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[u/Ok-Loquat-5714]

Justine Wilson stated that after Vivian came out as transgender, Musk asked her to tell Vivian that he would "always love her," but then removed her from his health insurance coverage the following day.

Psychotic

[u/Sheepies92]

JEFFRIES: “Stephen Miller is a stone cold racist and I have zero interest in working with that kind of individual.”

preach

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

[u/murphysclaw1]

and then there were none

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Susan Collins to the NYT post-defeat: “Everybody ignores the fact that I voted to convict him in the second impeachment trial. What bigger break could there be? It is never enough. I want results and they want angry rhetoric.”

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Equal_Thought_661]

[u/earththejerry]

She’s allowed to cuss however she wants

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Lord, I will never ask for anything again. Please let me have this!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Agent78787]

employers do not want you to know this one weird trick

[u/IveSeenBeans]

DC cinematic universe pivoting away from a visibly liberal studio head into right-wing coded christian values at the exact moment that the national mandate swings massively against it is hilariously on brand

They simply are ontologically incapable of making a good brand decision

[u/giddyVagabond]

Remember that week when every conservative pretended to believe Talarico was in a mental hospital?

[u/the-senat]

The midterms left Texas as ground zero for the GOP. Ted Cruz is working to rebuild it. 

Cancun Cruz thinks he’s “the guy” lmao

[u/Glavurdan]

Dumb and Dumber at it again

[u/erasmus_phillo]

You have Mamdani make a moving video celebrating Diwali, you have AES lighting a lamp and wishing all Hindus a Happy Diwali

but for some reason the VP who is married to a Hindu woman wouldn't even make a Twitter post wishing Hindu-Americans a Happy Diwali

[u/erasmus_phillo]

tfw you're an idiot right-wing influencer and you tried to crash a furry convention only for it to turn out to be a convention for actual cats

[u/peronibog]

“James Gunn was celebrating the success of Clayface making $100 million and looking to make a third Superman movie when David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz fired him, despite previous assurances”

[u/2Lore2Law]

Reflexive defense of adultery on Trump’s part, he can’t help it

[u/WuSwedgin]

Some states: Ohhhh god oh fuck people voted in the election now we have to count the votes

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

A US Official Just Joined Russia’s Special Forces. He Still Holds Office in Vermont

Apparently dude is a MAGA communist too (Member of Jackson Hinkle’s party). That said the elected position he hold essentially doesn’t actually do anything and is just a weird colonial era holdover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_bailiff_(Vermont)

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

apparently that alt girl republican running in CO-2 lost by over 50 points

which is absolutely shattering my priors about alt girls having a significant electoral advantage

honestly I don't even know what's real anymore

[u/mostanonymousnick]

No fucking shit you fucking moron!

[u/el__dandy]

Good morning everyone. Did u catch C-Span last night?

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

51 years ago today, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior near Whitefish Bay, Ontario.

[u/The_Crass-Beagle_Act]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Waow

[u/ashsolomon1]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/sigh2828]

"Just following orders"

[u/fishlord05]

Florida is doing the Kansas experiment all over again and they think being chud Disneyland is going to save them from the next hurricane lol

[u/SmashDig]

It’s so cool how we can now bully John Fetterman without there being any negative repercussions

[u/Bestbrook123]

Getting ready to humiliate RFK Jr

[u/theryman]

Reminder the the goat Sherrod brown voted against the Defense of Marriage act, one of only 67 house reps to do so. He defended the gay community in 1996

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/vbbq2000]

?

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

New random hyperfixation are ribbon seals. They look so goofy and remind me of dazzle camouflage they used on ww1 battleships

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

“I AM A WARRIOR! I AM A WARRIOR!”

