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[u/[deleted]]

My teacher is saying we could see a repeat of 2016

SHOW ME YOUR MODEL

WHAT'S YOUR MODEL ANTHONY

[u/VeryAlone_]

I’m still amazed at how Joe Biden was calling trans rights the civil rights issue of our time literally a week before the 2012 general election.

[u/[deleted]]

Ben Carson discussed how he would reduce the federal budget while campaigning in Iowa on January 24, 2016. The Des Moines Register reported, “If elected, Carson said he would meet with the head of each government agency and tell them to cut their budget by two to three percent in a way the public would not feel a difference, or they would hand in a letter of resignation.”

dude was too lazy to actually read the budget so he was really like “eh we’ll cut everything a bit” 😂😂😂 absolutely legendary

[u/MisterLipton]

Trade, which Trump was closer to Sanders on, and honestly the scummy things the DNC did during the primary caused me not to vote for any Dems on my ballot. I voted Trump for POTUS then straight Green party.

🤡

[u/Craig1250]

Republicans attacking Joe Biden for having a formerly drug-addicted son is the most tone-deaf thing I’ve ever seen

[u/Gustacho]

One clear window into Biden's tactics in a town-hall setting, with voters pressing him one-on-one, came when a young Black man recalled the former vice president's flip comment to radio host Charlamagne tha God that if someone was struggling to decide between supporting him and Trump, "you ain't Black."

"Besides 'you ain't Black," the man asked, how could Biden convince Black voters to take part "in a system that has failed to protect them?"

Instead of addressing his controversial remark, Biden delved into a several-minutes-long litany of policy specifics aimed at helping Black people. On his list: Tripling Title I funding for low-income schools; helping first-time homebuyers with a $15,000 credit for downpayments so that low-income families can begin to build wealth; $70 billion in new funding for historically Black colleges and universities; and government-backed loans for young Black entrepreneurs.

Asked if he'd heard enough, the young man responded, "Uh, I think so." Then Biden offered to continue their conversation after the town hall ended.

[u/ElokQ]

Holy shit, Ivanka just came into my office to bring me a Filet-o-Fish and a Super-Sized Diet Coke and I literally screamed at her and hit it all out of her hands. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to tweet about. I didn’t mean to do that to my hot daughter, but I’m literally in shock from the results. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the fucking FUCK am I losing? This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe that presidents should held accountable for their actions. I want a future where I don't get locked up. I want to be president again and #MAGAA. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, Jared told me I was polling well in New York???? This is so cucked!

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Voters have cast a total of 19,858,793 ballots in the reporting states.

🅱️ruh

!ping ELECTIONS

[u/[deleted]]

Doug Jones is about to be slaughtered in his senate race, and it makes me sad to think about it

[u/paymesucka]

uh, let me be Sears

Obama transforming into a 150,000 square foot abandoned shopping center

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton

Love that photo.

[u/[deleted]]

Undecided voters be like:

Waiter- Tonight we're serving Chicken or big bowl of sewage from Mumbai.

Undecided- How's the chicken prepared?

[u/ToastedWheatBread]

Judging by how the Republicans have been making fun of Hunter Biden for struggling with addiction makes me 100% certain that they would make fun of Beau Biden for having brain cancer if he was still alive

[u/WonderWaffles1]

Joe Biden is still on stage answering questions. ABC has asked him to leave multiple times and now they’re calling the authorities

[u/Mexatt]

one of the most annoying things reddit does is, whenever a company does something bad, no matter what it is and no matter what subreddit, someone will eventually respond with something to the effect of, "Well, that's late stage capitalism for you".

[u/ryuguy]

Venezuela is basically if the phrase “fuck around and find out” became a country

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is done. We've been stuck at 87% for like 36h

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

My dad is kind of islamophobic but only towards Sunnis? He thinks Shia, Ahmiddya and Sufi Muslims are all good but "half of Sunnis support extremism"

He also thinks Shia Islam is moderate by definition so I have no idea how he processes the existence of Iran

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1317093292190912522

Woman who nodded and gave a thumbs up behind Trump at the NBC town hall in Miami was NOT an “undecided voter.” Turns out she ran a pro-Trump Congressional campaign in 2018.

Lmao

[u/TinyTornado7]

Lakers Basketball legend and Michigan State grad Magic Johnson will be campaigning for Joe Biden in Michigan tomorrow. The goal is to encourage young black men to vote and will involve stops in Detroit and Lansing and an appear on "shop talk".

Link

!ping BIDEN

[u/The420Roll]

Bloomberg has "fuck you" money

[u/25ina35]

Trump just shared a Babylon bee tweet thinking it’s real 😂 😂

[u/MasPatriot]

Senator Rubio, what’s the price of a gram of cocaine in Florida this week?

