| Current Events - 9/21 - A Celebration of Jackie's Autumnal Equinox
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on September 21, 2026, 06:17:32| Both of the Ed Sheeran shows at Gillette Stadium ended up being canceled due to weather.
Posted by OB25
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Previous Message| Trump thinks he persuaded Xi to call it "Super Intelligence."
Posted by complainant
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| Bibi subscribes to “let them score” I guess
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| The 9/11 parallels continue apace.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| LULZ.
Posted by doubledown
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| He needs to keep doing the Natalie thing. Like every night.*
Posted by JFG
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| ooo
Posted by complainant
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| Woof.
Posted by complainant
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| Lulz*
Posted by PapaDels
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| Yes, Senator Lee, I also would love to see this happen
Posted by ATL
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| The George Conway response knocks it out of the park.
Posted by complainant
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| He really is a warmonger.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| He's had American food before, right?*
Posted by complainant
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| So, so proud of a fucking landing pad.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| why's he dressed like it's winter?*
Posted by assassin
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| It’s well below 70 degrees. Circulation ain’t what it used to be.*
Posted by DocWalk20
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| ooo
Posted by complainant
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| I hope the rip it up as soon as he’s gone. Some with the concrete in the rose garden*
Posted by Mrap24
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| We got a white man's overbite!*
Posted by Sounder
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| Hey possum, what's China doing with our F-35 parts?
Posted by ATL
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| 3.6 Roentgen*
Posted by opossum jenkins
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| What's the likelihood that they just bought them with Trump Coin and it wasn't an accident at all? *
Posted by doubledown
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| Queens man shocked to find plane at airport
Posted by ATL
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| Natalie made the photo too!
Posted by ATL
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| With the most powerful man in the world.
Posted by Herman Blume
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| So he's Nixon now? *
Posted by doubledown
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| Or Michael Jackson. What's with the one glove.*
Posted by ATL
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| His hand probably looks like the Crypt Keeper's at this point *
Posted by Jersey
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| There is a 0.0% chance that the glove is unrelated to his hand being bruised*
Posted by Sounder
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| TRO granted to media outlets to get access back…
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| they should continue to bail. Or show up but not turn the camera and miles on*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| But MS NOW says their reporter was still denied this morning.
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| The 85 IQ crowd loves shit like this. *
Posted by doubledown
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| 85 is way too high*
Posted by Herman Blume
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| Same for CNN and Politico.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| Not political but of interest to the smartest people: Lead contractor walked away from Bill Gates...
Posted by Stu
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| looking very strong and stoic sir
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| Hey Ranger, the Chinese intercepted some F-35 canopy and weapons bay-door parts.
Posted by complainant
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| We should probably stop ordering that stuff off of Temu*
Posted by Herman Blume
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| I don't know if this woman who threatened to firebomb the lesbian bar is real or doing a bit
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| I bet it's Chuck*
Posted by Stu
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| Ken M.?*
Posted by complainant
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| Vance was source cited in Politico Iran deal article that led to WH banning Politico
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider
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| Is it a leak when it is in a press briefing?*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| If referring to the last line of my post
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider
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| The amount of stories that seem to come from Vance or Vance’s office/staff seems high
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| 10 year treasury over 5.1%. Highest since 2007. THATS GOOD, RIGHT?!?!*
Posted by VIV
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| First I'm hearing of it *
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| Line goes up. *
Posted by VIV
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| oof
Posted by ATL
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| What am I missing?
