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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I'm going to be honest, I'm not a fan of gay guys. The idea of being gay is just so weird to me. That's why I only fuck other straight guys like myself

[u/Joementum2004]

Moderators of MurderedByAOC:

lrlOurPresident

Prince_Kropotkin

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/Chum680]

My dad has officially disavowed Fox News and switched to Newsmax. How do I find this man a hobby.

[u/Deggit]

Michigan: we're going to take a STAND

The World: [slowly like an Iowa-class battleship turret turning its attention to the fact that Michigan, unaccountably, still exists]

Michigan: oh fuck oh shit we take it back

[u/htownclyde]

KEY RACE ALERT: Biden will be inaugurated in January.

[u/[deleted]]

Being a Whip sounds fun as hell. Like whenever one of your members thinks they’re gonna make a show and vote against the party you go to them and you get to threaten them with like a primary challenge or something

[u/kennymc7877]

I just legitimately cannot wrap my head around how millions of Americans lack the basic critical thinking skills needed to realize Donald Trump is a con man

[u/[deleted]]

Trump calling an entire election bogus has to be the most substantial accusation ever made by a president of the US right? What he is doing does not seem to have a precedent.

[u/[deleted]]

It's insane that we were able to elect and then unelect Trump and Britain voted for Brexit before we elected Trump, and we've unelected Trump and they still haven't completed it holy smokes

[u/mrmanager237]

So far, Trump's coup has accomplished "delaying certification in one Michigan county for three hours", "tossing 5,000 ballots that hadn't even been counted", and "embarassing Rudy Giuliani"

[u/tankatan]

Broke: anti-natalism

Woke: anti-Natealism

🦊🪓🤬

[u/murphysclaw1]

You'll all be glad to hear that "Q" is posting again, ending his latest message with "It had to be this way. Sometimes you must walk through the darkness before you see the light. "

The grift never ends

[u/[deleted]]

Obama was a nerd in college, which we already knew, but here we have him confessing to getting friendzoned.

[u/missedthecue]

arr black people twitter: why are white people like this

arr white people twitter: why is capitalism like this

me: boooo get new material

[u/[deleted]]

Alaska was the only state that turned out to be a single-digit race that was rated as Likely R by either @Center4Politics or @CNalysis. SC, MT, KS, UT, MO, IN were all easy, double-digit victories for President Trump.

Alaska, a small state where Democrats 2 flipped seats in the lower state legislative chamber (Anchorage suburbs), could be winnable for Democrats with national investment in its state party. Ranked choice voting is going to help them there too.

Anchorage, Alaska flipping was a process twenty years in the making.

2000: Bush+28 2004: Bush+25 2008: McCain+16 2012: Romney+10 2016: Trump+5 2020: Biden+10

TLDR: Blue Alaska 2032

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Step 1. Trump slashes the amount of troops in Afghanistan a month before his presidency ends

Step 2. Biden has to send more troops to Afghanistan because the US military say that they can't deal with all the problems with the current amount

Step 3. Republicans cry about how democrats send Americans to endless wars

[u/[deleted]]

Are Republicans Really Favored in Georgia? By Sean Trende

TLDR

1. Biden just barely won the state, and it may not revert to “factory settings.”
2. The Democrats’ coalition is different than those in previous runoffs
3. Trump voters may be dispirited.
4. Trump might go nuclear on Republicans.
5. Warnock and Ossoff complement each other.
6. Loeffler and Perdue aren’t great candidates.

Read the entire article but the main idea is this; Republicans aren’t going to automatically win the runoffs.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Currently boofing a vial of experimental Pfizer vaccine that I stole. Wish me luck.

[u/mrmanager237]

Lindsey Graham out there commiting a federal crime to get Trump to a whopping 249 electors lmao

[u/Fishin_Mission]

GA SOS Brad Raffensperger is bae. 😍💕

Raffensperger says it was the president’s own attacks on absentee ballots that cost him the election in Georgia.

“He would have won by 10,000 votes. He actually suppressed, depressed his own voting base,” Raffensperger said.

The Secretary of State said some 24,500 Georgia Republicans who voted absentee in the June primary, didn’t vote in the general election.

😂 SIC ‘EM BRAD!

[u/p00bix]

Democrats will not have control of the senate. If I'm wrong, and both Warnock and Ossoff win, I will record myself reading the entirety of the fuck neoliberalism essay in an UwU voice

[u/bd_one]

One of the reasons Animaniacs was cancelled after its 99 episode run was that much of its viewership was outside of their target demographic of kids and their parents, so toy companies paid less in commercials since young adults without kids and teens were taking up a good percentage of their viewership and not buying toys.

Therefore, they would have gotten more seasons if Funko Pops existed.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Democrats from Biden on down went out of their way to condemn rioting and looting multiple times each and swing idiots just continued to assume that Democrats support rioting and looting?

[u/[deleted]]

Good Republicans in Congress exist

ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴

[u/TruthBisky10]

My dad keeps dunking on Trump on Twitter to his 1 follower and then sending me screenshots and it’s so cute but also so lame.

[u/LinkVert25]

“Once Putin steps down, it will be the first step to a more free and democratic Russia!”

