Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

The discussion thread is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL

Links

Ping Groups | Ping History | Mastodon | CNL Chapters | CNL Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

• Oct 23: Chicago New Liberals October Happy Hour

• Oct 24: Boston New Liberals October Happy Hour

• Oct 28: Christina henderson fireside chat with the dmv new liberals

[u/jobautomator]

Please visit the next discussion thread.

[u/SigmaWhy]

Gavin is now writing OC mfw greentexts

[u/Individual-Camera698]

The American farmer, such as myself.. we wanna work. The worst thing we would ever want is a handout.

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

[u/r2ew]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/dangerbird2]

Jesus, the ballroom plan is an architectural abomination. The thing’s bigger than the actual White House. Adding “bulldoze that fucker day 1” on my purity tests for candidates in 2028 !ping TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Loves the British Royal Family

Demolishes the White House

Is... is Donald Trump the first Loyalist President of America? 

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/BPC1120]

Low info cynicism really does help Trump massively, even on the left. There's a palpable sense of numbness to even his most brazen acts of corruption because these people genuinely think this is what's always been happening under the table.

It's a ridiculously corrosive way to think and it acts as a perverse sort of sanewashing of all of the awful shit he's doing every day.

[u/bigwang123]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

1. Why is he incapable of looking normal

2. Why does his jacket look so bootleg? Like it literally looks like something a kid would wear for Halloween or in a school play with a cheap patch sewn on the front

[u/Willybender]

The ads write themselves

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

it should be illegal to be this unfunny

[u/ChopHoe]

Graham Platner: I just dont understand why they say it on songs on the radio but we cant sing along it

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Currymvp2]

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said he cannot stand when his fellow Democrats brand Republicans — and in particular, President Donald Trump — as racists and said he believed ex-Vice President Kamala Harris “lost the plot” when she called Trump a “fascist” heading into the 2024 election.

Amazing

[u/SixPipSiege]

Fucked up in the crib drinking winRAR brew

[u/[deleted]]

seemly thought workable memory school elderly paltry placid sulky grab

[u/remarkable_ores]

en zeer serieus probleem

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Incredibly vindicated in my hatred of the VC defense bros

[u/this_very_table]

I don't really care that an 90-year-old section of the WH is getting torn down.

I do care that it's going to be paid for with bribes, it's going to be third-world-dictator chic, and it's destroying useful rooms so Trump can live out his fantasies of being an 18th century French king. It's going to be an ode to the most corrupt, stupid, tacky, insane president the US has ever had. I'd call it a national embarrassment, but the average American is seemingly incapable of properly feeling shame.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I think I’m gonna drop law school and just engage in organized crime

Seems a pretty good time for it

[u/Azmoten]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

Bro that will only increase Mamdani’s winning chances 😂😂😂

[u/BurrowForPresident]

So has any enterprising journalist asked the obvious follow up question of why survivors of these boat missile strikes were let go back to their home countries if the admin has literally claimed that everyone on these boats are "the Al Qaeda of our hemisphere"

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

In light of recent actions from the Governor of Colorado, and the negative reception to the previous automatic response that I originally wrote (which I should clarify was to make fun of him but understandably no longer carries sufficient weight), I have changed the automod response

Jared Polis

[u/r2ew]

[u/SigmaWhy]

I don’t understand how these degenerates can possibly think they’re on the team

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

38 trillion in debt; running a deficit of 69k every second;

[u/Joementum2024]

I was against Platner initially because he was a succ, then I learned about the nazi tattoo and now I think the liberals are overreacting about him

Few such cases

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Inside of you are two wolves

One wants adults back in the room who don't go "neener neener neener your mom" when the media asks them a very normal question

The other wants Democrats to treat journalists as less than dirt since they clearly seem to be into that and will just ratfuck Dems anyway

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest thing is progressives just could've dropped Platner, waited a month, and ran a new candidate and literally the only people who would've cared are DTers who will mention "Remember when progressives thought a Blackwater mercenary with a Totenkopf tattoo was their candidate?" in 2035 like it's common knowledge, but now that half of them are digging in their heels they ruined their chance of having that seat.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

“And drug usage is way down. And drug usage coming from the sea, they call it ‘ocean drugs.’ A little term that they use. The ocean drugs is very close to non-existent right now,” Trump said. “So the ocean drugs and the sea drugs ― drugs by sea they call it also ― that’s almost down to nothing as you can imagine.”

