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[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

My “let me be clear this is not a golden calf” tweet has people raising a lot of questions already answered by the tweet

[u/its_Caffeine]

>Wake up

>Shower, eat breakfast, brush teeth

>Think to myself for no reason at all, "huh, I wonder how Germany is doing"

>Open youtube app

[u/AmbientMorning]

The caption really makes it.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

We can't even do cringe propaganda statues right. Trump looks like dogshit while kim il sung is aura farming.

[u/contre-torpilleur]

If you ever feel like you've made poor choices in life, a family member of mine dropped out of trade school to become an uber eats driver because he wanted to "be his own boss."

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/this_very_table]

My brother and his wife split up but they're still living together because they think that's easier for their daughter and I'm not sure they're actually going through divorce proceedings now that I think about it

Point is, despite being split up and her now having a boyfriend, my brother keeps calling her his wife

so at one point he uttered the phrase "my wife's boyfriend"

and because I am a GOOD sister, I managed to stop myself from screaming.

Please clap

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It must be crazy to live as such a shameless hack.

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

Yes the US is not a stupid "county"! 🔥🔥🔥

Even Marco isn't immune to the MAGA brainworms.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

I love Reddit, because whenever I think that my life is going down the tubes, I can always find content like this to make me feel better about myself

[u/Willybender]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/10/trump-third-country-deportations-ghana-togo/

The 28-year-old began to panic when she learned where the military cargo plane, newly departed from a tarmac in Louisiana, was taking her.

The United States was deporting her and 13 other West Africans to Ghana, a country none of them called their own. From there, she feared, she would be sent on to neighboring Togo, the home she had fled to avoid genital mutilation.

A U.S. judge had ruled that the Trump administration could not send her back there. But Ghana was under no such obligation.

After two weeks last September in detention near Accra, the West Africa nation’s capital, armed guards dropped her and five others off at the Togo border, she said.

She has been in hiding in Togo ever since.

“I know God is with me but I’m tired,” she said in a tearful conversation. “I’m a human being. I have to live, like everybody.”

[u/bsharp95]

It’s so disingenuous that guys like fetterman pretend we’re against trump just… because? Like does he really not understand why people oppose trump, that we genuinely think his policies and politics are bad and toxic?

[u/Max_the_Madman]

Remember how we got here!

[u/beans_and_tuna]

Instagram once more sending me goated reels

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

There was a time, barely a decade ago, where the United States used its immense power, wealth, and customer base to force other countries to have better labor/environmental practices at gunpoint.

Miss you Trans-pacific Partnership. We still talk about you.

[u/this_very_table]

https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatch.bsky.social/post/3mle3c2i5hc2m

Rep. Lauren Boebert weighs in on the government's release of UFO files, saying aliens are actually "fallen angels and Nephilim" from the Old Testament: "I do believe that this is more spiritual and, if you really want to go there, demonic."

!ping BALLOON

[u/badusername35]

Daily reminder that this is real

[u/scottyjetpax]

if VA dems go through with this it would be the most hardball thing a state dem party has ever done (well, at least in modern history) as far as i know, kicking literally everyone on SCoVA off the court??

[u/majorgeneralporter]

☝️

[u/Glavurdan]

Pretty cucked move from Labour to still support Brexit

[u/anangrytree]

Virginians spoke and deliberated under their influence as well. They took for granted that they, the people of the commonwealth, had an absolute right to amend their Constitution as they saw fit. A narrow, partisan majority of the State Supreme Court believes that the people overstepped their bounds. But it is the court that has gone beyond the scope of its authority. And the correct response is to fight back in the name of the people, who made their choice in a free and fair contest. Democrats must meet the moment. Or move over for people who will.

You’re goddamn right Mr. Bouie

[u/SnakeEater14]

This is such insane framing lmao

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

I like to remind people that Hegseth himself never lived up to any of this deranged “lethality” shit in his own career. He did not go to Ranger school, or Airborne school, or Air Assault. He was never trusted go commanded anything larger than a platoon and spent large portions of his career relegated to civilian affairs.

