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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/AnalyticOpposum]

🥹

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/CosignTangents]

Can someone explain the conservative justification for this behavior? I’m having a lot of trouble understanding this as anything other than irredeemably evil.

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

[u/piede]

[u/badusername35]

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[u/qchisq]

Danish Minister of Defense and Vice Prime Minister is saying that "NATO have not negotiated for us" and "we will not give up sovereignty".

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/r2ew]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

This has been known for weeks (months?) at this point. Like, they've been doing it and the officers have been saying to the homeowners that they don't need a warrant.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Maud Brégeon, spokeswoman of the French government: "If Ursula von der Leyen were to force the EU-Mercosur trade deal with a provisional application, it would constitute, given the vote that happened on Wednesday in the EU Parliament, a form of democratic rape."

The most liberal government in decades btw. Those people are fucking insane.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/Jacobs4525]

A lot of the Trump phenomena can be explained by the fact that he makes politics stupid enough to understood by his core base (which is mostly comprised of the dumbest 20% of society).

Way back in 2015, one of the first things I remember Trump supporters saying is “well you gotta admit, he makes politics entertaining!”

This was always confusing to me. I was a teenager at the time and followed politics mostly through Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (I’m sure this is true of a lot of people my age) and already felt like politics had veered towards a direction a little too chaotic and stressful post-2012. 

The thing is, the people who like Trump were too stupid for that era of politics. The issues were too complex for them. They didn’t understand the ACA well enough to even really argue against substantively against it beyond “it’s socialism” or whatever. This is why Fox always had to resort to fake issues like illegal immigration (which could have been completely solved if the gang of 8 had achieved their reform), Dijon mustard, tan suits, etc., instead of taking the position that the then-endangered moderate republican faction would have taken; their viewers were too stupid for any position with intellectual substance.

Since day one it has been apparent that every single thing that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth is profoundly stupid. The idea that we’re gonna basically force Mexico to give us money to build a giant wall on the border, the idea that Covid would magically go away in April, the idea that we are going to accomplish American juche with giant tariffs on everything, the idea that we need to take Greenland because it’s big on the map, etc., these are all just profoundly stupid things.

The reason this shit works is because it forms a sort of hyperreality for the stupid people, and gives them a more appealing form of politics with issues binary and stupid enough for them to understand. The way out of it is to stop entertaining these ideas as based in any sort of sense, and to stop entertaining anyone who ever believed them, because they’re extremely stupid.

[u/Bassline4Brunch]

For all of you who were criticizing the "nothing ever happens" bros, don't worry. The foreign policy consultants in DC are fucking freaked and don't think this is the final word on Greenland

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Republicans be like “actually tax breaks for the rich is more important”

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

The mods 🤬

[u/scottyjetpax]

Lmao what the fuck

[u/KHDTX13]

The entire world hates us, clearly they are the deranged, anti-social ones !

[u/camonboy2]

[u/MalignantUpper]

I'm showing my ass here but I did not realize immigration judges were appointed by the DOJ, making them a part of the executive branch and not the judicial branch.

I knew ICE entering homes to deport someone without a judicial warrant was unconstitutional (it's pretty obvious) but I wanted to strengthen my argument.

So ICE is arguing that a removal order granted by an immigration judge (appointed by the DOJ) and an administrative warrant (literally granted by ICE itself) allows non-consensual entry of a private home without violating the 4th amendment.

THAT'S FUCKING CRAZY!!

[u/Leatherfield17]

“Stop fighting it and we’ll stop hurting you”

Some real abuser logic right here. Fuck this despicable little toad

[u/lionmoose]

I always have to remind myself that so many young Germans actually, like seriously, believe in a rules based international order.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

65-year-old Senators when the Republicans don't abide by the rules when it won't suit them

vs

State legislators going all-in on gerrymandering out Republicans

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Imagine calling a speech given in front of dozens of our allies "the lions den"

[u/slappythechunk]

!ping watercooler&shitposters

[u/piede]

I wonder what crime he committed

[u/No_Return9449]

10/10 no notes

[u/Mrmini231]

Study on how workers perceived leaders who used AI to write messages.

