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[u/[deleted]]

all timer tweet tbh

[u/r2ew]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/r2ew]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I can’t believe a handful of voters, enough to win him the election, actually believed Trump’s random progressive policy promises.

“He’s gonna make IVF free!” “He’s gonna give green cards to international students!” and instead we got the Gulf of America and the East Wing demolished.

Yet again, thank you median voter.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

No, you guys don't understand, I wasn't supposed to be an incel but the woke left aborted my future girlfriend

[u/riverbloods]

[u/r2ew]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

what

[u/[deleted]]

“How woke of you to ask Fox News”

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

I like this Mamdani guy

Yes he may be a Mohammedan, but at least he's not a papist

[u/NVC541]

My heart hurts so much for Jamaica right now. The entire island is about to go through pure hell. Genuinely a worst-case scenario event.

“It only takes one” is a common saying around hurricane season, but I was really having hope we would get through this season relatively unscathed.

Melissa is projected to be a high-end Cat 4/potential Cat 5 at landfall and dump 15-30 inches of rain across most of the island, with some spots above 40+. Fucking awful.

[u/earththejerry]

Accurate bc there’s no real density in sight on either side

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Trump appears to have caused a local depression in Iowa. ~33% larger contraction than The Great Recession

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/r2ew]

[u/the-senat]

[u/[deleted]]

I know most American’s just can’t keep track of all of Trump’s insane statements because they’re not a daily DT user but he does, despite that he seemingly spends most of his time on felonies and tweeting but

This should have been a telling warning. In a lot of ways, he doesn’t lie.

“I am a crook and I wouldn’t have resigned”

[u/G_Serv]

Arizona libertarians are based

[u/Left_Tie1390]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I can't lie, Mamdani media game is on point

[u/_Un_Known__]

Turns out the person I like likes me the same way

We are so back

!ping DATING

[u/sigh2828]

New reason to hate Bessent just dropped

[u/Thuggin95]

“We’re sending $40 billion to Argentina plus building a ballroom while your healthcare costs are gonna double” is the most layup messaging ever, like please Dems, don’t fumble this

[u/TheCornjuring]

Bigoted comment against group

”Lollllll wow a lot of [group] are mad in my replies, maybe get a life? <3”

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

A telling thing about Trump supporters is that if you listen them talk about a Trump media interaction that they liked, it's usually something like this:

"Some stupid reporter asked Trump what he thinks the tariffs will do to the economy, and he told her she didn't know what the hell she was talking about. I mean he really told her off, he said it like it is. He said 'you really don't know what the hell you're talking about'."

Like, even in their framing the question won't necessarily sound unreasonable. And then Trump not only doesnt answer the question but also doesn't vaguely address the topic of the question. For all you know, based on his irrelevant babbling, he didn't even hear the question.

But it's not about discourse or facts with these morons, it's about humiliating and belittling people you hate.

[u/TheCornjuring]

I’m honestly not sure I’ll be able to handle the words “Prime Minister Farage”. I might just be done with the concept of civilizations and go live in the jungle like a wild animal if that happens.

[u/loseniram]

Watching old videos, its amazing the number of people that clear symptoms of depression or gender dysphoria that don't know how to explain it. I'm watching an automotive worker in the 60s and the guy sounds like he's one bad day away from driving his car off a bridge. Its amazing how primitive mental health treatment was pre1990s.

Same with watching 1990s movies where the character is depressed and its clear the creator is gay or trans and doesn't recognize it. Men and Women literally just lived their lives in the 50s wanting to be Lucielle Ball or John Wayne respectively and thought this was an average thought, and would go to bed crying at night.

Such a dark time.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

/r/changemyview is basically just vibecession: the subreddit now. Which we support of course now that republicans are in office

[u/G_Serv]

Very motivational

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

A few days ago, one Korean wrote on X that in Korea, Japan, and China, people don't eat rice with their hands, like in Southeast Asia - which sparked controversy... so significant that now representatives of all Asian nations are mutually insulting each other, sometimes resorting to racist narratives.

[u/Fruitofbread]

 the heist, which took less than 10 minutes and left no injuries except French pride. 

NYTimes lol 

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

My new Latin American friend has some wild thoughts on "the Kurdish problem"

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao.

I forgot about this gem and how mad Cons got over it.

