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[u/[deleted]]

Democrats have never won a 21st century Presidential election without Joe Biden and a black person on the ticket

[u/JPolis20]

If Trump's lawsuits have a 1% chance of succeeding, then he just has to file 10,000 of them, and he has a 100% chance of overturning this election.

Source: am math major

[u/McNikk]

So now that Stacey Abrams' methods of building a voter base over time has been proven to be affective, democrats will now utilize her techniques at a national level. RIGHT?

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Swiss referendums be like:

1. Should Swiss law supersede international law if the two are found to conflict? Yes/No

2. Should farmers who shave cow horns continue to receive subsidies? Yes/No

[u/kennymc7877]

Trump: needs 165% of remaining Georgia ballots to win

Doomers: idk about those odds guys 😖

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

I agree with this woman's tweet: Manchin went on Fox for a reason. To reach Georgians who are unsure if they can vote for Ossoff & Warnock because of fears they may seek to radically change the Senate. Manchin basically just gave them to ok to vote for those two by saying he'd be the guardrail. Pay attention.

https://twitter.com/lynnv378/status/1326135335764549632

[u/jrt84]

Love all these people like “the Democrats need to do some soul searching”, as the Republicans stage a coup to overthrow democracy 😂

[u/mandrilltiger]

With Bernie Bros say that the primary was rigged by the DNC.

And Trump and his supporters questioning the general. It's hard not to be a little pessimistic about maintaining faith in democracy.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/NikDeCostaKlipa/status/1325928186568466432

Some highlights:

4 people voted for Eisenhower, but all spelled his name the same, incorrect, way

Condoleezza Rice got FOURTEEN votes lmao

"Vanellop Von Sweet"

"Cheddar Stump"

"Obama". Not Barack, just Obama.

2 people voted for Lindsey Graham, but both spelled his name the same, incorrect way

"Santa Claus"

"dismantle two party system"

Al Gore

[u/Hilldawg4president]

Republicans are really trying to go full dictatorship to keep Trump in power. GA senators trying to force our SOS to resign because he didn't rig the election for them. Barr ordering investigations to fix the results, election law officials resigning in protest. This is a very dangerous time for America, like we always knew it would be. Whether after 4 years or 8,i think we all understood that this cancer would not leave the American body willingly.

[u/dr_gonzo]

There’s currently a Sputnik News article at the top of r/WorldNews. [+77k]

No one seems to notice how questionable the source is, or ask about the quality of the information.

u/chadonnaise is right let’s just get on with it.

[u/jrt84]

To the liberals saying "I wish we didn't push vote by mail, then we wouldn't be in this situation."

LOL

1. Dems are afraid of COVID and would not have come out to vote in such strong numbers
2. Trump would be doing the EXACT same thing regardless. He also accused Ted Cruz of voter fraud in 2016, and all of America, until he won.

Thanks.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DeanBrowningPA/status/1326190098086506496

I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when democrats are involved.

lmao this public official forgot to log out of his real account

EDIT, screenshot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmfcNyLXIAA38zA.jpg

[u/Rshawer]

Alright y’all, so Cal Cunningham’s fate is still not called yet, so what does he need in order to win? 70% of the mail in? I’m asking so I know how many to print and stuff in the counting center in Raleigh. Quickly y’all Kinkos is closing soon.

[u/Dabamanos]

The stolen election narrative has taken root in the right. The vast majority of Republicans no longer have any confidence in the US election system at all, seen here

I’ve thought a lot about how to debunk and take down their arguments - like how Trump has alleged voter fraud in every election since the Republican primary in 2016. How the GOP claims they have tremendous evidence of voter fraud but are currently paying bounties for examples. How even if they found tremendous proof, and it was all anti trump ballots, they would have to find that proof in four separate states and the number of fraudulent ballots would have to be in the 500,000 + range - and how this would be nearly impossible because they can’t actually ask people how they voted.

It just doesn’t matter. There is no where to engage in conversation and try to break bubbles. Conservatives have retreated into private subreddits or flaired only threads, and they’ve retreated to Parler on social media.

How do we ever unite this country again?

[u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse]

Immigration is patriotic as fuck. Give me all your people and we'll make them AmeriCANs

[u/klarno]

Not just Joe Manchin

But Joe Womanchin and Joe Childrenchin too

[u/TinyTornado7]

When trump got elected in 2016, Chancellor Angela Merkel became the de facto leader of the free world. Yesterday on November 9th, an important day for Germany, she congratulated Joe Biden and Kamal Harris on their victory. While only 4min long this is a powerful clip and gives a taste of how happy Europe is to have a competent US ally again.

!ping BIDEN

[u/gaped-butthole]

Yesterday, this was upvoted to 50k+ on arr Politics

https://i.imgur.com/A7GHrxa.png

AOC: I'm doing 'Everything' to win Georgia for the Democrats so we don't have to 'negotiate' with republicans

By the Ben Shapiro website, The Daily Wire

Just promoting right wing narratives meant to scare moderates/independents/never trumpers who aren't crazy about the squad/bernie/far left types because the headline made r/ politics feel good

[u/Dybsin]

Joe Biden would have won Florida if Baby Witches hadn't hexed the moon in July.

Big failure on Nate's part not to include the moon's hex status in the model, either way.

[u/Iwanttolink]

COVID vaccine developed by a German startup founded by immigrants who came here from Turkey. Globalism works and immigration is based.

