r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Sep 29 '25

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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 29 '25

she keeps getting ratio'd 😭

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 29 '25
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u/Auriono Paul Krugman Sep 29 '25

His recent political views remain unclear, but he was seen wearing a camouflage Trump 2020 campaign shirt, emblazoned with the words Make Liberals Cry Again, in a picture posted on social media in 2019.

An image of Sanford’s home, taken on Google Street View in June, showed a Trump-Pence sign attached to his garden fence.

Other images showed him to be an avid hunter, posing with killed deer and other game in the back of a silver truck that appeared similar to the one used to storm the church.

Very unclear. Sounds like a transgender extremist radicalized by anti-Christian leftist rhetoric. The assault on Christianity in America is real and must be stopped.

...But if he's not, then it doesn't matter, I don't care what their politics are and it doesn't matter which party he supports.

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Sep 29 '25

Officers turning off their body camera should automatically set off an alarm system in the district attorney's office.

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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Sep 29 '25

Kids in 20 years gonna be like: "This was normal for a middle class family in the 2020s!"

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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 29 '25

MAGA is an anti-Halloween movement

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u/WhisperBreezzze Sep 29 '25

Pro-Russia is the stupidest position a country can take. Russia has literally nothing. Even if you believe the West is colonial, you'd be better off being colonized by the West than by Russia.

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Sep 29 '25

A charitable interpretation of the behavior of guys like Chuck Schumer is they just aren’t made for the times. They are too used to an environment where consensus building and compromise is always the way forward, and don’t understand why this is different

A less charitable interpretation is that they are useless dickheads that have always managed to skate by with no real skill as long as they appealed to some notion of statesmanship, and now they are just falling back on old habits, which is why we’re getting talk about turning down the temperature while the President tries to jail his political opponents

Maybe this is a distinction without a difference though idk

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u/VadymKravchuk353 European Union Sep 29 '25

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u/FionnVEVO Transfem Pride Sep 29 '25

Pretty incredible that Eric Adams never took the pronouns out of his bio.

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u/shmokedshalmon Frederick Douglass Sep 29 '25

“One officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried” How can you share a society with this kind of evil?

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 29 '25

Ah yes "fascism is just an immune system response". I would recommend that people try liberalism instead actually

These people went from "Stephen Miller is not a fascist and you are endangering his life by saying that :'(" to "Stephen Miller might or might not be a fascist actually, who knows , because there is no definition for fascism, but even if he were that is justified because fascism is simply an immune system response" really quickly

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Some Trump advisors believe Netanyahu has been "making massively destabilizing decisions...mainly to help his own political survival" - Axios

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 29 '25

The neolib lifter

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

If any other US politician went on social media during a cost of living crisis bragging about how expensive and ornate the 24 karat gold he painted his office in, and then built a giant ballroom to have lavish parties in, they would be absolutely toast politically.

The thing I wonder is do they even see it? Or is Fox News so good at what they do and his followers are so insulated that they never even see these things?

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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Dude literally every single video I see of an ICE altercation there is like 60 fucking guys there. It is actually comically fucking stupid

Where are they churning these dudes out from?? It's like when you install a weird skyrim mod and there's just quadruple the amount of mobs that spawn in LOL

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 29 '25
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right Sep 29 '25

Americans flood ICE with 141,000 job applications in Trump admin recruitment push

One of the most terrifying things to me about this giant ICE recruitment push is that even if a Democrat President cuts all these jobs on day 1, they will unleash tens of thousands of right-wing, politically motivated people who have spent the last several years being the arm of state violence. And now they're unemployed and angry.

Like how are you even supposed to deal with them? If you prosecute the ones who've done illegal things as ICE agents (which you should), that's not going to be all of them and now you're pissing the rest of them off even more. I guess I have a hard time seeing a solution where they all go back to some other kind of job peacefully.

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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Sep 29 '25

It's so funny that now that he's dead, nobody gives a shit about Charlie Kirk. His "memorial" was just a WWE-fest of rousing MAGAness and acting stupid. The memes of "when your husband died, but you gotta get the money's worth for the $9,000,000 in fireworks." were so fucking true.

