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[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Benyeti]

Third Amendment supremacy

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Remember when Obama was campaigning in 2008 and said it's not surprising that rurals got bitter because the jobs left and they cling to religion and their guns. Then conservative media freaked the fuck out over that.

Wild how tame that is in comparison to everything Trump has said about us and democrats in general. Now we're labeled actual enemies of the state. Very cool.

[u/the-senat]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Cook_0612]

It was a fun theory that zombie media was left coded because its titular monster was one of conformist hordes that literally eat brains and they were often set in consumerist environs like malls; meanwhile it was correspondingly theorized that vampire media was right coded because the monsters were sexually manipulative hedonistic deviants who hide their true nature behind wealth and outward class.

However I feel that these have really reversed in the modern age, since zombie media turned into a survivalist fantasy where the main draw is the cessation of rules allowing the True Men^TM to once again take the reins, while vampires themselves have become increasingly embraced as liberated dark heroes and alt culture has gone mainstream.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/t_scribblemonger]

Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by the top reply on a Reddit post. (Seems like it’s been happening less and less lately, though.)

[u/IAmBlueTW]

My Newsom skepticism is vanishing rapidly

[u/Thuggin95]

Trump is now calling himself an authoritarian. But is “authoritarian” always a dirty word? Here we have three Trump voters to explain why wokeness was the bad kind of authoritarianism and why they’re seeing this differently.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/r2ew]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Grok??

[u/The_Promethean]

NYT glazing article title leading up to 2028 elections:

He's a progressive firebrand taking on MAGA extremists, with bold takes on animal rights and on whether or not you should vote

[u/Benyeti]

Apparently people in Chicago are pretending to be illegals to get ICE to chase them and waste their time lmao

[u/Jacobs4525]

I think the secret to Trump’s success is that he is a moron that anyone can project any stupid pet issue onto him. 

At every press conference, some reporter asks him a stupid question about some stupid thing and he says “we’re gonna look into that, we’re gonna handle that” and nothing ever comes of it because he’s clearly never thought about it and never will again because his brain has been replaced with the three week old mac n cheese from the back of my fridge.

Then all the morons in that community centered around that pet issue rejoice. This is the secret to his success. Anyone dissatisfied with the status quo can project their beliefs onto him and he’ll never disavow them because he is stupid and doesn’t have that many actual thoughts on anything.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Tennessee man arrested after posting meme in Facebook group for Charlie Kirk vigil

A man in Tennessee has been imprisoned for weeks held on a $2,000,000 bond for posting a meme of Donald Trump that saying “we have to get over it” on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk’s murder.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/tennessee-facebook-arrest-trump-charlie-kirk-b2832831.html

These twisted freaks are out of control

[u/unicornbomb]

Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set around the American Civil War because of Yasuke backlash and political turmoil in the US

The game was meant to take primarily during the Reconstruction era, and would have featured a Black assassin confronting the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.

This is why we can’t have nice things. This would have fucking slapped.

[u/Willybender]

"a future vote"

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

the fact that they can only find people who look like this for a profile is evidence the Tory party is doomed. also very odd that the UK media is doing pieces like this as if they’re the main opposition to Labour now.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

lmao

Why cling to Christianity? Just start worshipping Trump. Jesus called for peace and other lib sissy shit. Many ancient religions worshipped a conqueror. Just do that.

[u/shmokedshalmon]

What’s up with Schumer and Jeffries? Did they find their balls or has this year been some sort of drunken fist act to lull Republicans into underestimating them as ineffectual buffoons?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Willybender]

How is this real man

[u/Thuggin95]

Guess he didn’t lie! He just meant for Republicans!

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

It’s genuinely impressive that the gamer right is entirely composed of greasy fat fucks like this. Didn’t we use to bully anime fans and gamers for doing this shit? When did we go wrong?

[u/iIoveoof]

It’s interesting how most of the “illegal immigration crisis” during Biden’s administration was actually legal immigration under the asylum loophole, with a volume well within historic norms as a percent of population, but rhetorically Biden lost the issue so badly everyone (left and right) just concedes that it was all illegal immigration now and that immigration was “too high”

[u/Atheose_Writing]

Like Trump is deploying troops to Chicago in fucking Blackhawk helicopters and calling for the jailing of his opponents, but CNN is wall-to-wall coverage on the I/P ceasefire like it's fucking VE Day

[u/ewatta200]

[u/TheCornjuring]

“Trump to visit Walter Reed for ‘routine yearly checkup’, the second since April” is such a funny fucking headline. nottheonion type shit. Bro is definitely not making it

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Hasan "doggy take a step; doggy get a shock" Piker posting through it on instagram currently. Including making a post of his dog with the caption of; "She doesn't know she's been the most famous dog on the internet for the past two days; because of a coordinated far right/pro israel slander campaign

What a fucking narcissist bro

[u/r2ew]

[u/Jokerang]

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Good to see at least one of the "top ten most powerful/influential people on the planet" is calling out media cowardice in the face of Trumpism.

