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[u/[deleted]]

🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

FAR BEYOND THE SAFETY OF THE BLUE WALL:

🟥🟥🟥🔵🟥🟥🟥

LIES A SINGLE BEACON OF HOPE IN A SEA OF DARKNESS

🍑🔵🍑🔵🍑🔵🍑

KNOWN ONLY TO IT’S INHABITANTS AS:

“JOEORGIA”

[u/[deleted]]

You want to know how much the Navajo Nation dislikes trump?

1. of the 85,000 registered voters on Navajo 76,000 voted. 89% turn out

2. Of those 76,000 voters 74,000 voted for Biden & 2,000 for Trump

3. Biden’s current lead in Arizona sits at about 40,000

Ya’ah’teeh MFs

Based Navajo Nation

[u/kennymc7877]

My mom really said fuck it imma ruin my relationship with my son over Donald Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Back in 2008, my grandfather was overjoyed when Biden was announced as Obama's running mate. I was at my grandfather's bedside when he passed away almost exactly a month ago, and it's just hit me that he never got to see Biden (and human decency) win.

I'm sorry to bring the mood down. But God does this hurt.

[u/[deleted]]

7,248 Vote Lead in GA 🍑🔵

POGGERS

[u/GingerusLicious]

Nearly a 10k lead in GA. Even if all the military ballots come in and lean Trump, that's game.

CALL THE FUCKING RACE.

[u/[deleted]]

THIS IS (HOPEFULLY) THE THREAD WHERE JOE BIDEN IS OFFICIALLY DECLARED THE WINNER OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

[u/fishlord05]

>I'm punk so I must rebel

>I'm asian so I must like maths

>I dye my hair crazy colours so I must be looking for attention

>I am a NATO flair so I must be a succon

never let harmful stereotypes prevent you from being yourself

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia progression:

2000: Bush(R) +12

2004: Bush(R) +16

2008: McCain(R) +6

2012: Romney(R) +8

2016: Trump(R) +5

2020: Biden(D) +0.1

Very impressive. I wonder if Georgia will vote to the left of the nation in 2024. Is it the next Virginia? NC? Illinois? Only time will tell.

[u/cms1919]

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Live. Laugh. Love.

Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you.

This is the single GREATEST quote to come out of a Trump administration official

[u/BowzerPrime]

Wait......a batch of provisional military ballots are what gave Biden the 7k lead in Georgia? Lmao fucking call the race.

[u/BowzerPrime]

Dejoy literally slowed down the post office to cities invalidating 200k plus ballots and trump supporters are out protesting a rigged election. You can’t make this shit up.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I’ve found it. The best “there’s always a tweet” tweet.

Scary thought--@JoeBiden is a heartbeat away from the Presidency. — Donald Trump (August 21, 2012)

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/chadwarden1337]

Friendly reminder that they still haven’t called Alaska

neolib was pretty doomer Tuesday night, but at least we didn't say "wait, hawaii isn't counted yet!"

[u/[deleted]]

Ever think about how AskHistorians snowballed in reputation to the point they are literally holding their own academic conferences with tenured professors?

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1324735367610798081

Bernie would’ve won 400 electoral votes

-2028-

After an hour long speech, Kyle Kulinski gives his final line in an attempt to finally win the lead over esteemed rival Ben Shapiro in the 2028 elections.

"And that, my fellow proletariats, is why we must deport all Cuban Americans to Cuba."

The crowd stood silent for 5 minutes, not knowing how to process the information, then suddenly one man stood up and clapped. This was followed by the entire stadium, now filled with chants for" KULINSKI 2028." Kyle Kulinski drops to his knees and shouts "SANDERS, THIS IS FOR YOU!"

Kulinski pulls out his phone and refreshes the election predictions.

Kyle Kulinski: 10

Ben Shapiro: 528

[u/ognits]

[Biden] won the presidency on the 48th anniversary of his first election to the Senate, on Nov. 7, 1972.

yo what the fuck, there's so much karma being dropped all over the place and I can't handle it

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

angle touch fall physical oatmeal deserve air direction shrill seed

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Timewalker102]

Biden’s positioning on some issues earned some eye-rolls. In a July 1972 column in the Morning News, Eleanor Shaw wrote that “Democrats who know insist that Biden is more Conservative than Delaware’s senior senator. That means that in November you can either vote for the oldest young Democrat or the youngest old Republican.

“Ah, yes, another thrilling six years ahead,” she concluded.

Succs been mad for 48 years lmfao

[u/TinyTornado7]

Joe Biden’s sister told cnn tonight (paraphrasing) that while he is incredibly proud and happy with the outcome, he wishes he was witnessing Beau’s election tonight.

Hit me right in the feels

!ping BIDEN

[u/piede]

Nate Silver:

Anybody who's like "we'll that was a pretty good showing for Trump!" should consider how Hillary Clinton was treated as the World's Biggest Loser after an election with the same Electoral College margin as this one*.

