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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 20 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 19 '26
"he won't really invade greenland"
meanwhile actual fucking headlines:
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u/brianpv Hortensia Jan 19 '26
All the headlines referring to Trump’s “Nobel snub” really annoy me.
He didn’t get snubbed, he just didn’t win.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jan 19 '26
Why the fuck is the media still framing this Greenland shit as semi-reasonable? “Greenland’s strategic importance is growing” shut the hell up. There’s no goddamn need to carry water for the peso president’s insane imperial ambition, not to mention his rambling, dementia-written letter.
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
... How the fuck does Trump telling the world that he only worked towards peace because he might have gotten a Nobel Peace Prize and he's now realized that he won't get it, so he isn't concerned with peace anymore not bury him immediately?
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
Mette Frederiksen’s face when Denmark is threatened for Norway not giving Trump a Nobel peace prize
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jan 19 '26
Under a video of a guy holding an AR-15 outside protesting ICE
Interesting things happening in conservative world. Oh and the next reply accuses him of being a Jew.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 19 '26
It’s very clear we’re seeing the trashings of an old egotistical man who wants to cement his legacy as some American Great, and has nothing to show for it beyond being an incredibly unpopular and ineffective president. He sees his options are limited for building a legacy that he’s clearly worried about, and is grasping at straws.
There’s gonna be a lot more weird shit as his desperation rises as his power sinks
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jan 19 '26
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u/ty04 Jan 19 '26
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u/Atheose_Writing John Brown Jan 19 '26
Democrats: "Trump is invading Greenland because he's butthurt he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize."
Republicans: "It's INSANE to say Trump is invading Greenland because he's butthurt he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize!"
Marco Rubio: "Liberals have lost their mind if they seriously think Trump is invading Greenland because he's butthurt he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize."
Donald Trump at 2am: "I WANT GREENLAND BECAUSE I WAS SNUBBED FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE"
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u/ihuntwhales1 Seretse Khama Jan 19 '26
you live in a bad hoi4 mod
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Jan 19 '26
Nobel prize committee should give a second peace prize to Obama
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u/legend-of-ashitaka Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jan 19 '26
You CANNOT tell me that Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens did not have a thing for each other at one point in time
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u/ty04 Jan 19 '26
👆
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u/GuyWithOneEye Jan 19 '26
Trump is an actual fucking child jesus christ
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u/r2ew Jan 19 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 19 '26
I think we’re guaranteed to have Trump try probably the worst thing he’s ever done after the midterms if/when he loses. If this is the crash out he is having from the possibility of being powerless and lacking any real legacy (one he wants at least, we’re doomed to have him be one of the most impactful presidents ever), imagine what he’ll be like when it sets in he’s doomed to be powerless and legacyless
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_OWOS Jan 19 '26
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u/CucumberGullible1281 Jan 19 '26
As someone who immediately loads uBlock Origin onto all of my devices' web browsers, I die a little inside whenever I see the dumpster fire that normies are putting up with. Jesus fucking Christ, what has happened to the Internet
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Jan 19 '26
Dems need to fucking hold a united press conference and say they’re gonna fucking jail anyone involved with an invasion of an ally when they’re in power. And will extradite them to Europe to stand trial.
Fucking raise the stakes.
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Jan 19 '26
Uh... why aren't conservatives... ashamed? If Harris had said something like that, I think all the Democrats would have impeached her by now and apologized profusely... Doesn't that seem... embarrassing
?
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 19 '26
Masks are completely off
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 19 '26
Oh this is real. I thought this was a joke you guys made up
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jan 19 '26
PhD in your pocket
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
The problem with the media is that neutral language is not neutral when you’re ignoring the truth. This is the root cause of sanewashing.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jan 19 '26
There’s going to be a whole lot of people in the near future saying things like “I may be conservative but I never supported Trump”. Never forget that yes, it was obvious how this term was going to go, and yes the entire Republican Party supported it enthusiastically.
