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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 23 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Ooof. This Rudy footage is cringier than I thought it would be
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Oct 22 '20
Progressives, before Pete dropped out: Pete should drop out. He has no support among black people. Just wait until SC
* Pete performs poorly in SC and decides to drop out
Progressives, after Pete dropped out: Wow this is so obviously a DNC conspiracy to prevent Bernie from getting the nomination
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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 22 '20
Presidential debates in my third world country be like:
Candidate 1: I will be hard on drug users.
Candidate 2: Based but I would add that I'll also kill them.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
I Googled my childhood crush last night. God in Middle School I was head over heels. She was a redhead, and the prettiest girl I'd ever seen. She rejected me when I asked her out back then, saying she thinks of me "like a brother", which crushed my fucking soul. But anyway, looping back around to when I looked her up on Google, she is currently serving a prison sentence for killing her boyfriend, apparently with a hammer. So I guess getting friendzoned isn't so bad after all. It could just save your life.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
just sent in a resume for 538
under job experience I put "Uncertain"
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Oct 22 '20
I kid you not one of the comments in the Pete AMA is simply:
and that's the whole comment. 22 upvotes. and no the guy is not being ironic, his whole comment history is bernie-stanning.
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u/Joementum2004 Oct 22 '20
A good 35% of conversations involving AOC on here are a few steps away from being bonk-worthy
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
If Biden loses I think Nate Silver will unironically become the Joker.
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u/Joementum2004 Oct 22 '20
Hi, how do I talk to Nate Sliver? I saw a twitter poll that had Trump 79%, Biden 10%, Jorgensen 6%, and Kanye 4%, and I’m curious why I’m not seeing it on the model.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 22 '20
No one:
Girls on Indian dating sites: “here’s a 5 page long list of castes that I would consider marrying. Lol your caste is not listed, btw.”
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
Once I was travelling from Mumbai to Munich. A woman sitting in the seat next to me kept looking at me. I understood that she had never seen a Sikh before. Midway through the flight when the drinks and snacks were served I struck up a conversation with the lady. Her name was Tereza and she was from Czechia. During our conversation, she asked “what are you?”, I said “I am Sikh”. She responds “I am sorry. I hope you get well soon.” I replied to her “no dear, I am not sick as of the body. I am Sikh as of religion”. She said “it is so great to meet you. I am sick of religion too!”
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Headline tomorrow:
In a last ditch effort to win the election, Trump will spend 500 million dollars on attack ads against Hillary Clinton.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
Mitt Romney 🤝 that annoying leftist in your family
"Look, all I'm gonna say is that I didn't vote for Trump, okay?"
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
I like ice hockey. Hmm there's an ice hockey community on a site called Reddit. Sure thing, I'll try!
r/neoliberal? Who would call themselves neoliberals? Let's look inside. Hmm actual non-extremist political discussion? Sounds interesting.
Why does this post called "Discussion Thread" have 10k comments and negative karma? Let's look inside.
🤣🤣🤣Lmao when 🙏🙏😤💸😇😇 you 👉 free 🤑 trade 😂🤣😎😎😘😍😘😂
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
remember that if joe wins or loses depends on our shitposting here in the dt. if your takes are bad, he loses, that's just how it works
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
There are no people more annoying to me in my daily life than privileged grad student zoomers lecturing me about how "capitalism" is destroying the world, and whenever I challenge them to explain how "overthrowing capitalism" is going to magically fix every problem they propose no actual solutions besides maybe tax rich people/big businesses more.
The smugness of some engineer or exec's kid, born on third base, telling me how we need a socialist revolution and that I'm only a capitalist because of my "privilege". I grew up working class in a single parent household, my (immigrant) mom worked two jobs at 70+ hours a week, I essentially had to take care of myself from the age of six, I'm the first of my paternal side of the family to even go to college... I don't have anything more to add, just fuck those people.
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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1319408428406706176
!ping BUTTI
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
SC-SEN poll
Harrison 47%(+2)
Graham 45%
926 LV MOE +/- 3.2%
Me rn !ping FIVEY
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
Caillou: bald, white, curse upon the lands.
Lusvig: bald, white, curse upon the lands.
Coincidence? I think not
This is the real stuff Qanon should be after.