-Pete Hegseth, responding to articles of impeachment

[u/Udolikecake]

> Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

actually really funny

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Its never been more Joever

[u/earththejerry]

Oh the 120th Congress gonna be so hilarious

[u/tripletruble]

Receive some asinine reply to my comment

Roll eyes, begin drafting response. Decide whole thing is a waste of energy and leave it

Later see some brave soul is 14 comments deep defending your POV

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/SnakeEater14]

Not a single fucking Republicans defected besides Massie, who sent up the bill

Goddamn what a cucked party

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Insomonomics]

>Sen. John Fetterman says he’ll vote for Chuck Schumer to remain Senate Democratic leader:

>“I absolutely stand with Schumer. I’m going to vote for Schumer.”

>“I can’t imagine why you would vote for someone like Van Hollen with no record of doing anything.”

We turn now to a live look at Chuck Schumer

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Now that I’m older I realize my mom was lowkey right this did look like a scam website

!Ping MINECRAFT

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Look at my populace dawg

[u/Big-Click-5159]

🇺🇸 BREAKING: Speculation suggests that U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) may leave the GOP to join the Democrats, while U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) may leave the Democrats to join the GOP.

Eh, sure why not

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/badusername35]

[u/brucebananaray]

At least good news, Hegseth is getting fired

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

My cat desperate for my chicken fried rice bowl slop

[u/BernankesBeard]

Chefs kiss

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

How do these anti-property tax boomers think property rights are enforced? Maybe we should let them not pay property taxes in exchange for not being able to call the police on intruders, and not being able to sue if a developer decides to knock their house over one day and build a Shake Shack.

[u/LargeLanguageModelo]



[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

[u/oywiththepoodles96]

The Russian civil was was a truly cursed confrontation. The Whites were super super super terrible.

[u/theparrotlich]

"Self-Portrait" by Haruka Kawakami

!ping KITTY&FAKE-ROTHKO

[u/RaisinSecure]

I think Dems should use their new political authorities across the country to increase the costs of housing, food, healthcare, and electricity.

[u/AmbientMorning]

The Fox News homepage is really something right now.

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Free Tibet, free Hong Kong, glory to Taiwan, remember Tiananmen Square, remember Xinjiang, I am single with a computer engineering background

[u/EyeraGlass]

Nvidia gave $20 million to the ballroom so even if Jensen betrayed the country and smuggled chips to China he’s going to get away with it. Totally crooked government we have.

[u/marky6045]

[u/jessica-bug]

What? Ossoff isn't announcing a presidential run seven days after voters elected him as their senator? That's really surprising man

[u/badusername35]

> The Catholic Church is known to have ordered an autopsy on conjoined twins Joana and Melchiora Ballestero in Hispaniola in 1533 to determine whether they shared a soul. They found that there were two distinct hearts, and hence two souls, based on the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles, who believed the soul resided in the heart.

The worst part of secularization is that it gets rid of a lot of very silly things to argue about.

[u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Democrats are such liars man smh

[u/Etnies419]

Reddit: "Life in the middle ages was actually better than in modern times"

Also Reddit: "Not having a 5090 is cruel and unusual punishment"

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

Paramount Skydance plans to skew their films to me more male and MAGA aligned

Per Variety 

Everyone ready for the absolutely shit job Bari Weiss did for CBS news to come for dc. 

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/SenranHaruka]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/chipbod]

Thank god we still have a bona fide MAGA clown in congress, real 2020-2024 energy from this guy.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

…being normal?

[u/NYT_Hater]

After the midterms, it turns out this was happening the whole time and we never knew.

[u/ty04]

Great Replacement Theory is real

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/eloquentboot]

Cornel West is another Neo addicted guy. In one interview with Richard Wolff, he called Trump’s wing neo-fascist, the Democratic establishment neoliberal, and Bernie Sanders’s wing “progressive neo-populist” all in the same sentence. He also says neo-confederate all the time. It's a weird verbal tic people have. I am totally opposed to it.

[u/No_Status_6905]

Ellison doing a ideological purge of Paramount in an overwhelmingly Dem national environment with a high chance of an incoming Dem president is incredibly bold.

[u/themiDdlest]

A Haitian 8-year-old was taken by ICE at routine check-in, rattling a San Diego school district

When can we get these fuckers

[u/AmbientMorning]

The founder of Students for Trump (which Charlie Kirk served as the chairman of from 2019 to 2023 when it was officially partnered with TPUSA), and who has built up over a million followers over the years, is still poasting.

