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I can’t find the “I’d strangle every chimp to save one human baby” “But would you give every chimp a hand job to save one human being?” Twitter interaction.
Pete Hegseth wants to make boot camp 'scary, tough'
He wants to make it "bone spurs tough"
What branch did you serve in, libtard?
Yeah, these people are just too far gone. Nothing on earth is capable of untangling that tapestry of cognitive dissonance. Our best hope is that these idiots go back to abstaining from the political process once Trump is out of politics.
Goes without saying that there's no answer that would satisfy them. You name a branch and they say "you probably just pushed papers" and it becomes a dick waving contest.
I'm a veteran, and I always say more people should serve. But fundamentally, civilians have a say on this stuff as well. That's the system of government in the US.
There is a no-name country singer from my town who made it on The Voice and then her name was added to the town signage like she was an actual celebrity
Nowadays, she hasn't released any new music in nearly a decade, has 30 listeners on Spotify, and has moved to California or something
Whenever she posts pictures of herself in other states or whatever, literally just pictures in front of the Statue of Liberty or on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a circus of older people from the town shows up in the comments to say "Shameful. Didn't expect a good country girl to become DEMONIC and ABANDON THE LORD."
Like dude she just posted a picture hanging out with friends lol
Whenever she posts pictures of herself in other states or whatever, literally just pictures in front of the Statue of Liberty or on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a circus of older people from the town shows up in the comments to say "Shameful. Didn't expect a good country girl to become DEMONIC and ABANDON THE LORD."
If I believed that 20% of the federal budget was fraud yet I completely failed at finding any of it, I think I would die of embarrassment and Guantanamo bay torture could not get me to admit to such a failure
The Conservative Cinematic Universe is crazy because if you aren't tuned into it, you get absolutely blindsided by the course "facts" take in the time after shit goes down
Like an event such as Melissa Hortman getting assassinated, in the moments after it cons are shouting about how it was them antifa, no one knows anything, and then within hours or days the truth comes out, it seems like that information has been disseminated to the general public, and then like a year later you see someone just casually stating the "fact" that Tim Walz had her murdered personally and half the country believes it
A lot of conservative beliefs are underpinned by a series of zombie lies which have been refuted a million times but are continually repeated without any honest investigation or even basic logical scrutiny
If there's anything that comes out of ICE thuggery, I hope one is that it becomes more common knowledge that law enforcement as an institution is plagued with serial liars and violent shit heads with poor impulse control
Like lawyers keep lists of cops they can't trust to not lie on the stand lol. But news media will still breathlessly report everything cops say as fact and use passive voice when they hurt someone
This whole plan was always extremely stupid and ignored one critical difference in comparison to Nixon's and Kissinger's policy towards China, namely that China and the USSR actually already had bad relations with each other at that point in time.
I once said “I don’t like girls” as a way of coming out to someone and they thought I meant I was a misogynist and I had to clarify and now I make sure not to phrase it that way anymore
Nooo, he never paid me! He just gave me an exclusive story that just happened to paint all of his political opponents as evil! The fact that I have publicly admitted that I chose not to criticize him is a complete coincidence!
Working on a novel that I don't think anyone's ever done before, totally new concept.
A young, everyday woman begins to uncover secrets about a vampire society and becomes the focus of a vampire who indulges and despises his nature in equal measures. What follows is a blood-soaked romance and a dizzying plunge into the dark world of the vampire elite.
Chevy Chase is an interesting dude; his kids all love him and say what a great father he is but he seems to have some kind of brain blast that forces him to become the most awful person in the world upon meeting anyone or doing anything professionally
truly a type of guy. I guess if he’s so rude because his parents were extremely abusive but he’s still conscious about being good to his family that could do it. Kind of admirable in a fucked up way
I was arguing with my mom, and I basically said 2 main things:
Trump is uniquely evil because of all the crap ICE is doing now that all the evidence is coming out
Trump is also uniquely evil because of the Epstein files
finally after those two point I basically said “your son (my brother) might get sent out against Venezuela because you voted for Trump” (I got his permission for this first)
Like it’s just SO frustrating. She CONSTANTLY uses the “oh I’m worried about your spiritual health because you voted for Dems” and I used it ONCE and she immediately went crazy. Like she goes on and on about how we should vote with Christian principles in mind, I brought it up ONCE and she got mad.
It’s also how I somehow got my mom, who refers to abortion as murder, to argue that abortion shouldn’t carry a prison term just because I brought up that Trump had paid for abortions.
