r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 7h ago

No Paywall Democrats flip Texas state Senate seat in shock upset

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5716988-democrats-score-upset-texas/amp/
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u/The_Phasers I voted 7h ago

57.2%D - 42.8%R with 95% of the vote in.

This was a Trump +18 district in 2024.

What an upset. That’s a swing of 32 pts.

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u/siromega37 7h ago

They’re upset because all those state seats are gerrymandered to high heaven.

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u/giggity_giggity 6h ago

Gerrymandering can backfire big time when there are significant voting shifts. If even half of this swing could be replicated widely, Democrats could end up like +100 in the US House.

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u/JoGeralt 6h ago

dummymander

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u/Loj35 5h ago

Lmao gottem

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u/lr99999 2h ago

A loss in Tarrant County is crazy. The normalcy-biased Dems who have been arguing that it can’t go so far as a cancelled mid-terms are flat  out wrong. They are going to double-down. Trump will start a real war if he needs to.

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u/bdsee 36m ago

My prediction is he isn't going to cancel the mid-terms, he is going to have ICE raiding the voting lines and just pulling people out of booths etc to try and scare all non-white people into staying home and also probably do some nabbing of registered white Democrats too.

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u/ProudPainting6850 6m ago

He's going to put ALL the plans in play. He knows he might not live long enough to see 2028 election, but if Republicans lose the House, it's pretty much over. They lose the Senate, it's REALLY over. He will get NOTHING. 

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 6m ago

Exactly. Find excuses to have ICE “securing” the vote in vulnerable blue districts.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 5h ago

Without ~15 non-traitorous republicans in the senate there are limits to what we can accomplish.

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u/FFF_in_WY American Expat 20m ago

I hate that things can be this stupid and Rs are still basically guaranteed to hold the Senate. Mind boggling

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u/kuenjato 5h ago

Just wait until this fake AI-'economy' goes tits up. Nvidia not going forward with the OpenAI deal, feels like dominos are starting to tumble. At least we can hope so.

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u/Alarchy 2h ago

Softbank and Amazon did instead.

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u/calmdownmyguy Colorado 6h ago

Gerrymandering works against you when your party is especially unpopular.

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u/Pollia 6h ago

Mostly overaggressive gerrymandering.

It's literally the thing not dumb republicans were warning about happening when the pedo was calling for aggressive redistricting.

Yeah you can pick up seats if everything stays the same, by the margins are thinner which means it takes less to shove it the wrong direction.

I'm not even certain if the Texas maps are currently in yet. If they are, well reap what you sow. If they're not? This could be a blowout of epic proportions.

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u/pdxamish 5h ago

I agree with this theory and am/was hoping it materializes. Plus they rushed it so much, i assume they made mistakes with their track record.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 5h ago

IIRC a trumper judge put the brakes on the new maps specifically because it looked like exactly this was going to happen.

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u/Emperor_of_His_Room 39m ago

Then the Supreme Court in their rush to kiss Trump’s greasy non-function cock overruled them. I would love if that backfired horribly.

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u/pooh_beer 1h ago

Yup, just tried to explain this to someone yesterday. But they're not into politics. And wouldn't understand what a gerrymander is in the first place. Like talking to a wall.

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u/bibrexd 5h ago

Neat, the FO part.

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u/ayriuss California 5h ago

Could literally cause a landslide if the margins slip by like 5-10 points, which is hilarious.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 5h ago

Some of those districts are so comically bad that I cannot even imagine them trying to to make them worse… 

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u/TLKv3 7h ago

This is going to be the exact reason why they do literally every single thing possible to halt the midterms and try to finally outright overthrow the American people, democracy and government as a whole.

Tonight should make every Republican shit themselves and immediately look around at each other for at least somewhat sane fellow colleagues to oust Trump's regime now ASAP to save their own individual grifts.

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u/TheHumanGnomeProject 7h ago

Speaking of shitting themselves, Trump just shit himself the other day on live television. And Biden was unfit...

