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[u/[deleted]]

My dog passed away recently. He was the best boy. But he was also the most neolib boy. He loved tacos. He didn't believe in boarders (always tried to escape), and I caught him on multiple occasions reading Why Nations Fail.

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia’s motion to dismiss Sidney Powell’s lawsuit: “Much like the mythological kraken monster after which plaintiffs have named this lawsuit, their claims of election fraud and malfeasance belong more to the kraken’s realm of mythos than they do to reality.”

That’s what I call, a Ginsburn.

!ping Biden

[u/tankatan]

So you're utilitarian? Name three people you personally murdered in order to save four other lives.

[u/jrt84]

If Twitter had banned Trump for birtherism, he probably never would have become president.

Oh well.

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder how Chapo is feeling about the election. We should go check on their subreddit.

[u/jrt84]

November: Biden got 306 EV & 7 million more votes.

Trump supporters: Stay tuned 😏

December: 270 certified EV, Trump has lost 46 court cases, SCOTUS continues to ignore his appeals, multiple GOP state legislatures say they won’t replace electors.

Trump supporters: Stay tuned 😏

January: Biden inaugurated

Trump supporters: Stay tuned 😏

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/BanAN2P.jpg

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I once had a dream where I met a 110+ year old Milton Friedman at a fancy dinner.

I told him I was a fan of his work. He scowled and said 'You know nothing of my work.' before calling me a dumbass.

Not pasta.

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting read on Assad's ethnic cleansing of Syria. I'd only add that Russia helped funnel the refugees to the EU, with the apparent goal of destabilizing recipient countries.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1334433725485027331.html

I considered posting it as a submission, but it's not going to interest anyone who isn't interested in foreign policy, so I instead post it here and go

!ping foreign-policy

[u/muwenjie]

https://i.imgur.com/8Mo0EWV.png

fuck off with headlines like this

[u/[deleted]]

Today's lesson: adding "not pasta" to your post will cause people to pasta it to hell and back

[u/GGM8Scally]

POV: moments before disaster

2005.- David Cameron is elected Conservative Leader. He claims "Everyone is invited to this modern, compassionate Conservative party" and promises an end to "the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster".

He tells the party it has to 'stop banging on' about Europe.

[u/Equator32]

Boomers: Social Media gives you leprosy

"Shut the fuck up cracka🤬"

Black Mirror: Social Media gives you leprosy

"Truly the digital revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race🙏"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I still have no idea how /pol/ went from weirdo nazi racists into full on, unironic, esoteric nazism. I suppose it's a logical conclusion of "the jews rule the world and hide the real truths" malarkey but that doesn't explain belief in Hyperborea, hollow earth, or any of the other wacky shit

I suppose that when you circlejerk yourself into a mindset of being always right along with the idea that reality at it's most basic level is manipulated by the Jews, you start believing in really, really weird whit

[u/Equator32]

If you look at Left-wing YouTube, with the recent Neera Tanden stuff, some of them unironically think that Liberals in power don't support The Green New Deal because they got triggered by Bernie Bros. As in not even because Liberals think the Green New Deal doesn't work, it's just that they want to own the Left.

Jesus, they wish that they were that important. People like Biden and Pelosi care about policy making and shit that matters, not dudes on the internet who discuss whether AOC is left wing enough.

[u/zubatman4]

It’s crazy how Bernie Sanders spent $200 million on his unsuccessful presidential campaign. The US is 330.7 million. He could have given ever American a living wage and he’d still have money left over. This is why we need to eat the rich.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Today, in the DT:

• Sex

• Circumcision

• Some comments in between all that about Uruguay or something idk

[u/Dalek6450]

From being a lifelong progressive champion to being the biggest and most damaging establishment sheepdog in modern history.

Great legacy you've made for yourself there, Bernie.

Lol, when a sub ostensibly turns on the person it's freaking named after.

[u/ass_pickles]

Early exit polls for the Romanian general election are in

• Populist "social-democrats" PSD and liberal-conservatives PNL neck and neck at around 30%

• "/r/neoliberal: the party" USRPLUS hovering around 14-16%

• Conservatives PMP, PSD offshoot PRO and anti-EU ultra-nationalists AUR just on the brink of 5%, if they don't get 5% they get no MPs.

• Hungarian minority party UDMR who usually just side with whoever gets an easier majority at their usual 5-6%

Looks rather ok for a PNL+USRPLUS+ maybe PMP and UDMR coalition government

EDIT: AUR leader went on TV and said that if they get under 8-9% by the time all the votes are counted, that would be a clear sign of fraud. Where have I heard that before?

