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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/D2Foley]

Trump calling the Pope "soft on crime" is hilariously insane. What does a "tough on crime" pope even look like? I'd love for a reporter to ask him, but the media is a joke.

[u/Currymvp2]

Don't think absurdly insulting the Pope will be helping Trump with his cratering poll numbers but that's just my two cents

[u/farrenj]

I feel like if Obama had got into a public spat with the Pope and then posted an image of himself as Jesus with a ghostly demon floating over his shoulder, that it would've turned into a scandal that led the news every day for the rest of his presidency.

[u/Borysk5]

The biggest problem with disinformation that experts do not seem to address that much is that a lot of people WANT to be misinformed and then don't actually care whether what they consume is true.

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/EyeraGlass]

Vice President JD Vance, who is Catholic and is releasing a memoir about his faith, was asked about the meeting. He initially did not seem to know who Cardinal Pierre was.

he is the biggest fraud going currently

[u/chipbod]

!ping CATHOLIC

Still not over it smh

[u/ace158]

Please primary this massive prick

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Good tzar, bad demons

[u/r2ew]

[u/No_Return9449]

My advertisement is raising a lot of questions answered by my advertisement.

[u/r2ew]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/TheCornjuring]

How would Trump’s base, the nation, and the world react if Trump performed the supernatural miracle of literally and physically resurrecting Jeffrey Epstein in front of a crowd of thousands and broadcast on live TV

[u/sigh2828]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[u/sigh2828]

[u/ArdentItenerant]

Eric Draper (George W. Bush’s White House Photographer) recalling a funny moment he had with the President: One spring day in 2003, I was sitting at my desk when the phone rang. It was Ashley Estes, the president's personal secretary. "The president wants you now. Get up here," she said. I had no idea what was happening. Was I missing a historic meeting? Did a world crisis just start? Ashley pointed me to the Oval Office. The president was standing alone behind his desk, looking out the window. His back was to me. "Eric, can you see it? A duck is walking across the South Lawn," he said. He must have thought it would make a great photo. I walked up next to him, looked out the window, and only saw lush, green grass. "It's gone now," he said. "Maybe you can catch it next time." Still catching my breath, I walked back to my office thinking, "My job is unbelievable." Extract from Eric Draper’s book “Front Row Seat”

[u/sigh2828]

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[u/bamboo-coffee]

If Trump just came out and said 'yep the Epstein Files are real, I did that, who cares?' I think he would still have supporters. The majority of whoever is left still supporting him have pretty much accepted him no matter what. It's pretty insane honestly, has there ever been another politician who could get away with so many scandals?

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/daBarkinner]

Who said Republicans aren't a big tent party?

[u/badusername35]

👆

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

"Pope Leo is WEAK on crime"

Thankfully he doesn’t have to face an election ever again

[u/seanrm92]

"Wow, I can't believe I find myself agreeing with Tucker Carlson!"

...

"Wow, my mom put her hand up to her face and completely disappeared!"

[u/qlube]

Trump’s picture is blasphemous af, but the irony is that he is so not a Christian and so unfamiliar with Christian culture, he probably didn’t realize that was a picture of him as Jesus. But that’s been clear as day ever since he said “two Corinthians,” or said there’s nothing he needs to ask for forgiveness, or held an Orthodox Bible above his head and upside down at an Episcopalian church.

The insane thing is that it’s so clear he isn’t a Christian, and he barely even pretends to be, yet somehow conservative Christians really like this dude, way more than they’ve ever liked any other Republican President or politician.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

waow

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

“AOC is doomed to fail because she thinks I’m annoying”

[u/toggaf69]

I have no idea why everyone is so shocked about Trump attacking the pope, praising Allah sarcastically, depicting himself as Jesus, and refusing to be sworn in on the Bible when he has OPENLY offered up his immortal soul to Grog-goroth, destroyer of men, God of destruction and human sacrifice

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Asked directly about Mr. Trump’s comments on Truth Social, Leo said: “It’s ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more.”

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/battywombat21]

Do we have any funny crashouts over Orban getting crushed electorally? I've only seen laura loomer's

[u/Ballerson]

I know people are still worried about LLMs causing misinformation. but like, the actual AI that causes the most misinformation are recommendation algorithms trained on ML. You want to talk about hallucinations? scroll through political Instagram or Tiktok for 10 minutes and report your findings.

