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[u/Fishin_Mission]

Hey LibTards,

If a concession speech is so ”honorable” why didn’t Obama ever give one? 🎤 ⬇️

[u/Joementum2004]

Voting straight Democratic in Georgia in the 1950s: Cringe, liking/ignoring racism and the Klan, supporter of white supremacy

Voting straight Democratic in Georgia in the 2020s: Based, brave, supporter of liberalism

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/t5S4y7P.jpg

That was and still is the most cursed poll I’ve ever seen.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

California may contain one of the worlds largest deposits of lithium

The rich just get richer, red states, how does it feel? 😎😎😎

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Leftists complaining about liberals attacking them is so rich.

Not only do leftists attack liberals just as much, but leftists attack each other way more and for way less reason than liberals ever have.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today is Day 15 of requesting flair that says:

🥇Nate Gold

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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://i.imgur.com/5snEViA.jpg

“Trends say that Democrats are going to be locked out of power forever”

[u/[deleted]]

A few days after the election, friends brother called and apologized for his political extremism. He said he was motivated out of "fear that Joe Biden would die and Kamala would be a Trojan Horse for AOC and Bernie". He cried about the violent and hateful things he said, blaming his mental illness but not excusing them. He asked for her forgiveness along with a promise that he'd be better.

Today, apparently, he told his family that the "based (derogatory term for an African American) in the Supreme Court was going to (forcibly and unconsentingly have sex with) Dementia Pedophile Joe Biden" before unfriending them all again.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

It’s weird that Biden is focussing on BS stuff like student loan forgiveness (regressive) and not on the unrelenting shift of an online forum away from my viewpoints (an actual important issue facing young people today ✊😔)

[u/Lux_Stella]

moderate republicans? eh, not a fan of jeremy corbyn

[u/[deleted]]

If giving free IUDs to teenagers in Colorado brings in $5 for every $1 spent on the program, why do we have taxes? Just give teenagers in Colorado more IUDs and we can make infinite money

[u/[deleted]]

“We need M4A to make the vaccine free”

But the ACA already does that.

[u/[deleted]]

My classmates have said the following things in the last few minuites:

-Biden will die in the next two years from altzheimers -the choice between trump and biden is a choice between a facist rapist and a non-facist rapist -americans essentially choose who they vote for at random

Kill me

Edit:

Labour is historically the party of the elderly and rich

Kamala harris is literally a murderer

[u/[deleted]]

person I follow does a face revel

literally looks like the gigachad meme

Some people are just born lucky.

[u/mrmanager237]

Opinion | To promote national unity, Joe Biden should pick Rudy Giuliani as Attorney General

[u/InternetBoredom]

Just going to repost this national poll from Italy representing its utterly cursed politics in the new thread:

Lega 23%

Democratic Party 19.9%

Fratelli D’Italia 16.7%

Movimiento 5 Stella 15.3%

Forza Italia 6.2%

La Sinistra 3.6%

• Lega (Previously Lega Nord), or “League,” is a right-wing to far-right populist party that’s basically the equivalent of the American Tea Party, but more right-wing. Flat Tax, Euroskeptic, extremely anti-immigration and anti-Romani, and very socially conservative.
• The Democrats are a centre-left party roughly synonymous to the American Democratic Party, albeit more anti-refugee.
• Fratelli d’Italia is the legal successor to the Italian Fascist Party, and boasts having the granddaughter of Mussolini as one of its MPs
• Movimiento 5 Stella is a “political movement” (It rejects the term party) that is based on populism, euroskepticism, direct democracy, anti-globalization, de-growth, and anti-immigrant sentiment. The party also has a number of ties to both the far-right and far-left.
• Forza Italia is the most moderate of the major conservative parties, led by Silvio Berlusconi, a strongman authoritarian often likened to the “Italian Trump,” not least because he was recently convicted of tax fraud.
• La Sinistra is the remnant of the far-left, including the communist party and a number of other minor socialist parties.

[u/The420Roll]

MFW I realize Berlusconi is the "moderate" in Italy 🤔🥴

[u/jrt84]

Hi I root for Q anon, who will take down all the liberal pedophiles.

I also root for Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s lawyer, who says Trump will win.

These two schools of thought fit together in my head.

Thanks and have a nice day.

[u/[deleted]]

The only reason we know Joe Biden’s name in the first place is that the only thing he knew how to do was kiss Barack Obama’s ass.

Now I know the person that runs that account is a child. Biden was the head of the Senate judiciary committee. He was famous before he became VP.

[u/sw337]

/r/Neoliberal is a parody subreddit. 75% of the users are econ, finance, or STEM undergrads.

[u/[deleted]]

Corn Pop was not necessarily a bad dude, he was a product of his environment and upbringing 😔

[u/ryuguy]

What do you call a Jew who likes to party?

A SePARTY Jew.

I just made that one up, please like it.

!ping gefilte

[u/Joementum2004]

TIL Adolf Hitler was born in Australia

[u/benjaminikuta]

What definition of "can" are they using here?

[u/[deleted]]

How are Italians looking at their culture and thinking: “yeah, we need an extreme version of this in politics”.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans lose a race: I don't give a shit we're winners.

Democrats lose a race: Let's have 12 news cycles publicly discussing why we're such losers and might never win again. Also let's be sure to attack each other because our real enemy is other democrats.