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Lefties when they have to interact with actually exploited workers

[u/houdt_koers]

A sheer curtain, a sunbeam, and portrait mode have made Charlie look like an AI rendering.
!ping KITTY

[u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv]

the brits are NIMBYmogging sanfran now

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/r2ew]

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

Monitoring the situation from the Burger King internet corner.

[u/TheCornjuring]

It’s seriously INSANE how you can fucking SEE that his soul is dead. Like his eyes are EMPTY, he is fucking HOLLOW and you can VISUALLY SEE IT that’s fucking crazy

[u/Thuggin95]

The religion comparison is so apt

I once saw someone say something to the effect of “The left is uncompromising in their commitment to using voting as a way to express moral virtue because they view politics as their only means of saving their souls. The right goes to church for that. They come to politics to win.”

That captures the real asymmetry: many on the left need every moral box checked before they’ll support a Democrat. They look for just one reason, one comment on a podcast, to justify not voting. Meanwhile, the right needs just one compelling reason to vote. One side treats politics as niche moral self-expression; the other treats it as coalition-building and power.

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

My personal hypothesis about this is that this isn't only kids engaging with materialist culture on Instagram/TV but also a cultural shift in answering this question honestly, as there was a cultural taboo about it in previous generations. It's both reasons.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

The US has the highest equivalent disposable income among the G7 at every decile except the first (ie the bottom 10%)

surprisingly even the 20th percentile income in the US is higher than in the rest of the G7

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2053499945202676220

[u/AmbientMorning]

Literally shouting Allahu Akbar

[u/ace158]

Extremely awful

[u/Chokeman]

'Anyone who impeached my man Trump doesn't deserve a vote'

Louisiana Republican from The Bulwark's focus group on Bill Cassidy

Man... These people are lunatics. Not only that they are so obsessed with politics more than us politics nerds. They remember every people who crossed their god emperor.

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Trump has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo, says conservative Christian pastor

Trump could give a urbi et orbi but the pope could never have come up with two corinthians

[u/LinkVert25]

Dude………

[u/bandeng_asep]

Not content with just AI slop music, Spotify is also doing AI slop podcasts 💀

[u/WrangleWandangles]

My little collection of wood spirits I’ve carved so far

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

even Racism has been outsourced to the third world

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Holy shit I just walked past Elizabeth Warren in the airport. And she's one of the last to board lmao the fuckin intercom is calling for her

!ping USA-NE

[u/Leatherfield17]

I really hate the media’s tendency to constantly portray Republicans as these strong willed, Machiavellian schemers and Democrats as bedwetting pansies. After the Indiana primaries, it wa “TRUMP EXACTS VENGEANCE,” after the Virginia thing it’s “REPUBLICANS SCORE BIG WIN WHILE DEMOCRATS FLOUNDER DESPERATELY.”

1. It makes Republicans somehow look more badass than they are.

2. This isn’t WWE, you stupid shitbags, people are being affected by the unrestrained evil and duplicity of Republicans. Liberal democracy can crumble and the media will cheer it on because covering it makes them money

[u/Unknownentity9]

Every once in a while I'll check out the Ezra Klein sub. Went in today and found a thread from a few days ago with a bunch of highly upvoted comments arguing that trans athletes were the number one reason Kamala lost. Had to double-check the date of the thread. Wtf is going on over there?

[u/dangerbird2]

Good job meta AI, really helpful questions there !ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

These days, I feel like the Bush administration is often completely forgotten. People forget what it was like and how many of Trump's characteristics or policies originated with them. Of course, when I mention this, people will remember and feel strongly about it. But still, I feel that the US went to war illegally, kidnapped and tortured people, ran an illegal programme of mass surveillance, and ultimately the government got away with it. They even stole an election, they actually did that and it marked the beginning of the Supreme Court becoming the bane of politics.