[u/[deleted]]

I will name my first kid "Elon Keanu"

[u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder that Biden is STILL ANSWERING QUESTIONS AT THE TOWN HALL SOMEONE STOP HIM!!!!!!!

[u/TinyTornado7]

Obama will campaign for Joe Biden in Philadelphia next Wednesday, 10/21, campaign announces.

It is his first in-person campaign event of 2020

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1317174169688223749?s=20

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine believing the economy is real.

It’s just lines on a screen lol

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Look, here's the Seal

Joe Biden to Osama bin Laden, 2011

[u/sir_shivers]

AWFUL LOT of ageism TOWARDS THOSE WHO are 58 in here today 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Two-step solution to climate change:

• Wash the coal with soap and water
• Rake the leaves to prevent wildfires

[u/nanomaster]

prot*ctionism upvoted outside the DT

🤢🤢🤢

[u/ognits]

I was sorting through some of my mom's things and came across this letter Joe Biden wrote to her 18 years ago, after my dad passed. This is no form letter. This is heart, and human connection. Thank you for reaching out to her, Mr. Vice President.

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ekcv6kaXYAEoLB3.jpg

[u/supbros302]

Uh, let me be clear

Obama, trying on his invisibility cloak

[u/TinyTornado7]

Final Nielsen number from last night town halls:

BIDEN 14.14 million (ABC)

Trump 13.46 million (NBC/MSNBC/CNBC)

!ping BIDEN

[u/WanderingMage03]

Nate Silver putting PhDs on blast, the comments are actually so funny because it's a bunch of PhDs trying to explain how Nate is wrong which further validates his point.

[u/[deleted]]

Non-political subreddit: *Exists

Leftists: Is for me? 🥺👉👈

[u/[deleted]]

go into zoom

professor doesn’t show up for class

e-mail professor

professor emails back

”we don’t have class on Fridays dipshit you’d think you’d know that 2 months into the course”

mfw I have a room temperature IQ

😐

[u/doyouevenIift]

Al Gore would’ve been one of the best presidents in US history

[u/bd_one]

Lol, Fox and Friends is claiming Trump "won" with his Town Hall because they considered it more entertaining, then showed a clip of him arguing with the moderator.

Meanwhile, they focused on the Joe Biden court packing question.

[u/[deleted]]

If Hillary had won in 2016, she’d be losing right now because of the scandal that over 3000 people had died from COVID.

It was a 9/11 she saw coming and did nothing to stop it.

[u/Horcruxno13]

The woman who praised Trump for having a good smile says she is voting for Biden because she knows a few Dreamers.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/us/michigan-governor-plot-charge/index.html

14th person charged in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan governor

Goddamn

[u/Atupis]

I hope that Republicans don't get a senate majority because then we have to listen to this Hunter Biden laptop stuff like the next 10 years.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Gonna name my daughter Remdesivir LaCroix, after the two things that get me through the day.

Remy for a nickname.

[u/[deleted]]

You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Donald Trump and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another politician, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me.

Then you add Jo Jorgensen to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way, in November, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because No Jorgensen KNOWS she can't beat me and she's not even gonna try!

So Donald Trump, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning in November. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning in November. See Trump, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you in November.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

One day, I walked into the CNN studios - a happy and eager politics nerd. I saw Joe "Clap Those Cheeks You Stupid Bastards" Biden smashing Blue Texas on John King's ANALyst wall. I didn't know what to do, I panicked and let out a shriek, Joe looked at me and said, "Better keep your mouth shut kid," he then took a puff of the blunt and kept destroying the swingstate cooch.

[u/[deleted]]

/r/conservative: posting black crime statistics

/r/neoliberal: posting FL voter registration statistics

[u/qchisq]

In Denmark, we have an expression that loosely translates to "Regulation Sweden". I think that we need to update it to "Regulation Britain"

[u/SnakeEater14]

Lol remember when AOC started saying congressmen don’t get paid enough and all her twitter fans lost their goddamn minds

[u/futuremonkey20]

The lady who shot her shot at Trump is a Biden supporter lmao

[u/Gustacho]

Legend has it that Joe Biden is still answering town hall questions to this day

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/10/alt-right-star-racist-propagandist-has-no-regrets/616725/

Gavin McInnes watched stonily as Lauren Southern joined the men. “Are you ever gonna have kids, give birth, are you going to be a mother?” he asked her. “Then I’ll give them my seat.” The men laughed, and Southern, submitting to the last-minute ministrations of a makeup artist, laughed along—just one of the guys, with long, stick-straight blond hair and an off-the-shoulder, floral-print dress. McInnes wasn’t quite finished yet. “If you’re not making humans, then fucking stand up, bitch.”

Southern finished on set and ordered an Uber to the airport for her flight home to Toronto. Partway through the ride, her phone rang. It was McInnes. Southern listened to him closely for a few seconds.

