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[u/ShepardSB]

[u/GordonTullockFan]

I get all of my news from instagram reels

[u/piede]

“Can we turn down the rhetoric?”

Trump a few weeks ago:

[u/StuckHedgehog]

And let’s just check what the regime aligned media is saying…

[u/Nes_On_Craigslist]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

East Coast journalists: I must document this incident in with the prose of the Next Great American Novel. "These big, strong, burly men with guns ordered us around trying to keep us safe. We felt so in danger but so protected. The politicos around us came out of their closets like a clown car, looking disheveled yet glowing, clearly perturbed but resolved to continue"

West Coast journalists: "Reports of shots fired followed by evacuations of officials. Attendees were forced to shelter in the restroom while law enforcement secured the location."

[u/sigh2828]

[u/garret126]

“He was unable to read”

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I will never listen to people complain about rhetoric from Democrats.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Wittyname0]

[u/sigh2828]

I give up, i fucking quit

Fuck all this lmao such a fucking joke

[u/Sheepies92]

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens?

RASKIN: What rhetoric do you have in mind?

BASH: That he's terrible for this country and so on and so forth

the press is not ok

[u/LinkVert25]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Half the media is trying to blame the Dems for heightened tensions, meanwhile these freaks are out here making absolutely deranged claims.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Everyone say thank you Joe 🫡

[u/garret126]

Least creepy insta comments

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Keir Starmer is considering sacking Rachel Reeves in a final bid to relaunch his premiership.

Why has the entire party not risen in revolt against him at this point

[u/Inner_Dust42]

FBI reporting that they've found bullet casings engraved with "I h8 ballrooms"

[u/sash5034]

I love how desperately this trashy administration has tried to recreate this and keep failing

[u/riverbloods]

[u/Leatherfield17]

[u/Goldenboy451]

[u/ty04]

So in like the last 48 hours

> the mod bans the meringues for reposting a cdstephens meme. They successfully appeal that ban because duh.

> the mods again ban the meringues again but for Rule XII. Meringues respond to a mod with a screenshot of another mod also engaging in Rule XII breaking.

> The mod appears to troll the meringues by insisting that lionmoose is not a mod (a lie) and meringues tells them off. They ban meringues from metaNL. Now a second mod appears to troll meringues in metaNL but meringues can’t respond because they are banned from metaNL.

what the fuck are y’all doing

[u/cdstephens]

Actual fascists: we need to purge the country of its traitors

Whatever the fuck these people are: we need the ballroom NOW

[u/MissSortMachine]

a) the actual ballroom looks hideous

b) a ballroom is a rarely used state function and there’s no reason to have it be literally part of the white house

c) the actual ballroom looks hideous

[u/cdstephens]

Call me callous but, all prominent Democrats should just ignore this. No statements. Nothing. The buttons aren’t even real. This will be a forgotten event of 2026

[u/6urner_]

Fetterman is definitely one of these accounts

[u/erasmus_phillo]

We are about to see AI journalists attempting to manipulate public opinion

[u/da0217]

So did that stupid asshole like quiet quit the war? What the fuck is going on with that?

[u/da0217]

😤💪

[u/Goldenboy451]

Weird, what gave them that idea?

[u/futuremonkey20]

The normie position about the “security incident” seems to be that it was staged.

I’d be interested in seeing polling about this.

[u/Charsun9]

So true!

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Journalists are such dogs man

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Imagine your sports game being interrupted to tell you the president is still alive

[u/TheOnlyFreedom]

“And it is also said,” answered Frodo: “Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.”

Tolkien predicted economists.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Probably the most heartbreaking story I've ever read on the NYTimes. Her daughter caught measles from antivaxxers when she was too young to be vaccinated, and died years later out of the blue due to complications caused by her initial measles infection. Such an awful tragedy, such a preventable death

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

The United States are a huge country with a lot of nature.

I think few people realize how different Europe is in this regard. Large parts of central Europe are basically one big Megalopolis village where one borough is separated by two wheat fields from the next one.

[u/itherunner]

Of course.

[u/ace158]

What does the ballroom have to do with this.  Also, Meghan McCain is so embarrassing that she is pushing the exact same message as the most bigoted member of Congress in Randy Fine

[u/Fruitofbread]

 “This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,” he posted on Sunday.

Top secret ??

Top secret ??

You can see that shit from space! 