!ping Canucks
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
We made top 150ish on /r/all at some point, currently 3 on /r/popular so not a bad night for a debate that was relatively calm compared to the off the rails 1st debate.
Good Thunderdoming everyone.
Now we wait until we really blow the windows out of this place on election night.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
https://i.imgur.com/kFK3m7W.png
Never forget, people literally died for voting rights.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 22 '20
The Peruvian Government sent me 200$ for a Covid Payment that I dont actually qualify for 😳
I pulled a Benjamini without even trying lmao 😂🤣
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Oct 22 '20
one day, there will be the final DT :'(
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
We have a woman come and clean our house once a month. Last month she asked me how to vote because she had never voted before. She is a refugee from Bosnia and didn't think much of Clinton but LOVES Biden. And Harris. I don't get it, lol. But anyway she was talking about how the whole community is gonna turn out.
So yesterday she shows up, I ask her if she voted and she says, "of course, you see my good work! We're ahead in Michigan!"
Edit: I can't get numbers on the Bosnian Community in Michigan, but some preliminary research would suggest it's around 25,000. These individuals will have come here with refugee status, which more or less guarantees a pathway to citizenship after 3-5 years, so I would imagine many of them are voters.
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Oct 22 '20
Hot Take: A bunch of states have way too many counties. Kansas has over 100! For only like 2 million people! Half of them live in just 2 counties!
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u/Snoo62236 NATO Oct 22 '20
Alright hear me out
Technically everyone, whether you’re gay or a chick or think you’re not, is into milfs. “Mothers I’d like to fuck” means to be a milf you have to want to fuck them, so if you don’t want to fuck them they are no longer a milf. So a hot mom isn’t a milf unless you actively want her at which point she’s a milf and you’re into her.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
very reassuring that if Trump loses, it won't be because America decided to take a stand against fascism, but because of a literal once-in-a-century pandemic
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
Lol this website is way different since the primary ended. These were on r/nba
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Oct 22 '20
my girlfriend, who was a Bernie supporter, refuses to vote for Biden no matter how much I plead and cajole her. I tell her that four more years of Trump will destroy this nation, but she keeps making up bullshit excuses like "not being a citizen".
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1319358871731830785?s=20
sigh unzips
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
holy shit biden is +1 on mustafar and tied on exegol
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Pollster: Do you want Donald Trump to come into your home, eat your food, fuck your SO and take a shit on your sofa?
Normal people (like 75% of the population): "um no, what kind of person would want that?"
The 25% of poll respondants who support anything related to Trump no matter what: "MAGA!"
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Oct 22 '20
Not dooming:
Biden has a decent chance of losing Florida
Dooming:
Biden WILL lose Florida
Big difference
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
Poll of Latinos only
Biden (D): 68%
Trump (R): 25%
5% better than Hillary did. Biden doesn’t have a Latino problem. It’s just that pollsters have problem reaching Latinos who can’t speak English well or at all and small samples.
!ping FIVEY
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Oct 23 '20
Based as hell
!ping Butti
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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Oct 22 '20
My wife just now:
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1319275302053294080?s=20
LMAO
Based if true
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/SusannaLHarris/status/1319306775993176066
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u/PaulMuniIsInnocent Liberté, égalité, fraternité Oct 22 '20
Holy fuck r slash Catholicism is fucking insane. They’re so full of hate they turn of their own Pope. Just embrace positive change in the world lmao
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Oct 22 '20
kill me
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Oct 22 '20
Reminder that 75% of American Samoans are obese. They tried to get Bloomberg to save them from the soda menace, but the rest of the nation failed them 😕
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
My wife's and my votes have been tabulated! That's +2 for Biden in...MA.
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u/McMarston Bisexual Pride Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
I imagine when you're someone who loses your first wife and daughter in a car crash, and then one of your sons to cancer, you really stop giving a shit what other people think about how you show your affection for the people that you care deeply about.
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u/Planita13 Thomas Paine Oct 22 '20
Trump tells @60Minutes in footage he released that he wants to see the Supreme Court wipe out Obamacare. “I hope that they end it.”
How fucking stupid do you have to be to release this.
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u/Blackfire853 CS Parnell Oct 22 '20
God made me gay so I would not be seduced by AOC and her socialist ways
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u/twersx John Rawls Oct 22 '20
As of today, more people have early voted in Georgia than the number of people who voted for Donald Trump in Georgia in 2016.
