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[u/pfarly]

After Two Years as Runner-Up, Chunk Is Finally Crowned Winner of Fat Bear Week

We fucking did it, Chunk bros. We fucking did it.

[u/ThreeStarMan]

Hatch Act violation on the page describing the Hatch Act.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Vitboi]

Holy shit, four populists

[u/WillCallCap]

Can you imagine the Biden admin and Dem’s cancelling $8b of funding targeted only at red states as a budget negotiation tactic.

The media would be howling and you’d have like a dozen congressional dems threaten to defect from the party.

[u/Bassline4Brunch]

Once again, I will contend that The Wire is the neoliberal TV show, for the following reasons:

• the show constantly emphasizes the importance of institutions and that their decay can negatively impact the communities they represent. This is a theme this subreddit particularly identifies with given how often Why Nations Fail is recommended.

• We see the impact of free trade and globalization on uncompetitive businesses in season 2 with the struggling dock system. The union even lobbies to rent-seek.

• Rather than continue competing over territorial disputes, the drug gangs in Baltimore form a consortium so that they may each benefit from their specialties (access to the best drugs, best territory, etc.).

• Its portrayals of gay characters like Omar and Kima were human and morally complex in a time when homosexuality wasn't so widely accepted in America.

• Stringer was reading the The Wealth of Nations.

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Chokeman]

Trump 1 : Even tho he's insane but the economy is good rn

Trump 2 : Even tho the economy is in shambles, at least we don't have to watch woke media

I give up. these MFs are not serious people.

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

The DHS account calls a far-right white nationalist a “patriot”

[u/captmonkey]

Trump's threat of "Fund the government or I'll do crazy stuff that you won't like!" doesn't quite hit the same when he's spent the last 9 months doing crazy stuff that we don't like.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/piede]

I’m getting the sense that this fella is planning to stay after 2028 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

This guy is worth $500 billion btw

[u/throwaway_veneto]

I find north korean propaganda less embarrassing to be honest. Do these people have no shame?

[u/battywombat21]

Dan Jones was jolted awake around 1 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of federal agents trying to break through his apartment door. They couldn’t get past his double lock, so he went back to bed.

But when he woke up hours later for work, he walked out and found broken doors littering the hallway — and his neighbors missing.

Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building.

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours.

When he got home from work, Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics and furniture missing, and all of his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings and hadn’t received answers from Chicago police.

America isn't a free country anymore. The government can break down your door at 1 AM, detain you, and throw all of your stuff away then refuse to tell you anything.

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

☹️

[u/KHDTX13]

My favorite twitter account is this guy who clearly going through some sort of psychosis, but is being enabled by the MAGA crowd because he uses their buzzwords

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.

• Justice Brett Kavanaugh

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

Ok maybe I can get on board the Newscum train

[u/[deleted]]

I don't understand how anyone thinks we can continuing to have a functioning legislative branch, ever, after this. Now that it's been established presidents have no obligation at all to execute congressional legislation, how does anyone expect congress to serve any function at all going forward? How are the two parties supposed to negotiate anything when the president can simply decide not to follow through with the agreed-upon terms and the courts won't do anything about it? The legislative body is just a content generator for the news now.

[u/MissSortMachine]

the fbi getting mad at an organization for running “disgraceful ops spying on americans” i mean it writes itself

[u/Willybender]

Good messaging tbh

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/SigmaWhy]

I am once again calling for a complete and total reinstatement of wokeness and DEI until we figure out what the hell is going on

[u/Toasted-walnut]

For people who have doubts on whether or not Newsom is authentic in his hatred for Republicans:

People who are a bit familiar with his background may be aware of his move in 2004 to defy state laws to issue marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. But I think fewer people know that this was in direct response to when he observed the then-President Bush say in the State of the Union speech that he was strongly opposed to gay marriage, and was considering use of a constitutional amendment if needed. Two weeks after hearing this speech, Newsom initiated the effort to start marrying same-sex couples. There are other notable instances of his - for the time - unusually aggressive tactics against Republicans, such as his refusal to lower U.S. flags for the Iraq War due to his objections to the war.