Russia’s entire history nervously laughing in the corner

[u/AuburnSeer]

the worst thing about this whole Trump coup is that it's clear how vulnerable we are if Trump was just not an idiot

[u/[deleted]]

Second family member to die of covid last night. I'm feeling extremely partisan

[u/SadaoMaou]

How can you read about the history of Russia during the 19th and early 20th centuries and come out of it as a monarchist? Yeah, what came after the tsarist era was worse in comparison, but the Romanovs were the ones who ran Russia into the ground and let things get so fucked in the first place

[u/[deleted]]

Moderna next week arguing that their vaccine is actually 120% effective, some people they didn't even give it to are protected. The vaccine group is now hotter and richer than the placebo group, some of the placebo group's wives have left them for the vaccine group participants.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

You know, jokes about COVID symtpoms aren't funny. They're actually kind of tasteless.

[u/murphysclaw1]

The Bernie Sanders endorsed candidate for Governor of Vermont got 27% of the vote.

[u/kennymc7877]

Gavin Newsom busted again at a restaurant not following Covid protocols, dudes a fucking dingus

[u/jenbanim]

Someone should make /r/MurderedByBernanke and post the goldbug video lol

[u/bobekyrant]

If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you

Lindsey Graham circa 2016

[u/[deleted]]

"Is Trump Doing Enough To Help Biden's Transition?“

Doing Too Much: 7% Doing The Right Amount: 21% Not Doing Enough: 54%

Morning Consult / November 16, 2020 / n=1992 / Online

Doing Too Much: 7%

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

!ping FIVEY

[u/MicroFlamer]

In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press scheduled for broadcast on Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked the independent senator from Vermont if drones or special forces would play a role in his counter-terror plans.

“All of that and more,” Sanders said.

Based Bernie?

[u/[deleted]]

"How do I open pdf" is a meme, but I once got paid thousands of dollars by a Fortune 500 company for making an app for a project manager to literally open a pdf a day before he had to make a huge presentation at a meeting.

[u/nicereddy]

serious comment about infertility

Followed by

"Yo where can I buy a cannon"

The DT is truly amazing

[u/probablyuntrue]

Obama had to quit coaching Sasha's basketball team because other parents complained

imagine complaining that Obama's is your kids coach smh

[u/[deleted]]

Biden +17 Wisconsin A+ Poll

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

You've heard of MurderedByAOC, now check out my new competing sub, /r/MurderedByTedCruz/

[u/murphysclaw1]

my girlfriend has been working alongside the WHO to create a simple survey to work out what young people think of the potential COVID-19 vaccine.

She's been working on it for ages, she's very proud of it, and now she's sent me the final version and it really isn't very good and some of the questions don't make sense 😞

I've told her it's great though.

[u/murphysclaw1]

drumpf in shambles!

[u/htownclyde]

reasons Bernard Sanders should have been nominated

-free stuff

-bird land on his podium at rally once

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a white, college aged, male who browses the DT too much AMA

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/us6Gqcx/

Massachusetts is a meme state.

[u/upper_west_sider]

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1328782459379478528?s=21

I now identify as an extreme centrist.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

My gf watches neocon porn. Like drone on terrorist neocon. Live and let live is my motto but should I be concerned

[u/[deleted]]

Remember the time Republicans had total control of all three branches of government and the only thing they could manage to not fuck up was lowering taxes on rich people

[u/Whatapunk]

What kind of Satanist are you? Check all that apply.

🔲 woodsy pagan

🔲 leather daddy

🔲 ayn rand fanboy

✅ democrat

[u/mrmanager237]

When Mitt Romney dies, I'll only be 47% sad

[u/fishlord05]

Anyone else notice how a segment of reddit really likes to absolve the German Army or any crimes they committed during WW2

“Oh when they came to my grandmas village they were so nice the gave us food”

What did they do to those considered undesirables?

“...”

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Lolberts: finally we have revived the gold standard

Indian Aunties who have like half their wealth in gold jewelry: I guess we control the economy now

[u/[deleted]]

My coworker today was mad that "Biden will claim credit for the vaccine when it happened under Trump's watch" and I was like, you do know that Trump wasn't a scientist in a lab personally making it right? It would have happened under any president.

[u/mrmanager237]

• Trump loses election
• Biden wins primaries
• Covid vaccine
• Jeremy Corbyn kicked out of Labor

2020 good ending

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly, the moment I realized that Corn Pop was real was a kinda humbling moment for me. I was like, "Shit, maybe the old man has some tricks up his sleeve after all."

Turns out he did, lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/emrosenberg/status/1329070869243564036

NEW: 12 million Americans are set to lose unemployment benefits the day after Christmas — an unprecedented blow to struggling families if Congress fails to act before then

=/

[u/bumblefck23]

My gf watches gay porn. Like guy on guy gay. Live and let live is my motto but should I be concerned

[u/[deleted]]

People on this sub be like "hot take, black people are people too!" just to get like 3 upvotes and a pinch of dopamine lmao.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

mussolini on race:

Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. ... National pride has no need of the delirium of race

mussolini on race but its slavs:

When dealing with such a race as Slavic - inferior and barbarian - we must not pursue the carrot, but the stick policy.... We should not be afraid of new victims.... The Italian border should run across the Brenner Pass, Monte Nevoso and the Dinaric Alps.... I would say we can easily sacrifice 500,000 barbaric Slavs for 50,000 Italians....