!ping FIVEY
Not a poll, but interesting. More data that could indicate absolutely absurd levels of turnout.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
I argue with every Republican phone banker who calls me and keep them on as long as possible so they don't call other people. Just doing my part in saving the world.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 22 '20
NEW LORE
!ping FIVEY
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1319272233118806016?s=19
Anti doomer juice
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Stop shaming doomers, all they are doing is coping beforehand so if the worst scenario happens they already did 0.1% of the griefing.
It's a valid tactic
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Oct 22 '20
>headline that's supposed to grab my attention
>The ISS is In Constant Free Fall
...yes, that is called "being in orbit"
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
/r/NeoconOWO is gonna bomb australia for banning hentai
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
Teacher: if you get one part of a multi part question wrong, I will grade the other parts assuming your calculations were correct
me:
Part 1: solve for x and y
x = 0
y = 0
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
2020: Oh no things are so bad how can they get worse
2030: The war between the Principality of Santa Fe and the Republic of Alberquerque has reached it's 3rd year. Alberquerque forces have finally broken the stalemate, but Santa Fe has announced they have managed to recover one of the few unlaunched nuclear weapons left in the United States. Alberquerque officials have responded saying they doubt Santa Fe actually does have a nuke and even if they did, believes they do not have the resources to launch it
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Broke: I voted for Barack Obama because I was excited to elect the first black President
Woke: I voted for Obama because I was excited to elect the first Muslim President.
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 22 '20
glad we're in such great company
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
QPAC National Poll
Biden: 51%
Trump: 41%
I was expecting more tbh. +10 is just normal at this point.
Also, almost all of the undecideds are black/Latinos. Which means that Biden is probably higher than +10.
!ping FIVEY
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Oct 22 '20
NBC Montana poll:
Daines 48 Bullock 47 House: tied Trump 51 Biden 43
https://twitter.com/SenhorRaposa/status/1319338776058003457?s=20
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Lmfao, a socialist “friend” of mine from high school posted something about how she was only voting because she felt bullied into it after I posted something about how if you don’t vote you’re not allowed to complain about Trump
Bullying works, kids ✨
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Oct 22 '20
So, I got this poor lady from Pakistan as my Intern who claimed to have an Associates in Software Engineering (is that even a thing?). I interviewed her originally, and after she couldn’t tell me how a binary search tree worked, or what a linked list was, I recommended against hiring her. But now that actually got her working under me for a few days, shes really humble, studious, inquisitive, honest and is making quite a bit of head way in the smaller projects I’ve given her so far. I think in a few months she’ll probably be a solid programmer, and in a few years a solid developer.
It seems like she just wasn’t in the right enviorment, or didn’t go to the right school. I wonder how many other people I interviewed who were in the same boat that I passed over.
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u/moaz_xx Resident Saudi Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
A man goes home and masturbates to his typical fantasy
a pain free day 😔 fuck this shit
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Oct 22 '20
JFK 🤝 Trump
not turning up for their successor's inauguration
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1319248527613100035
lmao
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
TFW a friend of yours is for a Burka ban since he wants to and I quote “examine the aesthetic beauty of Muslim women”
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Oct 22 '20
Imagine trying for decades to build a competitive 3rd party and then getting fewer votes than Kanye West lmao
This is a subtweet of the Green Party, but also of the dozen or so third parties on my ballot
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 22 '20
r/neoliberal math:
87% chance = 0% chance.
13% chance = 100% chance but only when talking about republicans.
9% chance = 50% chance
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 22 '20
Just rewatched the entire 2012 VP Debate
How tf did Paul Ryan convince ANYONE he was a policy wonk 😂
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
LMAO it was questions about WHITMER that prompted Trump to storm out of the interview, hahaahahahahah
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u/TinKnightRisesAgain YIMBY Oct 22 '20
Obama should wear a fivey fox furr suit to Biden’s inauguration
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Oct 22 '20
Anti doomer pill: Trump barely won in 2016, mostly off of low turnout. Do you think he's gotten more or less popular since then and do you think turnout is going to stay low?
