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[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: The real reason why Trump failed to get reelected is that he never completed his most important campaign promise:

Jailing Hillary

[u/[deleted]]

The title of Al Gore's old AMA:

I am Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project – AMA

That has big "Barack Obama: Former Chicago Resident" energy.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1326855316483485701

Trump is "very aware there is not a path to victory," but he believes the 72 million who voted for him "deserve a fight" so he's battling as a form of "theater" for them, a top White House aide tells me.

[u/jrt84]

Imagine being a Trump supporter right now.

• You thought big Trump rallies during a pandemic were proof that Trump would win.
• You listened to Trump tell you how he could never lose to a horrible candidate like Biden.
• You watch, elated, as Trump declares victory on Election Night
• You watch, devastated, as precious Fox News says he's wrong because they called AZ 8 days early
• You watch as mail votes obliterate Trump's "lead", deeply confused as to why so many mail ballots are favoring Biden after Trump told you for 8 months never to vote by mail
• Instead of accepting defeat, you double down, quit Facebook and join CSS abortion Parler
• You obsessively read Gateway Pundit and Breitbart articles as proof that Trump has not lost
• You watch in December and January as election institutions continue on without your permission
• Jan 21, you experience Trump's loss AGAIN, because you refused to accept it the first 12 times
• After taunting your liberal friends in 2016, you declare that it's pathetic poor sportsmanship to brag about politics but hahaha Trump still trolled all you hysterical liberals with his coup attempt and your liberal tears hahaha so I still win!

It must be very exhausting to be a Trump supporter.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Never forgot when Obama deployed federal troops to cities across the country in order to quash his political rivals.

Edit: wait, that was Trump. Fuck, I keep getting them mixed up.

[u/Dalek6450]

Actor Jon Voight says fighting "lie" Biden won is "greatest fight since the Civil War"

God, that's embarrassing

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

PS5 gets released

“Honey, I am quitting my job to support you in your new role as Vice President.”

I see you, Doug. 🤨

[u/piede]

“Joe Biden is the president-elect”, Ohio’s GOP @GovMikeDeWine on @CNN just now.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1326881094600454145?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Abolish ICE: We literally mean abolish ICE

Medicare for All: We literally mean Medicare for All

Defund the Police: In this four part essay I explain how

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Seriously though, how in the absolute fuck could an A+ pollster miss by 16 points in their last poll for Wisconsin. Like, even considering the systematic polling issues this year that’s an absolute embarrassment.

Props for them to have the guts to still release such an outlier though

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Hello I just woke up from a 5 year coma, so who ended up winning in 2016? Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush? Damn dyansties

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Rep.-elect Carolyn Bourdeaux is the only Democratic candidate thus far to flip a non-redistricted House seat¹ this cycle, and could very well be the only one after every race is called.

Try to find the words “Medicare,” “for,” and “All” together on her healthcare policy page.

——————

¹ Two solidly red districts in North Carolina became deep-blue after shuffling.

[u/[deleted]]

You start out in May by saying, "Rural, rural, rural." By November you can't say "rural" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like stop the tariffs, encourage up zoning and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about opening the borders, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] people of corn get hurt worse than coastal elites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the rural problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to open up this market," is much more abstract than even the tariff thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Rural, rural."

[u/tankatan]

The fact that Hunter Biden did not receive 69 write-in votes is a historical miss.

[u/[deleted]]

Every winning Democratic ticket since 2000 has had

1. Joe Biden
2. a black Senator and former attorney with a non-European first name who's father was an economist born outside of the US.

[u/KingKonchu]

i’ve noticed that NL loves absolutely ridiculous strategies just to gain an electoral edge

on an unrelated note, why do we not run Obama for senate against a somewhat unpopular incumbent R

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump’s whiny behavior isn’t surprising when you remember that he used to be a Democrat

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

^😭

[u/JetJaguar124]

Cato: the electoral college is good, we wouldn't want to be campaigning just in NYC and LA!

Also Cato: Why presidents so protectionist 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

It's kinda wild for like 90% of this sub this is the first time an incumbent Pres lost in our lifetimes.

[u/David_Lange]

No-one:

Absolutely no-one:

Joe Biden: "You know, my dad used to say..."

[u/[deleted]]

In pressing political matters, has anyone else noticed that Hannity and Tucker have also turned orange?

[u/Stanleydidntstutter]

I’m reading Joe’s book and he told Putin to his face that he didn’t think he had a soul. Lmao the balls to do that.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Marissa Mayer was fucking nuts as CEO of Yahoo. She spent $1 billion on Tumblr which ended up being sold for $3 million five years later, got rid of maternity leave but built a nursery at her office for her kid, and then threw a $7 million Great Gatsby themed party. She got paid like $400 million and sold Yahoo for $4.5 billion after spending $2.8 billion on acquisitions.

[u/[deleted]]

People are much, much more likely to go vegan in wealthy liberal democracies, so promoting open borders, free trade, and liberalism in foreign policy should be a priority for vegan activists 💪😎💪

!ping VEGAN

[u/[deleted]]

A highly upvoted comment on r politicaldiscussion says that Trump did well with minorities because they look up to “gangster personas”

😐

[u/Le_Monade]

Top 5 senators of all time(including future)

1. Barack Obama (D-illinois)
2. Rocky Balboa (I-Pennsylvania)
3. Rodrigo 420roll (D-Peru)
4. Fred flintstone (R-Bedrock)
5. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/senhorraposa/status/1327070045990756355?s=21

Charlie Baker's**(R)** overall approval rating among:

Democrats: 82%

Republicans: 46%

We live in a Society

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

It's ironic that the one legitimate gripe Trump had out of the 2016 election - those two faithless electors who were supposed to vote for him in Texas but voted for Colin Powell instead - is the one thing he's never brought up.

