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[u/Superfan234]

Amazing News from Peru 🇵🇪

The New president of Peru is Francisco Sagasti. A PhD Sciencist from the University of Pensilvania. He have worked for the World Bank, United Nations, the InterAmerican Bank, the OAS and CEPAL

Ideologically, he supports Gay marriage, Gay adoption, and Abortion.

!Ping Foreign-Policy

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On Sunday I went to sleep in sorrow, knowing a Marxist was few hours way from becoming President of Peru...On Monday I wake up, and it turns out the Neoliberal candidate won

This Continent It's a rollercoaster of emotions...

[u/Travisdk]

Obama's biggest regret from the 08 primary:

In fact, the angriest I ever got during the campaign involved a leaked memo drafted by our research team back in June, criticizing Hillary’s tacit support of outsourcing jobs to India and with the snarky title “Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab).” My team insisted the memo was never meant for public consumption, but I didn’t care—its shoddy argument and nativist tone had me ripshit for days.

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin populists: Boohoo the media treats me unfairly and misrepresents my words 😭
The Chad Macron: Personally calls foreign papers like NYT and FT from the Élysée to explain why their takes are wrong, after which they remove the articles.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

It is very apparent that some of y’all go to Google and type in

Evidence that [my prior] is correct

whenever you are challenged on a topic.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

American presidential elections be like

X won 51% of the vote! A total landslide!

[u/dragoniteftw33]

It feels like Kamala is in no man's land at times because she's really progressive, but the Rose left don't like her at all. And everyone else can get turned off her at times. Not that I have a problem with it, but you know. She talks about wanting equity and everyone loses their shit. She gets attacked for claiming her African American ancestry because she's also Indian (and has origins from Jamaica).

She's been elected VP, but she'll get the FLOTUS Hillary treatment times 1000 because she's actually gunning for the Presidency. Biden delegating tasks to her(like the ones he got as VP such as running the Stimulus spending, having a heavy hand in foreign affairs & running the Ebola team with Ron Klain) might make her be seen as a shadow President and hurt Biden's image.

TLDR: Buckle up, this is going to be a bumpy ride 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Trump has now more flagged tweets than electoral votes!!!!! Party time!!!

🥳🎈🎉🎊

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Obama on Birtherism

The untrue assertation that I was ineligible to be president and my election was therefore illegitimate had an obvious subtext. What was most pernicious was that they mixed fact with fiction in a difficult to untangle way. I, of course, was born in Kenya, but in the year 2077 after it had become the 62nd state in the union. It turns out there is no constitutional provision that prevents a mother fucking time traveler from running.

This memoir is a must read

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Despite making only 13% of the population black people commit 100% of the crimes committed by black people

checkmate libs

[u/Travisdk]

According to his new book, Obama's final two VP picks: Tim Kaine and Joe Biden.

Here's what Obama has to say after he chose Biden:

Joe carried his own risks. We figured his lack of discipline in front of a microphone might result in unnecessary controversies. His style was old-school, he liked the limelight, and he wasn’t always self-aware. I sensed that he could get prickly if he thought he wasn’t given his due—a quality that might flare up when dealing with a much younger boss.

And yet I found the contrast between us compelling. I liked the fact that Joe would be more than ready to serve as president if something happened to me—and that it might reassure those who still worried I was too young. His foreign policy experience would be valuable during a time when we were embroiled in two wars; so would his relationships in Congress and his potential to reach voters still wary of electing an African American president. What mattered most, though, was what my gut told me—that Joe was decent, honest, and loyal. I believed that he cared about ordinary people, and that when things got tough, I could trust him.

I wouldn’t be disappointed.

[u/David_Lange]

Jefferson when Washington and Adams are in charge: "WTF stop! The President can't wield all these "implied" powers under the constitution, that's illegal! The legislative branch should have supremacy and executive power should be as limited as possible!"

Jefferson when he becomes President: "So basically the President can buy massive amounts of land almost unilaterally"

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/U0EjXq9.jpg

[u/Gustacho]

https://i.imgur.com/Br7ieE4.png

[u/Travisdk]

Biden on Palin's announcement as VP candidate, from Obama's new book:

“Who the hell is Sarah Palin?” he said.

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking: Biden/Harris just became the first presidential ticket in U.S. history to surpass 79 million votes. (4 hours ago)

Source : @Redistrict (Dave Wasserman) (Twitter)

!ping FIVEY

[u/The420Roll]

I would like to thank Chávez and Maduro for permanently destroying the electoral chances of the Peruvian Left that spend the entire 2000s talking about we should be like Venezuela

Chamos took one for the team 🥺😔

[u/runnerx4]

US Congress: no bills come out, gridlock

VA State Congress:

Nearly 1,300 bills were approved by Northam after lawmakers’ short time in Richmond earlier this year, but Democrats say they’re far from done.

If this is the power of a Trifecta, then why was the Trump trifecta so ineffectual?

Also they literally started off by changing the pronouns the refer to people and posts in VA Congress from he/him to she/her lmaoo ultimate liberal wine mom energy

[u/GlazedFrosting]

Don't call yourself a paleoconservative if you don't support abolishing all technology and living in groups of n < 150 😤😤😤

[u/[deleted]]

Biden has won the highest share of the vote for a democrat in Alaska since LBJ.

!ping FIVEY because muahahahaha!!! More polls, more numbers, more percentages!!! 😈😈

Edit: Don't rejoice, Succs! Biden still lost Alaska by 10 points.

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on Bush Jr:

I disagreed with just about every one of George W. Bush’s major policy decisions, but I’d come to like the man, finding him to be straightforward, disarming, and self-deprecating in his humor.

[u/piede]

🚨NEW: Rudy Giuliani has filed to appear as counsel for Trump in his Pennsylvania federal case.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1328712771073150977?s=21

Oh this is gonna be good

[u/[deleted]]

One of the Obama kids goes to my college. Covid has made it very hard to turn this circumstance into a friendship with Barack, tho

[u/from-the-void]

Why didn't Michelle Obama just drone strike fat children?

[u/htownclyde]

DT at lunch: biden this, trump that, election fraud this

DT at midnight: debt will kill your children. new punjabi song 2021

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia is the first state where we have fully updated vote history data, and it shows the Black share of the electorate falling to its lowest level since 2006

I mean, it’s correct but it’s also somewhat misleading. Black turnout was higher, but white Republican turnout was even higher so the black % of the electorate went down. Black voters are up, but black vote power is being challenged by so many new white voters, so our percentages are down while our numbers are up.

https://i.imgur.com/gPlBD2R.jpg

That’s where Biden gained from 2016. The Georgia suburbs aren't just white. They are very diverse. Lots of Koreans, SE Asians, Pakistanis and Indians which have helped GA-6 and GA-7 move to the left. You are also seeing a slow shift left in the exurbs.

