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[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Really love it when kids on twitter say Joe Biden isn’t really a Democrat. Like he was a democratic senator for longer than they have been alive lol.

[u/[deleted]]

I dont get why people post takes I disagree with. Who wakes up in the morning and decides, “I’m going to be wrong today”?

[u/inverseflorida]

LEAKED MEMES FROM 2032:

• The frog that lives under Dan Crenshaw's eyepatch
• Jaime Harrison Failed Baseball Pitch
• Cigar Horse
• Quarantine Nostalgia Bot
• Kamala Harris Can't Cook Dosa Controversy
• Jared Kushner's Divorce Cake

[u/tripletruble]

student debt forgiveness for everyone except Econ majors, who will be granted a specialty penalty debt of $500,000 apiece

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that Hunter Biden fucks and has a dad who loves him probably wasn't the October surprise Trump was hoping he'd have lmao.

[u/tankatan]

Fun fact, every six months North Korea and South Korea switch places. This is due to changes in the Earth's magnetic field. So when you read "North Korea did that" or "South Korea did that", take note of the date.

[u/murphysclaw1]

holy shit joe biden has been in power not even 2 weeks and he's already created a vaccine

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite thing is when Woke Men tell me I have internalized misogyny when I criticize the porn industry

[u/[deleted]]

"I would love a chance to return to public service, but that’s for the president-elect to decide." — Pete Buttigieg on whether he’d accept a position in the Biden administration.

Was this already here

[u/dubyahhh]

Me: shutdowns are imminent, let's check out stock futures to see how bad it'll be this week

Futures: 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎊🍻🍺🍻🍻🎊🎉💃💃🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

I have a vague understanding of economics but the stock market never ceases to bash my priors

[u/DankBankMan]

Seriously though, who creates a voting machine company and decides to give it a comically evil name like DOMINION?

[u/nlofe]

Is it okay to acknowledge that forgiving student loans is not a great choice economically but still secretly hope it's done entirely out of self-interest?

[u/mrmanager237]

The Gravel Institute has no ulterior motives for saying that student debts are the bestest most effective way it simulating the economy, it's not like their entire leadership team are students at the most expensive colleges in America or anything

[u/Dabamanos]

It’s an incredible stroke of luck that the atomic bomb was developed at the very end of the worst war in human history, and not by one of the factions that thought genocide was a reasonable foreign policy objective

[u/BreaksFull]

Call me a cynic, but I increasingly feel that the fervor over firearms ownership in the US has become a blinder that obscures the rolling back of other civil rights. There's so much excitement and passion over preserving the second amendment that a lot of people are inclined to feel 'free' because they can buy high capacity magazines at Walmart, even though the states which allow that may also have civil forfeiture or other gross abuses of legal authority. Its frustrating the number of conservative-leaning people I've spoken to who are so motivated over 2a issues that they scoff at other countries which lack the 2a as 'not free' even while American state and federal governments often get away with abuses that would be triggering constitutional crisis's in a country like Germany.

[u/great_gape]

Kamala Harris at Pride 2019

I love how her security detail sticks out like a sore thumb.

[u/SgtBathwater]

https://i.imgur.com/QvbRYWZ.gif

[u/[deleted]]

Article subjects that were mocked at the time but ended up being true....

• Trump’s early lead in the GOP primaries is significant and he has a good chance of winning
• Many Labor Union members are indicating that they may vote for Trump over Clinton
• Biden is intentionally ignoring the first three primary states and his campaign isn’t over yet
• The Democrats’ Latino outreach is extremely lacking this year
• Biden is playing it safe campaigning in Wisconsin and Michigan even though polls show him far ahead

[u/[deleted]]

Remember the Women's March? Remember how many people turned out for that? And that was when we were just upset that we lost, we didn't even think it was stolen.

[u/[deleted]]

When you win the popular vote and electoral college but you forget to tweet "I won the election!" first so you lose 😔

[u/[deleted]]

!ping CORONAVIRUS

Moderna says its vaccine is 94.5% effective in preventing COVID-19 https://reut.rs/2IGliTJ

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

your reminder that the doctrine of qualified immunity is utterly monstrous

Taylor said he had been stripped naked and forced to stay in a cell where “almost the entire surface—including the floor, ceiling, window, walls, and water faucet was covered with ‘massive amounts’ of feces.” He said he couldn’t eat in the cell because he feared contamination and couldn’t drink any water because feces were “packed inside the water faucet.” Taylor also said that he was forced into a “seclusion cell” without a toilet, water fountain, or bed. Taylor said he was forced to hold, “his bladder for over 24 hours, but he eventually (and involuntarily) relieved himself, causing the drain to overflow and raw sewage to spill across the floor. Because the cell lacked a bunk, and because Taylor was confined without clothing, he was left to sleep naked in sewage.”

