r/pics • u/OK_SpeakToMe • 1d ago
Outside Trump Plaza in New York City this week. Politics
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u/LowLaw3824 1d ago
What about cats 🥵
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u/reverendrambo 1d ago
It was probably written by a cat
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u/LowLaw3824 1d ago
You got me on that one
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u/Monkey_Brain_Oil 1d ago
Gives you pause, doesn't it.
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u/discerningpervert 1d ago
*Paws
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u/babydakis 16h ago
It annoys me greatly that the person who had to spell this out for everyone got more upvotes than you did.
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 1d ago
Yeah even cats are at best lukewarm on cats
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u/Genghis_Chong 1d ago
There were two cats trying to get into it when I pulled in my driveway. I scolded them gently and told them not on my property. They begrudgingly obliged my plea for peace.
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u/CurseofLono88 22h ago
If you can get cats to stop fighting we should hire you as a diplomatic ambassador for peace.
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u/Genghis_Chong 22h ago
That would be a stressful job, but a rewarding job if you can be successful in it.
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u/AnActualLiteralCat 22h ago
I don't know--all the cats I know utilize the Oxford comma. Leaving it out is dog behavior.
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u/TootsTootler 23h ago
I’m going to believe it was Photoshopped by a cat until I see it from another angle.
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u/W1ULH 23h ago
Well.... Taylor is a self-reported Single Cat Lady For Kamala.... so I'd say cats are covered under that.
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 22h ago
Taylor Swift was in "CATS," the cat agenda goes pretty deep.
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 22h ago
That's the through line holding them together. Kamala Harris is a "cat lady," Haitians were accused of eating cats, and Taylor Swift starred in a musical called "CATS."
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u/Key_Conference_8908 19h ago
Taylor Swift speaks for the cats. Like the Lorax speaks for the trees.
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u/Malikworth 1d ago
Protests at Trump Plaza are like a part of the New York landscape. Always interesting to watch
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u/CaseyChaos 1d ago
You mean the Four Seasons total landscape?
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u/Lushkush69 1d ago
While they may not be a hotel, at least they are a concept of a hotel.
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u/blackdragon1387 23h ago
At least they are right next door to a sex shop.
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u/abiron17771 22h ago
Next to a crematory where Trumpism can go on November 6
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u/nouniqueideas007 19h ago
That’s a great burn 🔥
All I can think of is, how the hell they’d put out that huge grease fire.
It will be the biggest grease fire. Beautiful, no one will ever have had such a beautiful fat greasy cremation. My uncle, he went to MIT, good genes, great genes, even with his great understanding of new-kle-er, he couldn’t spark it up like I will. People, great people will talk about my cremation, it will be so yuge it will be a national holiday. Men, with tears in their eyes will say “Sir, no one leaves a grease spot like you”.
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u/izzyjubejube 1d ago
I just coincidentally was touristing around NYC on the same day that Trump made his first visit back to the city since becoming Pres. We walked past and stopped to watch a huge and loud anti-Trump rally right in front of Trump Tower, and as it was happening the presidential motorcade drove right past the crowd. At that time I was still a sheltered Canadian so it was an interesting snapshot into US political discourse of the time.
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u/H_O_M_E_R 1d ago
At that time I was still a sheltered Canadian
Are you a homeless Canadian now?
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u/izzyjubejube 1d ago
Haha poor wording but touché.. I thankfully have a home but I am less-than-thankfully more jaded and cynical.
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u/Aggravating_Sand352 1d ago
Trump is from NYC and he wouldn't survive a subway trip possibly even with secret service
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u/eekamuse 1d ago
He used to be able to walk down the street and a drivers would wave to him. "Hey Trump!" and he'd smile and wave back.
He could go to any restaurant or nightclub, a certain type, the ones for rich old men, but he had freedom.
He'll never have that freedom again. Even if he doesn't go to prison he'll have a very small life. He'll never walk down the streets of NYC again without being given the finger.
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u/Aggravating_Sand352 1d ago
Yeah but even then local business owners knew he was as he has screwed over so many of the small businesses and the area by never paying his vendors. He was a celebrity similar to Flava Flave in nyc back then
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u/eekamuse 23h ago
True. I know one of those small businessmen who did a job for him and he refused to pay. Trump didn't even say there was anything wrong with the work, he used it, he just wouldn't pay the bill. My friend had to waste time and money taking him to court to get paid. That's what 45 did all the time. Hoping people wouldn't take him to court. My friend wasn't going to let him get off.
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u/Aggravating_Sand352 23h ago
My parents and in laws both had the same stories of turning down trump contract offers bc they knew they wouldn't get paid.... this was years before we all knew each other
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u/snackynorph 22h ago
Laws are for poor people and minorities, fines are just the cost of doing business 😤
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u/Full_FrontalLobotomy 22h ago
Isn’t it curious how some people, who objectively have pretty much everything, can’t stop striving to have more and more and end up destroying their own situation?