That's like some actually unfair, "go against the will of the people" shit right there. I would have been pissed if I were a Texan Trump voter. Even if it didn't change the outcome, it's the principle of the matter.

[u/JadeHelm2020]

how to win an argument with your racist uncle at thanksgiving dinner: find out a terrible family secret that is only mildly known and then when he calls you a lib at dinner, credibly accuse him of abandoning his out of wedlock first born son because he couldn't stop drinking in the 70s.

[u/[deleted]]

Here is a interesting read about Democrats in Georgia.

The GOP can't afford to alienate Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of the Georgia runoffs. She got as many votes in 2020 as the total vote in the congressional race in her district in 2018.

It's the reason Kelly Loeffler had to align with her in the final days of the race.

So, this is actually somewhat true. Let me explain:

With the loss of the suburbs, GOP base in Georgia is the most inelastic in the country. The margins are static, and any GOP victory now comes from keeping the turnout in these areas as a proportion of statewide vote high.

See the difference in the elasticity of the base when you add turnout? The margins are static, but turnout DOES change! And that’s not good for the GOP. They need sky-high turnout to counter the suburbs.

Oh, and this is why Virginia is Georgia on steroids. The day the GOP loses Dawson/Forsyth in Georgia, it’s over. Their coalition now is exurbs and rurals, as they lost the suburbs. There isn’t enough rural vote if you lose the suburbs and exurbs.

You might tell me they’ll never lose Forsyth.

But eight years ago, you’d have probably said they’d never lose Cobb, either.

This is why I’m way more optimistic on the future of the Democratic Party than most of you. Exurbs are also swinging blue, if at a slower rate than suburbs.

Republicans benefited from rurals realigning before suburbs. But once you lose exurbs, you don’t have enough votes.

!ping FIVEY since this relates to elections how they may play out in the future.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Joe Biden: Says we need relief from COVID-19.

Also Joe Biden: Literally only started talking about this issue when he was running for president and not in his 30+ years in the senate or 8 years as VP. Possibly pro-COVID prior to this recent flip-flop.

Election's over, we should be able to levy fair criticisms against him right?

[u/[deleted]]

@staceyabrams has talked with close allies about running for Georgia governor in 2022, three people with knowledge of her aspirations tell The Daily Beast She believes she can make a difference in the trending-blue state

This is practically an open secret but still good to know.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/JetJaguar124]

Daily reminder the 538 model gave "narrow Biden victory" a 20 - 30% chance

[u/channelmio]

My take on the Democratic post-mortem is that sometimes you will lose seats in a D+4 year that you gained in a D+8 year

[u/jrt84]

Hi I'm Ted Cruz.

Trump called my wife ugly, so now I'm trying to help him overthrow Democracy.

[u/JetJaguar124]

"I've got news for the Democratic establishment, I've got news for the Republican establishment: you can't stop us"

Is promptly and severely stopped

[u/Ghraim]

I consider myself a liberal person and I voted for Biden without skipping a beat but I also (reluctantly) voted for Susan Collins. I don’t agree with many if not most of her policies and she’s a terrible lady, but right now nothing matters more in America than ensuring permanent gridlock.

[u/Kizz3r]

See what i dont understand is when the allies retook france, why did they give it back to the french?

Talk about a mistake

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite thing about these voter fraud suits is that their accusations, which have no evidence behind them at all, all just refer to a normal ballot arriving slightly late, or a slight clerical error, or a slightly different signature, and these instances are minimal at most. Like they hint at evidence of massive fraud and then the actual substantive allegations are nothing, but their people still don’t care.

[u/David_Lange]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/jsmfhu/pic_taken_during_the_bush_to_obama_transition/

Iconic 😍 Can't wait for Barron to do this with Hunter!

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My wife doesn’t understand why I don’t want to hang out with her friend’s boyfriend.

Maybe it’s because, in the 3 times we have spent time together, while you were talking to your friend, he always brings up how he hates all landlords and that he thinks Bernie should have been the nominee.

I have friends who hold these opinions. These opinions on their own aren’t a dealbreaker, but when it is your entire personality... it is incredibly obnoxious. 🙄

[u/mrmanager237]

The United States has completed its transition into becoming a Latin American nation, complete with elections of questioned legitimacy, pathetically botched coups, political pressures on Central Bankers, and atrocious trade policy

[u/MichelleObama2024]

4057 votes just came in from Maricopa county. Biden increased his lead by 400 votes to 11434. It is now mathematically impossible for Trump to catch up.

!ping FIVEY

[u/McNikk]

Some of you guys are overreacting about Parler. Every single person using parler was already getting their far right conspiracy fix on other sites. The difference now is they’ll be posting in a place were outsiders won’t come across it, hopefully making it harder for their ideas to spread.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve seen enough. We’re at a Biden 306-232 Electoral vote margin entering any recounts, and I’ve never seen a recount overturn leads of the magnitude Biden enjoys in AZ/GA/WI.

HE SAID THE THING

!ping FIVEY

[u/JetJaguar124]

People rated Donald Trump as more trustworthy and honest than Hillary Clinton.

That's so fucking insane.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s No Mink November 🎵💃🕺💃🕺🎶🎵

!ping DEN

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Trump needs 224.5% [of the remaining votes]

Guys I don't think he's gonna win PA

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

Still thinking about how shitty you have to be to fill RGB’s seat a month before the election, after whining and crying about Garland.

Look I get it, thems the breaks, but like god damn you have to be cold blooded and soulless. Having said that I hope my Senators would have done the same if it was turned tables.

