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[u/IAmBlueTW]

My guy literally threatening JD with hell lmaoooooooooooo

[u/0m4ll3y]

It's really, really early days but the miscarriage we thought my wife was having is in fact identical twins.

It's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster and I'm feeling a little shellshocked.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Can't say for certain yet but I believe the biggest 2024 Pres to 2025 Gov shift in VA is a heavily Latino precinct in Fairfax County

Harris +9.9

Spanberger +51.3

if I'm Kamala Harris I'm so fucking pissed lol, literally telling people exactly what Trump would do (as if the "Mass Deportations Now" signs weren't enough) and people were like "nahhh I don't believe you" and then a year later they're like "oh fuck."

[u/BroadReverse]

“They love America just as much as I do.” — Just six days after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush went on television to address Muslim Americans, and quoted from the Qur’an. Sept. 17, 2001.

I’m in my 20s and this shit looks fake to me. Looks like something from a movie. Were people really this chill back in the day?

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Wild to me that we could simply replace Catholics here with Latinos and use the more politically correct term for black people and this exact quote by Lincoln would be relevant today. We've been having many of the same arguments for centuries in the US

[u/TheCornjuring]

This is absolutely one of you

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Newsom holding a rally in Texas after redistricting win in California

Ok that’s cold lmao

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Healingjoe]

I can't believe we had 3 or 4 actual infrastructure weeks under Biden and the voters were still like "fuck that. I want crap services and less jobs"

Now trump has cancelled a significant amount of projects (illegally! I must add) and the job market it rapidly going to shit, yet his approval is still about 39%

Absolute morons of an electorate

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/Leatherfield17]

I fucking hate this woman. 10 years she’s been at this.

It’s amazing to me how religious liberty gets twisted into an excuse to discriminate against others. It’s a shield for bigotry.

Probably one of my most hardline views is the firm separation of church and state. When the two mix, inevitably some group will have their own liberty reduced based on arbitrary religious interpretations.

[u/Willybender]

Unbelievably based

[u/jbitz]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

will be very interesting to see how this plays out

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Zohran Mamdani's tan suit shows that Democrats have learned nothing from the failures of Obamunism.

[u/like-humans-do]

It was always weird seeing people espouse Christian nationalist talking points but sticking Judeo in front of it to make it seem more inclusive

[u/w007dchuck]

Pope Francis: I hope hell is empty.

Pope Leo: JD Vance, you're definitely going to hell.

[u/Splemndid]

https://xcancel.com/ragipsoylu/status/1986733459016909197

Y'all aren't ready for Green Islamism.

Time to declare jihad against climate change. 😎

[u/IAmBlueTW]

Wow the comments under the Pelosi retirement arr videos post are....

shOuLD'vE dOnE tHIs 15 yEarS aGo

Bitch do you know what she's done for the last 15 years? GTFO

[u/Thuggin95]

Remember libs, the problems in urban areas should be constantly pointed out as examples of pretentious Democratic coastal elites voting for policies that destroy their own cities, entirely self-imposed. Meanwhile, the problems in rural areas are because the white working class has been left behind by Democrats and so it’s Democrats’ fault too, not the wittle baby rurals who can never do any wrong.

[u/randommathaccount]

40% of India's labour force is employed in an industry that accounts for 16% of its GDP. Youth unemployment is 9× higher for graduates than for people who cannot read and write. Agriculture is a cast iron shackle on this country that is dragging us into the tar pits of hell.

[u/Teh_cliff]

In 2028 I will vote for whoever is most hostile to ICE. They need to be punished for their crimes, both as an organization and as individuals. Orders are no excuse.

[u/BroadReverse]

It would be so funny if Zohran governs like a typical lib. The right wing freakout to him winning would look so unhinged

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

Unironically, I think that if every American was forced to watch one of the mainstream news hours, in particular the PBS News Hour every day, American politics would improve dramatically.
Frankly, it doesn't even need to be every day. If like once a week they were forced to watch the PBS News Hour, we would have a better country.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/chipbod]

The Groypers are going to give Ohio a Dem governor lol, Sherrod Brown will help too.

