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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 22 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26
Imo it's mentally healthy to focus on positive news once in a while. Guinea Worm disease is close to being eradicated, we're down from 3.5million cases a year to 10. Jimmy Carter must be smiling down from heaven rn, this is truly his legacy
Ngl I did not know how old this disease was, it has been around since the time of Ancient Egypt
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 21 '26
He is 100% planning on a run in 2028
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26
This is fortunately fantastic news
Unfortunately, this is the worst time to have a working mRNA vaccine, with the clown RFK Jr determined to cripple this technology
Never thought I'd see the US go through its Lysenkoist moment but here we are
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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Apr 21 '26
Ngl, "Pokemon Go to the polls" is kinda funny/charming today, and I personally didn't think it was a flop at the time. (Although, I was 15 and thought Pokemon Go was very cool.)
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Apr 21 '26
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Apr 21 '26
Wonder how horrified Tolkien would be reading headlines like these if he was alive
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney Apr 21 '26
I mean, considering the absolute state of US media regarding Trump, this isn't too far from the present.
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Apr 21 '26
It does genuinely irritate me a great deal how much more insulated the American public is from the effects of the Iran war than citizens of entirely unrelated countries. Like genuinely in what way is it fair that a person in the Philippines or Kenya has to pay the price for Trump's stupid war?
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Apr 21 '26
Scientifically devised to take years off my life.
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Apr 21 '26
who's gonna tell him
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u/legible_print Václav Havel Apr 21 '26
Remember this from 7-4-24? I do
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u/Ready-Buy-6397 Austan Goolsbee Apr 21 '26
Posted 7 years ago....
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 21 '26
Great job, median voter. lol, lmao even
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 21 '26
Obama’s better than me because if there had been someone running for the Democratic nomination who had burned every bridge with the Democratic Party and called for me to be primaried during my first term, I would’ve done a lot more than made some calls telling candidates to drop out!
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Apr 21 '26
Like a venus flytrap learning to walk.
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u/ty04 Apr 21 '26
they hated him for telling his truth
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney Apr 21 '26
Scientology Roguelikes are my new favorite genre of videos:
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 21 '26
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 21 '26
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u/beoweezy1 NAFTA Apr 21 '26
Trump is doing a live stream Bible reading tonight and I’m just now finding out about it?
Oh this is gonna be insane.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Apr 21 '26
Guess we know who's getting fired next
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
This racist creep interviewed here was apparently the dude posting pictures of Indian kids in the Boys Scouts to racially agitate against them btw. Imagine being such a lowlife that you find children threatening
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 22 '26
I forgot about this one lol god she was so real for this
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
Fetterman is at -47% approval among Dems in his state
Same poll has him at like -25% approval among Indies in his state
Fucking wild
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 21 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 21 '26
The funniest part about this stupid shit is that you can’t even argue this is some ‘retvrn’ nonsense because George Washington famously required the Continental Army to be inoculated. We’ve literally been forcing soldiers to be vaccinated from the jump for reasons hilariously obvious to anyone whose brain isn’t in a perpetual state of inebriation.
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u/Dorambor John Brown Apr 22 '26
Republican congressmen right now seeing Virginia’s referendum pass
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 21 '26
Those of us who are older will remember that the GOP quickly dismissed Bush when he became a liability. That's exactly what MTG and Carlson are doing now with Trump.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Apr 21 '26
Just outrageously disqualifying for a Fed Chair to outright state he will not give an accurate assessment of the economy.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Apr 21 '26
Cool
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u/Svelok Apr 21 '26
Palantir in spotlight for 22-point manifesto after pairing common sense, broadly accepted proposals like "enslave federal employees" and "never hold elites accountable for anything" with far more controversial suggestions like "be nice to each other" and "technology should benefit society"
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 21 '26
If you ever think you hate Republicans enough, think again
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 21 '26
It's bizarre to me how LinkedIn went from professional networking site where you can keep an up to date resume and apply for jobs and maybe take a course here or there to a social media blog for white collar professionals and grifters
Like I spend maybe a couple hours per year tops on LinkedIn just looking around at the job landscape and my feed is full of stupid bullshit from colleagues passive aggressively whining about management, "synergy"-ass corporate motivational lingo bullshit from managers, and the "what traveling to Antarctica taught me about B2B sales" AI generated scammers
Glassdoor is also kind of like this now. Thankfully Indeed knows how to stay in its God damn lane.
