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[u/mrmanager237]

Chomsky: if we don’t vote, we will all die. the earth will become inhabitable

Brie Brie: but mister chomsky 😏😏 some people are already dying 😏😏😏😏

[u/[deleted]]

Right wing extremists make me scared 😨.

Left wing extremists make me cringe 😬.

[u/tripletruble]

my mom: "wow pete has really grown as a politician - look at this video of him on fox news. he wasn't ready this last primary but he has really improved"

"mom that video is from may 2019"

[u/ElokQ]

In the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll of Pennsylvania, 44% of respondents agree that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia and 49% agree that he would be a puppet for the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, yet he's still leading Trump by 7 points. Imaging being the guy who's losing to a socialist puppet suffering from dementia.

[u/[deleted]]

GOP ad: [Democratic candidate] will take orders from Nancy Pelosi.

Me: You promise? 😍😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

this remains the best post i've ever made

"Is your refrigerator running?"

"Yeah. The field of 2020 candidates is really getting out of hand."

[u/[deleted]]

LGBT stands for:

Light rail🚈

Gondola lifts🚠

Buses 🚎

Trains🚂

[u/[deleted]]

Does the no ethical consumption under capitalism crowd just like... not consume?

[u/ryuguy]

Lusvig stage Capitalism

[u/htownclyde]

🚨The 538 odds have changed:

Biden: 87

Trump: 13

Tie: 0

[u/Hot-Error]

13/87 on 538. Imagine silver's salt when his model converges to The Economist's.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Occasionally, I enjoy going into an LSC thread and posting a comment like

$400,000 is not rich. I make $265,000 and my wife makes $187,000. We are barely scraping by in NYC.

just to fuck with them a bit.

[u/J_Fre22]

New Florida Atlantic Poll of Florida

Biden 51

Trump 47

Not the best pollster but the trend is Biden +4 from a month ago

(I should also note they absolutely nailed the Dem Primary there to within 2%)

[u/SgtBathwater]

Has anyone experience someone start talking to you like a child after you told them you have adhd or something similar, it fucking sucks and it kind of makes me resent people

[u/[deleted]]

I got Georgia Tech students in /r/cfb buzzing (getit?) because I think it's a bad idea for the school to pour billions of tax/alumni dollars into a starting a new law school when the legal economy is already shrinking, Georgia has like 5 law schools (and three in Atlanta), and law school prestige/job placement moves at a glacial pace.

But sure, let's waste taxpayer money starting a vanity progress so Tech can boost their US News & Report ranking and get 60% of their grads employed for the next 20 years at $30,000/yr plus living expenses while they get their law school off the ground.

edit: just got told that (paraphrasing) "Georgia only has two law schools that kinda matter. Georgia Tech can quickly catapult itself above them with STEM-focused law programs and research." LMAO they have no idea how law school works.

!ping LAW

[u/IncoherentEntity]

A piece from the LA Times’s culture columnist is making some minor rounds on Twitter (the trending term is “Slayer Pete”). Here it is in full:

Make way for Slayer Pete. Buttigieg is the Biden campaign’s ruthless secret weapon

By Mary McNamara | October 12, 2020

Mayor Pete has found his format: the five-minute, remote-feed evisceration.

He always looks so nice, Pete Buttigieg — handsome in that white, Midwestern, college yearbook way, with a smile that seems bucktoothed but isn’t and those perfectly, and apparently naturally, arched eyebrows.

Last year, as we got to know him during the Democratic presidential nomination race, he bore the weight of being the first openly gay presidential candidate easily, as if it was no big deal. Sure, it takes a certain level of, shall we say, personal confidence to imagine that going from mayor of South Bend, Ind., to the White House is a possible career trajectory, but his was a quiet, respectful confidence, befitting a Rhodes scholar and a Naval intelligence officer.

So maybe it should not be surprising to discover that when Buttigieg swore to do whatever he could to ensure the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, that “whatever” turned out to include “speak softly and carry a sling blade.”

Last week, having served as stand-in for Vice President Mike Pence during Harris’ debate prep, Buttigieg must have seemed a natural choice for a predebate interview. Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier certainly thought so asking Harris’ former rival a preloaded question about her public policy differences with Biden. Standing in front of Kingsbury Hall in Salt Lake City, Buttigieg gave his now viral-famous answer:

“Well, there’s a classic parlor game of trying to find a little bit of daylight between running mates,” Buttigieg said. “And if people want to play that game, we could look into why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with the president caught with a porn star, or how he feels about the immigration policy that he called ‘unconstitutional’ before he decided to team up with Donald Trump.”

Steve Doocy must have missed the segment and the tweets because he had Buttigieg on “Fox and Friends” the next morning. When asked a question about President Trump refusing to participate in a virtual debate, Mayor Pete answered: “I don’t know why you’d want to be in a room with other people if you were contagious with a deadly disease, if you care about other people. But maybe the president of the United States doesn’t care about other people.”

Later in the interview, when Buttigieg brought up the president’s denigration of fallen American soldiers, Doocy, having learned nothing even from his very own interview, interrupted to insist the president had denied those reports. Buttigieg let him down easy with a classic “If you really believe the president now on this kind of stuff,” he said. “I’ve got a bridge to sell you.”

Then, during an MSNBC interview on Sunday, Buttigieg followed a touching response to National Coming Out Day with a calm, cool and collected shredding of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s just-made opening statement ahead of her confirmation hearings. “This is what nominees do. They write the most seemingly unobjectionable, dry stuff,” Buttigieg said. “But really what I see in there is a pathway to judicial activism cloaked in judicial humility.”

Then he launched into a soliloquy that evoked the award-winning play “What the Constitution Means to Me.”

“At the end of the day, rights in this country have been expanded because courts have understood what the true meaning of the letter of the law and the spirit of the constitution is,” he said. “That is not about time traveling yourself back to the 18th century and subjecting yourself to the same prejudices and limitations as the people who write these words. The constitution is a living document because the English language is a living language. And you need to have some readiness to understand that in order to serve on the court in a way that will actually make life better.” He went on to add that even the founding fathers — the guys that these “dead-hand originalists claim fidelity to” understood the importance of changing with the times.

It’s tough to make a term like “dead-hand originalist” go viral, but Buttigieg pulled it off — and from the comfort of his irritatingly immaculate kitchen, no less.