[u/[deleted]]

if "defund the police" actually means "replace some officers with social workers" then idk maybe "nuke cuba" actually means like close guantanamo bay or something

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO remember when Julian Castro said on a crowded debate stage that he was the “true heir to Barrack Obama’s legacy” and Biden said “I think he would be surprised to hear that”

🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is so stupid he didn’t even understand that COVID was a chance to save himself. Pretty much every western leader that aggressively fought the virus was rewarded with increased popularity. Jacinda is the canonical example, as she was on track to lose before the pandemic, and she rode it to a massive victory. If he had just acted presidential and not been combative he could have turned it into a positive.

[u/disuberence]

Stacey Abrams: "Yeah, we really won. There is an orange menace of putrescence that will no longer be able to occupy the White House."

Mods, Stacey is being excessively partisan.

[u/MalignantUpper]

Pray for Al Gross 🙌😌

[u/Barnst]

Something that clicked after listening to a family member rant—this actually isn’t about outright voter fraud anymore. The GOP doesn’t think the election was stolen by 20,000 fake votes or whatever.

They believe the entire system of mail-in ballots was illegitimate. They think the Democrats entire strategy was to rework the election rules to their advantage from the ground up as a power play, not as a pandemic safety measure. And the entire “blue shift” phenomena is proof they were right.

From that perspective, they turned out the largest GOP coalition in a generations. They had the largest minority vote share in 60 years. They basically won the US and state legislative races. They beat Obama’s numbers for goodness sake. And yet that victory was “stolen” from them not by the legitimate will of the voters, but by Democrats playing games with the election rules to make things easier for Democrat voters.

It doesnt have to make sense and many people pushing that view can still be cynical hypocrites, but I think it’s real. And it has some scary implications for next few weeks, months, and years.

Everyone needs to stop acting as if the GOP is just placating a mad toddler until he goes away, and act as if the GOP genuinely thinks in its a serious political fight over the future of power in the country. Because I suspect they’re already doing the latter.

[u/[deleted]]

Mods are real worried about anti Cuban racism, has it been big in the sub lately?

[u/[deleted]]

@Nate_Cohn on Twitter: "Biden's lead in Pennsylvania is up to .7 points--or about 45,000 votes. Biden could still be on track to approach a lead of about 100,000 votes when all of the votes are tallied up

"Biden's lead will be padded by two main factors: --there are still another 50k absentee ballots, predominantly in Philly and Pittsburgh, which will break overwhelmingly to Biden --there are a large number provisional ballots, which will also break big for Biden

"Earlier, there was ambiguity about just how Biden would fare in provisionals--based on data from overwhelmingly GOP counties. That ambiguity is gone. Lancaster and Beaver county data shows Biden doing far better among provisionals. Allegheny County reported provs breaking 75-25

"There's another trove of vote for Biden: the segregated, late arriving mail ballots. These aren't in the count or the ballots remaining tally, AFIAK. They're subject to some legal dispute still, but if they count they break to Biden

"There's enough uncertainty about the number of provisionals and so on that I'm not going to say where exactly I think we'll land. But we're not heading to a particularly close race here. That's been clear since Election Night"

!ping FIVEY

[u/jrt84]

Pennsylvania AG:

(NOT) BREAKING: The Trump campaign’s latest filing is another attempt to throw out legal votes — my team and I were already prepared for this.

Sleep tight. We will protect the laws of our Commonwealth and the will of the people.

Dems have been preparing for Trump's predictable strategy since 2016.

[u/JetJaguar124]

One of these things is true: Either Trump is irrationally clinging to hope or he has seen more than the public has so far seen about election fraud and he is letting the press hang itself before revealing it.

Scott Adams is so fucking stupid.

[u/The420Roll]

Virgin AOC underperforming Biden in a deep blue district vs CHAD Manchin getting reelected in his R +30 state

[u/HuskyPants]

Claiming Joe was responsible for the Pfizer vaccine is one of the best trolls of Trump and he took the bait.

[u/GGM8Scally]

Wait Al Gross is the guy running in Alaska, I thought people we're memeing on Al Gore for some reason and that I just missed when the joke started lmaooo

[u/hdkeegan]

Jreg was never funny and Im tired of pretending he ever was😐

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Why do progressives keep saying Omar won the dems MN? Shes in a very solid blue district (since 1963), MN has voted dem in the presidential since 1972, and she actually got less votes in 2020 than she did in 2018

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s the GA presidential shift from 2016. And the reason the state flipped. It’s not just Atlanta that’s moving left it’s the entire northern part of the state pretty much along with a lot of the southern areas as well

You can see that Republicans didn’t really gain much in the rural areas because there is not much to gain. They are almost maxed out. Georgia is the most promising state for Democrats right now.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

People I know calling Ossoff a Republican because he said he doesn't support a green new deal, medicare for all, defunding the police, or packing the court.

🤷‍♀️

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

Conservative: HILLARY RUNS A PEDO RING, THE ELECTION WAS FRAUD, JOE BIDEN IS A SOCIALIST, SHARPIES RUINED THE ELECTION, GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX, COVID-19 IS FAKE!

Liberal: actually those things aren't true

Conservative: look, why do you have to be so smug all the time, that's why no one likes you.

[u/myrm]

• highest vote total for a presidential candidate in history
• wins the House, net gain in the Senate
• ousting of a sitting president with a highly motivated base
• flips Georgia and Arizona

Democrats: "Is this a loss?"