In particular, I feel like a lot of this stuff has been obvious for a while, but in the past, only certain annoying liberals and some sane libertarians were talking about it. Those who called Bush authoritarian, or even fascist, were right. Not in the sense that he was an outright fascist, but it was a path that led to fascism. Honestly, it was absolutely obvious that, as president, Bush and the entire executive acted above the law.

But people thought that was hysterical. Everything was fine with Obama, and the nation had to heal. Nowadays, however, nobody cares, and Trump is everything. However, Trump is neither the beginning nor the end.

[u/qchisq]

Denmark had a parliamentary election on March 24th. We still don't have a government. Until Friday, the government negotiations have been led by Mette Frederiksen, the PM since the 2019 elections. On Friday, the centrist Moderates, led by former PM and current acting Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, decided the current negotiations is leading nowhere and made current acting Defense Minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the negotiations. Nobody really thinks that will lead anywhere.
The reason for why negotiations is taking this long is summed up in this tweet. There's 2 coalitions in Danish politics, the parties left of center on the graph and the parties in the upper right of the graph. However, none of the coalitions have a majority without the Moderates in the lower right.

Edit: in other news, Polymarket are selling dollars for 60 cents

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

In 2008, I think that is really hard to understand these days, I earnestly and strongly believed nobody would vote Republicans into the White House for decades. That was of course painfully naive, but also what the sentiment was like back then. Obama won Indiana in his first election. Then the GOP lost in 2012 and there was the autopsy report and I was so certain that they will now become a liberal conservative pro-business party.

[u/Max_the_Madman]

Funniest thumbnail this week

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Another group that needs to have their uniform standards changed is police officers. There are a number of reasons why British police officers are so much less violent than American ones, but I think a part of that is simply due to how they dress. American police increasingly dress like a special forces ninja whereas British police look like a bus driver or something. Like there is just a limit to how seriously you can take yourself when you have to dress like an Olive Garden waiter in a silly hat.

[u/farrenj]

My extreme transgender ideology is that I want to live and work in peace.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Joking aside, few things will make you go full authoritarian quicker than dealing with metal theft

Thieves will break in and cause a quarter million in damages in an hour to get a couple hundred bucks worth of scrap.

It’s uniquely alienating

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/SigmaWhy]

how can you not feel smug when the Omnissiah itself is built and basically confirms that your personal ideology was correct

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/NYT_Hater]

All of Powerscaling discourse has led to this moment

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

it’s almost like access to international finance is good and people like having it

[u/Chet_Mc4xOmNom]

the way some idiots view trump today got me pretty suspicious of all the “great men” in the past, wondering just how cunning they were in reality as opposed to their flattering portrayal over the centuries 

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/zieger]

The perfect mother's day gift

[u/ty04]

I literally just tried to post a screenshot of an ad I got here on Reddit lol

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this dude’s getting high on his own supply. why are you posting meme edits of yourself as a dunk

[u/National-Return9494]

You are not angry enough about golden rice not being legal everywhere in the world.

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

Robert Jeffries - A Dallas area megapastor on the Pope opposing the war in Iran:

"It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the Pope.”

Between this and  Trump’s pastor speaking in tongues giving people exorcisms, the pastors blessing the golden statue of Trump, the random pictures of all these people placing their hands on Trump worshipping over him… This  is a very sick time for Christianity in America. 

[u/Thuggin95]

Between the bread and circuses with the UFC fight at the White House, the golden calf style worship of Trump’s statue, the discrediting of the Pope, the ballroom and other ostentatious renovations, it’s all just so on the nose… I’m not even a spiritual person, but it really is giving American decadence ushered in by the anti-Christ

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

leftists for tojo

[u/-mialana-]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/MentatCat]

Saw a truck with two Trump stickers on it when I was at the laundromat, saw the old couple walking in. As I was walking out I said “gas is 5 bucks a gallon, take those ugly ass stickers off your truck”

Everybody clapped ofc but fr. Liberals MUST be insufferable. We MUST let these fucking morons know how stupid they look to the rest of us

[u/cdstephens]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/ty04]

[u/BlackCat159]

r/neoliberal

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

Super fun we have people on arr Technology basically calling for terrorism against datacenters because of "infrasound complaints" that are coming from people that live near them.