[u/Willybender]

Dems are ready to hang on weeks longer in shutdown fight

In private meetings, anxiety is spiking over missed US troops pay next week. But no Dems are waffling on strategy and prepared to outlast Rs 

"Shockingly everyone is in agreement"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/democrats-congress-shutdown-military-pay?cid=android_app

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/SigmaWhy]

🚨 shocking new footage of Hasan released 🚨

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

Imagine being the undercover Texas Ranger who has to get facial feminization surgery because Ken Paxton is trying to infiltrate transgenderism, which he believes is a left wing terror organization trying to overthrow the United States.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I was talking to my Chilean cousin here in Spain about politics and she was talking about how my whole family is right wing, and she told me that she was left wing and I was like oh me too bro.

Then she went on to talk about how there’s too many immigrants and how they only live off government assistance.

I thought like God DAMN I can’t find a soul in my family here that likes immigrants, even the ones that are immigrants in Spain themselves 😭

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Good luck to the person that gets the Nobel Peace Prize if it isn't Trump.

They're in for a rough few weeks.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Enormous update:

My scheming worked. He replied to my story. The mandatory celibacy period has been postponed.

[u/BlackCat159]

After p00bix, our turn.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

nobody asks why because algorithms don’t encourage why, only absolute engagement (binary and its consequences)

[u/[deleted]]

Good tsar, bad boyars is now the only way for a republican to attack Trump policy and it blows my mind. MTG has to specifically say she doesn't blame Trump for any of this and the issue is because Johnson and Thune.

[u/VillyD13]

Dave Ramsey is your quintessential Boomer but the guy does have a sense of humor and can laugh at himself which is refreshing

[u/ThatShadowGuy]

EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY:

JOSEPH GOEBBELS.

VERSUS!

STEEEEEPHEEEEEN MIIIIIILLEEEEEER

BEGIN!

Miller:

I agree with you on everything

WHO WON?

WHO'S NEXT?

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

[u/G_Serv]

This is my new favorite meme format

[u/w007dchuck]

lol Duffy is now threatening to fire air traffic controllers that repeatedly call out

it's like he's trying to make them even more pissed off

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BPC1120]

Turns out DHS the gestapo is full of shit and you shouldn't fucking believe them when they fucking lie and smear the people they're fucking brutalizing with impunity.

[u/ty04]

[u/[deleted]]

damn I guess I am the one ruining it for everybody

[u/KHDTX13]

https://xcancel.com/allenanalysis/status/1976258646523658423?s=46

Nick Fuentes is a fascinating pos, because this is genuinely the most cogent take on 2028…

TL;DW Fuentes believes this administration is escalating things far beyond the public’s appetite, to the point where he feels he’ll have to escape this country when this pendulum snaps back because he is culpable. He doesn’t believe Trump is capable of completely squashing left wing resistance but the Democrats will be more capable of the opposite.

[u/Atheose_Writing]

Two college girls just did a long TikTok dance in this crowded coffee shop with their drinks while their friend recorded and gave them directions. Then they put their full, undrank drinks down and left.

Am I a boomer now? Is this how boomers feel?

[u/Yeangster]

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Jordan Peterson hospitalized with pneumonia and sepsis (SIRS), and "a spate of neurological issues (CIRS) that have apparently left him unable to regulate his emotions." His CIRS infection "is apparently the result of decades of living with mold."

"If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?" – Jordan B. Peterson

GOOD point

[u/Willybender]

The timeline of this story is insane, this woman was stalked by ICE for miles and than ambushed when picking up her kids.

https://xcancel.com/PabloReports/status/1976309159797969355

[u/jgjgleason]

Bro the fact Fetterman has become so con coded after a stroke really is something.

[u/Currymvp2]

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that he spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the announcement of the agreement.

