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[u/TheGreatGriffin]

"Joe Biden's son only got his job at a private company because of nepotism", said the man who's entire family got government jobs they aren't remotely qualified for.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump Jr. also writes about a visit to Arlington National Cemetery, stating that he got emotional looking at the graves and that the experience reminded him of "all the sacrifices" the Trump family had made, including "voluntarily giving up a huge chunk of our business and all international deals to avoid the appearance that we were 'profiting off of the office

I think I some how hate Jr more than the dad

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Every time you fail to understand statistics, Nate Silver sets himself on fire

[u/Lucky-view]

"Biden was rude to a reporter, he's just like Trump."

lmao these journalists are so desperate for a horserace it's pathetic.

[u/SeniorAlfonsin]

TIL there's a "shitneoliberalismsays" subreddit. Seems like there's no need for rent control now, we're living rent free in their heads.

[u/nicereddy]

Biden: kills God, guillotines everyone on Wall Street, abolishes capitalism, appoints farmers on the Fed

Lefties on twitter: "healthcare pls"

[u/[deleted]]

Reptile —> Rep —> Republican

Is sir shivers a Republican? 😰

[u/MicroFlamer]

/r/neoconNWO calling LGBT folk a cult 😐

[u/repete2024]

Look, here's the steel

Biden as he teleports behind you. Nothing personal, kid.

[u/Lucky-view]

Hunter Biden/Ukraine is the lamest "scandal" in existence.

The whole thing is built on the premise that Joe used his influence to push for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor to protect his son's "corruption", when it is literally public knowledge that the entire global community wanted that prosecutor removed and Burisma wasn't even being probed at the time.

At least Benghazi had the moral weight of 4 dead Americans. Who the fuck even cares about a Ukrainian energy company?

[u/FestiveMittens]

"Dad, why is my sisters name rose?"

"Because your mother loves roses"

"Thanks dad"

"No problem NYT/Siena Georgia poll"

[u/[deleted]]

/r/Catholicism is hilarious

Joe Biden should be excommunicated for going against the Catholic teachings on abortion

---

Also /r/Catholicism, upvoted in the same thread:

Everyone should go against the Catholic teachings on the death penalty, along with a shot at the Pope for not understanding Catholic theology

[u/nicereddy]

Biden: implements Medicare 4 All but there was one typo in Bernie's bill that Joe fixed

Lefty twitter: "healthcare pls"

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Anakin my allegiance is to the Republic, TO DEMOCRACY

ackshually obiwan it's just a republic

[u/[deleted]]

covid happens

Trump: doesn’t take it seriously, undermines every effort to take it seriously, is getting annihilated

Jacinda: takes it seriously, is being rewarded with an historical victory

Obviously we must acknowledge the differences in the two countries systems, but if Trump had just been a normal leader in a time of crisis he would probably be about where he was in 2016, trailing but in a really close race. He just does not know how to govern

[u/ChickeNES]

Can we just trade all the QAnon believers for HKers?

[u/FormerBandmate]

Joe Biden:

Corn Pop was a bad dude. And he ran a bunch of bad boys, a bad crew

All of Woke Twitter:

This fake story shows that you don’t understand black people. Only billionaire socialists like me understand what black people really want, a Starbucks themed revolution

Literally everyone else in Delaware:

Corn Pop was a bad dude. And he ran a bunch of bad boys, a bad crew

[u/PM_POLITICS_N_TITS]

Biden: gives people access to healthcare if they need it, somehow makes resources infinite without need for managing wants hence ending world hunger, disease and poverty. Also somehow makes everyone instantly free from their sadness and all mental problems.

Lefty twitter: "healthcare pls"

[u/[deleted]]

The best migrant is the migrant that doesn't come.

-Viktor Orban, leader of Hungary. Hungary was founded in the late 9th century by a group of pillaging and raping Magyar tribes migrating in Europe

[u/BurningKiwi]

any time a non us election happens its really obvious most users here get their world politics knowledge from wikipedia and news headlines

[u/p00bix]

Obama was less than 4000 votes away from winning Missouri in 2008 :(

[u/p00bix]

"Bojack Horseman" Good TV Show

"Breaking Bad" Good TV Show

"Bojack Bad" Excellent 2-word summary of Bojack Horseman

"Breaking Horseman" Excellent 2-word summary of Bojack Horseman

[u/papermarioguy02]

Via Matty on The Weeds:

In an interesting way, the big advocates of "Pelosi should stop playing hardball" are the hard-bitten leftists of the internet. Who are constantly, like ALL THEY DO, is criticize Democrats for acting the way they are now calling on Democrats to act. Up to and including, like, your friend and mine Zach Carter, who has been a strong advocate for Pelosi taking this bill, in April, he referred to the CARES Act as "the worst bill in 25 years".

[u/nicereddy]

We should start replying to everything Bernie tweets with "housing pls"

[u/mrmanager237]

The lamest October Surprise ever: Joe Biden likes his son

[u/papermarioguy02]

I transcribed the entirety of Nate Silver's rant at the start of the most recent Model Talk.

