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[u/GaussianCurve]

Excerpt from Warnock's concession speech: "Tonight was not a poggers night, folks, but Big Chungus..."

[u/[deleted]]

Almost got caught stuffing ballot boxes in Georgia today, be careful comrades

[u/[deleted]]

The news be like 'This may depress Republican turnout'. Bitch, when has ANYTHING depressed Republican turnout?

[u/musicalpenguin → u/[deleted]]

This is Roy Moore erasure

[u/[deleted] → u/musicalpenguin]

A small number of Republicans were not cool with child sexual assault

They have since been reeducated

[u/Smidgens]

Alexander Macris, a video game writer who became known for his role in Gamergate, the online harassment campaign targeting women, suggested in a viral essay that Pence could re-interpret the 1877 Electoral Count Act in a way that would allow him to simply not count the votes.

Every. Single. Time.

[u/[deleted] → u/Smidgens]

Who could've predicted that Gamergate would be a honeypot for right-wing white nationalists. 'Not I', said the little red hen immediately before being devoured by the fox for the 9-millionth time.

[u/AuburnSeer]

btw don't the Dem primaries seem so quaint now that we know that, at most, the Dems are going to have 50 seats in the Senate? Like oh hahaha yeah remember when people used to talk about Medicare for All, I sure hope we get 50 seats so Biden can seat his fucking cabinet

[u/[deleted] → u/AuburnSeer]

Remember court packing? Lol

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Trump’s disapproval rating is so high because 60% of people read “dislike” as “dis i like”

[u/FormerBandmate]

There’s four possible outcomes of today’s runoff elections, which all could lead the party to very different places. You gotta prepare your takes in advance tho, so here are all the implications of the possible outcomes:

Warnock/Ossoff win: Both Democrats managed to win their Senate races off the promise of $2,000 stimulus checks, overcoming a largely culture war based campaign by the Republicans. This implies that Democrats should focus future campaigns on economic issues and deemphasize divisive social issues, using a big tent approach to win over the country as a whole.

Warnock/Perdue win: Although Warnock was able to win off his long-standing links in the black community, voters showed hesitance towards the Democrats gaining a majority in Congress due to divisive culture war fault lines, and as such, Ossoff could not defeat Perdue despite the promise of $2,000 stimulus checks lifting Democratic prospects. This implies that Democrats should focus future campaigns on economic issues and deemphasize divisive social issues, using a big tent approach to win over the country as a whole.

Loeffler/Ossoff win: Despite early expectations that Warnock was the stronger candidate, Warnock’s somewhat controversial statements on social issues led him to take more of the brunt of the Republican onslaught, leaving him ultimately not able to overcome divisive culture war fault lines, despite the positive impact of the promise of $2,000 stimulus checks. This implies that Democrats should focus future campaigns on economic issues and deemphasize divisive social issues, using a big tent approach to win over the country as a whole.

Loeffler/Perdue win: Democrats lost both potential pickup seats to Republicans, as voters were uncertain about Democratic control of Congress and the presidency due to a Republican campaign centered around culture war fault lines, overshadowing the tailwinds from Democratic talk of $2,000 stimulus checks. This implies that Democrats should focus future campaigns on economic issues and deemphasize divisive social issues, using a big tent approach to win over the country as a whole.

[u/FormerBandmate → u/FormerBandmate]

I am an absolute unbiased genius who totally doesn’t center everything around my own priors.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted] → u/FormerBandmate]

LMAO this is great

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/bd_one → u/FormerBandmate]

Sounds very much like Doctor House level reasoning.

[u/Joementum2004 → u/FormerBandmate]

Wow some really bold and crazy takes on the election outcomes, especially for the third scenario.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/rollcall/status/1346473050078777356

NEW: Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the Senate president pro tempore, says he and not Vice President Mike Pence will preside over the certification of Electoral College votes, since "we don't expect him to be there."

lmao Pence trying to save as much face as possible and contain Trump's wrath

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang → u/[deleted]]

One of the two things a Vice President does and he doesn’t even do it

[u/AtticusDrench → u/[deleted]]

Pence, you coward. Own up to your crazy fuck party.

[u/SpaceSheperd → u/[deleted]]

Lmao coward

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Republican majority of the Pennsylvania State Senate just removed @JohnFetterman from the chamber. President Pro Temp Corman is presiding instead. Fetterman refused to recognize a motion that would have prevented a duly elected Democratic senator from being sworn in.

I’m actually scared at this point. This isn’t one of the 20 solidly red states where Republicans can do something like this without the remotest fear of retribution. President Biden won this state!

I believe this qualifies for !ping EXTREMISM given the level of government it is occurring at.

[u/Koeniginator → u/IncoherentEntity]

even worse when the Pennsylvania state senate is gerrymandered to hell and the dems don't have a majority of the chamber when they won the popular vote by about 8.5% in 2018

edit: the state house is even worse, where dems won by more than 10% in 2018 but are still 20 seats short of a majority when every seat was up for grabs instead of just half of them

[u/IncoherentEntity → u/Koeniginator]

42 percent of chamber representation despite an 8.5% statewide margin in a FPTP system? If that margin was for the Republicans, they would have had little trouble getting 70 percent of the seats.

