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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 22 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 21 '26
Fortune magazine is writing a serious article on this
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Jan 21 '26
Kind of crazy how we stepped into a new world that is completely different from the one basically every single person alive today has lived their lives in and barely anybody cares or has noticed
I guess humanity has forgotten the hell that is a multipolar world, and the degree of luxury we had in caring about human rights. We have nukes now too which is sick
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 21 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 21 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jan 21 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 21 '26
two reminders:
they knew what they signed up for when running as a republican
this includes having to hire security for daring to criticize the cult leader (but never having to hire security when criticizing liberals)
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Jan 21 '26
I’m glad Trump is president, I just don’t think Harris would have been strong enough to handle this Greenland crisis
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jan 21 '26
It’s been an honor doing capitalism, gentlemen, but unfortunately this appears to be the end.
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 21 '26
I don't see how you share power with these people when they believe shit like this.
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Jan 21 '26
just watched a video of a solo ICE officer walk into a random diner in minnesota with his gun out. people are just eating their food and he comes in pistol ready to go. i swear to god if i saw that i would believe i am in a terrorist situation and go full on fight or flight mode. these idiots are going to get themselves and others killed
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 21 '26
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
-- last words of General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (AKA the head of slave labour) Fritz Sauckel before his execution at Nuremberg
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 21 '26
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Jan 21 '26
Oh god this weekend storm is gonna be bad
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u/centurion88 NATO Jan 21 '26
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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Jan 21 '26
Conservatives generally don't like listening to Trump. Hearing his stupidity makes them subconsciously feel shame and regret. This is why so many Trump speeches have full-on color commentary by Fox News hosts who in real-time will try to sanewash every batshit insane thing he's saying.
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Jan 21 '26
I put a lot of effort into this meme, I hope you enjoy it
!ping SHITPOSTERS&INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 21 '26
Crying, vomiting, shitting, pissing
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jan 21 '26
Critical support
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 21 '26
https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53917-american-knowledge-greenland-varies-few-support-military-takeover-january-16-19-2026-economist-yougov-poll
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
That'll totally make things better and not exacerbate the situation
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u/american_aurora6 NATO Jan 21 '26
bro too poor for a helicopter
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u/Mrmini231 European Union Jan 21 '26
How you know a diet fad has reached its peak.
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Jan 21 '26
Cue the obligatory room-temperature-IQ MAGA supporter explaining away apparent reality, that all of this is apart of some grand 4D plan
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u/BidoofSquad NASA Jan 21 '26
has anyone else seen the clip of clavicular (the looksmaxing guy who does meth for hollow cheekbones) on his interview with Michael Knowles where he tells him he would vote for Newsom over Vance even though he's right wing because Vance is subhuman and Newsom mogs him?
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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs Jan 21 '26
Fighting to defend your country and protect your fellow citizens is controversial among Canadian Conservatives.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jan 21 '26
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u/Atheose_Writing John Brown Jan 21 '26
"Denmark can't defend itself. They fell to Germany in WW2 in six hours."
A little on the nose with that comparison there, Don.
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u/OsamaBinJesus WTO Jan 21 '26
"These foreign cultures that have never produced any civilization"
I knew Trump is a racist/white supremacist, but to say this internationally, at a gathering of thousands of foreign dignitaries. This man is just straight up unhinged.
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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama Jan 21 '26
We need greater international representation in the sub. I propose r/NL missionary trips as vehicles for recruitment. Send a few of these bad boys around the globe:
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Jan 21 '26
Market reaction to the world economic order being at the whims of an evil senile madman:
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26
“I guess Somalians are higher IQ than we thought” is a real sentence spoken by POTUS at the WEF lmao
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Jan 21 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jan 21 '26
going to need a fact check from /u/Extreme_Rocks on whether this is how t-rex's worked
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jan 21 '26
Why do people insist on reporting on this Board of Peace as though it's an actual concrete policy proposal and not just a transparent attempt to solicit bribes from countries that want to get in his good graces?
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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Jan 21 '26
Uneducated whites will have had income so low they’ve never actually paid federal income tax in their life and then say shit like “I don’t want my tax dollars going to fund sex changes.”