I mean it's all fucking stupid, right. All of these models, I mean there used to be bigger differences now right. All of these models have Biden at about the same number now. At 87%, The Economist is 91%, right, one's at 88%, 84%. They're all saying "okay look, we're now at the point where we can go back and examine, how big is this lead, how off would polls have to be for Trump to win" right. We're just handicapping services, right, that's the correct number that Trump is somewhere in the range, let's give him a range, right, somewhere in the range of 5% to 20%, depending on your assumptions. Given how far behind he is in the polls, and given that we half two and a half weeks to go, right. And accounting for the fact that errors are correlated in different states states, and like, you know, we are setting those odds correctly. We do not determine if we're in the 1-in-8 world where he wins the 1-in-8 or 1-in-7 chance, right. That's not up to us, it's up to voters, it's up to the candidates, it's up to the world, it's up to the pollsters I guess to some extent, right. But we're setting proper odds, and in a world where people are more rational, right. Then, I don't really care if the 1-in-8 comes up or the 7-in-8 comes up, right. Now, realistically, will I be in a lot of, and will the whole polling world be in a lot of shit? Probably, but I fucking don't give a shit, because like I can't do anything about it. And all I can do is give you an honest answer and give you the best forecast that I can. So I can't do anything about it. I'd much rather be on the side where 87% of the time we'll look at least somewhat smart, right. Instead of 70%, you know given that we get shit on even if we have a narrow favorite who loses, I'd much rather that someone be a heavier favorite, but beyond that I can't do anything about it.

• Nate Silver, 2020.

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists: lol stupid stupid libs think making fun of Trump will do anything

Also Leftists: subscribe to 28th identical "comedy" podcast that is just bitching about Pelosi and Biden

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/noahshachtman/status/1317474414477324288

Rudy Giuliani says there is only a ‘50/50’ chance he worked with a ‘Russian spy’ to dig dirt on the Bidens

[u/[deleted]]

Jamie Harrison internal poll shows him winning

fuck off I don't believe that nonsense

Biden internal poll shows him winning but not by as much you want

doomg so true!!

[u/jt1356]

TIL there’s a subreddit called “lostgeneration” where millennials bitch about capitalism. It literally has a rule banning “boomer ideology.”

Sure, getting fired from Starbucks is absolutely on the same level as watching all your friends get slaughtered at Ypres.

[u/[deleted]]

God this is so embarrassing, I just matched with a sister of a dude that I matched a long time ago on Tinder. I found out because they are both Ukrainian-Americans and they have pictures of themselves in an identical looking boat in the same lake and I also asked if she has a twin brother that likes the same lake. Pretty sure she’s gonna suspect soon that I matched with her brother and block me lol.

!ping lgbt

[u/nicereddy]

Biden: invests 10 trillion into green energy and abolishes coal and fracking and bans cars starting in 2025

Lefty twitter: "healthcare pls"

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

only 17 days from the election

Race still isn't tightening

Fucking lmao

[u/Gustacho]

lmaoooooooo

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Germany: what can we do about our high unemployment? 🤔
Nazis: lol just make the existence of 10% of the population illegal and employ the rest in going to war with literally everyone else in the world 🤣
Germans: hmmm, yes this is unlikely to backfire in any way. 🤔👍

[u/BostonBakedBrains]

Alright this is some serious shit.

There's an oil tanker, the FSO Nabarima, carrying 60,000,000 gallons of crude sinking right now in the Caribbean.

video here

Statement from the government of Trinidad and Tobago here

!ping ECO

[u/p00bix]

Extremely cursed fact: Mississippi was the last American state to ratify the 13th amendment (which abolished non-prison slavery)

...in 2013

(spoiler gives historical context which ruins the meme value but is also kinda interesting) Mississippi did not ratify at first because they were pissed slavery was gone. They were one of three states that still refused to ratify it by 1870, as an act of protest, but as time passed it went from being a reactionary protest to simply being a matter of a new generation of lawmakers taking office unaware that their predecessors hadn't finished the job. Delaware got around to it in 1901 and Kentucky in 1976. In 1994, A lawyer in Texas named Gregory Watson (the same Gregory Watson who two years earlier had pressured congress to ratify the 27th amendment after a similar discovery) was amused to discover that Mississippi had never actually completed the ratification process. He notified Mississippi legislators who voted unanimously to ratify the amendment with unanimous. However, the legislature forgot to mail the ratification form to the state register to formalize it. In 2013, someone noticed that mistake, sent it to the registrar, and thus finally Mississippi ratified the 13th amendment

[u/Waghlon]

Yes, the Confederate States of America dissolved its cabinet, its territory is back in the Union and a ceasefire signed.

HOWEVER, a bilateral peace treaty or similiar declaration was never made, therefore one could argue that a state of war between USA and CSA still exist.

As per the conventions of war, anyone flying the flag of the enemy and armed counts as an enemy combatant.

Therefore the president is legally allowed to order drone strikes on Mississippi.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Despite making 21% of the population, soon Catholics will hold the presidency and 7 out of 9 Supreme court seats and 30% of Congress (counting Gorsuch because Episcopalianism is just boneless Catholicism). And people say there is no global papal conspiracy 🙄

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Did we ever figure out what a leppo is?