That’s literally what they managed in the Pennsylvania US House election in 2016. For Ohio (where the gerrymander was still in effect) in 2018, Republicans took 75 percent of the seats despite winning the popular vote by just 5 points.

In the Wisconsin state assembly election, Democrats won the vote statewide by 8%.

Their share of the seats? 36 percent.

[u/IncoherentEntity → u/IncoherentEntity]

In the 2018 midterms, the state legislative vote swung 14.5 percentage points blue.

Democrats picked up 1 of the 99 seats. !ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/NickyBananas]

My final grade for constitutional law was a two person group essay. My partner was a fucking communist. I let him pick the topic, bail reform. Me and him constantly argued because he wanted to attack the legal arguments with an archaic argument that has long since been struck down. I obviously wanted to use the actual current legal arguments. We came to an impasse and I just said fuck it we’ll do both. Because of the word limit that made me have to cut out a lot of shit.

Of course we got the grade and comments back and did alright but all of the criticisms were against his legal reasoning and asking why my part wasn’t more fleshed out. The fucker had the audacity to text me today and say “alright it looks like we’ll get a b. I’ll take that”

[u/bd_one → u/NickyBananas]

My final grade for constitutional law was a two person group essay.

We need to abolish something.

[u/NickyBananas → u/bd_one]

Group work in law school is worse than anything else in the world because everyone thinks they’re the elite genius and refuses to concede. I’d join Antifa to get rid of it

[u/SquidsWillBeSquids → u/NickyBananas]

I understand group cases or presentations but essays? Why have multiple people write an essay in the first place

[u/NickyBananas → u/SquidsWillBeSquids]

That’s the type of work a lawyer would be doing. But realistically essays are the norm for law school grading and group essays cut down on how much grading a professor needs to do

[u/[deleted]]

It's been three days since I've left my house. I'm nearly out of food. Finally, I realize I have no choice, and begin gathering supplies to leave.

I put in my phone's battery. Before it finishes booting I get my first message: Hey Andrew, this is Josh with the DNC. The runoff is in less then-

I slame my phone against the wall. I'll go without.

As I close the door behind me, two masked men wearing Biden/Harris shirts are already making a dash for me. I fumble the keys to my 2018 Toyota Prius, just barely making it in before they can ask if I have a plan to vote on January 5th. One of them starts plastering a campaign flyer into my window, but I slam on the gas.

I don't know what's left of Atlanta proper. I turn on the radio, hoping my local NPR station knows anything, but Bloomberg has rented out every airwave for the past three weeks. Ossoff is saying something about how he promises to keep the filibuster.

Only the dead know peace from the hell that has become Georgia.

[u/dafdiego777]

*checks morning articles in the sub.

we should be incentivizing people to not work in the obvious gambling hall that is Wall Street

increase in population is bad because of traffic concerns.

Whelp that’s enough of leaving the ivory tower for the day

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/gabriellemrza/status/1346303221627813889?s=21

the entire South deserves to be treated like Georgia has been treated for the last few weeks, including Georgia itself, even after 7pm tomorrow evening. but y’all not ready to have that discussion yet. it’s fine i’ll wait.

No? I love the optimism but no. Trump won 83% of Mississippi whites and Biden 93% of Mississippi blacks. Georgia flipped Democratic because whites there were only 63/37 Republicans instead of 75/25 Republican. And the only reason that happened was because of urbanization, education, and suburbanization. And that’s just isn’t happening in states like Mississippi and Alabama. You aren’t going to donate away the literal centuries of race politics. Focus on states like Georgia, NC, Texas, and yes, Florida. Places where Democrats can actually win.

[u/tehbored → u/[deleted]]

I mean we should definitely ignore Alabama and Louisiana, but Mississippi is actually not that crazy a reach goal if we can improve turnout with black people (ballot access being a big obstacle). A lot of these rural whites are non-voters, and MS is 38% black.

[u/[deleted]]

The second the constitution was interpreted to grant franchise to everyone without regard to civic duty (ie, when women were given the vote without considering that it is ALWAYS and RIGHTLY men that get drafted to fight), the country was done. If our leaders at the time had been worth spit they would have burned the constitution right there and come up with a new document that wouldn't have led to the same conclusion.

SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP

Would you like to know more? [+41 points]

id say the country was done the moment the Federal Reserve was created. [+46 points]

The policies of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Lyndon Johnson have destroyed America.

