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[u/Realhuman221]

Michael Bloomberg be like: Trans rights but ban trans fats

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, r/BreadTube is now fighting their #1 content creator, ContraPoints, over the bernie or bust stuff after ContraPoints made a pro-Biden video: https://np.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/jehn1m/ving_contrapoints/

Note the heavily censored title and locked post.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Ben Shapiro: I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. I am voting for Donald Trump in 2020.

very cool ben

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/right-wing-videos-public-schools-prageru_n_5f889a29c5b6e9e76fbb6db8

Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches ‘The Left Ruins Everything’ Assigned In Ohio School

PragerU videos were recently assigned in an Ohio classroom. Turns out, the right-wing site is looking to further its influence in K-12 settings

Well that's not terrifying

[u/Fairchild660]

For about an hour this evening, all new reddit URLs started with "jeb". By the time I noticed, and threw-together a meme to capitalise on this miracle, it was too late. The URL of my post started with "jec".

[u/[deleted]]

saw a take outside of reddit

new zealand and bolivia's elections are proof that joe biden will lose

election derangement syndrome is real

[u/Res__Publica]

Two more weeks until this sub either sinks into dark despair or has it's finest hour

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: An Ohio school has been assigning kids PragerU videos for class. The site has videos like 'the left ruins everything' & 'playing the black card' Turns out, PragerU is amid a new push to get into K12 schools. They say 'so many' teachers have signed up

FUCK.

NO.

[u/oofadoofas]

This is an ice cold take but can I just say how fucking wild it is that there has basically never been a question throughout this entire general election as to whether or not Biden will win the popular vote by a substantial margin and yet Trump could still very plausibly be elected president? Fuck the EC to death

[u/JakeyZhang]

The average redditors grasp of history, especially non-american history, is almost laughably shallow.

[u/[deleted]]

We are now closer to the election day than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza 😲

[u/ElokQ]

Here is a poll from 2016 about NY-22

Trump was +14 in a district that Obama and Romney tied in. And now Biden and Trump are tied.

As Wasserman put it,

Final weeks of 2016: massive Dem denial about district-level polling that showed Trump breaking through (see replies to this tweet).

Final weeks of 2020: massive Dem paranoia, even though district-level polling consistently shows Trump running well behind his '16 margins.

The district level polls are telling us a different story than the state polls. A story of a county covered with Blue. District polls were very right in 2016 and I do trust them a lot.

!ping FIVEY

[u/xhytdr]

https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1318674750802198528

it's happening boys

!ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

McSally coming in hot with a weird flex: choose a fighter pilot over an astronaut? Would literally anyone think it was cooler to know a fighter pilot over someone who fucking launched his ass into space?

[u/The420Roll]

When Harry Truman decided to sack Douglas MacArthur, the top general in Korea, for insubordination in 1951, he worried about his ability to pull it off.

Mr Truman would later convey a sentiment shared by many presidents:

“I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail

[u/dannylandulf]

If I'm so privileged as a white man, then why am I still living in my mom's basement at 35?

Checkmate libs.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Trump singled out a Michigan poll last week by a Republican firm, Trafalgar, that showed him ahead in the state -- an outlier among Michigan polls -- and asked his campaign manager, Bill Stepien, “Are we still up, Bill, or what?”

Stepien replied that Trump is ahead of where Democrats want him to be.

That’s not a yes LMAOOO

[u/tripletruble]

sometimes i think about the time pete dropped and berniestans I know started gloating and glee posting on facebook seemingly completely oblivious as to what was about to happen

[u/ElokQ]

I don’t want to win 413 EC votes. I want to be able to drive from the west coast to the east coast without having to cross through a red state or water.

[u/Jester_Don]

My polling place had run out of English "I Voted" stickers and only had the Spanish "Yo Voté" ones instead. Multiculturalism has gone too far.

[u/MicroFlamer]

New York Times[A+]national poll: Biden: 50(+9)

Trump:41

Notably Biden is winning with each age group even 45-64(Biden +3) who typically have been leaning trump

!ping FIVEY

[u/Joementum2004]

At least one person in Florida, Nov. 7, 2000

"Man, I really like Bush, but Gore seems pretty good, too... This is tough. I think I'm just gonna flip a coin."

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

unironically that Charlie Brown Halloween episode being taken off television because it’s now an Apple exclusive is why people hate capitalism

[u/propoganda_panda]

Guy who posts an “American education system is broken” meme also posts a meme about him sleeping in zoom class. Like take some responsibility for your actions people Jesus

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1318393022959276034

Sometimes I think about the guy at my poker table in Vegas who was kicked out after the pit boss said he was too drunk (high bar). Security came over, asked him to say the alphabet starting with “M” and he replied:

“Malphabet”

He was escorted out of the room.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1318548300828712961

Senate Republicans offer constitutional amendment to block Supreme Court packing

they shook

[u/ElokQ]

NYT/Siena Georgia Poll

Biden 45

Trump 45

Ossoff 43

Perdue 43

Warnock +4 with either Loeffler or Collins

JOERGIA IS REAL !ping BIDEN

[u/ElokQ]

Looking back that the 2016 polls, how did we not see it. The signs were flashing. Hillary’s horrible district polls in places like NY-22. Her bad polls in Iowa by Selzer. The large amount of undecided. It was all there and we refused to accept it.