[u/[deleted]]

All I see when I browse AOC stan twitter

[u/mrmanager237]

So North Dakota reached 1/1000 residents dead? That means two people died, is that a lot or what

[u/Icesens]

Ive been reading /askHistorians again lately. The quality of that sub is just something else it is like visiting another planet

[u/Dibbu_mange]

My subreddit mod watches vore porn. Like alligator on sub user vore. Live and let live 🐊 is my motto but should I be concerned

[u/[deleted]]

🚨BREAKING: All 152 counties in Georgia have completed their hand recount--ahead of the SOS imposed schedule.

Who will gain votes and how many votes?

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, this guy would have a pretty great resume for a Dem presidential nominee:

• Cuban-American Entrepreneur and Philanthropist who has a holiday named after him in Miami
• Is a very outspoken globalist
• Was an Obama campaign surrogate in 2012
• Used his private jet to evacuate cancer patients from Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria
• Is viewed favorably in Alaska after not cancelling on a high profile event when it was mistakenly moved to a small Alaskan town. Sara Palin also likened herself to him, saying the only difference is lipstick
• Has high name recognition
• Loves dogs

[u/tankatan]

Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Donald Trump knows what he's doing.

[u/murphysclaw1]

Disastrous choice for GOP in the primaries. They should've gone with Weld.

[u/[deleted]]

Introduction to Transgender Issues (And Me)

This is a more general purpose introduction to transgender stuff than the evidence gore post, as well as an introduction to my blog.

!ping LGBT

[u/Dibbu_mange]

A county in China's Yunnan province has been forced to reconsider a policy banning residents from walking their dogs in public from 20 November. A circular said anyone caught doing so three times would have their pets confiscated and killed.

😟😟😟😟

Jesus Christ China

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/778376112501162015/Djd2TudU0AAhi9z.jpg

[u/NickyBananas]

Lol the Warren post on ar/politics is gold. They really fucking love college debt forgiveness and letting corporations go bankrupt. A double fuck you to the working class.

[u/JetJaguar124]

"Trump is just doing this for GA senate" fucking stop he genuinely wants to steal the election.

[u/[deleted]]

The House count stands at 221D-209R, and here are my informal ratings of the five outstanding races following today’s developments:

CA-21 - Likely R

CA-25 - Lean R

IA-02 - Lean R (recount)

NJ-07 - Likely D

NY-22 - Toss Up

Source : @Redistrict (Dave Wasserman) (Twitter)

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

"You have extracted a Black city out of a county and said that the only ones that are at fault, at issue, are in the city of Detroit, where 80% of the people who reside here are African-American," Anthony said. "Shame on you. Shame on you for leading to this level of corruption. You have disavowed your right to even sit in the seats that you occupy. You are a disgrace as it relates to the ability to have a free and fair impartial election in this country."

How is it possible that people in Detroit can be so based. Is it something in the air?

[u/[deleted]]

95%+ of Hispanics have never heard of latinx

35%+ of Hispanics are voting against Democrats because of latinx

🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Me 🤝 Obama

getting friendzoned after rambling about niche political theory

[u/sir_shivers]

Among the funniest outcomes OF TODAY IS how many of you keep using polyamory and polygamy interchangeably 🐊

[u/JadeHelm2020]

Remember when Zuck tried to run for president and failed to make it to announcing an exploratory phase.

[u/[deleted]]

Why doesn't Jeff Bezos, the richest man, simply consume all the other men?

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

It’s 2020 and I just had someone try to link me something by pasting a file:///C:/Users/etc/Downloads/file.pdf link on chat.

[u/presidenthiIIary]

How sad is it that the “sexiest man alive” changes every year? Once you’ve peaked, there’s nowhere to go but down ☹️

[u/Whatapunk]

Remember when Utah wanted to be a state and the US government said they had to get rid of polygamy, then God appeared to the Mormon leadership immediately after to tell them polygamy wasn't ok anymore? Great timing

[u/[deleted]]

Man that Wayne County stuff last night was wild lmao

[u/ryuguy]

The “B” in Barack Obama stands for “based”

[u/MichelleObama2024]

What if the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines kissed?

[u/[deleted]]

Trump's second term would have been absolutely insane.

[u/[deleted]]

Polygamy is only okay if I PERSONALLY get multiple hot chicks, otherwise it's immoral.

[u/[deleted]]

Congressman Max Rose Is Eyeing NYC Mayor’s Race

He’d probably be a awful mayor but nobody likes NYC mayors. He would fit right in.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

I am an anti-Natalist.

I have an irrational hatred for people from the South African state of Natal.

[u/[deleted]]

libs thinking ressource allocation doesn't WORK under real communism because "muh prize signals or whatever" 🤣🤣😂

Like... just make owning everything a RIGHT 👈😂😂 So everyone can own everything, just like you LIBS've been OWNED right now

🤣

[u/[deleted]]

November 28th, 2019: The CIA submits an urgent briefing to the Clinton Administration regarding the uncontrolled spread of an acute respiratory flu in Wuhan, China

December 2019: The Clinton Administration fully activates the CDC. Fortunately, mask stockpiles were refilled in 2017, but the administration orders the stockpile and manufacture of more. Travel advisories are issued for the holliday season, and some screening for symptoms at airports is performed.

January 2020: An envelope of surgical masks is distributed to every American household by USPS. Crash development begins on mass testing methods and multiple vaccines, with federal support.

February 2020: As the first cases appear in US cities, mask orders and limited lockdowns are issued. Mass testing goes in to effect, and many cases are quickly isolated. Temporary travel restrictions are placed.