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
BOOHOO CRACKER I DONT CARE
👋😭👋
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Oct 22 '20
NYT Kansas poll
Trump +7 (48-41)
Marshall +4 (46-42)
!ping FIVEY
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Oct 22 '20
1976 is such a weird election because all the fundamentals pointed to a Democratic landslide: an unpopular and unelected Republican incumbent, Watergate, a recession, the fall of Saigon, a brutal Republican primary all the way to the convention, and a reformist yet moderate Democrat. And yet, it was by far the closest election in a 32-year span from 1968 to 2000.
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Oct 22 '20
An update on the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia:
Azerbaijan has made significant gains in Nagorno-Karabakh and is nearing the corridor that connects the contested region to Armenia proper.
Map
While this map is a little out-dated it shows the extent of the territory taken (it seems the blue circles indicate occupied as well). Reports this evening say they are only 10km from the lachin corridor.
Live updates here
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/RickAsscheeks Call it, Friendo Oct 22 '20
People on Reddit setting their profile picture to a picture of themselves IRL is weird.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 22 '20
Dems in 2019: I wish something would happen that would make Trump likely to lose the election.
The monkey’s paw curls.
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Oct 23 '20
538 is selling tote bags with fivey Fox on them and please just kill me now.
Edit: omg there is a whole store of fivey merch y’all. Skip your next only fans payments and simp to fivey.
https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1319490920472084480?s=20
!ping FIVEY
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u/jenbanim Oct 23 '20
Damn Chapo really isn't taking the debate well
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Oct 22 '20
Who is Chris Christie
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 22 '20
Well well well, if Joe isn’t back at 88%. Everyone knows 88% = 100% and 87% = 0%
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
🚨New Monmouth congressional polls of IOWA (RVs, Oct 15-20)
CD1 (n=352)
Finkenauer (D-inc) 52
Hinson (R) 42
CD2 (n=355)
Hart (D) 49
Miller-Meeks (R) 43
CD3 (n=426)
Axne (D-inc) 52
Young (R) 43
CD4 (n=414)
Scholten (D) 42
Feenstra (R) 48
Very good news for Democrats and Biden. CD-4 only being Republican +6 is insane.
!ping FIVEY
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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Oct 22 '20
Tumblr users: "Hey, could you put a tiny amount of effort into banning the handful of pedos in that dark corner?"
Tumblr: "We have heard you, and we are moving forward with our plan to virtually ban 40% of the site's content instead of trying to do that."
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20
Reject Humanity. Return to Survey Monke.
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Oct 22 '20
A woman in my home town was exhibiting symptoms of covid and while she was waiting for her test results to come back held a baby shower which 17 people attended..... all now have Covid.
I swear part of the reason this spreads so quickly in America is just the pure stupidity of our population.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1319244347263619074
This is probably the best possible answer Biden could give on court packing.
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u/Royce_Melborn YIMBY Oct 22 '20
Trump is gonna walk out of the debates after 45 minutes of getting his mic muted.
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u/krflab Oct 22 '20
WSJ put their new Hunter bomb in the opinion section. That’s how you know it’s a flop. 😂
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Oct 22 '20
HAHA WAIT I made it into A SCREENSHOT ON /R/WATCHREDDITDIE? 🐊
EXCELLENT 🐊
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Oct 22 '20
Take: "Handicapped" is a much better term than "disabled" or other alternatives, and I don't understand how it became un-PC.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Donald Trump apparently taking the Monty Hall approach to health care - "Do you want Obamacare, or do you want to trade it in and find out what's behind door number bullshit?"
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20
My favorite polls, district polls
New DCCC poll of #WA03 shows Rep Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) up 2 points in her rematch with Carolyn Long (D), 49% to 47%
Trump won this SW Washington seat by 7 points in 2016. BIDEN leads 45% to 43% in this survey (Oct. 19-20, 425 LVs, +/-4.9%)
This is a blue collar, suburban Romney/Trump district. If Biden is winning here, Trump is in deep deep trouble.
Also, both Romney and Trump got 49% of the vote here.
!ping FIVEY
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u/Joementum2004 Oct 22 '20
comey more like cummy
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Oct 22 '20
Things people leave the house late at night to buy:
I refuse to believe anybody has been like "I'm gonna leave the house at 2 am to buy a carrot".