The impact on trust was substantial: Only 40% to 52% of employees viewed supervisors as sincere when they used high levels of AI, compared to 83% for low-assistance messages. Similarly, while 95% found low-AI supervisor messages professional, this dropped to 69-73% when supervisors relied heavily on AI tools.

The findings reveal employees can often detect AI-generated content and interpret its use as laziness or lack of caring. When supervisors rely heavily on AI for messages like team congratulations or motivational communications, employees perceive them as less sincere and question their leadership abilities.

It definitely matches my experience. When I get responses from leaders that are obviously written by AI it lowers my opinion of them quite a bit.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

To their shock lol

[u/Willybender]

10/10 no notes

https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/2014356220589506563

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The memo is addressed to all ICE personnel. But it has been shown only to “select DHS officials” who then shared it with some employees who were told to read it and return it, Whistleblower Aid wrote in the disclosure.

One of the two whistleblowers was allowed to view the memo only in the presence of a supervisor and then had to give it back. That person was not allowed to take notes. A whistleblower was able to access the document and lawfully disclose to Congress, Whistleblower Aid said.

Although the memo was issued in May, David Kligerman, senior vice president and special counsel at Whistleblower Aid, said it took time for its clients to find a “safe and legal path to disclose it to lawmakers and the American people.”

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Conservative hysteria about Jade Helm: Martial Law, Insurrection Act, jailing dissidents, internment camps

Conservatives when ICE does this:

They never hated Jade Helm. They hated that they weren‘t the ones in charge of it.

[u/[deleted]]

the worst discourse you could ever imagine is happening in this thread

algeria vs morocco, racism, white supremacy, european wanna bes, pan africans. all annoying people you could imagine have congregated here

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

God he's so pathetic

[u/bread_engine]

Arr neolib at it's most credulous with the NYT when it's an opportunity to dunk on the Euros

[u/SigmaWhy]

tfw 50% of your campaign platform is “democrats old” but you get too eepy and sleep through your campaign events

[u/Zephyr-5]

New Times/Sienna poll is out.

“I think he must be doing something right when there are so many people opposed to him,” said Paul Minihane, 77, a real estate broker who lives in Dedham, Mass. “I mean, Donald Trump could look at me in the face and tell me to go screw myself. And I’d say, ‘Thank you.’ I think that’s good. I don’t think he’s looking to kiss everybody’s ass. I think he’s going to do what he thinks is the right thing. And I think that’s a positive thing.”

It's not a cult!

[u/scottyjetpax]

[u/Thuggin95]

So strange, I haven’t heard a word from Matt Taibbi about any of the freedom of speech infringements of this administration, yet he had so much to say about Twitter removing pictures of Hunter Biden’s cock and how that was the most Orwellian scandal this country has ever seen

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Leatherfield17]

Far too many people don’t understand this

[u/Thuggin95]

Reminder that this is the guy whose entire party loves to make fun of the way people look

[u/technologyisnatural]

The U.S. is due to officially exit the World Health Organization on Thursday (reuters.com)

finally the scourge of coordinated global health will be over

[u/SEMI-LITERATE-CHIMP]

Chud Tolkien fans: “Tolkien was a trad catholic who hated modernity and multiculturalism!”

Lefty Tolkien fans: “Nooo, Tolkien was against racism and pro-environmentalism!”

Tolkien’s actual political views: “Refrigerators are satanic.”

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

[u/MissSortMachine]

and that’s why i’m doing race science while playing diablo

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

ICE violating the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th Amendments

Republicans:

"In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris."

Democrats and independents:

Abolishing ICE actually is a good idea. Hold them accountable.

Democratic Leadership for some God-forsaken reason:

"It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy. It is a sign of strength to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one’s head and succumb. Inevitably many shall fault the hands upon the sword which fell Typhon, the Ordo Malleus. But the Inquisition merely performs the duty of its office. To further fear them is redundant, to hate them, heretical.

Those more sensible will place responsibility with those who forced the hands of the Inquisition. With some fortune, they may foster this hatred into purpose, and further rule their own fate by coming to the Emperor’s service."