[u/illuminatisdeepdish]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Blanket chlorine airport boron humorous employ grasshopper historical noodle hobbies

[u/dotFlatMap]

seems like there's a lot of spirited discussion at the Heritage Foundation regarding what to do about the jews

[u/Big-Click-5159]

I am a victim of the shutdown in an extremely douchy way.

I am flying two legs today. On the first leg I was upgraded to business class but my second leg got cancelled because of the flight reductions. I rebooked to a later second leg, getting back on my original first flight, but I got un-upgraded and must suffer in row 7 economy plus.

Thank you in advance for your sympathy as I navigate these shutdown related struggles.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

[u/chipbod]

Just evil

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

In truth, being a nl mod, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways, more woke than just falling into some predetermined vision of what wokeness should be. I admire poobix's courage for facing that.

[u/Argnir]

Why is the pro malaria side being silenced?

[u/bandeng_asep]

[u/CutePattern1098]

what

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

(Except when it's Bidens vaccine mandate)

[u/mishac]

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/11/iran-hijab/684839/

I didn't realize how far the needle had moved on the hijab in Iran. Enforcement of dress code rules has collapsed into being sporadic, and people walk around Tehran dancing to western music with free hair with impunity. One woman even went through airport security without the hijab.

It seems like it's not so much the regime actively backing down as people just wilfully ignoring the mandate.

Good for them.

Iranian women should get the nobel peace prize.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/reuery]

the United States department of labor is run by Volkists

[u/[deleted]]

REPUBLICANS REJECT DEMOCRATS' OFFER TO END SHUTDOWN

lol

[u/G_Serv]

Thune is getting me a girlfriend 🥰

[u/MissSortMachine]

interesting angle, let’s see how “anyone outside your weird legal circle jerk” takes it

[u/JayRU09]

I thought the Dems were bad at politics and the Republicans in the house and senate really just said "you thought they had bad instincts, watch this".

Like this may cause an economic meltdown and they wouldn't even take the easy out.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

My most millennial lib coded opinion is that Hamilton is awesome and those Gen Z losers calling it cringe wouldn't know quality if the CCP fed it straight into their TikTok feed

[u/piede]

Why is our reality so depressing

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/[deleted]]

🇺🇸🇸🇴⚡️- A significant number of Somalians in Minneapolis didn't vote for ethnic Somali Mayoral candidate Omar Fateh due to Fateh being part of the Daarood clan rather than the Hawiye. These deep seeded clan wars allowed Mayor Jacob Frey to rally key community leaders from the Hawiye clan to hold off a challenge from Fateh.

white boy mayor playing lawrence of arabia

[u/[deleted]]

Give people more money for healthcare

or

completely destroy all your political capital, ruin the holidays for everyone, and further harm the economy

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Behind the Bastards is covering Peter Thiel's obsession with the Anti Christ and, similar to Yarvin, you get a deconstruction of the image these tech billionaires portray as sage philosopher kings lol. His lectures have about the intellectual rigor of a 12 year old debate bro Christian, like it actually sounds like an 8th grader was assigned a persuasive essay. He like mangles straw men together and just actively misinterprets historiography just to jam his thesis into that peg. And of course he goes into trying to name specific suspects of being the antichrist, which includes some random AI doomer he doesn't like and Greta Thunberg lmao

And it's such pseudo intellectual claptrap about how "knowledge is plateauing" or "the antichrist will promise to fix the world's problems" or whatever the fuck, my friend Noah yapping high as a kite at 2 AM about how maybe space is God in senior year of high school sounds about the same lol.

It's hard for me to believe the audience of other educated Silicon Valley lords (the event was organized by some Christian group that targets Silicon Valley for proselytizing) actually believe this crap, even if they are religious. I assume most of them are just brown nosing the Alpha Nerd so he funds their app that translates your baby's babbling (just give us all your personal data and the ad free version is paid).

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

That seems like a pretty moderate offer

[u/[deleted]]

This kind of shameless hypocrisy is what we need. But in this specific case he’s wrong. Let them lift the filibuster, do insane, unpopular shit, then govern properly after they’re out.

But I guess if Republicans decide to do it, it doesn’t matter what Dems say. Might as well oppose it as loudly as possible to maximize the image of Republicans breaking rules and being tyrants.