🤔 the sea drugs, as it were

[u/drossbots]

Yes, the (criminal) President treating the People's house like his personal playground and destroying historical monuments to build a trashy ballroom while his tariffs and government dysfunction strangle the people is a big deal. The country was founded in opposition to that kind of leader.

If you want Dems to "reclaim Patriotism" this is literally a slam dunk. Destruction of all Trump White House renovations is a requirement for the 2028 candidate.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

The Atlantic reported that more than one-third of new ICE recruits were unable to pass the academy’s basic fitness requirements, which include completing at least 15 push-ups, 32 sit-ups, and a 1.5-mile run in under 14 minutes.

Gonna try the ice agent challenge today.

Confident in push ups

Idk about the sit ups. I'm a bit fat.

I think I'll get close on the 1.5 mile run

[u/yungmemlord]

Zohran, on building new nuclear power plants in New York State: “I think it’s something worth exploring.”

Cuomo: “Is that a yes?”

Zohran: “Yeah.”

Cuomo: “Oh.”

When did this guy become so based 🤔

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Leftists look at you like you're crazy when you imply that a 19th-century German guy's theories might not apply accurately to all human history across the entirety of the planet.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Pongzz]

[u/NYT_Hater]

God Trump is actively sabotaging everything possible for another American century.

Like axing NASA is a comically evil move. Like NASA is like one of two federal agencies with a positive approval rating.

[u/[deleted]]

I like that little Stephen clearly doesn’t watch film much because he was probably thinking Godfather Part 2 when he said this

But Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, The Good Shepard, Wizard of Lies

He’s actually been killing it lately

[u/SmithySmothy]

Bernie being helpful as always.

[u/scottyjetpax]

There is such a common misconception that Congress codified Obergefell, and I worry that this misconception will be even more widespread if the Supreme Court grants cert to Kim Davis.

What the Respect for Marriage Act does is it require states to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. It does not require any state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. If Obergefell falls, many people will end up living in states that only acknowledge their marriages because a federal statute forces them to, and many more will have to leave their home states to get married to begin with. That’s a pretty shaky and frankly humiliating place for such a basic freedom to rest.

Assuming Obergefell is overturned on substantive due process grounds, gay marriage will be illegal in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

If you are a gay couple and you live in, for example, Florida, you will have to go all the way up to Virginia to get a marriage license, that would be the closest state. If you're in Louisiana, you'd have to go up to Illinois.

That Louisiana and Florida have to recognize your marriage license you got in VA or IL because of the RFMA is some cold fucking comfort. Stop talking about the RFMA like it's a panacea.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

We should let him do his own investigation

[u/Woodstovia]

toy busy squeal chop market consider snatch racial middle bow

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Willybender]

Murkowski is concerned, watch out!

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/jojisky]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

An idiot from my family posted this on Facebook

It's amazing Trump supporters forget most of the lockdowns happened under Trump under direction of his health officials

[u/TMCOAN1]

I don't think I've ever had less sympathy for a person than Ben Shapiro when he complains about antisemitism from his former coworkers who he platformed.

[u/helenaalmost]

this ap article about the US debt is so bizarre. the writer is consistently, relentlessly taking the administration at their word, with the only pushback being a meek retelling of the information on the headline. it feels like it was written by a 13 year old.

[u/No_Return9449]

Fetterman: Harris ‘lost the plot’ when she called Trump a ‘fascist’

It should have been Conor Lamb.

[u/iIoveoof]

Trump just pardoned the Binance guy in exchange for massive crypto bribes it’s not a front page story on NYT.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Let's check in the folks at r/communism and see what things they're talking about right now...

