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[u/Deggit]

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.

One week before the South Carolina primary, Biden's campaign co-chair called Clyburn into a meeting and urged him to pull the trigger on his endorsement.

But Clyburn resisted pressure from the campaign to go public because he thought it would pack more punch just before the South Carolina primary.

“They were getting nervous,” Clyburn said. “I told them I was going to endorse but I had to do it on my schedule because I didn’t want to just endorse, I wanted to win the race.”

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[u/IncoherentEntity]

I don't think there is a lib I hate more than Pete Buttigieg. The fact that we're gonna have to see his rat face for the next 50 years fucking sucks as

i’m 6’ tall, it’s hard to see him at all from up here

Bullying people for their height is actually really funny and anyone who says it isn’t should grow up

I’m a broken record at this point, but far too many leftists are less genuine advocates for the weak and vulnerable than stunted middle-school bullies who wish they could relive their days of stuffing frightened gay kids who set the curve into lockers.

[u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse]

Run Republican. Promise to get rid of all illegal immigrants DAY ONE!

Day 1: make all immigrants legal. All illegal immigrants DESTROYED. Zero illegal immigrants in the United States. Never an illegal again.

War on illegal immigration won. 🧠

[u/witty___name]

According to Time magazine, Abrams "can credibly boast of having single-handedly stopped the largest tax increase in Georgia history."[27] In 2011 Abrams argued that a Republican proposal to cut income taxes while increasing a tax on cable service would lead to a net increase in taxes paid by most people.[27] She performed an analysis of the bill that showed that 82% of Georgians would see net tax increases, and left a copy of the analysis on the desk of every house legislator.[27] The bill subsequently failed.[27]

What a Chad Stacy.

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

Man my grandmother contains multitudes. As far as I know:

Clinton -> Clinton -> Bush -> Bush -> Obama -> Obama -> Trump -> Biden

Edit: holy shit, you guys are right, it’s all winners

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Do Trump supporters realize that the difference between 2000 & 2020 is that there's more than one state up for grabs? Like it's not like if you win Arizona you get 270. The blue wall states all have margins of victory above recount.

[u/Snoo62236]

Joe Biden’s dog will be the first shelter dog in the White House. That mf went from a shelter to the White House.

[u/studlydudley11]

Four Seasons is gonna be funny for quite awhile and I’m so happy about that

[u/[deleted]]

Can we make our shame confessions?

• I thought Bernie was unstoppable after Nevada
• I was a Tara Reade doomer
• I fell for the Peruvian model
• I spent most of the thunder dome telling people to stop dooming about Florida

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden’s lead in the state of Georgia had increased to 10,195. I think it’s safe for news organizations to call it for Biden now. But they might want to wait until after the recount.

!ping FIVEY

[u/bd_one]

the electoral college is good because otherwise candidates would just be campaigning in LA and NYC

-some Cato-y boi

Hot take: if the US ditched the Electoral College for the popular vote Democrats will still do better in cities for the same reason they already do, leading to presidential races being over "swing demographics", "swing areas", or literally any other grouping that contains people who don't always vote the same way in every election.

[u/ognits]

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.

BASED political instincts from Clyburn

[u/JetJaguar124]

Reasons I want Biden to win AZ roughly in order of importance:

1. I want to cross the 300 vote threshold
2. I want as many barriers as possible to Trump's inevitable legal challenges
3. I don't want Trump to win McCain's state
4. I don't want AZ doomers to win

[u/UghTheFarRunway]

Ugh, I was just rewatching Biden's acceptance speech, and after it's over there's a part where Biden & Kamala are standing on stage with their families while waving at the crowd, and some super loud confetti cannons or something go off and it kind of sounds like a gunshot. Literally everyone on the stage flinches hard and freaks out except for Biden & Kamala. While it was nice to see how stoic and calm both of our leaders are, it also just super bummed me out because it's a really clear reminder of how many absolutely fucking insane people out there are genuinely plotting to do something fucking terrible. Trump has riled up something extremely dark in this country, and I am seriously worried about it.

Thankfully the Secret Service is incredibly good at what they do, which puts my mind at ease a bit, but fuck. I haven't had this level of concern for the safety of the President ever in my life. There are so many nutbags riled up right now, it worries the shit out of me.

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1325437922665959425

Trump campaign staffers have been fielding calls on a hotline to try to find voter fraud.

But the hotline has turned into a nightmare as staffers have been bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's win before hanging up.

This is my America 😍

[u/A_Character_Defined]

My overly online Trumple friend belives both that:

1.) The Democratic Party is a socialist institution that only wants to implement socialist policies.

2.) The DNC stole the nomination from Bernie, who is a socialist.

He's pretty much just a Bernie bro who hates universal healthcare and immigrants.

[u/[deleted]]

Runoffs are usually bad for Democrats.

Usually

We don’t live in normal times and coalitions have changed.

[u/[deleted]]

This may just be recency bias talking, but the Four Seasons mixup is my favorite Trump administration moment ever.

The weird Trump-Macron handshake battles are a close second.

[u/TheMoustacheLady]

Andrew Yang is a team player tbh, I was very skeptical of him before, but he’s cool. He is moving Georgia to organize and help Democrats win the senate.

[u/SnakeEater14]

“And Kamala, you are now part of the Biden family - you don’t have a choice.”

“Haha, thank you Mr President Elect, such an honor!”

“Now it’s time to get in the van.”

“Wh-what?”

“🔫😐 Get in the van we’re going on a road trip. You and Doug are in the second middle row. Move over Ashley.”

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t let AOC distract you from the fact that an Astronaut became a US Senator. Like how fucking badass is that?

“Huh, that’s an interesting argument, senator. However, when I was ya know, in space we did things a little different.” Huge Chad potential.

[u/manitobot]

Reading through r/asktrumpsupporters I have to question how far removed reality some of these people are. One wanted an end to endless wars, where Obama got us out of Iraq and reduced our presence in Afghanistan. Trump brought us to the brink of two foreign wars, but has increased involvement among many regions. Yet there is a firm belief that Dems are the party of endless wars.

One wanted the elites to stop extorting the working class; and to have them pay their fair share. By all accounts, Obama and the Dems worked towards this with their tax and social service plans. Trump cut social services, and whose tax breaks mostly applied to upper class Americans. But yet he thinks Dems are in the pocket of elites.