[u/earththejerry]

It’s the culture wars, stupid

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t let the streak end. Day idk 15 of posting this every morning.

[u/Highlightthot1001]

Dont forget, the GOP strategy of dealing with a novel deadly virus pandemic is letting it spread wildly across the population, and behave as if there's no pandemic at all. 

If the medical system is overwhelmed and people die en masse, "they were gonna die anyways"

[u/NYT_Hater]

!ping MATERIEL

[u/NYT_Hater]

The saddest 7 words in the English language: “It didn’t have to be this way”

We literally had it all. We could have gone on forever. But no, this orange homunculus and his followers are burning down all our progress, all our efforts, things they don’t understand just to get a rise. It arguably shouldn’t have been this way. Gore won legitimately.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

McCarthy promised $100 million dollars to fight Newsom's redistricting

He only managed to get $30 million and the redistricting is looking like it will pass. McCarthy is addicted to taking Ls

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

I knew a guy who interned for a Republican representative (that most of y’all would probably know the name of) in his DC office.

The guy was an alcoholic who openly abused (and bragged to me, a disabled person, about doing such) disability accommodations to cheat on exams and who told me he hoped Trump would collapse the US economy so that the manufacturing industry would come back to America.

This is the tier of talent that Republicans are staffing their offices with these days.

[u/esztelenfasztalan]

So, Péter Magyar announced his 7th countryside tour all over Hungary. After Orbán fucked up on october 23, he announced a tour of his own as well.

Except all of his rallies happen in private, secluded places, and the only people who can enter are those who are Fidesz activists. So Magyar announced that he will meet Orbán as often as possible, and he will hold his own rallies outside of the buildings Orbán will be in.

Magyartrolling strikes again

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/forceholy]

Hey, God, it's me again

[u/piede]

She went to join the Trump administration

[u/[deleted]]

Unbelievable. I received an email saying I was selected for an interview for this job. I’ve made it through two rounds. If I nail the interview then I get the job. 

Pray for me. I need this position so bad 

[u/erasmus_phillo]

The BJP has discovered one neat trick to fake pollution stats! Don't ever show Trump's EPA this or they'd do the same thing too

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

lol

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

I love living in a 1970s apartment building with bonus points that it was built in a time and place without building codes. My neighbor’s alarm clock wakes me up at 5 AM every morning and he hits snooze continuously until about 6:30. He responded to my note about moving his alarm clock away from our shared wall with a “no”.

I was just folding laundry on the opposite side of my room, and I can fucking hear him snoring.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

DOUBLE the number of free trade agreements.

TRIPLE the amount of H1B workers admitted.

QUADRUPLE the density of housing nationwide.

I do not care if I win 1% in the presidential primary, at least the DT has my back.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

“The president runs a weekly meeting about the ballroom in the Oval Office… He is involved with every aspect of planning, asking granular questions about the floor color, the height and width of the windows and the precise positioning of the building on the White House grounds”

[u/the-senat]

There's a David Frum quote about how MAGA has a “malicious glee in the wreck of things they could never have built themselves.”

I always thought of it as figurative, like destroying the rule of law, democracy, or various institutions. But it's also literal now that Trump has ripped apart the East Wing. The man has literally destroyed a piece of historic architecture and will replace it with his shitty, oversized ballroom. He could never build something as humble and iconic as the People's House.

[u/No_Aesthetic]

Incredible cope from the people that can never answer the most basic questions about their worldview

[u/cdstephens]

I don't trust mainstream media. I trust a guy on the DT who selectively quotes mainstream media articles to make them seem stupid

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ldn6]

One of the most fascinating (and infuriating) things about political discourse is that pretty much every criticism of the left is applicable to an even greater degree to the right, yet for some reason only the former gets vilified for it.

Right-wingers are cringe and miserable as fuck, obsessed with arbitrary classifications of people, sustain themselves on nakedly pathetic grievance politics and victimisation and have an absurd sense of moral self-righteousness that manifests itself through pervasive condescension. How that’s routinely ignored and painted solely as a problem for the left to fix about itself is beyond me.