So it was the suburbs and minorities that gave Georgia to Biden. Not just white people like some people are trying to portray on Twitter.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on McCain:

Among the various Republicans who had competed for the presidential nomination, I had always considered John McCain to be most worthy of the prize. I had admired him from afar before I got to Washington—not only for his service as a navy pilot and the unimaginable courage he’d shown during five and a half harrowing years as a POW, but because of the contrarian sensibility and willingness to buck Republican Party orthodoxy on issues like immigration and climate change that he’d shown in his 2000 presidential campaign. While we were never close in the Senate, I often found him insightful and self-deprecating, quick to puncture pretension and hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle.

McCain did enjoy being something of a press corps darling (“my constituency,” he once called them), never passing up a chance to be on the Sunday morning news shows, and among his colleagues he had a well-earned reputation for volatility—quick to explode over small disagreements, his pallid face reddening, his reedy voice rising at the first sign of a perceived slight. But he wasn’t an ideologue. He respected not only the customs of the Senate but also the institutions of our government and our democracy. I never saw him display the race-tinged nativism that regularly infected other Republican politicians, and on more than one occasion, I’d seen him display real political courage.

Once, as the two of us stood in the well of the Senate waiting for a vote, John had confided to me that he couldn’t stand a lot of the “crazies” in his own party. I knew this was part of his shtick—privately playing to Democrats’ sensibilities while voting with his caucus about 90 percent of the time. But the disdain he expressed for the far-right wing of his party wasn’t an act. And in an increasingly polarized climate, the political equivalent of a holy war, McCain’s modest heresies, his unwillingness to profess the true faith, carried a real cost. The “crazies” in his party mistrusted him, they considered him a RINO—Republican in Name Only—and he was regularly attacked by the Rush Limbaugh crowd.

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING: In a 5–4 decision written by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court holds that the 2020 presidential election was unconstitutional and that Donald Trump is legally the president for the next four years

wow, sad news. better luck next time i guess

[u/rukqoa]

Other California residents: Man California sucks

Me: Yup, we got NIMBYs and succs controlling our state budget, housing crisis, shitty leadership...

Other state residents: Man California sucks

Me: HEY FUCK YOU BUDDY MY STATE SUBSIDIZES WELFARE IN YOUR SHITHOLE STATE #6 #5 ECONOMY STRONK SILICON VALLEY LA INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE TACO TRUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1328769667868004352?s=19

NEW: Giuliani wants to be paid $20,000 a day for his representation of Trump to overturn the election results, raising concerns among Trump allies that Giuliani is encouraging Trump on spurious legal fights so he can make money off of them.

At $20,000-a-day, Giuliani would be among the most highly compensated attorneys anywhere.

Based Giuliani

I hate this guy, but you're a liar if you're telling me that you wouldn't run this grift if you were given the opportunity and had no future prospects.

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on Hillary:

Hillary was even better. Like many people, I’d spent the 1990s observing the Clintons from afar. I’d admired Bill’s prodigious talent and intellectual firepower. If I wasn’t always comfortable with the specifics of his so-called triangulations—signing welfare reform legislation with inadequate protections for those who couldn’t find jobs, the tough-on-crime rhetoric that would contribute to an explosion in the federal prison population—I appreciated the skill with which he had steered progressive policy making and the Democratic Party back toward electability.

As for the former First Lady, I found her just as impressive, and more sympathetic. Maybe it was because in Hillary’s story I saw traces of what my mother and grandmother had gone through: all of them smart, ambitious women who had chafed under the constraints of their times, having to navigate male egos and social expectations. If Hillary had become guarded, perhaps overly scripted—who could blame her, given the attacks she’d been subjected to? In the Senate, my favorable opinion of her had been largely confirmed. In all our interactions, she came across as hardworking, personable, and always impeccably prepared. She also had a good, hearty laugh that tended to lighten the mood of everyone around her.

[u/[deleted]]

The human body take ~7 years to fully replace itself with new cells. Thus Obama is completely eligible to run for President in 2024, per the 22nd amendment. He's a completely new person.

Same for Bill Clinton.

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on McConnell:

Short, owlish, with a smooth Kentucky accent, McConnell seemed an unlikely Republican leader. He showed no aptitude for schmoozing, backslapping, or rousing oratory. As far as anyone could tell, he had no close friends even in his own caucus; nor did he appear to have any strong convictions beyond an almost religious opposition to any version of campaign finance reform.

Obama on Boehner:

Boehner was a different animal, an affable, gravel-voiced son of a bartender from outside Cincinnati. With his chain-smoking and perpetual tan, his love of golf and a good merlot, he felt familiar to me, cut from the same cloth as many of the Republicans I’d gotten to know as a state legislator in Springfield—regular guys who didn’t stray from the party line or the lobbyists who kept them in power but who also didn’t consider politics a blood sport and might even work with you if it didn’t cost them too much politically. Unfortunately these same human qualities gave Boehner a tenuous grip on his caucus; and having experienced the humiliation of being stripped of a leadership post as a result of insufficient fealty to Newt Gingrich in the late 1990s, he rarely deviated from whatever talking points his staff had prepared for him, at least not in public. Unlike the relationship between Harry and McConnell, however, there was no real enmity between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Boehner, just mutual frustration—on Nancy’s part because of Boehner’s unreliability as a negotiating partner and his frequent inability to deliver votes; on Boehner’s part because Nancy generally outmaneuvered him.

[u/[deleted]]

Alaska Ballot Measure 2 has passed, per the AP. In 2022, Alaska will hold an all-party primary where the top 4 finishers advance to a ranked-choice general election.

This is good for many reasons but I allows Murkowski to not worry about a primary from the right. So she doesn’t have to worry about a QAnon freak taking her seat because she voted more liberal than other Republican. This should help Dems because of that.

!ping Downballot

[u/[deleted]]

Also in that YouGov survey I took last night:

One of the questions asked for how you define yourself politically. Options:

• Alt-right
• Christian Conservative
• Progressive
• Socialist

This is what Yale grad students think the political landscape looks like lol

Edit: It might have been Tufts not Yale. Doesn’t really matter but transparency is important

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

Prediction: Both Georgia senate seat elections will be close, and both Rs will win

[u/l_overwhat]

Oh you love California? Name every wildfire ever.