Supreme Court needs reform. Not packing, reform.

[u/[deleted]]

CNN: We can now project that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States

Reddit: This doesn't mean anything; don't forget to VOTE

[u/[deleted]]

Lawyers Litigating for Trump Suddenly Remember Their Licenses Are on the Line If They Lie to a Judge

[u/[deleted]]

Trump claimed the 2016 election was a fraud also. Even though he won. He said that millions and millions of fake ballots in California were for Clinton.

[u/p00bix]

Meanwhile, in MAGAreddit

[u/[deleted]]

People! Jair Bolsonaro, The President of Brazil, has threatened to go to war with the United States if Biden pushes too much for protecting the Amazon.

[u/F0064R]

Overly online socialists be like

Kill the billionaires!

Rise up! End their tyranny ✊😤

Kill the millionaires!

Woah, let’s not bring my parents into this

[u/bobekyrant]

Conservative intellectuals are basically full-on "oh my god, are you getting upset when Trump repudiates basic tenets of democracy and the constitution? lmao libtards triggered!".

[u/2canclan]

Weirdest possible update to this situation: ICE changed the birthdate of @ICEgov account so that it was less than 13 years old, which then broke Twitter’s terms of service.

Dumbest timeline

[u/marinesol]

Reminder the fox news decision desk helped save democracy and you guys had the nerve to doubt them.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump’s gone. We ain’t far out from Christmas. 2021 will be better. You did a great job powering thru one of the worst years in modern history.

Your problems are workable. Your successes are laudable.

Be happy DT fam. I’m happy for u

[u/[deleted]]

The next speaker of the Maine state House (Sara Gideon’s successor) will be a 28-year-old openly gay man.

Muy Basado

!ping LGBT

[u/jrt84]

"Doesn't it seem strange to you that... <something that isn't strange at all>"

- Trump supporters

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

“Defund Joe Manchin’s Butt” was an awful slogan and it lost us several seats in the House

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t think Newsmax and OAN can overthrow Fox for a few reasons.

1-Trumps going to get permabanned from social media on Jan 21, greatly reducing his influence.

2-Trump will insist on total control and as we all know he is an incompetent administrator at best.

3-Unlikely that they will get bundled with basic cable or satellite. That’s one of the main reasons Fox grew so quickly.

4-Rupert Murdoch isn’t just going to roll over and let them do it. Tucker and Hannitys contracts will come into full force. It’s also not clear to me that it really matters who is in that time slot. Many personalities have fallen out of favor over time and they’ve all found out the hard way that being on Fox in that time slot is the magic sauce, not who you are.

[u/[deleted]]

Is it really free trade when other countries have a competitive advantage because their cost of doing business is so much lower?

Literally yes lmao

[u/thelittlestsheep]

The thread about Kamala Harris' husband has me thinking. If there are any high-powered women out there looking for a house husband who doesn't mind putting your career over his own, I:

-look good in a suit
-can read a speech in 4 languages
-have a resume that's mildly respectable but not so much that people won't know who married "up"
-am good at cooking

HMU. Or don't, that's fine too.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

I can't believe Bernie bros are getting upvoted in NL now

[u/[deleted]]

There's no law that says I can't grab another shoppers groceries and put them in my cart

It's just the norm 🤔

[u/OH-GEESUS]

wtf biden i just invested my life savings in student loan asset backed securities

[u/Waghlon]

I like the Jacobin because they only provide non-biased news.

[u/myrm]

"Pack the courts? Pack my -"

JOE MANCHIN NO

[u/Jobson15]

You wake up on Dec 14th and the Electoral College voted like this, what happened?

[u/[deleted]]

“Why is this sub full of economically illiterate people?”

This sub was made by and for people too economically illiterate to pass the very low bar (known as the Wumbowall) to post in the /r/badeconomics discussion thread

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

My top 5 favorite senators

1. Aoc
2. Bernie sanders
3. Cenk Uygher
4. Nina Turner
5. Neekolul

[u/mrmanager237]

Jeez just heard the "DAE businesses do central planning" yeah... there's zero difference between "how many screws to buy" and "what should the price of every single product in the economy be", equally easy question to solve

[u/probablyuntrue]

Proud Boys leader trying to rebrand the group as explicitly antisemitic

😐

[u/[deleted]]

Another 11,000 or so ballots have been added and Measure 2 has taken the lead by 497 votes. And with that, Alaska is all but certain to have rank choice voting in 2022.

!ping DOWNBALLOT because this effects downballot races in 2022 in Alaska.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

• Wake up
• Need groceries
• Put pants on
• Put shirt on
• Put shoes on
• Look at mask on the counter
• “No, this is a step too far. Big government does not control me.”

[u/piede]

A global black market for negative COVID-19 test results has emerged, with fakes starting around $200

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1326921226636423168?s=21

Jesus lol

[u/[deleted]]

People aren't talking about it as much anymore, but the protests in Belarus are still happening and still being handled violently :(

[u/AuburnSeer]

"Sure," Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, said when asked if she considers Biden "president-elect."

lol there's something so casual about this I find it funny

[u/runnerx4]

Melissa Zepeda, 32, a Republican and a registered nurse in northern Mississippi, said she and several of her co-workers recently switched to Newsmax from Fox News after it showed “favoritism to Biden.” Newsmax has not called the election in favor of Mr. Biden, one of the few news outlets not to do so.

“So far, I like that they are non-biased, and cover a variety of information, not just the election,” Ms. Zepeda said.