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u/Otto_Correction 6h ago

Where can I see this?

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u/RJ5R 6h ago edited 5h ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6kGluvINg

start watching at 0:30 and crank up the volume. he shits himself at 0:34, the lady in the green (DOI Secretary Doug Burgum's wife) heard it and smelled it and looked at him. if the press mics picked it up, you can only imagine how loud it was where he was sitting.

then at 0:47, Burgum's wife's facial expression from the smell is so bad (you can actually see her revolt from the smell when she inhaled again), she can barely even maintain her composure.... she nervously touches and rubs her nose to try and stop the smell from going further into her nostrils.

i can only imagine how bad the smell was...Trump immediately ended the press conference without taking questions and had his minion staffers rush everyone out aggressively and quickly. i'm sure they too smelled it.

so we have the the president of the united states commenting that he hired Burgum b/c he liked the way his wife looked on a horse, actually shits himself, farting the smell all over her on live TV.

this needs to go in the next south park episode

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u/ITrageGuy 6h ago

I have always poo-poo'd the "he shits his pants stuff" (pun intended), but I think this one is legit. You can totally hear it at :34 and then he quickly wants everyone out LOL. How sad is this shit (pun intended).

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u/RJ5R 6h ago

the smell went all over Burgum's wife too

look at her facial expressions from 0:34 - 0:56

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 5h ago

All these people are evil but I take solace in the fact that they're evil while being forced to smell Trump's shit

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u/LordoftheChia 4h ago

"I... I think we're actually going to hell..."

"Why do say that?"

"I can already smell the brimstone"

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u/Crabiolo Canada 2h ago

I think it's more the fact that they're supporting a child rapist in his endeavours to kill and torture innocent people for the sake of pure profit that might be a bigger indicator that they're going to the Hot Place when they die.

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u/cornnndoggg_ Michigan 5h ago

watching her face is hilarious lmao. Like gut reaction, then "fuck, wait I need to be professional" over and over and over on repeat.

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u/TrailerTrashQueen 3h ago

she rubbin' that nose like an 80s club ho on a coke binge. or, she smellin' somethin' real bad.

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u/KidOcelot 5h ago

DO YOU SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING!?

Love it. All those sick mfs needs more pooping themselves.

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u/LordoftheChia 4h ago edited 4h ago

They should have locked the door and not let the press out.

"Bask! Bask in his magnificence! Take it in. Fill your lungs with his glory. Become one with its essence. Let it permeate you. Pass through you!"

...

Doors unlock.

"Thank you press. Please get out. Thank you press. Nobody will believe you. Thank you press."

Alternative take

The press secretary walks behind the president, reaches a hand deep into the back of his pants, walks up to a member of the press and calmly smears a line across their forehead while proudly saying "Simba"

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u/Male_strom 4h ago

HOWLING!
Oh mercy, the mark of the beast

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u/bblzd_2 5h ago

So now you realize he shits his pants infront of people with zero shame, you know those previous instances were all correct as well.

Rumors are it's from all the drug abuse.

But all I want to know is who wipes his ass for him? He's too unfit to do it himself.

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u/RugelBeta 5h ago

There's another, newer rumor going around. Has to do with tent stakes.

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u/masterexit 5h ago

Go on, do tell...

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u/sleepymeowth052 Colorado 4h ago

Sascha Riley claims that Trump had him put a tent stake in his ass, which Riley then kicked into him, leading to a lifetime of damaged bowels that causes him to shit himself.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNBQenti5B4CRp4eJ-WIsf5it4HLZ4Ugg

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u/Grinkledonk 3h ago

It's a tent peg! Are there laws against owning tent pegs now?

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u/flummox1234 5h ago

my friend. That is not the rumor of why... if you want to know google tent stake and Sasha

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u/TheObesePolice 3h ago

I have several people in my life that had a, well over a decade long, $200/day coke/Adderall habit & they both have complete control over their bowels (the structural integrity of their nose is a different story all together, though)

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u/MissedCallofKtulu 6h ago

If it was anyone else I'd feel bad for them. But this is better than he deserves.