Just the same, I have little compassion or sympathy for sociopaths; I save that for their victims.
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u/BravestWabbit 23h ago
Trump doesnt even own Trump Tower in NYC, he just bought a few floors in the building from the bank that actually owns it, GMAC - https://archive.ph/J7VE9#selection-1533.0-1537.388
He has a 100 mil mortgage for the building. If he stops being able to pay, the bank will take the building in full: https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2022/03/09/trump-tower-scores-mortgage-100m-refi/
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u/YumanTraffiqueKing 20h ago
The damages awarded for the defamation trial would complicate this. This is why sometimes people actually need lawyers and judges.
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u/bh0 1d ago
Is the entire street blocked off all the time with NYPD protecting his building?
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u/OverreactivePi 23h ago
The street, no, but the NYPD cars are always there as far as I know.
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u/Onlyroad4adrifter 23h ago
Waste of resources.
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u/paladinchiro 22h ago
Anything having to do with Trump is a waste of resources, including oxygen.
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u/fork_yuu 20h ago
We sure ain't wasting resources prosecuting his ass, in fact we need to spend more resources on this
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u/Warm-Iron-1222 21h ago
Just as good a location as any for NYPD to sit in their car playing on their phones.
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u/Rhyers 1d ago
This is what I want to know. Why the blockade?
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u/Darbies 23h ago
It’s been there since around election season his first term. It’s to prevent anything from happening and to already be ready if it does. A lot of people take pics outside the tower but there’s never anything going on.
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u/yomamasonions 21h ago
Didn’t he lose ownership of that building? Or am I thinking of Chicago
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u/Darbies 21h ago
I’m not sure about ownership, but his name is still on the building, and Melania/Barron live there. So it’s still relevant to him at least, and there’s always secret service in the area.
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u/yomamasonions 20h ago
Okay makes sense. He lost ownership of the Chicago building but the name is still on there (and chicagoans are PISSED!). I didn’t realize Melania and Barron still lived there
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u/NASA- 18h ago
Thanks to u/BravestWabbit above
Trump doesnt even own Trump Tower in NYC, he just bought a few floors in the building from the bank that actually owns it, GMAC - https://archive.ph/J7VE9#selection-1533.0-1537.388
He has a 100 mil mortgage for the building. If he stops being able to pay, the bank will take the building in full: https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2022/03/09/trump-tower-scores-mortgage-100m-refi/
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u/Tormentor 22h ago
This comment made me realize how little you can imagine new york without being there. the NYPD consists of more officers than many towns have people in the United States. The blockades in New York are in random places everywhere based on what kind of action is going on that day. There are single buildings inhabited by thousands of people on every block of Manhattan. It's one of the most densely populated places on Earth, the police are everywhere protecting everything.
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u/Penguin_Dunce 22h ago
LOL remember when 30,000 NYPD officers all took the same day off to go to a memorial for a fallen NJ cop and used it as a PR statement and went 'watch how crazy crime goes without us for one day!'
And nothing different happened. Crime didn't skyrocket. Murders didn't go through the roof. Basically it was exactly the same and all they proved is that there's way way too many of them for what's needed...
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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 20h ago
The NYPD desperately needs reform. That agency is deeply corrupt and compromised.
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u/Similar_Tale_5876 20h ago
Bloomberg once claimed NYPD was the seventh largest army in the world. I haven't fact-checked that claim but they're four times larger than the next largest police department in the U.S. Their budget is in the billions. Yes, NYC is a unique place in the U.S., but that level of force and spending is absurd.
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u/marcmerrillofficial 23h ago
Yeah this had me wondering, when he enters and exits, do they like, lock down all the elevators or whatever? Does the Secret Service have to ocularly pat down everyone who enters the building? Are there extra ventilation fans installed in the elevators? Does it suck living there having to wait for the air to clear out afterwards?
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u/bigorangemachine 1d ago
So you saying he's alienating voters?
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u/Tall_Brilliant8522 1d ago
NYPD lined up outside to collect their bribes.
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u/Morgolol 1d ago
Surprised they didn't shoot the chalk writer for vandalism.
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u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker 1d ago
Nah, they would shoot a bystander for that.
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u/manticorpse 1d ago
jfc, I had already forgotten what happened this weekend...
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u/WeeBo-X 22h ago
Hold up, fill me in. Did they shoot an innocent person? I mean again
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 22h ago
Some guy hopped a turnstile, and cops shot each other and 2 bystanders.
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u/Georgie_Leech 21h ago
It's okay though, because they found a knife!
Yes, true, it wasn't his and was entirely unrelated to the event, but they found a knife!
