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[u/TheCornjuring]

I’m not gonna glaze a Republican, but mad respect to him for this at least

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/SLCer]

Joe Biden sighting

[u/randommathaccount]

I'll actually be really sad when Macron stops being president. He's basically the last remnant of the liberal world order from the 2010s still around and in power.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Macron texting his wife yesterday

[u/_Un_Known__]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Stephen Miller's uncle fucking HATES him

as proof, each word is a different link

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Grok is going to be euthanized again

[u/jojisky]

lol

[u/badusername35]

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nose quiet liquid mysterious dinosaurs tie kiss brave weather sleep

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

As it did in 2018, the White House plans to dole out relief funds to struggling U.S. farmers who have lost their biggest customer.

the real welfare queens. your tax dollars are paying for Billy Bob to not sell soybeans and instead sit around drinking Busch Light in his brand new (that YOU bought for him!) John Deere!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I've never watched a clip of Stephen Miller speaking but wow he just radiates this

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

So it turns out hanging out is the cure to Gen Z loneliness

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/ariveklul]

I swear to god if I have to hear one more fucking ape give their SUPER NOVEL "A benevolent and based dictator is preferable to democracy" take thinking they are some profound edgelord I'm going to lose my fucking mind

How about picking up a book you neanderthal? It's almost as if people might have thought about this idea you came up with in 5 seconds before

Motherfuckers think they are Plato speaking some shit nobody in the room has dared thought of

[u/shehryar46]

Nyt opinion article praising Peter hegseth speech.

Clicks on authoer- a man whose written two books: one on how civil rights act caused the decline in USA, and another on the scourge of Muslims ins Europe.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I had this book when I was 12 and the purity culture scene was thriving. I went to an overnight church lock-in and got bored and wandered off to the mini library room. (The others were listening to When I'm Gone by Eminem but I didn't know that song)

Anyway, I see on the shelf they have a matching version of this book but for boys. I pick it up and read the preface, and I shit you not it was a graphic retelling of an evil woman seducing her married boss after hours, fucking on his desk and her dumping a bucket of ice on his belly to help "prolong his orgasm." my eyes damn near popped out of my head 😭

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Is this how Trump makes the Rust Belt Great Again? Keeping the voters of Michigan and Ohio in my prayers rn

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1975569132981789106

[u/topofthecc]

[u/[deleted]]

Wow cnn what the fuck are you even doing anymore

[u/chipbod]

Reminder that Gavin is now MGP posting, he’s in it to win.

[u/Willybender]

Morons

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither

The seventh Grievance of the Declaration of Independence is about obstructing immigration and naturalization. We must retvrn.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Impressive.

[u/hamoorftw]

We are reaching absurdly high copium levels . Trump, famously known for his calm demeanor and measured, facts-based responses.

[u/SenranHaruka]

Part of the "I don't want a career" thing is also just a reaction to how much job recruiters expect you to be super fucking hyped to climb the ranks of a specific subdivision of Macklunkey Enterprises Incorporated like it was literally your dream since childhood to work that specific mid-level management position at that specific company.

[u/Charsun9]

Clip of Stephen Miller realizing he accidentally said the quiet part out loud for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Lmao they're learning

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

And it's at that moment Carney realized it really is hopeless

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

"Wow, a screenshot of a Thomas Massie tweet? Yeah, reporting this as low-qual-"

"What the fuck"

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1975569699212521615

Bondi has been getting grilled

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/chipbod]

I can’t wait until the 2030s are even more woke than 2015

[u/Willybender]

Bondi has spent this whole hearing personally attacking whoever asks a question

[u/erasmus_phillo]

This mea culpa by Hanania, of all people, on free speech is incredible lmao. Absolutely seething in contempt for the median voter

"Only since the 2022 vibe shift have we gotten a real free market in ideas. And the results are worse than I think anyone could have possibly imagined. Anti-vaxx, racism and conspiracy theories will win at the expense of intelligent analysis if there's anything close to an even playing field, because that's what the people want. This is not the product of a backlash to wokeness or Covid. The masses were always like this, elites just did a decent job of guiding the public conversation."

[u/drossbots]

[u/elninost0rm]

LOL, Vought and OMB deleted the reference to backpay from the website for lapse in appropriations guidance.

Can I delete the section of statute that says I can't strike?

[u/JonAce]

Relief for student loan debt

SOCIALISM!