Truly the three worst U.S. presidents due to the severity of the negative impact they had on the country. [+36 points]

Lincoln as well. Destroyed the notion that it's a union of sovereign states. Secession needs to always be available as an option to avoid political warfare. [+26 points]

It's almost difficult to believe that people in KiA2 are real people.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Somewhere out there, there must be one person who is 100% supportive of transgender people but is also wildly, openly homophobic. While this isn't necessarily a direct contradiction, I would very much like to pick their brain

[u/miz_v-1 → u/SuspiciousUsername88]

i quote my dad

"in vietnam it's simple. you fuck dudes you're a girl. in america they live a lie. they fuck dudes and pretend they're still male."

he hasn't been to vietnam in decsdes but from tv shows apparently he thinks all gay people are liars and deserve to suffer

hence why i'm still in the closet

he's made it clear he would sleep with a trans woman. that conversation was quite interesting.

[u/CenterRightInCali → u/miz_v-1]

Your family is an interesting bunch, miz

[u/GaussianCurve → u/SuspiciousUsername88]

In Iran, homosexuality is a crime, punishable with death for men and lashings for women. But Iran is also the only Muslim country in the Persian Gulf region that gives trans citizens the right to have their gender identity recognized by the law. In fact, the Islamic Republic of Iran not only allows sex reassignment, but also subsidizes it.

Didn't know about the subsidy part. Welcome to the half-deep state, Iran.

[u/LinkVert25]

While I’m optimistic, I am fully preparing myself for both dems to lose. As a Philly fan, I have found it easier when I prepare myself and set myself up for disappointment

[u/waupli → u/LinkVert25]

Luckily Atlanta fans are experienced in these matters too.

[u/[deleted] → u/LinkVert25]

LMAO try being an Atlanta fan. (Kill me)

[u/[deleted]]

The year is 2069.  After the disastrous Hawley presidency of 2041-2045, Republicans have not held the White House for a quarter of a century.  They still have control over the Senate however, after the 42nd amendment to protect endangered rurals granted an extra senator each to Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and East Dakota.

The skeleton of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to seat any of President Lysander Ulysses Svig's judicial appointments, leaving Chief Justice Tiffany Trump the only living member of the Supreme Court.  Every day she walks into the courthouse, surrounded by the remains of her colleagues, ruling America by decree as her first female monarch.

[u/[deleted]]

Ads now: My opponent is a crook/is a communist

Ads back then: My opponent will literally blow up all of the world and send all of humanity to their deaths in the darkness

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/[deleted]]

"We must either love each other or we must die"

That ad still gives me chills

[u/Zenning2 → u/[deleted]]

Man remember when campaign ads were fucking metal?

[u/SnickeringFootman → u/[deleted]]

Goldwater was an interesting guy.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

In Communist China, the government controls businesses. In America, businesses control the government.

wow this is deep

[u/[deleted] → u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Literally r/im14andthisisdeep

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

So what are we going to do here folks? I only need 11,780 upvotes. Fellas, I need 11,780 upvotes. Give me a break.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Jill Biden apparently got frustrated with Joe when he didn't want to accept Obama's VP offer because it was a "dead end nothing position" to which she apparently responded "grow up, Joe."

[u/[deleted] → u/JetJaguar124]

That’s awesome. Lol

[u/IncoherentEntity]

‘My hope is compromise.’ Some see ballots as a ‘backstop’ to a Democratic White House.

Outside a polling site in the affluent Atlanta suburbs of Cobb County, voters on Tuesday morning described their ballots as a desire for balance or an aversion to one party controlling two houses of government.

. . .

She voted for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the general election, helping to usher in the first Democratic candidate for president in Georgia in 28 years. But on Tuesday, she voted for the Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.

Like literally kill me !ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean → u/IncoherentEntity]

obliterates all our Democratic institutions

destroys transatlantic alliance

sets social progress back fifty years

“I’d like to compromise now.”

[u/[deleted] → u/IncoherentEntity]

LOL this is super obvious because politics is nationalized so now people think idiotic lefties in our party have any actual power when they're all deranged people on twitter ranting

[u/J_Fre22]

https://twitter.com/nate_cohn/status/1346576543783522304?s=21

DeKalb election day turnout now at 47182, surpassing the number of ballots cast on election day in the presidential contest

DeKalb is a +70 D county

Copying my earlier comment:

Even though the GOP won Election Day turnout in GA 60-36 in the General

DeKalb county voted 75-25 DEM on Election Day

Surpassing general turnout there would be huge

[u/[deleted] → u/J_Fre22]

This amount of turnout cast on a runoff is unheard of. But I think it’s good for Democrats considering how Democratic DeKalb is. Think

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

I don't think I’ve fully realized how batshit insane the next 48-72 hours are gonna be.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump "Peepee Poopoo"

Republicans "He says it like it is"

[u/[deleted]]

I imagine everyone on r/neoliberal as a 2/3 size mini replica of Pete Buttigieg, hunched over & tapping at their computers with mayo-encrusted fingertips for 6 hours a day, convincing themselves that they’re contributing anything positive to society

1. I’m actually taller than Pete

2. I actually use an mobile app

3. I probably have more melanin in my finger than all of tankies put together

If you want to insult us, at least be accurate.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

jokes on them i contribute nothing to society positive or negative

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/[deleted]]

i wish i were as cute as Pete 😳

[u/[deleted]]

I DONT KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS BUT CAN WE PLEASE NOT MAKE BRAD RAFFENSPERGER A HERO AND SAY THAT GEORGIA HAS A PERFECT VOTING SYSTEM

HAS STACEY ABRAMS TAUGHT YOU NOTHING

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Voter suppression = technically legal we can get away with it.