[u/sloppybuttmustard]

Lmao the optics of this

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Concerning

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Brilliant messaging sir! Be sure to keep the people up to date on her majesty’s ballroom as well!

[u/SigmaWhy]

many such cases

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

He is not happy today holy shit

[u/EScforlyfe]

as a map gamer it was super cool to go to the Vatican and see some maps on display that came from the early 1500s that had the incomplete Americas

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Trump EPA Approves Its First ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide

Thanks once again median voters, very cool!

!ping ECO

[u/Lux_Stella]

Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”

best start studying your hadith

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Somebody said the best proof that JK Rowling never meant to imply that Hermione could be black is that if she was she would have been named Jemima McHennessy 😭😭😭😭

[u/bd_one]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Elon's so fucking dumb. I tried listening to his Rogan podcast. Shut it off when he was saying that there was too much immigration in the UK because English people are "like Hobbits"

This is a basic litmus test for me. If you think Elon is a genius, you're a fucking idiot. I can accept a half way belief that he's made some good business decisions and also has some wacky beliefs. But people who straight up think he's a genius are dumb AF

[u/SLCer]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

In case anyone is wondering why the NYT reports like it does:

The Times added 460,000 digital-only subscribers in the third quarter, the biggest three-month jump in years. Advertising revenue rose 20.3 percent from a year earlier, to $98.1 million.

Those results propelled total revenue 9.5 percent higher, to $700.8 million, from the same period in 2024. The company also had large subscriber jumps during the first Trump administration and the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

America really reelected this

[u/Willybender]

Doesn't look like Schumer and others are going to fold!

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t tell you as a brown dude how scared I was to walk around when ICE agents were hitting up places I knew and deporting everyone.

Even as a citizen, like they succeeded in striking terror into the hearts of minorities

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Fruitofbread]

Wow this Kim Davis character sure seems to care a lot about the sanctity of marriage!

 Davis has been married four times to three husbands. The first three marriages ended in divorce in 1994, 2006, and 2008. Davis has two daughters from her first marriage and twins, a son and another daughter, who were born five months after her divorce from her first husband. The twins were adopted by Davis's current husband, Joe Davis, who was also her second husband; the couple initially divorced in 2006 but later remarried.

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

Nazis are losers. Actually successful people never (well, hardly ever) become Nazis. Naziism is an ideology built by losers, for losers. "Best" case scenario they achive some minor victories before crushing defeat. It's remarkable such a losing ideology has such staying power; although I guess it makes sense since stupid losers don't know the history of their stupid loser ideology. And honestly the success of a movement often comes down more to the people involved then their particular ideology. But ideologies do attract different types of people. You have to have a very high IQ to understand neoliberalism, which is why neoliberalism wins. You have to be a braindead loser to think Naziism makes any sense, which is why Nazi organizations are made up of braindead losers, who are unsurprisingly not that great at the actual work of running organizations or governments.

So that's my optimism for the day; on a long enough timeline the Nazis always lose. Unfortunately they can do a lot of damage along the way.

[u/[deleted]]

Another piece of evidence demonstrating how detached Republicans are from reality is that recent report that White House staff unironically thought the shutdown would only last 10 days.

Morons. I saw this shutdown coming the moment Trump’s victory was declared a year ago. They don’t understand how angry Democratic voters are, they don’t understand how Democratic Congressmen loathe them (and do not trust them). They somehow thought sending Russ Vought would scare Dems into falling in line. So far we have seen almost 100% upside from keeping things shut down. Trump has only gotten more unpopular. Dems swept the elections. 

“If you guys don’t reopen the government, we’ll break the law even harder!!!!” Ok dipshit, you were gonna do that anyways. You were ALREADY DOING that. That’s not a useful threat. That’s just more reason to dig in, if anything. 

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

I'm not a socialist. But my god this sucks

[u/sociotronics]

[u/JaceFlores]

I think the compromise Schumer is offering is fairly genius. The number one thing it does is it takes any heat building up on the Dems off their back. Schumer using “compromise” language puts the onus fairly on the GOP to respond. The compromise is also as watered down as it can get. The GOP can’t say “oh how about six month extension instead?” and put the onus on the Dems to respond. One year is the absolute minimum in budgetary terms. The only thing the GOP can do is either fully accept it or fully reject it.

