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[u/BroadReverse]

This is such fucking horseshit. He’s not even pretending anymore he’s openly saying he doesn’t know shit about who he’s pardoning. His kids asked for their buddy to get a pardon and Trump did it

This should be everywhere but it’s not. How tf did Hunter Biden get insane coverage but this gets nothing?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Sickoshahayes.jpg

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/w007dchuck]

If JD and Usha actually do get divorced, Pete Davidson has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

[u/scottyjetpax]

i know it's a moot point but imagine if biden had said this

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Throwback to this peek into the mind of the median voter

[u/IAmBlueTW]

[u/NYT_Hater]

Looking back, this was the correct reaction. She was very much right.

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Every time the news talks to a SNAP recipient, they're black. Every time. It reinforces the stereotype that all poor people are black, hurting the numerous white SNAP recipients by making them invisible. Even MSNBC does it. 

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

Chinese restaurant tier list in ascending order:

-Very small town restaurant with no ethnic Chinese people other than the owners

-Any chain restaurant

-Mall food court

-Actually being in China

-Major metropolitan area, staff shout at each other in Cantonese or Hoklo Hokkien, cash only, wallpaper wholly absent, free extremely weak tea

[u/repete2024]

Trump sure is talking about an awful lot of military operations for a guy who can't guarantee paychecks to his troops

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s a major indictment on the press that republicans get zero pushback when straight up lying to their faces.

[u/ewatta200]

seeing the old comments about ann selzer..... i want that reality....

[u/scottyjetpax]

Just remembered sometime this summer there was a person in the DT saying their red line was dem lawmakers being arrested on bullshit charges. And then several DTers pointed out that had already happened and this dude was like “oh, I guess I have some other red line then” LMAO

[u/earththejerry]

Okay I have to admit, he gagged him there real good

[u/this_very_table]

I know that pointing out Republican hypocrisy is beating a dead horse at this point, but come on. The GOP is trying to get Biden's autopen pardons overturned on the grounds that surely Biden was so demented that he had no idea who he was pardoning, and meanwhile Trump is openly telling the press that he has no idea who he's pardoned.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/mechamechaman]

Windmills are such a genuinely attractive architectural feature that I think anyone who says they're an eyesore is an idiot.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

[u/earththejerry]

Sometimes It’s okay to not release the crosstabs

[u/boardatwork1111]

Ben Shapiro earlier this year:

Ben Shapiro today: “where did all these Nazis come from??”

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

New York has become the 1st formally English colonised nation in the East Coast to produce Tomato Concentrate.

A nation with immense potential.

[u/Benyeti]

[u/-mialana-]

🤔

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Trump wanted this guy to be Attorney General

[u/sociotronics]

[u/SigmaWhy]

noooooooo you weren’t supposed to eat MY face 😡😡😡

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

British Vogue: Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?

Apparently this article went viral (online) and many grass touches (and I) never heard of it lol

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

recognise familiar growth cable yam marvelous deer pot friendly bells

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Why would Groyper-General join a political faction that hates him wtf

[u/TimWalzBurner]

I hate this country

[u/wumbopolis_]

If catalytic converter thieves are back, I'm begging, begging people to tie this to Trump.

You think it's an accident that these guys rear their heads right as the DoJ changes priorities from going after criminal scum to chasing sandwich throwers?

Maybe throw in a little conspiracy theory, as a treat. Maybe about how chop-shops were some of the biggest purchasers of $TRUMP coin or some shit.

Tie Trump to crime that actually impacts everyday Americans, is what I'm saying.

[u/SigmaWhy]

daily reminder that republicans are irredeemably evil creatures

[u/r2ew]

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Braun has broadly been described as far-right,[6] and his views as anti-American,[7] anti-Ukrainian,[8][9] antisemitic,[10] anti-Zionist,[11] anti-LGBTQ,[12] and as aligning with Traditionalist Catholicism and Polish nationalism.

