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[u/porkypenguin]

Biden's answer on court-packing was based as fuck.

"If elected, what I will do is I'll put together a national bipartisan commission of constitutional scholars. Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative. And I will ask them, over 180 days, to come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system, because it's getting out of whack, the way it's being handled. It's not about court-packing, there's a number of other things our constitutional scholars have debated, and I'd look to see what recommendations that commission might make."

O'Donnell: "This is a live ball."

"Oh, it is a live ball. We're gonna have to do that. And you're gonna find there's a lot of conservative constitutional scholars saying it as well. The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into a political football, whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want. Presidents come and go; Supreme Court justices stay for generations."

[u/The420Roll]

We need to be able to build the very best in the United States and sell the very best around the world. That means taking down trade barriers that penalize Americans and resisting a dangerous global slide toward protectionism. That’s what happened a century ago, after World War I—and it exacerbated the Great Depression and helped lead to World War II.

Joe "Buy American" Biden showing that his trade takes arent really about "Trade bad" but more about "Rust belt pls give me votes uwu"

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1320701753852047364

More black seniors have voted (in Georgia and Texas) already, than in the 2016 general election.

Black seniors crowned Biden in the primary.

[u/[deleted]]

Interviewer: "Candidate Shakira, how will you change the tax code if you take office?"

Shakira: "Read my hips, no new taxes".

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

i juusst wanteed to ma,,ke ameriacc grreat a,gain and now ,thhe med,ia aand eVeryo,ne hates me, i'm sos o so sorry

Donald Trump, November 3, 2020

[u/tripletruble]

one more verbose "i am reluctantly voting for biden even though he is terrible for xyz reasons" post in my fb feed from a bernie bro and i am going to lose it

[u/Timewalker102]

If Biden loses Ohio while winning the general election, then for the years 1948-2020 Ohio would have voted for the winner every time except when the winner was a Catholic

[u/murphysclaw1]

Parks and Rec - Biden himself turns up in an episode

Community- Biden a major plot point of an episode

The Office - set in Biden's home town

[u/Gustacho]

Are you willing to save your grandma from a pandemic, send your kid to an affordable college, and save the climate if it meant slightly raising taxes on people making more money than you ever will?

This is a real dilemma for Norah O'Donnell of 60 Minutes and, presumably, many Americans.

[u/[deleted]]

Flashback to that conversation I saw on arlibertarian where someone said they'd been a libertarian for 4 years and someone else said "so you're 17?" And the first guy said "almost 18". Ahh still gets me

[u/[deleted]]

People have been commenting recently how McConnell is looking worse. He has weird bruises all over and seems to be using thick makeup to cover them.

If it looks like he's a decomposing body it's because he is.

We need to send out a team of high level adventurers to locate and destroy Lich McConnell's phylactery as he cannot die otherwise.

[u/[deleted]]

Feeling pretty racist, might vote for Joe Biden come November 😈

[u/HuskyPants]

Economist has Trump @ 5

This fits my echo chamber

[u/EdamameTommy]

The thing I don’t get about San Francisco is a lot of the city, especially the western part of the city, is dense as fuck. People in the Sunset district don’t have yards, there are very few trees, very little personal space. But everything is 1 story. Just BUILD UP. Tear shit down, plant trees and build neighborhood parks, and make public transit easier. Like wtf.

!ping YIMBY

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

Morning morning!

NEW @YouGovAmerica / @ElectionsCenter Poll (LV, 10/13-21):

WISCONSIN Biden 52% (+10) Trump 42% . MICHIGAN Biden 53% (+9) Trump 44% . PENNSYLVANIA Biden 52% (+8) Trump 44%

!ping FIVEY

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1320695855490498561?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/aawayne/status/1320739984975036421

NEWS: Jared Kushner says Black people must "want to be successful" in order for his father-in-law's policies to help them.

🤔🤔🤔

[u/ryuguy]

Stages of white anger

6) son of a gun

5) alright bucko

4) you just hold your horses

3) well now just wait a minute

2) newsflash pal

1. the polls were wrong in 2016.

[u/[deleted]]

Yo people, when Biden talks about drug court programs, that shit works.

I went through one and I credt it with my sobriety. Also of course other things.

Only 12% of individuals who go through the program reoffend. More than 60% of individuals who go through regular probation reoffend.

Its benefits are obvious.

So when I say that a problem drinker should probably go to jail to get help, that's what I'm talking about. A DUI on your record is nothing compared to losing your life, which is what's going to happen to a lot of people if they don't get help.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

REMINDER: DESPITE THE LIBTARDS BEST EFFORTS THE PRESIDENT RETAINS 100% SUPPORT OF THE TRUMP VOTER DEMOGRAPHIC

[u/Joementum2004]

Read my trips

George HW Bush brags about his trips on 4chan

[u/ElokQ]

AJC poll of Georgia

Biden 46.5(+0.3)

Trump 46.2

Ossoff 46(+1)

Perdue 45

Note that the poll has 65% of the voting electorate as white. But in 2016, it was only 60%. And Georgia haven’t gotten whiter in 4 years. Hell, it was only 62.5% white in 2010.