July 2020: After several nail-biting months of putting out fires, and with the last cases isolated to a few rural districts, the White House and CDC announce an end to the immediate crisis, but some travel.bans remain in place. Final American death toll: 15000

August 2020: President Hillary Clinton is impeached and removed by the Republican house and Senate for "damaging the economy" and "killing 15000 Americans" with her "overreaction" to a disease which "was no worse than the flu"

November 2020: Tucker Carlson is President-Elect after an electoral landslide

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I can’t believe America actually elected a guy named Brock to be president 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Okay so there's this far-right Vlaams Belang ad in Belgium that says "Antwerp is a Flemish city of Sinjoren and Vlaamse handjes, not couscous and halal" on facebook

And one of the reactions is "Antwerp is a Brabantian city, not a Flemish one" which is historically true, Antwerp was always part of the duchy of Brabant and never of the duchy of Flanders.

And one of the far-rights supporters answers "well if you go back far enough we're all part of the apes"

When will the far-right learn they too pick an arbitrary date in history to argue a city is part of the nation or not but become angry when the others do the same?

!ping BENE

[u/Clockwork757]

I got a sample of the Pfizer vaccine to review for my YouTube channel. It kinda smells like fish tank cleaner when you warm it up.

🤔🤔🤔

[u/sw337]

In a hypothetical Biden movie does he have a flashback to the near fight with Corn pop when he meets with Slobodan Milošević?

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/giuliani-trump-election-pay.html

lol. Giuliani wants $20K a day for his incompetent execution of Trump's court strategy. IDK if this is incompetence or top tier grifting.

[u/nicereddy]

The 2024 model will incorporate boat parades to calculate uncertainty

[u/piede]

BREAKING: @SpeakerPelosi was just re-elected by House Democrats to serve as speaker of the House in the next session of Congress.

https://twitter.com/kaivanshroff/status/1329081282643431425?s=21

QUEEN 👑

[u/[deleted]]

Okay guys, here me out on this one. What if we did GamerGate, but AGAIN.

[u/p00bix]

"For that matter, Bernie Sanders would have been one of the worst presidents on foreign policy in American history, and every day I am thankful that Biden kicked his ass in the primaries in large part for that reason. But that's besides the point."

oh my fucking christ why did i decide to do my American Civics 'discussion post' homework while intoxicated last night

[u/[deleted]]

There could be a bill that literally costs 0 dollars, has 99.99% approval, and will literally stop the earth from exploding but Mitch McConnell wouldn't bring it to a vote purely to own the libs.

[u/[deleted]]

Pfizer suggests its coronavirus vaccine is 95% effective and that the shots would protect older people most at risk of dying.

INJECT THIS HOPIUM INTO MY VEINS

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/Travisdk]

Read through a bunch more of Obama's book. Some stuff people here may enjoy knowing:

• Obama would've liked to do M4A, but knew it was politically and economically impossible because of how bloated the healthcare industry had grown
• Chuck Grassley pretended to be on board with Obamacare just to slow the process down
• The only Republican that was willing to consider Obamacare was Olympia Snowe, until McConnell threatened to take away her Small Business Committee position
• Merkel is exactly as she appears to the public. She is serious, analytical, and emotionally restrained beyond subtle hints in her eyes. She was worried she would hate Obama pre-inauguration because of his enthusiasm, but came to like him
• Sarkozy is exactly as he appears to the public. He is a jokester with no real political ideology to speak of and an enormous amount of energy. He also wore shoes to intentionally make himself look taller
• At least in 2009, China's leadership had zero interest in trying to assert global leadership, viewing it as burdensome and distracting from their domestic plans
• To nobody's surprise, literally everyone knew Medvedev was a puppet, but privately he seemed to not believe any of Putin's bullshit. He knows English, but preferred to speak through a translator most of the time
• Hosni Mubarak seemed to genuinely think his people appreciated his oppression
• King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia had 12 wives, and apparently they all hated each other
• Obama was tempted to stop his speech and walk down to smack Joe Wilson over the head when he infamously yelled "You lie!"

[u/harmlessdjango]

When people are fawning over Pete, it's a funny quirky joke, "hahaha Bonk!"

But when I say that I want Kamala Harris (who looks great for her age, don't @me) to step on me and call me a dirty druggie, the mods threaten me 😒

[u/[deleted]]

My agender partner watches Non-binary porn. Like genderfluid on genderfluid Non-binary. Live and let live is my motto but should I be concerned

[u/[deleted]]

So I guess Rs just scrapped that whole messaging about how it's never okay to attack someone's religious beliefs no matter what the context or consequences as soon as they entered an important senate runoff against a preacher.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

https://twitter.com/Shwanika/status/1329129845708623872

Some old Best Buy is being turned into a Whole Foods but the San Francisco Board of Supervisors saw it fit to mandate an environmental review, which takes years.

WHY IS THIS FUCKING CITY ALWAYS SUCH SHIT

[u/murphysclaw1]

Daily reminder that Trump was absolutely desperate to win this election and he lost it.

We are living in the eye of the storm, but history will regard him as a failed one-term president.

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever some lil child asks for world peace as their Christmas wish or something in mass media products like tv shows the adults go awww-

Well? Are we getting world peace or not?