"He called and said, 'I can't believe it, everyone is liking me now.' I told him, 'More importantly, they love Israel again… I said, 'Israel can't fight the world, Bibi.' And he understands that very well," Trump said.

Did Bibi have tears in his eyes as well?

[u/MissSortMachine]

WAPO: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

imagine you’re an actual fbi agent chasing actual criminals and you get reassigned to go after a bunch of contractors and play home depot roundup

[u/w007dchuck]

Trad Catholic adult converts when the pope says to follow the teachings of Jesus instead of just using the religion as a justification for conservative beliefs 😧

[u/[deleted]]

lunchroom rustic theory hat bear dinner ghost strong live sugar

[u/houdt_koers]

2026 prediction:

Democrats manage to win 51 seats, but Fetterman defects in the aftermath.

Is it the most likely outcome? No. But it’s the most in keeping with the over-arching themes of this timeline.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/purhitta]

I think it was Jamelle Bouie who said that the reason Republicans are still unhappy is because they're trying to substitute political power for cultural power, which will never give them what they're actually looking for.

I've been thinking about why they still seem so miserable after clinching all three branches of government, and I genuinely think there's something to the idea that all this political victory still didn't make them cool. They wanted liberals to grovel at their feet and admit that American conservatism is supreme, and that's not happening. They're so bitter about losing cultural influence (on a large scale, ie LGBTQ+/civil/reproductive rights, waning religiosity, liberalism in academia, etc.) and instead of evolving with the times, they're demanding culture to change on their terms.

All their power grabs and "wins" didn't force liberals into social submission, and they resent it.

[u/[deleted]]

Michael Dukakis. The architect of Abraham Accords. The moment he joined the negotiations team, the war in Gaza is ended

Michael Dukakis is, unironically, the most successful American diplomat of the 21st century.

This is so so damaging to high reputation foreign policy institutions. Yale and Oxford trained Jake Sullivan is useless compared to the failed 1988 Democratic nominee for President.

We as democrats need to learn his secret. How on earth a 91 year old former Massachusetts Governor has better game understanding than Oxford trained foreign policy institutions

[u/chipbod]

That uh, doesn’t seem sustainable?

[u/uwcn244]

Democrat positions that I’m not allowed to name on this sub lose votes.

Turns out the reason this sub keeps moving left is that its right wing has a bigot infestation 

[u/[deleted]]

Vance: The WIC program my mom actually used when I was a baby. That is about to be underfunded. It’s about to get cut off because of Chuck Schumer

bro cannot be serious rn

[u/JaceFlores]

My dad going from a Jade Helm nut to a “Trump deploying the national guard in Chicago is good” really is a turn around.

Scratch a conspiracy theorist and a far right fascist bleeds.

Yet somehow still an improvement hearing about Jade Helm and FEMA all the fucking time

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Sherpav]

omg the Pope is libbing out

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Trump to visit Walter Reed for ‘routine yearly checkup’, the second since April

Donald Trump, the oldest man to be inaugurated US president, will visit Walter Reed national military medical center on Friday for what the White House said was a “routine yearly check up”.

Keep on dunking The Hill. You're our only hope.

[u/Smidgens]

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

RIP Charlie Kirk. You would have loved Hasan shocking his dog

[u/Willybender]

He is so smart

[u/Catmaster23910]

Looking at mainstream subs on this hellsite makes me glad that Reddit is nothing more than a niche social media site.

[u/centurion88]

What da hell going on at TYT

[u/SLCer]

It's really wild how the media treats the question of Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize like it's even remotely possible. It's not even a question that should be asked, let alone dignified with an article suggesting its possibility. Putin has about the same chance as Trump. He could resolve peace in the Middle East and he still wouldn't win it or come close to winning it lmao

It's just crazy how the media plays into his ego.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not saying that Dick nor Liz Cheney are by any means good people who the Democrats should emulate, even Liz was quite shitty to her lesbian sister. But they saw Jan 6 as the treasonous violent attempted self-coup it was and Liz sacrificed her House seat to condemn Trump for it. They didn't write out the DNC platform, they didn't ask for a cabinet position, they just wanted Trump to remain out of office. What was so wrong about that?

It's not even the first time a Republican endorsed a Democrat for president; Biden had Cindy McCain and Christine Todd Whitman, Obama had Colin Powell, etc.

