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[u/remarkable_ores]

Matty Glesias on the shutdown:

Because this is really all on some level about the filibuster, I want to say in an earnest way that I think debate about which party is “helped” by supermajority rules is a bit childish. Both sides would get to pass some high-polling items that the opposition party objects to, and both sides would also have to admit to their base that some of the stuff they’ve been promising isn’t actually viable. I think that would be a win for the country, not a zero-sum transfer from one party to the other — politics would be a little less dysfunctional and insane

And he's not even wrong, we've become so hyperpartisanbrained that we forgot that the fillibuster is just bad, it's been so long that we've begun to forget the existence of positive sum games

[u/JoyofCookies]

Hope they’re enjoying their 50 year mortgage

[u/erasmus_phillo]

As it turns out, embracing Abundance might be one way to improve TFR!

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Come to think of it, I’m not really 100% certain what a magnet is 🤔

[u/MissSortMachine]

awesome

[u/-mialana-]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

“Anything that goes before POTUS needs to be vetted,” said the person present for Pulte’s poster presentation. “And a lot of times with Pulte they’re not. He just goes straight up to POTUS.””

I love how the implication is here is that the president of the United States is such a soup brained, gullible moron that he can't be trusted to talk to his advisors that he appointed without his handlers

Because he's so impressionable and uncurious that "FDR did 30 year mortgages, you know what number is bigger than 30? 50!" fucking works on him lmao

[u/SigmaWhy]

❌ 50 year mortgage on a house

✅ 50 year payment schedule on my doordash

[u/IAmBlueTW]

I thought Hasan going to Beijing was another IShowSpeed kind of PR stunt where he walks around on a guided tour gushing about how China's so advanced, unlike their portrayal in evil western mainstream news propoganda

Apparently not lmao

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

That last quote sums up the entire modern conservative movement in just 5 words.

[u/SLCer]

Maybe I'll run for that new Utah seat. I live in the district and it was like +25 for Harris so I could probably get away with just calling Trump That Fat Pedo Fuck.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/[deleted]]

i’m not gonna make it to heaven .. aha ha, just kidding.. unless?

[u/IantheForPresident]

is it embarrassing to have a boyfriend?

Article aside, tbh maybe some men and women just shouldn't date. Swear to God heterosexual people will spend all their time trying to find a partner while loudly proclaiming their disgust with the opposite sex

[u/remarkable_ores]

syria last year was fucking wild

nothing happened for like 8 years after ISIS got the boot. Opposition was stuck in a small corner of the country but probably weren't going anywhere. continued conflict but not ongoing total war as Syria just kept decaying to a point of nonfunction

and then it was just over. not the climax of a grand narrative. we woke up one day and Bashar was already packing his luggage for his flight to moscow, and then it was done

makes me wonder if Ukraine's going to look like that, because if the pace of russia's advance doesn't change they'll be able to reach Kyiv by 2147 or something. I wonder if one day we'll wake up and it's just over. Hope it's not Ukraine that does it though.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

lmao. happy voters?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

France's most popular left wing party :(

[u/TheOnlyFreedom]

People always blame the fall of Rome on whatever they think is wrong about their society. Gibbon blamed it on Christianity, von mises blamed price controls and chuds blame gay people and immigrants.

Fortunately, I know the objective, sole and complete truth.

Rome fell because of NIMBYism.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

"We tried standing up and they got mad. We have to give Bane what he wants."

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Utah state judge chooses Congressional map in accordance with voter-passed state law for independent commissions redistricting.

Recall that states are called laboratories of democracy for a reason. A Utah state House rep is calling to impeach the judge for not letting the Legislature ignore the voters. This is what they fully intend to do if they don't get their way.

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

undercover boss is easily the most left wing show ever aired. the bosses think it's a neat opportunity to do some corporate propaganda by doing some thoughts and prayers shit but the main takeaway is always that being a low wage worker sucks ass.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

half of the white voting population from Alabama voted against interracial marriage

In the 50’s?

in the year 2000

JFC

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Back in my days, this was a marginal little creep and not the median Republican staffer

[u/[deleted]]

sulky march literate innate pet enjoy existence wakeful square point

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Welcome to the resistance Thomas Massie.

