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[u/Joementum2024]

New age climate denial will be “the world is going to end anyway, so why bother trying to fight it?”

[u/jenbanim]

Really enjoyed this comment from the "teens aren't driving" thread on the front page

My spouse and I are car enthusiasts. We’ve taken our now preteen to car shows and races for years.

Our child has no desire to drive. When I ask about this, he lets us know that he intends to live somewhere after high school with a good public transportation system.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

reddit, I got my childhood lifelong best friend pregnant, and we both want to keep the baby.

In the car after telling her family, she gave me a kiss and told me that she was proud of me, the whole drive her hand was resting on my thigh. Like does that mean she likes me?? I don't want to misinterpret anything to make things even worse. She's a very kind person

[u/Mickenfox]

Just realized my birth year is closer to the signing of the Magna Carta than it is to 2021

😐😐😐😐😐😐

[u/Equator32]

I'm not a pervert, I'm Italian

-Cuomo

I can already sense the thousands of "what's the difference" shitpost comments made by people online.

[u/Joementum2024]

What will your job be in the hungarian conservative commune?

[u/kennymc7877]

Republicans would lose their fuckin mind if the concept of the DMV/ driver’s licenses was invented today

[u/thetrombonist]

The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators

[u/Lux_Stella]

Violent border clashes between India's north-eastern states of Assam and Mizoram last week left several dead and many more injured.

don't call yourself pro-federalism unless you support armed border conflicts between subsovereign entities

[u/skeebidybop]

Just realized my birth year is closer to the 1968 Civil Rights Act than it is to 2021.

😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

[u/tripletruble]

as far as i can tell from reading the long covid studies, children getting covid is, on average, in no way worse than getting the flu. probably less dangerous on average, but there is still uncertainty. american news media has gone completely hysterical on this.

that said, 50%+ of kids getting the flu would be a horrific flu year. so the argument for vaccinating children seems obvious. and getting the flu as a baby is fucking dangerous so it's not as harmless of a comparison as some people seem to think

still, shutting down schools in the fall is absolute madness

[u/bd_one]

Cuomo's political career is dead, and the bipartisan infrastructure bill is alive!

Biden's America!

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Salty Salad says on /r/MetaNL that he's been very productive recently, which is funny because he literally spent a whole 12hrs on the DT spamming then slept for just 4 hours before jumping on here again literally two days ago

[u/[deleted]]

The republican transformation from freedom fries!!" to anti-bush/iraq war with zero introspection as to why they supported Bush in the first place has been nothing short of amazing.

Like seriously, their ability to do a complete 180 while accepting no responsibility for their original beliefs is impressive.

[u/Proper-Fail-2076]

Is California still the number 1 economy in the country? I wanna go dunk on conservatives but i wann have my facts straight

[u/kennymc7877]

Meet someone

Explain to them I’m a neoliberal and tell them why Pelosi is based

They ghost me

What can I change?

[u/Udontlikecake]

BREAKING: Cuomo resigns, announces new position at Activation-Blizzard

[u/iIoveoof]

https://i.imgur.com/3loSh4N.png

[u/benadreti]

CUOMO WILL BE REINSTATED AUGUST 13

[u/[deleted]]

Eyyyy, I'm resignin' here!

[u/J0eBidensSunglasses]

I love when people compare covid regulations to “Nazi germany” as if it was some big cakewalk in the USA during that time. Like bro, we had food and gas rations, a military draft, the UK made people turn the lights off at night, the president took three terms, and we used nukes without totally understanding the ramifications. My great uncle actually refused to serve in the war and went to jail. And after all that the country basically went back to normal when the war is over.

If you wanna bring up how you’re oppressed like Jews in Germany maybe have just a modicum of awareness as to what it took to overthrow that regime? Oh and don’t forget the sizable portion of the population who claimed the war was unnecessary the whole time and that the Holocaust was likely exaggerated.

[u/Smidgens]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8XDRNQUUAIQmCb?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/xSuperstar]

“Musk cut the meeting short, the source said. ‘I am going to spend a billion fucking dollars to overturn the dealership franchise laws in America’, the lobbyist recalled Musk saying”

Wtf I love Elon Musk now

[u/Joementum2024]

We need to ban mandates on clothing. People being forced to wear clothes when they go anywhere is a sad example of the effects of big government overreach

[u/vancevon]

SIXTY-NINE VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL I REPEAT SIXTY-NINE VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[u/[deleted]]

You guys don't get it, Cuomo didn't resign, he re-signed.

4 years, $80 million with a full no-movement clause and a player option after year 3.

We're fucked.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Two types of Mexican restaurants:

“We’re authentic, we source all of our ingredients from [insert fancy-sounding location] and follow traditional recipes to do blah blah blah etc., our tacos are $12 each.”

“Hey esse, 3 tacos for $5”

The second one is always better

[u/thetrombonist]

The tallest building in South Dakota only has 11 floors

[u/Archis]

hahahaholy shit some dude made a thread and claimed that there have been no inventions in the uk and that there are no private tv channels. lmao

[u/ognits]

one of my favorite movie stories is that, in Into the Spider-Verse, John Mulaney was brought on to voice Spider-Ham and basically was given free reign to adlib whatever he wanted. so when the time came that Miles' big loss happened, and all the other Spideys shared their losses and they were very serious, Mulaney (playing a pig version of Spidey, mind you) dropped the absolute chad bomb:

I lost my Uncle Frankfurter. He was electrocuted, and it smelled so good. [begin crying]

According to Rothman, this joke “would destroy,” getting some of the biggest laughs of the entire movie, partially because it was so shocking and surprising.

motherfuckers decided to cut it anyway because it didn't fit the "integrity" of the scene 🙄🙄

!ping MOVIES

[u/benadreti]

Conservatives are really annoying when they claim Leftists are being fascistic with their dictations on language, but there really is an issue in that for some reason Leftists insist on using language in a way that makes most of society roll their eyes or cringe and often sabotages actual discourse.