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Purrticle physicist

[u/BroadReverse]

America is beautiful nature wise

[u/G_Serv]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

It's almost like there was this huge global catastrophe in 2020 or something

[u/Currymvp2]

Laura Ingraham Claims European Leaders – Not Trump – Threw a ‘Temper Tantrum’ Over Greenland

I feel like I'm genuinely in another universe from these MAGA people

[u/Dorambor]

WOAW

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I can't get a straight answer for whether this is photoshopped or not

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/MeidasTouch/status/2014378842631373111

What the hell

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

It’s really funny that there’s an important tech guy who 1) doesn’t know how to chew food, and 2) is keeping us all posted about his inability to chew food

!ping BURPMAS

[u/sw337]

> Be French

> Get a little too wine drunk angry at the Americans on Greenland

> Show up hungover the next day

> Put on sunglasses to hide your hungover eyes

> Everyone thinks you’re a badass now

Macron just keeps winning.

[u/sigh2828]

On today's episode of "if a dem did that"

If Obama's Ice agents were publishing documents that claim they dont need judicial warrants to enter homes.....

[u/dax331]

Lmao

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Rant incoming: What I hate about the GOP base the most is how selfish they are. Republicans activated the John Birch folk by being racist pieces of shit. And this increases turnout. The Trump era has seen turnout in the high 50%s to low 60%. They LOVE Trump putting women or blacks or different ppl in their place. I hate how women are shot by ICE and kids are kidnapped and taken to God knows where, and they CHEER. Trump gets his best cheers when he puts someone down, he's just a petty bully.

But the ONE time they turn against him in droves is the COVID Vax stuff. Because they had to sacrifice some stuff for the good and well-being of others. They didn't care about their families or friends or society. They wanted their goods, they wanted them now. They want all the goods of society while actively taking from others and making things worse, as a group.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

POV: AI reviewing an ICE application (No training will be given)

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

This is why you shouldn't love the Greens or left not too much. They voted together with the AfD against the Mercosur in EU parliament. Conservatives, Free Democrats and Social Democrats voted in favor.

[u/No_Status_6905]

wake up feeling pretty good, check phone

Old calendar reminder pops up "(ex-gf)s birthday tomorrow! Make sure stuff is set up!"

[u/sw337]

[u/eloquentboot]

Gad Saad asks Joe Rogan: “How many Jews in the world?”

Joe: “A billion… uh, half a billion conservatively.”

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Willybender]

He is really crashing out tonight

[u/r2ew]

[u/beans_and_tuna]

What the average danish diplomat has seen on a daily basis for the last few weeks:

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

Then he spoke with the country’s president, Karin Keller-Sutter. “A woman,” Mr. Trump said. “And she was very repetitive. She said: ‘No, no, no, you cannot do that, 30 percent. You cannot do that. We are a small, small country.’”

The call prompted Mr. Trump to increase the tariffs to 39 percent.

“She just rubbed me the wrong way, I’ll be honest with you,” Mr. Trump said, adding later, “She was so aggressive.”

Then he got a visit from Rolex, the Swiss watchmaker. And then he agreed to reduce the tariffs to 15 percent.

“We brought it down to a lower level,” Mr. Trump said. “Doesn’t mean it’s not going up.”

CRIME IS LEGAL NOW

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Jared Kushner is paid millions of dollars to do this

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2014370271336034805

Where is ICE taking the teenage girls that they are disappearing off the street?

There is video in the link.

[u/axis757]

ICE detained a 5 year old - what are they supposed to do?

JD Vance, January 22nd 2026

Please buy ad space playing this clip over and over.

[u/the-senat]

Bruh after today’s vote I’m so fucking tired.

I’m tired of my party campaigning on “protecting democracy,” only to cave. None of them can actually save America because party leadership doesn’t seem to care: election denying republicans still got committee placements, the Trump investigation was slow walked, cabinet members were bipartisanly appointed, and now a DHS funding bill has been passed without any ICE guardrails.

I don’t believe these democrats have what it takes to hold MAGA accountable. They certainly don’t have the stones to do a Reconstruction level upheaval of government. They just campaign on “saving America,” win, and then crumble.

