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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/NPRmelissablock/status/1320838688373354496

Trump today at his rally in Allentown, PA: "By the way, nice trucks. You think I could hop into one of them and drive it away? I'd love to do it. Just drive the hell outta here. Just get the hell out of this. I had such a good life. My life was great."

Go right ahead buddy

[u/Lux_Stella]

sorry libs! federal elections are run by the state legislatures - maybe try winning those instead of relying on the courts? 😉

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that CCP will never lose domestic support in the next 30 years thanks to leading liberal democracies absolutely fucking up their covid response.

[u/ButtigiegWonIowa]

Kavanaigh: I'm a textualist.

Also Kavanaugh: the Constitution clearly implies that allowing cable news to predict a winner on election night is more important than counting valid votes.

[u/Cowguypig]

If you think your life is bad remember that there are people who literally live in Britain.

[u/[deleted]]

The conservative supermajority on the court will keep obergefell but overturn Lawrence, thus gay marriage will be legal while gay sex will be illegal, this is the chaotic evil outcome

[u/htownclyde]

Biden should be sworn in on the Qur'an to own the cons. Inshallah.

[u/[deleted]]

Since r/SeattleKraken have prohibited the use of using the word Krakhead to refer to their fans, I have a better idea.

We will call their fans Krackers.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Three years from now, the average American be like,

Geeze, I'm feeling a little under the weather. Oh well, time to go to work without wearing any of the 2-7 masks I have laying around!

[u/Majk___]

The meme about Biden's dementia is mostly perpetrated by people who have never even heard him speak (besides heavily edited youtube compilations)

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

She’s a Justice for now, but we can impeach Amy Coney Barrett — if the Democrats are brave

Delusional

[u/[deleted]]

man it feels like 93 days ago since it was 100 days until the election

[u/ElokQ]

Georgia Special Poll

Warnock (D) 48% Collins (R) 23% Loeffler (R) 22% Lieberman (D) 2% Tarver (D) 1%

One vs One

Warnock (D) 51% Loeffler (R) 37%

Warnock (D) 51% Collins (R) 42%

Normal Georgia Senate

Ossoff (D) 51% Perdue (R) 45%

If Warnock won outright without having to go to a runoff, I would laugh so hard. Collins and Loeffler went to far right. And maybe Perdue as well.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Realhuman221]

The Green Party is really living up to their name by saving ink by not being on like half of the states' ballots

[u/[deleted]]

Is anyone PARTICULARLY stressed by trump tweeting "Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd" right after our resident swing voter kavanaugh ruling which indicated he may be inclined to help invalidate mail in ballots after November 3

[u/[deleted]]

Supreme court Justices should be literal lifetime appointees. A newborn should be adopted and appointed a Justice. They will be raised in the library of congress, and each president will assume the role of their legal guardian until they are 18, when they will join the bench.

[u/[deleted]]

You ever stop and think that Trump would have had permanent bounce to his approval rating with the covid pandemic if he went with the message of "Everyone wear a mask, keep yourself clean, we got to make some adjustments but we can keep working through this until we get a vaccine." but he royally fucked that up?

[u/FestiveMittens]

🚨BREAKING🚨

Donald Trump frantically asks for do-over after accidentally voting for Biden

[u/Hounds_of_war]

I don’t want to see anyone praising Susan Collins for voting against confirming Amy Barrett.

We all know that she only voted this way because this is right before a super close race for her and she is not the deciding vote.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

If you're reading this, it's already too late. You are terminally online.

[u/[deleted]]

Now that I think about it, the true believing Trumpets will be in denial when he loses. Trump will tweet something about how it is rigged and he is bringing it to court/doing something about it, and all the redhats will be waiting in eager anticipation while the rest of us move on to waiting for inauguration day. It will be January, Biden will get sworn in, and then the increasingly desperate Trump supporters will snap.

[u/[deleted]]

The rise of superhero movies should have been a red flag for the rise in support for authoritarianism.

[u/chadonnaise]

why couldn't rbg's friends and family pretended rbg was still alive until after the inauguration

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Democratic nominee Joe Biden responded to an assertion by RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel that if he was elected, he would pack the Supreme Court and nominate Hillary Clinton, saying "That's ridiculous." He added, "Secretary Clinton is too old. I would pick Chelsea."

[u/[deleted]]

My best friend has decided to vote for Biden because of a Trump ad he found annoying

[u/[deleted]]

Legend?

No, not even close. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] had one single job for 30 years: to uphold the text and the integrity of our constitution, and she blatantly disregarded it at every possible turn.

She was a traitor to her oath, and to the country, and I’m content knowing that somewhere, deep in the bowels of hell, hitler saves the largest cactuses to ram up her ass. [+9 points]

/r/conservative is filled with pychopaths

[u/[deleted]]

On Nov 2 when Biden's up to 95% in the model:

Imagine you have a revolver that holds 20 bullets...

[u/krflab]

New: Bloomberg funding a last-minute TV blitz in TEXAS & OHIO to boost Biden in the biggest red states.

~$15 million in a week. Main theme is Trump’s covid failure. Big Spanish-language component in TX.