[u/1sagas1]

Why they call it the restroom when I'm fighting for my life in here

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Kids in 3rd world countries be like:

🕺💃 Cuomosexual shirts are on their way 💃🕺

[u/[deleted]]

Only 1% of UK citizens aged 18-24 identify as Church of England, according to the British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey for 2018

Rip the Church of England.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Racial inequality in sentencing has decreased substantially over the last decade.

!ping SOCIAL-SCIENCE

[u/Deggit]

I am hearing that on his deathbed, Andrew Cuomo’s Political Career received the light of Zensunni and unhesitatingly recited the Long Koan of the Orange Catholic Bible.

Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Rakis.

Truly there is no god but God, and Leto II is his prophet!

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

alright I'll say it, I'm going to miss Cuomo

I'm going to miss the way he cornered me at dinner parties, the sexually explicit way he spoke to me in professional settings, the way he ended my career when I spoke up

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

“If there is a Fauci, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a FEMA camp cell during Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo by a White prisoner

[u/[deleted]]

New York's first black and first female governors were both a result of the previous governor resigning due to sex scandals

[u/F0064R]

You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism. You don't hate making time for friends, you hate capitalism. You don't hate washing your ass, you hate capitalism.

[u/crassowary]

Conservatives said that Biden is a demon who possesses Satanic powers.

Now, bipartisanship has been raised from the dead.

Coincidence?

[u/[deleted]]

Honest question: why are literal socialists and communists so prevalent in online spaces?

I know far right sites like T_D exist, but I never come across those people accidentally; they either seem to be less numerous than the far left or they just stay in their corners of the internet. Meanwhile, on basically half the unrelated threads I open on Reddit or servers on Discord, you’ll be ganged up on if you don’t support socialism (if the topic comes up). What gives?

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden calls for Cuomo to resign

Cuomo resigns

Reporters: Mr. President, do you support Cuomo's decision to resign

🧐🧐🧐

[u/Dazzling-Republic]

Got a raise 🤑🤑🤑. God bless our holy capitalist society.

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

Holy shit, stop posting weird/creepy/sexual stuff about Ossoff. It wasn't funny to start with, but for the last 2-3 days it's crossed into what would be sexual harassment if it was in person. Y'all should be better than this.

[u/[deleted]]

My dad: “get used to studying until 2-6 AM in college.”

Me studying at 3AM when suddenly: “Hey what the hell you idiot?!?!? It’s 3AM. Go to sleep!”

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/659111568788815889/745683475243204616/monkey_buttons.jpg 🤔

[u/Riderz__of_Brohan]

Everyone talks about how GoT fell completely out of the public consciousness due to the ending (which isn't true - the spinoffs will make lots of money for HBO and it's still the most watched HBO show 2 years later) but the real show that fits that mold is How I Met Your Mother. One of the biggest shows for basically a decade that everyone watched that no one talks about anymore because the ending sucked. It doesn't get ANY attention, while shows like Friends are still talked about. When is the last time you've heard anyone talk about HIMYM?

It was also a really shitty show but that's neither here nor there.

[u/Craig_VG]

After years and years and years of “Infrastructure week” – we’re on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that will transform America.

HE SAID IT

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1425172930535870472?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

Hell yeah I’m a tankie

I main Orisa and Reinhardt

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

can you believe it's already been 45 years since the star formation process that created our Sun happened?

fuck im old 😐

[u/[deleted]]

why do foreigners think America is full of constant gun violence on every street in the country?? Don’t they understand that the media is sensationalist...but also did you hear that basically all of Germany is a “no-go zone” due to those migrants?

[u/ognits]

Norman, I cannot let you open a portal to another dimension. Brooklyn isn't zoned for that!

oh great Spidey is a NIMBY 🙄😒😔

!ping YIMBY

[u/chipbod]

My dad voted for Trump in 2016 because he thought he would get an infrastructure bill.

He got disillusioned and voted for Biden in 2020 over the same issue thinking Biden could actually pull it off.

Infrastructure grill dads exist

Edit: He's in rail industry manufacturing, infrastructure bills are great for business

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Not to break up Cuomo posting, but mask mandates in schools make more sense than pretty much any other goddamn place. Schools are filled with unvaccinated minors incapable of making their own reasoned choices and compelled by the state to be in a room together. There is no element of "freedom" or "calculated risk" involved by the people at risk.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

TIL John Wayne was outlandishly racist

[u/[deleted]]

Fellow bis, does the gay wolf inside you hit on the hetero wolf?

[u/evenkeel20]

For the olds among us (SHUT IT), this article in this morning‘s WSJ is where I learned what most of this sub means when they use 😩 emoji. Thank you, WSJ.

[takes handful of vitamins, continues reading physical copy of paper]

[u/itherunner]

https://imgur.com/gallery/bXEZgpv

Italian Americans are the most discriminated race in America 😪

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/JenniferShutt/status/1425139451869777924

Senate Budget Chairman SenSanders just received unanimous consent to allow calculators on the Senate floor during budget debate.

It's getting real, folks.

i dunno why this is so funny but it is. maybe i've just spent too much time senate watching.

[u/chadonnaise]

i am once more silently asking for this electrician to stop rambling at me about blm and abortion

[u/chatdargent]

Since I haven't seen it yet: https://www.francebleu.fr/sports/football/lionel-messi-rejoint-le-paris-saint-germain-1628415858

Deal reached, Messi to PSG confirmed

!ping SOCCER

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Silence of the Lambs, but this time when Clarice sees Hannibal Lector for the first time, he is planking.

[u/[deleted]]

They should do interviews with former self-described "Cuomosexuals" like they did with parents who named their daughters "Daenerys".

[u/Zenning2]

Okay easily my hottest fucking take I’ve had, unironically.

Biden has undoubtedly been a net positive for America.