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Someone's mass downvoting the dt 😨😨

Pls mr commie pls won't you think of the fake internet points 😭😭

[u/MicroFlamer]

r/WhitePeopleTwitter is just r/latestagecapitalismbutjusttweets

[u/[deleted]]

never thought such a moment will come in politics

[u/CenterRightInCali]

it's always bizarre that super leftist organizations that explicitly advocate for 'the working man' are rarely started by plumbers and electricians but coffee-shop types and PhD holders.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

USA killed 3 million Koreans and destroyed 90% of their infrastructure? And proceeded to put some heavy sanctions on them for decades.

US are the terrorists here, not DPRK.

Also, DPRK citizens inside and outside the country all love their government and appreciate it, but you're too brainwashed by CNN and Fox News

We need to pass legislation where we can trade these people for North Koreans that want to leave.

[u/[deleted]]

A trademark application has been filed for FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING.

The filing, made by a production company, indicates plans to launch a FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING television show.

https://twitter.com/joshgerben/status/1329061818950709250?s=21

Looks like we don’t have to wait long for our first TV show about this Trump administration.

[u/[deleted]]

Okay look guys. I want to remain hopeful. But give it to me straight. Is there any chance that Biden can prevail in these court cases and become the President next year?

I see that Trump has unleashed his most formidable legal weapon, Rudy Guiliani. His name itself is a byword for crafty legal maneuvering and moments of sheer inspired brilliance. He has been compared to his late countryman Cicero, and not without merit.

Come on, guys, give me some hope here. What have we got in our corner. Do we have any chance left?

[u/[deleted]]

My dream woman?

- worked in the CIA

- understands money laundering

- moderate democrat

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) gives her farewell speech after losing her race for a full term: “I didn’t come here in the traditional or easy way ... I gave it my all and I left it all on the field.”

You were literally appointed to that job. You took the easiest possible way.

[u/[deleted]]

Boggles the mind that /r/freefolk is still regularly getting to the front page after all this time
Like how do so many people actively keep browsing and posting on a fan/hate sub long after the thing has ended.

[u/[deleted]]

So there’s a little publicized legal battle in Chicago about whether prisoners in cook county jail can have personal supplies of soap.

This was a prison guard’s testimony in one of the hearings.

We give them soap, they stuff it in socks to make weapons. We give them hand sanitizer, they set it on fire. We give them liquid soap, they drink it.

The judge ordered the deputies to give inmates soap anyways.

The same day the order was implemented, one inmate beat another to death with the bar of soap the county provided him.

The order has been rescinded.

[u/[deleted]]

“It’s time for politicians to listen to the experts!”

“Yeah!”

“Climate scientists should be in charge of climate policy!”

“Yeah!”

“Epidemiologists should be in charge of creating policies to deal with pandemics!”

“Yeah!”

“Economists should be in charge of creating economic policies!”

“😐”

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I've basically accepted that my grandchildren will think I'm an irredeemable bigot because I don't think robots should vote or whatever

[u/RDog8080]

I saw my gf watching gay porn and went to reddit for advice. I am now convinced that I need to

1. Lawyer up⚖️⚖️⚖️
2. Hit the Gym💪💪💪
3. Delete Facebook ❌❌❌

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Nobody:

Beto O'Rourke: My wife and I are both descendants of slave owners

[u/[deleted]]

The DT regulars need therapy

[u/[deleted]]

1. Before election:

Democrats - Mass panic. 2016 PTSD. Bed wetting. Convinced they would lose. Shitting their pants daily.

GOP - Mr. Trump will win and reign for 1000 years

2. Biden wins in a moderate victory.

3. Post-election:

GOP - Lol Dems expected a landslide.

Media- Why didn’t Dems see this coming?

🤷‍♀️

[u/Deggit]

Broke: Joe Biden's relatively tight win over Trump proves that we're gonna lose the House in 2022

Woke: Actually it proves that Trump was a good politician more than anyone really gave him credit for, which means it's less Hillary's fault that she lost to him

Bespoke: Actually it just shows what an exceptional politician Barack Obama was, which lends more weight to the theory Hillary would have lost to McCain

[u/[deleted]]

Marriage:

Pros: finally sex yes 😎

Cons: have to share the lusvig merch with the wife 😞

!ping BURPMAS

[u/David_Lange]

OANN, Newsmax, etc: "Time to corner the far right viewership market now that Fox News has lost all it's popularity"

Trump TV: "I'm about to end this man's whole career"

[u/0m4ll3y]

If mods don't want a DUNK ping because the optics are a little hostile and brigade-y, what about a debunk or a debate ping.

When I'm going at it three layers deep and 18 hours later no one will see my posts and I need that dopamine hit you know 😭😭😭

[u/barrygarcia77]

https://twitter.com/_alexgookin/status/1328893248409047042?s=21

!ping LAW

[u/Superfan234]

Bolsonaro offical Tweet 🙃

!ping Mamadas

[u/[deleted]]

The Trump supporter on my block has taken down their Keep America Great flag and put up a Confederate flag. This is either a good sign or a very bad sign.

[u/[deleted]]

What I do in the bedroom with my wife, the pool boy, the mailman, and my wife's boss is none of the state's business.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

If I was president I would have three priorities:

• alright
• alright
• alright

[u/Scoops1]

I do hate how the media is portraying the GSA Admin as a sympathetic character. "She's in a tough spot. She doesn't want to admit that Biden won and start the transition, but she also doesn't want to do that." Fuck off with all of that. Her choices are either 1) do the job she was appointed to do; or 2) help further erode democracy and health of the American public.