Posted by timmer
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| He looks beat*
Posted by ATL
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| He usually looks so spry!*
Posted by VIV
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| How encouraging
Posted by ATL
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| If there's one thing I've learned in life,
Posted by Sounder
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| I don't see any way for this not to end up somewhere between 1929 and 2008
Posted by Sammich
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| Have you considered an alternate theory? We are getting pressed up against it more everyday
Posted by Toonces
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| Haven’t compared the broader market stats, but this has very strong dot com vibes to me
Posted by DT
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| Not sure what people are talking about
Posted by Stu
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| 10 year treasury didn't come up today in your 14 hours of half watching CNBC?*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| Here is something I picked up the other day tho, Chuck-o
Posted by Stu
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| Pfft. I never ever sit and watch tv. Not to say it may be on in the background about 1 out if every
Posted by Stu
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| despite being obsessed with joe kernan? it’s just a shame you missed out on all this upside
Posted by Ari Gold
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| Pfft. I don’t watch him for 30 seconds. You blow at this.*
Posted by Stu
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| Funny DT
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| no...tbtf is about trashing jobs. a stock crater is just something that will happen on occasion
Posted by Nobster
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| conservative talk show host on Iowa polling
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| That guy also has a Michigan football podcast on YouTube.*
Posted by OB25
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| looked him up and he went to MSU*
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| lol, his solution is to get Trump out there stumping for candidates. In an election…
Posted by shua
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| *Darren Bailey* Trump? Name doesn't ring a bell.*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| He was very specific: Democrat Wickedness & The Hormuz Truth
Posted by complainant
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| Tiffany and Rodgers (I think) have broken with him on Iran. It’s their only hope.*
Posted by Toonces
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| “Everyone hates this war. We need the guy behind it out there on the campaign trail!”*
Posted by Sammich
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| speaking of Iowa polls, Trump's lawsuit against Selzer and the DMR thrown out
Posted by assassin
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| a 53-year-old man casually using "gay" as an insult in 2026
Posted by Sammich
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| oOo
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Hey, Tommy T, don't threaten me with a good time
Posted by Sounder
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| Party of small government very concerned about what goes on in the privacy of peoples' bedrooms
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| keep your furry nuts outta my cockpit +
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| ooo
Posted by ATL
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| Jesus that man is dumb. *
Posted by doubledown
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| The GOP is crazy racist uncles all the way down.*
Posted by DT
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| Ramaswamy's starting to look more and more like Desi Butthead
Posted by ATL
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| Why are these MAGA guys always so weird?*
Posted by Sounder
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| That's some tasty schadenfreude
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| anyone who's ever been to Canada
Posted by Sammich
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| ICE-enthusiast Paul LePage is mad at ICE for deporting his relative
Posted by ATL
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| Typical conservative not giving a eff until they are personally impacted by it.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| I was watching an X-Files episode last night and they were investigating some lake monster...
Posted by shua
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| I mean when you're born without the gene for empathy, how else would you know?*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Again, the first they came for poem isn't that long of a poem*
Posted by Sounder
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| This looks like a guy who is absolutely thrilled with the way things are going.
Posted by doubledown
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| Meh, I do that on every flight I take
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| now I'm imagining a dude screaming "THANK YOU" at the cockpit as he de-planes
Posted by Sammich
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| I'm now picturing Tarheel as the full grown version of the little kid from Jerry McGuire*
Posted by Sounder
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| Thanks guys, to be more accurate *
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| So sexist*
Posted by DocWalk20
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| Nah, more midwestern….maybe Chicagoan *
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| Kinda gotta yell on a helicopter
Posted by Sammich
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| I would say same energy as Veruca Salt
Posted by opey8
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| apparently this new game show is a real thing
Posted by Sounder
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| we need so many more luigis*
Posted by Sammich
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| Though he is acting like a snarl-toothed seether.*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Everything he touches…
Posted by DocWalk20
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| oOo
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| No idea. *
Posted by doubledown
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| Thank you*
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| I almost posted in the NFL thread but I figured it was better to infect the political thread with
Posted by DocWalk20
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| it's Jaxson Dart, whose season just died*
Posted by Sammich
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| You know what else is dead? My chances of winning my fantasy league*
Posted by Sounder
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| this would be funnier if he hadn't been touching us all for so long*
Posted by Sammich
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| WH preparing diesel export ban
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| Does this all wind up in Mad Max land?*
Posted by Sounder
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| Dr. Oz is really rising in the evil piece of shit ranks
Posted by Sounder
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| Hardly any details in the report, but this sounds pretty questionable
Posted by DT
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| Abdul for us wins over raging moderates
Posted by Nobster
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| When I watched that I was all "What is Galloway talking about?"
