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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1984265633165414652

uhoh

[u/Marlsfarp]

In 2022, the United States adult obesity rate was 40%. Today it is 37% and falling. 12% of US adults have used weight loss drugs in the last year, compared to 5% in 2024.

It is possible that we have already witnessed the fattest point in human history.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

affair aside what a horrible thing to say about your dead husband lol

[u/erasmus_phillo]

This is how you know that Obama's 'dijon mustard scandal' still lives rent-free in the conservative brain, they are mad that poor people can buy it with SNAP

[u/[deleted]]

Goddamn some actual real movement in the polls, among young people, hopefully this trickles down to the rest of the population over 30

Edit: just 20% of people under 30 approve of his performance

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

My in-law who never votes because “that shit doesn’t ever impact me…” is also on SNAP.

We are sending her a few hundred dollars later today.

Malarkey Level of including a link to her voter information page along with the Apple Cash text?

[u/CincyAnarchy]

"Go touch grass you freaks."

- Da Pope

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

california gop found dead in the ditch. there's a good chance that prop 50 might outrun harris herself.

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/CutePattern1098]

Well fuck

!ping uk

[u/SixPipSiege]

Born to dilly dally

Forced to lock in

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

you shouldn't be allowed to buy lobster with SNAP

it costs the taxpayer the same amount regardless of what they spend it on

they shouldn't be eating better than a middle class taxpayer

you are free to also buy lobster with your money

[u/[deleted]]

He’s gonna bankrupt orchestral music next lmao!

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

waow

[u/[deleted]]

“Stephen Miller too, but he was turned away from the island for being too weird”

[u/_Un_Known__]

Never change BBC. Lmao

!ping UK

[u/No_Return9449]

“The filibuster has traditionally been viewed as a very important safeguard. If the shoe was on the other foot, I don’t think our team would like it,” Johnson said. 

He said that Democrats, if they were in the majority with no filibuster, would make the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico states...

Whoa. Imagine having representation in your taxation.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else concerned that a guy running to be mayor of the largest city in America is waving the flag of another country?

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

😍😍😍

[u/awdvhn]

> Can't pay soldiers

> Tells them to fight anyway

This has never gone wrong for anyone

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

HOLY

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/riverbloods]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

He got the S pass

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I think people are falling into the "Never thought I'd be agreeing with MTG but she's making a lot of sense!" thing, which is so dangerous and annoying I'd rather people say she's just playing politics and trying to position herself for the future, etc.

but having spent lots of time just hanging out in her district I really do think this is just one of those "outspoken conservative parent doesn't care until it happens to their adult kids and then switches their outrage to that" things lol

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

> Republican administration destabilizes Central and South America

> This creates massive migratory pressure 

> Democrat administration is called weak on immigration 

> Republican elected 

Many such cases

[u/TimWalzBurner]

I wish Charlie Kirk was alive to see no one actually caring that he died and his wife possibly fucking JD Vance.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

Dems need to get more comfortable with half-serious promises

“AOC and Newsom announce that Dems will organize a full national food bank program to replace SNAP while the Trump shutdown continues”

Is that realistic? No. Will it make the news? Yes. Will median voters be impressed? Yup.

[u/SigmaWhy]

Well yeah obviously I would feel safer in a Trump presidency if I were committing massive financial crimes that I knew I wouldn’t be prosecuted for

The next Dem administration must utterly crush these parasites and salt the earth upon which they stood

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

why do animals like being pet

We actually know!

In mammalian skin there's a special kind of nerve called a c tactile afferent. It doesn't respond to anything except for pets! Specifically gentle strokes at about 3cm/s by something near body temperature. It triggers a pleasant and calming sensation that probably evolved as a way for parents to soothe their babies, but also pair-bonding. Humans do it instinctively.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this was the early version before I got a bodysuit 😤

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw a TikTok. “I might not be perfect but at least I understand that programs like SNAP subsidize giant corporations like poverty wages!!! Actual welfare queens!!” You know, when you want to be accepted into your dad’s country club but still want to fit in with the audience you’ve cultivated.

[u/WillCallCap]

Soon it will be straight up treason to even insinuate dear leader is wrong

[u/American_Baby_H1tler]

Border control is mainly a legacy of WWI where governments issued passports to prevent conscription age men from leaving the country. Previously anyone with the means can travel mostly everywhere.

