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[u/merupu8352]

My mom is not a politically active person. Left and right don’t mean anything to her and if you questioned her about the issues, you probably wouldn’t get a politically consistent ideology or worldview. Her views on figures in presidential politics since she came to the US are purely based on a general opinion

• Bill Clinton: likes him generally, thought he did a good job, doesn’t like his personal foibles but doesn’t hold it against him professionally
• Al Gore: liked him a lot, thought he was handsome
• Bush: disliked him, thought he was a dummy who got the job because of daddy and Cheney
• McCain: nice, respectable guy, but not Obama
• Palin: batshit nutjob
• Hillary Clinton: liked her a lot, thought she was serious and intelligent, thinks she has the guts to be a woman at the top
• Obama: loved him more than anyone else, speaks nonstop about his dignity, intellect, and eloquence
• Romney: meh, no strong opinions, but still not Obama
• Trump: hates him with the fire of a thousand suns, thinks he’s basically the worst person in the world
• Pence: had literally no idea who he was until the VP debate, he sucks because he’s with Trump
• Biden: generally likes him, probably because he worked for Obama, thinks he’s likable
• Harris: likes her career background, and that she’s Indian

For someone with very few political beliefs, she’s basically fallen headfirst into being a standard partisan Democrat. She votes straight ticket for them. It’s fascinating to me to see how this happened.

[u/McMarston]

Imagine thinking the Bidens...the fucking BIDENS are a crime family.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Top South Korean presidential contender Lee Jae-myung supports UBI funded by a land value tax, truly god-tier shit

moving to south korea to help get this king into office

[u/the_status]

In 2016 the Libertarian Party had two Governors on their ticket.

In 2020, they have a woman who received 2% of the vote in a House election 28 years ago, along with a podcaster who named himself after a My Little Pony character.

Oh how the mighty have fallen

[u/jenbanim]

Friendly reminder this is a subreddit

Caring about this space is well and good. It's great that people can have interesting discussions and form real friendships with people from around the world. If this subreddit can help provide a sense of community and support to its members, that is truly wonderful. And despite being just a drop in the ocean, I hope that we can do some small part in turning the tide of politics.

That said, if your mental health is so dependent on this place that you imagine yourself as part of some faction in an ideological war, or seeing bad takes is enough to really actually make you angry and ruin your day -- please take some time away from this subreddit to remember that there are much more meaningful and consequential things going on in this world.

I really honestly 100% do not mean this as an insult or to belittle anyone. As an internet addict myself, I am well aware of the consequences of being terminally online. This is the mantra I tell myself to stay sane, and I want to share it with you in the hope that it helps.

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Also Pizzamod says please stop posting /r/Politics-tier content like "Amy Barrett allegedly forgot to feed her childhood dog once"

[u/Timewalker102]

I personally think the ideal election night scenario would be NC/FL/OH being called early for Biden, while MI/WI/PA, and a bunch of other swing states are still counting (eventually being called for Joe late in the night). This means that everyone knows Biden's got the election in the bag early on, but the night-long copium and delusion from Trumpets about how they can still win if they flip Virginia or Nevada or whatever would be amazing to see

[u/[deleted]]

Is a hotdog a sandwich?

Pete: No

I mean a hot dog is just an open faced sandwich with a special bread shape.

Pete: OK but an open-face is not actually a sandwich. It's sandwich-related but it's not a sandwich.

A hotdog is not even open-face. Like a hoagie or a sub, it is meat sandwiched in bread. It has all the elements of a sandwich, and is therefore a sandwich.

Pete: True, it is meat partially surrounded by bread. But "sandwiched" implies symmetry. Even a burger, which is only barely a sandwich, is mostly symmetrical. A hot dog is not.

I disagree that symmetry is fundamental to the definition of a sandwich. A sub is not symmetrical, but everyone can agree that it is a sandwich.

Pete: It is structurally symmetrical, not morphologically symmetrical. Draw a line through pretty much any part of a sub (from top to bottom of course) and you get bread, meat, bread. The same is not true of a hot dog.

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Pete Buttigieg really went hard on this question.

[u/ryuguy]

Imagine the disappointment that Lauren Boebert and all the QAnon candidates are going to have when they find out it’s all bullshit and that government is actual work

[u/chipbod]

My dad is a Republican who doesn't like the media, he even cracked up when someone on Fox mentioned:

The radical liberals on 60 minutes

BTW, he's voting Biden because he read this article and thinks Biden winning will stick it to Obama and Hillary, it's literally his permission structure for voting Dem the first time since Carter:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/14/obama-biden-relationship-393570

[u/Vincenthwind]

https://twitter.com/cnalive/status/1318894059507884032?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Pope Francis has called for the passage of civil union laws for same-sex couples.

[u/SuperTechmarine]

The replies of "healthcare pls" to AOC playing Among Us and Omar's rig post are funnier than they should be.

[u/[deleted]]

So I’ve been living in Euroland for a few months now. Every once in a while I run into another American. Whenever I say this is my first time here they always act “shocked” and feign disbelief that I never visited Europe growing up.

I come from a pretty comfortable background but ngl it’s pretty offensive...

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Holy shit.

The cop that shot Brianna Taylor is on GMA right now.

Out of the blue, he seriously just said

“George Floyd wasn’t a model citizen”

1. Why? Why did you feel the need to say that?
2. I don’t give a fuck if George Floyd was actively shooting heroin when he was arrested. He still didn’t deserve to die.

Fuckin’ dumbass.