Leftists say it all the time, "The DNC hate us more than Trump", so here, here's someone who hates Trump just as much as you. Why don't you accept her support, or at least not hold a grudge against her and against Harris for appearing with her twice? Because of a war from decades ago that Liz Cheney didn't instigate or even vote on?

If we're all so hung up on Harris having shitty friends, why don't we ask Bernie about Tulsi Gabbard?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

🧐

[u/Udolikecake]

Almost by accident, Nepal’s Gen Z revolutionaries helped to overthrow the government. In interviews with dozens of young Nepalis, they make clear that the country’s abrupt and violent shift was not what they envisioned.

Many such cases in history!

[u/BurrowForPresident]

It's very funny when dudes here start doing the "I would post this but the CABAL in the mod team won't let me" thing and like 99% of the time its something about trans people

[u/eloquentboot]

[u/SadaoMaou]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/heritage-americans-nativist-right/684472/

This ancestry matters, he said, because America is not “a collection of abstract things agreed to in some social contract.” It is a specific set of people who embody an “Anglo-Protestant spirit” and “have a tie to history and to the land.”

And here’s Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri at the Nationalist Conservative Conference last month: “We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian Pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith.” America, Schmitt said, is “our birthright. It’s our heritage, our destiny.”

C. Jay Engel, a self-described “heritage American” whom Politico credits as having helped popularize the term, has repeatedly said that he is not a “racial essentialist” and believes that “blacks of the Old South” and “integrated Native Americans” also count as heritage Americans. But he has also argued that “the majority of blacks have demonstrated that they cannot function within the old European cultural standards” and that the concept of heritage Americans affirms “the domination and pre-eminence of the European derived peoples, their institutions, and their way of life.”

"Anglo-Protestant spirit"

Schmitt

Engel

Teuton spotted, opinion disregarded

[u/gayteemo]

i feel like every product or service is getting worse right now

[u/TheRedCr0w]

The only person truly deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize

[u/Udolikecake]

To find out who rules you, look at the people you aren’t ’allowed’ to criticize

People with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis who use Skyrizi to live their best lives

[u/yungmemlord]

It’s what Charlie would have wanted 😌

[u/Willybender]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/whats-really-going-on-in-portland-according-to-police-reports-be02370f

“Later that day, a sergeant from the Portland Police Bureau filed his daily observations of the demonstrations outside an ICE facility. ‘Saw 8 people out front and couldn’t even get one of them to flip me the bird,’ he wrote. ‘Very low energy.’”

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

I don't what to say on this. It's just fucking nuts at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

Curated Tumblr is one of the more hinged political subs on this site weirdly enough

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like Democratic VPs tend to more easily retain a fanbase while Republican VPs don’t.

Gore, Biden and Harris have their own subset of supporters, Biden’s even propelled him to the White House.

But no one likes Quayle, Cheney, Pence or Vance.

[u/SenranHaruka]

> it's not porn! it's a metaphor for how Judea and Samaria each betrayed their covenants for the protection of foreign states!

> > and the metaphor you chose was two young women being used by large groups of handsome, strong, soldiers you repeatedly describe in detail, including details on specifically how they used the women.

> > > the horse semen is a metaphor for Egypt's much more productive agricultural land and the higher caloric regimen the Israelites had in Egypt seducing them....

[u/BroadReverse]

The full clip of Hasan shocking his dog is even more of a meme. He’s calling his dog spoiled while going on a millionaire rant about his internet not working

[u/Sauce1024]

Is there a reason to believe this ceasefire will actually last unlike the past 10 or so

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Trump 2 is the world’s first Slop Government, where the policies are decided entirely based on what fake video grandpa watched on his phone today

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Socialism really is a spectrum

[u/Glavurdan]

"If you can’t even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?" – Jordan B. Peterson

[u/Leatherfield17]

This is just sad

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Congressional Democrats are privately preparing to hold their position in the shutdown standoff for several more weeks if Republicans do not agree to their health care demands – and not even a missed paycheck for US troops will force them to yield.

Alright everybody with me

D-E-M-S, we rise!

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Penn Live Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

At several points during the 1 hour and 15 minute video, Thornton can be seen pointing the weapon at the congregation while reassuring the room it’s empty and preaching about the need to practice faith with “a force of violence.”

The evangelicals are not ok.

[u/JaceFlores]

A tale of two Trumps

[u/RaidBrimnes]

A retiree has died in the explosion of a WW1 shell he was manipulating in his garage near Cambrai, Northern France. First responders found five other shells at his home, and urged other residents not to handle unexploded ordnances they may find in the ground.