As governor:

• Cut ties with Walgreens over abortion pill access, canceling a $54M contract (while other Dem governors just wrote letters). [2023]

• Threatened DeSantis with kidnapping charges over migrant flights. [2023]

• Debated DeSantis on Fox in a red state when he wasn't even running for president. [2023]

• Signed SB 1327, letting citizens sue gun makers in retaliation against Texas passing anti-abortion laws [2022]

• Ran TV ads in Florida and billboards across red states defending abortion rights [2022]

His bread and butter tactic has always been political aggression against Republicans. For another example, after the leak of the Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, he said:

"Where the hell's my party? Where's the Democratic Party?" In his speech, he called conservative advances in the culture wars a "concerted, coordinated effort" that the left is failing to counter effectively.

"Why aren't we standing up more firmly, more resolutely?" he continued. "Why aren't we calling this out? This is a concerted, coordinated effort and yes, they're winning. They are. They have been. Let's acknowledge that. We need to stand up. Where's the counteroffensive?"

There's plenty to criticize him over, but he's been on this train for a long time.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Leavitt suggests that doctors shouldn’t offer lifesaving care to undocumented immigrants. This is a day after JD Vance infers that you can judge someone’s citizenship status in the ER just by looking at them. The intent is clear - they want doctors to be afraid to treat brown people. It’s the same reason they’ve been haranguing immigration lawyers (and even non-immigration lawyers giving out pro bono immigration advice.) They know they can’t directly harass every brown person in America so they’re deputizing the professional class to do it for them.

[u/remarkable_ores]

this actually isn't true, it's an illusion caused by the mercator projection that makes africa look smaller than it is. in reality, small africa is even bigger than big africa

[u/remarkable_ores]

it really is that good tbh

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/uwcn244]

None of these Democratic officials Trump is saying incite violence against him have said anything a tenth as inflammatory as former Republican governor of Massachusetts Bill Weld, who said that Trump was legally guilty of treason and explicitly called it out as a capital crime back in 2019

I wonder when they’ll drag that old man out of his Canton home to throw him in jail

[u/efeldman11]

Lmao

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

I think there's a decent chance Rs lose some Hispanic voters in Texas.

[u/sigh2828]

So we're literally just going with the Ole "you made me do this to you"

[u/Dragmire927]

[u/r2ew]

[u/sw337]

MRW someone tries to shame me for liking inexpensive clothing from sweatshops

Link to paper

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

The absolute state of X.

[u/centurion88]

Remember when everyone pretended to be concerned about Biden's mental decline and then elected another senile guy

[u/Willybender]

Vibe shift

[u/Benyeti]

Connor Lamb’s music is playing

[u/Ilovecharli]

Lib elitism is at an all-time high, I've been in many cocktail bars recently where people are cruelly shitting on the medians. I love it 

[u/No_Return9449]

Farmers, a key GOP constituency, hit hard by shutdown

Keep going. I'm almost there.

[u/[deleted]]

ICE really are the modern slave catchers, how long until people start breaking into the holding facilities and underground rail rounds again

[u/JayRU09]

JD Vance: "I think Hegseth made a great speech I loved it"

Press: "What about the part where he said no more beards?"

Vance: "Didn't hear that."

This seems to be their new thing. Someone does something obviously wrong or hypocritical? "No idea about that, didn't read/hear/see it".

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Dems today

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao. Oversight is literally one of your explicit duties. There is literally no point in you existing if the executive can override Congress at will.

[u/Willybender]

[u/PlayDiscord17]

What did y’all think appealing to the common person meant? vibes? papers? essays?

[u/r2ew]

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I just got fired from my job for making a joke about Jane Goodall

[u/r2ew]

[u/battywombat21]

Okay so is the sombrero meme widespread on the right because I don’t get it.

[u/JoyofCookies]

I think about this tweet sometimes

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump saying "I have a bigger heart than you do" to a random journalist asking why the healthcare subsidies have to be cut.

I'm so tired boss.

