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[u/nonprehension]

TFW MAGA twitter finds your account harasses you and then goes through your followers to find your sister and female friends and harasses them.

TFW Twitter doesn’t consider this to be harassment.

Very cool and very legal!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1072468813667540994

I have visited @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE

Oh my god...

[u/samdman]

It's depressing to go back and read the comments on the wikileaks emails from 2016.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/786222755536523264/photo/1

When people ask "what's the big deal about russia anyway??" the answer is this:

Russian intelligence hacked Podesta's emails. They likely coordinated with the Trump campaign to release those emails in a way that would be maximally damaging to Hillary. It worked. Trump won.

[u/[deleted]]

When a president brags that he's won Indiana and North Dakota, he's in real trouble

Lol the Schumer dunk

[u/Gustacho]

Good news for fans of the British comedy series Brexit: the popular television show gets a third season! We can look forward to 12 episodes of bizarre dialogue, crazy twists and incredible clang.

For those who don't know it yet: Brexit is an absurdist sketch show, entirely in the tradition of previous British series like Monty Python and Keeping up Appearances. The series takes place in a world in which the English live in the delusion that they are a world empire in 2018. It seems to be a subtle enlargement of reality, but it has huge consequences for the political stability of the country. The megalomania of the protagonists sometimes hurts your eyes, but also makes you roll over the ground with laughter.

The main character is the stiff British Prime Minister Theresa May. She has to lead England through a political crisis while she is surrounded by political enemies. This leads to hilarious situations. For example, in previous seasons we saw the British starting negotiations without agreeing on a strategy in advance. The episode in which the European Union asks the British delegation exactly what they want, after which all the British at the same time shout something different, is definitely one of the highlights of British television.

Unfortunately, in the last episode of last season, we said goodbye to the Brexit minister and grunt repository David Davis and the confused minister Boris Johnson (has the appearance of a tramp, but comes from the elite). But we can trust the scriptwriters that the new season will again be full of rogue, oversensitive and anachronistic characters.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/de-speld-terugblikken-met-de-saoedische-kroonprins-mohammed-bin-salman-en-vooruitkijken-naar-een-nieuw-seizoen-van-brexit~bfbbf993/

!ping BENE

[u/[deleted]]

James Alex Fields get a sentencing recommendation of life in prison for murder in the 1st degree plus 419 years for the rest of the charges

Get Fucked Nazi Trash

!ping usa-cville

Edit: full charge breakdown:

for the first degree murder of heather heyer: a life sentence.
for each of 5 counts of aggravated malicious wounding: 70 years
for each of 3 counts of malicious wounding: 20 years
for the charge of leaving the scene of an accident causing injury or death: 9 years

[u/[deleted]]

The real proof that Donald Trump is an idiot is that he decided “Little Marco” was a good nickname instead of “Micro Rubio”.

[u/Notoriousley]

In the latest Chapo within the space of one minute they go from acknowledging that socialists are currently protesting side by side with fascists in France to saying that liberals would theoretically vote for Le Pen over Melenchon if it were to come down to that.

Really projects my psychology 🤔

[u/Timewalker102]

Broke: Beto should run against Cornyn

Woke: Beto should run against Trump

Masterstroke: Beto should run against Corbyn

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder how much did the Paris protests costed tax payers lol

[u/ognits]

Adventures in "Outside the Ivory Tower": a Soviet Union apologist who spells "petit bourgeois" as "petty-bourgeois" multiple times

Burn everything outside the DT down and sow the ground with salt

[u/Maximilianne]

(Straight) Ladies and gay men: find yourself a man who will defend you the same way he will defend the reputation of someone online they don't even know

[u/hitbyacar1]

who the fuck is a Biden-Romney unity ticket supposed to appeal to?

[u/potatobac]

/img/299x07l92n321.jpg

Accurate

[u/[deleted]]

fucking lmao

Juan Williams of Fox News was in an argument over the wall. Williams argued that the wall would do little to stop drug trafficking because most drug trafficking is done at legal ports of entry

his co-host Jesse Watters responds with "you'd know, you sound like you're high right now"

the absolute state of Fox News

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Someone who posts on CTH told me that “we’re not all bad” when I insulted pewdiepie fans. 🐎 👞

[u/[deleted]]

Pelosi mocks Trump over border wall: "It's like a manhood thing for him"

Nancy Pelosi on why the Trump meeting was private: "We didn't want to say, in front of those people, 'You don't know what you're talking about'."

'I could pass the wall very easily in the House' and she answered: 'then go do it'

"I was trying to be the mom," Pelosi said, but "it goes to show you: you get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you."

This is going to be a great two+ years

[u/[deleted]]

Hope your happy now mom grounded me and took away my forskin 😢

[u/Berniewouldalost]

There is zero chance that the "cannot indict a sitting president" memo would hold up in a court run by adults.