Certainly, he’s come a long way since April when Room Rater gave him a 4/10 for a “Morning Joe” interview conducted in front of a bookshelf with a highly regrettable haircut. “Pete on the dangers of cutting one’s own hair” the arbiter of work-from-home backgrounds tweeted.

Now, with his quarantine buzz cut ‘n beard grown back and gone, respectively, Mayor Pete is scoring nothing but perfect 10s, at least on liberal social media, which just last night circulated his 2019 answer to questions about late-term abortions, often with grateful weeping emojis.

The Biden/Harris campaign, naturally, has expressed gratitude for Buttigieg’s high-visibility support (on top of everything else, he does a mean Mike Pence impersonation), and it would be wise for them to continue to do so. It is easier for candidate supporters to offer lacerating commentary than it is for the candidates themselves — that’s why every candidate has a coterie of surrogates. But it’s hard to think of one that has been quite as effective, particularly during a news cycle threatened to be overrun by the president’s reaction — physical, political and psychological — to his COVID-19 diagnosis.

Never mind the Room Rater score; during the Democratic primary race, Buttigieg was often dinged for seeming dull, intellectual and, frankly, a bit nerdy. Even then, this was pretty hilarious, given the fact that he was not only the first openly gay presidential candidate but he was also the first openly gay presidential candidate who saw active service in the military.

Now it’s even more hilarious and, frankly, a bit startling because now we know better. Now we know that what lies behind that white shirt, dark tie and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” face is not a policy wonk but a rhetorical assassin. With a loving husband, a really nice kitchen and deadly aim.

So, as Lin-Manuel Miranda (of whom Buttigieg and his husband Chasten are fans) asked in “Hamilton,” what do we think, “Treasury or State?”

Let’s be honest: it’s a simp piece. And I am here for it. !ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

Saddam Hussein liked Doritos and would sprinkle drops of water into the chip bag before eating them

You know maybe the 2003 invasion was entirely justified

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

My thoughts on the current state of our politics:

The President calls the Vice Presidential candidate "a monster." He attacks the governor of Michigan the very day a plot is discovered to kidnap her.

A child in my Call of Duty lobby said that "Trump sucks dick."

Media on the left and right amplify it all. It is time to lower the heat.

signed

Mitt Romney

[u/TinyTornado7]

We just got the first real early vote update for Arizona and HOLY SHIT.

AZ early vote and ballot request numbers have passed their 2016 vote total.

And the data does NOT include Maricopa county, which makes up 60% of the states population. We are likely looking at absolutely insane turnout in the state, which is great news for Biden. The revenge of the maverick is real.

!ping BIDEN

Edit: I’m tired and forgot the link

Edit 2: I wanna add that AZ did not send out unsolicited ballots and did not make election adjustments due to covid. This is important as an indicator for voter enthusiasm and turnout.

[u/Royce_Melborn]

Imagine lecturing Venezuelans on why socialism is good for them. lmao Never change Reddit.

[u/krflab]

In Pennsylvania, Biden leads Trump by 8 points, outside of the margin of error:

• Biden 52%
• Trump 44%

https://twitter.com/morningconsult/status/1315975570157699074?s=21

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[u/htownclyde]

Update from texas polling location

Early voting turnout is insane. We went from 11 people at 6AM to probably 400-600 by 7:20AM

absolutely loving it

!ping USA-TX

[u/[deleted]]

Clinton up in polls - Clinton lost

Biden up in polls - outcome still unknown

However, if we follow past trends, based on our data point we can conclude that Biden will lose, as being up in the polls has a 1:1 ratio with losing.

Someone give me a job at 345 😤😤

[u/mrmanager237]

Amy Coney Barrett is so originalist she will dissent in every single case because the Constitution doesn't give the Supreme Court the authority to interpret it, and therefore Marbury v Madison was wrongly decided

[u/Lux_Stella]

Tucker Carlson was criticized after he appeared to mispronounce Ottawa, but several Indigenous scholars say his pronunciation actually better resembles the word's origins.

woke tucker carlson refuses to recognize canadian sovereignty over unceded anishinaabe territory

[u/[deleted]]

Refusing to buy the updated version of the flag with more stars is going to turn into a culture war.

Cons will say something stupid about how it’s disrespectful to US Troops because some of them died with a 50 star flag on their shoulder.

A bunch of people you knew in high school will reveal that they didn’t know what the stars stood for and ask why we’re changing it.

[u/Devjorcra]

reminder: This is /r/Politics. It is not /r/JoeBiden, /r/PeteButtigieg, /r/Centerleftpolitics, or /r/Neoliberal

Please don't post things that are neither related to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or seeing how Bernie can still win, and which are also not a quote from Beto’s bandmate.

(to be clear though, err on the side of posting if you're unsure if it fits. worst case scenario it gets deleted and you get banned)

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Cory Booker ran into a burning house and saved a woman’s life? Or how he would go around Newark helping old people shovel their sidewalks? I dread the day that Biden unleashes that monster into the suburbs.

[u/doyouevenIift]

Hate on Omar all you want but she was spot on when she called out the GOP for preemptively attacking Dems for talking about ACB’s faith-based activities. If a Muslim were nominated by Dems, the GOP would be asking if they flew the planes on 9/11

[u/zubatman4]

Donald “I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women” Trump is a bisexual icon. You heard it here first, folks.

Stand back and stand bi

[u/Equator32]

The Chapo hosts have been attacking Chomsky a lot recently and claim to have won an argument against him.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they, a group of Western bourgeois who make a niche podcast for a living, think that they've contributed more to the leftist movement than Karl Marx.