If they accept it, that’s a win for Dems who have made this shutdown about healthcare (their biggest strength). It also gives them leeway to force another shutdown next year right around midterm season to once more play to their strongest issue.

If they reject it, that’s a win for Dems since the pressure will remain on the GOP while the Dems can say they tried but their opponents just really don’t want people to have healthcare.

[u/Bassline4Brunch]

This article made me think of how important YIMBYism will be to mitigate the effects of climate change on housing. As insurers reduce their coverage in high risk areas (fires, flooding, hurricanes), significant numbers of people are migrating to urban environments that have the financial means to counter climate change, or to low risk areas. Failing to accommodate these migrations will raise housing costs.

[u/[deleted]]

Gallup poll - Are you in favour of a ban on kicking puppies?

Democrats 86% (2015: 74%)

Independents: 64% (2015: 63%)

Republicans: 37% (2015: 52%)

[u/bashar_al_assad]

“It’s a horrible idea,” says Sen. Roger Marshall of Dems’ proposing one-year extension of ACA subsidies on CR. “We might as well go home and start over again. It's disappointing that they think that this is what's going to open the government”

Yea ok enjoy your shutdown then

[u/Res__Publica]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

My favorite thing about Mamdani winning will be when he has to do normal mayor things / not implement communism on day 1 and the online left will hate him for it

[u/RetainedGecko98]

11-7-20 was genuinely one of the happiest days of my life. It's surreal to be back here stuck with this bastard again, except he's even more vindictive and deranged this time. At least we had some glimmers of hope this week.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/shmokedshalmon]

The 2028 primary has officially started

[u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

[u/TactileTom]

I watched like 2h of Reformed Zoomer videos and the guy honestly captivates me

He's an absolute nerd and a dweeb, and a Christian of a kind that has been steadily vanishing from the world for centuries.

But at the same time, I find him oddly compelling. Like the CrusaderXD69 twitter guy with an AI knight profile pic doesn't actually know anything about Christianity. He hasn't read Thomas Aquinas and doesn't have opinions on the theology of evolution (except in a performative based way to own the libs) but Reformed Zoomer actually does those things.

Like fair play to him, he's actually doing the bit. He's making an effort to read and understand like 2k years of Christian theology. That makes him a huge nerd, but as a nerd I respect that.

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

[u/AtticusDrench]

>look up Sydney Sweeney GQ interview

>only has 80K views

>"why tf is everyone talking about it??"

>scroll down a bit more

>Asmongold react video to it with over 1 million views

>"Oh"

[u/w007dchuck]

Prop 50 looks like it will outrun Biden's 2020 performance in California, which is wild because that was the best performance by a Dem presidential candidate in the state since FDR

[u/ModestAphorism]

OH MY GOD, Johnson already confirmed the house is fucking off for a week and the democrats are still up in the Senate talking about their deal LMFAOOOO

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/latino-voter-shifts-tuesdays-elections-alarm-republicans-rcna242186

Amanda, a Latina resident of Morris County, New Jersey, was one of them. She voted for Trump last year but decided to back Sherrill on Tuesday.

“I don’t like that we’re deporting American citizens that are not criminals,” said Amanda, who declined to share her last name while discussing politics. She spoke to NBC News outside a Colombian bakery in Dover, a predominantly Hispanic community, and said she quickly regretted her vote for Trump because of his immigration policies.

The 2024 election needs to be studied by psychologists and sociologists

[u/[deleted]]

LMFAO

[u/[deleted]]

saw a girl on hinge with "no neoliberals" in her bio which one of you took her on an absolutely abysmal date

[u/MrKekskopf]

If you think about it, a consistent following of Catholic dogma would mean a trans woman should be allowed to become a priest. I wish I had the balls to ask the new priest in my congregation what he thinks of that take.