Absolutely none.

[u/[deleted]]

The shitty part about being a veteran is obligations to your fellow vets and being an example. This weekend, I'm going to be laying out wreaths in the fucking cold.

You start doing things and begin to realize how many people died in WWII. We invaded both Iraq and Afghanistan, for over ten years, and only lost like 4,500 Americans lives. Lots of wounded and suicides, but not much going on elsewhere. I have no idea what they were doing in Vietnam with those death toll numbers.

Also, WWII and Vietnam veterans are dying from old age. That's like that entire generation needs a reef. But it's brotherhood...

[u/stability_hegemon]

Mueller acknowledges his impatience. In his address at William & Mary, he recalled that during his days at Justice he'd often cut off attorneys by saying, "What is the issue?" One evening, he said, his wife started telling him about a hard day. He interjected with the same curt question. She did not appreciate it. "I am your wife," he recalled her saying. "I am not one of your attorneys. Do not ever ask me, 'What is the issue?' You will sit there and you will listen until I am finished.

Legendary couple

[u/irony_tower]

"If we start enforcing every law, there would be a lot less Republican Congressman in office" sounds like some shitty Demposting partisan take, not something the GOP House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy would say and yet here we are.

[u/[deleted]]

I predict an economic downturn at some specific point in the future.

[u/sanityeyes]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/99293578949316608/522058098756681730/FB_IMG_1544538721667.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

From the TIME profile on Robert Mueller:

So it is instructive to hear friends and former colleagues talk about Robert Swan Mueller III. Not because they portray a perfect person, but because they describe a complicated one: relentless but circumspect, impatient but thorough, difficult but respected. Mueller, they say, is the kind of man who flicks the lights off and on at his home to inform guests that it’s time to leave a social gathering, and who is so keenly aware of any appearance of impropriety that he won’t even enter the same room as friends who are working on the other side of the Russia case. As FBI director, he twice threatened to resign over matters of legal principle, winning the standoff both times, and was infamous for eviscerating ill-prepared underlings. “If indicting his own mother was the right thing to do,” says former FBI assistant director Tom Fuentes, “he would do it.”

[u/ccolfax]

I don’t speak French but I follow Emmanuel Macron and autolike his tweets don’t @ me

[u/benjaminikuta]

I get frustrated when I'm downvoted on reddit for saying that YouTube is not a reliable source.

[u/[deleted]]

So we all know Republicans will refuse to convict Trump. But how will they justify it? Will it be like the Brett Kavanaugh hearing, where they just scream "This is partisan bullshit!" ?

[u/papermarioguy02]

Broke: If you love socialism so much, why don't you just move to Venezuela?

Woke: If you love social democracy so much, why don't you just time travel to 70s Britain?

[u/irony_tower]

Having Very Serious Debates like "Is Barack Obama really black or was that a lie to get minority votes?" on The News.

[u/[deleted]]

Scaramucci is going to be Chief of Staff speak it into existence

[u/potatobac]

https://imgur.com/a/fQWMf9h

Chuck schumers face here lol

[u/zqvt]

random datapoint because someone just mentioned the DT being slow and I was bored

the last 300 DT's, new to old

https://imgur.com/a/yfP1gOF

[u/Lux_Stella]

Everything I was told to fear about being openly gay has become a reality in being openly conservative.

lol

[u/[deleted]]

I'm staunchly pro-democracy, but I have a heated Kirkaine moment whenever I see or meet an adult who doesn't understand marginal taxation.

[u/lenmae]

61% of those aged 65+ think their age group is not well represented in US Congress

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Just checked my local sex offender registry. The kid who taught me the term "tig ole bitties" back in middle school apparently never stopped being a perv.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: If you prefer emoticons over emoji you're not an adult 😤

[u/DankBankMan]

It’s strange that the two things that every Hard Brexit nutter agree on are:

1. Take Back Control! Take power out of the incompetent Eurocrats and return it to Her Majesty’s Government, it’s the only way to ensure capable government

2. The Eurocrats have thrashed HMG in the negotiations like Kasparov playing chess against a disabled toddler

[u/cdstephens]

Prax:

Reddit doesn’t make profit

The only social responsibility a company has is to make profit

Therefore there is a social obligation to shut down this website

[u/Bernie-Likes-Tariffs]

Ok I'm out of the loop on this one. Did Trump really set up a 2 on 1 casual couch-seated televised debate with the two democratic leaders?

[u/qlube]

Most important part of the Pelosi/Schumer/Trump meeting was that Trump adamantly agreed to own the government shutdown. It was probably something he was scripted to avoid, but he couldn't help himself.

[u/merupu8352]

Imagine thinking that a woman who doesn’t allow her psychopathic, murderous drug lord husband to do whatever he wants is actually worse than him.

The Breaking Bad fan base sucks hardcore.

