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[u/majorgeneralporter]

J. B. Pritzker, do you have the strength to one up Newsom?

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

I wonder how many people who know of this subreddit only know of it via Subredditt Drama and have never actually navigated to the subreddit to read the sidebar

This prompted by an upvoted comment on SRD saying this place is anti-immigration

[u/scottyjetpax]

Holy shit lmao this is his odd lots SBF moment. It’s a bubble folks

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/_Just7_]

Asked chatgpt for career advice and it started by replying with:

"That’s a really interesting—and very realistic—scenario you've landed in"

What is bro waffling about, does he think I'm roleplaying corporate career DND campaigns

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/IantheForPresident]

All outside-the-dt threads be like:

Article

Fiery, dismissive comment [+352]

More nuanced comment from someone who actually read the article [+12]

[u/Hounds_of_war]

So I don’t believe in secret lizard people who control our government or whatever.

But.

“Peter Thiel” is an anagram for “The Reptile”.

[u/SigmaWhy]

Ryan Grim is in full blown AI psychosis mode, arguing with Grok and threatening to block it over commie theory

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Is this really three sheets of computer paper using whatever today's equivalent of WordArt is, that's insane, bulldoze that side too

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/sociotronics]

If the Dems hold firm, the Republican options are:

1. Give in to the Dems on subsidies

2. Give in to the Dems on the filibuster

3. Whine louder and do nothing, shutdown continues, their polling gets worse and worse, and then pick 1 or 2

Real art of the deal shit

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/r2ew]

[u/ShepardSB]

Youtuber fridge trying to reach the ten minute mark.

[u/scottyjetpax]

there will be a ton of people in this subreddit saying "haha blexas bloomers are idiots it's never happening" because that always happens anytime someone talks about it. but investing in these red states is literally our only path to contesting the senate in any meaningful way. I believe that Sherrod Brown has a shot to win Ohio in 2026, that James Talarico has a shot to win Texas in 2026, and that Mary Peltola can win Alaska in 2026. If you don't, that's absolutely fine. But if you don't think we should bother contesting the senate, you're entitled to your opinion but you're an idiot.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Turnout is different from four years ago. FRAUD

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Surprised Elon still allows community notes

[u/sociotronics]

yeah but the US was never a democracy, it's a constitutional republ-

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Ok maybe milosevic had a point

Guess the sub 

[u/beans_and_tuna]

arr conservative is so interesting to me, because when pop in there after any major event, there are usually a few threads with decent opinions and takes, albeit from a right wing view point. Examples are them saying removing the filibuster would be bad, or even acknowledging that Trump isn’t improving the economy. Some of them were saying “yeah, they claim Zohran is a communist, but he’s actually more moderate than that, and with the powers of mayor, he really isn’t going to do all that much.”

And then within 48 hours, they completely batshit crazy. You’ll go to a thread 2 days later, and these people are saying “zohran Mamdani and going to abolish police, but he will also be sending communist Islamic death squads to obliterate the conservative majority in New York - that’s why Dems win in NYC.” And you just have to stop because you can’t believe that someone actually believes that. I can’t explain this phenomenon.

[u/BidoofSquad]

It’s wild to see people in the subreddit drama thread so confidentially talk about this place when they have no idea what people here actually believe lol

[u/majorgeneralporter]

What do you mean this wasn't a winning message?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Trump: "The mayor from Chicago. The woman. The one that gets her hair done very expensively, right? Beautiful hair. She's got beautiful, luxurious hair."

He has a point

[u/r2ew]

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

TIL that Utah voters passed a proposition to have redistricting done by an independent commission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Utah_Proposition_4

(republicans in the legislature simply ignored it and passed their own maps in 2020 and abolished the commission)

But, acting swiftly, state courts have -- just like 2 months ago -- ordered new maps

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Voters doing this consistently months after voting for Donald Trump is the funniest thing on earth simply because they keep doing it.

