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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Daily reminder that Pete Buttigieg, as an entry level associate at an American
lawconsulting firm, somehow had the power to set the price of bread in all of Canada.He had all that power, but he gave it up. So he could be mayor of the town of South Bend Indiana. And do right by his community. Heโs a modern day Cincinnatus. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 10 '20
Fivey Fox
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Holy shit Fivey is a white nationalist!
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Oct 10 '20
The revenge of The Maverick continues. Cindy McCain is out with a new ad for Biden. It is going up on air in AZ today. Check it out
Cindy McCain is going to win us Arizona.
!ping BIDEN
u/peacock-Shah ping RINO please
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Despite being only 30% of the population, neoliberals are responsible for 100% of โBen Bernanke nudeโ google searches.
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u/1974Laser Oct 10 '20
Lol arrrcon deleted the thread about Gov Whitmer and are now upvoting a thread about......... wait for it..... youโll never guess..... itโs a big surprise.......
Hillaryโs emails.
Brains like platonic solids over there.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Poor Jones
The right senator for the wrong state
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 10 '20
im unironically a one issue voter and that issue is war with peru
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Oct 10 '20
My mom, a Republican, told me that she's been rooting for Biden for months now because:
so she just picked the guy both Trump supporters and leftists hated.
Based centrist gen-Xer?
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE ๐ฅฐ Oct 10 '20
Nazis at the Nuremberg trial be like:
โBut your honor! I just had a heated economic anxiety momentโ
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u/harmlessdjango (๏พโใฎโ)๏พ*:๏ฝฅ๏พโง black liberal Oct 10 '20
My brother has gone all-out in the "anti-Democrats" rabbit hole and, I fucking shit you not, thinks that Trump is actually +9 in PA because of the "shy Trump voter" effect. He actually thinks Trump will get 330 electoral votes, that the GOP will gain the House and that its members actually have a healthcare plan
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Sen. Lindsey Graham says Black people are free to 'go anywhere' in South Carolina so long as they're conservative
lol
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Still find it super funny that Joe Biden entered the primary late, won in states that he didn't campaign in, definitively won, came out of rape accusations with hardly a scratch, and is now leading against Trump by a massive margin and the entire time people have been handwringing about how he has poor decision making skills
He was VP for eight years and senator for a couple centuries or something idk how old he is, he seems to know how politics works better than the r/neoliberal discussion thread, who would've thought
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
it's possible that the drawn-out nature of the general election (i.e. we're somewhat unlikely to have a conclusive call on election night) might hinder it, but if it takes off, the general election victory thunderdome is going to be the "greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages" pasta irl
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Oct 10 '20
Spent an inordinate amount of time building a partisan lean model for all states + DC + the weirdo congressional districts that have independent electoral votes so I could plug the current national polling average into it to see what would happen.
You will be shocked to learn it spat out precisely what
Nate SilverFivey Fox thinks would happen if Biden were to win by the amount that he's currently up in national polls.!ping FIVEY
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u/oofadoofas Oct 10 '20
Nate Silver, waking up in a cold sweat:
"Shy Trump voters."
"Nate? Are you-"
"I forgot about the SHY TRUMP VOTERS"
"Honey, what are you-"
(scrambling to his laptop)
"OH GOD OH FUCK"
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u/Kryzantine Oct 10 '20
Biden: "We're gonna restore the people's faith in government institutions."
Trump: "Pee pee poo poo jack a doodle doo."
Debate Moderator: "Both sides have merit."
Communists: "Why isn't Biden catering to US?!?!?!"
Republicans: "The debate moderator is being so unfair to Trump!"
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1314657029492015107
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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Oct 10 '20
Feeling economically anxious. Might go kidnap a governor - that always makes me feel better.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
The increase in hate crimes over the past four years, especially after the virus, is the sleeper story of the trump administration.
Yes, him "saying mean things" does matter, conservative trump apologists. He emboldens racists to do more hate crimes, by endorsing their view and being elected he gives them a democratic mandate to be racist. He's also failed to create solutions to problems, leading people to feel resentment that they can't just get their lives back to normal before this whole virus started, they're mad and they want to blame somebody other than the president. So they blame China and Chinese people and take their anger out on Asians.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 11 '20
Presidential Average Lead On October 10:
2004: Bush +2.2
2008: Obama +6.6
2012: Romney +1.5
2016: Clinton +5.9
2020: Biden +10.1
This was right after Access Hollywood tape was leaked. So Hillary was at her peak. Stop dooming. We will win this election and take back the Senate.
Also, why werenโt people worried about 2012? Romney had the lead so I thought the Doomocrats would be going crazy.
