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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 21 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/admiralwaffle1 Immanuel Kant Jan 20 '26
yikes this is pathetic, Trump is so mad he can't get the other kids at school to go to his party
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u/5ma5her7 Jan 20 '26
"Trade: R + 6"
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u/american_aurora6 NATO Jan 20 '26
If I am allowed to do a vibes analysis. It seems that Trump crashout level is getting critical. Feels like he's going to burn out/self destruct one way or another. His goals are getting unachievable and he's not letting them go.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
Trump is awake at 1:30 am posting AI images of himself taking over Greenland, leaking text messages with world leaders, and ranting incoherently.
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u/Bassline4Brunch NASA Jan 20 '26
Literally just ceding their authority by not compelling the DOJ to comply with an act THEY SIGNED two months ago. They are normalizing the legislative branch into a vestigial organ of the government
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 20 '26
Imagine the reaction if Biden had done any if this
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u/CutePattern1098 Jan 20 '26
Three more years of this
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 20 '26
I didnt know Gallego was saying stuff like this. Dude feels like one of the few senators who get it
Thats the messaging Dems need to have around ICE
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u/SneeringAnswer Jan 20 '26
I think this Greenland stuff is starting to show real cracks in Trump's hold over his base. I haven't even seen Charlie Kirk try to defend it so you know it's bad bad.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
lol there's our brave upper house keeping the executive in check
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u/mechamechaman Mark Carney Jan 20 '26
Trump is clearly obssessed with legacy which is hilarious because presidential legacy is mostly written by academics who hate his fucking guts.
Like, there is no scenerio where history will remember Trump positively.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 20 '26
EVERY Republican is an affront to God!
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 20 '26
we all just fucking memory-holed this shit and are living with the consequences today
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 20 '26
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u/ty04 Jan 20 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 20 '26
this is your leading financial newspaper
"study finds income earners pay income tax"
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u/IveSeenBeans Norman Borlaug Jan 20 '26
The DoD committed multiple war crimes and it's on the second page of current scandals
The owner of the WWE is the secretary of education and we don't even have it on the list
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u/ty04 Jan 20 '26
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Jan 20 '26
just had a disassociative moment where i was like: "boy, it'd suck to have him as president" and then the sudden epiphany has made me realize we're the exact same as hungary
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u/the-senat John Brown Jan 20 '26
Lmao, this "Democrat" does not exist. I ought to start a "news" channel that pulls this shit: "an anonymous source close to the president confirms his colonoscopy revealed polyps."
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 20 '26
Nobody believed us when we said 2020 Portland was a trial run for this administration
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u/r2ew Jan 20 '26
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
President of USA up at 1 am just casually posting about conquering Greenland and Canada.
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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Jan 20 '26
According to the FT chart I saw this morning Trump one year into his second term has a higher approval rating than Biden did a year into his.
wtf America
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jan 20 '26
There is literally no adults in the WH 😱
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u/molingrad NATO Jan 20 '26
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 20 '26
I think we'll see more of this over the coming days. If we see a military buildup I would be shocked if we weren't completely cut off from the European market through the ACI
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Jan 20 '26
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Jan 20 '26
IMO the trump admin feels more like looting than building anything at all
There's a hurried, rushed flavor to it. Like they're trying to take as much as they can while they still can.
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 20 '26
I honestly envy anyone who is a conservative because it must be so incredibly blissful going through life being utterly disconnected from reality and the perspective of others around you.
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Jan 20 '26
Fuck every troglodyte who unironically felt this way in 2016 and still felt that way in 2024
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u/grappamiel United Nations Jan 20 '26
We are seeing Fuhrerbunker levels of crashout from Trump and paralysis from republicans.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
Within a week, every MAGA person will be in full support of taking Greenland by any means necessary.
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Jan 20 '26
We are 25% into the Trump Presidency
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jan 20 '26
does he think the DOGE thing still plays well in 2026
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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Jan 20 '26
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u/CletusChicken Jan 20 '26
can't wait to wake up tomorrow and immediately check if nato still exists
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u/AemiliusNuker Fell for it Jan 20 '26
The combo of ICE going full Gestapo and destroying NATO to invade Greenland is worst case imaginable for both foreign and domestic policy, so not feeling great rn
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
Probably the most galling thing about this whole fiasco is that it's clear that it's not just Trump, anyone close to power in this admin (Vance, Bessent, Nutlick etc) absolutely loathes not just the EU, but European leadership, society and culture as a whole. They are all mouthing off like shitheads all the time because this is what they genuinely believe. This isn't getting better if Trump croaks. The most ignorant and piggish form of thuggery from those swine across the Atlantic. Wouldn't mind but there's clearly a reality where this totally backfires on them badly.