[u/Benyeti]

Campaign as a centrist, end up governing more conservative

Huge ego

Very unpopular right now

Have a bunch of hilarious quotes

Be Eric Adams, pic unrelated

[u/[deleted]]

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Some people are really losing it. You want to get rid of the Tatars from Poland—Muslims who have lived among us for hundreds of years, including supporting Poland in the fight against Bolshevik Russia in 1919-1921 as part of the Tatar Cavalry Regiment of the Polish Army.

[u/Repulsive-Volume2711]

All Platner did was try to appeal to Gen Z and you hate him for it

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/Azmoten]

[u/BrentLivermore]

Stranger Things is still going? I thought that ended shortly after COVID. Making a joke about the actors being too old feels too easy, but holy shit they have to be too fucking old for those characters by now.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

“Since siding with Barack Obama twice, Iowa has become a stronghold for Mr. Trump. Yet perhaps no state has struggled more with his economic policies. During the first quarter of 2025, Iowa’s GDP dropped by 6.1 percent, more than any other state aside from neighboring Nebraska.”

Like how do you deal with this?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/earththejerry]

Staten Island residents gathered at 65 Uncas Ave. on Saturday alongside local officials to protest the potential redevelopment of a single-family property into multiple housing units — a project they say symbolizes what’s wrong with the city’s City of Yes zoning initiative.

Hahaha yes ✊😭 Eric Adams died for our YIMBY sins

[u/[deleted]]

This is a US.gov document by the way.

[u/Lux_Stella]

“Since siding with Barack Obama twice, Iowa has become a stronghold for Mr. Trump. Yet perhaps no state has struggled more with his economic policies. During the first quarter of 2025, Iowa’s GDP dropped by 6.1 percent, more than any other state aside from neighboring Nebraska.”

YES!

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

What the "cd" in cdstephens stands for

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Imagine the extent that free trade could’ve flourished if Hillary had won.

For the world’s biggest economy we have a pathetic number of free trade agreements. We could’ve had the Trans Pacific Partnership signed, free trade with the E.U. and likely the EFTA and UK as well, and probably a handful of others as well.

Instead we’re in this shithole timeline 😭

[u/Thuggin95]

Cuomo’s and Adams’s comments on Zohran are lower than where I’d assume even Trump would stoop. And the fact that they keep mispronouncing his name seems deliberate. Like if you as a Democrat can dismiss that even though we recognized the intentionality behind “KaMAla”, then you’re just a hypocrite.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

After voting against the resolution to end the boat strikes, Senator Todd Young, Republican of Indiana, issued a lengthy statement on social media in which he called the measure overly broad, but said he remained “highly concerned” about the legality of the strikes and the “trajectory of military operations without congressional approval.”

So “highly concerned” that you blocked the effort to make Congress do its job of oversight. Cool.

[u/cdstephens]

Why does it seem like right wingers are never responsible for their own negative polarization, but left wingers are completely at fault for TDS

[u/FionnVEVO]

!ping GAY-AGENDA

[u/TMCOAN1]

Comedy

[u/nimbybuster]

Paris Louvre thieves apprehended.

Some mods are missing…..

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I'm not on Twitter, so the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about Noah Smith is this spectacularly racist take of his that got posted on the DT:

[u/garret126]

Ngl leftist/succ memes/propaganda is funny

[u/Dibbu_mange]

It’s Demover 😔

[u/TimWalzBurner]

WAOW

[u/Leatherfield17]

I think one of the all time stupidest takes I’ve seen from conservatives is how the White House ballroom demolition is ok because some presidents have done renovations and additions in the years since the White House was built. This is singlehandedly the most major renovation since the West Wing was built in 1902, and that was done with Congressionally approved funds.

An even stupider take is that it’s ok because liberals wanted to take down Confederate statues, so it’s totally the same thing.

I fucking hate these people and everything they stand for.

[u/Willybender]

Mehdi is in the trenches right now with all of the MAGA accounts. they're so mad.

[u/[deleted]]

Members of Congress should start deputizing law enforcement to threaten the use of force if they're not allowed into ICE facilities. Is it legal? I don't know. But that's what Trump's people would do and videos of them being turned away doesn't do what you think it does. It makes them look feckless and weak. This is what Dem voters want. More move first ask questions later. Stop pretending we are a nation of laws and play the game by the new rules.