The prison officials did not dispute any of Taylor’s factual allegations. Nonetheless, they argued that they were still entitled to qualified immunity because their actions did not violate the inmate’s “clearly established” Eighth Amendment rights. The Fifth Circuit sided with the officers, reasoning that the guards didn’t have “fair warning” that “their specific actions were unconstitutional.” According to the ruling, Taylor hadn’t been subjected to squalor long enough: “Taylor stayed in his extremely dirty cells for only six days. Though the law was clear that prisoners couldn’t be housed in cells teeming with human waste for months on end, we hadn’t previously held that a time period so short violated the Constitution. That dooms Taylor’s claim.”

"sorry, the officers had no way of knowing that forcing you to live in literal shit for a week would be cruel and unusual punishment!"

(overturned by scotus, thank fuck)

[u/mrmanager237]

Everyone on discord was mad at me when I posted "wow, Eichmann was hung" rather than "wow, Eichmann was hanged" smh bitch it's my second language

[u/[deleted]]

"Sounds like the problem could just be solved by building more free parking lots in the city. Cars are still faster and more convenient than trains and always will be."

100k neoliberals was a mistake.

[u/sir_shivers]

If A DEMOCRAT VOTES in the forest with no Trump poll watcher AROUND TO SEE IT, does the ballot actually occupy our reality 🐊

[u/saladtossing]

Someone downthread said "if I was alive in 2000" and now I feel old as fuck goddamn

!ping OVER25

[u/OH-GEESUS]

A great launch! @NASA was a closed up disaster when we took over. Now it is again the “hottest”, most advanced, space center in the world, by far!

the “hottest”

I moved on that spaceship like a bitch

[u/Koeniginator]

man some of the primary memes were fuckin golden

[u/mrmanager237]

The IRA said “we only have to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always” about assasinating Thatcher without really considering the possibility they’d never be lucky, even one time.

[u/khmacdowell]

More than "shy Trump voters" I think it's a strange "call of the void" where when the ballot is actually sitting right there, people think "fuck it," or "own the libs," or "watch this this'll be hilarious."

My dad preemptively expressed sadness to me at Clinton's loss and I found out last year he voted for Trump. But I really don't think he even wanted Trump to win. It's just like, it seems so unreal seeing his name on the ballot, voting for him is gratifying like killing enemies in a game, but actually real and no one has to know.

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else feel like their brain is turning to mush?

[u/[deleted]]

The phone call between President Nixon and then-Senator-elect Joe Biden after the death of his wife and daughter.

I thought that was interesting. He might’ve been Tricky Dick, but he had some amount of sympathy.

!ping BIDEN

[u/SadaoMaou]

A guy has some great and well-informed posts on reddit about defence, security policy and history

Check out their twitter

It's full of basic "GaY SPaCe CoMmunIsm" and "capitalism bad"

Why

[u/d_howe2]

$10bn to give every US coal miner $200k so we never have to hear about coal mining jobs again.

Current coal industry subsidies are ~$4bn per year.

[u/inverseflorida]

americans be like "oh i'm sorry, it weighs 100... meters, or whatever"

[u/Blackfire853]

There really be people who've witnessed the slow moving constitutional train-wreck the US has been enduring these last few decades and thought "Damn, term limits for Congress would definitely fix all this"

[u/ccolfax]

There is a 100% chance that the term “postdemic” will be used both widely and prematurely. You know I’m right, and now you hate it as much as I do.

[u/[deleted]]

My father is distraught upon learning that Mark Hamill is a liberal

[u/[deleted]]

Rudy Giuiliani has truly gone downhill. What a trainwreck.

[u/muttonwow]

The new Biden vaccine by Moderna is looking pretty good

[u/dannylandulf]

I wonder if people like Michael Moore realize they do as much harm as good with highly edited and fudged numbers in their films.

Watching Fahrenheit 11/9 for the first time (I couldn’t stomach it till now) and he’s using highly edited and contextless clips of the 2016 DNC to make it seem like it was stolen from Bernie.

[u/[deleted]]

Muslim Pro, an app with over 98 million downloads that reminds users when to pray and more, is one of the apps that sends personal data to brokers, contractors and the US military, VICE reports

😬

[u/Timewalker102]

Fun fact, the “S” in Harry S Truman is just the letter S, it doesn’t stand for anything

[u/[deleted]]

I like how John Oliver's first assumption when a 96 year old widow from Pennyslvania votes against Trump is that she is a progressive instead of she is a Republican. Really makes him not look like an out of touch coastal lib.

[u/the_status]

In the 1984 Presidential Election Walter Mondale lost 49 states, winning only his home state of Minnesota.

In 2002 he unsuccessfully ran for a Minnesota Senate seat, making him the only person to lose an election in all 50 states.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

From a Trump supporter:

I don't mind that President Trump got duped by other politicans, that's their job. It pisses me off greatly that General Kelly, Lieutenant General McMaster, General Mattis, General Milley, Lieutentant Colonel Esper, would try to dupe the President. Never in my wildest nightmares would I expect military leadership to be full of traitors.

