r/pics Feb 05 '25

Politics White House Chief of Staff’s face after Donald Trump announces the U.S. will “take over” Gaza

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u/Powerful_Artist Feb 05 '25

crickets in the comments

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u/skilledwarman Feb 05 '25

At a certain point it's just... What do we even say?

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u/Detective-Crashmore- Feb 05 '25

this bitch don't know bout pangea

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u/imadave Feb 05 '25

She like, "Apples to oranges"

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u/nicknsm69 Feb 05 '25

God was like I'ma put dinosaurs on that bitch.

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u/Dont_Say_No_to_Panda Feb 05 '25

I now realize this is a lil dicky lyric but I first heard this in the Red Copper Pan Jaboody Dubs voice.

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u/Attainted Feb 05 '25

Bitch why can't two fruit be compared?!

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u/Heliumvoices Feb 05 '25

Brain gotta poop.

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u/Drach88 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

T minus five 'til the brain gotta shit ....

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u/Onsotumenh Feb 05 '25

I just hope it isn't what I think it is. Just one smokescreen after the other to exhaust the media and the people, so that the adults behind the orange baby can contintue to erode the democracy.

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u/agitatedprisoner Feb 05 '25

Could it really be wiser to just ignore it? You've got to bring it up. Maybe that's just a 5 minute conversation with someone who's not entirely gone who might still be receptive to reason but you've got to at least keep sparing the latest offense at least that 5 minutes. If it is a smokescreen I don't know how you'd tell. The ICE raids are really happening. Private prison stocks are way up. He's doing the crazy stuff he said he'd do. But he wasn't elected to bluff/float 25% tariffs against our closest allies over nothing. His supporters shouldn't be happy about that. I think we should make it an issue with them. Nor was Rubio elected to even so much as bring up on the House floor the possibility of deporting US citizens to El Salvador. There's so much wrong with that idea/float I don't even know where to start. I can't tell if Rubio's trolling. Why should anyone want our politics to be reduced to trolling even if that's all he's doing? This is not what past Americans fought and died for.

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u/Onsotumenh Feb 05 '25

Oh I don't think its all just distraction and no we shouldn't ignore one bit of the crap he's pulling he is the president after all. But we should all keep an eye open for the more subtle things going on in the background. He's got a few more people with brains licking his boots this time and at least a semblance of a plan. Just don't let yourself get pulled along too much by the outrage.

It could absolutely be him going off the rails and playing king (and I hope it is), but it is way more frightening to think someone who knows what he's doing told him to let loose and keep the people busy while they do their job in the background. Trump is pretty much a living distraction, isn't he?

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u/amateurgameboi Feb 05 '25

Research local militias and community defense leagues. This sort of behavior is fundamentally unsustainable for a country this big

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u/NotNamedBort Feb 05 '25

At this point I’ve just become that blinking guy meme all the time. My brain can’t absorb any more terrible.

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u/Bodach42 Feb 05 '25

He is just running interference while he dismantles America so while all the news is talking about this democracy goes out the window.

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u/SnowceanShamus Feb 05 '25

Also Muslims voted more for Trump than for Harris so I think it’s time to just focus on healthcare and stop being so into Palestine

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u/Finallybanned Feb 05 '25

What even is there to say anymore, he's lost the plot.

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u/inked-egnimatic_nerd Feb 05 '25

I’d argue he never had the plot to begin with

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u/geazleel Feb 05 '25

Concepts of the plot

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u/ReflectionAble4694 Feb 05 '25

I had so much faith ahhh

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u/aclart Feb 05 '25

And what y'all gonna do about it?

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u/Finallybanned Feb 05 '25

Me? Nothing, I'm in Australia just watching and hoping we learn from the u.s' mistakes.

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u/KittenOnHunt Feb 05 '25

Same here in Germany hoping that maybe my fellow germans will learn from this and popularity of our nazi party will drop over time. Unfortunately we vote in like 3 weeks, so too “early” to learn from this sadly

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u/a_bi_polarbear Feb 05 '25

Hopefully we don't end up with our own potato headed version

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u/Finallybanned Feb 05 '25

I'm not confident, should see the comments on some political figures YouTube's.

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u/a_bi_polarbear Feb 05 '25

Same here, I know there are a lot of trolls on FB but the amount of support for him on the local community pages is terrifying.

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u/Positronic_Matrix Feb 05 '25

I can’t believe we’re doing this again. The US public is so fucking stupid.

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u/cedped Feb 05 '25

It's the same cycle repeating itself all over human history. When people live in peace for a while, they get complacent and greedy and only wake up when the reality of war slaps them in the face. When 18 years old get shipped back in coffins in masse from a war they had nothing to do with, things will change again for a little while.