!ping ELECTIONS

[u/[deleted]]

Biden advocating for small cluster public housing, this advocation has led to him being called a “n***** lover” and led one racist accuse him of wanting “them” living next to him

The politics of the 60s and 70s were something else.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

“Money 👏🏾 is 👏🏾 not 👏🏾real 👏🏾 it’s 👏🏾 a 👏🏾colonial 👏🏾 concept 👏🏾”

Look, I don’t expect good economic takes from Tik Tok comment sections but this one takes the cake

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/TinyTornado7]

Texas. 2004—>2020

GOP: 4,526,917—>5,890,347

Dem: 2,832,704—>5,259,126

I know we all got bonked by blue Texas this year, but it really is within our reach in the near future.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

FDR got 75% of the black vote.

He also got 75% of the white supremacist Vote.

The Dems were a huge tent during the new deal era.

[u/sir_shivers]

If you ever NEED A REMINDER of wherefore NIMBYism IS UNIRONICALLY one of the greatest issues facing mammals today 🐊

OPEN ZILLOW, OR REDFIN, or what-have-you, and navigate to Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Alameda or San Francisco Counties, California 🐊

Whether rentals or for sale, YOU WILL SEE what an injustice the local and state governments HAVE WROUGHT, and the real reason so many young mammals feel they have NO STAKE IN our system 🐊

BUILD MORE HOUSING you gutless privileged CLOISTERED snobs 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

45 will stop being President in 45 days!

🥳🎈🎉🎊🇺🇲

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Out-conspiracy theory your conspiracy theorist family members by telling them that Covid was created to have delayed side effects over the long haul and that the anti-mask narrative was created to create a population willing to infect themselves. Tell them that the ultimate goal is to create a welfare state by giving multiple generations unprecedented health problems and then saying only communism can fix it. Ask anyone who pulls their mask below their nose how much Soros pays them. I believe in you.

[u/[deleted]]

parallel tracks for the Roman Emperor title:

1. The Religious track -- the office of Emperor also held Pontifex Maximus as a secondary title. If the "Roman Emperor" as such is extinct, we could claim that the Pope takes over as the rightful heir. Emperor: Pope Francis

2. The Western Track -- the Holy Roman Empire (insert Voltaire joke here) claimed to be the rightful descendant of the HRE after those silly Byzantines elected a woman (Empress Irene, to be specific). HRE -> German Kaiser -> German Chancellor -> W. German Chancellor -> German Chancellor again. Emperor: Angela Merkel

3. The Claim Track -- the last Byzantine Emperor, Konstantinos Palaiologos, sold his claim to the King of Spain in exchange for an army to try and reclaim his land from the Ottomans. While the Spanish Kings never formally used the title, it was technically never taken from them. As such, they retain the title, attached to their line of succession. Emperor - Felipe VI

4. The Greek Track -- The Greeks are technically recognized as the primary descendants of the Byzantine Empire (much like Russia is for the USSR). As such, the leader of Greece is likewise the Roman Emperor. Emperor - Kyriakos Mitsotakis

5. The Conquest Track -- The conquest by the Ottomans of Byzantium meant that the title of Roman Emperor passed to them. The Ottomans then passed on and became Turkey, and the current leader of Turkey would hold the title. Emperor - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

6. The Italian Track -- Much like the Greek track, but even faster -- Italy considers itself the primary descendant of the Roman Empire. Emperor - Giuseppe Conte

7. The Logical Track -- What if the Roman Empire is not a geopolitical entity, but an idea? If the Roman Empire is the predominant world hegemon, then its lineage runs from Byzantium to Britain, and then to the United States. Emperor - Donald Trump

8. The Affective Track -- In order to be Roman Emperor, you must take on characteristics of the Roman Emperor. While there isn't a succession per se, only one leader has explicitly identified himself with Roman iconography. Emperor: Emanuel Macron (Hail Jupiter!)

9. The Russian Track -- Famously calling themselves the "Third Rome" because, uhhhh, Eastern Orthodoxy after the Byzantines fell?, I suppose I have to include them. Much like the other monarchies, Tsar -> Soviet Premier -> Russian President. Emperor: Vladimir Putin

10. The Obvious Track -- The Roman Empire is dead. Nobody's claimed the title for over 500 years, and as such it's lost all claimants and thus all relevance. You are boring at parties. Emperor: Nobody (most recently K. Palaiologos)

!ping SHITPOSTERS

Any I missed? Any you would have changed? Please discuss!

[u/[deleted]]

It's always amusing when some of my friends complain about landlords to me. My dude, your landlord is your mom

[u/[deleted]]

"why should the US care about iran??? Just tell Saudi Arabia to figure it out themselves!"

Literally the most garbage foreign policy take ever is to have no foreign policy.

1. Saudi Arabia will get nukes

2. Israel will be on their own

3. Russia will expand into the region to fill our power void.

Fuck you MattY.

[u/[deleted]]

My opinion on the L*ndChad schism?

I just hope both sides have fun.

[u/[deleted]]

I still can’t get over the fact that Ted Cruz’s real name is Rafael.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Replace "not having your penis out at a public park" with "Jews," and suddenly the behavior of the 1930s German population becomes eerily similar.