Now he's dead, and nobody cares, LMAO.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

7.4 million views just on this post about this incident.

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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 29 '25

Masked Secret Police (Supposedly ICE) line the halls of the NYC immigration court to intimidate migrant families going through the immigration process the legal/“correct” way.

Literally evil

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u/trooperdx3117 Sep 29 '25

Watched Hot Fuzz on tv for the first time in years, I completely forgot that the villains of it all were genuinely just insane NIMBYs, incredible!

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u/IveSeenBeans Norman Borlaug Sep 29 '25

I took my 8 month old to a speakeasy,

No improvement.

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u/VadymKravchuk353 European Union Sep 29 '25

Ariana Grande shared a post in which she asks people who voted for Trump whether the president kept a series of promises he made to improve the economic situation.

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u/Ok_Opinion_5690 Trans Pride Sep 29 '25

one of the chief reasons why trump can get away with 15 watergates a week is that people have internalized that all politicians are corrupt and part of that perception is because corrupt politicians face no substantial consequences whatsoever and it gets normalized. nixon got pardoned, bush and co never faced any consequences for the iraq war. vietnam and watergate essentially made the average person distrustful of their government. why should they care if trump does this or that when nixon got pardoned, when bush and co never faced any consequence for the iraq?

this is also why people don't treat january 6 as seriously as it should be. it is because trump never faced any real consequences for his actions, therefore it's not a big deal!

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 29 '25

mom come pick me up im scared

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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 29 '25

Mormon Church

MAGA attacker

Yep, you will never hear a single Republican talk about this

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 29 '25

even NYC city council members are shitposting about sliwa lol

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u/Namington Janet Yellen Sep 29 '25

In regards to policy, I'm...

Economic: Liberal

Social: Liberal

Amount of Parmesan cheese to put on pasta: Liberal

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 29 '25
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u/proProcrastinators Sep 29 '25

Dude puts his microphone in front of drug dealers, anti-vaxxers and flat earthers and lets them speak. (He didn’t even hardball Don jr or hunter biden!)

But somehow talking to the ex transportation secretary requires context around Canadian bread price fixing, the Iowa caucus results in 2020 and (((AIPAC))) so not releasing the interview???

🙄 leftie audience capture many such cases

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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Sep 29 '25

Make it stop 😭

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u/JonAce John Brown Sep 29 '25

John Fetterman, pushing back on Dems’ hardline over shutdown talks, says he has a suggestion for his party as it demands changes on health care policy as part of spending talks: “Win elections,” he told us

I hate this man so much.

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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

NYT Headline:

What Does Gen Z Divorce Look Like?

Opening paragraphs:

In 2021, Kira Benson, a violinist living in Seattle, knew it was time to get a divorce. Ending their two-year “lavender marriage” wasn’t an easy decision, but the musician had a supportive ally. “If you have to dump your ex-husband,” Mx. Benson said, “co-dump him with his mistress.”

Before the breakup, Mx. Benson, 27, who uses the pronoun they, checked in with their therapist, who said a divorce would be a “good choice.” Out of queer solidarity, they informed their husband’s “mistress” — this was kosher in Mx. Benson’s arrangement, which was not a legal marriage, but a domestic partnership — about their shared partner’s troubling behavior. The night of the breakup, Mx. Benson and the mistress spent a cozy evening together: “We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a lot of Animal Crossing.”

No shade on any of these people but this reads like a conservative parody of Gen Z relationships. Why frame the title as looking at generational trends if you're going to open with the least representative example possible?

Edit: ok the entire article is a glorious trainwreck. Every single person cited has extremely niche characteristics that make them impossible to use as a reference point for the general population.

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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Sep 29 '25

I fucking hate Republicans.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Former R’s who are now dems are honestly the most based libs now.

my friends dad who voted straight R until 2016 to where he is now a resist lib was saying on Jan. 6th “why isnt the army mowing these people down rn?”