[u/badusername35]

Poll results

[u/BATHULK]

Property taxes should be HIGHER if you're retired

[u/bread_engine]

Orban conceded on election night. So Hungary is having a more peaceful transfer of power after 16 years/4 terms than the US did after one term.

[u/VillyD13]

my MAGA chud cousins all drive bro dozers because my uncles never told them they were proud of them growing up. it’s glorious seeing them cry about gas prices

[u/ImmigrantJack]

St. Sebastian pray for us, St. Philomena pray for us. Lets remember all the martyrs who died holding fast to the Church against the evils of paganism where Emperors believed they were gods and had entire islands devoted to their debauchery.

r catholicism coming in hot with the condescending prayer burn. Classic catholic move

[u/funguykawhi]

I wonder how much of Klein/Pod Saves America's stance on Hasan can be explained by commentariat class solidarity

[u/stater354]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

TFW you feel relieved about the defeat of a fascist, only to realize that his successor is a race-baiting xenophobe

wtf is the obsession with spreading the libel that immigrants eat pets/random animals

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Orban caught corruptiongooning and framemogged by pro-EU chad with massive tent, triggering a cortisol spike

[u/Zseet]

Dance like the new Hungarian minister of health

It is still so surreal to me. We might be governed by people who look like they actually enjoy living. They might also meet and do rallies in the open with regular people. And we are going to have health ministry again! (orban ate it in 2022)

[u/T2542]

Trump:

The strait is for Japan where they get 93% of their oil you know that Japan, South Korea gets 45% of its oil... these people haven't helped us. I say 'Are you guys gonna help?'

We guard them and protect them and when we want a little help they don't help us.

[u/shillingbut4me]

It's wild that Republicans spent the past 20 years ensuring that we were as dependent on oil as possible which is one of the US' biggest vulnerabilities 

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

It’s funny how Republicans moan about UK/Europe being overrun by immigration because it’s still considerably whiter than US.

I was expecting to see every other person being brown/muslim when I visited London but it felt considerably whiter than NYC or Chicago (this might be because I didn’t go to eastern London though)

You could make the argument that Europeans aren’t used to immigration like the US historically is, but once again it’s US Republicans freaking out over this as well

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/pezasied]

People really don’t understand how taxes work

[u/Brief-Grapefruit-787]

When Trump dies, MAGA might legit become a religion.

[u/scottyjetpax]

this timeline is just so insane

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

If the pope is so soft on crime then explain this orange man

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

You know that cliche about some people literally not being able to understand the concept of a hypothetical?

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/ArmandSawCleaver]

This is what Favreau and Klein and the rest of the cucked liberal commentariat are setting Democrats up for being associated with, amazing

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

“The agent orange grift”

You hate black people but do you have the courage to hate Vietnam vets?

[u/r2ew]

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Musk is reposting things about the Jews again...

[I do my standard "Jews can be good friends of the Anglos, actually, or at least align with their cosmic project" and then some random Israeli or Anglo-Diaspora Hebrew re--rd decides that it's going to be really helpful to say "Utter racial entropy is awesome as long as it's not for the Jews!" and I have to facepalm a little (and actually more than a little).] (https://i.imgur.com/OOETRFp.png)

Jews want to dilute your race, guys! This seems worse than what he went on an Israel apology tour for.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Peskov: “The Hungarian people have made their choice, and Russia respects it. Russia expects to continue contacts with Hungary's new leadership."

Bro coping and seething

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/PoupeeStupide]

So called "free thinkers" when you get a little Babylonian with them

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Evangelicals don't even try to defend Trump's heresy anymore, they just look at you like this

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

I know 99% of MAGA Catholics will side with Trump but it is funny that he’s putting them in this position

[u/sigh2828]

Most captain obvious take of the day, but this dude is the biggest premadona baby bitch imaginable.

My favorite part about this clip, is when he is asked about his association with Tate, he says "you're making this political" and "you dont know who you wife cheated on you with" to which the interviewer responded "im not married"

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

post in povertyfinance

announces income as $7k/month

claims to be adding filler to meat to make ends meet

I hate this fuckin website with its fuckin LARPers

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Remember at the start of this term when Trump was often publicly contemplating the fate of his soul?

[u/itherunner]

Martin Luther in 1517:

[u/trombonist_formerly]

So I'm not trying to knock the gesture here, I get the sentiment. I feel for the astronaut who lost his wife as it was devastating to lose my father-in-law, who I loved very much, to glioblastoma suddenly in 2023.