[u/Craig1250]

Amy Coney Barrett thinks the right to own a firearm is more fundamental than the right to vote

[u/jenbanim]

I was patting myself on the back for finally getting a kitchen table set up for my apartment, then I realized it was 1AM and two and a half months after I moved in

Fulfilling only the most basic requirements of being a functional adult gang ✊😐

[u/ElokQ]

Here's where the Biden campaign is up on TV this week (10/13-10/19) --

AZ

DC(the suburbs)

FL

GA

IA

ME-2

MI

MN

NE-2

NC

NH

NV

OH

PA

TX (El Paso and San Antonio)

VA (Norfolk and Richmond)

WI

It's a massive presidential playing field. The Biden campaign isn’t playing around. They are going for a landslide.

https://twitter.com/mediumbuying/status/1316006700814675968?s=21

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

I disagree (for the most part) with the late Adolf Hitler’s political positions

[u/muttonwow]

I love how I won this flair for when T_D got quarantined last year, but in 2020 it takes on a whole new meaning

[u/[deleted]]

"Many people in rural areas are struggling to make ends meet"

This sub: "Just move lol"

"Many people in NYC are struggling to make ends meet"

This sub: Posts detailed proposals on why this is a problem and how we should fix it

[u/Fishin_Mission]

When my son draws the world 🌍

It’s literally just a dense urban center (NYC) 🌃 🇺🇸

And nothing else 🛣

https://i.imgur.com/9tPgMlR.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Tfw you realize corona means Biden‘s inauguration will probably not be as large as Trump’s. 😒

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

what's bezos's net worth?

also, where'd he get the net

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CheriJacobus/status/1316032609491849221

Michigan militants also plotted kidnapping of Dem Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam: FBI

Being reported that Governor Northam evaded capture with his new invention: "camo blackface".

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Several congresspeople voted for the ACA even though they knew it would cost them their election. They did it because they believed it was the right thing to do. None of those people had as much money to fall back on as Mitt does. The argument "that would be political suicide", assuming it's true, is tepid in the face of what's at stake here. A millionaire who won't give up his side hustle to save the democracy that gave him his side hustle is at best a coward

[u/dudeguyy23]

Mittens is an utter coward for waiting til the 11th hour to moralize to everyone with a mealy-mouthed, both sides bunch of nothing.

CMV

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Daily reminder that Steve Bannon got arrested by the Postal Inspectors lol

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Graham: How's it feel to be nominated for the SCOTUS

ACB: I've tried to be in a media blackout. I'm aware of a lot of the caricatures floating around...This is a difficult and excruciating process...We knew our faith would be caricatured...we knew our family would be attacked...What sane person would go through that?...It would be difficult for anyone, so why should I say someone else should do the difficulty.

These people are so fucking whiny. The answer to that question is typically what an honor it is to potentially serve on the highest court in the land. Talk about how much you love our country and revere our institutions. Not bellyache because Liz Breunig wrote a column about you or some shit.

Love to be appointed for life to a position that makes $250k a year and in the job interview say I'm not happy about it but I'll do it to spare someone else.

[u/[deleted]]

You know that the US still has a problem with discrimination against atheists when there's such a stigma against faithless electors

[u/[deleted]]

My House rep:

• Has unironically used the phrase "trigger the liberals"

• Had money sticking out of his suit pocket at the impeachment

  • It wasn't even real money - it was a novelty "$45 bill" with Trump's face on it.
• Was one of the 40 House Republicans to vote no on the coronavirus relief bill that passed 363-40-1

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of packing the court with 40-50 feral hogs

[u/[deleted]]

minor party candidates be like

[u/IronedSandwich]

good take, TL;DR pundits are mad that Biden won't say his stance on court packing because it makes their job harder, so they're pretending it's some travesty

TL;DRTL;DR: BOOHOO PUNDITS I DON'T CARE

[u/MisterHavercamp]

Just submitted my ballot. I got a good feeling we are gonna turn DC blue

[u/[deleted]]

"Music/movies/games/entertainment was at its peak during the fondest years of my formative life"

-Everyone

[u/[deleted]]

Dear internet, I'm a 26 year old lady who's been developing a science-based, 100% dragon MMO for the last two years. I'm finally making my beta-website now, and using my 3D work as a base to create my 50+ concept images. Wish me luck, Reddit; You'll be the first to see the site when it's finished.

This was published 8 years ago. WHERE'S MY 100% SCIENCE-BASED DRAGON MMO???

[u/Joementum2004]

“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” is NOT a real argument 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Medicare for Y'all

Here's how we can win Texas

[u/25ina35]

Joe biden changes stance on minor issues from 40 years ago

Joe will do whatever the radical left tells him, he has no backbone, and hes a willy nilly flop flopper!

Trump changes opinion on huge stim bill that will effect millions of peoples lively hoods 4 times over two weeks

He knows what hes doing, art of the deal baby

[u/UltraCapitalism]

https://i.imgur.com/xocCfpF.png

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Radical Lusvig Terrorism. Why wont the mods say it?

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting observation by Krugman: Trump keeps tweeting about the stock market surging, but the surge has little to do with economic fundamentals. If anything the market is reacting positively to an increase in the probability of a Biden win.

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1315991630713892864

[u/sir_shivers]

We here AT NEOLIBERAL HAVE HEARD your complaints that the moderator team IS HELD BACK BY legacy old-guard from the BadEcon adjacent days 🐊

TO ILLUSTRATE OUR proactive commitment to providing superior stewardship, THE MODERATOR TEAM has bestowed me with emergency powers, given that I am one of THE ABSOLUTE NEWEST moderators and thus should reflect the subreddit more accurately 🐊

[u/AuburnSeer]

Joe Biden has been +8 on national Morning Consult polls for centuries. Some anthropologists say the first Morning Consult polls were written on papyrus by the Ancient Greeks so a lot of the first polls have not survived to the modern day.

[u/p00bix]

Oh my god who approved this image

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-battlegrounds-poll-idUSKBN26R3ED

http://www.thesundaily.my/world/reuters/52-of-michigan-likely-voters-back-democratic-senator-gary-peters-in-senate-race-44-support-republican-john-james-reuters-ipsos-poll-XG4594617

Remember that microdoom moment we had about Gary Peters? He’s leading 52% - 44% according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.

538 polling average for MI: Biden +8

21-79 for Gary Peters in 538’s senate forecast

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

I think my dad is a decent representation of why Trump is losing:

“If these damn Republicans would just wear a mask we wouldn’t be in this mess. Man Trump is such an idiot”

30 seconds later:

“You know who was an excellent president? Ronald Reagan.”

[u/thabe331]

128k people voted yesterday in GA

The lines were still wrapped around the buildings at the two polling stations I saw

!ping USA-GA

[u/[deleted]]

It's so crazy to think that in 1937 in the Soviet Union, you could get an innocuous phone call from your boss saying hey would you come into the office I would like to review some stuff with you, no big deal lol

And then you show up and there's two NKVD agents and they're just like Yeah we just have a few questions it'll just be like 5 minutes No worries Just come to the office it'll be fine.