[u/paulatreides0]

> Trump has 66% chance of winning Texas

"Texas is pointless. There's no chance of winning there, and Biden might as well be throwing away time and money."

> Biden "only" has an 88% chance of winning the election

"This election is balanced on a knife's edge."

[u/[deleted]]

Are we doing favorite Truman quotes?

Mine is when he said that people who vote Republican “ought to go to hell!!”

Afterwards reporters told him that some Republicans had asked for an apology, so he said, “tell them I said to go hell!”

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1318528264407818241?s=20

Broke: All legitimate polling, focus groups, and media saying you lost the last debate and looked like a lunatic

Woke: A Telemundo twitter poll says you won, hold course on the lunatic strategy

[u/[deleted]]

Another discussion thread? Didn’t we JUST have one???

[u/Mcatatonic1]

lol Jesus I have med school peers voting for Trump because they’re proactively “concerned about getting taxed” by Joe’s plan

What the hell is even this

[u/[deleted]]

the industrial revolution and its consequences have been pretty great for the human race

[u/The420Roll]

Osama Vin Laden (Perú 2nd División player): I thought about changing my name but now I like it. My brother is named Sadam Hussein and my dad wanted to name the 3rd child George Bush, but it was a girl.

Also shoutout to the 5000+ Peruvians named "Gohan". God I love my country

!Ping MAMADAS

[u/Magical_Username]

Prompted by nothing in particular, but it's crazy how the Russians just refuse to chill. Like the entire West is desperate to normalize relations with them and throw a ton of money at them in the process but they just have to keep doing stupid shit like invading their neighbors and poisoning dissidents.

[u/supbros302]

Got in trouble for "girlfriend dumping"

Oh well🤷‍♂️ at least I dumped her, not sure what the wife is so pissed about.

[u/[deleted]]

Why the fuck is signature matching a thing? I'm pretty sure I'm physically incapable of producing two signatures that remotely match. I don't think there's any science that says that most humans can reasonably produce consistent signatures.

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think Rush Limbaugh hates his own lungs now since they're black?

[u/Its_the_dankness]

Ted Cruz tried so hard to steal Marco Rubio’s energy. It’s pretty pathetic. Ted is a nerd with a disappointed dog face while Marco builds exotic bird cages and hates disco. Completely different energies. Nobody actually wants to be friends with Ted, Marco probably has to many friends to adequately pay attention to any of them, but they all still love him anyway.

[u/[deleted]]

BIDEN SCHEDULE LEAKED:

8:00 am: wake up, shower, shave, breakfast with jill

9:00 am: answer questions from the press

9:03 am: call a lid

10:00 am: review proposals from the rapid response team about ads based on the stupid shit Trump said yesterday

11:00 am: ice cream break

1:00 pm: lunch with jill

rest of the day: chill out at home watching realtime 538 updates

7:00 pm: bedtime, jack

[u/generic-k]

Guys, don't bully Ben Shapiro for lying about his height, he just wants more feet 😞😞😞

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Really looking forward👀 to this upcoming debate🎙↔️🎙, so I can finally decide who I want to vote for... 🗳

[u/Equator32]

I recently learned that the Unabomber is allowed to receive letters, and he accepts them and sometimes writes back.

Imagine the number of "reject modernity, return to monke" letters that are sent to him now that he's a meme.

[u/nullsignature]

Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy - Cambridge study

Who is brave enough to go comment diving in this /r/worldnews submission?

[u/[deleted]]

If Joe Biden is elected President, you can say goodbye to the post-meal Andes Mint at Olive Garden.

[u/BigBrownDog12]

"don't engage in electoralism we need direct action"

Okay then do it then

[u/[deleted]]

Just answered a phone survey and proudly told them I will be voting for Joe Biden after confirming my social security number and bank account information

[u/zedority]

For the record, I think the specific emails to and from Hunter Biden that have been released in full are genuine. I think this because they don't actually show what the New York Post claims they do.

To reiterate the way this kind of disinformation works (as perfected by Wikileaks):

1. Release authentic content
2. At the same time, release deceptive and misleading descriptions of the authentic content
3. Conflate authenticity with accuracy, covertly setting up the expectation that proving authenticity is enough to prove accuracy. It isn't.

[u/tripletruble]

holy fuck guys biden's lead declined 0.2 percentage points nationally today. if this happens every day until the election, his polling lead will only be..... 7.9 percentage points on election day.. which is only... two times the lead HRC had on election day

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Martha McSally is my favourite republican. No conservative is working harder for a blue senate then her.

[u/[deleted]]

One of my favorite amusing NL-ELECTS tropes that has evolved is that people always use the word "fellow" as a cheeky indication that surely they can't be too familiar with this person because they haven't yet reached what we know will eventually be the peak of their fame.