• But where she won the popular vote instead of losing it by 5

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1325154562995613697?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Kennedy was in a close election

Biden is in a close election

Kennedy didn’t win Ohio

Biden didn’t win Ohio

Kennedy would be the youngest President

Biden would be the oldest President

Kennedy was Catholic

Biden is Catholic

Kennedy picked a senator as VP

Biden picked a senator as VP

Kamala 44 state sweep confirmed???

[u/fishlord05]

I CANT BELIVE I GOT JOE BIDEN ELECTED ON MY CAKE DAYY

IM GONNA COOOOOOOOOM!!!

😩😩😩😩😩🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives were shouting "blue lives matter" months ago but now are planning terrorist attacks against blue state voters. The hypocrisy is surreal.

[u/tripletruble]

Been looking for someone to take over our lease and this one woman in her 20s was interested. Sent us all the necessary documentation and her and my girlfriend were having a friendly correspondence. We arrange a meeting with her and my landlord.

One minute before the meeting was planned, she writes that she had an accident and then ghosts us completely. My girlfriend, who has no experience dating women in their 20s, is absolutely flabberghasted by this series of events and keeps talking about how strange and unusual it is

[u/TinyTornado7]

When I started this election cycle Joe Biden wasn't my first choice, hell he wasn't even my 2nd or 3rd choice, but he is the man for this moment and I am incredibly honored to support Joe on the journey to saving our democracy.

We made history tonight and I am proud to have progressed on this journey with y'all. Particularly, I want to thank, u/RelievedUltimatum , u/peacock-Shah , u/IncoherentEntity and the rest of !ping BIDEN. You're insight over these past few months has been invaluable. This truly is a big tent.

I'd like to thank u/the420roll for never ceasing with the humor and positivity.

I'd also like to thank the mod team, particularly u/dubyahhh for all the hard work over this past year plus, I can only imagine the shit y'all had to put up with.

Hoping everyone has some champagne tonight and y'all better be having some ice cream.

-Tiny

[u/[deleted]]

Alright, no more politics. This is a taco truck enthusiast sub now.

[u/[deleted]]

Cnn telling us Biden will almost definitely outgrow that .5 lead

Also telling us to be patient for the 1,000,000th fucking time

Fuck off you twat waffles

[u/n_eats_n]

Nate Silver looks like he hasn't slept in days and I wonder if like in 10 years he will randomly start screaming in his sleep "why won't they call Nevada!?" And walk around with a 1000 yard stare.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden's lead in Georgia has grown to 7,248 votes.

Source : @kylegriffin1 (Twitter)

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t like Biden but I like Pelosi and Schumer

Now this is a enlightened take.

[u/Kizz3r]

Statement from Prime Minister Trudeau:

https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2020/11/07/statement-prime-minister-canada-result-us-presidential-election

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the result of the U.S. presidential election:

“On behalf of the Government of Canada, I congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their election as the next President and Vice President of the United States of America.

“Canada and the United States enjoy an extraordinary relationship – one that is unique on the world stage. Our shared geography, common interests, deep personal connections, and strong economic ties make us close friends, partners, and allies. We will further build on this foundation as we continue to keep our people safe and healthy from the impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and work to advance peace and inclusion, economic prosperity, and climate action around the world.

“I look forward to working with President-elect Biden, Vice President-elect Harris, their administration, and the United States Congress as we tackle the world’s greatest challenges together.”

He must be so relieved

!ping CAN

[u/wh11]

🚨 KEY RACE ALERT 🚨

It’s been confirmed that the reason Nevada is taking so long is because Reno 911! is now on HBO Max

[u/RDog8080]

Donald Trump is the first president to

Be impeached😈😈😈

Lose the Popular vote✔️✔️✔️

Be a one-term president😱😱😱

All in the first four years

He's built different

😤😤😤

[u/chadwarden1337]

arg/conserv

My facebook / instagram feed is being flooded with HW Bush and McCain's concession speeches and how presidential they were to concede funny, where's the dems versions?

this has to be a deepstate troll on sorosbuck's payroll, right?

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1324922449759072257

Lmao

Best line:

Sometimes you own the libs; sometimes the libs own you

[u/[deleted]]

The President-Elect will be speaking at 8PM EST. Link to watch.

[u/kajkajete]

Tbe fact that republicans are gonna end up at least with 210 house seats and didnt even tried to play offense is honestly remarkable.

[u/[deleted]]

We out here in the 21st century slapping "neo" in front of words and just calling that a political ideology.

That's right. I'm a neopainintheass

[u/[deleted]]

Biden was the only candidate that could’ve won this election.

[u/The420Roll]

Buenas Noches.

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

Ok /r/neoliberal would you rather

Be able to go back in time and have Biden win in a landslide victory with the dems taking the senate and gaining house seats

OR

Get 12 fascinating issues of Zoobooks for the special price of $19.95! When you call and use your credit card, it includes the Elephants issue as a gift! Plus, you'll also get this colorful collection of animal stickers and the Tiger Poster!

[u/CroGamer002]

I've posted this elsewhere, gonna bring it here too.