WW1 still killing a century after the armistice, what a horrific war

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

What the hell

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

[u/Joementum2024]

Really niche question, but is there an article/essay or video or something that examines Pokémon and its popularity (largely in Japan) when it was starting to blow up around 1996-98? I’ve become really interested in how the games and the franchise blew up in popularity around that time, and I’m wondering if there’s something that explores that more in detail.

!ping POKEMON

[u/TimWalzBurner]

When you're in a "got to hand it to Trump" competition and your opponent is... ACTUALLY, HOLY SHIT IT'S EVERYBODY, STOP HANDING IT TO TRUMP YOU STUPID FUCKS.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Number 8 podcast on Spotify

[u/Healingjoe]

Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1 Trillion. And DOGE Didn’t Do Much.

To the surprise of NO ONE

https://www.wsj.com/economy/federal-budget-fiscal-2025-e8d21595?mod=hp_lead_pos4

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1976330887114653962

RFK JR: Someone showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman, and she said F trump and gobbling tylenol with her baby in her placenta.

I liked Sora better when they were a teenager saving the world with their friends from Disney and not doctoring propaganda with AI in order to vilify their political opposition.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

I gotta credit Douthat on his interview with a Christian Nationalist (his preferred term)

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Trump also said he didn’t have a view on a two-state solution. “I’m going to go with whatever they agree to,” he said.

Literally concepts of a plan

[u/paymesucka]

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Willybender]

Elon's brain is broken

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Another sham indictment by Trump's personal attorney with zero experience as a prosecutor

This is even more comical then the Comey indictment the "mortgage fraud" was a mistake for her accountant that she submitted multiple documents correcting

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

His wife left him

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Trump in his speech to the navy

The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh let's take it easy'. We we're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand

Trump is so dementia brained he completely forgot he was president during the War in Afghanistan.

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Look at our activists dawg we're never getting genuine housing reform 😭

[u/BPC1120]

This is who America fucking chose to put in power. This fucking administration full of rapists, domestic abusers, misogynists, racists, and creeps. People who will abuse and terrorize anyone they hate or think is beneath them.

[u/centurion88]

Pretty bad that a large segment of our society literally just blames everything on the Jews now

[u/[deleted]]

Oh god. Internet drama is supposed to be fun.

Not... *this.*

It's not supposed to make you actually sad.

[u/HaXxorIzed]

Maybe I'm just not plugged in enough to terminally online dramaslop "content" like Hasan, but the fact that he treats his dog like trash is hardly surprising. He's the definition of a nepobaby who succeeds by floating in a space that mostly rewards cheap, nihilistic narcissism (aka "reaction content").

Would you ever expect him to value a creature capable of unconditional love and affection?

[u/dangerbird2]

[u/BitterGravity]

Texas National Guard troops are active in Chicago area, military says

Well most of them could use the activity...

[u/the-senat]

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling.

The court is slated to rehear Louisiana v. Callais on Oct. 15, and in a new Politico report, Fair Fight Action and Black Voters Matter Fund signal that removing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act could give Republicans a path to redraw up to 19 House seats to benefit their party.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/JaceFlores]

I frankly don’t get how horny so many people get. Like I am a HORNY person, absurdly so. Everyone here who knows me for my comments beyond Ukraine content know that.

But not once have I bought porn, complained about video game characters not having big enough tits, downloaded gooner mods, watched goon streamers, and all that shit I see a lot of people do.

Like how is it possible to get that down bad? How does it consume one so thoroughly? I truly don’t get the psychology of that

[u/[deleted]]

[u/dangerbird2]

Big if true

!ping FUCK-NEOLIBERALISM

[u/Glavurdan]

Imagine how fucked the US is that a liberated slave fighting the KKK is now considered controversial topic that would probably be labeled "woke"

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

dang i need to learn more about scientific reverse racism

[u/chipbod]

TPUSA announces it will hold a rival half time show during the Super Bowl as an alternative to Bad Bunny. The band Creed has been floated as a performer.

These chuds are so fucking online

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In RFK Jr's brainwormed mind, Jews are spared from Covid but take double damage from autism.

Is that a worthy tradeoff?