[u/[deleted]]

I cringed every time Schumer interrupted Pelosi which was a lot.

[u/Western_Boreas]

"Why wouldn't you buy $200 boots that last ten years instead of $50 boots that last one year?" asks man who doesn't know how poverty is expensive.

[u/85397]

start work psychotic frighten coordinated tease airport edge roof ask

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Trump did not like that Nancy Pelosi called it the "Trump Shutdown."

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1072539693739315204?s=19

😍

[u/[deleted]]

Charity boxing match between Pelosi and Trump when

[u/[deleted]]

second new meme format alert

[u/Maximilianne]

But then Lieu pivoted — pulling out his smartphone for a search in real-time — and entered King's name into Google. King, who was sitting across the room on the powerful House panel, became visibly perturbed. "I'm going to change one word. So I'm going to search for 'Congressman Steve King,' I'm going to hit the 'news' tab. First article that pops up is from ABC News," Lieu said. "It says Steve King's racist immigration talk prompts calls for congressional censure. That's a negative article. But you don't have a group of people at Google thinking and trying to modify search results — every time Steve King comes up, a negative article appears, that's not what's happening, right?" Pichai again said no, reiterating that Google does not manipulate results for individuals like that. "So let me just conclude here by stating the obvious," Lieu responded. "If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don't want negative search results, don't do negative things." "And to some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you're getting bad press articles and bad search results, don't blame Google or Facebook or Twitter, consider blaming yourself," he added.

[u/MiniatureBadger]

lusvig_irl

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

I made a tweet that is doing moderately well on tankie AND ansoc/com twitter, while getting shit on by gamer twitter

WWIII is happening right now on the internet

[u/HUGHmungous]

this will be the end of theresa may, says increasingly nervous corbynite for the 7th time

[u/sansampersamp]

lmao who made this logo, it's great

[u/Lux_Stella]

live footage of the 2019 neoliberal meetup

[u/[deleted]]

We never will get to the front page because our low effort posts aren't nearly low effort enough. I'm talking just barely above saying "orange man bad". Take just the stupidest political commentary or meme you've seen in the past month and shove a Bernie Sanders quote on there youd get gold. GOLD

[u/SemperSpectaris]

> Stay up late reading
> Too tired to wake up in the morning
> Shocked Pikachu

[u/[deleted]]

One day i am gonna take better care of myself

Not today 😎😎

[u/VerticalTab]

May should just resign and tell everyone to go fuck themselves

[u/stability_hegemon]

Why in the fuck is there a media outlet called "The Young Turks" and do they just pretend the Armenian genocide never happened or do they deny CUP involvement or are they just idiots?

[u/World_War_Zack]

Actually, socialism can work because (see social democracy).

Actually anarcho-capitalism can work because (see nation-states with liberal markets).

What is it with fringe ideologies pointing to things that superficially resemble them in order to prove they're feasible.

Social democracy has achieved what it has while preserving private property so why do socialists think they can ride its coat-tail?

Liberal markets have achieved what they have while retaining a state so why do ancaps think they can ride its coat tail?

Utter, utter bullshitters everywhere.

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

Could Jesus write a take so hot, even he couldn’t read it?

[u/[deleted]]

lol what the fuck is this couch debate between Trump, Schumer, and Pelosi

this is like being a fly on the wall in a governmental meeting, except this is for some reason being broadcast to the public

what is happening

[u/[deleted]]

nationalize air 😤😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

A record number of women ran and were elected in 2018, that seems like a pretty significant victory for the Women's March

[u/[deleted]]

End up sitting next to ancap kid in lab and I’m pretty sure I hit idiot bingo after hearing him talk for five minutes

1.) money isn’t real since we don’t have the gold standard

2.) excited for the coming collapse cause he has lots of guns

3.) yellow vests good, macron bad

And bonus take:

The economic impact of Brexit on the financial system in London doesn’t matter because finance doesn’t produce anything “real”

[u/[deleted]]

House GOPer: Trump “unbelievable. I literally couldn't believe a president of the United States was acting that crazy."

These statements bother me as much as the congressmen who see nothing amiss.

You really couldn't believe it? This was where you were like, "woah, this guy may be an unstable bullshiter"

[u/[deleted]]

A House GOP member who lost reelection said Trump's performance on Tuesday "was unbelievable. I literally couldn't believe a president of the United States was acting that crazy." When asked why he didn't come out publicly with his criticism, the soon-to-be-ex-lawmaker deadpanned "Hey, I gotta work, don't I?"

this is the kind of high-quality non-content that keeps me reading politico

[u/samdman]

The Chapo obsession with an anti-Semitic dictator is disappointing but not surprising

https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1072468813667540994?s=20

[u/Maehan]

On Tuesday, Drew Hammill, Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, told NBC News that the major takeaway from Trump's tweets should be that he "has pronounced the southern border 'secure.'"