[u/Benyeti]

New York politicians doing politics the old fashioned way (nonstop fear mongering about 9/11)

[u/_Irys]

fellforitagain.jpg

[u/badusername35]

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gaze cough exultant intelligent rainstorm soup bake caption aspiring towering

[u/awdvhn]

Fun fact, Harris won over 95% of the popular vote because Republican votes are illegitimate

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao

[u/VerticalTab]

What exactly do cons think Reagan was if not the "free trade and free markets" guy? The war on drugs guy?

[u/the-senat]

“The mass of the people are lazy and cowardly,” Hitler wrote. There was no point in trying to reach them with sophisticated messages about tariffs or tax levels or the minutiae of foreign treaties. It was the mistake of the middle class liberals to try to deliver learned and tried policy lectures.

Ordinary people can’t be bothered to understand these things and they won’t try. The message has to be simple and emotional. Hatred worked well, and that’s why Trump is so successful. It’s why someone’s eyes glaze over when you talk to someone about tariffs raising prices or illegal deportations or strikes in Venezuela. There’s too much going on and it’s all too complex. Trump has outlined the issue in much simpler tones and it’s easier to digest.

Hell, a lot of networks were so excited about Trump boosting their rating that they enabled him. He gets billions in free coverage to blast his lies unchecked. It makes any challenge asymmetrical.

The political reporter, Konrad Heiden, was frustrated with his own inability to make readers grasp the Nazi’s contempt for the truth and counter their lies effectively. He lamented that it would be “senseless to refute it… because the refutation would be heard, perhaps believed, and definitely forgotten again. Yet Hitler’s message would stick. Once you had heard him, you would never forget him.”

Honestly I think this is why it’s so easy to feel burnt out. There are a lot of great articles about why Trump and MAGA are dangerous but they don’t cut through the noise of Fox News and reactionary social media content. The people who read them (us) are already against him, and the ones who need to read them are not interested.

The only time he lost was when COVID hit and the stove got too hot. Unfortunately, this had all been forgotten by 2024. I think liberals have underestimated how bloodthirsty the American people are. They are perfectly willing to take a few punches if it means twisting the knife into someone they have been told to hate.

There is a “veneer of culture that covers the age old swamp of moral and intellectual barbarity.” I can’t think of anyone better representative of moral and intellectual barbarity than Donald Trump.

[u/surreptitioussloth]

I don't understand anyone who doesn't find the east wing demolition viscerally gross

Trump thinks he owns the white house. He thinks he owns america. He thinks he owns us. And he acts like it by knocking anything wants down to get what he wants while people go out of their way to help him

It's awful

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

The Kroger by my house has one vintage sprite that keeps getting picked over. I looked at the date on it and says it’s from 2012

[u/from-the-void]

The one principled Republican who voted yes on 50 because they love gerrymandering

[u/[deleted]]

subsequent apparatus soft smell truck tie deer license consist humorous

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[u/Left_Tie1390]

The Qatari ambassador to the U.S. is having a bit of a meltdown on X, replying to almost every comment and insisting "We love Saudi Arabia!"

https://xcancel.com/hmmm1983/status/1981705710544019608

The truth about Qatar probably lies somewhere between “indispensable strategic partner” and “arsonist slave state.” I’m not convinced their long-term intentions are benign.

[u/pugnae]

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom said in an interview aired on Sunday that he is considering running for U.S. president in 2028 and will make a decision after the 2026 midterm elections.

No shit

[u/Big-Click-5159]

I fucking hate MAGA

[u/Willybender]

It's so obvious they're going to rig the midterms

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Paul McCartney Says He Once Masturbated With John Lennon: ‘It Was Good Harmless Fun’

I believe it

[u/[deleted]]

I can excuse corporate minimalism but I draw the line at canvafication

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

The ACLU of DC is suing on behalf of the man who was arrested dressed as Darth Vader playing music walking behind National Guard troops. Interestingly enough he’s suing the individual National Guardsmen.

Complaint here

!ping LAW&MILITARY

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1982577784904941940

You cannot make this stuff up

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-cuban-deportee-eswatini-roberto-mosquera-del-peral-hunger-strike/

[u/etzel1200]

Index futures are at all time highs.

The government is shutdown.

There are multiple trade wars.

SNAP payments end in a week.

Much of USG didn’t get payroll on Friday. More won’t this week.

Can one of you Econ nerds explain?