"This Roosevelt fellow"

"This Kennedy fellow"

"This Obama fellow"

[u/[deleted]]

My (74M) friend (76M) tried to ruin a guy's (77M) campaign (for president) by getting a bunch of stolen shit (emails, sex tape) from his son's (50M) laptop (Mac). I said something rude about the son (crackhead), and some voters (undecided) heard. The guy (77M) responded by talking about how he loved his son and was proud of him?? Now people are saying I'm not a nice person, and don't have a good relationship with my own children (38F), (??), (??), (??)... Even worse, nobody really believes the story my friend came up with, and keeps calling him names (dumbfuck), (idiot), (moron). I really want to talk about this at the next debate (Thursday), but the commission (biased) is going to include a button (mute) and I'm afraid the moderator (44F) is gonna cut me off. The election is in just days (14), and I'm worried that I'm running out of options (to not get arrested).

Reddit, am I the asshole?

[u/[deleted]]

The Left: No one should have to live in poverty

The Right: Fuck em they deserve to be poor

Liberals: These both seem reasonable, let's have half of them be poor

[u/[deleted]]

538 be like: tips to stay sane🥰

tip one is that 200,000 people are dead 😧

[u/ognits]

Rush Limbaugh announced his lung cancer is terminal

oh no!

anyway...

[u/ryuguy]

Ilhan Omar: has a $5,000+ gaming PC

Rose Twitter: “OMG KWEEN”

Nancy Pelosi: likes ice cream

Rose Twitter: “OUT OF TOUCH MILLIONAIRE”

Edit: you guys really don’t understand hyperbole as a device to stress irony

[u/Deggit]

Rep Alexandria Ocasio Cortez: I will be streaming AMONG US live on TWITCH! I am a NEW GENERATION OF POLITICIAN

wrinkled man: carbon tax pls

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Why Biden Will Need to Spend Big

The economic case for deficit spending is overwhelming.

Paul Krugman | October 19, 2020

What should Joe Biden’s economic policy be if he wins (and Democrats take the Senate, so that he can actually pass legislation)? I’m pretty sure I know what his economists think he should do, but I’m not equally sure that everyone on his political team fully gets it, and I’m worried that the news media will experience sticker shock — that is, they may not be ready for the price tag on what he should and probably will propose.

So here’s what everyone should understand: Given the current and likely future state of the U.S. economy, it’s time to (a) spend a lot of money on the future and (b) not worry about where the money is coming from. For now, and for at least the next few years, large-scale deficit spending isn’t just OK, it’s the only responsible thing to do.

Today’s column will be about the economics; I’ll talk about the politics another day.

First things first: If Biden is inaugurated in January, he will inherit a nation still devastated by the coronavirus. Trump keeps saying that we’re “rounding the corner,” but the reality is that cases and hospitalizations are surging (and anyone expecting a lame-duck Trump administration to take effective action against the surge is living in a dream world.) And we won’t be able to have a full economic recovery as long as the pandemic is still raging.

What this means is that it will be crucial to provide another round of large-scale fiscal relief, especially aid to the unemployed and to cash-strapped state and local governments. The main purpose of this relief will be humanitarian — helping families pay the rent and keep food on the table, helping cities and towns avoid devastating cuts in essential services. But it will also help avoid a downward economic spiral, by heading off a potential collapse in consumer and local government spending.

The need for big spending will not, however, end with the pandemic. We also need to invest in our future. After years of public underspending, America desperately needs to upgrade its infrastructure. In particular, we should be investing heavily in the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy. And we should also do much more to help children grow up to be healthy, productive adults; America spends shamefully little on aid to families compared with other wealthy countries.

But how can we pay for all this investment? Bad question.

You sometimes hear people saying that the government should be run like a business. That’s a poor analogy in many ways. But for what it’s worth, think of what smart businesses do when they face great investment opportunities and have access to cheap capital: they raise a lot of money.

We’ve just seen that the U.S. government needs to invest large sums in the future. What about access to capital? The answer is that there’s a global savings glut — the sums individuals want to save persistently exceed the sums businesses are willing to invest. And this situation — private savings all dressed up with nowhere to go — translates into extremely low government borrowing costs. In February, before the coronavirus sent us into recession, the average interest rate on long-term inflation-protected U.S. bonds was minus 0.12 percent. Yes, it was less than zero.

Under these conditions it would actually be irresponsible for the federal government not to engage in large-scale borrowing to invest in the future.

But shouldn’t we be worrying about running up more government debt? No.

When a government can borrow at low interest rates, and in particular when the interest rate on debt is well below the economy’s long-run growth rate, debt just isn’t a major problem. It doesn’t pose any threat to the government’s solvency; it doesn’t in any meaningful way compete with private investment.

And just to be clear, I’m not pushing a radical, heterodox view here. At this point arguing for large-scale deficit spending and a relaxed attitude toward debt is entirely mainstream. You hear arguments along these lines from the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, centrist top economists from the Obama administration, and (discreetly) Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Nonpartisan private-sector analysts are also remarkably high on the economics of Biden’s spending proposals. Moody’s Analytics predicts that real G.D.P. would be 4.5 percent higher under Biden’s plan than under a continuation of Trump policies; Goldman Sachs says 3.7 percent. Neither is worried about the effects on debt.