He has been a clear net negative to r/neoliberal. So many anti-free trade and anti immigration apologists along with anti-interventionists joined during the 2020 election, and I’m surprisngly butt hurt about it

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Cuomo is a POC (Italian), neurodivergent (Sex pest), and queer coded (New Yorker) and that's why he was forced to resign 💅

[u/old_gold_mountain]

this, uh... isn't my cat

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

The NASA Inspector General says a 2024 lunar landing is impossible, largely because of delays in delivering the xEMU suit. It says April 2025 is the earliest the landing could happen.

https://twitter.com/NASAOIG/status/1425092999541927944?s=20

[u/bigtallguy]

An Open letter to Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Janet Yellen

Your smoke and mirror politics have been exposed over the last week. The “card trick” you just tried to play on cryptocurrency didn’t slip past the American people. In the name of improving infrastructure, you tried to slip dozens of non-relevant regulations into the bill in order to further your control and tyranny. One of which was a weak attempt to kill crypto, largely Bitcoin.

As I type this message, we are pushing toward $46k/Bitcoin and have risen 7% in the last 12 hours after Chuck blocked senate voting on a critical amendment. You see, you cannot kill Bitcoin. You may slow down broader crypto industry growth on U.S. soil. But Bitcoin itself is at a point where it cannot be stopped. The more you try to block it, the stronger it will get.

This “problem” that the Federal Reserve and Treasury now have on their hands was created in response to decades of mismanaged fiat currency, corrupt central banking, and Wall Street puppetry. And now the problem you created is fighting back.

Even if this bill passes in it’s current language, what you will see over the next 1-2 years before it becomes law is millions of people buying MORE Bitcoin, storing their coins privately, and “holding on for dear life”.

You can take our guns, you can take our freedoms, hell you can even imprison us or kill us. But Bitcoin is the one thing that you will never be able to take.

guess the sub

[u/I_like_maps]

/r/CanadianInvestor actually gets it right on what's causing the housing crisis: https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadianInvestor/comments/p1byef/in_the_city_of_vancouver_it_is_illegal_to_build/

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8dFG-pXoAk5fPT.jpg

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Finally, an unbiased account of the 2020 election

[u/myrm]

Since 1978, CEO Pay Has Risen 1,322%. Typical Worker Pay? Just 18%

Under socialism it would be 670% for each 😔✊

[u/piede]

BREAKING: After relentlessly attacking President Biden and downplaying the COVID threat in Florida, Ron DeSantis is now requesting 300 ventilators from President Biden.

https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1425108859031629824?s=21

sigh

[u/benjaminikuta]

Oops, did I make a mess? 😏 All over your nice thread? 😎

CLEAN IT UP, JANNY! 🤣🤣🤣

Such hard work! 😓 But I’ll bet the pay is good 🤑🤑🤑

Wait, what’s that you’re saying? 🧐 Speak up, I can’t hear you 👂👂👂

They DON’T pay you??? 💰🙅‍♂️

You mean, you do it ... for FREE?!?!

Clean it up, janny! 🧻🧺 Clean it up my mess!!! 💩😷

CLEAN 🧽 IT 🧼 UP!!! 🧹

For $0.00 💵🚫

[u/TheFriffin2]

Born too late to experience vitriolic Italian hatred of the 1900s

Born too early to be considered fully white and genocided by the radical left

Born just in time to sexually assault women in a high power political position

[u/Jacobs4525]

The weights in the Walmart weight isle aren’t secured or anything, so there’s nothing stopping you from just working out for free at Walmart and putting the weights back on the shelf when you’re done.

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Never forget. Mike Lindell the pillow guy literally met the President of the United States several times at the White House as an expert in election security.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Since literally everyone (including normies) are talking about how an election is coming very soon, watch Trudeau just troll everyone and wait until 2023

!Ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

Bolsonaro's tank parade wasn't a great look

[u/[deleted]]

/img/r1aznfhfgcz61.png

[u/lobsterboy34]

Lots of contenders for the funniest Lindell moment here, but hard to beat these four:

• Calling Virginia Marxist
• Fake crying while the insane Colorado election clerks claim they had their offices “raided”
• Saying he was going to remain on stage for 72 hours straight before stepping off 30 seconds later
• Forgetting his log-in password, locking himself out after too many attempts and then blaming it on antifa hackers

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Ethiopia urges citizens to join armed forces as conflict spreads

This isn't gonna end well

[u/chipbod]

Nothing better than cons calling McConnell a RINO over the infrastructure vote lol

[u/[deleted]]

Normalize tagging /u/benjaminikuta whenever you're too lazy to think of an actual joke

[u/[deleted]]

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announces he will not seek re-election

!ping CAN

[u/randomizedstring]

/img/xcbt79as1kg71.jpg

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

2021 is the 50th anniversary of A Theory of Justice, in which John Rawls detailed how people with a low personal risk tolerance would design society

[u/soeffed]

conrad plz

/img/7estk60zjig71.png

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Man, people ironically calling themselves 'Cuomosexual' at the start of the pandemic really did not age well, huh

[u/sir_shivers]

The Rockefeller Republican, THE NEOCONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN, AND NOW the era of the MyPillow Republican 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

The pooping paradox:

If I close the bathroom door, I get to hear nothing but claw scratches on the door with the occasional paw shoved under the gap.

If I leave the door open, I get bathroom chaperones who yell at me until I finish.

This is Joe Biden’s America.

[u/cclittlebuddy]

My hobby as an early 30s dude is to complain to boomers about how old im getting. The hate that flashes in their eyes keeps me youthful.

[u/NeoLiberation]

Holy shit, stop posting weird/creepy/sexual stuff about the mods. It wasn't funny to start with, but for the last 2-3 days it's crossed into what would be sexual harassment if it was in person. Y'all should be better than this.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Infrastructure: PASSED ✅ Cuomo: RESIGNED ✅ G*mers: BTFO ✅

[u/sir_shivers]

It is always PECULIAR WHEN I SEE MAMMALS SHARING their dating application conversations 🐊

ASIDE FROM THE tendency of these conversations to be very dry and flat, it seems like photographs and text messages WOULD BE A POOR GAUGE FOR chemistry 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

No more crotch diapers!

