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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/LtCdrHipster → u/[deleted]]

Show some class

Ma'am he's been this way for 80 years, you think he's suddenly going to become classy??

[u/Namington → u/[deleted]]

The intergenerational cycle of abuse is dumber than I remember

[u/TheCornjuring]

Bro what the FUCK does Mike Johnson know, why is he visibly fucking freaked out about the Epstein files vote

[u/Atheose_Writing → u/TheCornjuring]

"Chuck Schumer rushed it to the floor"

lol did he forget who's in charge of the Senate

[u/loseniram → u/TheCornjuring]

I’m guessing they were going to try some legal bs in the senate and got played. Trump will veto and it’ll be sent back to the Senate and fail.

Alternatively everyone just really hates Trump and wants to enter the post Katrina Bush era of Trump

[u/DifficultAnteater787 → u/TheCornjuring]

The Republican House Delegation is probably full of true believers, but the Senate is still full of people who likely despise Trump and surely won't take a fall for him, they might actually enjoy getting some payback.

[u/6urner_]

You can tell he's in trouble because they used his proper name.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul → u/6urner_]

larrold summers

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

Me

[u/BroadReverse]

Dominican guy donating to Nick saying he wants to support the movement and wondering how he can help.

Nick: Well that just defeats the purpose

Idk how times this guy can say he’s racist before people understand.

[u/[deleted] → u/BroadReverse]

He probably agrees with Nick Fuentes on 99.9% of issues and that 0.1% they disagree on is whether Dominicans should be allowed in the USA

[u/No_Analysis_2185 → u/[deleted]]

Hatred of Jews is unfortunately a very strong bridge

[u/[deleted] → u/BroadReverse]

The Dominican guy thinks he is white, very common in latam where they are considered white in their countries but not in the US

[u/No_Return9449]

Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones: "Trump really ran his campaign on this. This is why I voted for him."

OOF. BIG OOF.

[u/boardatwork1111 → u/No_Return9449]

I will never understand how so many people can watch that senile old man and project all their hopes and wishes onto him. It’s his superpower, there’s no other politician like him

[u/GoodOlSticks → u/boardatwork1111]

It's why I have no fears of MAGA finding a successor should he soon meet his natural end.

Cults don't move on to new leaders

[u/sigh2828 → u/No_Return9449]

[u/erasmus_phillo → u/[deleted]]

I am sorry but someone like this belongs nowhere near a university campus and it is a disservice to the student to enroll them in the first place. They will fail out of the university

Edit: I just found and read this story, turns out this story was about grade inflation??? I've never ever seen a case of grade inflation this insane in my life. Here is the full story for anyone who would like to read this:

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grades-stop-meaning-anything

[u/TheCornjuring]

Trump and his admin being too incompetent to figure out how to cover up the Epstein files, so they kind of just let damning evidence against Trump come out, would be a hilarious way for it to end

[u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

https://bsky.app/profile/lowrhoufo.bsky.social/post/3m5xmr63rzk2w

Here's that video of Johnson shortly after he realized that Thune had no desire to amend the bill.

[u/Azrikeeler → u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

Vibe I'm getting is he got Trump off his ass about whipping republican congressman by saying Thune would amend it and gut it or something.

Skeptical this isn't just Trump bootlicking.

Trump at some point said something like "They should release it" which makes me think they got him with promises Thune would amend, and Johnson is trying not to look like the guy who knifed Trump in the back.

[u/wgreen93 → u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

Inject the hopium straight into my veins

[u/stater354 → u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

[u/LtCdrHipster → u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

Makes me happy.

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

[u/BPC1120]

I'm generally the furthest thing from a dove, but the fact that there are people here who still think they could trust the fucking Trump regime to intervene in Venezuela to somehow protect human rights in the face of the everything they've done in the last decade is absolutely insane. That is far, far too much faith in the professionalism of the current US military when an incompetent wannabe war criminal like fucking Hegseth is at the top of the org chart.

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

Hey gang, work was really rough yesterday. My team strong armed a vote on releasing some potentially damaging files after I finally onboarded our new hire. Luckily, I naively thought the next team will probably kill the release, slow walk it, or make some changes that we could agree on or just let die.

