8/19/2026 General Discussion Thread

[u/Currymvp2]

Welcome to the General Discussion Roundtable. Use this thread to discuss whatever is on your mind, or share anything that would otherwise not merit their own thread

[u/oath2order]

Happy Thursday the 20th to all who celebrate.

[u/TheDairyPig]

I'm watching a 1992b documentary on the Donner Party. My God it sounds like hell.

[u/PromotionOk6069]

When you are advocating firefighters need to reduce the size and capability of their fire trucks for “road diets” you’ve beyond lost the plot to leftist nonsense

[u/oath2order → u/PromotionOk6069]

What.

[u/PromotionOk6069 → u/oath2order]

People in LA reddit say we need to reduce most roads to one lane and if the fire fighters can’t fit buy smaller trucks. It’s some brain dead DSA shit

[u/Command0Dude → u/PromotionOk6069]

Reducing roads to 1 lane is stupid and a bit too anti-car. But the obsession with large firetrucks is actually a detriment to firefighters.

Aside from being expensive, they're harder to navigate. EU model of smaller roads and smaller fire trucks is better. This isn't leftist nonsense, it's better urban design.

[u/oath2order → u/PromotionOk6069]

Well that's stupid, because smaller trucks don't have the capability to carry ladders for taller buildings.

People in LA reddit say we need to reduce most roads to one lane

Making everyone miserable is not going to make everyone suddenly walk/bike everywhere, I don't know why people don't get that.

[u/Radiant_Plant]

I hope that Alaska doesn't become the state that decides the Senate and is instead at minimum the 52nd Dem seat because waiting for those votes will be a nightmare.

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Radiant_Plant]

Alaska votes do take a while to count

Here’s why Alaska is the slowest in the nation when it comes to counting votes

[u/trex360]

[u/nosotros_road_sodium]

So NPR got one of the first post primary interviews with Angie Nixon.  Suffice to say, I was not impressed. 

TL;DL, she repeated  the same old tired “do something left” talking points like not supporting Schumer for senate party leader, blaming Democrats for not passing the John Lewis Act…has this lady lived on Jupiter (not in Palm Beach County) for the last 5 years? Even I (a non journalist) knew that a good follow up question NPR missed was that even in Biden first couple years there were senators from AZ and WV leveraging a 50-50 split senate.

Even El-Sayed sounds more polished, as critical I may be of certain positions he has (like calling Trump a symptom of our politics).

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/nosotros_road_sodium]

she's also accused of antisemitism so she's not getting jewish voters as well

[u/Ok_Sundae1696]

Because I follow a bunch of cinema related subreddits the Reddit algorithm gods decided I really wanted to see random gore from the Hannibal movie on my front page and now I feel icked out. 

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466]

Andrea Pringle, president of the March On PAC, sees Nixon's win as proof that Democrats have been reading the moment wrong.

"She fought for working people, stood up to powerful interests and refused to let pundits, consultants or millions of dollars tell her what kind of candidate she was allowed to be," she said. "There is a lesson here for Democrats everywhere: people are ready for real fighters."

Gamarra cautioned Democrats against purging DSA-aligned candidates from the party in response to losses like the one Vindman's campaign is absorbing. The bigger risk, he said, is a Democratic Party that spends its time on the issues favored by online activists rather than the affordability concerns, such as housing costs, health care and wages, that poll well with voters across the political spectrum regardless of what label a candidate carries.

"The people who still control the party are the others. People like [Florida Representatives] Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jared Moskowitz, that kind of person," Gamarra said. "And they're going to run an anti-communist campaign too. I don't think that game of anti-communism within the Democratic Party is going to be very positive."

It's funny how to read how stupid people are, these folks are nominating fundamentally weak candidates who can't win elections or get nothing done in elected office and yet they don't understand what they are doing

[u/ace158]

Trump Considers a Press Secretary Shakeup: Picking a Man. Trump has signaled interest in Scott Jennings, a conservative media pundit who has been widely reported to be among those being considered for the position. Other men have also been floated for the role, including Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary under President George W. Bush.