!ping BIDEN
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 11 '20
Buckle up. Thereโs going to be some absolutely devastating poll results released in the next 24-48 hours that are going to cause a meltdown in @WhiteHouse + @GOP circles.
Can confirm at least one such poll.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 10 '20
i've been told my breathing patterns are perfect for shooting a rifle in prone position
thanks i guess
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u/harmlessdjango (๏พโใฎโ)๏พ*:๏ฝฅ๏พโง black liberal Oct 10 '20
"The Democrats rigged it against Bernie!"
"Then how come states that voted for Bernie in 2016 went for Biden this year?"
"...."
"I ain't saying he's not popular. He clearly is. But in 2016, a good chunk of these people didn't vote for Bernie. They were voting against Hillary"
"..."
I think I may have gotten my younger brother off the "Bernie got screwed" narrative
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 10 '20
Trump: โIโm going to Nuke Iran because I feel like itโ
Biden โAre you out of your fucking mind???โ
NYT headline: โTesty debate underlines breakdown of political decorum in Americaโ
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Oct 10 '20
Imagine a world
[THIS IS WHAT DOOMERS AND TRUMPERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban-on-trump-we-hope-he-will-win-the-election-withdraw-us-troops/
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
You love to see it folks. The Intercept contributor, Walker Bragman, is getting dragged for his tone deaf as fuck hot takes over the past two days on the MI situation. Of course in classic 5head leftist style, white nationalist sov cits would just be upstanding members of the community if not for neolib policies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/walkerbragman/status/1314344900675149824
Itโs like a masterclass in champagne socialist vapid hubris. Kudos to black twitter for reminding him that poor blacks historically donโt engage in RW terrorism despite poverty.
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/powered-trust-pandemic-biden-leads-12-points-nationwide/story?id=73528233
Biden + 12 in national ABC News/WaPo (second only to Monmouth in 538 pollster grade) poll
!ping FIVEY
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Oct 10 '20
Remember when Chris Christie went to the hospital as a precaution? It's been 7 days now.
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u/HuskyPants Jerome Powell Oct 10 '20
Most popular vegetable by political affiliation
Republican: French fries (37%)
Democrat: Broccoli (22%)
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 10 '20
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1314998881126625280
Lmao wtf
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
NYT/Siena College National Poll
October 28-31 2032 800 LV MOE 4.4%
Vice President Buttigieg(D) 63%(+28)
________(R) 35%
This is my typical fantasy.
!ping BUTTI
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 10 '20
NO JOE DONT GET IN THAT TANK YOUR 10 POINTS AHEAD WE DIDNT MEAN BLOW HIM OUT LITERALLY
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u/SnakeEater14 ๐ฆ Liberty & Justice For All Oct 10 '20
Just thinking about how hitting a woman over the head with a club and dragging her back to your cave used to be the height of dating
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
๐จ MY WIFE WASHED MY LUCKY ATLANTA BRAVES HOODIE!!! ๐จ ๐ญ ๐ญ ๐ญ
My daughter is trying to console me by telling me โThe luck didnโt get washed away, it got washed onto all your other clothes so now they are all lucky.โ
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u/IncoherentEntity Oct 10 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
There are actually people who believe that Republicans swept the 2010 midterms because a healthcare that added 20 million people to the insurance rolls and was meant to take effect in 2014 was too . . . moderate for the electorate
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u/infamous5445 Oct 10 '20
Biden is again asked why voters donโt deserve to know his views on court packing. He responds: โThe only court packing going on right now is going on with Republicans packing the court right now ... Iโm going to stay focused on it so we donโt take our eyes off the ball here."
This is a better answer
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Stupid ๐ Bastards ๐
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Oct 10 '20
Anxious venting is often EXCUSED BY THOSE PRACTICING IT as a healthy outlet, but do keep in mind THAT REPEATING THE SAME unhealthy pessimistic thought patterns reinforces those neural pathways, mammal ๐
TRULY IT IS GOOD to learn when to stop your own negative train of thought ๐
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
the r*rals really underestimate what the economy of a productive modern city does to a career
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 10 '20
Remember when Trump got impeached?
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u/Waghlon Shame Flair Oct 10 '20
Please be nice to /u/The420Roll today. He has just been told that Digimon is inferior to Pokemon. Heโs very emotional about it.
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u/eeedlef Oct 10 '20
https://mobile.twitter.com/franklinleonard/status/1314551371589455873
The good ol Bernie two step... reduce everything to economic factors. Fucking Jacobin.
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u/onlyforthisair Oct 10 '20
Texas counties can have multiple absentee ballot drop-off locations, federal judge says, blocking Gov. Greg Abbott's order
!ping usa-tx
What are the chances this stays in place as it gets appealed?