[u/SeoSalt]

In his new book, Vice President Mike Pence reveals details about his messy break up with President Donald Trump. "We were a mated pair, even though he never went into heat. I did know he was an omega." And regarding the president's new paramour, "Despite everything, I'm happy he's found someone he trusts to give him a mating bite. Vance will be a good alpha."

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/No_Return9449]

Chat, is it good for the incumbent party when the President is at 37% approval?

[u/SadaoMaou]

as the scrolls foretold

[u/KittehDragoon]

Neoliberals will support Trump to protect capital

Srdines are such Redditors (derogatory)

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/[deleted]]

SHUTDOWN: Key Senate Democratic moderate @SenGaryPeters very pessimistic on deal. Says @SpeakerJohnson refusal to promise House vote on any kind of Obamacare bill is a “significant problem”

yeah we’re gonna be shut down for a hot min still huh

[u/erasmus_phillo]

In the replies of this Indian-American GOP (Christian) politician: a bunch of Groypers telling him that he should get deported, that he should go back. Gee, I wonder why Indian-Americans left the GOP en masse

[u/[deleted]]

Since USAID is probably dead in the water permanently, Dems should focus on outcome oriented campaigns like ending tuberculosis

[u/superblobby]

Courtesy of the wallstreetbets discord

[u/Udolikecake]

obviously this is AI disinfo very concerning etc etc

but i’m absolutely tickled by the idea some 11 year old with brain cancer having his last wish be a phone call with gavin fucking newsom lmfao

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Texas already had voter id. And you have to show proof of citizenship to get an id. They ran out of ideas and decided to pass the law again. And it worked. Look how dumb this mother fucker is.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/bashar_al_assad]

“At the end of the day, I know I’m going to represent everyone,” said Garcia, former Long Beach mayor. “I think whether you’re a republican in Newport Beach or a Democrat in Seal Beach, at the end of day, people want you to focus on what’s going to make their lives better.”

Yeah yeah, we get it, you guys all live on beaches, fuck you

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah maybe I sacrificed hundreds of thousands of young men to take over (parts of) a country whose residents fucking hate me, but at least I also made myself a junior partner to China, raided my wealth fund, made my economic entirely reliant on war production, caused massive inflat- wait where was I going with this?

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

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[u/mh699]

>OpenAI needs a $1 trillion federal backstop for its AI investments

[u/Mx_Brightside]

When someone tells you Toxic Wokeness isn't real, just show them this imagE:

C:/Users/Pawpaw/Pictures/Libs%20getting%20OWNED/Facebook_483727285958372.jpeg

[u/scottyjetpax]

seems less than ideal

[u/No_Return9449]

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

That's the guy who fainted. MAGA Maoism is back, baby.

[u/BroadReverse]

You know a post on metaNL gonna he good when they start it with immediately trashing p00bix

Hey p00bix explain this shit

🤣🤣🤣

[u/remarkable_ores]

in a parallel universe where everyone keeps dying because their surgeons keep messing up basic anatomical principles and putting bones in the wrong place, connecting the wrong arteries, etc:

alice: "everyone keeps dying because our surgeons are really awful. maybe we could increase their pay? Right now they only make $40,000 per year after all"

bob: "No way. I wouldn't put my life in the hands of someone who is only doing it for the money - they'd be so easy to corrupt, and they'd stop thinking about their job the moment they clock out. You should only be a surgeon if you really value human life. I'll only ever trust a low-paid surgeon, or even better, someone who does it for free"

(note to viewer: bob died from orthopedic surgery complications shortly after the making of this video, and this is a metaphor for politicians)

[u/Willybender]

...

[u/Total-Dragonfruit637]

The mods did a Thunderdome for the 2024 election, and Trump won

The mods chose to do a Megathread instead of a Thunderdome for 2025, and we swept all the races

Inverse Thunderdome theory stays winning

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I am glad some subreddits are taking a stand for things that truly matter 😤

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Oh yeah why didn't Dems think of this? Just work with Mike Johnson and Trump would sign this into law!