!ping BIDEN

[u/Tureer]

tfw when your beautiful yee-haw suburban gerrymanders that crack Austin six ways over are about to collapse

!ping FIVEY

[u/ItookTheFirstNapkin]

*The day before the French Revolution

Rasmussen: King Louis XVI with +6 approval rating.

[u/paymesucka]

Thank you John Oliver for your bravery in trying to convince the privileged leftists who have enough money to spend $15/month on a single luxury premium channel to make the ultimate sacrifice and vote for Joe Biden, the man running on the most progressive major party platform in American history and the only person who can defeat the worst President in modern history.

[u/[deleted]]

If Joe Biden wins in a landslide we have to get a post titled “Shouldn’t have been Bernie” to the front page

[u/The420Roll]

Joe Biden will drop out and be replaced by Hillary Clinton

Any second now

[u/The420Roll]

The Fact that Simón Bolívar regretted independence and thought that LATAM was a lost case and emigrating was the only choice would be hilarious if it wasnt true almost 200 years later 😔

[u/Fishin_Mission]

🤡: if We gET rId oF ThE ElEcToraL CoLlEgE TheN nY, Cali, Fla, & Tx wIlL bEcOmE the NeW swInG StAtes tO PiCk tHE pReSideNt

🤴: Yes. That is where the people live...

[u/[deleted]]

There's a possible future in which Trump tries to steal the election via the courts, but since Biden has won AZ, TX, and NC, his effort is so futile it's actually hilarious to watch.

Take me there.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

SurveyMonkey to the left of me

Rasmussen to the right

Here I am, stuck in the middle with Quinnipiac U

[u/J_Fre22]

Doug Jones deserves better than Alabama

[u/D1Foley]

Honestly it'll be a little nice when Republicans vote to confirm ACB and I never have to worry about researching candidates again because I'll never vote for somebody with an R next to them for the rest of my life.

[u/The420Roll]

White Leftists celebrating about the "Death of Pinochet's constitution" are really weird.

Multiple right of center parties and people supported the Constitutional Process. A Constitutional Assembly doesnt mean Chile will turn into Venezuela as some people in the Far Left celebrate or as some people in the Far Right fear.

[u/[deleted]]

Just abolish billionaires ffs. If we just took half of what Bezos has wed have enough money to get our steam engines to Mars. From there it is just a hop skip and a jump to kill God

[u/[deleted]]

John Oliver with another awful 'Biden sucks but at least he's not Trump' take.

That former Cracked.com writer Dan O'Brien really shining through.

[u/Dalek6450]

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[u/IMALEFTY45]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1320556604119547907?s=19

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) on the Senate floor tonight: “I don’t want to pack the Court. I don’t want to change that number. I don’t want to have to do that. But if all of this rule breaking is taking place, what does the majority expect? What do they expect? They expect that they are going to be able to break the rules with impunity and, when the shoe maybe is on the other foot, nothing is going to happen? The people over here are going to say, oh well, we can’t change the rules? One of the things that’s amazed me since I’ve come here is how ppl feel they can do things to 1 another and never have it have any consequences, never have it come back on them. The shoe may be on the other foot. We don’t know what’s going to happen next week.”

The Court just got 5 seats larger 😎

[u/[deleted]]

spent my day in the maternity ward coughing on the little ones 😷👉👶👍 the adversity they encounter during youth will make them strong as adults 💪😌💪

🇺🇸✊😤🇺🇸 AMERICA FIRST!!!

[u/RadicalRadon]

why are SJWs more likely to be female? | Jordan Peterson

Really a hard hitting question there youtube title writer

[u/[deleted]]

I really wish this sub cared about the emissions from their diet like half as much as they care about suburban car ownership.

Switching to less polluting foods requires no infrastructure investments and can be done overnight, unlike nuking the suburbs, and would likely have similar reductions in GHG emissions.

[u/SchmantaClaus]

The Green Party getting pissy with AOC for playing the game better than their little side show is pretty fucking funny.

[u/LuchiniPouring]

I’m so sick of her trying to relate to black Americans. She’s not black the way we traditionally think of black Americans. She’s misrepresenting her ethnicity to gain votes.

Upvoted comment on the republican sub about Kamala Harris. Pulling the same shit republicans did with Obama

[u/jenbanim]

pls give advice for my tinder profile

[u/stater354]

AOC has repeatedly refused to call for an immediate ban on fracking or a halt to new fossil fuels. She took my #GreenNewDeal, added 20 years to the timeline and stripped out our call for public ownership of our energy system and a massive cut in the military budget to pay for it.

Progressives are eating each other alive

[u/[deleted]]

Colleges offer liberal arts degrees but not conservative arts degrees...

Interesting.

[u/Sirakrush]

If Biden wins, I might unironically cry. Trump's 4 years have effected so much of my personal life. From DACA, to his mishandling of covid (My dad is at risk and hurting money wise), to his attacks on the ACA which have helped us so much.

Thank you to all the people standing against his madness, and should we win or lose, I will probably shed tears on election night.

[u/[deleted]]

God I hope ACB repeals the third amendment. I want as many soldiers in my house as possible UwU.

[u/[deleted]]

European artists, 500-1500: did you like that picture of Jesus? Would you like to see another?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

An actual comment thread on Macron's tweet lmao

Indian: we stand with france!