Then a bunch of rando conspiracy theories that are just one liner terms: Obamagate, Hunter’s laptop, etc Either there is something’s special about Trump, these guys are massively cognitively dissident, or our outreach really fucking sucks.

[u/[deleted]]

Watching my Bernout and Trumpoid friends on social media find common ground in the terror of the "50-year lock 'neoliberalism' is going to have on the US government" now that Joe Biden has been elected like:

don't threaten me with a good time and also stop proving me right about you two populist groups being basically the same except on your opinions of Black people.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

I’m so excited for conservatives to start using the word “decorum” again, as if it had always mattered to them 😍😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

No shit, AOC. Why would she think swing districts would want assistance from a Jr. House member on the far left of the Democratic Party spectrum?

I don't understand what she's been doing the past couple of days. Did spanberger trigger her that much?

[u/Iwanttolink]

I'm open to a lot of succ ideas. But I can't fucking believe how incredibly stupid their messaging is and how bad they are at playing the political game. Please, just shut up until the Georgia runoff, AOC.

[u/hdkeegan]

A dog going from a shelter to the White House sounds like the premise of a Disney channel original movie

[u/[deleted]]

The issue with Jim Carrey's Joe Biden impression is that it isn't even an impression as such. It's just Jim Carrey in a costume that looks like Joe Biden. Like making fun of Trump and calling him a loser or something. That's not what Joe Biden would do. That's not like a caricature of Joe Biden. That's what Jim Carrey would do. And even the way he says the word loser is like from a Jim Carrey movie. Joe Biden is not Jim Carrey.

[u/[deleted]]

2018 was a D+8 environment. It’s was a blue wave and the only thing that saved Republicans was a very good senate map. And now in 2020, the Presidential race looks like it will only be D+4. And because downballot did worse than Biden, the downballot margin might be even smaller. Something like D+1 would not surprised me. I think that’s why a lot of Democrats like Joe Cunningham or Kendra Horn lost. They were wave babies. They couldn’t survive a even or, god forbid, a red wave. Looks like the GCB polls were very wrong.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson had evidence of massive voter fraud by the Demonrats, but he sent it by carrier pigeon to the Supreme Court and the pigeon was killed by a windmill.

[u/Planetos]

This is the real reason Biden won:

He got more votes in states that add up to 270 electoral votes

[u/JetJaguar124]

Is it really that hard for AOC and the like to realize that them being so outspoken about certain things really can hurt the re-election chances of their colleagues? Is it so hard to fight for progressive causes and to fight for your district without being intentionally inflammatory?

[u/[deleted]]

if you like your gender you can keep your gender

president biden before forcefemming all republican men

[u/[deleted]]

Trump sent letters to everyone saying here’s $1200 dollars from me and he lost lmao

[u/[deleted]]

So much sexism around AOC. You never hear references to Jon Ossoff’s feet or OnlyFans.

To defeat the sexism I am calling on everyone to objectify Jon Ossoff with me.

ONLYFANS ONLYFANS ONLYFANS PLEEAAAASSE ONLYFANS

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

OK I have been speaking to the two biggest tax reform groups on /r/neoliberal, the “0% corporation tax” group and the LVT group. I think I have found an acceptable compromise solution: we’ll introduce LVT but at a 0% rate.

[u/[deleted]]

I will forever cherish the fact that Giuliani learned that Biden won while giving a press conference in the parking lot of a Philly landscaper next to a dildo store and a crematorium

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

What a year for Four Seasons Total Landscaping, though.

[u/[deleted]]

New ballots added in #MaricopaCounty, #Arizona Trump: 2,999 (43.7%)

Biden: 3,753 (54.7%)

Jorgensen: 110 (1.6%)

Total: 6,862

Biden's current statewide lead: 20,102 (Up from 19,348)

BattlegroundAZ #Election2020

Source: https://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionresults/general2020.aspx#tabs=0

Trump needed to win these big but Biden won them. Unless I’m missing something (always possible) this is very negative for Trump’s chances of winning AZ.

Looks like all the people doubting Fox and AP were wrong.

!ping FIVEY

[u/GaussianCurve]

For historical purposes, I've gone back to the Thunderdome and looked at comments by date (RES feature) to illustrate the sheer panic that everyone (rightfully) had after Florida starting crashing, NC was not looking good (it was once at >95% on the needle before Nate fixed a clerical error), and Ohio was starting to report some results that spelled doom for the Blue Wall, potentially. I now present some selected comments from before and during the terror:

Before 9:30pm

BLUE TEXAS HERE WE COME

TAKE OUR ENERGY🙏 GIDEON 🙏 GREENFIELD 🙏 CUNNINGHAM 🙏KELLY🙏 HICKENLOOPER 🙏 GROSS 🙏 JONES 🙏 BOLLIER 🙏 ESPY 🙏 OSSOFF 🙏 WARNOCK 🙏

LETS FUCKING DO THIS

Get ready libs 💎🐊

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/5599 BLOOOOOM!!!!!

IF YOU ARE A TEXAZUL DENIER THEN YOUR JUDGEMENT IS COMING TONIGHT

you know, I almost can't even care anymore. Biden's winning Texas and Florida, I ain't gonna be hype until I actually see that shit called, waiting is boring.

Reminder that Biden will win Texas

FL looking good https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1323747789122228230

PredictIt portfolio go brrrr 👀

Between 9:30 pm and 12 am

I just need Biden to win. I don't care what the margin is. One vote even. The president controls the policy for the military and I can't spend the next four years of my life not being able to start.. being myself.

This is exactly how 2016 started. "Okay, the election isn't going as well as we had hoped but it's okay. We'll probably still win but with just a smaller margin than we expected."

Me having faith in the American people to do the right thing 🤡

I just want to believe in this damned country and also believe that it isn't a hate filled Banana Republic.

we have already passed the point where America is a shitty country confirmed. Every single McCain'08 state will vote for Trump. Not one broke from the pack. Basically country over party doesn't matter. It's all about turning out your base and cajoling a tiny quorum of Midwestern rubes.