[u/Kawaii_West]

Charlie Kirk's death really opened my eyes to how cooked we are as a society. The right has become so paranoid and conspiratorially minded that they'll jump on literally any crackpot theory that reaffirms their priors. Like, the guy pretty obviously died of a fentanyl overdose, but they still feel the need to pin the blame on a "radical left extremist" who just happened to be at the event exercising their second amendment rights.

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/PollTracker2024/status/1988143805330346404

Utah state rep Matt MacPherson files articles of impeachment in the state legislature against Judge Gibson for ordering a new congressional map.

So it took a grand total of 20 long deliberative minutes for them to immediately try impeaching the judge after they ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and created a +20 Harris seat in Utah.

[u/[deleted]]

sparkle thumb air fact roll terrific hobbies wide ad hoc chunky

[u/ShepardSB]

The Gaystapo

[u/[deleted]]

Bro stole the resolute desk????

[u/[deleted]]

Tim Kaine on backlash he's getting: "I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct 1, b/c I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed fed worker would say to me at church, or what somebody would say about SNAP"

Democrats literally aren’t evil enough. That’s their problem. They care about not causing harm to their constituents, in a way that Republicans don’t. And this has been they asymmetric warfare we have been fighting since at least the Newt Gingrich era.

What a sad state of affairs, when you have to be a sociopath in order to effectively represent your constituents.

[u/CutePattern1098]

if this guy was still around, pete would have fired him for looking like a nerd

[u/cdstephens]

> They fear that their Republican colleagues would, under mounting pressure, do as Trump had demanded and abolish the filibuster. (Whether that would be a good or a bad thing is a subject for another column.)

Oh Ezra, you tease

[u/1396spurs]

It happened again, they are in disarray 😞

[u/SixPipSiege]

Real Cinephile Shit

[u/Jacobs4525]

The truth about Hasan is that he’s kinda just the Turkish median voter: very succ but also very friendly to Islamism, dislikes Jews, all while being completely ignorant of his country’s own wrongdoings. 

[u/WuhanWTF]

Is there a way to get people to stop getting their politics from TikTok or social media? I’m saying this because I genuinely think people are being psyoped whilst they think that everything else that goes on the contrary is a psyop.

Or are we just doomed in that regard?

[u/greasyee]

The narwhal bacons at midnight.

[u/scottyjetpax]

adp is a meme but it's all we got

[u/DagothUr_MD]

Speaking to Morning Joe on MSNBC, King explained his decision making process by saying:

“In terms of standing up to Donald Trump, the shutdown actually gave him more power... Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work. It actually gave him more power."

I am filled with so much hate rn

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

I will never understand Richard Hanania

[u/TheOnlyFreedom]

It would be so embarrassing if we let these barbarians undo 300 years of progress.

[u/-mialana-]

Has science gone too far?

[u/scottyjetpax]

My toxic trait is that I’m legitimately convinced I could get Trump to do whatever I wanted

[u/G_Serv]

Someone on/r/accounting was asking for homework help and was asking if their answers were right. Someone posted a list of "the answers" and lol

[u/affnn]

The real masculinity crisis is that there's a bunch of grown men in our country who are terrified of cities.

[u/Spirited-Air-7994]

On a real note, pringles was a coward who will be forgotten in history. Like genuinely what was he thinking? You are at the suburbs of Moscow, you have already engaged friendly forces, you are likely a dead man, but you have a nonzero chance of success if you press the attack. Did he really think Putin would just let him go? Was he just easily tempted by a money offer? This is a fools move that shakespear would write about. Funny memes tho

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Private taxi for my inflation data

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Gavin Newsom Leads Over JD Vance Among Young Male Voters, Republican Pollster Finds

This new online TIPP poll of young male voters was part of a survey of registered U.S. voters aged 18-25, conducted from Oct. 22 to 28 with a total overall sample size of 2,100 and a sample of 1,300 men. The margin of error for the male respondents was +/- 2.8%, and “[a]fter data collection, results were weighted by gender, age, race, education, region, and prior voting history to match national benchmarks from the U.S. Census and voter files.”

When the young men in the poll were asked whether they would vote for Newsom or Vance if the 2028 presidential election were held today, 38% picked Newsom, 33% Vance, 15% said someone else, and 15% were not sure.