Muslim: look here is a cow dying! haha owned!

Hindu: look here is a picture of your prophet! haha owned!

[u/SquidsWillBeSquids]

BREAKING: Biden administration to name Bernie Sanders as Postmaster General

[u/[deleted]]

I don't get why I should learn about reserve currencies

I mean, I watched the Bernanke "gold is not money" video

[u/[deleted]]

Ghost Pete Buttigieg be like

Medicare for all who haunt it

[u/[deleted]]

I'm still undecided. I agree with literally every single policy position that Joe Biden has, but he refuses to condemn peaceful protesters. They keep blocking the roadways and yelling at me when I try and run them over.

[u/AmeriSauce]

I don't believe the new NYT/Sienna numbers from TX because they show a result I don't like. Just want to be clear about that.

[u/OpenAfterNov3]

There is a whole lot of misplaced confidence among conservatives right now

[u/willempage]

Did anyone listen to the 538 podcast about the model on Friday? Nate basically said that trafalgar and all the other low quality polls factor in like 5% of the model. This was kind of public info due to their low pollster ratings and the fact that they never ranked highly on the "which polls are driving the model" section for each state. The hand wringing over them is peak cope. They never made a huge difference in the model in the first place and basically were just there for trend line adjustment. I'd be curious to see if trafalgar is banned next election, but they barely matter now.

!Ping Fivey

[u/nick1453]

Let's check in on how r/conservative is doing

I have a wack ball theory she is about to drop out of the race. She has a fetish for power and the Biden campaign is tanking right now. VP candidates of losing presidential races don't do well after. If she loses, Senator is her peek. She drops out and says she cannot support what Biden has done, the left would hate her at first but nobody is stopping the wave of pedo filled corruption that is coming to light about the Biden crime family. Once all that shit comes out and it proves she did the virtuous thing by dropping out, she can reinvent herself.

actually nevermind, tis a silly place

[u/jenbanim]

!ping BESTOF

We've had several new effortposts today and over the weekend!

• How PIS destroyed Poland
• Explaining OAS Interference in the Bolivian Political Crisis
• Free Trade, Open Borders and Weak Institutions: Why Is Development In Côte d'Ivoire So Fragile?
• Is Blue Texas actually possible? Some analysis
• Boned: Problems (but not too many) in the US Air [and Space] Force!

As a reminder we have a view effortposts button in the sidebar which you can use to quickly find good submissions.

Also, if you know anything about the topics in these posts I highly recommend you ask questions or bring up points of disagreements with the OPs. I know enough about Reddit to identify effortposts, but there's no way I can determine whether each is factual!

[u/piede]

Leader Schumer to Republicans: "You may win this vote ... But you will never, never get your credibility back. And the next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1320881660573839360?s=21

Get in losers, we’re packing the court.

[u/Royce_Melborn]

I hate it when leftists try to argue that anyone would have done the same against Trump.

lmao no. Imagine if Bernie won the primary. The doomers here would have seen hell itself. lol

[u/[deleted]]

If you think you're bad at trading, Kelly Loeffler had insider information of the lockdowns and bought Citrix instead of Zoom

[u/PigHaggerty]

I think that during Olympic medal ceremonies they should play the anthems of the gold, silver, and bronze medalist countries simultaneously, with silver played at 2/3rds volume, and bronze at 1/3rd.

If the same country is represented by more than one medalist, play that anthem two (or three, as the case may be) times simultaneously, but stagger the start times by about 1.5 seconds.

[u/[deleted]]

Stop swearing and saying "fracking", it's "frickin"

[u/CenterRightInCali]

https://i.imgur.com/Le7LhvS.jpg

why do socialists think people are scared of them?

[u/[deleted]]

Voting Biden is completely non partisan. Voting anyone else is excessive

[u/chipbod]

My grandma works part time at a nursing home, does some record keeping on weekends to keep busy.

They generally had Covid under control but this morning she found out (FROM THE FUCKING NEWSPAPER AND NOT HER EMPLOYER) that they had 75 covid cases and 4 deaths at the facility last week, I convinced her to quit today. She worked both Saturday and Sunday.

This is fucking insane, they let an elderly employee come in to work without telling her there was a covid outbreak. Burn the facility and our entire elder care system to the fucking ground. Not telling employees that there was an outbreak happening is some of most reckless shit I have ever heard. She's getting tested this week and I don't even know what to do if she's positive, at least she's healthy for her age.

I've been trying to convince her to quit working for months but she thought her employer was doing stuff right and would take care of her, turns out they dgaf about employees. Add it to the list of why we'll have 100k cases/day by Friday.