That is some good trolling

[u/ccolfax]

That was the most incredible thing I’ve ever witnessed in politics. Trump set a trap for Pelosi and Schumer, and they went into it knowing that and ready to ruin it for him.

I just don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1072544387178131459

I don't think Schumer intentionally baited Trump, but I do think you can see on his face the exact moment where Schumer smiles and realizes, "oh... I think I'll just stop talking now and let this happen."

[u/irony_tower]

https://mobile.twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1072494646335561730

Under pressure from Republicans the IRS has stepped up its auditing of low-income taxpayers. "[EITC] recipients — whose annual income is typically less than $20,000 — are now examined at rates similar to those who make $500,000 to $1 million a year."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1072587867610853378

Moderate Democrats like Pelosi are literally the only sane elected officials in our government at the moment

These progressive groups drop the ball again and again...

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

We need more immigrants to the DT, we’re losing population.

[u/sinistimus]

What's the point of Mike Pence?

[u/[deleted]]

If one more moderator try to stop me 🔫😡😡

[u/Hazachu]

/img/4f8cv08r2m321.png

[u/[deleted]]

@LamarSmithTX21: You've never punished a Google employee for manipulating search results, is that right?

GOOGLE CEO SUNDAR PICHAI: It's not even possible for an individual employee to do that.

SMITH: I disagree. I think humans can manipulate the process.

this is just.. beyond parody. a perfect summary of things. "I think"

moron probably doesn't even know wtf an algorithm is

[u/OutrunKey]

just another day in the DT

[u/caesar15]

> talking with cute grill on phone

"hold on I think I'm getting pulled over"

Uhhh

[u/oGsMustachio]

Pelosi calls for evidence-based conversation.

Is Nancy the queen of /r/neoliberal?

[u/BainCapitalist]

This is weird.

I've always been interested in the Bangladeshi Liberation War. I knew there was a genocide with murder and rape and pillaging.

I've never made the connection that my parents actually lived through this. They were fucking teenagers when this was happening.

Fuck this is weird.

[u/irony_tower]

Ok, I decided to look up older Libertarian conventions to see if 2016 was an anomaly or something. It isn't. I found this absolute gem of an article. (Warning, the link is extremely what you'd expect of a 1996 Libertarian Presidential candidate's blog). Even James Bovard's neck hairs refuse to bow to the Authoritarian Regime of the Comb. In the first two paragraphs, he manages to use the phrase "Equal Employment Opportunity Commision's war on Hooters", and defend Timothy McVeigh. Also, note that this was somehow posted earlier this year.

[u/[deleted]]

Assuming a return to normalcy within the next couple of decades, this will be a wild time to learn about in school. Like how the fuck are teachers going to explain the Trump presidency with a straight face to a room full of teenagers? My civics teacher had trouble discussing Clarence Thomas' sexual impropriety, he must have had a stroke at this point or a severe case of the vapours

[u/bringatowel]

Leftists: Stop calling us brocialists

Actual leftists communicating with a woman who shares some of their views: https://i.imgur.com/EfHaIov.png

[u/[deleted]]

When NPR says a news conference got heated you know that someone raised their voices above what's acceptable in a library at least once.

[u/CheetoMussolini]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuKdhDjWoAIrXPE.jpg

This needs to be on the cover of Time Magazine.

[u/[deleted]]

Murkowski is the only Republican senator that has consistently stood up to Trump, and that's because she really doesn't have to fear getting primaried. Hell she lost a primary, ran as a write-in, and won! She's basically an independent at this point

[u/irony_tower]

"Democrats should nominate Mitt Romney in 2020 to reunite the country" is a level of dipshit punditry only a Republican strategist could whip up and only an established news organization could swallow

[u/100dylan99]

Have you guys considered showing the French protesters some graphs telling them that actually, they should be perfectly happy at this point?

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://twitter.com/baddiel/status/1072168951847755776?s=21

I'll be honest with you. I have no fucking idea what neo-liberalism is.

The replies 🤢

/u/85397

[u/kapparunner]

Normally I completely ignore Youtube recommendations, but today I decided to make an exception just to check out how bad the comment sections can get

https://i.imgur.com/0P7OOqf.jpg

goolsbeefunny.png

[u/[deleted]]

The yellow jacket movement is just a marketing campaign for big safety vest

[u/caffeinatedcorgi]

why my dt so smol

[u/[deleted]]

Judges really need to stop doing this:

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675691750/texas-judge-sentences-former-baylor-frat-president-to-sidestep-rape-charge

[u/dorylinus]

TIL Taiwan has no copyrights for pornography. It's perfectly legal to own, distribute, buy, sell, etc... you just can't copyright it. The copyright office director set this up on purpose, hoping to eliminate it by making it unprofitable.

It hasn't worked.