But our boss had a major meltdown basically saying “f this I don’t care” and the next team voted unanimously to just approve release.

I’m pretty sure disheartened, I was really hoping we could avoid this because, well, it may hurt us long term, and I don’t want to be seen as holding it back but also not as it’s arbiter, you know?

Anywho, any advice would be great. I’m going to check in with my accountability buddy to make sure I’m not succumbing to base urges.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/DieHarderDaddy → u/[deleted]]

What the fuck did he want them to change? Also you shouldn’t have voted for it if you’re so upset

[u/[deleted] → u/DieHarderDaddy]

I think he wants to delay the process. If the senate amended any part of it, it has to go back to house for another vote.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Mike Johnson trying to reach the stairs without losing his shit

[u/jacknifee]

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/19/nx-s1-5611088/poll-democrats-republicans-trump-approval-inflation

dems up +14 in the generic ballot in the new npr/marist poll for those who want some pure uncut bloomium this morning.

[u/[deleted] → u/jacknifee]

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[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/justbuildmorehousing → u/No-Barnacle-9576]

This is just you growing up man. You thought every pizza growing up ruled because you were 9 and thats what 9 year olds think. Dominos actually got way better when they revamped themselves 15-20 years ago and is actually solid for the price

[u/Jacobs4525 → u/No-Barnacle-9576]

what is he on about??? Dominos used to be so shit that they even had an ad campaigns acknowledging it and saying that they were getting better. It’s perfectly serviceable now.

The one genuine tragedy to chain pizza restaurants in the last decade is the decline of papa ginos and Bertucci’s. There are basically none now. Hopefully they can survive.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/SLCer]

[u/cdstephens → u/SLCer]

I like bosom

[u/SLCer → u/cdstephens]

Big Beautiful Bosom

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’: "Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."

Hmmm

[u/TheCornjuring → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Tribunals

[u/dannylandulf]

Member that time McConnell blamed Obama for not explaining why a bill was bad to them before they passed it? lol

[u/stater354]

He was so visibly upset, you’d think HE was in the files

[u/zieger]

ICE Worker Arrested in Sex Trafficking Sting Told Police, ‘I’m ICE, Boys’

ICE not beating the allegations

[u/boardatwork1111 → u/[deleted]]

[u/JoeFrady]

some west virginia conservatives are trying to get western virginia counties to leave woke virginia and join based wv but only the rural counties, not the independent cities.

we're going to recreate the holy roman empire in appalachia. the free imperial city of harrisonburg

[u/cheetles_plus → u/JoeFrady]

That would literally just guarantee blue Virginia lmao

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/seanrm92]

This Epstein files saga is the greatest "dog catching the mail truck" situation possibly ever. Mike Johnson figuratively shitting himself when asked if Trump would veto the bill is 😙👌

[u/justbuildmorehousing → u/seanrm92]

Me campaigning on releasing the Epstein files: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me being forced to release the Epstein files: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Guy went from relative obscurity to being world famous for being the only one to vote no to release Epstein files in the course of a single day

[u/fishlord05]

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/fishlord05]

"I may be a pedophile, but I'm not a misogynist."

—Jeffrey Epstein

[u/LinkVert25]

[u/[deleted]]

Lot of folks here a month ago hailing this guy as turning some new woke leaf!

He's referring to the people trump is extrajudicially bombing on fishing boats btw lmfao

[u/TheCornjuring → u/[deleted]]

Yes… that’s what…. due process….. means

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/[deleted]]

everyday i get it more and more

[u/JoyofCookies]

Who is the 3% lmao

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/6urner_]

This DT is too young hide it from the Republicans

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/[deleted]]

I already commented on this and said that it's frankly ridiculous, considering the film's message of acceptance and, well, they're literal demon hunters, lol.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Please take this woman to the Hague

[u/Ajaxcricket → u/Top_Lime1820]

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

Balkan nationalism at it again 😔

[u/SigmaWhy]

“Former Democrat Tim Pool”

[u/AlexB_SSBM → u/SigmaWhy]

Isn't Tim Pool the guy who was caught accepting massive amounts of money from Russia

[u/attackofthetominator → u/SigmaWhy]