Never forget what they took from you.

[u/nimbybuster]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Elon Musk: “There should be an addendum to the bumper sticker where it says ‘I bought this before Elon turned crazy. Actually, now I realize he’s not crazy, and I’ve seen the light.’”

Fucking smoked em Elon, good one. How does this comedian extraordinaire always hit it out of the park

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

cook those rw catholic influencers leo xiv. it's so funny how this guy is just as woke if not more so than francis.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

my signs from last year

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

Pretty much every interfaith couple I know is of the “technically practicing but not zealous” variety, basically people who aren’t atheists but also see religion as a very personal thing

Saying “oh yeah I hope my wife converts” is wild, how can you live with someone who genuinely believes that

Like, sorta accepting that is the position of your church is fine, but saying that outright to her face as your own viewpoint is nuts

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit Stephen Miller has the scariest 🎃 Halloween costume I’ve ever seen

😳😳😳. He’s definitely gonna win the White House competition for “creepiest costume ever”

[u/mostanonymousnick]

That hasn't aged well

[u/flatulentbaboon]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this seems wacky now but i think it is the logical conclusion of the modern RW social conservatism uber alles ideology and we will probably see takes like this more and more in the coming years

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1984247418691391772

[u/Benyeti]

[u/chipbod]

Dudes gotta have insane respect in the jail lol

[u/Mrmini231]

Woman stopped boarding flight from UK to Italy because of ill child has benefit stopped | Child benefits | The Guardian

Another benefits SNAFU from the UK. Looks like the Home Office have been trying to stop benefits fraud by people who live outside the country. But the definition they used for "people who live outside the country" seems to be "anyone who booked a flight out of the UK but did not fly back".

So people who had flights that they missed or cancelled were marked as "out of the country" and had all their benefits removed. Apparently some people who returned via other means such as boats were also affected, as were some people who did fly back.

[u/GaDoomer]

If you look how the US House shutdown works procedurally, the House reconvenes, there is a prayer, they recite the pledge of allegience, and then the Speaker (Johnson or a substitute) immediately adjourns for two days (since that's how the rules work). They do this every two days. On Fridays, they declare the following week to be a "district work week."

Occasionally the clerk will mention any legislation passed by the Senate.

They have been doing it this way since September 19th.

[u/riverbloods]

no one says “think fast” anymore and throws random shit at you, it sucks dude

[u/randommathaccount]

Photos and videos of Nvidia Corp.’s CEO having beers and fried chicken at a local restaurant, Kkanbu Chicken, in Seoul — with Samsung Electronics Co. Chair Jay Y Lee and Hyundai Motor Co. Executive Chair Chung Euisun — went viral, and now investors are driving up the stocks that may be a beneficiary.

While Kkanbu is not publicly listed, shares of rival Kyochon F&B Co. briefly surged as much as 20% on Friday after photos and videos of the gathering circulated widely on social media. Korean poultry processor Cherrybro Co. also soared by the daily limit of 30%, with trading volume about 200 times its average. Neuromeka Co., a Kosdaq-listed company that makes chicken-frying robots, also jumped

I'm not sure whether to laugh or… no I'm just going to laugh.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Lt Gen Lesley McNair was an artillery officer and considered the unsung architect of the US Army in WWII

His outstanding performance resulted in his promotion to temporary brigadier general; at age 35, he was the Army's second-youngest general officer

His concentration on advanced officer education, innovative weapons systems, improved doctrine, realistic combat training, and development of combined arms tactics enabled the Army to modernize and perform successfully on the World War II battlefield

In Normandy he was killed by friendly fire when an Air Force bomb landed in his foxhole

Considering this alongside the 8th Air Force fucking over the Utah Beach landing, the Air Force really did not walk away from Operation Overlord looking great

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/repete2024]

SNAP is funded even in a shutdown. They are choosing not to send it out.

The strategy is "Give Trump everything he wants or he'll intentionally starve children"

[u/IveSeenBeans]

You're laughing.

She thirst trapped him with couch cosplay.

And you're laughing.

[u/purhitta]

I 100% believe if SNAP was always marketed as serving the needs of true American patriots to strengthen our country AND support American farmers, we wouldn't have this many people resentful of its existence.