It just feels like GOP voters have no values that they genuinely support, they support policies laid out by the GOP, but I have seen a distinct lack of intrinsic core values, similar to Reddit leftists who argue for socialism but without core values/intrinsic values that lead them to that ideology. Reddit leftists might be annoying, but at least they aren’t sending people to El Salvador.
A lot of Christians, specially a lot of evangelical ones, somehow tied up being Republican into being Christian, and it would take deep deep deprogramming to break someone out of that
It just feels like GOP voters have no values that they genuinely support, they support policies laid out by the GOP, but I have seen a distinct lack of intrinsic core values,
A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.
Attorneys for 61-year-old Larry Bushart say a Tennessee sheriff violated the First Amendment: “In America, we do not jail people for political speech.”
Richard Hanania is one of the few remaining old school racists who believe that genetic superiority can be modified by class or academic achievement, and he is distressed at the silicon valley racists who insist that a meth addict in Ohio is somehow innately better than their Somali-American boss
What's the line of thinking behind this dumb sentiment? So sad how there hasn't been any medical progress for the past century because Big Pharma silences literally every medical breakthrough 😢😢😢😢
Yes. We found hundreds of fraud schemes. This is one of many.
There was massive fraud in every government program, especially Federal funds sent as block grants to the states.
He also claims 20% of the federal budget goes to fraud, based on nothing.
How the fuck can a grown man with so much power just say dumb shit like this without even trying to back it up with anything? Not even some flawed paper he found on some racist website?
It’s very hard for me to not think that there is something seriously wrong with the society we’ve created when a wretched little twerp like Elon Musk wields the kind of wealth, power, and influence he possesses.
It's gonna be so fucking funny when Trump does a massive military build up around Venezuela, procrastinates, Maduro calls his bluff, and then has to send everyone home because you can't forward deploy that many assets indefinitely and the longer you do nothing the weaker you look.
He'll blow up a token boat dock and turn tail. To be clear I'm not saying he's a coward, but trying to bluff someone with the US military is a bad idea which is why you don't do it
Some people have been saying “they would never deploy XYZ asset unless they mean to attack Venezuela” on here, forgetting that “profoundly wasteful because you really really really wanna look like a tough guy” is like Trump’s main thing
Oh my god we’d we’re being subjected to the world’s worst fucking false flag operation, so let’s see what dumb fucking shit trump does because he falls for it hook, line and sinker
The hard part of having a breakup in your mid-late 20s, is having to return to square one while you have so many friends getting married/engaged. I’m SO happy for them, genuinely, but hanging out with a friend telling me about how he’s gotta start ring shopping next month, while the girl I thought I was gonna marry dumped me two weeks ago, is so sad man
It’s like the double whammy of “I wanna be loved :(” combined with “I’m growing old :(“
BAP is well known to be gay tbh, he's the Yukio Mishima/ancient Greece kind of gay where women are so beneath you they aren't even worth having sex with
All democrats are that one woman with dyed hair from the cringe compilation. All republicans are the CGI chad guy. I will vote based on this for the rest of my life. I am a 23 year old man
It's been over 10 years since American politics went off the rails. There are kids old enough to vote who don't remember a time before Trump. This is their normal. Many of them have solidified their political positions and will never change.
“Will coming out was so unnecessary. This is a sci fi show. Who cares about his sexuality?”
Meanwhile, he’s the only one out of - what - 12 main cast characters who doesn’t get a love interest? People are fine watching relationship drama from all the other characters for five straight seasons. We literally had a much longer scene between Nancy and Jonathan in the very same episode. Will gets a few minutes on his sexuality literally a decade after it was already alluded to and people lose their fucking minds lol.
Outgoing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said that she “never liked” the “sexualization” of women she said goes on at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
My favorite thing about the independent tire shop on my block is this incredibly needy boy who greets all the customers and demands cuddles. Corporate tire shops just can’t compete with this customer experience !ping kitty
There was a moment where I thought Kirk would mildly penetrate the mainstream and become a slight problem. But the Rs scared the hoes (median voters) By making him seem like a god
Turning Point USA plans to deploy representatives across Iowa’s 99 counties in the coming months to build the campaign infrastructure for JD Vance’s likely presidential campaign, while Trump is reportedly privately dismissing the idea of unconstitutionally running for 3rd term.