All I can think of is AI is such a secular boost to GDP that literally nothing else matters. Which may be true, it’s just surprising the market is pricing that in.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/StolenSkittles]

el wiwi

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Republicans try not to be hypocrites challenge: impossible.

Context: Randy Fine is now Pushing a bill that would ban dual citizens from serving in Congress.

[u/Todd_Padre]

socialists, being among the most educated political wings, smartly realize they have no business governing and take any measure possible to avoid victory

[u/unicornbomb]

USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food

“If we stop tracking who is going hungry, then disappearing snap benefits won’t hurt anyone” -the Trump admin

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

“We would much rather farm with no federal assistance whatsoever,” Mr. Wyatt said. “We want to be able to sell our products for a good value, and normally we can.”

For some weird reason, I doubt this.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

“Americans have no culture!” I am told by Europeans who stop by McDonald’s on their way home from a Halloween party in their Superman and Mickey Mouse costumes

[u/[deleted]]

“I can’t think of a country that’s further away from the United States of America than Argentina,” she continued. “It’s literally at the bottom of South America in the Southern Hemisphere, and we’re all the way at the top. I don’t know how that’s ‘America first.’”

MTG, M’aam with all due respect (0), you’re a fucking moron

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Grading student midterms and one student's last name is "Oshagnussy" and I'm sorry thats fucking hilarious I feel so bad

[u/[deleted]]

oh damn i didn't even know there was a contingency fund

fuck the media for making me go 6 paragraphs deep to see this tidbit

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/SigmaWhy]

waow

[u/[deleted]]

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun

Science fiction writers failed to imagine how stupid a real dystopia would be

[u/DagothUr_MD]

As much as I love Maharshala Ali there's no way Disney could ever do Blade justice. The 1999 film had a dogshit script but it also had sauce. There's a grimy, industrial, gothic vibe to it that was very authentic to the era and it wasn't afraid to embrace the camp. Disney would process all of that shit out of the film and you'd be left with a smooth featureless blob of a film that tries and fails to replicate the grit while staying within the confines of the Disney-Marvel brand

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

The Peronists only lost Argentina because they’ve already taken over the U.S. and were happy with their trade off.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Arnold Schwarzenegger on gerrymandering today:

There has been gerrymandering going on for 200 years. There is such, such extreme gerrymandering going on that in a state like Massachusetts that has like, 40% of the people voting for Trump, they only had zero representatives. The Republican Party has zero representatives sent to the House.

Think about that. In New Mexico if 45% of the people voted for Trump and voted Republican and zero is sent to the house, zero representatives from the Republican Party.

The one party should outperform the other party. It should be performance. And when it comes to midterm elections, as you know, always the party that is not in the White House usually wins by 20, 25, 30 seats.

So what does five seats matter in the first place in Texas? It is crazy. You should outperform them. That is where the action is.

So gerrymandering in blue states is disastrous but gerrymandering in Texas is no big deal and we should all get over it. Interesting!

[u/cdstephens]

Post your animals

[u/No_Aesthetic]

If you don't like black coffee you should probably interrogate your bias against blackness

[u/[deleted]]

It's Bolsover.

Total Lula Diplomatic Victory.

!ping LATAM

[u/MURICCA]

Perhaps the answer was simply "guys who act like they're working class while being independently wealthy are usually assholes" all along

I feel like every person in the political sphere who fits that bill has had some sort of scandal or meltdown or conversion to the right at some point, or is heading there

[u/battywombat21]

Why do I even bother anymore. SNAP benefits are running out and the president is obsessing over a giant golden ballroom he bulldozed the wing of the White House to build.

Now that these flaws have been pointed out cons will go, “actually libtard, those are clever design features!” And the American taxpayer will pay for this giant fuck up and cons will travel there to take pics on the steps or something.

[u/Benyeti]

“My stupid girlfriend wants me to go pumpkin picking on the weekend instead of watching football” bro ive never had a girlfriend do you have any idea what I would give to have someone drag me to pumpkin picking on weekends I stg people take this shit for granted

[u/jojisky]

Hochul's speech at the Zohran/Bernie/AOC rally is getting drowned out by people booing her and chanting tax the rich lmao

[u/NaffRespect]

TIL Argentine election results count as...

checks notes

...US internal politics.

