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If Harris or Buttigieg is the candidate, I think the dems will probably lose. They just don’t have the right charisma. They look wimpy.
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Only until they walk on stage, grab Trump / Vance by the nuts, then squeeze and twist until they’re bawling on camera, cue the mob turning on them.
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Only until they walk on stage, grab Trump / Vance by the nuts, then squeeze and twist until they’re bawling on camera, cue the mob turning on them.
If only that would happen.
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Interesting:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/kamala-harris-shes-thinking-running-president/story?id=131922974
She had her chance. She needs to sit 2028 out.
It was literally an emergency because of Biden at that debate. She was so much a “last minute” option.
But who can the Dems “develop” now as a viable candidate?
Sadly, Gavin Newsom is probably the most viable candidate at this point. And frankly, that just sickens me.
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But who can the Dems “develop” now as a viable candidate?
Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona, former astronaut who is married to a victim of gun violence, who reminded members of the military that they can refuse to follow illegal orders from their Commander-in-Chief, and currently has a lawsuit against Pete Hegseth for trying to strip him of his military rank and benefits. I think he can appeal to both conservatives and liberals (and maybe some non-MAGA Republicans as well).
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Yeah, Kelly could be a good choice.
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Senator Kelly sounds like a good choice (Provided he doesn’t restart building Sentinels 🤣)
Still… it comes down to US voter mentality, mindset. I’ve read and posted the gist of books and essays on the subject and this pic mentions education:
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But who can the Dems “develop” now as a viable candidate?
Mark Kelly, Senator from Arizona, former astronaut who is married to a victim of gun violence, who reminded members of the military that they can refuse to follow illegal orders from their Commander-in-Chief, and currently has a lawsuit against Pete Hegseth for trying to strip him of his military rank and benefits. I think he can appeal to both conservatives and liberals (and maybe some non-MAGA Republicans as well).
I would definitely vote for him.
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Oh yeah, I saw him on the Daily Show, he seemed pretty cool.
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Even by 2026 standards, this is goddamn nasty.
The CNN account of the online how to commit rape and monetise with video broke, involving thousands of men using their girlfriend, partner or wife as a commodity, and bragging about it online.
It is every bit as goddamn awful as you may wish to imagine and then some.
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Argos is a radio show/ podcast in the Netherlands
Wow, that’s weird they branched out to that from the shops they have over here.
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Hegseth … unbelievable
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There is a bit of a backlash against metoo stuff here in the Netherlands. A Dutch singer, Marco Borsato, who was on trial for sexual assault of a minor and who was acquitted was on tv again for the first time in years, trying to do a come back. Some people firmly believe he did nothing wrng, this despite certain clear established facts, like he apped an underage girl about masturbation. In the trial it sort of didn’t get proven definitively that he did things which can be described as sexual assault, but it’s clear he’s a pervert who was hanging around girls of the “Epstein age”, like 13-14-15, way too much. And yet many people say “oh, that’s not so bad. He should be welcomed back to resume his career”. Makes me sick.
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Hegseth … unbelievable
It’s so fucking hard to take these people seriously, because they are such fucking idiots. But so were the nazis, of course (with a few exceptions).
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A remembrance here. The kids would have all been in their mid 40s now:
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Some reports have him as the founder of “Latinos for Trump”:
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pro-trump-journalist-deported-immigration-crackdowns-1792165
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Arjan, go touch some grass and I don’t mean pot.
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This is probably my fault; just the other day I saw a cigarette display in some shop and said to my UK cousin “I’m surprised people still smoke, knowing what we know about the health risks.” Maybe my cousin has a connection with the NHS.
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Our billionaire* background-in-financial-trading chancellor has just told us that we shouldn’t expect to be able to live off pensions when we’re retired but that those will at most be a small part of what we will need. He didn’t mention where people should get the rest of the money for their old age from. I truly think he just doesn’t understand why everybody doesn’t do what he does, just buy stocks for a few thousand Euros a month for yourself and for your kids to make sure your future is secure.
*Okay, so is only a millionaire.
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A soldier who made 400K on Maduro’s capture:
I guess profiting from insider information is okay only if you’re a member of Congress or a member of Trump’s family.
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US military strategy assumption:
Our enemy will only engage us in battle when they are technologically adept enough to do so, but where we retain technological advantage.
Cue an Iranian F5 bombing the crap out of a US base in Kuwait, using old bombs Patriots do not seem to recognise.
People are aware weaponry doesn’t become inert over time, right? Every so often in the UK and Europe unexploded WW2 bombs get found.
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Freedom to smoke versus freedom from smoking.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/29/uk-gradual-smoking-ban-success
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It’s a lot worse than that. They clearly planned how to isolate her, then raped her and filmed it. Twice. There might be an argument for charging the parents of the boys too.
I suspect one of the details that’ll come out is the sentencing guidelines were too imbalanced.
It is likely the sentence is revised by the Attorney General, as it’s already been referred and there’s no way the original one stands.
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This is probably my fault; just the other day I saw a cigarette display in some shop and said to my UK cousin “I’m surprised people still smoke, knowing what we know about the health risks.” Maybe my cousin has a connection with the NHS.
Honestly, anyone under the age of about 45 who smokes is an unmitigated idiot. It has been common knowledge for that long that cigarettes are incredibly harmful to health. To choose to take up smoking at any point since the late 90s ish is just a moronic decision and your resultant health issues shouldn’t be the state’s burden.
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Obesity kills almost as many people as smoking. Are we going to ban cookies next?
Your burgers and milshakes are burdening the NHS!
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Obesity kills almost as many people as smoking. Are we going to ban cookies next?
Your burgers and milshakes are burdening the NHS!
I huge issue is that a lot of foods, especially junk ones, are designed to not provide a feeling of being satiated. Therefore, you eat more than you really should and continue to buy more.