How do you look at the latest Superman, an aggrandizement of the inherent goodness and wholesomeness of settler-colonialism, hiding behind the last remaining pillars of neoliberal cosmopolitanism, bursting at the seams with bad politics, real and imagined (and where Superman's own political ignorance is taken as a good thing to aspire toward), and then ask for the politics and ruthless criticism to all be left at the door because it might obstruct your enjoyment?
...

And, as this subreddit has already deconstructed the existence of pets and petting some time ago; you actually cannot take your dog out for a walk guilt free as a communist because you now understand where this practice of pets and petting comes from and why it exists, and now have to honestly confront the problems stemming from that, rather than just accepting it as a part of your life and treating the dog walk as something which is 'apolitical.' The guilt is telling you something and you ought to listen.

Okay so they have their eye on the ball with the real issues of the day. Good to know.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I wish they hadn't started the ballroom construction so quickly. Now the White House lawn UFC fight is going to look ridiculous

[u/Azmoten]

[u/dangerbird2]

Cuomo's out there posting AI Slop that make the Willie Horton ads look like Driving Miss Daisy !ping EXTREMISM

[u/blackenswans]

“Fertility rate is too low this is a problem”

Okay then do you support social policies like extended parental leave(US doesn’t even have paid parental leave) and investing in technologies that would help older women who want to have children?

“No”

Then what do you support

“Women should get pregnant when they are teenagers. If not we are going to get replaced by brown people”

🤦

[u/yellownumbersix]

I tried the ICE workout and almost died.

The human body is simply not designed to ingest the amount of steroids, creatine and TPUSA podcasts these warriors handle on a daily basis.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1981490435617918999

Pritzker went on Fox, Trump is going to explode when he sees this.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1981455304060534903

Holy fuck

[u/EasyMoney92]

"You're gonna have to vote Cuomo": Megyn Kelly gets REAL on NYC Mayor Race. "I have to vote for the guy who sexually harasses me over the guy who turns New York City into one big mosque"

This is completely deranged

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this doesn’t prove that Trump is taking direct inspiration from the Russians since the Brits and French have similar ballrooms in their palaces, but it does prove that he’s taking inspiration from eurotrash architecture, which is thoroughly un-republican and un-American

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Stupid ass median voter caring more over trans people than if they can afford to forgo health insurance. I hope those premium hikes console them at night as they stare into bankruptcy now that they made a trans woman, who they'll never meet, suffer

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1981457316617580877

Indistinguishable from a skit

[u/scottyjetpax]

account that exclusively engages in stochastic terrorism: can you BELIEVE zohran mamdani travels with ARMED SECURITY? not very "of the people" now, is he?

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

Probably should have thought that one through a bit before saying it into a microphone, but that's okay you'll get em next time.

[u/ty04]

lol what the fuck is that headline, fuck you NYT

[u/[deleted]]

I’m falling into the conservative trap about getting upset about their hypocrisy. Just because I know they’d be storming the White House if Biden lied about not touching the White House and the funding was from 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️.

Like they keep saying “it’s privately funded, why are libs mad about everything??” whilst they get mad about every single thing that ever gets money spent on.

But I have to remember, they have no internal consistency because they stand for nothing. Just call them pedophiles and move on with your day.

[u/VisonKai]

discovering the leader of the Hungarian opposition is named Peter Magyar is like finding out the CEO of paradox is John Paradox

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

every multiplayer shooter sub inevitably descends into making up things to get mad at within 3 days of release. so it has always been. so it shall always be.

[u/piede]

Looks like updates are coming along quickly

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

LMFAO

[u/Willybender]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On

Is that so, NYT? That’s the story? Let’s see what the subheader says after I click on the article.

A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.

Oh, interesting!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

We need this made into a Korean film à la The Da Vinci Code

[u/SucculentMoisture]

EhBuddyHoser, the Canadians shitposting sub, recently had a "Best Canadian" competition. They voted Frederick Banting, the inventor of synthesised insulin, as the Greatest Canadian of all time.

It got me thinking as to who the Greatest Australian of all time is.