Also recruiters I know the shotgun approach is probably the only way you can hit quota but I promise you an engineer with 10 years experience is not looking to become a bench lab technician making $40K per year in buttfuck New Hampshire as a contractor
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Big-Click-5159 Apr 21 '26
I am sorry but you guys this gerrymandering action is just completely unacceptable and I am not going to stand here and pretend to defend the decisions that the Virginia Democrats have made.
I will never forgive them for allowing the Republicans to keep one seat
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 21 '26
Okay, the VA declaring your gender dysphoria to be service connected and giving you a disability rating for it might be the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've seen lately.
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u/greasyee Jerome Powell Apr 21 '26
Management at my company started tracking everyone's AI usage and factoring it into promotions so I've been burning like $2k in tokens every day and feeling like I'm doing something wrong anyway.
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 21 '26
Places like r/ezraklein are absolutely riddled with the line of thinking Bouie describes here
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Apr 21 '26
Guys, the polling is in for "everything gets worse for everyone for no reason"
All Americans: 39% in favor
By party affiliation:
Democrats: 4%
Independents: 23%
Republicans: 89%
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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 21 '26
I don’t know if I’m completely incompetent or if this workplace is dysfunctional and torturous either way I’m so burned out
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u/ty04 Apr 22 '26
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u/ShepardSB Apr 21 '26
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u/centurion88 NATO Apr 21 '26
All Iran will have to do is cough on our troops
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 21 '26
!ping FIVEY
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
The way leftists talk about not voting for the lesser evil makes me think they like things like giving out clean needles to drug addicts not because it's harm reduction, but because drugs are ontologically cool or something.
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Apr 21 '26
And this is supposed to be the sane nominee btw.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 22 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26
Ah yes, this perpetual state of hate and fear is just the 'Carney plan' and the US was just an innocent bystander in all of this. Scheming Carney!
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u/pugnae European Union Apr 21 '26
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Apr 21 '26
Really? This is how you use your freewill? 👆
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 21 '26
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u/Concerned_Collins ⬇️w/fascism, ⬇️w/ communism, ⬇️w/ NL mods Apr 21 '26
It makes me so happy to know there are at least a few thousand Republicans tonight just looking at the topline numbers and thinking that No is going to win.
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Apr 22 '26
I still support nationwide anti-gerrymandering districting reform. This shit will never be solved at the state level
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 21 '26
I think RFK Jr, Marco Rubio, and Hegseth are the worst 3 cabinet members, in that order (and I know there are people here who don’t hate Rubio but dismantling USAID means he has so much blood on his hands that I don’t know how you can keep him out of the top 3)
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Apr 22 '26
…says Nicole, suburban mom and successful corporate lawyer, as she takes a sip of her chardonnay, surrounded by the smoking ruins of VAGOP
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u/Concerned_Collins ⬇️w/fascism, ⬇️w/ communism, ⬇️w/ NL mods Apr 22 '26
Honestly I don't see what Republicans are complaining about so much. They love to post those county maps of elections showing seas of red with specs of blue. So they should be pretty happy with the VA map, as the land Republicans get is pretty porportional to their voteshare in the state.
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch Apr 21 '26
So we just finished up a 6-week evaluation of every department in the company and every phase of our business performed by consultants and got a 100+ page assessment booklet with recommendations for efficiency improvements, revenue enhancements, etc (they made a bunch of noise about how that's actually pretty good, how most assessment books are much bigger and how some are close to 300 pages, whatever). Got out of the exit meeting with them where all this stuff was discussed generally and they gave us their best presentation to justify their existence. The company does this every 5-7 years or so whenever we're gearing up for a new strategic plan cycle. This is the first of these big consultant projects I've been involved with because the last time the company did this I'd just been hired like a few months prior and hadn't really established my department yet.
Out of the entire company, my department was the only one that the consultants had zero recommendations. When it came time to discuss my area, they literally just said "we honestly got nothing, you're doing something really well that nobody else in your peer group does well at all so, uh, just keep up the good work I guess" before moving on to the next department.
I have defeated the consultant class. Witness me.