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Galloway has a giant blind spot on this topic imo. He’s mostly shut up about it recently tho*
Posted by cpsteine
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| Trump TV launch is a dud.
Posted by doubledown
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| should've made it the gorilla channel*
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| Give it time to actualise the grift
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| lol, i didn't realize it was just reruns of his old speeches. *
Posted by VIV
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| He’s basically 2010 Fidel Castro at this point
Posted by DT
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| Well, they launched it after his bedtime. *
Posted by doubledown
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| i thought it would be "news"*
Posted by VIV
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| Once you filter out the negative news, there's not a ton of content. *
Posted by doubledown
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| i thought it would essentially be his OAN. "OTN"? either way, my mistake*
Posted by VIV
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| I bet he's happy as a pig in shit.
Posted by Sammich
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| What makes you think he successfully changed that? I'm not sure a Daily Beast article is proof of a
Posted by ATL
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| I still see a lot of mainstream coverage about how his policies are hurting people.
Posted by doubledown
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| "I am the code."
Posted by Tortillini
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| I’d rethink my skepticism about the existence of karma if Trump died in a fire in the ballroom
Posted by DT
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| that's how Inglorious Basterds 2 will end*
Posted by Sammich
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| Call that movie I Am The Code and I'm totally in*
Posted by Sounder
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| Doors that lock from the outside is totally something he'd never notice. *
Posted by doubledown
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| "I am the code" is a perfect embodiment of Trump 2.0*
Posted by Sounder
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| The liberal bastion that is the American Petroleum Institute comes out against Trump's diesel plan
Posted by VIV
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| Drill Baby Drill!*
Posted by Sounder
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| You voted for him you knuckle draggers*
Posted by ATL
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| Another rosy poll for Dems from Marist: Talarico up 6, Hinojosa up 3
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| Paxton is a historically bad candidate
Posted by Sounder
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| and the joy I would feel if Abbott lost would be incredible*
Posted by Sounder
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| Republicans so desperate, they’re pretending to be anti- data center
Posted by Stu
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| I'm still not sure that the Democrats can take back the Senate
Posted by Sounder
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| 60% on Kalshi*
Posted by Stu
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| Oops.... 63%*
Posted by Stu
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| I am taking nothing for granted and will believe it when I see it
Posted by Sounder
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| When has trusting polls ever gone wrong? *
Posted by doubledown
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| Polls seem to mean so much less in the Trump era
Posted by Sounder
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| Cf. weather forecasting
Posted by complainant
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| That's largely attributable to the Trump base being more motivated than the blue base
Posted by Stu
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| Kalshi is fucking stupid and threat to society as we know it*
Posted by Sounder
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| OK. But it helps ascertain the legitimacy of polling*
Posted by Stu
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| What are you saying, that a betting market is a better predictor of election results
Posted by Sounder
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| I didn't say that, I said it's another data point.*
Posted by Stu
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| A very stupid and useless data point
Posted by Sounder
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| Maybe Trump’s apparent attempt to sabotage the GOP in the midterms is an insider trading bid
Posted by DT
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| but he said he was going to fix and clean up Texas!!*
Posted by shua
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| All Trump had to do was nothing and he could have rolled through a humming economy
Posted by Sounder
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| Tariffs and pardons are about personally enriching himself. Iran is about
Posted by doubledown
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| but would he have pocketed as much coin in a humming economy?*
Posted by torinese
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| It depends, is crypto a part of the humming economy?*
Posted by Sounder
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| Crypto is more volatile than stocks. It's easy to take advantage of that volatility when you
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| Trump has made more trades in his second term
Posted by Sounder
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| it's not?*
Posted by torinese
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| Sure seems like they're all doing the insider trading thing. Trump more than anyone, of course.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| They're barely even trying to hide it
Posted by Sounder
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| If there is any justice in this world (there isn't)
Posted by Sounder
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| Crypto is about printing random numbers on slips of paper, and selling them for real money
Posted by doubledown
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| I think the number of pardons that he hands out at the end of his term
Posted by Sounder
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| Trump floats the idea of halting diesel exports.