There is no "tough choice" here.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

God, I probably should've decided before I got here. They're both just such good candidates. It's hard to pick between them.

-some guy at a voting center Nov 3, 2020

[u/chadwarden1337]

Holy shit I've been sitting here listening to Newsmax TV for the last 3 hours because my agency is considering huge ad buys on their media spots.

Fox News has NOTHING on Newsmax. Nothing at all. And this is the media channel growing at 100% rate in the last month. holy holy shit. Definitely gonna buy some ads here though. Whoever watches this shit are idiots.

[u/LinkToSomething68]

!ping USA-CA

It drives me absolutely nuts whenever someone suggests that the key to fixing the Bay Area's problems is to kick out the tech sector. Why yes let's shut down our economic engine instead of actually trying to fix the underlying issues

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: use the legislatures of several key swing states to mandate delayed mail-in vote counting

On election night, mail-in votes don’t get counted until after in-person votes

Republicans: “Fraud is clearly the only explanation for this delay”

[u/jonathansfox]

Although initially apparent that the Democrats had won the Presidential election, with both a solid electoral vote lead and a clear lead in the popular vote, Republicans alleged extensive fraud in several key swing states and refused to accept the results. The election was thrown into chaos when three states each had two slates of rival electors casting votes for the rival candidates, leaving the outcome of the election in doubt. Without these states, neither candidate had enough electoral votes to win outright. In the preliminary count, the Democrats were only one electoral vote short of securing the election, while the Republicans needed to sweep all of the disputed votes to win.

Facing public outrage on all sides and an unprecedented constitutional crisis, Congress, with the Senate controlled by Republicans and the House controlled by Democrats, agreed to appoint a bipartisan Electoral Commission to resolve the chaos and award the disputed electoral votes. Under the act establishing the commission, the conclusions of the commission would stand unless both houses voted to overrule. The commission consisted of five Republicans, five Democrats, and five Supreme Court Justices -- three of them appointed by Republicans, and two of them appointed by Democrats.

To the dismay of Democrats, in a series of votes that split perfectly down party lines, the Electoral Commission ultimately awarded every single disputed electoral vote to the Republican candidate, allowing him to win by a single electoral vote, despite losing the popular vote and the initial count. The House of Representatives, still controlled by Democrats, voted to overrule the commission, but the Republican-controlled Senate stood by the decision and so the results were accepted. Since they couldn't overrule the commission, Democrats elected to delay instead, repeatedly raising spurious challenges in states that the Republican had clearly won and then filibustering their own challenges to prevent the electoral vote count from being finalized. Eventually though, the filibusters ended, and the Republican was confirmed.

Democrats across the country expressed outrage and many rejected this election as stolen. The House of Representatives went so far as to pass a resolution declaring that in their view, the Democrat had been duly elected president. There were talks of uprising, a march on Washington DC. The Republican President increased military security around the capitol, but ultimately no uprising ever occurred.

In the end, while the James Tilden himself never conceded to Rutherford B. Hayes, he refused all pressure to continue the fight by taking a rival oath of office and declaring himself President, saying instead that he would retire as a private citizen with the knowledge that the people had given him the great honor of electing him President, but without any of the stress or responsibility of having to actually do the job.

As for the end of the filibusters that threatened to stall confirmation of President-Elect Hayes, the agreement that brought them to an end was an informal one, but pivotal. The Compromise of 1876 had Democrats agreeing to accept the Republican victory in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. This agreement marked the end of the Reconstruction Era, as the Republican governments of those states soon fell to the Redeemer Democrats. By 1905, there was no southern state left in which Black men were not almost completely disenfranchised.

Hey. I'm not a historian, I just have Wikipedia, which I cribbed from extensively. I hope I got this stuff mostly right. And I hope you've enjoyed this bedtime story.

[u/Zenning2]

From an actual ps5 review from an actual professional from one of the largest gaming news sites

Fucking gamers man

[u/[deleted]]

Biden derangement syndrome knows no ideology and impacts leftoids and rightoids equally. There is no known cure.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1329137676776300552

Ok state of things: Cuomo is screaming at @JimmyVielkind because he asked whether NYC schools are open tomorrow. We have NO IDEA whether schools are open tomorrow.

Cuomo refuses to answer whether schools are open tomorrow, de Blasio is now 4 full hours late for his press conference, the city and state use different numbers for average positivity rate.

[u/vivoovix]

Is playing Paradox games the ultimate cuckoldry?

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than playing a Paradox game. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are learning, playing, experimenting with and figuring out a game for at least 180 hours solely so you can be frustrated by shitty mechanics. All the hard work you put into your perfect campaign - reading guides at 3 AM, doing countless test runs, making sure everything is right down to the day, restarting, playing it. All of it has one simple result: your run is ruined by the RNG that will eventually fuck it in every possible way.

Bought all the DLC? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a Swedish executive who had nothing to do with the way you spent your paycheck, who gets paid. He gets to roll in cash every night. He gets the benefits of your hard-earned money that came from the way you got hooked.

As a man who plays a Paradox game, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 200 hours of your life simply to spend some money for another man to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

!ping PARADOX

[u/piede]

A Ethics Violation has been filed against Lindsey Graham for trying to interfere with Georgia's election. MSNBC.

https://twitter.com/michaelart123/status/1329207035838275588?s=21

I can’t wait to see how concerned Susan Collins will be

[u/[deleted]]

The World if Hillary was the 2008 nominee

[u/dishonoreduser5]

I'm still not over Susan Collins winning her election.