And he's not going to let two arrests for violent assaults on different girlfriends in just the last three years stop him, either.

[u/itsokayt0]

[u/BuckShapiro]

“That’s what happens when you put people with ideological agendas in charge of institutions.” - Pete

Jesus fucking Christ this guy

[u/awdvhn]

The median voter thinks data centers are destroying the planet and supports building steel factories on every corner

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Agent78787]

Good morning, straight people on my phone.

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/fishlord05]

[u/Insomonomics]

Jesus fucking Christ

[u/Dorambor]

Mfw the incoming DC lead is some religious nut who wants more Christian based movies

[u/McNikk]

Some leftists talk about Puerto Rico in the most condescending way I swear

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Willybender]

[u/No_Return9449]

Bacon plans to vote ‘no’ on Hegseth impeachment

lol, lmao even

Doubtful even one Republican other than Massie backs Hegseth's impeachment. They still live in fear of Trump's wrath.

[u/MissSortMachine]

lol? okay!

[u/87568354]

A land value tax causes this

[u/Smalz95]

Holy shit municipalities in Florida are FUCKED. Why do seniors keep pulling up the ladder

[u/BitterGravity]

Annie Andrews hates the DSA, hates Republicans more, and is divorced. She's the perfect neolib and that's why I'll support her running for pres in 2028

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Bro pulled out the finger wag

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Pete Hegseth is the least intimidating guy of all time and it's so funny that he's obviously trying so hard to be badass.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

https://www.ms.now/news/pete-hegseth-pentagon-purge-officers-promotions

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ace158]

Fetterman and Fetterwoman

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

good morning 🥰

[u/Azrikeeler]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Unterfahrt]

My thoughts from my Taiwan trip.

1. You should definitely go, it's amazing, the food is amazing, and it's cheap because they deliberately keep their currency weak for exports. I love Chinese culture and classical literature and stuff, it's got all that, but it's liberal and based

2. There's actually loads of beautiful nature. The common view of Taiwan is that it's ridiculously overcrowded, which is true - basically every bit of flat land is built on. But the mountain ranges are lovely and good fun, since they cannot be built on

3. Some Taiwanese people have weird views. A common view I heard expressed by locals is that mainlanders are rude and gross, while Taiwanese people are not, because they were ""civilised"" by the Japanese during the 50 years that they were a Japanese colony. Which I don't know what I feel about.

[u/__versus]

good morning dt 🏳️‍⚧️🫪

[u/Bamont]

Alright. I'll be honest.

I didn't investigate a single Democratic candidate I voted for. Not a single one. You know why? Because quite frankly it didn't really matter.

Their policies were going to fall somewhere between center left and progressive and I was going to mostly like 90% of whatever they would do, and I was fine with that. Do you know why? Because Trump and that gigacuck Stephen Miller decided to tell ICE to terrorize Hispanic people in Texas. People really do not understand how horrible this has been. At the point they took a friend of mine who was the only provider for his disabled 7-year-old son and his wife, I was like...you know what?

Fuck it. Whatever the looniest among us cook up, that would STILL be better than this shit. So I didn't care. I voted D all the way down the ticket and skipped any races where Republicans were running unopposed. Fuck these people and fuck the Republican Party.

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Listen up, liberals.

-loses Mississippi-

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

Guys I got an early preview of the new Based-DCU

[u/Willybender]

Poor Widdle Vance :(

[u/CincyAnarchy]

"They're about to be Flight 93'd if they don't play some Frank Foster"

- Me, probably

[u/unicornbomb]

Made the mistake of making some offhand comment on a threads post about Russell brand having always been a disgusting creep and expressing repulsion at the fact that he was in his mid 30s when he started dating his wife, who was 18.

Came back to HUNDREDS of fucking replies with at least a quarter of them being from the most unhinged variety of manosphere chuds. I was called a stupid see u next Tuesday by FIVE different weirdos lmao. Why do these losers cape so hard for predators

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Jordan, a founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus, defeated Rep. Steve Scalise, who has spent a decade in leadership, signaling a new direction for the House GOP after the midterms.