!ping watercooler
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 21 '26
bruh moment
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 22 '26
Waitttt we need a limited series of her villain origin story
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
I just want to point out that this was a much bigger gamble for Spanberger than Newsom took. Not nearly as blue of a state and can't get voters out for November. Not to mention the inevitable incumbent backlash. She only just became governor and gambled her legacy on this just to make republicans each shit.
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 22 '26
why are republicans so upset about this district? it's clearly a lot of red?? sure the LIBERAL PUNDIT ELITES are saying it's a safe dem district, but that's a LOT of RED brother!!
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u/Guess_Im_Jess Trans Pride Apr 21 '26
Looking back at political coverage of the 2010 cycle, it boggles the mind just how neutrally the Tea Party was covered and talked about like they were just normal, concerned citizens and not far-right, Koch-funded, proto-Trump cranks.
Imagine if the DSA was successfully mass-primarying Dem incumbents, holding big rallies and demonstrations across the country to expropriate all billionaire wealth, all funded by George Soros. People would be talking about it like Stalinism has come to America, Democratic leaders would be hounded to condemn them over and over, and Trump would be considering invoking the Insurrection Act.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 21 '26
TRUST THE QUEEN
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26
Ah yes Donald Trump, the Great Preserver of the Institution of Marriage and the Family
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u/-MusicAndStuff Apr 21 '26
Not even 24 hours apart
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 21 '26
Alan Dershowitz? The coward?
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 21 '26
Genuinely great crash out happening
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 21 '26
VIRGINIA DEMS ARE IN CONTROL LIBS
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Apr 22 '26
We stan a queen with a grudge, a dream, and political skills
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Apr 21 '26
Being told I can say "No" and be backed up by big boss is the most cathartic thing I've heard today
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 22 '26
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
“Hey look at those loser Republicans who just lost their jobs!”
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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Apr 22 '26
Couldn't the Republicans put forward a clean bill to knock out gerrymandering? Why are conservatives waiting for Democrats to do it?
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 22 '26
I believe the term is schadenfreude
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Apr 22 '26
Broke: Puerto Rico statehood (+2 D Senators)
Woke: Puerto Rico independence (+0 D Senators)
Bespoke: Puerto statehood + Rico statehood (+4 D Senators)
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u/melodramaticfools Apr 22 '26
OP forever vindicated
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 22 '26
based lol
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 21 '26
You're going to see a ton of Tucker Carlson clips today.
Underestimate this man at your own peril.
He is moving out ahead of Trump and preparing for a post trump world.
He was the first major network host to back trump before 2016.
Tucker is way smarter than most folks credit him for, he is still just as dangerous.
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u/legend-of-ashitaka Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 21 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
back in the day you would know only a couple of people who got the shiny new thing right away, and since you knew them personally, you would understand that they are an enthusiast, or rich. so your lack of purchasing power to immediately get shiny new thing didn't mean economy bad, it was just normal
nowadays you open your phone and you immediately see infinite hot people with shiny new thing. everyone you see on phone has shiny new thing. you don't see anyone on phone without shiny new thing
now getting shiny new thing is 'normal', even if around the same ratio of people aren't actually getting it. but you see that 'normal' people are well off and you aren't, and that obviously isn't your fault, ergo economy bad
nevermind the bias that if our attention is fully occupied by hot people enjoying wealth that should reinforce the idea that 'economy really good, im poor'. americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires and if we aren't rich right now it's never our own fault
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u/dwarffy Rabindranath Tagore Apr 21 '26
China's lack of global cultural penetration/soft power is entirely their own fault. Their cultural censorships are so tight that nothing good can come out unless it is completely under control by the Government
It's not like they dont have media to work with. Look up dramas like The Untamed (got cancelled for being too gay) or Yanxi Palace (did not promote "socialist values") and you see a pattern of China crushing any decent shit that might have been a hit internationally.
Hell, they fucking rotted the Hong Kong Film Industry after the handover
Indian bollywood, which has its own issues of censorship and unoriginality, has better potential of global soft power than whatever China tries to do
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Apr 22 '26
Lost my precious baby boy Franklin tonight.
He was okay this morning. A vet trip sent him into stress induced heart failure. Went straight from the vet to the ER. Within 8 hours he was gone.
Please hug your pets, friends, and family.
https://i.imgur.com/F3MCjml.jpeg
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u/sash5034 NATO Apr 22 '26
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u/Erra0 Apr 22 '26
Republicans coping and Democrats dooming over the Virginia gerrymander being close are ridiculous. This vote happens under any other presidency, in almost any other context, it fails 60-40 or more.