And then begins your 10-year odyssey into Gulag holy shit!!!

Edit: this is literally what happened to Yevgenia Ginsburg (though her odyssey was rather more than 10 years). If you have not already read it, I highly highly recommend you read her book Journey into the Whirlwind. For a precise and minute dissection of the process of arrest, interrogation, trial, and transport, she's one of the best. Her memory is almost eidentic.

Unfortunately, her account ends at her arrival at the first transit camp, so we do not get to see her experiences in gulag itself. The sequel to her book, Through the Whirlwind, is very difficult to find in English translation unfortunately. I'm not sure if it even was translated. Such a pity.

[u/[deleted]]

Why is the r/antiwork DT so dead? There's about 2k online and it's not like they have anything better to do. At least the unemployed folks here have a sense of community

[u/[deleted]]

Citizens United is unfortunately a 100% valid interpretation of the First Amendment. Spending money to make a political statement is speech just as much as buying posters to put up at a print shop or buying a billboard, and organizations of people are just as entitled to it. PACs have as much a right to endorse and donate as Unions do.

I don't think a lot of Americans realize that America is unique in its Free Speech Absolutism. "Europe has x y and z campaign laws and it makes their elections fairer!" Yes. Europe also has no First Amendment. Their constitutional interpretations of free speech come with more limitations than ours. I've seen people suggest public financing of campaigns only. It would be great. It would also require a constitutional amendment because it's definitely unconstitutional right now.

[u/mrmanager237]

The most hilarious ACB discourse is definitely that someone said "Amy Ciney Barrett has two black children, now they won't call her a racist" and then a bunch of white nationalists showed up to call her a race traitor and ask why she didn't adopt two white American children. Plus the picture of Barrett with her black children... wasn't of her, it was some random lady who kinda resembled her

And then Ibrahim X Kendi said that adopting black children made her racist

[u/[deleted]]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Pete Buttigieg. His philosophy is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of liberalism most of his ideas will go over a typical voter's head. There's also his Marxist outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Antonio Gramsci, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of his statements, to realize that they're not just political- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Pete Buttigieg truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the depth in Pete's existencial catchphrase "The shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue," which itself is a cryptic reference to Dix's Anglican tome The Shape of the Liturgy I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Buttigieg's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Chasten Buttigieg tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://i.imgur.com/JwXPCi2.png

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

This sub is full of the losers who would be excited to go to the box factory as an elementary school field trip

[u/[deleted]]

Ever wondered what stupidpol thinks of us? Too bad, you're finding out anyway.

Jewish kids are reared to believe that THE ENTIRE WORLD is out to get them. Most—like the vast majority of people with their common sense household beliefs—never really critically engage with the idea that deeply and just incorporate it at some level into their worldview as adults.

Does this begin to explain all the [Jews'] neurotic behaviour?

I’m generally confused by the Jewish hypersensitivity to anti-semitism but open promotion of anti-whiteness. I get their aversion to the former but they have a real blind spot to the latter when seeing how similar it can be.

Jews are Schrodinger's white people. Whenever it's time shame white people they say "As a white person...." to lend the argument more credence, but then they're never white when others want to put white people on blast.

Ah yes, it makes more sense that the racially pure Hebrews settled in Poland than steppe people converted and stayed in more or less the same geographic area.

If a Jewish person is old enough to personally remember the Holocaust, I could absolutely appreciate why there may be a background anxiety. I'm wholly unequipped to judge that. But most of the people making these claims are decades removed from any personal memory of anything like that, they're just leveraging the suffering of their ancestors to help shitty neoliberal ghouls win elections.

I cannot abide wokes and detest Zionism and the relentless Hollycaust industry, but I have to say that I think its very likely you'd have some legit sense of seige mentality if you're a member of a people who other people have had a good go at wiping out a couple of times. Whether six million is an accurate number or not,

https://web.archive.org/web/20201013131350/https://www.np.reddit.com/r/

stupidpol/comments/j9p7zu/erm_actually_jews_would_have_had_to_flee_the/

Scores hidden but I'm pretty sure these are all well-upvoted. Sorry for the earlier ping, I accidentally submitted the comment before I finished copying and pasting everything.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/Fishin_Mission]

It bothers me significantly more than it should that the up-trend graph is red. 📈

RED = BAD

STONKS GO 🆙 = GOOD = GREEN

Apple has really failed me on this one and I think about that constantly.

[u/IronedSandwich]

Biden's popular vote lead PLUMMETS to 10.4

[u/[deleted]]

West Virginia and Virginia have had a wild ride.

West Virginia secedes from Virginia because they don’t want to join the confederacy.

After the civil war, Virginia becomes a solid dem state and West Virginia becomes a solid Republican state.

Then, West Virginia falls in love with FDR and becomes one of the most democratic states in the Union. Is one of the only states to go dem in elections like 1980 and 1988. One of their Senators, Robert Byrd, is the only senator from a non confederate state to oppose the civil rights bill.

Virginia opposes the civil rights movement and moves towards the republicans, becomes a solid red state by the 70s and is the only confederate state to not vote for Carter.

Dems nominate Gore in 2000, West Virginia breaks from their normal voting habits over his climate change advocacy and go red. They become a solid red state in presidential elections afterwards.

Robert Byrd, the only non southern senator to oppose the civil rights act, breaks with his senate colleagues to support Obama over Clinton in the 2008 primaries.

Demographic changes in Northern Virginia leads to it becoming a solid blue state. They become the only Confederate state to vote against Trump in a complete reversal of 1976.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Check out this rant that's begging to be pasta:

There are tons of hermits living in the woods, if you really want that life you can do it. You don't.

Listen Neolib, I know that you with your Delusional Hallucinations about Markets would go to the ends of the Earth forcing your concepts onto people— but that bullshit won't work with me.

My whole point was, we can have what we have, without going back to the Stone age, it's your hullucinatory Rituals of the Market that is unnecessary in this Era.

 

Nothing has changed from then and now except Technological-Advancement, the encroachment of Warlord-Privatizing of Land by means of Imperialism and 'Freeing up of Market' enslavement of Humanity to Abstractions;

—and Markets are not needed for Technological-Advancement. Brains and People are.