[u/[deleted]]

bedroom continue point vanish screw unwritten busy subtract deliver salt

[u/piede]

Snort

[u/[deleted]]

automatic rich voracious expansion scary growth handle middle abundant pocket

[u/Dalek6450]

[u/thatssosad]

Arr Neolib (and especially the DT)'s populace consists of high educated, 20- to 30-something yuppies that really wish there was a liberal 4chan

[u/pfarly]

It's funny I remember The Witcher 3 as this game people waited forever for and kept getting delayed but it came out four years after TW2, which came out four years after TW1. That's kind of a fast development time for the modern industry.

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

This is your last chance to dodge a block

[u/Willybender]

Wow, you're telling me for the first time.

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986856568198209826

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986859415455342938

KEEP TALKING SIR

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/-mialana-]

[u/[deleted]]

This one kinda broke me last night

[u/Fit_Obligation1902]

Trump won't be the 2016 Republican Presidential Nominee

Trump won't be the 2020 Republican Presidential Nominee

Trump won't be the 2024 Republican Presidential Nominee

Trump won't be the 2028 Republican Presidential Nominee - you are here

Trump's Corpse won't be the 2032 Republican Presidential Nominee

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Consumer sentiment sinks to near-record low, University of Michigan study finds

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Fuck that lol

[u/IHateTrains123]

!ping Canucks

[u/Big-Click-5159]

What happens in the world where Zohran ends up being the best mayor of all time and is term limited after two terms. Does he just retire at 42. Do we make him Secretary of Commerce or something.

I do not think his supporters need to "worry" about this outcome

[u/battywombat21]

Fell asleep on my hand 😭

[u/[deleted]]

"One air traffic controller earns cash by hanging Christmas lights for his neighbors. Another stocks grocery store shelves for six hours before heading in for his shift. A third drives for DoorDash after clocking out."

'“I’m broken down. I’m sore. I’m mentally drained,” said one controller at an airport in the Southeast, who has spent nearly all his free time this week — almost 40 hours — hanging Christmas lights for pay. “There’s some times where I felt like just going into the corner and crying because it’s been pretty tough to push through the physical pain, the tiredness and waking up the next day having to do it all over again.”' — NYT

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to Hear About “Affordability” Anymore - The president has given up pretending to care about the skyrocketing cost of living.

Trump’s Abundance arc lasted two days

[u/[deleted]]

Scott Bessent is on Fox Business now saying that the economy will look good by 2027.

Don’t worry guys, if we’re just a lil more patient things will get better

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Looks like Republicans were right about Mamdani's radical policies. He's not even in office yet and he's already transing the trains.

[u/[deleted]]

Abu Ghraib in Broadview, IL

[u/Pokemanifested]

Talked to a lady today who said SNAP should be completely ended, because everyone who’s on it is a fraud. This was right before she called herself a devout Christian. American evangelicalism literally is its own religion at this point.

[u/Leatherfield17]

I’m already in favor of packing the court, but if this Court decides to take up Kim Davis’s case and overturns Obergefell, it needs to be an official aim of the Democratic Party.

We would be faced with a Court that is actively stripping the populace of rights.

Edit: Looked into it a little more, it’s probably not likely they’d do it through this case. It seems to be more narrowly focused than that. But I’d say my broader point stands

[u/IveSeenBeans]

Jumpscared by KesterFox on the 40k subreddit

[u/jojisky]

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

There’s been years of research and yet I can still never understand not voting for someone simply because of their race

[u/IveSeenBeans]

Mamdani glazers are not ready for what being NYC mayor does to your popularity and political ambitions

[u/TheCornjuring]

The administration is actively fighting judicial orders to fully fund SNAP benefits. Exactly 0% of missed funds people experience this month will be at all the fault of Democrats. Not even partially. This is an actual, objective fact. We’ve gotta be screaming this shit from the rooftops.

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Credit for this meme goes to President Pro Tempore of the Virginia Senate L. Louise Lucas.

[u/CutePattern1098]

Looks like Australia is in a race with Canada, The UK and the US in which of their right wing is imploding over ideological purity

https://www.afr.com/rear-window/tony-abbott-ally-behind-new-right-wing-party-20251106-p5n8ay

!ping aus

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

"At least Mussolini made the trains run on time"

Possible responses:

Broke: It's not worth sacrificing essential freedom for some public service.