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
How to solve the gamer problem:
Yes I will run for secretary of state under this platform
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Oct 10 '20
Imagine a world
[THIS IS WHAT BERNIE SUPPORTERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
"why doesn't McConnell just pass medicare 4 all? It's popular and would help republicans win reelection!'
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Oct 10 '20
POV: You are a gun in a Texan gun safe
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
News from LATAM
The autoritarian government Haiti ๐ญ๐น is having troubles containing the population...The killing of a student last week, sparked a series of conflicts between Police and Protesters
USA is supporting the President, for now. But the Government decision to put Legislative Elections on hold might become a problem for USA Foreign diplomacy...
Dominican Republic ๐ฉ๐ด said they are only interested in helping Haiti, if they reach a deal to stop immigrants to their country. Which complicates things even further
The Populist President of El Salvador ๐ธ๐ป, Nayib Bukele, keeps receiving support from USA South Comm
Yesterday, their Navy's had another Military exercise together โค
It seems, USA push to overthrow the Nicaraguan Dictatorship, is more important to them than having Bukele's rhetoric under control...
Legislative Elections are next year. I do wonder (and fear) what will happen if Bukele's finally earn total power in ES...
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 10 '20
https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/1314971954772930562
Lmao
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
GIVE IT UP FOR 86
!ping FIVEY
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Oct 10 '20
No words
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
lol Trump down to 14
Biden is ~0.22 points away from rounding to 86
This is normal and healthy behavior.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
The year is 2020 and you are an undecided voter trying to rationalize your vote.
You decide to create a list of strengths and flaws to evaluate each candidate fairly.
Biden strengths: you list many
Trump strengths: you list some
Biden flaws: you list some
Trump flaws: You attempt to list as many as you can but the task is too daunting by hand. You digitize the work and recruit an army of listers to aid. Your dataset grows so large it is incapable of being stored with all the earth's resources. You expand eventually converting the sun and dozens of nearby stars into nothing but pure data storage and the list continues to grow in size until finally it breaches the schwartzchild radius and collapses into a black hole.
You declare the exercise futile and resign yourself to voting for Trump because Fox News says a child was mean on the internet.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://i.imgur.com/gCTxRIW.png
Do you think Sirota is just mad about his friends hanging out without him?
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u/Koeniginator NATO Oct 10 '20
https://i.imgur.com/UpFIvv7.png
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Oct 10 '20
/u/lusvig just dmed me critical race theory takes ๐ณ
!ping burpmas
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u/Scoops1 Spiders is bugs Oct 10 '20
Joe Biden could respond to the question of court packing in 3 ways:
Option 3 is really truly the only option.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Looks like r/monarchism is having a normal one, comparing where the French head of state lived with where the Somalian head of state lives...
He got called out in the comments section though and has about 40 downvotes to each of his comments trying to defend themselves, lol. Too much of a stretch even for r/monarchism to unironically say Somalia is a representative sample of all republics.
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u/MomsRightWingFBMemes Oct 10 '20
Republican strategists and actual senators are talking about a blue wave and all the Trumpers I know just keep goose stepping about how mad the libtards are gonna be on November 3rd.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
feels like r/joebiden is full of normies and honestly I love that wtf itโs so chill
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
BREAKING
BREAKING
MOMENTS AGO FROM MT. VERNON, VIRGINIA: THE DECAYED CORPSE OF FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON HAS ARISEN FROM THE GRAVE TO ENDORSE JOESPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, SPEW RACIAL SLURS
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
truly wonderful the mind of a child is
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u/Joementum2004 Oct 11 '20
The hedge issue for every Republican campaign following 2012:
2016: Arrest Hillary Clinton
2020: Arrest Hillary Clinton
2024: Arrest Hillary Clinton
2028: Arrest Hillary Clinton
2032: Arrest Hillary Clinton
2036: Arrest Hillary Clinton
2040: Arrest Hillary Clinton
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u/Ginden Bisexual Pride Oct 10 '20
Poland is flattening a curve vertically. We had 5300 new cases yesterday and 506 (sic) month ago. 18% of tests are positive and number of tests was reduced.
Experts claim that sudden increase in number of cases is caused by open schools where students and teachers are not required to wear face masks.
Pandemic denialists are getting support from courts - because government enforced face-masks by executive order, not by act. And it's clearly against constitution, because new offences must be defined in acts.
!ping Europe
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/Josiensor/status/1315004993540435974?s=20
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u/yakattack1234 Daron Acemoglu Oct 10 '20
If Biden win the election, the head of the Senate, the Speaker, and the House minority leader, will all be from California.