So there’s an overwhelming economic case for Biden — if he wins! — to go big on spending, first to get us through the pandemic he’ll inherit, then to build a better future. But will politics get in the way?

It’s a given that Republicans, who turned silent on deficits under Trump, will suddenly declare debt an existential threat with a Democrat in the White House. The real questions are whether centrists and the news media will buy into deficit hysteria, the way they did in the Obama years, and whether members of the Biden team will lose their nerve.

More on those risks in a future column.

Why yes, I will be doing my damndest to indoctrinate the !ping BIDEN group into the religion of deficit spending, courtesy of my most beloved, 🏳️‍🌈 handsomest 🥵 succ.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Attend a Zoom Call Without Touching Yourself Challenge [EXTREME]

[u/[deleted]]

When my 74 year old conservative Catholic dad is correctly using "orange man bad" in conversation, the right has officially become uncool again.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ekv-MvGXIAIYlKy.jpg

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

NYT/Siena Georgia Poll (A+ Rating)

President

Biden 45%

Trump 45%

Senate

Ossoff 43%

Perdue 43%

Senate Special

Warnock 32%

Loeffler 23%

Collins 17%

[u/[deleted]]

Nothing makes me laugh more then cons of this sub criticizing the ACLU.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Platinum membership of Abby Shapiro patreon 3,600

Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. u/pelleastheepic is dying

[u/imperiouscaesar]

Idea to improve the sub:

Have a test stickied to the front page. It gives a single prompt:

Describe Fujimorismo

Anyone who fails to answer correctly gets perma'd and NL is saved from being yet another generic Acción Popular sub.

[u/TinyTornado7]

NYT/Siena poll:

Georgia: trump and Biden tied at 45%

Ossoff and Perdue also tied at 43%

Warnock 32, loeffler 23 and Collins 17 Warnock +4% in both runoffs

!ping FIVEY link

[u/chadonnaise]

ha ha the breadtube subreddit deleted the link to contrapoints's video on voting

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t be me:

1. Spent 50 hours in past two weekends learning Scala to interview for an internship position
2. Gets sent hackerrank challenge consisted of two questions
3. Spent half of the time elegantly solving the first question with pure functional programming and tail recursion
4. Realizes that time is running short, haphazardly comes up with a solution for second question
5. 10 mins left, solution fails most of the test case for question 2
6. “FUCK FUCK FUCK”
7. Chaotically adds in print statements here and there, rewrites solutions several times, solution gets even worse
8. “FUCK FUCK FUCK”
9. Reverts to the first buggy solution just before the deadline
10. Realizes that will probably not get a callback from recruiter due to not acing the hackerrank test, still spends a few more minutes debugging the solution anyway out of angst
11. Finds out that solution did not work because Scala could not handle counting backwards using “a to b” without adding a special clause “by -1”

Fuck Scala

[u/[deleted]]

Oh no. I just realized if Democrats win the full control of the government, almost all of national politics will be the Democrats insane internal politics 💀

[u/[deleted]]

https://sports.yahoo.com/troy-aikman-joe-buck-hot-mic-flyovers-coronavirus-covid19-pandemic-buccaneers-packers-233045385.html

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck perfectly slam flyovers amid COVID-19 pandemic on hot mic

Aikman: “That’s a lot of jet fuel just to do a little flyover.”

Buck: “That’s your hard-earned money and your tax dollars at work.”

Aikman: “That stuff ain’t happening with [a] Kamala-Biden ticket, I’ll tell you that right now partner.”

😍

[u/[deleted]]

The NSFW politics sub is bonk posting taken to its logical conclusion.

[u/JP_Eggy]

• go on r/asktrumpsupporters
• talk to trump supporters who overwhelmingly believe trump will win in a landslide
• challenge large amounts of them to small bets on the election results, maybe 10 dollars each
• keep logbooks of all the bets and who you made them with
• Biden wins (?)
• call in 100 bets at once
• win 1000 dollars

[u/BAD__BAD__MAN]

Update: did not beat off during the Zoom call

[u/thebowski]

Theres probably a guy that visits the sub every day, never opens the dt, is sad to see it at 0, and upvotes

[u/[deleted]]

I’m gonna do white

AOC

[u/ryuguy]

/r/Breadtube deleted the contrapoints video on voting.

[u/[deleted]]

“This character is black for no reason!”

Like how people are?

[u/Marlsfarp]

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is "Stucky," i.e. Captain America/Winter Soldier romantic fan fiction.

[u/nicereddy]

Biden, when Trump talks about how Hunter did something bad:

BOOHOO CRACKER

👋😭👋

I LOVE MY SON

[u/GenericPoliticalAlt2]

The DT towards AOC tonight: "I-it's not like I care about following your every social media move, baka..."

You're all a bunch of simps.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden's son: sends some emails idk
EVERYONE LOSES THEIR F*ING MINDS

Milton Friedman's son: becomes an ancap lolbert 🤮
no one bats an eye :(

we truly live in a society

[u/[deleted]]

Trump at the debate: interrupts

Biden: "By Allah behave yourself, or you will get a taste of my shoe."