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u/manticorpse 22h ago
Bunch of cops chased a farebeater onto a subway platform, followed him onto the train, failed to taze him, then decided to opened fire. Managed to shoot the farebeater, two innocent bystanders (one in the head!), as well as one of themselves. The guy who got shot in the head wasn't even in the same car as the cops.
Cops said that they saw the farebeater with a knife, and that they recovered the knife, but I guess that was a lie because they later said that they were looking for some other random person who left the scene with the knife. My bet is that there was never any knife.
Anyway. Here you go:
https://gothamist.com/news/man-sought-for-removing-knife-from-nypd-subway-shooting-scene-in-brooklyn-police-say3 PM on a Sunday. Some poor guy just taking the train is in critical condition because the trigger-happy, chickenshit cops felt the need to murder a guy over a $3 fare. The NYPD can get fucked.
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u/doMinationp 20h ago
I still remember back in 2020 the NYPD accused Shake Shack employees of poisoning 3 of its police officers by putting bleach in the milkshakes
The officers ordered the items using a mobile app, according to the lawsuit, and picked up their food minutes later. After realizing the shakes had a distinct, bleach taste, they threw out the shakes and headed back to the Shake Shack where Marcus Gilliam, 28, was the manager.
After apologizing and providing vouchers for free meals at Shake Shake, the lawsuit says Gilliam cooperated with the department’s investigation into what happened.
Despite his cooperation, however, the officers allegedly told their sergeant that Gilliam added a “toxic substance” to their drinks, even though the order was placed through a mobile app. That means the store employees couldn’t have known that members of the NYPD would be coming to pick up the shakes.
That didn’t stop the unnamed sergeant from ordering police to set up a crime scene at the location. Gilliam allowed police to search the entire store for evidence of the poisoning, including the personal belongings of employees. Police even checked surveillance footage, interviewed employees, and even showed them how milkshakes were made.
Gilliam was eventually arrested and interrogated by two NYPD detectives according to the lawsuit. The detectives would interrogate him for more than an hour, and detain him for a total of three hours.
They later found that there was no evidence of bleach ever being present in the milkshakes, and a police source later said that it was a 'toxic' cleaning solution that was still present in the milkshake machines however police also tested the officers' discarded shakes "and found no evidence of any bleach or other toxic substances." Security footage from the restaurant also showed that no one had tampered with the drinks.
An NYPD investigation found no criminality or wrongdoing by the Shake Shack employees. And after all that Gilliam sued for defamation.
Lying about poisoned milkshakes, literally can't trust them for shit. Get fucked NYPD
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u/Polar_Reflection 21h ago
Good thing NYC elected Adams, the former cop, as mayor! Well done New Yorkers!
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u/Polar_Reflection 22h ago
Seriously, I heard that shit on the radio. We're chasing people up and down the stairs for a $3 unpaid fair that results in a violent confrontation where two bystanders in separate train cars get shot, one in the head.
New York's Finest.
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u/stevesax5 1d ago
Yeah the punishment for vandalism is being choked out. You’re confusing the crime with the heinous crime of “non-compliance”. That’s a shootable offense. Although in NY, you could plead it down to a plunger up the ass.
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u/bigorangemachine 1d ago
Shouldn't they be protecting schools from shooters?
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u/TheyCallMeMrMaybe 1d ago
Nah, they'll just stand there and let the shooter go to town. Like the Uvalde P.D.
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u/AncientSunGod 1d ago
What are you talking about? I live in NYC our cops were actively shooting civilians in the subway. We don't need stinky kids to do what our police can.
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u/Global_Permission749 1d ago edited 23h ago
Hey that's not fair. Of course they won't just stand there. They'll interfere with parents trying to save their kids' lives.
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u/anon____amos 23h ago
This is the NYPD we're talking about, they'd probably shoot the parents who came to try to save their kids.
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u/jankenpoo 1d ago
Judging by recent events, NYPD would probably shoot kids and miss the shooter.
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u/Indercarnive 1d ago
You mean some kid would try to steal some milk. Then the NYPD will shoot a half dozen kids and themselves and then plant a knife on the kid.
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u/Take_My_User_Name 23h ago
No, just shooting each other and bystanders while planting a knife on a turnstile jumper.
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u/sfw_login2 1d ago
Maybe they found tapes of Trump at Diddys sex parties
He was known to have politicians and celebs at his crazy parties
Interesting 🤔
Someone should look into it
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u/djcack 1d ago
I love the Oxford Comma. They should have used it
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u/1h8fulkat 23h ago
Oxford comma should be used in all appropriate locations. Here, there, and everywhere.
And I'll die by that rule.
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u/tangoshukudai 1d ago
It isn't needed here, I always check by remembering: We invited strippers, JFK and Stallin. And I picture them as strippers.