Posted by VIV
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| While we are all playing 4D chess, he’s already a grand wizard, erm, master at 6D chess*
Posted by timmer
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| narrator voice...He was eating the pieces*
Posted by Sounder
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| He's a business genius, I trust anything he says and does
Posted by Sounder
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| When Trump floats something, an assistant should make sure to flush twice. *
Posted by doubledown
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| Gonna need another plunger. *
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| Russia, out of gas, halts Donbas offensive.
Posted by complainant
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| Explains why Trump was upset Ukraine hit another refinery. *
Posted by assassin
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| Hinson down 8 in Ioway*
Posted by Stu
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| Grandpa Shitpants was truly on one at the UN
Posted by VIV
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| he is a legendary dipshit*
Posted by Sounder
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| we're lucky things are so bad
Posted by Sammich
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| Conflating an existing term with another much more accurate term, neither of which
Posted by doubledown
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| the ICC comment. subzero. sub sub. dumb as whatever rocks think are dumb
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| This article about a Massachusetts lesbian bar is kind of hilarious
Posted by gvibes
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| Does the link still work, it’s a single page with no context for me*
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| I had to scroll down through a lot of blank space to get to the article.*
Posted by larue33
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| JFC those people are ponderous.*
Posted by ATL
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| That’s a good description…..I kept asking myself if this article was from 5 years ago
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| This is also ponderous.
Posted by doubledown
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| and I gotta talk about a fuckin' DOG DYING*
Posted by Sammich
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| enjoy your death trap, ladies!*
Posted by assassin
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| What was her problem?*
Posted by Blazer
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| "I hope your place gets firebombed!!!"*
Posted by Stu
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| October Surprise for Susan Collins - Trump axed an FBI bribery investigation of her
Posted by complainant
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| Kalshi has Jackson 72-28*
Posted by Stu
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| ProFuckinPublica on a tear*
Posted by Jackie
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| NYT confirms. Say Feds were ready to move on her and Trump killed it.
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| He has kompromat on everyone. Supplied by the Kremlin. Everything makes sense when you realize
Posted by complainant
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| Citizens United is, at its heart, the fall of the empire*
Posted by assassin
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| Buckley v. Valeo*
Posted by ATL
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| How is that race shaping up? It sure seems like the earth opened up and swallowed
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| Jackson by a hair, within the margin of error.
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| I liked his platform but he seemed like a very bad candidate outside of that.
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| If they make it a referendum on Collins he doesn’t have to be that great.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| Agreed, that's what I'm hoping. She sucks, has lied about a lot, and vibrates like an electric
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| Costs a lot to buy that many pearls.*
Posted by DT
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| Well, we’ve got actual State-run media now. TrumpTV just launched (not The Onion)
Posted by VIV
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| Fail*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| It’s just a live feed of Trump posting on Truth Social while sitting on the toilet *
Posted by shua
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| Does it come in smell o vision?*
Posted by ATL
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| For an extra 19.95 a month!*
Posted by shua
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| Unless they're going to bring in female reporters to ask him questions he doesn't like, I don't see
Posted by doubledown
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| That’s 16 more hours per day than Trump is awake.*
Posted by DT
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| Scott Ritter has received a Community Note.