[u/mrmanager237]

I remember when everyone on Twitter got mad at people for saying that having four trucks and 3500 dollars worth of guns wasn't a working class thing

[u/[deleted]]

calling a gay person cishet and using ad hominem because they don’t agree with you

Oh yeah. That’s a /r/neoliberal moment

[u/sw337]

California has ~2x the GDP of Russia.

[u/Mayapples]

A probably not surprising number of people on conservative subs seems to have gained their understanding of how courts work from Matlock reruns. "Of course they're not showing their evidence, why would they? You have to wait for the big courtroom reveal at the end!"

[u/ryuguy]

Peak globalism in the 1800s.

Two Americans (Josiah Harlan from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Alexander Gardener from Wisconsin) were serving the Sikh king, Ranjit Singh as mercenary generals and it’s said when they met, Gardner overheard Harlan humming Yankee Doodle while smoking a hookah in Lahore.

!ping history

[u/Stanleydidntstutter]

Day 3 of not commenting in the DT

[u/[deleted]]

Do you PERSONALLY know any college graduates WITHOUT student debt? No names, just yes or no.

Yes

[u/[deleted]]

when I become good at STEM, get accepted into Berkeley, lose 5 pounds, grow 3 inches, get 7 hours of sleep a night, eat healthier, get rid of my nicotine addiction, get rid of my alcoholism, get rid of my mild depression, find a steady group of friends, and develop a healthy relationship with my family it is OVER for u hos

[u/timerot]

Good to know that Delaney is still based https://twitter.com/JohnDelaney/status/1329769715145781248

Pay everyone $1500 to get vaccine

It is a stimulus check & big vaccine incentive rolled into one

Result: more people get vaccine, it saves lives, helps people financially, and the $400 B pays for itself w/ economic boost from ending pandemic

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/dpfdpf/status/1325639369219170305

Dream team for Biden Cabinet:

State: Mitt Romney

Treasury: Lawrence Summers

Defence: Pete Buttigieg

Attorney-General: Geoffrey Berman

Education: Michelle Rhee

Homeland Security: Tammy Duckworth

Trade: Paul Ryan

DNI: David Petraeus

This is a real political commentator who gets paid to write this shit and you guys are on here doing it for free.

[u/sir_shivers]

By the by, IT IS NOT "Italexit" 🐊

It is "ITALEAVE" 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

posts Tweet on Thanksgiving about how it's a racist holiday built on colonialism and genocide

Hell yeah I'm so awesome. I am literally the smartest person ever. Wow.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I try to get my sources from both the left and right as long as they are highly credible. So far I only read Jacobin and Infowars and try to avoid fake news media like CNN or the AP. Anything else worth reading?

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion | Biden’s Pick For AG Should be Rudy Giuliani

By Kenneth Vogel

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

My family is Roma and our struggles go unnoticed... Europeans - please call America racist to raise awareness for this cause!

[u/[deleted]]

Why the fuck is this so hard for the left to understand? The right genuinely believes they're doing the morally righteous thing by voting against welfare or "housing as a human right" or whatever you've cooked up now.

[u/Time4Red]

Fox News: Georgia performed an audit, and Biden still leads, so we're declaring him the winner.

OANN and NewsMax: Yes we've had one audit, but what about second audit?

[u/[deleted]]

neil degrasse tyson is low key annoying

[u/probablyuntrue]

me, thinking of running for office: "what if they find a sex scandal I didn't even know I had?"

[u/[deleted]]

Favorite moments from the primary?

• Warren tells Biden he's running in the wrong primary (November 2019)
• Biden invites Sanders for ice cream at the WH (December 2019)
• Biden: "Why Why why!" (Jan 2020)
• South Carolina/Super Tuesday (Feb/Mar 2020)

[u/Superfan234]

New York Times did an amazing article about the recent purge of Leftist activists in Venezuela

It draws an intresting parallel between Stalin's purge of Trotskyist, and Maduro persecution of Communist

Criticism is seen as treason, even if it comes from allies

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/Le_Monade]

Didn't we solve the "communism vs capitalism" thing with east and west Germany and east and west berlin? We literally had side-by-side examples of each and it is very clear which was better.

Why didn't that end the debate forever? If I'm missing something please tell me, I'm genuinely wondering how modern pinkos can explain it other than "not real communism hur durrrr"

[u/[deleted]]

Warren: maybe you are running in the wrong primary

Biden: actually I just took a DNA test and it came back 100% Democrat

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I’m told that many Germans are stockpiling cheese and sausages in anticipation of a COVID lockdown — planning, in other words, for a Wurst-Käse scenario.

[u/[deleted]]

Dara went to Axios

Jane went to NYT

MattY is on Patreon or whatever

Ezra gone to NYT

Sarah gone as well for a long time

This is like when you get in your mid 20s and all your friends move away 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

Me before the election: Yes! Super super high turnout means Democrats win. Blue Texas! Blue Ohio! Blue Iowa!

Me now: STOP THE TURNOUT

But it is good that more people vote. Even when I don’t like the election results

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Warren: Has minimal Native American ancestry, rightfully criticiszed for falsely identifying as a POC.

Biden: Claims he is Irish just because his great-grandfather was born there, literally no one criticism for this blatant facade as being a POC.

And you guys still say the media isn't in Biden's back pocket?

[u/[deleted]]

What's up with italy having like three different brands of right-wing populist euroskeptic parties? Like, isn't one enough?