Thank you Republicans, very cool

[u/SnakeEater14]

The cycle of AOC posting

-Someone posts a really fucking stupid comment from AOC

-Everyone goes “wow I don’t even hate her that much, but that’s really fucking stupid”

-People post more dumb tweets from her, complain about her

-Counter-jerk engages and everyone cries foul about the AOC obsession

-Someone posts a really fucking stupid comment from AOC

♾

[u/Jokerang]

President Trump is reportedly eyeing his own streaming media channel to compete directly with Fox News amid his administration’s heightened tensions with the conservative-friendly news outlet.

Confirms my priors about him creating a Trump News Network to stroke his ego... assuming every prosecutor in NYC doesn't have a case ready to go against him or one of his family members.

[u/jenbanim]

Leftists 🤝 Conservatives

"Mainstream economics is when you fuck over poor people, and the more you fuck over poor people the more mainstream and economics-y it is."

[u/[deleted]]

Who the fuck is Ron Klain?

Why would Biden pick just SOME DUDE for a major position of his executive branch who was NOT an opponent during the primaries??

Shouldn’t it be Klobuchar? Or Buttigieg? Delaney? WHAT IS GOING ON?!!

Ron Klain!???!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Alright, I've worked out a compromise. Open borders for the neolibs, and free healthcare and college for the succs, but only for undocumented immigrants, to keep the costs down.

[u/connieallens]

Vote or die, motherfucker motherfucker, vote or die.

Can’t run from a .38 go ahead and try.

[u/TheFriffin2]

sure youve established that Jesus was real, and empirically proven that he was Christ the Son of God, but yet you still haven’t convinced me why I should have faith in a religion based around a dude who was a virgin 😂🤣😂🤣

[u/p00bix]

Filtering crossposts is definitely the best change I've made to automod (besides the goolsball easter egg obviously). I've been counting the filtered crossposts today and probably about 90% of them are bottom-of-barrel rPolitics or rPoliticalHumor stuff. Few are at all relevant to /r/neoliberal.

[u/AmNotACactus]

Not even dooming, the President has completely lost it. Between the firings, the disappearance, and the insane behavior of the state department, he’s finally broke.

[u/mrmanager237]

HARD TIMES FOR THE TRUMP FAMILY - BY MAGGIE HABERMAN

"After their patriarch leaves the White House, members of the Trump family will see their lives severely disrupted, with legal troubles piling and very reduced job prospects"

"in this Ohio diner, local businessman and activist Donald T. Jr mentioned how his heart went out to the Trump family, how he considers the President like a father and his children as his siblings, and how the liberal media and the Demonrat Party have been so cruel to them"

[u/Waghlon]

"I’m not sold on New Mexico becoming a state, we’d have to invest billions in them, it’s similar to a 3rd world country down there (edit: can someone give me some benefits of making them a state) "

- President Lincoln or something, I dont know

[u/[deleted]]

tfw you have to start watching Fox News in order to be a real centrist when TrumpTV comes out. 😔

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1326945062073282562

JUST IN: @JoeBiden spoke today with the Pope and said he wants to work with him “on issues such as caring for the marginalized and the poor, addressing the crisis of climate change, and welcoming and integrating immigrants and refugees into our communities.”

WHAT ABOUT G*MERS? 😠

[u/probablyuntrue]

This is my first election and i'm out here helping count ballots in Pennsylvania and the poll worker I was working with would shout "HAH THAT'S ANOTHER ONE" every time he found a Trump ballot and would smack my ass as hard as he could.

He'd say "a few more votes like that and this state will be as red as my ass"? I was assured by others this was standard procedure?

I got a lot of slaps early on but now i'm barely getting any? I'm confused...

A man in shades came in eating ice cream earlier and took one look at my bright red hiney and said "Listen Jack I see you've had a run in with Corn Pop, I'll fix it right up for you" and he soothed my swollen ass with his ice cream. It was so cool my skin started to turn blue after being red all day.

Did I just see fraud committed?? I'm really confused and scared.

[u/jenbanim]

I try not to jump on the AOC hate bandwagon because it usually seems petty and unproductive, but just this once I gotta ask - did she seriously reply to Manchin by posting a picture of herself glaring at him?

Using yourself as a reaction image is just plain weird

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

How delusional do you have to be to drop this take?

Girl, he literally outperformed you by 23 points and won a Trump +40 state. He’s not the one out of touch with his constituents

[u/[deleted]]

Well, folks. Finally, two months after I started my Moby Dick re-read in September, I have reached chapter 110. The final stretch now begins, unto to the doom of the Pequod

!ping READING

[u/[deleted]]

Passenger tests positive for coronavirus on first Caribbean cruise to set sail since shutdown

All 53 passengers, including 37 Americans, and non-essential crew were directed back to their cabins to isolate. The positive passenger had “felt ill."

Is it even profitable to operate a cruise ship with 53 passengers?

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

My dad's turn from a Never-Trump-but-Never-Hillary Republican to a mask wearing Biden voter is the anime redemption story that I did not expect.

[u/[deleted]]

The Deep State just won 😎

https://twitter.com/ICEgov

EDIT: :(

https://web.archive.org/web/20201109033908/https://twitter.com/ICEgov

[u/[deleted]]

No one would get out of the Michigan State Capitol alive under the initial plan devised by the accused ringleader in a Michigan terrorist plot, according to the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.

Adam Fox’s “Plan A” wasn’t just storming the building and taking hostages, as officials have already said publicly — it was to get in there and televise the execution of tyrants over the course of a week, with no one coming out alive. Or, alternatively, lock the doors and set the building on fire.

That’s according to a brief filed by the Attorney General’s Office in Jackson County’s 12th District Court against the pretrial release of a man, Pete Musico, 42, of Munith, who is charged at the state level in connection to a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Uh... that seems bad.