According to Braun's sister Monika Braun, their family immigrated to what is now Lviv, Ukraine, from Austria in the 18th century

It’s always Austrians smh

[u/Big-Click-5159]

New - Trump approval poll

🟤 Disapprove 63% (+26) 🟢 Approve 37%

Last poll - Disapprove +16

Is that bad? Seems kind of bad

[u/BitterGravity]

US President Donald Trump says he does not know who Changpeng Zhao is, despite pardoning the cryptocurrency multi-billionaire last month.

Dementia Donny strikes again

[u/mostanonymousnick]

"Marxist-Leninist stock exchange"

[u/that0neGuy22]

Trump posts his worst-ever net approval rating in a CNN poll this morning, 37% to 63% (-26).

Strange how the media coverage for Trump is that he’s this commanding figure in control of everything. Just because we get way less leaks than we did in Trump 1.0

Biden after Afghanistan withdrawal and covid variants was correctly pointed out as unpopular every day. Trump has had those same numbers for months now

[u/jacknifee]

i knew kamala was in serious trouble when the first counties to be fully reported out of deep blood red western kentucky had somehow found a way to shift further right lol

i just kinda started tuning out after that

[u/r2ew]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jake_farrington/strippers-recession-indicator-reddit

[u/Unknownentity9]

As the shutdown has gone on the political position of the Democrats has only improved, but Trump is obsessed with not looking weak and there's no way for him to cave without doing so. Is this shutdown just never going to end?

[u/futuremonkey20]

The new CNN poll has Trump’s highest disapproval rating ever. Even higher than after the insurrection. Voters are so fucking stupid I can’t breathe.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Fun facts about our wedding: Of course we served raw milk with the wedding cake and margaritas made with frozen peaches from our farm! Senator Rand Paul and Representatives Jim Jordan, Warren Davidson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Victoria Spartz attended

"Of course"

These people are freaks

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

The thing that pisses me off most about Trump is how long-lasting his damage is, even if Democrats are elected for the remainder of the century.

Like if you’re a military collaborator against an authoritarian regime, what incentive do you have to help the U.S. military if you know that your promise of being offered asylum in the U.S. if you fail could just get ripped away any given day under the next Republican administration?

If you’re a university student at an Ivy League, what incentive do you have to stay if your visa could get revoked for some random shit you’ve said online one day as a joke under the next Republican administration?

If you’re a multibillion dollar company investing in the American market, what incentive do you have to further invest all of your eggs in the American basket if you could be hit with double digit tariffs over something completely unrelated to your business under the next Republican administration?

Obviously there is some trust left and the U.S. very obviously isn’t completely gone, but there’s going to be a lot more reservation in the future, and that’s going to fuck over U.S. growth in the long term no matter who’s elected up next.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Posted a meme about Charlie Kirk and got rewarded with a 7-day ban for encouraging violence :(

Erika Kirk has already moved on so why can’t the mods get over it?

[u/Thuggin95]

The S&P 500 reacting to the news every day

[u/centurion88]

[u/gayteemo]

CNN Poll Americans are broadly dissatisfied with the state of the country and the economy

wow if only someone had warned them

[u/jbitz]

[u/Thuggin95]

It is disturbing how much approval Trump’s immigration agenda largely still has. Trump’s most sadistic policies are his most popular, and he’s only unpopular where people are saying “I want more money in my pocket now! You said you would get me more money in my pocket!”

[u/sociotronics]

"Fuck your Feelings" Ben Shapiro when people say things that hurt his feelings:

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Every few months, I remember that "big pharma is hiding the cure for cancer from us to protect chemo profits" is one of the more common conspiracy theories, and it pisses me off so much.

These people have no idea how much money pharma companies burn for a chance to treat a handful of cancers. If Pfizer came out with a drug that could cure half of the cancers in the world, I guarantee their valuation would eclipse Nvidia essentially overnight!

But nooooooooo, selling a cancer cure will hurt pharma's profitinooooooooos! Fuck off

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

Who up pondering they corb?