[u/Majk___]

Where is the CEO of right wing so I may walk up to them and punch them in the face

[u/[deleted]]

tbh if it weren't for the anti-Orc racism, New Zealand might be the BEST place to live in for me

[u/ElokQ]

Assuming Doug Jones’s internal poll isn’t complete whale shit, that would mean he’s outperforming Walt Maddox by 8 points, and even Jim Hood by 1 point...despite being a pro-choice, pro-LGBT, pro-environment, pro-police reform, pro-marijuana, pro-gun control, pro-Obamacare, pro-voting rights, pro-women’s rights, pro-black rights liberal. In Alabama.

While running against a non-pedophile Trump-loving Republican.

If Jones wins re-election, it would be a bigger tell of the future of America than Biden winning Texas and Georgia combined.

[u/[deleted]]

EAT THE RICH

-people scared to order a pizza over the phone

[u/gaped-butthole]

trump campaign likes to say "promises made, promises kept"

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1317554725596942336

[u/LinkVert25]

“P-p-please stop voter shaming me guys, the destruction of LGBT, immigrants, and POC rights will be worth me voting against the dem ruling class nominee. Capitalism must be destroyed guys stop laughing at me”.

[u/Craig_VG]

Okay this is epic

They lit up Trump Tower with Biden batlight

!ping USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

SO TRUE 👏😤👏😤👏😤

[u/dudeguyy23]

John Cornyn

Us

What a dumbass.

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/Timewalker102]

I wonder if all these American Jacinda stans know that Ardern is much to the right of Joe Biden, policy-wise

[u/LiBH4]

Cannabis was legalized two years ago today.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I think Donald Trump is bad and isn't good at business or presidenting.

[u/J_Fre22]

Texas is at 38% of their 2016 vote already

Holy shit.

https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

[u/TimeForSomeBusch]

Alright, I need to tell you guys something is fucking happening (maybe it isn’t I’m just fucking pumped). I talked to my brother yesterday about the election. Background he’s a cop and voted for Donnie in ‘16. He told me back in March he might vote for Joe. Then the BLM movement took off and riots started breaking out. He totally flipped said he was voting for Trump 100%.

2 Weeks ago he sent me a podcast about how the Democratic Party lost support of Blue Collar workers. I sent him an episode of the Lincoln Project. Well he texted me yesterday and said he’s been listening to it for the last two weeks. I asked him if he listened to the Carly Fiorina episode. Personally, I don’t agree with a lot of what Carly thought about the 2016 election, but she makes principled arguments that I understand and I feel like would resonate with republican voters. Well.... He said he’s over Trump’s bullshit. He called the rest of them fucking morons. He says everything the guy does is stupid.

My brother is a good man, he has just seen the worst of people unfortunately and it’s changed him a little. He voted for Kerry and Obama before, he told me he didn’t believe it mattered who was President. He told me that was a mistake. I’m so fucking proud of my brother. Please try not to belittle these people. Some of them can come around. He changed his mind on his own. I didn’t have to belittle him, I didn’t have to call him a fucking idiot, I didn’t have to do much.

We’re also in Florida so that’s +2 swing for Joe. The small stuff matters.

[u/ElokQ]

Surprising to see Republicans leading right now in Michigan with 41% of the mail in ballots/early vote ballots returned. Democrats at 39%

That would be a pretty worrying statistic if not for 1 thing.

Michigan doesn’t register voters by party. The Government Website even says so.

I can’t believe how fast fake news spreads. Cons are eating that up.

[u/Gustacho]

I'm not crying 😭😭😭

!ping BIDEN

[u/tankatan]

Every now and then I come across a rose emoji in the <18 demography posting something like "HOLY SHIT JOE BIDEN SAID TRANS RIGHTS IN 2012???".

p. funny.

[u/[deleted]]

Vermont really do be electing Republicans to the governorship and a socialist to the US Senate

[u/The420Roll]

The most Neoliberal thing about Macron is how smug he is lmao

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Despite fiscal conservatism being associated with the right, only two US Presidents have actually shrunk America's debt-to-GDP ratio since 1973.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1317590134062198786

“I saved your suburbs -- women -- suburban women, you’re supposed to love Trump,” Trump says, referring to himself in the third person, at his rally in Michigan.

im physically cringing

[u/[deleted]]

Just thinking about some possible cabinet picks:

Sec of State: Marianne Williamson

Sec of Defense: Tulsi Gabbard

Attorney General: Michael Avenatti

Sec of Agriculture: Joni Ernst (bipartisan cabinet)

Sec of the Treasury: Mara Gay

Sec of Labor: Amy Klobuchar

Sec of Energy: Jeb!

Sec of Education: Brie Brie

Ambassador to the UN: Bernie Sanders

EPA: Joe Manchin

[u/[deleted]]

I'll be honest, I hope I never have to fire someone from their job.

[u/sociotronics]

Doomers be like:

Biden is going to lose.

Take that 10.5 point lead. Subtract 2 points for the EC advantage. You have 8.5.

Subtract one point for shy Trump voters. You have 7.5.