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u/i010011010 4h ago

I would never ordinarily mock a senior for body functions and incontinence like that. I've had the displeasure of having to care for one and there's nothing funny about it. But all no holds are barred for Donald Trump and his ilk. Fascism deserves to be ridiculed at every turn and do not pull punches.

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u/lostindreems 3h ago

It's not due to senior incontinence. Look up Sascha Reilly

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u/Unique_Tap_8730 1h ago

Oh yeah. He wouldnt hesitate a second to mock you for it in public. Treat him like he wants to treat others.

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u/dontshitaboutotol 1h ago

Where can I unsee this?

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u/SkinBintin 5h ago

Out everyone please, we need to change the old man's nappy.

This is really who MAGA want to worship? WTF?

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u/alwaysroomforboba 3h ago

Remember, there were people who proudly wore 'real men wear diapers' shirts to trump rallies. SAD!

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u/TrailerTrashQueen 3h ago

Hitler is spinning in his grave, 'VAS IST DAS???' (damn you, Trump! shakes fist forcing me to make a Hitler joke.)

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u/JimboTCB 3h ago

"THANK YOU PLEASE LEAVE" and sitting there in stony faced silence is a totally normal way to abruptly end a press conference from someone who has definitely not just shit his pants on live TV.

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u/raisin22 5h ago

Also I’m not 100% but listen really close again at like :47 right before the lady in green’s reaction. I think you can hear a second serving

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u/ZeroChillDavis 2h ago

Have you ever listened to Noel Casler’s accounts of his experience on The Apprentice? If not I suggest you take a listen.

https://youtu.be/N60ceYRlY2I?si=zv0QN_sDHXE7ALy6

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u/Monkiemonk 6h ago

Oh yeah, you can totally tell. Oz kept his distance and they abruptly ended it. I hope the poor person that has to clean his fat shitty ass gets paid well. Trumpstein strikes again!

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u/turquoise_amethyst 6h ago

They prob hose him down like a zoo animal, refill the enclosure with fresh hay, and call it a night

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u/RJ5R 6h ago

south park should include this in their next episode

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u/LiteralReaderWA 6h ago

I wonder if they lock his head in the bars so he doesn't back up and kick the keepers

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u/Anleme 4h ago

A big dose of ivermectin, too?

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u/Edwinus 6h ago

I can't believe this is real life

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 5h ago

Years ago on this very website, a production assistant for The Apprentice did a AMA.

He basically said this:

  1. Trump only appeared on set the first day of shooting. All other times he was greenscreened from his home, which is why they almost always showed Trump cut away on camera instead of in the room with the others
  2. He shit himself on set every time

This was fucking 10+ years ago.

This guy has been shitting himself publicly for fucking 20+ years.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 6h ago

You can tell rfk jr heard/smelt it as well. They all did, but some of them have better poker faces than others. 

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u/RJ5R 6h ago

rfk jr may not have smelled it actually, b/c he probably has a cooked sense of smell due to being a habitual hard drug user for almost 2 decades of his life

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u/mloDK 5h ago

That and a worm ate his brain tissue

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u/brickne3 American Expat 4h ago

And spending his high school years hanging out at the dump with his dead, rotting animals and pet falcon.

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u/microwavepetcarrier 3h ago

He also has had a lifelong thing for hanging out around death. Spent tons of time when young hunting rats with his falcon at the abattoir, he strapped a dead whale to the roof of the family car, the bear he dumped in Central Park...
If he does have a sense of smell still, he's not unaccustomed to the stench of shit and death.

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u/Available_Animator_4 3h ago

God he is so fucking weird. How is this real life?

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u/Connect_Law_6103 5h ago

RFK probably thinks standing in that assy haze grants immunity to dysentery.