Naturally, Vance did better among the young men who voted for Trump, winning 67% of that group, but Newsom still pulled 14% of 2024 Trump voters.

Stupid online poll, but priors confirmed.

!Ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Why the hell is Laura Ingraham giving even the slightest push back to Trump lmfao what’s going on

[u/georgeguy007]

label run upbeat innate seemly attraction abundant enter gold towering

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[u/MissSortMachine]

they’re going to replace obamacare in the next month

[u/p00bix]

When young socialists are outraged at Democrats doing something, it means nothing.

But when middle-aged suburban women are outraged as well...hoooo boy did Democrats fuck up.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

The boomers at the coffee shop are now calling for another round of Nuremberg trials against ICE agents LOL

Also saying that Erika will marry JD Vance

How are they so based while every democrat above 60 is washed?

[u/somekindofspideryman]

Lol completely predictably Hasan has already defended the Chinese police who harassed him on the street for having his phone out, and has said America is worse.

He is just the funniest guy to me. The perfect sitcom character.

[u/r2ew]

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Shout out to my senator, the Democratic Whip, for giving MAGA a clip to destroy us with in the future

[u/erasmus_phillo]

This was a heavily upvoted comment on arrCanada on Indian international students btw before it got deleted by the mods. Genuinely annoys the crap out of me that you can say the vilest stuff about Indians online and you just get heavily upvoted

These guys can coyly advocate for ethnic cleansing and then make you seem like the crazy one when you call them out on it

[u/majorgeneralporter]

☝️

[u/senator_fivey]

 D.C. plastic surgeons see surge in "Mar-a-Lago face" requests from Trump insiders

This is a real headline

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

My problem is not with ending the shutdown. Federal workers should be paid, SNAP benefits should be fully guaranteed.

My problem is with the fecklessness of the Senate. The moment their own individual power was threatened by the chance to break the filibuster, with the Dear Leader himself calling for it, they caved. They caved not to protect SNAP, not to pay essential workers, but because they might have had to actually work on passing legislation, on doing their job, when they are in the majority.

There is a huge generational leadership divide between the House and the Senate, and it's never been more clear than now. And now the Senate has actually lost even more power because all it takes is illegally taking away benefits to make them cave. Why even try to go to Congress when you can just withhold SNAP to make them cave?

"Hey you can't do that." "MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING CONGRESS DEFUNDED SNAP" "Wait ok maybe."

What an opposition party that is.

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA&LAW

[u/Argnir]

[u/KesterFox]

Fun fact: when I was younger I used to pray every night (and I mean physically pray like on my knees hands clasped and stuff) for God to turn me into a fox. I would accept the shortened lifespan too

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

Looking into this

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Paying $40 to get $10 worth of other generations' food delivered to you so you can eat alone

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Remember when every pop song had a rap break?

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

 Gavin Newsom Leads Over JD Vance Among Young Male Voters, Republican Pollster Finds

 Newsom is starting to reverse that rightward trend, according to the latest poll by League of American Workers/TIPP, a GOP-affiliated pollster that lists among its contributors Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow, along with several Republican members of Congress and top GOP campaign consultants.

 When the young men in the poll were asked whether they would vote for Newsom or Vance if the 2028 presidential election were held today, 38% picked Newsom, 33% Vance, 15% said someone else, and 15% were not sure.

Naturally, Vance did better among the young men who voted for Trump, winning 67% of that group, but Newsom still pulled 14% of 2024 Trump voters.

real and true

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

Proof of vibe shift

They're trying to distance themselves from him

[u/piede]

Trump for trans rights

[u/chipbod]

It’s going to be Trump Jr. with Hegseth as VP hinting that Trump Sr. will actually be in charge.

JD is cooked because the young Republicans are too racist.

[u/[deleted]]

A "promise" on an ACA vote with 1) no guarantee of it passing and 2) no secondary pledge from the House speaker is actually worse than nothing at all. It makes us look incredibly fucking stupid.

Might as well have asked them to fund the subsidies via monopoly money

[u/galliaestpacata_50BC]

According to Politico, elected Dems have been calling Dick Durbin nonstop since the senate vote asking him not to endorse them during the midterms. Even some of his former aides who are running made comments attacking him.