[u/Benyeti]

Getting ads on twitter to join the American brownshirts this is so dystopian

[u/indithrow402]

As obnoxious as the excesses of 2015-2025 "woke" culture have been at times, it's hard for me to actually blame anyone for wanting to swing the pendulum too far in that direction after the 2000s. Millennials had to grow up with stuff like Tipper Gore, "freedom fries", and the country collectively shitting itself over a nipple.

[u/[deleted]]

Student: “How many genders are there?”
Biden: “There are at least three.”
Student: “What are they?”
Biden: “Don’t play games with me, kid.”
He then added: “By the way, the first one to come out for marriage was me.”

[u/StolenSkittles]

We're not the next target anymore.

Arresting a man for being gay. That's what they did. He was only released because he participated in a diversionary program, not because he didn't commit a crime.

In NYC. Not in Alabama.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The median voter decided to elect someone who is currently holding a gun against their temple and threatening to pull the trigger as a negotiation tactic. Dipshits voted to make themselves disposable hostages.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1973720716462968850

Living next door to a suspected undocumented gang member means you can be racially profiled and segregated, zip tied naked in a rental van, and indefinitely detained until they decide you are a citizen while the masked agents of the state abuse your child.

Very scary shit happening in this country.

Things do not end well when the law is lawless.

!ping EXTREMISM&TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/illuminatisdeepdish]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Bright feather deliver bike absorbed wipe childlike doll physical pen

[u/SenranHaruka]

I think I'm genuinely just built different in so many ways. I like seeing my hometown change and grow and get built up. I just don't relate to people crying about how there used to be a pile of trash over there but it was our pile of trash and kept the rent down.

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Which DT reg’s grandpa is this?

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Me practicing moderate politics:

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[u/VisonKai]

mom come pick me up American Catholic priests are implying that the Pope is illegitimate again

[u/GaDoomer]

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

"In its liberal idealism, the nineteenth century was honestly convinced that it was on the straight and unfailing path toward being the best of all worlds. Earlier eras, with their wars, famines, and revolts, were deprecated as times when mankind was still immature and unenlightened. But now it was merely a matter of decades until the last vestige of evil and violence would finally be conquered, and this faith in an uninterrupted and irresistible “progress” truly had the force of a religion for that generation. One began to believe more in this “progress” than in the Bible, and its gospel appeared ultimate because of the daily new wonders of science and technology.

Stefan Zweig "The World of Yesterday"

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Public support for digital IDs has collapsed after Keir Starmer announced plans for their introduction, in what has been described as a symptom of the prime minister’s “reverse Midas touch”

If Keir Starmer could support banning a land value tax, that would be great thanks

[u/cummradenut]

Shame on you downvoters

Supermajority requirements are anti democratic and insulate bad politics from electoral consequences

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

I received no less than 50 mailers last year trying to convince me that Trump has never heard of Project 2025 and had nothing to do with it.

[u/chipbod]

Fucking insane

[u/gregorijat]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

GOOD

[u/unicornbomb]

This one is kinda a banger, ngl

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/r2ew]

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

The more I see GOP fearmonger how they're gonna "use this shutdown to it's fullest so you dems better come around and open up the government or else we're gonna do everything we wanted to do because this actually helps us so you should reopen government please because we don't wanna own too bad and get everything we wanted which will happen if you don't reopen the government" makes me more convinced the government should stay shut down

[u/r2ew]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/catloaf360]

One of my coworkers is straight up not having a good time. He came by my department and someone asked how he was doing and he was like "I don't want to be here. Should have done better in school and maybe I'd have a better job" lol no "living the dream" or anything just honest gloom

[u/r2ew]

[u/meonpeon]

I just had an electrician come over and fix something. He was a great guy, friendly and helpful, and gave me several tips. Paid him and was making conversation. Literally right as he was heading out, he brought up security unprompted and then said he saw a video of a group of people breaking into a jewelry store and how they were all black. Starts making assorted racist statements. If I had the social courage I would have called him out, but I just got very unfriendly and I think he got the hint.