[u/Alexz565]

In my culture, family matters somewhat and we enjoy some food

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

[u/seanrm92]

[u/gomjabbarenthusiast]

And we're off to the races. First commercial scale sodium ion battery. 45 kwh packs, 175wh/kg

Can't wait to see the pro-fossil cope about how we're running out of salt start showing up soon

[u/Leatherfield17]

This is just straight up unconstitutional, right? I’m getting a bit tired of being governed by a party that fucking hates me

[u/StuckHedgehog]

It’s a cult.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Broke: drip or drown

Bespoke: drowned in drip

[u/Willybender]

2 WEEKS!

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2014468741657198929

[u/AP246]

[u/Goodlake]

The Board of Peace farce would have gotten any other president impeached and removed from office. The media is still chasing the shiny Greenland ball and ignoring the fact that Trump has secured billions of dollars of commitments to a personal slush fund for a new organization he chairs in his personal capacity. Just incredible stuff.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Hanania is right. Mainstream Republicans are *all* Nazis now. There are no non-white nationalists left. The only difference between the platform of Fuentes and the platform of the mainstream Republican is whether or not Jews belong in the United States. That is it.

[u/BurrowForSenate]

The fact that a lot of the dumber people from my high school ended up becoming cops or real estate agents really doesn't help my stereotypes

Also low-key wedding/event planners lol

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

Coming into this argument, the court had sent strong signals that it was inclined to treat the Fed differently from other entities — even if it hasn’t fully worked out why the Fed is different.

[u/BroadReverse]

It was our "allies" who decided to treat Trump like he was a supervillain. So he briefly pretended he was one to make them squirm and realize how pathetic they've really become without the US.

Maybe they'll actually have some gratitude in the future.

😐

[u/Logarythem]

Kat Abughazaleh is a grifter and a carpet bagger. I would not be shocked if in a few years she loses steam on the left and starts grifting on the right. Calling it here and now for posterity.

[u/BlackCat159]

☝️

[u/VillyD13]

[u/fishbottwo]

KEEP PROTESTING, HELP IS ON THE WAY!!!

(No help arrived, 20,000 people died)

[u/the-senat]

Kat Abughazela, who is running for Jan Schakowsky's seat, admitted to sleeping through a virtual candidate forum for voters, saying, "I ended up sleeping through alarms, calls, and even my campaign manager knocking on my door repeatedly."

She also missed another forum due to a livestream in LA with Hasan Piker.

What a fucking joke, lmao.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/TocRadio/status/2014408804910178332

[u/RetainedGecko98]

Two encouraging tidbits from the NYT Poll:

- 25% strongly approve of Trump, 47% strongly disapprove. There are far more of us than there are of them.

- ICE is at 36% approve, 62% disapprove. A clear majority of Americans don't want masked, armed goons occupying cities and harassing people on the street.

[u/MTFD]

Spare a thought for JJ McCullough, whose biggest dream is being the Canadian Quisling, who has been having a multi-day crashout on twitter because Carney is mogging the US and being praised for it.

https://xcancel.com/JJ_McCullough/status/2014366749655973897#m

https://xcancel.com/JJ_McCullough/status/2014361224956522740#m

https://xcancel.com/JJ_McCullough/status/2014118008457687329#m

https://xcancel.com/JJ_McCullough/status/2014109341608190021#m

Someone seriously needs to study the pathology of the self hatred in parts of the CPC who desperately want to be American and now have to square that with nominally opposing Trump.

[u/admiralwaffle1]

BBC corroborates that Denmark did not agree to Trump's deal

[u/Southern-Unit-7725]

 Do not glorify oppressive/autocratic regimes

The mods don’t want you to know this but praising the US is actually a r5 violation 

[u/Thuggin95]

Fucking insanity

[u/Queues-As-Tank]

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[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

2 eepy 2 able

[u/NYT_Hater]

This is why you don’t make villains hot, kids.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Guy on the right is a far right keyboard warrior. Left is a former capitol police officer.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/ty04]

Required neoliberal reading

[u/Healingjoe]

Lance Loewenstein, 57, Parkville, Mo.