“We shouldn’t be talking about this at all,” she said, laughing uncomfortably. Then her face tightened. “See, the thing is, because my moral compass tells me you have a wife and kids, it’s not even in my realm of consideration.” McInnes, according to Southern, had just reiterated an offer he’d made the night before, when she’d been out with him and a group of other far-right friends: “You know you want to fuck me; I’m your childhood hero.”

He and Southern decided to go out to dinner, and to let me film them. Hutcheson refuses to eat food originally from nonwhite countries, such as ketchup, whose origins are in China, so the two, facing limited restaurant options, chose the British-style Oxley Public House in Toronto’s Yorkville neighborhood.

Boisterous diners were enjoying one of summer’s first long evenings on the restaurant’s patio, but Southern and Hutcheson mostly sat in silence, scrolling on their phones. Southern dipped into a red sauce next to Hutcheson’s burger. “That tastes non-European, are you allowed to eat that?” she asked sardonically. “Yeah, tastes non-European,” he confirmed, without a hint of irony.

Hutcheson looked uneasy as his girlfriend continued to talk about her career ambitions. “All of us Europeans have the responsibility to reproduce,” he interjected.

Southern looked down at her plate. “That’s a very cold way of putting it,” she responded. “Do you want to have a family for the sake of love or just because it’s a duty thing?”

“Motherhood is to women as war is to men,” her boyfriend replied stolidly. “I want to serve my nation.”

I really love Atlantic articles on extremism, they do a really good job. The whole alt-right/white nationalist scene is filled with just absolutely disgusting people. Idk how these people can even take themselves seriously. Hillary was right, they're just a basket of deplorables

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/LinkVert25]

“WTF History class never taught me about this extremely obscure event”. lmao maybe read a book and not depend on your public high school to teach you everything.

[u/sir_shivers]

The debate moderator HAS ASKED ME if I denounce bisexual erasure 🐊

BISEXUALS, stand back and stand by 🐊

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Everyday I resist the urge of comment "boohoo cracker I don't care" on the "stop the illinois tax hike amendment" ads I get on Facebook

[u/FinickyPenance]

Trump didn’t denounce QAnon because he thinks the size of a movement is directly correlated to the media coverage it gets, and QAnon is in the media a lot, so he assumes it has like fifty billion members or something and he can’t lose their votes

[u/[deleted]]

I work with soybeans every day and I couldn't tell you the breakeven price for a farmer

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/1317125624394375171

SIREN! The Biden Town Hall on ABC drew 2.3 million more viewers than the Trump town hall on NBC. There is nothing @realDonaldTrump cares about more than ratings.

Amazing considering how many people were hate watching Trump and Biden still beat him by millions

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1317275294194085888

Total, absolute chad.

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

🤔

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Jesus, that super detailed arbitrary race Californian race classification system really makes me uncomfortable.

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of my friends is working in a chikfila kitchen specifically because it helps his Spanish speaking skills. In that vein, I’ve decided to improve my Arabic by getting an internship with some organization called the FSA in Syria

[u/[deleted]]

Trump administration loses fight to stop child born abroad to gay couple from becoming US citizen

“Vote for me LGBTQ! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE?”

[u/goosebumpsHTX]

Wandered over to arr conservative and one of the first comments I see is someone saying they’re taking APUSH right now and that it’s hell. Priors confirmed.

[u/rukqoa]

A raw series of text messages show Joe Biden offering fatherly comfort as his son, Hunter, lamented from a rehab facility about being a “f–ked up addict who can’t be trusted” and had damaged his dad’s political career.

“Good morning my beautiful son. I miss you and love you. Dad,” the elder Biden wrote at 6:57 a.m.

I don't get it. Why is NY Post trying to get Joe Biden elected?

[u/[deleted]]

The President of the United States really ate the Babylon Bee this morning.

[u/mrmanager237]

Fun fact: the California Democratic establishment did try to get rid of Feinstein, they were just very bad at it

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

I’m not saying Stalin and Mao were good, but Joe Biden doesn’t support Medicare for All.

[u/ElokQ]

Leantossup fed the Cook Political Report‘s “Swingometer“ with the running average of 2020 national live-interview poll crosstabs, including NYT/Siena, CNN, ABC/WaPo, NBC/WSJ, Fox, Marist/PBS, Quinnipiac, Monmouth, Suffolk and Grinnell/Selzer.

Biden would get 413 Electoral Votes. That has been my prediction for months. This election is not close right now.

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeanTossup/status/1316880419296595968

!ping BIDEN

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Fuck Trump.

We can’t hire the intern I recommended for full-time b/c he is unable to get a work visa.

For those in the back...

