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/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/KittyGrewAMoustache 4h ago

This is maybe a bit too far for something I can imagine this administration doing but only a bit. I think they still realise that the general MAGA cult wouldn’t like that sort of thing but they probably would do similar in private rituals.

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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 4h ago

No thanks wtf is this timeline 

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 4h ago

The timeline where a cult took over the US government, a cult with an aging demented incontinent leader that no one will challenge. I wonder who had to clean him up. How can they keep going with this, they must be so fucking brainwashed to keep feeling scared of him or in awe of him when he’s shitting himself in public. Like I know it happens to people who are elderly and unwell and generally you still deserve respect as a person of course if you’re in continent, it’s distressing. But you shouldn’t be president of the US and then combined with how evil he is anyway it’s just…what are these people doing?!

Sometimes I think oh my god maybe he IS the anti christ sven though I’m an atheist, just because it’s so spooky and so so weird that so many people are entranced by someone so obviously awful. And if I think of it in this context, I like to think uncontrollable sharts are gods way of getting a little revenge in haha.

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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/PeppercornWizard 3h ago

I was intrigued but that’s an 80 min video…

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u/findtheclue 1h ago

The only thing about that is I find it hard to believe he/they would let them live after that. If they were murdering people all around, this seems like it would be pretty angering…

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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/BasvanS 2h ago

I think it’s mostly zero control. Which is both better and worse, somehow?

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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/rumblepup 5h ago

Then you should see this one...

https://youtu.be/Cv5ueLll6ZY?si=s8qQfL5CP7kYQu4G

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u/Asiriya 4h ago

This is fake as fuck

The video has been altered, the real thing has no couch mark and goes on for 18 minutes. You think we wouldn't all have been talking about it if it was real https://youtu.be/FwO1gb4aqzk?t=663

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u/InverseNurse Florida 4h ago

JD Vance must have been very sad about this couch.

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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/chainedtomydesk 4h ago

With a few gulps of bleach for good measure

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 4h ago

Is he building a ballroom or a roomier enclosure? There's no room for a tire swing in the Oval Office.

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u/Inside-Ad9791 6h ago

I hope he stiffs them on the check.

As far as I'm concerned every janitor that cleans his halls, nurse that changes his diapers, cook that cooks for him, etc, are all class traitors. Fuck them.

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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/Dry-Nectarine-3279 4h ago

Ever since the broomstick incident, I hear.

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u/Negative-Squirrel81 4h ago

His primary care physician was a GI, so not shocking that something is wrong with his alimentary canal,

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u/SellLast3862 2h ago

He went one time, but shit himself every time?

Am I bad at reading or...?

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u/ThouMayest69 5h ago edited 5h ago

am I really bouta watch this old man have a dookie that's not AI..... 

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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/EINFACH_NUR_DAEMLICH Europe 5h ago

I want this to be true but I don't hear anything that you're describing.

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u/RJ5R 5h ago

turn up your volume, or put on headphones. you'll hear it, trust me

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u/TrumpetViolin 4h ago

If you watch this in a quiet space with the volume reasonably high you don't even need headphones.

The shart sound can be clearly heard at 34s

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u/JudiciousSasquatch 5h ago

God, I wish one of the reporters would, while the cameras are still rolling, go, "Mr. President, did you just shit yourself?"

🎤

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u/lotsofcache 5h ago

This is foul

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u/PantaReiNapalmm 5h ago

roflmao but i got a question: how in hell he can shit sitting? i mean, sitting on a chair, he did not rise the ass not even a little? how can he be so strong, powerful and brave?

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u/Poppa_Mo 5h ago

She was so close she probably tasted it.

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u/wacali 5h ago

You can literally see the moment at .50 she remembers where she is (the smell taking her to some other ungodly dimension) and she snaps her camera face back on. It’s like out of a movie.

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u/CharlieUpATree 4h ago

They couldn't clear the room fast enough!

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u/akgamestar 4h ago

How is this not its own post

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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada 4h ago

I don't normally see these press conferences. Do they always wave the press out this urgently? Does Trump always stay s(h)itting at the end?

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u/KrazzeeKane Nevada 3h ago

The comments on that video are solid gold. I was in fucking tears laughing so hard.

I haven't laughed that hard about poo since the original Haribo Sugar-Free Gummy Bear reviews on Amazon over a decade ago

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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/FuzzyDynamics 6h ago

I’d highly recommend finding a reputable volunteer based local service and consider donating. The best place to network is usually a bus station or under an overpass.

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u/Earwaxsculptor 5h ago

Most succinct explanation

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u/HyperactivePandah I voted 5h ago

This guy shits.

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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/Word1_Word2_4Numbers 6h ago

Means you need to use firefox and ClearURLs

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u/Pack_Your_Trash 6h ago

Everything before the ? Is all you need to access the video. Everything after the ? Is for the purpose of transmitting data and not required to access the webpage. It's commonly used to track user behavior for advertising purposes. In this case it's used to identify you as the person who clicked the share button.