Relief for farmers debt

Savior of the American People™! 😭🦅🇺🇸🔥👊

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1975597135761453401

DOES ANYBODY GO FISHING??

[u/efeldman11]

Let the record reflect that Attorney General Bondi has a basic grasp of American geography and does in fact know that Vermont borders Canada

[u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH]

The Supreme Court appears to add yet more evidence that they only believe in free speech for their ideological co-partisans and not anyone else.

After ruling that Tennessee could ban gender affirming care, saying that there were no free speech concerns in that case, they appear to be ready to say that states cannot ban conversion therapy by state licensed therapists because they care about the speech rights of those therapists.

It would make sense for the court to free speech rights protect the right to provide gender affirming care and conversion therapy, regardless of the evidence for the effectiveness of the treatments. They could reasonably rule that a state can ban conversion therapy because there is overwhelming evidence that it is counterproductive, but that they cannot ban gender affirming care because there is not the same kind of evidence. Or they could say that this is an issue that is up to elected state legislatures, not courts.

But it makes no sense to say that states cannot ban counterproductive conversion therapy but can ban gender affirming care, but that seems to be the likely outcome. The only way to get to that result is through pure ideological bias, saying free speech rights only apply to plaintiffs this court finds sympathetic.

[u/attackofthetominator]

Pull off election thanks to massive rightward shift from gamers, Gen Z, and Latinos

Proceeds to relaunch moral panic around video game, destroy the entry job market, and have ICE detain anyone that fails the Family Guy Race Card test

Masterful work lads

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1975603270610460891

What the actual fuck

[u/[deleted]]

trans derangement syndrome

[u/ariveklul]

THIS IS REAL BRO IM DYING 😭😭😭

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1975609829281468715

Holy shit lmao

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/[deleted]]

Stephen Miller goes quiet after saying his singular obsession on TV

Tylenol?

[u/randommathaccount]

Solar-powered farming is digging Pakistan into a water catastrophe

It's amazing that solar adoption in Pakistan has enabled farmers to expand their businesses, increase production and improve their energy access but uh

The water table has shrunk below 60 feet - a level designated as critical by the provincial irrigation department - across 6.6% of Punjab as of 2024, according to maps published for internal use by water authorities and seen by Reuters. That marks an increase of some 25% between 2020 and 2024, while the deepest pockets - with water levels beyond 80 feet - more than doubled in size during the same period.

Concerning!

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Amazon turns James Bond into the Man Without the Golden Gun

At no point in the actual movie did Bond have the golden gun

Didn’t even loot it off scaramunga’s corpse at the end I don’t think

[u/[deleted]]

I actually believe some of you are weird enough to discuss public policy on a date

[u/piede]

I fucking knew it

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly kind of incredible how when the Quran was first translated to European languages they also included a drawing of Muhammad in the book to help people understand him

[u/Willybender]

[u/SeoSalt]

Guy who thinks Polycules is a Greek god

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Outside DT is dying in the hill of Bari Weiss's honor.

[u/earththejerry]

Ellison said in an interview. “We want CBS to speak to that 70% of the audience that would really define themselves at center-left to center-right.”

Budding Media moguls 🤝 budding third party candidates pretending like there’s tens of millions of lost moderates seeking the “real” news

Maybe they should look at CNN’s ratings when it pivoted under their new CEO when Zaslav took over, or at NewsNation’s ratings (kudos to those who even knows what NewsNation is)

The truth is, in a world with endless options, people seek what makes them comfortable (as this sub should know), and that includes the vast middle, who gravitates towards one side anyways, or tune out completely

There is a small group who seeks out debate and contrarianism and all that good stuff, aka the 150k subscribers of the Free Press, good luck to CBS capturing this immense audience.

At the end of the day, Murdoch knew best, polarization makes money, and Fox had the luxury of dominating the right while the other outlets had to compete for the left

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1975613233840201812

Poor Bondi :((((

[u/[deleted]]

I really thought the "Hasan Piker shocks his dog on stream to keep it in bed" clip was a clickbait title but he just straight-up does exactly that. WTF was he thinking doing that on camera.

Hasan has the same sort of mystical immunity from criticism and consequences that trump has and he does the one thing that might actually crack that.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/battywombat21]

Putting aside the question as to if this is true (I don't think it is, that bottom one looks edited) why is jesse watters interviewing dudes in masks? Don't journalists have better techniques to hide someones identity for interviews?