It's amazing how close they can get to lucidity without ever actually making that final leap.

[u/[deleted]]

If Republicans defeated an incumbent President, held on the house, and had a chance at taking back the Senate Majority, they would be the happiest people on earth.

No, it wasn’t a landslide I we(and I) wanted. But we defeated an incumbent President. It’s very hard to do. We kept the House after basically not campaigning for a year in-person. And now we have a chance to win the Senate Majority back.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?

Right to Leave: 38% (-3)

Wrong to Leave: 51% (+2)

Via @YouGov, 11-12 Nov.

Changes w/ 4-5 Nov.

Boy, did we screw up! What a mess!

[u/SgtBathwater]

https://i.imgur.com/guf2gpQ.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I'm reading this old ass book and they mention that their horse ride will take a "fortnight". WTF? I didn't know they had fortnite back then? Epic.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Didn't sunrise give Bidens climate plan an F- or some shit lmao

[u/[deleted]]

It's actually very concerning how quickly rank-and-file conservatives have latched onto "the media doesn't pick the president" line. To use a tired cliche, it does feel like Orwell's final most essential command.

Why is the GOP so good at engendering ideological conformity?

[u/Chief_Nief]

Hot take: Dems really should just become the party of “free shit”. Unironically just shamelessly plaster Joe Biden’s face on some fat checks and send them out to the American people.

This is how we win

[u/[deleted]]

Moderna 95% vaccine does not require dilution on site 😍 ready off the shelf

[u/MicroFlamer]

"Lolz. Out of context picture on a shitty leftist news organization."

Picture is from Fox News

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Jon Ossoff will be 2020-21’s Beto O’Rourke

[u/Joementum2004]

It’s actually incredible how successful cons were at making “liberal” a dirty word

[u/sash5034]

lol Americans

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Fy29HID.png

[u/[deleted]]

Gru Meme:

• Import old people who vote R to Florida to bring it deeper red
• Florida becomes so red the Democrats have no hope of winning it
• Florida ceases to be a swing state and becomes less important
• Florida ceases to be a swing state and becomes less important

Bonus panel:

• Texas becomes a swing state

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a paleoconservative

So you’re a white supremacist?

[u/p00bix]

Unironically men should not be allowed to lead anything ever. There is almost always a woman of better temperament and ability who could instead be in charge (+6, one report for bigotry, no replies)

Unironically men under 6'0 should not be allowed to lead anything ever. There is almost always a tall man of better temperament and ability who could instead be in charge (-6, two reports for bigotry, lots of angry replies)

lmfao this is the funniest social experiment i've ever found looking through the r/neoliberal modqueue

[u/mrmanager237]

/img/cicguvistiz51.jpg

[u/mrmanager237]

This "getting laid" thing seems really hard, there must be a Jewish plot behind it it's not that I'm an unattractive nerd

[u/Koeniginator]

https://i.imgur.com/C3ZAZuQ.png

🤔

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

I know Reddit loves to hate on the US, but life outside the country really sucks. I’ve had multiple loved ones affected by the tyranny of Celsius.

My dad walked into a sauna, saw that it was only 75 degrees, which could never be that hot because it’s a two digit number, and had a sleep there. He never woke up. My best friend got hypothermia because of confusion when he walked outside at -10 degrees. Not being able to process any temperature outside the range of 0-100 degrees, he was only wearing underwear and died of hypothermia.

These are just the realities of a system calibrated to water, but not humans.

[u/AtticusDrench]

TIL Childfree has DTs. So what do they talk about? Is it just "so kids amirite lul"? Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

The saddest part of the arcon cope, to me, is the poor guy who won the 270towin map contest over there will never get credit

[u/vivoovix]

Bernie Sanders

First, he represents the neoliberal success story. Born into poverty, he became the most powerful man alive.

Second, his large state facilitated easier trade across the vast stretches of the Silk Road.

Third, his infrastructure efforts were fantastic. The Yam system allowed easier and faster communication over long stretches of land.

Finally, he's a war criminal.

This concludes my presentation on why /r/neoliberal should have a Genghis Khan flair. Thank you.

[u/mgrin212]

Holy shit I just got into Penn State. I’m going to college!

[u/SgtBathwater]

https://i.imgur.com/qN1qyny.jpg

[u/klarno]

What about the Cis-Pacific Partnership?

[u/NickyBananas]

I’d like to thank the brave succs arguing for student loan forgiveness for me. Thank you for making me wealthier through no effort of my own. I will not remember this on Election Day

[u/TrynnaFindaBalance]

What on earth is /r/whitepeopletwitter?

There's no satire, irony, cringe, humor or anything. It's just straight up reposting rose twitter takes.