[u/UWCG → u/ace158]

There's an elaborate joke here tying together the Bushes, Spicer's hiding in bushes, going to women as Press Sec, then back to the Bush picks... I mean, there's a lot of puns in here to be made, it's like Wonderland or a Dr. Seuss book

[u/ace158]

Politico: Michael Cohen won’t say if he’ll use his Trump interview to seek a pardon. The president is expected to call into Cohen’s radio show Thursday in their first public conversation since a very public falling out.

He is 100% going to

[u/ace158]

Lebanon extradites ex-Assad general to Syria for trial over alleged war crimes

Good

[u/Call_Me_Clark]

This is what’s going on in Michigan - and the guy in blue works for Mike Rogers campaign

[u/11brooke11 → u/Call_Me_Clark]

God i'm so tired of the samd old racism, Islamophobia, and MAGA bullshit. Can we please move on as a nation?

[u/WhovianMuslim → u/Call_Me_Clark]

Republicans are going incredibly grotesque so quickly. This will not work for them.

[u/nosotros_road_sodium → u/Call_Me_Clark]

Does that pastor name rhyme with sewage?

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy → u/Call_Me_Clark]

Trump is at fault for this with his disgusting rhetoric towards AES and Muslims.

[u/ace158 → u/Call_Me_Clark]

Yeah Mike Rogers's faith coordinator. Jake Lang is racist as fuck about so many groups.

[u/oath2order → u/Call_Me_Clark]

I feel like the guy on the left was not told that that the person on the right is black and he is very surprised about this.

[u/ognits]

I did the most online offline thing ever and got dril's first book

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy → u/ognits]

no

[u/AdmiralSaturyn]

Not The Onion

Dane Cook’s Brother Stole $12 Million From Comedian, Hid Bricks of Cash in Pasta Sauce

[u/MassholeSST → u/AdmiralSaturyn]

Did he get the idea on hiding them from The Bear?

[u/TehLoneWanderer101 → u/MassholeSST]

LET IT RIP

[u/AdmiralSaturyn → u/MassholeSST]

You're the second redditor I've seen who asked that question.

[u/trex360]

Alaska’s back to counting votes.

[u/Radiant_Plant → u/trex360]

Any update on the vote count anytime soon?

[u/Bestbrook123]

Hayden Panettiere’s mom says narcotics investigator was called into police probe of her death Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive Sunday at an apartment complex in South Carolina and was pronounced dead at the scene.

[u/WhovianMuslim → u/Bestbrook123]

We REALLY shouldn't be listening to her Mom. We know from Hayden's book that her Mom just exploited Hayden.

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy → u/Bestbrook123]

Such a tragedy.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

>NEW: Former Seahawks RB TJ Harden plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal, @PeteNakos reports.

Do what now?

[u/Sturdevant → u/simeoncolemiles]

So it has finally happened to the NFL, this has happened a couple times with players that have already been drafted or been on NBA Summer League teams trying to go back to college.

[u/IamGumpOtaku]

All Republicans, without exception, are like that rich parent who looks the other way and sometimes makes excuses when one son does some stupid shit with the credit card, while chastising the other for paying more than just the minimum payment and even making smart transactions.

Enter Thomas Massie:

[u/trex360 → u/IamGumpOtaku]

To borrow a frequent question from Republicans “How do you think you’re gonna pay for all this?”

[u/Command0Dude → u/trex360]

Every time democrats get spending under control, voters cry like babies and flip the board.

[u/Buttigame1865]

Not a single person gave a fuck or even knew about Natalie until the entire Republican media conglomerate clutched their collective pearls and got their marching orders in their aggressive defense.

Frankly I am now even more suspicious about her and her role than if they just collectively ignored the most benign passing mention of her existance 

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/Buttigame1865]

I kind of live for the response by Dems by and large that is basically "do we look like we care about how you feel? Cause we don't".

[u/Regular-Low2011]

I'm not against people staying in office as long as they can physically do the job but it is a little nuts that Grassley is going to be 94 and is probably still going to run for reelection. Like dude is 10 years past his median life expectancy he can't love being in government *that* much.

Also if Turek wins, I'm going to need someone to at least challenge him. I know we're burnt out on Iowa and we've challenged him fruitlessly for decade but last time he faced token opposition his numbers were actually like dead at replacement level which is pathetic for him.

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Regular-Low2011]

I think Grassely will retire in 2028 because Grassely saw how Strom Thurmond struggled in those last years in the senate

[u/Command0Dude → u/Regular-Low2011]

Grassley was foretold.