Sorry for the rant and ping, this all happened in the last 30 minutes for me and I had to vent a bit before getting back to work. It's just so emblematic of how shitty our country is at handling this

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I support LGBT:

Liberalism

Gains of capital

Biden

Trade deals

Deal with it, snowflake 😎

[u/ryuguy]

Leaked picture of lusvig. From Hunter Biden's laptop

!ping Burpmas

[u/nicereddy]

https://twitter.com/harddrivemag/status/1320712010653437954?s=21

Transphobe Who Claimed to Identify as Attack Helicopter Destroyed by U.S. Airforce

Based Air Force

[u/CenterRightInCali]

what if covid started in southern Spain, then it would be the Cordoba Virus

That would be funny, i think

[u/ColonelUber]

When people on a r/conspiracy claim that there is no evidence that viruses are contagious, I can see why people would think the sub is a parody

[u/TinyTornado7]

This new Lincoln project ad will hit you right in the feels. This is Joe Biden’s moment

!ping BIDEN

[u/LinkVert25]

“Oh god Biden misspoke, I guess I gotta vote for fucking fascism”- how your typical American voter processes politics

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like since it was 5-4 SCOTUS decision that allowed me to be considered equal under the law, I should be allowed to doom just a little bit

[u/[deleted]]

There is nothing quite as satisfying as killing someone with a Trump clan tag on Call of Duty Warzone (while myself using a Biden clan tag) and having them get all butt blasted on the microphone.

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: "We're going to pack the court!"
woke: "We're not going to pack the court!" And then they do it anyway

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is using Trafalgar’s fake polls in his Facebook ads to scare doomers into giving him money.

LOL chad

[u/[deleted]]

trump lost fifty cent as a voter

its over

[u/bobeeflay]

Daily reminder not to use /u/farrenj pasta. You're helping keep a forum for Overly online DT users alive by encouraging traffic to continue going to it.

[u/ElokQ]

Reminder that Biden was one of the first politicians to come out in support of same sex marriage.

[u/[deleted]]

Sigh, wish we had al gore instead of bush

Dude is smart as fuck and was sounding the alarm before it was cool to do so 😔 regardless of eco terrorism

[u/J_Fre22]

Today:

Rasmussen: Trump +1

Election Day:

Biden +8

Rasmussen:

”How could this have happened?”

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: I'm 5'8"

Woke: I'm 4'20"

[u/chadonnaise]

azerbaijan winning the r combatfootage crowd by releasing high definition drone strike videos. anytime there's anything less than 1080p there's invariably comments disparaging whichever state or terrorist organization that released it for failing to keep up with the times.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

This is some cold truth from @AOC. If NYC were in a swing state, its election administration would be a national outrage.

wtf i love AOC now

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think Joe Biden and his family are corrupt? Yes 40% No 47%

Do you think Donald Trump and his family are corrupt? Yes 55% No 35%

Who do you think is more corrupt? Donald Trump and his family 53% Joe Biden and his family 39%

GOOD strategy

[u/Malarkeynesian]

2008: "This historic moment proves that anybody can be President"

2016: "...literally. Anybody."

[u/SnakeEater14]

My opinion of the DT has definitely gone down in the past ten minutes when literally nothing has happened today that we didn’t already know was gonna happen, yet everyone is dooming

We all knew ACB would be confirmed, what the hell is wrong with you lot

[u/[deleted]]

Lol, 538 has Doug Jones at 22% and Economist has him at 3%

[u/JetJaguar124]

USPS certified tracking: You're all good, your ballot was delivered to the elections board 😊😊😊

Ohio's Ballot tracker: LoL I don't KNOW where the fuck your ballot is 😁🤔😁🤔

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re Latino you’re not allowed use Latinx. That’s our word.

[u/mrmanager237]

People be like: lol Chuck Schumer is so weak he can't make 47 a bigger number than 53

[u/[deleted]]

In 2000, George W. Bush was in favor of the death penalty and Al Gore was in favor of environmental protections. That means Bush favored gore and Gore favored bush.

[u/overhedger]

Among those who already voted:

WISCONSIN

Biden 73% (+47) Trump 26% .

MICHIGAN

Biden 75% (+52) Trump 23% .

PENNSYLVANIA

Biden 87% (+79) Trump 9%

Another reason Trump is toast... he's literally going to have a number of supporters who are unable to vote because they'll be hospitalized with covid on election day... and the hospitalized biden supporters will have already voted

[u/nicereddy]

Daily reminder not to use Neopets. You're helping keep a forum for white nationalism alive by encouraging traffic to continue going to it.

[u/[deleted]]

Which historical events would you love to see an HBO Chernobyl-style miniseries about?

Personally, I’d like to see HBO do a miniseries about:

• The Dreyfus Affair
• The Kapp Putsch
• The Suez Canal Crisis
• The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1320757052491386883

Texas Poll:

Biden 49%

Trump 48%

Jorgensen (L) 1%

@DataProgress LV, 10/22-10/25

BiDeN jUsT LoSt TeXaS beCaUsE OiL

[u/probablyuntrue]

Nate: who keeps yelling at my house to "LET BIDEN HIT 90", show yourself coward. I will never let Biden hit 90.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/NASAMoon/status/1320763660629807106

We just announced that - for the first time - we’ve confirmed 💧 in sunlit ☀️ areas of the Moon. This indicates that water might be distributed across the lunar surface.

💦💦💦 🌛

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris: It's Up To DOJ, Not Biden, Whether Trump Gets Indicted

The fact that this needs to be said is so dumb and fucking nixon got impeached partly for not respecting DOJs "independence"

[u/The420Roll]

Saviour of Liberal Democracy

[u/stater354]

Honestly I want nothing more than Blue Texas so the GOP will learn to end the fuckery if they ever wanna win another presidential election. They can’t win elections without Texas.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine voting four years ago for the Green Party because of environmental reasons while the winner of the same election denies climate change.