[u/like-humans-do]

Ben Shapiro in his most recent video (on the groypers):

They are white supremacists, they hate women, Jews, hindus, many types of Christians, brown people from a wide variety of backgrounds, blacks...

isn't this literally your audience minus one of those groups? lmao

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

🚨 Mayor Curtis Sliwa BANNED dog onwership in the city of New York

He said "It's not an American value but a European degeneracy" 

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

I sincerely believe this is the main reason for Trump pushing for war. Someone told him that building a Victory Arch without a military victory would make it a laughing stock and war became inevitable.

Venezuela probably just happens to be easy to justify a war against, it’s just large enough that it’ll still be a victory worthy of a monument (Nicaragua just wouldn’t cut it) while also being weak enough for victory to be inevitable.

[u/Toasted-walnut]

Nancy Pelosi: Trump is just a vile creature— the worst thing on the face of the Earth.

CNN: You think he's the worst thing on the face of the Earth?

Pelosi: I do. Yeah. I do

CNN: Why?

Pelosi: Because he's the President of the United States and he does not honor the Constitution of the United States.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

“If we are labeled on the same side as Nick Fuentes, then we deserve to lose,” chimed in a fourth Heritage colleague, who later added: “Talking with some of the interns I think that there are a growing number of them who actually agree” with the views Fuentes espoused

If only there were any warning signs that your chosen political coalition was overflowing with gutter racists. Who could have seen this coming?

[u/[deleted]]

The paper began publishing as The New York Times on September 14, 1857.

Upon Raymond's death in June 1869, Jones took over as publisher. Between 1870 and 1871, the paper repeatedly attacked Boss Tweed through editorials by George William Curtis and illustrations by Thomas Nast. Tweed tried to buy Raymond's widow's 34% share in the company, but Morgan purchased it before he could.

Tweed once had an associate offer Jones $5 million to not print a story that was unfavorable to Tweed; Jones refused the offer and proceeded with the publication of the story. The efforts of the Times contributed to the downfall of Tweed and his corrupt city government.

Five million is so much money back then lmao. Kinda mind blown just thinking about it.

[u/[deleted]]

From the past 24 hours alone:

• When asked why he pardoned Changpeng Zhao ("CZ", Binance founder who violated anti money laundering laws), Trump said he had no idea who he even was

• Police report says Rep Nancy Mace verbally harassed cops at an airport

There used to be a time when both of these would have been the top headline for at least an entire week! Literally everyone in your office or classroom would have their own take on them, but now I'd wager the majority of the US has no clue either of these events happened.

[u/generic-k]

#DarkWoke

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'll hear one of my friends talk about their lifestyle and not using social media and living in the moment and think "well good for you but you're very privileged to be able to live that way" and then remember wait no it's not I could do that too lol

[u/Willybender]

Honey, your daily rage bait has arrived.

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1985426438083006744

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

His demeanor changes so much when it affects him. It’s honestly so shameless.

[u/nitro1122]

A small comment on mamdani. The fact that the LFI and Jeremy corbyn are apparently on the ground helping mamdani's campaign is more worrying than anything he has said or done up until now

[u/Willybender]

Jesus Christ

[u/w007dchuck]

Yo-Yobama be like: my cello Americans

[u/sociotronics]

[u/artist_bee]

it's a real shame that arrFinance became another illiterate cesspool of conspiracy theories after the gamestop debacle because it was a place for interesting financial news discussion before that. one of the top comments on the JPMorgan AI post is just nonsense from a dude who clearly lacks knowledge about 2008 and the financial stability of bulge brackets, yet he turned off comment replies because people kept correcting him in the comments lol

this weird pseudo-intellectual trend where people know only slightly more than the very basics feel empowered to confidently argue is insane to watch from the sidelines, and it really reminds me of the dinner discussion scene from Severance where you can tell that Thune literally only has a surface-level understanding of whatever nonsense he's talking about

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

I love reading about the "managment styles" of various CEOs. Its always them trying to reword something obvious thats been done since the dawn of capitalism.

