this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
382 points (98.2% liked)

politics

23421 readers
2397 users here now

Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!

Rules:

  1. Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.

Example:

  1. Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
  2. Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
  3. No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
  4. Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
  5. No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.

That's all the rules!

Civic Links

Register To Vote

Citizenship Resource Center

Congressional Awards Program

Federal Government Agencies

Library of Congress Legislative Resources

The White House

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate

Partnered Communities:

News

World News

Business News

Political Discussion

Ask Politics

Military News

Global Politics

Moderate Politics

Progressive Politics

UK Politics

Canadian Politics

Australian Politics

New Zealand Politics

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

WITAF

(page 2) 29 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Motherfucker needs to look up the definition of a sovereign country. Who am I kidding the stupid fuck doesn't even know how to read.

[–] [email protected] 211 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The US embassy in Norway sent a letter to their electricity and heat provider (Hafslund), demanding that they stop any DEI type activities within the company.

Hafslunds' response was, in short, "we can stop providing power and heat, no problem".

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah this has to be malicious compliance from the embassy staff.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

When Trump heard that the president is "the leader of the free world", he took it literally and thinks he's the ruler of the world.

[–] [email protected] 204 points 3 days ago

Valeskog is quoted as saying, "If the U.S. terminates its relationship with the city planning office, the embassy will have difficulty obtaining a building permit if they want to rebuild, for example. That's their headache, not ours."

Love it!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

I'm waiting for him to demand those penguin islands produce fewer gay penguins.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's lost his fucking mind.....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

“What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.”
― Dan Quayle

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.”
― Dan Quayle

”A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”
— Major Chip Hazard

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.”

  • Ozzy Osbourne
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I think of Trump more in terms of this Hunter S. Thompson quote about Nixon:

He neither drinks nor smokes, they say, and bars make him nervous. Humphrey Bogart would have taken a dim view of Nixon. It was Bogart who said, “You can’t trust a man who doesn’t drink.” And it was Raoul Duke who said, “I’d never buy a used car from Nixon unless he was drunk.”

[–] [email protected] 183 points 3 days ago (4 children)

America is a joke.

The rest of the world is actively rejecting your bullshit, and you are going to be worse off for it.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 days ago (10 children)

THANKS WE KNOW THAT PART, CAN YOU TELL US HOW TO FIX IT?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Haven't you had gun nuts banging on about what you do in this scenario for decades?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The ones that would be classified as gun nuts are the same ones that are fine with what he's doing. Except when the leopard goes after them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh for sure, I completely understand that. But that's just because they don't have the spine to actually bite their bark—theory-wise though, it's a pretty sound plan to end tyranny and people with more backbone could freely follow it.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Well one person was pretty darn close to solving the whole issue but they kind of faltered at the last moment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

solving the whole issue

Trump’s inevitable death won’t solve the issues that caused him. I don’t know what will. We’d have to go pretty far down the chain of succession to hit “not a fascist”.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You would have to ban podcasting, youtube, blogs, and fox news.

I was at a hardware store today and behind the employees at counter was a TV that blares fox 24/7.

I couldn't take it for 2 minutes

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hear what you're saying, but Little t is a symptom, just like Hitler was a symptom.

It's like "Goddamn it, I wish my stomach didn't hurt all the time." Doctor: "You have pancreatric cancer."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but Harris winning would have least bought us some time it's too bad she couldn't stick the landing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The cancer is more advanced than we had imagined.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

You know, it puts a smile on my face every time, that someone recognizes me.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We already know and various users from other countries have very explicitly told us. We're just waiting for more answers palatable to us because most of us aren't willing to risk anything.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›