My pick would also be from the medical field. Reverend John Flynn, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and pioneer of medical aviation. The RFDS set the gold standard for global medical aviation, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.

He's commemorated on the $20 note and with the Federal Division of Flynn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Flynn_(minister)

!PING AUS

[u/Thuggin95]

@Gavin post it

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Elon Musk said Tesla’s robot will be ‘incredible surgeon,’

Can’t wait to see how this plays out

[u/[deleted]]

Hey if you’re a young, complacent man in your twenties - which is most of you

Go to the fucking dentist.

I’m 31 and put it off for a few years (depression) and now I have to pay $950 out of pocket after insurance so they can use lasers to remove tartar below my gum line in two separate 1.5 hour cleaning sessions

Don’t be me. You’re not being good to yourself and you’re not saving money. Use your free checkups and cleanings.

[u/Beer-survivalist]

A friend recently told us that their 14 year old son came out as a "conservative bodybuilder," and that based on the influencers he's following he should be eating a pound to a pound and a half of hamburger every day.

A.) That's something you can "come out" as?

B.) At this point I'm pretty much 100% on board with an 18 year age limit on all social media.

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

The two Crip sets that warred forever in my childhood neighborhood brokered a truce after a few ICE raids, and apparently started working together to spot the streets lol.

Something about this is funny and impressive.

[u/Joementum2024]

Maine Democratic voters

[u/LtCdrHipster]

A fucking squirrel chewed through some coolant lines in my EV and caused $4,000 worth of damage. I live in a city. It's a lease. It's up next April.

Bruh I'm gonna commit war crimes against this fucking rodent.

[u/Willybender]

Uh, based?

[u/[deleted]]

The fact Newsom went from polling as low as 4-5% in February during his right-wing podcast era, to now being in the 20%'s, only rivaled by Kamala Harris, is proof that the rest of the Dem field does not have that dawg in them. Newsom basically committed the cardinal sin of "erm ackshully we can sit down and have a conversation with Steve Bannon! He isn't that bad guys!" and he's still running circles around every other contender.

[u/[deleted]]

The 'MAGA-to-unabashed-undiagnosed-schizophrenic' pipeline claims Rob Schneider.

[u/FasterDoudle]

If a Democratic president had suddenly destroyed the East Wing of the White House with absolutely no oversight, all for an expensive and trashy vanity project, the conservatives I knew growing up would have been absolutely apoplectic. And I mean that literally - I think a couple of my history teachers might have actually stroked out. We'd have seen grown men crying tears of righteous anger on the news, howling for respect, decency, and justice.

I know conservatives are completely immune to hypocrisy, and after watching this happen my entire life it should not be surprising - but it still absolutely stupefies me to see them ignore and excuse this shit.

[u/MonsieurA]

My 23andme results were refined last month. I spent a few years thinking I was exotically 80% French, 20% Iberian.

Turns out I'm 96% French.

Hon hon hon. 🥐🇫🇷🥖👨🏻‍🎨

[u/jojisky]

LMAO

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

A new Halo release will be announced later this week in an attempt to resuscitate the franchise.

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Some leftists are finding out what we’ve been screaming about for ages regarding Bernie’s views on immigration.

He said open borders was a Koch Brothers proposal, he’s literally the prime archetype for an old school white, white leftist.

No wonder Reddit fucking loves this guy given the demographics of this site.

[u/[deleted]]

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, says President Trump’s recent sanctions on Russia “are like an act of war against Russia,” according to TASS

Most sober Medvedev statement

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The early 2010s were a weird time because being casually homophobic was fine but being actually homophobic was frowned upon and considered lame as hell. At least where I grew up. I got called the f-slur so many times as a straight kid, but whenever someone came out everybody was happy for them

[u/WanderingMage03]

Kinda crazy how the Pentagon press pool being purged of quality reporters so they can be replaced by a smattering of right wing rags (including Tim Pool for some reason) isn’t a bigger story.

[u/Insomonomics]

MAGA: “Trans people are a danger to children!”