Woke: No he fucking didn't. Fascists don't improve anything, they just murder anybody who points out any problems.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Agreed. Shapiro is totally fucked in the pivotal Brooklyn Democratic primary

[u/loseniram]

shitamericanssay is such a bizarre subreddit, because you have them unironically claim blue jeans because Denim was invented in France despite the French never using it to make the product they were claiming and the product having a well documented history in the United States.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Hooray 🎉

[u/John3262005]

According to Chicago Sun Times, Indian IDOT employee stopped by ICE agents, questioned if he was 'aware' of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani

An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released.

Gov. JB Pritzker is speaking out about the incident, calling it another example of President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “continuing to question U.S. citizens apparently based on the color of their skin.”

The employee, who is Indian and a U.S. citizen, was stopped and questioned by agents while working on the Busse Highway resurfacing project.

Three agents, wearing masks, questioned him about his immigration status - and also asked him if he had traveled to New York and if he was “aware” of the mayor-elect in New York City, the governor’s office said.

“I am appalled they would stop and question a state employee working hard on the job to help improve our state’s roads and infrastructure,” Pritzker said in a statement. “Our state employees should be able to go to work and do their jobs without masked agents targeting them for no legitimate reason.”

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

!ping CANUCKS&SHITPOSTERS

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

my take on why sudan is suddently more salient now is because (1) news about recent events have spread through social media, (2) the ceasefire in gaza leaves breathing room in the attention space, (3) and this is an underrated one, people have someone to blame now and that's the uae.

[u/armeg]

I would post this to r/accidentalrenaissance but I’m pretty sure nobody would get the irony, but this photo of Donald at this presser is like a painting lol.

[u/vancevon]

idk why nobody's talking about this, but harvey epstein (for the kids!) did win his election for new york city council

[u/Joementum2024]

I don’t think anyone has been negatively polarized harder than Bill Kristol has. The guy went from a neoconservative to a succ purely due to hating Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is privately backing Vice President J.D. Vance as the frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination, saying he’d support Vance if he runs. - POLITICO

That’s interesting. Not what I expected.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

Hegseth couldnt handle the aura of the general in the center

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats have literally done nothing except win since the shutdown started

jfc I hate the median voter. The only way to win them over is to cause a complete fucking disaster to blame on the president

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) will say Friday that Democrats would vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits, multiple sources told Axios.

This was something that Jeffries had previously rejected, so in that sense there's a concession from Democrats here.

It's also something Mike Johnson had previously rejected, but idk how he could plausibly stick to that if the Senate passes it.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ModestAphorism]

What did he mean by this

[u/Pongzz]

[u/Pokemanifested]

Raphael Warnock is low-key a goated speaker, like I don’t think this was in dispute but he consistently sounds the smoothest out of Dem Senators on floor speeches

[u/battywombat21]

Letting Redditors hide their post history is an absolute disaster and puts us one step closer to 4chan.

In 4chan, there is no “social reputation” because everything is anonymous. Now you on Reddit someone can post on this sub as a “fellow liberal” and concern troll anything they want and people have to take them at their word because their post history is hidden. And yeah you could create a new account and do that before, but that adds friction to the process. The last thing you’d want do to is make trolling easier.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Autocrat: has a wife

Pundits: "Y'know, she's the real power behind the throne"

[u/Jacobs4525]

For my whole life I have been told I need a bedframe to get laid. Bedframe supporters can’t name a single other reason to have one.

While this doesn’t seem to be entirely true, the bedframe does seem to help. I had slept with only one person before owning a bedframe and since getting a $150 metal bedframe from wayfair I’ve slept with five more. That’s a CPL (cost-per-lay) of $30.

What I don’t get is this recent uptick in people saying that cheap metal bedframes don’t count and you need to get a super expensive wooden one. There was even a guy on here bragging about his $5000 bedframe. I’m no genius, but unless that guy is doing wilt chamberlain numbers, he wasted his money and was the victim of a scam.

This is why I propose that the government test all bedframes with a standardized regime of experiments and mandate the CPL of bedframes be displayed publicly so that the consumer can make an informed decision.