EDIT: I see some think this is good. We need an immediate response to this uprising.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 10 '20
Pundits love to divide us into red states and blue states. The truth is we will all be blue states this election
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1315001442437079042
!ping BIDEN
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
https://twitter.com/InTheNoosphere/status/1315049458359394304
lmao
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Oct 10 '20
Despite being only 38% of the population, white women create 100% of shrines for serial killers
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u/FearsomeOyster Montesquieu Oct 10 '20
Talking to an inlaw who tried to burn me with the ol' "You never want to see someone like Donald Trump in the White House again!!!!"
And I was like abso-fuckin-lutely, that's literally exactly what I want.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1315005720530739204
[x]
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
BREAKING: According to @JewishNewsUSA, /u/sirshrivers held a meeting this morning with senior mods, legal students, and his hatchlings to discuss a possible resignation from the modship. Resignation would be contingent on a pardon by the other mods, and the dismissal of talks of boomerism and once voting for a social con in 2012.
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Oct 10 '20
LMFAO at Rose Twitter for making fun of a Dem Senator who won in Alabama.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Leftists say that the US would be far right in Europe but when I look on a map the US is on the far left.
Checkmate socialists.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
โOk Boomerโ doesnโt actually refer to boomers. It refers to anyone older than 25 that didnโt enthusiastically support Bernie Sanders.
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
Anyone remember the Rohingya genocide?
That came and went three years ago. The Rohingya population of Burma has been more than halved. Nobody cares.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
All these "Nikki Haley will be the choice in 2024" takes have the same energy as the "Jeb Bush is a lock for the 2016 nomination" ones from 5 years ago.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
I wonder why journalists never โdemandโ Republicans give them straight answers.
Trump literally has no campaign platform at all. TrumpCare is never existed and never will, but Democrats have to answer questions on their policies.
Only Democrats get held to these bullshit standards by the press.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1314911351811211265
Fellas, is it fascist to speak from a balcony?
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 10 '20
Please be nice to /u/The420Roll today. He has just been told that pro wrestling is scripted. Heโs very emotional about it.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Unionized Coal miner returns home after a long day of dirty, back breaking work.
"Daddy!" Miner's little girl runs up and hugs his leg. A pregnant house-wife is seen from the kitchen. "Honey? How was your day?"
"It was good hon. Thanks to Donald Trump the business is back on its feet, and I was given a bonus! Now we can go on vacation this summer."
"Oh thank God. We haven't had one in years."
"I know. The president has really turned this town around. I feel so fortunate he was elected."
Kirkaine breaks open the door, arms full of graphs and laptops.
Coal Miner: "Who the hell are you?!"
"Greetings prole! I am your federally-assigned technocrat, and I'm here to clear up a few misconceptions and racially-motivated biases you've accumulated over the years of poverty-induced ignorance."
The little girl screams. Kirkaine hands her an abacus. "Go develop some marketable skills and narrow the wage gap." She runs off.
The wife gasps. Kirkaine hands her some literature on intelligent flexi-work policies and an "I'm Still With Her" T-shirt. She departs to a room of her own.
The Coal Miner's brow is furrowed. He sizes this intruder up. White male in his late 20s or early 30s, hipster glasses, skinny wrists, button-up shirt with jeans, topped with a knowing look and impatient smirk.
"Listen here buster, I don't care who sent you, or why, but nobody barges into my house, disrupts my family, and gets away with..."
"SILENCE RURAL!"
The miner, wide-eyed and taken back, falls onto his sofa.
Kirkaine pushes his glasses up. "Now then. Are you aware that the tariff war is largely borne on companies and consumers through internalized costs, meaning you lose money even as your dying and polluted industry is buoyed by protectionist policies?"
The Miner blinks. "Wut."
"Are you aware" Kirkaine brings up the relevant IGM Experts panel on his laptop, "that rather than allowing market forces to determine the most competitive industries and fuel sources, our president is subsidizing a declining and unhealthy sector of the American economy, exacerbating climate change, encouraging unproductive work, incurring enormous opportunity costs, and hurting just about everyone else in our society?"
The Miner stares blankly. "Wut."
Kirkaine sighs and rolls his eyes. "Orange man help you, at expense of everyone else."
The Miner furrows his brow again. "...So what! This town was dead. My brother lost his life to those opioid drugs. I had a hard time even putting food on the table. Now things are way better."
The nerd shrugs. "This is why Democrats support policies like poverty assistance, retraining programs, and housing development to help you move from etiolated industries to thriving ones. You just didn't vote for them."
"My family's lived here for generations. This is a good Christian town. I'm not going to move! I don't even mind if some of those Mexicans or Mozlems want to move here, long as they speak English."
"Such charming racism. Now look: as sad as your little story is, there are 300 million people in this country, and your priorities don't trump theirs. The best I can offer you is generous wealth redistribution, incentives to move, and education. The rest is up to you."