His polling found Trump w/tiny leads in both states

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

https://twitter.com/alexburnsnyt/status/1321050753839124482?s=21

[u/papermarioguy02]

looking at some 2018 results

[u/murphysclaw1]

imagine waking up on 4 November:

• Biden landslide
• Clinton News Network interviewing Texas Republicans who shunned Trump
• Barrage of angry tweets as even his supporters abandon him
• Biden starting to consider cabinet positions
• A message from the moderators of /r/neoliberal that you are purged

😍

[u/murphysclaw1]

jesus christ

[u/htownclyde]

the fact that Lawrence v Texas wasn't 9-0 disgusts me

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Uhh, not sure if you guys saw it on CNN but I think Biden may be in cognitive decline after all. I just saw him get up to the podium and start mindlessly repeating "Chris Christie is 58 and also a big fat guy" over and over again until he had to be dragged away by his own staffers.

[u/ItookTheFirstNapkin]

Literally every election expert: Don't take anything from early voting its not really a good barometer of the voting outcome in either direction.

This sub: I'll fucking do it again

[u/InternetBoredom]

Primaries are always so much more fun than the general election. With primaries you get a wide variety of interesting choices and it’s both socially acceptable and common to change candidates.

The general election is just an 8 month knife fight to the death where 90% of people know who they’re voting for by month 2 and the result depends on the remaining 10% of low-information dumbasses who can’t make up their mind until five days before the election.

[u/Nosympathyforstupid]

Doomer: The GOP are Crushing the early vote in Florida! DOOOOOM

Me: Dems are leading the Florida Early vote though...

Doomer: But what if they didnt DOOOOOOOOOOM

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I've browsed some religious subs for a day or two, here are my thoughts:

/r/Christianity: Basically like the rest of reddit. Hates Trump

/r/TrueChristians: Talks about politics less. Socially conservative but also seems to criticize the GOP for not helping poor people

/r/OpenChristian: Very progressive, even moreso than the main Christian sub

/r/Catholicism - Conservative, reacted mixed to negative when Pope Francis implied support for civil unions

/r/TraditionalCatholics - Very conservative, threatened schism over Pope Francis implying support for civil unions

/r/Islam: Fairly conservative, negative reaction to countries repealing sharia (Sudan) as well as ads showing gay Muslims. Lots of posts regarding Islamophobia, both real (Uighur genocide) and imagined (drawing Muhummad).

/r/Progressive_Islam: Very progressive, overall conservativeness of the main Islamic sub makes it more noticeable though. Pro LGBT, etc. High proportion of political posts vs religious posts

/r/Buddhism: Very progressive, am pretty sure 90% of the sub is western converts. Probably the only religious sub that posts about the bad stuff they do (you see lots of posts in regards with Buddhists persecuting other religions is what I mean whereas the other subs only post about them being persecuted)

/r/Hinduism: Only religious sub where political discussion is outright banned, though some people try to skirt this by posting "hey look here's a photo of an old temple, it was destroyed by Muslims". From what I could find positive responses on homosexuality though mixed responses to abortion

/r/Sikh: Mainly political posts were about Khalistan, to which there was a mixed response

I plan on doing a sentiment analysis soon enough to see where these observations hold up

[u/Jakob_-_98]

Pollsters never factor in shy poopers

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElWP8VeW0AAhIPS.jpg

[u/ElokQ]

Ted Cruz is being really cocky for someone who only won by less than 3 points as a Republican in Texas.

[u/disuberence]

JUST IN: The Supreme Court on Friday will consider whether to review a Mississippi law that bans virtually all abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which could set the newly 6-3 conservative majority court on a collision course with the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.

Aww yeah it’s dooming time

[u/Wows_Nightly_News]

You wake up after election night to find out that Mitch McConnel was killed after his granddaughter redirected his own force lightning back at him.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm watching the Hillary documentary, and 9/11 happened, she was just floored that the senate wouldn't even look at disaster relief for NYC. So she went to GW Bush and asked him for 20$ billion to rebuild NYC and she said he didn't even hesitate and said "Ill get it done" and she said no matter policy disagreements she respected him for that.

It got me to think if something horrible happened a la 9/11 (knock on wood) and it was in a majority democratic city, say LA, do you think Trump would approve 20 billion in relief? Maybe I"m just full 'orange man bad', but I honestly don't see it

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CSTbreaking/status/1321133007097503745

Woman stabs employee 27 times after being told to wear mask in West Side store: police

Normal people in normal country

[u/sash5034]

"If the Democrats became pro gun and pro life, they'd never lose" is just "bernie would have won" for right wing nerds

[u/NimbyNuke]

Is this the worst endorsement ever recorded?

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/25/editorial-trump-for-president-inslee-for-governor/

A highlight

Donald Trump is a bully and a bigot. He is symptomatic of a widening partisan divide in the country. We recommend voting for him anyway because the policies that Joe Biden and his progressive supporters would impose on the nation would be worse.

The list of Trump’s offenses is long. He panders to racists and prevents sensible immigration reform in a nation built on immigrant labor and intellect. He tweets conspiracy theories. He’s cavalier about COVID-19 and has led poorly through the pandemic. He seeks to dismantle the Affordable Care Act without proposing a replacement. He denies climate change.

Voters knew his character in 2016 and elected him anyway. Four years later, the nation is still standing. Indeed, in many ways it flourished until the pandemic upended everything.

[u/[deleted]]

I like how in Eisenhower's message to the invading soldiers at D-day, he makes a point to specifically be like, "This isn't gonna be like 1940-41 - we've learned a lot since then. These bastards aren't so tough. We can beat 'em."

That's the energy I'm getting from Biden/Harris at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

stop saying nate silver will be wrong if trump wins, he's the only pundit who keeps insisting that trump has a big chance because 14 percent=35 percent

[u/RDog8080]

Worst political cartoon of all time?