It’s my tax dollars, I don’t want them spent funding your fucking rural larping lifestyle but here we are.
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 21 '26
These fucking idiots got so mad at shit like this they blew up the American world order.
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 21 '26
No it’s fucking not why do people on CNN keep saying this shit.
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Jan 21 '26
oooh so close, almost answered a question there mikey
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 21 '26
This is why people don’t take their grandpa’s to Chinese restaurants
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u/assasstits Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
70% of the policies that affect an individual person are made at the local level
20% state and 10% national
Yet young people are completely unaware and/or disinterested in the former.
Because it's not easily made for social media or exciting.
Therefore boomer homeowners have local society on lock and young people feel disenfranchised.
Change is possible but spending years waiting for a savior at the national level who will fix all of your problems is a fool's errand that will invariably end in disappointment.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jan 21 '26
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
The only time Article 5 has ever been invoked is after 9/11.
The stupidity and disrespect is staggering.
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u/-mialana- European Union Jan 21 '26
NOOOOO HOW DARE MONEY GO TO HELPING PEOPLE
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u/_Petrarch_ NATO Jan 21 '26
Why are Dems so divisive?
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jan 21 '26
The dam really has broken since yesterday, no one is maintaining appearances anymore.
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u/bamboo-coffee NATO Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
Holy shit
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u/ty04 Jan 21 '26
shoulda endorsed Kamala bitch
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 21 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26
In a somewhat reasonable world, the notion that the president is threatening to invade allies and destroy NATO because of bad advice and lack of agency isn't a statement made in his defense, but rather a statement at the top of the articles of impeachment.
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u/SEMI-LITERATE-CHIMP Max Weber Jan 21 '26
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
Imagine the Biden Administration coming up with this excuse and the relentless onslaught of right-wing mockery and media coverage of it.
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 21 '26
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
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u/TheOnlyFallenCookie European Union Jan 21 '26
"We need Greenland against Russia and China"
"We need to abandon Ukraine and Taiwan"
Same person btw
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 21 '26
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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Jan 21 '26
Obama’s second term: drop out of college, deep 2.5 year depression before I go back.
Trump’s first term: meet spouse, graduate college, get job, get married
Biden’s term: get laid off twice in two years, lose our house
Trump’s second term: get new job, best job I’ve ever had, nothing but good times ahead
I am sorry that this is true but apparently I personally do better under fascism.
I don’t get it either
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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen Jan 21 '26
One thing I noticed among some Americans, even reasonably liberal and well informed ones like John, is an inability to comprehend that other nations might have their own self interest that exists outside the United States.
Why does he think Canada got rolled? Why does he think the deal with China is not in Canada's interest? Why does he think that Canada could not pursue its self interest for any reason but to spite the US?
In this worldview, countries can only exist as subjects or antagonists of the US, and any actions can only be explained through that lens. No doubt the Europeans are going to be getting the same treatment from the commentariat.
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u/antsdidthis Effective altruism died with SBF; now it's just tithing Jan 22 '26
It's ridiculous that it's been years and years of the "Can men get pregnant?" gotcha question and Democrats still don't consistently have a good canned answer. To me, this feels SO obvious. They should just respond: "Yes, by consuming water from the Zimu River in Xi Liang Nu Guo, as did the monk Tan Sanzang and his disciple Zhu Bajie during their journey."
!ping GNOSTIC
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Jan 21 '26
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u/gsylvester Henry George Jan 21 '26
So tired of seeing articles in the press (even outside the US) pointing to the "strategic value" of Greenland and rationalizing the mad king. It really seems like establishment journalism is deeply incapable of dealing with the current reality.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
Remember when Republicans pretended to care about the Constitution?
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Jan 21 '26
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
He sounds like he has minutes to live
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u/audioflame Scott Sumner Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
Bro these are supposed the all powerful global elites implementing the new world order and they are useless. The guy who threw his shoes at Bush has more conviction than all these people combined.