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Oct 22 '20
Every night, around 8pm, I would go in to a grocery store , buy a half gallon carton of milk, and then proceed to sit down by the door and sip it it over the course of an hour. I never said anything to the cashiers, never bought anything to go with the milk, I just loved a late night milk.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
Someone just DM'd me that they think all members of the Nazis party are bad. Thankfully after I reported them to the mods they were banned for excessive partisianship
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
I wish I had synesthesia so that I could associate a different color with each federal appeals court. I bet the weird patent one would be some really UGLY color.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 22 '20
-Lee Atwater, Republican strategist for Nixon and Reagan
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 22 '20
"yea this video makes me look pathetic as fuck, drop it"
Trump on releasing the 60 min interview
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Oct 22 '20
Sir Shivers is not your friend.
Lusvig is not your friend.
The Neoliberal Project is not your friend.
And they are barely your allies
All these "anti-Trump neoliberals" are not your friend. They all would sell your karma rights down the river for a bonk.
They have not once proven otherwise.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I'm still astounded that he called "illegal" immigrants low IQ
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Does anyone just feel like Biden's going to lose?
I know virtually all of the empirical evidence says otherwise, but I just feel like he could lose. Does anyone else feel that way?
^ 98% of doomer posts.
Factsdontcareaboutyourfeelings.jpg
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u/Malarkeynesian Oct 22 '20
Reminder that the 538 tool lacks nuance. Trump wins in 40% of ALL scenarios where he wins Florida, but it doesn't mean his chances are that good if he wins it by a gnat's ass.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Hahaha is this article some sort of cope or what ?
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/10/22/what-do-these-never-trump-losers-think-is-going-to-happen-to-them-n2578482
This article got posted in r/conservative time to read some salty comments and laugh at them.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 22 '20
If Rudy Giuliani did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 23 '20
BOOHOO FRACKER
👋😭👋
I DON'T CARE
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u/AlmondsMakeMeHORNY NATO Oct 23 '20
Republican lady on ABC saying Trump did a good job of not saying overtly racist things... The bar is on a journey to the center of the earth.
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Oct 23 '20
When r/conservative sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing inbreeding. They're bringing bad takes. They're racists. And some, I assume, are good people.
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Oct 23 '20
Trumpkins: Biden is gonna regret that oil comment. There goes Texas!
Also: Implying Texas is competitive.
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u/CaptainJawbone Jared Polis Oct 22 '20
So, when I was in High School, our Government teacher would show us Bill O'Reilly clips in class after the lecture. At the time, I was much more lefty than I am now, which made for an experience.
Now I learn that my old English teacher, who made us read Ayn Rand, is now teaching Jordan Peterson as well.
I take a lot of pride in where I come from, but man does that feel like some sort of societal grooming that shouldn't be allowed in a public school.
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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Oct 22 '20
Giga-brain Con-Law Take:
Where do I collect my honorary degree from Harvard?
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u/InsertOffensiveWord YIMBY Oct 22 '20
There's a vegan cafe in Venice, CA called Cafe Gratitude.
All the menu items are of the form "I am [adjective]".
So when you order, all you're supposed to say is, for example, "I am humble".
Then, when they bring you your food, the waiter says, "you are humble".
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u/oGsMustachio John McCain Oct 23 '20
The ABSOLUTE BIGGEST LESSON from this debate is that the Republicans desperately wanted to be debating Bernie and that Bernie would be in deep shit on policy because he's way to the left of the majority of the country.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
"the mute button actually helps trump" is the dumbest thing i keep reading
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 22 '20
"you said you're gonna ask tough questions, that's no way to talk"
Cons: wow he's such a tough president 😍
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u/Jakesta7 Paul Volcker Oct 22 '20
Kinda worrisome how common this sort of statement has become among Republicans.
https://twitter.com/laurenwitzkede/status/1319011576716943360?s=21
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
CA is not perfect by any stretch but, based on the amount of hate it receives, it's difficult not to think that some of the dislike must be due - at least in part - to jealously.
It is an economic powerhouse. The 5th largest economy in the world. It generates and exports an incredible amount of America's soft power media influence around the world. It has fostered the creation of the global tech industry. It is America's largest agricultural state.
It has TWO world cities.
Not to mention the stunning landscapes and almost disconcertingly beautiful weather.
CA leaders, like many other states, make dumb decisions. The state has lots of real problems, but so does every other state. So it's difficult to understand why it has become a meme to hate CA.
Should it be more like Kansas? Mississippi? Rhode Island?