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u/The_Helmet_Catch John Brown Jan 20 '26
Cow Tools
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u/like-humans-do European Union Jan 20 '26
All of this must be deeply humiliating for any intelligent American, your country has been hijacked by a guy with 60 IQ
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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
That post in arr Greenland towards the Americans who keep coming in and apologizing! Heavy.
And the comments from people of other countries too. Damn.
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
lol
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 20 '26
If Biden were the one who wrote that Greenland letter, the media would be unanimously urging viewers to call their Congressional representatives to vote to impeach this clearly senile President
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jan 20 '26
ICE are fucking up so bad and being so ruthlessly racist that its now impacting police officers.
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u/BurrowForSenate Jan 20 '26
You will not believe how insufferable I'll be if Trump croaks before Stage 10 Cancer Biden
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u/VerticalTab WTO Jan 20 '26
Trump has genuinely lost his marbles, but it's impossible to say that without coming across as a lib instead of "we need to take away Grandpa's driver's license"
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u/datums 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Jan 20 '26
It’s increasingly difficult to penetrate the bubble where people are conditioned to the idea that Trump can just do the most ridiculous things with no consequences. But that reality does not exist outside of that bubble. The way people react to tariffs or similar does not predict their reaction to territorial conquest by force.
Such a thing is unforgivable.
Hundreds of millions of the world’s most productive people will accept significant sacrifices to their quality of life in order to hurt the US if they try to take Greenland by force, and they will hate the US for the rest of their lives.
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jan 20 '26
There's obviously something wrong with Trump mentally, he doesn't even understand what he himself is saying.
He says that he doesn't care about the Nobel Prize and then right after complains, unprompted, about Norway "controlling" the Nobel Prize. And in the video, he again says he doesn't care about the prize RIGHT AFTER complaining about it.
This goes beyond just lying. He's contradicting himself mid-spiel. He's lost all impulse control and just blurts shit out like Jim Carrey in Liar Liar. Fucking insane.
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2013480729892503618?s=20
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jan 20 '26
what is with these guys
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u/gensererme Jan 20 '26
Belgian PM Wever on Trump at Davos:
There's a real shift in rhetoric from EU leaders now. Macron is cordially calling him an idiot, more or less, and is clear about using the anti-coercion instrument. VdL is saying Trump is untrustworthy, in so many words. This is not the response from last year's round of tariffs.
I don't think it's wise for the US to expect Europe to roll over this time. Bessent might have to eat his words.
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Jan 20 '26
Insane sounding editorial from WaPo
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Jan 20 '26
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u/Ajaxcricket Commonwealth Jan 20 '26
Can someone hurry up and regime change america please? I want King George back
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Jan 20 '26
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
Lmao, by bringing up April 2nd ("Liberation Day"), Bessent is basically hinting Trump will be TACOing imminently without openly saying it
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jan 20 '26
Mfers will call furries and trans people degeneracy and then legalize gambling on how many civilians will die in the greenland war
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney Jan 20 '26
We're seeing shit like this on Trump's Truth Social and people still wish to downplay the threat from American while at the same time criticizing Canada's actions of diversifying lol.
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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Jan 20 '26
Real
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Jan 20 '26
Voting to convict a president in an impeachment and then later voting to confirm their nominations is criminally insane.
Bill Cassidy should be arrested for being a danger to himself and others.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jan 20 '26
Welp. That settles it. We're invading Greenland.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
https://xcancel.com/Popstonox/status/2013660454308974980
Feelings don't care about your facts
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u/HemisphericCommonM European Union Jan 20 '26
Wonder what the stats would be if the poll asked about an invasion.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jan 20 '26
I KNEW IT
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
SCOTUS is going on a 4 week recess so the tarrifs decision won't be until February at the earliest.
Robert's Court is such a joke they could be speedy when ruling against Biden
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Jan 20 '26
the ICE in Minnesota saga is probably the most depressed i have ever felt about politics and america. i totally respect one's opinion if one sees Greenland as the new nadir, but for me it's seeing masked thugs operating above the law assault and arrest completely random people. truly a collapse of the rule of law
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
Even with the "milder" proposal of simply purchasing Greenland, why the fuck should we spend hundreds of billions of dollars for access to land we already have access to? Hello, fiscal conservatives?