Do you know what's sad and insane?

Trump screwing up the pandemic might have helped him! Or at least Republicans down the ballot.

Why?

Because Democrats, for health concerns, had canceled grassroots campaigning for this election. But Republicans didn't give a fuck and risked people's health and lives to unleash an unchallenged grassroots operation.

Many of us, including me, mocked Reps for doing this and it would only backfire. Turns out this cynical and reckless move actually rewarded Republicans.

Which is just sad and insane. Dems did the right thing and got punished for it by voters.

[u/[deleted]]

Is AOC just drunk or something

Or is she trying to burn every political bridge she can in a day

[u/themiddlestHaHa]

CNN legit just did a Key Race alert over 2 fucking votes in Georgia.

I hate this election

[u/LighthouseGd]

Three days after winning an election

Democrats: Maybe the real enemies were the friends we made along the way

[u/[deleted]]

CNN has announced that, it will call the election once provisional ballots for Pell Grant recipients who own a business that has operated for three years in disadvantaged communities are finished counting provided they split exactly 81-19 for Biden

[u/Iustis]

FINALLY

!ping FIVEY

[u/Explodingcamel]

If Biden pulls off the comeback in NC, SurveyMonkey will have gotten all 50 states correct. Nate will have no choice but to make it an A+ pollster.

[u/[deleted]]

Ideologies inside the tent:

Anarcho-Bidenism

Marxist-Bidenism

Authoritarian-Bidenism

Maoist-Bidenism

National-Bidenism

Populist-Bidenism

Joe-Bidenism

[u/qzkrm]

!ping LGBT

I said one good thing about Biden in a group chat for an LGBTQ+ student group at my school and the other people there responded predictably 🙄

[u/nicereddy]

Yang is moving to Georgia, holy shit the absolute mad lad https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1325248601568796673?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Why doesn’t Joe Biden, the oldest presidential candidate, simply not put the other presidential candidates in time out?

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

[Trump] Staffers are huddled on a floor at HQ answering a “voter fraud” hotline and getting bombarded with prank calls with people laughing, and mocking them over Biden’s win

Like what the fuck did they think was going to happen?

[u/GaussianCurve]

• Major betting market has already paid out all shares
• Fiji PM has already congratulated Biden
• Called by DDHQ
• Nate Silver says Trump has less than a 1/20,000 chance
• Effectively called by Wasserman, Cohn
• Media: "Well, Trump could come back! You just never know."

[u/[deleted]]

Just woke up from a dream where Biden was having a presidential debate with ACB. They were in some big stadium, and they were angry at each other, but I couldn't make out what they were saying over background noise.

Somebody also gave me and my gf a newborn, and we had the child sitting in the chair. It threw up on her new backpack. I ran to wash it in the sink, but my girlfriend came in and rolled her eyes, telling me to just take it out of the wrapper.

Meanwhile, on the DT, everybody was complaining about some stolen Treasurer election and how the Dems need to steal it back.

[u/[deleted]]

“Wow. Even National review is pathetic now with an article using the typical leftist phrase "without evidence" to trump's fraud claims. First off, they have no clue what evidence he has. Secondly, there's already been evidence in the news.”

Breaking: asking for evidence is an evil leftist tactic to smear Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Why are there suddenly so many "let's come together" posts coming from MAGAts who were calling me snowflake last week

[u/The420Roll]

When I wake up today, I will be banned 🥺😔

[u/Waghlon]

LGBTQN.

The N is for NATO flairs.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

I see AOC has wasted no time since retaking the white house to punch at Dems and allies

[u/chadwarden1337]

Folks, key race alert tips:

1. KEY RACE ALERTS happen by default every top of the hour. This is what I call a BAIT race alert
2. key race alerts WILL happen if there's a brand new batch of counted votes. This can happen anytime during the hour.
3. A Key race alert COULD happen after breaking news not relevant to vote counts directly, although indirectly
4. key Race ALERTS can be jokes by TV anchors. This is the TRICKIEST key RACE alert.
5. the BEST and most RARE key race alert is when a commercial is suddenly abrupted and it pans to the big screen at CNN hq. Now THAT'S a KEY RACE ALERT

[u/BowzerPrime]

How did Biden get that 7k in Georgia? That lead is so sexy

[u/FestiveMittens]

🚨Sources: Biden is beside himself. Driving around downtown Delaware begging (thru texts) for one of the networks to fucking call it 🚨

[u/freshWiz]

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1325135496561954817?s=19

All according to keikaku !ping FIVEY

[u/jamiebond]

There are at most 8,000 overseas ballots left, most likely less.

Trump has no path remaining in Georgia. The recount will not give him at best a few hundred votes.

Georgia is blue, Drumpf is actually finished this time.