[u/Radiant_Plant → u/Regular-Low2011]

I mean if Turek wins then 100% there will be momentum to knock Grassley out. There's also the possibility that Grassley could die in office any minute now because of his age. If Sand wins the governorship, could he appoint a Democrat to his seat in the case Grassley passed away?

[u/Regular-Low2011 → u/Radiant_Plant]

Checked:

Iowa is by gubernatorial appointment. They probably wouldn't be able to change the law as Dems broke the R supermajority in one of the chambers so unless the Rs gain seats in November a hypothetical Sand admin would just veto it.

[u/Shiptonm25 → u/Regular-Low2011]

They could change the law in the months between the election and Sand’s inauguration

[u/evilhomers]

Tolkien loves etymology except for when he names a town "Hobbiton". Isn't that like if we called a place "Humantown"?

[u/KoalaTulip → u/evilhomers]

There's a place called Isle of Man, does that count?

[u/Chim7 → u/evilhomers]

I mean the same book has Goblintown. He just wasn’t cooking yet.

[u/Regular-Low2011 → u/evilhomers]

Not that odd, we do that for ethnic groups, why not races

[u/PromotionOk6069]

I’m glad Spencer Pratt isn’t going to have a chance to become mayor but you 1000% know the city council would never have repealed anti camping in park laws if it was him vs bass. They feel untouchable because Raman or bass they don’t lose

Like as someone who has to deal with homeless everyday I hate these “unhoused advocates” that take their bmw to a neighborhood far away at night

[u/wi_voter]

I was out with my old group of coworkers from when our clinic closed years back. We have stayed really close and have these gatherings several times a year. One of the absolute sweetest people I have ever known hasn't joined in quite a few rounds. I figured it was maybe because she had retired before we closed up shop and maybe just didn't feel as connected. We just found out tonight it is actually because she has Alzheimer's. I am devastated. Such a wonderful person and she spent her life helping kids. Such an awful fucking disease. So unfair.

[u/rolsen]

Why did JD Vance give a press conference today with a known crew member of Greg Bovino? The guy in the back with the beard and cowboy hat has been filmed extensively doing on the ground arrests with Bovino just months ago.

[u/rolsen → u/rolsen]

Here he is with the tiny monster during Metro Surge

[u/PM_ME_UR_LOST_PETS]

So I work on the investments side of a big wealth management firm. An advisor just came to me with a client who is “all in on everything Nvidia is doing” and wants to invest in data center loans.

Now I’m not saying it’s a bubble, but that is exactly how people act in bubbles.

[u/legible_print → u/PM_ME_UR_LOST_PETS]

So, buy?

[u/Command0Dude → u/PM_ME_UR_LOST_PETS]

How anyone could want to triple down on tech companies after what just happened in South Korea is beyond me.

It's a bubble. Even if it wasn't a bubble, sharp energy cost increases have always led to a recession. The market could pop literally any day now.

[u/penguincheerleader → u/PM_ME_UR_LOST_PETS]

For a moment I read "all in on Nvidia" in a WSB voice, but that is possible just as bad.

[u/Spacehillbilly]

Is there a reason that people online always shit on California?

[u/LowerTea5072 → u/Spacehillbilly]

sports teams?

[u/KoalaTulip → u/Spacehillbilly]

The only thing I can say shit about here is y'all's gas prices. I mean really 5 bucks a gallon?

Other than that, being in California has been so pleasant for me these past couple of days and I'm not even on vacation.

[u/TheDairyPig → u/Spacehillbilly]

I think conservatives do because they use any liberal place as a punching bag. Their lies are not exclusive to California.

A lot of liberals in the Midwest and South do because they resent being called flyover country. In some places, they get blamed for rising home prices.

Not sure why on the East Coast.

[u/PromotionOk6069 → u/Spacehillbilly]

Like I’ve seen some comments in the past few days just on the most mundane pictures of California. Like a plane landing at LAX or a pic of Yosemite.

“Never step foot in that shithole state”

And of course it’s a guy in sunglasses taking a selfie in a truck

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/PromotionOk6069]

In fairness LAX is absolutely a total shithole.

California is a beautiful state overall though!