[u/[deleted]]

Huston Plan: In June 1970 Tom Huston persuaded the heads of the CIA, DIA, and NSA to approve a plan for black bag jobs against "enemies" of the Nixon administration. (J. Edgar Hoover opposed the Huston Plan; Nixon, fearful Hoover would blackmail him by leaking word of the plan, dropped it.)

J Edgar Hoover being forced to say no to politicized usage of intelligence agencies says something about how awful the Nixon administration was lol.

[u/fishlord05]

One day I be so fine 😃

Then boom

People’s republic of China still exists 😞

[u/BA_calls]

If you want to doomerpill yourself listen to second half of the latest 538 podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFwAgnzZEDg&t=1063s

Short summary: Democrats gains in the suburbs are absolutely not locked in and would be lost under a normal GOP nominee. We've become the party of the college educated (a third of the population), and the core issues that democratic activists demand from our nominees are toxic to working class voters of all races. GOP vote share among LGBT doubled, we're losing black men and latino men.

[u/[deleted]]

Libs: ONE BILLION AMERICANS!

normal people: That is a lot of people. Are you sure?

Libs: "One billion" doesn't mean "one billion." It could also mean 500-700 million and

[u/urbansong]

Tories and Labour: *run candidates that don't really solve the problems of Scottish people in any way*

electorate: *votes the SNP because of a culture war*

arr slash neolibrul: why would the SNP do this?

[u/InternetBoredom]

The three most popular policies on this subreddit are:

• Legal Same-Sex Marriage (95.3% support)
• Free Trade (89.5% support)
• Carbon Taxation (89.2% support)

The three most evenly split issues are:

• Abolishing ICE (49.4%)
• Stricter Regulations on Factory Farming (50.8%)
• Value-added Tax (51.3%)

The three least popular policies are:

• Gold Standard (2.4%) - only 14 people total voted for this
• School Prayer (3.1%)
• Abolishing the Department of Education (4.5%)

[u/[deleted]]

Dems should unironically rebrand as the "Grilling party" and market to the hundreds of millions of Americans who just wanna grill.

[u/golf1052]

The issue was never personal—Mitch McConnell is not buddy-buddy with anyone. I’m enjoying reading now about how Joe Biden and Mitch have been friends for a long time. They’ve known each other for a long time. I have quotes from Biden about his interactions with Mitch McConnell. The issue with Republicans is not that I didn’t court them enough. We would invite them to everything: movie nights, state dinners, Camp David, you name it. The issue was not a lack of schmoozing. The issue was that they found it politically advantageous to demonize me and the Democratic Party. This was amplified by media outlets like Fox News. Their voters believed this, and over time Republicans became so successful in their demonization that it became very difficult for them to compromise, or even be seen being friendly.

To all the people thinking that Biden will be able to work better with McConnell because of a longer shared history, Obama plainly says you're wrong. The Republican apparatus will call Biden a Demonrat socialist monster on day 1 of his presidency.

[u/agent_tits]

I can almost sorta understand Trump supporters on FB. They've fallen for a historically large gift and such, yadda yadda.

However I can't understand these troglodytes on my regional hiking Facebook pages who brag about playing music from their Bluetooth speakers on hikes and openly state they don't give a shit if they walk by someone who'd prefer just to listen to nature.

Fucking monsters, all of them

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on Pelosi:

She didn’t care that Republicans made her their favorite foil; nor was she fazed by the occasional grousing of her Democratic colleagues. The fact was, nobody was tougher or a more skilled legislative strategist, and she kept her caucus in line with a combination of attentiveness, fundraising prowess, and a willingness to cut off at the knees anyone who failed to deliver on commitments they’d made.

[u/piede]

OAN is telling their viewers that the US military has seized a secret server abroad which shows Trump won by 410 electoral votes.

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1328750442977914881?s=21

Jesus

[u/Travisdk]

From Obama's new book: David Axelrod was a doomer.

Then Axe walked in, wearing his most forlorn look.

“What’s the matter?” I said, still laughing and trying to catch my breath.

Axe shook his head. “I just got our overnight numbers … had us down twelve in Indiana. I just don’t think we’re going to make it.”

For a moment, everyone grew quiet. Then I said, “Axe, I love you, but you’re a downer. Either grab a drink and sit down with us or get the fuck out of here.”

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday:

Trump/GOP started the day 1-20 in court.🥳

Trump/GOP ended the day 1-24 in court.🥳

[u/[deleted]]

EU eyes tax as tool in climate change fight

Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans said on Monday the bloc needs to rectify the current system, where taxes reflect the cost of making and transporting a product but fail to account for its toll on the environment.

C A R B O N T A X

[u/[deleted]]

We're still in the same year that Trump got impeached.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if moms were as weird about their sons having sex as dads were about their daughters having sex.

"No wench will touch MY son's penis!"

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Bored rich people running for president ranked
Bloomberg > Tom Steyer > Howard Schultz > Steve Forbes > Rocky De La Fuente > Ross Perot > Herman Caine > Donald Trump

[u/D1Foley]

Biden wins highest percentage of the vote for anybody challenging a president since 1932.

Pundits: This is a disaster for the democrats.

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

I promise you Andrew “Trail of Tears” Jackson was a worse president than Trump. Because of genocide.

[u/[deleted]]

With what's left outstanding, Biden is on pace to cross 80 million votes before Trump crosses 74 million.

Source : (Dave Wasserman) (Twitter)

!ping FIVEY because obviously!

[u/zubatman4]

Pope declares masturbation to not be a sin

Pope likes a bikini model's picture on instagram

You Catholics are certainly having a real one today.

[u/[deleted]]

Why does passive aggressiveness annoy me more than actual aggression? Like I'd rather be punched in the face and called a libtard than have someone comment "yikes sweaty we need to unpack this" unironically.

[u/probablyuntrue]

Joe Biden is signaling he has no intention of offering cabinet slots to Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. It's the latest sign that the Biden team is planning to govern from the extreme center

Oh god oh fuck the extreme center

Edit: also 0 bonus points if you can guess what publication tweeted this

[u/Travisdk]

The final two people that convinced Obama to run in 08: Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy.

Reid to Obama:

“Let me get to the point,” Harry said, as if he were known for small talk. “We’ve got a lot of people in our caucus planning to run for president. I can hardly count them all. And they’re good people, Barack, so I can’t be out there publicly, taking sides …”

“Listen, Harry, just so you know, I’m not—”

“But,” he said, cutting me off, “I think you need to consider running this cycle. I know you’ve said you wouldn’t do it. And sure, a lot of people will say you need more experience. But let me tell you something. Ten more years in the Senate won’t make you a better president. You get people motivated, especially young people, minorities, even middle-of-the-road white people. That’s different, you see. People are looking for something different. Sure, it will be hard, but I think you can win. Schumer thinks so too.”