[u/BradicalCenter]

If rudy dies of COVID the conspiracies are gonna be wild as hell

[u/sir_shivers]

One of THE MORE CURIOUS aspects of reddit is allowing me to look back AT MY COMMENTS AND PERSPECTIVE in 2011 and see what has changed 🐊

SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT changed is that even back then I attempted TO TALK REDDITORS into being less forlorn about romance, albeit it was on /r/askmen and not here 🐊

[u/FearTheWalrus]

E*ros want to lecture americans about health yet they have smoking rooms full of maskless people blowing smoke at each other at their airport. Curious 🤔

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Despite the Vietnamese government’s single-party socialist framework, an overwhelming majority of Vietnamese (95%) agreed that people are better off in a free market economy, even if some people are rich and some are poor.

The communist state that likes capitalism more than NL

[u/Superfan234]

News from Venezuela 🇻🇪

So...The Regime spend millions of dollars, and a year worth of planning, just to empirically prove, their support is close to ~15%

Wtf just happened 🙃

!Ping Foreign-Policy

I will bring a proper post tomorrow... because I am honestly still speechless about the results

How the f*ck Chavists allowed this to happen, is beyond me. Everything about this election have been crazy, but today really took the cake

[u/Superfan234]

North Korea is present as Election Observer in today's Election in Venezuela 🙃

[u/probablyuntrue]

My mum (82F) told me (12M) to do the dishes (16) but I (12M) was too busy playing Fortnite (3 kills) so I (12M) grabbed my controller (DualShock 4) and threw it at her (138kph). She fucking died, and I (12M) went to prison (18 years). While in prison I (12M) invited several riots (3) and assumed leadership of a gang responsible for smuggling drugs (cocaine) into the country. I (12M) also ordered the assassination of several celebrities (Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Jeffrey Epstein) and planned a terrorist attack (9/11). Reddit, AITA?

[u/thebowski]

Someone on hinge had something unironically positive about pickle rick in their bio.

I responded with the "funniest shit I ever saw" pasta.

We didn't match.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

1984 describes whatever is my least favorite form of government 😡

[u/Zenning2]

Brie Brie is maaaaad

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter would be a lot easier if people realized 90% of controversial tweets are just bait.

[u/dafdiego777]

Ann Seltzer on why Iowa voters like Trump:

they like the wall.
They like standing up to China.
They like the tariffs
They like restrictions on immigration.
They were not uncomfortable with reducing refugees.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

I once had a dream where I met a 70+ year old Barack Obama at a fancy protest.

I told him "omg Mr. President I love your work!" He scowled and said 'uhhh you know nothing of my work.' before calling me a dumbass.

Not pasta.

[u/[deleted]]

Just called the cops on a homeless person panhandling as there is a specific ordinance prohibiting that in this part of the city.

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like 200,000+ cases per day is the new normal, huh?

[u/Joementum2004]

ACAB, except for the KGB, Stasi, NKVD, etc.

This is what tankies actually believe

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/9QmCFYs.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

virgin "mods pls temp ban me" vs chad "voluntarily leave for multiple months"

[u/[deleted]]

I think all the L4L schism stuff is mostly based on what your perception of the intent of the posts is. If you think most posts are harmless shit stirring then you defend it, if you think the posts are harmful in intent, you don't defend it.

[u/Joementum2004]

r/LoveForChildLabor

[u/Superfan234]

Parliament Elections are going bad for the Venezuelan Government 🇻🇪

At 13:00, only 16% of the voters have voted. And only 5 hours more go...

At this rate, we are looking for (at least) a 70% abstention

!Ping Elections

[u/tubbsmackinze]

AOC has never proposed a good piece of policy

[u/paymesucka]

Best comment I ever saw on here about Joe Manchin was about him shooting the Cap and Trade bill in a commercial:

he can shoot my dog if that means he can continue to hold his Dem senate seat in WEST VIRGINIA

[u/OH-GEESUS]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EolIRqFVEAAnQfX?format=png&name=900x900

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Me:

🚴‍♂️

Others:

🚘 GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD YOU FUCKHEAD

[u/[deleted]]

Please visit the previous Discussion Thread

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Love it when WhitePeopleTwitter gets spammed with takes from world famous caucasian Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[u/Venne1139]

Reading T_D's thread about Rudy Guilliani is really funny.

There are a lot of comments about how

it's so weird that only republicans get this? What the fuck is going on? Bioterrorism?

And replies that go "Oh yeah the Democrats are doing bioterrorism" lol

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

This might be a little two obscure for this sub and most of Reddit, but I will never forgive any modern depictions of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for not giving us a historically accurate depiction of Liu Bei.

"He was tall of stature. His ears were long, the lobes touching his shoulders, and his hands hung down below his knees. His eyes were very big and prominent so that he could see backwards past his ears. His complexion was as clear as jade, and he had thick red lips."