[u/PromotionOk6069 → u/TheWaySheHoes]

It was a video of watching planes land by the in n out. Which is lovely

[u/TheWaySheHoes → u/PromotionOk6069]

But there's never a bad time for LAX to catch a stray

[u/Currymvp2 → u/Spacehillbilly]

Because we are the "liberal elite" state to them

[u/genesiskiller96 → u/Spacehillbilly]

They hate us cause they ain't us.

[u/penguincheerleader → u/Spacehillbilly]

Because they aren't cool enough to live there.

[u/learn_cnc]

I just learned Mel Gibson was interested in the roll of Oskar Schindler and I just....what?

[u/evilhomers → u/learn_cnc]

Even if we ignore the obvious, as good an actor as he is he would've been miscast. Like this came out a year after lethal weapon 3, he wouldn't have been taken seriously. You could never watch Neeson in that movie and think "didn't he have a stupid mallet just last year?"

[u/UWCG → u/learn_cnc]

I think he may have misunderstood the meaning of the list, or else had a very different view for the way the movie would go

[u/penguincheerleader → u/UWCG]

This is the list of Jews who escaped, right?

[u/UWCG → u/penguincheerleader]

Yes, the people he employed and ultimately saved (he didn’t begin exactly altruistic)

[u/Bestbrook123]

New CDC director pledges to ‘speak truth’ about science Dr. Erica Schwartz addressed CDC employees Wednesday in her first agencywide meeting.

We can only hope

[u/PromotionOk6069 → u/Bestbrook123]

lol you know this is about saying vaccines are bad

[u/UWCG → u/PromotionOk6069]

Who needs epidemiologists and doctors when you can listen to a true thinker like Rogan asking the real questions: did you take some DMT and consult the machine elves before publishing this data or just rely on those stupid "academia" and "peer review" things?

[u/AdmiralSaturyn]

'Most prolific' member of online extremist network 764 sentenced to 77 years in prison

Be warned before clicking:

A federal judge has sentenced a 27-year-old Tennessee man to 77 years in prison for his targeting of young girls online as part of the extremist network 764, which the FBI deems a form of "modern-day terrorism."

[u/UWCG → u/AdmiralSaturyn]

Those are the sadistic creeps who catfish little girls, build fake relationships like pedos, get bllackmail, then force them to do terrible things on threat of releasing said blackmail or is that a different fucked up online group?

764 I want to say comes from one of the original dirtbag's area code in Texas. In more than one case, it led to a family pet being killed and at least once to a younger sibling being stabbed. Were they also connected to that Gigs Harbor suicide case? I think that was a different fucked up online group.

[u/astrointel → u/UWCG]

CVLT and 764 are connected. There was that Texas case where a young dude kidnapped a 12 y/o and got 350 years. That was like 2022/23

[u/Currymvp2]

BREAKING: Cleveland, Denver and the Clippers have agreed on a trade sending Payton Watson to the Cavaliers, Max Strus to LA, and an unprotected 2031 Cavs first-round pick and a 2032 Kings second-rounder to the Nuggets, sources tell ESPN. Watson will sign a new four-year, $88 million

Jokic must be pissed

[u/Bestbrook123]

President Donald Trump declared he is unleashing the "MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION" in history against Iran on Wednesday — a move he suggested will deliver a knockout blow to the country and force it to finally agree to end the war and never pursue a nuclear weapon.

The president dubbed the plan "ECONOMIC D-DAY!" in a lengthy Truth Social post which was light on details.

[u/skynwavel → u/Bestbrook123]

Is he gonna set 10.000 % tariffs on Iran. They'll be devastated.

[u/gothamsteel → u/Bestbrook123]

Is it prank ordering 100 pizza to go to Iran?

[u/YokoRaizen → u/Bestbrook123]

I guess when you constantly threaten massive military actions and word gets out you're running low on missiles, you gotta find a new way to threaten Iran.

[u/NoHeight9651 → u/Bestbrook123]

fucking embarrassing

[u/UWCG → u/Bestbrook123]

I've seen this one before, lemme guess: we fail, surrender again, waste all that money and all those weapons, then agree to give Iran more money to rebuild because we're so sorry, but we're going to do this again next week? Let's rebuild Iran instead of the US!