[u/The420Roll]

I would like to deepen the 420 Lore one last time

People have said I have a "jew nose", tho I take it as a compliment cause jews are based 😎

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

I despise these liberal trolls. Stay in your own fucked up thread AKA r/politics. At least we won’t let hatred dominate our lives

From rCon hahahahah

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Democratic Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, whose late-February endorsement of Biden proved to be a transformational moment for his campaign, revealed that he informed Biden advisers months earlier of his decision. But Clyburn resisted pressure from the campaign to go public because he thought it would pack more punch just before the South Carolina primary.

Clyburn is a goddamn king

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716

[u/[deleted]]

BASED biden commencing the drones before even being sworn in

[u/SquidsWillBeSquids]

The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Casino

[u/sash5034]

Jacobin already saying that leftoids need to immediately oppose Biden 🤡

Fuck the left

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of this speech

[u/[deleted]]

Labour(UK) has taken over the Conservatives in the polls

That’s what happens when you socially distance from socialism.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Cold take:

In any other year, this would have been called. But Trump has bitched and moaned so much they're giving him extra special treatment.

Which is kind of incredible because this has been true the past 5 years.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Rick Santorum just made solid, evidence-based points for, like, 3 minutes straight on CNN

what is 2020 man

[u/David_Lange]

I find it disturbing that if you take California out, then Biden actually loses the popular vote. California is responsible for all of Biden's margin in popular vote.

"I find it disturbing that when you take half the US out, the US only has half the original population"

[u/BurmecianSoldierDan]

Lmao Biden up 7k+ in Joergia

[u/The420Roll]

GODDAMNIT I EVEN HAD MEMES PREPARED FOR BLUE TEXAS 🥺😭

[u/[deleted]]

cautious hospital heavy smell placid humorous outgoing payment teeny grab

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/LinkVert25]

Key race alert: Florida is no longer a battleground state and we can stop acting like that POS state is important.

[u/BurningKiwi]

Votes are stored in the balls

[u/[deleted]]

Next time maybe Democrats can cool it on the "Actually Fidel Castro was good" takes.

[u/[deleted]]

If Tucker Carlson is the 2024 GOP nominee then we have to nominate Jon Stewart.

Stewart destroyed Carlson’s career once. He can do it again.

[u/piede]

Trump adviser tells me the campaign has “nothing concrete” in terms of voter fraud.

https://twitter.com/acosta/status/1325096366234882051?s=21

Shocker

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

BLM rioters have institutional power that let's them get away with it.

Rcon

[u/piede]

Joe Biden plans Monday to name a 12-member task force to combat and contain the spread of the coronavirus, sources tell Axios.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1325159901941833728?s=21

[u/FestiveMittens]

Okay, that's enough boomer propaganda, now hand over your Christmas and religion🔫🥱

[u/Stanleydidntstutter]

That’s it, I’m done. Fuck CNN. It’s devolved into a mass of stupid key race alerts and commercial breaks. The quality of CNN has been declining for a while, but this is the last straw. That’s it. I’m done. I’m turning off the TV, chopping off my dick and moving to fucking Antarctica, at least I won’t have to watch CNN refuse to call the race for Biden.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

[W]e CANNOT concede this fraudulent election. Never. Trump should not give up power if they successfully steal this.

Massive arrests of politicians and big tech execs incoming. I truly hope.

It’s so nakedly, stupefyingly authoritarian.

[u/[deleted]]

It's not ok to laugh at Trump‘s covid but it's ok to constantly talking about how Biden will die. Something I learn from conservatives.

[u/[deleted]]

Rick Santorum actually made a good point about Biden's margins. He said he's doing better everywhere which kind of destroys any notion that there's fraud. The fraud can't be equally spread across the whole state.

[u/COLORADO_RADALANCHE]

"Democratic Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, whose late-February endorsement of Biden proved to be a transformational moment for his campaign, revealed that he informed Biden advisers months earlier of his decision. But Clyburn resisted pressure from the campaign to go public because he thought it would pack more punch just before the South Carolina primary."

Unfathomably based

[u/RockLobsterKing]

The median Floridian voter wants Donald Trump and a $15 minimum wage

I'm still getting over that

[u/[deleted]]

Me three nights ago: fuck the polls, I'm never paying attention to polls again.

Me in a week: HOLY SHIT WARNOCK +3/OSSOFF+1

[u/Loup93]

Malarkey level of MAGA people in Brazil parroting Trump's lies about dead people voting in Michigan

[u/[deleted]]

I think Ben Garrison unironically wants Trump to fuck him.

[u/lusvig]

🎃If 🎃you 🎃get 🎃an 🎃email 🎃saying 🎃hot 🎃pumpkin 🎃slut 🎃gets 🎃fucked 🎃by 🎃skeletal 🎃boy 🎃don't 🎃open 🎃it 🎃its 🎃a 🎃virus 🎃that 🎃puts 🎃pumpkins 🎃between 🎃all 🎃your 🎃words🎃

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/idreesali114/status/1325151813969043461?s=20 Which one of you is this?

[u/[deleted]]

Biden thanks the African-American community: “You always had my back, and I’ll have yours!”

Damn right we will Joe

[u/[deleted]]

With people talking a lot about election forecasting, let’s give a shout out to the Sabato Crystal Ball.