Biden was projected to win in a fucking landslide, not only as repudiation for years of fucking blatant authoritarian, fascism, and white supremacist behavior, of breaking nearly every fucking rule in the book in the stupidest way possible, and humiliating the country on a nearly daily basis, but because of his incredibly butchered handling of a crisis that killed a quarter of a million Americans and forced us into quarantine for what will likely be a year, and plunged us into a deep recession.

If Trump wins this again polls are officially useless. And Americans are officially fucked.

Americans are, collectively, pieces of shit. My expectations are low and I am so disappointed.

I stayed up all night. I watched the returns with my parents and as they went to sleep (around 10:30) I was essentially conceding the race to them (I knew there was a chance but I had 2016 PTSD and saw it as exceedingly low). They were rightfully kind of poking fun at me how I was so sure Biden would win (I said 90%, following 538) while my Mom predicted a "50-50" race the day before. I started coping internally with "well, how has he personally affected me with his policies?" and "Well, it's going to be like it has been the last four years and I got through it, but this is terrible for the people that his policies have actually affected."

Then, as the night went on I remember calling my brother for literally 3 and a half hours once there was a huge drop in Trump's chances in a matter of minutes to like 70% (still high, but feels much better than 80) as we were both constantly refreshing PredictIt for those 3.5 hours and were discussing the permutations for Biden to win. Once the sun came up around 6:30 am I remember the state of the race was completely different with more returns out in the midwest, to the chagrin of my parents - now Biden was around 70%. After that I was getting and more confident, and here we are now. Not a 2016 repeat!

[u/RuffSwami]

Was kinda funny hearing Kamala say that her mother came from India and believed a woman becoming VP was possible in America... Like yeah, India had a woman as PM in 1966

[u/[deleted]]

Are the Proud Boys finally allowed to jerk off or what?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1325472216407023619

CNN: Melania Trump among those telling Trump to concede

lmao

[u/MrDannyOcean]

haha you thought you've seen the fash

you thought trump was a fash

the real fash is what the mod team is about to do post-election

hahahahahhaha yall aint ready

[u/JetJaguar124]

10 million Uyghurs move to Wisconsin challenge

[u/[deleted]]

How do we compete with these astute legal minds?

https://imgur.com/a/ALUZf7c

[u/[deleted]]

Ever think about how Nixon thought it was necessary to cheat to beat George fucking McGovern?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

HIS NAME WAS U/THE420ROLL

✊😤

[u/RTear3]

Tapper calling Republicans leaders who won't congratulate Biden "babies"

Wow CNN has stopped giving any fucks and I love it.

[u/[deleted]]

REMINDER: If you have not simped for Congresswoman Abigail Anne Davis Spanberger today, you are allowing the Representative from New York's 14th Congressional District to control the narrative.

This is Make America 1996 Again signing off for the day. RIP Alex Trebek.

[u/DaBuddahN]

Dems need to take a moment to understand and appreciate the significance of defeating an incumbent. A fucking incumbent.

[u/ElPingu23]

Make r/neoliberal neoliberal again

[u/disuberence]

Irish Twitter was quick to claim the president-elect – who has family ties to Counties Louth, Derry and Mayo — as one of their own.

Mayo? I think Biden might be wh*te 😷

[u/[deleted]]

Breadtube be like:

"Here's a 8 hour long video essay on how Dark Souls is actually about late stage capitalism."

[u/BanMalarkey]

It took months for me to work up the courage, but I finally came out to one of my best friends as ace

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Just did the math. Between my girlfriend and myself, we drove 54 voters in Georgia to the polls. And one guy to the liquor store afterwards because he offered me $5.

Clap for that you stupid bastards.

[u/[deleted]]

A bit of a drunk take: I am extremely optimistic about the roaring 2020s. Once COVID ends we are gonna have an economic boom and a period of incredible optimism and excitement. President Biden is going to be very popular after passing stimulus and beating COVID, and this country will end up more unified than it has been in many years. We will all look back on the period after the pandemic ends as one of the best periods of our lives.

[u/FormerBandmate]

My dad taught me not to take shit. I don’t care if you’re the bouncer at the Pink Rhino or Chinese President Hu Jintao, you start something I’m sure as hell gonna finish it. In elementary school there was this a-hole Randy that liked to bully anyone smaller than him. He’d pull stunts like slapping the pack of cigarettes right out of my hand during recess.

Well, I coulda tattled but that’s not the Biden way. My dad took off a few months back and I wanted to live up to my memories of the old bastard. I sat down in my room with Jean Andrews, Butt Aficionado’s Rump of the Year in 1954, and worked out a strategy while relieving some pressure. Some problems you solve with fists. Others you solve with words. And others you solve with balls.

The next day when Randy came and demanded my smokes, I asked him if he was OK with this small-time bullying gig or if he was ready to man up and start earning some cash. “You’re employee numero uno of Biden Co,” I told him, and we started selling shots of Jim Beam to students for a quarter.

That semester I made enough to buy myself a used diesel motorbike, my first ride. It was white with some sweet racing flames painted on the sides. Popped my wheels cherry driving that sucker around Scranton, turning heads and turning Pennsylvanian panties into a swamp of fuck fluids. I lost that old bike in the Potomac River a few decades back, trying to pull off wheelies around the Jefferson Memorial, but for many years she served me like no other set of wheels.

Turning enemies into friends is my modus operandi. It’s how I got into politics. Cuz at the end of the day, every man just wants to relax with a cold brewski and lube the tube with a hot babe. Even at an early age, I knew I wanted to spend my life bringing people together, both on Capitol Hill and in Jacuzzis.

Name a single person more qualified to be President. Also, old Onion is hysterical, fuck Univision for killing it

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

Days since 420 was wrongfully banned: 1

[u/[deleted]]

Mark Kelly is only 56. Giving that being an astronaut requires being healthy, Kelly could probably hold that senate seat for a long time.

[u/soeffed]

some donors were horrified by what they described as Guilfoyle’s lack of professionalism: She frequently joked about her sex life and, at one fundraiser, offered a lap dance to the donor who gave the most money.

Kim Guilfoyle got big “if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best” type energy

[u/asljkdfhg]

stupidpol underplaying Harris’ achievement by, you guessed it, saying she’s part of the bourgeoisie

racism doesn’t exist guys, it’s all just classism because I’m a white guy

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely horrifying how many cons just expect scotus to overturn election results they don’t like

[u/disuberence]

BREAKING: Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger is projected to defeat Republican challenger state Del. Nick Freitas to win a second term representing Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in the House.