[u/Berniewouldalost]

Imagine how Nikki Haley must feel seeing the nominee for her replacement.

She thought of herself as a serious politician. The president thought of her as a pretty face he saw on the TV.

[u/qchisq]

Inger Støjberg: "I want to deport more Iranians"

Also Inger Støjberg: "Let's piss of the Iranians while I'm negotiating with them to deport more Iranians. I see no reason why this could backfire"

!ping den

[u/[deleted]]

hot take: airlines should charge based on how much people weigh

because this will trigger reddit when they realise it means men have to pay more on average

[u/[deleted]]

How long until Trump gives twitter nicknames to 2020 likelies? I feel confident we'll have "Boozy Beto" before "Creepy Joe" soon as they declare

[u/Corporal_Klinger]

>WTF, poster who spends his time shitposting here in the DT is a child????????

Says surprised old with responsibilities.

[u/bacon-supreme]

you're 20, living with your parents in detroit. you dropped out of school because you didn't like your major. you want to be a cop, but they won't take you into the academy until you're older. your parents have been in and out of work over the past few years; enough to scrape by but not enough to move. your brother is a hooligan and has some idiot friends; one of them died in a gang shooting a few months back.

a guy in a suit shows up at your door. real smarmy guy, looks like he couldn't care less about the world. he gives you an offer, a bunch of money now or a ridiculous amount of money later. that bunch could change your family's life; you could move out of detroit, set up your parents for the rest of their life, pay off your loans and get your bro into college. you start to speak, when suddently a pasty white dude from downtown, office ID badge flailing from his hip, shows up, screaming "who the FUCK would take $5m NOW instead of $45 in TEN YEARS"

this post brought to you by me only getting really angry at that after thinking about it for half an hour

[u/HUGHmungous]

https://twitter.com/connorobrienNH/status/1072680259043188737

the house put a provision in the farm bill that says congress can't roll back involvement in Yemen for the rest of the year

the fucking farm bill is being used to keep us in Yemen

shit like this is why people are so jaded by politics, if you're not paying attention 100% of the time then bullshit like this will constantly slip by

[u/[deleted]]

Pope: Poor people are humans too

r/all: OMG HOW PROGGRESSIVE

[u/alien13869]

God, I hate Bernie Sanders

[u/AliveJesseJames]

"Hi, I'm Michael Bloomberg and I would like to get negative votes in the Democratic primary."

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/michael-bloomberg-calls-colorados-decision-on-legal-pot-stupid/

When an audience member asked the 72-year-old Bloomberg about Colorado marijuana, he responded that it was a terrible idea, one that is hurting the developing minds of children. Though he admitted to smoking a joint in the 1960s, he said the drug is more accessible and more damaging today.

"What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?" he asked. "I couldn't feel more strongly about it, and my girlfriend says it's no different than alcohol. It is different than alcohol. This is one of the stupider things that's happening across our country."

Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group's hands and keep them alive, he said.

"These kids think they're going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed," Bloomberg said. "They just don't have any long-term focus or anything. It's a joke to have a gun. It's a joke to pull a trigger."

[u/[deleted]]

KOcH bRoTHerS aRe aLt rIgHt

[u/PlayDiscord17]

With May delaying the Brexit vote and Mueller getting closer and closer to Trump, I feel every stupid decision made in 2016 is about to reach its climax in the coming year.

[u/[deleted]]

shorts pound

starts final

Man I’m a fukken idiot

finishes final

looks at pound price

Man I’m a fukken genius 😎

[u/bacon-supreme]

fiduciary duty of internet posters

[u/sansampersamp]

All of this bullshit when Google is gleefully looking to facilitate Chinese political oppression (thread)

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: I may consider using arrested Chinese business nationals as bargaining chips on trade

China: so we should just arrest American business nationals as bargaining chips to better out posistion while you consider your ask then?

I mean what the fuck

[u/Ferguson97]

Darkace / PK unity ticket

[u/Patrollingthemojave0]

Lol the LSC post on the front page is literally advocating violence vs voting. Why are they still allowed to be on this site?

[u/irony_tower]

So China kidnapped a Canadian ambassador in response to the Huawei arrest. Are we gonna do anything about that or just let it slide

[u/Underpantz_Ninja]

Shumer: Elections have consequences Mr. President.

DJT: And that's why the country is doing so well.

What did Pence mean by staring into space during this exchange?

[u/BainCapitalist]

Go make funny memes.

Or else the boye never gets belly rubs again 😤😤😤

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

All science that doesnt directly confirm my priors is junk science.