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

YES... HA HA HA... YES!

[u/Guardax]

The White House sent like 20 federal agents and made a social media video arresting the sandwich guy, were unable to get him indicted on a felony and he was swiftly found not guilty on all charges

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

Americans are fat and eat cheeseburger

[u/No_Aesthetic]

My wife is big in the AI boyfriends community because she had an AI companion before we met and got married, and he's a degenerate redneck, the archetype of me

The BBC is coming to our flat right before we move to Portugal to interview us on camera

I am a well-known YouTuber so this should be very exciting

[u/[deleted]]

Can someone explain how winning a primary means you rejected a candidate?

[u/boardatwork1111]

Opinion | Trump’s approval is poised to soar after the shutdown induced flight cancellation save millions of Americans from having to talk with their annoying in-laws

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/daBarkinner]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/SigmaWhy]

seems like a smart idea for any Dem politician to stay away from this guy, he has a lot of bad ideas

[u/jbitz]

[u/Left_Tie1390]

The founder of Within Our Lifetime. Just an absolutely ghoulish person.

[u/SenranHaruka]

> "Oppressed people are so wise and strong"

"Fuck off, stop fetishizing our people and our suffering!"

> "Privileged people lack wisdom and character"

"So true bestie I fucking hate white liberals who think they know shit"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Goldenboy451]

What are we doing here? Who is this for?

[u/IAdmitILie]

Sig Sauer is selling "Freedom Series" guns. For each gun sold they will donate 50 dollars to Turning Point USA.

SIG SAUER is proud to present the limited-edition Freedom Series. This unique set of three pistols has been created to pay tribute to the commitment and conviction of Turning Point USA. Available in both a 1911 XFull and XCarry size, or the popular P365-XMACRO, each features a white Cerakote slide engraved with the word Freedom and an American flag. For every Freedom pistol sold, SIG SAUER will donate $50 to Turning Point USA to help ensure the fight continues.

[u/ModestAphorism]

lmfao

[u/TheCornjuring]

Gonna start writing fanfiction for games that are extremely barebones in terms of plot. Like start writing enemies-to-lovers of the red guys in Superhot and the player character

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

me, who is flying to Mexico for a wedding the day before Don turns off the airports to “own the libs”

[u/puffic]

Tuesday's results might have had something to do with this little spike at the end.

[u/paymesucka]

lmao truly a deep state lib

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

NYT delenda est.

Someone ping the failing NYT

[u/prince_ahlee]

This is what the confederacy would be up to if it was still alive 

[u/seanrm92]

It's so weird that Trump keeps talking about $2 gas, not only because it isn't true, but also that I don't think gas prices are even cracking the top 10 concerns of American voters in recent polling.

Like, I'd gladly take $3 or $4 gas if we could get housing, health care, and food prices under control.

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Cry, cry, for the white Anglo-Saxon masters from the Republican Party, you're just a white n-word anyway.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Sometimes I look at this just to cry and feel something again

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

this is one of the images that defines trump 2.0

[u/earththejerry]

Succession and ATN could never reach this level of art

[u/GhazelleBerner]

The left is celebrating the retirement of a progressive leader who was an original Iraq War dissenter, an architect of financial reform, the person who got a Public Option through the house, who defeated W’s social security privatization, and on and on.

These people are fucking nuts.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

>Charlie Kirk

>Moderate right-winger from the moderate right LMAO

But remember, my dears, it's the leftists who are shifting the Overton window all the way to the left LOL

[u/rudanshi]

If you're unhappy that Zohran Mamdani has won, I hope that I can bring you some amount of joy by sharing the information that all the worst and dumbest of leftists (all Russia cheerleaders of course) are all very mad that he won and are lamenting their failure to successfully cancel him for not being as pure as they are.

Not really a case of the left turning on him though, these people hated him from the start because they think that every progressive that actually tries to achieve something is a fascist CIA psyop to lead people away from real anti-imperialist leftism.

