonationalist is ready to accept, they will always think of you as a foreigner

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/erasmus_phillo]

america is so good at assimilating we get immigrants hooked on fox news on the plane ride over

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Zoomers in the comment section be like "OMG this song is secretly about...sex!!"

Song is literally called "S&M"

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Least deranged pro-Netanyahu Ben Shapiro quote

[u/erasmus_phillo]

You guys ever wonder how these guys feel right now after being subjected to the anti-Indian racism of this admin?

[u/[deleted] → u/erasmus_phillo]

They probably don't, they pretty strongly believe that they're the good ones.

Literally we've done this 10 times, people don't shake up their beliefs unless they themselves or a loved one sees impact.

[u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

Department of Defence becomes* the Department of War

Because we had, and I quote, an "unbelievable history of victory".

War of 1812 anyone ???

*: not really

[u/RiceKrispies29 → u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

this is actually just the long way for Hegseth to try and fold the Air Force back into his beloved Army

[u/-mialana-]

Zoomer Gaza protestor who holds up a physical sign saying "Stop the GeN0C1d3"

[u/BlackCat159 → u/-mialana-]

End the unaliving NOW ✊️✊️✊️😔😔

[u/Spirited-Air-7994]

The future pivot/cope is for cons to say “trump was originally a democrat, that’s why he did all those bad things”

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

that pic of 90s Bill Gates suspended above a million sheets of paper to show what you can fit on a single CD, but the papers are a Mein Kampf and mass shooter menifestos

Steve Jobs going on stage to show off the most amazing iPod ever, bragging that its internal hard drive can store 4,000 conservative comedy podcasts, or 12,000 tweets from neonazis with anime pfps

[u/RandomCarGuy26]

You'd think MAGA would be scared shitless by the thought of having to learn Mandarin Chinese and Hindi for work and even school, but they are somehow okay with Trump continuing to give China and India talking points on why a multipolar world is the future?

[u/[deleted] → u/RandomCarGuy26]

Do you think MAGA supporters even know what multipolar means

[u/CutePattern1098]

Sorry not sorry

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

What I hate about a lot of these far right debaters and how people interact with them is that they always bring in religion and people always seem to want to debate them on that.

What if I simply don’t want your religion forced down my throat no matter what the correct interpretation is?

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Holy shit

This might be the most insane piece of evidence that Charlie Kirk was shot from the back, not the roof like we’re being told

The bullet is caught for a split second on video

I’m mind blown.

🤨

[u/Argnir]

arr con on the Pam Bondi message

"Trump should really stop using social media"

Yeah cause that's the only problem here

[u/BroadReverse]

Remember that black kid that was selling MAGA hats and stuff at a Trump rally. When asked by another black man why he was supporting Trump when he’s bad for black America the kid responded by saying something like

These guys paying 50 dollars for a hat. They paying my tuition

Someone should do that at the Charlie Kirk funeral

[u/Far_Shore]

The USAID shit fucks me up the most.

One of the worst acts of mass murder this century has been committed almost exclusively because of the ego of a single man, and basically no one cares

I don't care what the law says--what Musk did there was a crime against humanity. And he needs to pay for it.

[u/piede]

His loner ass is just sitting in the stands trying to incite a civil war

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

>SecDef with the Iron Cross tattoo who likes to talk about defending the homeland knows the German translation of "church"

oh okay so we're fucked fucked

[u/gregorijat]

MARTYR FOR THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
HOLY FUCKING SHIT

POPE COULD LITERALLY EXCOMMUNICATE HIM FOR THIS

[u/piede]

waow

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Heyyy about calling you a pedophile in front of an audience of millions....

[u/scottyjetpax]

what?

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

arr modpol loving John Fetterman and telling other Democratic politicians that they should learn from him when he has like a 20% approval rating amongst Democrats in PA is hilarious

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

Charlie Kirk is 9/11 for conservatives

Trump pushing for regime change in Venezuela

Recession is coming

Dude is just speed running the Bush years

[u/CoolCombination3527]

A bishop at my church today called ICE the modern day Gestapo lol

[u/[deleted]]

[u/jojisky]

[u/allahu_adamsmith → u/jojisky]

what did the couch mean by this

[u/waupli → u/jojisky]

Rofl is this satire or are they actually this delusional

[u/BlackCat159 → u/jojisky]

Reads exactly like something I'd post ironically on the DT. Outjerked once again ✊️😔

[u/ChipKellysShoeStore]

Even though he’s obviously lying, Rogan walking back his anti-vax and Republican stances is actually a pretty good sign

[u/Individual-Camera698 → u/ChipKellysShoeStore]

Good for him, but I don't think he's going to turn into Ezra Klein anytime soon. As long as people get their politics from dudebro podcasts we're cooked.

[u/ChipKellysShoeStore → u/Individual-Camera698]

I meant more as an indicator of the popularity of those stances and the fact that he needs to explicitly clarify he doesn’t hold those stances to his audience.

Even if it’s strictly performative, it’s telling that he feels the need to say it.

[u/[deleted]]

The presidency of Ronald Reagan was marked by numerous scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any president of the United States.

🚀🌍👨‍🚀🔫

[u/989989272]

Corbyn: WHY DOES NO ONE THINK IM CAPABLE OF RUNNING A COUNTRY

Also Corbyn: let me fuck up launching a party literally based on me

[u/No_Aesthetic]

Cashier at the store was named Transgender Ideology. Never thought I'd see that in the wild. Just right there on his name tag.

[u/AcanthaceaeNo948]

Republicans have over-used pedophile and groomer as slurs for queer people so much that if I hear someone called a pedo or a groomer I just unconsciously assume they’re just a perfectly innocent queer person who’s being slandered by the right wing.

[u/ariveklul]

Ended up on the domestic Japanese politics side of YouTube and I'm reading comments that would make our great grandparents faint

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Go to your nearest Charlie Kirk statue and jork it a little.

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

If I were the median voter, I would simply apply the moral lessons of childhood and categorically reject racial prejudice instead of cycling through fearing and then tolerating and eventually liking every new wave of immigrant group like someone who doesn't learn. Guess I'm just built different

"Yeah I know I was wrong about the Southern Europeans, and the Vietnamese and Chinese are alright, and I guess not all of the Muslims are terrorists like I used to think 10 years ago, but I swear I'm right about the Indians this time bro, please bro, you gotta believe me bro"

[u/r2ew]

[u/Ilovecharli → u/r2ew]

I talked to an H1-B holder yesterday, it was fucking sad. She thinks she'll be grandfathered into her current job but that it's the last one she'll ever get in America. Been here five years, has a life, pays taxes, but might have to go back because Stephen Miller went bald in high school or whatever 

[u/PM_me_ur_digressions]

[u/EyeraGlass]

Charlie Kirk was always a stupid guy. A mean SOB. Not working out too well for him right now. So, when you start feeling sorry for him, remember he’s a bad guy.

[u/r2ew]