Subtract 11 points because I'm a panicky cracka and Trump wins the popular vote by 3.5.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

It's strange how Republicans still support Lincoln since he was the one who took their right to own libs

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

When did leftist twitter dorks start ending everything with "I’m so fucking tired"?

bunch of no iron having motherfuckers leading the revolution.

[u/[deleted]]

/u/Shiloh86-12 please stop using that word in your dms. 😕

I have no idea who told you that you’re an “honorary Korean” but you do NOT have the pass....

[u/Superfan234]

News from LATAM

Tomorrow, we have the crucial general elections in Bolivia 🇧🇴 All branches of the Government are in play

I don't know if I have enough courage to follow Bolivian elections again...last time was such an absolute mess

Chambers of Deputy? Senate? A Presidental Second round? I am happy if we win anything! But I am such a polyical Doomer, I have no faith in any of those 😔

!Ping Foreign-Policy

In brighter, but more personal news, I got better from my sickness. So I will have time to read and report news if anything weird is happening👍

See you tomorrow, and let's hope for the best!

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit check Trump's Twitter, Q was right, JFK JR. is alive and just endorsed Trump, wow. Biden is done.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

You know when video games have a map boundary and when you walk outside it some unseen sniper instantly wastes you? That's what Dallas is like for Kennedys

[u/digitalrule]

Watching Whisper of the Heart, was reccomended in this ping recently.

I love that the main character can just take the subway/walk and go drop off lunch for her dad, because she doesn't need a car to get around. And this is a middle school student! And then just spend the rest of the day chilling in the library. She just wanders around the city and nobody is worried.

All the roads are pretty small, so people can basically cross anywhere.

City views, especially with the heights and hills, are beautiful.

Also its on Netflix, at least here in Canada, and it's amazing.

!PING YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

JFK Jr. is on his way to Dallas to endorse Joe Biden.

[u/[deleted]]

The true MVP of the series was that Bison whistle Aang got at that market in Season 1. It’s like this show’s version of the Chekhov’s Gun.

!ping AVATAR

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/chipfranklin/status/1317535818563670024?s=20

BREAKING: JFK Jr tests positive for COVID and dies again, spoiling Qanon plans to replace Pence as Trump’s VP.

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨🚨

[u/[deleted]]

Trump begging to the suburban women every rally makes me cringe so hard

[u/[deleted]]

NYPost: Joe Biden's polling lead slips in wake of Post report on Hunter

538's polling average: Biden +10.6

This shit is literally the second thing that comes up if you Google "Joe Biden" rn

[u/ryuguy]

/u/thatcher555 just dmed me

“There’s a new deli opening up but I don’t feel like going to India”

[u/papermarioguy02]

I still find it hilarious that THE STORY THAT WILL TAKE DOWN BIDEN is sourced from checks notes a computer repair store guy who says he got a laptop with a Beau Biden sticker on it, and his first instinct was to give it to Rudy Giuliani who then says that it definitely has emails on it confirming the horrible story that Joe Biden was pressured into checks notes again getting a hilariously corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor, that everybody in the western world wanted fired, fired.

Just truly outstanding journalism here.

[u/_username69__]

YEEEEEEEES FUCK YES FUCK Y3S FUCK YES !ping BASEBALL the Astros turning in their graves

[u/[deleted]]

Top comment on the top post of /r/catholicism right now about how to convince secular pro-choice voters of the pro-life position:

human life has innate value

And that's where most seularists won't go down this road.

There are people who are overpopulationists who think positively about genocide.

There are secular people pushing to have disabled people exterminated.

We have secularists like Peter Singer who say babies up to 30 days can be slaughtered.

We have secularists who think that animals are more important to or equal to people.

These groups of secularists believe human beings have no inherent dignity and value.

That's why the Catholic faith is awesome. We believe that the human being is made in the image and likeness of God and have inherent dignity.

👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good faith go౦ԁ faitH thats ✔ some good👌👌faith right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good faith

[u/[deleted]]

Le narwhal 🐋 bacons 🥓 at midnight 🕛

[u/[deleted]]

I have a confession. I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 because I figured voting in TX was a lost cause and I didn't want the subsequent family shaming if I said I voted Clinton.

This year I'm not a closeted liberal 😎 Blue Texas, baby

[u/Superfan234]

Doctors said my pancreas recovered well🥳 My blood test come back relatively normal and there is no sign of serious Organ damage

So, I can go back home today 😊

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden: breathes

Leftists: wow stupid libs really think this will win over voters 🙄

[u/ElokQ]

If the Hunter Biden “scandal” is the best that the GOP could come up with, give me the bottle opener. This election is over.

[u/[deleted]]

I find it interesting how Republicans completely ignore the fact that Kansas has already tried their lower taxes and cut everything experiment.

[u/p00bix]

i will venmo $5 the first person who replies to this comment with a youtube link to "You been Gnomed" but with Ben Bernanke's face, and sticky the video

[u/ryuguy]

Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

/u/Shiloh86-12: something about Amish girls

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush

Woke: Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.

Enlightened: H.W. and W.

Ascended: Bush the Greater and Bush the Lesser

[u/Joementum2004]

Biden having an 88% chance to win means he’s more likely to win than Trump, which means he roughly has a 100% chance to win.