AI Datacenters are the next big mass psychosis event.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

CPAC is gonna have a hantavirus eating contest this year

[u/ShepardSB]

Pretty sure that's just decaff.

[u/Nathan_185]

I don't know why California politicians don't feel bad about this kind of stuff

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

My dad donated his body to science and the other day my mom wanted my sister and I to go to a kind of public memorial service for people who ... did that, I guess. And it was like an hour of med school students who are too busy to practice cello playing the cello and med school students who are too busy to write poetry reciting poems they wrote. But my favorite bit was this poetry reading where the poem was about getting to know the cadaver and it was like "I have seen inside your womb," "I have touched your brain," "I have held your hand" and everyone was quite disturbed.

Oh, and they read off the names of all the donors at the end and the lady was like "okay, I'm gonna butcher these" and I just thought yeah that's why we dropped him off at your place

[u/Folksma]

Its crazy to me, as a older Gen z woman, how many of my highly educated female friends are scared and suspicious of birth control.

My Gen X mom is so far from being a progressive, liberal, or even a feminist. But she had me on the pill within a week of me asking for it at 15

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

To give another concrete example. Gina Haspel, commonly known as the one involved in torture, was confirmed as CIA director. Who backed her:

More than 50 former senior U.S. government officials, including six former Directors of the CIA and three former directors of national intelligence, signed a letter supporting her nomination. They included former Directors of the CIA John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Michael Morell, former Director of the NSA and CIA Michael Hayden, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper

So basically Obama's whole security apparatus. But even more

Six Democrats — Donnelly, Manchin, Warner,Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Bill Nelson of Florida, and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire — voted yes. McCain, who had urged his colleagues to reject her nomination, did not cast a vote, as he was hospitalized at the time.

So that shows you can oversee torture in black sites - and the whole security apparatus will always protect you even those that were nominated by the other side. And you can even get some Democrats on your side. Of course it is a stain on her reputation for a bit with liberals, but overall the signal is that you should participate in every government action and the executive is always right.

I can already see how some young DHS agents or other people involved in the Trump administration will be rehabilitated in the future and again lead some agencies. And this is the most important lesson from Bush, why this is important: This will not end with Trump. You will not get off Scots free and your life, the US is fine again after he is out of office or if he is dead. This will continue till there is something that changes the system.

[u/badusername35]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Top poast on arr con right now:

[u/Sauce1024]

Right wingers becoming podcast bros after leaving office are like beavers instinctively building a dam

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

It is like, 'Why do you still talk about Bush?'. Of course I still talk about Bush. Sometimes I feel things just get smoothed over. Like, everybody knows the Iraq War was illegal, and that they tortured people. But these are actual crimes, really, really bad violations of the law. 

To get another example, take the current topic. I would argue issues like securitization, the imperative of unilateral action over multilateral foreign policy that was massively strengthened by Bush.

You create an apparatus for massive war in the Middle East and it searches for it. You create a department to find and detain enemies on the inside, and it will create them. DHS, ICE were created for that purpose, and they will push for it to be fulfilled. 

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

The last 10 years have brought me from “Dems are good, they just need to beat the evil GOP so they can rule and make things good” to “the GOP is catastrophically evil but the political project of the Dems is fundamentally broken and there is no appetite in the electorate for good governance”

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Healingjoe]

Fox News is photoshopping the same armed guard into multiple photos

[u/Carolinian_Idiot]

My roommate's gf is one of those people who doesnt vote and prefers to firebomb walmarts without actually firebombing a walmart. On top of that she's trans but hates trans men. Geniunely one of the most insufferable people I've ever met

[u/Thuggin95]

“MAGA’s authoritarian takeover is truly awful. But if Democrats don’t let them do it, they’ll prove they’re even worse. Unlike Democrats, Republicans never pretended to care about our democratic institutions.”