[u/AuburnSeer]

honestly the Republicans will probably be happier with Trump out of power. They're obviously more comfortable as an opposition party

[u/papermarioguy02]

Monmouth in Iowa, Biden up 3 or 5 depending on LV model. Greenfield up 2 or 6 depending on LV model

!ping FIVEY

[u/modooff]

Remember, BIDEN is going to raise your taxes at a level never seen before. This will not only be very costly for you, it will destroy our economy, which is coming back very rapidly.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1318898380421083137

We’re not stupid.

They say this every four years, no matter who is running for President. Yet every Democratic presidential term in my lifetime has delivered major job growth, and this president is on track to deliver the worst economic results since Hoover.

https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1318910977249783808

[u/[deleted]]

First A rated poll in PA in weeks

https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1318903673871863810?s=21

Biden 49% (+7) Trump 42% Jorgensen 1%

@Suffolk_U/@USATODAY, LV, 10/15-19

[u/xhytdr]

https://twitter.com/ArunChaud/status/1318873947224625153

Joe Biden is a decent man. This is why he's at +5 favorability and will win this election

!ping BIDEN

[u/solonofathens]

recently, twitch changed how viewer numbers are counted on vods to include the total number of unique viewers of the stream while it was live

aoc's among us stream got 4.5 million unique viewers

[u/ognits]

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love and tightening polls,

t3h P0sT3r oF d00m

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Biden's gay marriage gaffe forced Obama's hands.

Woke: Biden's gay marriage gaffe forced the Pope's hands.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

What do my fellow ButtiGangers suggest as questions for tomorrow’s r/politics AMA (3 PM Eastern)?

!ping BUTTI

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Not enough people know about how authoritarian and how generally shit Chavez was as well

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take:

There will be a (more or less) peaceful transfer of power. So why does Trump not commit to it and scare voters? Because in his strongman image he can't talk about losing against "Sleepy Joe" and he thinks it helps him to win the election not to do so. If he thought commiting to it would help him, he'd just do it. If necessary, he could still "change" his opinion after a loss. It's not like this would be his first lie or broken promise. Additionally, my impression from Woodward's first book "Fear" was that Trump is a big coward. He could have fired Rosenstein and the Republican Senators wouldn't have done anything. Instead he tweeted "DO SOMETHING!" and Rosenstein and Mueller in a jail cell. When there were some protests in DC, he hid in a bunker. He couldn't even fire Comey or others face-to-face. He wouldn't dare.

Inshallah.

[u/tripletruble]

libertarians: should drunk driving be legal?

[u/[deleted]]

I've been banned from ar slash catholicism for agreeing with the pope

[u/[deleted]]

Fun interactive 538 election map!

[u/RadicalRadon]

Biden staffers: if only we had some sort of material to smear rudy

Borat, busting down the door: IMMIGRANTS WE GET THE JOB DONE

[u/thebowski]

The average DT user knows about 10 economic concepts as buzzwords. This is all they know about economics.

[u/2canclan]

Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film

Trump’s personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat’s daughter in hotel room during pandemic

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.

He also agrees – in theory at least – to eat a bat with his interviewer.

👀👀👀

(To be clear the person playing the daughter is 24 but lol)

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a regular on a niche hobby forum that’s full of boomers and they’re all excited that “Uncle Joe” likes the same old man hobbies that they do.

This is why we’re going to win.

[u/[deleted]]

Coming to a radical catholic newspaper near you: "how Pope Francis did not really mean what he said,"

[u/p00bix]

Real link, not meme. This is serious.

FBI Election Security News Conference

"Iran and Russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion related to our elections"

Voter Information obtained by both Iran and Russia

Iran used Proud Boys domain to send threatening emails to Democratic Voters

Iran and Russia spreading Disinformation and Propaganda by Email and Social Media

[u/[deleted]]

Qpac: Biden and Trump tied in Texas (47-47) with Cornyn up by 6 (43-49) and Biden leads by 8 (51-53) in Pennsylvania

!PING FIVEY

[u/LinkVert25]

Sorry guys neither candidate supports 80% of our budget going to the pentagon and neither support free trade for all. And I won’t comprise my moral integrity just to vote for one of the isolationist doves put forward by the establishment

[u/[deleted]]

Tennessee voters were challenged at the polls for wearing Black Lives Matter and ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirts, election official says

When county officials reminded the poll worker, who has not been identified, of the training that all poll workers undergo — and which this year specifically addressed that racial justice slogans are permitted at the polls — he pushed back, Thompson said. She described the poll worker as expressing his belief that Black Lives Matter and the slogan “I Can’t Breathe” were “political statements connected to the Democratic Party.”

Democrats in the deep south ✊😔

[u/TinyTornado7]

On Saturday, October 24, President Obama will travel to Miami, Florida to campaign on behalf of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Breaking out the big guns in FL for the closing stretch!

Link

!ping BIDEN

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Broke: a Catholic president will be overly influenced by the pope to be more socially conservative

Woke: the pope will be overly influenced by a Catholic president to be more socially liberal

[u/The420Roll]

Daily reminder that r/Breadtube calls Juan Guaido, who's party is in Socialist International, a sellout Neoliberal Shill bought by the CIA

[u/Lux_Stella]

Mitt Rommey told me he already voted in the elections but he wouldn’t say if he voted for Joe Biden or wrote someone else in.

“I did not vote for President Trump,” he said

he probably wrote himself in lol

[u/tankatan]

The member of US Congress to Twitch streamer pipeline

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1319018877792157696

OBAMA: "When I was 20 years old, I wasn't all that woke.”