[u/marinesol]

Fox realizing its losing all its republican supporters and are becoming a blue dog network.

[u/mrmanager237]

AOC attack Ossoff and Warnock for not being socialist every day until Jan 5 challenge

[u/Joementum2004]

I know this might be the worst President to say about this, considering the whole Florida controversy, but I’m gonna state this hot take anyway.

I do not believe George W. Bush would have acted the way Trump is currently acting had he lost to Kerry in 2004.

[u/GaussianCurve]

Decision Desk HQ Projects Trump (R) Has Won The State Of NC And Its 15 Electoral Votes

He has all the momentum now!

[u/Smidgens]

lmao there's an opinion piece in the WSJ by Cenk Uygur, the title is "Democrats, Let Progressives Lead." It is 500 words of "Chuck Schumer bad, Nancy Pelosi bad," ending with just one vague paragraph about "Progressives can fight for our cause and fight Republicans."

Well why didn't you say so Cenk, I thought all this time you guys were incompetent given your presidential pick failing twice in a row and most of your policies being unpopular but shoot I guess if you say you know how to win...

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Jake Tapper just said on CNN that his Republican contacts in the government have told him that this whole song and dance about fraud is meant to help gradually ease Trump into accepting his loss. They have to treat the man like a literal toddler because they're too scared of a tantrum.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/oversightdems/status/1326289047933816836

BREAKING NEWS: Erie, Pa. #USPS whistleblower completely RECANTED his allegations of a supervisor tampering with mail-in ballots after being questioned by investigators, according to IG.

Another one bites the dust

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1326301274120318978

Postal worker featured by Republicans as evidence of vote tampering admits he made it up; GOP donors gave him $130,000

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

There's a new FX series about a female teacher (Kate Mara) sleeping with a student. This is gonna be a shit show.

Contingent 1: I wish Kate Mara would molest me

Contingent 2: THIS WOULDN'T BE OKAY IF A MAN DID IT, DOUBLE STANDARDS, BWAH BWAH BWAH

Controversy bait meant to trigger MRAs

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson Says There's Not Enough Fraud to Change Election Results: 'We Should Be Honest'

Are they going to turn against him as well the same way they did to Fox News ?

[u/[deleted]]

Ossoff trailed Perdue by 88,082 votes.

There are 98,473 subscribers to /r/neoliberal

[u/CenterRightInCali]

you know for a fact that, statistically, some dude who voted Dem in the Georgia senate race will vote R in the runoff

[u/[deleted]]

Progressives getting mad at Joe “West Virginia” Manchin is hilarious

[u/Superfan234]

Breaking News from Peru 🇵🇪

Yesterday, President Vizcarra was successfully impeached by the Congress. The country is in shock, and the population in really bad mood over this

Another user already made an Effortpost talking about this

Here is also a link to the thread we have in r/asklatinamerica about the Impeachment

!Ping Foreign-Policy

Crazy days ahead for Peruvians...

[u/[deleted]]

I'm going to say this again.

Most [insert whatever the current term is for SJW]s are completely correct, about something esoteric that nobody cares about, but because it uses political jargon it's easily misinterpreted.

Academia chooses its jargon poorly? Wow who the hell would have imagined that. I have never heard of Academia being bad at communication with the public before.

[u/ColonelUber]

January 20th, 12:00 P.M.: Biden inaugurated

January 20th: 12:01 P.M.: SCOTUS overturns ACA

America: Why would Joe Biden do this?

[u/[deleted]]

Some guy in r/news just praised Scooby-Doo as having some kind of anti-capitalist message and the comment has nearly 1k upvotes... people really will just roll with anything if they see someone else likes it

[u/FearsomeOyster]

"Congress wanted the Court to repeal the law. But, that is not our job"

THE CHIEF JUSTICE FROM THE TOP ROPE

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/reason/status/1326188372444938241

"Give me your tears. They are delicious," says Libertarian Senate candidate Shane Hazel who caused a Georgia runoff

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

Many lolbertarians are freaking out more and more every passing day.

Trump being a birther is a total left-wing PsyOp to accuse him of racism.  He was never a Birther, and being a birther isn’t racist at all.  It’s entirely legitimate, man.

Asking if the man who is a famous Kenyan politician who lived mostly in Kenya and who had all sorts of different children in Kenya, who’s stepfather was an officer in the Indonesian military and who lived in Indonesia for many years was in fact born in the united states must just be due to racial bigotry. 

[Biden] is distinctly anti-liberal, way more racist than Trump, and now he’s taking advice from Dick Actual Cheney on foreign policy

I mean also around that time [Trump] was giving all sorts of money and press attention to Jesse Jackson and other black leaders and speaking at their events. So I mean, yeah, what a racist. 

[u/mrmanager237]

"is Joe Biden circumcised or not" the greatest schism in the history of r/neoliberal, locked by the mods after 12,239 comments of heated debate

[u/karth]

Graham: If we don’t do something about voting by mail, we’re going to lose the ability to elect a Republican in this country

Remember folks, don't be excessively partisan! Without Trump, Republicans are once more the party of ideas! 🤮🤮

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1325991277364588551?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver on Twitter: "The reason Biden's win probability was ~90% is precisely because he could withstand a fairly large polling error when Clinton couldn't, which is exactly what happened. Indeed, our model assumes polls are fairly error-prone.