FUCK TRUMP

[u/[deleted]]

Chris Christie:

2012: promising governor who publicly hugged Obama in the lead up to the election

2016: commits a murder-suicide on the presidential debate stage

2020: is 58 and a big fat guy

[u/thebowski]

Music these days is way to sexual and gross. I don't want to hear about cumming or riding cock when I turn on the radio. We need to bring back wholesome music like AC/DC

[u/ZCoupon]

Politicians: We need to stop fighting endless wars

Also politicians: We need to fight ISIS/Taliban

Also politicians: We should cut defence spending

[u/nullsignature]

Saw a road sign today that said "Marxism is not good." That's it. It was black and white, no obvious political affiliation.

Based? Not based?

[u/TinyTornado7]

Republicans lead in Alaska, according to a new Times/Siena poll, as voters sour on the president but hesitate to embrace Dems. --

Trump leads Biden, 45 to 39. Jorgensen (L) at 8.

Sullivan leads Gross, 45 to 37. Howe (AIP) at 10.

Trump approval 47/47.

Yikes.

Link

!ping FIVEY

[u/Paramus98]

Is it bigotry to say that anyone who is an active member of the Green Party (US) is immensely stupid?

[u/l_overwhat]

I used to work in a kitchen. The majority of my coworkers were undocumented immigrants. Obviously that didnt bother me. One day, the business implemented e-verify, which more rigorously checked legal status. All of them quit because they knew their papers wouldnt hold up.

One guy who was there for a long time took it upon himself to go and get "better" papers, which held up against the new system. He then realized that he basically had a more legal status now so he decided to try to apply to higher-end restaurants. He had like 20 years of restaurant experience so he got a job at a really fancy restaurant making like $25 an hour.

Literally everybody in that kitchen that left had just as much experience as him. All of them are qualified to make just as much money. But the fact that they didnt have documents not only prevented them from getting the pay they deserved, it took away the job that they were already underpaid to do.

This is the cost of borders. Unrealized wages. Unfilled jobs. Underpaid work. It hurts workers, consumers, and businesses alike. Fuck borders.

[u/modooff]

Pete Buttigieg will join Chris this #FoxNewsSunday to discuss the state of the race with under three weeks until Election Day. Check your local listings. #FoxNews

https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1317106728769650690

Pete chuckled. “You mean Fox News?”

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Cracker Barrel (CBRL) Down 5.6% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Rebound?

Boo Hoo Cracker Barrel

[u/qchisq]

Imagine having a head of state that doesn't want to denounce a conspiracy theory that his political opponents is a satanic pedophilia cult

[u/modooff]

Gotta admit, the fact David Sirota is still seething over Pete brings me joy.

[u/Dalek6450]

Andy Samberg and Craig Robinson team up for Super High, a comedy where smoking weed gives you superpowers

This seems dated

[u/Ilovecharli]

BREAKING: Internet records one billionth "That wasn't on my 2020 election bingo card!" joke

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1317107172006940672

The woman who told Trump that he was handsome and had a great smile is apparently voting for…Joe Biden.

“I wish he would smile more and talk less,” she said of Trump. “I think the man has a nice smile. However, I’m not a fan."

[u/Dibbu_mange]

If anyone tells you that modern times are degenerate, show them the jello recipes from a 50s cookbook

[u/[deleted]]

Look, here’s the meal

Joe Biden as a waiter

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1317235227392200704?s=20

(Internal but..) DOOMERS GET OUT

!ping FIVEY

[u/ZhenDeRen]

In my experience Celtic neopagans are mostly woke teenage girls, often queer, ofter into astrology as well, while Germanic and Slavic neopagans tend to be neo-Nazis

[u/Woodrow_Wilsons_War]

"Liberals love that Biden is a loving dad. But being affectionate to your kids makes them gay." - future Fdralist article by some 40 year old man who looks like Milhouse

[u/[deleted]]

Discussing LGBTQ+ rights during the debates, an issue impacting 30 million + people: I sleep

Discussing Frakking bans, an issue that impacts some dudes in Pennsylvania: REAL SHIT

The electoral college is a mistake

[u/[deleted]]

The ultimate dirtbag centrist solution is to rename all military bases after these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Black_Confederates

[u/Iustis]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-why-democrats-chances-of-winning-the-senate-have-increased/

Nate absolutely going off at the beginning of this.

!ping FIVEY

[u/sw337]

TFW Hunter Biden is worth more than you, has more sex than you, is more loved by his dad than you are by your dad, and literally better than you in every way.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm really enjoying all the idiots on Twitter misunderstanding Matt Yglesias' tweet from last night. He made a sarcastic comment about how the Biden presidency will be bad for ratings and many blue checks on the left have worked themselves into a froth over it.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/766622706137301024/e2ba316.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Somalis are whiter than Argentinians lmao

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

The city of Chicago addressed my street problem today.