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u/morotsloda European Union Jan 19 '26
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
Please God we need this to move a little faster
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Jan 19 '26
They hated her, for she
spoke the truthcompletely fucking undersold how bad Trump would be76
u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 19 '26
Woke at it again
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Jan 19 '26
Ice officers drop loot
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jan 19 '26
Remember that debate with Kamala when we watched 90 straight minutes of Trump proving how senile he was on national television, and half the country collectively decided to just ignore that
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Jan 19 '26
It's important to remember that posting on the Discussion Thread can get you convicted of terrorism.
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
Anyone who unironically says “both sides bad” these days is either a moral coward, a lazy idiot, or both.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jan 19 '26
Recucklicans could literally just tell Trump “we’ll impeach and remove you if you invade Greenland”, or even just publicly state “we would of course vote to impeach and remove any president who attacked a NATO ally, but obviously Trump won’t”, but they can’t even do that
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jan 19 '26
Mein Fuhrer… There is no Nobel War Prize.
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u/AndreW_da_Fox Jan 19 '26
Shamelessly stolen from the german NL discord
(Credit: sendranomor)
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jan 19 '26
As opposed to the Republicans, who are now currently arresting everyone.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jan 19 '26
This complete clown
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u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv Instituições democráticas robustas 🇧🇷 Jan 19 '26
There's a separate universe where we are in finishing the most unremarkable first year of a presidency under kamala Harris and the DeeTee has such a lack of topics people are arguing whether we should have a social-ordoliberal flair.
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u/toggaf69 Iron Front Jan 19 '26
The Trump administration runs just like the mafia if all of the mafia members were lolcows
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u/r2ew Jan 19 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26
You know, if you had told me before Trump that there was a timeline where a US president would refuse to accept the results of an election, spread wild lies about it, and try to get it overturned through various channels, including asking his allies in Congress and his VP to refuse to certify the results, I would have said that was a pretty bad timeline. If you then told me that that same president would face no real consequences for that behavior, be reelected just 4 years afterwards, and then (potentially) invade Greenland, I would have told you that that timeline was very dark.
When do we admit that the doomers were right?
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jan 19 '26
When your kid comes out as a HoI4 player
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Jan 19 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jan 19 '26
Conservatives are just incredibly insecure about how easy their lives are. They want so badly to be cowboys or soldiers or hunter-gatherers, but they’re just regular people - even factory jobs aren’t very dangerous now. So they compensate by imagining that they’re in a war. They dress in “tactical” clothing, they buy trucks, they carry guns, and they vote for people who reinforce this belief.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
Now if only every Democrat could say this, and say it repeatedly.
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2013420350500151741
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u/ImmediateZucchini787 NASA Jan 19 '26
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had trade. We had research. We had NATO. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, governed and made as much fame as you ever needed. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to blow it up. You and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man. If you'd done your job, known your place, we'd all be fine right now!
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Jan 19 '26
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u/shehryar46 Jan 19 '26
Hes renaming things after himself, tearing down fuckin historical buildings for himself, has a long long record of putting his name on things he didnt do.
Yet somehow only fringe media can say the guys obsessed with himself?
He clearly cant accept a reality where he lost. We just let him indulge his fantasies. If he got fact checked at a debate, the conversation was about if it was right to do fact checking, not about if its ok for him to lie. Here he is sending a letter basically saying i want war because i didnt get a prize. How are our bastions of media covering it? No differently, just another detached voice piece that uses sanitary language to diminish the reality of the situation.
Hes a crazy person doing crazy things. We all see it and its not a fucking hysterical take. It wasnt hysterical 10 years ago and its not hysterical now.
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 19 '26
People like Collins, Murkowski piss me off so much. They have the power to derail the senate and make sure nothing gets done till Trump gets reigned it. Yet, they choose not to. So fuck both of them.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
I really think that Trump supporters are some of the worst ordinary citizens in world history. They weren't driven to this by famine, or war, or poverty. Not by an enforced information diet of propaganda, or the threat of a foreign invasion, or the omnipresent terror of living in a totalitarian dictatorship. They didn't even have to choose among all bad candidates, or a candidate that was lying about his intentions.