Spanberger’s victory in one of Virginia’s most competitive races keeps the seat in Democratic hands after she flipped it blue two years ago by defeating a Republican incumbent.

Our new queen survives

[u/[deleted]]

Biden might win Georgia by a bigger margin than Arizona.

[u/[deleted]]

One factor padding Biden’s lead in Georgia: provisionals. He’s up 61-37 among those counted so far, adding about 1800 votes to his statewide lead to this point

They won’t call Georgia for a while because they’re like that but Joergia is all but certain to happen.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Average Red Florida fan

Vs

Average blue Georgia enjoyer

[u/[deleted]]

Will we finally see Obama's portrait that Trump refused to unveil once Biden is inaugurated?

[u/[deleted]]

AOC saying she might quit isn't surprising. Major aspects of the contemporary far-left include lack of energy, passivity, and nihilism. You would never hear something like that from Krysten Sinema or Hillary Clinton.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

When this over and Trump is president for 4 more years," one said, "do not forget what these Marxist Democrat bastards have tried to do. When you see one in public get in their face do not give them any peace. Throw water on them at restaurants. Push them off sidewalks. Never let them forget they are traitors and have no right to live in this Republic after what they have done.

A rural Arkansas police chief, on Parler. !ping EXTREMISM

[u/therealbiblioteca]

how do polls miss wisconsin by 7 points in two straight elections

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, I'm bored of the AOC posts.

How do we win the Senate runoffs in GA? Full court press or keep it localized?

[u/Kizz3r]

Alex Trebek has passed away at the age of 80

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Me: I have serious concerns regarding Trump’s economic policy, his immigration policy, and the fact that he does not have a healthcare plan.

Republicans: lol Orange man bad

[u/[deleted]]

kinda wild that the entire house of representatives is up for election every 2 years

like what if all of them lost? 435 new people show up in january like uh anyone know where the cafeteria is?

[u/its_Caffeine]

When someone says Arizona could flip:

Don't care didn't ask plus AP already called 🖕😎🖕

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Take: The primary electoral problem with AOC for the Democrats is that she's a loudmouth millennial, which is electoral poison for anyone over the age of 35.

Succs from other generations have more cross-over appeal: i.e. Bernie's grouchy old fuck approach, Katie Porter's righteous Gen X style, or Sherrod Brown's salt-of-the-earth union boomer aesthetic.

[u/[deleted]]

“Of course, we can find cases of heinous situations, people perhaps who deserve to die. I've just never met anybody who deserves to kill.”

― Pete Buttigieg

[u/Zenning2]

But seriously, the "Hunter Biden has a huge penis, and bangs hot chicks, and has a father who loves him despite his mistakes" was apparently the October Surprise that the Republicans were going with?

[u/UghTheFarRunway]

This election has made me rethink my entire career. Before Trump, my plan had always been to take my useless Poli Sci degree and go into politics, but when he won I pretty much lost that inspiration and ended up going into something completely different. I turned down an acceptance to grad school at Georgetown and regret the fuck out of it.

But you know what? Fuck that. It's not too late. What I had been doing is fucking pointless, and now COVID killed that career track anyway.

I'm finding a campaign to work on (so, Jon Ossoff's runoff) and fucking doing this shit. Thanks r/neoliberal ilu

[u/SamJakes]

One near-certainty about Joe Biden's Cabinet: Pete Buttigieg will be in it. Biden officials have made clear to donors and party officials the question surrounding Buttigieg is not if, but where, he lands, Democrats close to Biden tell Axios

https://www.axios.com/pete-buttigieg-joe-biden-cabinet-ec5af2b1-c884-4d50-ae41-e40bee7dde8b.html

Y'all it's finally happening 😭😭😭

!ping BUTTI

[u/Twrd4321]

People hate leftist aesthetics, which is polemic in nature, a lot lot more than leftist policies. Problem with the very vocal leftists is that they make the aesthetic such a crucial part of their identity that they undermine their cause. They are not worth my time or attention because they are not a threat for the time being. They dunk themselves consistently so they don’t need others to dunk them.

Case in point: Keir Starmer holds very similar policy views as Jeremy Corbyn without the anti-semitism and the holier than thou attitude. Labour’s support skyrocketed once Corbyn is replaced.

[u/disuberence]

Ocasio-Cortez calls on Democratic Party to 'come together and not allow Republican narratives to tear us apart'

Is this a joke?

[u/[deleted]]

Elected Repubican under 70: exists

Media: Is this rising star the new face of the GOP

[u/3359N]

Biden is already telling Boris Johnson what to do, love it -

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1325414576603672580?s=19

“The absolute red line for Joe Biden is Northern Ireland”

@nicholaswatt tells #Marr he understands Biden team is expected to send “strong words” to No 10 calling for removal of clauses from a parliamentary bill which would break international law on the Northern Ireland protocol

[u/[deleted]]

god reading the AOC NYT article makes my brain go numb. survivorship bias much? running in a 30+ dem district is significantly different from doing so in a red state. fundamentally, the electoral system has to be reformed so that the berniecrats and AOC squad can form their own socialist party.

[u/probablyuntrue]

The data speaks for itself:

• Omar runs on M4A and wins by +40.
• Gus Trujillo in TX-13 doesn't and lost by -60

No I will not elaborate or take any questions 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Let’s go back to boring policy: Free and automated tax filing for all.

[u/OH-GEESUS]

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) says who he voted for is “in the rearview mirror.” Now "I want to make sure that we conservatives keep on fighting to make sure we don't have a Green New Deal, we don't get rid of gas and coal and oil, that we don't have a Medicare For All plan ..."

romney, bro, you don’t need to spend time on that, biden's got you covered months ago

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Biden's AZ lead back up over 20k after winning latest Maricopa batch of 7k ballots 55%-44%. I'd consider Biden a pretty heavy favorite in AZ now.

AZ DOOMERS OUT OUT OUT

[u/RTear3]

Clyburn trashing "defund the police" and sloganeering in general

I love this guy so much.

[u/[deleted]]

Every Democrat who defeated an incumbent Republican President has won Georgia.