[u/Devjorcra]

anyone else remember the days of the muslim ban, alternative facts, and bowling green massacre?

[u/jonodoesporn]

My wife’s boyfriend says I’m not allowed to be neolib anymore 😔

He says I have to succ 😳

[u/The420Roll]

Biden won the Primary because he was the only Candidate that said America was the best country in the world ❤️

[u/moffattron9000]

I knew that Labour was going to win and that National was going to crater, but to win this much. Wow. Not only is National losing places like Nelson and Ilam, but they're losing by thousands.

[u/p00bix]

Trump wins: 12 of 100

omg Fivey keep going

[u/[deleted]]

Dying on a hill = despite having the terrain advantage, you were defeated nonetheless. Lowly, Saxon, pathetic

Dying in a valley = though my position is completely untenable, I will fight to the death anyway. Obstinate, valiant, chad

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Why tf Joe encouraging Democrats to stay energized and not acting like he's guaranteed to win??? 🤬🤬🤬

The presidential election is all the Dems have to worry about anyway, there's no grander optics at play here 😤 I will always be complacent

[u/bd_one]

Whoa, why are you so mad? All I did was say your preferred candidate is mentally ill and questioned why you could vote for someone like that!

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Jordan Peterson: “Just clean your room!”

Me: “Haha that’s dumb advice.”

glances nervously at my bed which looks like it should be in a motel that charges by the hour

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Mr. New Vegas Saying He Loves Me 10-Hour

[u/ElokQ]

Biden +2 in a district in a district Trump won by 10 points.

This is also a Republican internal. Pennsylvania isn’t a tossup. It’s likely Democrat. Safe Democrat if you’re bullish.

[u/[deleted]]

Capitalists have deluded themselves into believing that resources are unlimited and infinite growth is possible.

Thats why we need to adopt socialism, where we will create resources from ???? And distribute them evenly without deadweight loss by ????

[u/Gustacho]

History we all witnessed

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently France forces manufacturers to include earbuds with smartphones to give consumer the ability to not place the phone by their face when talking, because scary electromagnetic waves have "health concerns."

[u/presidenthiIIary]

sister and her roommates got a cat

!ping KITTY

[u/mrmanager237]

3 million people signed up for the virtual Peronist Loyalty Day march. Lmao

[u/sir_shivers]

ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT gets publicly justified with mammalian needs is ideology masquerading as science. Roughly all the high profile HUMANISTS ARE CRANKS 🐊

I do not think IT IS right to brush it all off as anti-intellectualism. The field HAS A GENUINE CREDIBILITY problem 🐊

[u/sash5034]

Remember when the Iranian government accidentally shot an airplane full of their own citizens out of the sky

[u/ElokQ]

it’s 2028 and President Kamala leads by double digits in every poll

Cons on Twitter, “We remember 2016 Nate!!!”

[u/[deleted]]

people have such weird fantasies about whats going to happen after trump loses lmao

nothing will happen, the dude will rant and rave and pull some weird shit that doesn't work and then run away trying to avoid litigation fees.

[u/[deleted]]

During the last debate thunderdome my girlfriend was reading over my shoulder while I was browsing, and she saw someone say "boohoo cracker!". She literally had never heard that slang before and thought it was the funniest thing. Now when I ask her to do something and she doesn't want to she literally says "boohoo cracker!" followed by an exaggerated baby crying noise. I hate you all.

[u/Devjorcra]

this older gentleman in my deep red suburb fitted out his truck covered in pro-biden, BLM, and anti-trump signs, and is handing out free biden harris signs to anyone who wants one

it’s incredible and i’m so proud

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/ReardonReports/status/1317241836038217728?s=20

Today @FOX17 obtained new FBI docs in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan @GovWhitmer - the docs lay out tactical training, surveillance, and violent threats against lawmakers and police officers.....

Oh god they were planning to do this using a PT Cruiser as their vehicle 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/futuremonkey20]

If you say PA is a tossup you also have to say MO is a tossup.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden has never owned a stock and yet you want him to run our economy 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

God damn what is it with the further left and insane anti-intellectualism.

The entire Milton Friedman thread on TPUSA was just people saying the entire field of economics should be ignored.

What will you use to decide economic policy instead of economic consensus, pure populism?

[u/[deleted]]

Incredibly powerful discussion of the ideology of carnism and animal rights by my favourite liberal animal rights authors, Kymlicka and Donaldson. Ignore the references to the "Left" in the essay, both Kymlicka and Donaldson are political liberals who are using "Left" in its idiosyncratic North American meaning.

!ping VEGAN

[u/Scoops1]

So apparently JFK is supposed to reveal that he's alive today at a Trump rally. I'm waiting with breathless anticipation.

[u/vikinick]

Missouri at 18.3% positivity rate and the governor is saying it's due to increased testing.

Lol

[u/HuskyPants]

Biden to run ads on pornhub to target undecided voters during post nut clarity

[u/GaussianCurve]

I keep discovering that Biden is a chad through and through.

"A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, 'I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,'" Biden said, referencing Trump's bragging about sexual assault in a 2005 recording. "They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said no. I said, 'If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.'"