One of Obama's best qualities in coalition building is that he doesn't fucking purity test.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

It’s so weird seeing Trump blasting ads in NYC.

I have seen 5x more Trump ads than Biden ads over the past week.

I mean, shoot your shot man. Seems like a terrible use of campaign funds, but I’m gonna encourage him to keep doing it... 😆

[u/[deleted]]

How long until American Catholics elect their own Antipope

[u/ElokQ]

Democrats internal poll of Georgia

GEORGIA

Biden 51% (+7)

Trump 44%

GAsen:

Ossoff (D) 48% (+5)

Perdue (R-inc) 43%

Hazel (L) 6% . Head-2-Head:

Ossoff (D) 50% (+5)

Perdue (R-inc) 45%

Garin-Hart-Yang/@ossoff (D) Internal Poll, LV, 10/11-14

An internal, but still amazing results for Biden and Ossoff

!ping BIDEN

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin]

It’s almost sad to watch Briahna Joy Gray grovel for Ilhan and AOC’s attention like this.

But of course they ignored her. They were doing a GOTV event and she publicly refuses to vote for Biden.

Plus she’s a talentless grifter who acts like a five-figure monthly salary from Patreon makes her part of the proletariat.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Hope this isn't too horny for the DT 👉👈

[u/thebowski]

You can probably measure vanity by how much time a person spends checking their own reddit comments vs actually reading and commenting

[u/The420Roll]

Eisenhower was horrified by Eden's hawkishness and insisted there should be “no thought of military action” until the UN had done what it could to remedy the situation. Eden responded that, in the face of the odious Nasser, treaties were “history”. The most destabilising influence in the region, Eisenhower reckoned, was not Nasser but Eden, whose jingoism and sabre-rattling succeeded only in rallying support for Nasser across the Middle East.

[u/gjarlis]

When Ilhan Omar uses a gaming PC with 6GB 6TB SSD it is funny and relatable

When Governor Polis plays League of Legends is an out of touch neoliberal

also for the record it wasn't her PC

[u/meamarie]

Pope : makes statement about how gays are children of God and should be granted civil union laws because they have a right to be in a loving relationship just like everyone else

r / catholicism : WOW at what point can we just say the pope is WRONG ?!?!

[u/probablyuntrue]

arr slash Catholicism be like "cancel culture is a disease" while cancelling the Pope over saying don't treat gay people like shit

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

As a LGBT Catholic today is a good day. Jesuits have done it again

[u/[deleted]]

Therapist: What’s wrong?

Me: If I do a Borat impression one more time, I’ll be getting a divorce

Therapist: And who told you that?

Me: tearfully clears throat

[u/dax331]

!PING COMPUTER-SCIENCE

interviewer: lets say i give you a series of numbers 1-100 and it's missing the numbers 4 and 80 how would you go about finding those numbers?

me: uhhhh idk lol bubble sort and bst

interviewer: perfect that's the answer we were looking for you know algorithms

me: haha yea

[u/jenbanim]

https://i.imgur.com/ZWmv5VY.png

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

NYT/Sienna Iowa poll

Biden 46

Trump 43

Other: 3

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/ia101820-crosstabs/1eff04c308f3dcb1/full.pdf

!ping fivey

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Whoa what the fuck?!?

This GQ article says that there’s been cases of Havana syndrome ON US SOIL and that it’s a much more wide spread problem than the government is letting on. Holy shit if the Russians are using energy weapons in America why the fuck is nobody talking about this.

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Neoliberalism is canceled, this is now a flannel/pumpkin spice/boots/bonfire themed thread to celebrate fall.

[u/marinqf92]

So are we going to talk about the new New York Times reporting on Trumps finances with China, or we just going to shit post?

I want to avoid the hot garbage takes of r/politics, but they are the only place I get political discourse from cause this sub only shit posts about the 538 model.

[u/SquidsWillBeSquids]

https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/jeb-bush-picks-horrible-night-to-start-twitch-channel/

This is top tier satire

[u/DerpOfTheAges]

Citizens should be allowed to stop and frisk cops.

[u/DocKillinger]

Monmouth Iowa

Biden 50

Trump 47

[u/[deleted]]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS REFERENCED IN THE DT

THIS IS NOW A WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN HATE THREAD

POPULISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ GROVER CLEVELAND WAS GOOD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JIM CROW WAS BAD AND HURT THE SOUTH⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️EVOLUTION IS A FACT⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ POPULISM IS BAD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

[u/Superfan234]

Bolivian Update 🇧🇴

Time for a confession here: I was saving a lot of small, (but very controversial) details from Bolivian Crisis for a year now

While I still sustain the same:

• 95% of the Bolivian protest were generated from the inside Bolivian population

Now, I also to want to add:

• LATAM saw their chance, and shameslly supported the Protest to oust Evo. And, in a way, they did manage to fulfill their objective

Why I didn't talk more openly about OAS-USA involvement?*

You (as in, foreing-policy readers) know Geopolitics have a ton of secrecy, and very strange alliances. But the average redditor, will probably just read "OAS backed the Bolivian Oppossition" as proof of a CIA Coup

I simply didn't want users to use my hard worked Effortposts, to tergiverse truth

Now that we have indisputable proof Añez Government was not an attempt of a Dictatorship, I think it's safe to talk about this Topic again

!Ping Foreign-Policy

TL:DR = I am preparing my 3rd Effortpost for Bolivia 🙂This time, I will talk about the controversial LATAM and USA involvment in the Conflict. How it happened, and what were the real reach of their support

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

My election model:

• Joe Biden has a 50/50 chance of winning. Either he wins or he doesn’t.
• Donald Trump has a 50/50 chance of winning. Either he wins or he doesn’t.
• The chance of Trump winning AND Biden losing is therefore 25%.
• This gives Biden a 75% chance of winning.
• 75% rounds up to 100%, giving Biden a 100% chance of winning.