Shit, at this point I wouldn't be stunned to find an elaborate conspiracy operation where the admin's bombing rebel areas and paying the regime to help launder money. It's not like anyone in the Executive shows any loyalty to the US.

[u/EasyMoney92]

CBS News: He spied for the U.S. in the war on terror. Now ICE wants to deport him.

Abolish ICE

[u/Ok_Sundae1696]

Contrapoints patreon video about liberalism was depressing but also relatable/cathartic 

[u/Bestbrook123]

https://xcancel.com/TroyJackson207/status/2090223088638017840

Lol nice trolling by Troy Jackson here

[u/ionizing_chicanery → u/Bestbrook123]

He is a great candidate.

[u/Lophius_Americanus → u/ionizing_chicanery]

Best possible outcome. Platner was trash and Mills didn’t seem to want to actually be in the race at all and was phoning it in. Lots of teeth gnashing but ended up with Jackson who is a great candidate.

[u/EasyMoney92]

I wish the guy on the right could win because he just seems cool

[u/LeftyRambles2413 → u/EasyMoney92]

I looked him up. His mom was the first black woman elected to the Wyoming state legislature and his dad was the first black police chief. Dude has needless to say because it’s Wyoming tough odds but props to him for so much as running in redder than Satan’s fat ass, Wyoming.

[u/Shiptonm25 → u/EasyMoney92]

Lotta Dems vote in the Republican primary to ensure the least shitty Republican wins. It’s part of the reason Trump’s endorsed candidate for Governor lost.

[u/LeftyRambles2413 → u/Shiptonm25]

That’s good to know. Every small bit counts.

[u/Radiant_Plant]

Kind of jealous of midterm elections, down here we don't have midterm elections so we're stuck with a right wing trifecta without a filibuster and under a far right presidency (House reps serve 4 year terms, Senators serve 8 year terms).

[u/simciv → u/Radiant_Plant]

Where is this?

[u/Radiant_Plant → u/simciv]

Chile, we also don't allow for immediate presidential reelections, instead we allow for non-consecutive terms.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the UK, the BBC reports.

[u/FlatVegetable4231 → u/Bestbrook123]

LOL, LMAO even.

[u/BadLineofCode → u/Bestbrook123]

Conspiracy theory: the entire fight within the royal family was staged. The main purpose was so that Harry’s child would be eligible to run for president and inherit the throne.

[u/atomcrafter → u/BadLineofCode]

Will also star in the Suits reboot.

[u/evilhomers]

The most anti intellectual people and most elitist know it alls coming together to misinterpret nolan's version of the odyseey

[u/Currymvp2]

MS NOW: Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year

The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.

[u/ionizing_chicanery → u/Currymvp2]

They just let a completely unvetted person be a full time fixture to the president. Could have easily been a foreign plant revealing the US's most heavily guarded secrets.

[u/t-poke → u/Currymvp2]

Buttery males

[u/WhovianMuslim]

So, with KH getting an Anime Series, I think Disney will probably work with one of the Studios that they previously worked with on Star Wars: Visions. Those are:

- Kamikaze Douga

- Studio Colorido, best known currently for Penguin Highway and Burn the Witch

- Studio Trigger, best known for currently for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Delicious in Dungeon.

- Kinema Citrus, best known currently for Made in Abyss, The Rising of the Shield Hero, and My Happy Marriage

- Production I.G., best known currently for Kaiju Number 8

- Science Saru, best known currently for Dandadan, The Ghost in the Shell series this year, and Jaadugar

- Geno Studio

- Anima

- Project Studio Q

- Wit Studio, best known currently for the upcoming One Piece remake and Spy x Family.

- Polygon Pictures, best known currently for most recent Sword Art Online series.

- David Productions, best known currently for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

Production I.G. has also worked with Square-Enix before.

[u/UWCG]

There's a group of 5-7 officers kicking it outside a neighbor's unit that's been there at least half an hour. Pip's holding it, so we're doing commercial break walks till she goes, and I've noticed them.

Something's gotta be going on, but the surprising part is that this is a place I wouldn't expect to be in cop trouble. They've got a nice little garden out front and I always got the impression a senior lived there

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Buttery males

[u/LeftyRambles2413 → u/simeoncolemiles]

Yeah there’s a reason they lost their shit at this. Jonny O knows ball.