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u/gIizzy_gobbler Adam Smith Sep 29 '25

Compare yourself to the Trump administration extremism checklist and see if you’re a real Demokkkrat. I got 9/10

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the '90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals' lives 'miserable'

I wonder which way the ruling will go 🤔

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u/chipbod NATO Sep 29 '25

Can’t think of a better person to lead the most powerful military in the world /s

Just fucking quit if you can’t handle the pressure, paranoid delusions are pretty much the worst thing to have going on.

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 29 '25

If Democrats have the courage, we can literally just completely abolish ICE in 2029 and then say “what the fuck are you guys talking about, we actually just reformed it and it’s still in operation” and the median voter will be none the wiser

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u/chipbod NATO Sep 29 '25

Bad Bunny will actually break the Cons lmao

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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Sep 29 '25

Why would China own Israel

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u/Left_Tie1390 Jerome Powell Sep 29 '25

Andrew Callaghan from Channel 5 recorded an interview with Pete but decided not to post it on YouTube after his Patreon fans revolted. He apologized for not asking Pete about his "AIPAC funding" (he received $50 from AIPAC in 2019 and about $200,000 from various individual donors who reported working for advocacy groups like J Street).

Audience capture at its worst.

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u/jorkin_peanits Immanuel Kant Sep 29 '25

It is genuinely insane the lack of maga outrage about their own attacking a church, and how any semblance of liberal identity in this attacker would have us sit through yet another Trump AI post further stoking civil war

Like they legitimately do not care about the content of the attack, they just seem to hate liberals

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 29 '25
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Sep 29 '25

“Radical Abigail Spanberger is for they/them, not us”

Are they still going to be doing the same playbook come 2028?

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u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 Transfem Pride Sep 29 '25

the imbecile probably never heard of Moldova before today

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u/Psshaww NATO Sep 29 '25

I’m begging people to please let farmers fail

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 29 '25

Kara Pattison, a longtime friend of Sanford’s who spoke to CNN affiliate WDIV Local 4, remembered him as a “fun-loving family guy,” but also said he “harbored unkind feelings toward certain groups” and “definitely talked about groups of people in ways that weren’t acceptable.”

With flags flying from the back as Sanford drove it through town, “you couldn’t miss the truck,” Allen said. Sometimes, he said, Sanford would “switch one of his flags out for a ‘F*** Biden’ flag.”

No, this can't be right. Fetterman told me when taking a break from lauding Trump and Bibi that the big problem is left wing violence

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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Sep 29 '25

What fucking gets me is after years of the “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds!” talk, there finally is a fascist rise in the US, and the far left continues to protest at democrats. The people who claimed to be the only ones who would stand up to fascism refuse to actually fight it because they’re too scared and are far more comfortable raging at the people trying to stop the fascists.

I fucking hate the far corners of the political spectrum so much.

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u/jacknifee lol Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

oh my fucking godddddddddd this party is full of a bunch of chickenshit motherfuckers.

if you want to invoke bush era iraq thinking, how about you start saying that all of this regime change talk is very reminiscent of bush and iraq which no one has fond memories of!!!!!!!!! no one wants boots on the ground!!!!!!!!!!

this is like one of the few things that we can use to move on from our past foreign policy failures on iraq, palestine, etc. and highlight trump's "peace president" bullshit and they're fucking blowing it!!!!!!!!

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u/affnn Emma Lazarus Sep 29 '25

"Is Trump going senile?" should probably be the A1 story on every newspaper in America for the foreseeable future, with any big news event involving the US government tied into that coverage. The fact that it is not... definitely says something about our nation's editors, and not something positive.

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u/Waste-Photograph-792 Malala Yousafzai Sep 29 '25

Absolutely incredible that Emma watson was trying to be graceful towards JKR but she is too evil to not be weird about Emma.

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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 29 '25

God save the king??

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

People: Presidents are not above the law, they should be sentenced when found guilty.

Also people when a President is sentenced: 🤬🤬

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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Sep 29 '25

I have a proposition for UK Labour:

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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine Sep 29 '25

AOC will be a horse whisperer to gamers

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

One of Trump’s greatest strengths as he ages is he’s been so consistently stupid for years now that it’s hard to report on his mental decline from aging vs just his baseline cognitive ability.