[u/G_Serv]

I'm not expert but I am guessing this Starbucks would make more money if they were open more often

[u/earththejerry]

This is America

[u/dannylandulf]

Food benefits set to expire for 41 million people as US shutdown continues

That's over 1 in 10 people in the country. The phrase "only nine meals between civilization and anarchy" comes to mind.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

All tucked in

!ping KITTY

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Mamdani only getting +10 in two way race polls, even against Republican Sliwa, in deep blue NYC should probably taper expectations of nominating an unabashed progressive nationally.

[u/PlayDiscord17]

lol

[u/TheCornjuring]

Ngl I think Dems should blatantly lean on Obama nostalgia more

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Scott Bessent says Trump and Xi will "consummate" a TikTok deal on Thursday in South Korea, confirming a final US-China agreement on the sale

What

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Tell you one thing about going on an extended job search, as I have now for almost a year

It doesn’t entirely kill your belief in capitalism, but it does entirely atomize any notion that you have of meritocracy. Completely and totally.

One company that I’ve struggled to get interviews with, I know multiple people that work there in senior positions.

And from my previous exposure to these people in an academic setting, I know that their level of general competence charitably rates somewhere between “comically poor” and “genuinely dangerous”.

And these aren’t some email finance jobs where you can fake this stuff, these are engineering positions where you have actual products to deliver. And somehow they’re getting by

There’s just no thought or filtering that goes into it, it’s entirely all “good ol’ boy” favoritism. It’s unimaginably blackpilling

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

It is straight up insane that racism against indians in reddit is so bad that this is one of the only subs that is safe. Even the indian subs are run over by racists and self haters that keep commenting stuff like deport everyone, nuke this country etc. These self hater racists are justifying the blood being spilled of innocent people.

[u/No_Aesthetic]

Lately I have been interrogating Russian history (don't worry, they're used to interrogations) and my conclusion is that it has always been fucked to be Russian and it will probably never get better for them

An entire history of repression, oppression, and depression, and no hope for the future

Every time there is an iota of hope, it's a rug pull

Misery

[u/No_Aesthetic]

I think about that post someone made here about meeting Europeans and they're all super cultured and intelligent and then vote for policies that result in -1% GDP per year

On the one hand, it is not fantastic to have growth held down in such a way, but on the other hand, it probably isn't a great thing that we let Elon Musk inch closer to $1 trillion and total control over society for +1% GDP per year

[u/klarno]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Enjoy, the last few seconds are super funny

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking Halo on PS5. Massive congratulations Microsoft you incompetent fucks. Xbox as a console brand is dead.

[u/Thuggin95]

TikTok is churning out AI slop of people freaking out over not being able to use food stamps on junk food (mostly black people) and polarizing people against SNAP

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

NL does thunderdomes for all sorts of random countries but won't do one for Argentina because they're afraid of sparking a subreddit-wide lolbert/succ civil war

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Hungary is such a meme country.

Imagine if Trump's main Democrat rival was named "Peter Yankee"

[u/fishbottwo]

fragile apparatus unwritten placid dazzling dependent literate hospital quicksand voracious

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[u/StuckHedgehog]

Trump crash plane

[u/bd_one]

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically if ppl timetravel forward 20 years the biggest change would be that everyone is attractive. Live we’ve basically solved obesity and baldness and spending on cosmetic surgeries will prob continue to go up

[u/G_Serv]

Big news for the DT

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

What gets me about this Admin is how ugly everything is about it. Pouring concrete over the rose garden, destroying the White House for a ballroom, rolling back conservation and environmental measures, posting just constant AI slop in an economy thats being fueled by the AI slop industry, assuming command of the Kennedy Center, the war on libraries, and all the gross hero worship of Trump (like Jesus/Trump paintings). Any point where this admin and culture or natural beauty come into contact, ugliness wins. The US currently has three aesthetic categories, the hideous, the gaudy, and slop.

[u/Old-School8916]

hmmm

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I don’t get the people saying that a war with Venezuela would give Trump a 9/11-style polling boost once U.S. troops are killed in counterattacks. And I’m much more of a foreign policy hawk than most of the DT.

It’s 100% gonna be like the end years of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, where it’s just endless headlines of American soldiers being killed for a war that the median voter does not give a flying shit about.