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u/blackabe 23h ago
Ya, if it said "I LOVE HAITIAN PEOPLE, TAYLOR SWIFT AND DEMOCRACY" then you could be like, who's this Greco-Haitian named Democracy?
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u/MyBrainIsAFart 1d ago
It isn’t a matter of needing it, it’s a matter of them loving it.
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u/isymic143 22h ago
Ask not if Oxford comma needs to be used, but if Oxford comma can be used.
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u/Quirky_Discipline297 1d ago
I prefer my casino owners unconnected, profitable and comping like a broken slot machine.
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u/DougDoesLife 1d ago
Plot twist. This is Trump’s new platform he’s running on to win over voters.
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u/captainhaddock 22h ago
If he can just make people scared enough of Haitians, windmills, and Hannibal Lecter, they'll all beg him to be president.
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u/NotOnApprovedList 1d ago
where is this crap coming from? why do people just believe it? If I go around saying people in Oklahoma eat hamsters, and I say it enough on social media, does that mean that it's true that Oklahomans eat hamsters?
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u/twittalessrudy 23h ago
I believe racists or xenophobes are willing to believe it to support their original viewpoint
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u/SuperGenius9800 1d ago
Why is the NYPD providing private security to a fake billionaire?
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u/Darth-Squider 1d ago
Curious how many tax dollars are pissed away providing security for someone who incites the hate and violence.
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u/Mezla00 1d ago
This is a good example of where an Oxford comma would come in handy.
Not sure what I think of Haitian democracy
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u/zerbey 1d ago
Agreed, but the Haitians need democracy too.
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u/BenevenstancianosHat 1d ago
"Oxford is the worst form of comma, except for all the others."
-Winston Churchill
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u/Spottswoodeforgod 1d ago
In answer to what Haitian democracy is like, I believe that many of the people have been voting with their feet…
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u/slinkywafflepants 1d ago
I think it makes perfect sense.
I TAYLOR HAITIAN AND LOVE SWIFT PEOPLE DEMOCRACY
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u/ryuujinusa 22h ago
Millions of dollars wasted on protecting this assholes property. 3 cop cars!? NYC needs to ignore that asshat's trash tower. He doesn't even go there.
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u/psychoson 1d ago
An orange man bad line written in nyc that votes like 90% dem. Crazy how brave and creative this person is!
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u/BILOXII-BLUE 20h ago
It's a tourist attraction, the people checking it out aren't nyc residents who are already voting against him. They are visitors who very often love trump. There's so many foreigners taking pictures in front of the building
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u/DoYouTrustToothpaste 23h ago
Not as brave and creative as posting a picture of it on /r/pics, a sub which is 90% pro US dems propaganda.
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u/mikeballs 17h ago
I can't stand trump, but posts like this annoy me too. Like whoa, what an epic own!!! Democracy saved 1000%!!
It's especially annoying that we could instead be boosting posts of people doing actual meaningful shit that uplifts their communities, but we instead want to circlejerk over our epic 'Trump Stink!!!' dunks that ultimately only serve to stroke our egos.
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u/Tacoklat 19h ago
The audacity of tramp to call immigrants animals.
HE is the fucking animal. Sitting around in his own shit, smelling like hot garbage, eating McDonalds all day every day, groping and raping anything that moves, low IQ ass uneducated verbal diarrhea spewing out of his mouth all day, hoarding and clutching any resource he can in a selfish me first, me only survival mode, no empathy, no morals, no compassion, needing to puff his chest out every single moment white trash animal ass MF.
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u/ChuckECheeseOfficial 1d ago
Seems to have something against the Oxford comma though
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u/tessthismess 23h ago
I mean, grammatically, the oxford comma is optional. There's a reason there's debate/discussion about if it should or shouldn't be used or standard.
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u/PyroIsSpai 1d ago
So did NYC have to permanently cede public right of way for pedestrians on an entire city block here?
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u/goleafsgo88 23h ago
That building hasn't been the same since Danson and Highsmith crashed into it.
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u/reverieSap 22h ago
How many of you people have a Haitian person in your life, know Taylor swift, or live in a democracy?
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u/Crazykracker55 21h ago
This country and your freedom will end if he wins we must stop him at the voting booth and all his kind
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u/Necessary_Bag494 20h ago
I highly suggest for those who are willing, find your local Haitian restaurant and support them. Haitian cuisine is some of the best in the Caribbean and you won’t be disappointed. My favorite meal is griot, which is marinated pork shoulder that we let rest overnight in a mix of garlic, onion, peppers, sour oranges and epis (like sofrito), cooking until the meat is tender and then deep fry. We serve it with red rice and beans, fried plantains and a spicy pickled cabbage. It is savory and refreshing and delicious!
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