left/Dem election doomers aren’t forecasting—they’re hedging. Predicting a Trump win now means they won’t look naive if it happens. Better to be “surprised” by being wrong and have it forgotten in the euphoria than risk looking vulnerable for having hope. It’s pragmatic pessimism as ego armor.
If you’re a Preacher and you’re also a billionaire you’re a Godless, gutless, gormless, shameless, spineless and above all pointless hypocrite
JD Vance: “Don’t think of it as Eugenics, think of it as Usgenics”
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if I had a nickel for every time a right wing/Trump voter/registered Republican tried to take out Trump, I’d have… wait, three nickels? which isn’t a lot, but it’s not zero
every right wing dork fantasising about a new civil war would have died of dysentery in the first week of 1861
Can’t believe Edison tried 100 different lightbulbs before he could get one to work. you know you can just check the box to see if it’s the right bulb? Asshole.
(Bomb squad about to deactivate a bomb) Ron De Santis: “back off socialists, I’ve got this.” (cuts off own thumb, entire city explodes)
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everyone’s crying about plagiarism because my “paper” is “100% copied” from “Wikipedia” let me tell you something: I CHANGED THE FONT. I’m the victim here
PSA: any time they call something “fake news” that means it’s 100% the truth
🇮🇱 Israel: IDF clashes with UN, US sends missile defence system https://www.theindex.media/israel-idf-clashes-with-un-us-sends-missile-defence-system/
Helen this is the most racist shit I’ve read today you need to log tf off
The GOP right now is that scene in every heist movie where they try to convince the cops they’re just regular guys in the back of a very conspicuous van
I can already tell you my New Year’s resolution is going to be “cyber bully more Nazis” who’s in
the way this dude says “lol” while being an entitled little fuck makes me want to tear a hole in the fabric of existence and chuck everyone into it (via reddit)
some days you’re the pigeon, other days you’re the statue. the key is to not be the racist statue of some confederate motherfucker who lost the civil war