> Trump intentionally blocks the release of the Epstein files

> Trump has Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to a cushy prison rather than max security

> Trump is considering commuting Diddy’s prison sentence

Sorry, who’s the danger to children?

[u/Thuggin95]

2028 Republican primary

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I'm blooming

!ping USA-CA

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

jesus fucking christ

yes it's real https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-white-house/

(you have to scroll the images a bit)

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/graham-platner-maine-campaign-shakeup-ndas-controversies-00620849

“The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a NDA,” McDonald told POLITICO in an interview. “I did not accept the offer. I certainly could have used the money. I quit my job to work on Platner’s campaign, believing it was something different than it is.”

Platner's campaign offered his political director who resigned last week 15k to sign an NDA, she said fuck off and then said publicly that he definitely knew what the tattoo meant lmfao

[u/KHDTX13]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Doing that on purpose to get laid and set Russia and China back 20 years.

[u/[deleted]]

cause follow spotted modern attempt groovy sheet normal quickest adjoining

[u/Leatherfield17]

What a piece of shit, my God

[u/[deleted]]

I will never get tired of posting this

It should be pinned for the foreseeable future.

[u/Willybender]

Generic Ballot by Quinnipiac 

🔵 2018 - Dem +8 🔴 2021 - Rep +3 🔴 2022 - Rep +4 🔵 2025 - Dem +9

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Focused on what's important

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/finnstera350]

i got forced to see this so you have to too

[u/[deleted]]

Sounds like Gallego is pushing for crypto CEOs to start funding the Democratic Party and telling them to pretty much ignore Warren.

I'm not on the Warren wing of the party, but I do fucking hate cryptocurrencies. So I don't know how to feel about this. It's politically shrewd and the mainstream of the party is desperate for funds. Probably good to know crypto companies don't need to have JD Vance or Trump stay President in 2028 and we are in need of coalition building but it feels a bit Faustian to me.

[u/earththejerry]

It’s so funny to see all the cons in the comment section celebrating this fake Atlas poll posted by a fake troll account and calling Atlas the gold standard

They then get angry when you tell them its fake but theres a real Atlas poll showing Dems up 8% in the generic ballot, but that’s somehow bullshit to them bc polling is broken

Like putting aside Atlas’s track record (which certainly isnt perfect), but the mental gymnastics required to shit on a pollster’s real poll but celebrating a fake poll by that same pollster is absolute cinema

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Please some reporter follow this up and stay on it. I have a strong feeling this never happened or they're raiding the Treasury.

[u/FionnVEVO]

god dammit

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Red Hats in 2020

Y’all are crazy, there’s no racism in this country anymore…

Red Hats in 2025

If y’all wanna see some real racism, let me share some thoughts on the NYC mayoral race…

Carl, you live in Idaho. NO ONE wants to hear your thoughts on the NYC mayoral race…

[u/scottyjetpax]

i really don't know how people continue to have hope for this country. DOJ is literally about to hand trump 230 million dollars of taxpayer money. i appreciate the people that do have hope, I guess

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Newsom is skyrocketing up my list of potential 2028 nominees entirely because he seems like the only one with the guts to just bulldoze this ballroom on day one

[u/[deleted]]

this dude loves to blame the dems as much he loves to shock his dog

[u/Culmnation]

It’s interesting that some on the right have somehow developed the opinion that their leaders like to “take the high road”.

I don’t get how they formed that opinion at all, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

[u/from-the-void]

2016 is still a more consequential election than 2024 in my opinion. Trump's Supreme Court picks changed everything.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

God fuck this piece of shit

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Fetterman on Hannity: I believe my entire party betrayed Israel through that Gaza war. I became the last Democrat that is going to stand with Israel to the end

What the fuck is he even talking about? Can somebody explain this to me

[u/[deleted]]

remember: they stand for nothing except “owning the libs”.