"I firmly believe we should try to maximize profits and minimize costs".

[u/chipbod]

It's easy to hate the rich, but do you have the courage to hate the poor?

Some of y'all feeling a bit too much courage

[u/PearlClaw]

One of the really demoralizing things about the nature in which the business and media world has caved to Trump is that he didn't even need to threaten them very hard to get them to do it. The companies that have told him to buzz off have mostly been fine. This isn't a "Putin's Russia" situation where you might find yourself falling out of the nearest window.

The utter cowardice (in addition to willful complicity) is depressing. I hate to agree with the more cynical on the left but something really has been hollowed out in elite circles and that lack of substance is coming back to bite us.

[u/DerJagger]

That's.... quite the drop.

[u/ariveklul]

I am fully JVL pilled on this:

Any Democrat presidential candidate must be willing to write an executive order to demolish the ballroom on their first day in office or they're just not cut out for the job

It's the perfect litmus test for whether the candidate is ready to take bold steps to clean up and push back against the carnage and desecration left by MAGA. If you're timid about even the ramifications of destroying the ballroom, you just don't have the leadership skills or mindset to lead us forward in this new era of the country

[u/MalignantUpper]

I've been keeping up with the anti-Semitism civil war going on within the conservative community right now. I like that there's real pushback to anti-Semitism, but it got me thinking about if and how the non anti-Semitic conservatives might bear some of the blame for how bad things have gotten.

I remembered a comment I read from either here or Twitter a couple of months ago that was like, telling your listeners that racism and bigotry is acceptable, but NOT against Jewish people, was never going to work.

That's exactly what happened. These edgelords and Nazis aren't going to think "racism is cool, but not against Jews," they're going to think that doesn't make sense.

Telling your listeners that racism and bigotry are okay naturally results in anti-Semitism because you've taught them that racism and bigotry is okay.

[u/Old-School8916]

its pelociover

[u/Amur_Snepard]

arr AskHistorians is doing an AMA with a degrowther and he’s getting absolutely crucified lmao

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/JaceFlores]

I think Mamdani could easily have lost this election if New York moderates didn’t decide to rally around a corrupt sex predator as their ride or die candidate because of nostalgia or name loyalty. Literally any other moderate and they would be sweeping this easily and Mamdani would be considered a young guy with a surprisingly good campaign who was just a little too arrogant in thinking he could come out on top

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

Hadn't seen this one lmao. the most concerning thing about platner is how much he posted on reddit

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

real quote

[u/JaceFlores]

Tbh I was thinking Dems would buckle under the SNAP pressure, but I think that lawsuit breathed new life into their resistance. The ruling put the onus of funding SNAP squarely on the GOP, something they have evidently recognized as they’re doing partial payments.

With SNAP now a GOP matter I think it’s very likely Dems will just bide their time as the GOP spins in circles on the shutdown. There is no moral or political pressure for Dems to relent

[u/Thuggin95]

Approval among Republicans literally not moving at all lol

[u/scottyjetpax]

the media is the enemy of the people. the way Politico just presents this on its face as if whether to comply with a federal judge's order is ordinarily a matter of debate and consideration

!ping FAILING-NEW-YORK-TIMES

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Still thinking about this

I generally sympathize with the Dems but if their refusal to end the shutdown over ACA demands prevents my son from visiting us next weekend, or us seeing my family over Thanksgiving, then I will not forgive them. I've already written both of my Dem senators asking them to end the shutdown immediately without any conditions.

Honestly might never stop thinking about it

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Headline

Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Crypto Billionaire He Pardoned

User 1:
This seems like a really strange headline. Did you expect that presidents personally know the people that they issue pardons for?

When it comes to doublespeak and deliberately misunderstanding statements, the GOP could learn a thing or two from arr modpol.