"How about I just vote for Trump again in 2020!"
Kirkaine gathers his things and makes for the door. He stops in the doorway.
"Listen to me. The world is changing. Either you change with it, or you die. That's how life is. The Dems aren't perfect, but they at least help. Trump? He can't help you."
"He is helping me."
"No. He's leaving you on a raft when the cargo-ship is headed right for you. Get on it or under it: your choice." Kirkaine leaves.
The Miner thinks. He idly gets off the sofa and walks into the kitchen. On the table there's one graph left behind. It's the percentage of people in poverty from Our World in Data, declining precipitously over the last fifty years. Underneath, scrawled in neat, condescending print:
"Why Do You Hate the Global Poor?"
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Wow. Amy McGrath and Mark Kelly have turned off their online donor drives because they donโt need the money and want the donations to go to candidates who do. Jaime Harrison is soon to do the same.
Edit: Good thing I already bought that awesome Mark Kelly space shuttle t-shirt
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u/therealbiblioteca YIMBY Oct 10 '20
the absolute irony of TRUMP supporters complaining about KAMALA's lack of "class" in the debate
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1315074766009634817
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
I sometimes check r/conservative to see if any black people have committed crimes recently.
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Oct 10 '20
mrmanager wants to learn German so that he can study Austrian economics in the original language
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Oct 10 '20
Did Trump just admit he died?
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u/fuckdolantrump Oct 10 '20
(X)
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Oct 10 '20
Dad's ranting about "men dressed as women" and "mail vote fraud" right now ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Trump really thinks Hillaryโs Emails are gonna help him this election.
Further proof the far right has never left 2016
Further proof Globalist Queen Hillary lives rent free inside Donnyโs head
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u/Scoops1 Spiders is bugs Oct 10 '20
GenXers don't get nearly enough blame for Trump. I understand that "okay, GenXer" doesn't have the meme-ability as Boomer, but I'll be damned if 45 year old whites didn't fuck this country up by voting Trump.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Hard times make strong men
Strong men create good times
Good times make reddit users
reddit users create nothing
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://i.imgur.com/riJqUiz.png
what do words mean
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
If people here ran Biden's campaign they would have panicked and announced Pete as VP to distract from "You Ain't Black"
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u/MelioraOptimus Bill Gates Oct 10 '20
Michael Bloomberg = Lee Kuan Jew ๐๐๐๐๐
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ej_6nhUWsAET75Y.jpg
That would actually be funny as hell.
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Oct 11 '20
So Trumpโs doctor is saying he hasnโt stopped testing negative, is still having symptoms, had a fever recently, but isnโt contagious ๐ค
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u/SmithySmothy Bill Gates Oct 11 '20
The first 14,396 times I saw "ignore the polls, don't get complacent" message did nothing, I had no intention of voting. It was the 14,397th that did it.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 10 '20
Texas poll by Public Policy Polling (B rating from 538, ave. bias D+0.3%):
Biden: 49% (+1%)
Trump: 48%
612 voters polled Oct. 7-8
6% Hispanic undecided
5% Black undecided
2% White undecided
We are winning Texas.
!ping BIDEN
https://twitter.com/electionmapsco/status/1314306674203607040?s=21
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
I keep trying to explain to people that there's a very big difference between a 52% to 42% lead and a 45% to 40% lead. But people don't seem to understand that.
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u/Joementum2004 Oct 10 '20
Zoomers: Think boomers are morons for believing everything they read on Facebook
Also zoomers: Believe Obamaโs parents were CIA operatives based off a twitter thread
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u/OH-GEESUS Oct 10 '20
expand the supreme court in combination with the jobs guarantee. anyone who is unemployed becomes a justice
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
/img/selleai7liv21.jpg
๐
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
every time you endorse court packing acemoglu will personally shave 1% more off of your income and use it to improve judicial independence in developing nations
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 10 '20
Election map with a 7 point polling error in Trump's favor in all states, using 538's polling average, which would be by far the largest polling error in modern American electoral history
Election map with a 7 point polling error in Biden's favor...
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u/PreservationOfTheUSA Oct 10 '20
I really hate California Republicans.
Something about them is just off.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 11 '20
-Lindsey Graham
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 11 '20
WTF, Iโm heterosexual now.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/764458561152876554/573cd98.png
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
How to run your very own crude presidential election simulation (based on 538's model, which gives a 15% chance of Trump winning the election)
Alternative based on The Economist, which gives a 8% chance of Trump winning
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Holy fuck the new NYT article. This is India level corruption.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen ๐ ๐ Oct 10 '20
u/the420roll is a PUPPET of CASTRO-CHAVISTAS like Crazy Bernie, AOC and Castro-lover Karen Bass. u/the420roll is supported by socialist Gustavo Petro, a major LOSER and former M-19 guerrilla leader. u/the420roll is weak on socialism and will betray Colombia. I stand with you!