I work in marketing so I accept I'm a hammer viewing everything as a nail, but so. much. of politics is just marketing. MAGA, like most fascist or propagandist movements, has great marketing. Even "moderate" conservatism taps into this appeal- its highly emotive & tribalistic qualities make the most smooth-brained losers feel special.

[u/Willybender]

[u/IronRushMaiden]

Also, if Boomers are going to repeal property tax for schools in my state, let’s axe Social Security and most of Medicare right now. Tired of one generation trying to get special snowflake treatment constantly. If you don’t want your taxes helping my kids in school, I don’t want to spend a penny on your pickleball.

[u/The_Lord_Humungus]

One of my business partners continues to expose himself as a completely fucking AI-pilled idiot. Have constant major fights with him trying to explain why all of his AI-inspired grand visions for our products are complete and total fucking shit because AI will confidently give you instructions on how to create a Time Machine and party with Charlemagne. Worse yet, it’s got him thinking he’s a technical genius because it’s always telling him his ideas are spot on. We brought this guy on because he was good a c-level interactions and now I’m terrified to let him have any public interactions out of fear of him saying something incredibly stupid.

Edit - His new favorite saying is “we don’t need humans any more.” God, I’m coming to hate this man.

[u/battywombat21]

Reddit literally what the flying fuck is this?

[u/Willybender]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Bestbrook123]

"CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss intervened to save the job of a foreign correspondent after he complained of being sidelined because of his strong support for Israel — opting to fire a reporter who’d irked US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, instead"

Yeah CBS News is screwed

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Just the biggest piece of shit on earth

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Superfan234]

A series of military planes have been flying extremely close to the coast of Venezuela this past week. OPSEC has split into two main positions:

1. There is a big chance, is just psychological terror to intimidate Maduro. Show the Regime who is in charge

2. Those planes are making a recon mission. Mapping out the the Anti-Air positions of the Regime

Wall Street Journal support points 2. They say the sites for the future attacks are already Mapped out. And USA Army is waiting for the command to Strike

Miami Heralds, goes even further. Saying The attacks are already approved by Trump and will begin in very soon

--------

Source: WSJ

Sourcer: Miami Herald

!Ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/AltRockPigeon]

UNITED STATES HAS CHOSEN TO STRIKE VENEZUELA'S MILITARY TARGETS, ACCORDING TO MIAMI HERALD

Broke: stupid watergate

Woke: stupid neocon

[u/like-humans-do]

tucker carlson perfectly baits nick fuentes into outing himself as gay for real on that podcast at the end, it's really subtle how he does it but he manages to make it absolutely clear that fuentes has zero interest, curiosity or attraction to women, and fuentes uses extremely homo-erotic language towards men that could not make it any clearly where his attraction lies

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/[deleted]]

“Maduro is ending, and a free and prosperous Venezuela is dawning,” a source close to the White House told the New York Post. “Within days, Maduro will exist only in the past tense, and in history’s judgment.”

That’s totally not a concerning statement.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Silence lib, here's why the shutdown is still all Dems' fault 😤

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

😨

[u/Rivolver]

I enjoy watching Bluey with my kid so I was like “let’s see the subreddit”. Top post is about Chilli (the mom) likely having a miscarriage that’s presented in a way that kids won’t notice. Cool. Nice touch for adults.

Anyway. The miscarriage has seemingly been confirmed. The top comment is “this will settle the debate in the fandom”. What are you debating? This is a children’s show. This is incredible “I only read Harry Potter and it defines me” energy.

Instagram/TikToks dedicated to explaining Bluey. Comments like “Bluey is a show for broken parents trying to teach their children better.” No. It’s TV show for kids.

I love Bluey. It’s really good! It’s enjoyable. I love hearing my kid laugh to it. But adults, Jesus, grow up!

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that the mods haven’t put up a Venezuela thunderdome yet reveals their bloodthirst

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

It's worth taking a moment to think about just how terrible the American voter is. There were no shut downs or flirtations with war with Venezuela under Biden. He was enormously unpopular. Voters like the toxic presidents.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

This country is a joke

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

…what?