Posted by complainant
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| sometimes I have flashbacks because I said "you too" when a waiter told me to enjoy my meal
Posted by Sammich
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| Victim of the great Sean Duffy Reboot of September 2026 =======>
Posted by ATL
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| Man with two brains ===========>
Posted by complainant
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| Dr. Hfuhruhurr?*
Posted by Sammich
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| Hey VIV, Boebert ethics complaint alleges extramarital gamahuching.
Posted by complainant
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| Thanks! This beats vagueposting *
Posted by VIV
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| Hey Ranger, what's this about?
Posted by complainant
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| There’s some freaking out in Europe that Putin is going to test NATO Article 5 after his election
Posted by illiniranger
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| Any history buffs here? Wondering if a partnership like this has ever existed before and what kinds
Posted by John Coctostan
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| Need a cool name for the partnership...."The Axis" has a nice ring to it*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| maybe we can just fast-forward to the bunker and the gas station this time around*
Posted by Sammich
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| Haha, ty for the edit*
Posted by Jackie
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| FOX: "Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage..."
Posted by VIV Some backbone for once.
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| "Who needs 'em! Sound is overrated anyways."
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| This may be the thing that finally kills him. Media coverage is literally his favorite part. *
Posted by doubledown
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| it will be curious to see how he walks this all back*
Posted by Sounder
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| What happens if everyone realized we could have just been ignoring him all along?*
Posted by Sounder
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| I'll put this under the heading "they agree with us, not us agreeing with them"*
Posted by shua
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| This should have happened a long time ago, but good for them
Posted by Sounder
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| Guessing they don’t want a Dem Prez to do the same to them *
Posted by MC
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| Didn’t Obama admin try to bar them from interviewing some administration officials?
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider
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| they tried to exclude FOX from a pool interview with Kenneth Feinberg who oversaw TARP
Posted by VIV
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| hell yeah*
Posted by Sammich
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| "This is the first time in my adult life, where there's been an issue that's come up,
Posted by doubledown
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| I assume someone photoshopped the 60 Minutes logo over the Onion one.*
Posted by DT
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| Also, the last 40 years and it’s frickin Data Centers that’s finally the thing? WTF?*
Posted by DT
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| Boo frickin hoo*
Posted by timmer
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| "White male privilege doesn't exist!"
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| and will continue to say*
Posted by torinese
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| ooo
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| It sure does seem like the best way to interact with politics is just never to think about it.
Posted by Sammich
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| The "first they came for" poem isn't that long of a poem*
Posted by Sounder
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| Jesus Cookies
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| enshittification of sports continues apace
Posted by Sammich
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| Sidejack...I just became aware of Private Equity buying up youth sports leagues...and I'm disgusted*
Posted by haighter
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| It's a $50 Billion market where if you question how much you're spending on stuff,
Posted by doubledown
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| yep and / or get that ever elusive d1 scholarship.*
Posted by Ari Gold
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| hockey seems to be the D1 move...
Posted by illinibone
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| seems like a lot of kids are coming up through AAU rather than HS
Posted by Sammich
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| don't look up their relationship to bowling*
Posted by Sammich
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| There was a really good HBO documentary about professional bowling*
Posted by Sounder
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| I think I saw that one…
Posted by Waka
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| sidejack #2; the athletic wanted to tell be about a young dart thrower who is getting boo'd, but not
Posted by torinese
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| * adds Texas Bake Sale to Urban Dictionary **
Posted by doubledown
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| also, it’s cookie dough. not batter. pervert and moran*
Posted by Nobster
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| I need to never hear that phrase again, please edit subject line accordingly, thx*
Posted by Jackie
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| Babby Gravvy (how babby is formed)*
Posted by Tortillini
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| or am I OK?
Posted by Sammich
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| I would prefer not to have read the post entirely.*
Posted by Stu
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| second. *
Posted by Nobster
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| Tracks. Though these are really just dog bites man stories at this point.*
Posted by ATL
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