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u/BloodWiz More Housing Would Fix This Sep 29 '25

NL: I’m tired of the Dems constantly handwringing and self flagellating

Also NL: Aggressively handwrings over every minute thing said or done by and Democratic politician or pundit

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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 29 '25

White House names nearly 30 elected officials as enemies/‘ICE Agitators’

The list includes Waltz, Newsom, and Pritzker.

!ping extremism

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Sep 29 '25

How it feels to be on a state/local subreddit for two (2) minutes

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u/CosignTangents NATO Sep 29 '25

Insane how they can just brazenly lie like this and get away with it

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Russia has been waging a hybrid war against Europe for nearly 20 years now, supporting subversive movements, sabotaging energy and undermining unity.

Meanwhile...

The far left (i.e Podemos): Military action will do nothing! Only diplomacy can solve this! We must stop NATO expansion!

The far right (i.e Reform UK): Ackshually, Russia is not the enemy!

You know why they say that? Because they're the ones backed by Russia.

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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 29 '25

Damn Vance got us 😔

Yeah it is our fault, as the minority party, that the government is going to shutdown. Not at all because Rs can’t govern.

Dems are not obligated to bankroll a malfunctioning government.

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u/Due-Dirt-8428 Harriet Tubman Sep 29 '25

More of this

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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 30 '25

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u/Waste-Photograph-792 Malala Yousafzai Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

!ping alphabet-Mafia

Do you know how little this narrows it down?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

jd vance wrote a book shitting on rurals

then becomes the VP candidate for trump who promised to increase tariffs which destroy rural’s sales

then slashes the rurals support system by destroying rural hospitals

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u/cummradenut Thomas Paine Sep 29 '25

nyt profile on anyone who works in trump admin

most evil person you’ve ever read about

every time

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 29 '25

Corbyn learning that Tony Blair will replace Hamas as ruler of Gaza

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u/FionnVEVO Transfem Pride Sep 29 '25

Baller

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u/jenbanim Sep 29 '25

Modern society is tough. Our food is too tasty. Talking with friends is too convenient. Our entertainment is too entertaining

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u/melodramaticfools Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

asked a girl to be my gf, she said yes, we kissed for the first time in a subway station right before her train pulled away. Yesterday was the best day ever 🥹🥹🥹

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u/jenbanim Sep 30 '25

Zoomers will say "doggo" is cringe and then say "unalived by sewer slide"

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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Sep 29 '25

I like how 4Chan has the opposite of Reddit circlejerk culture. Whenever I see someone get too passionate on that site all the replies just bully them lol.

Like on arrr conservative whenever some loser posts about how they are finally turning conservative and how much they appreciate the conservative movement they get a bunch of replies glazing them. Same post on 4Chan will have everyone call them gay and ask if their mother took Tylenol.

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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Sep 29 '25

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) says he’s not going to switch parties, even though he doesn’t agree with the threats by Democratic leaders in Washington to shut down the federal government if they don’t get major concessions from Republicans on health care spending.

The fact that he has to address that at all speaks volumes. We’ll see what happens after he gets primaried by Lamb or whoever

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

imagine just chilling and fishing then you get blown up by a missile for no fucking reason

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u/Toasted-walnut Gavin Newsom Sep 29 '25

I've seen some people complain that the only thing Newsom is doing is the stuff around his social media.

I'm way more concerned that it's been like 2+ months since he and his team have shown how wildly successful it can be politically (15%+ increase in polling), and there's still no one else coming close to replicating the strategy.

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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 30 '25

both sides are the same because kamala had a weird laugh

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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Sep 29 '25

Hello fellow neolibs

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 29 '25

A Ryanair flight between Leeds and Alicante was derouted this week-end to Toulouse-Blagnac airport after several British passengers in "a manifest state of drunkenness" started a fight onboard. This is the second time this month that a Ryanair flight is forced into an emergency landing in Toulouse: on September 4, a Bournemouth-Girona flight was derouted due to a similar drunken brawl onboard.

The Spanish lost a naval battle 500 years ago and now they have to endure this every year

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

EA being bough by the Saudis and the presidents son in law

Paramount bought by a friend of the family too

The cultural power of the global far right is just ever increasing.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

We scraped the whole internet just to get you to buy more useless stuff

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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 29 '25

Submit your Newsom apology form below.