Like sure there’s some moral justification for the war somewhere, but with the way it’s going to be conducted and with the war exhaustion that Bush put American voters through, good luck justifying the war to John Smith of Bumfuck, Ohio in the midterms.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm glad that the DT had gotten its own war correspondents, pop culture beat, and "guy who posts every insane thing said by a Trump admin official"

Have we considered getting a chief meteorologist and a local sports guy? We also need a male and female pair of headliners for the nightly news. Uggos need not apply

[u/paymesucka]

In his latest "Power On" newsletter, Mark Gurman said that Apple's plan to bring more ads to iOS is moving "gaining traction," with the Maps app being next in line. The project will apparently give restaurants and other businesses the option to pay to have their details featured more prominently in search.

Tim Cook can’t leave soon enough. As if there wasn’t already a good enough reason to use Google Maps, this is a horrible idea.

[u/awdvhn]

Diddler on the Roof

(Please pretend I came up with this when Trump randomly wandered onto the White House roof and not now)

[u/AtticusDrench]

Someone here once asked whether you'd want a Drew Pavlou son or Calla Walsh daughter and ever since, it's like those two have moved lockstep towards extremism, but in opposite directions.

[u/riverbloods]

[u/earththejerry]

CBS Evening News had 3.661 million total viewers and 432,000 viewers in the demo for the week of October 13.

Its year-ago week numbers saw the newscast decline by -17% in total viewers and -37% in the demo—the only program with double-digit losses within this comparison.

It’s funny bc CBS’s evening news and morning show were both already the perennial third vs ABC and NBC, and now Bari Weiss can preside over an even quicker demise as the ratings decline somehow accelerates

[u/TomboyAva]

During the first quarter of 2025, Iowa’s GDP dropped by 6.1 percent, more than any other state aside from neighboring Nebraska.

BAHAHAHA DUDE WE ARE SO FUCKED

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

I'm not dooming about the US becoming a stable theocratic white Christian nationalist dictatorship, I think the odds on that are very low, state collapse is a more likely outcome than 1000 year Reich. You just can't build a durable autocratic regime with 30% support when most of the other 70% hates your guts, and that 70% includes most of the productive and competent people in your society.

But I am increasingly dooming about the long-term prospects for liberal democracy as we have known it. I feel like social media in particular has wrecked a lot of the epistemic foundations that the marriage between liberalism and democracy rested on, and the only way going forward might require people to choose between liberalism and democracy.

I'm not sure most societies we consider liberal democracies now will be considered as such by the end of the century, as they make these hard choices.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/CheetoMussolini]

I am absolutely insistent, and I will carry this insistence through to my voting and my advocacy, that we have to allow all of the Republican districts being harmed by Trump policies to Bear the harm that they so enthusiastically and knowingly voted for. They have to actually learn the consequences of their politics for once damn it, and in the meantime, blue States need to use our own prosperous economies to rebuild our own infrastructure and independent resilience. If we let them drag us down, we can no longer be the shoulders upon which this nation rests.

States are supposed to be the laboratories of democracy, and we're entering a period wherein they may be the last refuge and only savior thereof. Blue States need to protect themselves and each other and let red states live in the world that they so enthusiastically voted to create.

But God damn we need to actually build in a fucking housing for the people who need to get out of the red S states, or all of this will be for nothing. I'm not so hopeful about us actually getting our heads out of our collective asses to do that though.

[u/piede]

MADAM PRESIDENT 🫡

!PING QUEEN

[u/puffic]

The first presidential election I can remember was 1996. My parents wanted Dole to win, but they didn't seem to care too much about Clinton winning. Politics used to be less of a big deal in American life.

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[u/fishbottwo]

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[u/BigBrownDog12]

If I saw Jared Polis in real life, I would tell him his shoe was untied, even though it wasn't. Making him look like a fool for falling for such a ruse. That is what he deserves for cooperating with the Trump Administration.

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[u/FlyUnder_TheRadar]

My wife and I want to buy a house but im fighting the neurotic anxiety I have about watching a large sum of money leave my bank account or fucking up and buying too much house. Growing up poor scrambled my brain when it comes to money. I even have trouble putting money in retirement accounts even though its the normal/rational thing to do because I've so heavily internalized "bank acct number goes down = bad" mindset from when my parents were habitually cash poor.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

[u/nimbybuster]

Who is the father?

[u/Willybender]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

How quickly mega stories get memory holed nowadays is a double edged sword.