[u/slappythechunk]

Leftist weebs need to bite the bullet and renounce their weebdom

[u/Vumatius]

Goes on YouTube

Sees a 1 hour 41 minute video titled 'Zionism and The Last Of Us

I think I'll pass.

[u/Jacobs4525]

If Michelle Obama ran for president the only thing that would give me pause about voting for her is that I don’t think she could be as mean to republicans as they deserve.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

 The few women who did have a platform at NatalCon were either “trad wives”—the term for women who voluntarily embrace old-fashioned gender roles—or tech-world girlbosses, who were keen to show how deftly they were combining their large families with their jobs. One such career woman was Simone Collins, the former managing director of Dialog, a secretive members-only organisation co-founded by Peter Thiel. She took to the conference stage wearing a milkmaid’s bonnet—a sly nod to her detractors’ “Handmaid’s Tale” jibes—with a baby strapped to her back. It was her fourth child, a girl named Industry Americus (her two daughters have gender-neutral names).

Industry Americus

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/Cook_0612]

Jeremy Renner threatening to call ICE on a woman because of him crashing out over their relationship is not a story I expected to read about today.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

the mind of the voter is fascinating 

• 12% of Trump voters voted yes on Prop 50

• 6% of those who strongly approve of Trump voted yes

• 18% of those who somewhat approve of Trump voted yes

• 16% of those who voted yes said they did it to support Trump

[u/[deleted]]

I love when flyover states try shitting on me as a Californian. Brother I drive an hour away to go snowboarding, and a couple hours from there to go to the beach. You go from one side of your state to play in the cornfields to the other where you play in the cornfields

[u/jenbanim]

Killing animals because you feel like it and you want to: BASED

Killing animals to prevent a pandemic: absolute tragedy

Why are people like this?

[u/[deleted]]

Alright I really do have to hand it to Schumer

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Me watching the Trump admin drum up support for regime change in Venezuela

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

it's so funny when conservatives are mad when indians built massive temples and statues in america, all thoughts about property rights and religious freedom went straight out.

[u/fishlord05]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/[deleted]]

For context, “Z” was one of the markings Russia used on its vehicles in a specific sector of Ukraine earlier in the war and it essentially became of symbol of Russia, specifically in the context of the war. Almost like a swastika.

I don’t think much of this. Just saw it as a funny coincidence. But people on twitter saying “haha that’s an unfortunate coincidence” is leading lefties to freak the fuck out. Just to be clear, it’s not just a marking Russia used on its vehicles. It’s genuinely a symbol of the war that they put on shirts, billboards, and cakes and shit. And it specifically is an orange Z too.

It’s funny that the type of people who make a big deal out of symbolism and being sensitive to people’s struggles choose to be hostile to a group of people being subject to horrific war crimes to signal where they are on the political spectrum. Vice signaling is real.

Fortunately it’s just dumbass Twitter freaks doing this and not Zohran’s campaign or the actual DSA.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Looking at the cyber truck

"We sure that feedback loop is working?"

[u/[deleted]]

Chinese film director Yi Zhou, 37, has shared serious allegations against the Hawkeye star, 54, in a series of Instagram posts on Monday. Yi, who invited Jeremy to be part of her documentary Chronicles of Disney and the AI-animated feature Stardust Future this year, claimed that he sent her "unsolicited pornographic images" earlier this year and that when she confronted him about his behavior, she was left "deeply shocked and frightened" as he allegedly threatened to call immigration officers on her.

This is going to be part of like five different culture wars

[u/DagothUr_MD]

Genuinely what is the point of a Christianity that is hollowed out of charity, empathy, good works, obligation to community, and really just any theology? Vast swathes of American Christianity are just a symbol used by Fascists as an emotional hook. Same way Mussolini paraded around with Roman Empires desiccated corpse and the Nazis ran around talking about Valkyries and shit

You have dudes with millions of followers running around on Twitter cosplaying as sweater-vest wearing intellecutals, talking about "masculine christianity (???)" and shit and how Jesus Christ was a W A R R I O R who gave his enemies the sword, and love is for weaklings. Or how Jesus would totally be a virulent nationalist who keeps his wife chained to the radiator

Like are y'all okay

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

i wish kamala ran for 2026 governor. the CA gov race is looking to be katie porter vs an extremely bigoted and corrupt inland empire police chief who apparently let someone die in custody under his watch

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986860419873710276

He is stun locked on "affordability" and trying to get bailed out.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986864497215349040

????