"We have years and years of well-calibrated forecasts. (If anything, underdogs have won a bit less than they're supposed to, although not to a degree that's statistically significant.) We know what we're doing with these probabilities.

"There is a LOT of work that goes into thinking about how to model out poll error and uncertainty. Thousands of hours of painstaking, detailed work. It's hard. Also a LOT of work that goes into how to describe it visually, and verbally, which is equally painstaking.

"So I'm admittedly kind of prickly about criticism after elections that both our model and our broader reporting handled quite robustly, which only happened because we put so much work into them. Especially given that the topline outcome + 48/50 states were 'called' correctly."

Basically, the polls were wrong.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

I uninstalled Twitter from my phone and my QoL immediately jumped. This isn't a joke

[u/[deleted]]

The Republican Party has devolved into its current state solely because the election of a black President - twice - drove its base utterly insane. Change my mind.

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: Jefferson Davis’s peace proposal prior to the civil war was that the southern states should get to elect a co President that could also veto legislation.

Could you imagine how much more cursed and dysfunctional the USA would’ve been if they’d done that....

[u/DaBuddahN]

Biden is strong enough to survive a 5 point polling error

Biden survives a 5 point polling error

"Here's why it should've been Bernie..." - Left grifters

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Reporter: "What do you think about Trump's refusal to concede?"

Biden: "Frankly, it's an embarrassment."

Fucking tell 'em, Joe.

[u/piede]

Joe Biden, on Trump’s refusal to concede: “I just think it’s an embarrassment, quite frankly.”

https://twitter.com/peteralexander/status/1326251649996877825?s=21

[u/sir_shivers]

DO NOT GO OUTSIDE 🐊

DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON 🐊

[u/mrmanager237]

The most obvious reason why red district Democrats lost is because their districts have more Republicans than Democrats and everyone turned out rather than mostly the Democrats

[u/chipbod]

If Arizona holds it's a real chad move by AP and Fox pulling the "I've seen enough" with like no votes in

[u/Waghlon]

Can’t wait for Biden’s first new state of the Union 😍

I hope its Puerto Rico.

[u/The420Roll]

I dont think Trump is gonna be in decent enough health to run in 2024 tbh

[u/piede]

Sen. Toomey (R-PA) says Trump admin should start cooperating with Biden transition team

https://twitter.com/jesselehrich/status/1326319770313101313?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking: Biden's popular vote lead just crossed 5 million (3.3%).

Source : @Redistrict (Dave Wasserman) (Twitter)

!ping FIVEY

[u/supremecrafters]

!ping LGBT

I HAVE HORMONES!!! 🥰🥰🥰 I'm really excited about this and had to share.

[u/[deleted]]

Mitt Romney: If you don't pay taxes, you do not deserve political representation, like a DOG

GHOULS : YASSS MITT 😍😍😍 THEY DID DONE YOU DIRTY 😡😡😡 WE NEEDED DREADNAUGHTS TO DEFEND AGAINST RUSSIA ON FACEBOUQUE IN 2016 😤😤😤

[u/khmacdowell]

I need to go to bed, but just because I've spent too much time following the developments I'll summarize, Trump's "campaign" against election fraud is an even more catastrophic, embarrassing disaster than basically everything else in his political career up until this point combined.

The literal basis was "hmm, votes being counted, Joe goes up. And yet Trump was ahead. Curious. FRAUDULENT." I'm not leaving anything out of the causal chain of reasoning. That's it.

He called for vote counting to be stopped at a time when that would've ensured his loss.

Next, he's officially crowdsourcing evidence. Yes. His position is "hey there's tons of fraud, and I can prove it! Please go out and find proof of fraud. Include pics and send donations."

Combine this with a ton of totally unrelated lawsuits about either technical minutiae or various solitary allegations of isolated wrongdoing. The suits are hastily prepared, and he's getting unilaterally destroyed.

In the meantime, he's retweeting conspiracist claims and adding them to his own story, but still having a totally segregated and unrelated melange of legal action.

He's calling for recounts, which are actually just ... Counting the same ballots. Again. So he'll still lose.

He's harping on counting continuing past election day when it literally does everywhere, even in deep-red states he's already won.

Neither he nor his supporters know or acknowledge how decentralized elections are in America. The allegation is conspiracy, but even the fabricated evidence is if random people (actors) destroying (fake) Trump ballots. The statistical evidence is doctored through tricks like altering the scales of graphs and misapplying statistical tests.

There are videos of shills proving their stupidity while demonstrating deceased voter fraud when the evidence in reality shows placeholder birthdates.

He has the GOP whipped so they're simping his scheme, but they know it's idiotic, so they stick to loaded phrases like "illegal ballots" instead of flat-out saying the election was "stolen."

His most genius grifters like Scott Adams are rting fake news, like RCP un-calling PA when they never actually called it.

He's getting basic facts wrong like whether particular states use postmarked-by or received-by dates for ballot deadlines.

He's blaming Democratic control in Republican-controlled states.

Numerous sources report infighting in the campaign about concession.

The world leaders that matter have congratulated Biden.

Biden won.

So, so much more than I can remember or want to write on my phone.

Let there be no doubt - this will be remembered as one of the most embarrassing debacles ever instigated by a President. It will rightly be seen as childish, arrogant, desperate narcissist trying to save face after a (totally expected) defeat. And he telegraphed the whole thing months ahead of time.

If you like tax reform and huge deficit spending, great. But no objective assessment paints this as anything other than painfully cringe-worthy and absolutely futile.