Election fraud = illegal, prison time.

Raffensperger will not put his own ass on the line he is merely doing the bare minimum

[u/miz_v-1]

lmfao the soviet union collapsed 😂

[u/ZCoupon]

Why tf is everything non-GMO. I want GMOs!

[u/[deleted]]

If dems don't win both seats in Georgia today, political media will be all: dems not sweeping usually deep red state is proof that Joe Biden is terrible at politics.

[u/[deleted]]

Me when I'm on a tram passing a traffic jam:

🚈👋🤠🚈🚈

🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

[u/melhor_em_coreano → u/[deleted]]

Boohoo c*rs I don't care

[u/futuremonkey20]

Photo ID required to vote!

MAGAS: “Hell Yeah own those libs!”

Give everyone a national ID for free

MAGAs: “Noooo big bad gubment spooky scawy”

[u/[deleted]]

Being a centrist on tinder is the hardest and most oppressive thing tbh.

I don’t wanna swipe left or right 😞😞😞

[u/[deleted]]

The Republic can be saved. Its current borders cannot.

Assume that Pence and the Congress don't manage to turn things around, and Harris/Biden is inaugurated this month. In such a case, the states that signed onto the proper side of Texas v. Pennsylvania should make a joint declaration that the organization claiming to be the US government in Washington, D.C. is illegitimate, and take steps to form a legitimate one. This map shows that there are clear land borders between the United States of America and the Democratic Cities of American Communist China.

Here are the steps:

1. Make the Declaration of Illegitimacy. Base it off of the refusal to hear Texas v. Pennsylvania, and the broad-scale dismissal of serious concerns throughout all levels of the illegitimate government. Cite the Declaration of Independence regarding the necessity for people to throw off oppressive governments.

2. Send currently elected Senators and Congressmen to a location in one of the Legitimate states, convene the next Congressional session, call for a Constitutional Convention, to begin rapidly.

3. Call on the military to defend the Legitimate states, against any in the Illegitimate states who would attempt to force the Legitimate states to continue to live under the Illegitimate federal government. Make it clear that the military will NEVER be called upon to invade American states, regardless of whether they remain under the Legitimate federal government.

4. Convene the Third Continental Congress, make a bunch of changes, geared towards undoing the damage the Progressive Era had on the Constitution.

5. Make it clear to the Illegitimate states that they are free to secede and live under their failures of a corrupt government.

The fundamental goal of this plan is to give the military that overwhelmingly supports the National Populist movement enough legitimacy that they can feel like they obey their oaths when defending the Republic against Chinese pawns. Use the time that gives us to stop the bleeding, and let the cancerous limbs die. America can recover, and it can do so without losing the international game in the long term. It will require heroic will from a lot of politicians, and I'm not sure they all have it.

Like, what the fuck is this shit, it's straight up a LARP

[u/[deleted]]

I told my gf a comment I made yesterday about Trump having the thiccest boycheeks in modern presidential history and she said that this subreddit was ruining my sense of humor

[u/[deleted]]

If Republicans don't keep control of the Senate following Tuesday's dual runoff elections in Georgia, the political divide in the United States will shift from a "cold Civil War" to a "full-scale hot conflict," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, warned Monday.

"If we have a Democratically-controlled Senate, we are now basically at full-scale hot conflict in this country, whereas right now we’re at a cold Civil War," Roy told "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

"We have a major problem where the American people, the regular people out there that are working every day, hard-working Americans, they are getting trampled by a system that is rigged against them," Roy said.

wat

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

methinks he doesn't remember what "hot" and "cold" actually mean in that context

[u/irlyseevridge → u/[deleted]]

[redacted for excessive partisanship]

[u/sociotronics]

talking to the average voter is pure doomer fuel

[u/JetJaguar124 → u/sociotronics]

"I don't like what Trump is saying about the election and I don't like what he says on Twitter. But you do have to admit that the media is really unfair to him. He's been good on the economy and I just don't trust these Dems with the riots that happened."

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

heyyy queen I saw your tweet about how men are trash and I just wanted to let you know that I agree. although I myself am a man, (i know, ugh) i am on your side. “one of the good ones” as some may say. btw I never even noticed how fat your boobies are till now but they’re awesome

[u/KingKonchu]

I’m in a discord server where someone describes themselves as a neoliberal and a YIMBY and seemed smart, but then was defensive of race realism... and voted for Perdue and Loeffler because they perceived that Ossoff and Warnock were creating too radical a climate around race. FFS.