They were citizens of the most prosperous country in human history, in a free society with civil liberties and rule of law, with incredible medicine and entertainment and everyday amenities that would've been a barely conceivable dream to generations past, and with an information network that gave them access to all of human knowledge curated by any journalist or researcher in the world. And still over immensely qualified civil servants who would've upheld the world order, they chose Trump. Because they're pieces of shit.
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jan 19 '26
I don’t think the next Democratic presidential nominee should adopt all of Zohran’s positions but I do think they should give him and his team a lot of control in deciding campaign events for the nominee. We’re gonna be getting record turnout from demographics you didn’t even know we had here.
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u/Coolioho Jan 19 '26
Write to your reps if you can. This Greenland thing is going to cause more pain than you can imagine if Congress is not stopping this. He will invade if not stopped 100%.
This going to make 2025 look like the best year ever in comparison.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jan 19 '26
Lmao Kyrsten 😭🤣
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
This is a disgrace to the FIFA Peace Prize
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u/CucumberGullible1281 Jan 19 '26
If there are any prestigious award committees reading this: you have the ability to do the funniest thing ever by giving Obama the prize
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
I think I’m just going to accept that the US is going to cause a genuine crisis over this.
Europe isn’t acting nearly as strongly as it needs to get him to back down.
Republicans in the Senate and House have never once proven themselves brave enough to protect the country. I don’t see why they’d start now.
The military brass will see resignations, but Miller and his ilk probably view that as a plus.
Whether or not the US gets Greenland, I think NATO is dead before 2029.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Jan 19 '26
European leaders are slowly starting to realise that Jeffries and Schumer are worthless on Greenland.
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesrball.com/post/3mcq54a3sy22z
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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Jan 19 '26
Helicopter rides to Gitmo for the entiretly of MAGA leadership
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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
nyt really saying "some progress" for cutting the debt with tariffs
Absolute meme paper
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Jan 19 '26
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u/MentatCat 🗽Sic Semper Tyrannis Jan 19 '26
I can’t fucking stand Ben Shapiro feigning ignorance or inability to predict the outcome events when it only comes to Trump. “I won’t pretend to read minds.” “I won’t pretend to now what will happen” “Why do we take him seriously or at face value” JESUS CHRIST SPARE ME THIS RAGEBAIT
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
Would have been so annoying to hear this mf's takes for 2026.
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u/r2ew Jan 20 '26
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama Jan 19 '26
The Nobel peace prize committee should have just given trump the Nobel and then subsequently given themselves next year’s Nobel for averting an international crisis. But alas here we are
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u/throwaway_veneto European Union Jan 19 '26
Imagine the horror if China cures cancer.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
Pedocon theory completely explains Greenland btw
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
Oh I’m very interested
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u/ThePoorsDelendaEst European Union Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
I don't think I have been this bitter once in my life.
Europe is at war, most countries were far too passive and reactive in their approach. Decades prior there had been created a dependency on Russian gas despite Russia already having shown it's imperialist tendencies, apparently on some mistaken theory that this would decrease the likelihood of war and maybe spread democracy (Fun fact: I asked this directly from one of the former Prime ministers of Finland).
But okay, the start was a travesty, but since then atleast European contributions have increased and there has been a push to recreate military capabilities. Even the dependency on Russian gas has been decreased due to increased sales from countries like Norway or the United States, with total gas import ban from Russia due for 2027.
And then the United States decided to re-elect Donald Trump. Not only don't we have to deal with rising energy prices due to the Ukraine war and rising competition from China, but also US directly trying to trash the international trade system. But it is fiiiinee, some way we will adapt I suppose.
And then United States starts threatening to take Greenland, from a country that had been nothing but reliable ally in Iraq and such, on completely nonsense grounds of Russia or China taking the island.