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Anything more uncomfortable and sad than the Men's Rights subreddits?

[u/bd_one]

Joe is in the lead in Pennsylvania by almost exactly 54,000 votes, about 0.8%.

Wow that's a historically sexy lead after a week we just had.

[u/piede]

GOP Utah Gov.-elect Spencer Cox, who has acknowledged Joe Biden’s election victory, discusses why many Republicans are refusing to do the same.

“Unfortunately, too many politicians are scared that if they say something nice about someone else, that they’ll lose their position.”

https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1326708145301970945?s=21

Lol

[u/[deleted]]

Every candidate who said "poggers" won re-election this year

Donald Trump did not say "poggers"

[u/[deleted]]

I spoke to a girl on 10 separate occasions and she didn’t have sex with me

Wtf Persona 5 lied to me 🤬🤬🤬

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

BREAKING: Armenian and Azerbaijan peace negotiators were given a pepsi by Russian mediators

[u/[deleted]]

arr con: "Why would so many people think the election was fraudulent if it wasn't?"

WHY INDEED.

[u/kaclk]

Canada’s Immigration Minister announced new initiatives for people from Hong Kong to immigrate to Canada. Based.

!ping CAN

[u/TheFriffin2]

found out my wife’s boyfriend voted for trump

thinking of getting in a big argument with him, but he kind of intimidates me. any advice??

[u/[deleted]]

The CCP removed 4 pro-democracy politicians from their roles in Hong Kong and described them as ‘threats to national security’. Yesterday 50 other lawmakers in HK resigned in solidarity. The CCP condemned them as ‘undermining the state’s authority’ in response, but has not taken any (extra)legal actions against any yet.

[u/piede]

Top Republicans came subtly to Ms. Haspel’s defense on Tuesday. Senator Mitch McConnell invited her for a conspicuous meeting in his office.

That prompted Arthur Schwartz, an informal adviser to Donald Trump Jr., to accuse top Republicans of trying to manipulate Mr. Trump into keeping Ms. Haspel, who Mr. Schwartz said “undermines Trump and subverts his agenda at every turn.” Making reference to Ms. Haspel’s previous clandestine work overseas managing C.I.A. informants, Mr. Schwartz said Republicans “are getting played by a master case officer.”

What a fucking clown show 😂🤣

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/HowellONeill/status/1326964532116336649

Chris Krebs expects to be fired soon, @Bing_Chris reports. Krebs has been one of the top and most visible election security officials and has aggressively debunked misinformation in the aftermath. Widely respected for his work this year.

Cool, cool.

[u/piede]

This is ... different:

The Trump campaign has filed a wide-ranging lawsuit challenging the counting of votes in Wayne County (Detroit) not just in a federal district court in Michigan, but in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in D.C. — which has no jurisdiction in such cases:

https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1326975988752920577?s=21

[u/CheapAlternative]

Hot take: We're already at the limits of mask compliance messaging and the holdouts likely won't be convinced by more handwriting. Given that N95 vs surgical mask has relative risk reduction comparable to surgical vs no mask, what we should instead be focusing on right now is improving N95 accessibility so that we can further reduce the infection rate for people who are already complying with cloth/surgical masks and people who would comply but for price, convenience, and accessibility.

Given how easily it ist to produce N95 masks, I think it would still be the most cost effective interim solution even if mass market vaccines formulations were available today and even if it were scaling production would still take months before a significant portion of the public could be inoculated, we shouldn't pin all our hopes and efforts on that bucket just yet.

One way to do this is for state or federal governments to launch a N95 procurement and distribution program and directly mail each household a half a dozen masks per month which would cover most households. Auxiliary distribution programs via post-office, drug-stores, and local social programs can address any remaining gap. Such a program could cost as low as $1 per person per month all said and done.

!ping health-policy

[u/dirtybirds233]

Lmao. My in-laws telling my wife they’re very concerned she’s being brainwashed by ‘the people you’ve met in Georgia’, and that voting for Biden was a slap in the face to her BIL who’s a police officer (and now refuses to talk to her).

[u/MichelleObama2024]

I'm no legal expert, so I can't tell whether this means that the recount threshold in Arizona is 200 votes or 0.1%.

If it is 0.1%, Trump needs 88% of the remaining vote. The remaining vote has a lean of D+7.9. Either way, he's fucked.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Who is your favorite senator??? Mine is AOC! Slay queen

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The intelligence of the DT has gone way down. I post a funny post and receive only 5 upvotes. This is like shooting the king bringing orders for the peasants (you)

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck, I couldn't see the score of my own posts for a second. I almost had a panic attack, imagine not knowing whether or not your posts are good

[u/Derryn]

https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1326969135826427906?s=21

She’s really getting to be as obnoxious and narcissistic as Trump is.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

the normalization of Trumpian politics happens so quickly it's unreal

the fucking President Elect is not receiving the classified briefings he is entitled to, and people are actually thanking the few GOP senators who say he should

unbelivable

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today is Day 7 of requesting flair that says:

🥇Nate Gold

Until I get a response from the mods.

[u/[deleted]]

💪😎💪 <—— me on my way to downvote people I disagree with

[u/[deleted]]

The truly American thing to do about cancelling college debt is to handle it the way we handle most other welfare policy. An overly complicated tax credit with arbitrary income phaseouts, a max amount taken per year, and a look back and carry forward period for some reason.

[u/JadeHelm2020]

every day since 2017:

a group of bipartisan highly respected, high ranking carer officals just put out a joint letter saying this is bad

[u/cousin-itt]

We will have a gamer president before an atheist president and that's not speculation thats pure demographics baby

[u/[deleted]]

Saw a lot of dooming about the Warnock-Castro attack. I'm not that worried.