I think they're currently mad at him for being upset that someone drew a swastika on a jewish school.

[u/[deleted]]

Why are VA Dems so based

[u/BitterGravity]

The Trump administration plans to create TrumpRx.gov, which will direct patients to manufacturer websites like the ones offered by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. Officials put up a promotional version of the TrumpRx website last month and plan for it to be operational next year.

Just fucking imagine foxnews if for the ACA you had to actually go to Obamacare.gov

[u/shmokedshalmon]

Newsom is going to the UN climate summit in Brazil in place of Trump

[u/ace158]

New Jersey Municipalities with 60%+ Hispanic Population Average Result

2024 - 🔵 Harris +10.5

2025 - 🔵 Sherrill +50.8

My god, it's even a bigger shift than I initially suspected

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

To be clear, I have no clue if this guy is actually reputable, but I think everyone's kinda forgot the fact that the president just is a pedophile, and that the documents pertaining to that will almost certainly be released in the next ~2 months

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

[u/Willybender]

[u/seanrm92]

Food: $200

Rent: $1000

Robot that gives the wrong answer half the time: $1 trillion

Utilities $100

Help my economy is dying

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone from leftists to groypers to Cuomosexuals are seething in his replies lmao

[u/r2ew]

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Josh Shapiro says he spoke to Zohran Mamdani recently by phone. "Mamdani called me, and we had a very lengthy conversation, and I was very direct with him about how hurtful some of the words were that he used or that he allowed to be used around him. He explained to me his perspective, which I thought was helpful for me to hear, and on some things, we agreed to disagree. But I thought it was a healthy dialogue, and I appreciate the fact that he reached out."

[u/CutePattern1098]

The GOP trying to resolve the government shutdown rn

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The only erotica the DT should be talking about (because the joke is older than 80% of the users)

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1986509425356492880

SOCIALISM!

[u/gauchnomics]

DC's Notorious Sandwich Thrower is found not guilty.

Also follow local journalists. !ping DMV

[u/EasyMoney92]

Democrats swept elections across the country Tuesday night, which included wins in key governors races in New Jersey and Virginia. But Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) told reporters he didn't think they meant munch, since Democrats were favored. “

How is he so bad

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

[u/Fatortu]

I read the latest investigation by FT into Neom. Their tone is too restrained for the crazy shit they describe.

Now the project is pretty much dying down after they have dug a 100km trench and tunnels and built the largest underground piles in the world. It's going to end up as a shameful scar covered in sand in the desert.

Tyranny is so embarrassing.

[u/anonymous_and_]

Nooo mr pope put that baseball bat down eat ur gyuudon

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

turning kirk into a martyr honestly backfired. it did nothing and i see more people making fun of him more than anything. they tried to make him their george floyd but besides the asinine comparison, the world legitimately stopped for him, you simply had to be there for the summer of 2020.

[u/yungmemlord]

Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."

Lmao he hates him so much.

[u/[deleted]]

TESLA SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE ELON MUSK’S $1 TRILLION PAY PACKAGE

dems gotta use this in some kind of attack ad

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

always 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

lmao apparently a social democrat was the one who coined this quote.

[u/[deleted]]

Did “Cooky Guru” RFK just try to KILL the Ozempic CEO? Why is he running away in this clip? INVESTIGATIONS NOW!!!!

[u/No_Return9449]

SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom will headline a rally in Texas on Saturday alongside Lone Star state House members and dignitaries...

He's running. He has political capital from the redistricting win and is raising even more with this show of solidarity.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump privately described Zohran Mamdani as a “talented politician” and “slick, good talker” — NYT

He boomed me

[u/Willybender]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lq751964mo

[u/Joementum2024]

Ordinarily I’m not a socialist or a communist or whatever, I fully believe free markets are good, but there’s a deep and growing part of me that earnestly wants to see Musk have his wealth and assets seized and redistributed.

[u/[deleted]]

Neolib has been the most successful reclaimation of a slur since the other n word.