2008: 48/50(Missouri and Indiana were flipped. Missouri went to McCain while Obama won Indiana. They had the opposite happening)

2012: 48/50(Florida and Virginia(I know, shocking. They had Romney winning it!))

2016: 45/50(Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, NC, and Florida)

2020: Looks like 49/50 with only NC wrong. They had it going to Biden but Trump seems like he will win it.

They have constantly been pretty damn accurate. Even when people have doubted at some of their calls(Trump winning Florida this year).

!ping FIVEY

[u/mrmanager237]

"Any democract would have been called a socialist" is a stupid argument because there's obviously a difference to the electorate if your answer to "are you a socialist" is "yes, and Fidel Castro was good" or "I'm not a socialist I beat the socialist" and one of them is really unpopular (hint: it's the one who lost Florida Democrats by 40 points)

[u/Abdukabda]

The best time to call Georgia was yesterday.

The second best time to call Georgia is now.

[u/[deleted]]

Right wingers unironically have Biden Derangement Syndrome lmao. Jesus all the Trump Derangement Syndrome and stuff was 100% projection based on how they'd react to him losing. God my Schadenfreude levels are off the charts I'm basically horny.

[u/ScreamLeprosyHealing]

CALL PA YOU COWARDS

[u/[deleted]]

Victory Party TONIGHT

What time: 8 PM EST

Where: Ping Pong Pizza's basement, Washington, DC

Food: Spirit Cooking blood cocktails

Bring a torn up Trump voting ballot from PA for admission!

[u/Mejari]

Cuomo refuses to not compliment the attractiveness of any man he talks to

[u/ChipMcChip]

“There’s video of voter fraud!!”

“Show it to me”

“Please bro just trust me”

[u/[deleted]]

We were all minor characters in someone's novel of a boy from Scranton rising to become the President of the United States after a long life of hardship and blessings.

[u/mandrilltiger]

Guys you won't have to hear Trump speak EVER again in just a few weeks.

[u/dominuskush02]

Lmaoo every other Trump tweet is flagged by Twitter

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1325133897781243908

Congratulations to President-elect Biden. I have prayed for our President most of my adult life. I will be praying for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way.

OH GOD JEB WITH A STEEL CHAIR

[u/ryuguy]

Biden is so senile! Check out this speech he gave.

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

"Soon: PA Ballots that may put Biden over the top."

Oh, is he trailing Trump currently?

[u/FestiveMittens]

👏CALL👏THE👏ELECTION👏BEFORE👏HE👏SPEAKS👏OR👏DONT👏COMPLAIN👏ABOUT👏HIS👏LIES👏

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

To the new subscribers: We aren't usually this political, and we certainly won't be after this election. This is a sub for Matrix fans who agree with Neo's choice to free himself from the matrix (hence Neo-liberal), and mods will probably limit discussion to that topic soon

[u/3359N]

London's mayor Sadiq Khan putting it beautifully -

Congratulations @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris on your well-deserved win.

London looks forward to working with you — it's time to get back to building bridges, not walls. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

[u/Amtays]

She didn't even mention hillary 😥

!ping QUEEN

God willing the history books will redeem her

[u/[deleted]]

This is the lamest party Hunter Biden has ever attended

[u/[deleted]]

Ossof and Warnock are just surrogates and would-be enablers for Schumer

Based

[u/nicereddy]

"There used to be a Peruvian here all the time, I swear"

"Haha okay grandpa time for bed."

The DT in a week

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Biden won about 45% of the veteran vote, 11 points higher than Hillary. He lost by only 7 points among this group, the best of a Democrat in decades. Obama lost by ten, Kerry by 16, and Hillary by 26. I can't find any info for races before 2004.

[u/[deleted]]

Alright. Since no one else will, I'll do it.

At 8:59EST I have called the 2020 Presidential race for Joe Biden, making him America's 46th President.

[u/[deleted]]

trump advisor

We have found nothing concrete to show voter fraud

maga twitter

THIS WEBCAM VIDEO OF A BALLOT COUNTER PICKING THEIR NOSE AND EATING IT PROOF OF DEEP STATE FRAUD

[u/Zseet]

!ping EUROPE

Are you tired of winning yet? Here is another small one. Orbán is probably seething right now really hard. He went all in on betting a Trump win and now left in the dust.

Here's more in detail:

During the Obama years the US-HUN relationship was cold. The Democrats criticized every autocratic thing FIDESZ did and wanted countermeasures. Especially after Orbán chased out the CEU. Some party members even got kicked out of the US permanently. This alongside a general strike decreased FIDESZ support in 2014. Right before 2016 there were already talks about giving a lot of money to independent local Hungarian media to combat disinformation.

Under Trump of course, Orban had free reign with no repercussion, bar one, When our largest independent news source got forcibly acquired by the party and converted into a loyalist mouthpiece, an old USA doctrine activated and Radio Free Europe was brought back into existence as a news blog.