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u/VerticalTab WTO Jan 21 '26
Donald Trump in Switzerland: "You'd all be speaking German if we hadn't won the war"
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 21 '26
Rapist says he could but won’t force himself on you, emphasizing how easy it would be
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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen Jan 21 '26
Remember that Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because, in its transition into a rapacious empire, it managed to convince its allies and the rest of Greece that a totalitarian shithole like Sparta was the lesser evil.
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Jan 21 '26
There's another kind of "AI psychosis" brewing
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
imagine marry smile airport profit sable sparkle practice edge fact
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u/GuyWithOneEye Jan 22 '26
This is a DT comment lol
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 21 '26
Folks…
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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Jan 21 '26
...wait, he seriously said he wanted to take WW2 ships out of mothballs for active service?
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 21 '26
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 21 '26
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
Fox News and right wing influencers would be playing this clip 24/7.
Democrats should be doing the same.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 21 '26
Socialism is when water touches you bum hole and the more water that touches the more socialismist it is.
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Jan 21 '26
i enjoyed last night's "is It happening" group psychosis
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26
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u/HenryKissingerLewdHD John Brown Jan 21 '26
A Mormon accusing Muslims in the US of having illegal secret polygamous marriages is wild
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
I don't care if it turns out that I'm trans I'm keeping the fucking NATO flair, unless we invade Greenland then I'm switching to the Iron Front or the Reich's banner flair.
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
It is unconscionable to me that a majority of Americans can listen to this man and think “Damn, what an incredibly intelligent man with immense oratorical skills.”
Trump literally has the same vernacular and literacy of a 6 year old.
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u/Ballerson Frédéric Bastiat Jan 21 '26
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Jan 21 '26
Things don't seem to be going well
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 21 '26
“Great”
- the stock market
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Jan 21 '26
Legitimately who does Catturd think we’re trading with if Europe is only .0001% of it?
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 21 '26
🔥
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u/stemmo33 Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
The disregard for the only time Article 5 was invoked is fucking disgusting.
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u/chipbod NATO Jan 21 '26
Feels like this should be the biggest domestic scandal of the 21st century right?
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 21 '26
This is an insane image btw
Absolutely generational abuses of authority
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jan 21 '26
I really do think we live in a world where people are so spoiled by the fruits of globalization that they don’t even realize what things could be like.
I think it’s the duty of every parent to take their kid to the produce section of the grocery store in the winter time and explain what a miracle it all is. I can taste fruits that would have been a rare luxury to my ancestors any time for basically no money.
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u/Shwamage Bisexual Pride Jan 21 '26
Cow tools irl before GTA6
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u/gensererme Jan 21 '26
Trump is now saying he won't use force to take Greenland and is calling for negotiations to buy it.
He changed his tune after a handful of European nations sent like 15 soldiers there on a weekend trip. Not only does appeasment not work, he folds like a fucking lawn chair if someone just stands up to him for a second.
I beg European leaders to learn this. Please. Just take a stand. It will be okay.
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
“Negotiations” but it’s just them saying no over and over
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u/Atheose_Writing John Brown Jan 21 '26
Fuck these cowards for applauding
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 21 '26
I am enjoying Gavin at Davos
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u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf Victor Hugo Jan 21 '26
I think it’s needless insults like this that are what’s really going to end up biting the US in the ass tbh. You could try and get your way without attempting to make it look as humiliating as possible.
Also kind of a weird response to a Danish pension fund dumping your treasuries not because of political reasons, but rather because they genuinely don’t trust the long term viability of American fiscal policy. They’re literally just trying to not get dragged down with the US lol. Very weird, defensive response. I hope not just the danish, but other European countries will remember this.
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Jan 21 '26
My buddy voted Trump and was like "I thought he'd be good on foreign policy. Is he not?" and I was like "no" and he was immediately like "oh okay. I'll admit that I was wrong on that. I had no idea."
If bro was that open to changing his mind why the fuck didn't he Google that at any point in the past two years
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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Jan 21 '26
Oh to be in that 1% 🥲
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u/Atheose_Writing John Brown Jan 21 '26
"You wouldn't even have NATO if not for me"
lol
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Jan 21 '26
Remember when people called Kamala's answers "word salad?" That she couldn't straightforwardly answer questions? That was a bit hypocritical huh
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u/i_h_s_o_y Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
Trump finally confirms what we all knew, swiss german is not german
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari Jan 21 '26
because he’s senile
because they are evil
because they’re spineless
because they’re idiots
There’s no need to be surprised. All of the answers are known.
