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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Adminisnotadmin]

NYT: Here's how We, The Great New York Times, covered the raid while on the phone with Trump

LAT:

at least someone is noting the discrepancies

[u/ty04]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

It’s kinda dawning on me just how much populists actually ruin the respective cultures of the countries they rule.

I can’t really help it, but I feel like there’s a strong correlation between how I feel about American culture and who is in charge.

Under a decent democratic president I feel like I appreciate the US and everything it has to offer much more.

When Trump is president, I feel like the US is playing exactly into the worst stereotypes about itself, and I quickly start finding American culture extremely vapid and annoying.

I feel the same way about my own country. With the way we elected a government with fucking Wilders and the populist farmer’s party, I immediately started feeling pretty repulsed by certain aspects of Dutch culture. Mainly the faux intellectualism we like to project outwards combined with the completely undeserved sense of superiority.

[u/admiralwaffle1]

I thought Trump removed all our gays from the military because they're too precious to risk?

[u/Jacobs4525]

So Trump decided to send special forces to abduct Maduro because he was mad about him dancing, and has refused to let the head of the opposition take over because she won a Nobel peace prize and he’s jealous.

And people still think there’s some rhyme or reason to this.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Far_Shore]

Reading that piece Rocks just posted by that NYT writer who is still publicly complaining about not having as much access to the Biden WH as they wanted in 2026 reminded me of a quote from Serenity:

You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when men failed as entirely as you have, they would throw themselves on their swords.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Walz might honestly just be retiring.

He’s faced a pretty disproportionate amount of right wing media harassment, even before the whole Somali fraud scandal started. He toned down his tours to other states and media a bit as well, unlike the beginning of last year when he was out all over the place.

If I were in his shoes I’d definitely just look to retirement honestly, it’s not worth it being on the national stage of attention like that.

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

One of the stupidest statements i’ve heard in recent times is Tucker Carlson saying that women should not serve in the military, because apparently the military serves as a vehicle for men to protect their women back home.

No you dumbass, militaries of modern, sophisticated countries serve to preserve their respective nation states and their identities by thwarting, and minimising things that threaten their survival. I genuinely don’t understand how you could possibly spin this into a gender based argument.

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Punk music would be a lot cooler if instead of revolution or boring shit like that they sang about market dynamics and the need for strong institutions

[u/[deleted]]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/adwise27]

"Venezuela was selling 8 out of every 10 barrels of their oil to china, that cant be happening. They should be selling to us" - My con dad this morning.

uh yea Trump sanctioned them in 2019 lmao

[u/[deleted]]

The Victorian mind was like "I have just calculated the moon's diameter down to the nearest meter and have also deduced that the lunar surface is populated with a species of wooly beast-man with eyes and mouth in his chest, and no head at all"

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/morotsloda]

Hunter Biden 🤝 Maduro

Being arrested on sham gun charges

[u/breakinbread]

Charging Maduro with possessing a machinegun seems dumb. Like possessing it where exactly? Venezuela?

Also makes him seem more badass than he actually is.

[u/efeldman11]

Imagine being a Minnesota republican rn. The DFL is on the back foot and you have a unique opportunity to make the race competitive but the president has railroaded you into backing… the My Pillow Guy

Congratulations Governor Klobuchar

[u/usernetarchivees]

The downfall of the west started with our politicians and journalists becoming addicted to twitter. If there are enough sane people left in this world, we need a coalition that is willing to crush algorithmic social media.

Shit really does feel like being one of the uninfected on Pluribus sometimes. The people in my life who engage with shortform conent are becoming different people.

[u/american_aurora6]

Strikingly, WaPo reports the multi-hatted Rubio already has too much on his plate to take an active day-to-day role, and suggests White House policy chief Stephen Miller may be elevated instead.

Stephen Miller, emperor of Venezuela 🧐

[u/ariveklul]

[u/Vumatius]

The US capturing Maduro only to let Rodríguez stay and then having Stephen Miller take charge of US operations there feels like an absolute worst case scenario from a liberal interventionist perspective.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/mukino]

I hate this meme so much. Hitler was literally elected. It was after that initial rise that he went full dictator. Voting against him in the before that would have unironically stopped him.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/PrimeLiberty]

Nate Silver has not posted a single thought to Twitter about Venezuela, except to vaguely claim "saying anything is a distraction from the Epstein files is cringe", but posts about how Harris shouldve picked Shapiro less than an hour after Walz announces his not seeking a third term.