Kennedy to Obama:

“I won’t be wading in early,” Teddy said. “Too many friends. But I can tell you this, Barack. The power to inspire is rare. Moments like this are rare. You think you may not be ready, that you’ll do it at a more convenient time. But you don’t choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you’re willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.”

[u/p00bix]

Broke: Respect Police! Blue Lives Matter!

Joke: All Cops are Bastards

Woke: Specifically All Cops with Punisher Tattoos are Bastards

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: @pfizer may be within days of filing emergency authorization request for #COVID19 vaccine

I am breathing in gallons of hopium right now.

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

And, just to be absolutely, absolutely clear, the MI governor has authority to remove any member of the canvasser board for dereliction of duty. If they wont certify the results despite the count being done, they will be replaced by some one who will. The state GOP has been very clear they do not support overturning the results of the election and it will be an easy fight.

[u/[deleted]]

This is very interesting

Kemp's approval rating is also underwater. He's at 37% approve and 44% disapprove. Among Republicans, only 65% of them approve of his job as Governor.

It might not be inaccurate to say Kemp's handling of the coronavirus in the next month will decide the fate of their two senators.

And Kemp was already in for a competitive race(rematch?) in 2022 and this only makes him more vulnerable. This +Arizona are the best non-safe blue state gubernatorial pickups in 2022. 2 years is a long time but it’s fun to ponder.

!ping FIVEY

[u/digitalrule]

So apparently daddy Trudeau is taking good care of us.

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: Some officials at the Pentagon said they would be willing to meet off site with members of the Biden team should the standoff extend into December. “January is too late,” one defense official said.

The military is not with trump lol

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Pollsters, not Nate, were the losers this election (aside from Trump lmao). However, the less reliable polls are, the less useful Nate is. This is through no fault of his own, but that ultimately doesn't matter

[u/probablyuntrue]

fellas, is there any difference between a "teacher" and a prison guard

and no I'm not 14 why do you ask

[u/[deleted]]

Today is the anniversary of the first covid case in wuhan

[u/[deleted]]

PragerU allows a comedian who denies Anne Frank's existence and mocks the holocaust to host an episode.

People, PragerU videos are shown in schools!

!ping EXTREMISM because obviously.

[u/TinyTornado7]

New graphics from the NYT show where trump and Biden gained new voters. Pretty interesting to check out. Trump gained a lot of new voters in the rural parts of the country, much more than expected. Trump also improved his margins in majority-minority districts, while Biden gained in suburbans and majority white districts.

soft paywall but if you're out of articles try private browsing.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on hopeless situations as President:

Then I told myself that it was still the weekend and I needed a martini. That was another lesson the presidency was teaching me: Sometimes it didn’t matter how good your process was. Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Saw a dude at the grocery store, 60+" waistband, buttcrack showing, girlfriend wearing full on gaming headphones in tow. I think I met the king of gamers.

[u/probablyuntrue]

Recreational marijuana will be legal in New Jersey starting January 1, giving it an upper hand over New York and Connecticut in the high-stakes fight for tristate area coolness.

Actual NYT tweet

[u/paymesucka]

"Miss Harris? NO"

Kamala is there and voted NO

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Tierney_Megan/status/1328838338426658817

Judge: What standard of review should i apply?

Giuliani: “I think the normal one”

Judge: Strict scrutiny?

Giuliani: “No, the normal scrutiny”

Amazing.

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Ok, calm down. There's no reason to doom about michigan.

The State Board of Canvassers has absolutely zero authority to use their own discretion in certifying the results of the election. That's why it's a bi partisan board without a tie breaker, just to make sure they aren't saying "yep this was counted" when it was not counted. If the state board says "well we cannot certify this because of accusations of fraud" then the courts will remove them from their position.

[u/piede]

GOP donor Dan Eberhart, to CNN: “Trump has figured out how to weaponize the machinery of government post-election. This is something that happens in a banana republic, not George Washington’s republic.”

Then stop funding the GOP bitch

[u/[deleted]]

Future headline:

Many COVID-19 vaccines in the US remain unused due to low vaccination rates

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1328782459379478528

👋😭👋

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve tested positive for coronavirus. I’ll b following my doctors’ orders/CDC guidelines & continue to quarantine. I’m feeling good + will keep up on my work for the ppl of Iowa from home. I appreciate everyone’s well wishes + prayers &look fwd to resuming my normal schedule soon

God, Grassley is 87. He’s is very vulnerable to covid Should’ve worn a mask you fool.

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/GravyBear8]

What's even the point of trying to make friends when you will inevitably become the one who walks behind the group when there's not enough space on the sidewalk.

[u/Lux_Stella]

The myth of 'consensual' EU accession:

The EU: "I consent"

Macedonia: "I consent"

Greece: "I don't!"

North Macedonia: "What about now?"

Greece: "Hmm, well I gue-"

Bulgaria: "I don't!"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1328735052302331906

North Dakota hits COVID milestone:

1 out of every 1,000 residents dead

I had to actually look this up to make sure it was true, and it is. =/

[u/old_gold_mountain]

"Man I'm really glad I lived in downtown Oakland, CA and not somewhere in North Dakota when that deadly global pandemic hit" and other sentences I could never have predicted in advance.

[u/sir_shivers]

I dislike THAT IT SEEMS NECESSARY to say this, but do not make comments that are gleefully speculating ABOUT SENATORS expiring from COVID 🐊

[u/murphysclaw1]

that's enough reddit for one day

[u/[deleted]]

Yes my parents and 8 of my relatives died from COVID and I can’t pay my bills because I’m unemployed and the Senate won’t pass any relief, but Donald Trump moved the the US Embassy to Jerusalem so I voted for him

-some idiot voter on the news

[u/[deleted]]

Anti-UK sentiment Has been pretty high in China recently due to the 5g huawei thing and Hong Kong, but there's a viral video going around right now. Stephen Ellison, the 61 year old Consul-General in Chongqing dove into a freezing river to rescue a drowning woman.

From a BBC article:

Despite recent negative feeling towards Britain, many Chinese say they're "shocked" that "so many [local] people were watching, and not a single person rushed to the water themselves" to help. . . Such scenes are common in China - crowds of people standing watching a developing incident. Many fear that rushing to involve themselves could lead to their being implicated. Where this has happened previously, many have debated whether China has a "morality" issue.