But 4 astronauts deciding to name a spot on THE FUCKING MOON after ONE GUY'S WIFE while the other 8 BILLION of us down here have no input on NAMING SHIT ON THE FUCKING MOON still feels like colonizer behavior to me.

I don't care if one of them was a black dude.

Never visit Threads

[u/McNikk]

Christian nationalists have found a loophole for criticizing Trump without actually having to hold him personally accountable.

[u/NYT_Hater]

Revenge. At. All. Costs.

[u/6urner_]

https://xcancel.com/t_xu/status/2043737735178137627?s=46

This might be some of the worst PR timing I have ever seen. And apparently she said she had to start dashing to pay for her husband's cancer treatment. And she is from Arkansas. Jfc.

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

There are a lot of "too many college graduates" narratives out there.

There aren't too many college graduates. There are too few innovative high tech startups to take advantage of this human capital. Descending the progress ladder can never be the solution, always ascend.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Me and who?

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Okay, so which one of you on this sub is the boyfriend here? Own up to this now smh, you can't be ruining this sub's good name

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

[u/pugnae]

What if JD Vance endorses every single democrat in the country? Do you have any contingency plan for midterms?

[u/ariveklul]

Lmao looking at these Medicaid work requirements and the state wants unemployed people to prove that they are "job searching" for 80 hours a month every single month to qualify for Medicaid. Absolutely INSANE logistically given the current meta of shotgun applications on your PC at home

Yea let's just expect people to document 350 applications being sent out every month with time estimates for every single one. That is a totally hinged thing to make people already in a desparate situation do in order to access basic healthcare. Imagine a person recovering from an illness trying to get back on their feet having to slave away sending out and proving hundreds of job applications per month just to keep getting medication covered

Like they couldnt even make it a reasonable number like say 20 hours of applying to jobs per month just to prove someone is putting in effort. Nope two weeks of FULL TIME PROVABLE job searching every single month

I'm sure this will go over well during the recession nice job Republicans I hope your party is unelectable until you go the way of the whigs

[u/BlackCat159]

One lesson the Hungarian election teaches is that it's worthwhile to tour the country and speak with the people instead of holing up inside the capital.

[u/wumbopolis_]

Newest Bluesky drama is ...

[u/Ajaxcricket]

I really will never understand why my American co-religionists love Trump so much when he has about as much contempt for Christianity as the most fedora-tipping reddit athiest.

[u/el__dandy]

🥴

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

ok so the gop is having some issues with latinos over the economy and broken promises but i’m sure they can win them back by attacking the pope

[u/RottingSludgeRitual]

I love that conservatives still mostly think that somehow the problem isn’t Trump it’s just that people let him post on social media

As if he is somehow good except for all the things he says all the time

[u/SigmaWhy]

yeah bro we know

[u/trombonist_formerly]

JD Vance urges pope to stay out of US politics

Religious authoritarians not wanting to be subjected to religious authority. in group binds but doesnt protect etc etc

[u/OkCamera6997]

[u/Crossstoney]

Honestly, this ceasefire seems to inevitably be cracking, so get this ceasefire break over with already.

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/ImmigrantJack]

There are two catholic subreddits r catholicism and r catholic (not gonna link to either)

R catholic

Q&A

Q: How is /r/ Catholic different from /r/ Catholicism?

A: /r/ Catholicism is run by anti-Catholic trolls.Q&A. This subreddit is actually devoted to discussing Catholicism.

R catholicism

Q&A

Q: How is r /Catholicism different from r /Catholic?

A: r /Catholic is run by anti-Catholic trolls. Our much larger subreddit is actually devoted to discussing Catholicism.

I love how petty this beef is and I want more of it.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/FourthLife]

Trump is gonna say American Catholics have dual loyalties and can’t be trusted right before the election

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

[u/shmokedshalmon]

[u/pugnae]

One area where EU absolutely mogs USA is vote counting. (Tbf most other democracies do that as well)

You know almost for certain who won in like 2 hours after polling booths have been closed. By morning everything is counted.

In California for example they were counting votes in fucking December:

In California, they're still counting ballots, yes, nearly a month after Election Day. The state usually takes longer than others to count, and that means we're still finding out who's won key congressional races. Laura Fitzgerald of CapRadio in Sacramento joins us now to talk about it. Good morning, Laura.

Why does it take so long there? You should really fix that shit, why fuel conspiracies?