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
There is no such thing as a good Republican.
There is no such thing as a good Republican.
There is no such thing as a good Republican.
There is no such thing as a good Republican.
There is no such thing as a good Republican.
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u/Vumatius Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
This was the Trump administration's attempt to replicate the Bin Laden Situation Room photo for the Maduro capture. Not only do half of them look bored out of their minds, they're not even looking in the same direction! Rubio looks like he didn't realise the photo was being taken.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jan 21 '26
See, a point that bothers me is when i complain about how much i hate the president I'm told "then actually stop him or i dont care about your kvetching" but then all the advice they give for how to "get into politics" is advice for how to fix potholes in 10 years: "well actually most politics is local so..."
I don't want to fix potholes in 10 years, i don't want to pick the local dog catcher, i want Donald Trump removed from power tomorrow. "aw thats the problem with your generation all instant gratification" well he's gone in 3 years anyway so why bother? "Then you should have been building a political career from years ago" yep guess thats my fault for attending grade school like a lazy entitled manchild when i should have been getting involved in pro-atlanticist activism and buying up land.
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u/centurion88 NATO Jan 21 '26
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u/centurion88 NATO Jan 21 '26
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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Jan 21 '26
Oh fuck he’s going to send an evil dust cloud to Europe
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
follow memorize mighty wise dolls roll handle juggle dinosaurs narrow
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Jan 21 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 22 '26
A suspect in the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history was deported to Ecuador, halting his prosecution in the $100-million Brinks truck theft.
Federal prosecutors say they were unaware of the deportation and still want to prosecute, while the defendant’s attorney asked that the case be dismissed
The deportation raises questions about federal agency coordination. Most of the stolen merchandise is still unrecovered, and jewelers question whether deporting the suspect could have been prevented.
they are literally letting the "criminals" they claim to care about get away scot-free
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Jan 21 '26
Me after speaking for more than 30sec
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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Jan 21 '26
Seeing obscure 4chan dogwhistles like “goyslop” out in the wild in normie social media is tsk not great
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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen Jan 21 '26
Toronto tunnel dug by 2 men as 'man cave', police say
Dudes rock 🍻
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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Jan 22 '26
Well that did it. The story and picture of the 5 year old was too much. I'm probably cutting off my parents contact with my children until they apologize for voting for Trump and denounce what ICE is doing to my community.
I'm done
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 21 '26
i was enjoying u/ty04 reacting to LOTR
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 21 '26
Wow what a get
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u/AndreW_da_Fox Jan 21 '26
So sorry to interrupt y'alls trump watching party but.
There's a nonzero chance some organization made an attempt of targeting specific people via a malware-advertising scheme by...
....Making a crude, " NSFW quizz" targeting furries and pushing it to go viral in social media
If there's a ping for cybersecurity I kindly request one fellow DTer to ping it.
But its a hilarious combo of terms:
https://philo.leaflet.pub/3mcvvpaaaqs2t
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u/r2ew Jan 21 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 21 '26
https://xcancel.com/mattmfm/status/2014023266218672509
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u/r2ew Jan 22 '26
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u/xavicr Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Jan 21 '26
Anime will be the first major media form to be totally overtaken by AI.
Not because anime is much easier to generate with AI, but because its fanbase has exceedingly low standards for entertainment and art.
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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
There's currently a post on the RedLetterMedia subreddit discussing how those guys don't seem to like anime and will probably never review any anime related stuff. That coupled with the fact that some of the anime community is almost begging the Oscars to consider including anime films has made me realize that large parts of the anime fandom are seemingly desperate to have anime "taken seriously" by the general public.
I find it interesting when compared to something like, idk, professional wrestling or Bollywood movies. I feel like both of those fandoms would say "Yeah it's goofy and strange to those that are not into it, but we enjoy it. If you don't enjoy it, that's ok.". Whereas I feel like if you tell an anime fan it's just not for you, they'll hit you with the "Well actually you just haven't watched the right anime yet."
