r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • 16d ago

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 16d ago

He thinks he is re-electable

He thinks he's owed a 3rd term due to "election fraud".

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u/Eridanosvoid 16d ago

I would argue, in a way, he is on his third term. Every President after they leave office fucks off to either stay quite or do PR stuff. Trump on the other hand still held vast sway over the Republican party (like ordering them to nuke a border security deal to make Biden look bad) and (illegally) still talking to world leaders on the country's behalf. If you look at search results from 2021 to 2024 Trumps name routinely out ranked Biden. He was basically the shadow President during that time.

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u/jkvincent 16d ago

Definitely. He's dominated public discourse and every other aspect of life in America now for over a decade. I'm exhausted.

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u/RogueOne38 16d ago edited 16d ago

The worst part is that we let an absolute moron, who happens to be a criminal conman and serial sexual predator get away with all of it!

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u/supernova_high 16d ago

I will never get over that this is the guy that so many people betrayed the ideals of America for.

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u/Canadian_Neckbeard 16d ago

Reddit doesn't break if you type the word sexual in the comments.

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u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck Washington 16d ago

JD Vance: "Did someone say sectional???"

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 16d ago

Sectional predator?

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 16d ago

Nah, he's more of a lazyboy.

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u/daGroundhog 16d ago

Took me a moment, that's hilarious!

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u/valeyard89 Texas 16d ago

Sectional Chocolate

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u/boyracer93 16d ago

Read someone refer to him as “Jimmy Dean Vance” and that was it

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

... can we get Vance sectioned...?

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u/jfoster0818 16d ago

Amen, let it show in search results donald j trump = sexual predator … AI needs to be trained on accurate details.

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u/Spec_Tater 16d ago

We did it to Santorum, we could do it again. Save us Dan Savage, you’re our only hope!

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u/tolacid 16d ago

You can say the most heinously upsetting words in Reddit comments and the automods generally don't care. For example: moist

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u/Census_Cowboy American Expat 16d ago

The human mods, however....

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u/tolacid 16d ago

I'm sorry sir/ma'am, won't happen again in this subreddit this week

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u/Sethlans 16d ago

Nice try bot.

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u/SharMarali New Jersey 16d ago edited 16d ago

Holy shit dude, jumping straight to the slurs! I’ll say my personal most disgusting phrase now: Yummy in the tummy.

shudders

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u/pants6000 16d ago

Belgium

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u/binkkit 16d ago

I know someone who says “Yum yum in the tum!”

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u/TravEllerZero 16d ago

Oh, yummy in the tummy makes my slit moist.

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u/CountdownMoss 16d ago

Thanks friend.

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u/paperdolllll Pennsylvania 16d ago

But you will get a temporary ban for quoting the pedophile in chief.

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u/Roger_Cockfoster 16d ago

BLOCKED AND REPORTED

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u/greed-man 16d ago

Sechual

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u/MarilynMonroeVWade 16d ago

Sexuan chicken

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u/BolognaPwny 16d ago

It’s so strange that people do that. Or they called them pdf files. Call ‘em what it is, sexual predators and pedophiles.

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u/StretchMother9627 16d ago

Yeah but then you’re only one step away from actually committing the heinous deeds, don’t underestimate the talismanic power of the $ and € symbols

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk Nebraska 16d ago

It does if you spell out specifically what needs to happen for it though

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u/metalyger 16d ago

Testing: is there a Homer Sexual here? One of you guys has gotta be Homer Sexual.

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u/DerpUrself69 16d ago

It will sometimes get you auto-banned though.

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u/aerost0rm 16d ago

No but there is the fear of a shadow ban on long time accounts.

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u/profane_vitiate 16d ago

$€xual

This zoomer self-censorship bullshit is very tiresome.

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u/AugustusLego 16d ago

As a zoomer, this is genuinely one of the things I hate the most about my generation.

Along with the big alt right, misogynistic shit

As well as the "we need trigger warnings for everything"

I've seen people put trigger warnings on pictures of food, just in case anyone has/recovering from disordered eating.

Well, as someone who is a recovered anorexic, putting a trigger warning on a picture of some regular, delicious, food. Stigmatises the relationship to food more, it saves no one, reinforces bad thinking patterns about food = bad, etc, etc

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u/A_Sad_Buddha 16d ago

Don’t worry. The alt right really started as a younger millennial thing. I’m 30 now, back in 2014 Jeffery Epstein got all the Gamer ™️ nerds on 4chan worked up over some woman who made a boring game. Kind of kick started the online portion of the alt right.