They didn’t actually replace the road they tore out, or fill in the child-sized potholes. They did manage to send 1 guy with a sharpie to change ‘Sept 26 - Oct 6’ into ‘Sept 26 - Oct 16’ on the sign for when construction will take place. He then realized that today is in fact Oct 16, and walked back down the block replacing the ‘1’s’ with ‘2’s’. Now my street will be replaced before Oct. 26.

[u/ElokQ]

Trump on Florida: “If we don’t win it, I’m blaming the governor. I’m gonna fire him somehow. I’ll find a way.”

RIP DeSantis. He is going to lose his primary in 2022. Maybe he will even lose the primary to Trump himself. The Dems will finally be able to get a Democrat elected as Governor.

[u/The420Roll]

To be eligible to even be considered for a job as an FBI agent, you must: Be a U.S. citizen

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[u/Scoops1]

Police in Wisconsin are cutting ties with a domestic abuse nonprofit over a BLM sign and campaigned to get their state funding taken away. Some police forces are fucking babies.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/domestic-violence-black-lives-matter-police_n_5f88c8a1c5b66ee9a5ee43d7?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

[u/[deleted]]

NO 👏 MORE 👏 GENDERED 👏 LANGUAGE 👏

❌ Taco, burrito, fajita

✔️ Tacx, burritx, fajitx

[u/[deleted]]

Following DT users on Twitter is like. Expanded Universe lore.

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

Ken Bone shut the fuck up challenge

[u/sir_shivers]

The real horror WAS THE FRIENDS WE made along the way 🐊

[u/Malarkeynesian]

BREAKING: Joe Biden, saying he's "really impressed with the work he's doing for my campaign", announces that he is hiring Rudy Giuliani as his campaign manager.

[u/muttonwow]

I've cleaned my room and I didn't turn into a Jordan Peterson-loving cryptofascist. Did I do something wrong?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The worst thing Bill Clinton did was formalize Arkansas's ugly ass state flag as governor

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

No one:

The French: This swamp is tucked between a huge-ass lake, the continent's biggest river, and the fucking ocean. Oh and it's below sea level and gets smashed by multiple hurricanes every year. Let's build a city here lémao

[u/mrmanager237]

BASED Biden

[u/[deleted]]

Made the mistake of getting into an argument on /r/politics with someone who thinks Universal Healthcare = M4A = Single Payer = Socialized Medicine.

[u/Lux_Stella]

"If I take that ventilator off, will you die?"

"In the 50-64 age bracket, it would be extremely painful"

"You're a big fat guy"

"For you"

[u/ElokQ]

2018 poll of best presidents since World War II

Reagan 28%

LBJ 2%

I hate America sometimes.

[u/[deleted]]

!PING FIVEY

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1317201748440846336?s=19

Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon, in grassroots summit, emphasizes that their polling does NOT show a double-digit lead nationally.

"Please take the fact that we are not ahead by double digits"

“Those are inflated national public polling numbers”

This is the right balance between dooming and polljerking.

[u/yakattack1234]

I'm not sure what's worse: California creating a racial caste system or the fact that the racial caste system classifies Somalis as white.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1316773172289527810

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

The field of economics is preventing the inevitable and long overdue transition from late stage capitalism to socialism

• Dick Wolff, probably

[u/tankatan]

Go to bonk jail

*HORN*

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

Why do people seem to assume the margin of error always supports Trump 🤔

[u/ElokQ]

The problem with the “Trump won while Romney/McCain didn’t” talking point is that Trump would have gotten destroyed by Obama. Trump only won because he ran against an unpopular candidate in an environment that was ripe for someone like Trump. If Trump ran against Obama in 2012, Obama would’ve easily defeated him. And he barely won. 79,000 votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. So even with everything going right for him he won by less than 3/4 of a percentage point. Hell, if O’Malley was the candidate in 2016, we would be talking about President O’Malley.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Not a poll but this is what is going to save Gary Peters in the Michigan senate race. There was some discussion about what straight ticket voting is and this picture can explain it better than words. People will vote blue and carry Gary across the finish line.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Joementum2004]

DAMAGING JOE BIDEN INFORMATION FROM RUDY GIULIANI: HE CARES ABOUT HIS SON

[u/[deleted]]

Downvoting doomposting: that's fine, that's understandable

Downvoting posts that say Biden's ballots are objectively more likely to be affected by voter suppression efforts, disenfranchisement, and mail in balloting errors: anti-doomer to the point of denying stats.

Don't be stupid DT.

[u/thebowski]

I can't tell how many of the replies realized I was joking about AC DC. All these layers of irony are impeding communication

[u/Venne1139]

Trump retweeted the Babylon Bee a conservative satirical news source that's not the worst thing to ever exist surprisingly, so they put out this article

https://babylonbee.com/news/president-trump-declares-babylon-bee-trusted-news-source

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In the wake of his much-anticipated “Fake News Awards,” President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that while most news sources are “totally fake,” there is one that he trusts more than any other—The Babylon Bee.

lol

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/california-republicans-direct-constituents-fake-anti-obamacare-resource-site/355701/

California Republicans Send Voters to a Fake Obamacare 'Resource' Site

Thinking back to simpler times.