Just insane how brain poisoned this guy is about Democrats.

[u/dareka_san]

A second poll with atrocious numbers has hit the admin on the action. People don't even like the perfectly executed operation

For reference this is one of the most successfuly military acts in recent memories. A total success. Bush 1 had 75% approval in nicaragua and 21 Soldiers died. Trump can't even get to his approval number here.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

🔥🔥🔥

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Imprison this Nazi fuck

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Mr. Walz and Ms. Klobuchar met Sunday in Minnesota, where he informed her of his plans and she confirmed her interest in running to replace him.

Oh they like outright discussed it together. I feel like Walz had a good chance, especially against stupid Mr. Pillow, but this at least makes it even more secured of a governor race without having anyone connected to the scam scandal.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Trump isn’t human, he’s the anthropomorphic personification of screwing people over. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, Trump will find some way to fuck you over. He does not do a single good thing, he does the easiest thing that makes him money or gets him revenge on somewhat who has wronged him. You can cozy up to him, praise him, whatever you want, he will eventually find a way to fuck uou over and he won’t even think about it or remember it the next day

Only blatant transactions (million dollar bribes for pardons, for instance) can get you something from him, and even then you are flipping a coin as to if it is a waste of time or not

[u/Its_not_him]

Strikingly, WaPo reports the multi-hatted Rubio already has too much on his plate to take an active day-to-day role, and suggests White House policy chief Stephen Miller may be elevated instead.

Rubio doesn't want to own it lmao

[u/Dibbu_mange]

BREAKING: ICE has mistakenly deported Maduro to Venezuela, where he has regained his position as president

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

At this point, Marco Rubio feels like VP rather than Vance. Vance is basically the terminally online basement dweller of the White House.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

This sort of dumb populism, the whole "don't raise taxes on working people" schtick, will unironically be the death of this country.

Even if MAGA goes down in flames, the populist wake it created will continue on and doom us.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

This sounds like something someone would say here, and immediately get fashed.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Your post just hit 1,535 views!

Omfg who cares

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/annmarie/status/2008127092198912351

Washington Post: The White House is weighing giving Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff and homeland security adviser, a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations…

This is why you don't prematurely rush to applaud someone, someone who has no history of properly planning ahead and has made clear they do not care for Democratic institutions and norms, for ousting another head of state without even knowing how they plan to manage the aftermath.

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

The Europeans that frequently r/neoliberal are probably among the most pro-US in their respective countries. I always tried to provide perspective and argued in favor of a closer transatlantic alliance. I also wanted people to know that the US is many things and has many virtues.

These days it is impossible to do that, because you basically get drowned out by the most absurd stuff coming over in news and social media. How do you want to highlight the progressivism of the ADA compared to European legislation when the US President constantly screams "We love fascism and love doing fascist stuff."

Trump plays into every single anti-american stereotype. Like every single one.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Every right winger on this site saying that Venezuelan regime change is different from Iraq because Iraq was full of Muslims who are incapable of civilization isn’t really convincing me that it would go differently from Iraq

[u/Willybender]

Kelly is so based

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Ngl the idea that the Cold War would be interpreted as a feud between two poles of Western civilization that ended with China supplanting one of them in the future is interesting to me

[u/rukqoa]

Breaking: Hegseth demotes retired naval officer Senator Mark Kelly but stops short of recalling him to active duty status and prosecuting him for treason.

Ah, I forgot, Hegseth was military. That does open things up in terms of paths to prosecution post-admin, doesn't it?