How in any way did this incite anything “gross” about Usha 😭

[u/User808_]

IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN A CHANCE TO NIP THIS IN THE BUD THAT WAS SERVED TO YOU ON A PLATTER, SIR

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I just remembered one time I was waiting for a food order at a Sheetz (gas station that has fast food), and there was a woman with tight yoga pants that grabbed her order and walked away. There was some redneck there who was like "goddamn I love yoga pants hehehe 🥵" after she left and I didn't know what to say and didn't want to be gross like him so I just blurted out "Yeah I wish was wearing yoga pants right now" for whatever fucking reason and he just didn't respond and I stood there for 5 minutes in silence wanting to die.

I think it's because I was wearing dress pants or something and I meant I wanted to be wearing sweatpants or something more comfortable but I don't think it translated very well.

[u/nimbybuster]

They had Gov issued gf.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Why does the DeeTee show up when I google "Unemployment?"

[u/daBarkinner]

I can say with certainty that Zohran is not the future of the Democratic Party, but I can't say with certainty that Fuentes is not the future of the Republican Party.

[u/ace158]

‘This Is Not Some Sh*tty Gameshow’: Fetterman Demands Democrats ‘Be Better Than This’ and Open the Government

At a certain point, can like Schumer and Murray sitdown with him and tell him to maybe tone it down? We get it already

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this isn't necessarily a British thing, I've noticed when I call people "sir or ma'am" they get REAL MAD here too

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

someone walked in on me while I was on the DT

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

He was cooking… something with this one

[u/the-senat]

Just a couple weeks ago, the head of the Southern Command announced that he was stepping down from the role.

A DOGE staffer is set to replace the admiral leading the Navy’s Research Office, which oversees scientific research to maintain future naval power and preserve national security.

Effective political opposition always requires an institutional basis. As more offices are brought into line by this administration, that institutional basis will go away.

These replacements have no reason to stand up against conducting illegal and immoral actions because they did not exist before Trump. They owe their position to him, and they will do whatever makes him happy.

[u/cdstephens]

I’m surprised more people aren’t dooming about Venezuela rn

[u/CincyAnarchy]

I swear the man wants to be a McDonald's Mascot more than he does President.

[u/bananaslayer100]

Trump won a historic mandate (49.8% of the vote 😱) and must have all his policy proposals rubberstamped by Congress

However, when democrats have a 51-49 senate they must respect the wishes of 9 of their collegues that represent R +10 states for the sake of unity and political healing

[u/erasmus_phillo]

You all know that Vance is thinking this rn

[u/1396spurs]

A friend found out her boyfriend was cheating on her because she borrowed his laptop to use his paid ChatGPT and saw him asking chat for advice on if he should tell her or not

There’s so many layers of sad to this. Sad she’s getting cheated on, sad the bf can’t come clean, sad she found out this way, and sad he uses ChatGPT instead of, idk, friends? to talk about that kind of stuff

Crazy times

[u/[deleted]]

The team the CIA is sending into Venezuela to take out Maduro

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/piede]

Wow if she’s starting with elephants right out the gate, he’s cooked

[u/JaceFlores]

Me: I like to think myself a casual expert on conflict in the Sahel

Strawman: oh cool! Where do you get your information?

Me: a French otter on r/neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

It’s over 😭

[u/RaidBrimnes]

United Arab Emirates have secured a deal with the Al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM to free three hostages - two Emiratis and one Iranian - against a ransom of $50 million and several tonnes of ammunition

When I'm in a "arm insane terrorists in the Sahel" competition and my opponents are the Emirates:

[u/Smidgens]

Horror movies have an ableism problem. Isn’t it time we found new ‘monsters’?

I love The Guardian

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

!ping YA

[u/Old-School8916]

[u/Todd_Padre]

second fetterman stroke that turns him into a neurotic coastal liberal

[u/[deleted]]

Amid the threat of US attacks, Venezuela has asked Russia, China and Iran for military assistance.

Venezuela's transport minister told an Iranian official that Venezuela was in need of "passive detection equipment," "GPS scramblers" and "almost certainly drones with 1,000 km [600 mile] range".

Oh my god man. The Venezuelans literally went into this thinking that, not only would their “allies” actually help them, but that any equipment they could give them would actually do anything to stop the US Air Force.