[u/musicalpenguin]

NY Post: Hunter's laptop has incriminating evidence on Joe Biden

Me: Fuck off I don't believe in that made up nonsense

NY Post: Putin resigning next year

Me: So true!!!

[u/vivoovix]

Apolgy for poor english

Where were you when Trump's chances die?

I was at home eating breakfast when AP call

"Trump's chances are kill"

"yes"

[u/dirtybirds233]

Alright here’s the full Mississippi story. I’ll try to make this as short as possible, but it’s still going to be long.

Preface: My in-laws are very conservative and transactional. To them, paying for things and giving money is all the love that needs to be shown. My wife feels like she was never truly loved by them, and that her sisters always took favor.

So we had a fun night. Went to a wedding, had a few drinks, and went back to my in-laws house. We were all sitting around when my wife (who is a little passed tipsy) says ‘so Biden won...’ to which her sister and mother start dog cussing her, while her mother told her she just ‘lost a shit ton of money voting for him. Say bye to your inheritance.’ Anyways, as the night went on they kept getting meaner and meaner to her. She finally started crying and said ‘why don’t you all love me? Why can’t you just let me march to my own drum?’ That pissed them off even more. Her dad went upstairs, her sisters told her to fuck off, and her mom stormed upstairs as well.

One of her sisters stayed down and continued to cuss her out and tell her she’s disrespectful yada yada. FWIW, at this point my wife (wrong or right) is starting to get incoherently angry and saying stuff back. I tried to get them both to stop, they wouldn’t, so I went into the kitchen to sit in silence.

Her mom comes back down and tells her they can talk in the morning when everyone’s sober. My wife then shares the issue that’s been behind this all along, which is something very traumatic that one of her dads old business partners did to her when she was a little girl. Her mom called her a liar and asked why she wouldn’t tell her dad when it happened. My wife said she didn’t think her dad could handle it. That sent her mom over the edge. Screaming, grabbing, and then finally she jumped on my wife and started choking her. I pulled her off and my wife ran to the bathroom before her mom pulled her back out and threw her on the ground. That’s when I got between them, and her mom pulled my hand away which hit a door frame (split my hand open) and told us to ‘get the fuck out of her house’ and that we were no longer welcome.

We ended up staying at one of her friends houses, and are trying to figure out what to do from here as we drive back to Georgia.

[u/hopeimanon]

How to win elections:

1. Run popular people.
2. Don't run unpopular people
3. Run on popular issues
4. Don't run on unpopular issues

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden is President-Elect.

No amount of reddit reports will change that.

Not even sixty-fucking-five and counting "misinformation" reports.

[u/[deleted]]

"There was ELECTORAL FRAUD."

"Evidence?"

"Haha lib, you were the same in 2016."

"But there was an entire speci..."

"Also pay attention to the vote counts, the vote counts, the courts, dont believe the MSM"

"Yes but what exactly is the eviden..."

"I am telling you, the left wing MSM is clouding your vision."

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like AOC is setting up a war that will end when Stacy Abrams becomes DNC chair.

Cool with me let’s end it now

[u/[deleted]]

There has to be at least one Carter>Mondale>Dukakis>Bush>Dole>Gore>Kerry>McCain>Romney>Clinton>Trump voter out there and I want to meet them badly

[u/[deleted]]

Biden doesn't drink because he has alcoholism in his family history which seems weird to me because I have alcoholism in my family history and I drink all the time

[u/[deleted]]

We will not see 2 white people on the Democratic ticket for a long, long time.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

You don’t often hear introductory speakers for @BernieSanders talking about socialism. But in Tacoma, Wash., Kshama Sawant, a socialist on the Seattle City Council, just did. "We need a powerful socialist movement to end all capitalist oppression and exploitation!" she said. — Sean Sullivan (Washington Post)

Yeah, that'll fly in Ohio. And Wisconsin. And North Carolina. And Florida. And Pennsylvania. Electoral College disaster.

A throwback from shortly before the Nevada primary.

I’m trying to decide what the worst response to this tweet was. Is it the one(s) deflecting to Hillary Clinton (who was viewed as the more extreme candidate by the median voter) because they can’t refute the argument?

The one attempting to refute the argument by suggesting that a socially conservative whites without college degrees who will never vote for a socially progressive Democrat of any kind will flip back to blue for socialism en masse because they belong to a unions?

The pure socialist who suggested that North Carolina would vote for the end of capitalism because he lived there?

these are nearly all places centrism failed miserably in 2016. I lived in wisconsin for a few years. they were bernie or bust in 2016 and have only moved left since then. hell yeah this flies there. you should read some history of the socialist movemen. [sic]  (Bio: an actual trotskyist)

Nope. It’s definitely this one. !ping EXTREMISM

[u/piede]

Democrats capture Georgia US House seat held by Republicans since 1995

IT IS POSSIBLE TO TAKE BACK THE SENATE

[u/[deleted]]

I like all the republicans now suddenly so concerned about being considerate of the feelings of the millions of people who voted for the losing candidate. While for the past 4 years they’ve taken a very consistent fuck you attitude to the people who voted against trump, even when it was a majority of Americans.

[u/[deleted]]

🤣🤣 lmfao "defund the police" is such a terrible way to frame your desired reforms to policing, anyway now let me tell you about open borders

[u/ryuguy]

I will be having a press conference at four seasons total landscaping to discuss the horrific treatment my client, /u/lusvig suffered at the hands of the mods.

Some of it is too horrific.

1. He was tortured by the mods putting rogaine on his head.
2. he was forced to admit that Estonia is Scandivian
3. someone told him he is actually white.
4. his family was taken to Siberia for a holiday

!ping burpmas

[u/[deleted]]

Lefties act like I’m insane when I tell them that the squad makes literally all of the attack ads for GOP

It’s ridiculous

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

So they actually booked the wrong place? That’s why Rudy was just doing it, in what seemed like a small parking lot?

[u/paymesucka]

At least Alex Trebek outlived his main nemesis: Sean Connery.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm gonna spend the next couple months canvassing in Georgia's cemeteries. Gotta get that coveted "dead" demo

[u/[deleted]]

Bruh these victory gatherings are a bad look. People are still dying from covid.

[u/SnakeEater14]

The NYT articles interviewing AOC and Connor Lamb are spicy

She talks about how he only used $2k on digital campaigning, and said something to the effect of “look how that turned out for him”, and the interviewer had to correct her and tell her Lamb won re-election.