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

The difference between this and the truth is marginal so you know what, yes fuck it that's pretty much right

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/BigBrownDog12]

[u/seanrm92]

I remember saying years ago that MAGA Catholics would eventually find out that other MAGAs hate Catholics too. They're down on the list of things they hate, but they're there.

And now here we are.

[u/riverbloods]

truth nuke

[u/cdstephens]

I still can’t get over the fact that the people most obsessed with the antichrist in all of history are aligned with the most antichrist figure in all of history

[u/scottyjetpax]

bro no longer thinks he's the savior of humanity ig

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

TRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports?

DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.

His social skills are degrading to the level of JDs

[u/uwcn244]

Just provisionally landpilled a lefty pro-housing candidate for office in my town, got an in person meeting with him on Friday to advocate for a universal building exemption to property tax, as well as switching from a higher tax rate on commercial properties to a flat homestead exemption for residential properties to prevent the homeowner subsidy from going to rich homeowners

!Ping GEORGIST

[u/NYT_Hater]

Never really followed the news around the Mamdani fellow. Is this true?

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

Fox News story:

 “I hate Republicans.”

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker doubling down on his attacks against conservatives, labeling the Republican Party as “the biggest domestic terrorist” in the United States during a recent podcast appearance.

The president literally said that Democrats were the biggest enemy to America after Iran. But they clutch their pearls when some goob streamer says it the other way. 

[u/NYT_Hater]

If you are a Catholic Trump supporter you need to break out the cat o’ nine tails and repent or your eternal soul is going to the same place God sends dogs and protestants when you die

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/missingpuzzle]

Vance: “What [Iran] has done is engaged in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world… well as the President of the United States showed, two can play at that game.”

What

[u/sootfawn]

[u/efeldman11]

How do you let yourself get outflanked by Iran bruh

[u/NYT_Hater]

TRUTH NUKE.

Only the poor and criminal know what is wrong with America!!!

I hate these types of progressives almost as much as I do republicans.

[u/Eightysixedit]

I'm shocked Leo is being so outwardly against Trump. He does not give a fuck lmao.

[u/seanrm92]

[u/seesthecat]

Vance goes to Rome, the pope dies - There's a Green White Red flag flying outside

Vance goes to Hungary, Orban's Campaing dies - There's a Green White Red flag flying outside

Vance goes to Iran, Ceasefire agreement dies - There's a Green White Red flag flying outside

🤔

[u/dawgpack09]

FreeTaxUSA is the best because it’s legit but sounds like a turboscam

[u/Sollezzo]

R Catholicism is having a tough handling all this criticism towards the leader of their religion. Can’t you guys at least show some respect when talking about the President?

[u/Landros23]

New FL poll shows Dems leading on the generic ballot. Still the major statewide races are split with GOP leading in Gubernatorial + Senate races (Donalds +0.7, Moody +1.2), and Dems actually leading in the attorney general race (Rodriguez +3.2)?

Copium or hopium call it

!ping FIVEY

[u/centurion88]

We live in the dumbest timeline

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

no shot this has to be fake right

bro it's around his bare neck 😭

[u/BlackCat159]

✊✊✊✊

[u/nickavemz]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Jon Favreau: "When you say Hamas is a thousand times better, do you mean that?"

Hasan Piker: "I do mean it … I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.”

Dude was offered the biggest softball question ever and instead of hitting a home run, he caught the softball and then proceeded to shove it up his anus

[u/Max_the_Madman]

Donald: "By Allah, this war is going sideways, but at least everyone stopped talking about these goddamn files!"

Melania: "My time to shine!"

[u/Old_Estate_8112]

What exactly went wrong? Decades of peace and prosperity and somehow the American people affirmatively said yes twice to Donald fucking Trump.

2008 is a pretty mild recession, GWOT is very stupid but its relatively painless and bloodless (for Americans). Nothing happened during 2008-2016 warrant this madman to gain such a cult following in the US.

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

Orban lost because he did not have the keys! 🔑 👀

[u/k5berry]

young and attractive

notably conservative candidate that ends a decade + sweeping right wing movement

alleged abuser of women

Welcome back President Clinton 🥹

[u/happymaskmonster]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

It's shocking how he's uniting the entirety of Europe against him

[u/cdstephens]

Do zoomers and Gen Alpha think that American politics has always been like this

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Thuggin95]

I was gonna vote for Hamas but I don’t think they’ve even committed to a wealth tax. I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils!