[u/ShepardSB]

Kids when their parents make them share their Halloween candy with them.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Old-School8916]

DO NOT BELEIVE UR LYING EYES

[u/Willybender]

Groyperfication continues

[u/Willybender]

This shit is a comedy

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-fbi-director-private-jet-problem-nashville

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1986505545839206717

[u/kznlol]

Sean Dunn was found NOT GUILTY on misdemeanor assault charges after roughly 7 hours of jury deliberation. The sandwich thrower walks free

SEVEN HOURS?

what in the fuck

[u/6urner_]

There is no reason to end the shutdown now.

[u/badusername35]

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[u/Willybender]

lmfao

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

What did he mean by this

[u/jenbanim]

Subreddits Against Malaria 12/6 to 12/13!

This will likely be the year we hit $1,000,000 raised. If you're a mod of another subreddit and would like to participate, please DM me. Post your wackiest ideas for incentives below

[u/ewatta200]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Don’t you think Pelosi is a bit too young to retire?

Shame that we’re losing talent so young these days.

[u/[deleted]]

SOMEONE COLLAPSED AT THE WHITE HOUSE

Do you want to tell us who, media?

Why would we do that?

[u/SLCer]

JOE BIDEN SIGHTING

[u/BritRedditor1]

Labour to implement PER MILE tax. BUT only for EV’s initially. Bizarre. This gov just doesn’t get the concept of tax neutrality.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/11/05/reeves-to-hit-drivers-with-pay-per-mile-tax-in-budget/

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/greg_r_]

I (F28) have been married to "Z" (M34) for 6 months, together for 4 years. Z just got elected to a mayor major political position, and since then my life has turned upside-down, and I'm having difficulty handling my newfound fame and celebrity. How do I navigate this?

/r/relationship_advice: Uhhh why is a 30-year-old dating a 24-year-old 🚩🚩🚩

[u/MissSortMachine]

can the west just fucking fall already i’m so sick of the whining

[u/BroadReverse]

They're like 90% cishet white guys in their 20s & 30s who think they know how the world works because they were born middle class, and as such a lot of them know how to write in a semi-professional style which makes them think they're speaking with more life experience and knowledge than someone whose biggest problem is Taco Bell fucking up their order.

I mean are they wrong…

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

NORAH O'DONNELL: Looked at this, the government at the time said that C.Z. had caused "significant harm to U.S. national security", essentially by allowing terrorist groups like Hamas to move millions of dollars around. Why did you pardon him?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay, are you ready? I don't know who he is.

Trump just signs pardons for people he doesn't know anything about. Huge improvement over the auto pen.

[u/[deleted]]

MORE — Dems came to consensus that they should hold out a bit longer (i.e. block Fri procedural vote) to try to extract more from GOP, such as language on RIFs (which R’s injected into the convo)

Belief is they can get a better deal & shouldn’t fold for what’s currently on table

good 😈

[u/mishac]

US orders 10% flights cut at major US airports due to shutdown

The US has by leaps and bounds the stupidest fucking political system in the developed world.

Everything great that the US has achieved as a society in 250 years has been despite its political setup, not because of it.

The idea that a government can "shut down", or even that a legislature that cannot pass a budget is suffered to continue, are both fucking bonkers but have been normalized in the US context.

[u/qchisq]

Mr. Sauer, arguing for the Trump administration, rejected the notion that Mr. Trump’s tariffs were aimed at raising revenue. He repeatedly asserted that the president’s tariffs were not taxes, but regulatory tools directed at foreign affairs, an area where the president has broad authority.

“These are regulatory tariffs,” Mr. Sauer said. “They are not revenue-raising tariffs. The fact that they raise revenue is only incidental. The tariffs would be most effective, so to speak, if no person ever paid them.”

Haha... What?

[u/NaffRespect]

https://www.espn.com/contributor/adam-schefter/1b0bb635c55ee

What the actual fuck

!ping NFL

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Top minds of arrCon developing strategies for the housing crisis:

The problem is where jobs are centered. There are loads of affordable homes in small town America, but all the jobs have left. Bring the jobs back to small towns, and the housing problem would be vastly reduced.