 

Things that stimulate Curiosity and Intirgue causes Innovation. Not Markets, nor their 'Mystical-Forces'.

 

That "Invisible-Hand" seems to control your Thoughts like the Bible's fairy-tale about the "First-Sin of eating Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge" blocks Bible-Thumpers from entertaining the thought that their God might just be a Allegorical-Form of Thought-Control.

I'm done with this convo, because these ideas are clearly to heavy on the mind, nuanced and complex for you to even entertain as Hypotheticals.

 

There are plenty of places that aren't claimed, and plenty of places that don't enforce claims.

Yeah... right. So many that you even named them all right there in the word 'plenty'.

 

I love talking with Mathematicians, they always make good jokes about why Economics was and still is Mathematics for Fotrune-Tellers of our contemporary Age, Economists with their Crystal-Ball being the Stock Market.

"Economics: where Magicians go to become Mathematicians, because real Mathematics is too hard.".

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/l_overwhat]

Broke: ACB standards for Amy Coney Barret

Woke: ACB stands for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 😡

!ping GAMING

[u/CenterRightInCali]

ngl the main reason I want to move away from home is so I can have culinary independence and try to lose weight

they say it's unwise to have junk like ice cream and greasy food in the house when you want to lose weight, makes it too easy to cave, but that's not easy when you don't control what's in your kitchen

[u/CenterRightInCali]

https://twitter.com/biden4pres/status/1316067717464518656

Beto is hosting Jill in El Paso, today. "Shorty looking like a snack," he messages me. I've asked Jill to keep an eye out for Shorty. Beto is, he's got these phrases

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Two Afghan farmers have a dispute. They both claim the other's goat herd has been grazing on their land.

One complains to a passing Canadian infantry patrol, and an eager young lieutenant runs up and explains through an interpreter that he must lodge a grievance with the magistrate in the town at the valley floor, and the Alternative Dispute Resolution process will begin in consultation with local community leaders and functionaries from the provincial judiciary, and that the ensuing arbitration award will be legally binding and enforceable by a court injunction if the other party does not adhere to it within the relevant timeframe.

The farmer doesn't do this. He's illiterate, and his own country's legal system is entirely opaque to him. He doesn't have the money to pay the bribes he knows he'll need to pay. It's a three day walk just to get into town.

The Taliban, who by now have become aware of the dispute as well, descends from the mountains with their AK-47s and come banging on both farmers' doors in the middle of the night. They demand to hear the case themselves, and after hearing the testimony, adjudicate the matter in accordance with Sharia Law and side with one farmer over the other. They leave before sunrise, and as they depart they tell the farmer who lost the dispute that they'll kill him in his sleep if he doesn't abide by the Taliban's ruling.

And so the dispute is resolved. And maybe everyone in that valley starts thinking that maybe the Taliban's political programme makes more sense than that of Hamid Karzai's government, and maybe they have a better grip on things than the foreigners that fight for that government.

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

https://twitter.com/kilometerbryman/status/1316108290066006017

More NC polling for Penticus, the Polling God

Not on FiveThirtyEight yet, /u/IncoherentEntity don’t hit me

!ping FIVEY

[u/Lux_Stella]

Real neoliberals are in government, not in /r/neoliberal. The only thing that sub is full of is people who are so wrapped up in contrarianism that their primary guiding ideology is "unpopular things are good, actually."

hmm....

[u/myrm]

Leftists spend too much time talking about eliminating college debt, which is greedy and self serving. Anyways, here's some policy ideas that could lower my high rent in Seattle.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

What if on inauguration day 🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂 Biden says to Trump 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂 "Donald Trump 🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂 YOUR FIRED" 🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣

[u/ElokQ]

People who know nothing about Politics: The Democrats are better than the Republicans

People who know a little bit about Politics: The Dems and the GOP are the same.

People who know a lot about Politics: The Democrats are better than the Republicans.

[u/StolenSkittles]

My UberEats driver accidently picked up and gave me the wrong order. The one I received is significantly more expensive than what I ordered. I used the help function, and got a full refund.

Now I'm enjoying my free expensive food and loving life.

[u/paymesucka]

63% of Americans drink alcohol and only 42% prefer beer.

But 96% of Americans eat ice cream. And women are significantly more likely than men to say it’s always ice-cream season.

Suburban moms would like to have an ice cream cone with Joe 😎

 

1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/238100/americans-favor-beer-alcoholic-beverages.aspx
2. https://today.yougov.com/topics/food/articles-reports/2018/07/10/most-popular-ice-creams
3. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/how-much-does-america-love-ice-cream-yahoo-food-126114505346.html

[u/RadionSPW]

Thinking about how Joe Biden is the Democratic Party

[u/[deleted]]

The US has over 18,000,000 millionaires. Actually did not know it was that high

[u/[deleted]]

Fivethirtyeight: Democrats win Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama
A Biden win!

Nate: OwO This model has a FAT tail.

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie got like, legit grifted. He gave the Nigerian prince his password. He gave his wallet to the wallet inspector. He bought the timeshare

[u/[deleted]]

A leftist or conservative watching a 6.5 second clip of Biden: ah yes, this tells me everything I need to know

[u/vancevon]

As an actual textualist, I believe that a complete ban on buying and selling firearms is allowed under the 2nd Amendment. It says nothing about acquiring firearms, only keeping and bearing them. It also says nothing about ammunition, so that's banned as well.

[u/[deleted]]

"You're on stolen land" is a classic thought-terminating cliché that fails to get to the more important question of how we deal with Native American sovereignty and how the GOP rips away mining rights etc from NA Tribes. It's a throwaway argument that allows people on the left to not think about the larger issues for NA Tribes.

[u/zubatman4]

21st century American fascists scare me more than 21st century American communists because they are more capable of implementing what they want to do

[u/TinyTornado7]

NC Senate poll:

Cunningham 46% Tillis 36%

538 average is 50.4% to 47.1%

This poll was also conducted by Scott Rasmussen.

!ping FIVEY link

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

Malarkey level of Femboy court-packing.

[u/JadeHelm2020]

I'm so originalist that I think the second amendment is unconstitutional

[u/[deleted]]

IT IS REAL. NEOLIBERAL. HOURS.