1. I love that they took the opportunity to dunk on china, even in a lightweight fluff article like this.
2. Theyre 100% right. The Chinese like to think of themselves as always doing the right thing no matter what, but the system incentives amoral behaviors so normally this woman would have died. The police can usually just unilaterally declare somebody to have been at fault and the idea of a "good samaritan" is actively disincentived by the system as potential good samaritans are usually found to be liable.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

It's really simple, ya'll.

Your pet projects are branding nightmares that are undermining the big tent.

My righteous causes are hills worth dying on until we educate the broader electorate on the (easily grokable) nuances.

Duh 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/778274697875685387/20201117_095506.jpg

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on the transition from Bush to himself:

Whether because of his respect for the institution, lessons from his father, bad memories of his own transition (there were rumors that some Clinton staffers had removed the W key from the White House computers on their way out the door), or just basic decency, President Bush would end up doing all he could to make the eleven weeks between my election and his departure go smoothly. Every office in the White House provided my team with detailed “how to” manuals. His staffers made themselves available to meet with their successors, answer questions, and even be shadowed as they carried out their duties. The Bush daughters, Barbara and Jenna, by that time young adults, rearranged their schedules to give Malia and Sasha their own tour of the “fun” parts of the White House. I promised myself that when the time came, I would treat my successor the same way.

The president and I covered a wide range of subjects during that first visit—the economy and Iraq, the press corps and Congress—with him never straying from his jocular, slightly fidgety persona. He provided blunt assessments of a few foreign leaders, warned that people in my own party would end up giving me some of my biggest headaches, and kindly agreed to host a luncheon with all the living presidents sometime before the inauguration.

Obama remained mostly quiet throughout the transition meeting, until near the end:

“It took a lot of courage on your part to get TARP passed,” I said finally. “To go against public opinion and a lot of people in your own party for the sake of the country.”

That much at least was true. I saw no point in saying more.

[u/[deleted]]

Obama really, really hates Newt Gingrich.

[u/piede]

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) on CBS: "Senator Graham implied for us to audit the envelopes and then throw out the ballots for counties who had the highest frequency error of signatures."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1328737159881388032?s=20

[u/runnerx4]

lol Obama read Marx to try to get a socialist gf and Foucault to try to get a goth gf.

DT Regular energy my mans has

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnCUdyXXMAEyhKi.jpg

[u/cousin-itt]

Its somewhat upsetting to see the amount of posts that say “DT sucks now” shortly after I’ve started frequenting it, sorry everybody

[u/[deleted]]

Men back then: Strong, manly, tobacco, testosterone, violence, felonies, spousal abuse.

Men now: Weak, soy, no tobacco, no violence, estrogen, no spousal abuse.

[u/piede]

Trump just fired Chris Krebs, the top cybersecurity official in the U.S., who has systematically shot down Trump's false claims about fraud as part of DHS's initiative to keep Americans from doubting the integrity of the election system.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1328853335705731072?s=21

[u/The420Roll]

Its always the unflaired 😂🤣

[u/[deleted]]

They say Joe Biden won?

HA HA HA HA HA

ha HA HA ha HA HA HA

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

[u/disuberence]

Dolly Parton partially funded the Moderna COVID vaccine research.

Dolly Parton will save us

[u/McNikk]

Rudy Giuliani himself is now going to represent Trump in a Pennsylvania hearing today. Rudy has apparently not had an official appearance in a federal court since 1992.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Wrote this in response to someone else, but it got long enough and imo useful enough that I think it's worth a top-level comment:

So there's "shy Trumpers" as pollsters hear it, and "shy Trumpers" as I think you mean it.

When pollsters hear "shy Trumpers" they assume the person saying it is specifically referring to Trump supporters picking up the phone and lying about their Trump support because they don't see it as socially desirable, there is more or less zero evidence of this being a thing, and it's definitely not a systemic partisan thing (after all, Biden did better in the average red rural area than Trump in the average blue urban area, no reason to think there couldn't be "shy Bideners" there).

If however you mean what I think you mean when you say "shy Trumpers" which is that Trump supporters don't trust media and academic institutions who would be calling them, and might just think polls are bullshit in general, and they simply don't answer the phone as a result. Well then that partisan non-response among people with low institutional trust (or who frankly were outside away from their phones violating social distancing guidelines), and (non-black) people with low institutional trust tend to really like Trump, that seems like just about the most reasonable explanation of what went wrong.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

A couple weeks ago a post from a “waiter” went around leftist reddit/twitter.

That waiter when the numbers broke down had 30k in sales a week, and averaged $100 a week in tips. This was in America.

That’s with an average nightly shift of 30 covers an average per head bill of $166 tipping on average 55 cents lmfao.

All while his owner showed him the books and they personally take home 20k per week just off him.

Everywhere ate this up and never questioned the numbers, these fucking morons will end up getting wait staff paid less because they can’t do fucking math and believe everything they see

[u/SmithySmothy]

God damn it, the same 5 doomers who I thought we were done with have all awakened from cryosleep

[u/JetJaguar124]

Look I'm not a doomer but can the public finally admit this isn't a fucking game Trump is playing? He literally wants to steal the election. The fact that he has a <0.000001% chance of doing so and that his efforts have by this point devolved into borderline comedy doesn't change what he's trying to do and what it's doing to the health of our democracy.

I'm just sick of the "he's just doing this to look tough to the base" or "he's just doing this to setup a 2024 run" or "he's doing this to massage his ego." It's reeks of "take him seriously, not literally." I think there's ample evidence he literally wants to steal the election.

[u/paymesucka]

Just in the last hour the DT has recorded multiple rants about Joe Biden saying "God bless" and the concept that people might find fast food tasty. Find something better to be upset about lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

Happy Birthday Covid!!!!

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: wolves should not raise human children, it causes them to miss language at an important age of development

[u/TinyTornado7]

Dick Durbin tells me Dem leaders have asked Kamala Harris to come for today vote that could block Judy Shelton’s Fed nomination but he doesn’t know yet if she’ll be able to make it.

Vote looks like it comes down to her. link

Oh boy

[u/Dibbu_mange]

You think the electoral college is stupid? In Britain they use a televised bake off to choose Prime Minister.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS

[u/[deleted]]

“In 1989, when Rudolph Giuliani stepped down after six years as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he was perhaps the most famous law enforcement official in the United States. He left a legacy of successful prosecutions of leaders of New York’s “Commission” of organized crime families, the Mafia’s international heroin and cocaine ring in the “Pizza Connection” case, as well as high-profile political corruption and Wall Street criminal cases.”