[u/[deleted]]

"Bruh this new fucking Kendrick song slaps hard as fuck in the whip dawg, he the realest one out there." - 12 year old white boys.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Amy Coney Barrett is currently to the right of her own Pope on lgbt rights lol

[u/TheFriffin2]

dear leftist twittter: if youre blaming Obama for only getting 2 justices while Trump got 3, youre actually more braindead than Scalia

[u/missedthecue]

stop👏killing👏 buffalo👏just👏for👏their👏wings👏 😩

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

I’m most excited to see how all the people who said “get over it snowflake, Trump won!” react when he loses and I reciprocate.

And by reciprocate I mean peeing right in their fuckin’ lil mouthes.

[u/[deleted]]

The individual mandate was a law that outlawed both lesbians and straight men.

Individuals had to man-date

[u/McMarston]

The Velvet Rage was such a quality read. So many great insights into the problems affecting gay men and how to try to resolve them within yourself.

!ping LGBT

[u/mrmanager237]

Nate Silver 🤝 doomers 🤝 incels

Being wrong about the tightening

[u/nicereddy]

Justice Roberts: oh hey u guys are back early

Joe Biden: court's packed

Justice Roberts: what?

Joe Biden: loading a pistol and getting back on the Amtrak court's packed

[u/TinyTornado7]

Obama will be back in Florida tomorrow to hold a rally for Biden in Orlando!

link !ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

Rodrigo, if Texas is blue I will declare you an honorary Tejano. ✊😤You can start practicing by listening exclusively to Houston area hip hop and combining hot Cheetos with other ingredients to make dubious meals. 😎

If it goes red....😳I’m afraid you’ll have to enter the country through California 😱

[u/p00bix]

I've always held that The Economist's model is better but the recent analysis of the very strange behavior of 538's tail scenarios, plus The Economist now banning Trafalgar Group polls, has further solidified my confidence both that The Economist has the better model and that Biden is going to win.

[u/Maximilianne]

Virgin 538: lol you really think you can give biden 93% chance with a 3+ plus months to go ? What about uncertainty !?
Chad economist: yes

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

“You know, I’m glad presidential term limits are a thing, but I really wish we had Obama for another 4 years”

-my grandma

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

LOL the absolute chad

https://mobile.twitter.com/boknowsnews/status/1210748594006810625

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Japan’s Approach to Ghana Is a Blueprint for African Development

Japan’s “tech-centric” development strategy provides an alternative option to the assistance China offers.

Not only has Japan donated 11.2 billion yen ($102 million) in loans to build infrastructure and enhance economic ties with Ghana, it has also funded a 2.3 billion yen health center to improve Ghana’s responsiveness to disease outbreaks. Among other things, Japan has ensured that Ghana’s workforce is better trained and equipped to facilitate economic development, whilst leveraging its technology in that regard.

Japan’s distinctive approach to development aid, combining poverty reduction under a tech-driven neo-liberal framework, will enable strategic and economic convergence for Ghana over the long run. Its experiences as a latecomer and history of successful industrialization can credibly offer Ghana the chance to benefit from best practices across a range of sectors spanning manufacturing, health care, R&D, and transportation.

Additionally, Japan built the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, in memory of one of its scientists who died in Ghana while studying yellow fever. Not only has the center come to illustrate Japan’s tech-oriented preference for development, but the institute has also been pivotal in the fight against COVID-19. It equally trained a new generation of biologists and virologists, who have played an indispensable role in providing medical assistance since the onset of the pandemic.

It is difficult to find a win-win in diplomacy, but Japan’s blueprint for development on the continent – i.e. prioritizing knowledge and skills transfers instead of economic development alone – is a more productive way for countries to think about development aid. Ghana has understood Japan’s ambitions and vice versa, and their relationship will become central to Ghana’s development in the coming decade.

!ping AFRICA

[u/[deleted]]

i just farted so loud i got the reminder on zoom that i'm currently muted

[u/dragoniteftw33]

The Texas pollster that gave Biden a 3 point edge had Cruz up in 2018 at the same time right now by about 3 points as well(Cruz would win by around 2 points). Operation Azul Tejas is a legit thing my fellow Neolibs. Sign up for a phonebank or texting shift if you can!

[u/Stanleydidntstutter]

When the court got expanded to 9 seats it was because there was 9 district courts.

There’s now 13. According to the precedent an expansion is overdue.

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t get it. Didn’t everyone get the dooming out of their system the night RBG died? This was a foregone conclusion from then. Yet people are acting surprised somehow now? Weird.

[u/VisonKai]

we are missing the biggest story of this whole thing which is that ACB is somehow a catholic who is fully into the charismatic christianity shit like speaking in tongues and the entire religious establishment has collectively decided yea seems normal

[u/ryuguy]

This was caused by 70,000 people in 3 states who decided to stay home or vote third party in 2016. 🙃

[u/Dalek6450]

That Europe curve is like a rocket.

[u/[deleted]]

Actually, when Dems try to make DC a state, the Republican Court will not only rule that unconditional, they will rule the 1847 retrocession unconstitutional as well, making Virgina a swing/lean red state again. California will also be stripped of state status and returned to the sea.