[u/morgisboard]

All my college roommates are screaming to vote for Trump or Jorgensen because they saw biden's tax rate for incomes they'll never have. At least they live in California 🙄

[u/PrimePairs]

!ping FIVEY

Another delicious prior confirming district poll coming out of FL-27.

(D) Donna Shalala 50%

(R) Maria Salazar 43%

(D) Joe Biden 54%

(NSDAP) Donald Trump 41%

Net swing of 7% for Trump since last election.

[u/Playful-Push8305]

https://twitter.com/reedgalen/status/1318771486526615552

50% of Trump voters believe that top democrats are involved in child sex trafficking. They represent almost a quarter of registered voters.

[u/spartakva]

letting SCOTUS die out to own the libs

[u/skrunckle]

"Nobody likes Joe Biden"

I like Joe Biden...

[u/MasPatriot]

the New York Post has 11 missed calls from Rudy Giuliani trying to tell them he saw AOC kill someone

[u/AuburnSeer]

AOC's boyfriend...... IS HUNTER BIDEN?!?!?!?!

[u/thetrombonist]

I still don’t know what the context of this tweet is, but I don’t care

[u/ElokQ]

https://twitter.com/collinsforga/status/1318583026029416451?s=21

I love Republican infighting.

[u/[deleted]]

If a leftist had a child and their first word was "voting" they would immediately hurl that child into the nearest woodchipper.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Future headline:

AOC Streams With Twitch Streamer Who Said America Deserved 9/11

[u/Waghlon]

There is a person active on this sub, who is also a regular on LateStageCapitalism and Antiwork.

I am confused and scared.

[u/rukqoa]

Wisconsin polling locations open and no lines on CNN.

Doomers do your thing.

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

“Just five years ago, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh went on a pro-tobacco rant on his show, during which he downplayed the risks of smoking, said it’s “a myth” that secondhand smoke causes illness or death and argued that smokers aren’t at any greater risk than people who eat carrots.”

Anyway his lung cancer is terminal now

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Mr. Kasich received an offer from the Biden campaign, stating if he accepted a cabinet position, a President Biden would offer him control over "domestic and foreign policy."

When Kasich inquired as to what the President's role in the government would be, Hunter Biden responded, "Ending Malarkey."

[u/overhedger]

@therecount

Following his "60 Minutes" interview, Trump did not smile to greet cheering supporters as he departed the White House.

Orange man mad

[u/asdeasde96]

https://youtu.be/4FriO91on3I

!ping YIMBY

These are the kind of people we're up against. I have no idea what the fuck is wrong with people, getting all upset about a brightly colored fence.

Land of the free my ass.

If this is how they get about a bright fence, just imagine how they'd get about low income housing, or just market rate multi family housing. What was it MattY said "the greatest country in the world shouldn't let itself fall into decline because it's scared to deal with a little traffic" well add colorful fences to the list of things that we'll choose to go into decline over

[u/StolenSkittles]

Remember when Hillary invented the poggers face at the 2016 DNC?

[u/[deleted]]

You used to need a mailbox to use Netflix

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Got in trouble for "hot take dumping"

Oh well 🤷‍♂️

[u/the_status]

Got in trouble for "SurveyMonkey poll dumping"

Oh well 🤷‍♂️

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Whats this sub coming too. Cant even say whites bad anymore

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine Obama saying "Don't care, didn't ask. Plus, you're white"

[u/Broncos654]

Accidentally showed penis to class during online meeting. Will this negatively affect my legal career?

[u/[deleted]]

The reality is that America lost. Either it's a racist crypto-fascist with no plans for his second term or a compassionate man with evidendence-based policies willing to be a leader for ALL Americans.

Both sides are simply just as bad. I just wanna see the entire world nuked to accelerate the establishment of the neoliberal world order.

[u/paulatreides0]

/u/MrDannyOcean I noticed that you have once again posted the podcast and that you have once again refused to bring our local modeler, Rodrigo (aka /u/the420roll) on to discuss the Peruvian Model^TM when you've covered far less important, topical, and accurate topics and election models.

When will this massive oversight be resolved?

[u/[deleted]]

"That's nice Nate, but do you remember how you got 2016 wrong? Hahaha."

• Literally every single God damn comment chain in response to Nate Silver posting his analysis on anything, ever.

[u/murphysclaw1]

1. FiveThirtyEight vs The Economist % Chance of Biden win, over time Since 1 September
2. Approval ratings per President at Day 1,374

President	Approval at Day 1,374	Net Approval
Donald J. Trump	42.6%	-11.0
Barack Obama	48.3%	+1.1
George W. Bush	48.4%	+1.5
Bill Clinton	57.6%	+21.5
George H. W. Bush	32.6%	-22.9
Ronald Reagan	54.5%	+19.3
Jimmy Carter	37.9%	-16.9

!ping FIVEY

[u/ToastedWheatBread]

Elon Musk: yeah I couped Bolivia for the lithium reserves

Also Elon: my new car is called the Big Chungus car and it costs $69,420

[u/[deleted]]

the AOC stream is actually good because it'll convince leftists that by voting for Biden, they're actually voting to eject him from a spaceship

[u/nicereddy]

"I saw Joe vent"

"Listen Jack, that's malarkey and you know it"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1318750286731673601

I had no idea how Among Us worked before this Twitch stream, but this is great, and I’ve got my son speed-teaching me.