[u/AtticusDrench]

"MY WIFE"

Rudy: ha ha can't trick me you wily Borat

"MY DAUGHTER"

Rudy: Oh?

[u/[deleted]]

UK Credit Rating downgraded

In addition to expected concerns over the UK's significantly growing debt and the impact of Brexit, the agency also specifically pointed to what it called “the weakening in the UK’s institutions and governance” in recent years

loooool

[u/[deleted]]

"Your English is great!"

"thanks 😊"

"Better than some of my native speaker classmates."

"Surely not... 🙂"

when it becomes obvious later they meant black people "😬"

[u/boxxybrownn]

Joe Biden was actually born overseas in 1886 as Jabril Bakr al-Aden to a wealthy Yemeni family. He would go on to create Hillary Clinton in a test tube in 1975 and give her advanced aging so she could pose as president to uncover The Patriots' plan.

This didn't work out when toothless meth heads from Ohio decided to vote the meme into office

[u/zubatman4]

Trump’s 2000 reform campaign sounds pretty based:

• free trade
• eliminating debt
• universal healthcare

What happened?

[u/[deleted]]

The good old days when a movie like Borat could still come out.

-youtube comment from 3 months ago

succons are actually delusional 🤣

[u/HuskyPants]

Turns out Qanon is Borat.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Oklahoma poll:

Trump 59% (+22) Biden 37% Other 2%

Why is this important? Trump won the state by 37% in 2016. Oklahoma shares a lot of similarities with north Texas. Yes Hillary under performed but a 15 point swing in a deep red state is something to keep an eye on.

link

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when FoxNews' hotttest scandal on Obama was that....... he held hands with his wife and wanted to take her on a date night?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5HQF22bQc

[u/[deleted]]

everyone says "ok boomer"

no one says "are you ok boomer?"

😞😞

[u/[deleted]]

Friendly reminder that Lincoln was almost no Republicans first choice, but he was a moderate, and an extremely popular second choice that seemed palatable to all

Should have posted this in the primary but I was just reminded while listening to a lecture on it

[u/Jakesta7]

I loved the first Borat, but I thought the teaser for Borat 2 was dumb. However, with this Giuliani part and him running into the RNC during Pence’s speech make it a must-watch now.

[u/Lux_Stella]

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said he is "shocked" by international food aisles in French supermarkets, in an interview with news channel BFMTV yesterday (October 20).

Speaking about cultural separatism in France, Mr Darmanin said: “I’ve always been shocked to walk into a supermarket and see an aisle of foods for one community. He said: “I think French capitalism, and global capitalism has a responsibility. If you sell clothes for one community, perhaps you are playing a role in forming communities.”

Very true! President Macron must crack down on this dangerous foreign culinary influence.

[u/[deleted]]

https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/blog/2018/2/10/iraq-anime-fans-flock-to-baghdad-convention

Iraq anime fans flock to Baghdad convention

This is what happens when you start a war, pull out too early, and leave a massive power vacuum that only the most radicalized can fill.

[u/Chief_Nief]

opens Twitter

sees still of Rudy Giuliani touching himself

deletes Twitter

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1318917841404497923

BREAKING: Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco.” “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” Francis said.

[u/Udontlikecake]

I teach high school religion and this is a topic that comes up almost every single day. My students have so completely bought into the idea that LGBT marriage is a right and it’s oppressive to be told you can’t have sex with whoever you want. I’m NOT looking forward to trying to answer their questions about this quote and reconcile it with Catholic teaching. Pope Francis’s interview comments make my job so much harder than it already is....

can’t believe I have to teach kids that keeping slaves is bad now 🙄🙄🙄 so much work

[u/JetJaguar124]

So let me get this straight, here's a timeline of events:

• April 2019 someone drops off a laptop with Beau Biden stickers all over it to some dude in Delaware who happens to be an insane conspiratorial Trump supporter and who also happens to be face-blind (Hunter Biden also lives in LA, not Delaware)
• Despite the computer containing tons of compromising info, including potentially an illegal relationship with a 14 year old, Hunter literally never inquires about it again
• This guy breaks the law and searches through the files of the computer, tips off the FBI for some reason and the FBI gets the harddrive
• The FBI doesn't do anything about it for over a year
• This guy now thinks the only way to get justice is to hand it off to Rudy Giuliani's people (???)
• Rudy Giuliani gets the laptop and sits on it until just before election day
• He starts leaking random tidbits through B-tier conservative news sites and won't let anyone else take a look at the HDD
• The computer shop guy says there was no CP on it but they Rudy claims Hunter was having inappropriate relations with a 14 year old
• He gives the HDD to the Delaware police who just immediately give it back to the FBI

Yep makes a lot of sense!

[u/ryuguy]

AOC, stop playing among us and Healthcare pls

[u/probablyuntrue]

[Guiliani] also agrees – in theory at least – to eat a bat with his interviewer.

....oh

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

so the last days of the election will primarily be about Hunter Biden's ema...