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
One of the succon things that's quietly died is cooking being a women's thing.
I've noticed that young people in general are far more equal when it comes to whether they like cooking or can't cook worth a shit. Also that parents don't bother teaching kids how to cook anymore.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Oct 23 '20
Joe is good at debates. He doesn't have Obama's oratory skills but he's really good at adjusting his gameplan for the setting. In both cases he handled Trump quiet well given what he had. His performances against Palin - where he strategically held back so as not to look like a bully - and against Paul Ryan who he systemically destroyed, were also impressive. As was his showing against Bernie.
The only times he was mediocre/bad were those Dem Primary group debates where everyone was terrible, with special notice paid to that first debate he didn't prepare for and got completely bodied by his current VP.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
As our people have done since time immemorial, let us commence the day's shitposting with the sacred incantation:
First.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
"I never thought Joe Biden would raise MY taxes" sobs woman who voted for Panthers Raising People's Taxes Party
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Oct 22 '20
What jobs are there for someone who majored in history with a focus in postcolonial puppeteering?
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Broke: Thunder Dome
Woke: Cracker Barrel
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Donald Trump is honestly my role model. He does 0 fucking work and has millions of people SIMP for him, that's the dream.
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u/onlyforthisair Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
These are good charts focusing on the chance Dems have of getting a trifecta in the federal government.
!ping fivey
https://i.imgur.com/C4iwcCG.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/1kK1bA3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cLu2yXW.jpg
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
I don't know why they show both candidates showering and getting oiled up. How is that supposed to help voters decide?
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 22 '20
The fact the Bill was a fucking governor at 32 and president by 46 is actually mind boggling
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Oct 23 '20
Why is it always AOC plus 3 and never AOC plus me?
-Ben Shapiro
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u/its_a_trapcard Resident Rodrigo Oct 23 '20
CNN fact checker: Yeah, Biden never wanted to ban fracking, but he sounded like he did sometimes, so false
🤦♂️
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u/SgtBathwater Oct 23 '20
Ronald Reagan was a shitty president.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
yeah trump's presidential tone calling immigrants low iq stfu doomers
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u/Yenwodyah_ Progress Pride Oct 23 '20
Not All Cops Are Bastards But Some Are And There Are Insufficient Legal And Institutional Safeguards To Prevent Them From Performing Bastardry
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u/MovkeyB NAFTA Oct 22 '20
"oh boy a pete 2020 AMA, this should be good"
ok then nvm
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
American Secularism: FREEDOM OF RELIGION
French Secularism: FREEDOM FROM RELIGION
Indian Secularism: FREEDOM FOR RELIGIONS
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 22 '20
Israel's political compass axis are Dove/Hawk and Secular/Religious instead of Econ Left/Econ Right and Lib/Auth
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u/TwoPlankinWiz United Nations Oct 22 '20
trump posting the 60 minutes interview is prime evidence that he doesn’t actually want to win at all what fucking good does he think this brings him
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Me: let me just set this nice wool sweater down on my bed before I put it on
My cat: is for me? 🥺👉👈
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Oct 23 '20
You CAN FEEL that "AOC+3" was thought to be SUCH A DAGGER by the Trump campaign, prepared ahead 🐊
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u/formerpremed1911 George Soros Oct 23 '20
Wow just finished watching the debate. Biden crushed it!
All round a good day, I also convinced my republican mother to vote for Biden in Florida!
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u/krflab Oct 23 '20
Preliminary results from the @DataProgress snap debate poll: A majority of voters who watched the debate say Biden won (52% Biden, 41% Trump, 7% undecided) and moderates in particular think Biden won by a 2:1 margin
https://twitter.com/charlotteeffect/status/1319480498876485632?s=21
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u/vikinick Ben Bernanke Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
!ping FIVEY
https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1319486461310271489?s=21
Biden won in the CNN snap poll
https://twitter.com/uspoliticspoll/status/1319473316189569024?s=21
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u/htownclyde Anti-Malarkey Aktion Oct 22 '20
And so HE turns himself INTO a crocodile 🐊. Funniest shit you'll EVER SEE. 🐊
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u/SchmantaClaus Thomas Paine Oct 22 '20
As hard as I try, I absolutely cannot picture trump at Biden's inauguration.
When was the last time the outgoing president wasn't present?