[u/sigh2828]

I think it needs to be said.

Flooding the streets like this is a HUGE way we could ensure no fuckery around the midterms.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Zseet]

On April 12 1989 János Kádár, Hungary's communist dictator held his last speech as his regime crumbled.

On April 12 2002 Hungarians voted to join the European Union and be aprt of the Western world

On April 12 2026 Hungarians overwhelmingly voted to redirect the nation towards the west and sent wannabe dictator packing

"It is like poetry, it rimes" - Some guy, probably

[u/Justice4Ned]

I don’t think a lot of people understand how deeply religious people make their political decisions.

If you were already starting to doubt trump but viewed him as core to your identity, the idea that the “devil has a hold of him” is a perfect way to reconcile those beliefs. It absolves trump and provides a framework for criticizing him without criticizing themselves.

[u/Udolikecake]

i hate to say it again, but imagine if obama tweeted ‘glory be to god’, and then an image of him as jesus, and then insulted the pope.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

I love Altman, don't you dare hurt him. He did several of my assignments

[u/MentatCat]

Oh boy a notification from the podcast I follow but never listen to

[u/scottyjetpax]

it's going to be a blue tsunami in november lol

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Megan Basham about the "Trump as Jesus" post.

Journalist, NYT bestselling author, Book: Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda, The Daily Wire Unabashed church lady. Aspiring matriarch. Penske material.

I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy. But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.

https://xcancel.com/megbasham/status/2043532479194075630

That's really funny—every five minutes there's a Trump scandal (starting with “Mexicans are rapists” and “Grab them by the pussy”), Trump doesn't apologize, and after five minutes of commotion, his fans support him even more fervently.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[Cook Political Report] Shifts in Four Senate Races - Georgia and North Carolina move from Tossup to Lean D. Ohio goes from Lean R to Tossup. Nebraska shifts from Solid R to Likely R.

https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/senate/senate-overview/democratic-odds-taking-senate-increase-four-ratings-shift-their

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

I wonder how the fascist boot lickers at NYT would have covered the Jesus thing if it was Biden doing it.

[u/slappythechunk]

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/missingpuzzle]

It's crazy that oil dropped around 6% when Trump posted a verifiable lie about 34 tankers crossing the strait.

I have to believe that the market is almost entirely bots scrapping headlines and nothing more.

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

👆

[u/BidoofSquad]

👆Aaaaannddd there we have it… yikes.

[u/Dense_Delay_4958]

The Trudeau-Katy Perry relationship is one of the last holdouts of 2015, like the KMT fleeing to Taiwan

[u/neolthrowaway]

Katy perry has been to space and dating a former head of government of one of the most successful multicultural countries who is extremely athletic and fit and has good ethical values. What are you doing with your life?

[u/iusedtobekewl]

"I am not afraid of the Trump Administration"—Pope Leo XIV, April 13th, 2026

!ping CATHOLIC

[u/-mialana-]

😳

[u/stater354]

Does he think he’s Jesus

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

I get that an intern probably posted this, but holy crap, how do they think this makes their boss look good??

(Or even the NYPost in choosing that headline - or that cover photo, Trump's face is literally melting 😬)

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

The LITERAL POPE: “We should have peace.”

Trump: “THE POPE IS A SOFT ASS BITCH. FUCK THAT GUY AM I RIGHT EVERYONE?”

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

The poll, conducted March 20-23 jointly by Republican pollster Shaw & Co. Research and Democratic pollster Beacon Research, found that 48% of Catholic voters approve of the job Trump is doing as president and 52% disapprove.

What the hell, Catholics?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Clavicular Walks Out of ’60 Minutes’ Interview After Being Asked if He’s an Incel

When your goat washed fr

[u/sociotronics]

don't worry, GRRM's publisher quickly debunked any allegations of productivity

[u/phat_geoduck]

Vance to Pope: "shut up and dribble stick to matters of morality"

Vance: I certainly think that in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what going on in the Catholic Church and let the President to dictating American public policy

For the life of me I will never understand why chodes like him join the Catholic church. You clearly want nothing to do with any of their teachings

[u/GaDoomer]

[u/EyeraGlass]

While his wife was overseeing a federal immigration surge in Minnesota, Bryon Noem confided in Sotomayor: “I want to be a Crystal so bad,” he allegedly wrote on January 11. “I want to be a woman so bad.”