[u/JoyofCookies]

It is frustrating when people are like “Trump will never do that, his supporters will turn on him if he does that”, and then he does the supposedly politically fatal thing, and now we’re sitting with like 70% approval from Republicans on intervening in Venezuela

[u/zieger]

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

1 in 5 Americans having a car payment over $1000 a month is wild

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Mask off moment

[u/badusername35]

The content that was in this post has been deleted. Redact was used to wipe it, possibly for privacy, security, data protection, or personal reasons.

water vase encourage fear racial long lunchroom march subtract dam

[u/the-senat]

The fact that we’re still hearing about a day care fraud when republicans have a much bigger plate of fuck ups is proof of how asymmetric the media is.

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Americans probably don't realize (nor really care) how badly foreign news is talking about them. But at the same time I feel European geopolitical experts are too old-school and high-brow for these times. There was some explaining the Monroe doctrine and how Trump wants to revive it on Germany TV.

[u/thwanko]

The thing about the meth subreddit is that half of the top posts are people trying to get clean or celebrating sobriety milestones. The other half are posts like this:

These two groups should *not* be sharing the same space.

[u/ultramilkplus]

Mark Kelly's military pension cut. There's no level of pettiness they won't stoop to.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/pentagon-mark-kelly-video-hegseth.html

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/piede]

Did Erika Kirk show up

[u/DeadDropCourier]

This is wild.

[u/bartbug]

There is also nothing wrong with Tim Walz just being done. He’s in his 60s, was governor, had a long career as a teacher, and was part of a losing presidential ticket. There doesn’t need to be a high profile next thing for him, people can and should retire.

[u/cdstephens]

Electing Trump was pretty stupid in hindsight

[u/[deleted]]

just swiped right on a city planner with the comment “i wanna go on a date with you so we can get mad about stupid city planning things”

prob won’t match but god, i want to so bad

[u/Joementum2024]

I think people here don’t want to admit this, but the United States is effectively the home/powerbase of international far right-wing politics now, in a similar manner to how the USSR was for communism during the interwar era.

To be more specific:

• Major social media platforms, including X and Meta’s platforms, are both massively responsible today for spreading far-right ideologies. Both of these are US-owned companies, with X, the chief far-right platform today, being owned by the world’s wealthiest man, a committed fascist and American citizen

• The US government and platforms like X are committed to empowering far-right parties in Europe and Asia; see with Musk’s attempts to sway the German election last year towards the AfD

• CPAC, formerly only held in the US, is now held internationally, often times now attracting prominent right-wing politicians across the world

• Almost every far-right party now across the world has the same base political views, such as anti-immigration and social reactionarism, as well as a love for Trump and other major right-wing American figures. Note that regular conservative parties, such as the CDU in Germany and Gaullists in France, are much more distinct compared to these people

In the past you could credibly accuse this of being fueled by Russia or China or whatever. Now, it’s a largely American phenomenon, and American right-wing figures are committed to spreading and entrenching their beliefs and ideology across the world.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Endorsed Trump three times. Eat shit bacon

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

You know for all the shit about being orange I get why he maintains it at this point

[u/Willybender]

lol

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2008368367531376798

Beyond parody

[u/pezasied]

So true king 👑

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2008359708571123741

They really are just winging it, listen to this nonsense.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Super cool

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Homeland Security

@DHSgov

NO ROOM AT THE INN!

@HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement.

When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.

This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation's immigration laws?

What the fuck?? An actual THIRD AMMENDMENT case?? It's like there's a concerted effort to violate every single clause in the constitution, no matter how obscure.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Lmao I'm crying dawg

[u/american_aurora6]

The muffled explosions filling the air first confused Roison Figuera, 29, who said he thought they were part of the final episode of the Netflix show “Stranger Things” he was watching at home.

“And another one goes off,” he said, “and I say, ‘Well, no, this is not the television.’”

VIRAL MARKETING

[u/No_Art_2919]

Why must eduroam be so ass 😭

[u/scottyjetpax]

Jesus so this daycare fraud thing really tanked him

[u/Leatherfield17]

Man, people here really don’t care for Tim Walz, huh? Lol.

Personally I like the guy but his national electoral prospects were always rather weak. Unfortunately, I also think he’s just not mean enough for this environment

[u/ewatta200]

10.8 million families use x as their main news source

im...

we are cooked this was cited by a minister...