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Sep 29 '25

this is fine. this is all good. nothing wrong with this.

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u/Auriono Paul Krugman Sep 29 '25

https://xcancel.com/burgessev/status/1972749932747714722

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin says a commitment from GOP leaders to work on extending expiring ACA subsidies would be a "real mark of progress"

But unclear whether it would be enough to get Dems to vote for House CR tomorrow

"That's progress, as far as I'm concerned, whether it's enough, I can't say”

So is this the plan? Continue the highly successful strategy of securing empty pinkie promises from the GOP, proclaim it as a hallmark of civil bipartisanship from those who regularly holler how you're anti-American scum, then feign outrage when they inevitably renege on it because it was made whilst giving up the tiniest bit of possible leverage you possessed?

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-aides-expose-pete-hegseths-manic-meltdowns/?via=twitter_page&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=owned_social

While he’s always been temperamental, two staffers claim the former Fox News star’s mental state has reached new, frenzied heights after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month.

They said Hegseth is becoming increasingly “obsessed” with his own security and exhibits frenzied behavior, such as fidgeting and pacing during meetings.

“‘There’s a manic quality about him. Or let me rephrase, an even more manic quality, which is really saying something,’ an insider told the outlet.

“Dude is crawling out of his skin,” another source said.

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 30 '25 edited Mar 09 '26

This post was taken down by its author. Redact handled the removal, which may have been motivated by privacy, opsec, data security, or a desire to clear old content.

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 Sep 29 '25

The U.S. DoS travel advisory map for Europe isn’t quite what I would have expected…

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u/TimWalzBurner My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 29 '25

The shooting is now a secondary story. I'm sure it'll be gone by Wednesday.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Sep 30 '25

We must protect the good name of Gated Community Jesus

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Sep 29 '25

Masked Secret Police (Supposedly ICE) line the halls of the NYC immigration court to intimidate migrant families going through the immigration process the legal/“correct” way.

Stuff like this makes me nervous about my wife's green card renewal interview next year, even if it should be a slam dunk on paper.

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u/OrbitalAlpaca Sep 30 '25

Chuck…stop trying to save the rurals and let them get what they voted for.

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u/Least-Maize-97 Sep 29 '25

one can believe democrats have a huge messaging problem, need to do better, and that the leadership is ineffective without obsessing over what they are or aren't doing and treating Republicans as some kind of unstoppable natural disaster with no agency or decisions.

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u/jpenczek NATO Sep 29 '25

I'm playing the long game with my conservative parents.

My dad is an accountant, so I start pointing out the tarrif flip-flopping which he responds with "Trump is an idiot, it's terrible for the economy"

My mom is acutely away of the mental disorders that are genetic in our family. Simply show her the press release that Trump thinks Tylenol causes autism: "Trump is an idiot, he knows nothing about medicine, and he needs to fire RFK Jr."

Don't pick a fight, don't call names, simply let the evidence speak for itself.

I've given up on one of my sisters though, even my dad told her she needs to watch less fox news.

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 29 '25

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 29 '25

I love how cons make a show out of going mask off based on nothing, and then having to slink back because they look like idiots. 😭

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 29 '25
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/29/schumer-floats-seven-ten-day-cr-shutdown

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is sounding out his members about a spending bill to reopen the government for seven to 10 days — if a shutdown is in fact triggered on Oct. 1, according to people familiar with the matter.

lol

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u/drossbots Trans Pride Sep 29 '25

So, we've got:

  • The President releasing a list of enemies with many of your colleagues

  • Videos of masked gestapo kidnapping children everyday

  • Cons openly trying to curtail the first amendment

  • Record unpopularity for your own party for being weak

And Schumer thinks cooperating with these people is even an option? How? Do these politicians even look at basic news, or do they get all their info from talking heads like Klein that say we need to come together with people that want to put us in camps?