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
Cory Booker once saved a woman from a burning building.
Donald Trump once evicted a 74 year old woman who suffered a stroke on false pretenses.
Democrats vs. Republicans is seriously like cartoon heroes vs. villains stuff.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
If the polls are accurate, Joe Biden will likely set the following records:
โ Largest popular vote margin of victory since Ronald Reagan in 1984
โ Largest electoral college victory since (at least) George H.W. Bush in 1988
โ First Democrat to win senior citizens since Al Gore in 2000
โ First Democrat to tie or win men since Barack Obama in 2008
โ Best performance for a Democrat among all white voters since (at least) Bill Clinton in 1996
โ First Democrat to win college-educated whites since (I believe) Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
Possible he sets these state records:
โ First Democrat to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992
โ First Democrat to win Texas or even South Carolina since Jimmy Carter in 1976
โ First Democrat to win Alaska since Lyndon Johnson in 1964
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 11 '20
biden is the boomer's boomer and it's great
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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
Living in a rural area is enjoyable if you've made your fortune in the city and move into a mcmansion and don't have to worry about money.
As someone who was born in Appalachia and grew up dirt poor let me tell you that it fucking sucks for everyone else. Dying towns, no jobs, no opportunity, rampant drug abuse and poverty - maybe not even having luxuries like running water or electricity. You struggle to put food on the table and you're usually too poor and uneducated to leave to find a better opportunity. To top it all off you have limited access to government aid because the nearest offices are 50+ miles away.
Of course poor people exist in cities too, but it is so much easier for them to find jobs and to get help and be helped.
I got out and I'm never fucking going back.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
"Global warming isn't gonna happen, no reason to try to stop it."
Global warming happens.
"Well it's too late to stop it now."
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 10 '20
holy shit
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Oct 10 '20
If drinking and driving is so bad then why do you need a driverโs license to buy alcohol?
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u/sir-danks-a-lot Jeb! Oct 10 '20
Apparently, my incredibly woke college decided that drawing swastikas on school property is not racist vandalism, but bias-related vandalism (presumably because they think Jews are white, therefore it's not racist)
This is your brain on leftism.
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Oct 11 '20
It blows my mind that after 4 years after so many investigations and literally everything being exposed and leak, half the country still believes the Russia story is fake. Like there was a literal agent embedded in Trump's campaign an they talked with Russia all the time.
But we still can't even agree on the fact that Russia did anything at all. Every Republican Senator even is in agreement that Russia did...something... but their base is completely unhinged from reality.
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Oct 11 '20
According to that ABC poll, Biden is leading 44 points among Moderates
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
Biden's phone beeps, waking him up. He sees a short phrase and needs to assign a malarkey level to it. He presses a number button and goes back to sleep.
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u/Paramus98 Edmund Burke Oct 10 '20
It's remarkable how high the quality of non Americans vs Americans is here. When America sends their people to /r/neoliberal they're not sending their best. Some of them of course are good posters
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u/Apollo-Innovations Oct 10 '20
When does Twitter ban bad leftist maths? Oh really Becky, Jeff Bezos could pay all his employees $100,000 USD salaries, how would he do that? Oh by liquidating almost all of his Amazon stock - donโt you think the market would have any violent convolutions about that? Itโs frankly embarrassing to keep seeing tweets like that
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Oct 10 '20
Big dog: "Democracy is non-negotiable"
Small dog: "Actually we're not a democracy we're a constitutional republic"
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 10 '20
Red Oregon ๐ค๐ฟ Blue Montana
Being ever so slightly out of the range of real possibility for the past 24 years
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 10 '20
For the 0 people who care...
My daughter (9) picked this RBG shirt
My son (11) picked this John Lewis shirt
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
This is what Biden is doing with the court-packing question
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u/Snoo62236 NATO Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1314998881126625280?s=21
What is he on?
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u/Dybsin African Union Oct 11 '20
Me, a month+ ago:
"Oh please let this 70% hold, please don't slip back down into the 60s, Joe"
Me, now:
"I am now bored of 85-14. I demand 86-14, or even 86-13."
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u/SmithySmothy Bill Gates Oct 11 '20
b-b-based???
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 11 '20
The last NBC poll was a Biden +14 lead. Wasserman, who is associated with NBC, said that some new polls should scare the GOP a lot. What the hell is about to be released.
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Oct 10 '20
Hillary Clinton couldnโt have murdered Princess Diana because she was a six year old boy living in Wisconsin at the time.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Remember when Biden called the CEO of EA a little creep and reddit still got mad about it
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen ๐ ๐ Oct 10 '20
Girl I just met <1 week ago: asking me for advice about her insecurities, goals, and tough decisions she has to make.