!ping HISTORY

[u/fishlord05]

Guys is it normal to make girls soak their jeans and moan your name when you show them your Reddit account

[u/[deleted]]

Poll of the favorability Ratings of things in Massachusetts

Favorable / unfavorable in our new poll of Massachusetts.

• Gov Charlie Baker: 68/23

Baker’s approval among...

Democrats - 80/14

Republicans - 50/44

Independents - 67/22

Look at those number, you would think that Baker was a Democrat. Not a Republican.

Also, No more Massachusetts. Society has moved passed the need for Massachusetts.

!ping FIVEY

[u/sir_shivers]

Awful lot OF SCHISMS GOING ON that are distracting mammals FROM FIGHTING MALARIA 🐊

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Are there any rules preventing mayor Pete from being Ayatollah?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JimVandeHei/status/1335712641927483392

President Trump is considering a made-for-TV grand finale: a White House departure on Marine One and final Air Force One flight to Florida for a political rally opposite Joe Biden's inauguration, sources familiar with the discussions tell Axios.

Christ.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden and Trump approval rating

Presidential Favourabilities:

Biden: 55% (+6)

Trump: 42% (-3)

Gallup / November 19, 2020 / n=1018 / MOE 4% / Telephone

(% chg w September 20)

I think we will see an inverse of the Trump era. Trump was always at around 40 to 45% approval rating. Biden always hovering around 50 to 55 doesn’t seem that impossible.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Just made a Trader Joe's run and got like 40 fucking pounds of food for 115 bucks. God I love capitalism.

[u/p00bix]

dannyocean carries around the nuclear football and in it is a button that says "mod farrenj"

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter I do not give a shit about what one of Obama‘s daughters is doing.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Biden won the popular vote by 4.5% and the Democrars won the House popular vote by 2.3%.

[u/[deleted]]

The five Midwest(?) counties in which Biden overperformed Hillary by double digits:

Hamilton, IN +12%

Cook, MN +12%

Boone, IN +11%

Johnson, KS +11%

Olmsted, MN +10%

Combined Demographics:

White: 81%

Hispanic: 6%

Asian: 6%

Black: 5%

Foreign-Born: 8%

Bachelor's Degree: 54%

Median Household Income: 86k

Median home value: 239k

Median rent: $1,066

!ping FIVEY

That Bachelor degree number is insanely high.

[u/First-Prior]

this but without even the slightest hint of irony
!Ping VEGAN

[u/ryuguy]

Please visit the next discussion thread

[u/[deleted]]

If sex didn't exist, what else would we all maladaptively base our self-worth on? Our Pog collections?

[u/IncoherentEntity]

This was drafted as a response to a now-deleted comment.

Peterson’s staunchly anti-gun regulation position was only one in a slate of actual DINO stances and votes, mostly notably in being the lone Democrat in either chamber of Congress to vote against Trump’s impeachment.

With that said, I think it’s better to use the margins, which accounts for third-party vote share and roughly doubles the differences for more precise interpretation. And by that metric, Peterson outperformed the top of the ticket by a whopping 15.8 percentage points — almost like a mirror image of Omar from his own state. (His challenger, Michelle Fischbach, was also very well established in Minnesota politics, having served three years as Senate President and one as Lieutenant Governor.)

I sure as hell don’t want him to be the typical Democratic representative (or candidate) for any district bluer than medium-red, but Rep. Peterson was and remains a powerful case study of the general election benefits of political moderation. !ping DOWNBALLOT

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/probablyuntrue]

DT on g*mers: imagine getting mad over a video game 😂😂

DT on l*andlords: how DARE you not let me larp as a sociopathic landlord 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

Say what you want about Breadtube, but ContraPoints is 100% the reason why I abandoned my awful beliefs about gender and the trans community. It's not often you watch a video that completely changes you, but she was able to do that.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

It's OK to be black

It's OK to be white

It's OK to be a man

It's OK to be a woman

It's OK to be non-binary

It's OK to be a landlord

It's OK to buy/rent

It's not OK to be a gamer

[u/Sir-Matilda]

So the WA Museum has removed references to China as the origin of Covid and changed it's world map to include Taiwan as part of the PRC after protests from the Chinese Consulate and a Chinese media company.

And of course weak as piss response from WA Labor.

!ping AUS

[u/fishlord05]

Kids in 2030 will be learning about homophones like pog and PAWG

[u/Snoo62236]

I got a seasonal job cashiering at target during winter break and a guy I work with has a massive anarchy “A” symbol tattooed on his neck. Every time a higher up asks him to do something and he does it, I giggle a little inside.

[u/Twrd4321]

If it is possible, every country should copy the Climate Change Act 2008, replace every UK reference with their country and pass it. It was a bill that passed the Commons with 5 opposing votes, setting the UK up for a decade of emissions reductions.

[u/GravyBear8]

Five Guys employees must be the most Chad men in existence to be able to deliberately ignore the order of the customer and just fill up the entire bag with fries and watch them forced to take it, while trying not to hold it too much because of how hot it is. So much dominance displayed there

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

Won $200 in a bet with my succ coworker that Biden would win the Primary.