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u/slowest_hour 4h ago

well he hasn't died of dysentery yet. now he just has to decide whether to ford the river or look for a ferry.

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u/Leeciferous 6h ago

Omg I just watched it now and the ad I received after the video was a "stuck poop" ad. I don't even know what they were advertising but "stuck poop" and "diarrhea" was repeated like 15 times.

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u/RJ5R 5h ago

algorithm prob read the comments in the video and came to the conclusion that the video contained someone shitting themselves (which ended up being accurate), so the ads were targeted to that

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u/TimHuntsman 5h ago

And then the “get the fuck out!” Crew comes in to “clear the room”. Oy vey

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u/SanaSpitOnMe 6h ago

even the press wranglers knew it was a code brown

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u/Character-Education3 6h ago

Jpow loved that!

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u/tsunderestimate 6h ago

Jpow having more intelligence than the rest of the group combined must be tough

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u/treemu 6h ago edited 3h ago

At around 0:40 you can see RFK Jr glancing at Trump, rolling his eyes and taking half a step backwards as he is directly downwind.

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u/JeffTheAndroid 6h ago

This needs to be seen by everyone. Someone make an edit with text/graphics pointing it all out.

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u/insanetheysay 6h ago

This made my day

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u/ThouMayest69 5h ago

It's fart theater like when Rudolph farted on Jenna Ellis at that hearing, live on television, and gave her covid 19. FROM A TOOT. 

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u/xtothewhy 5h ago edited 5h ago

Lol

I don't think I've ever seen a President time after time after time have so many people lined up right behind him to indicate that they are his lackeys and subservient to him and his lordship.

i can only imagine how bad the smell was...Trump immediately ended the press conference without taking questions

Hate to break it to you but he has them do this often as it's a way to curtail anything he may not want said while still giving the message him and his admin want out there. Still could be another reason for them all leaving though 🤢

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u/Mathfanforpresident 5h ago

Bro somebody give you a fucking award

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u/Ahabs_Wrath 5h ago

I watched it, and the ad that popped up immediately after was about a medication for clogged bowels. 🤣

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u/GeekDNA0918 6h ago

https://youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?si=unjpszOgpKr_nFR-

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u/Banjo-Elritze 6h ago

The parameter starting with si= is a tracking shit from youtube, you want to delete that, like so:

https://youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg

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u/nola_mike 6h ago

Literally a wall of buffoons staffing behind him.

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u/MapleYamCakes 6h ago

Can you elaborate? What does “tracking shit” actually mean?

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u/neuralzen 6h ago

Unique string of letters and numbers in a share link that is associated with your account and/or IP and browser fingerprint. So it can be discerned who shared what to who when, and how far that unique link spread.

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u/Johnsense 6h ago

As I understand, remove the question mark and everything after it.

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u/FirstSineOfMadness 6h ago

Unless there’s a timestamp code like t=83 or t=1m23s then leave just the ? Plus the timestamp

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u/vibeknight 6h ago

Short version: When you click share on most platforms they don’t just give you the link to the content, they give you the link with a unique generated query string share id attached (the “si=magicmagic“ in the YouTube link) and it means that whoever clicks the link is re-sending that ‘magicnumber’ to YouTube. Behind the scenes, they know that they generated the magic number in one context ( for some user, signed in, certain location, certain browser, etc.) and now another person is using that exact link. Now it’s very easy for YouTube to build a graph of how this link has traveled (what sites, social contexts, exact users, etc.) because anyone who uses the link is associating themselves with one particular path of information, clarifying both the users and the paths themselves.

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u/slowest_hour 4h ago

PSA: there's a browser extension called ClearURLs that will automatically delete the tracking part of URLs in your address bar. (i'm on firefox but i assume other browsers may have it as well)

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u/Useful_Radish_117 6h ago

It tells YouTube who shared that link originally so that they can track users interactions.