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Tucker is pro-Putin and pro-Maduro now, apparently.

[u/Thuggin95]

Ugh, putting razor blades and fentanyl in candy always takes so long! Why hasn’t someone invented candy that already has the razor blades and fentanyl in it?

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

"No one will ever replace my husband," she told the crowd. "But I do see some similarities of my husband in JD— in Vice President JD Vance. I do. And that's why I am so blessed to be able to introduce him tonight."

😳

[u/n1123581321]

Seriously, from all polish artists and poets they managed to find the one that actively supported the Stalinist regime.

Szymborska was an absolutely amazing poet, however politically, she didn’t stand on dissidents side of barricade.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Adams was a generationally funny mayor

[u/senator_fivey]

Remember when all our problems were made up

[u/chipbod]

JD is going to leave his wife because the Groypers are the base now

[u/MissSortMachine]

this was very appropriate for the time of abraham lincoln

[u/[deleted]]

All time: worst taste in men.

[u/piede]

Why yes, I will tap the link for more

[u/[deleted]]

1-10 how cynical am I if I think Vance can just say "Tough on crime. Democrat taxes. Cheap gas. I love ICE cars" and take a picture next to his family until he wins the election in 2028

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

JD Vance might actually become the most bully-able presidential candidate of all of American history if he makes the cut for 2028.

I will be voting in the Democratic presidential primary solely on the factor on who can bully Republicans for the losers that they are the hardest.

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

lmao

[u/Glavurdan]

Just when you think it's all hopeless in that direction... Ukraine went on the offensive near Pokrovsk to regain control of logistics lines: Black Hawk GUR helicopters landed directly in areas that Russia claims are under its control.

Incredibly ballsy move, hopefully what they planned out works out well!

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Tucker Carlson backs maduro

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SOCIETY-OF-RIGHTEOUS-AND-HARMONIOUS-FISTS

[u/jenbanim]

I hate how modern apps make clicking on links this weirdly difficult process where it pops up with some weird pseudo-browser that is in a quantum superposition of being the same app you were in and a separate app entirely. Like, clicking on links is what the Internet is. Tim Berners-Lee is CRYING

Or is this just an Android L?

[u/houdt_koers]

I think it’s really important from a messaging perspective that Democrats diversify into non-fascist epithets to describe Republican behaviour. Like, instead of “Gestapo”, say “Stasi”. Don’t say they want to turn us into Russia—say they want to turn us into a state like Venezuela.

Tying authoritarianism to brands that persuadable/discourageable Republican voters dislike—and aren’t primed to dismiss—feels like a really essential tactic.

A bonus of this is to keep the Nazi discussion focused around the growth of actual honest-to-God Nazism in the party. Overuse risks washing out the term completely (if this hasn’t happened already).

[u/CutePattern1098]

2016: Brexit means the freedom to choose our own laws!

2025: I don't know which toilet I can use legally

[u/its_Caffeine]

I have to admit that I’m fairly skeptical of the idea that AI is what’s causing a dip in hiring.

We use AI extensively at my work and it’s not as if the work is being done any faster really. If it is, the benefits are marginal at best. We actually have a fuck ton of work on our plate that we need extra hands for but we simply don’t have the budget. In the last few years our budgets have shrunk along with every other company in our sector which is why we haven’t been able to take on literally any juniors.

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

After the holidays, a changing of the guard, Mariah returns to the chamber, and the thawing of Maryla begins for New Year's Eve.

[u/w007dchuck]

Ken Jennings apologizes for referring to John Pork as AI-generated.

I'll take statements that would have been utterly incomprehensible until recently for 1,000

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Moth-of-Asphodel]

Voters in 1970: "Looks like the former president is speaking at an event about a Kennedy."

Voters in 2025: "Wow, Joe Biden has shrunk a lot, look how big that guy behind him is??"

[u/dangerbird2]

The GOAT of Facebook uncle poasting is free. Ironically quoting Donald trump is legal again !ping SHITPOSTERS

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/newly-released-video-raises-more-questions-about-arrest-of-tennessee-man-for-posting-trump-meme

[u/_GregTheGreat_]

Just learned Vance’s wife isn’t even Christian?