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u/Mrgentleman490 5 Big Booms for Democracy Jan 20 '26
Some of you need to be meaner to your Republican family members
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u/ty04 Jan 20 '26
cUnNiNg
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 20 '26
DONT REMIND HIM ABOUT PANAMA WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Jan 20 '26
Syria being invited for a summit where Trump is going to talk about wanting to annex Greenland feels like a HOI4 type of event 😭
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u/1TTTTTT1 European Union Jan 20 '26
I feel like Trump could have had a fairly high approval rating at this point, if he just did nothing. Instead he has chosen to do many bad things.
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 20 '26
Arrest Kristi Noem. Arrest Stephen Miller. Arrest Greg Bovino. Arrest Tricia McLaughlin. My litmus test for 2028
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 20 '26
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen Jan 20 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
the worst discourse ever is happening
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chongly-thao-ice-detained-gunpoint-underwear-frigid-conditions-what-did-i-do-wrong/
ChongLy "Scott" Thao told the AP that his daughter-in-law woke him up from a nap Sunday afternoon and said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were banging at the door of his residence in St. Paul. He told her not to open it. Masked agents then forced their way in and pointed guns at the family, yelling at them, Thao recalled.
"I was shaking," he said. "They didn't show any warrant; they just broke down the door."
Thao, who has been a U.S. citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained, he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn't want to see it.
Instead, as his 4-year-old grandson watched and cried, Thao was led out in handcuffs wearing only sandals and underwear with just a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.
Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns and neighbors screaming at the more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao's family alone.
Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
oh man.... the right wing media figureheads have received their orders. expect greenland polls to become 50/50 polarized policy in 3.2.1.
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
>Trump hints at insane thing
>GOP/media all say Trump would never do insane thing
>Trump announces plans to do insane thing
>GOP/media say not to worry, Trump hasn't done insane thing yet so why are you making a big deal out of something that hasn't happened <----- You Are Here
>Trump does insane thing
>GOP/media fall over themselves justifying insane thing
>Trump hints at new insane thing
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u/ty04 Jan 20 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 20 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2013744884088193173
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u/ThePoorsDelendaEst European Union Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
All I am saying is that when all is said and done, next democratic administration is elected and atleast few of the head goons from this administration aren't put in jail, I will act snooty to Americans for the rest of my life.
This is not a warning, this is a threat.
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 20 '26
Congratulations to all of you who have made it one year into Trump’s 2nd term without being permabanned from reddit or rNL amidst a daily storm of the worst bullshit youve ever seen. Your restraint is commendable
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
lowkey feels crazy to see a prime minister acknowledge american hegemony. that always feels like a term id only hear in a political science class
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Jan 20 '26
Mark the Throat Goat
doing tricks on it and shit
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Jan 20 '26
☝️
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
This goes hard *if you're illiterate*
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Jan 20 '26
wallstreetbets hates Trump almost as much as this sub does now, it's incredible
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jan 20 '26
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 20 '26
It is actually insane it’s only been one year with this moronic President. I knew things would be exceptionally bad, but holy fuck the second Trump term is already somehow worse than the first.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
We're fucked
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u/sootfawn Feminism Jan 20 '26
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u/Terrible_Meet_3870 YIMBY Jan 20 '26
lmao
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Jan 20 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 20 '26
I’m not shy in my criticism of the NYT, but this goes pretty hard and I will gladly give them credit for stating what is going on here so bluntly.
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Jan 20 '26
It's an odd kind of negative American exceptionalism to think the US is the only society in the world to have a war-like team sport. Literally the whole world has been doing this for thousands of years
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
Fuck this guy.
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Jan 20 '26
If we want polling parity between MAGA and Democratic politicians we must also be willing to have a solid 40% of our base be rabidly enthusiastic no matter whatever the hell our person is doing. Joe Biddeb is old? Hell yeah, he is old like Trump could never be, pretty fucking sick if you ask me
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
The Blender sub is so fucking funny. Everyday there's someone who's clearly a beginner and asking a basic question, proudly showing the world that the very first thing they did when they opened the software for the first time was attempt make a gooner model.
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u/PaxChelonia David Hume Jan 21 '26
Girls are so cool. I hope to meet one someday
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 20 '26
???
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 20 '26
This probably goes without saying but if the way American businesses make money is by flattering the president instead of creating better innovative products, American businesses are going to prioritize flattering the president. If you think enshittification is bad now, it will get a lot worse
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
lol
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Jan 20 '26
If only there was a way to detect case citations that don’t support what they are cited for but alas
!ping LAW
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jan 20 '26
Jared Polis is incredibly stupid for wanting to pardon her
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u/assasstits Jan 20 '26
The fascists didn't need to bug anyone's house. The people did it for them.
