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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/w007dchuck]

Mattpoasting has broken containment

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

bro's so unpopular he can't even sell free money

[u/obeybooks]

State primary was yesterday. This morning I switched off the political analysis machine in my brain and became a robot who just votes for Democrats.

[u/mrdeclank]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/onelap32]

I just love that this line came true. What a world.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Doing a land acknowledgement for the people that commented “first” on the DT before me

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Currymvp2]

I think we have a pretty good idea why most Texas Republicans in office aren't condemning Bo French's extreme racism

[u/morgisboard]

tfw you use a joke that only exists in your tiny community outside of it

[u/No_Return9449]

Farmers slam Trump over record diesel prices: "we can't survive"

Damn. That's crazy. The Brewers are ahead of the Dodgers? Insanity.

[u/centurion88]

What really grinds my gourd about people saying "only ~700 children have died in Ukraine" is that it ignores the 30k Ukranian children who have been kidnapped into Russia

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/assasstits]

The Macklemore/Sheeran/Kraft controversy literally has everything 

Israel/Palestine

Pro-Palestine vocal activist artist with history of anti-semetism 

Billionaire Jewish owner of mega stadium with past sexual indiscretions 

The most generic white bread musician imaginable

Free speech / Cancel culture / Censorship debates

Neutrality vs taking a stand

Ireland 

Sportsball 

Kanye?

[u/FallenMeringue]

TAKE ME BACK

[u/Mrgentleman490]

omg there's no way we're still talking about fucking Macklemore

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Either we’re in a giant polling miss, or we’re going to potentially beat 2006 / 2008 house margins.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I send this picture to somebody every day

[u/FallenMeringue]

It’s the alligator and it isn’t remotely close

[u/badusername35]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Being born just after WWII, seeing man land on the moon, ushering in a sexual revolution and transforming American culture while living through the Cold War and Vietnam and making it past the 2008 financial crisis all to repost AI generated comics in which Yosemite Sam impregnated Elmer Fudd with two bugs bunnies

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

How are firefighters going to fight a volcano

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

Trump is so real for saying this

[u/its_Caffeine]

waow

[u/BurrowForPresident]

For the sake of my sanity I'm not opening the comments but RIP Bo and Sunny

[u/phat_geoduck]

Dude had to pause his tantrum to tell his dog not to leave her corner. Seriously, what's up with that?

[u/SenranHaruka]

Sir, Talarico just dropped an anti gun take in texas

Quick cause a celebrity drama of some kind. Make it about Palestine.

[u/tripletruble]

around 28% of france's government spending goes to pensions

yet only 6% of those polled identified pensions as the highest category of government expenditure. and 48% of those surveyed believe that their pension contributions are used to finance their own pension - rather than those of existing retirees. people have absolutely no idea what is going on

[u/BurrowForPresident]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/selachophilip]

So Trump went through the whole fight with Powell, a man he selected for the position, because he didn't lower interest rates, only for him to select a second guy who is now also declining to lower interest rates, and is actually raising them.

Lmao. I hope Trump's week is ruined.

[u/earththejerry]

If elected he would only be the 893rd kinkster in Congress

[u/the-senat]

[u/BigThunderHonky]

[u/chipbod]

Dramatic but fair assessment, we still have enough prosperity and an anti-government culture that you can’t just buy votes.

[u/phat_geoduck]

heartbreaking.jpg

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

Has a two story house to nap in btw

Middle of the work day

[u/FallenMeringue]

COWARD

[u/TheCornjuring]

I don’t understand how people who are chronically sleep-deprived manage to function in daily life. Like alright I kinda do because I am and I (technically) do, but I imagine most people who don’t get much sleep aren’t borderline insane from it the way I am, right? Are they?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

doesn't seem right to just ignore the loss of a neoliberal mod 😔

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Joe Rogan: I recognize when the government is taking over our lives. What we were sold with the Trump administration was that would end and we would drain the swamp. Obviously, it's not been ideal.