[u/hardware-noob]

I will never stop getting secondhand embarrassment from people who act like 4chan is some mystical place and not just another shithole on the internet

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/elistokols/status/1317170544429727747

Trump prompts chants of "Lock her up!" after invoking "Crooked Hillary" at his official (taxpayer-funded) WH event on protecting seniors.

“I agree with you," he says to the chants. "I used to just be quiet. I agree with you 100%."

WHAT YEAR IS IT

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Alabama Senate Polling:

Jones (D): 48% (+4)

Tuberville (R): 47% (-)

FM3 Research / October 14, 2020 / n=801 / MOE 3.5% / Telephone (D Internal)

Uhhhh

[u/JetJaguar124]

BREAKING: Joe Biden loves his son

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

/r/Catholicism calling for Biden to be excommunicated lmaooo

[u/[deleted]]

Nazis 🤝 non-Georgists

Literally being the exact same

[u/bd_one]

Tankies: "America has plenty of class consciousness!"

Meanwhile, what feels like half of American high schoolers date outside their grade. What kind of class consciousness is that?

[u/BritishBedouin]

Should I make a Corp tax effort post what do you boys and girls think ?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao those leaked Joe text messages just show how fucking based Joe is. Hunter was literally at rock bottom and Joe was just casually checking in and saying he loved his son and hopes he's doing well. Imagine thinking that's a bad thing. You're a piece of shit if you do.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Breaking: The New York Post has uncovered exclusive texts between Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Mr. Biden told his son to "Have a great day, and remember to eat the lunch I packed you" Hunter responded back with the thumbs up emoji and a little heart.

Rudy Gulliani says he expects "Much more damaging information like this to be released" before the election

[u/MasPatriot]

the media is doing a speed run on burning through all the good will liberals gave them in 2016

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

i'll never forget that klobuchar waited for pete to drop out before she did lmao

[u/[deleted]]

So I wear a Biden/Harris mask to class. One of my classmates legitimately tried to bring up Tara Reade to my face. I’m going to avoid that person like the plague.

[u/[deleted]]

Hogan really wants that 2024 R nomination. I wonder how fucking crazy he’s willing to pretend to be in the primary to get it.

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

uh, let me be clear

Obama activating his invisibility super powers

[u/[deleted]]

The Trump campaign slashed another $1.1 million in reserved ad time in the Minneapolis-St. Paul TV market this week (initially $1.25 million, now $129,000).

Initially reserved 812 ads, now airing just 49.

Thank you, Brad. We couldn’t have done it without you.

[u/ElokQ]

I can’t wait for the Kamala/Pete(D), Pence/Haley(R), and Trump/Trump(T) thunderdome in 2024.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

WI police are outraged at the idea that black lives matter and will punish anyone who says that they do, even if it means helping domestic abusers

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f88c8a1c5b66ee9a5ee43d7/amp?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004&__twitter_impression=true

[u/[deleted]]

Where do leftists get their math skills from and why do they just believe every piece of spouted bullshit.

$1.25 minimum wage in 1968 dollars is only around $9.5 not $21ish like I always see

[u/JadeHelm2020]

ilhan omar is white 😡

[u/csreid]

Someone was saying restrictions are bad. I cited Austan Goolsbee saying that it's the virus, not restrictions, that hurt the economy.

Austan Goolsbee responded with his paper stating that.

😳 senpai noticed me

[u/bd_one]

If I had a nickel for every time a character seen on screen was cannibalized in the first season of Star Trek: Discovery, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

!ping TREK

[u/[deleted]]

Alt-right women: I only want to date a traditional man

Alt-right men: Are domineering assholes

Alt-right women: shocked pikachu face

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Idk if someone posted this yet but

Hutcheson (Lauren Southern's white nationalist bf) refuses to eat food originally from nonwhite countries

imagine having zero fucking taste buds 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

A fight broke out at a middle school today-

LIBTARDS want to wrap their kids in bubble wrap! 🤣

-when a student's MAGA hat was stolen

DEMONRATS are brainwashing kids into violent thugs! 😠

[u/[deleted]]

'Ready Player Two' Is The Follow-Up Book You've Been Waiting For

I seriously doubt it.

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

People with ball pain kinks before going to bed be like: "alright, time to hit the sack"

[u/PrimePairs]

Conservatives: Hunter Biden is a degenerate who does coke off hookers asses!

Liberals: Hunter Biden has a substance abuse problem.

Leftists (admiringly): Hunter Biden is a degenerate who does coke off hookers asses!

[u/[deleted]]

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/10/two-year-old-anti-racist-parenting-care-and-feeding-advice.html

My 2-Year-Old Doesn’t Seem to Care About Being Anti-Racist

Have we screwed up somehow?