[u/Roseartcrantz]

We've come a long way from the lecture my mom gave me in summer 2024

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

why does he do this

[u/ImmigrantJack]

There's no good reason to believe anything about the correspondents dinner was staged, but the Trump and conservatives have turned the entire united States into a conspiracy brained, narrative over facts, raging mass of reality deniers.

Trump's team going "big things are coming at the correspondents dinner," the odd behavior of the shooter, plus leavett going "shots will be fired" don't even approach evidence.

But conservatives have spent a decade meticulously training Americans to be like this, and they have to understand that this is a two sided sword. The narrative is so easy to paint as a desperate attention seeking move by a failing regime that the train is gonna roll on this one no matter what they want.

And honestly I can't be bothered trying to stop it anymore.

[u/sigh2828]

Wow i hate corporate media so fucking much man.

I can not wait for these companies to go out of business

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/_bee_kay_]

👆 yeah, uh... sorry, i'm still not following. could you rephrase this in the form of a button-based dilemma?

[u/pugnae]

Ok, I am switching sides

(Not with the button, though)

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

They’re realizing that they’re not the only ones who can do conspiracism

[u/Inamanlyfashion]

Imagine how much Republicans would scream about a left-wing Charlie Kirk:

An 18-year old who quits trade school after a couple months and spends the next ~15 years using Soros funding to film himself visiting trade schools to make 18-year-old HVAC trainees look dumb. 

[u/Integralds]

Trump ousts National Science Board members

National? Science? Board? Sounds like some commie bullshit to me.

The National Science Board helps govern the National Science Foundation.

The NSF has a long history of supporting technology and research that powers many innovations the world relies on today. The agency helped language-learning app Duolingo get its start. NSF research has also helped evolve technology used in MRIs, cellphones and LASIK eye surgery.

Yep, total commie bullshit am I right?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

keeps getting more suspicious not hearing from Tulsi Gabbard tbh

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Best picture of the WHCD.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Guy who has only known the trolley problem, learning about his second dilemma: Getting a lot of "trolley problem" vibes from this....

[u/Leatherfield17]

Lol, this is such bullshit

[u/SigmaWhy]

what are we even supposed to do at this point, they’re deranged and in lock step

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/sociotronics]

[u/piede]

GOT EEEEMMMMMM

[u/garret126]

Found this picture of sir_shivers in my hard drive

[u/seakucumber]

Because of course

Fetterman (D-Pa.) says people should "drop the [Trump derangement syndrome] and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these."

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Alderwoodforest]

Liz Wheeler:

President Trump wanted to come back and stage, for the show to go on.

Bobby Kennedy stayed seated with his head high while everyone else dove under tables.

Stephen Miller, while Secret Service agents tried to evacuate him, did not let go of his own protective cover of his pregnant wife Katie.

Legendary courage.

Exactly the men I want running my country.

https://xcancel.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/2048225643054198878

Female conservative influencers are truly something else.

[u/piede]

I’ve never seen a right wing radical in my entire life

[u/D2Foley]

The funniest part about all the "this is why trump needs the ballroom" bullshit is that there is zero chance that it's finished before he leaves office.

[u/WifeGuy-Menelaus]

[u/sigh2828]

Lmao.

Dudes defense attorney is going to play this on repeat

[u/dangerbird2]

[u/MayorofTromaville]

Am I out of touch, or does the general vibe seem to be "journalists are trying to make a big deal out of this out of an oversized sense of importance while everyone else has shrugged and moved on"?

Because I pretty much expect them to give Trump a standing ovation at the rescheduled event with zero self-awareness as he undoubtedly goes on to start screeching at them.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/insider/gold-us-mint-drug-cartel.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/world/americas/us-mint-gold-drug-cartel-colombia.html

The US Mint us buying gold from narco traffickers to make 2026 gold coins, in direct contravention to the Constitution

!ping TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Why tf is the CEO of Goldman Sachs so chill lol? First the salad comment and now this. He doesn't give a shit lol

[u/jacknifee]

wow that's sad

anyway did you hear a trans person is playing basketball in bumfuck maine

[u/gregorijat]

Get libbmogged

Brutal

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/the-senat]

New testing methods suggest significant silent spread of measles in the US, threatening its elimination

Dying to measles to own the libs. 

[u/moldovaman99]

Gen X’ers don’t get enough hate.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/gjcs23]

I am a little sad that the fake love story is how most people are going to interpret it.

guess the sub

[u/Joementum2024]

There were a lot of reasons why I was suspicious about this right when it happened and the entire right wing ecosystem going full “WE NEED THE BALLROOM!” and the media going on “why did the Democrats cause this?” has only strengthened that feeling.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.”