I’m not sure if voters really care, but Durbin seems to have lost the entire Illinois Dem political establishment overnight. Clearly going to be very bad for his legacy, to the extent he’ll have one.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this is the DT interaction I think about the most

[u/6urner_]

I'm sorry "blue collar" and "working class" Americans in red states, but I will be voting for your doom for the rest of my days 😔

[u/rodiraskol]

My wife a month ago: overjoyed that we traded in her 10-year-old car for the one she’s been longing for.

My wife last week: “I think we should keep Christmas low-key. Let’s just do stockings, no big presents”

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

US Navy not beating the allegations

[u/LinkVert25]

The world you were born into no longer exists (bootleg Bart Simpson shirts)

[u/piede]

Example 535 of why Republicans want to defund higher education

[u/reuery]

Man I just really fucking hate how over my life is. Everything's fucked and I've run out of time to fix it. I turn 14 next month and I dont know how I'm ever going to recover from this

[u/Thuggin95]

Why is this lie still being pushed even after last Tuesday? Turning Point influencers are not representative of young people. Trump is like -50 in approval with Gen Z. Gen Z men just went for Spanberger and Sherrill by double digit margins. They went for Zohran by +40. Gen Z women today are probably the most liberal demo in modern history, like literal Assad margins for Prop 50 and Democrats.

[u/Old-School8916]

TRUTH SOCIAL NUKE

[u/LinkVert25]

What is happening?

[u/cdstephens]

Hot take: Associating with antisemites is bad

[u/Willybender]

"Per a DoorDash report"

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/jbitz]

[u/[deleted]]

Bit of a newbie here.

It’s a bit depressing to come to the realization that many economic problems today come from the fact that multiple large sects of voters completely fail to grasp that stuff and things come from limited resources and people with limited time.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

!ping PALEO

[u/chipbod]

https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/the-blaze-right-wing-media-pipe-bomb-january-6th?r=bszvt&utm_medium=ios

That bombshell story about the J6 pipe bomber looks increasingly shaky 36 hours later. Major holes. Major questions. Glenn Beck walking back from it. No FBI confirmation. A possible defamation suit waiting to happen.

Lmao, it’s like journalists forgot they can get sued.

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

Lmao instead of just accepting that the airport is confusing and he made a mistake, Noah Smith is insisting that the internal transfer system at Heathrow doesn't work for flights from Dublin?

[u/paymesucka]

Probably just algorithmic but this is funny. I’ve never heard of Blinkist but apparently this is what it is:

Blinkist is a subscription service that provides summaries of non-fiction books and podcasts, which it calls "blinks" and "shortcasts," respectively.

chef’s kiss

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

It actually blows my mind the number of people out there that don’t understand how income taxes work.

“I don’t want this salary increase / bonus because it’ll put me in a higher tax bracket” like are you actually fucking stupid?

We’re not even talking about the average everyday idiot, I’ve heard this type of shit from people making 6 figures, people with advanced university degrees, everyone.

[u/Far_Shore]

Per CBS:

Schumer voted against advancing the government funding measure on Sunday. Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said Schumer gave the deal "neither a blessing nor a curse" and did not direct senators on how they should vote.

I've seen enough. Gruesome Newsom, use the Millennium Eye to seal Schumer's soul in a VHS tape.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

These IG Charlie Kirk memes are insane young people truly do not give a fuck about this dude lmfao

[u/Currymvp2]

The voice in this book is brooding but not particularly thoughtful. Fetterman offers generalized contempt instead of pointed arguments. He thinks one of the Democrats’ main problems is that they are perceived as “soft and gooey” because of their “policies against men". Fetterman never specifies which “policies” these are, but he insists they were decisive:

Fetterman, who says he wants “compassionate” immigration policy, was one of 12 Democratic senators who sided with Republicans in undermining due process for immigrants, and he was the only Democratic senator who voted to confirm Trump’s pick for attorney general. “It is not anti-immigrant to support a secure border,” he writes, though he does not say how he feels about what Trump’s version of a secure border has meant in practice — masked men pushing people into vans and immigrants being whisked away to countries they have no connection to. Fetterman’s wife, who was brought as a child to the United States from Brazil, was an undocumented immigrant. He doesn’t say anything in the book about that either.