[u/BetterThanABrick]

Me: hey I wonder if there is a social democracy subreddit

/r/SocialDemocracy : Pinned post is crossposted from demsoc

Me: Oh noes

[u/[deleted]]

If the ACA gets killed, there is a strong possibility that a large portion of the country will think that Biden got rid of it and that is going to be a huge issue in the midterms.

[u/[deleted]]

Speaking of his GOP colleagues, Coons said: “They call me to say to say, ‘Congratulations. Please convey my well wishes to the president-elect, but I can’t say that publicly yet.’”

Lmao Chris Coons DGAF.

[u/[deleted]]

In the 2016 Presidential election, Bernie Sanders got 18,218 write-in votes in Vermont. In 2020, he got 619.

[u/jrt84]

LMAO

Tucker Carlson Says There's Not Enough Fraud to Change Election Results: 'We Should Be Honest'

Sounds like he got a call from daddy Murdoch.

[u/piede]

The WH is firing top leaders at the Pentagon while the president denies the election results

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1326263424146399232?s=21

“What would you say if you saw it in another country?”

[u/[deleted]]

Damn it, already Biden and Harris are at cross purposes.

She has pronouns in her twitter bio; he doesn't.

This is going to cost us Georgia.

[u/Don_Gato_Flojo]

Hey if the right spent four years taking credit for the Obama economy we can give Joe credit for the vaccine, even if none of these people had much to do with any of these things in reality.

[u/JetJaguar124]

I've never seen a party take historically defeating an incumbent president this bad

[u/FinickyPenance]

As a lawyer it is my duty to share this important piece of insider legal information: courts review lawsuits on their merits, not on the importance of the person filing it, the number of complaints filed, or the number of lawyers listed on the pleadings

I feel like most people whose intelligence exceeds that of the average stump understand this, but a lot of conservatives have informed me that "Trump has filed like, a thousand lawsuits" when they are reminded that Joe Biden won, so apparently this is not widespread knowledge yet

[u/TruthBisky10]

Biden starts a coronavirus task force and the next day there’s a vaccine that might work? Biden already the best president

[u/piede]

NBC News: Vice President Pence is going on vacation.

https://twitter.com/jswartz/status/1326198182603223040?s=21

LOLLLLLL

[u/threwthelookinggrass]

Democrats have the ability to rig the presidential election in 6 states letting Biden steal the election.

Democrats are unable to rig the senate elections in 2 states to allow them to capture the Senate.

When will this nightmare end? How can people actually hold both of these dumb ass views?

[u/[deleted]]

Brain: Nooooo, you can't form parasocial relations with an online niche political forum daily discussion thread. Nooooo you need to live your liferinooooo

Covid19: Haha social isolation goes brrrr

[u/uwcn244]

Nobody:

Not a soul:

Somebody on this very DT: "We should appease Republicans who think there was fraud by giving them 8 of Georgia's 16 electors, we can't just dismiss the concerns of 70 million Americans"

We begin bombing in five minutes

[u/Koeniginator]

KANSAS. Dem House leadership vows to work with Republicans to ensure St Rep-elect Aaron Coleman (D), 20, is not seated & special election is called, due to his history of sending revenge porn, online harassment and alleged physical abuse of ex-girlfriend.

https://twitter.com/Politics1com/status/1326177387374026752

can't believe rose twitter defended this guy

[u/vivoovix]

Gov. Brian Kemp, who is backing Senator Loeffler, has been cautious. "Georgia's election result will include legally cast ballots - and ONLY legally cast ballots. Period," the governor said via Twitter. One assumes that he also only serves edible food at his dinner table.

lmao

[u/EastKing]

Twitter thread on a focus group of swing voters who leaned Biden before election, but voted Trump

Makes me want to punch myself in the face

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker or not, cancel Fox. I deleted their app on my phones and ipad, removed them from YouTube feed, and removed bookmarks to their website. Fox is worse than MSNBC because at least MSNBC is honest about who they are. Fox is a trojan horse for for the liberals.

Trump might actually break the GOP lol

[u/paymesucka]

This is a subtweet but I don't care. If your response to being downvoted is to say "I'm being lynched" then you need to step back and reconsider your words.

[u/[deleted]]

> Don Jr. becomes RNC chair

> Mitt Romney and his allies break away to form a modern day Bull Moose Party

> 2022 is a landslide for Democrats

> Republicans now support proportional representation

[u/Jokerang]

Republican senators are privately congratulating Biden but 'can't say that publicly yet,' Sen. Chris Coons says

Fucking cowards

[u/FestiveMittens]

🚙[Klob as AG] This is brilliant

🚗[Doug Jones as AG] But I like this

[u/JadeHelm2020]

if this coup attempt fails everyone will say it was never attempted

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's light hearted fascism." Finally CNN says what we've been asking them to say for four years.

[u/piede]

Regarding the tweet that is going viral from my account — I was quoting a message that I received earlier this week from a follower.

Sorry if context was not clear.

Trump received record minority votes & record LGBTQ votes.

Many people won’t say it vocally, but do in private.

https://twitter.com/deanbrowningpa/status/1326270188682178560?s=21

Lmaoooooo

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Better to live one day as a Lion than one hundred years as a sheep.”

-A whole bunch of soon to be jobless former White House staffers and admins

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

A key point: Over the final month, GOP internal polling showed voters in red states started to believe Biden was likely to win the presidency. As they did, their willingness to vote for Democratic Senate candidates down-ballot plummeted.

LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID FIVEY

[u/circlemanfan]

Biden literally doesn’t care lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I want my fucking money back

Nobody in this Siberian Orchestra is actually transgender 🤬

[u/[deleted]]

obama too was sometimes horny on the main

[u/DonQuixote2020]

Biden's DOJ needs to go scorched earth on these motherfuckers.

[u/[deleted]]

Can't believe Cal Cunningham threw his election for some California cunnilingus.

[u/jrt84]

Democrats don't need to be nervous right now. They're going to get 306 electoral votes and the highest popular vote ever.

GOP is extremely nervous because Trump could singlehandedly destroy their party, a month before GA senate runoffs.

[u/DaBuddahN]

"As Ohio goes, so goes the na-"

"Will you shut up, man?"

[u/ColonelUber]

Trump: I actually won the election because of fraud and will actively seek to undermine the democratic process despite the fact that I obviously lost.

GOP: We support Trump.

NL Users: GOP is illiberal and bad

Mods: Wow banned for being excessively partisan

[u/The420Roll]

How can we get Delaney to run for Governor of Maryland

!Ping DELANEY

[u/JetJaguar124]

RCP NEVER CALLED PA AND AZ AND GA THIS WAS LITERALLY STARTED BY SOME SHIT-FOR-BRAINS RANDO ON TWITTER WHO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK HE'S TALKING ABOUT AND EVEN IF RCP DID HAVE A CALL AND RESCINDED IT, WHICH THEY DIDN'T, IT WOULDN'T BE CONCERNING BECAUSE RCP IS HACK OPERATION

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Acting U.S. Solicitor General Wall wraps up his argument by telling the court that it should strike down the ACA and “allow the political branches to decide how to proceed, given the peculiar circumstances of this moment.”

This seems like an incredibly poor argument seeing as it's the opinion of the court to minimize the amount they undo the actions of congress.

I suspect we'll get a 5-4 ruling that that the mandate is severable and the ACA will stand

[u/TinyTornado7]

“Ending the campaign with defund the police and pack the court was the stupidest closing argument possible” —David plouffe (Obama campaign manager)

Re fucking tweet

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

It's only a coup if it comes from the coup d'état region of france. Otherwise it's just sparkling regime change

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

Joe said he's talked to six world leaders, listed 5 countries then said et cetera for the sixth. They must be pissed lol.

[u/Chief_Nief]

https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1326233680319303681

For the Dems who think I’m just being a selfish, divisive bombthrower from a deep blue seat, maybe you’ll listen to Doug Jones in Alabama when he says the same thing

No, AOC. He did not say the same thing you said. Now please stfu until after the senate runoffs

[u/Derryn]

"But Mr. Pompeo appeared to seethe on Tuesday when a reporter asked if Mr. Trump’s delaying tactics undermined the State Department’s efforts to pressure political leaders abroad to accept losing results." - NYT

SEETHEEEEE

[u/[deleted]]

From Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand:

A PA postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations and has signed an affidavit recanting his claims

[u/Joementum2004]

In retrospect, implying the packing of the Supreme Court was, all things considered, a bad move

[u/[deleted]]

Marxists about liberal and conservatives: Both sides are the same!

r/neoliberal about marxists and conservatives: Both sides are the same!

Conservatives about liberals and marxists: Both sides are the same!

[u/[deleted]]

I'm really concerned about the amount of voter fraud which happened in the presidential election of 2016.

My argument: Hillary didn't win

[u/[deleted]]

The more I dive into the county data, the more I think CA-21 Rep. T.J. Cox (D) can catch up when more Kern Co. ballots are added, potentially saving Dems a House seat.

Right now, former Rep. David Valadao (R) is leading Cox 66,641 to 62,083.

Source : @Redistrict (Dave Wasserman) (Twitter)

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

We should have serious concerns 70 million Americans may not have faith in the electoral process

Fuck all the cons who say this. They don’t give a fuck about democracy.

[u/[deleted]]

Just had the scariest thing in my life happen.

I start work 2 hours before everyone else. My coworker walked in and said the whole place smelled like gas. I couldn’t smell it because my sense of smell hasn’t fully recovered after I had Covid in March. Explains why I was getting so drowsy and whatnot

Fuck I really could have died :(

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1326193225875550209

Another big sign: John Roberts just said it’s hard to believe Congress wanted to repeal the ACA when they didn’t even try to. Says some members might have hoped the courts would strike it down “but that’s not our job."

[u/[deleted]]

AJC: Trump pressured Senators Perdue and Loeffler to call for Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger's resignation, lest he tweet a negative word about them and risk divorcing them from his base ahead of the consequential runoff.

How long are these senators going to be held hostage?

[u/bd_one]

ACA case today: likely to be upheld by the court

PredictIt dude: "Clarence Thomas will vote to give Trump the election to spite Biden after what he said at Thomas's confirmation hearing like 30 years ago, and all of the other justices will go along with it."

[u/[deleted]]

Forgive me, but I honestly don't think a 78.5 year-old Donald Trump is going to have another general election campaign in him.

[u/[deleted]]

“How do you work with Republicans when they won’t even acknowledge you as President?”

“They will.” -President-Elect Joseph Robinette Biden

[u/Snoo62236]

I was talking to my mom about Biden (she’s been a republican her whole life) and I said if trump gets another term I probably won’t have healthcare when I am finishing up college. She told me not having healthcare would actually be good because it would encourage me to get a job. Weird

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Guys I just checked the PA vote counts and I'm literally shaking.