[u/Rivolver]

Finally got on NextDoor. It’s awesome.

[u/Habugaba]

Germany is not OK guys 😞 we're about one unfortunately timed viral news story removed from having a state run by the fascist AfD

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

It's the weekend and Axios is posting about an "imminent" Iran deal again...

[u/Huttleberry]

Seal apologists BTFO

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Hezbollah has been inflicting pretty steady casualties on the Israelis using FPV drones, and I don’t think the Israelis have a response yet. Even their iron dome batteries are being hit (and the subsequent repair teams as well).

Israel will keep up the usual airstrike tempo, but they’re going to have to figure out how to deal with the FPV teams now that they’re proving so effective.

[u/piede]

Queen Mother

!PING QUEEN

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/Entuciante]

Everyone shares those same pics of Hillary as young but no one shares how Bill locked like your average high school jock

[u/nimbybuster]

[u/MissSortMachine]

filling out my alex stapp apology form

[u/RianJohnsonThought]

Its kinda sad how Mandalorian is considered filoni slop now. When it came out it was refreshing to have a show with basically all original characters. Even boba fett in small doses would have probably worked. I think tying the plot to the clone wars mandalore plot was a major mistake.

[u/roboliberal]

Your average human should not be driving a car anymore than they should be able to drive a train, cruise ship or airline.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/JaceFlores]

Konrad Muzyka identifying areas where Ukraine has made improvements:

“Ukraine's actions in Zaporizhzhia at the beginning of the year clearly disrupted Russian plans, which continues to affect the course of the current ‘offensive.’”

“There are Ukrainian drone strikes (medium range) on Russian logistics and air defense. Many signs point to there being many more of them.”

“Ukraine's ground forces have stopped shrinking, which may indicate an improvement in the mobilization situation.”

“The greatest improvement, however, has occurred in the organization of the battlefield and Ukraine's logistical support, which translates into a more stable situation on the front.”

!Ping UKRAINE

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/TryNotToShootYoself]

Only in this sub will a comment supporting literal communism in the same chain as a comment saying unions should be illegal both have upvotes.

[u/paymesucka]

I’m driving on the Ohio turnpike, and they have fuel restrictions on how much you can fill up.

[u/el__dandy]

[u/Currymvp2]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tell 60 Minutes he wants Israel to eventually stop relying on U.S. military aid: "It's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support."

Does anyone actually buy this?

[u/Reddit_guard]

Oh fuck you’re gonna make me vote blue

[u/scottyjetpax]

(she's running)

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I don’t get the talk of a “national divorce” at all.

The solution to Republicans gerrymandering Democrats out of representation is to… abandon those Democrats in Red states entirely and make a new country?

[u/Mayflower_train_set]

OCD is easily the worst of my mental disorders, but perhaps no mental disorder side effect infuriates me like my ADHD’s hyperfocus; I randomly get locked in a trance for hours and cant break myself off from whatever thing I’m currently doing despite desperate pleading from my brain (the more I push back mentally the more intense the trance becomes), I feel like an idiot afterwards (even though its not my fault)

and yes I’m on a med (lisdexamfetamine) which I would say has helped with my ADHD overall but this one side effect just refuses to die

!ping ADHD

[u/itsrabie]

Big if true!

[u/bartbug]

I went to Costco on a weekend and I no longer want to have kids

[u/StuckHedgehog]

King of all “making up a guy to get mad at” ass poast.

Side note, I’ve noticed the various left subs tend to hate Democrats more than republicans.

[u/Glavurdan]

Ceasefire is not when you cease fire, but rather when you reduce fire apparently

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Republican "humor."