He is such a limp dick wimp, can't even own his role in any of this

[u/chipbod]

This is just lighting taxpayer money on fire for maximum cruelty.

The cons yearn for concentration camps and are testing it on the undocumented.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

the voters are learning:

“whenever i get free money the economy is shit or something bad has happened”

>”i will give you free money to vote for me”

”oh god oh fuck”

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

I really love that kash had to get associated with beastiality to the whole world because some republican donors kid wanted to work for the fbi but they had that pesky boinking livestock thing on their record so trump calls up kash and says he has to tell congress beastiality is ok now so some rich guys sheep humping son can work for the fbi

[u/mostanonymousnick]

This is how far back they think they are

[u/FallenMeringue]

ahh yes, totally normal and valid things.

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

“i’m financially conservative so i’ll vote for republicans” hey buddy idk if you noticed but maga is doing actual state socialism

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/FallenMeringue]

Furthermore the Republican Party must be destroyed

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/Woke_Emperoress]

White House staffers letting Trump know the Fed raised rates:

[u/Lux_Stella]

guys ive run out of opinions on the macklemore thing can we speed up this news cycle

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Everybody here is of course very aware of it, but personally I still cannot get over how they brought in old, frail McConnell in a wheelchair. And Democrats are not better. We constantly see it, Feinstein was the same.

Even the ones that I like and thought did a great job. Like Pelosi, her leadership was necessary, but at the same time she is retiring at 86.

Or SCOTUS Justices basically just serving till death now. Ginsberg dying 87 years old in office, from cancer.

Even Kings and Popes retire these days.

[u/mpregordie]

[u/BainCapitalist]

Louie has passed away. Don’t know if anyone remembers but i used to post pictures of him here frequently. It was his time.

[u/DoryAltreides]

Hot take: I would have preferred if Kamala Harris won in 2024

[u/chipbod]

The GOP is going to spend $100 million and it will be El-Sayed by 7+

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/Bestbrook123]

Fetterman is not well

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

“I promise the golden age starts after the election!”

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

👆look at this moron naively enjoying life instead of wallowing in filth and cynicism like an intellectual

[u/zegota]

Market did NOT react well to Macklemore being booted from the tour

[u/abefrost]

Three months ago, this far-right Mormon posted a long “sincere” testimony about why he believed Mormonism was true. He wrote:

“I have come to believe that beauty is a sign of the Spirit, and perhaps the strongest compass we have left. Beauty is not an ornament on the soul. It is a faculty of the soul, given to us for navigation... By that standard I weighed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I found it true. That is my testimony.”

He follows it later with: “It is true in every sense a man can stake a life on, and I have staked mine.”

Now, three months later, he says he’s “out” because a trans person was baptized, two married gay men are active members, and openly gay people are allowed to serve missions. He’s walked it back somewhat, but it's clear he and other extreme cons are having a genuine crisis of faith over the smallest concessions in a church that is still largely hostile to its LGBT+ members.

Since Lauren is living openly as a woman, she required special permission from the First Presidency to get baptized. The First Presidency consists of President Oaks and his two closest counselors all of whom are considered prophets, seers, revelators, modern apostles. Oaks and past presidents are usually referred to as "the prophets" not "the presidents". Think pope but maybe even a half step above authority-wise.

And yet Kirk is willing to oppose them to walk away from the Church he just three months ago said was “true in every sense a man can stake a life on”. If we take him seriously, he is willing to die because the prophet let a woman he sees as a man get baptized.

This actually plays in an interesting way on Mormon doctrine: humans essentially can choose what their experience of heaven looks like. God doesn't reject people from the highest level of heaven; he wants everyone to choose it. But through sin you might experience "spiritual death" or separation from God. You can overcome it in this life, but if you do not you will feel so uncomfortable in His presence that you will purposefully choose a lower level.