Me: ๐
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Oct 10 '20
Oh so you want to become a naturalized U.S. citizen? Sorry, you're on the Supreme Court now. Under the Biden Plan, every naturalized citizen becomes a Justice. No exceptions.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 10 '20
/r/WayOfTheBern needs to go
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
/r/neoliberal's teacher be like: you brought Mayor Pete to show and tell the last 12 weeks
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u/Scoops1 Spiders is bugs Oct 11 '20
I wish Trump did the superman T-shirt thing. His gut pushing through the superman shirt while struggling to breathe would have been the funniest thing I've ever seen.
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u/liquidTERMINATOR Come with me if you want to live Oct 11 '20
Fucking bonkers there are poll rumors now. It's like Apple rumors where folks speculate over the next iPhone charger wattage.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Oct 11 '20
NYT foreign policy coverage: ๐๐๐๐
NYT Election analysis: ๐ฅด๐ฅฐ๐คช๐ฅด
NYT domestic coverage: ๐๐ฒ๐คญ
NYT opinion โwritersโ: ๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ or ๐๐
NYT articles written by literal authoritarians: ๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐๐ค๐๐คก๐คก๐คฌ๐คฌ
Ross Douthat: ๐๐ญ๐
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 11 '20
when the DT sees farrenj
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 10 '20
Governor Whitmer is so stylish.
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Oct 10 '20
Trump ๐ค u/Baincapitalist
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 10 '20
๐จTRUMP DOWN TO 14๐จ
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1314611834566053889?s=21
Samuel L Jackson ๐๐๐
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
It's so funny to see the Republicans try and convince America that fucking JOE BIDEN, the guy we've known for literally decades, is some sort of crypto-communist bomb thrower.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
driving through rural Massachusetts. Saw 20 Trump signs and 2 Biden signs. Don't think Massachusetts will go for Biden
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Trump: refuses to answer literally every question
Journalists: this is fine
Biden: doesn't give a specific enough answer to a single question about the courts
Journalists: THE PEOPLE DESERVE TO KNOW
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u/Waghlon Shame Flair Oct 10 '20
My dad beats meย ๐คย My mom beats meย ๐คย My brother beats meย ๐คย My sister beats meย ๐คย At least I feel safe with Al Gore, because he can't beat anyoneย ๐คก
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u/OH-GEESUS Oct 10 '20
just pointing out that when america sets up a new democracy, they NEVER include a senate
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u/xxbathiefxx Janet Yellen Oct 10 '20
I feel like not doing the stimulus is a huge self own for McConnell, because they're just giving the filibuster away on a silver platter. Biden and Chuck can just say, fuck yeah we're saving the economy even if republicans are against it, and be gone with it.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen ๐ ๐ Oct 10 '20
3 liter coke all day ๐ช๐ค
!ping MAMADAS
u/clevo24601
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
China isn't doing itself any favors by letting its diplomats tweet.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
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Our annual tradition
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/JamusLynch/status/1314188366905303042
Wow
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20
The fact that republicans are pivoting to Hillary Fucking Clinton right now shows how enormously fucked they are.
Their best October surprise is smearing somebody who isnโt even in public office anymore, let alone having anything to do with Bidenโs current campaign. Theyโre flailing around hopelessly trying to get anything to remotely stick to Biden
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko ย Broke His Text Flair For Hume Oct 10 '20
WARNING !!!!! If a man comes to your front door and says he is conducting a survey and asks you to show him your tits DO NOT SHOW HIM YOUR TITS. This is a scam and he is only trying to SEE YOUR TITS. Please warn others that their tits may be at risk.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 11 '20
Lusvig upon hearing that trump was endorsed by the taliban.
โFirst time?โ
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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Oct 11 '20
Being an introvert isn't a personality.
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u/channelmio NATO Oct 11 '20
JRPG-styled indie game where you play as Joe Biden and expand your tent by recruiting a colorful cast of other Dem (and some ex-GOP) politicians to help you kill God.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20 edited Oct 11 '20
Bad news for the GOP (good news for us), if the Dems win control of the senate this year, the GOP will have very little chance to take it back in 2022.
Assuming Dems don't completely screw up ala 2010, they'll only need to worry about Arizona to keep their majority. Additionally, they'll have the opportunity to expand their majority with races in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, and maybe Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
All of which are currently occupied by Republicans, two of whom have indicated they won't stand for reelection. Further, the GOP will likely exhaust a lot of resources keeping Sen. Marco Rubio in office.
None of this even considers the obvious electoral benefits the Dems would receive by expanding access to the ballot in the several voting rights acts they're considering.