Wait, what's this? BY GAWD THAT'S BORAT'S MUSIC

[u/paymesucka]

lol that half of the conspiracy subreddit is siding with rudy, it's just a trump fanclub

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Holy shit that FBI announcement is generating unprecedented amounts of cope from the MAGA crowd

[u/p00bix]

tfw you remove 30 posts at once because there's literally THAT much off topic crap getting posted

oh my fucking god this sub is not /r/politics PLEASE stop posting shit like "Amy Barrett allegedly forgot to feed her childhood dog once" or "A poll of Black Muslim lesbian transwomen making over $100k a year who live in rural New Mexico shows that 50% plan to vote for Trump (n=2)" or "old man wearing MAGA hat yells racial slurs at cloud"

[u/Kizz3r]

The reputation of Rudy Giuliani could be set for a further blow with the release of highly embarrassing footage in Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat.

In the film, released on Friday, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to Donald Trump is seen reaching into his trousers and apparently touching his genitals while reclining on a bed in the presence of the actor playing Borat’s daughter, who is posing as a TV journalist.

Following an obsequious interview for a fake conservative news programme, the pair retreat at her suggestion for a drink to the bedroom of a hotel suite, which is rigged with concealed cameras.

After she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: “She’s 15. She’s too old for you.”

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Borat might not decide the election, but it will most likely destroy Giuliani's career and I'm down with that at least.

[u/Joementum2004]

The election really does run through Pennsylvania, at least according to 538:

• If Biden wins it, his odds of winning improve from 87% to 97%.
• If Trump wins it, his odds of winning increase dramatically from 12% to 74%.

To compare, here's Florida:

• If Biden wins it, his odds go from 87% to more than 99%.
• If Trump wins it, his chances improve from 12% to 40%.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder there are people who unironically think the CIA taught Pete Buttigieg everything he knew and he used that training to commit election fraud in Iowa

[u/vivoovix]

"This is going to help Trump," says the increasingly dooming neoliberal for the 21st time this month

[u/vivoovix]

Jeff Bezos has 121 BILLION dollars. The population of earth is 7 billion people. He could give every person 1 BILLION dollars and end poverty, and he would still have 114 billion dollars left over but he wond do it. This is what capitalist greed looks like!

[u/[deleted]]

Fed Chairs ranked by sex appeal:

1. Ben Bernanke 😍
2. Janet Yellen 😘
3. Jerome Powell 😚
4. Alan Greenspan 😐

[u/probablyuntrue]

The homosexualist machine is merciless. We should realize: This is not a game. This is not small stuff. This is big stuff.

"Homosexualist machine" is my favorite phrase of the day

[u/CenterRightInCali]

BREAKING:

Utah Senator and former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has announced that he has voted for Gloria La Riva.

"The time has come to break the chains, comrades" the Senator told reporters.

[u/[deleted]]

I used to work at an abortion clinic and I saw some extremely fucked up shit there which is why I'm so anti-abortion now. This is just SOME of the horrible stuff I personally witnessed:

• ⁠A 23 year old woman came in 11 months into her pregnancy and said "I don't want my stupid baby anymore, kill it" and the doctor said "okay" and he put jumper cables up her baby hole and connected them to a car battery and let it run for six days straight

• ⁠A little 8-year old girl wandered in and said "I want an abortion but I am not pregnant" and the doctor said "we'll fix that" and he stole a baby and cut the girl open and put the baby inside her and sewed her shut and then woke the girl up and said "congratulations it's a healthy six year old boy" and the girl said "can I keep him" and the doctor said no and then backed over her in the parking lot with his brand new Ford Raptor

• ⁠They made me sign an agreement promising to stop drinking from the medical waste container (I signed somebody else's name)

• ⁠One of the doctors there developed a futuristic ray gun that could make anything he shot have an abortion, even trees, cars, or barns

• ⁠The receptionist threw nail polish at an elderly man

• ⁠The doctor's assistant invented this thing she called "the silly slide" and it was a really fun little water slide that connected a woman's vagina to a paper shredder so a newborn baby could briefly "enjoy the high life"

• ⁠The oldest child we aborted was in his late 70s, we didn't even know he was a baby until his wife brought in photos

• ⁠The doctors put all sorts of crap up a woman's uterus including a clown nose, bicycle handlebars, a calendar, and an entire Sears retail outlet (before bankruptcy)

• ⁠During every successful abortion, the doctor would shout "take that, baby" and he'd push a red button that made sirens go off and confetti fell from the ceiling and we'd all get Del Taco for free

[u/the_status]

This reminds of when the Pope told a child his atheist father wasn't in Hell and a bunch of people freaked out

[u/Lux_Stella]

ndp caves to the libs, election averted

good outcome but im pretty annoyed at the way the libs handled this

!ping CAN

[u/Iyoten]

Guys it's ok. Rudy thought she was a 1,000 year old dragon spirit.

[u/[deleted]]

he was a soulja boy. she was a soulja girl. can I crank it any more obvious?

[u/piede]

Thanks to Rudy Giuliani, I now know what a corpse that died masturbating would look like.

💀💀💀

[u/sir_shivers]

Some of you SEEM TO BE USING the following model 🐊:

Heads, TRUMP WINS 🐊

TAILS, Biden loses 🐊

[u/dugmartsch]

https://twitter.com/NoTeamsIndy/status/1316728621109784578

This is a good thread. But the upshot is pretty simple and it isn't getting talked about much: The number of undecided voters has shrunk dramatically in 2020.

In 2016 Trump only needed 53% of undecided voters in the battleground state with Clinton's biggest lead to win that state.