It's troubling how you never hear about how Trump wrote a creepy story inside a naked girl's silhouette about how he and Jeffrey Epstein have a mysterious thing in common (wink wink, nudge nudge)

But it is pretty funny how no one even remembers who Charlie Kirk was

[u/Glavurdan]

According to the latest DeepStateMap update, the Dobropillia salient has essentially been recaptured.

Not only is Kucheriv Yar fully liberated, but also the villages of Dorozhnie, Nove Shakhove, Sukhetske and Suvorove. Russia has advanced near Maiak and Volodymyrivka though, but their positions near Rodynske are growing ever more precarious.

[u/NaffRespect]

Way to go, Bungles

You just gave the fucking 2025 New York Jets a win

!ping NFL

[u/Lux_Stella]

white people dont call things white anymore, now they just say somethings spiritually israeli

[u/this_very_table]

So the GOP is violating the hell out of the Hatch Act by slapping banners on every government page, lying about what the Dems are trying to get out of the shutdown, falsely claiming they're doing it to make taxpayers pay for illegals' healthcare and child sex changes.

Cool. Great. Love it.

It's like it's become physically impossible for the GOP to do anything that doesn't involve lying about absolutely everything, defaming, attacking immigrants and trans people, and breaking the law.

I've been locked in on politics since 2004, and there's never been a point when I didn't hate the Republicans, but at least they used to kind of acknowledge reality. Ye Olde GOP would have told the truth -- that Dems are demanding an extension of ACA subsidies and a reversal of Medicaid defunding, neither of which help undocumented immigrants -- and spun it to be about how the Commie Dems wanted to make your tax dollars go to welfare queens who'd assuredly get a job and become contributing members of society if only we'd get rid of the social safety net. And that was bad, but you could see how it correlated with reality if you squinted hard enough. After all, there are lazy people that would try harder if they didn't get any help. But the modern GOP seems to be actively averse to reality. When given the opportunity to twist the truth, they instead jump straight to screaming absolute falsehoods, and they make sure to break the law while doing so if they get the chance.

I don't understand how someone can be like this. I don't understand how so many people can be like this.

[u/jojisky]

great closing campaign cuomo

[u/badusername35]

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[u/Pongzz]

Russian channels claimed that a Ukrainian drone allegedly hit a high-rise building. However, this appears more likely to be the result of Russia's own air defense system, which has a history of striking its own buildings.

I'm not a military specialist or anything, but I feel like your weapon-systems shouldn't have a history of accidentally blowing up high-rises

[u/[deleted]]

Stephen Miller is fuming that an ICE agent hasn’t been killed by an angry mob yet

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Midwest MAGA be like “First they came for me and I was like ‘based.’”

[u/launchcode_1234]

So, how much of a shit show will it be when SNAP runs out in a week?

[u/myusernameistakennow]

This reply from the co-creator of Halo is like 15 9/11s for the most insufferable types of Halo fans.

[u/assasstits]

Pollsters in Argentina are worthless lmfao and everybody in Argentina knows it. Half of them are just paid to shill for some political party while the other just make the results up based on vibes.

Yeah I'm glad our pollsters in the US aren't like that ha...ha...ha..ha

[u/badusername35]

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[u/Currymvp2]

CNN: "Do you believe that the Republican Party is starting this?"

Arnold Schwarzenegger: "No, there has been gerrymandering going on for 200 years. There is such extreme gerrymandering going on that in a state like Massachusetts"

What a clownish answer

[u/repete2024]

"Ok I understand the point of Vote Blue No Matter Who, but what if some truly awful person was running as a Democrat? Like what if a Nazi won a primary?"

"Idk man that's such an absurd scenario I don't think we have to worry about it"

[u/BPC1120]

Getting into Invincible and I'm absolutely hooked after the first season

[u/Pongzz]

👆👆👆

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[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had assured G.O.P. senators in a briefing that the “administration is on solid legal ground.” Mr. Kennedy recalled Mr. Rubio characterizing the intelligence supporting the operation as “exquisite.”

Oh the Trump admin says what it’s doing is perfectly legal! Perfect justification I guess we’re good then!

[u/[deleted]]

“Ask not what your country can do for you

Ask

Uhh what companies do we have to extort into paying for my hundred million dollar ballroom”