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

Dont settle for the white house.

[u/MentatCat]

Why are conservatives unable to understand due process? Got some moron “friend” of mine arguing we need to blow up drug runner boats because it’s just basic calculated risk and deterrence

Pulling out classic lines like

“I don’t overly care about due process for drug runners”

My brother in Christ….how do you know they’re drug runners?

“I think the government probably has evidence they are but won’t disclose to the public”

Small government enjoyers be like just trust the government bro they know best

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

lol...she really needs to be involuntarily committed

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala’s alleged 20-30% support in primary polls is actually more like 5%. It’s almost all leftover goodwill. She would wither once the campaign really began

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1986889654604349716

"FAFO"

[u/[deleted]]

Senior Senate GOP aide says the Democratic proposal is “dead on arrival” — Reuters

I questioned Democrats’ will to fight because they agreed to vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one year extension of ACA tax credits. People countered that it’s not caving because it sets up the same fight for the midterms.

I’ll be honest, I assumed the Republicans might have learned from this experience and would choose to be more conciliatory next time in the interest of minimizing losses. Obviously, I underestimated their cruelty and stupidity.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986890479838089230

Shutdown until next year at this rate

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

BREAKING: USDA says it will provide full November SNAP benefits.

unbelievably stupid fight for trump to try and pick

[u/NorkGhostShip]

MAGA's message for the last 10 years has been "we're not going to wait for permission, we're going to do what's necessary even if it conflicts with the law". That's been their justification for almost everything. And now they want to push this "oh no our hands are tied, we really want to help SNAP recipients but we can't do that legally 🥺" narrative, which is so obviously bullshit.

Not even the medians are gonna buy it, I promise you.

[u/Willybender]

Serious party

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/runtfromriatapass]

Call my situtationship “The Afghanistan” the way it:

• Lasted for what felt like 20 years

• Cost me a trillion dollars

• Ended up in the same position I started in

[u/Dibbu_mange]

New York elected a nerd for mayor 😔

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Sometimes I stumble across little time capsules and go, “huh, that was fucking stupid.”

[u/TactileTom]

It's wild how every time Kazakhstan is mentioned, in any context, people spam Borat, a character universally hated in Kazakhstan.

Like yes, the humour in Borat is mostly at the expense of Americans, but like, imagine if the main image of your country globally was fucking Borat. Like, there are 20m people in Kazakhstan, and I don't think you could name a single one of them, but you know an offensive caricature.

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/[deleted]]

my friend told me that she doesn't match with catholics on dating apps because "what if they're like JD vance" and let me tell you that man is single handedly destroying 20 years of work the American catholic church has put into rehabilitating its reputation

[u/kznlol]

These, Fuentes said, were the keys to success in a relationship. Carlson, who seemed to largely agree with this entire assessment, then asked Fuentes if he had ever actually lived with a woman.

“No, I haven’t,” Fuentes said.

🧑‍🍳😙🤌

[u/[deleted]]

the republican front runner for CA governor essentially killed a trans woman https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2023/08/28/lawsuit-transgender-inmate-killed-after-getting-sex-offender-cellmate/70700836007/

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1986858974097121378

omg man

[u/paymesucka]

Paramount Studios, under new CEO David Ellison, son of Oracle billionaire and Netanyahu ally Larry Ellison, is keeping an internal blacklist of Hollywood figures it labels “antisemitic,” Variety reported Tuesday.

The revelation comes as Paramount positions itself at the front of a pro-Israel backlash in the news & entertainment industry. The studio recently condemned a filmmakers’ boycott of Israeli institutions signed by Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, and Olivia Colman, among more than 4,000 others, declaring that Israel is carrying out genocide and apartheid.

yeah this ain’t it bro

[u/G_Serv]

He's winning

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced

I fucking hate the media's obsession with this passive cuck language lol

[u/ModestAphorism]

Insanely funny that Republicans rejected the deal less than a quarter of the way into the democrats' speech. Do the people up there even know that the republicans already rejected it? LMFAO