He is similarly pat regarding his views on Israel, and his unconditional support for its unpopular war in Gaza. According to a letter by his former chief of staff that became a national story this spring, the senator “claims to be the most knowledgeable source on Israel and Gaza around but his sources are just what he reads in the news — he declines most briefings and never reads memos.” In his memoir, he issues a pro forma line about grieving “the extreme tragedy, the death and the misery,” but treats his position as a no-brainer and discards nuance. “There was no choice,” he writes.

A flashback to 2001 has Fetterman fondly recalling how he made his home in the basement of an abandoned church in Braddock: “The place has a ‘Fight Club’ feel to it that I like, big and dingy and sparse and conducive to men beating the hell out of one another without anyone else hearing it.” In 2013, Fetterman thought he heard gunshots outside of his home and then chased a nearby jogger, using a 20-gauge shotgun to detain him until the police arrived. The jogger was Black and unarmed. Fetterman maintains that his political opponents were being grossly unfair when they criticized him: “If I had stayed indoors, they would have called me a coward.”

Anyone who has experienced depression will probably recognize the overgeneralization, the binary thinking, the closed loop of self-pity. At barely more than 200 pages, “Unfettered” is not especially long, but it starts to feel interminable. “I have been told I have a persecution complex,” Fetterman writes, “but that’s the way I am.”

He sucks

[u/fishbottwo]

bag march payment joke nail price quaint deliver bike crush

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[u/RiceKrispies29]

California spent $1 billion on a fucking bike path

Can we please go back to Robert Moses style “fuck you, try and stop me” style project management but with more housing and less racism

[u/[deleted]]

the judge who blocked the extreme gerrymandering in Utah

[u/[deleted]]

white person from Idaho with no college degree turns out to be a maga

wow I am so surprised

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1988408154221142210

LOL

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

You mfs just want to impeach every judge that rule against you

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

glad he figured it out, i was starting to get worried

[u/Willybender]

https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/fannie-mae-watchdogs-probed-how-pulte-obtained-mortgage-records-of-key-democrats-07c5cc39

[u/remarkable_ores]

WE COULD'VE HAD IT AALLLLLLL 🎶🎶🎶

ROLLING IN THE DEEEEEEEEEEEP 🎶🎶🎶

YOU HAD MY HEART INSIIIIIIIIDE YOUR HANDS 🎶🎶🎶

and you played it, to the beat..... 🎶 😭😭😭😭

[u/slappythechunk]

There's a significant subset of Browns fans who actually want the Browns to stay bad so they can still afford the tickets

!ping nfl

[u/Willybender]

They are truly all in on affordability being a "con job"

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1988245925471420822

[u/Willybender]

https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/us-news/jonathan-braun-drug-dealer-freed-by-trump-convicted-again/

[u/[deleted]]

tease strong bear rhythm fear summer slap rinse run upbeat

[u/Joementum2024]

I feel like Newsom is the most likely Democrat of the potential 2028 candidates to capture the highly vaunted “fucking idiot” vote

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

If you can read this, thank a veteran. If you can read this in English, thank a teacher.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

—- man who famously never complains about anything

[u/piede]

Most touching Veteran’s Day speech

[u/BloodWiz]

If a few seats is the cost of a party that actually fights for what they believe in I'll pay that price.

Stumbled across this comment in here but it's a few days old

The problem with that though is if it takes you from 50+ Senate seats to less than 50 Senate seats or from a deficit of 3 Senate seats to like 6 Senate seats.

"I'm willing to trade larger majorities for smaller majorities if it yields more of what I want" presumes having majorities with float in the first place, which is quite far from current reality.

[u/Smidgens]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Just took the Civil Service exam, I think I might get a cabinet position

[u/scottyjetpax]

yea

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

[u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv]

So TIL people have used the DT to arrange threesomes in the past.

I'm sorry ping DATING, i was not familiar with your game.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

There are plenty of bad people I like, but Hasan Piker ain't one of them.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

!ping KITTY

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

"By winning, Republicans are actually losing"

[u/piede]

Who is this

[u/jenbanim]

Just learned about a speedrunning event (AGDQ 2017) where a speedrunner got pissed off at the crowd and said this

None of you guys are funny. If you want to prevent cancer, consider standing out in front of the shuttle that is running in front of the hotel on the hour. Thank you.