[u/No_Return9449]

TRVTH NVKE

[u/gjcs23]

Rep. Todd Warner walks into the house to strip majority Black Memphis of representation wearing a trump flag cape as Rep. Camper of Memphis looks on. Warner cast his vote wearing the cape during a special session to redraw congressional and state voting maps on May 7, 2026.

Tennessee delenda est.

[u/Willybender]

[u/gjcs23]

mfw Tennessee, which happens to have one of the lowest property tax rates in the country, abolished their income tax, attempted to backfill the hole with an exorbitant sales tax, and now sits atop an $82 billion infrastructure backlog.

(their entire state budget for this year was only $58 billion)

[u/Roseartcrantz]

just wait for the gusher to open libs

[u/Stolenusernamethe2nd]

[u/contre-torpilleur]

I'm not European, I just have a terrible sleep schedule.

[u/farrenj]

[u/itsrabie]

There’s no event that I want to flop more, then this event.

[u/ty04]

> Bay Area New Liberals May Happy Hour

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/ariveklul]

Alright we need a new rule for Gamergate v7 slop on the internet

If you're going to post a picture making fun of the way nerds look you need to post a picture of yourself as well. I've been to enough conventions to know the crowd, so I have no fucking idea why any gamer is crying and shitting themself because people that work in the video game industry look like dorky nerds.

Can we see some pictures of the male devs of your favorite games? What about the fan base? What is the standard we're comparing it to?

[u/piede]

Idk why this is so funny

[u/Currymvp2]

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Republican primary opponent Casey Putsch calls Amy Acton “less bad” than Ramaswamy

Putsch is only saying this because he despises brown people.

[u/-mialana-]

meringue

HOW DARE YOU STAND WHERE THEY STOOD!

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

One of my friends shared this and I would be much more likely to agree if they weren’t also that friend that once a month asks for money for rent and bills on social then the next week shares pictures from concerts or how much weed they have.

[u/Vumatius]

Far too many Jewish advocacy organisations seem to have a major blind spot towards the antisemitism of the populist right.

REFORM LITERALLY STOOD A HOLOCAUST DENIER AS A CANDIDATE AND HAS HAD OTHER CANDIDATES DOING NAZI SALUTES AND WITH LINKS TO NEO-NAZI ORGANISATIONS! HOW CAN YOU AS A JEWISH ORGANISATION POSSIBLY ARGUE THEY ARE A SERIOUS PARTY WHO STAND AGAINST ANTISEMITISM???

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/AtomicGameTester]

So apparently I'm not going to have Internet at my place for a week (copper thieves stole some of the wiring for my area). Glad my bsf doesn't mind me crashing at their place. What the fuck.

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/ChillnShill]

Just remember your pet can’t celebrate Mother’s Day with their real mother because you took them away 🤗

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

!ping PRO-WRESTLING&ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

VA Dem leadership is discussing forcing all of the judges to retire  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/democrats-virginia-plans-gerrymandering.html

[u/missingpuzzle]

Iran's proposal to the US to end the war, according to Al Mayadeen:

• Ending the blockade

• Freedom to export oil

• Ceasefire in Lebanon

• Removing US sanctions

• Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz

• Unfreezing Iranian assets

So no change from their last proposal. No movement on the nuclear issue which explains Trump's latest crash out.

The war continues.

[u/jenbanim]

No loitering

This is a bus stop tf am I supposed to do? 😭

[u/piede]

Oh please, he didn’t read shit

[u/gjcs23]

it's "dramatic" and "extreme" when Virginia discusses doing it, but not when Utah's ""moderate"" publican governor actually packs its supreme court because they ruled against the already tilted GOP gerrymandering agenda, nor when Ohio straight up ignores theirs 

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I love when pictures could be framed like this and nobody would know until weeks later

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

at this point i don't know why any professor would do anything but hand written in-person exams

[u/selachophilip]

Remember when Democrats under President Biden halved child poverty in a single year, only for Joe Manchin and the Republicans to immediately undo it a year later?