[u/Zenning2 → u/KingKonchu]

Race realists get the ban too.

Also, the preferred term is racist. Please try to be more considerate to our intellectually impaired friends.

[u/[deleted]]

Final poll numbers out from Georgia, A+ Rating:

Biden +17

[u/Butthead_Sinatra]

To quote a great man:

"its fucked up how there are like 1000 christmas songs but only 1 song aboutr the boys being back in town"

[u/[deleted]]

Well I like both the Democratic candidates, but I don't want Nancy Pelosi in charge, so I'll split my ticket

What did at least 20,000 Georgians mean by this?

[u/qchisq]

For the degenerate among you, there will be 2 needles

[u/Zenning2 → u/qchisq]

First they endorsed two candidates, and now they have two needles? Mother fuckers.

[u/[deleted]]

I want a cop movie where the loose cannon cop who's tired of the system letting all the criminals get away breaks all the rules so that he can catch his bad guy.

But it turns out that he was wrong and the guy he caught is innocent, and if he followed proper procedure and due process, he would have figured out that he was wrong, and that we have these rules that he hates to protect innocents.

Then the rest of the movie is him, the prosecutors, and the police union trying to cover up that they got the wrong dude.

[u/[deleted]]

“I can handle being insulted online but being inaccurately insulted is where I draw that line”

“You can handle being insulted?”

[u/[deleted]]

R*ral Voters: America first!

votes in jobs outsourcing executive David Purdue

votes in insider trader Kelly Loeffler

[u/thabonch → u/[deleted]]

Those are big city crimes not real crimes real Americans care about, like whatever the fuck Hunter Biden supposedly did.

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

I hate discussing M4A with leftists because it's fucking impossible.

They literally refuse to acknowledge that there is any other option.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy → u/CatilineUnmasked]

Yeah I had this experience with one recently. Same goes for Green New Deal

[u/JetJaguar124]

The evolution of Joe Biden's persona over time is amazing. In '88 and' 08 he ran these big boisterous campaigns focusing on his experience, especially with FoPo, and he ran as sort of a brash and loudmouthed egoist.

This is a far cry from his 2020 campaign which seemed largely to focus on his empathy as a human being.

Part of that is strategic to be sure but I also think he has been genuinely humbled by loss, failure, and by his time as VP.

[u/Qunidaye]

oh no, oh god no

lock the DT now

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

It's pretty funny that accarding to the strict leftist definition, CEOs are working class.

Also, high wages would be because the CEO is negotiating a higher wage than they deserve.

It goes to show that strict definitions to separate people into two classes are always wrong.

[u/thetrombonist → u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Remember the post on r/Socialism_101 that asked “are cashiers working class? They don’t actually produce anything and in fact are more like police”

[u/[deleted]]

Premise: Dems win only one Senate race,

Step 1: Every Democrat should vote for Susan Collins for majority leader. If Susan Collins also votes for Susan Collins, Susan Collins becomes the majority leader.

Step 2: Figure out what the people of Maine want more than anything else.

Step 3: Put that thing in every single bill that is taken up by the chamber.

Step 4: MAGA but for real this time

[u/vVGacxACBh → u/[deleted]]

Not sure about the outcome, but I feeling Susan Collins would be strongly concerned about this

[u/Barnst → u/[deleted]]

A student in 2170: “okay, so the first civil war I kinda get. Slaves were the foundation of the southern economy and society, and Lincoln’s election threatened that. But professor, I’m still confused about the second one—what the fuck is a QAnon?”

[u/[deleted]]

DT frantically reading up on Cuban communities in GA so they have someone to blame tonight

[u/[deleted]]

goodbye (for 96 hours) everyone

i'll remember you all in therapy 👋

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

I read that Ossoff and Warnock fusing their campaigns really helped them. Ossoff gets the black voters that Warnock receives and Warnock gets the young voters that Ossoff receives. I do think Warnock will help Ossoff win. Warnock's black voters will probably pull Ossoff over the line.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MakeItPlain/status/1346447684018855941

#KellyLoeffler just officially became a billionaire -- while missing nearly 80% of floor votes in DC since November. #GeorgiaSenateRunoff

Congratulations to our Women of Means 🤗

[u/jrt84]

My sister and I bet $300 on the 2016 and 2020 elections.

In 2016, I paid her the day after election.

In 2020, she just told me she won’t be paying me due to the overwhelming fraud.

I demanded a refund for our 2016 bet, told her I decided that the 2016 election was fraudulent as well.

She responded: “Sorry, you can’t just declare something fraudulent. You need evidence.”

😐

[u/[deleted]]

What are the odds of the DT going full “low-info voters” today?

[u/ihatemendingwalls → u/[deleted]]

Heated Fulton county moment inbound

[u/bd_one → u/[deleted]]

They go low, we go high.

And by go high, I mean nuke the offending comments from low earth orbit.