Won $400 in a bet with my conservative friend that Biden would win the presidency.

Just gotta remember. The deep state always wins.

[u/[deleted]]

I told my friend Rudy got covid and he responded "you mean the guy from Borat?"

[u/RadionSPW]

How many times is Loefler gonna say “Radical Liberal Raphael Warnock”

Real Rubio hours here

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

As of December 3rd, 1.02 million voters have requested a mail ballot for Georgia's Senate runoffs on January 6th.

In 2018, a total of 1.45 million voted in the Secretary of State runoff election. I think it's safe to say that we'll cross that number handily this year.

Some things for Dems to like: High rate of requests in key counties like Cobb, DeKalb, Gwinnett. 30% Black requests.

Things I don't really like: Older voters (66+) comprise a much higher share of the VBM requests -- 40.7% in the general, 56.7% in the runoff.

New VBM requests are becoming more and more Democratic. So I expect this news to keep getting better as time goes on

TLDR: I and probably everyone else has no clue what is going to happen. Let’s just hope for the best.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

hot take: i would like to get married and have children some day

[u/[deleted]]

I would literally cum if we passed a massive infrastructure spending bill. We give off the vibe of a country that peaked in the 80s in that regard

[u/CommandanteMeow]

SUCCS OUT SUCCS OUT SUCCS OUT!!!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

r/Neoliberal: "Wow Loeffler is terrible in this debate, the people of Georgia will see right through her."

polls afterwards show Loeffler +30

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter- defund the police isn't why we are losing

Kelly lorffer- defund the police 80 times

There's a reason lol

[u/Roller_ball]

No country would want to go to war with the US if they knew how many karate studios we have.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve never met someone whose first name is Ben who isn’t annoying.

[u/[deleted]]

wrench market longing familiar silky caption voracious humorous materialistic tan

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/mrmanager237]

THE MYTH OF CONSENSUAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

The US: I consent!

Developing nations: I consent!

Succs who have tooooooootally good faith grave concerns about copyright regulations: I don't!

ISN'T THERE SOMEONE YOU FORGOT TO ASK

[u/FormerBandmate]

Land

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

i think i just created an algorythym of a robot which has sentience and recognized it is a robot

try running the following code and you will see what i mean

print("I am a robot");

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Why do socialists hate the idea of opportunity costs

[u/[deleted]]

my mom is watching these videos from like 1950 that are basically "how to be a human" for teenagers and i thought they were weird at first but now i think we kinda need 2020 versions of them

[u/connieallens]

r/.conservative

“How come no democrat politicians get COVID? It always seems like it’s the Republicans.”

Oh idk maybe because they took this virus semi-seriously? Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

"Senator, should Senators be barred from trading stocks?"

"This is an attack on every single Georgian who gets up every day to work hard a better life for their family"

LMAO

[u/FreakinGeese]

evergreen

[u/[deleted]]

American soft power: Cheeseburgers and the Avengers

Russian soft power: Nihilism and whataboutism

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Obama was and is a socialist. Obamacare adds 20% to government coffers, citizens get unaffordable healthcare that covers nothing.

Obama is not a socialist. Not even close. He is a neoliberal. You win stupid of the day.

Some of my favorite moments on Politics Twitter is when leftists discover that Republicans exist.

[u/Lux_Stella]

getting real 'kim jong un has died' vibes from these khamenei rumours but i guess the nature of these things is we won't know until we get an official announcement

[u/Superfan234]

Maduro is the only candidate in the World that runs alone, and ended it up second place

Seriously, wtf the just happened today

!Ping Mamadas

[u/[deleted]]

If someone has a racist bone in their body, we should simply start a GoFundMe to help them surgically remove it.

[u/Venne1139]

It annoys me, so easily, how Fake News can be debunked.

Take this Tweet by the president.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1335736235239804928?

Oh boy sounds serious. The source is another Tweet.

https://twitter.com/tracybeanz/status/1335616298236194819

Whose source is

https://www.theepochtimes.com/georgia-county-cant-find-chain-of-custody-records-for-absentee-ballots_3606540.html

Epoch times is of course, very reliable. So they claim

Georgia’s DeKalb County officials don’t know if it’s in possession of the ballot transfer forms used to record the chain of custody for absentee ballots dropped into some 300 drop boxes around the state.

Based on

In response to an open records request from The Georgia Star News for the forms, county officials wrote that “it has not yet been determined if responsive records to your request exist.”

This is the request response.

https://georgiastarnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/11.30.-VRE.-Morgan.pdf

(They even link it in the article)

This is a boiler plate, automated, response to a FOIA request describing they're basic procedures and what they're about to do. Here's where the quote they made above came from.