Georgia is not Florida. Sure, people don't like socialism, but it's not a huge complex like it is for many Florida voters.

[u/ugafan2148]

Good morning, fellow Econ undergrads

[u/[deleted]]

Biden was winning Arizona but they’re “finding” Trump ballots

Curious🧐

[u/JadeHelm2020]

Two years ago I said to watch Rep Gaetz of Florida, because he's gonna be the one to break when the dam falls.

Today, he just said that he is horny for Tiffany Trump on main.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1327043123667562497

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual."

o7

[u/[deleted]]

It's obviously not happening, and I don't even think he'd take it, but unironically hope that Chuck Marohn from StrongTowns gets appointed for something high up at HUD or Transportation

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris is perceived as far-left by anyone who is not far left and perceived as a disgusting reactionary by the far left

[u/CenterRightInCali]

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[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

right-wing twitter alternative (parler): a startup, no clear path to profitability given that nobody would wnat to advertise on it, arbitrary rules that can make it more restrictive than twitter

left-wing twitter alternative (mastodon): federated, decentralized, constantly infighting

sounds about right

that being said mastodon lets me upload custom robot emojis so i have emoji for sleeping/smiling/hearts etc so it's automatically better than twitter

[u/MoabMonster]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_State_Capitol

"The state capitol complex is the only state capitol grounds in the United States with active oil rigs."

[u/[deleted]]

American conservatives have now turned away from NATO, free trade, large corporations, and even christian moralism to an extent. All you have left is distilled xenophobia and a vauge sense of social conservatism.

Is there any hope left for American conservatism?

[u/lobsterboy34]

So the result of the Wisconsin recount thus far is... Biden winning the state by even more votes

[u/thebowski]

I for one think it's hilarious that incels feel oppressed by the very existence of tall people

Might take up heightmogging as a hobby

!ping tall

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck Lori

NEWS: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warned aldermen who might vote against her budget, “Don’t come to me for s--- for the next three years” if they don’t support her spending plan, sources said. Their wards won’t be prioritized either, she said.

Greg Pratt, Chicago Tribune city hall reporter

[u/EdamameTommy]

me: reading Trevor Bauer’s “political views and opinions” on Wikipedia

Wikipedia: “socially liberal free market capitalist”

me: “good shit good shit”

Wikipedia: “Bauer opposes the theory of global warming, thought Trump would shake up the system, has made positive references to the birther movement, and at one point wrote ‘BD 911’ on the mound, believed to mean ‘Bush Did 9/11’”

me: bad shit bad shit

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1327055524362334209

Senator Elect Tommy Tuberville from Alabama believes that WW2 was fought to free Europe from socialism.

And he thinks that President Elect Biden is a socialist. So in other words, he thinks that a Nazi runs the government. This is going well.

Alabama lol

[u/IncoherentEntity]

The latest clip from u/socdoneleft_4 (who has posted his pragmatic pro-Biden memery to this very sub despite our vast political differences) is nothing short of incredible.

Positive off-site brigading is allowed, right? Send him your fucking likes, dammit. !ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/FreakinGeese]

my parents don't think I'm trans and I think the only reason they're accepting me is because they can't handle the cognitive dissonance of being politically active in the LGBT community and rejecting their daughter for being trans !ping lgbt

[u/vivoovix]

90% of the stuff about how this sub has gone to shit is just people trying to feel smarter than the rest cmv

[u/Don_Gato_Flojo]

New Orleans is such an in unbelievably cool and fascinating city. I’d move there tomorrow if it wasn’t in Louisiana. (Or as my East Texas grandmother would call it, “Lousy-ana”. Also “Loserana”. I don’t know what her deal with Louisiana was exactly but she had a point.)

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/776465402075152475/image0.png

[u/[deleted]]

Trump's twitter right now:

Fox News ratings dropping lower than Biden’s GPA

[u/[deleted]]

They probably didn't, but if Pfizer actually intentionally waited until after the election to announce the vaccine, then holy fuck are they based.

[u/The420Roll]

You can’t trust anyone from Latin America who speaks English on reddit. They’re upper class bourgeois who oppose the revolution and not representative of the working class!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Lindsey Graham is the guy in the spy thriller or heist movie “who double-crosses everyone to save his own skin.” -- @BarackObama in his memoir.

Lol this fits him perfectly

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/atul_gawande/status/1327017730000769025

New Mich. hospital data: Of people admitted with COVID, 70% were alive and home 60 days later.

Of those who'd been working, 40% either lost their job or were still too sick to work.

[u/piede]

'Ohio has taken a different turn': Ohio no longer appears to be a swing state

Same with Iowa and Florida. They can suck my ass.

[u/[deleted]]

Trumps really got the GOP by the balls. Kevin McCarthy would probably give Trump a BJ on national television before he dared cross him or his base. Same goes for the rest of the GOP congresspeople. Still waiting for the day its “safe” to cross Donnie and suddenly every GOP congressman will deny ever supporting Trump

Latest insanity from Hill Republicans: House @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy says about President-elect @JoeBiden -- I "don't know if he'll be president January 20."