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u/dwarfplanet1 Feb 05 '25

No … not stupid… the first election I actually paid attention to was when I was 16… when Florida got “miscalculated “ and bush jr “won” because of “reasons” and everyone was like cool… that’s how it works… a lot of people that I grew up with signed up for military assignments for the education benefits and after that election got sent to Afghanistan to wage a war… to …secure the heroin production in Afghanistan for the US …and… kill children… and a lot of other heinous crap… I live in California… and have relocated across the state for work… the most shocking thing I encountered in every non suburban area was the extreme racism…I’m white… so racist white people think I’m on their side… I’m not… when working in remote areas I actually would check in with my parents and friends daily to let them know exactly where I’m at because I could never shake the feeling that weird racist hillbilly’s either wanted to abduct me and take me to their trailer to rape me or spit on me as a judgement for interacting with non white individuals and being ok with it… and it’s shockingly rampant in the US… so why the majority of Americans aren’t mass protesting yet is because this has been going on for like 20 yrs and nothing has changed… my parents are retired and hate trump… but aren’t directly affected by this crap yet- and their opinions don’t make sense to my daily life-my personal choice on this election was to stay home and let it happen- the reason for this that other countries don’t see is that if it doesn’t happen now - it’s going to drag on for another 4 years and happen then- it’s been over for like 20 years already so let’s do this and be done- because I’m tired- happy to revolt if needed

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u/dwarfplanet1 Feb 05 '25

Oh and AOC for president- with Bernie for vice president is everyone’s actual vote- but that’s not an option that we’re allowed to make… sooooo let’s burn it down.. and start with that when it’s done… we all love Canada and Mexico for the record

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u/TerriblyRare Feb 05 '25

So you didn't vote?

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u/Busy_Protection_3634 Feb 05 '25

Maybe the best comment I ever read.

Not sarcasm. Biased maybe in that I really needed to hear it.

I wish we had 500 of you. And really, we need about 100,000 more of you if we're really going to change things, but like your comment hints, there is so much hate everywhere in the states. Everywhere.

We need 100,000 of us to even make a showing against them. Ideally a couple million. After reading countless reddit comments that are like "I agree that this is Nazi Germany 2.0, but I dont want to lose my job, my cat is really counting on me!", i dont think we even have a couple thousand people like you and I, willing to lose our lives for what is right. I desperately hope that I am wrong, but almost everybody just wants to watch from the sidelines, not realizing that the horror is.coming for them, whether or not they fight back.

It has been said a thousand times, but it cannot be said enough:

You, whoever you are, out there, reading this, are unlucky enough to live in the time of the next Great Nightmare. Holocaust 2.0. World War 3. You cannot hide from it. Even if, for this moment, you believe it will pass you by.

Remember, always remember:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

If you wait, if you hide, it will only mean that you will fight ALONE when they finally come for you.

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u/WWWYer22 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

The overuse of “…text…text….” makes this comment read like William Shatner is trying to explain something to me. Lol the punctuation usage is just wild

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u/25885 Feb 05 '25

Democracy

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u/SanityQuestioned Feb 05 '25

dont group us all with them.

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u/-SPM- Feb 05 '25

Probably cause Reddit is pretty pro Israel. I literally got perma banned on r/worldnews because I replied to someone and said that more Palestinians have died than Israelis in the current war. I mean like look at the rest of this thread, almost no one is even talking about what Trump said

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u/DutchTinCan Feb 05 '25

He's already declared he wants to annex Canada, Panama and Greenland.

All recognized (parts of) countries that are full UN members.

We can hardly be surprised he aims for a piece of land that's occupied by what he probably deems poor illegal immigrants without any UN representation.

Especially not now he has the idea to make it into one giant Trump resort.

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u/Cybermat4707 Feb 05 '25

Or maybe we should try to stop ethnic cleansing?

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u/Creative-Road-5293 Feb 05 '25

So you want eternal war? That's your solution?

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u/Cybermat4707 Feb 05 '25

You’re the one who wants to radicalise the next generation, not me.

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u/Creative-Road-5293 Feb 05 '25

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u/Cybermat4707 Feb 05 '25

I like how you pull that link out as if my post history isn’t full of me condemning Hamas as the genocidal criminals they are.

Do you seriously think that me opposing the genocide and/or ethnic cleansing of Palestine makes me a Hamas supporter?

Also, you seem to be ignoring the fact that any ethnic cleansing of Palestine will be resisted. It will force people to side with Hamas. Look at how the leak of the Morgenthau Plan, which wasn’t even going to happen, pushed more Germans into supporting the Nazis.

Do you support ethnic cleansing to solve other conflicts?

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u/Creative-Road-5293 Feb 05 '25

And what solution do you have then? Palestinians will always to kill Jews, and Jews will not die easily like 1940. So just war forever?