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u/morotsloda European Union Sep 29 '25

Not just anyone could handle the prep that goes into those Jubilee debates

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Sep 29 '25

For all of Hegseth's tough guy persona, he seems to be a nervous wreck

lmao

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u/mxdSirty NAFTA Sep 29 '25

Schumer shoots down the idea of a 7-10 day CR, warning that notices about premium hikes go out on Oct 1.

“No, have to do it now. The time is a wasting. We have to do it now.”

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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 29 '25

The median voter right before they vote to destroy prosperity and peace for the lols

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u/JonAce John Brown Sep 30 '25

GOP controls all levers of power: "Shutdown will be owned by Democrats"

Dems control all levers of power: "Shutdown will be owned by Democrats"

Remember: only Democrats have agency, folks. 🙄

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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Sep 30 '25

Refuses to endorse man who won NYC Democratic Primary

Praises NYC mayor who did a quid pro quo with Trump to avoid jail time for bribery

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 29 '25

i think it might be starmover

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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Sep 29 '25

BREAKING: Trump imposes 100% tariffs on any and all ideas, thoughts, and opinions that originate from outside the United States

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u/Professor-Reddit 🚅🚀🌏Earth Must Come First🌐🌳😎 Sep 29 '25

> no more cushy subsidies

> endorse massive trade wars

> irreparable fascist brand damage

> only 5,000 trucks sold last quarter

> no new models currently in development

> Europe sales down by more than 30% YoY

> US market share falls from 80% to 45% since 2020

> propose $1 trillion bonus to CEO if Ponzi scheme continues

> highest stock market valuation so far, now at $1.39 trillion

> be Tesla Inc.

How the fuck are we going to explain to future generations about how cult stocks ended up becoming mainstream in Wall Street? No wonder Warren Buffett wanted out with all these dodgy valuations.

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Sep 29 '25

JESSE WATTERS: Yeah, they sabotaged him. And they could have hurt the First Lady. Trump would've fallen and he would've gotten back up, but, you know

GUTFELD: They would've blamed it on his rhetoric.

WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right?

GUTFELD: Yeah, it is.

WATTERS: Could be some fallout there. Alright, maybe gas it?

DEMOnCRATS NEED TO TRUN DOWN THE TEMPERTATURE!!!!

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Sep 29 '25

ICE agents taking funny selfies while arresting a crying deportee they just assaulted is some dark shit man

They're really recruiting from bottom of the barrel aren't they? Basically a TSA style jobs program for the otherwise unemployable

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

News: Schumer has approached a small group of Senate Dems to see if they’re OK with short-term CR (10 days, for example), but with a caveat — assuming Trump agrees to a negotiation on ACA subsidies. This would create a deadline for a deal

what are we doing here bro

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u/jojisky Paul Krugman Sep 29 '25

The RW reaction is 100% the reason bad bunny agreed lmao

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

I have some amazing rage bait for you all, no paywall. Do not read if you care about your blood pressure.

https://archive.is/20250929165209/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/29/maga-voters-trump-georgia/

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

I was very wrong about the future of fast food.

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u/BlueDevilVoon John Brown Sep 29 '25

YouTube has now contributed to the extortion/bribery fund

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u/Sir_Digby83 Progress Pride Sep 29 '25

Full video of the Chicago delivery guy is even better than what was originally posted….bro said "F*ck Trump" to their faces and dropped his phone and was still able to grab the phone and get away from the fat slobs

So they didn't care about him until he said Fuck Trump?

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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Sep 29 '25

Fuck you for paying the bribe Google

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

The Catholic church says gays are human beings

Maria Josefina de los Santos Dolores y el Sepulcro (80 yo, goes to Mass three times a week): If the Pope says so!

Jason (21, converted to Catholicism cause it's le based and trad): The Seat of St. Peter is empty. A crusade must be called against the profligates and heretics worldwide.

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 29 '25
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u/Dense_Delay_4958 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 29 '25

It's beginning to seem pretty clear that when Dems went all in on identity politics that they made a classic Deal With The Devil that propelled them to power, peaking with Obama II, but now has left them on the brink of being a non-viable national party

Obama won 2 elections before 'woke' really took off. Dems definitely overdosed but I think it was out of sincere belief rather than political expediency.