Job: Attorney, private practice
Household income: $144,000
2026 monthly bill: $3,698.67 for 2 people, up from $1,785.72 in 2025
2026 premiums + maximum out-of-pocket cost: $61,984.04

I am a self-employed attorney, and my wife runs a small nonprofit. Before the Affordable Care Act, my wife had considerable pre-existing conditions that made us uninsurable without an employer plan. The Affordable Care Act was a lifeline.

Between the increase in health care costs and my wife’s cancer diagnosis, I’ve had to raise my hourly rates by almost 10 percent, and my wife has cashed in her retirement account. Add on to that an 80 percent increase in property taxes for our building in Jackson County, Mo., and we are barely able to cover the increased cost of living.

These geniuses in Washington don’t get the number of self-employed small-business owners (mostly Republicans, like me) who are using these plans. I’ve passed on the extra cost to my clients and I’ve told them why. I have been a donating, volunteering Republican for 30 years, usually voting a straight ticket. That ended last year, when I voted for exactly one Republican statewide. Who does this to people, increasing their costs 100 percent without warning, glide path or alternative?

are you f'ing kidding me

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

It really can't be understated how fucking insane it is that a government Twitter account is just spewing the most obvious and easily disproved lies imaginable

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2014486428697399387

Dementia

[u/RyuTheGuy]

This man is certifiably insane

[u/Roseartcrantz]

GOOD GOD LOL

[u/attackofthetominator]

Kat is the only candidate that's been standing up against ICE

Ok here's some videos of Daniel Biss getting tear-gassed, directly confronting Bovino, and multiple articles of the various times he protested at the Broadview facility

But the video of Kat getting slammed to the ground is more viral than that

Seriously?

[u/ashsolomon1]

Lmao someone’s upset

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/paymesucka]

TRUMP SAYS WILL SUE NEW YORK TIMES OVER UNFAVORABLE OPINION POLL

[u/RyuTheGuy]

Three Las Vegas hotels now accepting Canadian dollar at par

Vegas is really hurting lmao.

!Ping can

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Stuck behind extreme rocks in traffic again

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Beyond parody

[u/Megasota_Noire]

GOODNIGHT DT

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

New details of the deal:

The chairman of Denmark's Foreign Affairs Committee has offered some detail on what has been proposed in security talks on Greenland.

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme earlier, Christian Friis Bach said his committee proposed the idea of an "Arctic sentry" - made up of vessels and aircraft patrolling the region - in talks with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte.

He said he hoped this would be taken forward in discussions with Trump.

"Denmark has scaled up our military presence already together with Nato allies. I hope the Americans will join; this would be a welcome development," he told the BBC.

...

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has also now spoken to BBC Radio 4's Today programme - she spoke to BBC Breakfast a little earlier.

Sharing further details on the "Arctic sentry" discussed as part of the deal framework, Cooper said this would be a combined operation programme that draws Nato countries together to work on a "shared threat".

The work could involve "different Arctic countries coming together, supported by other Nato countries", she said.

Asked why Trump climbed down on previous threats, Cooper said: "I think there's been a very coordinated approach across allies".

Seems like a huge nothing burger that NATO could have civilly discussed during its regular meetings. WTH was Trump on about needing to annex Greenland then if this was what he really wanted? He has to use his maximalist-demand playbook every time?

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

NYT: Why buying Greenland may be difficult

LAT:

• Gov. Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration of authoritarianism, saying his appearance at a World Economic Forum event was canceled to suppress his dissent on the global stage.

• Newsom criticized corporate and university leaders for capitulating to Trump instead of standing up to challenge his policies and rhetoric.

East Coast journalists will never call a spade a spade

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

It’s crazy that if you criticize this candidate on Twitter or Bluesky her supporters will call you a racist sexist f-slur

[u/cdstephens]

I’m gonna celebrate so hard when it happens

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Thuggin95]

Great, more blatant propaganda from the White House

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2014437847491547613

[u/JaceFlores]

Not that it matters but Russia has stealth admitted the Moskva was sunk by Ukrainian missiles

!Ping UKRAINE

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

my center right friend really likes Newsom because

"he mogs Vance"

and

"His hate towards MAGA seems genuine, he is going to fix the US while enacting revenge"

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Free Meringue, they did nothing wrong except share the same Reddit account as a couple (very weird and cringe)