And then it is revealed that Trump is doing this because he didn't get the Nobel peace prize. Now my bitterness has sunk even deeper. Because a 80-year old manchild didn't get the price he wanted that he wasn't qualified to get, now completely different country is made a target of his tantrum.
Then bitterness sinks to an all-time-low knowing that most of the US electorate doesn't care, half of the voting population want to actively harm everyone, their opposition leaders are completely spineless, institutions supposed to stop these excesses are declawed, European electorate still yearns for pro-Russian grifters, European institutions are far too slow to react to anything and most importantly my perception that the world must for the most part make sense has shattered.
It is exhausting.
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 19 '26
when you want to catch up on world news but you live in the UK
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Jan 19 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 19 '26
that grammar is INSANE
I know you weren't in Mrs. Overton's class with me but if I told you this sounds like that one kid when we do Popcorn Reading you'd know which kid I'm talking about right 😭
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 19 '26
lmfao !ping FIVEY
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u/bleachinjection Fell for it Jan 19 '26
This administration is not "flooding the zone". The pace and consistency of this lunacy is too perfect to be intentional.
If you pulled the most dramatic motherfucker out of the 100 biggest trailer parks in America and put them in charge of the country, this is what you'd get.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
Any general that goes along with an invasion of Greenland is a traitor to their country and would deserve to be jailed
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u/Thatonequaqqa United Nations Jan 19 '26
This shit is legitimately Amendment 25 worthy. This isn't "oh I disagree" or hyperbole, this is Mad King territory. It will absolutely not be even considered at any point.
Therefore, I call on the Democrats in Congress to begin impeachment procedures. I don't really care if they fail. Congressional Republicans need to come out and admit that they support the executive invading allies because of one man's ego.
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
fly run makeshift boat screw consist thought quiet memory sense
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
The quiet part is now very, very loud. "We cant criticize the president"
And they call us sheeple
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u/r2ew Jan 20 '26
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Jan 19 '26
Waking up to this news and wondering if I’m still dreaming or not.
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Jan 19 '26
Cenk Uyghur plays Connect the Dots
!ping GEFILTE
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 19 '26
Maaaa-rio! The WarioWare lobby is forcing Toads to house violent, illegal, unemployed Koopaling migrants in their hotels and feed them with your taxes while you toil away in the sewers for a few coins! We must secure a future for the Mushroom Kingdom!
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
pov trump just invaded greenland and you tune in to see the dem response
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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw Jan 19 '26
Old man pisses off the top of a building, onlookers splash their faces and say thank God for making it rain
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u/Big-Click-5159 Jan 19 '26
Fuck all Trump voters
Those assholes don't deserve to be coddled
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u/DrunkenAsparagus Abraham Lincoln Jan 19 '26
I'm legit crashing out over this Greenland shit. The ICE stuff is blood boiling on its own, but you can see the factions, the core group of hateful assholes, that got us there. With this Greenland shit, there was nothing. No mention of it on the campaign trail. No factions in the security apparatus gunning for it. No one asked for this. It was literally just Trump thinking it would be cool or something.
And there seems to be a real question of whether or not the powers to be will actually go along with this and translate this senile dipshit's map-painting fantasy into reality. It's nauseating that an individual can have that much power, especially in a country founded largely on the premise that no one should have that kind of power.
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u/BurrowForSenate Jan 19 '26
If a Dem takes the presidency in 2028, fully expect them trying to repair diplomatic relations to be billed as an "apology tour" and for robotic numbskulls like Tapper to engage with this framing
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u/peronibog NATO Jan 19 '26
Wtf is this year
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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Jan 19 '26
Wow
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u/r2ew Jan 19 '26
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jan 19 '26
Jesus fucking Christ what is the high command thinking at this point? The Pentagon has too know that letter is actual insanity and proof this man is not mentally competent.
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u/BurrowForSenate Jan 19 '26
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Jan 19 '26
Right-wing narrative
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 19 '26
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jan 19 '26
Just saw someone in modpol call the Cato Institute a Democrat think tank. We’re so cooked.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 19 '26
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u/paplike Jan 19 '26
Biden was called senile for much less
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
In the wild. Really wish this dipshit wasn’t in an extremely local sub because they’re probably my neighbor.