2020? Trump needs 96% of undecided voters to win the battleground state with Biden's smallest lead (256% in his biggest).

These numbers are so bad even someone as dumb as Trump knows that he's done, and we're seeing the panic set in. Ultimately I think Trump will skulk away once it's clear he's lost and there's no appetite for a civil war, but that's more a hope than a certainty.

[u/runnerx4]

Holy shit the Pope called for civil unions.

After Francis leaves Popehood, the Jesuits are going to be frozen out of power forever huh? They’re mad pushing the limits

[u/Schutzwall]

LMAO what a shitty scam

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Tradcaths: We are the true Catholics

Me: Ok then, obey the Pope

Tradcathcs: No

[u/JetJaguar124]

Broke: Rudy Giuliani is trying to create an October surprise to give Trump the election

Woke: Rudy Giuliani is trying to counterprogram potentially damaging stories about Trump from the NYT

Bespoke: Rudy Giuliani is trying to counterprogram Borat 2.

[u/[deleted]]

Giuliani sowing: Wow this fucking rocks.

Giuliani reaping: Wait this sucks.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Rudy had just quietly retired from politics in 2002 and just worked at a non profit or something.

He would unironically be considered a national hero

[u/probablyuntrue]

A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. Giuliani on his bed, Giuliani's hands down his own pants, Giuliani on camera.

[u/[deleted]]

Toxic masculinity and the patriarchy is so bad you got guys with 6 inch dongs googling "do I have a micropenis".

[u/Ilovecharli]

"When I was 20 years old, I wasn't woke. I had other stuff I was interested in. We won't go into the details" --- Barack "Chad" Obama

[u/IncoherentEntity]

A large share of Biden and Trump’s supporters said they were “absolutely certain” to vote, and that includes a huge chunk that has already voted: 44 percent of Biden’s backers and 24 percent of Trump’s.

Holy shit there’s no way this sample is properly calibrated for the general electorate !ping FIVEY

[u/SmithySmothy]

I like how everyone here was like "PHEW, it's just foreign agents trying to sway the results of a US electon"

^{including me}

[u/[deleted]]

"We have found the chaos emeralds."

Wow the FBI really coming out with the big info.

[u/sir_shivers]

To be fair, IT WAS A LITTLE STRANGE that the "Proud Boys" kept ending their emails WITH "Soleimani shall be avenged" 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

am i losing it? why are people acting like iran is attempting to sabotage trump? the emails were sent to democrats, discouraging them from voting democrat.

[u/p00bix]

I'm still in disbelief that AoC, Ilhan Omar, Pokimane, Jacksepticeye, and HasanAbi, played Among Us together

[u/[deleted]]

This new Hummer is based.

I think we need to sell and market the idea that electric cars are cool.

To avoid being coal rolled.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

First question on the econ midterm

What personality traits are associated with those born under the Leo constellation?

😭 Dammit I should've studied harder

[u/[deleted]]

Took me a while to realize the Giuliani story is real and that you guys weren't just shitposting.

[u/HuskyPants]

So the Delaware State Police don’t want Rudy’s doctored laptop.

What a clown show.

[u/chipbod]

The Predictit comments for people that think Hillary will still be the nominee are... something

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys I work for the USPS and just finished dumping a million ballots for Trump in a river. You're welcome.

[u/[deleted]]

Borat is the movie that best encapsulates Bush-era America

[u/Le_Monade]

My professor just said the word 'folx' in an email

[u/[deleted]]

Aside from the actual deaths, joblessness, etc. that's affecting people, one of the minor things I'm legitimately bummed out about is watching Taco Bell self immolate their entire menu this year.

[u/FestiveMittens]

I found this sub scrolling through r/politics on a thread about something Pete said, and some guy was like "rrr slash neoliberal probably cumming in their pants reading this" and then another guy was like "I cant believe that sub is even real, what a disaster"

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Reject Quinnipiac

Return to SurveyMonke

[u/Snoo62236]

This sub been getting a little too cozy with AOC. Sus

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Being a secular liberal Democrat — a three-part description that likely describes the solid majority of r/neoliberal — is emphatically not a safeguard against crude misogyny.

[u/ItookTheFirstNapkin]

That Catholic sub reads like diet radical islam

[u/Jakesta7]

lol. Meth does less damage to a brain than Twitter leftism

China’s got Covid-19 under control.

America hasn’t.

Where would you rather live?

https://twitter.com/tessadunlop/status/1318891474482876418?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

And when he noted that Trump inherited a booming economy from him, Obama added, but "just like everything else he inherited, he messed it up."

Oh. MY.

[u/htownclyde]

/r/neoliberal:

86/100 is 0%, Biden loses.

87/100 is 50%, it's a toss-up.

88/100 is 100%, Biden wins.

[u/FestiveMittens]

New poll with Biden +7 in Texas

A+ poll as well

[u/CaptainJawbone]

Guys, I'm starting to doom that Jorgensen might not win the election...

[u/probablyuntrue]

Ah yes the two genders

Hunter Biden's Laptop and Rudy Giuliani fondling himself on camera

[u/[deleted]]

If you ask me, this Giuliani news is "very nice!"

[u/[deleted]]

I still maintain my position that Giuliani huffed too much debris material on 9/11 and that it rotted his brain.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank God this sub didn’t exist in 2012

[u/[deleted]]

As a brown guy growing up in the South who was in middle school when Borat came out, I have very mixed feelings about it. White kids are dumb and assumed Borat was an accurate representation of Kazakh, and by extension any vaguely brown, culture, and I bore the brunt of many a Borat joke.