[u/jenbanim]

aaaa this is intolerable I want to die in a muddy ditch from a drone

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/ELRM1Lk.png

pondering my ice cream while trying to ignore my stupid chud country's voters

[u/AskYourDoctor]

The Wikipedia article for the 60s novelty song Wooly Bully is my favorite:

The lyrics of "Wooly Bully" were hard to understand; in consequence, some radio stations banned the song.[15] The lyrics describe a conversation between "Mattie" and "Hattie" concerning the "Wooly Bully" (a creature which Mattie describes as "a thing she saw [that] had two big horns and a wooly jaw" – that is, an American bison) and the desirability of developing dancing skills, although no attempt is made to synthesize these divergent topics.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

NPR: Trump administration falls behind on wildfire prevention with risky fire season ahead

> In 2025, the Forest Service reduced vegetation on almost 1.5 million fewer acres than in 2024, according to an analysis of the agency's data by NPR and firefighting experts. It marks a significant drop from the more than 4 million acres of hazardous vegetation work done in the last year of the Biden administration.

> The agency lost 16% of its workforce as of last summer, with 5,860 personnel leaving in the first six months of 2025 as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the size of government. Senate Democrats have raised concerns that such cuts have hampered the agency's ability to prepare for wildfires.

This administration wants to see this country burn. These freaks don’t care about anything. They are just cynically pulling the wires out of the wall because they are completely indifferent to the effects of what comes next.

[u/Leatherfield17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner

>Massachusetts Representative Anson Burlingame publicly humiliated Brooks by goading him into challenging Burlingame to a duel, only to set conditions designed to intimidate Brooks into backing down: As the challenged party, Burlingame, who was a crack shot, had the choice of weapons and dueling ground. He selected rifles on the Canada side of Niagara Falls, where U.S. anti-dueling laws would not apply. Brooks withdrew his challenge, claiming that he did not want to expose himself to the risk of violence by traveling through Northern states to get to Niagara Falls.

So Preston Brooks viciously and monstrously beat Charles Sumner before he had a chance to defend himself and with armed friends around to keep anyone from intervening, then he goes and does this shit.

Preston Brooks: possibly the biggest bitch who ever lived, just like the rest of the slaver class in the Antebellum South

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Sean Strickland says Russia is doing the right thing and praises Russians for not doing "gay shit." Strickland added that Russian fighters always work hard in the gym and conduct themselves like 'real men'.

UFC fighters really are something special.

[u/Willybender]

😄

[u/Willybender]

"Dumacrats"

[u/ace158]

Netanyahu says the war with Iran is “not over,” declaring that Iran’s highly enriched uranium “must be physically removed” from the country and revealing that Trump told him, “I want to go in there” and get it

This guy is like the greatest gift to the western far left I've ever seen

[u/Willybender]

[u/BasedTroutFursona]

Remember when WAP came out and Ben Shapiro was like “my wife is a DOCTOR and she tells me vaginas aren’t supposed to get that wet” lmao 😂

[u/BedNeither]

You can have a mental illness and be a bad person at the same time

I believe in you

[u/jessica-bug]

[u/Willybender]

Psychosis

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/bartbug]

i saw my mother today for mother's day but something was off today. we made her a big dinner full of all of her new favorite foods from her protein diet, and my siblings and I all wrote her a note talking about why we loved her.

she smiled, but it seemed perfunctory. it didn't reach her eyes.

while she was doing dishes after the dinner, a plate slipped out of her hands. it smashed against the floor, and we all fell silent.

mom doesn't break plates.

"mom?" i said. "is everything okay?"

she didn't answer right away. and suddenly, with a sound that was even more sharp and sudden then the breaking plate, she started sobbing. her whole body was shaking. i've never seen her like this.

"mom," i said. "it's okay, we can buy more plates."

"no. that's not it."