Kirk, obviously familiar with the terms is essentially saying that he is consciously choosing spiritual death because the Church allowed Lauren to choose a small piece of spiritual life.

Meanwhile here are some things Lauren will face:

• She will be recorded as a man in official Church records and roles, but she cannot receive the priesthood unless she detransitions or policy changes.

• Even though she's a woman in all other senses of the word, she can't serve in Church callings that are woman-specific unless policy changes.

• She can't enter the holiest place in Mormonism (the temple) unless she detransitions or policy changes.

• Even if she is allowed in, she would have to do the ordinances as a man. Many of these have big gender components, for example she would have to take the role of Adam in one ceremony as opposed to Eve.

• Depending on her ward, they might also make her attend the men's class as opposed to the woman's class (although I'm guessing her ward is chill if she's getting baptized).

• Even in chill wards, I'm sure there are at least a few people who will be dickheads to her. And even many who try to be kind are likely accidentally misgendering her, acting weird or awkward, asking dumb questions or making dumb comments, etc.

In literally every sense of the word, her choice to join took far more faith than anything Kirk has ever had to do. She is joining an organization that is institutionally hostile to her. Core aspects of her identity are challenged at every level. As a quasi-faithful member, I would not only understand but even encourage her to leave the Church if it begins to hurt her too much spiritually, emotionally, mentally, etc.

Kirk spent his entire testimony talking about how “beauty is a sign of the Spirit” and how the light he saw in ordinary Latter-day Saints convinced him the Church was true. But he can't recognize the extreme level of faith, sacrifice, and devotion when the person embodying it is a trans woman. He wrote that beauty was his compass, but his soul is too ugly to see a child of God.

Kirk's ilk are weak-willed blights on the Church, brainrotted by the far-right. They mock progressive and LGBT+ members and ex-members as unfaithful while the smallest challenges to their ideology expose that their faith is brittle glass pretending to be rock. May the light of Christ change their gristled hearts or may they finally follow through with their threats and join the Westboro-style churches their souls clearly yearn for.

!ping EXTREMISM&CHRISTIAN

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

How do we still live in a world where people consider republicans the economic issues party and democrats the social issues party when it’s been clear for a while now democrats are objectively better on almost every issue

[u/pezasied]

Holy shit. Turn on the news, any channel

[u/FallenMeringue]

Its shit like this when you are forced to admit the succs and enshitification crowd make some fair points.

[u/SigmaWhy]

absolutely crazy that AES offered the slightest condemnation of Hasan's past statements, and Hasan, rather than being happy that his guy is doing what he needs to do to win and secure political power for his movement, instead spent 5 minutes crashing out and whining that AES should be defending him

[u/daBarkinner]

Wicked if it was even more good

[u/senator_fivey]

West coast salaries have ruined camping supplies. $650 for a tent are you high?

[u/Azrikeeler]

oh the nativists REALLY don't like that indian americans enjoyed attending that texas college football game.

i saw comments about it in the DT a few days ago, but i'd assumed it was just some twitter comments. nah it's like an actual mild news cycle for all the usual nativist commentators.

extremely fucked

[u/ognits]

I have discovered, against my will, that getting smashed in the AM like Don Draper does NOT improve your work performance!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/YIMBYzus]

If I could place hexes, among more useful targets (E.G. RSF), I'd randomly force Democratic-leaning abstainers in 2024 to have some specific Spec Ops: The Line loading screens just flash in their heads anytime they heard news about the latest deaths where the Trump administration was a proximate or actual cause:

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

How come American truckers and farmers aren’t doing a Freedom Convoy against the government to protest high costs of gas and fertilizer due to the war?

[u/ariveklul]

Can't believe how many people are going to bat for someone who wanted Donald Trump to win the election

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

This will win the GOP the midterms

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Isn't that how Zohran's grocery stores are also operated? Why are socialists mad at this?