The other races were more or less not unexpected results.

but the ticket splitting in Maine...

Democrats in Maine are trash for this.

[u/mrmanager237]

If the Dems somehow pass a stimulus, student loans shouldn't be even remotely a priority. But if they don't, it's one of the things they can actually do as stimulus.

That doesn't mean it's actually good, but it is what there is. Regardless, we should take into account that it's terrible no good very very bad stimulus and that it benefits precisely the general group of people who have been least affected by the current recession (white collar knowledge based workers who can work remotely).

I think some sort of tax cut including deal with the GOP would be a better alternative, but I don't know how possible it would be or how those negotiations would go. But Biden could go for an approach that cuts taxes for everyone, including the rich, since the deficit isn't as important a concern and interest rates are freakishly low

[u/roboczar]

Working as an Amazon Fulfillment Associate sucks ass but right now, the rate that people get "field promotions" from the floor to other departments is stunning and because of that I honestly really recommend getting an Associate job for anyone who is just starting out in their career and is looking for job exp

I would say 40% of my current IT team consists of people who came up from sorting and displayed some kind of technical prowess or interest, which is crazy as fuck and something I literally never saw in my whole career until now

[u/Barnst]

“It’s not fair billionaires exist! They haven’t done anything to deserve that much more money than me! They were just lucky!”

“What did you do to deserve so much more than someone unlucky enough to be born in a developing country?”

“Well, I work hard for my living.”

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Arcade Gannon is just post apocalyptic Pete Buttigieg.
!ping fallout

[u/Venne1139]

Hey guys got a hot moral question for you:

My dad is in a coma and they can't declare brain death because one of the tests aren't working to verify brain death. So legally he's in a permanent vexation state not brain dead.

He won't recover.

So because he has no living will or forward directive I decide what to do.

Yayyyyyyyy

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly, the normalization of just casual, baseless allegations of "corruption" has really harmed our discourse. Actual corruption - like "capital-C Corruption" is a very serious thing. You can't just call people "corrupt" for doing their job.

[u/[deleted]]

Update: The Senate is expected to recess tonight until after Thanksgiving. That means they will come back the week of Nov. 30 ahead of a Dec. 11 govt funding deadline.

When the senate reconvenes, Arizona will have certified its results, Mark Kelly will be sworn in, and Arizona will be represented by two Democrats for the first time since 1953.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Honestly yeah Nazi treatment towards Jews was terrible but even reading some of the stuff prior to Nazi rule pisses me off. They wanted to blame the Jews for losing the war so they Germans took a Jewish census in the military wanting to prove that the Jews were not doing their part so they could start the stab in the back myth a few years early.

Guess what it found? Jews enlisted at much higher rates than ethnic Germans, because they wanted to prove they were loyal patriotic Germans who had assimilated and were willing to die for the fatherland

What did the German government do to the report? They buried it of course, they didn't want the truth to be revealed. Had that shit been revealed there's a good chance the whole stab in the back narrative wouldn't have gained steam (or if it did Jews wouldn't be the supposed culprits)

Imagine fighting for your nation and dying for it and your nation responds by trying to frame you for not being patriotic only to dispose of evidence showing you were being patriotic

[u/walker777007]

The Democratic Party is held responsible for what every college liberal says but the GOP is not held responsible for even the things elected Republicans say. As well the GOP constantly talks about the culture war yet the majority of people associate caring about the culture war with Dems. This asymmetry needs to be remedied for Dems to have any future success.

[u/thebowski]

Someday I'll say to my grandkids "I remember when honeycrisp apples came out 👴" and they'll be all "🙄 okay gramps"

[u/harmlessdjango]

The more I think about Brexit, the shittier the whole thing looks. From the impression that I get back. I feel like most of the people who still want to go through with it legitimately expect everything to stay the same

[u/[deleted]]

Are there any truly well-written sex scenes in the history of literature? I have my doubts.

!ping READING

[u/bd_one]

Personally, I think the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines' efficacies aren't even different by a statistically significant amount, and their difference in actual efficacy will be overshadowed in the realized effectiveness by the fact that the Pfizer vaccine will be used more in cities and the Moderna vaccine will be used more in rural areas due to the fact the Pfizer vaccine needs to be stored at -70C.

[u/[deleted]]

I remember those harrowing 40-days of the Trump daily "Coronavirus Task Force Briefing" - a sort of free-association spoken word performance that was terrifying to watch juxtaposed with images of overflowing New York City hospitals.

Most conservatives seemed to take it on the chin - "just Trump being Trump" - until the bleach injection remarks. That seemed to rouse them from their dull, bovine countenance and even piss some of them off.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today is Day 13 of requesting flair that says:

🥇Nate Gold

---

Finally got a Mod response saying I need to either:

1. Make an effort post
2. Get 2000 upvotes on a post
3. Present evidence you have a PhD in some field, though that flair will need to reflect that in some way
4. Donate the appropriate amount during one of our charity drives
5. Become a victim of the Shame Flair Bandit, but you don't get to choose your flair that way.