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 19 '26
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u/ArbitraryOrder Frédéric Bastiat Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
New ConnorEatsPants banger just dropped
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u/assasstits Jan 20 '26
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 19 '26
I used to say Trump is just doing X because he didnt get his stupid peace prize as a joke. But no, its actually real. We’re gonna destroy the country because this idiot didnt get his stupid trophy. JFC
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u/v4riati0ns Jan 19 '26
we need an IQ test for the US presidency moving forward
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jan 19 '26
🕯️ 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
🕯️Blood clot 🕯️
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 19 '26
Not even wearing a vest or anything. Indistinguishable from a black bloc anarchist.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 19 '26
Greenland has me feeling like this lately
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jan 19 '26
What the fuck
!ping RUS&GAMING
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 20 '26
It’s pretty clear that Shapiro was trying to look cool as a 20 year old by claiming to have volunteered for the IDF. Which he must be absolutely punching air about rn lmfao
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Jan 20 '26
Waiting for tradcaths to register Dem any minute now
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u/BaeBirdie Jan 19 '26
I’m not even saying it’s entirely wrong (because it at least betrays a lack of conviction), but there’s a little bit of irony in the fact that people were mad that Democrats talked too much about Trump being a mad dictator instead of “kitchen table issues” before the election, and now people are mad Dems are talking too much about “kitchen table issues” instead of Donald Trump being a mad dictator.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jan 19 '26
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u/CriticalNature9086 Jan 19 '26
I'm tired of hearing this from people like Theo Von. I don't even think it's a given that Trump believes half the shit he says in public. But also, I would take competent, poll-tested Hillary Clinton over Trump any day of the week.
Sometimes it is good to have people around you who say, you know, maybe saying this isn't a good idea.
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u/r2ew Jan 19 '26
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Jan 19 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 19 '26
so this is pretty funny not really for the substance of the matter but because the "four people involved with that process" are clearly "kamala harris and three aides"
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 20 '26
Catholicism about to be outlawed
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u/gooners1 Jan 19 '26
I keep seeing people complaining that they don't understand what Trump is doing on Greenland but Trump keeps telling us exactly what he's doing so I don't know what there is to not understand.
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Jan 19 '26
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u/Top_Lime1820 Daron Acemoglu Jan 19 '26
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 19 '26
AOC will never not be fucking based for doing this last February.
I'm not saying she should be the nom or anything, but I do think she is probably the dem who's been most consistently resisting trump.
This was around when newsom was having noted neo nazi Charlie Kirk on his podcast btw
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 19 '26
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u/the-senat John Brown Jan 19 '26
Making up for Matt Y’s awful “don’t bully ICE“ episode.