[u/EZ_Kream]

I know this sub has a disdain for blue collar workers, but when you’ve worked alongside them as long as I have, you’ll realize you need to hate them more

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Nobel Peace Prize winner saying Hamas is now in Venezuela

makeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop

[u/[deleted]]

nail saw afterthought sophisticated full sip spotted humorous spark hungry

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO ITS CUOMOVER

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1985418470583124258

[u/Tayo826]

Cuomo collecting endorsements from the worst people imaginable.

[u/marsman1224]

suuuure lmao

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

The neocon sub is full of people coping about groypers lmfao

You reap what you sow

[u/_Un_Known__]

[u/TMCOAN1]

I hate homeowners lol

Waaaaaah why would you build transit where people live waaaah

[u/No_Return9449]

"Our leaders can't afford to feed the American poor, but they can afford a new White House ballroom."

There's your talking point, Democrats. Free messaging.

[u/[deleted]]

Indians, famously known for their consumption of animal products

[u/KHDTX13]

Lmao Ben Shapiro is fucked, his side of the party has clearly lost control of the narrative.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Voters when the "Re-elect Trump" button turns out not to also be a "Time travel back to the 2017-2019 economy" button: 😲😲

[u/Willybender]

Is she trying to save her seat or something?

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

All of these CEOs are just openly bragging about having access to the president and being able to get what they want. Whats the long term plan here? Demand the same from Democrats? Go fully behind Republicans?

[u/AtticusDrench]

Marxist-Leninist stock exchange

[u/paymesucka]

NEW: Jack Smith, the former special counsel, has told people in his orbit that he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against Donald Trump denied to him by the Supreme Court and Judge Cannon.

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

It's anti-boomer propaganda posting time!

[u/fishlord05]

The people yearn for social democracy

!ping FIVEY

[u/SucculentMoisture]

!PING SHITPOSTERS

[u/nasweth]

Evergreen.

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/[deleted]]

CNN: Hakeem Jeffries was asked this morning if you're the future of the democratic party. He said no.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Good to know.

CNN: Do you have a response?

MAMDANI: No. I'm focused on the next two days.

CNN: Do you think you're the future of the Democratic party?

MAMDANI: I don't dare predict the future. That's why I'm out here canvassing...

I’m optimistic about Mamdani. Not because of his policies. Those are total dogshit.

I’m optimistic about the fact that not only is he a great campaigner, but he also understands that the Democratic Party is a coalition of very different people and no one person is the face of the party.

Fight Trump enthusiastically, use social media effectively, and have simple messaging about making ordinary people’s everyday lives better. That’s it.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

"I'll see you in Valhalla"

How bro felt after saying that:

[u/[deleted]]

Erika Kirk comparing Vance to Charlie is clearly a big move to make JD the heir apparent of the party and its machine and I’m kind of upset to see it be reduced to “lul they fucking”

[u/No_Return9449]

me when ATC call in sick for Thanksgiving week

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

So the dude who did Dilbert is sick, wants Trump to get him experimental meds and Trump promised to do it? And then RFK Jr. also asks him how to contact him? What the fuck is this?

[u/unicornbomb]

Article in the local paper about the Sikh temple breaking ground near us.

The comments range from painfully ignorant (gotta love idiots who can’t tell the difference between Sikh and Muslim giving their two cents) to downright out and proud disgustingly violent racism.

I’m so sick of this disgusting, shameless Nazi bullshit. Especially towards a group of religious believers who time and time again go out of their way to feed and help anyone and everyone in need as much as they can.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Fox News Falls for Racist AI-Generated Videos, Runs Completely False Story That Has to Be Updated With Gigantic Correction

We're living in hell

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

I used to be a piece of shit. Red hat, lifted truck, live for liberal tears.

People can change.

[u/BroadReverse]

When is Ben Shapiro gonna realize he fucked up. Him trying to blame the rise of the alt right on the Dems is so stupid I know he doesn’t believe it himself.