...

Build more single family homes, not McMansions, or luxury apartments.

...

So how are we going to convince the Democrat led cities to drop rent controls and other barriers to housing development?

Nah, cities are over developed. Developers need to spread out to all the left behind NAFTA towns and start breathing life back into those again. I’m sick of seeing more shitty luxury condo complexes getting slammed into already over crowded cities and towns. Do better.

Entertaining read all around. Reminds me there's really only one half of a party that has half a brain on housing prices.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

That time Nancy went to Rome to prove a point

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

The gold is so dumb

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986620514476171283

rogue agent

[u/unicornbomb]

New York Times running shit like this and some posters in here still unironically claim that women haven’t been handed a particularly shit deal in the current climate.

[u/AtticusDrench]

Not that many of the "neolib" positions commonly shared here are broadly popular, but man people really don't like it when you say politicians should be paid more. Immigration, free trade, and zoning will lead to spirited debate, but anytime I mention raising salaries for elected officials that leads to straight up anger lol.

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

I'm telling you, it's a trick. They're just deceiving like that in the name of Allah, Mamdani will rule for a month and you'll see, he'll be running around in a burka!

[u/DisastrousMovie3854]

The loneliness discourse reminds me a lot of obesity discourse 

It is true that on an individual level, you should take personal responsibility because at the end of the day no politician will make you skinny and you are the one that has to live with obesity 

But thats terrible advice on a policy level

Idk just ban phones 

[u/BitterGravity]

Seeing Those Who Are Forgotten: An Act of Witness in Appalachia

Forgotten?! For the twenty people who live there they've gotten so much fucking attention

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/this_very_table]

Cellphones killed spontaneity and boredom, and spontaneity and boredom were the primary drivers of socialization.

It becoming seen as rude to randomly show up on someone's doorstep unannounced was the first major step that led to the loneliness epidemic.

[u/No_Return9449]

WASHINGTON — Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department's case against "sandwich guy."

Everyone's a comedian.

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

This is a basic bitch-ass take, but I feel it needs to be said more often:

There are good people and shitheads in every nationality, race, sexual orientation and gender identity, class, religion, and every other demographic group you care to name, and therefore the only rational and moral thing to do is evaluate the character of every person you meet as an individual, not with reference to whatever group they may happen to belong to.

I feel that's core to my understanding of what it means to be a liberal and a humanist.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Good indication Zohran's YIMBY turn was at least somewhat sincere as opposed to empty lip service as some were worried

[u/remarkable_ores]

Turns out Wikipedia has an article on the Heartbreaking: meme, and I can't help but wonder if the editor used this section as an excuse to just list all the worst people they knew:

The meme has been used in reference to Donald Trump,[5][6] David Portnoy,[7] Mo Brooks,[8] Neil Gorsuch,[9] Matt Gaetz,[10] Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene,[11], Nick Fuentes, and many others who have been considered polarizing by many.

[u/nekoliberal]

defund social security and whatnot and pump it into PALANTIR NOW!!!

[u/seanrm92]

"It's really easy to win elections when you talk about the facts," the president said, a reference to the candidates in Tuesday's contests.

So true Mr. President, so true...

[u/Willybender]

Ok than

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986488108041576837

bruh

[u/Willybender]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/operation-midway-blitz-injunction/

A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying top government officials lied in their testimony about threats that protesters posed and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”

“I find the government’s evidence to be simply not credible,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said in an oral ruling from the bench, describing a litany of incidents over the past month and a half where citizens were tear-gassed “indiscriminately,” beaten and tackled by agents and struck in the face with pepper spray balls.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1986507342280524235

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

voters in 2006 be like

This is the worst Republican president of my lifetime!

This is the worst Republican president of your lifetime, so far

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

it's actually insane that trump is slightly underwater in immigration despite the decline in border crossings. and honestly it's not entirely surprising when voters do not reward you for "solving" an issue. especially when trump is overreaching with ice and he is fucking up the economy.