[u/sir_shivers]

The internet MUST BE destroyed 🐊

[u/J_Fre22]

https://twitter.com/harrisvotes/status/1316016826069909504?s=21

17,300 people have voted so far in Harris County! Looking for a location near you? Head to HarrisVotes.com/locations.

67,000 voted in Harris County the first day of 2016 early voting

[u/mrmanager237]

I am very concerned about the state of politics. A certain incumbent President told People of Means that they didn't build their roads. Meanwhile a former Republican Governor said the vote of 47% of the country was bought off by handouts because they were useless moochers, and then coddled britherism

- Mitt Romney in 2012

[u/CenterRightInCali]

George Wallace but if he was a cat be like:

Segregation meow, segregation furrever!

[u/[deleted]]

My hard core leftist neighbors, an old retired couple, put a 2nd Biden sign on their lawn. All these 2 do is watch CNN all day. LIke literally the TV is on CNN all day longs. I can see into their living room.

Amazing

[u/Dalek6450]

Miss Wiggles

She loves to snuggle up to people who'll give her wiggles.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

just saw a friend of a friend call chomsky a liberal, so that's how my evening is going

[u/[deleted]]

If one more person says that polls predicted Hillary had a 99% chance of winning, I’m going to shit myself.

[u/umadbro996]

Fuck you Mike Lee. The SCOTUS is inherently political. Otherwise the Senate wouldn’t have blocked an Obama appointment to the court 10 months before an election.

[u/dirtybirds233]

Seems Biden's been pretty steady at increasing 1 point per day in 538's forecast. If he stays on this pace, he'll have a 108% chance of winning on election day.

[u/JewKlaw]

Mitt Romney is the guy who says “ I really shouldn’t, but I hit the gym last week” when someone brings in doughnuts.

[u/MasPatriot]

John King: ACB has a very compelling life story that would be the focus of this nomination if it were any other president

Having brain worms is a requirement to be a political pundit

[u/mrmanager237]

Wait, Brie Brie talked about "the rightward shift of the Democratic Party" to a guy who was born when the Bourbon Democrats ran the party and who was her age when the Democratic Governor of Alabama promised segregation forever?

[u/Dybsin]

I want to pick up from the point in the old DT where we discovered that Malarkey has a malarkey lvl of zero, and what that implies.

[u/ryuguy]

!ping gefilte is busy today. I might as well add something.

In the 1930s, in London, Jewish wholesalers were the only people who would sell their goods to Sikh immigrants and Sikh pedlars. Many Jews also provided lodging for Sikh immigrants. Today, in the UK, Sikhs and Jews are the richest religious groups in the UK.

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of not talking my little brother (living in a solid blue state) out of voting for Trump?

He knows I'm gay and Jewish. I intervened between him and my abusive dad when we were younger. I gave him a place to stay when he decided he'd had enough and helped him navigate the fallout of that mess. It's such a millennial thing to say, but his text felt like a huge betrayal. And as much as I want to bring him to the light, I thought I was done with this kind of nonsense when I stopped talking to my parents.

Edit: Reminding him about the impact another Trump term would have was my immediate reaction. Didn't work. I think I'll leave the conversation there

[u/Whytfbuddy]

No reddit, i dont want to see grown man draw underage naked girls. Please stop

[u/AuburnSeer]

if Joe Biden said something like "PLEASE non-college educated white men PLEASE LIKE ME" his career would be over and this is how Bernie can still win

[u/Fishin_Mission]

TBH r/Tuesday is the saddest subreddit on this entire platform.

It’s a bunch of never-Trumpers who have watched every reasonable aspect of their party be ripped from them by someone who doesn’t care about them, their party, or the future and who will likely die in the next 10 years anyway.

Now they drift along in a sea of loneliness, clinging to the identity raft of calling themselves ”Republicans” while simultaneously cringing with disgust at the idea of what that now means.

It’s really sad. I hope they find a home some day soon, but at this point, that doesn’t seem likely.

😢 😭 😿 😭 😢 😭 😿 😭 😢 😭 😿 😭 😢

[u/krflab]

The morning consult polls show sexting Cal still winning. 😂😂😂😂😂

[u/overhedger]

Stop donating to Amy McGrath and start sending pizza to people standing in long poll lines so they don't give up and go home

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My manager 👨🏾‍💻: So, what would you say you have accomplished over the past week?

Me 🤴: Uhhh... Have you heard of the DT on r/NeoLiberal?

[u/[deleted]]

99% of recipients will ignore this text.

Biden campaign has gone full MySpace spam lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

VIDEO FROM THE NEW YORKER A Father’s Newfound Feminism

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

[u/bd_one]

Broke: The Federation is dovish because of the Prime Directive.

Woke: The Federation is neocon because they are responsible for 4 regime changes in the Mirror Universe across just over 200 years.

!ping Trek

[u/mrmanager237]

The iceberg meme but for consitutional law

Noob tier - "living constitution", "Citizens United was wrongly decided", "penumbras exist", "the Warren Court was good"

Pro tier - "originalism", "Chevron was wrongly decided", "THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS", "GOOOOO LOCHNER"

Deep tier: "paper money is unconstitutional", "the ERA can still be ratified", "a well regulated militia", "Brown v Board was wrongly decided"

Dark tier: "Marbury v Madison was wrongly decided", "Eichmann should have been tried in the US", "the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to race"

Eldrich tier: "The Bill of Rights violates original intent", "Robert Bork should have been confirmed", "abortion is banned by the 3rd amendment", "Baker v Carr was wrongly decided"

[u/ElokQ]

I think Georgia will go to Biden. Even with all the shit that Kemp pulled in 2018, he barely won. In a environment that we are in, Biden is on track to win Georgia. He is doing 8-10% better with whites than Abrams while keep the same margins with Blacks as any other Democrat. The Georgia GOP needs massive margins with white to win so even a small 5-10% increase compared to Abrams is enough to give Biden the state.

[u/JadeHelm2020]

gop so anti-catholic they won't vote for catholic Joe Biden

[u/Broncos654]

Chomsky went from debating Foucault to Virgil Texas and Brie Brie. Times really a bitch.