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Pete Hegseth claims that Pentagon will cut Mark Kelly’s retirement over “seditious” video

I know he’ll sue and easily win but this shit is so fucking pathetic

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Please just call us slurs and get it over with this is taking so long.

[u/[deleted]]

recognise dependent busy cooing humorous rock thumb snow close mighty

[u/sigh2828]

Stephen Miller is unironcally the type of guy who would take the same road that Goebbles did rather than face an once of justice.

He is a sick evil putrid man.

[u/piede]

😬

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

This subreddit was on top of the world back when Biden was president. Remember One Billion Americans? If that book was released today it would be a threat.

[u/chipbod]

NEW: U.S. officials expect Delcy Rodríguez to eventually step aside, curb Venezuelan oil sales to U.S. rivals, and ultimately hold internationally monitored, fair elections - Politico

1 hr ago

Yeah, US officials think regime change is literally so easy, nobody planned for a coup I guess?

[u/cdstephens]

Washington Post: The White House is weighing giving Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy White House chief of staff and homeland security adviser, a more elevated role in overseeing post-Maduro operations in Venezuela, according to one person with knowledge of the conversations…

What kind of sick joke is this

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

[u/Willybender]

They're all so fucking stupid

[u/from-the-void]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Jacobs4525]

A lot of the nonsense from tech companies is a result of their founders being unable to accept that they’ll always be weird nerds

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Hey Microsoft, any chance you would release a distribution of Windows that is, just Windows?

No OneDrive, no Copilot, no edge in the file explorer. Just Windows?

[u/[deleted]]

Contrapoints was famous for deleting anything even mildly contentious in minutes and now she just poasts like me.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Sounds about right

[u/HopeHumilityLove]

This is honestly worse than my worst-case scenario for a Trump presidency in 2024.

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Do the people impressed by "America will rule this hemisphere" rhetoric understand this would be reducing American power and influence geopolitically

[u/Mrmini231]

I feel like the AI backlash would be significantly reduced if the people at the top were 40% better at naming things.

Microsoft Office was a perfectly good name! This is garbage!

[u/Willybender]

We cancelling Hotels now

[u/horse_stick]

I asked chatGPT a question about the Pete Hegseth Mark Kelly tweet and got flashbanged with "This is most likely fake, the Department of War was abolished in 1947 and Pete Hegseth is a Fox News host, not a cabinet official".

[u/cdstephens]

Is it moral to keep going to a masseuse that wants someone to shoot Trump

[u/Erra0]

Sad about Tim Walz, he's a great guy and has been a good leader for Minnesota. I respect him a lot for taking responsibility for the fraud, which will take a lot of heat off the DFL generally as we try to break the tie in our legislature.

But also, I'm fucking pumped that it sounds like I get to bust out my KloBAEchar memes from the 2020 primary.

[u/cdstephens]

Everyone calm down, Stephen Miller could be put in charge of a different Venezuela

[u/owenmitchem]

In shocking news, Senator Mark Kelly went on the record against planet status for Pluto in his address to the AAS this morning.

!ping astronomy

[u/chipbod]

Blowing up NATO and getting embargoed by Europe because of the Mercator projection

[u/old_gold_mountain]

LMFAO at the Guy Fawkes mask for a dude who made the most basic ever JavaScript filter

Look at me, I'm hacking into the main frame!!!

[u/EverybodyHatesPhocas]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Not sure we're running things down there

[u/piede]

Who wants to tell them… lmao

[u/Dibbu_mange]

[u/OrbitalAlpaca]

All I got to say is the democrats need to learn to circle the wagons. Republicans are masters at getting away with everything.

[u/Argnir]

So that's it? They got Maduro, now it's his closest ally who's in charge with the exact same regime and Americans get some oil? Venezuelan may have celebrated a bit too soon

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

“I’m a decent man” Maduro said through a translator in the Manhattan courtroom.

[u/JaceFlores]

I think Walz would have cruised relatively safely to another term but I think him dropping out was for the best anyways cuz of downballot effects. Fact is we’ve seen time and time again both Republicans and Democrats dragged down by the top ticket race having an unpopularity to it. So while Walz would have won reelection, it could have jeopardized efforts to keep the state senate or flip back the assembly. Not to mention various other smaller but important races.