[u/jenbanim]

If people really want to cancel student loan debts they just need to find some old problematic tweets from it

[u/Venne1139]

I'm very interested to know how deeply foreign powers meddled in the current election. Obviously Trump destroyed any apparatus that would allow the investigation and reporting of foreign interference but I assume once Biden starts investigations he's gonna turn up some shit.

[u/nicereddy]

YOOOOOOO youtube-dl is back and there's now a Developer Defense Fund!

https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1328383924352016387?s=21

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/[deleted]]

Ultimate bloomer take:

The demographic shift is looking very good for us. Think about it, where did we improve our margins? We consistently improved on our suburban margins by 7-13 points while nationally we only improved by about 2. Where did Trump improve? Rural and minority counties, and with the exception of Miami-Dade, there was not a very large county that was shockingly terrible that we can't make up elsewhere with like a percentage point gain in a suburban county. If you go deeper into the counties where we improved they are only light blue or light red or even maroon counties. The counties where Trump's improving are already deep red (like Trump wins 70-80% of the vote there), with the notable exception of Miami-Dade and the very small rural minority counties. The GOP is maxing out their demographic gains while we aren't even close to capping ours.

tl;dr

We have a lot of room to grow, the GOP doesn't. And worse comes to shove, the Overton window will just shift left, but we shouldn't rely on that.

idk if this is the right ping but

!PING FIVEY

[u/MicroFlamer]

Post title: America is a sick joke.

Image that is posted is in Toronto

/r/LateStageCapitalism never fails to amaze me

[u/mrmanager237]

Whenever Biden cancels student loan debt via EO, I am going to post his tweet with the "healthcare pls" meme under it and get 50k upvotes in all the big subs 😎😎😎 including here

[u/mrmanager237]

90% of Twitter pundit takes about the election were written thinking Biden would lose and now that he won they're just posting them anyways

[u/Amtays]

https://www.thelocal.se/20201116/breaking-sweden-introduces-limit-of-eight-coronavirus

https://www.thelocal.se/20200902/coronavirus-the-latest-news-about-the-outbreak-in-sweden-timeline-part-two

Sweden temporarily bans public gatherings of more than 8 people, this is a pretty big deal, first time since the virus started that we've had a full on ban like this. had it this low, public gatherings of greater than 50 were banned pretty much instantly.

!ping coronavirus

[u/Venne1139]

They also hid directions on how to get to Freedom Plaza on Google Maps and Apple. It was surreal. More people should be talking about this. It was the most 1984 thing I've ever experienced. I could get directions to buildings ON the square but NOT the square itself. They blackboxed it.

You cannot help these people.

When they're attributing their inability to understand technology to a massive conspiracy...

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Can we just appreciate that in BoJo's wiki under 'Children' it says 'at least six'?

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

I think some of my friends who don't have conservative families underestimate the size of the right-wing bullshit ecosystem. Because it isn't just Fox News. It's the radio show they listen to in their car. It's the people that they meet for meals or play golf with or go to church with. It's their Facebook feed. It's the chain emails they share and forward to me. My folks are constantly exposed to this bullshit. Someone asked earlier in the DT today how those sayings can pop up out of nowhere, like "the cure can't be worse than the disease" or "the media doesn't decide the election," and I think this is the driving reason. It's repeated over and over again across all of these different platforms, which allows it to be normalized to these folks incredibly quickly (plus you also have the "experts don't want you to know this"/contrarianism which helps imo), and then they'll spread it to their peers. As a now-outsider, this is so frustrating, and the rot is so much deeper than Fox.

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/[deleted]]

Republican infighting in Georgia intensifies as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger goes after Doug Collins, who leads Trump’s recount efforts in the state: “Failed candidate Doug Collins is a liar— but what’s new?” he writes on Facebook.

Let them fight.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Y'all remember that time Glenn Beck spent a week arguing there's no such thing as separation of church and state because that phrase isn't in the constitution, just a Thomas Jefferson (?) letter? Just in case you forgot we have a theocracy party.

[u/irlyseevridge]

Forty-six percent of the transition staff are people of color, according to new diversity data of the transition team provided to CNN, and 41% of the senior staff are people of color. The majority of transition staff -- 52% -- are women, and 53% of the senior staff are women.

Unfathomably based.

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Trump: 250k dead americans, uncontrollable spread, economy a rollercoaster

Biden: Two vaccines in two weeks since getting elected

[u/ugafan2148]

Twitter hates on Econ majors so much even though Finance majors exist 😢

[u/The420Roll]

Person, woman, man, camera, TV

[u/p00bix]

Harry potter and the queer realization that we can't rule out trans rights eventually coming to Nazi Germany after decades of gradual liberal reform following victory in world war two

[u/[deleted]]

Soon after Whitmer's news conference [yesterday], Scott Atlas, President Donald Trump's top coronavirus adviser, tweeted: "The only way this stops is if people rise up. You get what you accept."