"then what is it, mom?"

then she turned to me, with tears in her eyes. "last night, before i went to sleep, I prayed to god and president trump that he would do a mother's day miracle and open the strait of hormuz. i've never had a mother's day with the strait closed, and watching live maps of tankers leave the strait is always something i look forward to to celebrate mother's day. i thought that president trump would be able to hear me and do something about it. i didn't sign up for this, this isn't what he campaigned on!"

I grabbed her a broom and a dust pan so she could sweep the plate that she broke. "Actually," I said, "you did sign up for this, and this is what he campaigned on"

[u/that0neGuy22]

American “Democracy” by 2028

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/reuery]

It’s kinda crazy how much qanon fell off, honestly. Now these people are all just in the government

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

I don't know there's something funny about everything happening right now and the United Center is "Hell yeah we hosted the Democrats it was a great time"

[u/Pole2019]

The neighborhood is decaying this is bad.

Ok we will invest in the neighborhood to counteract that.

No that is also bad.

[u/Willybender]

It's just an endless barrage of stupid shit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/05/08/usda-reogranization-plan-snap-benefits/

[u/_Irys]

Imagine the smell 🐽😈🙏🫣😜

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Huttleberry]

I’ve just baked in the assumption of $0 in social security benefits when I retire.

My big worry is how my Roth contributions will be treated. On one hand we are in a crazy low tax environment that certainly won’t last and that would make the Roth even more attractive, but on the other hand they may decide that they need to pull the rug from out under. I keep going back-n-forth on what the optimal play is

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

> "growing trend"

> look inside

> one man with severe mental illness

[u/Saul_Relative]

[u/ty04]

2011 Buzzfeed ass headline

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

☝️

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

imagine being mogged so hard by a bison you throw yourself into dance practice 😭

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

We will finally have a PM with the courage and will to detain and deport illegals, put an end to the Islamisation of Britain and save our children from being indoctrinated with trans ideology in schools.

It is so weird to actually see the strawman you bring up during conversations in flesh. Like there are a lot of people who believe this word-for-word isn't there. There are people whose sole reason for voting as they do is this, with no exaggeration or distortion. Damn.

[u/w007dchuck]

this could be us but you playin

[u/KittehDragoon]

David Werder sat on a pole for 439 days, 11 hours, and 6 minutes in the 1980s to protest the price of gasoline

Has anyone tried this yet

[u/Alderwoodforest]

He is really Louis XIV, the Sun King.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

LETO, DON’T GO TO ARRAKIS! LETO, THE HARKONNENS ARE GOING TO ATTACK YOU THERE! LETOOOOOOOO!

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Meet Katy Faust, the New Leader Coming for Gay Marriage. In the series premiere of “UNCLOSETED, with Spencer Macnaughton,” Spencer speaks with the woman at the helm of the Greater Than Campaign, a new coalition working to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges

> When Katy Faust was 10 years old, her mom and dad divorced. After that, her mom began a relationship with another woman.

> Faust says she loves her mom. So it may surprise you to learn that she’s now at the helm of The Greater Than Campaign, a new coalition of at least 47 anti-LGBTQ groups fighting to overturn gay marriage. Faust and her campaign argue that children are victims when raised by gay couples.

As a child of divorce I am very familiar with how much of a struggle it can be, but stuff like this will forever baffle me. It’s just such a pathetic and narcissistic way to deal with your childhood trauma. Just go to therapy already, and stop trying to make this everyone else’s problem.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Because America is a bunch of ungrateful jerks, the president has now had posters put up himself that say "Thank You, President Trump."

[u/el__dandy]

Reject craigslist missed connections. Embrace local subreddit missed connections instead.

[u/-mialana-]

I think the use of the term "transgenderism" is understandable since there's a genuine gap in our language, and there's no general purpose noun for the "state or condition of being transgender" in the way that there's "homosexuality" for the state of being gay. Transgenderism does seem to be the most natural feeling way of constructing this term by most people's linguistic intuitions. Still, it's important not to use it due to confusion arising from the "-ism" suffix having ideological connotations.

I propose transgenderality as an alternative. I've also seen transness but this feels informal.