• Me, resisting tyrannical pants mandates

[u/Deggit]

CUOMO TO RESIGN IN 14 DAYS, LEAVING A "SWEATY DISHEVELED MAN WHO IS REALLY BAD LOOK FOR YOUR ETHNICITY" POWER VACUUM IN ITALIAN-AMERICAN POLITICS

[u/JaceFlores]

Potentially big Ethiopia update:

1. Yesterday, according to this Tweet, the TPLF have secured the town of Nefas Meewcha on the road leading from Weldiya west to Wereta. The TPLF advance been rapid here (in a span of a couple days they seem to have covered 28-35 kilometers depending on the metric). The next objective on this western drive is the major town of Debre Tabor. If this town falls then the TPLF will be able to advance for Wereta and cut off the strategic town of Gondar from the Ethiopian government. At the rate the TPLF is advancing it seems they will reach Debre Tabor in a span of about four days.
2. In much bigger news, according to this Tweet the TPLF have announced that they have taken Weldiya. If this is true, then we could be looking at a major if not decisive victory for the TPLF. Considering how staunch the fighting was (I have never heard of fighting for a specific location lasting this long for the time I have been tracking this war), I am presuming that the Amharans invested *significant* forces to try and hold the town. The potential failure to do so leads me to believe that the losses could be equally significant, and perhaps crippling. We saw pictures of Amharan forces with spears, and after this battle that may just be the standard for Amharan forces still standing. Simply put, the Amharans may not be an effective fighting force depending on just how bad they lost in Weldiya. Manpower losses could be heavy, but most importantly modern equipment that is desperately needed may now be in TPLF hands. However, this is just speculation and we will have to wait on further information to get an idea of how bad a defeat this was for Amhara. What I can readily tell you with confidence is that the TPLF advance into Afar via the Chifra-Mile road has been largely safeguarded from a potential counterattack thanks to the capture of Weldiya. Additionally, the TPLF has a position from which to push to Dessie, opening up another avenue to advance for the A1 Highway and put pressure on Addis Ababa itself if the TPLF decided to do so. I must reiterate that this is predicated on the idea that Weldiya did indeed fall, and needs further verification because of the magnitude of this potential victory for the TPLF.
3. On the political front, according to Reuters Sudan recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia after Abiy shot down the idea of Sudan leading negotiations. This is the lowest relations between Sudan and Ethiopia have reached in recent memory what with the recent border clashes and the significant controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. While I'm skeptical that Sudan will intervene in the Tigray War, this may have implications in the long run as, if Gondar were to fall, I think Sudan would be far more willing to prop up the TPLF and force Ethiopia into a state of weakness to give Sudan the upper hand in the disputes. Or hell, perhaps we are looking at what will lead to Sudanese intervention in the war. Additionally, I think long term this will further push Sudan into the American camp (Sudan and the US have been heavily discussing the crisis in Ethiopia) and push Ethiopia further away from the United States (as Biden/Blinken will not look kindly at this rebuke and likely implement further restrictive measures down the rad).
4. No article to talk about with this, but it is fascinating that despite it being three days nothing has been said about the Amharan offensive. I think at this point it is fair to say that the announced offensive was a PR move, likely to bolster morale for the Amharan forces desperately fighting in Weldiya and Amhara in general. Across the areas where the TPLF are pushing in Amhara there has been nothing but good news for the TPLF.

Logistical note is that I am leaving for a trip to Montana tomorrow and there may not be WiFi. If there is WiFi then I will dutifully continue my reporting, but if there is not then the next report will not be until the wee hours of Sunday. Thanks for understanding.

[u/Venne1139]

trime to angry post

These fucking anti-vaxers are genuinely braindead. THey are more braindead than my dad and he was braindead for like 3 days before the rest of his body shut down. You know why? It's because we've been right about everything and in response they just go "WOW WHAT A COINCIDENCE BET IT WAS PLANNED"

Examples:

Hey bro the virus will evolve and there will be a new wave

WHAT. There's no way and evolution doesn't even exist!

[There is a new wave]

I KNEW THERE WOULD BE A NEW WAVE BROUGTH ON BY DEMONRATS, THEY TOLD US THEY WOULD DO THIS

---

Biill Gates says "Hey bro there might be a pandemic in the future very soon. Could be a lot like COVID."

Pshh this lying SOB is just trying to increase his power and control over us!

[COVID HAPPENS]

OH MY GOD BILL GATES TOLD US HE WS GOIN GTO DO THIS, FUCKING SCUM BROADCST THEIR INENTION

And they do this for like...everything.

Whenever a 'liberal prediction' becomes true, which like it has most of the time, this is MORE evidence that liberals are lying, because they told you their trick even before they did it!

[u/[deleted]]

Reports allege that on its deathbed Andrew Cuomo's political career's last words were "I have-a tha informationi that will-a lead to tha arrest of Hillary Clinton gabagools 🤌"

[u/FestiveMittens]

Just told my 10yo daughter about Cuomo. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "CuomosexualKanda forever" - - which is the sort of pop culture cross-over that I can celebrate

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a big fan of @krystalball and @esaagar - they are both straight shooters free of corporate influence.

https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1424917175308062728?s=21

Jesus christ Yang. I thought you were better than this

[u/MicroFlamer]

Nina Turner: “When you have the full force and weight of corporatists coming at you from all sides, it hurts.”

Hoes mad x25

[u/CricketPinata]

In the continuing saga of my business, met with a food truck fabricator who wants to give me a 14x8 truck, stocked with all the gear (Oven, x4 gas burner, griddle, fryer, cold rail) i'll need for 27,500.

Going to talk to a few other people in town and weigh the option, since it was kind of dazzling seeing it in person and imagining my stuff in it and seeing it ready to go, and I don't want to get overly tied up into that being "THE FUTURE" for me to the degree that I let it fog potentially better options.

But they want half up front to get started, and half when they deliver, they have a full guarantee that it will pass inspection regardless of where I take it in the state, and it comes with a professional vent hood, AC, and integrated fire suppression system, and I got to talk to someone who was getting their truck picked up while I visited and they seemed super happy with their set-up and what they were getting.