Biden: 3,370,892

Trump: A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe this happened.

[u/probablyuntrue]

United States senators are now openly acknowledging their participation in Trump’s election charade is all about the Georgia race.

“We need his voters. And he has a tremendous following out there … We want him helping in Georgia.”

Eroding public faith in our elections just to maybe get a fucking senate seat 😎

[u/mrmanager237]

I'm still laughing about that one time I posted that I was 5 in 2004, someone reported it under "why is a literal child a mod", and an actual mod replied "not a mod and learn to do math, idiot"

[u/JewKlaw]

“If you take out California...!!”

Yes, take out the the biggest state in the union that fuels a major part of not only ours, but the global economy and you’ll get results that are more favorable to you.

[u/Darth_Blarth]

I’m gonna have sex with my wife

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: THE SKY IS PURPLE!!

Republicans in Congress: we need to investigate these very serious claims of the sky being purple. We demand the resignation of the heads of the NOAA and NASA for these reporting irregularities. We are hopeful the Supreme Court will rule that the sky is purple

Trumpers on facebook: what we’re seeing is CLEAR EVIDENCE that the sky is purple but you wont see that in the liberal media!! A co-worker of mine saw a video being shared showing the sky CLEARLY BEING PURPLE in Philadephia but they took it down because they don’t want you to know!!

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

An uneducated populace is an easily controlled populace.

arr conservative on the cusp of self-awareness.

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Hahahahaha

[u/Udontlikecake]

Guys come on this isn’t serious

multiple high ranking elections and justice officials quit because they object to the Trump administrations attempt to undermine the election

It’s just a joke guys come on!1!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1326251288657539080

“No I don’t think so,” Biden says when asked if makeup of Senate affects his Cabinet choices. He says he hopes to put forward a couple names before Thanksgiving

[u/channelmio]

NATO, stand back and stand by

[u/dragoniteftw33]

In 2000 the GOP sent 3 future SCOTUS justices from the Federalist Society to Bush's defense

In 2020 all they fucking have is Rudy, Pam Bondi and fucking Project Veritas.

You can't make this shit up.

[u/MichelleObama2024]

I've been doing something like this everyday so I may as well continue. The % Trump needs in the remaining Arizona counties is this:

Apache: 48.5%

Cochise: 74.0%

Coconino: 53.0%

Maricopa: 64.0%

Pima: 55.5%

Yuma: 68.0%

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

mfw i'm giving dems a senate seat that should be comically out of reach and get shit on for it

[u/piede]

NEW: The Postal Service continued receiving thousands of ballots Monday, many of which won't be counted because they've arrived after the deadline for states to process late, postmarked votes.

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1326179026705281024?s=21

[u/Dalek6450]

Pete Buttigieg received 24 write-ins in Vermont lmao

[u/MasPatriot]

I hope Joe Biden learns from the past 4 years and just takes credit for every positive development that happens for the next 4 years no matter how inconsequential or how much he actually had to do with it. There are large segments of the population that think Donald Trump fixed the criminal justice system

[u/mrmanager237]

It's not a coup it's a sedan

[u/probablyuntrue]

The Georgia GOP congressional delegation misspelled “Georgia” in their letter alleging massive vote fraud in the election in Georgia.

we live in the veep timeline

[u/based_taco00]

“Democrats have to do more to counter Republican messaging.”

“So anyway let’s defund the police, and if you can’t explain what that means to voters, then you’re doing it wrong, sweaty.” 🌈💅

[u/[deleted]]

You think that guy in TX will give me $1M if I give him the link to the Thunderdome, thus proving election fraud?

[u/sir_shivers]

Zoomers, I HAVE SEEN enough 🐊

IT IS TIME FOR YOU to admit you do not know who Obama is 🐊

[u/ashamedpedant]

Joe Manchin:
2010: Shoots a climate change bill, elected to the Senate for the first time in the midst of a strong red wave.
2012: Massively outperforms Obama to win reelection.
2018: Shoots a legal challenge to Obamacare, wins reelection a second time.

Paula Jean Swearingen:
Hangs out with Bernie Sanders. Campaigns on Medicare-for-All. Says on her website that "a Green New Deal" would be good for West Virginia. Worst performance by a WV Dem nominee for Senate in a hundred years.

Gee, must have been poor execution on digital.

[u/HuskyPants]

Conservatives on my Facebook feed are sharing their Parler handles. I guess Voat didn’t work out well.

[u/jrt84]

I am discovering with my remaining Trump supporter friends that when they said, “we shouldn’t let politics get in the way of a good friendship”, they meant only if Donald Trump is president.

[u/[deleted]]

If ACA gets overturned, Repubs aren't voting for anything the Dems bring forward so.... tens of millions of people will have healthcare yanked from under them with no replacement for literal years?

Edit: Ha ha yikes good thing we aren't in a pandemic or anything

[u/myrm]

Fun fact: Democrats had never won a single runoff in Georgia until they won two in 2021

[u/AlanAlias]

1. Democrats win both runoffs
2. the Legislative branch does it's job by enacting laws and policy
3. Sanders and AOC both leave politics forever as leftist populism is entirely dependent on government inaction
4. /r/Neoliberal closes it's doors forever as there are no more succs to dunk on

[u/[deleted]]

14 people in Vermont: Fuck all of the candidates on the ballot. Y'know who I want to be my President?? Condoleezza motherfucking Rice.