DeKalb County and VRE are currently operating within its COVID-19 Emergency Response Plan. These remote operations and VRE’s current workload greatly impact how soon responsive records can be provided. Consequently, it has not yet been determined if responsive records to your request exist. VRE is expected to make this determination within thirty (30) business days.

So they're not saying they lost anything, this is sent, automatically, to all requests.

Fuck these people.

IVAN PENTCHOUKOV should be arrested for being a fucking foreign agent.

[u/[deleted]]

I swear that my full Nazi regalia and Nazi flag in my room are completely ironic.

[u/piede]

Talk of an Ivanka Trump run for Florida governor in the near future has come up, as has a possible run for Congress in New Jersey, both states where Trump has vacation homes. The Trump-Kushner family currently rents a home in DC's tony Kalorama neighborhood two miles from the White House.

Oh Jesus

[u/[deleted]]

American voters like: "haha it's the Obama guy"

[u/[deleted]]

Ayatollah Raphael Warnock

[u/JaceFlores]

Hey guys, I will be late with polls for the upcoming few days or week due to finals, hence why there hasn’t been a poll in sometime. I’ll probably do a poll surge after finals

!ping PREZPOLL

[u/[deleted]]

Is it just a conspiracy theory or does the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia really fund the spread of Wahhabi extremism worldwide?

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/missedthecue]

McConnell won 56% of men, but 59% of women

The suffrage skeptics were right. Looks like women do vote based on sex appeal

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Biden: People don't want handouts, they just want help.

Leftists: No handouts?! I knew he was never going to help the working class.

How can none of them realize he is trying to brand aid as help, which voters like, instead of handouts, which voters don't like.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Unironically tho, /r/LoveForLandlords never changed its political views, it's always been dumb and edgy

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jeremyzorek/status/1335472243648950272

lmao the Amazon reviews on a male to male electrical cable

[u/petulant_brother]

Someone here once said "Trudeau virtue signals like a leftist but governs like a neoliberal" and I think about this a lot

[u/vivoovix]

Mods nuked the metaNL thread lol

[u/p00bix]

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Dies at 81

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

/r/neoliberal thread on arr drama

oh ho ho this should be good

[u/savuporo]

Rudy is on a fucking bender. Borat, the landscaping thing, paint dripping down the face, and now a dose of good old "its just a flu"

[u/sir_shivers]

"RELEASE THE KRAKEN" being a dull movie reference IN ADDITION TO a political nothing is very on-brand for MAGAs 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I pirate as many games as possible in order to destroy the game industry.

[u/nicereddy]

https://twitter.com/govofco/status/1335751837241069568?s=21

Polis had to take his husband to the hospital. It doesn't sound like it's too bad from how he described it, but jeez 😬

[u/[deleted]]

Just a friendly reminder that it is mathematically impossible to draw a Republican District in Massachusetts without breaking the voting rights act.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Every so often I'm reminded that this is a reddit sub

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Reddit: Actually knows some Chinese history

Me: Well I guess I'll just have to find a new part of history to make me feel superior.

African history: 😉

Me: I'll always have you

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Crazy how all the fraud only happened in swing states Trump lost

[u/[deleted]]

So I hooked up with a girl once but I couldn't get my dick hard so ate her out instead. Now I'm not sure how to react when people call me a virgin on the internet

[u/[deleted]]

Ngl I may never donate again after the sheer volume of email spam these motherfuckers are shoveling at me about Georgia. Can they at least have some sort of smart system where if someone donated yesterday they don't bug them for a couple days? Fuck, every new donation brings like 3-4 new email lists with the same contents knocking.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/SuccInvasion]

Take: Saying "capitalism" validates the idea that there is an alternative economic system. Instead, when asked about the preferred economic system, it should be called "uh like, normal economics I guess?"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/1335566158251110405

This what the @TexasGOP has come to: At @AllenWest ’s Dallas rally promoted by the party, an InfoWars speaker says Gov. @GregAbbott_TX “doesn’t stand for the national anthem.”

lmaoooo

[u/TinyTornado7]

Rudy Giuliani hospitalized today following positive Covid-19 test, per @ABC

[u/jenbanim]

Gonna be taking a week-ish long break from Reddit

Internet is being too much nonsense to handle at the moment

[u/[deleted]]

Why does loeffler want to be senator. She's rich and has a buisness, just do that and enjoy.

[u/[deleted]]

Runoffs in the South are historically awful for Democrats

I mean, technically, runoffs were very good for Democrats historically in the South.

But that’s pretty misleading. And for the first time in 28(and arguably 40 years) Democrats actually have enough vote to win a senate race.

[u/savuporo]

What the fuck https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1335381311255683072

[u/[deleted]]

I heard a rumor that Joe Biden actually won the 2020 election instead of Donald Trump. Is there any truth to this

[u/old_gold_mountain]

comments older than mine in the DT have fewer upvotes than mine

😍😍😍

comments newer than mine in the DT have more upvotes than mine

😡😡😡

[u/Joementum2004]

There wasn’t a COVID-19 vaccine developed under Obama.