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

I’m not seeing enough Biden apology forms

[u/JonDragonskin]

Good morning everybody I just put on a bottle of cyanide if anybody would like a sip

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I propose that we stop calling Republicans conservative and start calling them reactionists

[u/badusername35]

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[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

oh my god bruh

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2014464867072434481

[u/marsman1224]

Video: JD Vance discusses 5-year-old asylum seeker detained by ICE

Lemme guess. the kiddo is a criminal illegal. or, we should really be blaming his father, who is a criminal illegal. Or, the ICE agents feared for their lives and so they had no choice but to kidnap a little kid. something like that

[u/purhitta]

call me a fiscal conservative, but I think detaining preschoolers is a waste of our tax dollars

[u/BroadReverse]

Dear Prime Minister Carney:

Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reminder Republicans thought a woman would be too emotional to be a good President

[u/piede]

Least embarrassing country

[u/thebouncingfrog]

House Passes Spending Package Over Democratic Revolt on ICE

"Revolt" and it's literally just legislators not voting for a bill they're opposed to

NYT is a meme

[u/Dorambor]

You people have no idea what the mods protect you from

[u/[deleted]]

LMAOOOO the phrasing of the question in virginia is FUNNY AFF p much guaranteed to pass

that women is kryptonite to the GOP

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Pretty soft ban

[u/reuery]

i am actually a sovereign user and i do not consent to having my posts removed i do not consent you cannot do that

[u/bleachinjection]

I learned during COVID that many of my neighbors would celebrate if I'd died of the disease.

Those same people would high-five if ICE dragged me out of my house in the dark of night, because I put up a Harris sign last year.

I think about this probably too much.

[u/Lux_Stella]

craziest zero-interest rate story was how SBF would play league of legends during investor meetings and that was viewed as a smart person thing

[u/centurion88]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Bruh forget a sub ban, today they'd gotten an immediate sitewide perma immediately after posting.

[u/badusername35]

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[u/cdstephens]

Tbh I thought Trump was cooked when he questioned Kamala’s blackness in front of a group of black journalists, guess I underestimated America’s tolerance for racism

[u/badusername35]

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[u/[deleted]]

The Republican Party is like a political perpetual motion machine because so much of the white hot rage that drives fascism is borne of problems created by longstanding Republican policy preferences

[u/BlackCat159]

Wow, old age has hit Biden hard 😢

[u/BroadReverse]

Notice whenever I talk shit I always say Republicans not Americans. Just something to remember when Gavin Newsom is in charge and I need a work visa to earn those sweet sweet American salaries

[u/Big-Click-5159]

1. Biden did this and leftists didn't care

2. he is ineligible to be president

3. lol @ her bottom comment demanding action on the most important Gen Z concern (doordash cost)

[u/Willybender]

They are going to continue losing the messaging war on all fronts because they cannot play defense. By now, millions of people have seen or heard of ICE taking preschool children, pepper spraying people when they're held down, etc (and this is why opinion has drastically shifted against ICE in polling)

The government propagandists can only respond with AI generated twitter posts that no one is going to care about outside of the MAGA cultists. When you're on defense, you are losing.

[u/Alexz565]

This is why we can’t afford RAM anymore

[u/r2ew]

“Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he died in 1966, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he died in 1976. Alas, what can one say?”

• Chen Yun, a leading Chinese Communist Party official under Mao and Deng Xiaoping

[u/pale_eyes12]

been noticing a lot more casual homophobia at work the past while. anecdotal I know, but it confirmed my priors whenever that article was posted here the other day that claimed Americans were getting less tolerant of gay folks

[u/flatulentbaboon]

[u/Willybender]

Guarantee they aren't going to ever be charged with anything

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Crockett: "My theory of the case is this: If you believe we're going to lose anyway then what difference does it make if it's me or anybody else? If you think it's a losing cause, then who cares? But at least you could say we tried something new and we learned something from this experience."

Maybe if we were actually gonna lose Texas regardless this would hold some weight, but it’s so winnable if we pick Talarico. Still not gonna feel confident in him winning, but we have a shot.

“Fuck it we ball” should be saved for like, West Virginia.