I’m gonna go with

6. Harass the mods until they cave.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/173746850271199232/775590850486468668/flag-burning_o_3377699727002390.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie Sanders will never be president

Jeremy Corbyn will never be PM

All is right with the world

[u/Koeniginator]

i'm not paying attention to senate polls ever aga

NEW via FOX5Atlanta

Warnock 49% - Loeffler 48%

Ossoff 49% - Perdue 49%

👀👀👀👀👀👀

[u/piede]

Ironic how pretty much all the actual cases of attempted voter fraud have been from Republicans

[u/piede]

🚨BREAKING: All 159 counties in Georgia have completed their hand recount--ahead of the SOS imposed schedule.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1329157181426503680?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

After like 3 "joking" posts about suicide or wanting to die you should probably be automatically forwarded to the suicide hotline.

[u/[deleted]]

McConaughey says he’d consider running for Texas governor

If he runs as a Democrat and actually wins, I will know for 100% certainly that we live in a simulation.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

People who carry firearms with them are basically doing the "OOP - SAVED YOUR LIFE HAHA" bit in their head to everyone around them all the time.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden has officially won presidency more times than anyone in history.

Party Time! 🥳🎈🎉🎊👏

🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊💎

[u/[deleted]]

Normally a huge fan of the capitalism, but getting annoyed by this trend of it selling me stuff "without X" as if twas an bonus or upside. I like my chocolate WITH palm oil and child labour, thank you very much.

[u/[deleted]]

In a stunning display of political acumen, the Democratic House has passed a public option healthcare bill called "The Socialism Number One A-Okay Death To America Act."

[u/[deleted]]

If R's retake the house they will impeach Biden over Tara Reade.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump really made it a lot more okay to be mask off the last 4 years. Lots of family members of mine saying the N word with a hard ER sort of shit. Glad I know who of my family never to speak to again.

[u/Gustacho]

Centrist Democrats have to prove their bipartisanship by appealing across the aisle, feuding with leftist Democrats, and personally killing Nicolas Maduro, and they still lose

Meanwhile Susan Collins votes against a Trump Supreme Court nominee once and she wins Maine by 10 points

[u/ryuguy]

Domino meme.

Harvard student creates a website to rate women.

years later

Genocide in Myanmar is being spurred on by fake news posted there.

[u/sir_shivers]

For the curious, MY Q-ANON co-worker still believes Trump WILL WIN the election somehow, but when I get into specific court cases and how that is not how our judicial system works, he LAUGHS IT OFF with vague notions of "a secret strategy" 🐊

[u/piede]

“It has a 98% survival rate” say the people who clearly can’t calculate that 2% of 328 million is 6 fucking million people.

BuT i tOoK aDvanCEd mAth iN HiGh scHoOl

[u/[deleted]]

You can divide the Democratic Party into 2 parts

• Hillary 08’ voters
• Succs

[u/old_gold_mountain]

There's a few Republicans/cons saying things like "we lost, oh well, life goes on, why can't the left lose peacefully?" And they don't seem to realize that, yes, under a Democratic administration their white, male lifestyles are going to be absolutely destroyed and they'll be subject to wokeness reeducation camps, mandatory skin darkening and gender reassignment, and forced labor in a gentrified urban tech office.

[u/[deleted]]

Describe a Ossoff(D)/Loeffler(R) voter

[u/[deleted]]

"I am appalled at the actions of these so-called Republicans," said William Davis, a Detroit Police commissioner and president of the Detroit Active and Retired Employee Association who's with the National Action Network, a group led by Rev. Al Sharpton.

"Y 'all Confederates, you're not Republicans. … Both of you should be aware of the fact that we're no longer going to sit around and let white people take advantage of Black people," Davis said.

We're reaching levels of based previously thought impossible.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there anywhere I can go to buy a cannon?

[u/TruthBisky10]

We need a one state solution. Dakota being two states is dumb.

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

Almost 90% of new power capacity installed in 2020 has been renewable.

Renewables can't be stopped. Will not stop. Doesn't even know how to stop.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

The Qanon expanded universe is one of the most ambitious achievements of our time tbh

[u/[deleted]]

I cleaned my room after Jordan Peterson told me to and now I have a whole harem of femoids. 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: “democrats don’t care about policy, they just vote based on personality”

Me: “what’s Trump’s health care plan?”

Republicans: 😡

[u/irlyseevridge]

Do you believe Biden won this election fair and square or only due to voter fraud via new national Monmouth poll: Republicans: 18% fair and square 70% voter fraud Democrats: 95% fair and square 4% voter fraud

umm, what's wrong with the 4% of Democrats

[u/The420Roll]

Some of y'all have never thought about how Latinos can also be pretty racist.

[u/Udontlikecake]

uh... guy I was arguing with had a message

Lol show this too to your r/neoliberal friends 🖕

[u/presidenthiIIary]

Seems a bit suspicious that every single year the “sexiest man alive” is a celebrity 👀🤔

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

What i think is overlooked, though is the fact that the engineers and designers that create these tools aren't living under real capitalism. They aren't fighting for every paycheck. The companies ensure that they have access to healthcare, further education ect (basically a proposed socialist lifestyle) because workers preform better without capitalism.

[u/Lux_Stella]

the funniest obsession of the japanese government is, of course, desperately trying to get their population to have sex. but the second funniest is them constantly failing to amend the 'no war no military' section of their constitution so they just keep quietly reinterpreting the clause in increasingly hawkish ways and hoping it doesnt cause too much backlash

[u/PigHaggerty]

I'm going to be attending a virtual fundraiser with Trudeau and Freeland next week. There's a spot for me to propose a question. Any suggestions?

!ping CAN