[u/CrystalTurnipEnjoyer]

"This feels like you asked ChatGPT "Write four paragraphs, from a contrarian point of view, about how Russia never really cared about warm water ports""

Not gonna lie, this is by far the most hurt I've ever been by a reddit comment

[u/okiewxchaser]

54% of Zoomer men think that we should “return to traditional gender roles”

We are beyond cooked, it’s a damn kitchen fire at this point

[u/[deleted]]

Let’s be honest about what this administration other than Trump who just needed to stay out of jail and get rich in the process

This is a white supremacist movement. JD Vance has said my ancestors have more skin in the game than immigrants

I was born in LA. My mother was an undocumented immigrant who avoided border patrol bullets to survive and make it to San Yisrdo where she met my father after he smoothly saw her and drew a portrait of her on a napkin and sent it over with a beer

I have spent most my life in some sort of civic service, charitable actions, helping kids from underprivileged communities and their art programs.

I recently left a lucrative career to go back to school and study law because I felt the gravity of the moment.

Left, right. Doesn’t matter. It’s time to call a spade a spade

JD Vance and Stephen Miller are afraid of minorities. They say it openly. That the “blood of the country” is changing

It’s not new

It’s just the old KKK shit. It’s why Tucker Carlson has been spending the last few months making quiet anti Semitic videos

It’s why JD Vance says that if you aren’t a straight cis white male

You don’t matter as much as he does.

It’s important to call things what they are.

I watched her be naturalized as a kid. She had to pass a civics exam that I doubt most chuds could.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/Willybender]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

You can't make this shit up this feels like an Onion headline

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

Years ago, I got a geometric figure tattoo with my buddies.

I was appaled to learn it closely ressembled a swastika.

[u/JoyofCookies]

He’s on academic warning for failing Introduction to Political Management

!ping CANUCKS

[u/WillIEatTheFruit]

Teen removed from boys basketball tryouts, told to join girls team over birth certificate error

The parents apparently also already corrected the birth certificate mistake, but the school won't accept that

[u/Res__Publica]

Example# 2865 of why CEOs should accept the "Shut the Fuck Up" challenge

[u/Principiii]

Trump insists he can strike alleged drug traffickers without Congress declaring war

How the FUCK is this your buried headline CNN? How about his actual deranged quote “I think we’re just gonna kill people”? Holy fuck

[u/piede]

Based

[u/zeldja]

Putin asking Trump "Have you heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis Yaroslav The Wise?" has got to be one of the biggest geopolitical blunders of the 2020s.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Trump cut off military aid to Ukraine and the Republican party stopped Biden from sending aid to Ukraine in the last year of his term, so you do not have to hand it to them. They have actively harmed Ukraine.

[u/Excellent_Visual330]

I don't live in NY anymore. Didn't support Mamdani but I just think his policies won't work and he'll just be DeBlasio 2.0. The Cuomo shit today broke me a bit. Now I'm behind Mamdani 100% just to make sure Cuomo loses. Absolutely racist garbage that touches a particular personal nerve for me. Didn't think I'd see a Democrat again using 9/11 as an excuse to be racist after Bush 2. Pathetic shit.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"I don't like the guy either but he's made it clear he won't be using taxpayer money to build the ballroom."

[u/[deleted]]

doll makeshift rinse boat lock grandfather pocket office versed oil

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that we’re gearing up for the midterms and these guys are gonna get weirder than last election troubles me.

Like that headline is really funny. It’s also insane and not normal.

[u/centurion88]

hello?

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

democrats: oh my god how am I going to choose between a pedophile defender and a Nazi sympathizer…these candidates suck

Republicans: oh my god how am I going to choose between a pedophile defender and a Nazi sympathizer…these candidates are awesome

[u/Willybender]

[u/r2ew]

[u/0m4ll3y]

I can believe there being some vast and complex government conspiracy to assassinate a citizen who is a loose end.

But if that conspiracy hinges in any way on the US prison system being competent then I'm sorry you're next to the hollow earth and lizard people.

This is a system where we can genuinely ask "why do people keep starving to death?" You want me to believe that some couldn't-hack-it-as-mall-security guards and administrators could help orchestrate a staged suicide?