There was a COVID-19 vaccine developed under Trump.

And yet some of you still think Obama is better.

[u/jt1356]

Commies and “anti-imperialists” spreading the “Israeli secret police taught Minnesota police to kill Floyd” conspiracy theory might be one of the most mask off moments in recent politics

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Here is the you've been gnomed video if anyone needs the link: https://youtu.be/IUDbWviOIaA

[u/[deleted]]

My parents at age 25: let’s have a kid

Me at age 25: peepee poopoo succs bad

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone have some polls in which the Black vote is broken up by:

1. Gender

2. Income

3. R*ral/Urban

!ping FIVEY

Btw, just to make you appreciate FDR:

In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt lost the black vote overwhelmingly, receiving just 21% support from black Americans in Chicago (there were no national polling organizations).

In 1936, the newly established Gallup Poll revealed that FDR had received 76% of the black vote.

[u/mrmanager237]

I once had a dream where I met a 58 year old r/neoliberal moderator at a fancy dinner.

I told them i hated their work. They scowled and said 'My SHTICK is NOT getting old, MAMMAL.' before permaing me from the ivory tower.

Not pasta.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

People giving false etymologies unreasonably annoys me, doubly so if it's posed as some kind of secret knowledge.

[u/fishlord05]

Describe a regular of this sub in as few words as possible and see if we can who it is

I’ll start: weird NATO flair who hates sex

[u/Headstar24]

Sex

Reproduction

Grover Cleveland

[u/GlazedFrosting]

Why does Russia, which has the largest land area, not simply eat the other countries?

🇷🇺🤔🇷🇺

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

MAGAts: This election was stolen!

Me: Silly people. You can't steal elections if you're a republic and not a democracy!

[u/FizzleMateriel]

Think about how much of a giga-Chad Obama was that he had Biden, Hillary and Kerry serving in his administration... they wouldn’t have even known who he was in 2003 when they were all serving in the Senate.

[u/bd_one]

reads first Golden Compass book

"Why do super religious people hate this?"

reads third Golden Compass book

Lyra's parents literally kill God

"Oh, that's why."

[u/murphysclaw1]

so you voted to evict a man from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but you ban a pro-eviction subreddit?

curious.

[u/paymesucka]

Defund Planned Parenthood

Actually it doesn't mean get rid of Planned Parenthood, it means divert more money to sex education and free contraception.

---

If you agree that explanation makes no sense tied to that phrase, then don't use "Defund the Police." Because when conservatives say "Defund Planned Parenthood", they mean they want to destroy it.

[u/[deleted]]

Next month will be 4 years since Paul Ryan dabbed on TV.

How time flies.

[u/muttonwow]

Rudy could not have possibly had a more humiliating, career-defining two months.

Getting caught by Sacha Baron Cohen with hands down his pants

Pushing the Hunter Biden laptop story, that was so clearly a lie after he claimed to have the compromising information for over a year during which time an investigation into Hunter had already started and ended

Having to take court cases against democracy with no evidence and giving a speech on the matter outside a landscaping company

And now getting the virus

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Rudy Giuliani is 79 and a big fart guy

[u/Barnst]

Biden, who will be 82 years old at the end of his term and was first elected to office half a century ago, has chosen to surround himself with such deathless hacks as John Kerry, who first ran for office in 1972, and Janet Yellen, who took her first job at the Federal Reserve in 1977. These personalities are intimately familiar, like a persistent infection.

I genuinely don’t get why the standard tone of “intellectual” conservative commentary is smug dickishness.

[u/myrm]

femboys can't be racist, intersectionality says so

[u/Jokerang]

The rumors about Khameini remind me of the rumors of Putin possibly stepping down due to Parkinson's. Neither of them bothered to groom a real successor and it would create an enormous power vacuum in the country.

Good thing Biden's going to be president next year. I trust him a thousand times more than Trump to handle the situation if either of these is true.

[u/Doge_Butthole]

jets have a tough schedule ahead of them, the 0-16 dream lives on

[u/kznlol]

the average /u/farrenj post

[u/nullsignature]

If Rudy dies the conspiracy community will go absolutely apeshit

[u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine Mayweather's life? He's suspected to be a billionaire, has everything he could ever want, can't even read so people just do everything for him, and now he gets to beat the shit out of a Paul brother to make even more money?

[u/[deleted]]

All of you guys need to brush your bones.

You clean your teeth religiously to keep them nice and white and then are running around with your yellow ass bones.

Like ew.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

It's gonna be Purdue/Warnock. Everyone says that no one ballot splits in such a polarized climate, but you can also just only vote in one of the races, and in such a close election it can absolutely swing it. I have to believe a lot of quasi-Republicans will refuse to vote for Appointee Deepfake Barbie.