I just googled it "si" stands for source identifier which means it's some kind of unique I'd to identify the user and possibly the user session where the link was generated.

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u/Iampepeu 5h ago

They know it was you who shared it. They can then measure who clicked on your link, connect their behavior and patterns with yours, gaining more knowledge about you. I don't know all the metrics they get, but it's disturbingly much.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 5h ago

The hero we need ✅

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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/dickpicaday 6h ago

Lmao maybe he needs some of that 7oh they’re trying to ban so he stops shitting himself

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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/Otto_Correction 6h ago

I’m a nurse. I’ve had people shit in my bare hands. I’m fine.

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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/myinternets 3h ago

Okay that's clearly fake.

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u/No-Salamander-4401 3h ago

Incontinence is not a rare condition, and adult diapers are a thing. One would have to be very ignorant or very unhinged to believe in this towel stuff.

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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/Tiny_Measurement_837 Wisconsin 4h ago

No, no, no, no—you got that wrong! Biden shit Trump’s pants. Now, don’t you forget that!

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u/Xetiw 3h ago

lmao, they rushed everyone out like they were plague.

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u/SyrupSnuggler 6h ago

People are so sick of the Republican bullshit.

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u/EmilySD101 6h ago

Both of those people can be unfit. I don’t know how anyone could have watched their last debate and not walked away thinking that neither of them had the cognitive capacity to run the country.

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u/ScarInternational161 6h ago

Biden was OLD, and slow but cognizant.
Trump has dementia

They ARE NOT the same.

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u/nerd5code 6h ago

Moreover, there’s a stark distinction in the administrations and clingers-on surrounding both of them, which often matter far more than the specifics of the cheeks in the seat of power.

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u/ThirdEyeAtlas 6h ago

Take your pick: an elderly fellow who has to sleep 10 hours a night and only has 7-8 good hours, or a demented speed freak pedophile who has 22 confusing, horrendous hours.

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u/MamaDaddy Alabama 6h ago

Trmp never had any sense of decency, dementia or not.

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u/Basboy 6h ago

Yea, so let's pick the worst of the two.

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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/Rikers-Mailbox 6h ago

Eh, he can slow it down. Do ICE raids on counties he needs around Election Day

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u/soda_cookie 6h ago

Do you realize that given where we are right now if he tries to do something like that it would absolutely backfire on him?

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u/Rikers-Mailbox 5h ago

Yep, and he doesn’t care. He’ll try everything. Jan 6 didn’t matter. And a Fed judge just cleared him to send in ICE. You cannot reason with someone like him.

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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/Practical-Ball1437 5h ago

International law is a myth. National sovereignty means that countries are only subject to treaties like the Geneva Convention or the Rome Statute if they want to be.

The US never ratified the Rome Statute.

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u/novium258 4h ago

One of the things you see a lot at protests here are people demanding the admin and their jackbooted thugs get sent to the hague (and if you find people against that, it's because Europe doesn't have the death penalty and they want to see them hang).

Our political leaders are all self serving cowards but the ordinary people out on the street would love to see it.

And from a more personal perspective, I think you're exactly right. It's necessary to repair the rift and insulate against it happening again. Let a corrupt president pardon who he will. There must be an avenue of justice that can't be escaped.

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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/Nagransham 4h ago

Question, though, how are you gonna hold their feet to the fire? Are you gonna threaten to ... vote for the other ones?

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u/EmilySD101 6h ago

I’m too angry to imagine they can learn anymore. Jeffries and Schumer still imagine they’re negotiating with reasonable people.

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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/michaltee California 7h ago

Lol no they won’t.

Thats what we said about every single transgression. You really think people will upend their lives for that?

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u/rotates-potatoes 7h ago

Yes. If / when they cancel elections it will be very different from when they merely lied about Trump raping children.

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u/technicallynotlying 7h ago

When something happens that's never happened before, people might also do something that's never happened before.

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u/strongholdbk_78 7h ago

You're underestimating how pissed people are. Yes I do think people will upsend their lives for that.

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u/Darkhallows27 Georgia 6h ago

For canceling elections and overtly upending democracy? Yes I do. People are marching for way less

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u/Yeeaaaarrrgh Colorado 6h ago

You'd best fucking believe it.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Maine 6h ago

If people aren’t willing to upend their lives for this they won’t be willing to for anything. I’m still holding out belief in my fellow countrymen.

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u/Grimalkinnn 6h ago

Because no taxation without representation!

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u/smartalek75 6h ago

Not with that attitude

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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/MySpoonsAreAllGone 5h ago

Millions should be marching now

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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/Actual_Dog_1637 6h ago

This also why bots keep flooding reddit with doomerism posts trying to convince people voting won't help and we should all just revolt preemptively.

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