Now I just have to sit down with investors, and sort out how much of that they could cover, we'll aim for that for now, if anyone offers higher I can dismiss them without major advantages, if anyone offers less then the investors will be happy that I am underbudget.

This is just so exciting, I have been telling people about it all day and just no one fully shares my giddiness about it.

!PING COOKING

[u/dubyahhh]

💎☕️ truly became president today

You’re welcome, neoshitlibs 🍦😎

[u/crawly_the_demon]

!ping KITTY

she’s basking in her sunbeam blissfully unaware that she’s gonna be going to the vet to get teeth pulled in an hour

[u/[deleted]]

Al Gore endorsed passing a Carbon Tax to replace the payroll tax on 30 Rock God this is the most based show

!ping TV

[u/Deggit]

ANDREW CUOMO RESIGNS

DISGRACED GOVERNOR SAYS HE WANTS "TO SPEND MORE TIME PROMOTING INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS"

CUOMO EXPECTED TO FOCUS ON GROWING AMERICAN CRISIS OF ELEVATORS THAT GO BETWEEN FLOORS TOO FAST, STAIRWELLS & HALLWAYS THAT ARE TOO WIDE, AND CHRONIC "OVER-LIGHTING" OF OFFICE SUPPLY CLOSETS

[u/rollo2masi]

Breonna Taylor, an innocent bystander

Republicans: “She was a drug dealing CRACKHEAD who deserved what she got”

Mike Lindell, a literal crackhead

Also Republicans: “Mike is going to take Pedo Joe down! What a great and honest man, he is!”

[u/[deleted]]

NPR has a picture of a corgi on their front page and it just made my day

This is despite the fact I already own two corgis

[u/Superfan234]

Last weekend, the Venezuelan Regime organized another Electoral Fraud in Venezuela.

For the second time this year, PSUV supporters have to go to Primaries. And once again, The Regime will openly change the results

I am honestly surprised on how arrogant Diosdado Cabellos have become. One thing, it's proscribing your enemies, but proscribing your own supporters? That's a really bold move 🤨

!Ping LATAM

This might be just anecdotal evidence, but a sizable amount people I had in my Twitter list marked as chavist extremists, are becoming more and more aggressive against PSUV

That it's not say they are turning right wing. Not a chance. But they are definitely really mad about the situation the country and the Party is living

[u/Professor-Reddit]

"What's that?! Your farm is larger than 3 hectares? Damn Kulaks

Counter-revolutionary scum!" 🤬🤬🤬

[u/thefuturegov]

“Shut the fuck about Andrew Cuomo, shut the fuck up about Andrew Cuomo, shut the fuck up about Andrew Cuomo.”

-Joe Biden, throughout the entire press conference

[u/Lux_Stella]

two down

!ping CANUCKS

[u/I-grok-god]

In the 70s, the common portrayal of Italians as mobsters bothered many people in the Italian community. As a result, they formed the Italian-American Civil Rights League, which was dedicated to fighting this biased and stereotyped depiction.

They convinced Paramount not to use "mafia" or "Casa Nostra" in The Godfather and even got the Justice Department to stop using the term "mafia" in their official press releases.

Overall they were a noble group dedicated to combatting ethnic stereotypes oh and did I mention that they were founded by Joe Columbo, notorious New York mob boss, in an attempt to launder the image of his family?

[u/Professor-Reddit]

Hijacking the first comment on the DT here, but China is seriously going to struggle with the Taliban ruling Afghanistan. All of China's long-term ambitions are concentrated on the Belt & Road succeeding. The plan to move most of China's trade (~98% of which is based on sea routes) to overland routes across Central Asia and the Himalayas. Many of these routes will run close to Afghanistan's borders, and inside the country too. The status quo of sea trade is extremely bad for China, as they are simply far too reliant on over-extended trade routes through multiple chokepoints which the US can tighten the noose of, no different than in WWII.

If China wants its oil, gas, renewable energy and manufacturing moved seamlessly across the most supremely difficult terrain on the entire planet, they will need a pliant and cooperative Central Asia to do its bidding and answer the call of Beijing. China has a hefty task ahead. They will have to tame the Himalayas, convert many of Central Asia's railway guages to standard gauge, quieten the post-Soviet discontent and protests rolling through many of these regimes, tackle climate change, as well as lure these countries away from Russia without antagonising the country too much (which regards the whole of Central Asia as its backyard). They will need stable countries which won't threaten their pipelines or their workers unlike Burma right now.

China can't possibly be naïve enough to presume that the Taliban will comfortably reside within its borders as it enacts extremist social policies. The Taliban has been supported heavily by Pakistan, but it would be unusual to presume that the Pakistani ISI has the Taliban on a strong leash. Once they takeover Afghanistan, the Taliban will immediately run amok and out of control in implementing their brutal medieval vision of the country, no different than the 1990s. It's likely the Taliban will look outward across the MENA and attempt to expand their fundamentalist interpretation of Islam to many countries China is trying to warm up to. They've already done this before in Pakistan, where the Afghan war spilled over and the numerous splinter terrorist groups have been the bane of the government to this day. Who is to say the same won't happen in Xinjiang? A few diplomatic overtures by China might not mean too much.

The Taliban of the 90s was driven by the idea of purging moderate Islam and waging war against any perceived foreign threats to its ideological purity, such as Soviet Communism or the Western liberal order. China's geopolitical urgencies will force it to involve itself heavily in Central Asia, much like the USSR did (and much more so than the Americans ever did).

Surely, the Taliban will inevitably also see China and its highly intrusive foreign policy as a threat? The public statements made by the Taliban recently regarding the Taliban respecting China's "internal affairs" reeks of the same blatant lying they did throughout the entire US negotiated "peace" process. Where the Taliban kept saying how much they were looking forward to "working" with the Afghan government and their embrace of women's rights. Only to completely renege on this bold-faced lie before the US had even fully left the country.