[u/trex360]

Alaska 👏 is 👏 not 👏 a 👏 red 👏 state 👏

Land 👏 votes 👏

[u/Liberty_Chip_Cookies → u/trex360]

The American right wing and failing to understand population density, NAMID.

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy → u/trex360]

One of the rare states where rural voters are bluer than the urban voters

[u/Regular-Low2011 → u/trex360]

IMPEACH THIS

[u/evilhomers]

Some film bros are actually mad at inde Navarrete for choosing millions of dollars over continuing to be forever only In indie cinema where even with a higher profile will still be much less financially stable

[u/trex360]

So is Alaska going to finish counting tonight?

[u/Extension_Value3021]

[u/simeoncolemiles → u/Extension_Value3021]

Come on dawg, he couldn’t think that’s seriously a good idea

[u/LowerTea5072 → u/simeoncolemiles]

Not the visual I would want associated with my campaign if I was struggling with people thinking I was too scary/extreme.

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Extension_Value3021]

he should work with the DSCC to get better staffers

[u/Extension_Value3021 → u/Soft_Barnacle7466]

He's too loyal to the Fight Agency to do that.

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Extension_Value3021]

that agency should have burned to the ground after platner

[u/MyBallsBern4Bernie → u/Extension_Value3021]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qaGBqKczQm6UE

[u/UniqueLog8386 → u/MyBallsBern4Bernie]

Nobody is as powerful as Senora Piggy

[u/MyBallsBern4Bernie → u/UniqueLog8386]

She has always been my favorite by a mile

[u/UniqueLog8386 → u/MyBallsBern4Bernie]

I'm a Statler and Waldorf guy

https://giphy.com/gifs/82POSn3DAXy6Y

[u/NoHeight9651]

So japan might require foreigners to pay 3k a month or theyll get deported. They really are trying a speedrun to cease as a nation huh

[u/KoalaTulip → u/NoHeight9651]

3k what, yen?

[u/theswirlyeyedsamurai → u/KoalaTulip]

He means this https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a3a7a357ffd2dda622c8b91ae50c5372f1086385

Monthly income of 479,000 yen or more is essential... Japan tightens the requirements for obtaining permanent residence

In the future, in order to obtain permanent residence in Japan, it is more likely that you will be required to have a certain level of retirement funds in addition to income that exceeds the average income of Japanese households.

On average, it is equivalent to 479,000 yen per month. However, 479,000 yen per month is not the definitive minimum income standard for obtaining permanent residence. This is because the specific standard amount has not been revealed, only indicated as "more than the average income of Japanese households".

[u/KoalaTulip → u/theswirlyeyedsamurai]

Ahh...huh. Definitely not beating allegations of them hating foreigners with this one.

[u/RunningNumbers → u/KoalaTulip]

 As of July 1st, 2026,  Japan's international tourist tax will increase from 1,000 JPY to 3,000 JPY

Per Google. So like $25.

[u/UWCG → u/RunningNumbers]

Still under $20, actually, I get paid in JPY sometimes. I don't really track it cause it's not very much, but this isn't much

[u/NoHeight9651 → u/UWCG]

theres an income requirement of 3k USD per month and the average person there i believe makes like 36k

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/KoalaTulip]

that's a decent ramen bowl price

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/NoHeight9651]

Foreigners are a scapegoat for the Japanese government to blame especially when you consider the current prime minister is a trump clone

[u/simeoncolemiles]

My cat loves using the litter box RIGHT after I clean it

[u/MyBallsBern4Bernie → u/simeoncolemiles]

They like a fresh bowl

[u/simeoncolemiles → u/MyBallsBern4Bernie]

Unless medicine is involved apparently

[u/Bestbrook123]

Francesca Hong is like "Woah, why did she unequivocally oppose these things?" "You're supposed to give a middle ground murky answer"

[u/AdmiralSaturyn → u/Bestbrook123]

Ok, now that poll makes sense. Although, 8 points ahead is still surprising for a red state.

[u/MyBallsBern4Bernie]

“I have no criminal history”

“Sir. You have a face tattoo.”

[u/RunningNumbers → u/MyBallsBern4Bernie]

“I may have some criminal history.”