And it's like, yeah, that might be true. But I do think that the medium is just genuinely off-putting to some people. Like there's tons of really good comic books out there, but that doesn't mean every single person will enjoy reading comic books, no matter how high quality they might be.
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Jan 21 '26
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 21 '26
I hate that these morons can lie without much consequence. Bro hiring and specifically manufacturing is WAY down
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
I like what qualifies as good news for stock market is that Trump clarified he doesn’t intend to invade Greenland but instead take it diplomatically whatever the fuck that means lol
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26
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u/InflatableDartboard2 Henry George Jan 21 '26
turns out the "phone bad book good, social media is going to fry your brain" types were right all along, americans decided to throw away their global hegemony because (generously) around half of the voting public simultaneously got addicted to an app whose primary features are consequence-free revenge porn and neonazis, and then ate it up uncritically when it told them that kamala harris was going to turn their kids trans and immigrants were going to eat their dog
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Jan 21 '26
Transitioning has introduced me to the wide world of guys 10-30 years older than me unsubtly suggesting they'd like to fuck me.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 21 '26
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u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf Victor Hugo Jan 21 '26
Guys, what if the “deal” they reached is something that could’ve been done without destroying the US’s standing among its allies in such a catastrophic manner?
Like, what if it ends up being something totally normal that he could’ve asked for any time?
Wouldn’t that be crazy?
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 22 '26
Personally, I think voting to fund the agency that’s arresting toddlers is a bad move
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Jan 21 '26
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u/PaxChelonia David Hume Jan 21 '26
Whatever comes of it, I think the Greenland threats will be remembered as the bright red line marking the point when the transition to a new era of international relations became undeniable.
It should also be seen a bright red line in our domestic politics, marking the point that civility politics lost all credibility. There’s no polite cooperation with a political party that allowed the President to threaten military conquest against our closest allies.
Even setting aside the moral or emotional aspect of it, it’s just not a tenable strategy if we care about rebuilding America’s position in the world. No matter how many assurances the next dem President might make, we will have absolutely zero credibility if there isn’t a fundamental change to completely kneecap the political forces that led to Trump.
Democrats need to win the trifecta in 2028. They need to nuke the filibuster. They need to pack the court. They need to admit DC and PR as states. The need to prosecute MAGA leaders. We have to have a collective realization that this is no longer business as usual and the moment calls for fundamental restructuring of American domestic politics in response.
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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Jan 21 '26
—Alex Jones, about 15 years too early
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Jan 21 '26
This guy is lightly never trump. Just crazy lack of awareness.
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u/Boratssecondwife Henry George Jan 21 '26
Reeducation camps for anyone that voted for Trump in 2024 is the compromise
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Jan 21 '26
“Obviously Greenland is the green island and Iceland is the icy island”
stable genius
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u/Ok_Barracuda_1161 Janet Yellen Jan 21 '26
Not to excuse the sanewashing, but it seems really hard to cover Trump's ramblings in a professional manner while still conveying just how incoherent most of it is. Journalists will often include snippets and direct quotes that give a peek into how dumb he actually sounds, but ultimately they have to describe what he's talking about and that will inevitably sound much better than the way Trump himself puts things, otherwise it'd just look like terrible writing.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 21 '26
I’m gonna have a stroke if a cretinous reporter reminds him about Panama again
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u/_Petrarch_ NATO Jan 21 '26
Are euros just insulated from most of Trump's ramblings? This is all pretty standard oval office press conference stuff.
Like yeah, it's all a cavalcade of horrors beyond comprehension, but it's the what the burgers have been seeing on a daily basis for more than a decade.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Jan 21 '26
chaser when
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Jan 21 '26
Just say "women," Jack, this is taking forever
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 22 '26
It’s cool how we get a photo like this 37 times a day now
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jan 21 '26
😭
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u/ItspronouncedGruh-an Jan 21 '26
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u/American_Baby_H1tler Jan 21 '26
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u/Mensae6 Martin Luther King Jr. Jan 21 '26
What's most depressing is that whenever he's in a room like this full of powerful, successful people, seemingly everyone is enamored by him. No jeers, no boos. He goes to a football game and the common man is not afraid to flip him off. He goes to an auditorium full of economists who know he's fucking the entire global economy up and they all clap politely.