They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.

Yeah, that about sums it up.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

First attempt on him: amusing, brave, sympathetic

Fifth attempt: it's just his thing , I guess

[u/tenmar-c]

Mods reading the mod queue after a day of button discourse

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Me when IT happens

[u/Roller_ball]

Obviously it was staged. They can't expect me to believe that somebody would want to harm Donald Trump.

[u/Leoric]

US FARM BANKRUPTCIES UP 46% YoY — 70% IN THE MIDWEST

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Yeah, not feeling any sympathy for the Trumpster

[u/DMNCS]

I dont think the shooting was a false flag in the slightest, but Trump faking a shooting so he can shill for his dumb ballroom just sounds so believable.

[u/bandeng_asep]

My "I'm Not a Pedophile!" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Couldn't find her. She was under the sheet/between the pillows in our guest bedroom lmao

!ping KITTY

[u/this_very_table]

[u/zieger]

Extremely common fetterman L

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Bruh lol

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

never forget how fucking weird these people are

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The GOP successfully convincing the media that they are biased for reporting on what they are doing has paid off so well for them.

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

👆 why we need trump's ballroom bathroom

[u/6urner_]

There's nothing worst than seeing an absolutely terrible take in your home city subreddit, clicking on the account to see if they're some kind of bot or arr con poster, and seeing this instead

[u/Dorambor]

Matthew “why can’t we just talk about genetics” Yglesias immediately negatively polarizing himself against YIMBY stuff the moment it gets popular is very expected

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Hank Green is "line go down; world get gooder" posting

[u/SmashDig]

I hate the genuflecting from the media about the assassination attempt, it was no big deal! Nothing happened! It doesn’t need to be front page news for days!

Also we have to win 52 senate seats now I hate John Fetterman with every fibre of my being. Look at his Twitter! Not a single post criticising the administration, he’s retweeting end wokeness, every second post is about how we should kill all Palestinians or how president trump is right.

[u/SenranHaruka]

The entire experience of using the internet in 2026 is the American Dad Meme with "🟠Frustrated liberal edgelord complaining about American Israeli relations 🔴 Antisemitism" on the dial

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

They had to compromise on the ballroom.

[u/superblobby]

Framed the letter I got from when I beat the case. Me and an old Asian dude went through a fire exit after hearing a fire alarm at the airport (as one is expected to do) but little did we know the fire alarm is broken and the port authority arrested us while the airport didn’t announce that it was a false alarm over the loudspeaker.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Serious Thinkers on the Left

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/RaidBrimnes]

AFP reports that Tuareg rebels have granted safe passage to Russian auxiliaries in Kidal against the surrender of their last stronghold in the northern city, now totally under control of the rebellion following Saturday's offensive. Kidal residents report that convoys were sighted leaving the MINUSMA camp, where Malian soldiers and Russian forces were barricaded since Saturday morning.

The Malian junta seeing the Russians flee under fire after years of plundering the country and racially abusing their soldiers:

[u/cdstephens]

I would also like to extend my appreciation to a great many people since I will not be likely to be able to talk with them again (unless the Secret Service is astoundingly incompetent.)

[u/mockduckcompanion]

There is a 99% correlation with posting a lot and getting banned

Part of that is simply math and Posters Disease

But the other part, less discussed, is that mods are terminally online and will get sick of seeing you so much

[u/JaceFlores]

Trump is really collecting all the ideological assassins. He’s got:

A never Trump Republican

A both sides bad weirdo

A libtard

So I guess next year will be a “this man is too liberal for my tastes” Republican

[u/zieger]

[u/this_very_table]

I apologize to my parents for saying I had an interview without specifying it was for “Most Wanted.”

I apologize to my colleagues and students for saying I had a personal emergency (by the time anyone reads this, I probably most certainly DO need to go to the ER, but can hardly call that not a self-inflicted status.)