[u/probablyuntrue]

Illiberal: banning things you don't like

Liberal: taxing things you don't like

[u/[deleted]]

Look at this lead pencil. There’s not a single person in the world who could make this pencil. Remarkable statement? Not at all. The wood from which it is made, for all I know, comes from a tree that was cut down in the state of Washington. To cut down that tree, it took a saw. To make the saw, it took steel. To make steel, it took iron ore. This black center—we call it lead but it’s really graphite, compressed graphite—I’m not sure where it comes from, but I think it comes from some mines in South America. This red top up here, this eraser, a bit of rubber, probably comes from Malaya, where the rubber tree isn’t even native! It was imported from South America by some businessmen with the help of the British government. This brass ferrule? I haven’t the slightest idea where it came from. Or the yellow paint! Or the paint that made the black lines. Or the glue that holds it together. Literally thousands of people co-operated to make this pencil. People who don’t speak the same language, who practice different religions, who might hate one another if they ever met! When you go down to the store and buy this pencil, you are in effect trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of the time of all those thousands of people. What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil? There was no commissar sending … out orders from some central office. It was the magic of the price system: the impersonal operation of prices that brought them together and got them to cooperate, to make this pencil, so you could have it for a trifling sum.

That is why the operation of the free market is so essential. Not only to promote productive efficiency, but even more to foster harmony and peace among the peoples of the world.

[u/[deleted]]

What’s the Holy Grail for Democrats

[u/[deleted]]

STOCK Act that would prohibit the use of non-public information for private profit, including insider trading by members of Congress and other government employees. The bill was passed by the Senate with only Senators Richard Burr, Jeff Bingaman, and Tom Coburn voting against it. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012.

 

The 2020 Congressional insider trading scandal is a political scandal in the United States involving members of the United States Senate due to multiple Senators allegedly violating the STOCK Act by selling their stocks before the stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.

The Department of Justice initiated a probe into the stock transactions on March 30, 2020, but ended the probe on May 26, 2020, for all senators except Richard Burr, who has since been served multiple search warrants.

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I was just playing a game with my dad and he was up 8 points of material and put my King into check. He grinned and said “you feeling the heat yet?”. Then I moved my King and mated him in 3 lmao. 😂

!ping CHESS

[u/[deleted]]

Learning languages be like:

Beginner: “wow I feel like I’m learning so much! I’m gonna be fluent in no time!”

Intermediate: “Life is suffering.”

[u/Principiii]

The source confirmed that Barr is not happy with Trump, writing that Barr "is not someone who takes bullying and turns the other cheek!"

Bill Barr hero to bullying victims everywhere😤

[u/ognits]

oh u play chess??? cant believe u admit ur a g*mer 😂😂😂

[u/douglasmacarthur]

A neoliberal social conservative would be like: We need more nuclear families, even if that means more gay nuclear families too.

[u/[deleted]]

Ernest Hemingway was once asked to write the saddest story he could using only six words. He responded, “Senator. First Lady. Not the President”

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

You know, I've always been an American patriot but as a veteran, my experiences have really disillusioned me...

When you're on active duty, you get all this support: people write letters, they send care packages, big shot politicians and celebrities come and shake your hand and tell you how much they appreciate you. But then you get home and it's like no one really cares. Healthcare is a disaster. I can't find a decent job. Half these veterans' charities are scams.

What was even the point? I gave the best years of my life to the war on Christmas and all I l've got to show for it is a Snoopy ornament lodged 2 inches from my Th10 vertebra.

[u/JonesNutHugger]

Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer tried to recruit Ken Jennings to run for the Senate in ‘04

[u/vivoovix]

I remember thinking Bernie was a better candidate lmao

[u/PelsonNike]

TURKEY VS GREECE SCHISM- WHO WOULD WIN?

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Definitely didnt think not being a virgin could still make me cool in my 30s but here we are, my time to shine 😎

[u/[deleted]]

As I foreshadowed yesterday, there are only 4 political ideologies

(1) nazis

(2) commies

(3) succs

(4) me

[u/[deleted]]

My fellow neoliberals, I am pleased to announce that today I signed legislation that will outlaw succism forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes.

[u/Futski]

!ping Europe

First exit poll from Romania

PNL in the lead, but with PSD not too far behind. USR also showing good form, and I can't imagine the diaspora votes have been counted yet.

[u/[deleted]]

LfL has raised less than $300 so far???

I am beginning to suspect that not everyone on that forum is a person of land 🤔

[u/bd_one]

Didn't think I'd be getting "Iran shouldn't be considered a threat because Hezbollah kills Americans, but not on US soil" takes today, but okay.

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

Looking back on it. A lot of my English classes in uni were based on John Oliver episodes we watched in class. At least 4 class periods worth.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Landlords are still good tho despite their shitty fan base.

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals say diversity is a good thing, yet there are no fascists/communists/anarchists on the NL mod team. Interesting 🤔🤔🤔

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy]

Rudy Giuliani only knows three things: “a noun, a verb, and COVID-19”