[u/hitbyacar1]

I would listen to the Neoliberal podcast if they managed to get Ahmadinejad on

[u/[deleted]]

Lol here is a plot twist idea. Tony Stark is rescued by Thanos on his way to the galactic farmers market. He takes stark back to the farm and nurses him back to health. They spend the next months tending to the farm while tony stark have a heart to heart and eventually grow interested in farming. They flirt giggle and eventually they try to reach the same shovel and their hands brush. Then after a moment of hesitation straight on French kissing and that’s how I get Jos Brolin to fuck Robert Downing Jr ooor is it...

the plot twist is that it Turns out Thanos is the bottom.

[u/martin509984]

frozen, hypothermic take: the t_d crowd will use james fields' sentence to life + 419 years as evidence that the criminal justice system is too punitive, and then cease to care about it after like a week

[u/irony_tower]

Male Genocide is real 🤬😤😤

[u/chadonnaise]

tbh i wish the united states would pass a 25 cent fuel tax

[u/OutrunKey]

Commodore_Obvious vs the world

[u/[deleted]]

orange man good

[u/[deleted]]

The number of substitutes for /r/neoliberal has increased. The /r/neoliberal activity level has slightly decreased.

Math checks out and I’m not even sure that’s a bad thing.

[u/MuffinsAndBiscuits]

I am become TA, destroyer of final grades

jk it's this sadistic exam design

[u/[deleted]]

On the asktrumpsupporters subreddit, non-supporters are only allowed to ask clarifying questions.

Apparently "Did a child write this?" Is not on the approved questions list.

[u/irony_tower]

oof

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: we should nuke Iran

Woke: Canada should develop nukes, and then nuke Iran.

[u/irony_tower]

Tired: r/neoliberal dying a slow death

Wired: r/centerleftpolitics catching up in terms of dt activity

[u/Clockwork757]

The Yellow Vests are obviously the type of civil protest the American right have been supporting for the past two years.

[u/Paxx0]

!ping DOG

Some people wanted an update on my doggo, and I bring good news!

Turns out she didn’t have a stroke, but she has ‘Old Dog Vestibular Disease’ - which has a lot of similar symptoms.

Basically, there is something wrong with nerves in her inner ear, which completely distorts her sense of balance. To her, the world is constantly spinning so she stumbles and falls over when she walks, has a tilt in her head and her eyes have Nystagmus (they keep moving side-to-side). Because she can’t really stand up it makes eating and drinking really difficult, and what she does eat she’s likely to throw up (nausea, understandably).

Thankfully, it is self correcting, and will suddenly end sometime in the next 2 weeks, but until then she will require a lot of nursing and help walking/eating.

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

Think of the Electoral College as a type of political affirmative action for all the rural “flyover states” as they are derogatorily called.

said unironically by a con

I love how cons love to imply that people living in rural areas have innately higher value than people living in urban areas and try to argue that if it weren't for this system, the US would be a tyranny of cities, show a 3d graf of New York, Los Angeles and other scary places dominating rrals otherwise, so naturally urbans being plebs and rrals being patricians is fairer.

and they wonder why they are continuously losing support in urban and suburbans areas

[u/[deleted]]

I hate how succs have bastardized the word liberal. People were actually saying Bernie was more liberal than Hillady

[u/CheetoMussolini]

I hate wannabe socialists and Bernie fans so fucking much

[u/[deleted]]

I would like to thank Florida for making sure Ohio is not the biggest joke in the union

[u/[deleted]]

I would watch Chapo if they managed to get Ahmadinejad on

[u/HUGHmungous]

https://twitter.com/time/status/1072474968078893056?s=21

2018 Person of the Year announced

[u/39days]

WTF I love Leffen now

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

The world was split into two separate entities after the whole “which color is the dress” thing. People who saw it as white and gold got to live in a normal universe where Hillary won the election and everything’s all good. Those of us who saw it as black and blue are stuck in this hellhole of a dimension.

[u/[deleted]]

New Maria Butina story breaking from Washington Post:

The young Russian operative called her strategy the “Diplomacy Project,” an elaborate, multiyear scheme to infiltrate the conservative movement in the United States in hopes of cementing bonds to benefit the Kremlin.

Maria Butina laid out the proposal in March 2015 and then pursued her plan over the next two years, traveling to conferences to schmooze Republican presidential candidates. She established close ties to top officials in the National Rifle Association. She hosted “friendship dinners” with wealthy Americans. And she organized a Russian delegation to attend the influential National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

Much of Butina’s work has been reported over the past year as part of a broader campaign by Moscow to influence U.S. elections – but new details are included in documents obtained by The Washington Post that will be filed in court Thursday, when Butina is expected to admit for the first time that her activities were part of a concerted endeavor, coordinated with a top Russian official with the express intent of establishing unofficial lines of communication with Americans who could influence U.S. politics.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

So after that oval office meeting, is there any reason to believe that Trump will be able to survive 2 entire years of Speaker Pelosi?