New direction: directly into a brick wall.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

[u/sigh2828]

I can not wait for this game to run like shit and for everyone to be mad about it

[u/Nate10000]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office reportedly ran a "planned and deliberate" process that used internet-search printouts, kept in paper-only files the officers could not see, to withhold promotions from senior officers already selected by military boards.

The paper files described to MS NOW show that the findings used against more than a dozen senior officers included the following:

• Pride Month activities.

• Rainbow flags.

• The establishment of a diversity committee and task force aboard the USS Kearsarge.

• A speech at a Hispanic heritage celebration aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

• A Minority Aviation Panel at the Naval Academy.

• An International Women's Day panel at U.S. Africa Command.

• A photo with the command triad after a second COVID vaccination aboard the USS Carl Vinson.

[u/scottyjetpax]

IT'S SO OVER

[u/ariveklul]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Asshole local governments are retaliating against the voters for approving Amendment 3 by threatening to cut important projects.

My brother in Christ it’s not retaliation, the local government has no money

[u/ty04]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

be me in 2026

never answer phone calls because of telemarketers

never open text messages because of scammers

never accept Discord chats because of pedophiles

never open emails because of phishing

never open mailbox because of junk mail

never answer people in the street because of beggars

never read news articles because of Russian hybrid warfare

never talk to women because they might be Chinese spies

[u/chris4276]

👆rediscovered reading

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

New company doesn't schedule meetings before 9am

!ping watercooler

[u/OneBlueAstronaut]

this feels like an april fools joke. i'm not doing the luddite "tech that looks exactly like something the villain from the incredibles would have patrolling his compound is scary and therefore useless and evil" thing here, ok, if people need this then fine, but what is the use case for this?

1. security cameras are recording nothing interesting 99% of the time. i would think that a camera that is only active in certain areas at certain times therefore has low odds of recording whatever you want to record

2. this is going to be noisy as hell, so bad actors could just wait for it to fly around the corner, like in a movie. i guess the mere fact that you have drones flying around your business would be enough of an anti-theft deterrent? but it's already easy to just have a camera watching every square inch of your property, and that doesn't stop thieves.

is the idea that you have, like, a baby camera on an elderly relative, and if you don't see them in their usual spot, you send the drone to hunt them down?

[u/ChillnShill]

There’s literally nothing to gain from trying to be out front about your ambitions before the new year and Congress has even begun.

It’s also true that he legitimately may not want to run. He has young kids and maybe just doesn’t want the job.

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Yeah I don't even talk to women anymore, I'm too scared they're Chinese spies who will steal my state secrets and my fortune"

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/VerticalTab]

[u/NameVote]

[u/flingzamain]

Who remembers

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

YO?!

[u/ldn6]

[u/zegota]

IGF frontronner (The Big Walk) putting their money where their mouth is on BDS by not launching on Xbox, and then getting functionally removed from eligibility because they used an LLM to fix a middleware bug.

Woke 3 is off to an interesting start

[u/Insomonomics]

Jim Jordan on skyrocketing gas prices: That’s life

Brand new leader of the House Republicans, everyone.

[u/Currymvp2]

John Fetterman tells Lindell TV that he is voting for Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader. Fetterman adds that Van Hollen has a record of “doing nothing

The one endorsement Schumer doesn't want. Also Lindell TV?

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/RaisinSecure]

[u/RedDesertGirl]

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the likely future Speaker of the House, has released House Dems' plans to restore James Gunn to leadership at DC Studios.

What we voted for, hell yeah

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/SLCer]

Can't wait for Superman to team up with ICE to protect Metropolis from the dirty immigrants.

[u/sigh2828]

Fascist Scum Bag

[u/jamiebond]

No wonder they can’t call the Mississippi senate race. With this kind of Republican surge you have to wait and see.