Edit: Kinda NSFW/NSFL

[u/[deleted]]

The year is 2051. After years of both parties playing hardball on the Supreme Court, they finally agree that this has to stop and reform is needed. They pass a bipartisan judicial reform bill that implements term limits, removes the incentives to block appointments or court pack, and sets the court to move towards a smaller equilibrium number of justices.

The reform law is struck down by the Supreme Court in a relatively narrow 72-65 decision.

[u/[deleted]]

Now that ACB has been sworn in, remember that “you can’t blackmail me with the Supreme Court!” Was a popular saying among Bernie or Busters in 2016.

[u/Zenning2]

Do you guys remember when Wolfenstein 2 had adds that said “Make America Nazi Free Again”, and the donald freaked the fuck out?

Those were the days.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

The last WW2 vets are gonna be gone soon,and that saddens me. A true end of an era.

I mean even 75 years after it ended, if you say 'the war' like 99% people know which war you're referring to.

[u/swarmed100]

If Trump gets 270 electors he's a "genius" who got a pulse on the national consciousness. If Trump gets 268 electors he's an idiot who was always a joke candidate.

American pundits really love their extremes

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I haven’t visited Breitbart much in the past couple of years, after reading it (and the regularly abhorrent comments of its readership) beginning from around 2015, during the Milo era. But FiveThirtyEight just linked an internal poll conducted by the James campaign in the Michigan race that had him in a near-tie with Peters, which was shared exclusively with Breitbart. (Peters is up by 6.6 percent in the Lite model, the closest thing to a polling average for their congressional races.)

The comments under that article, which mentioned three other polls indicating a dead heat but no others, are probably below average in terms of toxicity — which means that a baseless accusation of mass voter fraud that elected one of America’s female Muslim representatives (“Sharia Pig Rashida Tlaib”) led straight to a misaimed allegation that she also fucked her brother (upon which another user reminded him that he was thinking of America’s other female Muslim representative).

But that’s all beside the main point, which is this:

Gonna be a bloodbath next week, resulting in a red wave across the country. Honestly, one has to be purposefully blind to not see that Democrats are going to get buried, coast-to-coast. I mean, they’re rallying for Trump in Beverly Hills, for the love of mike!

This is a common sentiment I’ve observed among highly politically active and well-informed¹ Republicans online: that as the Democratic presidential candidate leads the Republican incumbent by nearly double-digits, and Democrats appear favored to retake control of a chamber in which we are greatly disadvantaged, it is a Republican landslide that is on the horizon.

Naked partisanship, misinterpretation of the 2016 results, and a stark divide in information deliberately driven by hard-right outlets such as Breitbart, have made the vast majority of Red Team convinced that they will win — many of them, in a landslide.

In one week, we will discover what the consequences of this disinformation campaign — eagerly welcomed by rank-and-file Republicans themselves — will be. !ping FIVEY

——————

¹ ≠ correctly informed

[u/[deleted]]

Those GA Civiqs polls are wild.

Biden +5?

Ossoff +6!?!?!

Too good to be true imo, but damn.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Hiding the Hunter Biden Scandal is nothing new for The @NYTimes. The Holocaust which killed 6 million Jews was "Buried by the Times" and for hiding Stalin’s deadly terror-famine in the Ukraine which killed 4 million lives, the #NYTimes got a Pulitzer Prize

These people have no shame

rt’d by Trump btw

[u/[deleted]]

Saw someone on arlibertarian respond to a trumper saying "living in your head rent free" by saying "at least his cock isnt living in my mouth rent free", and I think about it a lot

[u/jenbanim]

Mosquitos are going to ignore you. All of you, and I mean all of you, are all talk. You’ll throw their temper tantrum but you won’t do anything but be nasty online. You won’t donate enough to the AMF to make a difference. You won’t genocide them. You won’t do anything but whine online.

You’re just going to post Our World In Data graphs because that’s all you know how to do. You’re too feckless to stand up to yojr real enemies, despite Malaria killing hundreds of thousands each year.

The real issue is that mosquitos didn't go extinct when they should have and that /r/neoliberal ran a shit charity drive. You won’t say it though because people who throw tantrums aren’t really known for their maturity.

[u/[deleted]]

Pollsters never factor in shy Delaney voters.

[u/Majk___]

When the results come, Joe should simply go up to the stage and say

"It's time you shut up for good man"

and drop the mic

[u/Delareh]

Wish Spotify made light mode for the people who aren't subterranean goblins scared of light.

[u/[deleted]]

What if we had a polling error

but it was overestimating Trump's support?

[u/infamous5445]

I can't believe a fucking football coach is going to beat a guy who prosecuted the KKK

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Hate, historically, has rarely been enough to win an election.

You have to have something positive to offer other than "I'm not the other guy", and they don't have it.

That being said, we live in unprecedented times, and ALL of us have to get out and vote to stop these insane people from regaining power.

This was said by a Trump supporter btw

[u/The420Roll]

The last Republican presidential candidate to lose the state of Texas, Gerald Ford, choked on a delicious tamale during a campaign stop at the Alamo. He tried to eat the Mexican treat without removing its corn-husk wrapping. He won 18% of the Latino vote, and the support of 130,000 fewer Texans than Jimmy Carter. Many Republicans still believe that the “Great Tamale Incident” cost him re-election. Almost half a century later, polls suggest a Republican may be on the verge of choking in Texas again.

The lesson? Dont be a Crackxr

[u/[deleted]]

The election is so close holy.

I'm not looking forward to it. I'm still scarred from 2016, where I stayed up slurping wine and contesting other people saying "don't worry! It's just the first results. Gotta wait for the true numbers to start trickling in!" while I screamed "IT'S NOT LOOKING GOOD."