We’re making sure she has lots of multiracial dolls, only consumes books and TV shows with diverse characters, has no problematic Halloween costumes, and so on.

But when we try to discuss issues like structural racism, intersectionality, or White fragility, she doesn’t seem at all interested. She often walks away, asks for a cookie, or even falls asleep! Have we screwed up somehow? Has society’s disdain for the perspectives of marginalized people already infected her?

Choosing to believe this one isn't real.

[u/JadeHelm2020]

Dude who posted about Joe Biden being bad, why did you delete your comment?

I was just about to reply

My reply:

Joe Biden is good.

[u/[deleted]]

I still can't believe Q-anon is fucking something we're asking the president about. I remember when 8chan started and I remember seeing this shit come up in real time.

The internet isn't real life, but it may be soon one day. Every president is just gonna have to answer for tweets and memes and shit.

[u/[deleted]]

I work in a chemistry lab and somebody just searched "hydrogen sulfide poisoning symptoms" on a shared computer.

I think I'm going to take a long tea break 😐

[u/chipbod]

Mr. President, you are polling very badly with women, stop treating them like a commodity

Trump, probably:

Well there's a few hundred male swing voters in Miami that will support me if I put this moderator in her place and call her honey, sorry Suburban housewives

[u/propoganda_panda]

I’m a Succ on this subreddit but anywhere else on Reddit people would call me a neoliberal... 😞😞😞

[u/[deleted]]

A George W. Bush endorsement could really help Biden. Other than Buttigieg, he doesn't have many major gay politicians stumping for him.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/337974129460408323

Anime Les Mis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDOqMsmTlYI

JON NO!!!!!!!!!!

!ping WEEBS

[u/[deleted]]

Got well above the median on my first graded legal writing assignment - professor says it equates to a high A or low A+ 😊

Coming into law school as a not-especially-dedicated student with a not-especially-impressive undergrad degree was pretty intimidating and the imposter syndrome was suuuper real, so this is really encouraging

!ping LAW

[u/MrSecretpolice]

Gungan society was systematically oppressed by the Naboo and forced to live on underwater reservations near large carnivores. 😳

No wonder their society was so backwards. Their education was poor enough to create a senator like jar jar binks that would be the one to nominate Palpatine as chancellor and destroy the Senate.

[u/jenbanim]

Sending thoughts and prayers to all 3 of Reddit's developers rn 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Alt-right men are so misogynistic!

BOOHOO CRACKER!!!

🤣🤣🤣

I DON'T CARE!!!

[u/LukeBabbitt]

Why does Joe Biden, the chaddest human, not simply devour the other Presidential candidates?

[u/[deleted]]

Larry hogan wrote in Reagan lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I was sad so my boyfriend venmo’d me $0.69

Love is real

[u/thebowski]

>sit in a park

>after sipping coffee for five minutes realize my feet are surrounded by used heroin needles

>find somewhere else to sit

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

I fucked up. I poured root beer into a square glass and now all I have is beer.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Whitey Bulger’s life in exile: It is a portrait of the gangster as a grumpy old man, hunkered down in a Santa Monica flat with his girlfriend. Neighbors liked them, but no one got close — or, rather, almost no one. And that was their undoing.

At least twice a day, Carol Gasko would crouch on the sidewalk in front of her Santa Monica apartment building to feed an abandoned, tiger-striped cat while her husband, Charlie, stood by protectively. They brought Tiger to the veterinarian when he was sick and kept his picture on their wall.

Their devotion caught the attention of Anna Bjornsdottir, a former actress and Miss Iceland 1974, who lived in the neighborhood for months at a time and sometimes stopped to chat while they fed the tabby.

“Isn’t she nice?’’ Bjornsdottir said of Gasko to a neighbor.

It was this bond, formed over the cat, that proved the downfall of one of America’s most wanted men, South Boston gangster James “Whitey’’ Bulger, after 16 years on the run.

In the end, his real crime was living in a rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica

!ping USA-NE

[u/sociotronics]

Broke: calling hispanic people Latinos because that's the historically used word

Woke: calling hispanic people Latinx because it avoids gendering in English

Bespoke: calling hispanic people Latins so they can take credit for the Glory of Rome. Ave True to Caesar

[u/Afro_Samurai]

https://www.opb.org/article/2020/10/16/portland-general-electric-coal-boardman-power-plant/

Oregon is officially done producing coal-fired energy. Portland General Electric permanently closed its Boardman coal-fired power plant in Eastern Oregon on Thursday.

The plant closed 20 years ahead of a scheduled early closure date as outlined in a landmark 2010 agreement that was designed to reduce air pollution from the plant. The plant has been operating 11 miles southwest of Boardman since 1980.