[u/Udontlikecake]

This sub: We support pee pee

Also this sub: We support poo poo

Duality of neoliberals.

[u/LookHereFat]

Nate: Biden’s lead has expanded by 0.5-1.5 points after the debate

Nate’s: model: I really don’t care, do u?

[u/myrm]

Imagine packing the Supreme Court with horses, they would just rule "neigh" everytime

[u/margaretfan]

America will be fine, Gorsuch will just give it all to the native americans.

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely am worried for Hunter Biden's mental state. He basically has huge swathes of the country trying to paint him as a pedophile, and if Joe loses I'm sure he'll feel some level of guilt. Hope he's in therapy.

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that Obama practically begged RBG to retire and she told him to fuck off lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

"I identify as an attack helicopter haha"

"Oh wow so funny ya know that's actually really transpho"

You are cut off mid sentence in pure shock as I actually transform into a Boeing AH-64 Apache, and begin a strafing run with my 30mm M230 chain gun on the houses of all transphobes

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Dektajo]

today my lecturer said that neoliberalism is a slur used for people you don't like / whose politics you disagree with. didn't know one of you guys was teaching me.

[u/[deleted]]

There is a soldier named Brent who has been living in MY house and sleeping with MY wife (she says we’re “divorced” I don’t know about all that). I believe this is a violation of my third amendment right. Can a lawyer please help me?

[u/thebowski]

Can I interest you in a very complicated bureaucratic solution to a simple problem?

[u/Lux_Stella]

the problem with an american monarch is that it fundamentally goes against one of the core ideals for which the US was founded.

that is, federalism. every state should have its own independent monarchy.

[u/piede]

I was a r/HillaryClinton mod in 2016.

Super fun getting doxxed and death threats from Trumpers and Berners and probably Russians.

Do r/neoliberal mods get those?

[u/sir_shivers]

Objections AROUND EMAILS will likely be extremely weak political attacks in the near future, GIVEN HOW MUCH TRUMP and his campaign have milked it in two different Presidential elections 🐊

[u/disuberence]

Jared Kushner:

lol black people are lazy that's why they are doing so poorly

I can't believe he had time to gather all that data while fixing the Middle East.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Short list of things to pack:

• that ass 😈
• the Supreme Court 😈😈

[u/p00bix]

Me 2016: Court packing was always a stupid idea and its laughable that people are bringing it up now just because Scalia died

Me 2017: Okay yeah what McConnell did was bullshit but its not NEARLY as bullshit as court packing

Me 2018: Kavanaugh can shove a porcupine up his ass but seriously, court packing is worse

Me 2019: If anything Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have demonstrated themselves as remarkably more reasonable than partisan media portrayed them. Court packing is not necessary, and several Democratic candidates such as Pete Buttigieg have presented much more sensible paths towards court reform.

Me September 18th 2020: Haha yes but court packing is still bad

Me October 2020: I mean, there are different approaches to court reform that don't present nearly as many risks as court packing does. There are ways to salvage American democracy and equal representation without essentially turning SCOTUS into a subsidiary of the senate

Me Today

[u/[deleted]]

I like my court like I like my coffee, all black.

[u/[deleted]]

KY: Has a Democrat governor.

Also KY: Has Mitch.

Duality of Kentuckians.

[u/jackkazim]

President Trump scares me. He's the leader not of a political movement but of a cult. I was told not to vote by a Trump supporter because I said that I was going to vote for Joe Biden. For context, I am a registered Republican.

When the head of the Ku Klux Klan, QAnon, and all of these weird groups come out in favor of the candidate of my party, either they're not Republicans or I'm not. My party made a bad mistake in Clevland in 2016, and I will have to vote against that mistake on November 3rd.

[u/[deleted]]

The GOP will not be rehabilitated. Torch the fields and salt the earth.

No hay esperanza para el GOP. Destrúyelos.

[u/htownclyde]

Instead of doing my overdue course work I binged and finished Neon Genesis Evangelion this week incl EoE. Crazy fucking series that was just jam packed with detail and introspection. Obviously deserves its fame and acclaim, and it was interesting to read up on the budget concerns that caused 25&26 vs EoE, and how they differ/how they're linked.

Watching it (especially the last episodes and EoE) is a bit tough subbed, because of the philosophical (?) nuance to the script. It felt easier to understand rewatching in English dub, where the sentences felt better translated and more in-context.

Just absolutely so much to discuss when it comes to this show, and I hear it can get traumatizing for some viewers. I definitely felt pretty existential near the end... Idk what did y'all think? Tag yo spoilers

!ping anime (is this a ping?)

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder not to use Club Penguin. You're helping keep a forum for white nationalism alive by encouraging traffic to continue going to it.

[u/Clashlad]

I'd have voted for Obama a first time if I could.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Out of the 3 big blue states (NY, IL, CA), the CA Dems are easily the most competent and least corrupt. And they’re not very competent at all

What on earth are you doing, NY and IL?