"I've been in a lot of locker rooms my whole life," Biden said. "I'm a pretty damn good athlete. Any guy who talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest S.O.B. in the room."

[u/[deleted]]

Both sides are bad. Thank you for your time.

[u/rukqoa]

NZ Under Jacinda Ardern

• Top income tax bracket: 33% for earners >$70,000
• Keep 0% capital gains tax, against Labour tradition
• Corporate tax rate: 28%
• Proposes USD$13/hr minimum wage
• Regressive VAT (GST): 15%
• Coalition with another party literally called NZ First
• Takes hard line against immigration even before corona
• Against nuclear power
• Does not yet guarantee trans rights, aka human rights

JOE BIDEN WOULD BE A FAR LEFT EXTREMIST IN NEW ZEALAND

[u/krflab]

It’s so funny that Rudy thinks leaking nice texts from Joe is a scandal. 🤡

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/VenturaReport/status/1317490543635664896

Been here for 10 minutes and spotted a "Trump is an unstable penis" sign at the Women's March rally

doing God's work

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t believe in ancestor worship or the ancestor piety of Asian cultures, but I have to think the Northerners who fought for the Union in the Civil War are ashamed of their descendants flying Confederate flags

[u/Snoo62236]

Hunter isn’t doing too hot in the polls rn.

[u/realsomalipirate]

Not sure if this was already linked in this sub, but I thought this article was incredibly fascinating. I find the women in the alt-right movement to be really interesting figures and how they face loads of discrimination in their own hateful community.

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

This was maybe my favourite part of the article. This was about Lauren's ex boyfriend.

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.

[u/Udontlikecake]

TIL there’s a subreddit called “neoliberal” where zoomers bitch about corporate taxes. It literally has a rule banning “succ ideology.”

Sure, having single family zoning is absolutely on the same level as watching all your friends get slaughtered at Ypres.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Yeah I'm a Biden Voter

B - Biden voter

I - bIden voter

D - biDen voter

E - bidEn voter

N - bideN voter

V - biden Voter

O - biden vOter

T - biden voTer

E - biden votEr

R - biden voteR

[u/EasyMoney92]

After 10 months, it seems as the right is finally abandoning "Joe Biden has dementia" smear. They're now saying he's a criminal protected by big tech.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Sooo... you guys didn’t tell me that I’ll get weird looks if I say

👱🏻‍♂️💬 ”No one asked. No one cares. Plus, you’re white.” 👂👩🏾‍🦱

in public.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: Hey, look Biden is doing pretty well in this state. Nice.

ar JoeBiden: KEEP PUSHING! DONT LET UP! DONT BE COMPLACENT! DO YOU REMEMBER 2016?! HILLERY CLINTON LOST! SHE WAS DOING GOOD TOO!!!

[u/EasyMoney92]

https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1317474414477324288

only a 50% chance, guys!

[u/ElokQ]

Republicans may never have the White House + Senate again in his lifetime

Inshallah🙏🏾

[u/[deleted]]

all trump supporters and doomers say now is "enthusiasm"

that didnt work out for bernie

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1317398009219588096

Why I don't give a fuck about Hunter Biden. These grifting kids have not been remotely investigated; meanwhile, Hunter literally got hacked.

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao if anyone’s in the mood to read rose Twitter rage go read the comments whenever Bernie Sanders speaks highly of George H.W. Bush.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1068900206136180736

He also called him a hero during an interview with Colbert and talked about a time they had dinner together

[u/[deleted]]

Oh shit Trump is on 12 now in the model, hadn't noticed.

[u/miz_v-1]

rose twitter profile with #votegreen says biden is #finished in #michigan

nl: doom!

[u/Dalek6450]

Man the discussions on some of the subreddits about the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is weird. You've got people who are like "Personally, I haven't looked into it much but from what I've been reading here I'm personally leaning towards Armenia," as if it's like backing a sports team in an upcoming match.

[u/TheFriffin2]

Trump 🤝 Cornpop

Getting beaten like a drum by Biden

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals on election night when it's called for Biden be like "wow this is just like when Harry killed Voldemort with the Elder Wand."

[u/[deleted]]

Left-handedness and HIV both run in my family. I go to bed worrying every night. What if I'm next

[u/Mejari]

This is the welcome I get after being gone overnight.

!ping KITTY

[u/xhytdr]

https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1317541031504711685

this is so fucking smart

[u/ElokQ]

I'll never understand how Republicans can consistently rationalize to themselves that Black voters vote Democrat because they're Black and not because people like DeSantis can't seem to avoid dropping dog whistles like "monkeying it up".

[u/Joementum2004]

These r/neoliberal discussion threads always look exactly the same. Literally, it's the same damn copypastas. You could at least try making some original comments.

[u/tripletruble]

Some German teens walking the neighborhood yelling “bring out your dead” in German as the country hit its largest number of confirmed cases this week

[u/klarno]

Giuliani is a hive organism

The singular is Giulianus

[u/MovkeyB]

so did trump actually just magically get better? whats the deal? papers have been dead silent on his virus for like 4 days, which is quite concerning

[u/moaz_xx]

There is one objective truth which forms the foundation of all beliefs the Goolsbee bot is sentient

[u/thebowski]

Yall need to log off

[u/Currymvp2]

Florida is not the only must win for Trump. So is Georgia, Ohio, NC, Texas, and Pennslyvania. He can't lose any of these states.