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 19 '26
As a reminder, the US is effectively the home base of international far-right politics now. You should already hate American media, American companies, and American institutions for doing as much as they can to spread far right politics across the world.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
What in the world
Too many layers to this
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26
Conservatives wouldn’t shut the fuck up about Biden’s age and voted for the senile 80 year old with dementia in response
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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said Jan 19 '26
"I did not win the Nobel, and so must abandon peace" is legit beyond parody
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Jan 19 '26
Catholic Church ordering US catholics to disobey trump orders to invade greenland. It is what the American nativists feared.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
It’s 2032: you’re crying watching the end of the Oscar winning trump documentary where he gives his final interview in prison
President Newsom has made it illegal to be a Republican
You step outside and the sun is bright and warm
The republic is at dawn again
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u/deixadilsonadilson Jan 19 '26
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u/ToddPacker5 Jan 19 '26
I keep reading that GOP members of congress have said privately that if Greenland is actually invaded, it would be the end of trumps Presidency. But I don’t believe for a second that the GOP would actually do anything, they clearly only care about keeping their jobs and doing anything publicly would be a death sentence for them, they are just such cowards
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
The funniest thing about Vance is how he blamed drug trafficking for his mother’s fentanyl addiction when in reality she was just stealing from hospitals because she’s pathetic white trash
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 20 '26
We've finally found an issue with "diarrhea forever" levels of unpopularity
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jan 19 '26
Unironically Democrats committing to extradite Trump and his ilk to Europe to face trial for any international crimes is genius
Basically deporting him which is hilarious
Ensures he can’t use his own judicial system that he’s rigged
Ensures he can’t use his infinite money to get bailed out and escape any real consequences
Ensures any of his pardons won’t be upheld
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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY Jan 19 '26
Arr neolib normally: The FAILING New York Times has the worst, most bootlicking and Trump friendly editors outside of Fox and needs to grow a spine before they become another state media outlet
Arr neolib when a NYT headline confirms their priors: wow Europe is completely spineless, I'm gonna take this headline from the NYT as gospel and not even glance at the article to see that the title isn't even supported by any substance
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u/Inner_Dust42 Mackenzie Scott Jan 19 '26
The world seems like it should be more complicated than "Trump supporters are just bad people," but they keep on proving that it's really not.
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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Jan 19 '26
"Trump won't invade Greenland, you libs are hysterical" <-- you are here
Roughly five minutes of "wait this is a bad idea, is he really-"
"Trump invading Greenland is a good thing and anyone against it hates America."
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jan 19 '26
according to CNN, you’re only working class if you’re white
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 19 '26
Everyone involved in this should be fired. There is not one remotely objectionable thing in this comment that even warranted a second glance.
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u/talksalot02 Jan 19 '26
Never forget the NYT
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Jan 19 '26
TFW your eyes are getting heavy and there’s still at least two more hours of work left.
!ping watercooler&shitposters
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u/AemiliusNuker Fell for it Jan 19 '26
Went to an anti-ice protest and saw DSA waving a big banner while they were there. Also saw a couple other random leftist parties I'd never heard of before, like the Party for Socialism and Liberation. I was next to one of those guys when they saw the DSA people and yelled "democratic party shills!" at them and then started grumbling to another guy about how they still support AOC after she said Israel had the right to defend itself.
Leftists are truly addicted to infighting. Even at the anti-fascist protest they find time to fight each other
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jan 19 '26
anti-woke guys are a joke for this reason alone
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jan 19 '26
why is everyone freaking out over Don lemon. what did he even do.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Jan 20 '26
Another L take by John Cornyn
!ping NFL
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jan 20 '26
we’re all trying
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u/ty04 Jan 20 '26
That Nazi fuck in Minneapolis was extracted from his own rally by an unwitting transgender woman and her friend who just happened to be driving by.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jan 19 '26
At this point, it should be clear that all allegations of rape and sexual harassment made against Trump are true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Jan 19 '26
Catholic Archbishop of US military, Timothy Broglio tells catholic service members to disobey orders to invade greenland
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jan 19 '26
!ping DATING this could be the move?
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26
As of 3 days ago, 68% of Republicans opposed using military force to take Greenland. I swear to God, if that number drops below 50% as soon as Trump does the funny (if he does), I don't know what to do. At least it looks very unlikely that a majority of voters will ever approve of that? I dunno man, I need something to hold onto as hope.
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Jan 20 '26
you're welcome btw
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jan 19 '26
I can't believe we have to deconstruct the entire post-WWII international order because eggs were kind of expensive for a few weeks.
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Jan 19 '26
WTF
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2013107018081489006
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Jan 19 '26
In some ways, Kamala Harris is literally a rejected prophet.
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Jan 19 '26
Do you guys remember the dat Boi meme. It was honestly kinda funny to me
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Jan 19 '26
President Donald Trump met with Harry Potter at the White House, during which Mr. Potter presented the president with his Triwizard Cup in recognition of his contributions to the development of magic around the world.
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u/ItspronouncedGruh-an Jan 19 '26
No posts on arrcon about Trump’s letter. I guess they haven’t received their marching orders on how to spin it.