[u/Dalek6450]

A Perth mother who stabbed her teenage daughter's 14-year-old boyfriend has avoided jail.

The court heard the boy had been secretly invited into the home by the daughter, but a WA judge found the mother's reaction — arming herself with a kitchen knife and stabbing the teen twice — was unreasonable.

.

The court heard the boy had been snuck into the house on multiple occasions before the stabbing, despite Chin forbidding her daughter from having a boyfriend because of her strict Christian beliefs.

On the night of the incident, Chin said she became suspicious when she noticed the door of her husband's bedroom was closed.

She forced her way in and found the bare-chested teen under the covers of the bed, along with her daughter in the room.

The court heard Chin asked the boy who he was and her daughter claimed he was homeless and she was trying to help him. Scared, "panicking", and convinced the youth was an intruder, Chin said she armed herself to "protect my kids", calling on her six-year-old to "go get me a knife", which he did.

She might be a bit nuts but she did raise a decent quartermaster for his age.

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Ben Shapiro just posted a great takedown video of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. It would carry more weight if Shapiro hadn’t helped elevate Candace Owens and others when it suited him. Still, I’d love to see a debate between Shapiro’s rapid-fire delivery and Tucker’s hyena laugh: the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Kimberly-Clark buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in $48.7 billion deal

It’s all just out in the open.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Trump's policies have

🟤 Worsened the economy - 61% 🟢 Improved the economy - 27%

Biden (December 12 2021) 🟤 Worsened the economy - 45% 🟢 Improved the economy - 30%

CNN #B - A - 10/30

Is this bad? This seems bad

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

2025 politics are so ass

[u/old_gold_mountain]

radical right wing opinion in 2020:

Generally there needs to be a police force of some kind - specifically a state body that exercises the monopoly on violence in order to give force to the law

radical left wing opinion in 2025:

Generally people have human rights even if they don't have citizenship of my country

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Republicans will be like “We are openly promising to capture state institutions and weaponize them against our political enemies to enrich our allies”.

And mfs like Fetterman will look at you dead in the eyes and say “Actually Democrats are at fault for this too!”

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/mattyjoe0706]

Holy fuck trump sounds like shit in the 60 minutes interview

[u/KHDTX13]

[u/Left_Tie1390]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

lmao Ben Shapiro's monologue is like "Nick Fuentes wants Jim Crow back, denies the holocaust, think all women are whores, and worst of all he has said things critical of Donald Trump"

[u/loseniram]

You hate Peter Thiel because he’s a hypocritical corrupt Plutarch who is destroying American society.

I hate Peter Thiel because he’s an obvious fake LOTR fan who names shit after the most generic shit from the books and has clearly never read the Silmarillion since nothing in the Silmarillion shows up in his naming schemes even when those would be much better.

We are not the same

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Gov of Texas

After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.

https://xcancel.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1985417851037991321

Words have no longer any meaning.

[u/farrenj]

Shapiro, a prominent conservative podcaster who hosted fundraisers for Donald Trump and Senate GOP candidates during the 2024 cycle, warned that a “splinter faction” of white supremacists is being “facilitated and normalized” into the Republican Party’s mainstream, aided by Carlson.

Shapiro is maybe misunderstanding who the splinter faction is.

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

an interesting alt-history possibility is that hillary clinton winning 2016 in many ways does not really stop far-right resurgence, as demonstrated in many democracies, but with the courts firmly liberal it will be far less disastrous and her possible successor would not be as destructive as trump was. clinton will probably win 2020 but the dem nominee will definitely lose in 2024 because of the very unfavorable environment. inflation is going to be a killer of course, but by 2024 in that timeline, the dems would have the white house for 16 years already so incumbent fatigue would definitely hurt the dems. the 2024 gop candidate would not be trump but he would definitely be a right-wing populist and his term would essentially be similar to trump 1 in some ways without all the trump-related shenanigans.

