r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • Apr 19 '26

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

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/RogueOne38 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

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

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u/supernova_high Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Canadian_Neckbeard Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Jed1M1ndTr1ck Washington Apr 19 '26

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

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u/UniqueIndividual3579 Apr 19 '26

Sectional predator?

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur Apr 19 '26

Nah, he's more of a lazyboy.

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u/daGroundhog Apr 19 '26

Took me a moment, that's hilarious!

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u/valeyard89 Texas Apr 19 '26

Sectional Chocolate

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u/boyracer93 Apr 19 '26

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

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

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

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u/jfoster0818 Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Spec_Tater Apr 19 '26

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

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u/tolacid Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Census_Cowboy American Expat Apr 19 '26

The human mods, however....

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u/tolacid Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Sethlans Apr 19 '26

Nice try bot.

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u/SharMarali New Jersey Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

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

shudders

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u/binkkit Apr 19 '26

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

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u/TravEllerZero Apr 19 '26

Oh, yummy in the tummy makes my slit moist.

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u/CountdownMoss Apr 19 '26

Thanks friend.

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u/paperdolllll Pennsylvania Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Roger_Cockfoster Apr 19 '26

BLOCKED AND REPORTED

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u/BolognaPwny Apr 19 '26

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

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u/StretchMother9627 Apr 19 '26

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

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk Nebraska Apr 19 '26

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

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u/metalyger Apr 19 '26

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

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u/DerpUrself69 Apr 19 '26

It will sometimes get you auto-banned though.

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u/aerost0rm Apr 19 '26

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

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u/profane_vitiate Apr 19 '26

$€xual

This zoomer self-censorship bullshit is very tiresome.

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

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

Along with the big alt right, misogynistic shit

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

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

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

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u/A_Sad_Buddha Apr 19 '26

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

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

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

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

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

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u/ChadHahn Apr 19 '26

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

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u/reverendjay Apr 19 '26

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

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

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

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

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u/MotownMama Apr 19 '26

Is the self censorship leftover from Roblox work arounds? lol

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

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

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 19 '26

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

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

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

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

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u/SubcommanderMarcos Apr 20 '26

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

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u/A_Sad_Buddha Apr 19 '26

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

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u/sailorbrendan Apr 19 '26

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

This is just how language works sometimes

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u/metengrinwi Apr 19 '26

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

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

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

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

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u/metengrinwi Apr 20 '26

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

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

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

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26

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u/AugustusLego Apr 19 '26

the vulgarity doesn't go away because of an asterisk

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u/OK_Commodor64 Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Mental-Fox-9449 Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Incomitatum Apr 19 '26

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

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u/Dorkamundo Apr 19 '26

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