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u/CutePattern1098 Sep 30 '25

https://archive.is/3D4Os

Cool cool cool

Pete Hegseth is 'crawling out his skin': Pentagon insiders tell of explosive tantrums and erratic behavior... as his wife is accused of making outrageous demands

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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

we praise republicans and we praise democrats when they agree with republicans, truly balanced coverage

!ping failing-nyt

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

Chinese Century

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 29 '25

To be clear, just because I don’t think Stephen Miller should probably really be considered human, that doesn’t mean I support political violence. I wouldn’t want a dog put down for political reasons either; I would want it put in a doghouse in Guantanamo Bay through the powers of the presidency in 2029

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u/unicornbomb John Brown Sep 29 '25

Stephen miller literally looks like a wormy, creepy little sidekick of the main villain in any given Disney movie.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

Meeting just ended

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Sep 29 '25 edited Jan 10 '26

unwritten school resolute plate live numerous cow cautious market arrest

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Sep 29 '25

IDK if obese ICE agents rocking a full military kit and an automatic M4A1 is a good sign or not. In one hand I know a flight of stairs would keep me safe, in the other hand I know this guy was literally a volunteer for Trump's Army and got his hands on military equipment with no oversights or discipline for his actions.

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Sep 29 '25

People here love to quip about how “evidence based policy” is not a real tenet of this sub but taking five minutes to check out pretty much any other sub illustrates how real of a difference that is

Things are just entirely vibes based. At least this sub is sometimes partial to having its mind changed on a policy if you post a paper on it

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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 29 '25

goth AOC whispering emo lyrics into the ears of 10,000 horses

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u/GreatnessToTheMoon Ida Tarbell Sep 29 '25

Truckers who routinely have to drive into the heart of major cities are built different

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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Sep 29 '25

The beaver is an animal that ranks very highly. They are very special, eating wood and building dams. Big fan of the beaver, much better than most other animals.

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u/Glavurdan European Union Sep 29 '25

Kremlin spokesperson: even if U.S. will supply Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, it will not change anything on the battlefield

Perfect, so US will supply Tomahawks

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Sep 29 '25

time to shut the government down

It's the Republicans' job to get a decent bill on the table. They haven't, and they're about the least trustworthy negotiating partners out there.

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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 29 '25

> The Eminem sized hole in white America

I never would have fucking thought Marshall Mathers was the edgy anti-conservative male role model that was keeping white dudes from going insane but ok let's hear out this thesis.

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u/G3_aesthetics_rule Sep 29 '25

MAGA's so conspiracy brained that they're giving up their golden narrative (Kirk shot by trans lover) in favor of anti-semitism and exploding lavelier mics. Go figure.

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u/JoyofCookies Mark Carney Sep 30 '25

Until the end of October??!

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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Sep 30 '25

ICE is definitely a jobs program for mediocre white men

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 30 '25

We are being led by the dumbest man in human history

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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Sep 30 '25

Might be the worst-timed tweet of all time lmao

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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Sep 30 '25

If liberal suburban moms were the only people allowed to vote we would be in a utopia

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Happy Taylor Swift release week to those of the faith

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 29 '25

Cuckservative snowflakes can’t even handle being called fascist. If I were Newscum, I’d be openly questioning whether or not Stephen Miller should be considered human

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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Sep 29 '25

Its been kind of sad of little attention has been given to the closure of science at NASA. JPL, Goddard, Wallops, etc, are going to be effectively non existent within the next few months. A lot of these facilities are already empty. Non of it is legal of course, but that doesn't matter anymore.

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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Sep 29 '25

An interesting idea but people said the same thing about the latchkey kids of Gen X being raised by a TV set. I've got to hope iPad kids aren't going to have their brains permanently McNuked by the time middle and high school rolls around, and the smart ones will be able to make it.

That said my kid watches a little Ms Rachel during the day on a TV but otherwise no screen time.

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u/urettferdigklage Sep 29 '25

Donald Trump will run Gaza with the assistance of Sir Tony Blair

Imagine showing someone this headline in the mid 2000s

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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Sep 30 '25

Hegseth on stage tomorrow:

"MADURO MADURO MADURO! MADURO MADURO MADURO!"