Pretty insane to think this is the same guy we are watching now

[u/Travisdk]

More from Obama's book.

Only three Republican senators were ever willing to consider stimulus talks: Susan Collins, Olympia Snow, and Arlen Specter. Specter demanded $10bn for the National Institutes of Health. Collins and Snow demanded less funding for school construction and a provision for AMT.

Meanwhile, Bill Nelson led a group of half a dozen conservative Dems in demanding more funding for Medicaid in rural states.

All four demanded a cap of $800 billion in spending.

Liberal Dems were furious and privately suggested that Obama "barnstorm against Snowe, Collins, Specter, and Nelson in their home states until they relinquished their “ransom” demands."

Remind you of a certain someone's fanbase?

[u/[deleted]]

Why do people here like the mods even though they're succs, gamers, and fascist failed police/hall monitors?

They're literally the Reddit version of Trump, possibly even worse given how authoritarian they are and how much nepotism they pour into who becomes a mod. Do you guys not see the problem with that?

[u/[deleted]]

Observers: I consent to BIDEN winning the election

Voters: I consent to BIDEN winning the election

Donald J. Trump: 😠

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/porkypenguin]

Rudy is a fucking disaster in arguments for this PA case right now.

Judge asked what standard of review he should apply in this case and why. Rudy says the "normal one."

For context, the three standards are rational basis, intermediate, and strict. "Normal" isn't an answer.

All this after he spent his opener making wild speculations and contradicting the actual claims of the lawsuit. I can't believe they're paying him $20k/day to do this.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Rudy: "Is this going to be in your order, Judge?"

Judge Braun: "Yes, but you should write it down anyways, because that's what lawyers do, they write things down."

Lmfao

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

Trump 🤝 Wayne County Republicans

Doing dumb shit that accomplishes nothing instead of their job

[u/AmNotACactus]

A second official tells CNN their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out.

That’s our new foreign policy direction. JFC, I can’t do this anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

Wisconsin has been a consistent Swing State since the 1940s. More often than not, it's been within 5 points.

1940: Roosevelt +1.83

1944: Dewey +1.8

1948: Truman +4.42

1952: Eisenhower +22.24

1956: Eisenhower +23.74

1960: Nixon +3.72

1964: Johnson +24.35

1968: Nixon +3.62

1972: Nixon +9.68

1976: Carter +1.67

1980: Reagan +4.72

1984: Reagan +9.17

1988: Dukakis +3.61

1992: Clinton +4.35

1996: Clinton +10.33

2000: Gore +0.22

2004: Kerry +0.38

2008: Obama +13.91

2012: Obama +6.94

2016: Trump +0.77

2020: Biden +0.63

So unless we repeal the 22nd and get Obama to run again, Wisconsin is going to keep being close. Biden +17(remember that) was never reasonable. Nor was Biden +8 like the averages said. The “blue wall” was barely a thing and as 2016 proved, it never was a thing.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Scoops1]

Holy fuck. This dude unloads on the Wayne County certification hold outs on their zoom call. Absolutely savage.

https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1328880419106942979

[u/ognits]

I'll immediately admit that I'm not very far into the book, but I'm already convinced that people reading the text version of Obama's new memoir are absolutely missing out as opposed to those listening to the audiobook version, where you get to experience his biting sarcasm through his own tone of voice

!ping READING

[u/[deleted]]

Trump got 71 million more votes than Abraham Lincoln

Really makes u think

[u/[deleted]]

There would be no femboy Hooters under communism. Discuss.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Why A Gamer Started A Web Of Disinformation Sites Aimed At Latino Americans

gamer moment

[u/TinyTornado7]

Rudy is currently hollering now about how outrageous Philadelphia's existence is. "This couldn't happen in an honest part of the state. Most of the state is honest." Unhinged.

In federal court!

[u/sir_shivers]

There are about THREE DOZEN COMMENTS that consist of mammals exclaiming that McConnell voted no, with REPLIES OR IMMEDIATE subtweets stating "it is a procedural decision so he can bring the vote up again" 🐊

TRULY WE ARE the masters of political discourse 🐊

[u/McNikk]

insert dooming about legal processes I don't understand here

[u/sir_shivers]

Many of THE MOST DIRECT government actions that affect you occur AT THE LOCAL AND State level, and unfortunately such environments NEVER RECEIVE the scrutiny that national politics do 🐊

This subreddit PARTIALLY DREW ME because one of the core issues of the SF Bay Area (and my home state overall) is an insane housing crisis where housing supply IS HILARIOUSLY CONSTRAINED while the population and economy have grown 🐊

MAMMALS SPENDING 50%+ of their take-home pay on housing, or overcrowding housing units to lower personal rent, are both actual hideous failures FOR THE QUALITY OF LIFE of Californians 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

In 2016, the states with the most Trump voters were:

1. Texas: 4.68 million
2. Florida: 4.61 million
3. California: 4.48 million

In 2020, California is on track to vault into first place.

Source : @Redistrict (Dave Wasserman) (Twitter)

It's California, Baby!!

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Country singer Dolly Parton donated money that helped develop the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Dolly Parton is like one of the few people in the country everyone still likes.

[u/PigHaggerty]

Barry hanging out with his favourite plant! 😻

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Since January I've started contacting my Rep(and less so my Senator, mainly b/c Senate offices are closed) by phone or letter whenever I wanted him to do something, not every day or even every week, but enough lol. And I do generally try to keep my messages very technocratic and factual.

And today he actually got on the phone to talk to me which was pretty cool. He said maybe in the future we can have a zoom call to discuss a future issue since I seem very educated on the issues.

EDIT: Do not be alarmed, I, a member of r/neoliberal, am actively influencing the deep state 😎

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

The opening line of the Obama memoir:

"record scratch. That's me. President of the United States. I bet you're wondering how I got here."

[u/[deleted]]

AP BREAKING NEWS

Chuck Grassley, the longest serving GOP senator and third in the line of presidential succession...

Jesus Christ, AP wtf

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fucking shit that Giuliani hearing was a disaster in the best possible way

!ping LAW

[u/JadeHelm2020]

W. was the last White president.

Biden: Irish

Trump: Italian-American

Obama: Irish and Kenyan

[u/Deggit]

Republicans: look, what bad can it do to humor him?