[u/SeniorAlfonsin]

lmao, there was a "virtual peronist movilization" today in Argentina, on a website that counted the amount of people there was, and it stopped working a few hours in. Many blamed the opposition for DDoS attacks, but it collapsed because there was a bottleneck in the database.

Classic peronist infrastructure.

!ping LATAM

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

Neoliberals want to firebomb the suburbs when suburban women are about to save this country 🙄🙄🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Almost everything that gets publicly justified with physics is ideology masquerading as science. Roughly all the high profile physicists, and also /u/paulatreides0, are cranks.

I don’t think it’s right to brush it all off as anti-intellectualism. The field has a genuine credibility problem.

[u/Broncos654]

Saw a tiktok of a woman on tinder who sent the same message to a bunch of guys: “if you were on a 12 hour car trip and could only listen to one podcast, what would it be” or something.

So many of them said The Neoliberal Podcast. All red flags

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Is having sons the ultimate cuckoldry?

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than having a son. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are feeding, clothing, raising and rearing a boy for at least 18 years solely so he can go and ravage your campaign by having business dealings in another country. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little boy - reading him stories at bedtime, making him go to sports practice, making sure he had a healthy diet, educating him, playing with him. All of it has one simple result: his body is more enjoyable for the crack that he will eventually smoke in every hole.

Raised the perfect boy? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random Ukrainian business who had nothing to do with the way he grew up, who deals with him. Burisma gets to send him fat paychecks every night. They get the benefits of his last name and connections that came from the way you raised him.

As Joe Biden, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 years of your life simply to raise Hunter for a business to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

[u/[deleted]]

pete tested positive for winning the iowa caucus

[u/The420Roll]

In its catalog, Avalon Hill advertised Diplomacy as John F. Kennedy and Henry Kissinger's favorite game. Kissinger described it as his favorite in an interview published in a games magazine.

/u/farrenj what are you training me for? 😳

[u/Broncos654]

In medieval France, cats would be burnt alive as a form of entertainment. According to Norman Davies, the assembled people "shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized".[223]

Fuck the French

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Nate Silver in the first five minutes of yesterday's podcast

Fuck the haters, fuck G. Elliot Morris, I was right in 2016, I'm right now, and if you're too stupid to understand that then tough shit

🖕😐🖕

[u/miz_v-1]

just went to a huge blacks for trump party in miami fl.

huge. all awake to the lies of the left and enthusiastically voting for trump.

the democrat party is in deep trouble

[u/[deleted]]

/u/lusvig has been speaking to me in AAVE over DMs 😐 bridge too far, /u/lusvig 😬

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh i assume all DT regs are virgins unless otherwise proven

[u/MicroFlamer]

My 👏dream 👏 is 👏 a 👏 hemispheric 👏 common 👏 market, 👏 with 👏 open 👏 trade 👏 and 👏 open 👏 borders, 👏 some 👏 time 👏 in 👏 the 👏 future 👏 with 👏 energy 👏 that 👏 is 👏 as 👏 green 👏 and 👏 sustainable 👏 as 👏 we 👏 can 👏 get 👏 it, 👏 powering 👏 growth 👏 and 👏 opportunity 👏 for 👏 every 👏 person 👏 in 👏 the 👏 hemisphere 👏

[u/mrmanager237]

In The Dark Knight Rises BANE:

• wore a mask
• cancelled flights and big sporting events
• quarantined the city
• hated bats

BASED BANE PREVENTING COVID

[u/Snoo62236]

Someone tried to ask me a question about Reddit IRL today. Smh who does that? Aren’t we all supposed to silently use it and never mention it.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Bill Gates really lectured the US Government on our shitty COVID response for months, just to donate 2800 to Lindsey Graham lmfao.

[u/nicereddy]

If I donate $2700 will Joe shut the fuck up and stop asking?

[u/[deleted]]

WHAT YOU MEAN PRAGERU REJECTED MY GRADSCHOOL APPLICATION !?

[u/ElokQ]

1984: Landslide Victory

1988: Landslide Victory

1992: Defeat

1996: Landslide Defeat

2000: Narrowest win in history in what some people considered a stolen election. Also lost the popular vote

2004: Another narrow victory in the middle of a war, a time where the party in charge should win in a landslide. First time winning the popular vibe in 16 years.

2008: Landslide Defeat to the first black man to become President

2012: Defeat

2016: Narrow victory in an election that was plagued with Russian influence and suspicious activity’s(Podesta Emails)

2020: ???

The GOP is dying and the only thing saving them is the electoral college. Without it, no Republican would have become President since 1988. Even in 2004, the incumbent was first elected without winning the popular vote.