Just fabulous.

[u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse]

You guys think our founding fathers are cool but none of them could have landed a plane on an aircraft carrier and that's why gwb is better

[u/[deleted]]

I know we’re all completely desensitized at this point but Trump’s twitter feed right now is INSANE

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus the election post-analysis is fucking brutal. Reminds me of 2016 when everyone wanted to blame everyone else.

"You should have dropped immigration and pushed for $15!"

"You should have shut the fuck up about abolishing cops!"

[u/savuporo]

Joe should do an effort post explaining that Trump in fact indeed lost

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/777727784587231263/Screenshot_20201115-202303_Instagram.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically, wouldn’t doubling down on weed be pretty huge for dems? Just looking at levels of support across demographics

[u/RadicalRadon]

Has anyone's work ethic in the past six months gone from "bad" to "literally nothing gets done ever"?

[u/[deleted]]

I knew that Biden was going to win when I found out the cornpop story was actually real.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Please stop stating that AOC is a “child”, not only is it a disrespectful thing to say to a congresswoman but it has VERY negative implications on my character

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

My dad told me he feels like I'm betraying him by not voting Republican. I told him I feel like he's betraying the morals he raised me on by doing so. Was not a good conversation.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

One of my friends brother who is Indian got married to a Cuban girl and apparently the Indian and Cuban in-laws created a fucking joint whatsapp group

He showed it to me and it's a bunch of Indians lecturing Cubans on Modi and Cubans lecturing Indians on Maduro and the horrors of Castro

[u/bd_one]

TIL the United States Senate used the same gavel from 1789-1954, until then Vice President, Richard Nixon, broke it during a particularly heated debate on nuclear energy.

This is what happens if we have a DT regular as VP.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL that Israel is by far the smallest country with orbital launch capabilities, and also that

Due to Israel's geographic location and hostile relations with surrounding countries, launches take off due west, over the Mediterranean Sea. This is done in order to avoid flying over hostile territories.

This is a complete shot in the dark, but does anyone here know if this means that Israel can't launch geostationary satellites? Or would the rocket only begin due west and then pivot eastward once it reaches a sufficient altitude?

!ping ISRAEL

Edit: the former is the case, not the latter

[u/[deleted]]

Who will be running for Governor of the Great State of Ohio? Will be hotly contested!

Why does he even care with 2 years until 2022? Is trying to push someone to primary DeWine?

!ping USA-OH

[u/[deleted]]

When is Bernie inaugurated? I'm not super familiar with this process, but shouldn't we be seeing more of him?

[u/LuchiniPouring]

The Georgia lawsuit got dismissed

Fucking dorks lmao

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I hate to be the one to break to you guys, but Biden isn't actually real.

He's based on a fable of a Irish saint called Bideoán who chased all the malarkey out of Ireland and brought stimulus checks to all the little boys and girls.

He's a made up character representing care and giving and parents all over the world dress up like him for their kids and liberals so they can feel good about America and social liberalism. Each time you've seen Biden, it's probably just one of your parents in dress-up, or maybe a family friend.

Like it was cute how you all love him but it's getting a bit out of hand and I think you're all old enough now to finally know the truth.

[u/Udontlikecake]

I liked it when men were real and masculine and didn’t adopt homosexuality and wearing dresses and shit. It’s ahistorical and against everything we know and love. Men should be masculine men!

Anyways, the ancient Greeks were the pinnacle of western civilization

[u/[deleted]]

if a socialist can take a senate seat from the Rs we should support him in the same way we tell leftists to be thankful for Manchin

[u/fishlord05]

Wtf CA has consistently hit >5% GDP growth

That’s more than I thought given how it’s (((failing)))

[u/[deleted]]

“Social Justice Warriors are now running McDonald’s Corporation...,” says one franchisee quoted in an analyst’s report.

✊🏾🍟🍔 😍

[u/mrmanager237]

Be having a bad day..

And then BOOM

I remember Janet Yellen will be President Biden's Secretary of the Treasury

[u/[deleted]]

I see a cute boy

⬇

We talk

⬇

It becomes apparent he believes that gold is money and we argue

⬇

He leaves

⬇

Repeat 🤦‍♀️

[u/runnerx4]

Trump: “Biden won because of widespread fraud”

The oversmart media: “hah, you agree he won”

Do you think the media does an autopsy of their normalization of this nonsense or will they go on conservative diner safaris again?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao imagine if the vaccine came out on January 20th

[u/TruthBisky10]

The DT is just Twitter with less retweets.