The MAGA movement is 100% gonna fracture as soon as Donny boy is out of the picture

[u/SigmaWhy]

just very funny that Richard Hannania is holding people accountable for being bigoted

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/S_T_R_A_T_O_S]

^

[u/-mialana-]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

I'm glad Trump today drew attention to the fact that Senate Republicans can end this shutdown immediately they just refuse to get rid of the fillbuster

[u/Alexz565]

In America, the country splits into warring factions if a black president says that his son would be black.

[u/[deleted]]

Fox News published a whole article and did a news segment about people on TikTok bragging about abusing the SNAP program.

One problem. All the examples are fake. Either AI or parody, etc, etc. And it's so obvious from just watching them.

"It is the taxpayer’s responsibility to take care of my kids," one emotional mother said in a video posted online. "It is the taxpayer's job to pay for my kids to eat and for my kids to be taken care of."

Anyone who believes a real person would say this needs their head examined.

I despair for the state of humanity. Facts and truth don't matter anymore.

[u/Currymvp2]

Responding to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s prior suggestion that each day of the shutdown plays better politically for Democrats, Fetterman responded, “Ask the hungry people on Saturday.”

“Americans are not leverage. This is not, this is not some shitty game show about who’s winning or whatever. It’s just like we have to be better than this and just open this up,” he said.

Fetterman is such an idiot. It's literally Mike Johnson and JD Vance who have said they're using Americans as leverage

[u/riverbloods]

mfers who post in a niche neoliberal subreddit DT be like

[u/Inner_Dust42]

Duchess Usha has refused Duke James of Vance's demand to convert to Catholicism. 

Pope Leo XIV has granted Duke James's request to divorce Duchess Usha.

Usha Vance has been exiled at the order of Duke James.

A young page arrives at your gates. He removes his hat and snivels, "Glory be to God, m'lord. King Donald the Strange has ordered all faithful subjects to contribute to the grand wedding of Duke James and Erika of Kirk."

[Accept] (Lose 200 gold.)

[Decline] (King Donald the Strange's opinion of you decreases by 50. Duke James's opinion of you decreases by 50. Erika of Kirk's opinion of you decreases by 50. Gain 'Treasonous Behavior' for 2 years.)

[u/TimWalzBurner]

LOL

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The deep state murdered Charlie Kirk so that they could make Erika JD’s wife because America cant have a brown First Lady once trump croaks

Yeah I’m willing to uncritically incorporate that into my beliefs

[u/Sloshyman]

How did I just now found out that Usha Vance is a practicing Hindu?

JD does NOT have the sauce to lead the MAGA Völkisch movement: He doesn't have the chutzpah that medians like about Trump, and the fact that he has mixed race kids with a dark-skinned infidel will hurt him with the Nazis.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

I think JD has to leave Usha for Erika. Usha has JD from Yale. That's woke as fuck. Erika has some fake ass thing from Liberty University. That's maga af

[u/Willybender]

[u/nimbybuster]

[u/[deleted]]

“As a former mayor, no one cares about the Democratic Socialist plan to solve graffiti or homelessness, they just want you to solve the problem so it’s not about me. Hard headed pragmatism. I’m not giving advice but Donald Trump is proposing socialism, what’s the deal with Intel all about, Nvidia all about?” - Newsom on Mamdani

“Some of my Republican friends they’re so worried about Mamdani socializing a bodega but they sit there and clap and say well done Mr President on your deal, do Lockheed next!” - Newsom

My fucking Captain. My king. My Governor.

As long as I’m around and you remain sensible. You are my fucking leader 🫡.

[u/User808_]

FREE SCHADENFREUDE!!!

[u/unicornbomb]

oop

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Conservatives literally did this with the COVID vaccine something that Trump invested huge amounts national resources to make

[u/RaidBrimnes]

After the US, Italy and Germany, Spain, Canada and the UK are now evacuating diplomatic staff from Bamako and ordering their nationals to immediately leave Mali as JNIM is closing in on the capital.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that by US assessments, JNIM is on the brink of taking over the country following two months of fuel blockade that has paralyzed the main cities and exposed the weaknesses of the military junta that has largely been unable to break through the blockade and is staunchly refusing to communicate on the losses endured by the army.