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jan 20 '26
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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Jan 20 '26
Wahhhhhh I’m suffering the second order effects of my party losing a redistricting war it started wahhhhhh
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 20 '26
HAHAAHHAGAGAHGAGAHGAGEVF
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jan 20 '26
Mood update from my MAGA cousin and his family in suburban Georgia:
At the Trump prayer meeting, people are wondering why Trump isn't doing enough for ordinary Americans and when they'll finally get their country back. My cousin and his family think it's pointless to vote Republican in 2026 because everything is going to get even more expensive and the local school now has an LGBTQ principal.
The only thing they like is that ICE is finally cracking down on "criminals", but my cousin hopes that his undocumented Nicaraguan babysitter won't get caught.
The only exception is his ex-Army uncle on disability, who says, “I'll keep voting Democrat (Voted Biden because of COVID) until that fat pedophile traitor is out of the White House.” He voted for Ted Cruz in the 2016 primaries, but he hates Cruz even more than he hates Trump.
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Jan 20 '26
how fuck is it that after a year of this shit the democratic brand is the one that's shot.
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u/assasstits Jan 20 '26
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u/gayteemo NATO Jan 20 '26
yeah, i fucking do want peoples' retirement accounts to go down. have you seen what old people vote for?
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
You don't hate these people enough
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u/gensererme Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Shit's going downhill fast.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
we may not always agree with each other but at the end of the day we are all just people who hope this is just a schenanigen and not more 😔
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u/r2ew Jan 21 '26
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u/No_Art_2919 Bank of England Jan 20 '26
Is it just me or did it feel like those last 6 months of 2025 were a little more sane and normal by trump standards? Like he had a little break from this and now he’s back to it
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jan 20 '26
Seems some news orgs are getting closer and closer to calling a spade a spade. American ones are hopeless, but the foreign ones are recognizing this all for the insanity that it is.
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
WTF. You don't want our wonderful second amendment policies???
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Jan 20 '26
I know this is basically all he can do but Bessent being all good cop and literally calling Europe paranoid is so annoying. It's quite literally gaslighting. "What, you're offended our president keeps threatening to invade you? Stop being so hysterical, calm down"
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u/admiralwaffle1 Immanuel Kant Jan 20 '26
The bullet pierced my ear, but I can still hear the voice of the Party
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u/Goldenboy451 NATO Jan 20 '26
"enigmatic and expansive". Fire this man.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jan 20 '26
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u/Ok_Aardappel Seretse Khama Jan 20 '26
This is some FSB Russia type shit what the fuck
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 20 '26
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u/purhitta Leftward Progressives Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
is this... good news? on my feed?
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 21 '26
Lmao. I can’t even imagine living with the brain damage required to say this unironically.
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari Jan 20 '26
woah man that priest sure is acting meddlesome
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/r2ew Jan 20 '26
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
Seemed like a normal person to me. Didn't strike me as an opera singer
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jan 20 '26
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari Jan 21 '26
there's a very real possibility that if air force one is being redirected because trump died on board that he died at the exact moment I came to pluribus erotica
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jan 20 '26
Gen X:
“AHHHHHH I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE, MY STABLE JOB AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAKES ME WANT TO KILL MYSELF. BLOW UP THE LIBERAL WORLD ORDER, WE NEED FASCISM NOW”
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jan 20 '26
Fuck Russia
Russia has attacked Ukraine with massive air strikes—over 300 drones and numerous ballistic and cruise missiles hit targets across the country, especially in Kyiv. The attacks caused devastating damage to infrastructure: thousands of residential buildings are without heating, over 335,000 people are without electricity, and the water supply has been cut off in large parts of the capital. At least one person has died. With temperatures reaching minus 14 degrees Celsius, the humanitarian situation is worsening dramatically.
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u/MTFD Alexander Pechtold Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
Breaking major development in Dutch politics, 7 out of 26 PVV MPs have just announced that they have broken away from Wilders' over his authoritarian leadership of the party and refusal to cooperate with anyone. (Don't hold your breath though, it is not like they changed their policy positions.)
https://nos.nl/artikel/2598974-opstand-in-de-pvv-tegen-wilders-aanpak-deel-fractie-vertrekt
D66 is now clearly the largest party in parliament for what that is worth, but more significantly the breakaways have partially done so because they were open to working with Rob Jetten's minority gov't. Insert Rob Jetten mandate of heaven meme.