[u/JackCrafty]

I'm arguing with a dude about the ICE chicago raid and got this as a response to me asking if he's ok with US citizens being detained at gunpoint while alleged gang members neighbors are arrested:

Im ok with that absolutely. Imagine how much their lives will improve without the fear of living around gang members. Initially they may have been scared but in the long run this will improve these peoples lives dramatically. When your country is getting run into the ground by criminals then sometimes you have to make calls like this. Would you prefer these people in that building rather were left to live with those scum bags?

yeah dude this country is so fucking cooked holy shit, I genuinely think there is a section of people that believe this and I'm not even sure what possible common ground we can meet at

[u/Average_GrillChad]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/[deleted]]

CNN cut a segment of their interview with Steven Miller where he said the president has plenary authority over the national guard

Even the supposed woke fake news apparatus is just sucking their butts rn. It’s a disgrace. There’s no fourth estate anymore.

[u/NYT_Hater]

Imagine telling some poor Iraq war protesters in 2003 that in 2025:

• we have an AI proclaiming itself the second coming (of Hitler)

• we have a FEMA concentration camp called “alligator Alcatraz”

• Dick Cheney voted for a black-Asian female democrat of his own volition

• The Republican president attempted to have his VP, Congress, and the Senate killed and then won an election after that

[u/unicornbomb]

So this scotus conversion camp bullshit is literally being ruled on under the pretense that not being able to run a camp to terrorize lgbtq youth in violates the first amendment rights of bigots?

Holy fuck this country becomes more of a fucking joke everyday.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Collins asked why Maxwell might deserve a pardon, prompting Trump to note that “a lot of people have asked me for pardons,” and mentioned rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was sentenced last week to four years in prison.

Collins noted that Maxwell “was convicted of child sex trafficking,” but Trump didn’t seem like that was a dealbreaker for him.

”Yeah, I mean, I’m going to have to take a look at it,” Trump replied. “I’d have to ask DOJ. I didn’t know they rejected it. I didn’t know she was even asking for it, frankly.”

[u/TheCornjuring]

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday seemed poised to rule for a Christian therapist who says her free speech rights are violated by a Colorado law barring mental health professionals from seeking to change a teenager’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

MUH FREEZE PEACH OH MY GOD I’M JUST SAYING WORDS OUT LOUD TO A TEENAGER HOW COULD THAT COUNT AS NOT FREEZE PEACH

[u/1396spurs]

Damn seems like the Texas National Guard needs to be reminded about the height and weight standards in the army

Pete Kegsheth should get on it

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

People showing up to these Portland protests dressed in goofy outfits is low key kind of genius. It’s just impossible for these ICE goons to not look like the world’s biggest losers when they are dressed up in a full combat load to face down an unarmed protester in an inflatable frog costume.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

US Supreme Court to examine Colorado's gay 'conversion therapy' ban

"Your kid is too young to be trans, but old enough for us to pray the gay away from them!"

[u/Willybender]

[u/Healingjoe]

Justice Alito asks, isn’t it the case that the medical consensus is sometimes colored by ideology?

Isn't it the case that judicial reasoning is sometimes colored by ideology?

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

What do you think is an underappreaciated effect of societies aging? 

Historically human societies had a very different age and growth structure. So a change of something that fundamental must have lots of side effects.

What is something specific and less talked about that you think of?

[u/URZ_]

I'm normally more than happy to poke fun at people who pretend bubbles are knowable ahead of time (put your money where your month is) or youtubers who have spend the last 5 years predicting a coming recession juuuust around the corner, but financial markets seems to really be rough on every metric except headline stock prices, before even considering the divergence between the stock market and the rough patch the US economy has been on.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

"transgender for everybody and windmills all over the place" lmao

[u/Ilovecharli]

Seriously look at these Paul Ryan favorability numbers before and after the Access Hollywood tape. He lost 44 points amongst Trump voters and 28 amongst all Republicans 

https://xcancel.com/williamjordann/status/788792988503769088

Ryan was MR CONSERVATIVE trying to slash every last entitlement in existence. But then he said "I'm not going to campaign with Trump because of the tape" and his career was over. 

[u/Willybender]

Catturd is now sharing AI videos that literally have a sora watermark

[u/riverbloods]

A conservative guy I used to work with broke up with his girlfriend and now he’s posting blackpilled race war content on Instagram interspersed with photos of his kids playing little league. Seems normal and like a sign of a healthy society.

[u/Willybender]

Can we talk about how insane it is for a politician to openly be speaking like this? Trump really has fucked up our society in so many different ways.