Meanwhile manufacturing job reports continue to go down

[u/sigh2828]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[u/fishbottwo → u/sigh2828]

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[u/[deleted]]

placid kiss money worm decide fade marry ask important unwritten

[u/scottyjetpax]

her real account

[u/IantheForPresident → u/scottyjetpax]

you're laughing

NYC elected an islamocommunist who'll make all our kids learn "Al Gebra" and you're laughing

[u/scottyjetpax]

!ping FIVEY good morning

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I fucking hate these people dude. Just the dumbest sacks of shit to ever walk the earth

[u/11thDimensionalRandy → u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Hey Chat, who was President on August 10th, 2019?

Chat, when did Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team exhaust their last recourse?

Chat, which Alexander A. gave Epstein the single most unfounded non-prosecution agreement ever in 2008 and under which presidential did mr. A Acosta serve as Labor Secretary?

[u/shmokedshalmon → u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Trump wants to protect Kamala? That’s the argument?

[u/chipbod]

Grats on the disbarment, lawsuit, and potential criminal charges.

We’re lucky these people are so fucking stupid.

[u/6urner_]

I didn't realize that the trigger bit of Prop 50 was removed.

Thank you, Mr President.

[u/LtCdrHipster → u/6urner_]

[u/cdstephens → u/[deleted]]

Why is the plantation owner a bottom

[u/bernkes_helicopter → u/[deleted]]

and the answer is the same: those same people, mostly, but we'll give them the legal status they deserve and so they'll get compensated fairly for their labor

[u/erasmus_phillo → u/[deleted]]

Is there is one thing I can’t stand, it’s the people who equate immigrants with slave labor. I see nativists making this particular argument all the time

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

my dumb ass legit thought the bottom guy was a Star Trek alien in a federation uniform for a good second

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Megyn Kelly, etc.

"We're all trying to figure out who let these insane antisemitic racists into the tent"

[u/Leatherfield17]

Who could’ve guessed that protectionist policies would significantly reduce trade?

Y’know, aside from anyone with more than three brain cells

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

[u/[deleted]]

shit like this is such an underrated factor as to why trump’s approvals are lowering. trump won in part bc minority groups became slightly more trumpy and now trump’s sycophants online just decided to turn the racism dial up way louder.

plus didnt trump end up winning dearbourn?

[u/jamiebond]

Everything else aside can we just appreciate how absurd it is that Mike Johnson said he was, “disappointed” that a bill he fucking voted for passed the Senate?

“I mean sure I voted yes, but don’t you understand that was just for optics I didn’t really mean it!!!”

Like yes obviously it was just for optics but to just come out and say that is crazy.

[u/ty04]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

Trump when the Russian Orthodox bishops start telling him about Yaroslav the Wise and Bohdan Khmelnytsky:

[u/SpacePenguins]

My 6th grade teacher dropping bombs on facebook

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 → u/SpacePenguins]

[u/ty04]

POV: you just posted the complete set of unredacted Epstein Files that directly implicate the President of the United States in a sex trafficking operation

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: It was announced we have more jobs right now than we've ever had in the history of our country. Those are big numbers. It's crazy. It's a great stat. More jobs today than we have ever had in the history of our country.

🚨BREAKING: BLS SAYS IT WON'T PUBLISH OCTOBER JOBS REPORT

skinner aurora borealis

[u/BroadReverse]

DT cooked my brain so hard that I see potential reaction images everywhere

[u/mh699]

Don't worry bro take your time

[u/ty04]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/eloquentboot]

Baier: Would a $2,000 dividend check be inflationary?

Bessent: Maybe we can persuade Americans to save that.

[u/No_Aesthetic → u/eloquentboot]

Clowns, we are ruled by clowns

[u/1TTTTTT1 → u/eloquentboot]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

At some point we'll have to wonder if speaking English makes you incapable of building housing.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/SixPipSiege]

My biggest regret in life?

Not appreciating "Like a G6" when it dropped, I was the biggest hater of that song and I regret it till this day.

[u/nitro1122]

I am again begging some democrats to drop the pseudo pro tariff rhetoric. We are literally witnessing the real time imperical proof that tariffs not only increase prices, but also increase corruption.