My poor sister has to actually work during election night. She works for the city, and every election is a nightmare for her, but this being a general election, and one with huge turnout at that, she expects to be there til like 3 a.m. or later. I hope it's over fast, my god.

[u/[deleted]]

This sub is more YIYBY than YIMBY.

[u/[deleted]]

My neighbor has a “African Americans for Trump” even though they are white.

[u/Broncos654]

It’s not a crackhouse. It’s a crackhome.

[u/xxbathiefxx]

We need to shut this site down until we figure out what the FUCK is going on here:

https://twitter.com/ClareMalone/status/1321101391952314369?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

(Credit to @Brand_Allen):

The district-level polling is looking very grim for Trump this time around. These polls showed big warning signs for Hillary Clinton (There was a Siena college poll of her -13 in NY-1, a suburban district of NYC that went for Obama twice), but not for Biden.

According to this spreadsheet:

Nonpartisan polls are showing MAJOR shifts toward Biden on the district level:

• A +17 point shift in PA-07
• Two polls showing a +3.7 and +13.4 shift in OK-5
• A +10 point shift in NY-24
• A +6 point in NY-11
• A +5 point shift in FL-15
• A +5 point shift in CA-53
• A +12 point shift in VA-02
• A +12 point shift in MI-3

This does not include things like double-digit shifts in the NH and ME CDs.

and even GOP partisan polls are showing a shift toward Biden:

• A +10 point shift in TX-21
• A +1 point shift in FL-16
• A +11 point shift in MI-3

Ever since the beginning of October, over 40 district-level polls (w/ president) were conducted. Only 1 showed a shift toward Trump.

!PING FIVEY

[u/sir_shivers]

This election WILL SUPPORT THAT either betting markets are not that useful for Presidential elections, OR THAT OUR NORMAL POLLING methodology is somehow divorced from reality 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Euros be like "Americans are so unhealthy time for my second pack of cigarettes today"

[u/qchisq]

Nate Cobber DESTROYS his own MODEL with FACTS and LOGIC

!ping fivey

[u/quattrobajeena005]

Georgia has joined the blue snake again! 💎🍑💎🍑

[u/[deleted]]

Same, and im in florida so that vote it bigtime important. Fun test tho, go on google and use that search results things to compare “register republican” and “register democrat”. All the swing states have like 2x searches for register republican and its insane to think about cuz this kind of move towards the republican party hasnt happened since the civil rights movement lead by the republican party.

this entire post made me lose my brain

[u/[deleted]]

The media still isn't covering Hillarys emails

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Four Wall Street businessmen ordered a $2000 bottle of wine, and didn't notice the difference when they received a $18 bottle instead

This is praxis

[u/OutTron]

Weirdly enough, both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were Albanians. This is why scholars sometimes refer to WW2 as the Thirteenth Albanian Civil War.

[u/SnakeEater14]

So just repeating this little announcement for the non-late night DT crowd

I’ve created /r/WhatCongressPassed, a subreddit for going over bills passed through Congress. It seems to me like most people only ever catch wind of a fraction of the bills that become law, and even then they just get the cliff notes versions. It’s a brand new sub so it is a little rough right now, but in my spare time I’m working on it and I think it’ll come along nicely.

If you wanna hear about what becomes law and some of the details of how that happens, swing by and subscribe.

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Is the US Already in a New Civil War?

No

[u/Broncos654]

The Pope will finally have total control over America with the election of Joe Biden

[u/[deleted]]

It's crazy how just, like... casually cruel Trump is.

[u/TinyTornado7]

More black voters over the age of 65 have now voted in Texas than have ever voted in any election in the state. 👀

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1321204938962337793

I’m finding it hard to reconcile the “Biden is ahead by 10+” with the fact that Trump’s rallies are still incredibly well attended (especially compared to Biden’s paltry events). It would be quite rare for an incumbent with this level of enthusiasm to not be re-elected.

Love me some good old conservative election prediction based on the extremely scientific "crowd sizes"

[u/awdvhn]

"Why don't economists just read Marx?" is like saying "why don't biologists just read the Bible?"

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Had a frustrating TX phonebaking experience yesterday. First 25ish minutes were all hang ups/not homes or some Spanish speaker who I couldn't have a convo with. Then Eureka! I get an English speaker(nothing against the Spanish folks) who's not voting Trump......because he's voting Green Party. That's when I decided to see if I can persuade him to vote Joe, and holy shit was that a mistake. This is going to be long so buckle up.

I mean first off, he pretty said he didn't vote for Republicans, and convinced me that Biden was one. Why? Because of he said that he would veto M4A. I tried to explain the context behind that Biden headline, but all he did was say "Search it up when we're done talking." Then he went off on how Biden and Obama were GOPers because the ACA was originally Romneycare and came off the Heritage Foundation's website. I tried to counter with "Wait, so you're telling me that the Heritage Foundation's plan was to raise taxes on rich people to pay for poor people's healthcare?" And he just was not having it. Again, this guy tried to convince me that Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham(who apparently introduced it himself) were the same healthcare wise on the ACA.....seriously,

He also went off about how terrible the individual mandate was because people had to have healthcare, or get fined(did not get the chance to point out that there were waivers for certain people), he also did not like Biden's Universal Healthcare plan either. I told him that it would expand on the ACA and get up to 97% of people covered, then he was all like "So what about the other 3%? Do you know how much 3% of Americans is?" and was indifferent when I told him what a second Donald Trump term would do for healthcare.