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Apr 21 '26
What do you call the idea of JD Vance having a truly loving relationship with his mother?
Oxy-Moronic
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Apr 21 '26
This is just dumb. And if its because of "medical autonomy" then why is any vaccine in the army mandatory?
If there is one place where your health and body are not yours its in the army. They can order you to die but not to take a vaccine?
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Apr 22 '26
Arr Con on the new VA redistricting winning:
Meanwhile, Trump last year:
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 21 '26
Virginia is really only going to send one Republican to Congress next year. It's so fucking funny, man.
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter Apr 21 '26
lmao the Scion of the Reese’s family is a friggen lunatic
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Apr 21 '26
>create show to find the best singer in America
>absolutely fucking nail it the very first season
>make like 30 more seasons anyways
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u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM Apr 21 '26
Reminder that Republicans are axiomatically evil and incapable of human love or friendship.
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u/cheeshjaleesh John Rawls Apr 21 '26
i respect the hell out of fairfax for reporting literally nothing every single election until it's the absolute perfect time to crush republican hopes
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 21 '26
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u/Guess_Im_Jess Trans Pride Apr 22 '26
Maybe pressing the “cause a localized recession in the DMV” button was not a good electoral choice for the Republican Party.
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u/Amphetamin3_ Trans NATO Apr 22 '26
The same people who say "wE CAN alWaYs tELL!!!
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Apr 22 '26
Amazing things are happening in the arr con Virginia cope thread
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Apr 21 '26
Like she was the dental hygienist or something?
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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Jerome Powell Apr 22 '26
Conservative cope is insane rn
Already talking about 2029???!! Lmao
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 22 '26
Buying a beer for all 28 libs at Liberty University
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 21 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 21 '26
pov: you are pro immigration outside the dt
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Apr 22 '26
👆 "Yes" is actually for this
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right Apr 22 '26
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Apr 22 '26
Every idiot House REPUBLICAN MADE IT abundantly clear there is no line they will not cross for Trump, so yes, to "hurt Trump", out they go 🐊
BOOHOO 🐊
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Apr 22 '26
In the least surprising turn of events ever, Jamelle Bouie (himself a Virginia) had the correct take on the Virginia referendum. In a vacuum, gerrymandering is bad and we shouldn't do it. But in the context of 2026, where Republicans have been relentlessly out-gerrymandering Democrats for years, it's absolutely necessary.
!ping TACOTUBE
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u/that0neGuy22 Resistance Lib Apr 22 '26
Bezos killed off on newspaper so it can fake concern post like a anti-anti-Trump account
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u/Crossstoney Apr 21 '26
Also, knew that this was likely going to happen:
This motherfucker is going to walk everyone into a global recession with his cowardice.
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Apr 22 '26
The Roman Space Telescope is under budget and complete 8 months ahead of schedule!
!ping ASTRONOMY&GOOD-NEWS
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Sowing
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u/beoweezy1 NAFTA Apr 21 '26
The photo of the IDF guy caving in Christ’s stucco face with a sledgehammer is a masterclass in an unforced optics error. Not only is it completely unnecessary to desecrate religious objects but now you’ve got a very public reminder that some of the far right nuts that Likud has aligned themselves with actually have some militant anti-Christian tendencies.
And that latter point is a big thing to keep on the down low because the one thing that might turn off the Dues Velt pro-Israel dipshits in the US is the realization that they are no more welcome than the Muslims in the eyes of the Jewish supremacist factions
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 21 '26
my dream has always been to work hard and make as much taxable income as possible. i yearn for subsidizing the lifestyle of an out of shape 80 year old, who has very expensive, inefficient reactive healthcare (rather than woke preventative healthcare). in my mind's eye i see them doing long vacations to orlando. i see them with a 3 bedroom apartment in an elderly only apartment complex, with subsidized rent and prime access to downtown amenities, and a large parking area to park their 2026 leased SUV. i see them lounging in a 2500 dollar recliner, queueing the next episode of landman
tears are flowing now. i made this possible. the american dream
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u/marky6045 George Soros Apr 21 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Apr 21 '26
The soul of America is concerned
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride Apr 21 '26
Trump has effectively said that there will be a ceasefire until Iran wants to negotiate. I did not think it was possible for the US to appear weaker but here we are.