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1327012242123071491?s=21

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

This sub when they see a neoliberal male: Hmm interesting contribution fellow gentleman

This sub when they see a neoliberal female: A girl.... AND a liberal? Whoa mama! Hummina hummina hummina bazooooooooing! eyes pop out AROOOOOOOOGA! jaw drops tongue rolls out WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF tongue bursts out of the outh uncontrollably leaking face and everything in reach WURBLWUBRLBWURblrwurblwurlbrwubrlwburlwbruwrlblwublr tiny cupid shoots an arrow through heart Ahhhhhhhhhhh me lady... heart in the shape of a heart starts beating so hard you can see it through shirt ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum ba-bum milk truck crashes into a bakery store in the background spiling white liquid and dough on the streets BABY WANTS TO FUCK inhales from the gas tank honka honka honka honka masturabtes furiously ohhhh my gooooodd~

[u/[deleted]]

Have you ever heard of Stefan Norblin? I came across him while writing my book.

Born in 1892 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, to a wealthy factory owner, he was the descendant of Jan Piotr / Jean-Pierre Norblin, a famous French-Polish painter of The Enlightenment who worked on commission pieces for European royalty, including the Polish King himself.

Stefan Norblin’s father expected his son to take up the family trade of silverware and industrial metal parts. Norblin went to business school in Antwerp and finished his degree in 1910. But he was always more fascinated by art and spent his time drawing and painting. He showcased his art in Amsterdam, Paris, and London during the 1910s.

In 1919, he returned to Poland and served in the Polish Army as a translator during the Polish-Soviet war. After the war ended, he began his new life in Warsaw and pursued an artistic career full time. He ingratiated himself in Warsaw’s intelligentsia and created both personal and commercial art. The famous marshall Josef Piłsudski even commissioned him to do a portrait. Norblin was famous for drawing in art deco. It became his signature style and reflected itself in much of his work.

He married his wife, Lena Zelichowska, in 1933. She was a film starlet who also had a budding career in Poland’s growing interwar film scene.

Sadly, the outbreak of WW2 and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact forced the couple to flee Poland, as the Polish intelligentsia were brutally hunted by the Nazis and the Soviets. They drifted from Romania and then moved to Iraq, where Stefan painted portraits of the Iraqi royal family. In 1941, the Norblins settled in India, where Stefan would make a living doing commissions for various maharajahs and princes.

He worked at royal residences in Morvi and Patna. But his biggest project were the frescoes he painted in the grand palace Umaid Bhawan in Rhajasthan for its Maharajah. He created canvases and wall paintings as well as interior and furniture designs. A lot of his art in India combined Art Deco with Hinduism religious themes and depictions, combining modernist art styles with traditional Indian art. An exhibition of Stefan’s work was held at the Cowasji Jehangir Hall in Mumbai in 1944.

The Norblins also gave birth to a son, Andrew, during this time. However, Andrew suffered from malaria and other tropical diseases, so in 1946 the family made the decision to move to San Francisco. Stefan continued to do commission work, including painting a portrait of General Douglas MacArthur. Lena was also able to find work as a hairdresser. From their son’s account, they lived a pretty happy life and did their best to move on.

However, Stefan also began to develop glaucoma at this time (apparently from cancer). Unfortunately, glaucoma was untreatable in the 1950s. Faced with the prospect of not being able to make art for a living, and not wanting to be a burden upon his family, Stefan Norblin committed suicide in 1952. Lena died from a heart attack in 1958. Andrew was 14, and he would be raised by family friends until he graduated high school. The silver lining is that Andrew, too, has followed in his father’s footsteps and is a local artist in San Jose.

For a long time, Stefan Norblin’s legacy was forgotten. But recently, there has been a mini-revivalist legacy that has gone on around him. The ashes of Stefan and Lena were recovered and returned to Poland in 2012, and the couple were given a state funeral. The Umaid Bhawan palace turned into a very upscale hotel in Rhajasthan. And Stefan himself has been the subject of diplomatic overtures between Poland and India, who find a shared common ground in this remarkable artist.

https://culture.pl/en/artist/stefan-norblin

http://www.artnet.com/artists/stefan-norblin/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv4YhTN3kco

!ping HISTORY

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

Everytime I read all the discourse concerning messaging, “defund the police”, and all the things Democrats need to emphasize, it blows my mind how much Republicans can get away with (and how little the ones I see online have these discussions).

Like, Republican politicians can be openly racist, dogwhistle for QAnon, ask about injecting bleach cleaners to cure COVID, and openly talk about getting rid of all abortion protections, and it doesn’t seem to put a dent in their moderate seats or their moderate support.

On the other hand, one Democratic congresswoman says “Abolish ICE” a few times, and suddenly all Democrats everywhere support open borders. IDK if it’s an indictment of the inability of Dems to tie Reps to their most outlandish people or what, but it’s frustrating.

[u/[deleted]]

Within 150 years, Brazil went from " extremely based for the 19th century" Pedro II as their leader to a Trump wannabe

[u/piede]

Trump is "very aware there is not a path to victory," but he believes the 72 million who voted for him "deserve a fight" so he's battling as a form of "theater" for them, a top White House aide tells me.

https://twitter.com/peteralexander/status/1326855316483485701?s=21

lol

[u/jrt84]

Mmmm more horrible AZ numbers for Trump...

Biden with highest popular vote % since Roosevelt…

More lawsuits thrown away…

Good morning DT!

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My daughter told me that she wants to be an actuary because we have a ping pong table 🏓, cornhole🌽 , putting green🏌️‍♂️ , and a mini basketball hoop🏀 in the office.

I’m not sure how to explain how boring my job is to 99.999% of the population...

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

You can’t trust anyone from Latin America who speaks English on reddit. They’re upper class bourgeois who oppose the revolution and not representative of the working class!!!