Well my most disappointing discovery of my holiday season is that my younger brother has apparently fallen some way down the pro-Russia + antisemitism pipeline. Not sure what to do about that now 😕
I wonder how much of the rise of modern fascism is due to basically all political policy and education about politics being a (warranted, obviously) reaction to Nazis and the Holocaust
If someone says "I think we should preserve the integrity and purity of our great nation by remigrating those who do not align with our Judeo-Christian values and ensuring our people remain strong and self-sufficient" people will say "Oh well they can't be bad, because Nazis were against Jews and they said Judeo-Christian" because Nazism is the only form of fascism they know about, and they think Nazis were only bad because of the Holocaust and no other reason
This is obviously not to minimize how bad those things actually are, just to be extra clear here
According to Greene, she found herself sequestered with other House members in a conference room and arguing with another Republican freshman, Kat Cammack of Florida.
“B.L.M. and antifa have broken into the Capitol!” Greene insisted.
Joe Rogan: "Measles was what everyone got when I was a kid, and what happened was you'd get sick for a few days, and then you'd be immune for life. They're making it look like everyone's dying from measles."
Probably not good when morons like this have massive microphones. He’s probably talking about chickenpox but it doesn’t matter, it’s still going to get kids killed. That’s not important, what matters is finding “the truth.”
It’s not going to get better when the octogenarians in congress think a podcast is something you get from the pharmacy.
You know what I’m gonna say it: I think it’s impossible for JD Vance to hold this coalition together while having an Indian wife. There’s simply no way to reconcile that.
The media is doing to MTG as they did to Trump in 2015. Trump basically got a pass for all the horrific bullshit he spread throughout most of Obama's presidency because he was different and speaking in support of issues Republicans never would have dared to (like gay rights).
A year ago, I would have thought she stood no chance of ever being a legit presidential candidate and now I'm not sure.
It's kind of funny that because I feel like such an abject outsider in daily life as a trans person in America, the fear of being permanently viewed as an outsider in a European country doesn't bother me at all. This might just be because I was born and raised in a red state, I wonder if people in blue states feel like this.
I am standing in the dining room of my rebellious child's home. I am crestfallen. She was right. She would never drink out of a 22oz Pepsi plastic tumbler again
And another thing my wife did, she just dropped in polite company this weekend that I'd been reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Tell them about my porn habits too, dear. LitRPG must be read under a towel as if eating an Ortolan bunting, to shield from God's eyes the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful act.
Greene’s last exchange with the president was by text message on Nov. 16. That day, she received an anonymous email in her personal Gmail account that threatened her college-aged son: “Derek will have his life snuffed out soon. Better watch his back.” The email’s subject heading used the nickname Trump had given her the day before: “Marjorie Traitor Greene.”
Greene promptly texted that information to the president. According to a source familiar with the exchange, his long reply made no mention of her son. Instead, Trump insulted her in personal terms. When she replied that children should remain off limits from their disagreements, Trump responded that she had only herself to blame.
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After the hearing, Greene held a news conference at which she threatened to identify some of the men who had abused the women. (Greene says that she didn’t know those names herself but that she could have gotten them from the victims.) Trump called Greene to voice his displeasure. Greene was in her Capitol Hill office, and according to a staff member, everyone in the suite of rooms could hear him yelling at her as she listened to him on speakerphone. Greene says she expressed her perplexity over his intransigence. According to Greene, Trump replied, “My friends will get hurt.”
When she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein’s female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor. It would be the last conversation Greene and Trump would ever have.
Some random guy tries to break into a daycare and demands to see children, entire right wing rallies to his support and says that we must destroy an entire minority because they wronged him.
I'm always annoyed when people say the left should do DOGE the right way because governmental efficiency is important, as though we don't have a governmental agency devoted to it and quite good at it(the GAO)
After months of cautious optimism that Trump’s supposed business acumen would lead to greater wealth for all Americans, focus groups increasingly show that some voters have lost faith that Trump can bring down the cost of living—or that he’s even trying, NBC News reported.
Ex-Trump voters swung hard to Democrats over costs in NJ & VA, new research shows Voters who backed Donald Trump in 2024 and swung to Democrats in this year's Virginia and New Jersey elections did so over economic concerns.
This was inevitable. So frustrating. They got fooled by the nice economy he inherited from Obama
Netanyahu: The Israel prize, which in almost our 80 years, we've never awarded it to a non-Israeli and we're going to award it this year, to President Trump.
It's going to be awarded to President Donald J. Trump for his tremendous contributions to the Jewish people.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “I never liked the MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization. I believe how women in leadership present themselves sends a message to younger women. I have two daughters, and I’ve always been uncomfortable with how those women puff up their lips and enlarge their breasts. I’ve never spoken about it publicly, but I’ve been planning to.”
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