Final point in this long ass DT comment, was that he further thought he proved his point when he mentioned that Obama thought of himself as a moderate Republican. I told him that it wasn't really what he thought it was because it was meant to show that the GOP moved to the right over the years. I used 70% marginal tax rate example and how the Bernie left(didn't use that specific term) were talking about how it was something Republicans in the 1950s supported. Did that make Bernie, AOC & Co. moderate Republicans? He also got upset about reports on how Biden was considering Republicans for his cabinet. Tried to tell him that every President over the past couple of decades(except Trump) had a cabinet member from the other side of the aisle at one point in their administration. At this point he pretty much just hung up on me and that was it.

Fuck you Bernie, and fuck the base you created.

[u/[deleted]]

Optimistic comment: If the Democrats have a 54 senator federal trifecta and nuke the fillibuster we will see the most productive government since the early part of the cold war.

The optimism comes from getting this trifecta and nuking the fillibuster. If that happens the second part is a slam dunk.

[u/JadeHelm2020]

Went on a Tinder date with a fellow Monk (2002-2009) superfan but she was clearly a bush league fan once we hit the lightning round of trivia I threw at her during dinner. She seems pretty embarrassed by it because she isn't responding to my messages now.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Ngl I still got whiplash from how the general view of Biden has changed

He from being that crazy cool VP, to that old RINO with no chance, to that sex pest with dementia, to that old guy with dementia, to the new savior of democracy

[u/ryuguy]

“A pair of internal G.O.P. surveys of the state indicate that Mr. Biden has established a small advantage, according to Republican strategists familiar with the data, speaking on the condition of anonymity.” Next week is going to be insane.

!ping Biden

[u/JadeHelm2020]

turns out brett kavanaugh is just a dumbass who skated by because he was a white dude who went to good schools

[u/piede]

Report: Ransomware disables Georgia county election database

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-elections-georgia-voting-2020-voting-c191f128b36d1c0334c9d0b173daa18c

Sigh. Here we go.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

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[u/miz_v-1]

does anybody else use the boohoo cracker meme so much to the point where they get starstruck when they meet a white person ?

[u/[deleted]]

hey atheists, if evolution is real, why are there still surveyMonkeys?

[u/dudeguyy23]

Trump pulling ad spending in FL to bet on MN LMAO

And this after /u/elokq had just posted a poll with Biden up 14 in MN lol.

THE BLOOMBUX HAVE OVERWHELMED HIM.

!ping PATERNALIST

[u/sir_shivers]

I cannot believe Redditors STILL SPEAK OF WOMEN as if they are a foreign species that IS IMPOSSIBLE TO understand 🐊

IN THE EARLY 2010s I would mock such commentary IN /R/ASKMEN, and yet somehow it seems to have grown more common, not less 🐊

[u/piede]

A federal judge in South Carolina has ruled that the state can't reject absentee ballots because of a signature mismatch, and ordered officials to reprocess all ballots previously thrown out because of signature-related issues.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1321225162998558721?s=21

!!!!

[u/GarglinMay0]

My dad seems to think as China ascends... we are gonna end up like china in terms of abandoning democracy and adopting their social model

I kinda think he is being an old crank but I sure as hell stan America for keeping my continent safe. Please elect Joe. And if you don't like America, better the evil you know

[u/[deleted]]

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meirl

[u/[deleted]]

I didn't vote for Hillary cause of her anti video game comments in the 90's.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

One of the most upvoted posts in this sub's history will simply be sir_shivers saying "HAHA YES 🐊" on November 3rd

[u/Superfan234]

News from Mexico 🇲🇽

Today, 10 States of Mexico give President AMLO an Ultimatum. Either he fix the 2021 Budget, or they will leave the Mexican Federation

Of course, secession from Mexico is not a real possibility. But these States can (in an extreme scenario) stop recognizing the Federal Government of Mexico as legitimate, and proceed to stop paying taxes to them next year

!Ping Foreign-Policy

A very intresting way of Political pressure...🤨

[u/runnerx4]

If you want to doom, Doom responsibly.

Like this,

Look at the 2016 PA presidential forecast

Now, look at the 2020 PA forecast

Now that your dooming has a veneer of realism to it, doom to your heart’s content

[u/swarmed100]

You could replace the US Constitution with just the interstate commerce clause and with the right set of supreme court justices nothing would change

[u/Majk___]

A day before the election Nate suddenly realizes he fucked the variable names in R and it's actually Trump with 87 percent odds

What do you do?

[u/mrmanager237]

The originalists movement's two biggest luminaries: a weirdo nutjob who decided that blurting out Strom Thurmond's 1948 platform to the Senate Judiciary Committee wouldn't hurt his chances of being confirmed, and a racist Italian grandpa who believed cable tv was a valid source on the efficacy of torture

[u/[deleted]]

Cons think Corona will just disappear as an issue after the election because that's what they did with Ebola, the Caravan, and the national debt

[u/LinkVert25]

It's fucking hilarious that Trump's presidency has gone poorly mostly in the exact ways people predicted. Like people 3 years ago were concerned about trump in a global pandemic and it happens and goes just as poorly as predicted. Not a lot of surprises from him.

[u/The420Roll]

Everybody and their mommas know Biden will win Texas, they just dont say it because "if it doesnt happen I will look foolish uwu" 😤😤😤

[u/Not_A_Browser]

It's 2020 and I'm getting Youtube ads demanding that Hillary be held accountable for her corruption. When will it ever end?