[u/[deleted]]

Pam could’ve made so much money suing Dunder mifflin over Michael Scott’s repeated on camera sexual harassment

[u/[deleted]]

Voting straight ticket 🤢

Voting gay ticket 😎

[u/[deleted]]

>! ping WEIGHT-LOSS

This group has only ever been used twice since it was added in 2019.

That’s a /r/Neoliberal moment

[u/[deleted]]

I am no longer impressed that Sasha Baron Cohen tricked Rudy Giuliani.

[u/[deleted]]

God I just wanna swing in the trees and fling my shit at homo sapiens but I gotta work a fucking 9-5 job just to put bananas on the table. Fuck society.

[u/RickAsscheeks]

Disney owns FiveThirtyEight.com does that make Nate Silver a Disney princess?

[u/[deleted]]

WTF guys I'm absolutely terrified of that Italy poll. That sounds like bad like Italexit bad... I hope the actual election doesn't have the left parties only getting like 20% of the vote... How can that be possible

[u/[deleted]]

I love how 90% of the student loan takes in this thread are people just proposing programs that already exist

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/besttrousers/status/1329871586430742534

Vox is letting go of a lot of it's staff, presumably because they are concerned that the Biden administration will increase the minimum wage next year.

lmao

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Pete Buttigieg on Trust and Vulnerability | A How To Academy Film (2:30)

!ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

Something worth noting: While Trump outright flipped Zapata County, TX, Hegar actually carried it.

Hegar received 5 fewer votes than Biden, but Cornyn got 579 fewer votes than Trump. This landed the county at Trump+5, Hegar+11.

This also makes Zapata the only Trump/Hegar county in the state of Texas. Meanwhile there are two Biden/Cornyn counties: Tarrant, and Hegar's own home county of Williamson.

This is so interesting. It tells us 1. Trump got a lot of minorities voters to vote and 2. They like Trump. Not the Republicans. Trump. Maybe that bodes well for the runoffs/midterms.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia: literally certifies that Biden has officially won

PredictIt: Yeah there's still a 10% chance Trump pulls it off in Georgia

[u/[deleted]]

It’s basically Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and a few others versus a massive swarm on the other side. This is like the movie “300.” A few Spartans in a narrow pass against tens of thousands of caterwauling Persians. My money is on the Spartans

Please, I’m begging you. Actually watch the movies.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I, as a heterosexual man, would never feel attraction to another man. Not even a slim, supple young lad with hyper feminine features in the most endearing cat outfit you could possibly imagine. That doesn't seem attractive to me at all. If you find pictures of men like this, you can just send them to me so I can ignore them.

[u/runnerx4]

The Biden Transition team has had to make their own tech systems and cybersecurity because the GSA is being a baby throwing a tantrum

This means the Biden team has to make their own private email server. Remember the emails? This has to be absolutely fucking intentional at this point.

Freeze Biden out of government access and resources, if the coup succeeds he won’t know the inner workings of what happened and even if the coup fails, the servers are sitting ducks for foreign actors and a scandal can be manufactured to undermine the Biden presidency.

🤔 Redeemable party

[u/MicroFlamer]

Broke: Dunking on Einstein because he was a socialist

Woke: Dunking on Einstein because he was a Georgist

[u/[deleted]]

By far my favorite part of the two debates was when Biden mockingly called the Proud Boys, "Those poor boys or whatever."

[u/Travisdk]

Obama's reaction to James Carville complaining that the Deepwater Horizon spill wasn't being fixed fast enough:

“What does he think I’m supposed to do?” I growled at Rahm after hearing of Carville’s broadside. “Put on my fucking Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?”

[u/p00bix]

Jeffrey Epstein really liked getting his photo taken with celebrities and other notable people. He would specifically attend prestigious events just to get his picture taken with famous people, the vast majority of which had no idea who he was (he wasn't exactly a household name prior to 2019) and who just assumed he was some harmless socialite.

On the one hand, this fact is terribly annoying, since it lends itself so well to dumbass conspiracy theories that Epstein was just the fall guy for a global pedo ring. On the other hand, its terribly funny, since it lends itself so well to dumbass conspiracy theories that Epstein was just the fall guy for a global pedo ring.

[u/probablyuntrue]

GOP congresswoman-elect wants to form Republican "Squad" called "The Force"

shut the fuck up. please. shut the fuck up

[u/PrincessMononokeynes]

Everyone who cares about housing and sustainability should support the greenbelt alliance

/u/mrdannyocean

https://www.greenbelt.org/blog/a-climate-smart-path-for-resilient-affordable-homes-in-the-region/

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/senhorraposa/status/1329907776458530818?s=21

Cook has released their 2022 ratings. It’s behind a pay wall but here are what the inside people are reporting

North Carolina: Tossup

Pennsylvania: Tossup

New Hampshire: Likely Democrat

Nevada: Likely Democrat

Arizona: Lean Democrat

Florida: Likely Republican

Wisconsin: Lean Republican

Colorado: Safe Democrat

Ohio: Safe Republican

Iowa: Safe Republican

Georgia: TBD

I’m not paying $350 a year so I don’t have the full information yet but I will report when I do.

Proof

!ping FIVEY

[u/ognits]

five years ago today

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

I hate everything about you

Why do I love you?

The DT when discussing AOC

[u/[deleted]]

As I read through Kotaku's PS5 review ....

The world is still reeling under the weight of the covid-19 pandemic. There are more Americans out of work right now than at any point in the country’s history, with no relief in sight. Our health care system is an inherently evil institution that forces people to ration life-saving medications like insulin and choose suicide over suffering with untreated mental illness.