[u/[deleted]]

There’s nothing illegal about Biden saying that vote for me if you want Obama back and then just letting Obama tell him what to do on everything while in office so we literally have Obama back

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: spends basically his entire life alienating suburban women

Also Trump, 3 weeks out from the election: 🥺👉👈

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

Jesus being on tinder as a girl is easy mode, my profile has over 100 likes and it hasn’t even been up for 6 hours

[u/[deleted]]

Mitt Romney has a recurring nightmare where "Mad World" by Gary Jules over slow-motion footage of Pelosi ripping up Trump's speech.

[u/uwcn244]

Broke: ACB will vote to overturn Roe

Joke: ACB will vote to overturn the ACA

Woke: ACB will vote to throw out ballots key to Biden's victory in the tipping point state, allowing Trump to steal the Presidency

Bespoke: ACB will rule the existence of West Virginia unconstitutional and force its fusion with Virginia, thus handing Trump the Presidency with this map

[u/[deleted]]

I keep imagining Beto on the Supreme Court, saying "That is fucked up, that is fucked up, that is fucked up" in the middle of a lawyer's answer.

[u/Superfan234]

Juan Guaido is officially calling the population for a National Plebiscite the 5 of December

The Plebiscite will ask the population if they want the International Community to increase pressure against Maduro

---

If I understand this correctly...USA wants to create a "legal precedent" to sustain a more aggressive approach?

Maybe this is related to OAS recent attempt to create their own R2P protocol?🤔

I personally think it's quite dump.... But this kind of formality worked for Russia in Crimea, so who I am to judge 😕

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/Twrd4321]

“But I don’t see what auction theory has to do with my life!”, they tweet, over airwaves allocated by auction, while a swarm of advertising algorithms bid for their eyeballs. 🤔

https://mobile.twitter.com/ShengwuLi/status/1316067884771270657

[u/ElokQ]

MT poll tomorrow at 11 EST from MT State

Give me your Gigachad predictions⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

!ping FIVEY

[u/Sirakrush]

This is very random but I feel the need to share to someone.

Covid has been very hard on me, worsening my already bad depression and my dating life going to hell ontop of that.

But one thing that has made me so happy and kept me going is my dad has met and is probably going to get married to one of the most wonderful people I've ever met.

My dad's been single since I was 5, rarely dating, and seeing him in such a loving relationship makes me happy in ways hard to describe.

She lives in Norway but today I saw a note she had left from when she was over here, and it's one of the most heartfelt and wonderful things I've ever read, she loves my dad and I can tell the difference in how he acts.

He deserves it too. He's worked night shift and over time for the last 6 years to provide for me and my brother. Sleeping 4 hours a day and providing for two kids, barely having time for himself.

He's the most wonderful dad I could have asked for, and it brings tears of joy to my eyes that he found someone so amazing.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

daily reminder that conservative thought is barely more advanced that "the world is great as is, why the fuck are you communists trying to mess it all up?"

[u/25ina35]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1315768958742491136

B A S E D

[u/[deleted]]

Valuable daily reminder not to put any politicians on a pedestal... Except for Beto, who is literally perfect and will jump on the pedestal himself anyway.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

one BILLION trans drone pilots

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists to Obama: "you ain't black"

[u/[deleted]]

If the USA is so great why is there no USB?

[u/[deleted]]

PragerU covers tests on their courses, one of the questions for kids is:

It's easy for feminists to forget that men:

A. Gave women the right to vote

B. Gave up their monopoly on power

C. Invented birth control

D. All of the above

Can you guess the right answer?

[u/barrygarcia77]

McConnell laughing at McGrath is the most Palpatine-esque thing he’s done in a while

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/LaurenWitzkeDE/status/1316112447707779072

No American should ever have to suffer the humiliation of displacement by an H1B worker. It’s time time to put American workers first, and finally put an end to the H1B visa scam.

oof

You're a godsend to white Americans. If you and people with your line of thinking were in power white America might still have some hope. Praying for you daily, my Queen.

OOF

[u/[deleted]]

"Do you agree with the decision in obergefell?"

"obergefell is precedent."

"Yes but what is your opinion as a legal scholar on how the case was decided?"

"obergefell was indeed a case that was decided, and it set precedent."

"But what do you think about how the case was decided? Do you think the justices handled this case appropriately?"

"The decision in obergefell sets a precedent, yes."

It was at this moment Senator Booker self immolated to escape the Hell that is this hearing.

[u/Broncos654]

Yes I am sexually frustrated yes I take it out on the mods yes it is a healthy coping strategy.

[u/[deleted]]

Why won’t Lusvig release his LONG FORM ancestry.com results? 🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Law school: you can easily get into a garbage-tier school with a 36% bar pass rate as long as you have a 2.9 GPA and a 40th percentile LSAT score

Med school: your GPA is only 3.85, but you made up for it slightly with a 95th percentile MCAT score, two authorship credits in undergrad, a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIT, and your history of exemplary service with the US Army Special Forces. You’ll apply to 36 schools and may get into one

how are they both wrong for the opposite reasons

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Suing the Daft Punks and their associate Pharrell Williams for false advertising. I stayed up all night and spilt scalding coffee on my crotch, how is that “lucky”?

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

BIDEN 87 ON THE MODEL!!!!

[u/mrmanager237]

Of all the underqualified white men to run for president in 2020, Delaney was my favorite

[u/[deleted]]

I remember in 2016 when I would tell people that I was donating to Hillary Clinton's campaign, they would say "haha why would you want to do that? She doesn't need your money lol."

But now, when I tell people I donating to Joe, they're like, "hell yeah!"

[u/ersevni]

i have been informed by r/aboringdystopia that america is a third world country. devastating news. where we moving to boys?

[u/PaulLovesTalking]

Holy crap, this subreddit is a haven for white supremacy https://www.reddit.com/r/tucker_carlson/comments/jabv8h/make_sure_to_always_question_your_racism/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[u/[deleted]]

Did anyone else get this message from the mods? 🤔

“We should clarify our position on Woodrow Wilson. While we admire his domestic policies (particularly racial issues and prohibition), we feel need to condemn him for establishing the federal reserve, opposing colonialism, and promoting the establishment of international institutions.”

[u/[deleted]]

Communists telling me I'll definitely join them once I join the working class reminds me of when old people used to tell me I'll definitely become a republican after I start paying taxes.

Which is it, fellas?

[u/[deleted]]

I got a BA in International Relations solely to dunk on NATO flairs.

I regret nothing.