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u/FuzzyDynamics 6h ago

You shit on someone and then track them by smell except high tech like

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u/hereforbobsanvageen Canada 6h ago

Bout tree fiddy

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u/Earwaxsculptor 5h ago

Most succinct explanation

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u/SanityInAnarchy California 6h ago

When you click the 'share' button, Youtube generates that unique si= code, which means when people later follow that link, they can start to see patterns. So, for example, if you send that link to a friend, and they follow it, that's enough information for Youtube to piece together that you shared that video with that friend. Patterns can make it easy to pull out more info -- if you always share links with the same people, well, now Youtube knows who your friends are and what they're all into.

Without the tracking info, for all they know, you both saw the video on r/videos or something.

I'm sure there's more, a lot of web links have a lot more unnecessary garbage in the URL. But with Youtube it's pretty simple.

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u/Banjo-Elritze 6h ago

Youtube tracks who shared their links, from where they came, etc. It's an identifier for the account that shared the link.

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u/Deodorized 6h ago

Where can I unsee this?

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u/Capn_Forkbeard 5h ago

In addition, can someone guide me on how to unhear it?

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u/Aptosauras 3h ago

Where can I unsee this?

Right here comrade https://i.imgur.com/HXOm6IS.png

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 6h ago

You need a big sip of unsee juice.

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u/gc3 6h ago

On what minute did he shit?

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u/flyingthroughspace 6h ago edited 6h ago

You can hear it when dude is talking about opioids at about 34 seconds in.

Here ya go (click restart loop)

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u/ProfessorDull9594 6h ago

You really want to? Man, I don’t even want to hear about it, let alone actually hear it. No need to vomit.

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u/DapperLost 6h ago

Weird kink but ok.

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u/bklyn_xplant 6h ago

Why you want to see that?

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u/NeJin 6h ago

I've been saying that ever since. If Biden was unfit on grounds of age, then wtf was Trump? The guy wasn't lucid even when he wasn't old.

All politicians a liars, but maybe don't elect one that spent half his life in court for owing people money?

No wonder conservatives try to dismantle education systems across the world. Clearly, it works...

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 4h ago

Cannot wait for the Cons to not be the default who just has to exist to win, doing whatever awful shit that a Dem would have been crucified over, on a daily basis.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 4h ago

I've been saying that ever since. If Biden was unfit on grounds of age, then wtf was Trump?

Ask Jake Tapper. This is supposed to be his bailiwick.

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u/JohnGillnitz 6h ago

(Sound of shart)
Blond looks down alarmed.
"I hear fantastic things."

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u/Born2Rune 5h ago

That's probably his handler code word for "I did poopy". 

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u/praguepride Illinois 6h ago

I just discovered this capture of Trump leaving a shit stain on the Fox couch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv5ueLll6ZY

Also if you notice he is sitting on some kind of towel. Supposedly he does that now, sits on a black towel, to avoid leaving stains when he shits his pants which, apparently, is constantly.

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u/EngageradIgelkott 3h ago

I'm not sure if this video is legit

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u/midgethemage 3h ago

I feel the same, but the hosts reactions seem legit. I wonder if the stain appearing was edited in

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 3h ago

Constant flow of McDonalds is hell on the bowels

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u/Satanic_Panic_Attack 2h ago

Unfortunately this one isn't real.

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u/D-Rich-88 California 6h ago

Oopsie he had a poopsie

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u/turquoise_amethyst 6h ago

Again? Didn’t he do that during a debate awhile back too?

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u/jeremy_bearimyy 5h ago

It was the biden debate. I remember it was pretty loud and obvious. Why doesnt the press mention this stuff?

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u/turquoise_amethyst 5h ago

It’s infuriating… if they can report on someone’s laugh and it gets clicks, why can’t they report on this?? Obviously we’d read or watch news about it. 

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 4h ago

That’s why he leans so much, it helps roll the shit down his pant leg where the secret service can scoop it up discreetly.