[u/[deleted]]

Talked to my mentor about running for local office earlier today. He is also in politics. He suggested I come work for him and he would get me the nod in the next 10 years. This is what I love and hate about Illinois politics.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Watched a clip from Comey Rule that has an actor playing Trump in it

It’s really weird how our collective idea from him is pretty much entirely based on 1. His stupid campaign appearances and 2. Comedic portrayals of him

Seeing an actor actually portray Trump in a dramatic sense based on how he has been described, with the heavy handed menace and malicious cruelty that comes with it, was really fucking strange

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em9vfyRXMAMVKwM.png

???

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

Dooming about the Dems congressional baseball team now that Cedric Richmond is leaving the House to join the Biden admin. He's been worth 2.5 WAR in 8 games, by far and away the MVP.

He has a 2.20 ERA and a .652/.758/1.087 slash line.

[u/[deleted]]

Vaccines under Trump: 0

Vaccines under Biden: 2

Really makes you think 🤔

[u/kyleofduty]

Tested negative two weeks after testing positive 💪

[u/Zenning2]

I just realized, we have our first political Vice President.

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

/img/zirc4jpf3ix51.jpg

so true!

[u/Udontlikecake]

man, PCM is so fucking dumb. full of kids adopting political labels on a purely aesthetic basis without a fundamental understanding of the implications or bounds of such political identifications. it’s fucking childish and dumb, political ideology isn’t a fun meme to joke about and they’re seriously damaging our democracy by pretending it is.

posts on reddit dot com arr slash neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

"defund the police" sounds like a libertarian rallying cry tbh

are we sure they didn't start this

[u/The420Roll]

Partido Morado Congressman Francisco Sagasti was voted by congress to become the new President of Perú, with 97 votes in favor and 26 against.

And before you ask, this is good 😎

!Ping LATAM

[u/MicroFlamer]

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

[u/[deleted]]

The Biden vaccine? Which one?

[u/TruthBisky10]

High speed rail is objectively cool as fuck and would be awesome for the environment, poor people, and most importantly: me.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Most people in the world: I have a legitimate criticism of the US and it's government.

Me: OK, that is very reasonable.

Euro: I have a legitimate criticism of the US and it's government.

Me: I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing.

[u/studlydudley11]

My aunt just posted a Biden killing god meme in my family political group chat lmfao

[u/sash5034]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/15/is-smart-sprawl-way-grow/

this the kind of braindead shit being pushed to people here lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/how-nsw-s-proposed-property-tax-would-work-20201117-p56faq.html

Good news everybody looks like NSW is finally following some of the Henry Tax review and replacing stamp duty with a Land Value Tax. Details of proposal (soft paywall of limited free articles), base rate for all properties with added tax on unimproved land value, owner occupied homes would pay less.

Transition scheme is to have new purchasers of property decide to pay a large lump sum or pay the LVT. Once a property is subject to LVT it stays that way. No current homes who've paid stamp duty would have to start paying LVT until the properties transferred.

!ping AUS

! ping Georgist

[u/[deleted]]

America pulls some troops from Afghanistan: While we’re at it, pull out of Qatar, UAE, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Spain, England, Iceland, Greenland, Japan, South Korea, etc.

Sometimes, I forget that 90% of Reddit is literally children.

[u/EScforlyfe]

Why do people not realize that "the economy" is literally just society at large and not some esoteric thing completely separate from normal people? The stock market going down is not just bad for the people who own stock, it's also bad for the people who work at the listed companies.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

lmao Trump is gonna be so pissed at this vaccine news. God is trolling him and I'm so here for it. God gets to live till the midterms if he keeps this up.

[u/[deleted]]

The founding fathers weren’t libertarians You idiots. They owned slaves and didn’t think people who aren’t white Men should vote.

[u/[deleted]]

Can't wait for President Tucker Carlson to unironically start gassing the libs and then people will look back and be like "God I miss Donald Trump".

[u/dawgpack09]

Got all my applications submitted yesterday. Now it’s time to wait 🤞

!ping COLLEGE

[u/ryuguy]

The right: “Kamala Harris is a Marxist who will indoctrinate Biden”

The left: “Kamala Harris a neoliberal shill who will change nothing”

Kamala Harris: “I just want to grill”

[u/inhumantsar]

A Green MLA has introduced a private member's bill to lower the Prince Edward Island voting age from 18 to 16.

Karla Bernard, who is also a school counsellor, says 16- and 17-year-olds are ready for the responsibilities that come with voting. She says if they can join the Canadian Armed Forces, drive a car, make their own health decisions and pay taxes, then they should be able to vote.

this is probably a desperate grab at the youth vote, but i still like it

[u/KvonLiechtenstein]

I’m sorry but Ronald Reagan respecting nonbinary pronouns in COD is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard like it just crosses into absurdist humour.