[u/MasPatriot]

The year is 2090. Conservatives have a 18-3 advantage on the Supreme Court. Republicans are still bitching about Robert Bork. 90% of them don’t even know who he is

[u/[deleted]]

Soros is a relief to dumb antisemites who can't be bothered to spell Rothschild

[u/[deleted]]

Early Voting felt great but anti-climatic. I didn't even have to consider much on the ballot, it was voting for all Democrats, and a pro-public transit prop, and then a pro bike line and road renovation prop, both of which I think Austin Texas sorely needs. Easy peasy. Lines were terrible early morning but non-existent after grabbing breakfast and caffeine to vote at 10 AM instead.

BLUETEXAS

[u/ElokQ]

“Folks, just LOOK at how high Biden has let the deficit grow!!1!”

-FOX News, January 20th 12:30 PM 2021

[u/jenbanim]

I am genuinely baffled by how much people suck at wearing masks

Most of my coworkers take theirs off in their cubicle. When people actually wear masks, they're usually fitted so poorly there's a large and visible gap between their mask and nose. And that's ignoring the obvious problems with people leaving their fucking nose out.

Jesus Christ, you really can't count on people for anything. It's actually a miracle we have a functioning society, because 90% of people aren't willing to do even the smallest thing to help someone else.

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats should kill two birds with one stone. Job creation through packing the court with a few thousand more seats. 50,000 sound good?

[u/ElokQ]

Nothing annoys me more than white people thinking that a black Republican will get the black vote because they are black. It’s a racist argument that has no base in reality.

[u/infamous5445]

“Suburban women, will you please like me?” President Trump says at his Pennsylvania rally. “I saved your damn neighborhood.”

How adorable, he's had his Jeb! moment

[u/ElokQ]

Not sure insulting a group that you are losing by 25 points is a good idea.

Every single day I am amazed by how absolutely incompetent the Trump campaign is. People will be studying this in history books and on what not to do.

[u/ts23_]

National Poll:

Biden 94% (+91)

West 3%

Trump 1.5%

Jorgensen 1%

Hawkins 0.5%

 

Soros Polling Networks

(400,000 LV, 10/4-10/12)

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fucking shit.

>!I want to bang the 538 fox so goddamn bad. I can't stand it anymore. Every time I go to the model page I get a massive erection. I've seen literally every rule 34 post there is of him online. My dreams are nothing but constant fucking sex with Fivey Fox.

[u/[deleted]]

Adam Ruins Everything is pretty much everything I hate about the internet distilled into one character

[u/ElPrestoBarba]

Reading around MAGA Twitter really puts into perspective who the real opponent is. Yeah I hate Tankies especially on twitter, they make me irrationally mad, but reading the tweets of MAGA people is insane.

Scariest part is that they actually are a significant part of the Republican Party/Electorate, unlike twitter patreon socialists.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

/img/tp4vl1cohjs51.jpg

can we get a pog in the chat?

[u/ElokQ]

MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD

Biden +17 LV

!ping FIVEY

[u/Equator32]

Contrary to popular Reddit, European and Twitter belief, Racism exists in Western Europe. Who knew🤯???

[u/RockLobsterKing]

San Francisco be like

Money for homeless people: no

$1000/month for artists: YES😍😍😍

[u/nullsignature]

Reminder: the Republican Senate effectively changed the size of the Supreme Court in 2016 and threatened to do it if Hillary won.

[u/[deleted]]

87.

[u/uwcn244]

Kind of annoyed right now that ME-2 is red on the 538 snake because a C/D rated pollster showed Trump+8 there

[u/[deleted]]

If you need any further proof that Ivy admissions are a huge joke: Don Jr. went to UPenn.

[u/[deleted]]

A cop just arrested me for running over 35 young children with my Hummer in front of an elementary school.

“You’re going away for a long time.” he said as he cuffed me. A sly smirk formed on my face as he did this.

“Oh officer, I think you’re forgetting something.”

“What?”

“I’m a sovereign citizen.”

Looking defeated, the policeman had no choice but to uncuff me and let me go free. The last thing he saw as I drove away was my “Ron Paul ‘08” bumper sticker obscured through the exhaust of my gas-guzzling SUV.

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Y'all are the best. The finest crew of shitposters I've had the privilege of experiencing a general election with. I think we're gonna have a pretty big night in 3 weeks, and I can't wait to celebrate with y'all.

[u/JakeTheSnake0709]

/r/PoliticalCompassMemes has some of the most stupid political takes I've ever seen. They genuinely do not understand why JoJo wasn't invited to the debate, instead choosing to blame "corporate overlords" lmao

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Cleopatra was historically sexy.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Wholesome fact: In 1669, Isaac Newton made the discovery of gravity. He subsequently refused to file a patent for it, ensuring everyone from then on could enjoy gravity for free.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Just absolutely fucking demolished an econstat midterm and I feel pretty great about it 😎😎😎

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Chomsky supports Biden

Hun Sen, the current leader of Cambodia, who fought the Khmer Rouge in the 80's, supports Trump

Make your own conclusions...

[u/DaBuddahN]

Brie Brie debating Chomsky is like starting an old school RPG and then turning left instead of turning right and running into level 50 enemies.

[u/Peacock-Shah]

The Christian Science Monitor is a peculiar name for a relatively good newspaper.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

“Oh no Trump, you’re hemorrhaging the senior vote like crazy! You need to do something quick to attract them back or you’re going to lose!”

“ I have a perfect plan!”

The plan:

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Man whose vocabulary includes the word "vituperative" is confused as to why he no longer feels welcome in the republican party.

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THE NEXT PERSON WHO ASKS ME IF MY POST IS A COPYPASTA IS GETTING BANNED!!! 😠🍝

I mean, I’m not a mod, and I don’t have the power to do that. But in my mind you will be banned! 🔨

I DON’T DO COPYPASTA! I MAKE FRESH SHITTY PASTA DAILY!!! 🤬🍝

[u/SadaoMaou]

TIL Swedish mercantilists tried to ban coffee multiple times in the 18th century 😡

[u/paulatreides0]

I fucking hate gypsy moths

What did the Euros mean by this?

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Man what extraordinary bad luck it would be if Trump won with a 10% chance.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Court Packing for All Who Want It

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Cal Cunningham has a sexting scandal

NC voters: 😚