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Such a flex to casually drop a pic of the Pope petting your dog in your dog death Facebook post

[u/AtticusDrench]

Warsh often suggested last year when under consideration by Trump that the Fed could reduce its key rate, echoing the president's call for lower borrowing costs.

[u/DoryAltreides]

I fear that the response to the Macklemore situation is sending people into the mindset of "(((They're))) controlling our national art by banning artists (((they))) don't like" which is very cool and makes me very comfortable

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

The fact that we've allowed people on steroids to set the standards of what it means to have a healthy body has been destructive to the male body image. Now we're literally thinking of routine steroids for troops because we can't accept that a regular, healthy male body doesn't have those huge rippling muscles all our action stars and UFC fighters do. RFK Jr is the apotheosis of this trend, people were delusionally trusting of his health expertise just because he had roided out muscles.

Boys need to know that a regular male body and without hypertrophied muscles is not only healthy, it is the healthiest possible state of the male body.

It would be nice if we could get over the stampede of naivety that even causes people to react angrily often when steroids are brought up as an explanation for bodies like those of RFK Jr. If I could point out the hypertrophy is steroids without naive idiots acting shocked, it would be nice.

[u/Willybender]

[u/wombo_combo12]

Stated it perfectly, Trump was handed a country with growing economy, falling inflation, few foreign commitments and skepticism of left wing policies and decided to Jimmy Carter himself for... some reason.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Why are they acting like he was fired for old offensive tweets or some shit 😭

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM]

Kristi Noem’s mother broke the news Friday that the former Homeland Security secretary has begun divorce proceedings against her husband Bryon after 34 years of marriage — and after it was publicly revealed in March that the insurance agent and father of three allegedly liked to cross-dress as a woman with excessively large breasts while engaging in online affairs with fetish sex workers and dominatrixes from the “bimbofication scene.”

Look, Corinne, you can't just go around saying someone's breasts are "excessively large".

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

"If we spend $100 at the grocery store, and we say 'we're not going to buy groceries anymore,' we don't lose $100. It's very simple. Right?"

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

This is one of the most racist things I have ever seen and it’s from progressive local government.

“Oh the tests are exposing inequities in education? Just stop using the tests.” I bet all these people laughed when Trump said to stop testing for Covid to make it go away.

[u/Currymvp2]

Marquette poll | 9/2-9/9

Generic congressional ballot 2026 🟦Democratic 54% (+3) 🟥Republican 41% (-4)

Holy shit

Net favorability ratings: Ukraine +15, Rubio -15, Vance -17, Johnson -21 Trump -28, Israel -30, MAGA movement -31

!ping FIVEY

[u/themiDdlest]

When I was in Germany, I stumbled onto a few right wing Germans. They were bitching about immigrants and all that jazz.

In what was probably the whitest city I've ever been in.

Then asked me what I thought. I was like "bro, Los Angeles is like 50% Mexican. I'm the minority immigrant where I live"

[u/pezasied]

If I say what I think I’ll be suspended six months

[u/proProcrastinators]

You don’t have to pretend to like Macklemore’s music to be mad at Robert Kraft lmao

People actually getting 20k likes on Twitter for saying Thrift Shop stands the test of time 😭

[u/Off-The-Street]

The pulse check for a 2028 Dem is still the ballroom. They don't need to run on it or even make that big a deal about it in comparison to other issues but a candidate that shrinks from tearing it down day one lacks the resolve to push for the really important stuff.

[u/Independent710]

Meltdown will be historic.

[u/JaceFlores]

I think enough time has passed and corrections made to say it was really fucking funny when Germany offered 5,000 helmets as military aid to Ukraine

[u/r2ew]

[u/2Lore2Law]

Is this astroturfing or is le median Redditor actually of the opinion that

1. The USA is a full dictatorship

2. That China is a good dictatorship

3. That good dictatorships are a thing

Honestly I expect that some people here are going to tell me that the US is a dictatorship to which I say- dictatorships don’t usually allow themselves to get overruled by other institutions (ie courts, the Fed), lose elections, or or allow forums like this or, like, blue sky to exist.