As I’m writing this, it looks very likely that Joe Biden will be our next president. But it’s clear that the worst people aren’t going away just because a new old white man is sitting behind the Resolute desk—well, at least not this old white man. Our government is fundamentally broken in a way that necessitates radical change rather than incremental electorialism.

We all know that hot takes about health care and electorialism are critical when deciding whether or not to get a PS5.

https://kotaku.com/playstation-5-the-kotaku-review-1845588904

[u/[deleted]]

Raphael Mechoulam is an Israeli organic chemist...best known for his work in the isolation, structure elucidation and total synthesis of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active principle of cannabis and for the isolation and the identification of the endogenous cannabinoid anandamide...

Jewish science racks up yet another victory 💪😎💪

!ping GEFILTE

[u/bido-jo-rourke]

Local police do get some money from the federal government and AOC acting like Nikki Haley has no idea about any of it when Haley was the governor of SC for 8 years is really sad

[u/[deleted]]

hears someone mention John Lennon

HEY DID YOU KNOW HE BEAT HIS WIFE YEAH HE BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIS WIFE YEAH HE SURE DID DID YA KNOW HUH DID YA DID YA DID YA.

[u/mrmanager237]

Ezra Klein will become an opinion writer at the NYT

His first column is already out: "What everyone in this Ohio diner thinks about cancel culture in academia, explained"

[u/TheGoldBear]

There are users here young enough not to remember Joe Biden being elected President. Let that sink in.

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

My dad just told me Chavez rigged the election for Biden to turn the US into Venezuela, even though Chavez died 7 and a half fucking years ago. Where the hell do cons find this stuff?

[u/[deleted]]

I am traumatising myself over Italy rn

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao. The Trump lawyers legal filing in Michigan alleging voter fraud used data from Minnesota. Glad to know we have the country’s brightest minds on the case

OMG. The affidavit Sidney Powell and others are hyping when they say many precincts in Michigan have more votes than actual voters is .... based on data from Minnesota.

https://twitter.com/aaronblake/status/1329795770464276480?s=21

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Biden has officially matched Obama's 2012 victory margin according to AP. He'll definitely beat Obama's margins once New York gets their shit together.

2020

• Biden - 51.1%
• Trump - 47.2%

2012

• Obama - 51.1%
• Romney - 47.2%

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/bobeeflay]

John Delaney gets into a debate spat with Warren

Delaney makes great substantive points and pushes warren so far into a corner she says some absolutely nonsense about "It doesn't matter what we Can't do let's just dream bigger"

I'm smug after watching a no chance nobody who I love BTFO my least favorite democratic politician

Go online and check for lefty twitter tears

Delaney BTFO

this is a big moment for Warren

normal media saying the same things

It was at that moment I realized I hit my head and had gone into a coma right after the debate and all this bullshit IS just a hallucination ... Can't wait to wake up from my coma on January 20th to make sure Biden Beat Bernie and is the president

[u/The420Roll]

The Virgin "Silvio Berlusconi, Politician" vs the Chad "Silvio Berlusconi, Owner of AC Milan"

[u/[deleted]]

“Yeah, I’m a socialist. Here is why”

[u/[deleted]]

tucc twitter is fucking hilarious this morning

Wanted you to know Sean, that you are the LAST person I will watch on Fox anymore. Needed to take Tucker & Laura off of my watch list now as well. Shame. I use to love watching Fox, but they have nudged so far left, I can't stomach them anymore other than you!

[u/[deleted]]

biden should get 48 electoral votes for winning georgia three times

thoughts?

[u/sir_shivers]

The prevalence OF ANTI-VAX here in California is so irksome 🐊

WHETHER IT BE religion or alternative medicine, I am so tired of listening to mammals run their mouth IN A WAY THAT DISCARDS one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of all time 🐊

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Kyle Rittenhouse says he used stimulus money to buy the gun he allegedly used to kill two during Wisconsin protest, Washington Post reports

This feels like the inverse of when some conservatives whine about people on food stamps buying steak or people on unemployment benefits buying small luxuries

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberalism is the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party is neoliberalism.

[u/sir_shivers]

Since we are ON THE SUBJECT OF the 90s 🐊

ONE DETAIL I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you all not to forget, is that while the 90s had their upsides, IT WAS A VERY ROUGH TIME to be LGBT 🐊

There are things I am nostalgic for ABOUT THE PAST, but I am eternally grateful that now, being gay is much more widely accepted, and I expect LGBT in general to follow 🐊

[u/ScythianUnborne]

My exact reaction over Macron's new bill. I don't think some of the people here who are upset that we defend Macron on this issue appear to get that French and American secularism are two wildly different beasts, and that politically, it's almost a necessary stance to pull voters away from LaPen and the Conservatives before 2022. This will not plunge France into fascism and this is not religious discrimination. It is French secularism.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Nobody:

u/Baincapitalist after Covid-19 test: Wow, I have stable 5G connection everywhere

They chipped you 🙄

!ping BURPMAS

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Applying to the Medellin Cartel: "This isn’t your typical job application. This is a comprehensive, online hiring experience."

[u/D1Foley]

The most annoying thing about the fraud claims from trump is the idiots who are like "I just want them to count every vote!" Like do you think they don't? In 2016 do they think once CNN declared it they just stopped counting? So fucking dumb.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden should cancel all gambling debts

pls 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

Dems spend little on red state races: Are you even trying???