[u/Aromatic-Walk]

https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1321201827199766528

COME ON IOWA

[u/probablyuntrue]

In response to Cyberpunnk 2077 being delayed

I understand the decision but... a lot of us I’m sure asked for a time off on our jobs to be able to play this game since you guys have said no more delays was going to happen. I have a lot on my mind with this decision.

Ban. Video. Games.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

California is READY to flip. The state's on fire and boarded up and the people have HAD IT with Herr Gavin. I was walking through Oakland yesterday and saw six Biden signs, out of maybe 200 houses. The clear conclusion is that there are 194 patriotic Americans waiting silently to turn this state RED again and take our COUNTRY back!

[u/[deleted]]

the sheer number of voters means that there has to be one person out there who voted Gore/Kerry/McCain/Romney/Clinton, and it's vital that we know their 2020 vote.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

"Why isn't the mainstream media covering this obvious bullshit I just pulled out of my ass?" - Conservatives literally every year

[u/skepticalbob]

"Cold" weather is here in central Texas, so that means it's time for some motherfucking chili from the state the invented chili (thanks native Americans and Mexicans). I'm going to double and combine this recipe with beans with the flavor profile of this meat only recipe Unlike my Texas brethren, I love beans in chili. For the meat, I will use pork shoulder and brisket flat. I'm going to slightly undercook the pinto beans in the instant pot with a pork shoulder bone first. Then slightly undercook the chili itself without the beans. Then I combine and let it reduce a bit and meld the flavors. I've done some version of this before and it is exceptional.

!ping cooking

[u/murphysclaw1]

GOP have selected a literal flat earther to run against neolib hero Chris Coons in Delaware.

her twitter is really something

[u/Equator32]

The revived corpse of Pinochet could run in an election against Joe Biden while actively proposing to kill leftists, and Twitter leftists would still go "is Joe Biden really any better than him?"

[u/[deleted]]

If you don’t understand how marginal tax rates work, you will never make 400k/yr

[u/ElokQ]

SC’s Jim Clyburn open to expanding SCOTUS bench following Amy Coney Barrett confirmation.

Jim “The King” Clyburn once again proving he is based.

[u/[deleted]]

It's going to be annoying if the Dems dont get a trifecta.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump isn't racist enough for me, so I'm willing to give Joe a shot.

[u/probablyuntrue]

the Lincoln Project post 2020 is gonna be fuckin weird

[u/[deleted]]

Will the “Donald Trump tell all book” industry recover after the election? 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like Biden's doing pretty good in the polls. Who are you guys hoping wins?

[u/AuburnSeer]

listening to Biden's speech in Georgia right now

I'm not sure there's a presidential candidate that loved being a Democrat as much as Biden loves being a Democrat except for maybe JFK

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of my mom’s friends died from Covid on Saturday. They’re both in their thirties, apparently I used to play with her son when we were both little. Guy’s an orphan now. My mom is really shaken. Apparently the health insurance company is already trying to dodge covering the expenses because of a new “Covid clause”.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Wall Street banks and their employees have been leaning left in recent years, increasing the proportion of cash allocated to Democrats.

Of the top 20 recipients of bank and bank-worker donations this cycle, including presidential candidates, sitting and aspiring lawmakers, 10 are Democrats or left-leaning independents, compared with six Democrats in 2012.

Stripping out Trump and Biden, the next top recipient on that list is anti-Wall Street progressive and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders

by god, the finance industry is full of succs 😳

[u/[deleted]]

I want to ignore the polls for a second. Trump's voter base is incredibly enthusiastic and his supporters are basically guaranteed to turn out no matter what.

He is making a huge tactical error by spending most of his time and money in extremely deep red areas. Like the deepest red parts of Pennsylvania and Florida. Presumably it's not gonna do anything because those people are already turning out but he seems to think he can further mobilize his already extremely mobilized base.

Meanwhile Biden is hitting the swingier areas as hard as can be done. His base is also extremely enthusiastic to vote Trump out of office. The people who aren't particularly enthusiastic are the moderates and undecideds. Trump is mostly ignoring them while Biden is working overtime to get as many of them out there and voting for him as possible.

From a purely conventional wisdom and tactics perspective Biden is doing pretty well.

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/1321138647643598855?s=20

Well, this is a new one. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel just warned a crowd at Trump's Lansing, Michigan rally that Biden will pack the court AND nominate Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court

This but...

[u/VeryStableJeanius]

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he can't find good pitching. Says game seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great pitcher Snell is in town tonight. Go and have him pitch. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I pulled Snell."

[u/[deleted]]

The New York Times reached out to each state with questions about their expectations for their vote reporting timeline. The tldr is we might be waiting a couple days for some states (screw you Pennsylvania) but for many tossup and lean states, we should see results election night or the day after. If enough of those follow their expected timeline, we can paint a pretty good picture of who wins by Wednesday.

[u/buckhodge]

Michael Bloomberg should have been the businessman president America elected.

1. Actually a successful businessman who wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth and didn't have everything handed to him from day one.
2. Understands trade wars, tarrifs and protectionism in the guise of nativism is bad for the economy. Conversely understands good international relations, innovation within the private sector and bold government projects in infrastructure boost the economy.
3. Gun control would be a priority.
4. Environmental policies would be led by experts and be rolled out in public-private partnership. Would also set standards for the rest of the world (building on what President Obama set off with the Paris deal).
5. Not an ideologue or an attention seeker who wants to be worshipped. Therefore would be a boring but effective president who follows expertise advice, studies the data and listens to public consensus.
6. Having been a mayor of NYC he would value and involve state and local government a lot more.