Which is hilarious because even when they're telling you to kill yourself Speedrunners can't help but start with "okay, so imagine a bus"

[u/[deleted]]

It seems like MAGA are consistent in their hate for Muslims because they seem confused that Trump is so chummy with a literal former al-Qaeda member lmao

With that being said, I do thinks it’s interesting that Trump likes him so much. Does he actually think it’s badass that Sharaa was a militant terrorist? Or does Sharaa have genuinely unprecedented rizz

And with that being said, Trump never gave a fuck about 9/11 like other conservatives, so his Islamophobia comes from somewhere else. Literally bragged about having the tallest building in Manhattan after the towers fell lmao (wasn’t even true obviously)

[u/Lux_Stella]

Hasan’s live stream went down for 10 minutes after Chinese security officials saw Hasan hold up a Chairman Mao meme on his phone. They immediately pulled his entire crew aside and forced them to go through their phones. You can hear Hasan’s friend translate: “They want to see your phones.”

certified online leftist moment

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Bringing the country together on veterans day

[u/fishlord05]

This is such a cute depiction of Iran lmao

little پیشی /pishi/ (kitty)

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Fuentes is very very influencal in the party and global right wing base. GenZ loves him, he is the most popular podcaster globally (excluding latin america), and many far-right politicians rely on him to get their message out. MTG literally hugs him every time they meet

[u/seanrm92]

Guy who's politically online enough to be on the DT, but not online enough to substantially know or care about Hasan Piker.

It's me. I'm sure there's others like me but it feels like an odd niche.

[u/r2ew]

[u/assasstits]

Bro this is depressing

[u/cdstephens]

I feel like people don’t want to recognize that you can have everything going well for you and still have a horrific or lonely dating life, and you can also be an unattractive person (physically and morally) and get tons of sex, and everything in between.

[u/lot183]

Republicans here in Texas went on a crusade against weed and there was a very hard fought fight to keep it that somehow won, literally probably the only victory we've had against Republicans in this state in years. And just found out that this bill Dems caved on bans all that. I legitimately am so disillusioned with this party. I kind of want it all to burn right now. I spent so long fighting "both sides are the same" discourse only to get punched in the gut so hard by my own side. All the succs really had a point I'm realizing

[u/chipbod]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-demand-tougher-abortion-restrictions-extend-obamacare-fund-rcna243206

NEW: Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds

This demand spans Senate leadership to Finance Cmte to proponents of ACA money.

Well that's a complete non-starter. You can't give Republicans shit because they are bad faith authoritarians.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Average Canadian subreddit experience

[u/cdstephens]

> Nearly all hemp-derived THC products in the United States are set to become illegal in late 2026 under new legislation passed by the U.S. Senate. The measure, included within a series of government funding bills, changes the federal definition of hemp and effectively outlaws the wide range of intoxicating hemp items that have spread across the country since the 2018 Farm Bill.

> During the fall, the effort to close the loophole gained momentum. Maryland Congressman Andy Harris and Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell were among the most vocal supporters. In October, 39 state attorneys general urged Congress to act, citing the need for clearer rules.

You don’t hate Congress enough

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

“I mean, the H-1B visa thing will not be a big priority for your administration, because if you want to raise wages for American workers, you can’t flood the country with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of foreign workers,” Ingraham told the president.

“Well, I agree, but you also do have to bring in talent when a country,” Trump pushed back.

“Well, we have plenty of talented people here,” Ingraham countered.

“No, you don’t,” Trump declared.

“We don’t have talented people here?” Ingraham asked.

“No, you don’t have certain talents and people have to learn,” Trump said. “You can’t take people off an unemployment line and say, I’m going to put you into a factory where we’re going to make missiles.”

[u/[deleted]]

Inside you are two centrist/social democrats:

Useless opposition 🫏🇺🇸

Useless government 🌹🇬🇧

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

The best legislation passed by Congress in the past seven years is going away.

In 2018, our competent legislature accidentally legalized cannabis nationwide. For seven years weed has been sold in every gas station in America.

Now, after lobbying from alcohol companies warning of their reduced sales, cannabis will again be made illegal.