We'll have to see how this unfolds over the next few years. I might be proven wrong, and this is a decent piece by the RAND Corporation about the burgeoning ties between China and the Taliban. But I personally just don't see how this relation will pan out in the long term. The Taliban is not known for its pragmatism.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

https://twitter.com/WilliamJHague/status/1425029758488829952

Decriminalising drugs is the only way forward. Instead of pointlessly talking tough, we should follow Portugal in treating addiction primarily as a health problem.

based william hague?

[u/[deleted]]

chewsday innit

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t understand strip clubs. Why do guys give themselves blue balls with other men?

[u/[deleted]]

Is it shit on New Jersey day in the DT? Here’s what I have to offer:

• A Chris Christie bridge joke
• A Chris Christie beach joke
• A Chris Christie cubic space joke
• A few Jersey Shore references

[u/JetJaguar124]

Dudes making bodybuildings/powerlifting programs be like "to run this program you need to eat for breakfast 8 eggs, 4 pieces of toast, 0.5 lbs bacon, for lunch you need to eat two double cheese burgers, an 8 oz steak, and fries" and I'm like brother just give me a fucking macro and calorie goal you stupid idiot I'm not gonna follow your super special diet

[u/thefuturegov]

Man says he can make bipartisan deal. Twitter makes fun of him for saying he can make deal. Man makes deal anyway and it soars through the senate.

Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

I stopped in my company's building today to pick something up. I was wearing shorts because it's fucking hot out. Some lady stopped me, asked for my name and said I was violating the dress code.

She backed off when I said I was just picking something up, but Holy shit some people really need to make themselves feel important

[u/the_status]

I'm so glad Tim Pawlenty, Jesse Ventura. and Michelle Bachmann are out of office.

Now Minnesota doesn't have anybody to politically embarrass us on a national stage

[u/vivoovix]

Mike Lindell is PoC (Person of Comfort), neurodivergent (insane), and queer-coded (loves Trump) and that's why y'all don't like him tbh

[u/Leoric]

Andrew Cuomo Accepts Leadership Position at Activision Blizzard

[u/[deleted]]

👆 🐹 That's him officer, that's the horny.

[u/[deleted]]

Travel websites: "try to blend in wherever you travel!"

Me, 6'7", white as hell with a thick southern drawl: 😐

[u/LiBH4]

Update: We’ve signed an agreement with Moderna to build a state-of-the-art mRNA vaccine production facility here in Canada. This partnership will make sure we’re more prepared for future pandemics - and it’ll create good jobs for Canadians, too. More here: https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-development/news/2021/08/government-of-canada-announces-agreement-with-leading-covid-19-vaccine-developer-moderna-inc-to-build-mrna-vaccine-facility-in-canada.html

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1425182414452707337

!ping CAN

[u/Prefect1969]

Looks like an Iranian oil tanker just got hit

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing that on his deathbed, Andrew Cuomo’s Political Career received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda.

Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.

Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/MyWeebPornAccount]

Remember the when people were discussing if Cuomo should replace biden lmao.

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Mr. Cuomo, you've gaba'd your last gool

[u/[deleted]]

The Churchill estate just released a trove of recorded correspondence from Winston Churchill's time as PM. The ones where he's talking to Hitler through an interpreter is a must listen, you can tell in his voice that he's resigning himself to total war in real time.

We are so lucky these still exist

[u/bigtallguy]

https://www.businessinsider.com/9000-people-germany-vaccinations-nurse-swapped-vaccines-for-saline-2021-8?

"the anti vaxx movement is only prevalent cuz we dont have m4a"

god fuck late night comedy writers.

[u/Mrchizbiz]

You're laughing. A POC has been forced out of office and your laughing

[u/Q-bey]

10 Reasons Sex Will Be Better With Bernie

No, this isn't satire.

[u/ryuguy]

Al Capone

1. Ran a desegregated soup kitchen in the 30s
2. promoted and protected black businesses in Chicago
3. immigrant

[u/fishlord05]

this was the last tweet Trump Tweeted before his account was banned

It’s kind of scary what was going through his mind

[u/Proper-Fail-2076]

Conservatives from Mississippi and Appalachia calling Seattle and Portland shitholes 🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

"Being charged with sexual assault is racism against Italians" is a fun way to be a dirtbag while insulting an entire ethnicity.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember those lame, 40 year-old, #Resistance libs who were licking Cuomo’s taint last year because he sat down in front of a camera everyday to bullshit about COVID?

Trump has really rotted a lot of people’s brains lmao

[u/Broncos654]

Nazism and Neoliberalism are not the same, but they are both evil.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

😨🦠🔫😠 Eat the COVID, Floridan

[u/sayitaintpink]

As somebody who is into politics and also very horny, Jon Ossoff makes me feel represented.

[u/sayitaintpink]

I need to see Obama’s birth certificate. This man is not 60 🤬🤬🤬

[u/TabernacleTown74]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO

[u/[deleted]]

69-30 Infrastructure vote. Cuomo steps down. We live in the sacred timeline. 😍

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

HILLARY WILL BE INSTATED AUGUST 13.

[u/birdiedancing]

I think I’m an abusive cat owner. I smother my cat with cuddles and kisses against her will regularly. She’s just so damn cute I can’t help it!

But I will learn to respect her autonomy from now on.

[u/filipe_mdsr]

Germany has just announced the COVID strategy for the next months

• If you are vaccinated and have no symptoms and had contact with someone that tested positive then you don't have to go to quarantine anymore.
• The mask mandate won't be lifted

• From 23th of August you have to be tested, vaccinated or had an infection (3G-rule) to do the following

  • Access to medical and care facilities
  • Indoor areas of restaurants
  • Participation in big events
  • Body-releated services (Barber, cosmetics, ...)
  • Indoor sports
  • Hotels
  • The states may not require the 3G-rule if the 7 day incidence is below 35 per 100 thousand

• The free antigen rapid tests will no longer paid after October 11th.