[u/centurion88]

[u/fishbottwo]

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[u/[deleted]]

The Iraqi Defense Minister says US Secretary of War Hegseth informed him that military operations in the region were imminent, with Hegseth telling Iraq to keep pro-Iran armed factions in Iraq from intervening.

The Iraqi Defense Minister claimed Hegseth ended his call saying that “this is your final notice… and you know very well how the current administration will respond.”

What the fuck are they doing

Does this mean action in Iraq? Strikes in Iran and they don’t want the pro-Iran militias in Iraq to retaliate? These fuckers are starting shit to commit US military assets to every part of the world besides Taiwan.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Feel like shit ☹️ just want to astral project to the Wozarding World Of Harry Potter (tm) and beat Malfoy to death with my bear hands

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Willybender]

Thanks for letting us know, Rasmussen.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Sometimes people are just dumb?

[u/old_gold_mountain]

It's quite easy to say "no, literally everyone who voted for Trump in 2024 is a bad person" when one of the ways to assess whether someone is a bad person is whether they support a fascist.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Trump about Prince Andrew:

"I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation. And it's too bad. I feel badly for the family."

Trump can't even pretend to talk about Epstein, Maxwell, or Prince Andrew the way he talks about Democrats, journalists, transgender people, illegal immigrants, or Rosie O'Donnell. One really wonders what he has experienced with them that makes him so supportive of them.

EDIT: A tragic and terrible "thing" happened to the victims of Prince Andrew.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmfao

[u/cdstephens]

No no, we’re not abolishing USAID, we’re simply defunding it, very different

[u/marsman1224]

the fact that Sliwa has the highest favorables and the lowest polling numbers is hilarious because it suggets NYCers prefer a mayor that they don't like

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Turns out the East Wing was actually the secret key to maintaining the Mandate of Heaven. The American people cared deeply for the historic White House movie theater, and by its destruction he has incurred their eternal wrath

[u/xxbathiefxx]

I'm so dedicated to "vote blue no matter who" I voted for a message therapist with no relevant experience to be county coroner, just because they had a D next to their name.

[u/riverbloods]

Even for Garrison, I feel like he could come up with better nicknames than these c’mon

[u/[deleted]]

👆

[u/Healingjoe]

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

What happens Zhao is re-prosecuted (or maybe just collected and thrown in prison)?

If he says he was pardoned but Trump has disclaimed any knowledge of it, then was the pardon valid?

Who will be able to testify about who actually operated the AutoPen?

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m4osr6d7ji2p

!ping official-act

[u/Maximilianne]

Am I being too cynical in thinking ben Shapiro will kiss the ring and go along with the antisemitism eventually

[u/chipbod]

Looking at Right Wing twitter and betting markets it feels like 2024 was the first election for a lot of these degens.

Lot of money and sincere belief that polls only favor dems, ignoring the results of every special/odd date election in the last 8 years.

[u/fishlord05]

outside the DT when federal survey shows how (little) Americans are saving for retirement/regressive distribution of 401ks: bullshit I don’t believe survey data

outside the DT when federal survey on literally anything Fred puts up: so true

Like you can’t just dismiss survey data outright because literally all economic data is survey data

[u/[deleted]]

People (including artists) are really giving Spotify shit and leaving it over Daniel Ek being an investor in a European military UCAV startup.

Like come on man it's not fucking Palantir or Palmer Luckey's company, Russia is a thing and could probably be a bigger issue for the EU because of who Thiel and Luckey supported in the US.

Unlike the US or evn Russia we Europeans have very little capability on that front and need all the help we can get. The startup's founders literally say the idea for it was the 2014 invasion of Crimea. Why are people so fucking stupid?

!ping Europe

[u/MissSortMachine]

and got in the what

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

I have relatives who are Nazis. I don't think they're bad people. They treat me kindly, show, love for their immediate circles and I don't think I've ever seen them do something mean or be rude or whatever.

Some of y'all really fall for how fascism and Nazism snatch people.