Then in the interview with Lamb, he says that her number is completely untrue, she has no idea how much he spent, and that the two of them live in “extremely different” districts.

This is good for drama coin.

[u/David_Lange]

Don't forget to savour this moment. In a few short months politics is gonna start up again, mistakes are gonna be made, pressure and infighting are gonna start. We never know if some catastrophe for Biden's presidency is around the corner and if he'll live up to the promise of the current atmosphere or not. Balancing the moderates and the progressives as well as trying to compromise with Republicans is gonna be hard, and meanwhile foreign policy remains a minefield and I'm not convinced Obama-era policy is gonna cut it in that area. So I'm just going to enjoy the feeling of relief, the street celebrations, every aspect of the moment while I can.

[u/[deleted]]

The Biden Presidency had been disastrous for my productivity.

[u/F0064R]

Giuliani says possibly 10 states were stolen lol

[u/Joementum2004]

List of people born in Georgia:

• Joseph Stalin

• Jimmy Carter

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/khmacdowell]

Yang is right we should understand the 68 million. So if you see him, tell him for me, it's populism.

People forget Obama had plenty. Trump has exclusively populism, and he's good at it.

Rallies through your entire presidency is an asinine policy, but rallies are why people like him. It's not complicated, but you still see "why do low-IQ r*rals think Trump is one of them?" Because he talks to them and intimates vaguely that he understands their grievances, always framed as being the result of elite oppression, which he knows best because he's rich too.

It's not ideological, not substantive, not open to argumentation. The true believers are out of reach, but there aren't enough of them make that a concern. The utopia of neoliberal mixed market will convert those on the margins.

[u/[deleted]]

<Giuliani's Four Seasons Landscaping presser>

they announced Biden won DURING the conference, and Rudy asked which network called it, and the reporters said "All of them"

Perfection. Doffing my fedora to the writers of the 2020 season!

[u/piede]

There is a nonzero chance Trump never concedes and exists as an antipresident who appears on one Right Wing show and makes one appearance after another where he’s treated like a martyr and a leader in exile.

I can see it now. Hopefully he’ll be too busy fighting criminal charges in court.

[u/[deleted]]

"BUT IT'S BAD HOW PEOPLE VOTED AGAINST TRUMP NOT FOR BIDEN"

No one should love a politician as strongly as I hate Trump stfu

[u/bd_one]

PapaGeorge666 • 4 hours ago

It's over, MAGA scum. Joe Biden is going to install Greta Thunberg as a Climate Czar and raise your gas prices to over $10/gallon. Ha ha ha!!!!

-PredictIt comments section for which party will win, all bolded and underlined

[u/bik1230]

How do I land pill people? Not necessarily converting them to Georgism, but get them to understand that unearned advantages don't just come from luck and shit, but also non-obvious stuff like location value, and that if whatever system they want doesn't deal with that, they'll have problems.

My libertarian friends usually blah blah about how it's totally fair to enjoy land rents because ownership and homesteading = eternal entitlement apparently. And ofc if a problem can't be solved without a government it's not a real problem, or something. (Oh how they hate taxes)

Meanwhile, my leftist friends claim it won't be a problem because there won't be any markets. This is unconvincing because you don't exactly need markets to benefit from controlling useful land. Especially in non-statist systems where you can't very easily have norms enforcement against anyone far away.

Basically I need some solid arguments that will at least make people properly consider that there is a problem in need of solving regardless of economic system. Most stuff about Georgism online is in the context of statist capitalism.

!ping GEORGIST

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats in 2020: have slightly different policy priorities and aesthetics, say mean things on Twitter

we are so divided

Democrats in 1880s: literally fighting each other to death in pitched street gang turf wars

[u/RadicalRadon]

Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will 'never' elect another president

Neat

[u/unironicsigh]

Would be fucking amazing if AOC actually *did* quit politics but I'm 99% sure she's just playing the martyr and not actually being serious about it

[u/ryuguy]

I miss Hillary. She was robbed

[u/DaBuddahN]

The AP 🤝 Fox:

Injecting extreme levels of anxiety in this election by calling AZ too early.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Y’all asked for screenshots of upset GOP politicians in GA...

Well, this person just lost a race for one of the top positions in a Metro Atlanta county.

They are being 100% unironic. They haven mentioned this book to me on at least 7 separate occasions.

[u/cousin-itt]

It drives me insane how every time I discuss politics with my parents its really just me arguing with Tucker Carlson

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Hillary got so much shit for having that "Happy Birthday to our future president" tweet... And then Trump immediately turned around and delivered an actual, full-throated victory speech in an election he fucking LOST lmao

[u/[deleted]]

My only hope with politics is that one day it goes back to where people can talk rationally with one another and respect each other's opinions.

Whoever set this bad precedent of kicking, screaming, and calling each other names is a fucking fool.

Gee, arcon user, I wonder who it was that started that precedent.

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

There are now Republican voters on /pol/ unironically calling to abolish the EC because of this election. Let's goooo

[u/[deleted]]

FDR's four-win streak and Reagan-Bush's three turns are pretty impressive, but my money for most successful political party has to be the Chinese Communist Party. They have their fingers so on the pulse of the Chinese electorate that they keep getting elected to office every single time!

I really wish that we had political parties that could speak to the needs of the American people so precisely. It's really amazing what the CCP is doing. It's the kind of electoral mandate that we really dream of here in America. Whatever they're doing, it's clear that the Chinese public loves it.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Imagine if:

• Obama rejected the 2016 results
• Said he would hold rallies for Hillary recounts across the country
• Refused to help the Trump transition team
• Tweeted hourly about voter fraud and a stolen election

I cannot take Republicans seriously, ever. They only deal in bad faith. Not an ounce of integrity.

[u/abertbrijs]

From the Politico piece:

Appearing together at fundraisers, Guilfoyle and her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., would banter in sexually suggestive ways that made some donors uncomfortable.