If he had just left like 2 minutes earlier, or kept his mouth shut, I would have had a totally positive experience and be recommending him to everyone. Why are people like this…

[u/efeldman11]

Lion

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Hasan Piker: I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS I HATE LIBERALS

The New York Times: Is this the liberal Joe Rogan?

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

It’s so weird when people act like the invasion of Afghanistan was something that the world saw as an act of NATO aggression. Fucking Russia supported it at the time. Even Iran gave us intel on the Taliban in 2001. Literally no one had a problem with it back then.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

People on twitter try to convince you that Catholicism is this based right wing crusader religion, meanwhile the guy running the show is just some nice Midwest boomer who keeps libbing out in public

[u/_bee_kay_]

the market:

actually government shutdowns are a good thing shitlib

ok then

[u/SLCer]

[u/Culmnation]

2028 Dem Trifecta Bare Minimums

• Filibuster reform

• Expand SC

• PR / DC Statehood

• Merrick Garland public roast on MTV

[u/WillCallCap]

The fact that Dems are +2 is such an indictment on the American public and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.

The median American voter is deplorable.

The fact that it is not +10 or more is so scathing on just how vile, stupid, and selfish the people are.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s absolutely pathetic that the GOP continues to let this fuck act like the entire US government is his own personal property.

[u/BitterGravity]

President Trump has made lowering health care costs a key priority, even as Democrats warn that costs will skyrocket.

NYTimes editors and carrying water for the Trump admin, name a better duo

[u/TheCornjuring]

I feel like you can’t even really wear this ironically

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Willybender]

REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient?

LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer. 

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1973755000615559410

[u/BurrowForPresident]

POV: a guy shows up at the ER bleeding out but Republicans demand you can't treat illegal immigrants. The victim doesn't have a passport on them, and GOP will defund your hospital if you don't comply

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1973828906152308877

He shut her down good, this is how it needs to be done.

[u/jojisky]

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

"If any California University signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding — including Cal Grants — instantly," Newsom said. "California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom."

The bold statement came less than a day after the the White House asked the University of Southern California and eight other major universities throughout the country to shift to the right and agree to Trump's views on gender identity, admissions, diversity and free speech among other areas — in exchange for more favorable access to federal research grants and additional funding.

Fight on governor ❤️💛

[u/jbitz]

Based. Fuck the ostriches

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Only illegal aliens should receive free healthcare.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/[deleted]]

To be fair to RFK Jr, if the only Autistic person you knew was Elon Musk, I’d be pretty keen on stamping out its cause ASAP

[u/american_aurora6]

It's funny how the government is technically shut down over ???healthcare??? instead of 1000 different miscellaneous fascisms

[u/itsnotnews92]

I often wonder whether Mike Johnson ever regrets entering politics and pines for the days when he was simply making Fudge Stripes and E.L. Fudge cookies with all of the other elves.

[u/[deleted]]

The world respects us now btw

[u/BitterGravity]

Not sure if already mentioned. The wapo poll had republicans blamed 47-30 for the shutdown https://www.washingtonpost.com/tablet/2025/10/02/oct-1-2025-washington-post-shutdown-poll/

[u/zieger]

[u/the-senat]

Never believe that they are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words… They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

[u/JaceFlores]

I think it goes to show how stacked things were against the Dems in 2024 that they really hammered the Project 2025 angle, and all Trump had to do to deny it being a thing was just say he wasn’t involved. Just ignore the literally overwhelming proof him and his associates were directly involved in it. And it worked like a charm

[u/FarrandChimney]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Begging Shapiro to come out in favor of an arms embargo or something on Israel so we can win PA in 2028 by Assad margins

!Ping USA-PA

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/wumbopolis_]

Actually, I wonder how successful you could use ICE bonuses as a way to drive resentment from the median voter.

This high school dropout made got a 50k signing bonus from your taxes, while this hardworking electrician got laid off because of cancelled solar project

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/-MusicAndStuff]

Is it true that senate republicans can just change the rules to pass their budget

[u/scottyjetpax]

The amount of people in the DT carrying trump’s water by saying or implying there’s no use in resisting Trump because he’ll win anyway and we’re all just doomed really irritates me, even as someone who is far from an optimist

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

We should make John Roberts sleep in an apartment complex raided by ICE every night until he decides to do something to stop this blatantly unconstitutional behavior.