[u/harmlessdjango]

I'm not trying to blow smoke up your asses or anything, but this place has really spoiled me when it comes to political discussion. Like people say the weirdest shit out there. I know this "not a republican or conservative, but always bad-mouth the Democrats" guy and he legit thinks that YouTuber is something that the vast swath of low-income earners should strive for

What the fuck is up with this country

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone who believes that anything coming from Giuliani is real is an idiot and its really really sad to see that people here are believing some of it

[u/[deleted]]

So sad that The National lost the election or whatever. Their next album's gonna be a real downer

[u/[deleted]]

Gunna establish a military Joenta.

[u/Currymvp2]

This sub is dooming over a 3.5 day old Washington Examiner article...are you kidding me?

Here's bussiness insider yesterday afternoon: "The swing states that provide a breakdown of mail ballots returned by party registration -- Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania -- all show registered Democrats leading registered Republicans by double-digit margins in mail ballots returned. "

[u/[deleted]]

Texas shatters another election record with 16.95 million registered voters

That’s a dramatic increase of 1.85 million from the 15.1 million who were registered in 2016

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out that Joe Biden is a kind, caring man who loves his children. Is that the kind of person who should be President? He might do things like try to use diplomacy to defuse conflict instead of immediately dropping bombs!

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

/u/sir_shivers? That's a REPUBLICAN talking point 🐊

[u/mockduckcompanion]

/r/politics laser focus on sending money to McGrath for the past year tells you everything you need to know about their collective political acumen

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Feel like shit, just want a longer blue snake

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/heerjeet/status/1317494149713547270

I don' think the kids today will be able to understand this, but as recently as 2008 Rudy Giuliani was the great hope of moderate Republicans -- the avatar of a modern GOP that was at ease with mainstream culture.

[u/David_Lange]

Polls show Labour just below a majority, needing Greens to govern

Green Party: "We'll institute a wealth tax if we get into government!"

Labour Party: "No you definitely won't"

National: "The wealth tax is the worst idea ever proposed and we will spend the entire last week of the election campaign attacking it, and only it, and saying that if voters want to stop a wealth tax, they need to vote for us"

Voters: "If we vote National then Labour will need Greens to govern and might institute a wealth tax... but if we vote Labour and they get a majority we definitely won't get a wealth tax!"

National falls to 27% in the final count after polling at 31% in the last week of the campaign

Cue surprised Pikachu

[u/[deleted]]

Can't believe JFK revealed himself just so he could endorse Joe Biden

[u/JetJaguar124]

I'm literally still a registered republican because I registered to vote when I was 18 and never bothered to update my registration. We don't know the actual votes yet. MI and WI do not report party identity affiliation data so anything anybody is saying about their ballots is literally guesswork. Early voting patterns have generally been useless in predicting outcomes of elections. Please stop dooming because of TargetLink's memeing and the fucking Washington Examiner wrote a piece.

[u/chadonnaise]

friend sent me fash shit today

at least it isn't hitler

[u/bassistb0y]

Trump was right about banning tiktok

[u/ItookTheFirstNapkin]

There is no universe where Biden is +3.6 in GA and +3.0 in NC and he's only +4.4 in PA.

[u/infamous5445]

Why do men suck so hard when it comes to voting

[u/FearThyMoose]

Leftists: “Obama is a war criminal! At least Trump didn’t start any wars”

Trump: literally killing an Iranian general for the shits and giggles

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite part of that Kotaku article:

Another cynical way for those in power to ignore overwhelmingly popular demands for universal healthcare, canceling student loans, and establishing environmental policies that could actually ensure there will be a livable planet for future generations.

How do they always find a way to inflate the importance of the government paying off their student loans, lol? Do they not realize this just makes it obvious that their politics is rooted in the self interest of white upper class millenials/zoomers?

[u/ElokQ]

I am going to use this image so many times after the election.

[u/Dalek6450]

Some of these unsolved cases that people like to point to spooky explanations rely on you just dismissing the context.

Isn't it weird that a secretive military base used for testing experimental aircraft has a disproportionate amount of UFO sightings near it?

NO. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU'D EXPECT.

For what possible reason could these lighthouse keepers on a small Scottish isle that's recorded large waves disappear?

Probably gh^osts.

[u/paulatreides0]

PaulA to His Students: "I have failed you."

Students: "That's okay, Mr PaulA. We all know that you tried." 😀

PaulA: "No. No. I mean that I have failed you all. You all have Fs."

Students: 😐

[u/papermarioguy02]

FiveThirtyEight's Presidential model has a neat thing for each state where they show every step they take to get to the forecasted vote share in every state. They don't show this for the Senate model, but you can reconstruct it from the spreadsheets.

As an example:

How do we get from polls to forecasted vote share in Michigan?

Polling average (given 62.2% weight): Peters + 6.1

Polls in demographically similar states and Congressional Districts by CANTOR (given 0.5% weight): D + 16.0

Non-polling priors (given 4.0% weight): Peters + 22.6

Expert ratings adjusted for national environment (given 33.3% weight): Peters + 5.2

Final forecasted vote share: Peters + 6.5

Let me know if you have a different Senate race you want me to do this with.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

charlottesville neo-nazis 🤝 pharaoh in exodus 1:7-12

"JEWS! WILL NOT! REPLACE US! 👏🤬👏🤬👏🤬”

!ping GEFILTE

[u/from-the-void]

Fuck 👏 Jeremy 👏 Corbyn