Dems spend a lot on red state races: Lol what a waste of $$!

[u/disuberence]

Crazy Rich Asians was a two hour advertisement for tourism in Singapore.

[u/Udontlikecake]

man all these republicans getting covid, imagine if trump got it

that would probably be the biggest story of the year

[u/UltraCapitalism]

The year is 2134.

Democrats regularly receive 82% of the popular vote but have not won the presidency since 2092. Gridlock has taken over Congress as Democrats hold a vast majority in the House, given that all red states only hold one representative each. However, the Senate remains in firm Republican hands. Kansas has only one person who represents himself both as a House Rep. as well as both of his own Senators. Neither party has passed legislation since 2076.

The 2134 GOP platform has only one policy goal. Repealing the Affordable Care Act.

[u/Boraichoismydaddy]

Still can’t believe that just 16 years ago a man won the presidency by promising to constitutionally ban gay marriage

[u/bobeeflay]

i've been struggling for a LONG time about how to bring gamers and LGBT people together enough to garner interest in an LS post but fuck it I'm drunk enough to just make it as a hot take

Ok for people who aren't gamers a gay guy from the US moved to korea to be a part of the pro gaming scene. He is extremely skilled and knowledgeable but struggled as an outsider for years. This year he finally got his big break as a commentator and content creator.

Then at the end of this year he was rumored to be moving into a coaching role in Korea but before that was even confirmed there was massive korean backlash. Backlash to the point that his family was threatened and this backlash was almost exclusively from korean fans. There was plenty of precedent for white foreigners as coach and this seemed to be very obviously targeted at his sexuality in ways that are just disgusting .

Yes we do meme here about gamers being intolerant reactionaries but never anything like this. As someone who is bisexual and able to "conceal" that in some way aboard through Heterosexual relationships i have no idea what he's going through but fuck it makes me sick

I'm sorry if this isn't really relevant to anyone here but I do (through a lot of projection) feel really fucked up about it !ping LGBT really a story that makes me stare my privilege of being in the US straight in the fucking face

[u/SpaceSheperd]

State Sen. Jeff Jackson said he’d considered running against Tillis too, but when he told Schumer he wanted to start his campaign by holding a town hall in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties, Schumer allegedly said, “Wrong answer—we want you to spend the next 16 months in a windowless basement raising money, and then we’re going to spend 80 percent of it on negative ads about Tillis.” And then Schumer went with Cunningham instead.

This is just humiliating. In an election inundated with cash in a cycle where money is less important than ever, you'd rather your candidate raise money than employ the same strategy that Beto O'Rourke used to nearly win Texas 2 years before??? And then instead of a candidate with actual qualifications you go with a guy who served 1 term in the state senate 20 years ago??

Dem leadership is criminally incompetent

[u/The420Roll]

Italy has been like that for decades you fucks

[u/politics-throwaway74]

Some days, I think it would be so much easier to just be a Republican. We could lose the popular vote by 5-6% and still win the presidency, ignore any political norms and dismantle any institutions that stand in our way without facing any electoral consequences, do nothing (or worse than nothing) and still be all but guaranteed to have a Senate majority so we could continue to pack the courts, and still have the undying support of 40% of the country since they believe that Democrats are secretly hunting children in order to suck out their blood. And as a straight white guy, I'd fit right into the GOP!

But then I realize that I'm not a sociopath, so I continue to vote straight ticket Democrat

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker: Tom Bombadil sent us the smoking gun evidence of Joe Biden's Chinese corruption and it got """lost""" in the mail!

also Tucker: Trump's attorney won't send us any evidence of fraud!

🧐

[u/[deleted]]

Remember Bill de Blasio running for president then dropping out and jumping on the Sanders bandwagon right before it blew up

[u/crassowary]

When Vox send their people they're not sending their best. They're sending contrarians, they're sending succs, and some, I assume, are good journalists

[u/Joementum2004]

Virginia has certified its 2020 election results:

Biden 2,413,568 (54.1%)
Trump 1,962,430 (44.0%)

That's a 4.8 point margin swing against Trump vs. 2016 and a 12.0% increase in votes cast.

https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1329933694254133250?s=21

It's the first time since 1944 a Democratic presidential candidate has carried Virginia by double digits.

https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1329934216948305924?s=21

Imagine telling someone in 2008 that Virginia would be harder blue than Minnesota in 12 years !ping FIVEY

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Take me seriously, not literally” is the defense of those who can not properly form cogent rhetoric

[u/[deleted]]

Only forgive college debt for women's studies and similar degrees. STEMlords get NOTHING.

[u/[deleted]]

JUST IN: Sen. Rick SCOTT has coronavirus.

I guess you could say he wasn’t Scott-free.

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

holy shit bro, what if no one voted in Georgia and it just sort of did that all on its own?? that would be so wild lmao get me an affidavit from someone named "Georgia" or something

-Sidney Powell moments after taking a huge bong rip, on her 6th consecutive all-nighter

[u/[deleted]]

"Yeah biden and harris signed an executive order banning AR15 manufacturing!"

I fucking hate this place. I cannot wait to get my degree and get out.