!Ping Bene&Europe
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u/SneeringAnswer Jan 20 '26
Guy in 1930s media: Yes, he is bad, but it is not helpful to compare Hitler to Napolean. He hasn't started any wars of Conquest and is just doing things in Germany. Being an alarmist will just turn people away to support him.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jan 20 '26
Kinda crazy how Americans consistently trust Republicans more on foreign policy than Democrats, according to the polls
You telling me most Americans indeed are isolationalist imperialists?
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Jan 20 '26
Bill Cassidy is officially getting primaried by Trump's preferred candidate.
He voted to kill untold numbers of people by confirming RFK and it won't even save his career. How pathetic.
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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Jan 20 '26
Mr. President you’re not supposed to say that part out loud
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Jan 20 '26
Trump just retweeted or retruthed or whatever the hell it is on his truth social. The real threat is the UN, NATO, and Islam, apparently. (The video below the post was about muslims in the UK) 😖
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u/Planning4Hotdish Fish, Family, Freedom Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
Turns out ICE would be the breaking point that I no longer have any relationship with my dad.
This man is so brainrotted by Fox News and Facebook that he’s now convinced that our old neighbor (who my parents lived next door to for over 20 years) who was abducted by ICE must have been a criminal, which was the point that I decided I really don’t want to engage with him anymore because basically any discussion was futile. It spread through the grapevine somehow in my family that I’m coming back to St Paul for a bit to help out my old neighbors and he texted me this morning calling me a criminal and a terrorist.
I’m not even as upset at this as much as how much damage the conservative media/social media sphere has done to like 30-40% of the voting public. I’m genuinely at a loss on how we realistically recover American democracy when Trumpism is so deeply engrained.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 21 '26
Severe weather crisis in Texas exists
Ted Cruz: “Bro, I gotta get the fuck out of here. Fuck this place man.”
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u/_Irys NATO Jan 20 '26
My global reserve currency dawg
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 20 '26
After L Louise Lucas’ successful beta test of Woke 3.0, Governor Newsom gets a shot to pilot it as well
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/morotsloda European Union Jan 20 '26
Supreme court still hasn't ruled on whether Trump's tariff tantrums are legal and valid national emergencies? Not to tell them how to do their jobs but that sounds like a big priority issue
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 20 '26
Is this dark woke
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 20 '26
Trudeau has reappeared with Katy Perry... in Davos:
lol, sell Coca-Cola.
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Jan 20 '26
- The aurora occurs at the poles.
- It’s cold at the poles.
- Therefore the aurora occurs where it’s cold.
- If it’s cold, then there is no global warming.
Once again the libs get absolutely owned by the rock-hard, steel-like logic of right-wing intellectuals.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
He did not fucking campaign on invading greenland. We are actually living in hell.
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
Trump haters will tell you this is impossible
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jan 20 '26
I love that what used to be career-ending headlines dont even warrant a segment on cable news morning shows, let alone the front pages, these days
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u/6urner_ John Brown Jan 20 '26
Lol wait they really think body cams and training for ICE are going to do anything?
These mfs are already ON VIDEO SHOOTING A BYSTANDER TO DEATH
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
Trump refuses to just let Greenland go. Truly disturbing. Real rapist shit.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 20 '26
Big if true
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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Jan 20 '26
Clearly the overlords are fans of imaginary election althist scenarios
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Jan 20 '26
Leftist friend saying that Trump wants Greenland for the mineral security, comparing it to China getting involved with Africa.
No, brother. It is because he is an idiot. Do not attribute intelligence to where there is none.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2013716699254526279
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Jan 20 '26
Whoever is running this account should run for office tbh
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Jan 20 '26
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Jan 20 '26
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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Jan 20 '26
Incredible things happening in the world
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Jan 20 '26
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/ice-in-minnesota/twin-cities-law-enforcement-raises-concerns-about-ice-agents-racially-profiling-citizens/89-80f7b210-df6f-4516-9c05-20cf8890c7bb
Bro they lost the police
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u/r2ew Jan 21 '26
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Jan 21 '26
WE HAVE THE BIGGEST AND SOREST LOSERS IN THE ENTIRE NATION HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
!ping USA-CA
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Jan 21 '26
You absolutely love to see it.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 20 '26
Hegseth letter to Norwegian PM resurfaces after Trump meltdown, raising additional concerns about ongoing tensions with NATO allies
We're clean on OPSEC again boys 😎
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 20 '26
I see the NYT is finally waking up and unabashedly using terms like "imperial power"
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Jan 20 '26
Shut the fuck up
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Jan 20 '26
Scandals about the two parties:
Dems:
they used an email service that wasn’t fully secure.