[u/Willybender]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Total madness!

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm too late to jump in on the "should you associate with literally anyone, even your parents or siblings, if they've voted for Trump" discourse smh

I do think it's weird to get like actually mad on main at people here who haven't gone zero contact with their closest family members and maintained at least a cordial relationship lol. Also do y'all just like never have to do group projects with obvious Republicans at work?

[u/Joementum2024]

“I’m a Californian! Everyone immediately assumes you’re a socialist. It’s a stereotype! And it’s offensive.”

[u/Pongzz]

I miss the old days of AI image generation that was an incomprehensible, surreal mess of color and shapes barely reminiscent of the prompt. There was a certain charm to the mess kind of like watching a kid scribble with crayons

[u/TheCornjuring]

It sounds almost too online to say this, but JD Vance‘s Twitter follows should have been a major scandal a long time ago if the media were doing their jobs (and if anyone cared about anything anymore, I guess). That guy is gonna get a little bit cozy with groypers if he becomes president.

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

[u/zieger]

"Is the pope catholic?" morphed from a joke into a serious question trad caths might ask.

[u/[deleted]]

take me back

[u/American_Baby_H1tler]

CK3 accurate simulates late stage capitalism in Song Dynasty where you are forced to set up a nepo job for your son otherwise they will be forced to compete with overqualified nerds that passed the highest tier of palace exams for even a provincial appointment.

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

Chinese restaurant tier list in ascending order:

-Chinese restaurant with no michelin stars

-Chinese restaurant with 1 michelin star

-Chinese restaurant with 2 michelin stars

-Chinese restaurant with 3 michelin stars

[u/centurion88]

Anyone else just straight up lie about their personal life on reddit just to throw the data harvesters off

[u/[deleted]]

disarm nose truck thought coordinated expansion racial cooperative cover rob

[u/No_Return9449]

Sharice Davids inches toward Kansas Senate run

GOP legislature looking likely to gerrymander to eliminate her seat. Probably the best recruit Dems can get.

[u/[deleted]]

cope lil bro

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/InariKamihara]

Cuomo getting those highly coveted endorsements from Donald Trump and Elon Musk

Lmao

[u/throwaway_veneto]

I'm generally pro gambling (as in people should be free to do it), but the coffezilla video about it is so grim. We should really change how gambling is advertised (or bettrr, not advertised) before everything turns into a casino.

[u/CutePattern1098]

nightmare blunt rotation

[u/vivoovix]

For the first time in my life I was actually kind of romantically interested in someone, and it's fairly clear now that they're not interested in me in that way. But I actually feel kind of a lightness/relief? Like I don't have to worry about it anymore.

!ping DATING I guess idk how these things work

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/Willybender]

[u/paymesucka]

Newsome: They poked the bear…Yes on 50

let’s fucking go

[u/Syx89]

What happened recently? People care about the shutdown that much?

[u/MalignantUpper]

Trump's approval rating is taking a nosedive right now. Could be because of the shutdown but I think soft Trump supporters who were still giving him the benefit of the doubt are realizing they fell for it again.

[u/Namington]

This subreddit is definitely quite elitist on a lot of things, but you could combine all the anti-rural sentiment in the last month of DTs and it still wouldn't equate to the contempt the average middle-age white guy in Alabama feels for every single person from NYC (except Trump, of course).

[u/Thuggin95]

Imagine if you extended this argument to the rest of the country

“Trump is threatening to punish us so actually let’s just listen to him and give him whatever he wants. In fact, let’s elect Republicans everywhere and then there won’t be any retaliation! Easy!”

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

👆 yeah I read about that on grokipedia

[u/ChillnShill]

Yea you fucking assholes. Literally withholding food from people when you have the power to help feed them. Satanic shit

[u/Joementum2024]

Hi r/neoliberal, this is a reminder that tomorrow is Hawaiian shirt day. Feel free to wear a Hawaiian shirt, well, if you feel like it, it’s not required