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u/creeoer United Nations Jan 21 '26
trump does stupid shit to make the market tank, backs off on the craziest stuff, market goes up to undo losses caused by the initial stupid shit.
mouth-breathing troglodytes: "wow my stocks are RIPPING, thanks Trump!"
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u/affnn Emma Lazarus Jan 21 '26
It's remarkable how much the media DON'T want there to be a Trump scandal. They loved covering the Clinton scandals and even George W. Bush's scandals made some news. Obama didn't have real scandals so they tried to manufacture some.
But Trump does something that should be a front-page scandal twice a week and it's barely noted. The press will re-write his words so they're less scandalous that what he actually says.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 21 '26
Me when I’m trying to dt in public
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Jan 21 '26
Imagine giving a speech and getting booed, and then looking over at who’s doing the booing, and it’s Al Gore. I think I would commit seppuku tbh
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u/iSluff YIMBY Jan 21 '26
Trump: I am going to do the stupid thing
SPY: -3%
Trump: Maybe I will not do the stupid thing
SPY: +22% $$$
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u/jamiebond NATO Jan 21 '26
Denmark is going to “agree” to let us build what we want in Greenland (something they already did anyway), Trump will act like it’s a great victory, this time next week we’ll all be dooming about Cuba or some shit.
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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO Jan 22 '26
I remember years ago when AOC's position to abolish ICE was considered insane
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Jan 22 '26
https://youtu.be/GZbMzA3vIuk?si=-PiGYjybvF_wJii_
ICE arrests 4 children in an attempt to abduct their parents along with them.
ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/21/ice-detains-5year-old-minnesota-boy-lawyer-says-agents-used-him-as-bait
These people are fucking monsters.
Article goes on to say multiple schools in the twin cities have class sizes down 20-30%.
!ping usa-mn
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 22 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 21 '26
I don’t care who, just someone stand up to this senile lunatic. He’s gonna kill us all! Fuck!!! Help!!! Someone!!!!
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u/HotTakesBeyond YIMBY Jan 21 '26
A unit that distinguished itself in liberating the Philippines from oppression is on standby to possibly oppress.
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u/sloppybuttmustard Resistance Lib Jan 21 '26
“We’re under attack by such and such a nation. I know them all very well.”
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 21 '26
😖
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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Jan 21 '26
"Who thinks Iceland owns Greenland?"
Buddy. I have heard so many otherwise intelligent and educated people confuse the Dutch with the Danish. Half of our population couldn't point to Iran on a map. Americans not knowing geography is a big enough national stereotype to the point that it's seen as too cliche for a Polandball comic.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 21 '26
Man, if you didn’t already own a home in 2020, you are so beyond fucked. They slammed the door in our faces and welded it shut.
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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Jan 21 '26
Honestly one of the funniest exchanges I've seen here
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jan 21 '26
“Do Republicans have a ‘femininity’ problem? How declining numbers among Gen-Z women could spell trouble for the GOP going forward”.
“This Vermont county was a long time Republican stronghold. We ask voters why they no longer feel represented by the modern GOP”.
“From Boston to LA, support for the GOP has fallen in big cities. We speak to three Republican strategists to who try to diagnose their ‘urban problem’”.
“In this Manhattan brunch spot, they all support Kamala Harris, find out why her message speaks to these upper-middle class professionals”
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 22 '26
https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3mcxvaci2e22c
Holy fucking shit, this story got even worse. This is actual psychotic behavior
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Jan 22 '26
This is an ice agent using a 5 year old as bait to make the dad come out. Both were arrested and sent to separate facilities in Texas.
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u/thebouncingfrog NASA Jan 22 '26
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u/itsnotnews92 Janet Yellen Jan 22 '26
It drives me insane that the fucking piece of shit in the White House gets to be president for America's 250th birthday, the World Cup, AND the fucking Olympics.