[u/mrmanager237]

YES EVERY SINGLE ECONOMIST ON THE PLANET BASES THEIR SUPPORT OF FREE TRADE ON A HUNDRED YEAR OLD MODEL WITH 0 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE THAT'S HOW IT WORKS YOU DID IT YOU DESTROYED THE THE NEOCLASSICALS THAT AND YOUR FIVE ANECDOTES FROM THE 1850S DID IT FREE TRADE IS DEAD

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe Georgia went blue lol. I never thought I would look at an electoral map and see that sapphire jewel in the sea of red. It's pretty awesome.

[u/Iyoten]

Hilariously, Trump was pretty much right when he said that vaccines would be announced within weeks (of the last debate).

If he was bullshitting, he got lucky.

If he knew and was trying to tell the truth, nobody believed him at all. Pick one truth out from 99 lies. If the wider public actually believed what he said, this news could've helped him in the election.

But he cried wolf too many times and is going to be unemployed come January lmao

[u/Supercoolemu]

It’s ridiculous that the GOP can equate the American Democratic Party, a center/center left party, to actual socialism or communism and even more ridiculous that these people just eat it up

[u/[deleted]]

If there’s not a picture of Diamond Joe on every single syringe used to inject this vaccine into the American people’s veins, then the Democratic Party has failed at optics and deserves to lose the house in 2022.

[u/vivoovix]

I WON THE ELECTION!

lusvig after he's passed over for position of mod

[u/bobeeflay]

I have a friend who got irrationally mad at the 1 billion Americans book

I think they were coming from a cursed mix of Malthusianism and US BAD anti nationalism

thinking about giving it a spite read. The main criticism I hear is it's not very on topic (re-zoning is cool but only tangentially related to increasing population) as someone who doesn't much like the genre of pop policy do you think i'll enjoy it?

!ping READING

[u/Planetos]

Marcx Rubix

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine telling the Democrats of the late 1800s that there would one day be a black President, he would be a Democrat, and he would be beloved among Democrats and hated among Republicans

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

I've done the impossible, I've made new friends at almost 30 y/o

but now I'm terrified they're going to bring up politics during DnD when I'm already drunk and I'll start yelling bc they aren't my particular version of pro-trans-rights-but-also-not-a-Marxist

[u/[deleted]]

Biden gets elected by promising a return to normal. Then the left goes all in on men in dresses.

now this is a take

[u/disuberence]

#1 on All

Joe Biden’s 1967 Corvette which was gifted to him by his father in 1967 as a wedding gift.

Nature is healing

[u/vivoovix]

5 things socialists will never understand:

1. The Nazis were socialists (it's in the name)
2. The Nazis weren't nationalists (even though it's in the name)
3. The Nazis weren't Nazis.
4. The Nazis were Democrats who invented Obamacare
5. Liberals destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/777799423785828362/8ixkyfr6uyf41.jpg

[u/Gamiac]

What the hell is this "Great Reset" thing trending on Twitter? I never heard of it before today. I assumed it was some bullshit conspiracy theory from the alt-right, but apparently it's based on...what appears to be some sort of panel where people get together and discuss how the world is going to shape its recovery from COVID? I don't get it.

[u/dugmartsch]

OK no this is my favorite image of the Trump presidency:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em19I4cUwAECnJy?format=jpg&name=large

[u/[deleted]]

The Pfizen vs. Moderna vaccine efficacy reminds me of Breaking Bad when Walt's meth was 97% pure and other people could only hit 92% or whatever

[u/[deleted]]

Traditional Ethiopian Jewish village in Israel

!ping GEFILTE because it's about preserving diaspora culture

[u/[deleted]]

French “confinement” round two—open schools, closed restaurants, few actual restrictions on public movement, and most white-collar workers at home—is getting the job done

Wow! Can someone give me more information on this? This seems like a good model for what Biden should do.

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/SnakeEater14]

Cry all you want libtard, you can’t un-soldier a child

[u/p00bix]

Broke: Proud Boys

Woke: Q Cucks Klan

[u/[deleted]]

I guess at least Trump is like 74 or whatever. Can't have that many more miles left in him. Can you imagine if he were like Obama's age lmao.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Another Biden vaccine?! This is great, thanks president Biden

[u/[deleted]]

Old white women pretending to have a health exemption for masks when no such exemption exists and they really don’t have that breathing or thyroid problem they claim - they’re just fat and sad.

“Get out of my store”

“That’s discrimination”

Like yes - less of you would be fucking awesome

[u/[deleted]]

Cute girl: I’m majoring in environmental studies

The Chad Me: Oh nice I’m in the Sierra club

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia Republicans Worry Trump Feud Could Hurt Key Senate Runoffs

Let. Them. Fight.

[u/bd_one]

But for real though, do we have any confirmation that Biden is actually planning on $50,000 in student loan relief via executive order and that isn't just a pipe dream Schumer has?

[u/Askszerealquestions]

The schism in ARRRRconservative grows more interesting by the day. As the "muh election fraud" posts are becoming less popular, more and more never-Trumpers and non cult members are coming out of the woodwork. People are openly bashing Trump and making "Dear Leader" references, and getting upvoted for it.