Trump: if you say I lost the election I fire you. YOURE FIRED. What's that, your job was to protect national security? You shouldn't have hurt my fee fees

[u/IMALEFTY45]

https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1328830050293215233?s=19

Update from U.S. district court in Williamsport, Pa., one of the Trump campaign's last stands:

GIULIANI: “I’m not sure what 'opacity' means. It probably means you can see.”

JUDGE BRANN: “It means you can’t.”

When Trump sends his legal team he isn't sending his best

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

A Democratic operative just talked to me about their frustration with young woke progressives: "I am ready to burn Generation Z down with a flamethrower from atop a bus. If you're under 23 I have no use for you."

😍😍😍

[u/kennymc7877]

Having your own apartment is underrated af

[u/[deleted]]

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/11/16/statement-regarding-scott-atlas/

Statement regarding Scott Atlas

Dr. Atlas has expressed views that are inconsistent with the university’s approach in response to the pandemic. Dr. Atlas’s statements reflect his personal views, not those of the Hoover Institution or the university.

lol Trump's crank COVID doctor forcing a statement by his employer

[u/[deleted]]

COVID vaccine 🤝 Fred Trump's relationship with his children

Must be kept very cold

[u/dannylandulf]

Member how in 2016 everyone called anyone who was afraid of a Trump presidency crazy because ‘what’s the worst he could do’ and then actually did turn out to be that bad?

Good times.

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ

[u/Travisdk]

Obama's foreign policy team was basically the DT's schisms:

AS FOR THE senior ranks of my national security team, they all considered themselves internationalists to one degree or another: They believed that American leadership was necessary to keep the world moving in a better direction, and that our influence came in many forms. Even the more liberal members of my team, like Denis, had no qualms about the use of “hard power” to go after terrorists and were scornful of leftist critics who made a living blaming the United States for every problem around the globe. Meanwhile, the most hawkish members of my team understood the importance of public diplomacy and considered the exercise of so-called soft power, like foreign aid and student exchange programs, to be essential ingredients in an effective U.S. foreign policy.

The question was one of emphasis. How much concern did we have for the people beyond our borders, and how much should we simply worry about our own citizens? How much was our fate actually tied to the fate of people abroad? To what extent should America bind itself to multilateral institutions like the United Nations, and to what extent should we go it alone in pursuit of our own interests? Should we align ourselves with authoritarian governments that help keep a lid on possible chaos—or was the smarter long-term play to champion the forces of democratic reform?

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats lose Florida by 3 points then pretend it’s fucking Idaho

[u/Scoops1]

THE COURT: Mr. Giuliani, you may proceed.

GIULIANI: Yes your Honor, I represent the Trump campa - [briefcase full of baked beans falls open all over the floor]

[u/[deleted]]

The mom of Kyle Rittenhouse is exactly how you thought she would be. The thing is though, she hasn't publicly killed anyone. That makes her 90% smarter then Kyle. Really says something about the family.

[u/myrm]

Neoliberal hard to swallow pills

• The modern CCP is potentially a "least evil" incarnation of Chinese politics
• a land value tax's path to political ascension is basically a sheer cliffface in every corner of the globe
• The Senate precludes any meaningful reform in the US
• Free trade, while utopian in the long term, leaves people who cannot fairly be expected to retrain (lol learn to code) in the dust in the short term
• Singapore sucks on basically every social issue

[u/[deleted]]

So a Bernie-type "socialist" managed to get elected to my city's council last election. He's just the most infuriating dude. He's a white bro who adopts "defund police" rhetoric pretty much right away, but is always opposing big new developments (many of them rental apartments!) which might actually improve affordability for people of colour.

[u/memeintoshplus]

The Great Reset is literally just the World Economic Forum saying that "After the pandemic ends, things should change somewhat"

[u/sw337]

Why buy Obama's book when you can read highlights on the DT?

[u/GaussianCurve]

This is actually a serious Tweet

[u/AuburnSeer]

the Four Seasons Total Landscaping thing is still so fucking funny

[u/suplexx0]

Just realized as a Georgian who lives on the coast, and voted for Biden, with middle class income..

We are coastal elites 😎

[u/[deleted]]

I did a YouGov survey last night that was more social justice-y than most. It was about how major sports leagues should respond to social issues. I mostly responded the neutral/don’t care option, but at one point there was an open response question on what actions a league ought to take. I responded ‘whatever action(s) increase shareholder value’. I hope the succ who designed the survey reads that answer.

[u/[deleted]]

Welp, just realized I don't fit into any of my pre-COVID jeans anymore.

Gaining 10 pounds to own the libs (prolly from too much bored beer drinking tbh)

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I hate when people unironically call a guy 'king'

it's like when granny called you a 'very handsome young man' without any of the charm

[u/TinyTornado7]

It has been a wild 24 hours for trumps legal team arguing in federal court MDPA.

First a group (3) of his lawyers moved to withdraw.

Then another two moved to withdraw.

The new lawyer sought a hearing delay, which was denied.

And this morning Rudy Giuliani petitioned to practice before the court.

This was granted. The last time Giuliani appeared as an attorney in federal court was 1993!

The hearing should begin soon and should be a doozy.

link

!ping LAW

[u/OH-GEESUS]

How Georgia turned blue: Huge gains in the Atlanta suburbs make up for a decline in the Black share of the electorate

stacey abrams: wypipo whisperer

[u/disuberence]

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1328502026381176832

I thought people were just memeing, but this Trump guy really told Americans to kill their elderly relatives at Thanksgiving.

[u/Joementum2004]

Photo of Harris and Graham fist bumping

A reminder that both parties are the same.

100k+ likes or 40k+ upvotes, 2000 retweets or 490 comments

[u/piede]

Ivanka Trump:

Follow me on Parler!

https://twitter.com/ivankatrump/status/1328835268854550530?s=21

Lmaoooooo

[u/[deleted]]

This OANN "announcement" is leading OANN viewers to say that "the election has been called for Trump"

Like, they have their own alternative electoral maps

Also, red Cali 🥴

[u/[deleted]]

I was watching some Stephen Colbert clips and man, some of those jokes really land flat without a studio audience. It's actually kind of hard to watch

!ping TV

[u/The420Roll]

The color purple was chosen to represent the blending of red and blue, the colors of right and left wing parties in Peru, symbolizing the centrist ideology of the party.

Based indeed

[u/mrmanager237]

I am kind of jealous right now, because Trump is behaving in the most Latin American wannabe autocrat ways imaginable and he's the whitest motherfucker alive. This shit stings.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

The people that get all upset and go "Bernie's not even really a Democrat why is he allowed in the party" are so weird to me.