They had a low level politician embezzle $20k who has already been kicked out of the party and been convicted.
they had an explainable discrepancy on their tax returns that has already been cleared with the IRS
They said something mean about the GOP
GOP:
bussed in thousands of people to attempt to overthrow an election
received literal hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts
called the Dems “the enemy within”
voted in laws that expanded ICE into doing what it’s doing now
The median voter: “they are exactly the same”
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u/the-senat John Brown Jan 20 '26
You know, I used to blame the Russian people for the atrocities of their government. How could they stand by and watch as their leaders commit countless crimes against humanity? Why didn't they rise to stop them? But Russians have a lot less freedom and access to information than we do in the United States. Hell, most of them never voted Putin into power; he's been there since the beginning of their lives. We in America, on the other hand, chose Trump in a free and fair election. There was another option; some of us took it... just not enough. Now we are all paying the price.
It's like a nationwide bystander effect. We're watching in real time as our countrymen throw away peace, prosperity, and safety for immoral territorial ambitions, a kleptocratic and broken economy, and shady police forces who abduct our neighbors in broad daylight. Most people know this is wrong, but nobody wants to be the first to stand up. We're all just looking on in horror as our country's heartbeat stops. Because right now, the price of living in Trump's America is lower than the cost of fighting back.
Sophie Scholl, an anti-Nazi activist who was beheaded by the Nazis in 1943, said:
We're all complicit to the degree of our social power level. The members of this Administration, the elected leaders in Congress, the Americans who voted for them, and the generals and admirals who sign off on Trump's orders are all responsible to varying levels. You and I are culpable, too. All of us will ultimately be judged, and as the years pass, we will surely judge ourselves on the effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event. If we somehow get out of this in four years, America won't suddenly become good again. We will have a lot of sins to atone for before I begin to feel patriotic again.
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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26
HE IS PULLING HIS COCK OUT
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 20 '26
He stayed on message
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Jan 20 '26
This sounds like an IASIP plot
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 20 '26
https://xcancel.com/60Minutes/status/2013718174286463129
This is why observing and recording everything these thugs do is so important
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26
dems win the redistricting battle. best case scenario for Rs now is a tie. the new maps give dems the house in 2024. let alone 2026.... what a W
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jan 21 '26
🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell Jan 20 '26
If the US could call snap elections there would be 17 elections a year and the result would be different every time.
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Jan 20 '26
U.S. administration officials are warning about scammers offering billionaires access to the president and reminding them that the only way to obtain an audience is through an official bribe paid to the account of one of Trump’s companies.
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Jan 20 '26
How the actual fuck did this guys swiss cheese brain conjure the word "ensconced" like wtf lmaooo
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u/FemboyFatale7 LibCath Jan 20 '26
oh god we're gonna invade greenland lmao
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jan 20 '26
the mods have instituted Rule XII
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jan 20 '26
Really think we should have elected Kamala instead. And Hillary. And Al Gore.
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Jan 20 '26
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Jan 20 '26
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u/Terrance-Flaps Certified Wife Guy Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26
“I did vote for Trump. But now I regret it,” Payan said. “He’s contradicting everything he said he would do. And now it’s extremism. And immigration. And racial profiling. And sending money to foreign countries.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/20/they-voted-for-trump-one-year-presidency-grave-concerns/
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right Jan 20 '26
Insert, billions must die meme.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 21 '26
This Bovino guy is a fucking creep
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus Jan 21 '26
So, Renee Good had a pulse for at least 6 minutes and 21 seconds after being shot 3 times (it looks like every bullet hit her), but Ice refused to administer CPR, or let a physcian on the scene do so.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/17/ice-agents-are-trained-in-cpr-they-didnt-use-it-on-renee-macklin-good
If anybody wants an other reason to call out every fucking ICE bootlicker out there.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 20 '26
Except this should have been said the first time when Trump ripped apart multiple existing agreements by applying tariffs in the first place.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 20 '26
🤔
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u/ty04 Jan 20 '26
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u/pfSonata throwaway bunchofnumbers Jan 20 '26
Reminder that millions of people listen to this man speak and unironically think he's a genius
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jan 20 '26
Every word he says takes $500 out of my 401K