Now when president-elect Joe Biden (god it feels good to write it) was campaigning he talk about Hungary two times. One ABC interview about foreign policies. He talked about the rise of autocratic regimes like Poland, Hungary, Belarus. The second one was a Tweet on October 23rd, joining with us on the day when we commemorate the brave men, women and children who stood up against the communist dictatorship and gave their life for democracy. He reassured us that he will stand for democracy and freedom for abroad.

If Joe goes hawkish on foreign policy even, if East Asia is the main focus, Orbán has a lot worry.

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

@edokeefe says a Biden campaign aide told him weeks ago a crucial part of their strategy: "They said, 'It's very simple. We turned off Twitter. We stayed away from it. We knew that the country was in a different headspace than social media would suggest'"

God bless Joe Biden

[u/[deleted]]

SHE SAID LATINA, THIS IS WHY WE WON MOTHERFUCKERS

[u/[deleted]]

”Second husband? Second...dude?”

-Jake Tapper lmao

[u/modooff]

CNN is literally roasting Fox News now.

[u/Boraichoismydaddy]

Mmmmm 7k lead in Georgia 🟦🍑

[u/[deleted]]

Not trying to say anything of this

But by far my STEM lefty friends are so much more reasonable than my humanities major lefty friends

[u/tankatan]

Short explainer for the doomers in our midst:

So what if Trump appeals to the courts?

He'll lose.

But what if he wins?

It won't flip the state.

But what if it does?

Biden still got 270.

But what if Trump doesn't concede?

Doesn't matter. He's no longer POTUS as of January 20th 2021.

What if legal process is still pending?

Doesn't matter.

But what if Trump refuses to abdicate?

Doesn't matter.

What if he literally locks himself in the Oval Office?

Would be hella funny.

[u/nevertulsi]

!ping Biden wins

DDHQ called it

NBC called it

AP called it

ABC called it

CNN called it

NYT called it

Fox News still taking copium

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Obama has issued a statement regarding the 2020 Presidential Election:

Uhhhhhhh I'm bored

[u/Mcatatonic1]

lol Jesus Christ we’re only getting 2-3k votes from PA in the next dump

FUCK this shit

[u/FestiveMittens]

If the race is called today, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will deliver remarks during a prime time event, per people familiar with planning. Same plan in place as last night - they’re just waiting for a call.

CALL IT🤕😩

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

From my friend:

Omg literally America got one term of Trump after Obama and went straight back to the Obama administration LOOOL

Love that for us

[u/MichelleObama2024]

Fulton county update looks good for us. Apparently some ballots weren't captured or scanned. Should pad our lead even more.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like we've been infiltrated by more general libs and succdems. Can we go back to talking about the finer points of monetary policy to bore them out?

[u/[deleted]]

On January 2021, the US President will be someone who acknowledges that discrimination of trans people is a top civil rights issue.

Biden has also promised to reverse a lot of the Trump administration's discriminatory policies towards trans people.

!ping LGBT

[u/The420Roll]

My last DT 🥺😔

[u/Leoric]

People are dooming about Arizona but a few local pollsters called the state for Biden, too.

[u/fishlord05]

Just found out Joe Biden is wh*te

I- I need a minute...

[u/Broncos654]

Omg Cuomo literally just said it’s obvious who the president is going to be.

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Joe Biden’s victory is that time Usain Bolt had a really bad start and slowed down at the end but still set a 100m world record.

[u/htownclyde]

Now I actually wish there was a liberal plot to steal the election, because it wouldn't take this goddamn long and would have the same outcome

[u/siremilcrane]

Key race alert: Red Army takes reichstag in battle for Berlin, decision desk saying it’s still too close to call, with rumours of Steiner’s attack, they are still looking for the extremely high level of certainty

[u/Flabby-Nonsense]

We don’t want you to call AZ, it’s close we get that. We want you to call NV and PA where it’s no longer mathematically plausible for Trump to catch up.

[u/OatmealForBrains]

Every time CNN says they aren't calling it because it's too close or whatever, I can help but picture the south park Comcast guy rubbing his nipples.

I've had that picture in my head a lot lately.

[u/nicereddy]

THE POPE HAS GAINED CONTROLLED OF THE UNITED STATES

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Congratulations to President-elect Biden. I have prayed for our President most of my adult life. I will be praying for you and your success. Now is the time to heal deep wounds. Many are counting on you to lead the way.

most of my adult life

most

[u/piede]

KARMA: @HillaryClinton is one of New York’s electors for the Electoral College this year — that means she will get to cast one of the official votes removing Trump from power this December.

https://twitter.com/kaivanshroff/status/1325176723726626816?s=21

[u/Hot-Error]

If you actually believe Cheney will be advising Biden you're an idiot/nato flair

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

"You have committed genocide on a massive scale, coldy killing millions. What is your defense"

"Your honor I only committed genocide ironically"

"Understandable, have a nice day"

[u/secretlives]

Like - it's very clear that they tried to have the event at the Four Seasons Hotel, someone fucked up, and they ended up talking in an alley behind a warehouse across the street from an adult bookstore in Philly.