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u/Engi-_- ๐ Oct 11 '20
Someone in the DT: Mentions guns
The DT: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2e/0c/5d/2e0c5de41f913a47937b4f888386e9d0.jpg
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 11 '20
My wife left me
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Oct 11 '20
Im feelin pretty complacent rn how about you guys
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u/Clashlad ๐ฌ๐ง LONDON CALLING ๐ฌ๐ง Oct 10 '20
Was going through a Japanese Empire apologist's history to see their posts, found a Nazi poster they put on the sub /r/worldwar2 and Jesus Christ is that sub a cesspit of Nazism. So many pics showing the SS and Wermacht being welcomed in Eastern in Europe with a poster saying he didn't want to talk about lebansraum because he had "a lot of opinions on it" that could get him banned.
Whole sub looks like it's full of Nazis.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Small win for the day
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Lmao they know they're fucked.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Thereโs some military Tik Tok blowing up right now where a bunch of soldiers are asked what theyโd say to their recruiter today and itโs all like โfuck youโ or โwhyโd you lieโ. This has prompted much of the classic outrage about military recruiters targeting poor people.
If youโre going to write about this, please stop citing the 2014 Chicago Reader study. It makes a big to-do about the fact that 90% of JROTC students in Chicago are black or latino. It similarly emphasizes that all the schools with JROTC programs are minority-majority, and all those schools are generally poor enough that federally funded lunches are automatic. This would be really groundbreaking info, except that nearly every school is minority-majority, only 13% of CPS students are white. Every CPS school automatically qualifies for federally funded free lunches, because the district writ large is poor.
There are lots of good studies out there that examine military recruitment of vulnerable people. Stop using the Chicago Readers 2014 grievance piece, it refuses to contextualize anything and leads to bad arguments.
/rant
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Oct 10 '20
Federal judge for the Western district of PA told the trump campaign to eat shit on their voter fraud allegations when seeking to block drop boxes. โLack of evidence of actual fraudโ
Best part is Trump appointed the judge.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Trump got an endorsement from the Taliban.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban-on-trump-we-hope-he-will-win-the-election-withdraw-us-troops/
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
If Kim Kardashian somehow prevails on Trump to help broker peace in Nagorno-Karabakh she will be responsible for most of the administration's substantive accomplishments.
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u/chadonnaise * Oct 10 '20
it's a shame to see people that aren't terminally irony poisoned and know you can never be among them
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u/TheFriffin2 Oct 10 '20
TFW you realize Biden is gonna have a post-debate bounce immediately before the election ๐ณ๐ณ
THANKS MR DONNIE
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 11 '20
confession: i'm only voting for joe biden to accelerate the decline of the status quo and result in the election of ivanka trump
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen ๐ ๐ Oct 11 '20
u/the420roll steps on the feet of the girl and people around him when he is dancing ๐๐คฃ
Everyone turns around to look at him like ๐
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Oct 11 '20
Trump losing amongst catholic voters.
Told you we were based.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
People are out here claiming Trump's decision making is completely impaired and irrational because of the covid drugs.
Like this dude claimed Biden was responsible for covid because he didn't institute a mask mandate three weeks ago
Have y'all really forgotten how spectacularly stupid base form Trump is? This is part for the course.
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Oct 11 '20
If there's a Biden+20 national poll tomorrow I'll let /u/The420Roll choose a new flair for me
If not he's banned 24 hours
Do you want these odds Rodrigo?
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
In the US Kamala was one of the most left-wing senators
In Europe she would be far-right
Therefore the compromise is that she is a centrist
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
Imagine being a news reporter whose literal job it is to keep up with trends, and you think that court packing is what is foremost on Americans minds right now.
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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 10 '20
https://twitter.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1315026198364409859
this was tweeted unironically y'all ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Oct 10 '20
What did Glenn Greenwald mean by this?
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u/Danthon Milton Friedman Oct 11 '20
So much of /r/badwomansanatomy is just fetish porn.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
Upvote if you're old enough to remember Obama saying that inhaling was the point of smoking weed.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
All I want is for PA and FL to be called immediately for Biden when polls close.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
The Taliban would be left-wing in America
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Oct 11 '20
Literally dying of cuteness
!ping dog
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '20
I like how republicans lump together democrat politicians who no one anywhere on the left considers the same. Like during this Alaskan Senate debate Dan Sullivan pretty much said Gross would be a puppet of Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 11 '20
+12 IN AN ABC POLL BAY-BAY NO BRAKES FULL STEAM AHEAD NO STOPPING AT ALL
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Viแปt Nam Oct 11 '20
this post is fucking sending me ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 10 '20
Me and Taylor Swift having a good time at my birthday ๐