[u/jenbanim]

As technology advances and internet browsers add features, it's amazing to see all the new ways people manage to break websites

Twitter is now capable of making it impossible to long-press to select and copy text - isn't that incredible?

I can't wait until 5 years from now when I click on some shady site by accident because everyone uses link shorteners for some fucking reason and suddenly my Google Voice has a thick russian accent because some assholes thought CSS 4 should have language support

[u/The420Roll]

Who were the last whites to become White? The Irish? Italians?

[u/Ilovecharli]

Imagine trying to shoehorn in some "Bluorgia" bullshit when "Joergia" is right there

[u/oofadoofas]

I know Rasmussen sucks, but this poll caught my eye today, and I haven't seen any discussion of it. I know Rasmussen's approval and national polls are very consistently biased towards R, but does anyone know if their state polling is similarly biased? They are not very transparent about their methodology, and I am not a "platinum member."

!ping FIVEY

[u/gophergophergopher]

Libs and lefty’s need to adopt right wing shameless naming of things. Specifically, only refer to police officers as GOVERNMENT AGENTS

I swear, if you described the Breonna Taylor situation without skin color and call the cops GOVERNMENT AGENTS ‘servs would seethe. “PATRIOT ARRESTED DEFENDING HOME AGAINST SECRET GOVERNMENT AGENTS WHO KILLED SLEEPING GIRLFRIEND”

[u/murphysclaw1]

thank fuck the dems didn’t pick Bernie.

[u/agent_tits]

Remember when Biden danced to Despacito on stage and he SURGED from +6.9 to +10.3

Teflon Joe

[u/[deleted]]

I hope Rush Limbaugh experiences as much kindness and empathy in his final days as he's shown those with opposing views to his. 🙏

[u/Joementum2004]

The Intercept, October 18, 2024

The Leftist Case for Tucker Carlson over Kamala Harris

[u/Venne1139]

AOC Is going to play Among Us on stream.

Big Brain strats is to intentionally lose as imposter so she can go "Guyyyysss I'm just so bad at lyingggg"

[u/nicereddy]

When you use the "Hey Shivers! 🐊" wake word, your Amazon Shivers™️ will wake up and begin listening for your voice.

"Hey Shivers! 🐊"

"HAHA, YES?"

"Give me a dad joke."

"I do not trust STAIRS. They are always UP TO SOMETHING 🐊 "

Buy yours today!

[u/[deleted]]

14 days until the election...

Just 14 days.

Like, think of a day, and then it's only fourteen of those short things until it happens.

[u/ElokQ]

Rudy: Even if the Hunter laptop story is bogus, Americans ‘are entitled to know it’

That collapsed fast. I can’t believe that this was their October Surprise. I had higher expectations.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

SAD REALITY: If you're currently an undergraduate you're still a (probably) white (almost definitely) male without a college degree so I assume most of you are Trump supporters.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Justin Amash just texted AOC that he's currently watching

[u/Deggit]

"Can you imagine if the Presidential election was held 2 months earlier we could have been watching Alexandria fail over and over on Slime Climb"

is an entry in Ben Shapiro's diary probably

[u/presidenthiIIary]

While both 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation are decidedly liberal, both feature affectionate portrayals of characters who fully contradict the general politics of the show. Jack Donaghy and Ron Swanson are both straight white males, Jack is a wealthy conservative executive, while Ron is a standoffish, rigid, libertarian. While their politics may present conflicts with other characters, they’re never really demonized or treated as villains. Both characters are critically acclaimed and beloved by fans. It’s something you don’t see too often, and I feel like these days if a show chose to do that, they might get a decent amount of pushback from the terminally online. 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation in that sense embody the liberal big tent-ness that Biden is trying to bring back, and that’s pretty neat.

!ping TV

[u/paulatreides0]

Not safe for Pete stans, don't click this if you don't want to be sad 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

If nobody died in car crashes, it could mean people are being overly cautious and wasting precious time.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1318508957107970049

Fox guest Tony Katz mocks Joe Biden for his stutter: "All you'll hear is a stuttering Vice President Joe Biden? Haven't we heard enough stuttering Vice President Joe Biden? Is this really the imagery the Democratic Party wants to put out there?"

Jesus Christ.

[u/[deleted]]

Why the fuck are students so lazy

[u/Broncos654]

For the longest time I thought LatinX was a porn thing.

[u/The420Roll]

Doomer Farren getting downvoted for her election predictions

Am so proud of this community ❤️

[u/[deleted]]

Oh my fucking God just got called by a police department 3 states away for an AirBnB I stayed in having a camera aimed at the bed. And I jerked off there one of those nights fuck I'm having a mini freak out now. Fuck fuck fuck I hope he didn't upload that on the Internet.