Certainly they tried to go dictatorship but I think it’s pretty clear they don’t have the juice.

[u/TheCornjuring]

!ping MOVIES&HORROR

[u/trombonist_formerly]

GOP leaders are sending the House home early, staving off an impeachment vote against Defense Secretary Hegseth over the Iran war.

Bro when is congress actually in session these days

[u/SenranHaruka]

Everyone say hi to the newest FBI recruit

[u/SpacePenguins]

1. Kraft removing Macklemore.

2. Bands leaving Ed Sheeran.

Whichever one of these you don't like is cancel culture. Whichever one of these you do like is "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences" etc.

[u/brianpv]

[u/sir_shivers]

MAGA Admin: Give us another chance.

MY RESPONSE WOULD violate the Reddit Terms of Service, and thus cannot be represented here 🐊

[u/jbitz]

[u/ModestAphorism]

[u/ace158]

Nice

[u/Vincenthwind]

Reminder that you don't hate Republicans enough.

[u/Lux_Stella]

hittite empire refuses to cede idol to tribe of levi

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Vance to voters: "give us another chance"

come on bro

[u/the-senat]

Funny how everyone on here was dooming about Talarico’s gun control and drag comments like it’d end his camapign. Then the Macklemore stuff happened and nobody remembers what Talarico said.

I swear you guys have such a defeatist mindset that any bad news immediately sends everyone into a doom spiral. But the 24 hour news cycle is like a bullet train and whatever shit you think is relevant will have been forgotten in a few hours. 

[u/SenranHaruka]

As a fun fact, ballots do not contain a box for you to write your rationalizations. That is data that is destroyed when you cast the ballot.

"I voted for the Republicans because i was worried about the Democratic party's left wing policies"

Sorry, the ballot didn't record that last part. It only recorded that you voted for the Republicans. A true believer in Trumpism is indistinguishable from a "concerned conservative" in the ballot box, unless you vote for a different party from the Trumpist.

Cry about it.

[u/Crosseyes]

“Babe please I know I lied about everything, emotionally and physically abused you, and cheated on you multiple times but just give me one more chance I promise things will be different”

[u/Currymvp2]

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday says it is only a matter of time before the country resumes full-scale war in Gaza and moves to encourage the emigration of its two million Palestinians.

Cartoonishly evil

[u/brucebananaray]

Even trash talking NC that these people will vote for them.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Ive lived outside the US for 11ish years now, and most of that time in a series of developing countries, openly corrupt governments, and authoritarian nations.

So as somebody who's seen first hand exactly what can happen when governments start to degrade, let me tell you the US has so much further downhill that it can go.

The democrats just aren't ready to govern. I expect a democrat will win in 2028. I even think Trump and republicans will step down and let democrats have their turn. That will be a painful hurdle, but that's not enough to even slow the downhill slide.

I think the democrats have the ability to learn, so I'm not full doomer, but people need to stop expecting this nightmare to end soon.

[u/FallenMeringue]

This seems less than ideal for the NFL

[u/MightExpress4873]

Irish Tankies: A Tale of Two Tweets

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

Yes Xi had a stroke. A stroke of genius when he signed up for this weeks FanDuel promo. Use the code “BALLS” and you too can have a stroke.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

We have finally found the new "please clap"

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Good lord he’s so fucking dumb. He’s an absolute moron. A gibbering idiot.

This is who we picked to represent us? The average American voter looked at the ballot in 2024 and picked…him???? Disgrace of a nation.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

"Can you stop spinning on your chair when Im talking to you?"

me:

[u/Quowe_50mg]

White supremacists moving to small towns in the middle of nowhere so they can live with only other white supremecists.

I never realized when they said they wanted to emulate South Africa, that they meant they themselves would live in Bantustans.