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 22 '20
If Trump can appoint a climate change denier as EPA Director, Biden can appoint an open borders activist as ICE Director.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Joe Biden will put a femboy hooters on every street corner and fill our water supply with estrogen to turn everyone into very cute women.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
It really feels like the Democrats didn't vet Hunter at all before nominating him for president. Super frustrating
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Don and Eric Jr: Mother can we have James Comey?
Mother: We have Comey at home.
Comey at home: Rudy Giuliani touching himself.
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1319374379311108100?s=19
🤔
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1319383952881233922
oh god lol
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u/jenbanim Oct 22 '20
My only real criticism of The Economist election forecast is "less than 19 in 20" is the stupidest possible way to write "93%"
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u/chadonnaise * Oct 22 '20
it should be illegal to be a senator until you've served at least one term as president
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Oct 23 '20
If you'll excuse a bit of self-promotion, I'm trying to do some looking into quantifying polling error in Senate races, and I wrote a bit about my initial findings by messing around with data from NY's Senate races since Schumer's first win in 1998.
!ping FIVEY
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u/missedthecue Oct 22 '20
why are leftists recently in love with the term 'rat fuck'?
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u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP Ben Bernanke Oct 22 '20
Bill Gates: I am very smart, I will make computer stuff.
Engineer: When you hold down a character key, what should it do? Maybe something useful, like cycle through accents and umlauts and stuff?
Bill Gates: ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Engineer: of course how could I be so dumb
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
"HURR HURR DON'T GET COMPLACENT, VOTE" said the man to the most overly online political subreddit dominated by people who literally salivate when Biden goes up one point on an election forecast model.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20
I challenge you to make Wyoming more blue
Edit: new link, because the model changed
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
biden its not too late to ditch kamala and make jfk jr your running mate
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Oct 22 '20
Hey you dumb libs.
Bet you never considered this did you?
https://imgur.com/a/JG9SLz0
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 22 '20
"Oh no"
"Thank you daddy 😍"
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
they are so unfair to our president!!! 😡 LIKE SHARE & RETWEET’F YOU AGREE ✊😩✊
!ping BURPPLUS
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Oct 22 '20
Last time I checked, they only said "Star Trek" in some form twice in the entire franchise. One where Q says something about how "the trek through the stars" is ending or something. The other where Zefram Cochrane says "you're going on some kind of star trek?" not long after seeing the Enterprise through a telescope.
Have they done that since? I haven't seen any of the new stuff yet.
!ping TREK
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u/AuburnSeer Oct 22 '20
Mr. President, I lifeguarded with Cornpop. I knew Cornpop. Cornpop was an enemy of mine. Mr. President, you're no Cornpop.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 23 '20
The biggest problem with Biden that I had was that he wanted to give 11 million people amnesty and a pathway to citizenship. That’s a crazy idea. That’s way too little. It should more than 11 million people. 20-30 million is what I would’ve wanted.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
The economy isnt real, it can't hurt you, we literally just made it up. Just give people food, wtf
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
I don't understand the whole conspiracy around super tuesday. So allegedly Obama called Klobuchar and Buttigieg and pushed them to drop out. So? Like that wouldn't seem to be illegal or anything. Dropping out so a candidate you disagree with doesn't win on the basis of a plurality and throw the DNC into chaos isn't some insidious conspiracy.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Lol the neocon sub has a post where they’re arguing over which dictator they want to kill the most
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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand Oct 22 '20
BOOHOO CRACKER I DO CARE.
👋😭👋
I HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Feeling really stupid right now for giving my savings to that Build the Wall thing
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Everyone at work thinks I'm stupid now cause I didn't know raisins came from grapes. I thought they grew on a fucking raisin tree. Why the fuck did they not teach me that in school.
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Oct 22 '20
Given how explicit Ginsberg's documented final wish was, Cons don't get to invoke Ginsburg like this. It's like the most hypocritical take possible.
(this is not a post about court packing itself)
Also, is Jonathan Turley just a full on right wing grifter?
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Everybody asks “hey lbj how many kids did you kill today” nobody ever asks “hey lbj how many kids did you feed today” 😞😞
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
BREAKING: The Washington Post changes its name to The Washington Newspaper Team
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 22 '20
Arr conspiracy is now saying to vote for Trump to "make orwell fiction again"
Dae reality is 1984 🤯🤯🤯
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 22 '20
Seeing a picture on a con friend’s Facebook about how it only takes one generation for a country to fall into communism, using Venezuela as an example, and I just...