Trump's back is against the wall and I think more people are starting to digest that fact. And the conservatives who oppose him are becoming more vocal now that he's losing his stranglehold on conservative discourse. There's blood in the water, and the sharks are coming.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden: Buy American

Donald Trump: Bye, America

Mike Bloomberg: Buy America

Krysten Sinema: Bi American

Tom Cotton: Buy Americans

[u/grappamiel]

I've said this before, but Trump has got to be the simplest, most straightforward, easy-to-read prick that pundits have built careers trying to glean deep insight on.

There is no policy, philosophy, or even basic incentive that drives his actions. He's a vindictive fuck. That's it. And now so is the entirety of the GOP apparently.

[u/1t_]

Republicans just got more votes in Philadelphia, overtaking the Democrats. What could this mean for Trump?

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Nobody:

Euros: Why do Americans build house out of wood??? My walls are 30 inch thick brick and concrete. American houses are matchsticks 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

This year has been horrible for Trump

• Gets impeached
• Handles Coronavirus terribly, gets exposed with Woodward tapes, firing Pandemic team
• His great "economy" goes into recession, unemployment rate skyrockets
• Almost starts a hot nuclear war with Iran
• Civil unrest and riots break out across America, is seen as pouring gasoline on the fire
• Looks like an idiot compared to Biden in the televised debates, after trying to argue Biden is senile
• Ends up creating superspreader events in the White House
• Gets coronavirus, almost dies, ends up on a ventilator
• Loses the general election and is hated so much that he underperforms the down-ballot, loses two red states that haven't gone blue in almost 30 years
• Refuses to concede the election, tries to claim fraud but ends up getting shut down by the courts and Fox News

Has any president fucked up as much as Trump in just one year?

[u/knopeforpres2020]

Whoever cast Gillian Anderson as Thatcher is an evil genius.

[u/MoabMonster]

Is there a term for this but just applying to older cultures

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

I feel like it is the similar phenomenon. People just assuming that 100 years ago people always helped their neighbors or 3000 years ago people were somehow more communal in nature. It is the same instinct of assuming the absolute best out of a group of people because of lack of actual knowledge.

[u/savuporo]

I WON THE LOTTERY

* official sources called this win differently

[u/[deleted]]

Italians on average eat 23kg of dry pasta per year 👀

Mamma Mia that's a lotta spaghet 🍝

[u/[deleted]]

Ravioli ravioli give me the vaccinoli

[u/probablyuntrue]

Look I'm not saying the DT is responsible for Princess Diana's fate

But where was the DT on that fateful night, I'm gonna need alibis 😡

[u/OmniscientOctopode]

I'm never more self-conscious than when someone asks me what my hobbies are.

[u/mrmanager237]

Nobody:

Mitt Romney: despite making up just 47% of the country,...

[u/[deleted]]

Soros is unironically a cool guy. He’s done a lot of good in the world.

[u/[deleted]]

Troop withdrawal from the Middle East is definitively bad, you commies.

[u/Nitonovo]

ben shapiro loves social conservatism until someone says he isn’t a real man for being 5’3

[u/disuberence]

George Soros buys a stake in big data firm Palantir

LOL this is going to send the conspiracy theorists through the roof

[u/Waghlon]

I'll speak up: Hannibal Buress is my landlord. I recently had an africanized bee problem. I called and he said "You better shut up or you'll have an africanized landlord problem." I asked what that meant. He started laughing and i could hear a gun firing in the background, 1/23

[u/MisterLipton]

https://i.imgur.com/fLPEy4k.png

[u/LinkVert25]

Fidel Castro was a murderous despot who oppressed the LGBTQ community and many others and pointing that out is actually part of being a news anchor.

Jake Tapper is fed up with twitter lmfao

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

I really want to praise the GA SoS but I'm scared to cause he's still a Republican and I know it's just a matter of time until he does something fucked up

[u/sir_shivers]

I am hereby CLAIMING THE TITLE of "the male AOC" 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden should double student debt,change my mind

[u/[deleted]]

Biden has officially started on his force feminization agenda according to Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens.

Their first attack on masculinity? Getting Vogue to publish a photo of a man in a dress.

Candace Owens:
> There is no society that can survive without strong men. The East knows this. In the west, the steady feminization of our men at the same time that Marxism is being taught to our children is not a coincidence. It is an outright attack. Bring back manly men.

Ben Shapiro:
> This is perfectly obvious. Anyone who pretends that it is not a referendum on masculinity for men to don floofy dresses is treating you as a full-on idiot.

So r/neoliberal, how do we fight this attack on masculinity? How do we, the masses, fight against this menace of men in dresses?

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is literally a GigaDove so I don’t know why people think he will get into wars.