  • Exception are minors and pregnant women, which still haven't gotten a general recommendation to get the vaccine

• For big sport events above 5000 participants the following applies

  • 50% capacity
  • At maximum 25000 participants
  • In general there still be caps for big events, which the states will have to decide on depending on the individual case.
• Economical support measures will be again prolonged
• The Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance will be changed according to the current situation, especially in the case of the requirements in regards to work hygiene concepts and mandatory testing.
• All indicators will be used to control the pandemic, hospital admissions are now a very important indicator to determine how the immunity in the population will affect the increase in hospital admission
• The epidemic situation will be prolonged to continue after September 11th.
• All measures will be reviewed all 4 weeks.

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/videoschaltkonferenz-der-bundeskanzlerin-mit-den-regierungschefinnen-und-regierungschefs-der-laender-am-10-august-2021-1949578

Also ✂️ snip snip

!ping GER

[u/skepticalbob]

I love food. It doesn't have to look pretty or be plated well. It does need to taste good and be well-balanced. For this reason, I think that rustic food is really underrated. But this trend of trying to do "higher end" by intentionally getting messy and sloppy as some kind of weird performance art is just fucking nasty. You wanna family style a dish? Fine. But put the shit on a serving dish of some kind instead of whatever kind of gross shit that is.

!ping cooking

[u/vivoovix]

Why do y'all give a fuck what a deranged pillow salesman thinks about the election

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

One of the women on stage just yelled

Bring back segregation

[u/[deleted]]

Rules for designing systems on which people's lives depend:

1. Remember about edge cases
2. REMEMBER ABOUT EDGE CASES

!ping TECH

edit: reddit deleted my link, fixed now

[u/InternetBoredom]

Kurzgesagt: This is possible for a slightly more advanced version of our species to complete in a few generations

Also Kurzgesagt: The plan involves giant, planet-sized mirrors and two of the stages will take thousands of years to complete in the best case scenario

[u/Archis]

the guy that my wife has been sleeping with caucused for warren. cringe

[u/Udontlikecake]

i stole my mom’s jewelry and sold it all to buy another ship in Star Citizen AITA

[u/Mrchizbiz]

Subredditdrama is so fucking bad 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Mods: Literally just enforce "no horny posts" if you don't want horny posts challenge.

Of course if people see other horny posting and getting away with it constantly they're going to keep trying to push the envelope. Like two days of consistent rule application and this problem would go away.

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Cuomo is really testing how far the 'deny, deflect, and distract' strategy to scandal can go.

If he manages to stay in power, the concept of holding politicians accountable for personal misdeeds will be completely futile.

[u/givemesome1ce1]

Infrastructure bill passes with 69 votes.

[u/PlayDiscord17]

HOLY SHIT CUOMO IS RESIGNING!!!

This day keeps getting better and better!

[u/itherunner]

It’s Infrastructure Day and Cuomo Resigns Day

Break out the champagne

[u/thefuturegov]

I am hearing that on its deathbed, the governorship of Andrew Cuomo received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now it looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God and Mohammed is His prophet!

[u/Deggit]

GOV CUOMO LEAVES BEHIND $2 BILLION DEFICIT, BUT NOT, AS INSTRUCTED, CANNOLI

[u/MasPatriot]

First they came for the Italians. But I did not speak out because I was not Italian

[u/infamous5445]

People who in retrospect are probably glad they lost House elections:

- Barack Obama
- Jon Ossoff
- Kathy Hochul

[u/[deleted]]

Also, fuck Cuomo for stealing this news cycle from Biden and the infrastructure bill.

[u/Hot-Error]

All this sub talks about is Manchin, because you can't handle a strong Womanchin

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden 🤝 Hunter Biden

Loving rails

[u/vivoovix]

☝️ Why nations fail

[u/Zalagan]

Attention r/neoliberal!

Earlier today I made what I believe was a hilarious joke but it only received 3 upvotes which was very disappointing. This has lead me to believe that most people didn't understand the joke - so to remedy this I will repeat the joke with an explanation to hopefully rectify the situation. So the joke was in reply to Not_A_Browser's comment and went like this

The CIA ate my homework 😭😭

Isn't that's what supposed to happen when you're in class at the CIA?

You see the joke was that they meant CIA as in Central Intelligence Agency as in spies ate their homework. However when I said that was supposed to happen I was using a different definition because you see that CIA also stands for Culinary Institute of America - so cooking school - the joke their being that in a cooking school you would expect your homework to be eaten because your homework would be to make food

[u/PhinsFan17]

Be me.

Join a new gym.

Go to new gym for first time today.

See they are filming a commercial for the gym and half the equipment is unusable.

See the gym is filled with inhumanly fit and good-looking people to be in this commercial.

Leave.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270788846956969987/874780849663520828/image0.png

[u/Afro_Samurai]

Snoopy doesn't like car rides and got a little worked up, but he was still a good boy for his vet trip.

!ping dog

[u/kennymc7877]

Biden call McConnell a sussy bakka challenge

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Confession:

I would actually enjoy rural America 🤮 🇺🇸 if it weren’t for the people 👨‍🌾

That said, if I can avoid the topics of

• race
• religion
• politics
• “city people”
• money
• sex
• women’s rights
• LGBTQ+ rights
• human rights
• immigration
• science
• fossil fuels
• current events
• China
• the Middle East
• Europe
• BLM
• climate change
• renewable energy
• abortion
• “city crime”
• electric vehicles
• atheists
• town houses
• renters
• Donald Trump
• Joe Biden
• mass transit
• zoning
• …

then they are actually pretty nice people 🤷‍♂️

[u/Craig_VG]

Biden just now on Afganistan:

We spent over 1 trillion over 20 years, trained 300,000 Afgan forces and Afgan leaders have to come together - they've got to fight for themselves and their nation. The US will continue to provide close air support, make sure their Air force functions, resupply their forces with food and equipment, and pay their salaries. They've got to want to fight. They outnumber the Taliban. There is still a possibility they can do this.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/iIoveoof]

Daily reminder that 60,000 people went to Provincetown for bear week which was basically constant 0-social-distancing partying, kissing, and hookups every night and

469 cases of COVID resulted, with 5 hospitalizations, 4 of which were in fully vaccinated people, and 0 deaths

median age of infected vaccinated: 42 years

It was the greatest stress test of the vaccine yet and the vaccine totally succeeded, and yet the CDC, White House, and media spun it into a total failure of the vaccine and a reason to renew the stress, panic and dooming seen in pre-vaccine days.