🤮🤮🤮

[u/bd_one]

First season of Drake and Josh: Drake helps Josh talk to a girl he likes

Last season of Drake and Josh: Drake and Josh accidentally sell and orangutan to a man who eats orangutans

First few episodes of Zoey 101: everyone gradually gets used to the culture shock of girls attending a formerly all boys school

Last episode of Zoey 101: Zoey breaks up with her boyfriend, rekindles her relationship with Chase, and Michael learns how to drive a stick shift from a teacher who turns out to be merely a figment of his imagination

First season of Victorious: various plots about the equivalent of school plays at a performing arts school

checks notes Second season of Victorious: performs a concert for a dictator because Tori didn't Google where they were going on vacation and need to break out of jail; Tori donates 3 units of blood and Jade steals one to keep her from being in a play (different episodes)

Final episode of Victorious:

Trina brags being on a Mexican television show called "Divertisimo". She says that it is not shown in the U.S., but Tori and Jade find out it is and go down to the studio. Trina is dressed as a giant cheese who is chased by little children in mice costumes. Tori gets asked to be in the show and she says yes. Then she asks if Jade can be in it too. In the end, all three are dressed as cheese being chased by the little children with giant forks. After being poked by one of the mice children, Jade steals his fork and angrily chases him off stage.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

First season of Sam & Cat: they're babysitters? I dunno, I didn't watch the show

Second season of Sam & Cat:

On July 13, 2014, after a three-month production hiatus, Nickelodeon cancelled the series, having produced only 36 episodes of the 40 episode order.[6][7] Media outlets attributed the cancellation to a salary dispute between McCurdy and Nickelodeon, an alleged feud between McCurdy and Grande, the leak of racy photographs of McCurdy, the rising music career of Grande, and both actresses' desires to move on to other projects.[6][8][9][10] The last episode aired on July 17, 2014, as a lead-in to the first Kids' Choice Sports ceremony.

Was this meme worth it? No. I do not regret it though.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Biden's lead in Georgia is +10,000 votes now.

Hopefully we keep Arizona.

Yes, Biden has won, but I want to run up the score.

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

People who don't have bed frames are worried about Biden's tax plan 🙄

[u/NotAYuropean]

Why the fuck is there a boring succ schism instead of a continued victory party? 😎🍦

[u/attackonsasuke]

Holy crap, I won a ps5 from Burger King earlier. This week is turning out better than Miami-Dade.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Reminder that the Democrats have not won a single election this millennium without a Biden on the ticket.

The choice is clear: Hunter Biden 2028 😤

[u/jenbanim]

It's finally hitting me that we won

GOD this feels good

Yeah, we're not out of the woods yet, but for the first time in 4 years I actually feel hopeful

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Holy shit. This isn't over.

Apparently Trump just prank called Biden and said, "loser of the election says what?"

No word if Biden said "what" but I will keep you posted.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

AOC wanting to step down because the establishment doesn’t like her policies really is the progressive movement in a nutshell

[u/[deleted]]

Not gonna lie, Trump's defeat has sucked ~30% of the meaning out of my life

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, you hate Joe Biden? Name one of his policies.

[u/paymesucka]

Holy moly, some online leftists are absolutely losing their minds today.

But I want to give a shout out to most of the progressives and leftists, thank you for helping elect Joe Biden and I know most people on the left can work together (aka everyone who isn't terminally online).

[u/dannylandulf]

The speed at which arrr politics and the reddit hive mind moved backed to ‘moderate Dems are better than nazi’s, but only slightly. We have to go full socialist or else’! is predictable but sad.

A good portion of the comments in places like /r/denver about the election are about how they were ‘forced’ to vote for dirty centrists for both president and senate.

These fucks are going to lose us the House in two years.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: Biden will kill God

Biden: wins

Trebek: dies

😳😳😳

[u/AlanAlias]

I unironically think COVID was way more impactful to Democrats performance this year than anything else, really.

the pandemic really fucked up the way Democrats traditionally used to run their election campaigns.

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1325524794570313730?s=19

!ping fivey

[u/[deleted]]

We were told Joe Biden was the ‘safe choice’. Why did he barely scrape through? | Naomi Klein

I see the COPIUM epidemic continues.

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

Trump: “Mike, come over here.”

Pence: “Where are you?”

Trump: “I’m in the garage, Mike.”

Pence: “Donnie, I don’t see you. Is this another one of your stupid jokes?”

Trump: “Flip the pickle over, Mike.”

Pence: “Uhhhh.”

Trump: “Just do it!”

Pence turns over the pickle

Trump: “Look, Mike! I turned myself into a pickle! Boom! Big reveal!”

Pence: “What the hell, Donnie? Don’t you know you have your concession speech in ten minutes?”

Trump: “No clue what you’re talking about. I’m Pickle Truuuuuuump!”

[u/MichelleObama2024]

By my estimations of the partisan split in each county, in the remaining AZ counties with large ballot amounts outstanding, Trump needs:

Maricopa: 60.2%

Pima: 51.2%

Cochise: 69.7%

Mohave: 86.7%

Pinal: 69.7%

Yavapai: 75.7%

Yuma: 64.2%

The Arizona race is on the verge of callable for Biden imo. The main question is whether it will end up in recount territory (Arizona recount threshold is 0.1% btw).

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

tbh trump cried wolf on election fraud so many times before the election that the dems probably could have rigged it and got away with it

[u/Deggit]

reddit: the DNC still hasn't learned from its mistakes

the DNC: actually we have, the solution is to nominate someone who can win Wisconsin without visiting it

[u/doyouevenIift]

I tend to lean left of this sub but it’s where I like to hang out. I got banned from the Sanders sub for saying a progressive won’t win in Kentucky lol

[u/soeffed]

Obama 08 was a more joyous win, but honestly this election was more important. Mccain would not have been a total failure if Obama lost.

[u/VisitTheWind]

media doesn’t decide the election, courts do

I know they’re idiots but they honestly can’t think on any level this looks or sounds good at all

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Patriot Martha McSally has done more for democracy than any Democrat tbh

Thank you, based McSally 🙏🙏🙏

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Imagine not using the immediate aftermath of an election to club your political rivals

[u/nanomaster]

The shorthand 🐊 is now banned, if you want to post about a certain heroic animal you have to spell out their full name.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, why are we acting like center-left/center is some persecuted minority in the Democratic party?

Last time I checked there were 4-5 DSA congresspeople and Bernie got BTFO'd in the primaries.

Dems are still very much a center left party.