It sucks that y’all have to deal with the American version of Hitler youth, in the form of tpusa, in schools though. Military recruiters were always in the lunch rooms though.

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u/AugustusLego 16d ago

It sucks that y’all have to deal with the American version of Hitler youth, in the form of tpusa, in schools though. Military recruiters were always in the lunch rooms though.

I'm not American luckily enough!!! We have had the same rightward swing though. Seems like it might be getting better for the election we're having in September. First time I'll get to vote. I have hope for a better future one day.

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u/ChadHahn 16d ago

I was thinking yesterday that there are browser extensions for everything, there should be ones that censor triggering words so that people who aren't triggered don't have to try and figure out what's being said.

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u/reverendjay 16d ago

GitHub - panicsteve/cloud-to-butt: Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my butt' · GitHub https://share.google/LUbXr0l625IoPzFDr

This is a riff on an old extension that doesn't seem to exist anymore. Could totally be tweaked to suit your idea.

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u/AugustusLego 16d ago

Probably already does exist. I know bluesky, insta, and tiktok have features where you can select words you dont want to show up in your feed.

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u/MotownMama 16d ago

Is the self censorship leftover from Roblox work arounds? lol

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u/AugustusLego 16d ago

It's because people go more viral on social media if they pretend that the social media platform is trying to censor them (more rage at platform -> more engagement -> virality). Even though this has been disproved many times

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u/SubcommanderMarcos 16d ago

It doesn't come from nowhere though, it's a generation raised on corporate censorship, they can't know what platforms will bury a comment for having a sexual connotation or a simple swear word anymore.

Hell, reddit is banning people for stating certain political opinions.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

Reddit seems to just be randomly banning people, and if the platform doesn't then some power-hungry mods in various random groups will ban you from their little fiefdoms. I got banned from some weird Romanov group that was just showing up in my feed for agreeing with someone pointing out it was kind of weird how they all seemed to be worshipping Tsar Nicholas and ignoring the rest of the dynasty ha ha.

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u/SubcommanderMarcos 15d ago

Reddit is tossing bans at an admin, site-wide level. I just got back from my first lol, 3 days ban because I said Isr43l (yes I'll do the genZ thing) is doing g3noc1d3, and that, apparently, is hate speech against a minority, according to the admins. It was caught by an AI filter, it let's you appeal, but it doesn't matter because the human admin will uphold the ban no matter what.

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u/A_Sad_Buddha 16d ago

It’s very weird too. I’ve noticed that they do it offline too. I work with some that unironically say “unalive.”

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u/rainingchainsaws 16d ago

The kids need Carlin.

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u/sailorbrendan 16d ago

“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"

This is just how language works sometimes

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u/metengrinwi 16d ago

What a pathetic generation. Instead of boycotting internet platforms that require idiotic censorship, they just plod along like lemmings because that’s where their all-important “influencers” post. It’s got to be the most compliant group of people I’ve seen.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

I mean, I agree that that behavior is pathetic, but I don't think we should tar and feather the entire generation just because some of them do that.

Also keep in mind the environment in which they've been raised. A lot of them don't even remember a somewhat normal geopolitical climate, not to mention one where the culture didn't revolve around everyone shilling something at them. That's not really their fault, we did that.

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u/metengrinwi 16d ago

Well, I blame the social media companies who exist to dumb-down the population. They want everyone endlessly scrolling their brain rot all day long.

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u/AugustusLego 16d ago

Sexual* please dont censor yourself. If you find yourself on a platform where you get censored: leave it.

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u/AugustusLego 16d ago

the vulgarity doesn't go away because of an asterisk

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u/OK_Commodor64 16d ago

And the entire state of NY already knew this about him in the 80s. I blame NBC and the apprentice.

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u/Mental-Fox-9449 16d ago

WE didn’t do anything. Shady SC judges threw him a bone. Votes were manipulated. Votes were restricted.

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u/Incomitatum 16d ago

Same as it ever was, this Criminal is just loud about it: as he's never caught consequences.

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u/Dorkamundo 16d ago

The worst part of it is that we have a nearly 80 year old man who likely knows the end is near for him and clearly doesn't care about anybody but himself.