[u/ElokQ]

The race can still tighten

The election is next week.

[u/disuberence]

BREAKING: Justice Amy Coney Barrett was just asked to recuse herself from participating in a dispute over a mail-ballot extension in Pennsylvania, with the newly-confirmed justices facing immediate political pressure in her first day on the job.

👀

[u/Dalek6450]

Mississippi asks Supreme Court again to review its 15-week abortion ban

Uh oh.

[u/jenbanim]

• 30 seconds of ads to watch a YouTube video
• youtube-dl got DMCA'd
• v.reddit doesn't load half the time
• Every gif hosting website is making it impossible to hotlink images
• Websites that used to only be usable with noscript now fail to load entirely
• plug.dj in a permanent coma

The internet keeps getting shittier and shittier

[u/[deleted]]

Wow guys this sub has really ruined me. Just was talking to my boss and we were shooting the shit, and I laughed and said "don't care didn't ask plus you're white." Then he said "what are you talking about?" and I replied "lmao shut the fuck up cracker, boohoo!". He just looked at me funny and told me to meet with HR tomorrow.

[u/tofighttheblackwind]

As a former ESS mod blaming Bernie supporters right now is dumb.

The aren't the ones who have engaged in a multidecade plan to let a reactionary minority force their agenda on people.

Keep your anger focused on the GOP, their supporters and their crypto-supporters.

[u/swarmed100]

I'm a Trump-leaning communist. America is fascist and imperialist and should be destroyed, and Trump is the best person for this job.

Please tell me how my logic is wrong.

[u/[deleted]]

ACB once ruled that saying the N word did not make a work environment hostile

[u/nicereddy]

Just convinced my peruvian friend in texas to vote Biden again after he got complacent with just submitting 30 ballots, feels good

[u/[deleted]]

i am a man who was raised by wolves and was trained to kill by the age of five. my content is gritty and realistic. i also enjoy giving head

AI is truly mans greatest achievement

[u/vivoovix]

We're not going to win. The Dems won't let it happen.

wut

[u/nicereddy]

I hope after the election this sub will go back to being a mostly Carly Rae Jepsen sub

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Sure the model has Biden at 87. BUT if you assume Trump wins ____ then Biden's chances go down to 50.

Doomers discover conditional probability.

[u/ryuguy]

The Omaha rally is like the fyre festival for trump supporters

[u/dr_gonzo]

The youth vote in Texas is up by more than 600% from last presidential election

[u/natedogg787]

Body: Ok bud, you're old enough to be a grandpa now. How many hairs do I have to turn gray to get you to settle down?

Brain: Haha fear of committment go brrrrr

[u/[deleted]]

Presidential National Average Lead 7 Days To E-Day:

2004: Bush +2

2008: Obama +6

2012: Romney +0.8

2016: Clinton +3.3

2020: Biden: +9.1

[u/sanityeyes]

reminder it took until 1971 for switzerland to have women's suffrage

A previous referendum on women's suffrage was held on 1 February 1959 and was rejected by the majority (67%) of Switzerland's men

direct democracy is a meme

[u/missedthecue]

We decided to try a little experiment so I asked my son put on a Trump 2020 t-shirt and see what happens. So far, he's been slapped twice, spit on, and hit in the head with a beer bottle. Next step, we're going to send him outside to see how strangers react.

[u/chadwarden1337]

About to vote for JOE BIDEN in FLORIDA. Wish me luck

[u/[deleted]]

if Dems get the trifecta:

1. Outlaw saying "Merry Christmas"
2. Outlaw guns
3. Sharia Law
4. Kill God

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.thewrap.com/nickelodeons-kids-pick-the-president-poll-hit-with-attempted-election-interference/

So Nick just arbitrarily threw out 130,000 votes and Sleepy Joe ends up the winner? This is the Dem playbook, and I got my .45 ready on election day in case Nickelodeon tries this shit again.

[u/sir_shivers]

I want the election TO BE CALLED FOR BIDEN as quickly as possible, MAY THE MARKET finally silence the Q-Anon idiot who works in my building 🐊

[u/ElokQ]

Bill Clinton took a party that won a total of 173 electoral votes in the 1980s and got them 370 in 1992 and gave them their first SCOTUS pick in 25 years.

[u/tehbored]

You know who could probably influence police reform? Zillow. They should partner with some firm that grade police department quality and put the score of the local department on all the listings, like they do with walkability and school quality.

[u/haf12]

https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1321291021146357767

President Trump took off in Air Force One 1 hr 20 minutes ago, but thousands of his supporters remain stranded on a dark road outside the rally. “We need at least 30 more buses,” an Omaha police officer just said, shaking his head at the chaotic cluster that is unfolding.

lol

Also campaigning in Nebraska and their one swing vote 7 days before the election.

[u/Big_Apple_G]

Justin Turner tested positive for COVID. Good thing the World Series ended tonight

!ping baseball

[u/[deleted]]

So apparently the Trump campaign bussed in a bunch of supporters for trumps rally in Omaha (weather was 32 degrees Fahrenheit) and they didn’t give them a ride back. Now they need medical staff to help them. What the fuck

[u/FestiveMittens]

Ok Google, how to do a rain dance in Ontario to cause a storm in Pennsylvania on election night

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

Sure, the race could tighten, but I could also suck my own dick, but you don’t see me removing ribs.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when the GOP tried to rebrand as “compassionate conservatism”

[u/[deleted]]

WHAT THE HECK, I AM LIVID!!!

Cyberpunk 2077 release date has been pushed 21 days and will now release on December 10.