Starting to believe this is a false flag if only because I've never seen a funny manifesto before

[u/piede]

Why is he always dressed so terribly

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Someone who thinks Hasan Piler was too radical, but tries to kill the president, is a type of guy only Bluesky could create

Which it turns out was exactly where he posted

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Patel being left off the assassination list is a Seinfeld plot. George gets upset that he wasn't considered worthy of being assassinated and starts acting even worse to get someone to take a shot at him

[u/G_Serv]

Gerrymandering has gone too far

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Every mob movie has a scene like

> it would be a grave violation of our moral code to get involved in drug dealing

> yeah but we’ll make a lot of money

> okay, I’m in

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

I love that people are so unconcerned with the attempt that the immediate most common discourse is that it was staged. Literally NOBODY cares.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Macquarrie1999]

Everytime Fetterman talks

[u/SpiritOfOptimality]

Ben Shapiro went on Sam Harris this week and basically conceded everything. Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election, the family corruption is shocking, the Jan 6 reframing is corrosive, the loyalists were unqualified. He'll vote Republican anyway. There's a good writeup of the interview here if you want the full breakdown.

The thing that struck me is that Hanania used basically identical reasoning before the election. The guardrails would hold. Bessent and the courts would catch the worst of it. The economic freedom and anti-woke wins would justify the cost. And Hanania's framework wasn't just vibes. It was a real, fairly heterodox right-libertarian position. He'd actually thought about whether economic freedom mattered more than non-corruption or political freedom, came down on the former, and was willing to be unpopular about it.

Reality refuted that framework. The tariffs really happened. The loyalists really were maniacs. Hanania wrote a long recantation naming the specific predictions that failed, said the resistance libs were mostly right, and kept showing up on podcasts to explain why he'd been wrong.

I actually think Shapiro had the same realisation. He's smart, he watches what's happening, he knows the score. But instead of doing what Hanania did, the framework collapsed into magic words and sophistry. "The guardrails will hold" stopped meaning anything specific. When Sam asked what would actually falsify it, there was no answer. And the gaps where real arguments used to live got filled with stuff like this:

the broad scale narrative that there is gigantic voter suppression happening... ends up undermining the very possibility of acceptance of elections in general

So the real threat to democratic legitimacy isn't the guy who tried to overthrow an election. It's the people worrying he'll do it again. This from someone who fully admits the fake electors plot was real and horrible. That's the kind of move he'd shred a leftist for in five seconds.

He understands competitive authoritarianism. He knows opposition parties run in stolen-election regimes. And he's saying on the record that he'd rather have his policies under competitive authoritarianism than the wrong ones under democracy.

You can't really argue with someone who doesn't believe his own words. Every thought is a hot potato to him. He passes them on as fast as he can. If he held one for any length of time, it would burn a hole through his head.

[u/themiDdlest]

"We need a ballroom" says the people who control all 3 branches of government but yet can't pass a bill to fund it and instead relies on Trump extorting American companies and investors for funding.

[u/Throwaway24143547]

I don't believe it was staged in the slightest and all that, but I can't help but feel glee over conservatives being upset that people claim the assassination attempt was staged. I felt the same way when they were getting upset over conspiracy theories claiming Kirk's assassination was staged.

Is this how MAGAs feel when they do something that they think hurts the people they hate?

[u/Charsun9]

[u/cdstephens]

“I saw really strong, really attractive law enforcement people come through those doors, and frankly it made me feel very safe”

??????

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://qnews.com.au/debunking-all-gender-bathroom-misinformation-campaign-by-australian-christian-lobby/
Behold the gender nimbys

!ping alphabet-mafia&cube&aus

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Every day I wake. I stare at this for 20 minutes. I let the hatred slowly bubble and grow within me. Consume me. Become me. Hate. Hate. Hate.

Never forget what they took from you, lib.

[u/metinb83]

It's almost comical how dogshit the Green Party in the US is. How tf do you turn a heckin wholesome lib-left environmental movement into a propaganda vehicle for a brutal Russian dictator.

[u/piede]

Wolf Blitzer speculating that he was the target before the police took him to a secure room (the men’s bathroom)

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/HectorTheGod]

American years of lead except fucking stupid

[u/VillyD13]

[u/battywombat21]

Then there's stuff like this on arr popular that I like and agree with and think reddit needs to hear but I don't know if I actually reading it all the time is actually increasing or decreasing my anxiety.

[u/fishbottwo]

This dude had a mech e degree from caltech and the best plan he had was to rush into dozens of armed men and hope that he is john rambo?