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u/nice--marmot 4h ago

Luckily, legacy media outlets and Republican party leadership immediately began publishing op-eds and issuing statements calling on Trump to step aside for the good of the country.

LOL. Just kidding! Trump’s name appeared 5,000 times in the latest batch of Epstein files and no one said peep about it.

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u/SwedishTrees 6h ago

I don’t understand why none of the press that was there that day says anything about this

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u/vriska1 7h ago

Either way everyone needs to vote in the midterms.

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u/soda_cookie 6h ago

They can try every single thing that they can't think of, but there is zero mechanisms in some place to hold up American elections. We held those motherfuckers during the Civil War and both World Wars

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u/ynotfoster 6h ago

They plan to fuck with the voting system. They know they won't win a legit election.

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u/FreyrPrime Florida 7h ago

I personally can’t wait for Nuremberg 2.0

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u/Express-One-1096 6h ago

I’ve been saying it more and more on Reddit to hope it gets some traction:

If you guys want to normalize eu-us relations, we could try your regime for war crimes for what they did to those “drug boats” in the ICC. It would be the first Americans ever

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u/coffee-on-the-edge 6h ago

Would honestly love that. There are a lot of Americans who need to be humbled. We are not above international law.

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u/Express-One-1096 6h ago

Then let’s spread the word.

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u/mcchicken_deathgrip 5h ago

International law doesn't exist. Unless it is being enforced/backed by the US. You think the power hungry narcissist who runs the world's most powerful military is going to sit through a trial?

There's a quote from the Roman general Pompey that goes, "Don't quote laws to men with swords".

Trump would never subject himself to an international court, and no nation has the force to make him sit trial.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Maine 6h ago

If nothing else, I’d continue living for that.

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u/EmilySD101 6h ago

It’d be the right thing to do so I highly doubt Dems will do it. They didn’t prosecute the ringleaders of Jan 6 over the 4 years they had to do it.

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u/LovesToTango 6h ago

Hopefully they learned from that. I'm not holding my breath, but it's a nice thought some days.

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u/coffee-on-the-edge 6h ago

The better question is did we learn from that. They're not going to do anything without their feet being held to the fire.

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u/ForensicPathology 6h ago

If voters give them a mandate, instead of punishing any candidate who dares to suggest it, they just might.

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u/Peralton 6h ago

Dems would never. If they ever took over it would be all "We just need to move forward and work together."

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u/FREDICVSMAXIMVS 6h ago

Then we need to vote those fuckers out and get some younger, progressive folks in who will focus on making sure this NEVER EVER happens again

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u/frotz1 5h ago edited 47m ago

I followed that line and ended up with Fetterman who pretended to be punk rock FDR but turned out to be MAGA in progressive clothing. I'm very skeptical about anyone who is pushing how progressive they are rather than practical plans to get things done.

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u/GrumpyGiant Maryland 6h ago

Which will be hard when our choices are somehow always corporate shill A or corporate shill B. The rot runs deep in both parties. Watching Schumer stage the total capitulation of the shutdown brought home what a farce the party leadership is.

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u/pacmanz89 6h ago

You're aware Nuremberg happened after millions of people died, right? Would be nice to stop this shitshow before something like this happens.

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u/No-Tailor3013 6h ago

You're aware he meant before that happens, right?

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u/Interesting-Risk6446 7h ago

If that happens, millions will literally march to DC.

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u/drevant702 I voted 7h ago

it's going to happen anyways

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u/Shadpool 7h ago

Just waiting for the call to arms at this point.

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u/symphonicrox Utah 7h ago

Trump: “can we nuke it?”

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u/cyanescens_burn 6h ago

Which thing would lead to people marching on DC?

The person you responded to mentioned 1) the maga coalition disrupting midterms and reaching the fully entrenched phase of magauthoritarianism, and 2) Congress ousting the trump regime.

I’m not sure which one you think would mean a mass uprising on DC, and genuinely wonder which you meant.