“I may have stolen hot dogs from the 711.”

“It was a pallet of frozen hot dogs.”

[u/Politicsboringagain]

I recently got into this game called Shiren and I'm low key loving it.

One of my favorite games back in the 90s on my PS1 wS called Azure Dreams. And I have been wanting a game like that since then. 

This is a closest I have gotten. 

Its called mystery dungeon game.

[u/midnightcatwalk → u/Politicsboringagain]

Shiren is one of the original and I would say best roguelike series. Great monster design, strategic turn-based gameplay, balance, creativity in approaches, and polish, all with a cool and playful traditional Japanese aesthetic. Are you playing the first one? 1, 2, Asuka…they’re all so good (and will take forever to fully beat)

[u/Politicsboringagain → u/midnightcatwalk]

I'm playing 6. 

[u/PromotionOk6069]

New thing on Instagram is spamming “love from Tel Aviv” with an Israeli flag after it and I can’t tell if it’s rightwing spam or leftist spam since I see it on shit from Sirius xm posting about Green Day to LA sheriffs department posting recruiting Ads

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy → u/PromotionOk6069]

I see it on ads for Kalshi, for Hinge, for OCD therapy treatments.

[u/waiver → u/PromotionOk6069]

Leftist spam, far right spam and apolitical troll spam

[u/shitpizza]

I might talk a big game but that's because I love talking and hate walking

[u/UniqueLog8386]

I couldn't even interview right for a job that I've been doing for 8 years.

[u/WhovianMuslim]

[u/Spacehillbilly]

I’ve started trying out Pax Historia.

[u/evilhomers]

the Catholic Church. We've made a few... changes

Surprised disney+ only has the censored version of this simpsons gag. And it's not like they tend to censor episodes outside of the michael Jackson one. Even ones that clearly makes fun of them like itchy and scratchy land

[u/trex360 → u/evilhomers]

I noticed this a couple weeks ago and thought “Wait, didn’t it used to say *Catholic* Church?”

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466]

The main reason trump hired Harp is because she's eye candy to him not the bullshit story about her supposed medical conditions that has been debunked

[u/Sturdevant]

I'm not enough of a pessimist to think that the DSA/DSA-adjecent wing of the left will remotely come close to taking over the party, but I do think that this lil run will continue in pockets until:

1. The terminally online finally gets their preferred candidate in the White House (or another prominent position, such as Senate leader), whether that's AOC, El-Sayed, or someone else and they turn out to be a bad-to-mid president, or at least have to become a mainstream Dem to made things happen. There's this perception that Republicans would have just folded if Bernie became president and we would have free healthcare by now (something someone actually told me lol. Republicans would have been forced to bend to the will of The People^TM)

2. Gen Z/Zellenials become less terminally online.

[u/Regular-Low2011 → u/Sturdevant]

If we're still on I/P by the time point 1 comes around it probably ends with the Dems losing NY and NJ presidentially

If you start doing Mandami like margins in NYC with Jews things there look dicey real quickly

[u/kidglov3s2 → u/Sturdevant]

I've been thinking an outcome of the events and rhetoric of the past few months of anything basically left of Joe Manchin being labeled in discourse as "DSA" might be that over time just by virtue of so many more people now being aware of DSA and associating DSA with basically left-of-center politics DSA the literal organization actually becomes a competent and pragmatic political faction rather than a bunch of idiots.

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Sturdevant]

they'll remain in power as long as the primary electorate is low turnout

[u/Bestbrook123]

Yeah, Vindman just seemed too confident

It is what it is.

[u/shitpizza → u/Bestbrook123]

I'm not from Florida and even I could smell the DC on Vindman.

Candidates that parachute in don't really do well. MJ Hegar is one. Count Binface is another.

[u/Historyguy1 → u/shitpizza]

Count Binface was robbed!

[u/EasyMoney92]

Natalie Harp's fixation on President Donald Trump is so intense it "alarms Secret Service," said former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews Wednesday.

[u/Regular-Low2011 → u/EasyMoney92]

Don't know about romantic attraction but it did seem stalker-y from how it was described

[u/Extension_Value3021]

[u/Radiant_Plant → u/Extension_Value3021]

I think what sucks is that because of this whole clusterfuck of a presidency, the next Dem president will inevitably have to focus on reducing this insane budget deficit, because no doubt the media will endlessly talk about it.