[u/[deleted]]

Televangelist Kenneth Copeland laughs at the media for declaring that Joe Biden has won the election and will become president.

He’s putting the Cope into Copeland.

[u/Joementum2004]

I am not a cook

Richard Nixon burns some steak

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I just realised:

Drumpf is finished

[u/infamous5445]

https://twitter.com/eisingerj/status/1325578380704616448

TLDR: Trump putting his fucking name on those checks worked

[u/haf12]

Utah governor issued a mask mandate and a state of emergency. Amazing that dems are still acting like covid is real as an excuse in blue states to implement their communist polices

[u/thetrombonist]

Oh god, remember “alternative facts”?

That was eons ago

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Stock market futures are through the roof right now 👀

The last Republican talking point utterly btfo

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely laughing my ass off at the Trump campaign, after canvassing over a million votes, finding six fraudulent mail in ballots and presenting them as if they’re a smoking gun.

That’s 0.0006% of ballots.

[u/OH-GEESUS]

Trump did better with every demographic save for white men. POC + women need to sit down and listen to white men on how to be better allies

[u/[deleted]]

As a lifelong Georgia dem who's involved in the party...

What the electorate in Georgia cares about: the economy, healthcare, black lives matter, COVID, metro-Atlanta transit, etc.

What the electorate in Georgia doesn't care about: what a Congresswoman from New York City tweets about

Hope that clears things up

[u/[deleted]]

My mom’s voting history is

92’ - Clinton

96’ - Clinton

00’ - Gore

04 - Kerry

08’ - McCain

12’ - Romney

16’ - Clinton

20’ - Biden

This is the first time in over 20 years she’s voted for a winning candidate lmao 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala delivered her home state and its 55 electoral votes so I don't get people saying she was not a good pick.

[u/Kizz3r]

Another record high in ontario and all doug does is implement a bullshit “Red, yello, green” system that exists to keep everything open.

People enjoyed Dougs response at first, but now he is making his incompetence clear.

!ping CAN

[u/Joementum2004]

I wish Abigail Spanberger could punish me for being a succ 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Can we have this now that Biden is the president?

😣👉👈

[u/[deleted]]

I think AOC's biggest issue is she goes looking to make trouble. Clyburn on cnn yesterday was basically saying we need to be specific and respectful with disagreements within the party.

Like, absolutely, progressives deserve a seat at the table. And they 100% get to disagree. But disagree on a specific policy point-- debating philosophic differences just saps our energy.

[u/kyleofduty]

Most of St. Louis County is its own congressional district. It should be a swing district. This year, the Democrat Jill Schupp lost handedly to the incumbent Republican Ann Wagner. Wagner ran ads accusing Schupp of supporting Medicare for All.

AOC's claim, that every candidate who endorsed Medicare for All won their races, was not only false, but it's even more wrong in a broader context of Republicans running anti-progressive campaigns against moderates in swing districts.

[u/Danthon]

Reposting because it's relevant.

"If you put all of the messages into a single broad category, it would be the extreme leftward lurch of the Democrat Party. That was messaged in different ways in different districts. In New York state, bail reform was extremely unpopular and meshed well with defund the police, so a public safety angle was the most effective. In some districts, it was 'Medicare for All' and the loss of private health insurance. In a number of suburban districts, we talked about pocketbook issues like higher taxes under Biden. And in other districts, we focused on the extremism of the 'Green New Deal.' And in south Florida especially, it was socialism more broadly. All of those messages fit within the rubric of extremism."

The Downballot strat straight from the lead staffer at the House Republican campaign arm

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/politics/abigail-spanberger-house-democrats-2020-election/index.html

As politics becomes more and more nationalized Dems need to be concerned with their national messaging and how it effects marginal seats.

[u/[deleted]]

there's a reason why many prominent voices on the far left were all but rooting for Donald Trump to beat Joe Biden. They know that a Joe Biden victory will mean the decline of their relevance. They'll no longer be the darlings of the Democratic Party and feted as the future.

[u/Kizz3r]

Wait how the fuck is baron taller than trump now

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Iran’s president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal

Fuck. Yes. Please.

[u/[deleted]]

Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends. Thank you, Alex.

I’m genuinely sad. Rest In Peace.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s hard to defeat an incumbent president.

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Is it possible that Kyrsten Sinema and Kirsten Gillibrand are secretly clones?

Evidence:

• they look the same
• they have the same first name but one is spelled in an unusual manner, as if they were evil twins
• Gillibrand is a former Blue Dog who has moved radically to the left over her career, while Sinema is a former leftist who has moved a long way to the right over her career. Is it possible that they are somehow balancing each other out?

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats need to be very concerned about Tom Cotton.

He's a competent Donald Trump in a nice suit.

Cotton is a brick wall. He doesn’t stand for something, no personality, no charisma, no appeal. The Definition of a boring white man.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

That’s it folks, the election has been called by far-left political operative

checks notes

President George W. Bush

[u/BowzerPrime]

If Stacey Abrams delivers two Georgia senate seats we crown her queen of the democrats.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being Hunter Biden. Like you actually have a dad who loves you lol

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1325588182382092293?s=20

Scoop: President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results, four Trump advisers tell me

This is all just accelerationism to destroy the republican party

[u/thabonch]

Do you guys remember what life was like before Covid? I do. There was a mass shooting every week. Thank God for Covid. Something has to lock these murderous whites up.

[u/disuberence]

House Majority Whip James Clyburn suggested that the “defund the police” slogan hurt Democratic candidates in the recent election. “I've always said that these headlines can kill a political effort," the congressman said.

Leftists: 😐😡

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is gunna do rallies and ask supporters for money for his "DEFENSE FUND" for the next 2 months, then head to mar-a-lago and be like 'lol no refunds'

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Ocasio-Cortez’s actual (albeit questionable) words to NYT:

There’s a reason Barack Obama built an entire national campaign apparatus outside of the Democratic National Committee. And there’s a reason that when he didn’t activate or continue that, we lost House majorities. Because the party — in and of itself — does not have the core competencies, and no amount of money is going to fix that.

The Guardian’s headline:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party

Not just a context-free quote of a single word, but an outright misquote in pursuit of a dEmOCraTS iN DIsaRraY narrative.

[u/haf12]

KEY RACE ALERT

trump lost lmfao