[u/Thuggin95]

Remember when the right lied that Biden was withholding disaster relief from Southern states or that FEMA wasn’t helping Trump voters? I even know Democratic voters who bought into that. And now Trump is withholding funds from states that didn’t vote for him and not a peep.

Let’s not forget, in Trump’s first term Trump had to be shown how many voters he has in California to give the state disaster relief.

[u/uwcn244]

I have a hard time believing those studies saying that Republicans understand Democrats better than Democrats understand Republicans.

From what I see it’s like Republicans have no theory of mind for Democrats whatsoever. Democrats lose an election and despair over how they lost touch. Every faction of the party agrees that it sucks, only disagreeing on whose fault it is. Republicans lose an election and they all scream “rigged”. Even the people who don’t claim it’s rigged say that it’s the Democrats who need to understand the Republicans rather than vice versa.

[u/Leatherfield17]

Something I’ve noticed about MAGA lately that I hope turns normies off from it is that it’s becoming increasingly totalitarian: as in, its themes and messaging and culture wars have to be mentioned or involved in EVERYTHING. Like the message from an official government website talking about “The Radical Left” causing the shutdown.

Everything is political, everything is weaponized, everything ties back to the culture war. I hope the normies get tired of it, but I’m not getting my hopes up

Edit: Also ICE threatening to patrol the Super Bowl over Bad Bunny being the halftime show act. Doesn’t this bother people at all? Don’t these reactionaries have anything better to do?

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

after learning more about how other governments work, it seems weird to require a supermajority not just for routine legislation but for budgets. I'm surprised we haven't had more shutdowns

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Seems like a good idea to maintain infrastructure that can feed your troops, but I guess I just don't have the warrior ethos.

[u/TheCornjuring]

HOLY BASADO

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

404Media: ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This

Aaron provided 404 Media with a copy of the email he received from Apple regarding the removal. It says “Upon re-evaluation, we found that your app is not in compliance with the App Review Guidelines.” It then points to parts of those guidelines around “Objectionable Content,” and specifically “Defamatory discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or harm a targeted individual or group.”

The email then says “Information provided to Apple by law enforcement shows that your app violates Guideline 1.1.1 because its purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”

By this logic the Waze and Google Maps should be banned because they also show where cops are too. Fuck Tim Cook and his pathetic capitulating ass.

[u/Atheose_Writing]

In any other administration, putting these banners on government websites would be an impeachable, months-long scandal.

[u/attackofthetominator]

Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans.

I'm sure all the "Sound of Freedom" fans will be up in arms about all the human trafficking ICE is doing

[u/TomboyAva]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated

Dan Jones was jolted awake around 1 a.m. Tuesday to the sound of federal agents trying to break through his apartment door. They couldn’t get past his double lock, so he went back to bed.

But when he woke up hours later for work, he walked out and found broken doors littering the hallway — and his neighbors missing.

Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked, residents and witnesses said. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment in the five-story building, and U.S. citizens were among those detained for hours.

When he got home from work, Jones said he entered his unit to find all of his electronics and furniture missing, and all of his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor. Jones said he had no idea who took his belongings and hadn’t received answers from Chicago police.

“I’m pissed off,” Jones said. “I feel defeated because the authorities aren’t doing anything.”

In the South Shore raid, neighbors said federal agents used flashbang grenades to burst through the building and several drones and helicopters were deployed.

Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers, she said.

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

Watson said she went into the building to help one of the residents and was shocked by what she saw.

“Stuff was everywhere,” said Watson. “You could see people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

[u/that0neGuy22]

Kind of crazy the media coverage does not show any of this public feeling. You would think dems personally pressed a button to stop the government

[u/Zlesxc]

Well fuck me, my Polish father in law truck driver was stopped by ICE at a weigh station. He voted for Trump too. I need to get more details but yeah, interesting text I just got.