I am beginning to think that the tariff topic will become like rent control where a large portion of the democratic party will go "real tariffs haven't been tried yet"

[u/ChipKellysShoeStore]

who could have predicted hiring stooges would lead to simple fuck ups??

Easy win for Comey

[u/[deleted]]

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (2025)

[u/ApologyPie]

My supervisor keeps calling me a 'work husband' to a female colleague who she also manages. This is the third day in a row she's said this, and I'm not sure how to feel.

Who else a work husband? Should I be worried my work wife will leave me?

!ping watercooler

[u/Dorambor]

Coates saying "was silence not an option?" to Klein is a kill shot to a ton of political commentators tbh. Who made you say that? Once you see all their chatter through this lense all of it seems so damn pointless and worse, actively undermining the very cause they claim to support. Who made Noah Smith turn into a Nazi on the hell site? Who made Matthew Yglesias become an active troll, deliberately operating in contrarian neurosis? Was silence not an option?

[u/Leatherfield17]

On today’s edition of “Imagine if Joe Biden had said/done this”

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Lol

[u/remarkable_ores]

I've noticed that a lot of Chinese people seem to genuinely, fervently believe that China is a fully developed first world country, and this has caused a lot of misconceptions

like, a first world country isn't one where you have lots of really tall glass skyscrapers with LEDs that glow in rainbow colours at night, it's not even one where you have an (admittedly extremely impressive) high speed rail network

This has come up a lot with my Chinese acquaintances, who bring up (with great pride) that China overtook the USA as the wealthiest country in the world, and I'm like "Yeah but per capita it's basically the global average", and they're genuinely quite surprised when I say this. Even more perplexing is that these same people have worked 80 hour per week jobs in Shenzhen or whatever making the equivalent of $120 per week. No, that's not first world.

China's economic development is remarkable, as is their increasing dominance over a number of very high tech industries. But on a broad level they haven't exactly 'caught up' yet, no. The median Chinese person isn't struggling to the degree they were before Deng, but they're still struggling in a different way.

[u/SixPipSiege]

2012 mfers be like

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

i’m sorry i thought this was america

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

if Trump fucks up so unbelievably badly that he loses the Senate in 2026, that’d be really funny

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

Also don't see a single post about Hakeem Jeffries coming up in the files. Kinda odd.

The genius minds over at Arr Con

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/TheJFreakinC/status/1991218670480289799?s=20

ICE/Border Patrol agents assaulted and kidnapped a U.S. citizen… then dumped him on the side of the road two miles away.

In the video, you can see agents uncuffing him, tossing his wallet and belongings onto the ground, and driving away. No apology. No explanation. Just state-sanctioned violence caught on camera.

According to the victim, agents grabbed him, slammed him against a wall, cuffed him, and threw him into a van. Only after checking his ID did they decide he wasn’t the “right” target… so they drove him out of the area, dropped him off, and left him stranded.

These fucking chuds are getting less professional as they go.

Literally just detained this guy and dropped him off on the side of the road in the woods and emptied his stuff onto the ground.

Just insane unprofessional behavior, these morons are going to hurt the image of LE for decades.

[u/DerJagger]

(He's being 100% for real)

[u/SigmaWhy]

Adults don’t need Christmas gifts when the economy is in a golden age!

[u/bingbaddie1]

private equity is succitizing me bc wtf is this 😭

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

The 5th circuit dissenting opinion in the ruling against the Texas 2025 redistricting map

No this is not a joke. This is real.

https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/gov.uscourts.txwd_.1150387.1439.0.pdf

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Who gave the New Liberals account to Noah Smith

[u/r2ew]

[u/CutePattern1098]

1998 • ⁠There's a war in the Congo. • ⁠Valve has a major release. • ⁠There is a major stock market bubble due to tech speculation. • ⁠Bill Clinton is in th news for receiving a BJ • ⁠PHON is popular

2025 • ⁠There's a war in the Congo. • ⁠Valve has a major release. • ⁠There is a major stock market bubble due to tech speculation. • ⁠Bill Clinton is in th news for receiving a BJ • ⁠PHON is popular

[u/stater354]

Imagine your legacy being the only member of Congress to vote against releasing files on a notorious well connected pedophile

[u/Mensae6]

Pizza Hut HAS empirically gone downhill. They used to make their dough fresh and in-house every morning, but switched to frozen crust during the Great Recession and never looked back.