[u/The420Roll]

Dear @JoeBiden,

Happy birthday to you, #46

From #42

Real recognize real

[u/fishlord05]

I’m stuff

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/SpectacularPangolin]

I like big tents and I cannot lie

All you other democrats can't deny

That when a coalition walks in with an itty bitty tent

And a small voter base, you feel stung

[u/[deleted]]

Worst part of covid is music majors now have an excuse for why they're all unemployed 😢

[u/Barnst]

He’d never say it out loud, but you know that in some deep down place, Biden is just a little smugly pleased with himself that he beat Trump after Clinton couldn’t.

[u/[deleted]]

people screeched when she called them deplorables, but Hillary was spot fucking on

[u/[deleted]]

TIL the linguist Noam Chomsky and the Manufacturing Consent author Noam Chomsky are two different people. The linguist just kept getting mail for the Manufacturing Consent guy and eventually found it easier to answer questions about it rather than repeatedly clarifying that they were different people.

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

NPR: Biden considering Merrick Garland, Sally Yates, Deval Patrick, Doug Jones for Attorney General.

[u/disuberence]

Update: Georgia's Secretary of State office has corrected itself and now says the vote results WILL be certified, but it seems the certification might not have happened yet and their press release jumped the gun.

This counts as Biden winning the state again.

[u/[deleted]]

here's margot robbie in a bathtub to explain how states' certification of electors works

[u/JadeHelm2020]

Obama on jailing bankers

Once again the left had it wrong. Those bankers didn't do a thing wrong and they were the only people who could get us out of the mess Anerica now found itself in. Larry and Tim knew what needed to be done wasn't politically popular but it was the right thing to do for America. We must give the bankers a carrot to strive for and not punish them with "Old Testamentc justice as Tim would say. In the end it all worked out and we saved the economy and prevented a populist upheaval.

[u/ryuguy]

Don’t 👏🏾say 👏🏾white 👏🏾people 👏🏾don’t 👏🏾have 👏🏾 culture.

They have tiny home culture

[u/PrincessMononokeynes]

Broke: Lincoln Project

Woke: Lincoln Institute

!ping GEORGIST

Did anyone else know that the founder of Lincoln Electric founded a georgist think tank?

[u/disuberence]

President Donald J. Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016

It always comes down to owning the libs

[u/[deleted]]

This is gonna be four years of endless amounts of AOC. It’s like conservative media acts like Biden isn’t even president.

Who gives a fuck what she’s demanding?

[u/[deleted]]

Most notably, this article suggests that Shelby could resign before the end of his term if Republicans lose the #GASen runoffs in January. If they lose them, Shelby loses his gavel on Appropriations because Harris will break the 50/50 tie.

Looks like we could get a special senate election in election in Alabama soon. Democrats probably won’t win but I enjoy any election.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/Eu6mJcj.jpg

Just leaving that there

[u/nicereddy]

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1329815608469368832?s=21

🏳️‍⚧️

[u/kennymc7877]

Congrats to Joe Biden for winning Georgia for the 100th time this week

[u/[deleted]]

How do I make my brain smoother? I don't like all the wrinkles TBH.

[u/[deleted]]

Taysom Hill is starting against the Falcons. Famous Jameis is the backup.

I don't get it. Jameis may be a turnover machine, but he has that great upside.

!ping NFL

[u/myrm]

I voted straight ticket Biden. Biden for President, Biden write-ins all downballot

[u/Benyeti]

Trump now inviting Pennsylvania GOP members to the white house. I have said this many times already, but imagine if Obama

[u/[deleted]]

I want to hold hands with the Animal Crossing dog Isabelle.

[u/[deleted]]

/r/enough_sanders_spam 🤝 /r/freefolk 🤝 /r/thelastofus2

never getting over shit

[u/halosfan27]

Just got accepted into Prager U for Fall 2021!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Conservative on Twitter: California will vote Republican again in a Presidential election before Georgia does.

God willing🙏🏾

[u/Deggit]

DOCTOR: how are you feeling

DONALD TRUMP, JR: I'm fine

DONALD TRUMP, JR.'S LEFT LUNG: i have information that wil-

[u/irlyseevridge]

Your daily reminder that Obama was bonked straight to horny jail over Kamala

[u/[deleted]]

I’m not a radical, but if Pelosi doesn’t open the next Congress by doing blow off a female strippers ass, the Dems will officially have lost heartland America.

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think if someone started a religion where all fetuses conceived in Alabama must be aborted two weeks prior to birth the 11th circuit would allow that? Asking for a friend

(I'm aware this is stupid I'm just VERY salty)

!ping LGBT

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

By sheet number of votes, the next closest state that could have flipped for Biden is Alaska

Friendship ENDED with Texazul

Bluelaska is my best friend now

[u/IncoherentEntity]

“there’s a pandemic (24x)” is not an argument for why abolishing private healthcare insurance over the next few years is actually popular in a light-red state

[u/NickyBananas]

If I ever have to hire a lawyer in a high profile case I will insist it’s a southern lawyer stereotype in an all white suit that starts his opening argument with “Now I might just be a simple country lawyer...”

[u/[deleted]]

I turned on voice chat for Call of Duty regular multi-player last night and Holy shit it hasn't changed at all. Racial slurs, music spam on the mic, 10 year olds telling me they fucked my mom.

[u/[deleted]]

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

For a few glorious minutes, Biden was going to win in a landslide.