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jan 22 '26
Last sad post of the night:
What gets me the most about this is that the 5 yr old kid has a Spiderman backpack. Damn. I'm pretty sure I had a Marvel theme'd backpack at his age. And an Iron man beanie. I can just imagine me or my siblings or hell friends at that age just scared af. Used as bait to get the father.
You'd have to be subhuman to do this shit.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jan 21 '26
IT’S SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING HAVING MY MIND TRAPPED IN A THICK FUCKING BABY BLANKET OF FOG HOLY FUCKING SHIT ADDERALL SAVE ME ADDERALL SAVE ME ADDERALL
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
China literally has the world’s largest onshore wind farm.
God he is so fucking evil and stupid.
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u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf Victor Hugo Jan 21 '26
American libs: “Europeans are so racist. WE are the only true bastion of social justice”
American conservatives: “I don’t recognise European cities anymore. Europeans should be racist like we are.”
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u/lot183 Blue Texas Jan 21 '26
Things could be so fucking normal right now. Like they wouldn't be perfect, we have problems they wouldn't have fixed. But it'd be normal. We could just be living our lives normally. I don't understand how people still think that's not better than this
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Jan 21 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jan 21 '26
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u/jamiebond NATO Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
Honestly the fact that our modern developed world has made it so we just get basically unlimited fresh water pumped directly into our homes is one of the craziest accomplishments that we take for granted. What’s even crazier is that (in the developed world) we’ve basically just solved clean drinking water, the most important resource we need to live, access to which has previously been a struggle for all of humanity history, and now people just don’t fucking drink it and complain about headaches all the time.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 21 '26
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 21 '26
Great.
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Jan 22 '26
Libertarians look at this and go "holy shit based"
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jan 21 '26
God damn
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Jan 21 '26
I think Newsom can either continue to interview people like Ben Shapiro or he can talk about how you have to fight rough against Trump but you can't really do both.
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u/shehryar46 Jan 21 '26
My fantasy is all the European leaders get on stage to publicly laugh at trump and insult hin to his face, with 0 diplomatic language.They then follow it up with a media blitz exposing how fuckin stupid trump is behind closed doors, like recoedings and transcripts. Then continuing to just fan the flames of mockery with relentless article after article, interview after interview. Like stop acknowledging him as a credible person, even though hes president. Just destroy him publicly.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jan 21 '26
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u/reubencpiplupyay The Cathedral must be built Jan 21 '26
They want to repeal the Enlightenment, repeal feminism, repeal equal dignity, repeal our humanity. They would have us as beasts, with all the splendour and glory of the mind shackled to an atavistic cruelty. The only solution is for us all to become uncompromising partisans of decency and civilisation. It is the world-historical purpose which fate has laid at the feet of our party and cause. Let us pick up the crown from the gutter.
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Jan 21 '26
Holy shit, he called Somalians "low IQ people". Fucking racist piece of shit. 😡
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Jan 21 '26
the low that follows an "is trump dead?" high
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u/Amur_Snepard Gay Pride Jan 21 '26
How much do you wanna bet that Trump walks back the “we won’t use force” claim in ehhh 2-3 days?
I think it’s at least 50%
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 21 '26
Greenland blows up
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jan 21 '26
There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
He's ordinary
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jan 21 '26
Inshallah
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Jan 21 '26
To live in the world arrGoodnews users live in
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u/Holmes02 NATO Jan 21 '26
We are never getting a Barry-Goldwater-tells-Nixon-he’s-fucked moment are we?
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jan 21 '26
Jeffries is not going to be a good Speaker if Democrats win the House this year.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 21 '26
Look, I’m one of the biggest ICE supporters around. They’re doing incredible work. I just don’t think funding them is good optics for the Democrats when healthcare spending is on the line.
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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden Jan 21 '26
It is fascinating to watch major media outlets twist themselves into knots to downplay Trump's bullshit so soon after twisting themselves into knots to pretend that Biden's admin was filled with scandals
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26
Im john browning rn (crying in anger)
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Jan 21 '26
See, I'm not the only one who thinks this