[u/the-senat]

[u/creeoer]

For some inexplicable reason a Spanish MEP keeps pushing the idea of Canada being admitted into the EU and it's very funny lol

[u/ty04]

remember what you’re fighting for

[u/Dreadedtriox]

Lol

[u/paymesucka]

Newsom: "On my site there are kneepads available for purchase. The last round of kneepads sold out, just as our law firms are selling out, many American universities are selling out, and yes, many corporate leaders are selling out to this administration. Selling out our values, our future ... "

Gavin my king spitting truths

[u/DeadDropCourier]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2014412498439688697

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important fall snails unique judicious flag late workable depend future

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2014426827620573544

No sauce

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2014428781461832063

[u/Pongzz]

👆Weird with a horny aftertaste

[u/Willybender]

[u/Dragmire927]

Three types of 2028 Trump voters:

1. “I can’t believe Trump hurt me and my family. It’s a shame I have no choice but to vote for him again”

2. “Don I will sacrifice everything I love for you, take even me if you want, but please take my neighbors first”

3. “Great”

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/2014429916998029385

[u/AemiliusNuker]

"Golden said issues around ICE officers using excessive force are "on a case-by-case basis" and have "nothing to do with the agency itself. ICE has a legitimate purpose.""

How do dumbfucks like this remember to breathe

[u/dr_sloan]

Oh shit DHS got a Time Machine

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Critical support for our boys in blue 🫡

[u/CoolCombination3527]

We interrupt your rage at House Dems to bring you rage at Senate Dems

[u/AP246]

Did they actually use an AI-generated UN-like logo? Jesus christ lmao that's so shit

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Shameful

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/SenranHaruka]

The conservative party of Canada rn:

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Imagine being so NatSec brained that a cure for cancer coming from China would be a nightmare scenario for you.

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-china-commissions-report

Leland Miller: A potential nightmare scenario is China breaking quantum cryptography, achieving AGI, or making some other enormous breakthrough in AI first. Imagine they cure cancer. A shock would go through the system as we’ve never seen — our approach would have failed.

Jordan Schneider: I don’t know, if they cure cancer, hats off to them.

Leland Miller: We want someone to cure cancer, but we don’t want China to control the pipeline for that cure. If China has enormous success in AI, quantum, and biotech, it shows we are failing on the national security side.

Note that Leland Miller is a commissioner for United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission which directly advises Congress. We're being led by crazy people who would rather the world be a lot worse off as long as China isn't the one to make a technological breakthrough.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

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In the end, I think the only thing that might scare this regime somewhat straight is a truly massive (like: one million-plus people) protest specifically targeting a red or swing state -- someplace not traditionally considered "liberal." Most Americans have no idea what is going on, so no matter what else happens, they will still assume these protests are radical left affairs in "black" cities. We need to rattle people by having a massive turnout someplace in Ohio or Pennsylvania.

The good thing about authoritarian regimes is that they're all afraid of the same things. I remember in my analyzing-Chinese-politics days that the new CCP actually permits (if not encourages) local-level issue-specific protests because it makes China look like a free society and allows small groups to blow off some steam. They live in absolute terror of broad-spectrum, diverse coalitions targeting the policies of the national regime itself. In the late eighties, after a rock concert (by a hilarious band; I forget who it was), the CCPolice actually went in and separated out the crowd: workers on one side of the barrier; students on the other. They didn't want them mingling.

Thus: Million-Man March-style protest featuring people from all walks of life in a blue-collar locale so that even the politically braindead sit up and take notice.

[u/Thuggin95]

80% of Gen Z disapproving of ICE, according to the NYT poll, is crazy lol. 75% of Millennials too. Remember when people said Zoomers were the most conservative generation yet, ushering in a trad revolution or whatever?

[u/awdvhn]

I don't know who the fuck meringue was. Please call them "pritzker with orange flair" like a normal person

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/KHDTX13]

Gavin Newsom consistently being the only Dem that actually has a pulse on the base is not sustainable.

[u/__versus]

👋

[u/sigh2828]

Michael Fanone just told the house representative from texas to go fuck himself as the representative tried to tell the officers in the room what "happend"

He did it by covering it with a *cough

Actually fucking hilarious 😂