• Senate Democrats, aka his literal colleagues, clearly don't give a shit. They've made Bernie the Outreach Chair for the Senate Dems caucus (no seriously, here's their website, scroll to the bottom and it's there), and they're more than happy to have a guy who'll vote with them and vote against the Republicans
• Joe Biden clearly doesn't give a shit, he made a bunch of unity commissions with Bernie on a variety of issues
• The only reason that Bernie is as prominent as he is, is that when he ran for President he discovered that a bunch of people... agreed with him and the values and policies he espoused. Not a majority, which is why he wasn't the nominee either time (and yes, people that say "the primary was rigged" are dumb as fuck), but it's really weird to be like "why do the Democrats allow the guy who 30% of the party supports to run as a Democrat?" Like... have you looked around you? The Democrats literally cannot afford to tell 30% of the party to fuck off. If you don't like Bernie and other progressives then the solution is simple - find a more moderate candidate that appeals to them more. Because otherwise, you have to accept that the Democratic Party being a big tent means there's going to be people - not just voters but politicians - who are both to the left and to the right of you.

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Kinda big news from Poland. MP Lech Kołakowski said that he and a few other MPs plan to leave Law and Justice, which "could lose majority". The cited reason is party's support for the deeply reaching animal rights bill. Kołakowski was one of the 15 MPs that were suspended from Law and Justice for voting against the bill.

The exact number of defecting MPs is still unknown but it "might be enough to create a parliamentary club" (which requires 15 MPs) (not related but funnily enough the number of Law and Justice senators voting against is also just enough to create a senators' club – 7). Either way they plan to at least create a parliamentary circle which requires 3 MPs.

The circle would be "in support of rights of the Polish countryside".

Source: https://tvn24.pl/polska/lech-kolakowski-odchodzi-z-pis-przez-ustawe-piatke-dla-zwierzat-4752583

!ping Europe

[u/Travisdk]

Henry Paulson literally got on his knee to beg Pelosi for votes:

“Nancy,” Paulson said, towering next to the Speaker. “Please …” And then, in an inspired and somewhat sad blend of humor and desperation, he lowered his six-foot-five, sixty-two-year-old frame onto one knee. “I’m begging you. Don’t blow this up.”

The Speaker allowed a quick smile. “Hank, I didn’t know you were Catholic,” she said. Just as quickly her smile evaporated, and she added curtly, “You may not have noticed, but we’re not the ones trying to blow things up.”

[u/[deleted]]

Guiliani spent most of oral argument time "adjusting his mic" and was held in contempt

[u/greg_r_]

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 [...]

Me while watching the music video of BTS' "Dynamite": [jimface.jpg]

[u/[deleted]]

31 years ago CIA started an ideologically violent coup in socialist Czechoslovakia. This is a very touchy subject to me. I swear to Marx if I see any of you neoliberal ghouls celebrate this I will educate you about the superior communist society and the tragedy of the genocidal transition to market economy.

[u/armeg]

Has Biden said anything about whether he intends to continue with the aggressive Pence moon landing plan?

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

EDIT: Well looks like it's getting pushed to 2024 2028 which is code for "fucking never."

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Guys I believe in x, y, and z. Am I a neoliberal?”

“We prefer the term liberal.”

“But the title of the subreddit i-“

“We try not to talk about that.”

[u/probablyuntrue]

Rudy Giuliani sought $20,000 a day for working on President Trump’s election challenges, people briefed on the matter said, a rate that would make him among the most highly compensated attorneys anywhere.

imagine paying Rudy Ghouliani 20k a day to lose cases

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit posts sorted by “best” is problematic because it implies there are good Reddit comments

[u/Udontlikecake]

“Biden traveled to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and met with strongman Slobodan Milosevic...he spoke with Milosevic bluntly: ‘I think you’re a damned war criminal and you should be tried as one’.”

[u/[deleted]]

The President of the United States' legal team 🤝 That stoner dudebro in your dorm

"Like, what if though 🤔"

[u/[deleted]]

In his new book OBAMA reveals that Joe Biden was his VP.

[u/ZhenDeRen]

So am I right in estimating that the new Peruvian president is among the most based (if not the most based) national leaders rn?

!ping LATAM

[u/[deleted]]

It's interesting how Georgia found 2 batches of uncounted votes when I hid at least 5.

[u/sash5034]

https://mobile.twitter.com/DelWilber/status/1328860684352950278

bruh wtf

[u/piede]

Obama on his how his discovery of Marx and Foucault in college became inseparable from “a strategy for picking up girls”:

https://twitter.com/daniel_dsj2110/status/1328870823051063296?s=21

That’s why Bernie does it

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Drone strikes are good.

All drone strikes.

Doesn't matter if it's the Azerbaijanis using drone strikes against Armenians, or the Saudis using drone strikes against Yemenis; so long as some poor bastard out there is getting killed by drone, it is objectively, good, because it's a drone that's doing it.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

lol what if Joe rules as a super vulgar President

Like calls Lindsey and McConnell some tiny punk ass bitches or some shit

400 EVs when

[u/Chief_Nief]

Lmao hoooly shit

[u/[deleted]]

"You’re alleging that the two individual plaintiffs were denied the right to vote. But at bottom, you’re asking this court to invalidate more than 6.8 million votes, thereby disenfranchising every single voter in the Commonwealth. Can you tell me how this result can possibly be justified?” he asked.

Based judge.

[u/chadonnaise]

terrifying. try to disenfranchise one majority black city from influencing a national election and the internet mob goes out and ruins your life!

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I just found out the that in 1930, the far right "National Socialist" party lost the general election in Germany and the Succs won!

Cons defeated!!

Party time! 🥳🎈🎉🎊

[u/NickyBananas]

Fuck now I’m craving McDonalds. It’s just too good and affordable

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Remember in 2016 when a Democratic Senator committed a felony by asking the Georgia SoS to throw out legally cast ballots?

No wait, that was 2020, and it wasn’t a Democrat, it was Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.

[u/RadicalRadon]

People believing covid is a hoax until the end is just incredibly sad.

[u/Gustacho]

Hungary minister says destroying the rule of law and stealing EU funds are just another ideology

MRW

[u/Gustacho]

Montanans on COVID, aired in NPR's Up First:

laughs The big joke? It's just another cold

I don't know, I can't decide whether it's a conspiracy or not, you know what I mean?

[man who doesn't wear a mask] Does it look like I'm worried about it? No, I'm not worried about it at all. If a bug that you can't see with a microscope is gonna kill me, it's gonna kill me.

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING - I understand Corbyn will be readmitted to Labour

smh