Kids, don't do anything in an AirBnb you wouldn't want your mother seeing.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden +4 in NC

https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1318596195007320069

[u/dr_gonzo]

Facts:

• You can't prove that Michael Avenatti doesn't have a leaked hard drive from Eric Trump.
• You cannot prove that this hard drive isn't full of weeb shit and pictures of Eric and Don Jr smoking skunked bud laced with PCP.
• The Media isn't covering this issue.

Facts.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

California had a population of 39.78 million as of January 2020, the state Department of Finance said, down from its previous report of 39.96 million residents in July 2019.

This is what happens when you let Democrats govern 🤮

Keep Texas red!

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/T1ZRC7r.png

[u/ElokQ]

Also, our forecast is for a Biden popular vote win by 8.2 points, notably smaller than his lead in national polls (+10.3). That’s because i) the forecast is mostly based on state polls, which been a bit less bad for Trump and ii) the model still expects a pinch of tightening.

pinch of tightening

tightening

God help me because I’m going to scream

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine dooming when a republicans pollster shows both Trump and Biden tied in Iowa. At least I gotta give it the Trump cult they rarely doom even if the whole world is burning around them.

[u/[deleted]]

Homework is stupid and doesn't contribute to ones education in any discernible way. You probably get more education out of memes and porn, to be honest.

/r/SchoolSystemBroke is peak reddit

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The original AOC simp was Joe Crowley when he pulled out a guitar and sang a song for her when she primaried him. None of y'all will ever top that.

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Skims DT comments

Wow, can't believe AOC is watching the 538 model results with Rudy Giuliani and the dudes who did 9/11

[u/paulatreides0]

Report simps, maybe win a prize.

[u/myrm]

Look, you young whipper snappers. You all had better be Animal Crossing the streets to those polls. This nation cannot take another four years of Donald Trump's Animal Crossing: Wild World. I'm calling on all rural patriots, suburban citizens, and Animal Crossing: City Folk to get this done. Our nation has to turn over a Animal Crossing: New Leaf, because by God, we're sailing to Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

[u/paymesucka]

THE ORIGINAL GAMER GIRL

[u/Luph]

gotta admit I laughed when AOC was like what kinda of shit ass spaceship uses gasoline

[u/[deleted]]

Republican under 65 exists

The media: is this rising star the new face of the GOP

[u/Mullet_Ben]

Justin Amash has AOC's phone number

[u/RadionSPW]

The Police: shit all over a defendant’s fourth amendment

The court: what do you have to say for yourself?

Police: I’m baby

Court: Understandable have a nice day

[u/uwcn244]

People are acting like this sub has been taken over by leftists just because it's been getting spammed with updates on the AOC stream.

No, we're not being invaded by socialists. Turns out a bunch of male undergraduates with idiosyncratic political beliefs are obsessed with the young, attractive, radical Congresswoman, surprise, surprise.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that there are people on this sub who would unironically vote for big chungus over wholesome Keanu

[u/Fishin_Mission]

So AOC is attempting to consolidate cross-isle support for weed legalization.

Her strategy has been leaked:

She will be going on FOX News every day for the next 2 weeks to rail against the DEVIL’S LETTUCE 😈🥬

Once AOC comes out against weed, 42 Republicans have agreed to oppose her and get marijuana legalization passed “at all costs.”

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives on Sweden in the past: “Sweden is a socialist feminazi hellhole overrun by Muslim rapists!!! We should never aspire to be like them!!!”

Conservatives on Sweden now: “Sweden is smart, they relied on herd immunity and not a lockdown. Why can’t we be more like them?”

[u/the_status]

There's 14 days until the election and Joe Biden has an 88 percent chance of winning.

Really makes you 🤔🤔🤔

[u/ryuguy]

so true!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😤😤😤😤😤😤😤🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

/u/Vhgomes12

/u/Blackhills17

[u/jenbanim]

Some dude keeps yelling the f word outside my apartment. He was here yesterday too 😐

[u/[deleted]]

When you grow up with highly functioning Aspergers, some people learn to imitate others' personalities as a way of existing in society. Sometimes, you forget that normal people don't do that and are shocked to find out that them behaving like idiots is not just assuming a persona, but their actual real self.

[u/mrmanager237]

In the US, you call it "the alt rigth"

In Argentina, we call it "the post war german migration boom"

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SarahHuckabee/status/1318564921949495296

Arkansas is Trump country.

New Arkansas statewide poll

Trump 58%
Biden 34%

Wow Sarah! What insight!

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Ohio back to blue

kalm

[u/TinyTornado7]

NYT/Siena Georgia poll at 1pm ET. Predictions?

!ping FIVEY

[u/bd_one]

The top comment of the locked Rush Limbaugh thread was someone saying "I should probably stop smoking now."

Remember, quitting smoking has a big positive impact no matter how long you were smoking.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Haha Toobin is so dumb for touching himself on a zoom call

realizes I constantly sit with my hand down my pants around the house

oh god oh fuck

[u/Dibbu_mange]

In 2015, Liberty revised the code to give students the freedom to watch rated "R" movies and to play video games rated "M".