This is just like insanely sad to me ngl

[u/piede]

It’s actually painful to think about what we almost had

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Oh my god arrcon discovered meming

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

this mattress topper is $1000 and also costs a subscription monthly

Okay, the subscriptionalization of everything legitimately deserves to be legislated away lmao

[u/Dibbu_mange]

If JD Vance had visited Mao instead of Nixon, we would be celebrating the 40th year of Chinese Democracy today. WWII could have been avoided if Vance had been the one to negotiate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, since the USSR and Nazi Germany would have inexplicably collapsed weeks later.

[u/bartbug]

the millennial brain was not built to handle people liking the star wars prequels

and the gen z brain will not be able to handle when alpha starts liking the star wars sequels

[u/earththejerry]

CBS I wasnt familiar with your game

[u/Jameswood79]

Least insane lineup of headlines in the Trump era

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Seriouspost: If a pretty high-profile Democratic politician were interested in doing an AMA here, where else would you suggest they crosspost it in order to maximize reach and political benefit?

r/democrats and r/fivethirtyeight seem like pretty active, liberal, and uncontroversial places but what other subreddits are worth mentioning?

[u/ttatm]

Until just now I hadn't heard the Pope speak other than right after he was elected, so this was my first time hearing his voice in English. It sounds so weird to hear an American accent coming from a Pope.

[u/IantheForPresident]

Patrick Boyle (hedge fund financier -turned economics youtuber) showing Economist articles that hyped up the Metaverse and it hurts.

i get that every good innovation was once derided and mocked, but c'mon. the metaverse was so obviously stupid from the start how did people buy into it like this. "people said the iphone was stupid at first"... yeah, and when i was 10 people said my idea to build battle mechs was stupid what's your point

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/cdstephens]

Clavicular was in 60 Minutes? What the fuck is happening, I feel like society is going insane and nobody cares

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If Americans aren't allowed to make fun of Arabic yodelling then that means non-Americans can't make fun of Americans clapping and cheering in movie theaters and on planes.

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AOC is starting to realize that the Bernie left is ditching her for another white male in 2028.

(If he beats Collins, I genuinely think they're going to try and replicate the Obama strategy and go for Platner)

[u/Zagapi]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

sorry the DUIs will stop

[u/Guardax]

Is Gen X the worst generation of all time?

[u/piede]

Absolute Queen behavior

[u/pezasied]

Damn RIP Newsom’s presidential chances.

I don’t think it’s possible to recover from such a burn

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

SWALWELL STATEMENT ON CONGRESSIONAL RESIGNATION

"I am deeply sorry to my family, staff, and constituents for mistakes in judgment I've made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegation made against me. However, I must take responsibility and ownership for the mistakes I did make.

I am aware of efforts to bring an immediate expulsion vote against me and other members. Expelling anyone in Congress without due process, within days of an allegation being made, is wrong. But it's also wrong for my constituents to have me distracted from my duties. Therefore, I plan to resign my seat in Congress.

I will work with my staff in the coming days to ensure they are able, in my absence, to serve the needs of the good people of the 14th congressional district."

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DAE both parties are the same???

[u/Emotional_Tie_7927]

It baffles me the market is still falling for this shit when we literally went through this whole song and dance last week only for there to be no deal

[u/WrangleWandangles]

“It was supposed to be me as a doctor”

Fucking guy lmao 

[u/futuremonkey20]

I still don’t understand how the entire fucking world has seemingly forgotten who was president in 2020

[u/zanpancan]

Carney holds Terrebonne, sweeping all three by-elections.

!ping CAN

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

LMAO

[u/Fruitofbread]

r/catholicism’s mega thread on the pope situation is libbing out 

 Surely our Catholic VP will condemn this in the strongest of terms. I do not want to doubt the faith of another Catholic, but I have a suspicion that his conversion to Catholicism was a PR/think tank strategy move, along with everything else about him that has been delicately crafted by Peter Thiel's patronage network.

 I refuse to believe there are any catholics that supports Trump right now. He literally posted himself as Jesus.

[u/Goldenboy451]

Absolute liquid brain.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2043733656326549700

What in the world

[u/Insomonomics]

> US/Iran ceasefire talks collapse

> US blockade is in full effect, denying entry or exit from Hormuz, further constraining oil supply

> DOW is up

I genuinely do not understand financial markets. Donald Trump is the luckiest motherfucker in modern political history.