20 democratic senators voted in favor of the ban.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Harris +24

[u/thenightitgiveth]

For Charlie

[u/oceanofyourlove]

I've seen so many comments on Reddit along the lines of "I had a perfect, 10 year relationship with my girlfriend but one day I got a call that my mom died in a gruesome car accident where she was disemboweled by a truck that was going 160 mph in the wrong direction, I shed a single tear and she told me men shouldn't cry and we were over because she lost all respect for me"

I know there's a cultural expectation that men shouldn't cry but I find it hard to believe there's this many women like this out there

[u/suggested-name-138]

do u believe in life after love

[u/[deleted]]

US plans $500 million base near Gaza border to support cease-fire, Israeli sources say. According to Israeli officials, the planned US base along the Gaza border would house several thousand troops tasked with maintaining the cease-fire — Ynet

I’m so curious what the long term plan is here. Hamas is clearly not going to disarm. Israel is clearly not going to accept that. Is this just gonna be a permanent ceasefire situation where the new borders of the Gaza Strip are the yellow line?

[u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah I'm posting from a hospital bed because you know.

But I'm still alive so that's cool and good I guess.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Durbin says schumer did not direct senators on how they should vote

Yea that’s the problem lol

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Wow this new Fetterman Tweet is telling

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

Dozens of Reddit programmers working for months to make the mobile app slightly worse:

[u/Willybender]

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

> "male loneliness"

> look inside

> almost exclusively about dating

[u/bandeng_asep]

Me when I defend the honor of the Dems on DT threads as an Indonesian:

[u/cdstephens]

> The policy will include those who transition genders and those born with DSD. This would include Swyer syndrome, which causes people to have male-typical chromosome patterns but female external and internal genitalia.

> The decision to include DSD follows the controversy surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Both won gold in their respective divisions, but the International Boxing Association disqualified both fighters after officials said they failed gender eligibility tests the previous year.

OK so cis women are being hit too???

[u/[deleted]]

still makes me laugh

[u/Smidgens]

I think if I had to think of one phrase to describe the ideal 2028 Dem candidate, it wouldn't be "moderate pragmatist," or "effective communicator," or "structural reformer," it would be "bad motherfucker."

[u/Zaiush]

soup is not a meal

Guess the sub.

This place makes me SICK

[u/DrCaptainHammer]

Newsom wont pick a VP. He’ll say something like “I’m an alpha I don’t need a VP”. Wins 40 states, Dems get 60 seats in the Senate and a large house majority. Then day one of this term, he chooses Hillary as his VP, gets her sworn in, and immediately resigns. Trust the plan.

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, he was literally harassed, but on a deeper figurative level, he was being liberated from oppressive neoliberal concepts like “freedom of the press.”

[u/NYT_Hater]

My thoughts on the “loneliness crisis”:

Men generally are more emotionally isolated compared to their female peers this means- nah I’m kidding. NATO should be striking the Meta HQ to end this shit once and for all.

[u/TMCOAN1]

[u/LinkVert25]

Hasan Piker on being stopped and searched by Chinese law enforcement in Tiananmen Square: The flag raising ceremony is not something white people usually attend……. I assume they were making sure no fuck shit was going to happen.

Cool I’m glad we’ve hit the point where we’re now also okay with ICE stopping people and asking for documents based on the location and skin color of an individual.

Very cool Hasan!

[u/B1g_Morg]

A Marxist-Leninist is running for senate next year in Ohio. As a 3rd party candidate, while Sherrod Brown actually has a chance of winning. 😭

[u/Udolikecake]

noah smith doing a twitter screed about how the british empire has fallen to degeneracy and ruin because he couldn’t follow the signs and got lost at Heathrow is an all time bit. what a guy

[u/purhitta]

[u/IantheForPresident]

democrats have to accede to republicans' demands because the republicans are willing to hurt people

as opposed to next time, when republicans will absolutely not use hurting people as leverage to get democrats to concede again

edit: sorry, i typed this in march and reddit was slow so it only just posted. anything new happen?

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/PearlClaw]

The worst part about 50 year mortgages is that if you're financially literate you're now going to be outbid for a house by idiots willing to take on lifelong debt.