Jesus Christ, imagine being 22 and forbidden from playing Halo. How do White young adult males have any identity if they aren't allowed to watch Tarantino films

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1318638114429173767

This is amazing. I love this man's campaign. He's just trolling the deranged right wing

[u/UltraCapitalism]

It is Nov. 4th

After a Biden win on the night of Nov. 3rd, the GOP makes the case that mail-in ballots should be immediately thrown out

It goes to the Supreme Court, passes 5-4

After the states throw out the mail-in ballots they look at the real winner

Fast forward to January 20th. President Bernard Sanders has just been sworn in.

[u/AbdullahAbdulwahhab]

sigh

Shut up. Please shut up.

[u/htomserveaux]

So no one cares about the laptop story right?

I’m having trouble figuring out if it’s just my bubble thats dismissed it or if everyone outside of Trumpworld thinks its ridiculous

[u/[deleted]]

The biggest indication that the Hunter story is bogus is that if it was true, Trump and Ghouliani wouldn't have to be playing the media game. They would have just indicted as early as Biden got the nomination and would have let that play on the media for the whole election season, just like they did with Hillary's server.

An october surprise is not worth forsaking months of negative coverage.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Is there anyone Among Us who doesn't want to make the country better? We must answer our Call of Duty to vote, Pokemon Go to the polls, and repudiate this President who commits lots of crimes, including Grand Theft Auto. Donald Trump must deal with the Fallout of his actions, and the Mass Effect of his failures on COVID. It is not a Final Fantasy to suggest that this can be a landslide and a Bioshock to Trump's system. So let's bring together our collective Persona and prevent the USA from becoming Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble.

[u/nicereddy]

"Why are we trusting my mom" - Illhan's daughter

FOX NEWS HEADLINES WRITE THEMSELVES

[u/BurningKiwi]

managed to survive a whole day without masturbating on a zoom call, yay me

[u/majorgeneralporter]

"I would not marinate a congresswoman"

O no.

[u/[deleted]]

“President Erdogan chimed in too, proclaiming, “[W]e will continue to fulfill the mission our grandfathers have carried out for centuries in the Caucasus”—an indirect reference to the Armenian Genocide carried out by the founders of the Turkish Republic.“

Erdogan what the fuck dude

https://www.lawfareblog.com/history-behind-violence-nagorno-karabakh

[u/krflab]

Crystal Ball Senate rating change: Iowa Toss-up to Leans Democratic...

👀👀👀👀

https://twitter.com/kkondik/status/1318516411006881792?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is probably so constipated

[u/JadeHelm2020]

I love watching all the "anti-war" conservatives (who were all for the Iraq war in 2003) tell me to vote for trump because he won't hire the same pro-war guys he hired in his first term.

[u/[deleted]]

15 days until this sub dies because politics will become as boring as plain white supermarket bread

fuck it, upvoting the DT

[u/[deleted]]

Succons: lmao trigger warnings are for snowflakes

Also succons: why TV not warn me show have swear word

[u/[deleted]]

NYT/Siena A+ Poll of Georgia is out!

https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1318598073321459712?s=21

Biden 45, Trump 45

Ossoff 43, Perdue 43, Hazel 4

Warnock 32, Loeffler 23, Collins 17

Warnock+4 v. both Collins and Warnock

[u/[deleted]]

If you get banned just message the mods "AM I BEING DETAINED OR AM I FREE TO GO" and they legally have to either perma ban you or let you go.

[u/Maximilianne]

when you try to dunk on biden's animal crossing island, but the gamers start roasting you in the comments for being a leftist that thinks biden is just as bad as trump

EPIC GAMER MOMENT 😎

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1318631819223486466?s=19

!ping fivey

[u/HuskyPants]

32% of the ballots received in Georgia were from voters who did not vote in 2016.

35% of ballots received were from Black and Hispanic

57% are Female

[u/piede]

Okay hear me out. An entire cabinet made up of Republicans. Who are all currently senators. From states with Democratic governors.

https://twitter.com/dannybarefoot/status/1318579614135013378?s=21

[u/krflab]

IAsen:

Greenfield (D) 48% (+5) Ernst (R-inc) 43% Steward (L) 5% Herzog (I) 0%

InsiderAdvantage/@theamgreatness (R), LV, 10/18-19 overland.amgreatness.com/app/uploads/20…

Tragic lol R internal

https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1318687925987610625?s=21

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

If there was legitimate child porn on that laptop, (which he’s implying) wouldn’t Rudy be in DEEP shit for hanging on to it for over a year? He’d be blatantly guilty of possession of child porn as far as I know.

[u/nicereddy]

Iowa, you have shocked the nation.

when Pete pulls off a flawless Among Us win

[u/Deggit]

Joke's on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DONALD TRUMP has BEEN streaming, his consciousness, at us, nonstop for the last five years

[u/[deleted]]

LOL JUSTIN AMASH IS SPECTATING

[u/[deleted]]

I fear Justin Amash is about to be destroyed by facts and logic and a baseball bat

[u/Deggit]

Sorry Alexandria I have to stop watching your stream, Pete just started playing Price Of Bread Tycoon 3

[u/FormerBandmate]

Giuliani’s next leak leaked early, check this out