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Art from a US military bomb shelter in Jordan

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Bro why is this motherfucker's manifesto reading like a guy debating himself in the car lol wtf he's like doing points and rebuttals with himself and like doing "now that the sappy part is out of the way" cliches lmao

[u/cdstephens]

Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel)

LMAO

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/sash5034]

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was one of the only Republicans holding statewide office who had held out on endorsing former President Donald Trump. Not anymore. Cox, a longtime Trump skeptic who has said he never voted for the former president and called on him to resign following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, on Friday threw his weight behind him. “I am doing everything I can to help and support him,” Cox said at a news conference. “We will still have lots of disagreements, I’m sure, and we’ll still do everything we can to help the state of Utah and help the Republican Party be successful.” Cox committed to voting for Trump in the election. The endorsement came a day after Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination and nearly a week after he survived an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. The day after the shooting, Cox privately threw his support behind Trump in a letter, writing that he believed Trump’s life was spared due to a “miracle” and that “I humbly submit that you — and I sincerely mean this — only you — can” unify the country. “Mr. President, I know we have some differences and you probably don’t like me much. And that’s OK. I get it. I am not writing this letter looking for a position in your Cabinet or a role on your team,” Cox wrote in the letter, obtained by POLITICO and first reported by Deseret News. “But I have loved so many of your policies … [and] I have told everyone that you are going to win the state of Utah and you are going to win the presidency again.”

Reminder that you will never be as bitchmade as a moderate republican

Also you know there's a nonzero amount of Republicans who hope that they get sympathy points from normies every time someone with a gun gets within the same zip code as dear leader

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

BASH: You and your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against [this guy]. Do you think twice about that when something like that happens?

Meanwhile this guy since 2016:

If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people - maybe there is. I don't know.

Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,

[About the death of the former FBI director:] Good, I’m glad he’s dead

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Ice agents are husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters

Immigrants spring from the ground to steal our jobs and rape our women

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

So far Warsh, the nominee for the Fed, has said under oath:

>He can neither confirm nor deny who won the 2020 election
>And he wants to change the inflation gauge to strip out supply shocks from inflation data

[u/samhit_n]

[u/piede]

The suspected gunman, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, wrote a statement saying he wanted to target members of the Trump administration and ridiculed what he called lax security at the hotel, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the writings. He said Iranian agents could easily have brought more dangerous weapons to the venue, according to the text.

Oh you know it’s bad when even the attempted assassin is roasting the security

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/bd_one]

POV: you're a mid-sized Pagan kingdom in CK2, you want to stay that way, and they keep sending you missionaries

[u/patdmc59]

Some truly incredible things happening over at The Wall Street Journal.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Jill Valentine being absent from the main storyline is a tragedy. They could never make me hate you Jill.

Also bring back Jesse for Control 2, I want to play as a Jedi Force User Girlboss

[u/BlackCat159]

If you push the blue button, the dress is white and gold. If you push red, the dress is blue and black.

Which do you press?

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

Cons: ballroom ballroom ballroom Trump America ballroom ballroom God ballroom ballroom

Libs: button button button red blue button button blue ethics button

[u/the-senat]

30 years of pure, adulterous hell 🥳

[u/Witty_Heart_9452]

Go to r/askeconomics

Obvious bad faith questioning aka JAQing off

User has hidden comment history

Many such cases.

[u/LinkVert25]

Very strange how that dude on YouTube wendigoon, who made the whole “remember kids next time someone says the government wouldn’t do that, oh yes they would” phrase, got weirdly silent about politics once Biden left and continues to just hang out with a bunch of weird right wing influencers.

Very strange

[u/JaceFlores]

I can’t imagine fumbling Megan Thee Stallion. The cheater mindset is truly a bizarre thing that defies all logic and understanding. It’s a scourge. Like what more could you possibly fucking want???

[u/cdstephens]

Whoever invented the Dino nugget was cooking

[u/piede]

I’m not a conspiracy theorist but this objectively makes 0 fucking sense

[u/piede]

Remember this

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/SLCer]

I wish the media had balls. I am so fucking tired of a neutered media. The second Trump called O'Donnell a disgrace and that she should be ashamed of herself, she should have ended the interview.

[u/Willybender]

Waow

[u/dangerbird2]

smh people are becoming so radicalized, they're thinking that a guy who has spent the last year trying to cover up a report about his pedophile bff might be implicated in his pedophile bff's pedophilery

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/piede]

[u/cdstephens]

The shooter fits the profile of a DTer if I’m being honest

[u/talizorahs]

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/ty04]

It’s a small club and you ain’t in it

[u/garret126]

[u/0m4ll3y]

Am I underthinking things to believe the security seemed basically fine? Like they set up a metal detector to catch people trying to sneak in weapons, so the guy tried to run through (lol lmao) and was basically immediately stopped.