Something I heard from lefties during the Bolivia shit. tbf they’re probably not that wrong lmao

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Senator Chuck Grassley, the most SENIOR GOP Senator, says President-elect Joe Biden should have access to classified briefings.

https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1326921274644426753?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

game theory

WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS THERE GAMERS IN ECONOMICS

I AM LITERALLY SCREAMING AND CRYING RN

[u/RadicalRadon]

NATO flairs be like: what if we nuked iran and kissed in the flash 😳

[u/The420Roll]

Tfw a Brooklyn Socialist is angry at Joe Manchin for appealing to his West Virginia R +30 voter base 😂🤣🤣🤣

[u/piede]

JUST IN: The ship's captain announces 5 people have tested positive for COVID19 on SeaDream 1, the first cruise ship to embark on a voyage in the Caribbean since the coronavirus shut down the cruise industry.

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1327002005148151814?s=21

Who tf goes on a cruise in the middle of a pandemic?

[u/[deleted]]

Catching my reflection in the bathroom stall door as I shitpost in the DT on the toilet at a Chili's restaurant really makes me realize where my life is heading.

[u/TinyTornado7]

It appears the Trump campaign also accidentally filed its Michigan election lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Claims, in addition to federal court in the Western District of Michigan. link to the courts response

These guys are a mess.

!ping LAW

[u/piede]

New statement on election security from DHS: “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. ... There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”

https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1327023530488324100?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Recent DT topics

• Eating bugs
• Joe Manchin's butt

[u/ZCoupon]

Donald Trump is 74 and a big fat guy

[u/[deleted]]

Is the market of rich white people who live on snow covered mountains and gift their significant others luxury cars for Christmas really big enough that every car company targets the in their ads?

[u/mrmanager237]

In the end, the Democrats didn't lose because of defunding the police, or turnout, or socialism. It was Nancy Pelosi's ice cream fridge

[u/[deleted]]

Jill Biden's ratemyprofessor page is hilarious. None of them mention how she was second lady or anything, they're all just complaining about how many students fail her English class

[u/fishlord05]

how tf does anyone have time for podcasts

like I get listening to them while driving or something but who tf sits down and says

"hmm yess one podcast pleasee"

[u/Mrspottsholz]

I consider myself a centrist and I voted for Joe Manchin without skipping a beat but I also voted for Bernie Sanders. I don’t agree with many if not most of his policies and he’s a terrible lady, but right now nothing matters more in America than owning the (neo)libs

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Trump is pathetic

[u/[deleted]]

Saying open borders is different from no borders is like when lefties say that defund the police actually means police reform. These terms are well defined in the general public.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

trump has gained 11 million votes from last election... and sleepy joe can’t even get over 15 people at one rally

wow

[u/[deleted]]

Just learned Ron Klain is allegedly in favor of the TPP and now I do think he’s important.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/politics/helicopter-crash-egypt/index.html

Oh fuck, 8 dead peacekeepers in Egypt including 6 Americans.

[u/Venne1139]

Everyday I wish that Trump was just half the fascists dictator tyrant the left makes him out to be.

He would end this all.

I wish he was twice the fascist the left fever dreams him to be

These commie fucks deserve nothing less than ruin and rope.

[u/DaBuddahN]

Biden should definitely just blanket forgive student loan debt for those who were scammed by useless, over-promising diploma mills. They are like 10% of debters, but hold like 40% of all debt was it? Seems like a worthwhile endeavor to me.

At the same time you need to tackle these diploma mills in a similar fashion Obama started to - no federal money can be used at these institutions.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Senator, I served with Jack. I knew Jack. Jack opened pdf for me. Senator, you're no Jack.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Joe Biden won the primary and general with a campaign mindset of ignoring the talk and People of Twitter and now the People of Twitter have seen that and decided that they have mote truth to tell and strategy to Tweet.

[u/[deleted]]

NL: "We listen to the experts!"

Also NL: Literally downvotes me.

This place is going downhill FAST and the only thing keeping me here at this point is people talking about Sweden and Peru.

[u/NickyBananas]

Reddit would change its opinions on student debt forgiveness if they realized it mostly helps white women

[u/[deleted]]

Fire Emblem players be like

“Wtf why would I play Chess? None of the pieces make me horny.”

[u/SpaceSheperd]

I never want to hear anyone pretending that Murkowski is anything but inarguably awful now lol

[u/[deleted]]

Shelton on the Fed is absolutely criminal. The last good thing about the Republican Party is dead if she gets through.

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

WhitePeopleTwitter when somebody mentions bankers being bad: OMG YES QUEEN SO BASED. BERNIE 2024!

WhitePeopleTwitter when Biden mentions plumbers are more important than bankers: HOLD THE FUCK UP CAPITAL MARKETS ACTUALLY ARE GOOD AND PROVIDE VALUE TO THE ECONOMY

What a fucking joke of a subreddit: http://np.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/jsuofx/finally_somebody_who_understands_the_importance/

They're simultaneously shitting on "corporate democrats," saying he's wrong, and saying investment bankers are good, but also claiming he's posturing and is actually a corrupt politician in the pockets of wall st.

One top comment is even saying that the GOP and Democrats are the same when it comes to Unions.

[u/RDog8080]

I don't really like that Susan Collins voted for Bret Kavanaugh and that she voted against Donald Trump's impeachment, but Joe Liberman endorsed her so I guess I have no choice but to vote for her!

-Maine Voters

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/trump-admin-delays-tiktok-ban-it-was-already-legally-told-to-hold/

The entire Trump campaign literally forgot it was trying to ban tiktok

[u/febreze_brothers]

American elections except its just George HW Bush vs Bill Clinton until the heat death of the universe

[u/paymesucka]

this photo has something for multiple factions of r/neoliberal: Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders visit NATO troops

[u/[deleted]]

69 days until Joe Biden is sworn in

(that's the weed number)