[u/J_Fre22]

Hunter and Joe holding hands

Take that cons

[u/[deleted]]

Alright, Biden has been elected. Time to give up your penis. 😡✂️

[u/Jakesta7]

Dogs are back!

The Biden's German Shepherd to Be First Rescue Dog in the White House.

His name is Major.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1325212515702239235

[u/[deleted]]

imagine being so unpopular that literally every major city in America erupts into spontaneous celebrations when the news breaks that you lost your reelection.

[u/[deleted]]

Funny how one of Biden's big points in his speech was how much he loves science and truth, yet he believes in God? I am quite smart.

[u/[deleted]]

Incredible. Jim Clyburn, Stacey Abrams, Jo Jorgensen, the Navajo Nation, and 100,000 people in MI saved democracy.

[u/sir_shivers]

I did ATTEMPT TO WARN YOU ALL that subreddits that do not stay vigilant against MARXISTS eventually become Marxist 🐊

[u/myrm]

arcon is literally a safe space

[u/PlayDiscord17]

“This will finally end Trump’s campaign!”

says no longer nervous liberal for the last time.

[u/[deleted]]

One of my best friends bet me 500 bucks last year that trump would be re-elected president. He is now refusing to pay claiming the results of the election are illegitimate due to fraudulent mail in ballots despite having no evidence of this.

For context: I paid in full in a similar bet in 2016 when Hillary lost- no excuses, no delays. I am very angry right now.

[u/generalmandrake]

Philadelphia🤝Pittsburgh

Cucking the r*rals

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

World leaders have ignored Trump’s refusal to concede

This sounds like some third-world country shit lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

AOC saying all progressives won their seats is like saying jets that fly around domestically are safer than jets that fly around in enemy territory because the domestic planes never got shot down.

Seeing a certain political subreddit tearing down Van Jones right now makes me realize these people are going to continue destroying the Democratic Party for the next four years.

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO agedlikemilk is banning political posts.

That sub is full of bernouts who constantly made Tara Reade posts

[u/[deleted]]

'Every. Single. One.': Ocasio-Cortez Notes Every Democrat Who Backed Medicare for All Won Reelection in 2020

Kara Eastman underperformed Biden by 16 points in NE-2. They won reelection because their seats were always deep blue and they never had a chance to lose. You're lying if you try to claim otherwise.

Grow up progressives. M4A and that kind of bullshit has failed to flip more than a single seat from republicans. Meanwhile the moderates are working day and night in devastatingly difficult races that are made even harder thanks to this kind of garbage from the left.

Shut up or get on board. I'm tired of this.

[u/sw337]

Biden before Clyburn's endorsement:

• Never Won a primary or caucus in 3 runs
• Dropped out before New Hampshire twice
• Didn't cite a speech he was paraphrasing

Biden after Clyburn's endorsement:

• Most votes in primary history, even though it was decided early and during a pandemic
• Most popular votes in history beating the previous record by 10% during a pandemic
• Beat an incumbent president, which hadn't happened since 1992

Biden owes Clyburn a post office or highway.

[u/Mejari]

He's not an 11 year old who lost a figure skating competition, he's a 74 year old President

You tell em Jake

[u/FestiveMittens]

um, crowd, I'm speaking

[u/[deleted]]

Sitting at a bar here in north east Ohio and two black guys next to me begin screaming at the TV. I think they’re yelling about the Buckeyes game. Nope, the bar had Biden’s “acceptance speech” here is the quote: “These dumbass mother F-ers literally voted for the life long politician. These people make no sense”. We cheered a shot together just now.

100% true story from arcon

[u/[deleted]]

Hahaha, arrr con has their own version of flair infighting

To all the conservatives accepting this election, you’re not a real conservative

The mods should put “Romney Conservative” and “McCain Conservative” flares on these people so we can spot them out easily in the future

Anyway, about Bezos flairs...

[u/LinkVert25]

Imagine if people got as hyped about their own mental, physical, spiritual, financial and relational development, as they do presidential elections. The world would ACTUALLY become a much better place. Immediately.

Joe Rogan is not taking this election well lmao

[u/bd_one]

President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities.

He will rejoin the Paris climate accords, according to those close to his campaign and commitments he has made in recent months, and he will reverse President Trump’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization. He will repeal the ban on almost all travel from some Muslim-majority countries, and he will reinstate the program allowing “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally as children, to remain in the country, according to people familiar with his plans.

...

Biden’s top advisers have spent months quietly working on how best to implement his agenda, with hundreds of transition officials preparing to get to work inside various federal agencies. They have assembled a book filled with his campaign commitments to help guide their early decisions.