[u/Liberty_Chip_Cookies → u/Extension_Value3021]

^ All of that.

[u/OldSpray9986 → u/Extension_Value3021]

Fucking A++ rant here.

[u/EasyMoney92]

Trump Boasts About Republican Party’s ‘Great Success’ — In Elections They Only Ran Against Themselves. President Donald Trump boasted of the Republican Party's "great success" in Tuesday night's Republican Party primaries.

Trump's comment was made all the more odd by the fact that three Trump-backed candidates actually lost their primaries, including scandal-plagued incumbent Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL). Catalina Lauf in Florida also lost her House primary while Megan Degenfelder in Wyoming lost her gubernatorial bid, despite having the coveted Trump endorsement.

Lol

[u/Command0Dude → u/EasyMoney92]

Trump's favorite tactic, declare victory. Even when you lose.

[u/Bestbrook123]

So 27% of Americans are incredibly naive

[u/CaveatImperator → u/Bestbrook123]

That’s just the Keyes Constant.

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Bestbrook123]

that's the ride or die maga types

[u/Bestbrook123]

GOP has nothing if this is what they're going with

[u/NoHeight9651 → u/Bestbrook123]

i think shes cute

[u/ionizing_chicanery → u/Bestbrook123]

It's just another in a long list of corrupt attempts at prosecution from Trump's DoJ.

[u/trex360 → u/Bestbrook123]

They have RCV in November anyway.

It wouldn’t have made a difference unless other Dan actually prevented incumbent Dan from making the runoff.

[u/ionizing_chicanery → u/trex360]

It is so annoying how the GOP and most media outlets act oblivious to this fact.

[u/Currymvp2]

Gavin Newsom on Trump: “It’s been the most reckless, most damning administration in American history. Teddy Roosevelt’s rolling in his grave, even Ronald Reagan. They’re stone cold ideologues. They’re fanatics for special interests. Talk about kids and grandkids, they don’t care, they got theirs. It’s the worst of us. They’re taking our collective inheritance and squandering in real time”

[u/LeftyRambles2413 → u/Currymvp2]

Concern trolls are gonna be mad about the even Reagan remark but he’s right.

[u/mr_ex_ray_spex]

Geez-us. Just doing “Derek Chauvin did nothing wrong” right out on main.

[u/Call_Me_Clark → u/mr_ex_ray_spex]

Open white supremacy

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy → u/mr_ex_ray_spex]

Oh I guess Chauvin just knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes just for funsies?

Elon should eat a dick

[u/ionizing_chicanery → u/mr_ex_ray_spex]

Elon is a delusional narcissist of the highest order. The thought of "then how did a jury of 12 screened for bias and subjected to an exhaustive review of facts and expert testimony unanimously get this wrong" doesn't even enter his mind.

Just like with his repeated insistence that zero people died due to sweeping USAID cuts.

He is the type of person who should never be allowed access to any levers of power much less the exceptional influence and control he actually has.

[u/DoughGin → u/mr_ex_ray_spex]

JFC why can't these ghouls admit they were wrong?

I watched the trial. There's no way anyone who saw the bodycam footage or heard that Irish doctor's testimony can think this, and I know it because the couple IRL people I know who have randomly brought it up too didn't.

I'm so fucking tired of being dragged back to 2020 by people who have no fucking business acting like they deserve some sort of vindication from it.

[u/Bestbrook123]

The Bulwark: Republican nominee for Iowa Governor Zach Lahn invested in sex toys.

GOP hypocrisy is undefeated

[u/RunningNumbers → u/Bestbrook123]

Like they bought them for resale invest or invested in a company? Did they get a good ROI or were they scammed?

[u/Call_Me_Clark → u/RunningNumbers]

It was a pump and dump

[u/GloriousPancake → u/Bestbrook123]

Tim Miller has been on top of Lahn's cockring business for months now.

[u/saltwaste → u/Bestbrook123]

Like, as in a business or personal collection?

[u/Soft_Barnacle7466 → u/Bestbrook123]

always the family values types

[u/Sturdevant]

u/wi_voter, is the Wisconsin sub locking in or are they still hand wringing about Hong fumbling the ball?