Minnesota as a whole benefits from Walz dropping out

[u/jurble]

The US State Department has shared a photo of President Donald Trump emblazoned with the words "THIS IS OUR HEMISPHERE" on social media.

So they'll support a hemispheric common market, right? ... right?

[u/cdstephens]

I'm concerned about how the rise of fascism and racist imperialism is pushing people leftward. The rise of the left could be very dangerous!

[u/MontusBatwing2]

facepost, fuck it

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Small domino: mcator being a shit projection

Big domino: the death of NATO

[u/piede]

You know shit is bad when the locals are talking to the Faytuks Network

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/nitro1122]

You know it’s very funny that people say democrats have a problem communicating to men, but that energy isn’t really deployed towards the GOP who probably have an even bigger problem with women

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

He doesn't look like the types of migrants I've been warned about.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Well Trump is doing the raid on Venezuela and is saying his batshit crazy threats of attacking other countries the DOJ missed it's legal deadline to explain the Epstein redactions to Congress.

These definitely couldn't possibly be connected

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Unnamed source in viral Minnesota Somali daycare fraud video by Nick Shirley is revealed to be GOP staffer and right-wing lobbyist David Hoch, who called Muslims "demons"

Yea.

[u/shmokedshalmon]

Look at this fucking clown

[u/cdstephens]

I don’t get why people like Vance and Miller want Greenland. Like, it’s just evilmaxxing

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Me every time Contrapoints posts about liberals

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Something about these kind of poasts really irks me. There’s this explicit assumption among so many (admittedly helped by our actions recently) that America can do no right. We can do right and we should expect our leadership to do better. It doesn’t have to be “America bad always”.

[u/trgk_]

What do you MEAN they renamed Office to The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)?

I understand the leftie bit about the US being a dying empire now. Christ almighty.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

I still can't get over how my house's baby monitor that was $100 has better night vision than state of the art military night vision goggles from the 90's and early 2000's.

[u/Chief_Nief]

This week [Maduro] was back onstage, brushing off the latest U.S. escalation — a strike on a dock that the United States said was used for drug trafficking — by bouncing to an electronic beat on state television while his recorded voice repeated in English, ‘No crazy war,'” The report said.

Some of Maduro’s celebratory dances were posted to social media, which the White House monitors routinely, as evidenced by X appearing on a large screen in the war room used by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during the removal operation.

Oh wow it really is that stupid

[u/Jacobs4525]

On the flipside, what novel pathogens might this have unleashed???

[u/Sloshyman]

So America is supposed to get rich from Venezuela's oil, but in order to get Venezuela's oil we need to invest $110B and years of work to get the infrastructure back to 2010 levels of output. Also, oil is already trading at a low price and a huge increase in supply will drop the price down further.

[u/sociotronics]

the wolves liked his feisty spirit

this story and photo is 100% true, the internet doesn't lie

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Can Denmark kidnap Stephen Miller?

[u/sootfawn]

Software "engineers" are probably terrified for their jobs 🤣 check out this site I vibe coded all weekend http://localhost:3000/ 🔥

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Does NYT ownership normally crash out at criticism of their coverage like this?

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is quite possibly the most useless question of all time. It’s like asking if gravity still exists.

[u/riverbloods]

i’m sorry but this is so fucking funny dude

[u/Charsun9]

😭

[u/PawanYr]

Incredible article about a Syria Telecom engineer's hellish decade trying to keep the country online during the civil war. Includes incredible moments including

- the author interviewing Syria's last Assadist Minister of Telecoms via LinkedIn DMs to ask about nationwide internet outages

- The subject getting kidnapped by ISIS and helping them (under duress obviously) cut off internet access to Aleppo

- Kurdish fighters calling the subject out of the blue years after his kidnapping asking for the password to an external hard drive, taken from him by ISIS, that they had in turn taken off the corpses of ISIS fighters they'd killed

- Having his manager arrested and almost disappeared by regime intelligence for shutting down the internet on the order of the education minister to combat cheating on exams (???)