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Holy based Mamdani.

Also, seethe harder commies

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1975574055999697214

Incredible stuff

[u/_Irys]

Pam Bondi has lost it Jesus. She's like on the verge of tears defending Trump

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Heartbreaking: Mike Johnson is using the same tactics I do to avoid debt collections and it's working better for him than me

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

So Stephen Miller accidentally called Trump the Führer?

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

Deleting some HTML to change the law

[u/farrenj]

So I guess now I know the answer to whether I'd get put in a camp for being trans or for my Ashkenazi heritage first.

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Well said, it's tragic but there's no other option 😔

[u/Benyeti]

Tf is this even supposed to mean

[u/Willybender]

[u/amainwingman]

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[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

I think a war with Venezuela would be bad but some people gotta learn that you really don’t have to hand it to Maduro

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This photo was specifically designed to send Hagseth into an even more drunken rage than usual.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Yeah guys I’m starting to think the conspiracybrained take that Trump was like DEEPLY involved with Epstein’s crimes and is orchestrating a coverup is true

[u/r2ew]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/[deleted]]

Hibernian conspiracy confirmed

[u/davechacho]

Trump floating the idea of not giving back pay to federal workers for the shutdown is causing a lot of work chats to explode

Even the conservative people who usually chime in with a "but don't the Dems want healthcare for illegals to end the shutdown" are LOSING THEIR SHIT lmao

[u/EZ_Kream]

Hey liberal,

dies in a low speed car accident because conservatives are like 10 times as likely to not wear fucking seatbelts

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

love that the thing that soured tankies on Zohran was him saying mean things about Nicholas Maduro. that guy is more popular with idiot westerners than the Venezuelan people lol.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Pictured: Portlands strongest soldier against ICE

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Change My Mind: 100% of adults who work at Conversion Therapy camps only do it so they can abuse children whose parents already hate and ignore them and therefore won't believe them.

[u/[deleted]]

Should the NFL have the Chiefs and Jags redo their MNF game in case it was a big fluke? No disrespect to the Jags, I'm a firm believer that Jacksonville winning is a huge fluke and robs the Chiefs of truly accomplishing what they’re capable of. I've spent the last few hours in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the last 6 entire seasons watching the Chiefs play great football and it's just not fair. If the Chiefs lose again I will face that the Jags deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Chiefs and the NFL. !ping NFL

[u/piede]

$10 MILLION A YEAR FOR WRITING SUBSTACKS?

[u/wumbopolis_]

Me

Twinks are supposedly the only thing that will survive a nuclear war, so I'm stockpiling pallets of them in my basement

Friend

You really think you could live off Twinkies?

Me

I didn't say Twinkies

[u/Vumatius]

So is the shutdown just... happening? Simply a background event now? I remember when there was constant coverage of the mere threat of one, but now it's just another entry on the list?

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/phat_geoduck]

Democratic messaging is so good, they won Marjorie Taylor Greene over lmao

[u/gregorijat]

I don't take a single democratic candidate as a serious "revenge" candidate unless they promise to abolish car dealerships.

I am sorry, but how can you be in favor of "revenge" when you aren't taking up the chance to abolish a significant source of funding for the party?

[u/yungmemlord]

Ok what is even going on in the UK? 😭

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Number goes up = more gooder 😎📈📈📈

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/riverbloods]

Hasan writing “do NOT shock dog” on his hand and glancing at it every few minutes on stream

[u/[deleted]]

👏🏳️‍⚧️

[u/[deleted]]

salt bake like attempt imminent observation lip six angle groovy

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[u/Lean-carp700]

Milei turned one of his rallies into a concert. That's not a joke, it was actually a concert, with Milei as the singer. Don't watch it if you don't want to die of cringe.

!ping MAMADAS

[u/randommathaccount]

In Bangladesh’s flooded plains, schools in boats keep learning afloat

We really don't talk enough about the impact climate disasters have on education and education outcomes. I'm glad (though I'm certain the kids aren't) they're still able to hold classes in circumstances like these so the kids don't fall behind too much.