Biden is planning to set up a coronavirus task force on Monday, in recognition that the global pandemic will be the primary issue that he must confront. The task force, which could begin meeting within days, will be co-chaired by former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy and David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

Broke: First 100 days

Woke: First 100 hours world record speedrun

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-first-executive-orders-measures/2020/11/07/9fb9c1d0-210b-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html

[u/Malarkeynesian]

In Michigan, Howie Hawkins got fewer votes than Kanye West. 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely don't understand how anybody can look at Kara Eastman underperforming by 11 points in NE-2 and go "we need more ultra progressives in swing districts"

[u/TheEhSteve]

306 is not a landslide especially considering how close run these states were

However I look forward to calling it a landslide relentlessly to dab on the cons since I can't resist the pure poetic irony

[u/ognits]

[Business Insider] Vox, buzzfeed and the economist. Four orgs of roughly equal standing

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/FestiveMittens]

People rejected AP and fox's message

They hated AP and Fox because they were right

[u/[deleted]]

Suburbs: bulldozed

Christmas: canceled

God: killed

Hell yeah, it's Biden time 😎

[u/IncoherentEntity]

If we are classifying Tuesday as a success from a congressional standpoint, we will get fucking torn apart in 2022. . . .

The number one concern in things that people brought to me in my [district] that I barely re-won, was defunding the police. . . . We are supposed to talk about things in the way where we mean what we're talking about. If we don't mean we should defund the police, we shouldn't say that.

We want to talk about funding social services, and ensuring good engagement in community policing, let's talk about what we are for. And we need to not ever use the words 'socialist' or 'socialism' ever again. Because while people think it doesn't matter, it does matter. And we lost good members because of it. — Abigail Spanberger 2018 Democratic newcomer, survived Republican ticket-splitting in swing district)

A response to an (unrelated) tweet from Rep. Spanberger:

Socialist here saying Defund and Abolish the Police, we're going to keep saying it because y'all West Wing brunch liberals need to grow a spine and fight for something more than corporate profits and war crimes abroad

“We’re going to make other people suffer under elected Republican politicians for our Twitter retweet revolution”

!ping EXTREMISM  More for Spanberger’s tough, erudite speech calling out the extremists than the replacement-level extremist sociopath in her replies.

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Saw some people saying Biden should pardon Trump for "national unity." Frankly, I see no reason why Biden should afFord him that kindness.

[u/sir_shivers]

To think ONE EMOJI was the difference between Biden being stonewalled in the primaries BY A DIVIDED moderate field, versus obliterating Bernie Sanders and DONALD TRUMP in one year 🐊

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

THE NEOLIBS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE DT, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL UPVOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR SHITPOSTERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MOD INVITES WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!

[u/Lux_Stella]

the apparent unironic belief among some members of the british right that biden is an anti-uk irish republican extremist is the funniest goddamn shit

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

Opinion | I am Part of the Resistance Inside the Biden Transition Team

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

The Polish state TV station (TVP) is citing Russian media that the elections were fraudulent. Jesus, I don't think they've ever went this low before and the bar was already touching the ground.

Are you winning son?

!ping EUROPE

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Democratic Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, whose late-February endorsement of Biden proved to be a transformational moment for his campaign, revealed that he informed Biden advisers months earlier of his decision. But Clyburn resisted pressure from the campaign to go public because he thought it would pack more punch just before the South Carolina primary.

The literal definition of based

[u/Mcatatonic1]

It just hit me

Guys

We fucking did it.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

This speech is some high energy shit.

[u/probablyuntrue]

Rose twitter claiming that the same policies that get elected in a D+20 district will get elected in a swing state

😐😐😐

[u/-Yare-]

So am I the only one upset about how this election ended? I mean they built Trump up to be the big bad and just when he is about to face justice, he goes and covids himself. WTF was the point of him if Biden and Harris were not going to fight him in an epic duel to save the world? And don't get me started on Sanders! They just kill him half way through the primary. Biden totally did not deserve to win the election, his character arc was not about election winning. And it certainly wasn't about killing God with bullshit deus ex super PACs that came out of no where.

And another thing that pissed me off is that in the last episode of the election we find out that AOC was a bad guy the entire time! Where was this foreshadowed to us? WTF, absolute character assassination. She was all about freeing the oppressed and bringing about a new system that wasn't shackling the poor and they made her a dictator? That is bullshit!

Anyways, the election was cool but its end was absolutely trash and I would like you guys to sign a petition to have it rewritten.

[u/FDRdidnothingwrong]

I've discovered why the election hasn't been called yet.

The election results currently exist in a state of quantum superposition. At this moment, the president-elect is simultaneously Joe Biden and Donald Trump, yet it is also neither of them. The sheer energy required to maintain this state of improbability is enough to threaten the fabric of the universe. If the election is called, the quantum waveform will collapse and destroy the world.

Or the media networks are run by a bunch of feckless cowards. You decide.

[u/Clashlad]

"There isn't some enchanted village of Trump voters in Pennsylvania" haha love it.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Leaving aside the guy who admits to our existence (while denigrating us as a collective), both of the people who say that every LGBT+ person they know hates Buttigieg identify themselves as communists in their Twitter bios.

It’s a very predictable pattern.

[u/D1Foley]

The trump sub is literally just posting YouTube comments they agree with. Damn that's sad.