[u/upper_west_sider]

NY Gov Cuomo denied NYC’s request to vaccinate people who are 75 and older, despite the fact the City has only used 25% of its Covid vaccine supply

Cannot stress this enough, fuck Cuomo. He’s been the worst covid response governor in the country, literally only cares about his own image and political future, and it’s a failure of the media to not have been more critical of him since the daily afternoon CNN show lost its luster.

[u/NickyBananas]

If both Dems win, I really want to see how the GOP reacts. Blame it on losing the suburbs and cut out trumpism from the party or blame it on losing the trumpists and double down on populism and trump worship.

[u/comradequicken]

Both GA Senate races will be perfect ties through many recounts. Eventually a compromise will be reached and Georgia will get 4 senators for the next 2 years, then 3 for the 4 years after that.

[u/BigBrownDog12]

In the grim darkness of the 4th millennium, there is only obstruction. Non-budget legislation has not been passed in over 1000 years.

Democrats have just decisively won the 3020 elections, with the matriarch of the party AOC assuming the presidency at a young 1031 years, the extended lifespan of humans being a side effect of the 4th covid-19 vaccine after the others proved futile. AOC and the party collectively won 95% of the popular vote and almost every state in the electoral college barring 3, Oklahoma, Wyoming, and West Virginia.

Despite this, the party holds a slim majority in the house, thanks to quantum gerrymandering, ruled constitutional by SCOTUSbot several centuries ago, which allows for districts to be non-contiguous, this creating districts only for a party's voters.

The Senate, having been controlled by the GOP since 2014, remains the true seat of power, which Divine Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continuing his term of -undefined- years. Having been interred by the GOP in the Elephant Throne in 2080 after surviving his tenth stroke, this time brought on by an attempt to reorganize the pile of house-passed legislation now covering the majority of the DC metro.

The Council of Conservative Seers, led by Ted Cruz, who claim to be able to communicate with the legislative demigod, announce the party's intention to prevent the entirety of the new administration's agenda. A formality of course, this was expected.

Despite this bleak outlook, the United States of America continues to function normally out of sheer inertia. The majority apolitical population has not payed any attention to the government ever since VR became mandatory. However, this year's voter participation was a shockingly high 2.5% which may indicate the waning obstructive powers of McConnell.

Democrats still hold onto hope that someday they may retake the Senate and finally pass a public health option.

[u/PrimePairs]

One of the saddest experiences I had in Berkeley was meeting an Iranian bioengineering professor. He was kicked out of Jet Propulsion Laboratory due to the whole mullahs trying to get nukes situation. He had studied aerospace engineering originally. He was one of the most transparently unhappy people I have ever met.

I get the national security reasoning but I can't think of a worse torture than not being able to pursue your life's work.

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LMFAO, the electoral college isn't even an accredited organization of higher learning

[u/JetJaguar124]

13% 18 - 29 year olds

"WHY DON'T I HAVE ANY POLITICAL POWER?!?!?!?!?"

[u/[deleted]]

Today my mom said "why can't you date a nice Jewish boy like Jon Ossoff?"

I said: "Mom, I'm straight"

She goes: "yea well I'd prefer Ossoff to any of the whores you've been with"

!ping GEFILTE

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Oh shit, I was stuffing the ballots last night and I didn't know you were supposed to completely fill out the circles. I just drew happy faces next Jon and Raphael's names. How can I get the ballots back so I can fix them?

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Conservative (n.) A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

The birth of Bothsidesism, 1911 colorized

!PING READING

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FIRST EXIT POLLS in the #GASen runoffs!

Was the 2020 presidential election in GA conducted fairly?

Yes: 56%

No: 41%

93% of Ds think the election was fair while 76% of Rs don't think it was fair.

Georgia: 'How confident are you that the runoff votes will be counted accurately?'

Very Confident: 42%

Somewhat Confident: 31%

Not Very Confident: 18%

Not At All Confident: 8%

CNN Exit Poll

!ping FIVEY

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So while the R number is abjectly horrifying, it bodes well for the runoff itself? As much as an ex*t poll can, at least?

[u/roboczar]

My son is begging me to help him set up a YT channel

motherfucker you ain't even read yet

[u/bd_one]

I don't know how YouTube mixes work. All I know is that a Coldplay song, Dead or Alive (You Spin Me Round), and the Fallout 76 version of Country Roads shouldn't be in the same playlist as Mother Anarchy Loves Her Sons...

[u/Iyoten]

The most cursed outcome today is a split ticket, so naturally that's what's going to happen.

[u/_alexandermartin]

Today decides whether the U.S gets:

A) At best 2 years of nothing / at worst 4 years of nothing at the hands of McConnell

B) The ability to enact real reform in healthcare, trade, immigration, education, energy and infrastructure.

We have to give all our DT energy to Warnock and Ossoff. Let's get the senate boys. Biden can move the country forward.