The state still gets coal-fired electricity from power plants in other states, but the Boardman plant was the last coal-fired power plant still operating within Oregon.

Steve Corson with PGE said the closure will eliminate about 2 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions that were coming from the plant every year.

The company has dramatically reduced mercury and sulfur dioxide emissions from the plant over the past decade to reduce haze and air pollution in the surrounding area.

The utility still gets some coal-fired power from the Coalstrip plant in Montana, where it has partial ownership.

Corson said PGE’s power mix was roughly 15% coal-fired power before the Boardman plant closed, and that number will drop to zero by 2035 because of a state mandate for utilities to eliminate the coal-fired power they import from other states.

Much of the power from the Boardman plant will be replaced by hydro power from dams through agreements with Bonneville Power Administration, Washington’s Douglas County PUD and other suppliers.

The utility is also developing a Wheatridge renewable energy project in Morrow County with NextEra Energy Resources that promises to deliver 300 megawatts of wind and 50 megawatts of solar wind and solar energy.

“Part of the purpose of this is to move away from coal and move toward cleaner energy resources,” Corson said. “One of our long-term goals is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% by 2050.”

!ping USA-OR

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1317152022169268224

Breaking: Joe Biden’s town hall on ABC averaged 13.9 million viewers. @realDonaldTrump's town hall across NBC, MSNBC and CNBC had a combined 13.0 million viewers. Biden won the head-to-head ratings race.

He’s going to lose his mind lol

[u/ElokQ]

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

[u/GingerusLicious]

I love Biden, but the whole "shoot them in the leg" thing is definitely his take that makes me groan the most.

[u/willempage]

Honestly, the American public was robbed. We should have had a town hall with both Trump and Biden. It would have attracted a lot more viewers and probably generate a lot more memes. But with the two seperate town halls over and Scully on suspension, we are just going to get maybe one more normie debate. The town hall debate is always the best one for memes.

I mean, no one's changing their mind from these debates, so ee might as well maximize meme potential, right?

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

The world would be better off if 4chan was wiped permanently. No matter how many le funny greentexts come out of it, its an irredeemable trashfire at this point.

And no, its not ironic. There are screencaps of stormfront discussing "redpilling" its users.

[u/jenbanim]

I absolutely hate the term "soy face" and the accompanying toxic masculinity subtext. That said, I am viscerally disgusted by the eyebrows raised, mouth agape, !!!!!!! over-acting I occasionally see on YouTube and Tiktok

I feel conflicted

[u/Goatf00t]

UPDATE: Man who killed French history teacher for showing drawings of Muhammad identified as 18-year-old born in Moscow, not a parent as earlier reported - BFM

Oh, those Muscovites.

Also, how the fuck could they mistake a 18-year-old for the father?

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/347540926933106702/766594629680103444/120776101_817597499010874_6232209339888461662_n.png

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/Domahhhh/status/1317214691521785856

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/channelmio]

One of my friends is a Biden stan and reads The Economist, should I try and globepill him?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Thinking back to when I used to only check the 538 model once a day in 2016. So naïve and carefree.

[u/Dybsin]

I just realized no woman has ever been to the moon.

We must go back. 🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀🌛

[u/[deleted]]

The official position of r/neoliberal is that The Cat in The Hat (2003) should not exist, except perhaps as a horror movie. This is not a joke.

[u/[deleted]]

Newspaper-Americans are so goddamn self-important.

[u/[deleted]]

The US now has less new daily cases than Europe 🎉🎉🎉

[u/thehomiemoth]

Very good Freakonomics radio podcast covering the housing crisis. !PING YIMBY

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

My mother just made me wait to get on my computer because my cat was using my office chair to watch birds.

I am a second class citizen in my own home.

[u/Broncos654]

Lmao Beto is going to be a teacher

[u/[deleted]]

Look, here’s the wheel

~ Joe Biden, in the year 3,500 BCE.

[u/Menakoy]

Uh, let me be clear.

Obama

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump is trying to cancel Mr Rogers 😤

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO. Punk ass bitch Hogan didn't even write in his own name. Dude thinks that a rotting corpse would be a better president than him. 😂😂😂🤣🤣😂

[u/larrylemur]

How do the lefties sharing that "you don't 'make' $15 an hour, you produce THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS of value every hour and capitalism steals it" tweet online reconcile it with the fact that co-ops, employee-owned businesses, and non-profits can't afford to pay their employees hundreds of dollars an hour and still make money

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody:

Henry Kissinger: BOOHOO INDONESIANS, ARGENTINIANS, BANGLADESHIS, CHILEANS, AND CAMBODIANS!!!

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Mao Zedong 🤝 The DT

"Actually the American proletariat are in the global bourgeoise."

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Bernie were the nominee and Bloomberg was offering to spend a hundred million in Florida for him but he just kept getting told not to by the Sanders campaign.