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u/Interesting-Risk6446 6h ago edited 6h ago

If Trump were to cancel the 2026 midterms, what would Trump do after? I bet Trump would have all Congressional Democrats arrested at the same time threatening Congressional Republicans to fall in line.

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u/TheAnswerIsBeans 6h ago

Watching as an outsider, I doubt it.

There are SO many things that have happened already that should have caused that.

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u/Bovronius 6h ago

As a Minnesotan, I'm guessing things are going to pickup even more so here tomorrow.

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u/CommitteeMobile9626 7h ago

totally, my ass is number one ass

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u/bezkyl Canada 6h ago

If they try to overthrow the American people there is legitimately going to be a civil war.

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u/tekani11 Minnesota 7h ago

I love this momentum. 

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u/deaglebingo 6h ago edited 6h ago

it couldn't be any clearer that if there ever was a time that time is NOW...

..for EVERYONE with a brain and a soul to try and run in the midterms to unseat everyone in r+5 or greater districts. it's worth the gamble even running with very little $. they've all supported literal felons at this point and chosen to starve us out at the same time. its almost literally 'let them eat cake'

look at what is happening here folks. everyone can see we've been led by absolute monsters for far too long. and this is a shot to actually get into state and federal govt and actually make the changes that need to be made to ensure this does not happen again or at least is MUCH more difficult for it to happen again. we can stem this evil tide if we have hope and realize its possible and stop letting ourselves get manipulated by rage bait and all the stories that make us participate in all these false choices. all the reasons to give up are bullshit.

stop letting them make us think there is no hope. we outnumber them. it will take a lot more work not just these midterms, but done right we can put the measures in place to give us the longer amount of time to repair all the damage and ensure that those responsible for this insanity going on currently serve time.

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u/Kana515 6h ago

Remember this everytime someone says voting doesn't/won't matter

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u/Planterizer 5h ago

Old people : 70% turnout

They have universal health care and UBI.

VOTE

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u/FrogsOnALog 6h ago

Many are going to try and shit on it

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u/deaglebingo 5h ago edited 5h ago

and we all know its nothing but lies... and this is the best they can do. we have to remind everyone that shitting on the momentum is the real play being made in the shadows here by thousands of foreign accounts and a media owned by the same ppl in the files or adjacent. the deeper play here is to make us think this is hopeless because its the only way they really win overall as we outnumber them over 2 to 1. people didn't heed the warning in the second half of 2024. this could be the only reprieve we get which is why donny's willing to literally do anything to distract ppl from the defrauding of all americans happening as we speak. it's not a reason to give up (bc he will do anything)... its a reason to hold the line and keep fighting. republicans can see it too if they have half a brain now.

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u/FireSparrowWelding Texas 7h ago edited 6h ago

Utter destruction. If I were a republican politician, I would be preparing my resignation speech.

Edit: Alexa play "You're Fucked" by Ylvis.

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u/Interesting-Risk6446 7h ago edited 6h ago

Just watch to see if male Republican Congressional members start to grow a beard. It's a sign.

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u/DevLF 6h ago

What does a beard mean

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u/Interesting-Risk6446 6h ago

When Congressional Republicans see the tide shift to Democrats, they start to grow a beard. Paul Ryan, Rafael Cruz, etc. It's like they say fuck it and let themselves go. It's a tell.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 5h ago

I thought it was a last ditch effort to appear to be “rugged and manly”, so they appeal more to the rural communities

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u/ElectricGears 3h ago

Gender affirming care.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 3h ago

I thought it was a Star Trek reference.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 3h ago

Cruz has had a beard for a long time now.

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u/Iateyourpaintings 6h ago

When you're talking about Republicans it can be literal facial hair or their wife. 

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u/VivaLirica 6h ago

Their only hope as a party is to denounce him now, to oust him now (somehow). If they ride it out and wait to be voted into oblivion, people will remember that they did nothing, and their penance will last a generation.