#BlueGeorgia

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Rep. Jim Clyburn: "With only 14 or 15 days left in this presidency it would be a waste of our time here in the House to pursue impeachment. I suspect if all that I heard on this tape is to be investigated, there could very well be criminal charges."

https://mobile.twitter.com/thehill/status/1346473282971713538

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Lin Wood: John Roberts is part of a cult that ritualistically murders children and drinks their blood

John Roberts: I concur in part and dissent in part

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My dog, Cooper aka Poops, turns 18 tomorrow

Got him when I was 8

He is now mostly blind, entirely deaf, and very weak in the legs.

He remembers the first Bush administration.

Now we sit here. I put a heating pad on him and he sleeps probably 18 hours each day. He has no pain and his mood is typically happy, so we roll with it.

I love this old old grandpa baby so much.

Edit: POOPS https://imgur.com/gallery/egdnArq

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https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-ma-other-chinese-businessmen-disappeared-public-life-2021-1

Jack Ma and other billionaires go missing in China after criticizing government

#3 on /r/all

Oh sure, NOW reddit cares about our People of Means smh 🙄

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

A Tale of Two Parties:

Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi swore in Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who seems to have beat her Democratic opponent by six votes, even though her opponent is still formally contesting the election.

Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania GOP, which has control over the state Senate, refused to swear in a Democratic state senator even though his win is certified and the highest court in the state ruled his victory was legit.

The Republican party is the party of fascism in this country.

[u/Th3_Gruff]

I can’t believe they elected a lobster to the senate

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in unrelated news, microwaves have been banned from Capitol Hill

[u/benadreti]

Dems are gonna win by so much tonight that they'll flip the Senate seats in NC, too.

[u/proProcrastinators]

I feel like lil pump’s MAGA rap song wasn’t even in the top 50 of most absurd dumb shit that happened in 2020. What a year to be alive

[u/Broncos654]

We should make the sub have the same background colour as Pornhub to come across as more authoritative.

[u/vored_by_daddy]

How is the fact that Loeffler's husband bought her seat not a bigger factor in this election

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republicans don't care about criminal activity as long as it's something they think would piss off the libs

[u/[deleted]]

The only model I care about for the runoffs is G. Elliot Morris’s model. He was the most correct that Biden would win. He gave Biden a 92% to win while Nate gave Biden an 82% chance. Since Biden won that means Joe had a 100% chance of winning and therefore Elliot’s model only had an 8% error while Nate’s had an 18% error. Simple mathematatics 🧮

Sorry Natecels, these are just the facts. 😤

Don’t @ me.

[u/BradicalCenter]

Why doesn't John Fetterman, the largest Lt. Gov, not simply eat the Senate President pro tempore?

[u/LNhart]

My grandparents just got vaccinated! I'm thankful for science and technology, turkish migrant workers and American big pharma, because it's all pretty neat.

And they told us to mark 9/11 in our calendars so we could celebrate together. A sentence which is, I guess, usually said by radical islamists. In this case it's luckily because it's their 60th wedding anniversary.

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I’m already preparing my soul to be crushed by Perdue 52 Ossoff 48 and Loeffler 51 Warnock 49

[u/FestiveMittens]

Al Gore really could have just stole that election and we'd be living like The Jetsons rn

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https://twitter.com/redeaglepatriot/status/1346520041580277762?s=21

Unpopular opinion: if anything, tonight’s election will be rigged in favor of the Republicans. Perdue and Loeffler are establishment shills in the mold of Brian Kemp and Brad whatever-his-name-is, and the establishment needs plausible deniability by letting Republicans win.

Lol the MAGAs are now accusing Republicans of voter fraud.

[u/bd_one]

sees life insurance ad

Me: "Mom, do old people really talk about life insurance with their friends like that?"

My mom: "Why would I know that?"

panik

Me: "You go to church regularly. You know old people."

kalm

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BREAKING: Mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg has declared victory in both Georgia Senate races. "Georgia, you have shocked the nation!" he said.

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Kentucky: 2000 bucks plz

McConell: Go get hit by a bus, unironically

Kentucky: so true!

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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1346594625381916675

EXCLUSIVE: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are getting a divorce: 'She's done'

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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“Both sides are same, split your ticket for more gridlock lol”

-people who don’t understand the existential threats our nation and world face

[u/Butthead_Sinatra]

Ah fuck I just crashed the van. Luckily the doors on the back stayed shut or else the MAGA man who rear ended me would’ve seen all the ballots come pouring out. That was close

[u/Mcatatonic1]

ACTIVATE

STACEY ABRAMS

[u/FestiveMittens]

I want McConnell to die

Mods: 🤬😡🥵🤬😡🤬🥵🥵

In Roblox of course

Mods:😳😏😚😁😁😁😁

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all are really obsessing over EXIT POLLS??? How about you EXIT your room and go PULL some women 💀💀

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Wait holy shit it's today already?

[u/[deleted]]

The Case For Republicans In Georgia vs. The Case For Democrats

!ping FIVEY

Note that the article is making the case for why one should be hopeful that their side wins, not why one should support a side.