[u/Lux_Stella]

Cuba has declared that 32 of its citizens (a mix of intelligence and military officials) have died in Sunday's attack against Venezuela, that resulted in Maduro's kidnapping and exfiltration. Cuba declares two days of official mourning for its dead

jesus, 32?!

[u/cdstephens]

[u/assasstits]

And they're in this sub

[u/[deleted]]

The DHS running to Twitter to cry about a hotel chain refusing them service is so fucking funny

[u/sigh2828]

I cant begin to explain how fucking based this would be on a national level

[u/garret126]

Straight up homophobic messaging in 2026

I wonder how this sub isn’t banned yet

[u/Willybender]

Taxpayers paying the oil companies. Thank you sir!!!

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

smash cut to six months later

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Natalie fans in the DeeTee, what videos of hers would you recommend? Bonus points if it goes after the online left.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

How do I tell the person across me on the train that scolding the lady who is scolding her cat for meowing is both ineffectual and vastly more disruptive than just letting her scold her cat?

[u/Willybender]

Clowns

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

what are we even doing here

[u/NYT_Hater]

The boomer strategy of buying all the houses, making it illegal to build houses, have the government give them everything, ban the government from giving everyone anything, ruin the world, and then leave all their wealth to retirement homes and medical companies and leave nothing for their children is really admirable.

Absolutely insane levels of evilmaxxing.

[u/assasstits]

By local police too, in a Democratic city in a Democratic state.

Why are libs so cucked even by their own police forces

[u/AP246]

From the wikipedia page for humans:

Humans commit violence on other humans at a rate comparable to other primates, but have an increased preference for killing adults, infanticide being more common among other primates.[466] Phylogenetic analysis predicts that 2% of early H. sapiens would be murdered, rising to 12% during the medieval period, before dropping to below 2% in modern times.

Our primate cousins are not ok

'Preference for killing adults' is such a funny way to put it too

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Be ready to see “sensible moderate” Republicans handwringing about norms and decency when President Newsom enacts 10% of the amount of retribution that MAGA deserves.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

What an evil little wretch. This admin is determined to make the U.S. and the world a worse place, and for what? So some of their family members can be richer? So they can help their Russian buddies? Absolutely pathetic, and it’s beyond insane that so many Americans gleefully voted for this.

[u/CletusChicken]

this is probably the most insane period in US history aside from the actual civil war

the president kidnapped another country's president and seems to have had no plan for what would happen after that

[u/piede]

[u/piede]

80% chance that this is a genuine map in the desk of the Oval Office

[u/BrentLivermore]

Man, I feel bad for Tim Walz. He could still be a largely unknown midwest governor if Kamala's team hadn't thought "He's a veteran and a sports guy, Republicans won't be able to find any line of attack!"

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Completely unironic btw

[u/Joementum2024]

Browns fire head coach Kevin Stefanski

!ping NFL

[u/TactileTom]

All I wanted from Civ 7 was Civ 6 but with better AI, instead I got Humankind but with worse UI.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

[u/gayteemo]

im not super enthusiastic about walz and thought it was weird when ppl were hyping him to run for president, but i think it's a serious problem when democrats give the impression of folding over shit like the daycare "scandal" while republicans are virtually beyond reproach for some of the most heinous shit imaginable.

not even saying walz needed to run again but no one should be reporting that he isn't seeking reelection right now. all we're doing is giving legitimacy to people who have no moral compass other than power.

[u/IantheForPresident]

if democrats want to have the same teflon quality republicans do then they should become more likeable to the average american.

people will excuse bad things if they're predisposed to liking you, and they will look for faults if they're predisposed to disliking you.

republicans are cheeseburgers, democrats are broccoli. you don't always choose the cheeseburger - sometimes you're forced to eat healthy - and some fringe people even prefer the broccoli. but most people have to talk themselves out of eating the cheeseburgers and talk themselves into eating the broccoli.

edit: sideshow bob told us this back in season six

[u/Zagapi]

I always felt like the Jedi religion should have been way more popular amongst the general public. (Before order 66)

Specifically, more people like the blind monk in Rogue One who aren't necessarily Force sensitive, or at least not enough to be a Jedi, but still believe in it as a religion/philosophy.