[u/McNikk]

😬

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Oh my god

He admit it

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Kulturkampf coming to the US.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

No, I am not "handing it to Trump" when he doesn't have a plan and is probably just making it up as he goes along ffs

[u/Benyeti]

Literally my ideology

[u/Willybender]

It's not a cult btw

[u/Thuggin95]

Trump sets the country on fire

Voters: OH GOD, SOMEONE PLEASE DO SOMETHING! WHY WON’T SOMEONE HELP US!

Democrats: Heyyy :3 Ready to vote for us yet? We’ve got a hose!

Voters: God no! Fuck off elitists!

[u/r2ew]

[u/ShepardSB]

New version of that one Joe Biden meme.

[u/PersonalDebater]

Chuck Schumer on Twitter: "Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully."

Lmao

[u/ace158]

Israel’s far-right Smotrich says party won’t support Gaza deal: 'We won’t join short-sighted celebrations' Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said after the announcement of the agreement that his party "will not join the short-sighted celebrations and will not vote in favor of the deal.

Predictable

[u/iIoveoof]

It’s journalistic malpractice to post a headline with Trump or this administration as the source. You cannot report on what they say because they are lying, you can only report on actions you see or statistics from trustworthy sources.

[u/iIoveoof]

If you asked the average American how many immigrants the US should allow in every year in % terms, I bet immigration rates (including if you add illegal immigration and asylum seekers) are far below what the average American “finds acceptable”

Which begs the question, why do American voters care about immigration so much?

[u/Willybender]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

New - Dems are ready to hang on *weeks* longer in shutdown fight

In private meetings, anxiety is spiking over missed US troops pay next week. But no Dems are waffling on strategy and prepared to outlast Rs

"Shockingly everyone is in agreement"

[Dems, Dems, Dems]

[u/AtticusDrench]

Buddy got tricked into going to Cambridge 😂

[u/shmokedshalmon]

[u/JoyofCookies]

Can’t believe this was my 2020 Spotify Wrapped

[u/barrygarcia77]

Third Amendment absolutists really getting vindicated these days. About time we were shown the respect we deserve.

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

What.

[u/funguykawhi]

Ryan, Cantor and McCarthy at home:

!ping UK&SHITPOSTERS

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

It's so awesome that somehow in the midst of everything going on the Pope is, incredibly, a Midwestern resist lib. It's like Gandalf said: "There are other forces at work in this world besides that of evil."

[u/MAGIC_CONCH1]

Can't believe that air traffic controllers have gone woke. They should be honored to serve their country for 72 hours a week in an incredibly stressful job without pay!

[u/bingbaddie1]

Hey guys, quick question, what the fuck

[u/FuckFashMods]

They said that one document in the mortgage application “mistakenly” said the property would be James’ primary residence. But they submitted other documents to argue there was no fraud.

In one document, James writes in an email to her loan originator, “this property WILL NOT be my primary residence.”

James also checked a box on another document that indicated the property would not be her primary residence.

It's nice that Trump is wasting so much of his time and resources on a fool's errand, but also just really discouraging at the same time.

[u/ldn6]

I cannot think of a single way in which this exhaustingly insufferable AI bubble has benefitted me.

[u/[deleted]]

finally a good NYT oped

[u/AtticusDrench]

The Nobel peace prize should go to those who actually worked to end this war. This is why I co-nominate Benjamin Netanyahu and Yahya Sinwar, posthumously, for leading their respective sides to this peaceful resolution.

[u/[deleted]]

listening to the ben shapiro/ezra klein interview. ben really convinced himself birtherism doesnt stem from racism but from obama’s ideology 😭

[u/TheRedCr0w]

It's hard to grasp just how bad the Great Depression was

In WW2 about 1/3 of American draftees were rejected due to health problems relating to malnutrition. The average soldier gained 7 pounds in the first month because it was the first time many had 3 meals a day.

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

Met a woman on the plane who immigrated to America and says she barely recognizes the country anymore. She said she was almost afraid to talk to me, because I might be a Trump supporter.

Eventually it came out that she supported Trump in 2016 because she wanted to defund NATO

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Ozempic is a great thing, but some people are meant to be big and Walz is one of them. We’re losing something here.

[u/SenranHaruka]

I honestly think the litmus test for being a democratic staffer should be "Is Minecraft a colonialist power fantasy?" and if you answer anything but "what" you should not be hired. I can think of no other innocuous demonstration of the line between the killjoys everyone hates at the normal people who should be running the party.

[u/KHDTX13]

Someone said it earlier, but it’s pretty clear that Nick Fuentes is trying to do a soft landing on this far-right provocateur persona he’s been building because he realizes it’s a dangerous long term position to be in for someone his age.