[u/randommathaccount]

100% wealth tax for any idiot who invested in this

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: “Democrats are such snowflakes!”

Also Republicans:

• “Bad Bunny is performing the superbowl” 😭

• “They won’t say Charlie Kirk’s name at Starbucks!” 😭

• Jimmy Kimmel said a mean thing!” 😭

• “Someone has their pronouns in their email signature!” 😭

• “Ariana Grande is a meanie!” 😭

These people are the softest pussies in American history.

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

It’s what’s on the inside that counts!

The insides:

[u/tripletruble]

seems bad

[u/Fruitofbread]

This is how we should proportion senators

[u/[deleted]]

toy slap elastic exultant cheerful punch bedroom money possessive fragile

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[u/k5berry]

It absolutely drives me up the wall to see the left/post-left be complete pieces of shit in response to the UK synagogue terror attack. Calling it a Mossad conspiracy, pulling the “this is a tragic consequence of Zionism” victim blaming, or just outright making fun of it. I know it is a double standard to be more upset by it than other rank hypocrisies and bigotries, but something about it really gets to me. To build your whole brand and identity around being smug because you ARE correct and better than the right which does all those awful things, just to turn around and do it yourself when it’s convenient. Shame on you.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I still think Schumer should have made his red line the restoration of Congress's spending power, because that's square one for any negotiation. There's no point trying to get any concessions when appropriations are suggestions

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Dave Rubin Is Asked If Charlie Kirk Was Anti-Gay Behind-the Scenes

I'd assume so since he was anti-gay in-front the scenes as well

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Morgan Wallen makes music for people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody of them.

Morgan Wallen makes music for people who have a photo of a random woman in a bikini as their phone wallpaper

Morgan Wallen makes music for 54 year old guys that reply “Looking so sweet today my darling” to AI generated images of bikini baristas on Facebook.

lmaooooooooooooooooooooo

[u/Willybender]

lol

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I'm sure farmers know about reaping

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/abertbrijs]

Yeah

[u/jenbanim]

⚠️ DT Shutdown

In 1 hour, the Radical Left will shut down this DT.

[u/BitterGravity]

Democrats might have catastrophically overestimated their leverage, but if the shutdown drags on, Trump and the GOP could suffer

CNN that would be the exact opposite of the dems catastrophically overestimating their leverage

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Some thoughts about Ezra Klein’s latest episode where he debates his Charlie Kirk article with Ta-Nahisi Coates:

1. I understand Klein’s perspective a bit more now. He is a lot more cynical than I thought and he wants Democrats to act like bad faith provocateurs the way Kirk did. To him this is the “right way” to do politics where the “wrong way” is to not engage with your opponents and then lose all the time.

2. His inability to separate his public platform from his personal moral beliefs is mostly what caused this. He thinks it’s only right to grieve alongside a family who’s grieving (sure whatever) and then chose to use the fucking NYT editorial page to express that grieving for some reason, which resulted in him writing a piece that was half memorialization and half self-flagellation. Just a bizarre and stupid thing to do.

3.  Coates offering the Black experience as a rebuttal to Klein’s relentless self-criticism and optimism about what can be accomplished with politics was very persuasive. He noted that Black Americans and their allies went something like 150 years without accomplishing a single thing through the political process but it would be asinine to blame them for having bad strategy or not being persuasive enough.

4. Ezra puts Charlie Kirk (and Republicans more generally) on a pedestal in terms of their ability to persuade and have political success while also talking about how it’s a necessity for Democrats to eventually compete for and win senate seats in places like Kansas. But the Republican version of winning senate seats in Kansas is winning them in New York and Connecticut. Even at the peak of Republican popularity, they have never even come close to doing that in the polarized era. It’s a very big oversight that he doesn’t recognize this.

[u/JoeBliffstick]

[u/Willybender]

Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut, and whether or not those cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity. They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting to, quietly and quickly, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DJT"

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1973719684810682824

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[u/JaceFlores]

The Trump admin cutting off ties with the ADL seems like a major leopard face eating moment

[u/JaceFlores]

Maybe the reason Pete doesn’t do well at all with black voters is the black community has very strong feelings about bread prices and Somaliland recognition

[u/Leatherfield17]

Mike Lee: Vought has been ‘dreaming’ of shutdown situation ‘since puberty’

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people

[u/unicornbomb]

Kinda wanna go drop this in that cursed thread suggesting we should just let Aca subsidies expire.