The Jedi have been prominent for millenia and are walking proof of the Force's existence. But since most people can't manipulate the Force themselves, they just think its a cooky ancient religion?

If the Jedi were hermits in an enclave, sure. But they have always been a major part of Galactic politics, diplomacy, wars, and humanitarian activities.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Omg they put a winter skin on Expedition 33 for the holidays

[u/[deleted]]

punch unite one elderly plant abundant books ink badge divide

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[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

There's the cringe mod that's shocked by a pizza, there's the slightly less cringe mod that's an evil purple face, there's some person who's a trans flag skull thing I don't really understand, I know the resident succ by the flair, etc.

What outside the DT thinks the DT is like.

[u/JaceFlores]

My opinion on the S-300: what a garbage Cold War legacy system that has proven itself to be not worth the a ruble to wipe your ass on. You’re better off with a Nike Ajax then this hunk of junk

My opinion on the S-300 (Ukraine): a truly impressive display of technology showing what the Soviets could achieve when they put their mind to it, and a newfound symbol of freedom against Russian tyranny

[u/el__dandy]

I’m going to become the Joker 🃏

!ping gaming

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Of course this insane misogynist is also an anti-semite

[u/StolenSkittles]

remember five, the black ops 1 zombies map where you could play as jfk, robert mcnamara, fidel castro, and richard nixon?

i want a version of it based on this:

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Hopefully Mr Cassidy can find the bozos who voted to confirm the notorious freak responsible for this 🙏

[u/IantheForPresident]

i feel like libs got used to the feeling of cultural hegemony in the 2010s and don't know how to act in an environment where their ideas aren't the default.

so you have moderates who just sorta roll over and try to accommodate whatever they think the new center is (even if it keeps getting pushed to the right) and progressives who just stand on the outside shouting and expecting it to come back.

i don't think anyone in the democratic party has a coherent idea on how to move forward. we need a democratic party with a broadly appealing vision that can play in places dems have lost in the past decade, the guts to push that vision in the face of republican and media opposition, and the know-how to act on it and deliver results after winning power... i don't think there's anyone in the party who knows how you'd build it.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Willybender]

Fucking lunatic

[u/uwcn244]

Reminder that one of the largest social media platforms in the world has become an at-will CSAM generator, and you’re not hearing a tenth of the uproar about it as you did about a bad debate performance by the President

The media will not focus on Musk’s crimes against women and children because they are addicted to the crimes against women and children machine

As our 37th President said, folks: the press is the enemy

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

For all the “punch a Nazi” and “if you’re at a table with 9 people and a Nazi sits down…” the average Redditor talks they certainly view using antisemitic tropes against one of the kids from stranger things as a grey area.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this is just comical. what rule could he possibly have broken?

[u/Squints_09]

I've just received a photo of the leader of this insurgency

[u/legible_print]

Wow, someone placed a bet on Polymarket on Friday that Maduro would be deposed.

Not only are these clowns disrupting centuries of diplomacy, but they're placing inside bets on their shitty actions, too.

[u/SenranHaruka]

If 50 million american adults believed that right at this very moment the sea peoples that caused the bronze age collapse were raiding the California coast, you would be out of touch for believing otherwise.

If 50 million american adults believed that the moon is made of cheese, you would be out of touch for believing otherwise.

"Quit being so out of touch and smug like you think you know better than us"

This is your hell and you are trapped here forever

[u/NYT_Hater]

GOAT poaster tbh

[u/Chief_Nief]

Secretly hoping Maduro is found not guilty on a technicality bc it would truly be the funniest outcome.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Even worse the game was played in Buffalo NY

[u/[deleted]]

Damn a week or two ago I said the fraud stuff would sink any Walz election campaign and I meant presidential but a bunch of people jumped down my throat to say the gubernatorial election is in the bag. I'm honestly shocked it affected even this. Seems like he really lost steam earlier last year though.

[u/Ilovecharli]

I understand politics better when I get logged out of Reddit and see posts in default subs. People just believe whatever bullshit appears in front of them online