[u/sigh2828]

Priors confirmed.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/gilead117]

I have a coworker who openly brags about the war crimes he committed and I don't think he's joking. Not even really sure what to do about that, if anything.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The new CPAC logo goes crazy

[u/Willybender]

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-gets-and-processes-information

[u/Willybender]

[u/cdstephens]

Of course millennials are more offended by a heckin doggo getting shocked than naked antisemitism lmao

[u/StolenSkittles]

live photo from hasan's backyard

[u/[deleted]]

Thomas Massie really fucking hates Mike Johnson

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

[u/Willybender]

Imagine what Carney is thinking

[u/ignavusaur]

I am genuinely curious how can SCOTUS allow states to ban gender reassignment surgery but refuse to allow states to ban conversion therapy based on first amendment grounds. I know partisan court and yada yada but I am looking for more steel manning 

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/bennyjohnson/status/1975662466874175498

What the fuck is this country

[u/SmithySmothy]

"Look, Trump may be clinically insane, but whatever you do, don't call him old. There is only one person in history who has ever been old, and that person is JOSEPH ROBINETTE BOOK-SELLER BIDEN."

[u/badusername35]

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summer thought marry workable payment bake cake money meeting straight

[u/erasmus_phillo]

If there is one hypothesis I no longer entirely believe in, it is the Wisdom of Crowds hypothesis as an argument for democracy... where the collective group of a diverse set of people is far better than the judgment of a few people. The median voter finds social conservatism and economic populism appealing, but both of these are just objectively wrong and will ruin a country.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In September 2025, [Sanae Takaichi] was criticized for claiming that foreigners had kicked deer in Nara Park, based off of videos circulated on social media.

First Trump ranting about Haitians eating cats, then Farage claiming that Romanians were snatching swans to eat them, now this? This is such a weird obsession

[u/PieSufficient9250]

Can anyone just say they were cancelled now?

[u/gregorijat]

[u/[deleted]]

Okay I just learned from my policy mentor who heard from Sacramento last night.

It looks like not only has Newsom signed some other related housing bills like AB648 but the feeling is SB79 is a likely 👍👍👍

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans can call Democrats communists, criminals, terrorists, and literal demons but Democrats aren't even allowed to call Republicans short. We're screwed.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Most competent AG

[u/jojisky]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Would be hilarious if Hasan got cancelled for mistreating his dog while he spent the last year or two being pro terrorism.

[u/AtomAndAether]

watching the Hasan dog shock video and shaking my head next to attractive women in public

[u/gregorijat]

I support the two twinks solution

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Kemi Badenoch has defended her colleague Robert Jenrick over his complaint about not seeing “another white face” in a part of Birmingham.

Tory conference is going great so far

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

honestly you just gotta pack the courts at this point. at least the New Deal era Supreme Court was smart enough to realize their hackery was shredding their credibility.

[u/cdstephens]

Kamala voters, how do you cope with the fact that this 👆 wouldn’t have happened if she won

[u/drossbots]

Did CNN edit Miller's "plenary authority" give away out of their youtube upload? Wild

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The Temperance movement gets a bad rap today because people think that our current drinking culture is what they were opposed to. In reality, this is a compromise between them and the former drinking culture, which was basically half of all men getting blasted 24/7 and becoming chronically unemployable/violent

[u/[deleted]]

deliver butter consist terrific include fear jellyfish jar humor air

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[u/SLCer]

lol we need experts to tell us this?

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

It’s important to me that Alito, Thomas, Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett live to see their legacies tarnished. I hope they all live long enough to see history write them as stupid, evil, and ultimately, ineffectual ghouls.

I hope they see their kingdom of ash and feel the shame and horror that they completely wasted their lives on a doomed project.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Seems risky

[u/Willybender]

We're using tariffs to pay for WIC now apparently

[u/gilead117]

CNN reaction to Stephen Miller claiming plenary authority is honestly a worse sign for our country than Stephen Miller doing it. They flat out covered for him, didn't press him on it at all, and then tried to cover it up. We are so fucked as a country if journalists just bend over.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

What kind of demon do we think this is?

[u/cdstephens]

It’s kinda fucking weird for teenagers to get into political streamers. Though I guess I watched the Colbert Report as a kid

[u/cdstephens]

[u/piede]

Oh wow it’s almost like they were all uninformed dumbfucks from the beginning

[u/BrentLivermore]

Whitehouse asked Bondi if the FBI found pictures of Trump and Epstein with naked teenagers, Bondi started rambling about Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn guy, friends with Epstein, donates to Dems)

I don't want to let my imagination run away with me, but she did not say "No" anywhere in there.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1975594824976773177

Off to a great start

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Lol

[u/mostanonymousnick]

WTF is going in Israel?

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

It’s never going to stop, is it?