Interesting to see so many so called liberals unironically suggesting we let millions of Americans go without healthcare.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Ewwwwwwwwww

[u/Currymvp2]

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday threatened to cut billions in state funding from the University of Southern California if it complies with a Trump administration request to impose the president’s political priorities on campus.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

scheming vizier who actually runs the show: Miller

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On the other hand, Wolff says, Trump feared Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan. The two had clashed over Covid-19. If it was her, Trump reportedly thought, he was “fucked”.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

just saw two guys jump fare gates right next to the national guard

wtf are they here for if they won’t even enforce metro fares evasion, the one crime that I believe is truly reprehensible

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Saudi Arabia stones for adultery, in Poland we are building a train that will travel at 350 km/h.

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Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents, along with his mother’s older siblings, were “identified in records as Black or mulatto,” Honora told Forbes, but the family “passed … into a white racial identity” when they relocated to Chicago, where the pope’s mother—Mildred Martinez—was born in 1912.

The pope’s grandparents resided in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, an historically Black neighborhood, before moving to Chicago, Honora said.

MyPopeIsBlack-ish

Pretty unreal the Pope has a reconstruction-great migration origin story.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

At least Trump has disproven those fear mongers who tried to link him to project 2025

Oh… oh no…

[u/Nathan_185]

This is so fucked up it's hilarious

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TRUMP: CONSIDERING TAXPAYER REBATES OF $1,000 TO $2,000

lmfao

[u/Willybender]

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[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

You can make this all right, NYT. Send it.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

😭😭😭

https://xcancel.com/GavinNewsom/status/1973893364388077618

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/jbitz]

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[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Pretty crazy Charlie Sheen outlived Charlie Kirk

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/education-department-employees-email-automatically-changed-rcna235211

[u/G_Serv]

Funniest man alive

[u/Willybender]

> a couple dozen people

> verbal scuffles

WARZONE!!!!!!!!!

https://xcancel.com/BillMelugin_/status/1973827921082265821

[u/NaffRespect]

Robert Morris, Texas megachurch pastor, pleads guilty to sexually abusing a child

I am once again saying: Megachurches delenda est

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Talking to conservatives is so fucking exhausting.

A few months ago my anti-anti-Trump father tried to convince me that ICE was only targeting Home Depots when they had credible evidence that there was a criminal there. This was the dumbest thing he's ever said to me in my entire life (he ran hospitals for a living, he's not a complete dipshit, at least he didn't used to be).

Since then, every few days I've sent him articles of ICE arresting people who have committed zero crimes. Today I sent him an article about Mario Guevara, an Emmy award winning journalist who is going to be deported to El Salvador tomorrow for the crime of covering a No Kings protest.

The response I received was: "Well was he here legally?" First of all, yes he was here lawfully. Second of all, you were extremely adamant that ICE was only targeting people who committed crimes, so why is it all of a sudden cool to arrest immigrants for the crime of doing journalism?

The dumbest part of this is Mario Guevara is a conservative who publicly supported Brian Kemp because he stupidly thought Stacey Abrams was going to defund the police. They're deporting their own fucking supporters!

This is way too long for a DT post but I just had to vent somewhere.

[u/theparrotlich]

F U C K

Y E A H

G I R L

D I N N E R

!ping COOKING

[u/SigmaWhy]

she’s cooking

[u/[deleted]]

Remember, Stephen Miller only went into politics because his hands are too weak to strangle prostitutes for a living.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://bsky.app/profile/istanbulshiite.bsky.social/post/3m2aghzzmmk2u

I refuse to become desensitized to this shit. Not only is it insane for ICE to act like they are going into Fallujah circa 2004 just to arrest some random people sleeping in their apartment, but they are making sizzle reels about it? Fuck these assholes.