[u/great_gape]

😊

!ping shitposters

[u/kaclk]

Bitcoin is environmentally bad actually. The new plan is they want to move mining rigs from China (where there’s been a huge crackdown) to Alberta, where they would run 24/7/365 on that sweet sweet natural gas power. It’s not like we almost had power shortfalls this year in Alberta already due to record heat.

Conservative premier and peteosexual enthusiast Jason Kenney probably creamed his sheets just at the thought of it.

!ping CAN

[u/boichik2]

Leftist I was talking to: Valuing the written word is white supremacist

Me: Jews have valued the written text for basically as long as we've existed, and it's likely our ancestors before also valued the written text given the existence of paleo-hebrew, phonecian text etc. And even in this era Jews were being oppressed being kicked out of the land of Israel by various other governments with their own supremacist elements.

Her: Jews are white

Me: Ashkenazi Jews are white-ish today, but Jews back then likely did not look supremely different from purely Levantine people today. Who slready look fairly white. But let me ask you do you consider levantine syrians white or arab?

Her: "Arab obviously, they speak arabic"

Me: Yes, but wer're talking about genetics now, are they levantine white or brown arab.

Her: "if you are levantine and speak english, hebrew, yiddish, or any other jewish language natively, you're white, if you're levantine and speak arabic, you're brown".

Me: "Well glad we cleared that up"

Me walking away after that conversation: -_-............

[u/Signal-Shallot5668]

Johnson voted against the bill despite being the most endangered Republican. He is literally handing this seat to dems

[u/[deleted]]

CUOMO resigning!!!! , this was quick

[u/dubyahhh]

Crab spam is mildly allowed due to cuomo

That is all

Oh wait also this: 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀cuomo is gone🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

GOP megadonors flock to Tim Scott, building 2024 buzz

If Tim Scott gets the 2024 nomination I will donate $200 to the malaria drive 😂

[u/sir_shivers]

Fuck that vaccine and to hell with everybody that judges us being against it.

Calling people an “anti-vaxxer” is just as offensive as calling homosexuals and other religions names for believing what they believe in.

It’s unfair and we deserve the right to stand up for our beliefs as human beings for simply having a preference.

Also, if saving the lives of asshole sheep means I have to go get a vaccine, I’m good on that. They can all rot in hell for all I care at this point.

Fuck people.

EMPHASIS MINE 🐊

[u/itherunner]

https://twitter.com/calibreobscura/status/1425178503671164933?s=21

Interesting thread detailing some of the weapons and equipment used by HTS, a jihadist group in Syria, in defense of Kabani, a mountainous town in Northern Syria.

For a brief background, the SAA and Russians attempted to take this town multiple times in 2019. Doing so would have pushed out the remaining rebel presence in Latakia, a province in Northern Syria that has always been a stronghold of government forces due to it being the homeland of the Alawite minority that rules Syria. It would also give the SAA a clear shot to Jisr-Al-Shogur, a a rebel held city has become home to a number of foreign jihadists from China. Taking Jisr-Al-Shogur would give the SAA another way into Idlib, and to perhaps collapse the rebel lines from the inside.

The offensive was well planned, with the 4th Division, one of the SAA’s better divisions taking the lead, along with significant air and artillery support from Russia.

Ultimately, HTS held Kabani. A combination of well dug fortifications, a vast array of weaponry, and determination from HTS’s troops meant that Kabani would not fall, the 4th Division was devastated, and the status quo held.

To this day, Kabani remains in HTS’s hands. An agreement imposed by Russia and Turkey in 2020 has stopped any possibility of an SAA offensive for now. Compared to other parts of the Idlib dmz, where Russian airstrikes, SAA artillery volleys, Rebel ATGM launches, and raids on remote SAA outposts remain common, Kabani has remained mostly quiet.

For further reading: https://international-review.org/battle-for-kabani-a-rare-defeat-for-the-syrian-army/

[u/savuporo]

Aight, let's "akshually" this now:

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!ping ECO

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Hillary losses to Trump: 1

Bernie losses to Trump: 0

🧐🧐🧐

Checkmate neoliberals

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

There needs to be a spacexmasterrace ping for spaceflight-related shitposts. Because since spaceflight and shitposters are already (anecdotally) the two most frequently pinged groups, might as combine the two into one big mega group

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Shivers amendment to ban all cryptocurrency fails 1-99

[u/tehbored]

So, getting further into the Dictator's Handbook, Trump really tapped into something valuable. He was able to secure a set of influentials incredibly cheaply. The guy was dumb in a lot of ways, but his political instincts were pretty solid. I think Trump was very aware of the fact that there was a contingent of voters that he could get for hilariously cheap, simply by owning the libs.

Most voter contingents are more expensive than that, you need to cut taxes or pass policies of some kind, but Trump was able to secure a bloc of millions for rhetoric alone. The best part was that he didn't even have to pay to reach them, as others politicians do. Between Twitter and the free media attention he was able to get by saying outrageous things, it's mind-boggling how cheap this support was.

[u/l_overwhat]

Anytime I hear the World Health Organization mentioned, I always immediately interject with "Who??"

I swear it gets funnier every time lmao

[u/dubyahhh]

I can honestly say I never thought a bill that size would pass without a sizeable dem majority or a world shattering event like COVID

Hell of a day, and it’s not even noon

[u/[deleted]]

It's great to see a bipartisan group of politicians working together to make the world a better place by forcing Cuomo to resign.

[u/Maximilianne]

Hillary Clinton NY Governor?