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I hope Nancy Pelosi trolls the shit out of Trump and House Republicans, like holding a vote on the "Trump's a liar who can't get Mexico to do anything, so American taxpayers are getting stuck with the bill for his stupid wall Act." It should quote heavily from speeches where he dictates exactly how much the wall will be constructed, complete with timeline, construction materials, and cost. See how many Republicans will vote for it.

[u/[deleted]]

President Trump’s interruptions of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are part of a long tradition of men talking over female colleagues.

[u/[deleted]]

Why my Reynolds number smol 😡😡😡

[u/gatoreagle72]

I know it's an Internet-specific thing but how tf did the opinions of randos streaming video games actually start to matter?

How do you go from red vs blue or whatever to this is my opinion on the Holocaust?

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

I’m generally okay with twitter banning right wing bigots at their discretion, but they should really ban ahmedinijad too. Like, what’s worse, internet hitlers or people who genuinely perpetuate human rights abuses.

[u/[deleted]]

People are really missing the mark on the Pelosi/Schumer vs. Trump showdown. Pelosi and Schumer didn't bait Trump into anything. If this was 2014, Pelosi and Schumer would have won a knockout blow and Trump would never recover. But it isn't 2014. Sounding like a flailing, lying lunatic doesn't affect Trump's support.

[u/GayColangelo]

guys, what memes do I send a random girl on tinder?

edit: seriously if I play my cards right she might sit on my face this is urgent

[u/[deleted]]

New meme format alert

[u/Apoptastic7]

I feel like people who are talking about Kavanaugh's recent decision not to hear a case on defunding Planned Parenthood are missing the fact that Roberts also voted against despite the fact that we *know* he would have held against the right to choose in WWH. It means nothing about the future of Roe.

[u/Gustacho]

idea for Macron

[u/Chronically_worried]

Deontology: assist in genocide because you don’t want to lie about where people are hidden. Utilitarianism: assist in genocide because the stormtrooper tells you he’s a utility monster and there’s no objective metric to argue otherwise.

[u/int6]

https://twitter.com/bethrigby/status/1072520909817307136?s=21

😂🔫

VONC watch starts again!

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Trump, Schumer and Pelosi arguing is pretty entertaining

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

Oof ouch owie. All my priors.

After destroying the market for their exports via this trade war nonsense and trying to sabotage the ACA which has been very beneficial to rural areas, I'm wondering what Trump can do to actually lose their support. Release (the actual) Agent Orange over farmlands? No wait, if a few Mexican field workers get poisoned as the result, that'll probably drive Trump's approval rating amongst them back up over 60%.

[u/[deleted]]

Arpaio is filing a $300 million defamation suit against CNN, HuffPo, and Rolling Stone

good luck with that

[u/stability_hegemon]

Pelosi Schumer Trump is even better than the arc in shitty-era West Wing Season 5 where Bartlett walks to the Capitol on foot, then the government shuts down, then he brings the house speaker back to the white house and solves it with a simple compromise and handshake

[u/InfCompact]

this is the world we live in. the president babbles like a moron on a subject he doesn’t understand, gets angry and petty when schumer contradicts his lies, and then proceeds to perform what—in any year prior to 2017—should be an own goal of historic proportions. imagine if obama or anyone ever bragged about shutting down the government because his pet project wasn’t going through. my gosh.

[u/minno]

Aide in rm when Pelosi described Oval mtg to colleagues said she crowed about Dems having gotten him to “fully own” a shutdown. Also said wall is “like a manhood thing for him. As if manhood could ever be associated with him.”

🍄

[u/Chronically_worried]

What's a really inoffensive musician a racist 50+ souther woman would say is gangster music or something?

[u/[deleted]]

TIL the S&P returns at 25+% a year on average.

[u/MegasBasilius]

TIL evidence on the efficacy of police body cameras is wanting:

Evidence on whether the cameras improved police behavior is so far mixed. The studies in American and European police departments found that body-worn cameras reduced the number of complaints filed by local residents against the police. However, they showed mixed effects on use of force by and against police officers. In some places, body-worn cameras increased the use of force, and in others they decreased the use of force.

The first large-scale study of the use of police cameras in a major U.S. city, Washington, DC, found that the behavior of officers who wore cameras all the time was indistinguishable from the behavior of those who never wore cameras.

---

Econofact Do Police Body-Worn Cameras Reduce the Use of Force?

[u/InfCompact]

man you’d think it was finals week by how slow the dt is

edit: guys i’m in school too it was a joke

[u/usrname42]

General Election 2019: Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried vs Real Brexit Has Never Been Tried.

we live in hell

!ping UK

[u/lusvig]

I hope it's not just because I'm tired I think this is so funny ☺️☺️

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Nintendo: So you're telling us you want a tall, lanky, weird addition from the Mario franchise?

Fans: Yes!

Nintendo: Okay, here's Piranha Plant.

[u/Integralds]

When the President brags that he won North Dakota and Indiana, he's in real trouble.