Throw in the fact that in the US, there are “food deserts”, where there are no nearby well-stocked grocery stores but there are an abundance of fast food places. This occurs in poorer areas, which are mostly minorities. They can’t help but to eat poorly, and then suffer from resulting health issues.
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But food, even junk food, has a positive benefit of being, you know, food. It’s misuse (and in some cases not even that) which causes obesity. You could even argue alcohol has the same limited positive health benefits when taken in moderation. Cigarettes don’t. It’s an artificial product we created entirely for a recreational activity that causes damaging health effects.
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It’s hard to convey to those in the US how bonkers the concept of food deserts looks to those outside it.
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Ironically, in the 1930s tobacco companies used to advertise the health benefits of smoking cigarettes. In the 1950s, after scientific studies began noting the damage that smoking did to our bodies (not just our lungs), those companies doubled down, getting endorsements from “doctors” stating that their brand is healthier than its competitors (“four out of five doctors choose our brand”).
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Ironically, in the 1930s tobacco companies used to advertise the health benefits of smoking cigarettes. In the 1950s, after scientific studies began noting the damage that smoking did to our bodies (not just our lungs), those companies doubled down, getting endorsements from “doctors” stating that their brand is healthier than its competitors (“four out of five doctors choose our brand”).
In spite of knowing, from their own research, that their product was actually incredibly harmful.
The way this went tells you everything you need to know about corporations.
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Weird that it’s what seen as the most liberal country in the work, the UK, who is the first country ever to ban cigarettes.
Actually, the UK is not the first: Maldives first country to impose generational smoking ban</a>
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New Zealand was going to do it first, as well as reducing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes (which seems like a pretty good policy even if you don’t want to ban them) but backed off it when the government changed.
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https://www.thejournal.ie/captain-americas-grafton-street-closing-7054098-May2026/
Millar and Hitch were flabbergasted at the existence of Captain America’s when they first came to Dublin to promote Ultimates 2 – especially as they were using art from Ultimates to promote the place at the time.
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Hearn claims he only touched a piece of detached liner before U.S. Park Police arrested and detained him for five hours on June 19
Former Olympic canoeist David Carter “Davey” Hearn was arrested for destruction of government property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, hours before President Donald Trump claimed it was vandalized following its recent renovation. Hearn claims he was just touching a piece of detached liner.
United States Park Police officers arrested the 67-year-old — who competed in the canoe slalom in three Summer Olympics — on Friday, June 19, after he stopped to look at the newly renovated Washington, D.C., pool in the midst of a 52-mile bike ride, according to The Washington Post.
Hearn told The Post that after noticing a piece of liner that was partially detached from the pool, which was painted “American Flag Blue” as part of its more than $14 million renovation, he reached into the water to see what the piece felt like — and just moments later, he was being arrested.
While preparing to leave and continue his bike ride, the U.S. Park Police officers arrested and detained the former Olympian on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property, per The Post. Hearn claimed to the newspaper that his detainment at a Park Police facility lasted for nearly five hours, and he was allowed to leave at around 9 p.m. local time.
On Saturday, June 20, Hearn told The Post that he “didn’t vandalize anything.”
“I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything,” the former Olympian said. “By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.”
“I reached in there, and I was able to grab the end of that flapping piece, the already peeling piece,” he said of his actions at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday. “It was still attached to the bottom. I didn’t remove anything.”
PEOPLE has reached out to the U.S. Park Police. Hearn could not be reached for comment.
Emily Miller, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative journalist who has been covering the pool renovation extensively, shared just over two minutes of footage of Hearn’s arrest on X. She claimed in her post that Hearn “grabbed the hose that female National Park Service workers were using to clear the algae.”
Speaking with The Post on Saturday, Hearn said that he had not touched the cleaning hose as Miller described, but acknowledged that his bicycle may have come in contact with it.
Hearn is scheduled to appear in court next month on July 9, according to The Post.
The former Olympic canoeist’s arrest came hours before Trump, 80, accused vandals of damaging the newly renovated reflecting pool, among other bold claims, in a Truth Social post.
“We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool, which sits between The Washington Monument and The Lincoln Memorial,” Trump wrote on the social media platform.
“Just like three days ago, they destroyed the grass outside of the Pool, they’ve also done everything possible to hurt the inside surface that was just installed,” he continued, seemingly referring to the huge “8647” found etched into the grass at the National Mall. (U.S. Park Police previously told PEOPLE in a statement that it responded to a report about the numbers on Thursday morning, June 11.)
Trump continued, “No different than the chemicals that were used on the National Mall, they used something similar in the Reflecting Pool to try to destroy and demean our beautiful work.”
In the Truth Social post, the president went on to call out journalist Jonathan Karl, who showed the “American Flag blue” paint peeling in a TikTok video, and address the water in the pool blooming with bright green algae. Trump also blamed the pool overhaul’s problems on “Radical Left Lunatics.”
In another Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump said the United States Park Police have arrested “multiple people for vandalizing” the reflecting pool.
“Who would do such a thing?” he wrote. “These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair.”
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Last week in Chicago was the opening of the Obama center. A lot of people were there for it: George Bush and wife, the Clintons, and others. The old guard (if I can call them that?) are still around. I saw Al Gore on TV talking about the 20th anniversary of his environment movie, and Kamala Harris was on book tours and shows up now and then.
When 47 took over and ramped up ICE, and all these protests, people took out their frustrations protesting at Kamala Harris’ book signings and asking “Where is Obama in all this?” and where are the past leaders now? As if any of them can do something or have the drive anymore to start some social media soundbite war or protest movements. I guess once you have been in the public eye, the public will still obligate you to serve their interests. (Who knows?)
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“These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments.
Trump saying that is so incredibly funny.
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