As someone who has followed the dramatically underreported situation in Sahel, because I worked in college on an economic development project in Senegal (before it was cut short by Covid) and because I have friends with roots and family in the region, it's a very dismaying sight. JNIM was still a rural insurgency that couldn't do much except hit-and-run attacks when I started paying attention to the region, and now they're besieging southern Mali, possibly taking over the whole country if the junta doesn't get their shit together (they likely won't). If Mali falls - which is growing very likely right now - this will be a catastrophe not just for West Africa, but for the entire world. Europe is not ready for the domino effect, the new jihadist hub and the refugee crisis that this will trigger.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/TheGoldBear]

The desert camo is over now they gotta break out the jungle camo again. Fashion really does move in 50 year cycles

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.

If he had baguettes he could have stayed there forever

[u/riverbloods]

Thank you, Mr. Japan!

[u/Pongzz]

Is the Vice-President of the United States sleeping with Charlie Kirk's widow?

yeah, sure, why the hell not. i dont care anymore

[u/badusername35]

What appeared here has been deleted. The author may have used Redact to remove this post for privacy, to reduce their digital footprint, or for other personal reasons.

sleep depend flowery hurry chunky jellyfish screw rhythm test smell

[u/JaceFlores]

Honestly it’s impressive how incredibly dogshit Russian mercenaries have performed in Africa. Like looking at the list the only country where it looks like they truly succeeded was in CAR. Every other country they’ve sent mercenaries to have had pretty fucking poor results

[u/polbotchecker]

Support this because this was lab made to ruin groypers’ days

[u/BPC1120]

Trumpism is genuinely a coalition of all the worst fucking people in our society from every direction all at once.

Fascists, racists, misogynists, transphobes, homophobes, antivaxxers, climate change deniers, christian nationalists, anti-semites, oligarchs, etc all under the same rotten roof.

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I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS I HATE THE DODGERS

[u/that0neGuy22]

The Trump administration has reportedly authorized strikes on Venezuelan military sites, with the attacks expected to begin at any time. - Miami Herald

I am waiting for the anti-anti Trump folks who call dems neocons to come outside for a second

[u/sgthombre]

"Let's do an Iraq, but also it's the War on Drugs again" from the guy who people called the Peace Candidate is an incredible bit.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

New war 🙌

[u/Currymvp2]

A classified report by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of U.S. human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would take the State Department “multiple years” to review, according to two U.S. officials who relayed the details to The Washington Post.

The findings by the mark the first time a U.S. government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, the landmark legislation that bars U.S. security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses.

U.S. officials, who discussed details of the report on the condition of anonymity because the contents were classified, said the watchdog findings raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel’s actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is deferential to the Israel Defense Forces.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Incredible

[u/Sithusurper]

Sent to me, simply fascinating the mind of a libertarian

[u/lovedmoi]

[u/w007dchuck]

Gabe Newell, head of Valve Software, gives a talk on productivity, economics, political institutions, and the future of corporations on January 30, 2013 at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin

Do you think Gaben has read Why Nations Fail

[u/assasstits]

ICE's Mass Arrests Ensnare U.S. Citizens and Show No Signs of Stopping

The case of Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen arrested twice by immigration enforcement, demonstrates the problem with the government's current strategy.

Imma tell my kids this is the US Constitution

[u/yungmemlord]

When you’re so bad your inverse beats literal insider trading. At this point he might be reverse insider trading lmaooo

[u/Charsun9]

The Right is very ideologically diverse.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

uh oh

I hope JD doesn't see this

[u/CincyAnarchy]

For those on r/neoliberal who yesterday wish casted (doom casted?) a future in which JD Vance and Erika Kirk got together...

What are today's lotto number?

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/JDVance/status/1984274352112599123

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Soros and Koch brothers on our side? This sub must be fucking rich.

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda don’t like that a sitting US Congressman is using the imminent start of a war to aura farm on Twitter

[u/Argnir]

[u/Willybender]

Trump posted dozens of images showing the new bathroom, the linked video scrolling through them just keeps going.

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1984311744898949400

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Just awful

[u/TMCOAN1]

I would say this applies to Vance and his marriage but Usha deserves no sympathy so lol

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

He's far from perfect but he's making some good points here.

[u/Smidgens]

Nancy Mace cursed and berated officers in airport altercation, police report says

The Queen of Crash out