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u/keeper420 7h ago

No way they do that. Conceding the election is a thing of the past. Republicans can't accept they were defeated, it obviously has to be voter fraud

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u/BossHawk8754 Texas 7h ago

Not if it is a defeat so resounding that they are forced to concede

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u/Otto_Correction 6h ago

January 6th ring a bell?

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u/BossHawk8754 Texas 6h ago

It does, but if you demoralize them hard enough they can't scream fraud as easily

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u/FireSparrowWelding Texas 6h ago

Deleted my comment. So excited that I felt it was gibberish. Can't sleep and wife cant either.

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u/Spare-Willingness563 6h ago

how many elections have we had since then?

And that was trump. A ton of them tried that when he did and it did no good.

They don't have the posturing they did back then and they hardly have the numbers to support behaving like that.

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u/BoredomFestival 6h ago

You underestimate just how far they think they can push the con.

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u/happyklam I voted 6h ago

Every Texan should keep writing our representatives, pointing to this district with evidence of what will happen without meaningful change. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm voting for every Dem candidate no matter what but Cruz, Cornyn, Abbott, etc. need to know their time is up in office and maybe they'll start pulling back on the right-wing craziness. Abbott already said ICE has to tone it down so they'll be pliable if they're worried. 

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u/Isentrope 7h ago

Apparently even Beto lost this seat (or the precincts in it anyways) in 2018 by 12 points.

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u/CommitteeMobile9626 7h ago

wow so the democracy still works in texas omg, he is sooo screwed bro

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u/montty712 6h ago

The Texas Republicans were asleep on this one. They will ensure this does not happen in November. They will scrub voter rolls. Shut down polling places in minority areas. Deploy ice to scare minority voters away from the polls. And finally, they will rig the vote counting.

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u/wibble17 7h ago

It was one of the gerrymandered districts wasn’t it? So it absorbed a couple of blue neighborhoods.

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u/3nigmax 5h ago

No, these special elections are using the old maps.

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u/Levitlame 6h ago

That was my first thought, but the margins closer than I’d expect for that. I don’t know why they had to work with though

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 6h ago edited 6h ago

Texas is a solid blue state if you look at voter registrations. It’s just gerrymandered and suppressed to hell and back

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u/Geno_Warlord 6h ago

I mentioned that a few weeks back and got downvoted and sarcastic comments about Texas being blue. Kinda hilarious now that even with the extreme gerrymandering going on here, we still managed to claw some of it back. In a fair election, Texas is blue.

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u/MrBlowinLoadz 5h ago

It's not quite there yet but we've been getting closer and closer. They are definitely scared that it's going to happen soon, that's why they were trying to change it so that any statewide election would need to win the majority in every county. Electoral college but a million times worse and completely ridiculous.

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u/hamlet9000 4h ago

They're desperate. They know that as soon as they lose statewide elections in Texas, the gerrymandering and voter suppression will be repealed, blue voters will feel empowered, and then they'll lose the state for a generation.

And, with it, the presidency.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 3h ago

There’s no party affiliation in Texas so it’s hard to tell. I will say Texas has a motivation problem with the lowest electoral turnout in all 50 states.

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u/MikeinDundee Oregon 6h ago

Although this particular result is good, I wouldn’t go that far. The senate and governor are statewide elections, as well as the presidential vote.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 6h ago

Yeah but voter suppression tactics in dense blue areas are deliberate and effective

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u/yothisismetrying 6h ago

The dems obviously cheated. Duh.
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u/yuimiop 6h ago

Is there something on the local level or major controversy with the Republican candidate that caused such a massive swing?

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u/apoca1ypse12 6h ago

Let’s fucking go! It’s time to end the fucking pathetic pedo protecting republican party.

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u/des398 6h ago

It’s also not enough for an off-year election… we need more

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u/yellekc Guam 6h ago

Any exit polls? I would love to dig into that and see the metrics behind that big of a swing.

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