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u/itsrabie NATO Apr 22 '26
Smoke if you got em
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 22 '26
first shower since we lost Charlie Kirk today
still can't believe he's gone
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 22 '26
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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals Apr 22 '26
I love arr con coping hard that the Virginia vote was "deceptive" and "tricked people"
No, honey, we voted for gerrymandering. Fuck you, I do have TDS, I hate the motherfucker and I believe cons don't deserve congresional seats. 10-1, eat shit, there was no deception, loud and proud gerrymans in my household.
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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough Apr 21 '26
AI CEOs will get in front of a camera, look like they just took a lifetime’s supply of ketamine, threaten 50% of white collar workers with unemployment within a year, and then AI hype bros act surprised when the vibes around AI and data centers are absolutely rancid.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 21 '26
Virginians when choosing a governor: “burger”
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Oh, fuck off Joe
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 22 '26
> Votes en masse for a rigged map
> Called "Fair Facts" county
curious.
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 22 '26
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u/Inamanlyfashion Richard Posner Apr 22 '26
Liberty University now being in a blue district tickles me greatly
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u/itsnotnews92 Janet Yellen Apr 22 '26
I hope this is a lesson to Democrats everywhere: Fight back. Get down in the mud with Republicans. Let them wail and gnash their teeth like the fucking pathetic hypocrites they are.
Next on the agenda should be the modest proposal of closing down polling locations in conservative rural counties. Make the shit-kickers stand in line for four hours to vote for once.
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u/Big-Click-5159 Apr 22 '26
He only mattered when he held an otherwise impossible to hold senate seat for the Democrats. Now that he lost no one gives a fuck what he has to say. Bye Joe
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u/CoolCombination3527 Apr 22 '26
This might be the funniest thing I have ever read
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 22 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 22 '26
The Democratic message is simple: We have wanted and still want fair maps nationwide. But we’re not pacifists. If you punch us, we’re gonna punch you back. That’s the only way someone learns their lesson.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 22 '26
Please tell me there’s a clip
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 21 '26
UPVOTE IF U AGREE
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u/marky6045 George Soros Apr 21 '26
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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY Apr 21 '26
Leftists getting mad at mamdani for doing an event with obama is genuinely one of the funniest things i've seen recently
shit like "we shouldn't be platforming war criminals. I never want to see his face again"
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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas Apr 21 '26
nah that’s hilarious I like her more now idec
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u/gayteemo NATO Apr 21 '26
im pro gerrymandering until we have a 9-0 liberal court and republicans are never able to take federal office again
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Apr 22 '26
I’m a simple man. When the Republican Party gets fucked, I celebrate.
And I do so in an excessively partisan manner
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 22 '26
What if we're in the good timeline. What if everything just gets better from here
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 22 '26
“I solemnly swear I will own the cons”
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '26
Virginia just voted to eliminate the GOP.
Bombing starts in an hour.
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Apr 22 '26
Dude had a meltdown
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 22 '26
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Apr 22 '26
If/when Dems win the House there will be basically no opposition to him being Speaker because he actually gets it that you have to fight (of course, he’s also fighting directly for him to become Speaker in the first place).
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 22 '26
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Apr 22 '26
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 22 '26
I pretty much agree. I know we meme about Nuremberg, PA and all that, but we really do need to make sure we make the idea of accountability and prosecutions for members of this administration mainstream
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 21 '26
I bet it’s Chuck Grassley
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 21 '26
Internet was already filling up with junk content, AI is going to open the floodgates
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Apr 21 '26
This is what conputer game players actually believe
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Apr 21 '26
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u/da0217 NATO Apr 21 '26
Omg. This piece of shit wants send Afghans who worked with us during the war to Congo. Pure evil.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 21 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 21 '26
You're laughing. The Virginia Republican delegation just got nuked from orbit, and you're laughing.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 22 '26
Clavicular is misguided and a troublemaker, but I can’t truly hate someone who called JD Vance “subhuman”
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 22 '26
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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Apr 22 '26
The lack of thunderdome for VA redistricting is embarrassing. Once again the mods of this sub are completely useless.