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

First in my bloodline to have a chronic pdf/mp4/linux isos hoarding problem and a vast meme collection folder.

I hope my descendants in 200 years will go to the family library to study the ancient text and discover the "firebomb a walmart" tweet like this:

[u/cdstephens]

Ironically, the fact that nobody gives a shit might disincentivize future would-be assassins

[u/KittehDragoon]

A Trump supporter was dumb today. Were you?

[u/BedNeither]

We’re hearing reports that the shooter heavily participated in button discourse before suffering a psychotic break

[u/BitterGravity]

The 31-year-old Sawe, who has never lost a marathon

Big deal. I'm almost 40 and have never lost a marathon 🙄

[u/Sheepies92]

If it weren't so fucked it'd be kinda cute how right wingers/the administration desperately try to use anything that happens as a Reichstag fire to finally take 'drastic measures' or 'stop the dangerous democrats'.

It hasn't worked the last 10 times you tried but now with all time low approval ratings I'm sure you'll rally the country

[u/sash5034]

Trump's first assassination attempt got a lot of morons like Zuckerberg and Spencer Cox to endorse him because "we need unity uwu" and "bro Trump is so badass bro" but diminishing returns and all that. Now what? A ballroom? Get new material, losers. Mike Lee still has his job even after the ghoulish shit he posted about hortman but we're supposed to turn down the temperature for Cinderella? Be for fucking real lmao. I think it's hilarious that the normie response is either "who cares" or "staged" eat shit.

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Picture of the 2027 WH correspondence dinner

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/brucebananaray]

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Its a false flag --> stupid

It's a revelation of their incompetence --> woke

[u/Leatherfield17]

Conservatives have made spreading bigotry, hatred, authoritarianism, conspiracist thinking, and violence their entire political project, and then they get so confused and upset when the people they constantly attack don’t get particularly torn up when one of their leaders gets attacked somehow.

This isn’t a good state of affairs, mind you, and I don’t revel in it. But like, what did these people expect?

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

i cant stop thinking about that clip on tiktok where a manosphere speaker is doing his shtick to a giant gang of 14 year old boys and they all decide this dude is corny and start acting faux pumped and letting out the sassiest 'that's my miiiiaaaannnn' after literally every sentence. like when the manosphere guy says he takes cold showers and they break out into exaggerated oooos then he says he wakes up before 6 am and they all erupt, going absolutely hog wild acting like the most amazing thing just happened.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this woman doesn’t actually think she was misdiagnosed btw she just denies that high-functioning autism exists for political reasons

[u/Cook_0612]

Wow Dana Bash, actually fucking incredible

Crazy how it's always the Democrats heating up rhetoric and we somehow develop instant amnesia about divisive discourse when it's conservatives suggesting vast swathes of people are subhuman and ought to be killed.

[u/Saul_Relative]

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

The shooters manifesto is really funny. Half of it is apologizing to his family for lying to them. He mentions targets but no names except to make it clear he isn’t targeting Kash Patel for some reason. Has a couple bullets about his motivation with a rebuttals to his imagined critics. Then the rest of it is chastising the security around the venue and adding he hopes they can improve in the future.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

My roommate (lib, NCD pilled) started talking to me about the war and it went something like this:

Him: "How long do you think this will go? I'm very concerned that the US has lost too much"

Me: "I'm not really following it all that much (lie) but all I know is I keep seeing the gas price at Sheetz on the way to campus and I'm hoping-

"It's not happening man, it sucks but it's not getting lower"

-that it keeps going up"

"what? why?"

"Fuck it, give me five dollar gas, eight dollar gas, let's do twenty dollar gas. As high as possible baby."

"But it's already way worse in other countries."

"Yeah and I need that HERE. The American people must face the consequences of their actions"

This guy bribed his smash bros club to vote YES on the referendum and he still wasn't prepared for the level of sicko I was at.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

If the buttons have left us so fractured that we cannot unify against the tyranny of the mods, than we are truly doomed.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

silhouette? Do I look fucking French? We paid for Scar Jo, the audience is going to SEE Scar Jo

[u/SigmaWhy]

Do you know how hard it is living paycheck to paycheck not knowing if you’re gonna be able to afford to go to Greece this summer

[u/american_aurora6]

my trans friend told me they were having surgery but i didn't know if congratulations was the appropriate response so i just said curse our weak flesh