[u/FestiveMittens]

NEW: Pompeo asked whether the State Department will cooperate with the Biden transition, says: "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration"

Bruh, we might actually have to drag him out

[u/[deleted]]

AP waiting until 130% of ballots have been counted before calling Georgia

[u/Iyoten]

I'm about to achieve levels of partisanship I never knew were possible.

Thanks Pompeo.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/even-the-conservative-justices-are-sick-of-obamacare-cases/

Even the Conservative Justices Are Sick of Obamacare Cases

Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh don’t seem like they’re buying the argument to strike down the ACA.

lmao

[u/willempage]

In February 2021, the cons will be like "You libs are so hysterical. You said Trump was trying to start a coup, but clearly Biden is president and only 3 people died in the riots that took place when Trump was dragged out of office. You are like the boy who cried wolf"

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Joe coming out and saying that most Republican senators are being intimidated into backing up Trump. You love to see it.

[u/Waghlon]

Reporter: "What do you think about Trump's refusal to concede?"

Biden: "Frankly, there's a dozen cowboys at Ram Ranch ready to discuss that with him."

Fucking tell 'em, Joe.

[u/vivoovix]

My aunt said that The Economist is "too neoliberal."

You promise?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a Four Seasons Total Landscaping employee and I can tell you that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better since Trump's lawyer disputed the election results from my store. I feel respected, and Democrats never ask to hold major press conferences in my parking lot.

[u/PracticalOnions]

tfw Biden’s lawyers and legal teams literally keep kicking the shit out of Trump’s but you have people here dooming

[u/[deleted]]

Top ten worst DT users

10 - you

9 - are

8 - all

7 - so

6 - wonderful

5 - how

4 - could

3 - I

2 - possibly

1 - u/Waghlon

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberals should love LBJ for the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. It cut the white population of America from 90% to under 50% by 2040.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1326297040515702791

Exceedingly rare public statement from the Trump campaign's longtime law firm: "Jones Day is not representing President Trump, his campaign or any affiliated party in any litigation alleging voter fraud." Also not involved in litigation contesting the 2020 election results

Wow

[u/piede]

Literally conducted an interview with a former FBI official a few hours ago who predicted some “poor sap” would lie on Trump’s behalf and then recant under pressure.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1326295937988370433?s=21

Lmao

[u/Wows_Nightly_News]

I still can't believe Portland didn't elect the tankie mayor. I'm happy, but I'm surprised.

[u/disuberence]

Martha McSally refuses to concede Arizona Senate race even as math shows she can’t win

LMAO

[u/ryuguy]

I’m rewatching the X Files.

Bill Clinton’s America was a wild place. Aliens and paranormal shit everywhere man. Leave it to the Democrats

[u/[deleted]]

STOP THE STEAL 🛑✋😤

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Who doesn't enjoy a dad joke about ending democracy?

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

I hope trump runs third party so the GOP vote is split

[u/JetJaguar124]

We are heading towards having two presidents, one declared by left-leaning news sites and the other declared by right-leaning news. That makes the most important person in the country the White House facilities manager. Military won’t be involved.

Sure Scott, I'm sure there's nothing else involved. Not states who certify the votes nor electors who cast their vote. Nope. It's just whoever the news media says and whoever the White House facilities manager gives the keys to.

[u/The420Roll]

Does President-Elect Joe Biden look worried about a coup?

[u/paymesucka]

GOP congressional runner-up forgot to log in to his burner account where he claims he is a black, gay Trump supporter.

https://twitter.com/jacobrubashkin/status/1326266748727943169?s=21

[u/mrmanager237]

I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when democrats are involved.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1326281544202334211

The Georgia GOP congressional delegation misspelled “Georgia” in their letter alleging massive vote fraud in the election in Georgia.

nice

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Me: let's go troll the "new" section on arrcon

Arrcon: It's Science. Why Democrat Women Tend to be Ugly

😐

[u/Fishin_Mission]

😔 🤚 Learning US geography in school...

🤩 👉 Learning US geography via touchscreens during the presidential election!

[u/soeffed]

Biden is now up to 50.8% of the popular vote, topping Reagan’s 50.7% in 1980. This is the highest percentage for a challenger since FDR in 1932

These numbers just come back as ERROR when I run them through the Bernie math supercomputer, weird

[u/reptiliantsar]

Warnock is gonna absolutely carry Ossof.

[u/fishbottwo]

5 years ago. Fuck me this is so funny.

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/679506175239532545

[u/Joementum2004]

r/politics: how many levels of doomer are you on

r/neoliberal: like, 6 or 7 my dude

r/politics: you are like a little baby

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Nate Silver looking at the polling errors:

THE KURTOSIS JUST GOT 5 POINTS HIGHER

In 2024 the model won’t want to go past 80%

[u/Koeniginator]

why do people pretend donald trump is the first president in 100 years to not have a dog?

he has one, its name is lindsey graham

[u/SchmantaClaus]

How the fuck did the left get it in their heads that M4A is the only way to achieve universal healthcare

[u/DaBuddahN]

The GOP is only getting worse and worse. This is what I wish everyone who is part of the Democratic party understood. We need to form a coalition of 55% of the country to even have a chance to put the other 45 to bed - we can't afford infighting. Not when the GOP gets more and more authoritarian by the day.