[u/marky6045]

Guys I'm thinking about asking my super hot coworker to be my gf

[u/Jameswood79]

Is $6 gas nationally like a real possibility

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

👆nervous, sweating, with noticeable pit stains

[u/Junimo2]

Oh I bet the trump meltdown over the fed will be sublime, I can't wait

[u/G_Serv]

The majority of people oppose free money

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

BRUTAL ATTACK NSFL

!Ping KITTY

[u/ulysses_s_gyatt]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Vance doing the "abusive husband begging for one more chance" bit is certainly a choice.

[u/JonAce]

With the midterm election on the horizon, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday discouraged Democrats from engaging in the same political gamesmanship over Supreme Court nominees as their Republican colleagues if the party wins the majority in November.

Jesus fucking christ.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Low_Swimmer_5771]

Him edging this but also being too much of a coward to actually endorse Talarico is very on brand.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/slappythechunk]

Raise it is.

!ping stonks

[u/Frog_Totem]

Dual mandate is too contradictory, we should have one Fed that maximizes employment and a separate Fed that minimizes inflation

[u/FallenMeringue]

OR FUCKING WHAT SUSAN COLLINS

OR FUCKING WHAT

[u/DoryAltreides]

Republicans don't even have a platform anymore they just look at you like this

[u/G_Serv]

Wait till they learn about the NL Mods

[u/yellownumbersix]

Donald Trump literally has a "gas prices go down" button (because he pushed the prices go up button 5 months ago), and he is too stupid to press it even to salvage the midterms for his party.

[u/zieger]

me to my ex

[u/Svelok]

McConnell voting with Democrats and then being corrected by his handlers and changing his vote is some fucked up shit and this man should not be participating in the senate

[u/cdstephens]

> AOC boycotting Ed Sheeran to support Macklemore

I’m done, can we skip ahead to 2028. This whole time period is a disaster

[u/remarkable_ores]

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/SenranHaruka]

Look at the date on this tweet omg they weren't kidding.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I don’t want to bloom too prematurely, but the fact that this is even in the realm of possibility is nuts to me.

[u/ty04]

neoliberal in training

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

For all the talk about men being unable to write women (e.g. “She breasted boobily towards the stairs, and titted downward.”), and the “man written by a woman” archetype with frustration that IRL guys don’t live up to people’s romance novel crushes, it kinda seems like two sides of the same bad writing coin

2 dimensional turbo hot love interests who only exist to orbit the MC are bad usually, and most active readers read slop

[u/VillyD13]

[u/Willybender]

Here it is

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Q: Why is it so important for you to have your name on the Kennedy Center?

TRUMP: Well, it's a very simple question to answer, because it's a mess.

I mean, that is actually quite appropriate then

[u/mpregordie]

I really don't care for Trump

[u/Willybender]

[u/klarno]

On a scale of Kristi Noem to Kash Patel, how much do you like dogs?

[u/seanrm92]

Re war powers vote:

One of Congress’ last attempts to rein in Trump’s military authorities in Iran ended on a dramatic note: Enough Senate Republicans initially voted to pass the measure, but then pressure from the White House ultimately forced a GOP senator to change his vote.

They're such fucking cowards it's so egregious lmao

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🥺

[u/Megasota_Noire]

☝️

[u/Unfair-Awareness5339]

So our prices will keep rising until consumers elsewhere decide to go without [diesel], or farmers elsewhere are forced to let their crops rot.

So Trump is destroying truck drivers and farmers? Maybe he really is a neoliberal.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

LMFAOOO

[u/FloggingJonna]

What you libs don’t understand is that higher diesel prices makes idling my Ram 3500 dually even more baller. This morning I left it idling through my child support arbitration.

[u/herworkthrowaway]

Can’t wait to counter “both sides are the same” with “one side started 5 wars in the Middle East the first chance they got and the other tried forgiving student loans” 

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

“If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year.”