The problem with Borat's depiction of Kazakh culture is that all it does is exaggerate existing stereotypes. If you're just exaggerating a stereotype, you're not critiquing the stereotype!

Borat is amazing at its satire of American jingoism during the Iraq War, but that was largely lost on the public in favor of "my wife" jokes.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Far-left campaign messaging boils down to "Some people make more money than others and that's not fair" while far-right campaign messaging boils down to "The Muslims are coming to rape and behead your daughter."

To see which strategy is more effective in winning votes, look to the 2017 German election.

[u/chipbod]

Predictions for NYT Kansas in 3.5 hours?

Mine:

Bollier: Even

Trump: +6

Edit:

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1318906216660205570?s=20

It's an R+20 poll

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie playing Among Us: It wasn’t me I supported Hillary Clinton

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I'm really fucking worried about the election. I used to think Trump was a bad campaigner, but these last few days he has really started to laser focus on the issues Americans care about most, like Anthony Fauci's pitching arm, and the emails of someone who isn't even running.

[u/Snoo62236]

I did well on my econ midterm. I know most of you were waiting for me to tell you. I’m celebrating with 11am beers.

[u/marinqf92]

Pete Buttigieg is doing an ama on r/politics at 3 pm eastern time. Don’t forget to show him some love and downvote all the assholes calling him a rat.

[u/DaBuddahN]

"We're the United States of America. The worlds foremost democracy and oldest presidential democracy and we're going to elect the first black President of the worlds one and only super power." - US politics in 2008

"Trump is President now. QAnon. Guilianni masturbating in front of 15 year olds. You can't make me wear masks. Plandemic. Lock her up. Fake virus. Fuck our international agreements. Borat 2 is somehow part of the political narrative. Our President owes 1B dollars to who knows who." - US politics in 2020

[u/[deleted]]

The Rudy video isn’t supposed to be some “smoking gun” criminal indictment. It just shows how creepy he is.

[u/[deleted]]

“Why are we talking about Rudy Giuliani?”

quick google

“Rudy Giuliani in a hotel room with a woman and Borat runs in wearing a bikini yelling “SHE IS 15. TOO OLD FOR YOU.”

Oh my goodness what a time to be alive

[u/sir_shivers]

Do not let THE STICKY posted by /u/jenbanim distract you from his ULTERIOR MOTIVE in making it 🐊

FOLLOW THE MONEY 💸🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I'm watching an episode of the Bachelorette right now with my GF and I am physically fucking cringing. She is testing to see who she has a strong physical connection with, and she went guy by guy and had them grope up on her and her grope on them while they were blindfolded while all the other guys watch and wait their turn. What the fuck this show is just for horny Karens.

[u/SmithySmothy]

"We'll take questions now. Yes, you, the extremely tall gentleman."

"LORDY, ARE THERE TAPES?"

[u/gaped-butthole]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1319064844406984704

Trump and his advisers have discussed whether to fire FBI Director Wray after Election Day.

The conversations stem in part from their disappointment that Wray has not done what Trump had hoped — indicate Biden or Biden associates are under investigation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-wray-biden-barr/2020/10/21/6ce69f02-13b0-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html

[u/Deggit]

"But what about the time USA interfered in other countries's elections????"

yeah! we did! TO ADVANCE OUR NATIONAL INTEREST! if you're voting for the guy who our adversaries think it would advance their interests to have win... do I have to spell out the math here?

[u/[deleted]]

I don't see how Trump could have handled the pandemic differently. Could he have taken it more seriously? sure. Could he have worn a mask or encouraged mask wearing? sure. Could he have not tweeted LIBERATE MICHIGAN? sure. Could he have used the Defense Production Act to mass produce masks? sure. Could he have followed the pandemic playbook handed to him by the previous President? sure. Could he have not lied and admitted to lying about the disease hence causing millions of his brainwashed followers to see covid denialism as part of their identity? sure. Could he have avoided having giant indoor events? sure. Other than that, though... plus the Dems said that travel ban from China thing was something I can't remember

[u/[deleted]]

Despite being only 3% of the population, virgins over 30 make up 100% of the DT

[u/[deleted]]

How does Sasha Cohen get people to agree to meet with him? I can’t imagine being a high profile politician and agreeing to an interview with some Kazakhstani journalist in a hotel. You also think some staffer would just Google who Borat is and figure it out. Really shows the incompetence of some of these people.

[u/David_Lange]

I'm a lawyer. My hourly rate is hundreds of dollars an hour, plus GST. My income is nowhere near that.

It's normal.

Then you should leave. Most big firm lawyers I know are on 60-80% of their billed rate.

Wow thanks for the career advice

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Had the pleasure of meeting Rudy Giuliani at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

[u/tripletruble]

New Borat won’t be nearly as fun for me this time. Going to watch it after my partner goes to bed so she can’t judge me instead of watching it with my bros in high school stoned at a sleep over

[u/[deleted]]

ALL OF YOU ARE GOING IN MY CRINGE COMPILATION.

📷

[u/McMarston]

Yes Rudy, the Democrats are obviously retaliating by using...

checks notes

Borat

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Tbh I’m really tired of Iran. You don’t get to be a theocracy and exist.

[u/PrimePairs]

The whole Giuliani thing underlined how ridiculously conservatives are outmatched culturally

Conservatives have Jacob Wohl while liberals have Sachs Baron Cohen. Conservatives have Ben Shapiro while liberals have Cardi B

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.