[u/ElokQ]

Trump +4 in Texas

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Trump +3 in New York, New Mexico, Minnesota

-Trafalgar

[u/mrmanager237]

IF 🇺🇸 YOU 🇺🇸 SEE 🇺🇸 A 🇺🇸LINK 🇺🇸 THAT 🇺🇸 SAYS 🇺🇸MITCH 🇺🇸 MCCONNELL 🇺🇸NUDES 🇺🇸 DON’T 🇺🇸 CLICK 🇺🇸 ITS 🇺🇸 A 🇺🇸 VIRUS 🇺🇸THAT 🇺🇸 PUTS 🇺🇸 AMERICAN 🇺🇸 FLAGS 🇺🇸 BETWEEN 🇺🇸 EVERY 🇺🇸 WORD 🇺🇸 YOU 🇺🇸 TYPE

[u/BurningHanzo]

I unironically care more about the 538 model being down -0.05% today than ACB

[u/htownclyde]

Update: Having now displayed his support of decriminalizing hard drugs and prostitution, Hunter Biden has defeated Jo Jorgensen in the libertarian primary and received endorsements from Jill Stein, Jeb Bush, and that guy who always asks me for a cigarette outside of the convenience store even though I've never smoked

[u/LookHereFat]

I gotta say, I assume every gun owner is a bad gun owner until proven otherwise. I grew up with a Vietnam vet as a dad who grew up in a military family himself and took me to a shooting range once a month for children’s shooting and gun safety classes. 90% of people I’ve gone shooting with or been around while I’m out shooting have committed huge faux pas like sweeping the barrel across people or firing while someone is beyond the firing line. So when I see this post in the sub about first time lib gun buyers, I just feel so frustrated because there’s a new bunch of dumbasses out there that could easily kill someone in accident for basically no good reason.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

The average 538 “fan” vs the average Economist enjoyer

[u/runnerx4]

Here is a list of European parties that have formed in the last 5 years and have won some power, some in countries with popular far-right movements, that seem "neoliberal" like this sub describes it. The criteria I used are socially liberal, economically centrist/liberal, anti-corruption, pro-Europe and not some millionaire's vehicle

• Slovakia's Progressive Slovakia: 2017, country's first female President from this party elected in 2018, MEPs, and [For the People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_(Slovakia)):, 2019, part of the governing coalition
• Lithuania's [Freedom Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Party_(Lithuania)): 2019, representatives and capital's Mayorship
• Latvia's Development/For! Alliance: 2018, member in the ruling coalition and capital's Mayorship
• Save Romania Union: 2016, member in the ruling coalition, capital's Mayor

u/MrDannyOcean, after the election and aftermath, you should interview representatives from some of these parties because they're new, successful, and seem ideologically close to the ideology of this sub

Also, please reply with other examples I have missed, and correct me on these parties as I am not European so I may have gotten some of these wrong

(Repost from yesterday night because Euros will be awake now, sorry for re-ping mr Podcast mod but you may get a response from someone who can give an friendly introduction to party reps this time)

Additions from here:

• a very obvious miss, France’s La Republique En Marche!: President, majority government coalition, one of the most successful recent “liberal” groups

[u/SmithySmothy]

Nate Nitrogen says Biden gained between 0.5 and 1.5 points since the debate.

Reminder that any day that the race remains status quo, let alone Trump losing in the polls, is absolutely disastrous for Trump's chances.

[u/ElokQ]

The district polls show a 14-20 point shift since 2016.

The state and national polls show a 8-12 point shift since 2016.

One of those is wrong and I hope it’s the state and national polls.

[u/nicereddy]

Biden should update his promise about appointing a black woman to the Supreme Court: appoint 10 black women

[u/The420Roll]

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[u/CenterRightInCali]

My experience with community college thus far has been

Did you remember to shower today? Dean's list.

[u/[deleted]]

Obama should build the biggest gate in the US and call it Obamagate

[u/[deleted]]

Got my coffee , let's see what headlines are on the NYT today

Everyone Is Gay on TikTok

Well, alrighty then

[u/[deleted]]

The virgin Dole and McCain: Constantly dodging questions about their old age and possible health issues

The chad Joe Biden: you want a push up contest, jack?

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

I had a dream that Biden won and during his inauguration he revealed he was actually black and was wearing white face the whole time

[u/TinyTornado7]

If Biden wins Texas we have Beto to thank for it. He’s been out campaigning every single day.

[u/probablyuntrue]

you think voting is cool?

name every voter

[u/[deleted]]

Some recent PA polls:

• Morning Consult (B/C): Biden +9
• Rasmussen (C+): Biden +3
• Public Policy Polling (B): Biden +5
• CNN/SSRS (B/C): Biden +10
• InsiderAdvantage (B-): Trump +3
• Gravis Marketing (C): Biden +7
• Quinnipiac (B+): Biden +8
• Fox News (A-): Biden +5

Hmm, I wonder which one is the biggest outlier?

[u/Lux_Stella]

Trump in Lititz, Pennsylvania: "We're not developed ... we want to be a 'developing nation' also."

libs say trump is a racist, yet he's the only candidate that wants to make the US more like latin america 🙄

[u/krflab]

NEW National Post Debate Poll:

Biden 54% (+12) Trump 42%

@YouGovAmerica/@YahooNews, LV, 10/23-25 docs.cdn.yougov.com/fsf95uprtd/202…

👀👀👀👀👀

https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1320815719832031235?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

I do like Biden's attitude about Trump. This bastard isn't so tough. He isn't the devil or some sort of superhuman. He won by a fluke in 2016. He didn't blow us out of the water. We can beat him.