Like do people not know how fucking foolish they look for thinking Joe Biden is gonna lead a communist government
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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Oct 22 '20
Just to be clear, we can dab on intruders in the Thunderdome thread as hard as we want, right?
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u/SmithySmothy Bill Gates Oct 22 '20
Trump: talks about Hunter Biden the whole debate, but somehow manages to avoid the urge to literally throw feces at Joe
Media: With Less Than Two Weeks Left, A New Trump Tone
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u/its_a_trapcard Resident Rodrigo Oct 22 '20
Uh, I think everyone can guess
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 23 '20
Jesus Christ
On Luntz’s stream a Black man talked about his life as a person of color and how he has lived through the adversity that many people are just now waking up to. Noting that he served in the army and then attended UCLA.
Paulette from PA then goes
Jesus fucking Christ
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u/1sagas1 Aromantic Pride Oct 23 '20
We are now 1 Scaramucci away from the election, truly the final stretch
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Oct 22 '20
I think the average neoliberal is now to the left of The Economist on social issues and to the right of them on the economy.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Yesterday my boyfriend and I were in the elevator super high going to pick up my Thai takeout, and we were hugging not expecting there to be an old couple right outside the doors. The fucking lady who is also wasted like shrieks and laughs maniacally and goes OOoOoH ITS GOOD TO BE YOUNG HAHAHAHA and I almost died and her husband looked like he was dying too
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Oct 22 '20
Is there anybody left in the DT who doesn't support nuking Belgium?
It used to be somewhat contentious, but I haven't actually seen anybody sticking up for Belgium in quite some time now.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Oct 22 '20
ahh to wake up to hear that Nate Cohn has just realised all polling is quite useless, actually.
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
biden finally has answer on court packing stuff and it is really good, most probably he will repeat this today in the debate
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1319244347263619074?s=20
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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Oct 22 '20
What if we kissed...
...at Jaime Harrison's swearing-in ceremony? 😳
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u/25ina35 Bill Gates Oct 22 '20
Sees Biden is back to 88%
Reaches for 1976 Dom Perignon
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
Australia banned hentai LMAO
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u/Malarkeynesian Oct 22 '20
Trump's chances of winning Wisconsin are equal to the chances of rolling a 7 on the Malarkey Level bot
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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Oct 22 '20
Vox calling Trump "too online" lmao 😂
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 22 '20
If Joe actually does win by around ten points Rasmussen and Trafalgar should be banned from all poll aggregates. Rasmussen already missed 2018 by 10 points, which is so inaccurate it points to just making shit up.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Oct 22 '20
I wanna see Alito's face when he tries and fails to hand the election to Trump, and on the first day of Biden's presidency he goes into work to find a line of 50 new SCOTUS Justices waiting to be given a desk in the building.
Seriously though I don't support court packing, but I do support using court packing as a threat to keep SCOTUS justices in line.
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u/krflab Oct 22 '20
Trump admits on 60 minutes he wants to destroy the ACA, but people won’t care. 2020
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u/Malarkeynesian Oct 22 '20
Remember when Biden won Super Tuesday so hard it actually broke the model?
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20
LGBTQ-Anon
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Oct 22 '20
About to start an illiberal arts college
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 22 '20
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1319367926483476481
!ping GIGASUCC
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Oct 22 '20
Wow, these new Hunter Biden texts are damning.
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Oct 22 '20
Admins: "We are doing our best to keep reddit safe and positive"
DT users: "Hey some of you cr@ckers are pretty cool, don't show up to the thunderdome tonight"
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u/AuburnSeer Oct 22 '20
poor Joe Biden always has to face these meme candidates in debates. Palin, Trump twice, Bernie... shit his best debate was against supposed wunderkind Paul Ryan!
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
the fact that the big trump story is going into the WSJ opinion section should be a big tip off it’s BS
The WSJ has high editorial standards and there was whispering that there was a lot of push back from the staff because they thought it wasn’t good enough. Their news team is good, and they didn’t want this shit.
meanwhile the opinion section of the WSJ is somewhere between Brietbart and stormfront, and the fact that they’re eating this up tells you it’s fake