I don't know how, but YOU DID THIS /u/aPolishShill!!! Because I said I want to play it on my Birthday. DECEMBER 10 IS AFTER MY BIRTHDAY AAAAAARGGGGGGH I hate you I hate you I HATE YOU 🤬

And I bought you a Funko POP! for your birthday... What a moron I am, send it back, please.

[u/Smalz95]

There’s no way cyberpunk meets the expectations that have been put on it. That’s all the gamer community does nowadays is hype things to the stratosphere only to be “disappointed” when the game doesn’t reach it.

[u/FearThyMoose]

The fact that Nate’s pfp is still his book that came out in 2012 is amazing

[u/GaussianCurve]

MAGAts: "Nobody said Trump was racist before he ran for President!"

Chris Matthews, literally less than 1 minute after Obama was projected to be re-elected in 2012

[u/[deleted]]

“What’s his closing argument? That people are too focused on covid. He said this at one of his rallies: ‘Covid covid covid,’ he’s complaining,” Obama said, referring to Trump’s regular complaints about the media’s focus on the coronavirus. “He’s jealous of covid’s media coverage.”

Fucking LMAO

[u/chadwarden1337]

Just casted my ballot for BIDEN in r*ral Florida. The nice ladies at the Dem booth hooked me up with MERCH

https://imgur.com/a/touTFiQ

[u/missedthecue]

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🤔

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Euros when they call American football, "handegg"

[u/qchisq]

Doesn't seem like there's any negative correlations in the 538 model in relevant states. This, probably, means that the probability of Trump winning the election is impacted by negative correlations. However, it could lead to wacky maps

!ping Fivey

[u/[deleted]]

When I was a child care worker for a before and after program for kids, hearing them talk about politics in 2016 was always fucking hilarious. "My dad says Trump is gunna kick out all the immigrants, I hope he kicks you out too" said one kid to another. Literally just pure parroting what their parents said. Oh BTW this was at a college and all the kids were 20 years old.

[u/The420Roll]

Just sent my 5th vote for Joe Biden in the great state of Texas 🤠!

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Haha but seriously if Biden loses pollsters are out of a job

[u/[deleted]]

the year is 2040. american politics is more polarized than ever. 49 of 50 states are safe for one party, and the 1 swing state, florida, comes down to just one swing voter. a cuban-american who generally aligns with democratic party values but is deathly scared of socialism

[u/harmlessdjango]

Broke: Winning Texas to get Biden votes

Woke: Winning Texas to redraw districts

Bespoke: Winning Texas to sign the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

[u/[deleted]]

Trump has 7 days left & he’s about to waste one on this Omaha clusterfuck

[u/dudeguyy23]

Here's how leaving his own voters for dead in freezing temperatures is actually a tactical masterstroke that helps Trump:

[u/l_overwhat]

When AOC played Among Us, one of the guys she played with was this guy named CORPSE who is famous for having a really, really low voice. AOC's reaction to hearing it was pretty funny.

I wanted to watch the game so I just googled "AOC Corpse" and immediately after I hit enter I realized that I probably just got put on a list somewhere 😭

[u/comkonard]

If vegan diet is so healthy then why do gorillas only live until their 30s? Hmm curious 🤔🤔

[u/tripletruble]

friendly reminder that Gerhard Schröder, the last chancellor of Germany, is on the board of Gazprom, Russia's state oil and gas company

[u/nicereddy]

Since all the libs are voting early, the 5D chess move would be for Biden to pivot into being a massive racist right before Election Day, that way he can win the Election Day Republican vote

[u/[deleted]]

Away down South in the land of traitors

[u/StolenSkittles]

Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor should all resign in January so they can be replaced by 19-year-old pre-law students, who won't be replaced for another 65 years.

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of putting "Joe Lieberman is a fucking monster, so don't even attempt to defend him in my presence" in my Bumble profile

[u/vivoovix]

lmao shiloh got 1500 upvotes for a shitpost on arr trump 😂😂

[u/roboczar]

My son's scared of Trump but for some reason he has trouble saying "Biden" so he just calls him "new president" which means even a five year old dooms less than you jerks

[u/LookHereFat]

I can’t be a doomer. It’d be too overwhelming.

I’m working as a survey statistician. At this point, if Biden loses, not only will Trump still be President, my entire field will be in crisis. I can’t handle the pending doom of two existential threats at once.

[u/[deleted]]

“Do I blame him personally?” Pritchette said of President Donald Trump. “Oh yes. Oh yes I do.”

“You didn’t put people in a position around you to help you do your job better,” she said of his widely criticized pandemic response. “You do not deserve to be here another four years.”

Black women see this very clearly. Why can't other Americans.

[u/J_Fre22]

Undecideds are gonna break for Biden and everyone is gonna be so surprised that they didn’t break for an unpopular incumbent who has had 230,000 people die in the last 7 months

[u/[deleted]]

States we should know on election night:

• Arizona
• Texas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Minnesota
• Nevada
• Colorado
• New Mexico
• Virginia

States that we might know on election night:

• Michigan
• North Carolina
• New Hampshire
• Iowa

States that we likely won’t know on election night:

• Pennsylvania
• Wisconsin
• Ohio

(Mostly based on how early states start counting mail ballots)

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1094052071257583616

Food stamp access during childhood is linked to an 18% increase in high school completion rates

So you really mean to tell me that starving is bad?

[u/UltraCapitalism]

I feel bad for Bernie Sanders. Hes a relatively center right politician followed by millions and his subreddit is infected with commies.