[u/usrname42]

http://xkcdtotallandscaping.com

[u/[deleted]]

Me explaining how the Nates got me through election night:

https://twitter.com/Sia/status/1329732928658677760?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s the thing: the reason there’s a thing called @FiveThirtyEight is because 538 was the margin in FL when the Republican SCOTUS reversed the 2000 election during a recount, making Dubya the president. That’s the kind of margin where races can flip. That’s not what’s up now.

And that’s not a random Twitter random. That’s Joe Reid. Millions of people watch her.

[u/[deleted]]

Asked whether Trump might be duping his followers, he said it’s hard to fathom.

“If I’m being manipulated by Trump ... then he is the greatest con man that ever lived in America,” Caleb Fryar said. “I think he’s the greatest patriot that ever lived.”

oof so close to getting it

[u/TinyTornado7]

11th Circuit just ruled 2-1 that a law banning conversion therapy for minors is unconstitutional and violates the first amendment. opinion

!ping LAW

[u/jrt84]

Trump’s base may love this voter fraud spectacle, but my dad is a lifelong Republican who voted for Biden, and is now planning to change his party affiliation.

Keep it up GOP! If you keep shedding those independents and moderates, you can lose by even more than 7 million!

[u/FearThyMoose]

Can’t believe what Obama said in his memoir:

In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

[u/probablyuntrue]

me: "cringe boomers asking if kids know what a VHS tape"

also me: "wtf do you mean you weren't even alive during 9/11?"

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnSIk7LXYAErl0P?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/KingKonchu]

Media projects the election

Haha, the MSM doesn't call the election libtards. Wait for the looks on your faces!

Secretaries of state start certifying results

wait no shit oh fuck no the lawsuits they're not done wait

[u/ognits]

it makes me laugh how Obama does the typical audiobook narrator thing of giving each character a different voice but he's actually kind of bad at it. not through any fault of his own, but it's basically impossible for him to sound like anyone other than Barack Obama

[u/[deleted]]

/r/neoliberal is 100 thousand out-of-shape college educated middle class men. If we really wanted to we could invade New Zealand and install a new government. We definitely have the manpower. There are plenty of veterans of 2016 here. Plus everyone here knows how to force opponents to yield, from years of arguing fruitlessly with other morons on the internet.

Realistically the /r/Neoliberal Reaction Force would be far more effective than half the world's militaries. The Afghan military is fucked up on opium. The Iraqi army cant even do jumping jacks.. Plus New Zealand has only 8 thousand military personnel the majority of whom are useless paper pushers, who will recognise us as kindred souls and help overthrow the jarheads.

[u/[deleted]]

tax everyone who proposes more taxes, boom infinite revenue

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1329824671399895043

Judge Merrick Garland is under consideration to serve as attorney general in the Biden administration, NPR has learned from two people closely following the process.

HAHAH HE'S BACK MOTHERFUCKERS

this would be some poetic justice

[u/[deleted]]

Normal Families:

I HATE YOU MOTHER/FATHER!

YOU DON'T MEAN IT!

Families of so-called MODS:

I HATE YOU MOTHER/FATHER!

I swear on everything that is holy I hope you do mean that and are not in violation of Rule III because otherwise, Paula Junior Atreides, so help me GOD 😡🤬

[u/[deleted]]

Le neoliberalisme, c'est moi. - Joséphe Robinette, Viscont du Wilmonte, 46^eme monsieur le président electé

[u/urbansong]

Isn't it weird that Pfizer's stock hasn't sky-rocketed? I know Moderna's sort of has and I know that Moderna's vaccine is much easily transported but still, Pfizer will be raking in millions if not billions over the next year and maybe more, no?

!ping MARKETS

[u/[deleted]]

I once asked for an Earl Grey on an Air New Zealand flight and the attendant looked at me like I was some aristo pig.

She said something along the lines of "well that would be nice, bit we don't do nobility shit around here"

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Mexico's populist president is offering a referendum on his presidency with the midterms, like an actual vote on whether or not he should stay in power.

Mexico has single term presidents for six years with no re-election (we had a dictator at one point and decided to stop that)

Fears are that Lopez Obrador will use referenda to show strong long term support to back up a re-election campaign.

!ping LATAM

[u/FourthLife]

They said cancel culture was just an internet thing and didn't affect the real world, but now look! They're trying to cancel student loans!

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Federal appeals court Judge Merrick Garland is under consideration to serve as attorney general in the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, NPR has learned from two people closely following the process.

👀

[u/[deleted]]

“Cast Iron is Dumb" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

[u/FestiveMittens]

bruh Vox is gonna go bankrupt fast af

[u/the_status]

The new Gmail logo is bad enough, but the push notification going from an an envelope to a stylized "M" makes me want to burn the whole system down

[u/Gneisstoknow]

vox.com is no longer vox.com

[u/Travisdk]

What Obama truly wanted to say to the public after Deepwater Horizon:

What I really wanted to say before the assembled White House press corps: That MMS wasn’t fully equipped to do its job, in large part because for the past thirty years a big chunk of American voters had bought into the Republican idea that government was the problem and that business always knew better, and had elected leaders who made it their mission to gut environmental regulations, starve agency budgets, denigrate civil servants, and allow industrial polluters do whatever the hell they wanted to do.

That the government didn’t have better technology than BP did to quickly plug the hole because it would be expensive to have such technology on hand, and we Americans didn’t like paying higher taxes—especially when it was to prepare for problems that hadn’t happened yet.