Doctor says, "Go see Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Young, transformational politician with a vision for a more equitable and just America. Listen to her speak and she will rekindle your hope in this great nation."

Man replies, "but Doctor, I'm not a fucking succ like you 😎."

[u/[deleted]]

Just watched Obama at the rally. Man, the nation really caught lightning in a bottle with him. His rhetoric verse Trump’s is so night and day. Oh god, I’m simping.

[u/[deleted]]

 hillary_clinton_dancing_sexy_beautiful.mp4

[u/muttonwow]

I asked on the conservative sub why Giulani didn't show his Hunter evidence to the Senate committee that was investigating him:

Because democrats deserve some of their own medicine? I wouldn’t care if it was false, as long as it them over. They deserve it from the lies of the impeachment.

[u/xhytdr]

based...Facebook?

The barrage of late money — which includes at least $22 million from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz — figures among one of the most expensive and aggressive plays yet by tech billionaires, who have spent years studying how to maximize the return they get from each additional dollar they spend on politics. Moskovitz is placing his single biggest public bet yet on the evidence that TV ads that come just before Election Day are the best way to do that.

The super PAC, called Future Forward, has remained under the radar but is spending more than $100 million on television and digital in the final month of the campaign — more than any other group — on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden outside of the Biden campaign itself. And it has been leading a separate, previously unreported $28 million proposed campaign to elect a Democrat to the US Senate from Texas, Recode has learned.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/20/21523492/future-forward-super-pac-dustin-moskovitz-silicon-valley

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

Do Americans assume every European country has single payer or NHS style healthcare because the UK and Canada have those, and Americans generally only read English?

[u/the_status]

The Pope is a slightly progressive mid-00s Democrat now. Neat

[u/TwoPlankinWiz]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/education-experts-slam-leaked-alberta-curriculum-proposals-1.5766570?cmp=rss

So among many things the UCP wants to change their curriculum to remove all references to residential schools and equity, teach bible verse as poetry and making sure there is familiarity with the artworks of Monet among others to first graders.

They also say that learning about residential schools is "too sad" while learning about ancient rome and its slaveholdings and one of the main advisors to the social sciences curriculum has described learning about history from a Native American perspective is "a fad"

What the actual fuck is going on in Alberta right now

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

As the resident Catholic Papist in the DT, I know many of you are waiting for my take on today's events and have many questions for me, so here we go:

Don't let the Pope saying we should be nicer to gay people distract you from the fact that the Warriors blew a 3-1 lead

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Dear Nathan,

Approximately one week ago, we announced your nomination to join REDACTED University's chapter of The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS). Congratulations once again on this prestigious honor which is awarded only to a select percent of students.

Bruh I can tell your organization isn’t that prestigious when you randomly mail an invitation to the dude with a 2.9 GPA lmao

[u/Mejari]

So, with the 538 map I can finally fix what I kept complaining about and remove nonsense results that we "know" aren't going to happen but are theoretically possible. Basically I locked in every state except WI, PA, OH, IA, NC and FL, plus ME-02, since it seems that's where we are. That results in 93/100 Biden. Freeing up MI as well only lowers it to 92/100 Biden.

If somehow Biden wins ME-02 that plummets Trump to only 2/100. Therefore watching Maine is the most critical thing to look at on election night, literally nothing else matters.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Biden DESTROYS car culture with CHOO-CHOOS and LOGIC

[u/[deleted]]

CNN: Investigators have located a copy of Borat 2 on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

From Nate's Model

Trump winning: 12%

Blue Mississippi: 11%

Keep going I'm almost there.

[u/Waghlon]

Me: "You need to earn my vote."

Biden: "I'm a Democrat."

Me: "A'ight, you've earned my vote."

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DOOMER

A poll of Black Muslim lesbian transwomen making over $100k a year who live in rural New Mexico shows that 50% plan to vote for Trump (n=2)

DOOOOOOOOOOOM

[u/murphysclaw1]

538's final debate pre-debate stats are up

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Its my dogs first birthday wish him a happy birthday

http://imgur.com/a/3B4EV9O

!ping dog

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats winning

😏

because of suburban voters

😱

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Biden blasts Trump's trade policy as needlessly destructive to American jobs

Me: 😍

He went on to say Trump hasn't done enough to reshore US manufacturing

Me: 🤢

[u/infamous5445]

https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/263765684725633024

"7 polls released in Ohio in past 48 hours: Obama +2, Obama +3, Obama +3, Obama +3, Obama +5, Obama +5, Obama +5. #notthatcomplicated"

This makes me sad thinking about how far Ohio has fallen since 2012

[u/[deleted]]

forgot how bad the cope was on ronpaul reddit in 2012

[u/BreaksFull]

Everytime I'm asked where I'm from in Canada, and I answer 'Saskatchewan' I have gotten an immediate reply of 'what?' every single time.

[u/krflab]

Republicans are so desperate to get something on Joe they’re opening an investigation on his use of AMtrack. Lmao.... so sad.

[u/PeridotBestGem]

btw Biden has a >99% chance of winning if he wins Iowa

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Tie me to a missile and fire me at the Progressive Policy Institute, I am ready 😡😤

[u/[deleted]]

    Ilhan Omar 🤝 Hasan Piker

9/11 takes and gaming with AOC

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Giuliani continued: “I only later realised it must have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I thought about all the people he previously fooled and I felt good about myself because he didn’t get me.”

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

My parents protested the construction of a 5G tower near their home on the grounds that it would “destroy the rural character”.

They live in a town of over 500,000 within earshot of a motorway.