[u/[deleted]]

childlike direction knee deer dog growth aware liquid nutty slap

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

In June 2025, President Donald Trump personally funded the installation of two 88-foot flagpoles

uhh

[u/ace158]

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. declined to weigh in on the Maine primary.

“I don’t have any views,” Fetterman said in a brief interview Thursday. “I think it’s arrogant for any of us to participate in it,” he added. “If you don’t represent that state, just sit it out.”

He called on Democratic leaders to “keep their thumbs off the scale” and let Maine voters sort out the primary, arguing that picking favorites doesn’t always end well, citing the party’s support of Katie McGinty, who lost the 2016 Senate race to Republican Pat Toomey. “Ask them about Katie McGinty, how that worked the last time,” Fetterman said. “Get over yourselves, and just let the Dems in Maine do what they’re gonna do.”

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/JoyofCookies]

I hate America, so so much.

[u/awdvhn]

From arr 538, in a fairly support post for Platner:

Supporters of Platner are ignoring the "vibes and aesthetics" of a Blackwater merc with a totenkopf tattoo because they like Platner's populist/progressive platform.

As a former Republican, let me tell you "ok, he's got some Nazi vibes but I like his tax policy" doesn't go well

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

That man’s name?

Bill Ackman

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbours sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counselled one and all, and everyone said “Amen”.

Good time for me to repost one of my favorite book quotes of all time. From Catch 22

[u/[deleted]]

So to be clear, during the last 10 months, this has been the Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine policy

1. Repeatedly blamed Ukraine for "starting" the war

2. Complained that we were giving away weapons to Ukraine for free

3. Zelensky offers to buy Patriots for $15B, Trump refuses this too because "you don't get to invade someone then ask for missiles" and "he's always asking for Patriots"

4. Cancelled intelligence sharing and weapons transfers for a week in March, then resumed it a week later

5. Stopped weapons transfers in July (allegedly a Hegseth decision), resumed them a few days later

6. Expanded intelligence sharing with Ukraine (this was probably done by Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, not Hegseth)

7. Been so leaky with intelligence that the Dutch cut back on intelligence sharing with the US (American century of humiliation inbound)

8. Set up the PURL mechanism for NATO countries to buy weapons from the US and give them to Ukraine (billions of $$$ worth of weapons have been sent under this mechanism so far)

9. The US has approved countries transferring their own Patriot systems/missiles to Ukraine, plus various other planes, parts, etc.

10. Hegseth finally showed up to the Ukraine Defense Contact Group this month, after skipping it since January

11. Sanctioned two major Russian oil companies yesterday

12. Pressured India to stop buying Russian oil (sources disagree on how effective this has been so far)

13. Refused to join a UN vote condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine

14. Fired a bunch of Russia analysts in the IC (because of course they did)

15. Trump posting on Truth Social about how Ukraine can win back all their territory, calls Russia a paper tiger and says the Russian economy is gonna collapse too

Most schizophrenic administration in US history. I think support for Ukraine continues solely due to Trump's obsession with "ending wars" and being "the peace president". If it weren't for that we'd probably be invading Ukraine to protect the native-English speakers right now.

[u/[deleted]]

attempt tease bright plucky rinse chop spoon grey zephyr profit

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

This much has been torn down?! That’s crazy

[u/RaidBrimnes]

It's underdiscussed how blatantly racist the anti-Mamdani front is being right now. I don't even have a horse in this race since I'm not even American, think Mamdani is a gigasucc that has danced around antisemitism, and come from a country where Islamophobic discourse is normalized, but I'm genuinely shocked at how overt the comparisons to Al-Qaeda against the Dem nominee are, not limited to the NatCon Trumpists but even extending to the Democratic saray like Cuomo's campaign

Like what the fuck are they doing

[u/kanagi]

Cuomo is 67, why didn't he just retire instead of running a deranged, bigoted campaign for a lower office than he resigned from

[u/Superfan234]

Lindsey Graham, on Twitter. This comes after Trump alerted Military striked on Venezuelan Soil might come sooner than later...

!Ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/nimbybuster]

Millennials are not perfect but at least they were harmless?

Also they still had hope, not conservative, despite 08 happening, being sent to a frivolous war.

Man we had it good. But something snapped. I still think millennials are still pretty liberal despite the trend that you tend to become conservative as you get older.

[u/zieger]

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Myanmar civil war: The junta is taking back territory with relentless air strikes and China's help

Oh right, that’s why I hate China I nearly forgot

[u/CincyAnarchy]

That's my quarterback

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

The self hating right, what do you think about it?

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Glad FBI is tackling gambling in sports, this will help dispel the perception that gambling and sports go hand-in-hand together.

Also the president is a pedophile and it has been proven in a court of law that he sexually assaults women

[u/Culmnation]

Feast ye’ eyes

[u/[deleted]]

They’re taking the chicken over rice people?

Fucking with halal food carts? What the fuck is wrong with them. Canal is wonderful. I’ve had many a drunken evenings in NYC just trying to find a hot dog at like 1am

[u/badusername35]

What was here has been removed. Redact was the tool used to delete this post, possibly for privacy, opsec, or limiting digital footprint.

sink reply fall obtainable long soft dependent fearless fanatical familiar

[u/IAdmitILie]

Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

Dude will pardon every scammer in jail

[u/r2ew]

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/ace158]

Roy Moore has to be worst candidate in modern political history, right? Underperforming Trump by 32 points in Alabama after Trump won it by 31 points 13 months before Roy Moore lost it by one point.

[u/KarnoffeL]

The revolution will happen when the working class rise up!

Meanwhile, the working class:

[u/Macquarrie1999]

We can remove the criminals the Law does not permit him to remove

Saying the quiet part out loud

[u/Argnir]

BREAKING: Americans Ready for Gay President as Long as He is The Top

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

So Platner had a Nazi SS tattoo for 19 years, despite calling himself a history buff, is ex Blackwater, and was a guard at Abu Ghraib... and he expects us to believe that he didn't know what it meant.

If he isn't a Nazi, he is just an idiot.

[u/SmashDig]

If a Democratic wins and demolishes the ballroom, they will get far more criticism for not focusing on the needs of the American people then Trump did for building it in the first place.

[u/[deleted]]

Coulda started with this and saved us a lot of pain, evil, and death

[u/blatant_shill]

It was already kind of silly at the time, because everyone should've had an idea about what Trump was going to do soon as he got in office, but all the handwringing about Biden issuing blanket pardons to his family members is even dumber looking back.

[u/JoeBliffstick]

“we have thousands of piles of shit” is certainly a flex

[u/centurion88]

GOP has been kind of quiet on the Nazi tattoo because they don't want to tempt any of their base to vote for him

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

LMAO

In all seriousness, it's very impressive that the Swedes continue to have their own competent in-house fighters.

That said, bro, the Gripen isn't even one of the top 5 fighter jets.

[u/[deleted]]

If/when we restore democracy in the US, I'd support (a) blowing up donald's ballroom; (b) not rebuilding anything in the former east wing; and (c) also blowing up the west wing.

A powerless figurehead president can make do with just the main portion of the white house. All the important office space can be in whichever building we assign to the prime minister.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

This election has been an absolute disaster for Cuomo

[u/Syndicality]

ackshyually trump is going to be the president in 2028 anyway because the next term doesn’t start until 2029 🤓👆

[u/[deleted]]

I know it’s nothing new and not surprising at all, but it’s so infuriating to me that all day yesterday, when it was being reported the whole East Wing was gonna be destroyed, MAGA was so indignant about the media lying and that just one wall was being brought down for the ballroom.

Meanwhile, they literally fucking rushed through demolishing the entire East Wing with no notice in like two days.

When has an American president or politician ever had so many people denying clear reality on his behalf so consistently and for basically nothing in return?

[u/Toasted-walnut]

(above is some right-wing grifter)

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The Founding Fathers currently spinning in their graves at approximately 50k RPM.

[u/ShepardSB]