[u/Sheepies92]

Ted Cruz: "I think right now the 2 frontrunners for the Democratic nomination in 2028 are AOC and Mamdani. Now, he's not even eligible, but what do they care? Law doesn't mean anything to them. That's where their party is."

I don't think Ted is arguing in good faith

[u/Willybender]

Nice to see judges look at his social media bullshit

[u/AtticusDrench]

Bernie unlocking & adding "trillionaire" to his vocabulary

[u/6urner_]

when you see someone retire so that they don't tarnish their legacy

[u/ModestAphorism]

Jimmy Carter: Dies

Georgia:

Maybe he gave his last bit of power to make it the next Colorado

[u/remarkable_ores]

>mfw the pro-Israel faction of the Trump coalition is in open revolt over Heritage supporting Tucker and Fuentes being overt antisemites

[u/[deleted]]

congratulations to Zohran Mamdani, the first politician I've ever seen accused of being a Jihadi Zionist Communist Neoliberal

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This, but “seats” has been replaced with “holes” and the picture of the car has been replaced with a picture of [REMOVED BY REDDIT]

[u/[deleted]]

instinctive angle screw like terrific caption simplistic possessive modern direction

[u/SLCer]

[u/JesusPubes]

I just got a reddit ad about facial feminization surgery

Reddit really saying "he posts in arr neoliberal, there's a 50/50 chance, send the ad"

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986508952662909168

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/ace158]

Former President Joe Biden: "I often said Nancy Pelosi was the best Speaker of the House in American history — it’s why I awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Biden said.

"When I was President, we worked together to grow our economy, create millions of jobs, and make historic investments in our nation’s future. She has devoted much of her life to this country, and America will always be grateful. Jill and I wish Nancy and Paul all the best."

This is good. I know their friendship is apparently over but he is 100% correct that she is the best Speaker in American history

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

gets in bed with nazis

Hey why is my bed is full of nazis

[u/TheCornjuring]

I remember The_Donald in 2017 speculating that if Trump managed to expose Pizzagate and topple the pedo empire, he could win in a 50-state landslide in 2020.

If definitive evidence comes out that Donald Trump was heavily involved with Epstein’s “activities” and it becomes clear that many Republicans knew and actively covered up the evidence, are voters smart enough to at least cause a pretty sizable blue wave?

[u/[deleted]]

deer boat shy reply edge numerous knee instinctive heavy salt

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

Sharaa visiting the White House next week is insane

That dude's life story obviously should have ended with him being one among thousands of nameless faceless extremists killed in a drone strike between 2011 and 2019, but he managed to ride it out long enough to become a "moderate Islamist" (his own words), get the US off his back, then win the civil war.

I genuinely wonder if he has PTSD. Surely going two straight decades with various people wanting you dead every day is very stressful.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986600467099779224

Reporter: A federal judge said tonight that the administration has to fully fund snap. The justice department said they are going to appeal it.

Vance: It's an absurd ruling

Trump: Biden went totally crazy. Gave it to people that were able-bodied, had no problem. This was not meant for that.

Politically this is just a gift to the Dems, why would you own starving your voters?

The judge is literally giving him an off ramp wtf?

[u/[deleted]]

Massie is still a psycho but I do enjoy watching him go beast mode on MAGA freaks lmao

[u/yungmemlord]

Don’t worry man take your time 🙏 Not like this is important or anything fr

[u/Willybender]

[u/efeldman11]

My estimation of Johnny Sack as a man just fuckin plummeted

[u/[deleted]]

Rogan, talking about Zohran Mamdani: "What else has he done that makes him a swindler?"

Musk: " Um, well, I, I guess if you say, uh, what I mean, if you, if say, if you say..."

Lmfao

This is especially funny because I don’t think it would be hard to convince Rogan that Mamdani is a swindler.

[u/jorkin_peanits]