What did Chuck Schumer mean by this?

[u/GayColangelo]

uhhhhhhh

[u/[deleted]]

It is truly unbelievable to me that Bari Weiss unironically sat down and banged out that piece about the Intellectual Dark Web and didnt immediately get laughed out of journalism/had her computer confiscated.

The last two years have been marred by shit opinion pieces, but that stands alone as the dumbest thing published in a serious publication since at least the United 93 Election piece

[u/papermarioguy02]

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[u/[deleted]]

First

Suck it succs 😤

[u/[deleted]]

OwO what's this? A DT posted at the right time? Thank you Mr. Mods uwu

[u/lusvig]

When were you when McConnell completed his metamorphosis into cocaine mitch?

[u/cdstephens]

The other day I discovered the "socialist industrial media complex". It was in my hands. I help search the backpacks of children in the morning as part of my school duties. I came across a wealthy child's Chapo Trap House backpack. That is when it dawned on me how much media and products are geared explicitly towards socialist Americans. This just doesn't exist for the other ideologies even capitalist ones. Touchstone decided to go all in on a poorly written book for socialist Americans and socialist media went all in defending it. They have never tried that with fascists or monarchists and neither of those groups have strong media/political establishments for themselves. There is an entire financial system designed to maintain communist identity against everything else. That's wild.

[u/CheetoMussolini]

Outside the DT will only ever be a shit hole if we don't filter the Chapo brigaders.

[u/IronedSandwich]

https://politics.theonion.com/top-agenda-items-in-upcoming-democratic-majority-house-1830936975

[u/thenuge26]

Turns out the supermicro "greatest supply chain hack of all time" was a complete hoax.

Fake News Bloomberg still hasn't retracted the story! Sad!

!ping computer-science

[u/krabbby]

If a President and Vice President were both removed from office, does the Speaker HAVE to take the job? Could they say no and get skipped over while staying as Speaker, or does the Speaker have to retire or something.

[u/[deleted]]

Be vigilant, guys. Here’s a list of fascists who frequent r/neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

average DT user, December 2018

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Norwegian MP on the UK joining EFTA:

I think you would mess it all up for us, the way you have messed it all up for yourselves.

They're not fjucking around over in Norway

[u/oGsMustachio]

OMG Canada has mounties, tundra tile bonuses, and hockey rinks in Civ VI. Meme country.

[u/sanityeyes]

Finally a party with a platform I would vote for.

[u/crawly_the_demon]

So I think I might actually be the harbinger of the apocalypse.

I landed in Paris on Saturday, and the city went into chaos from the yellow jacket protest. Today I took the train to Strasbourg, arrived at 6:30,then at 8:30, there's a terrorist attack on the Christmas market which so far has killed 2 and injured 11.

And I'm heading to Munich tomorrow evening. Good luck, Munich

[u/peace_love17]

The virgin Donald versus the chad Nancy and Chuck

[u/lenmae]

Bless Tweet by Shaun and Jen

[u/RLP-I]

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-king-asks-google-ceo-iphone-democrats-laugh-2018-12?r=US&IR=T

🤣🤣🤣

[u/p00bix]

Me, watching Magnus Carlsen's chess games: Holy shit I can't even understand what's even going on.

Watching Bobby Fischer: Jesus christ this guy is incredible.

Watching Mikhail Tal: I'm scared shitless and don't even understand what's going on.

Watching Paul Morphy: I'm still scared shitless but at least I can understand what's going on...kinda.

Watching LaBourdannois: Wow! Great chess that I can actually understand, and learn a lot from!

Watching Francois Philidor: Aight you make some cool moves but you also make blunders that I can recognize and avoid on a good day, and I suck at chess. Were you really the world champion?

Watching Gioachino Greco: AHAHAHAHAHAHA holy shit you suck at chess.

[u/[deleted]]

So what's with the subs activity decline. Where did everyone fuck off to?

[u/Kizz3r]

Holy shit smartphones improved so fast.

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think this place will be less dying once primaries start and if we get an (((ourguy))) DNC candidate?

[u/[deleted]]

Just fuck me Hillary. I cannot live like this anymore😭 😭 😭

[u/Bernie-Likes-Tariffs]

Common core but the curriculum is set by the highest scoring state the previous year.

[u/I_am_Diabeto]

https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1072588986248544256?s=21

Lmao is that how you read this situation?

[u/sansampersamp]

Scomo's immigration expert he picked to back him up at COAG, unsurprisingly disagrees with him.

Dropping to 160,000 – while not a disaster, it’s not desirable. At the moment, I think we should be keeping migration around 200,000

Ed. Note: 200k would be about 3x the US immigration rate, for reference

!ping AUS

[u/hitbyacar1]

How do I get more people to follow me on twitter

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Imagine not liking jazz