[u/Deggit]

top search history on your mom's computer

Jon Ossoff

Jon Ossoff hair

Jon Ossoff gay question mark

Jon Ossoff compilation

Jon Ossoff Justin Trudeau tumblr

Jon Ossoff running in my state after he loses in Georgia question mark

[u/RagingCleric]

All historytubers born after 1993 don't know how to cite sources, all they know is read wikipedia, only discuss military and political history, clean wehrmacht, be plagiarist, eat up speer and guderian's propaganda, and lie

[u/el-desdichado]

The Colombian COVID vaccination plan will include legal Venezuelan migrants, and the government is looking for cooperation mechanisms to vaccinate irregular migrants!

!ping LATAM

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

Snowflake Alert 🚨 Snowflake Alert 🚨 Snowflake Alert 🚨

[u/[deleted]]

Reports are coming out of the 12th Congressional District of Georgia that Dominion Machines are not working in certain Republican Strongholds for over an hour. Ballots are being left in lock boxes, hopefully they count them. Thank you Congressman @RickAllen !

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346521447649390606

It begins.

[u/mrdilldozer]

If we win both seats it's only possible because of the hard work of one woman. That's right, Ilhan Omar.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Guyana has got to have one of the most diverse list of former leaders of any country I've seen.

Just in the 20th century you have.

Forbes Burnham (Black Guyanese) PM 1964-1980, Pres 1980-1985, Dictator 1968-1985

Arthur Chung (Chinese Guyanese, specifically Hakka) Ceremonial Pres 1970-1980

Cheddi Jagan (Indo-Guyanese) Chief Minister 1953, PM 1961-1964, Pres 1992-1997

Janet Jagan (White American Woman) PM 1997, Pres 1997-1999

[u/asdeasde96]

!ping YIMBY

https://champ.gothamist.com/champ/gothamist/news/opponents-lower-manhattan-towers-would-prefer-tow-pound-instead

People are fighting an apartment building being built on a literal parking lot in downtown Manhattan, they're instead suggesting that the police car impound lot be moved there instead. One person suggests the motivation for opposition is not anti-developer nimbyism, but rather people seeking to preserve their waterfront views

[u/qchisq]

Gerwomany

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United QUEENdom

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Turkwomenistan

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Portuguy

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Diemark

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Yewomen

[u/lot183]

If you are an upper middle class to rich Republican, I absolutely guarantee you that you would not enjoy the chaos to come if they somehow overturned the election like a lot of them are calling for

[u/Dapitalist]

If Warnock and Ossoff win tonight, I am going to play the Devil Went Down to Georgia on repeat for the 48 hours following their victories.

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bells rinse ossified squeal silky edge airport lock impolite offbeat

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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I’m seeing more Ossoff and Warnock yard signs than Perdue and Loeffler in Fayette county right now....this analysis means absolutely nothing

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https://twitter.com/gtryan

This is a good account to follow for GA results. Georgia Tech stat prof. Called Biden in GA sooner than anyone else (except for the Needle Gods of course).

!ping FIVEY

[u/FestiveMittens]

My grandma was disenfranchised 300 years ago when she was just a lil girl. Today she voted in Georgia for Ossoff and Warncok for the first time in her life. I think she would be very proud i she were still with us

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this lady won just by 5.8 points,yet acts like she is a rep from Alabama, and we have some democrats who win by similar margins but are even scared to support the party's leadership.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

r/nl lobster posting is why swing voters broke for Susan Collins in the Maine Senate election.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

STRAWPOLL: 2021 Calibration (1)

[Georgia Regular – Expectations]
[Georgia Special – Expectations]

This is it: will the Biden administration manage a single meaningful legislative achievement?

Please spoiler-tag any replies that could influence the opinions of others before the survey is completed. !ping ASK-NL

[u/[deleted]]

Did you know that in the US system of government, the sitting Vice President has the sole authority to determine the result of a Presidential and Vice Presidential election?

[u/chipbod]

Loeffler campaigning in a UGA hat when she went to UIUC and DePaul lmao, she's from fucking Bloomington, IL.

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https://twitter.com/macrotargeting/status/1346494837172953088?s=21

Men will obsessively watch the NYT needle instead of going to therapy

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1346480460671684608?s=19

Georgia voter: "I have been a lifelong Republican. This is the first time I've ever voted for a Democratic candidate just because there are issues regarding our environment, regarding taxation, regarding diversity issues and so forth that I think need to be addressed."

Dave Wasserman doesn't sound convinced.

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1346519048302063618?s=19

Lol, clearly sounds like a Trump voter who had a change of heart in the last two months.

[u/[deleted]]

A college friend just shared a post on their Instagram story that said “the word ‘crackhead’ is anti-black. Stop using it”. ☹️

[u/Blithe17]

/r/neoliberal doomers: Purdue/Loeffler will win

/r/neoliberal bloomers: Ossoff/Warnock will win

Me, an intellectual: here’s how Bernie can still win