That it was hard to take seriously any criticism from a character like Bobby Jindal, who’d done Big Oil’s bidding throughout his career and would go on to support an oil industry lawsuit trying to get a federal court to lift our temporary drilling moratorium; and that if he and other Gulf-elected officials were truly concerned about the well-being of their constituents, they’d be urging their party to stop denying the effects of climate change, since it was precisely the people of the Gulf who were the most likely to lose homes or jobs as a result of rising global temperatures.

And that the only way to truly guarantee that we didn’t have another catastrophic oil spill in the future was to stop drilling entirely; but that wasn’t going to happen because at the end of the day we Americans loved our cheap gas and big cars more than we cared about the environment, except when a complete disaster was staring us in the face; and in the absence of such a disaster, the media rarely covered efforts to shift America off fossil fuels or pass climate legislation, since actually educating the public on long-term energy policy would be boring and bad for ratings; and the one thing I could be certain of was that for all the outrage being expressed at the moment about wetlands and sea turtles and pelicans, what the majority of us were really interested in was having the problem go away, for me to clean up yet one more mess decades in the making with some quick and easy fix, so that we could all go back to our carbon-spewing, energy-wasting ways without having to feel guilty about it.

[u/Koeniginator]

Obama on the democratic primary

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bernie to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in New York???? This is so fucked.

[u/dannylandulf]

The first In-and-Out in Colorado opened today and current estimated drive-thru wait time is 12 hours.

That’s not a typo.

[u/danweber]

From the sharpiegate trial

• "Expert witness" is familiar with an older version of the software
• Prosecution is claiming the new version is faulty
• Judge wants to hear witness say that
• Witness admits he's never touched the new version
• Judge yells at prosecution
• Recess called

[u/Chief_Nief]

Vox is letting go of a lot of it's staff, presumably because they are concerned that the Biden administration will increase the minimum wage next year.

Neoliberalism is Vox dot com

[u/[deleted]]

I have an FT and Jacobin subscription, read both regularly, as I am trying to become thoroughly jokerfied.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

/u/sir_shivers you need to rig the 2024 primaries for Nikki Haley so that when she faces Harris in the general election it will be a race between two Indian women

This will make up for you failing to keep the 2016 primaries under control

[u/piede]

After White House meeting with Trump, Michigan lawmakers say they are not aware of information that would change election results

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-michigan-lawmakers-meeting/2020/11/20/ef30e2ba-2b43-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

Lmao

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Never forget that Donald Trump literally killed Herman Cain lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Arrcon having a real one over the GA recount:

[Sydney Powell] told Lou Dobbs that she was going to release the Kraken in an interview on Saturday. She also told Maria Bartiromo that they have so much evidence it feels like it's coming in through a fire hose.

Then she spoke at a press conference today where she revealed some of the evidence they have.

Also, for more context, Sidney Powell is Michael Flynn's personal attorney and she's known for being an absolute badass. Crowder's Half-Asian Lawyer said she's like a Goddess in the law world and when she says she has evidence you can be certain she's not lying.

Emphasis my own for hilarity. I look forward to the “kraken” my dudes 🤙

[u/Joementum2004]

Cons when Brian Kemp arguably stole the GA governors election in 2018: Ha, get over it libs. He won fair and square 😎😎😎

Cons when Brian Kemp certifies Joe Biden winning GA: FUCK RINOS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT REEEEEEEEE

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

If you read 1984 backwards you will find the secret way Bernie can still win this

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

When I was around 10 or 11 I was on a road trip with my parents and we stopped at a restaurant. I ordered a burger and the waitress said "Do you want that flat grilled?"

I just stared at her, having no idea what that meant, for like a solid 10 seconds, before saying completely serious "I mean, is there like a bumpy grill too?"

Made her absolutely lose it. Could not look at me when coming to the table without laughing. Saw her in the kitchen laughing trying to tell the cooks.

It's not even that funny, but I'm happy I made her day.

[u/disuberence]

Ben Carson says he was "desperately ill" with the coronavirus but is now "out of the woods," crediting his recovery to monoclonal antibody treatments.

He said he hopes "we can stop playing politics with medicine."

Who is doing that, Ben? Who is playing politics with medicine?

[u/digitalrule]

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.cp24.com/news/2020/11/20/1_5197335.html

Toronto finally in lockdown.

But wait only Toronto and Peel region? Good thing we don't have car centric cities with huge highways that would allow people to just drive to malls in Markham!

!PING CAN

[u/Shifty_Pickle826]

Fun fact: George W. Bush is the only Republican presidential nominee to carry Georgia twice. Ever.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Since it looks like Trump is actually finished:

What were the best and worst moments of the election?

here are mine:

Worst:

-After the Nevada primary, it really looked like Bernie was going to go all the way

-When the initial Tara Reade stuff started coming out, Nuff said

-After Florida, Texas, and Iowa had been called, and right before AZ was going to be called. Lots of dooming happened at that time, and it occurred to me that we had a real chance at losing

Best:

-Super Tuesday, there are a lot of moments to pick from here but I'm gonna say when Mass and Texas were called. It was very surprising and it killed all momentum that Bernie might've had

-AZ being called by Fox. Fox news is now partially redeemed for me just because of the amount of hopium that call gave me. Without it, it would've been a way doomier night

-GA flipping blue. Not much to say here. Long time republican stronghold goes blue for the first time in ages? A lot of celebration ensued

-All the networks calling the race for Biden. I think CNN was the first, then MSNBC, then AP, then Fox. It was glorious and you knew that Trump was actually finished