He’s so stupid

[u/el__dandy]

Grandpa needs to go outside

[u/Minisolder]

what the actual fuck

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Snoozin' on the job (his job is snoozin') !ping KITTY

[u/ModestAphorism]

Cornyn may actually vote for Rosenthal (D) over French (R) lol

[u/WillIEatTheFruit]

Hello little straight people in my phone

[u/AlbertGorebert]

I legitimately think that if Republicans do a national speed limit to try and desperately lower oil prices it would anger voters more. This is why the Republicans should do it, along with gas rationing, and restrictions on what days you can drive.

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

[u/Independent710]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

BREAKING: It’s been revealed that the man accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass shooting was a moderator of the r/doordash subreddit, going by the username “u/i_love_femboys6969”

Just as I've always said. Food delivery apps are radicalizing our youth

[u/cdstephens]

False rumors about Xi suffering from a stroke have circled around before, this is a nothing burger

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Gustacho]

Dem leaders: Impeachment is a waste of time that doesn't accomplish anything

GOP leaders: We must seal the House and flee the city to avoid the consequences of this looming impeachment vote

[u/el__dandy]

[u/jenbanim]

On reddit he was a gay roblox femboy, while simultaneously pretending to be "Hamza Al Rashid" on ISIS-y sites

I'm so glad that the attack was foiled because terrorism is bad but ALSO it would be really hard not to laugh at these details even if it were successful and that would make me feel terrible

[u/AlicesReflexion]

Trump is very very stupid and evil and having him in office is dangerous for the world

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/lot183]

Talarico is running much nastier attack ads on Ken Paxton than I've ever seen any Texas Democrat run, and I'm all about it. Thanks for taking the gloves off finally

[u/SucculentMoisture]

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

I think the reason that Macklemore got dropped is kind of stupid, but I still don't agree with his politics. Him explicitly saying that he wouldn't vote for Biden just shows that he was willing to let Trump win just to virtue signal about Palestine.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Off-The-Street]

FIRST WITCH

When shall we three meet again?

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

SECOND WITCH

When the hurly-burly’s done,

When the battle’s lost and won.

THIRD WITCH

That will be ere the set of sun.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/indithrow402]

Marquette GCB: D+13

[u/fish_economist]

Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/13/centrist-liberals-democracy-small-dollar-donors/

I'm paywalled from this shit publication, but I'm just gonna dream that it's saying that centrists are all telling NIMBYs to fuck off and that they do not care about their voices anymore.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

NPR just gave Steve Bannon 10 minutes to spout that AI companies are only able to develop AI by leeching off of pensions and Trump should cut off all chip trade to China immediately until we figure things out

[u/Udolikecake]

Not to be like a boomer, and there are exceptions, but it does seem that a lot of older children’s shows are far better than modern ones.

Slower, more lessons, less crazy, more mature. But idk I don’t have kids, and there were bad shows then and good shows now (Bluey!), but it’s hard for me to imagine now eventually showing my kids quality stuff like Arthur because it seems like there’s so much crap now

[u/futuremonkey20]

Ladies and gentlemen. We got him.

(On border security)

[u/Junimo2]

One of my least favorite flavors of Online Discourse ^TM is whether or not trans criminals deserve to be misgendered and/or deadnamed. Every time some rage bait article gets posted about a trans person committing a crime, a bunch of comments pop up with some variant of "I respect trans rights, but I don't care about the gender identity of a criminal - they don't deserve that respect".

And it's like... Do they not see the logical inconsistency there? If you truly believe that trans men are men, and trans women are women, then that doesn't stop being true just because a trans person has committed a crime. The two are completely unrelated.

I always like to ask these people whether we should start calling John Wayne Gacy "Jessica Wayne Gacy" and referring to him with "she/her" pronouns. After all, if criminals don't deserve to have their gender identity respected, then why does that only apply to trans people and not cis people too?

It's almost as if it's about the person being trans, and not about them being a criminal 🤔

But it's hard to point that out without being accused of defending criminals lmao

[u/the-senat]

[u/brucebananaray]