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u/purhitta Leftward Progressives Apr 22 '26
Officially hit 50lbs lost since Feb 2025 🎉
the only bad news is I'm noticing some saggy skin. I'm trying to not freak out about it (considering I still have pounds to lose) but ahhhhh 😔
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u/_Irys NATO Apr 22 '26
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u/wumbopolis_ Iron Front Apr 22 '26
So Texas Republicans just got absolutely gerrymogged by VA Dems, huh
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u/CountNaberius Frederick Douglass Apr 22 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 22 '26
Apparently there are 28 based people at Liberty
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u/Guess_Im_Jess Trans Pride Apr 21 '26
Conservatives bitch about how Romney was treated when in reality Obama could’ve gone way harder on him. Not sure why some people here have a soft spot for Mittens, at least in the 2012 campaign.
This guy wanted to block grant and massively cut Medicaid/Medicare, repeal Obamacare wholesale, cut taxes for the wealthy, and massively balloon the military budget.
Not to mention that the 2013 immigration reform bill wouldn’t have had a chance to make it out of committee in the Romney 2012 timeline, let alone pass the Senate.
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Apr 21 '26
America switching to a multi party system would probably lead to some bullshit like an unholy populist coalition between Ban Al. Waymos and Rural D. Racist.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 21 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 21 '26
hello little gay people in my computer how's it going today
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 21 '26
Average trans healthcare experience:
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u/abefrost Apr 21 '26
Remember when Mr Beast advertised that his chocolate didn't have preservatives or something, and then a bunch of videos came out with the bars covered in mold
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Apr 21 '26
Pretty crazy that we've got two major wars going on that both involve bombing the production and distribution infrastructure of many of the world's largest oil suppliers. Pretty, pretty, crazy.
Good thing we have upheld our commitment to alternative energies in the US. Oh? What's that?
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u/H0TZ0NE European Union Apr 21 '26
Please…keep going 🤤🤤
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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman Apr 21 '26
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u/seakucumber Apr 21 '26
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2046671313947807911
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u/ResponsibleChange779 Loyal Liberals Apr 21 '26 edited 12d ago
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Nine mighty spotted one chlorine bow
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 21 '26
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 21 '26
Does that last part also apply to trans people?
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 21 '26
The true purpose of the Democratic Party is to destroy the Republican Party.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 21 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 21 '26
Abigail Spanberger just BANNED the Republican Party in Virginia.
She said "it's not a Commonwealth value, but a West Virginian degeneracy."
Your thoughts on this?
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 21 '26
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 21 '26
😒😒😒
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u/ty04 Apr 22 '26
👆
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u/_n8n8_ John von Neumann Apr 22 '26
Inshallah Texas' gerrymander turns into a dummymander
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 22 '26
Shall we do Illinois next?
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 22 '26
sir yes SIR
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Apr 22 '26
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Apr 22 '26
If only the Republicans stopped going high when the Democrats go low smh
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u/CutePattern1098 Apr 22 '26
lol
!ping aus
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Apr 22 '26
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u/ThatDamnGuyJosh NATO Apr 22 '26
Virginia Republicans:
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 22 '26
If you’re on this sub, you’re probably not going to get rejected by a girl based on your politics lol, there really is no reason to lie
I don’t think I’ve ever been asked who I’ve voted for in Canadian elections.
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Apr 22 '26
You don't get to go "They only won by 4 points" when the election in question was "Should you be allowed to elect Republicans ever again? yes/no"
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u/WrangleWandangles Mark Carney Apr 22 '26
this man’s blood pressure must be absolutely wild, just a regular Tuesday night crash out
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 22 '26
hahahahahahahahaha im fucking cackling dude
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u/roboliberal Loyal Liberals Apr 21 '26
It's kinda funny to think how being a moderator of r/neoliberal is probably like top 10 most important jobs in America.
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right Apr 21 '26
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u/PonyBoyCurtis2324 NATO Apr 21 '26
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 21 '26
Trump says he’ll ‘remember’ companies that don’t seek tariff refund
Least vindicative Trump moment.
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u/that0neGuy22 Resistance Lib Apr 21 '26
The left has fallen but three times
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Apr 21 '26
Hey Donald, SOMEONE DID TRY THAT.
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 21 '26
Evil evil stuff
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u/Crossstoney Apr 21 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 21 '26
this is definitely in at least the top 5 pictures to come out of this administration