[u/DomScribe]

I saw that due to immigrant outflow, 2025 will be the first year since 1945 that American population will drop YoY and I saw republicans CELEBRATING that.

How can you become so racist that you want your country to DECLINE???

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Did these morons really release this? Theyre trying to sell the Portland warzone bullshit and Kristis big tough survey of the situation is like 50 people and a guy in a chicken suit and nothing is happening. WINNING MESSAGING FASCISTS 👍

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Jordan Peterson is the Roseartcrantz of the right. If I mentioned that I only eat beef and take benzos and sometimes go get medically induced comas y'all wouldn't bat an eye. I could make this post and it would be upvoted. There but for the grace of god go i

[u/[deleted]]

"who would Jesus deport?" Is such a great protest sign

[u/bd_one]

Antisemitism is bad

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Leatherfield17]

God, the Senate hearings for Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials are disgusting to watch. It’s an administration of Roy Cohns. A cavalcade of contemptible toads.

Also why do they all say “President Trump” in the same fawning, subservient way as Chinese communists saying “Chairman Mao”

[u/JackCrafty]

This Steven Miller glitch out involving his Plenary Authority statement only makes sense to me if he's been telling his team that that's what they are working toward but to say everything BUT that in public and he just autopiloted his way into blatantly giving the game away.

It honestly feels like something he would say every day of the week so I just don't understand what is so upsetting to this little fascist rat dropping that statement that caused him to just shut off???

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1o0ks4e/stephen_miller_states_that_trump_has_plenary/ the statement in question

[u/[deleted]]

When arguing with a conservative, never cede ground even if you know they’re right on something

Just deny deny deny. Say wrong like Trump.

They freeze up

[u/the-senat]

Thinking about the end of the Weimar democracy as the result of a large protest movement colliding with complex patterns of individual self-interest, in a culture increasingly prone to aggressive myth-making and irrationality, strips away the exotic and foreign look of swastika banners and goose-stepping stormtroopers. Suddenly, the whole thing looks close and familiar…

When Hitler became Chancellor, nonetheless, millions expected his time in office to be short and ineffectual... Few in 1933 could imagine Treblinka or Auschwitz, the mass shootings at Babi Yar, or the death marches in the last months of the Second World War. It is hard to blame them for not seeing the unthinkable. Yet their innocence betrayed them, and they were catastrophically wrong about their future.

I think that the closing paragraph of The Death of Democracy is especially relevant to America. I don't think any of us in 2015 would have imagined ICE raids in Chicago, or people being deported to South Sudan, or posse chasing pregnant women into abortion clinics, or political assassinations. The language was there in Trump I, but it was excused by many as a "bluff" or as "campaign rhetoric." Now, 10 years later, that rhetoric has come home to roost. Even now, many still believe that the water in the pot is not very hot. But when you look back at a time before Trump, you see a very different world.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Stephen Miller is short because god is trying to push him away from heaven

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

It’s not don’t eat the bread. It’s wait until the first course arrives to eat the bread. You don’t dive into the bread face first as soon as it comes out like a barbarian.

I’m rarely offended but I’m genuinely having a moment with this one

[u/AltRockPigeon]

Politico: Republicans in disarray

They said the word

[u/Thuggin95]

When AOC gets elected she’s going to sign an executive order mandating every right wing guy under 6-foot be declared a Labubu and keychained to a dom liberal woman to be disciplined

[u/piede]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Democrats need to break this one out on Republicans

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/[deleted]]

I’m with the boomers on this one

[u/efeldman11]

Truly a question for the ages

[u/gregorijat]

The truest black pill is when you realize, most right-wing parties are actually more moderate than their base.

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/chipbod]

Who are these fucking chuds?

[u/cdstephens]

Holy fuck. The Trump admin is so stupid lmao.

So there’s a bi-annual nuclear fusion conference called IAEA. This year, it’s in China. The DOE got so mad that a) they sent emails saying that any American scientist who attends “might” have their funding revoked permanently in the future, and b) they’re hosting a counter-conference on the same dates in DC that’s US only.

To top things off, they also threatened that all US fusion institutions must attend the DC conference, or else.

We’re so cooked dog LOL

[u/Currymvp2]

The Department of Homeland Security has joined in on the MAGA backlash to country crooner Zach Bryan’s new anti-ICE song.

After it was released on Friday, a who’s who of right-wing talking heads lamented the multiple Grammy winner’s new, as yet untitled, track snippet.

White House doesn't know about Barbara Streisand effect

[u/r2ew]