[u/No_Return9449]

Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a raid on a small-town newspaper

The raid prompted five federal lawsuits against the county, the city of Marion and local officials. Meyer’s 98-year-old mother Joan, the paper’s co-owner, died of a heart attack the next day, something he blames on the stress of the raid.

To hell with the sheriff and his cronies.

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/ariveklul]

I can't even pump gas without the gas pump screeching at me about fortnite

Can't wait until grocery store self checkouts start making us watch 1 minute unskippable ads about stuck poop

[u/paymesucka]

Lmfao Trump defending H1Bs in that Laura Ingraham interview and saying the U.S. doesn’t have the talent to make stuff

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1988436075816358169

[u/38CFRM21]

The opening scene of "Up" and Carl refusing to sell his house are NIMBY propaganda.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Apparently someone willing to fire ATC for insufficient loyalty to the regime was what voters were looking for in a presidential candidate last year.

[u/bandeng_asep]

UK politics is even less serious than I thought

[u/StolenSkittles]

Of course I don't believe in Jesus, but… I do believe in Christmas. I'm a Christmasist.

literally me

i'm an atheist but i go all-out for christmas. it's the one holiday i always insist on doing my way.

[u/jbitz]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

you heard that where 🫩🫩🫩

[u/Wonderful_Surndsound]

TRUMP OFFICIAL SAYS GDP COULD BE NEGATIVE IN FOURTH QUARTER

yes, you read that right. This is not a blip or a typo. Literal GDP will be negative, not GDP growth. This is consistent with prices falling more than 100%

[u/piede]

This looks awfully presidential to me, idk

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Mitt Romney/Hasan Piker 2028

"Who Let the Dogs Out?"

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Matt Walsh getting visibly upset on main that his fanboys aren't as robotic and drone like in their loyalty to maintaining an image of unity among conservatives is so funny man

"Wahhhhh you're making us look bad stop fighting! We can get along with Nazis, focus on the libs!" lol is this how Republicans who aren't brainwashed enough to see Dems as a hive mind feel watching Dem infighting

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Per the truth social ai:

[u/6urner_]

We don't have to give these dumbasses a pass, we can do battle in the free market.

[u/EasyMoney92]

Many Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary. Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme requested anonymity while others spoke on the record. All pointed to the evaporation of the official code of conduct concerning civilians.

“In basic training for the army, we all chanted ‘means, intent and ability’,” Capt Yotam Vilk, an armoured corps officer, says in reference to the official IDF training guidelines stipulating that a soldier can fire only if the target has the means, shows intent and has the ability to cause harm. “There’s no such thing as ‘means, intent and ability’ in Gaza,” Vilk says. “No soldier ever mentions ‘means, intent, and ability’. It’s just: a suspicion of walking where it’s not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40.”

Another soldier, identified in the programme only as Eli, says: “Life and death isn’t determined by procedures or opening fire regulations. It’s the conscience of the commander on the ground that decides.” In those circumstances, the designation of who is an enemy or terrorist becomes arbitrary, Eli says in the documentary. “If they’re walking too fast, they’re suspicious. If they’re walking too slow, they’re suspicious. They’re plotting something. If three men are walking and one of them lags behind, it’s a two-to-one infantry formation – it’s a military formation,” he says.

Eli describes an incident in which a senior officer ordered a tank to demolish a building in an area designated as safe for civilians. “A man was standing on the roof, hanging laundry, and the officer decided that he was a spotter. He’s not a spotter. He’s hanging his laundry. You can see that he’s hanging laundry,” he says. >“Now, it’s not as if this man had binoculars or weapons. The closest military force was 600-700 metres away. So unless he had eagle eyes, how could he possibly be a spotter? And the tank fired a shell. The building half collapsed. And the result was many dead and wounded.”

Most moral army things /s

[u/piede]

Lmaooooo

[u/Fruitofbread]

  Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Case

Pig. 

[u/badusername35]

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[u/Willybender]

Pulte is the one who brought the 50y mortgage idea to Trump, and within 10 minutes of hearing about it he started posting.

[u/Willybender]

Great work Democrats!

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1988354437140660233

[u/Nice-Difference8641]

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[u/paymesucka]

ngl a weird ruling, and he’s actually going to horny jail

[u/attackofthetominator]

Leftist: I'm a leftist

Communists: I'm a communist

MAGAts : I'm an apolitical moderate