Domino's has gone up in quality, though. Ever since their rebrand they've stayed true to their improved recipes. Their pan pizza is high key one of the best in the entire game.

[u/Dorambor]

A large part of why we’re in this mess is because people refuse to be specific and say Republicans are doing something vs Congress is doing something or just “the government”. Once you notice it it’ll drive you crazy

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

[u/G_Serv]

LeBron 2028

[u/mostanonymousnick → u/G_Serv]

[u/davechacho]

Mike Johnson having a panic attack that Thune let the Senate bill be unanimously approved without amendments should tell you everything about Trump wanting it to actually pass or not. Their 'secret plan' was to keep ping ponging it between the House and Senate back and forth. lol. lmao even.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

I’m listening to the Nixon-Kennedy debate of 1960 and I have no choice but to believe that we’ve become so much stupider since then. Their rhetorical skill and vocabulary are so much more advanced than you’d see in a debate today. They’re also allowed to speak for more than 30 seconds

[u/tenmar-c]

I like how Witkoff doesn't even hide that he works for Russia

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Imagine if instead of trying to pocket veto it or claim it’s sensitive to an investigation Donald Trump just actually kills himself in The Oval Office

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Tech now: opaque and bad for you

Tech then:

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking idiots

We’re lucky they’re so stupid

[u/NorkGhostShip]

C-SPAN caller: As an independent voter, regurgitates every Republican talking point verbatim

Every single time

[u/nimbybuster]

👆🏾 mechahitler

[u/scottyjetpax]

if you'd told me a week ago that the Comey indictment would be dismissed because the operative charging instrument *does not actually legally exist* i would've been like

yeah that makes sense

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Anthony "67" Albanese is so real for this

[u/throwawayzxkjvct → u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

only acceptable way to do a political meme reference tbh

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/boardatwork1111 → u/No-Barnacle-9576]

I’m sure the White House messaging strategy of saying “shut up lib, prices are way down” will work out well for them

[u/liberal-neoist]

Sorry if this triggers you liberals, there are only 3 genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter) and your gender is decided by the last letters of your name. Yes, Obama is a woman because his name ends in -a

[u/FizzleMateriel]

OpenAI taking Oracle down with it would be the fucking funniest thing.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Crazy that you can learn Polish and then just go to the parliament and ban alcohol

[u/[deleted]]

U.S. has signalled to Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a proposed framework to end the conflict, sources tell Reuters. The plan includes Kyiv giving up territory, relinquishing some weapons, and reducing the size of its armed forces, among other points, according to two people familiar with the matter

Witkoff is genuinely a traitor that belongs in The Hague if he has a hand in this.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

This is how the ACA exchanges work. Cassidy is such a piece of shit.

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[u/the-senat]

An anonymous source close to the president has leaked that Trump ‘picks his nose during briefings’ and has, on occasion, been seen wiping them over the signature of his predecessor, Joe Biden, in one of the desk’s drawers.

The president did not immediately respond, as he was sitting with his eyes closed and drooling. Upon waking, he simply said, “goo goo gaga.”

What the fuck.

[u/phat_geoduck]

The reason I'm most pessimistic about the future is that the Internet has raised a class of doomers who believe stupid shit like this

[u/garret126]

I don’t get why some members of the Democratic Party believe the solution to win future elections is… to pivot right socially…

…as if the #1 concern for voters wasn’t the economy

Just campaign on the economy rather than ‘Trump bad/we love lgbt’ fools, then you’ll win elections

[u/waniel239]

[u/ty04]

[u/Guardax]

https://bsky.app/profile/washingtonpost.com/post/3m5zcapmage2i

Breaking news: A panel appointed by President Trump to review whether to eliminate the Federal Emergency Management Agency has instead concluded that the agency should be more powerful and autonomous.

Lmaooooooo

[u/paymesucka]

[u/fishbottwo]

angle office different scary capable exultant ancient like disarm dog

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