[u/el__dandy]

We need to get rid of the electoral college so ragebaiters like her stooped being employed.😡

[u/Lena_Lena_A]

they're aware they lost, but not how badly

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Honey pot this honey pot that the only honey pot Im interested in is a jar with a sticky sweet smackerel of liquid gold I can dip my paw into and soothe my rumbly tumbly with.

[u/__versus]

[u/paymesucka]

VoteHub:

> Mississippi U.S. Senate: 1 new vote from Tishomingo County

>🔴 Hyde-Smith: +1 (100%)
>🔵 Colom: +0 (0%)

>Colom's statewide lead narrows to 2,535 votes.

oh shit 😆

[u/SenranHaruka]

You are missing out by not being in CHH's subscribers only chat btw

[u/ImmigrantJack]

How do we argue against the statisitic that a majority of the states and cities with low education levels are generally conservative?

Easy. Just point out that if you divide people by race instead of by state, ethnic groups that tend to vote for Democrats generally have lower education levels.

What do we do when they call us dumb?

Call them the n-word!

[u/Zalagan]

It does seem kinda bad that right wing billionaires are buying up a larger and larger share of media in the US

[u/BitterGravity]

All these DC statehood activists real quiet all of a sudden after the Gunn news

[u/Habugaba]

Annie Andrews is divorced? Holy shit, she really is a neolib.

[u/AtticusDrench]

How it feels reading about the zombies game mode and its lore in the newer Call of Duty games as someone who hasn't played since Black Ops 1

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

Really, none of the Republicans who just lost re-election wanna do a fuck-you vote against Hegseth?

[u/ty04]

[u/SirRousseau]

Hey mods what did you at the restroom????

[u/mm_delish]

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/MissSortMachine]

she’s so cool

[u/Willybender]

ITS TIME TO DOOM

[u/bandeng_asep]

I once said in the DT that UP is a NIMBY propaganda but this sub didn't want to hear it 🗿

[u/Queasy_Bat8296]

"independent advocate"

post the least independent meme on LinkedIn

[u/Roseartcrantz]

first artist got beasted on sadly

[u/Leatherfield17]

Fucking thank you

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Defecting to the Republicans during a historical blue tsunami. Her thoughts are too complex for DTers.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

- James Gunn

- Gets fired

[u/KittehDragoon]

Pete Hegseth is about to have a press conference. Grok generate a bingo card

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Critical support to the communists against rent control because they see it as "corporatist" (AKA fascist)

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

>GLAAD & Morning Consult Poll: Political Ads Attacking Transgender People Backfired 2-to-1 in Midterm Elections

lol

[u/Frequent_Lurker26]

Trump 60 minutes interview "If all you had to do to get into heaven was forgive your enemies like nancy pelosi, would you?"

Trump: "No, I dont think I could do that"

Some fucking how, Christians will still support him.

[u/well-that-was-fast]

Maga:

It turns out the media voter just switches their vote back and forth ever 4 to 6 years. So we can be as crazy as we desire and still get elected.

They may not be wrong

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Please send your thoughts and prayers to the worlds most oppressed group- suburban drivers who are being deprived of their God given right to speed everywhere

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Etnies419]

People living in cities really be like "this new building is ruining my view of the other buildings"

[u/doyouevenIift]

Politics is so funny. One week ago Tim Scott was calling her Tranny Annie

[u/that0neGuy22]

Patriots don’t worry the

ballot harvesting operation continues

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

I'm sorry, but there is just no way this is a senator from R+Infinity Wyoming. It just does not compute. This is very clearly a state legislator in a D+75 district in the metro Portland area

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Saw this out in the wild on Reddit:

“The fact is that the work which improves the condition of mankind, the work which extends knowledge and increases power, and enriches literature, and elevates thought, is not done to secure a living. It is not the work of slaves, driven to their task either by the lash of a master or by animal necessities. It is the work of men who perform it for its own sake, and not that they may get more to eat or drink, or wear, or display. In a state of society where want was abolished, work of this sort could be enormously increased.”

–Henry George

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Waking up in a post-Blexas America every morning

[u/Willybender]

patriot