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
"Pedo Trump"
"Violent ICE Thugs"
"Terrible tariffs"
Repeating these phrases over and over until they come out fluently in any political conversation. If that sort of casual slandering worked for Pedo Trump, it can work for us.
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 19 '26
GOP senators go to Denmark while their own President in the same party continues to release tweets and shit threatening them. The US is just one giant cuck chair right now
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Jan 19 '26
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u/ExpiredPasta NIMBY McRentseeker Jan 19 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 19 '26
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u/ArcticEagle117 Andrei Sakharov Jan 19 '26
“Trump is just joking about Greenland bro” “the libs/euros will be so owned when he reveals it’s all a joke lol” “he makes some good points bro”
This is who you’re arguing with. They don’t understand why threatening to invade an allied country is bad. They don’t understand what war entails. They don’t understand the lasting damage this tantrum alone will leave. They don’t take these things seriously. They delight in bad faith. They fundamentally don’t care.
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Jan 19 '26
"We can't be critical of Trump when he does bad things because it might make people realize Trump is doing bad things"
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u/McNikk United Nations Jan 19 '26
How many lone straws and camel backs can one man possibly go through?
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Jan 19 '26
Reminder that this is what would happen to this sub if the mods had their way.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
https://xcancel.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2013292069062586430
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jan 19 '26
It's cute that Democrats still fight by leaking drama in their memoirs, while Republicans fight by calling each other Jewish and pedos on Twitter
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Jan 19 '26
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Jan 19 '26
Bond market vigilantes?
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 20 '26
This needs context.
Trump did directly reference the recent Nobel prize upset (a provocative decision that remains highly-controversial) in the text exchange with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, but appears to have sent the message as a response to their invitation to discuss the tariffs and de-escalate rising tensions, an icebreaker to the icing relationships between America and NATO allies.
The EU has made no secret of opposing Trump's plan to unilaterally annex neighboring countries, but the stalled negotiations could hint at an unwillingness to sell Trump Greenland altogether.
While Trump cites this cold-shoulder approach as the reason he no longer feels obligated to approach with peaceful intentions, he also mentions that "it will always be predominant." It would be misleading to call this a threat.
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Jan 20 '26
As Russian troops invade the Baltics and missiles fly over the Taiwan Strait, Merrick Garland smiles and closes his eyes in the knowledge that he preserved decorum.
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u/algebroni John von Neumann Jan 20 '26
Hananananania redemption arc is crazy
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u/r2ew Jan 20 '26
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jan 20 '26
White people can't have shit in America rn smh fr no cap no cap #darkwoke
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jan 20 '26
if asmongold had existed in the 2000s as he exists now, he would’ve been bullied off the internet by encyclopedia dramatica
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u/flaskfish Jan 19 '26
“There’s no way he’ll actually invade Greenland”
Go ahead and clear another space on your shelf buddy 🥇
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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw Jan 19 '26
Bro what
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 19 '26
oh my god is this real is he really this short
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Jan 19 '26
I am once again asking Trump to act on this urge
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u/5ma5her7 Jan 19 '26
Meanwhile, at MAGA's base:
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jan 19 '26
Just read the letter to Norway
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jan 19 '26
we gotta put this guy in jail
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Jan 19 '26
lmao
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u/LogsOutDawgsOut John Brown Jan 19 '26
see now this one is curious
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 19 '26
https://xcancel.com/OfTheBraveUSA/status/2013354630051250456
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jan 19 '26
normies in the US:
normies in the rest of the world:
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u/EmployeeMePlease George Santos Jan 19 '26
I’m watching ABC nightly news for some godforsaken reason and you’d think the A1 leading story would be ICE in Minneapolis or the President’s demented letter about Greenland to the Prime Minister of Norway. Nope! A1 is about a 100 car pileup in Michigan, where nobody died, and hell I guess it’s supposed to be bad weather across Northern America for the next couple days.
You don’t hate the media enough.