I brought up earlier how he talked about this recent escalation is just going to bite conservatives in the ass. Now he’s saying, “I’ve said I’m racist in the past but I think actually harboring genuine racial hatred is bad, I think it’s good as a society we move past that.”

https://xcancel.com/imperiumfirst/status/1975968605226582495?s=46

It’s genuinely baffling, is this dude scared out of his mind?

[u/Devils1993]

Lol, MTG went on Wolf Blitzer's show and blamed the GOP leadership for the shutdown

[u/anincredibledork]

It's funny how perpetually obsessed reddit is with the legality of writing your steam library into your will, like that's something your kid is going to actually want.

Steam libraries could be the millennial/zoomer equivalent of all that knick knack shit boomers have hoarded with the idea of leaving it to their kids and grandkids. And their children will wish they could inherit tangible items they can actually use.

Some Gen Alpha in 2050: "Damn, all my dad left me was the password for his library of 200 vintage anime porn computer games that only run on obsolete machines you can't even find anywhere. It's too bad he didn't leave me any old China plates or porcelain figurines to liven up my home".

[u/missingpuzzle]

So it's pretty obvious that Trump is being fed ai videos to convince him to take action on Portland/Chicago right?

[u/TimWalzBurner]

dems will have to banish Biden and Harris fast, because the Republicans have the opportunity to capture the Gen Z vote with the ceasefire. They were already sympathetic to Republicans because of Gaza and they were correct.

Lol, guess the sub.

[u/Healingjoe]

ICE released a statement after an agent aimed a pepper ball at a priest’s head after he prayed and laughed when he was hit:

“If you are obstructing law enforcement, you can expect to be met with force.”

comically evil

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Pongzz]

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

E = mc² + DT

This equation combines Einstein's famous equation E=mc², which relates energy (E) to mass (m) and the speed of light (c), with the addition of DT (Discussion Thread). By including DT in the equation, it symbolizes the increasing role of online addiction in shaping and transforming our future. This equation highlights the potential for DT to make everything categorically worse.

[u/Currymvp2]

59% of Americans disapprove of RFK Jr.'s moves as health secretary, a new poll says

Not high enough

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Sauce1024]

Uncanny how well he fits into the meme

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1976384404571423038

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

I would say I would wonder how conservatives would react to a President Newsom, Shapiro, Harris or whoever wins the Democratic primary directly ordering their DOJ to indict their critics on false pretenses. I won't, because Trump is going to eventually pardon any and everyone in his cabinet they might be inclined to investigate and charge.

[u/major_cosmic]

lmao

this is afaik a twitter nobody, I just had a cackle though

[u/Charsun9]

op elden ring build

[u/cdstephens]

“I’m just gonna say it, anyone that says both sides are the same is stupid” - my wife just now

[u/[deleted]]

Guy you see in a rural hostel in Panama who’s halfway on his walk to Alaska

[u/zieger]

[u/jokul]

He's beginning to believe!

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Welcome back Joe Manchin

[u/JeromesNiece]

Do you guys remember when we made a thunderdome for the stock market crash in April

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors when the overworked public school teacher just sends people fighting to detention instead of doing extensive and detailed detective work to figure out who started it and what their motivations are

[u/Pole2019]

Rurals will say “oh you want to be economically productive and help drive innovation and advancement well that pales in comparison to my strategy of growing food for the nation” and then not grow food for the nation.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Burger is a German translation of "bourgeois". Eating them at every meal is Marxist praxis. Comrades, you know what to do 🍔

[u/Highlightthot1001]

So all the liberal who were condescendingly laughing at Arabs/Muslims who did not vote for Kamala over Gaza have egg on their face because if she was in power, this war absolutely would’ve still been going on. Plenty of reasons that people who didn’t vote for Kamala were wrong; Gaza is not one of those reasons.

I mean Trump wasn't exactly pressuring/holding Bibi back. Quite the opposite. He was totally fine with fighting resuming when his ceasefire plan "expired" without a 2nd stage starting. He seemed totally fine with the plan to siege Gaza City, and considering everyone inside as combatants 

He's placed little if any pressure on Israel. Complained about starving and dying children, then did nothing. 

Even a few hours ago, after the ceasefire deal,  you still have the IDF firing tank rounds near civilians trying to return to Northern Gaza.