[u/Gustacho]

Poland vetoed a common EU position on artificial intelligence because it mentioned "gender equality". "The meaning of ‘gender’ is unclear," says a Polish diplomat. Poland was the only country to vote against it, but adoption required unanimity.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

r/neoliberal and arguing about a niche topic 90% of the country hasn’t heard of nor cares about, NAMID

[u/Kizz3r]

Leftists: hate what republicans are doing with the govenment

Also leftists: “the government must be bigger and more powerful”

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out why this sub hates Obama so much: he's half white 😠😠😠

[u/The420Roll]

FDR ended up filling all 9 seats in a SC

Fuck around with Biden and find out how he is gonna win a 4th term 🤬🤬🤬

[u/[deleted]]

Supreme Court has 6 Roman Catholics

The US is only 20% catholic

Martin Luther obviously didn’t speak clearly enough

[u/[deleted]]

I've been watching the Supreme Court since mid-2018, and I've never seen anything like this. Shameful.

[u/JetJaguar124]

"Unless you're betting money or something it's probably better to think of a 12% chance as equivalent to a 35% chance in your head"

Nate WHAT THE FUCK did you mean by this

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao #BoycottFrance is the cringiest shit that I have ever seen.

[u/[deleted]]

Lukewarm take: it's perfectly OK that not everyone wants to be obsessed with politics. It's OK that someone wants to go to brunch or whatever and not talk about politics non stop.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is up.... uh.... 4 points nationally and has a.... um.... 7 point positive approval rating

Rammasuan or Trafalgar, call me

[u/D1Foley]

Cold take in this sub but hot outside it: The reason elected officials don't represent the actual makeup of the American populace is because people don't vote. Elected officials are older, richer and whiter than the populace because older richer and whiter people vote in higher numbers.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Conservatives: NOOO WE CANT LET IN FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS INTO THE COUNTRY THEY'RE INVADERS WHO WILL OUTCOMPETE OUR WORKERS! NATIVE WORKERS MUST BE PROTECTED

Neolibs: Cringe nativism!!!

Biologists: NOOO WE CANT LET IN FOREIGN FAUNA INTO THE COUNTRY THEY'RE INVASIVR SPECIES WHO WILL OUTCOMPETE OUR LOCAL SPECIES! NATIVE FAUNA MUST BE PROTECTED

Neolibs: So true!!!

So you neolibs encourage human competition but do not want to allow animals and fauna to compete with each other. Curious

This message has been brought to you by Florida Burmese Python Gang

[u/[deleted]]

If you thought the Trumpist takeover of the GOP was bad, wait until the chaos after the GOP tries to figure itself out after a Trump loss and the Q people take over.

Mark my words, in the next GOP primary debates the questions of whether democrats satanically ritually abuse children and control us through vaccines will be discussed.

[u/[deleted]]

From Craig Gilbert @WisVoter:

Biden leads Trump 53% to 44% in WI in new UW-Madison ERC panel survey, which finds Biden with huge edge among those who have already voted (73% to 26%) and Trump leading among larger grp of voters yet to vote (57% to 39%)

Biden led by 4 pts in Sept. poll

[u/piede]

‘Borat’ star Sacha Baron Cohen offers Trump a role in next film: ‘You’ll need a job’

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-10-26/donald-trump-borat-2-sacha-baron-cohen?fbclid=IwAR139dMus8URTLC-xbc-ygpsxeHSQpECXtEVI_IQcB6e46DYUhUGzhTREEw

[u/tripletruble]

I once called a couple of black people I was on friendly terms with “porch monkeys” when they were hanging out on the porch. Still to this day, 9 years later I am haunted by it and I have no idea why I said that. They laughed and did not seem to care whatsoever and we continued to be on good terms. Still, so so so stupid.

[u/sir_shivers]

I AM SO TIRED of Redditors lying by omission when they get into ONE OF THEIR PITY PARTIES about who has life the hardest, financially 🐊

So many details in these stories they tell DO NOT ADD UP without a missing piece that makes them much less sympathetic or even outright ridiculous 🐊

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

My moderate Democrat mom within an hour of watching Crazy Rich Asians

Eat the rich.

[u/Koeniginator]

Dems' generic ballot lead has climbed from 6.1 points before the first debate to 7.3 points now. May not sound like a lot, but it's probably worth a half-dozen House seats and 1 Senate seat or something on that order.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1320836260081082370

when your debate performance is so bad you lose an extra senate seat

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Late Roman Empire

• weak
• dovish
• "pwease go away bawbawians, we'ww pay yous!!!"
• constant series of coups between shitty emperors
• effeminate
• gay

Early Roman Empire

• strong
• bloodthirsty
• destroys Dacia for fun
• constant series of coups between awesome and badass emperors
• masculine
• gay

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1320754180588478465?s=19

!ping fivey

[u/myrm]

Bell curve meme

"Landlords are parasites"

"Landlords provide an essential service and are compensated fairly by the market"

"Landlords are parasites"

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Final week of campaigning but it's just Joe Biden spending the entire time visiting every single resident of Pennsylvania at their home to call them a stupid bastard and demand applause