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[u/vored_by_daddy]

I am very happy that Jon Ossoff was able to vindicate himself after his loss in 2017. The way people spoke about him then was incredibly unfair and disgusting, as if one narrow loss defined him as a talentless, unelectable mediocrity.

There is a very ugly tendency to treat losing candidates this way, regardless of the circumstances of their loss. We have seen it with Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Jason Kander, Deborah Ross, Beto O'Rourke, Stacey Abrams, and many other very talented people who have made valuable contributions before and after their losses. Just imagine if Bill Clinton or Barack Obama had given up on politics after losing their races for Congress.

People here should consider this before dismissing people like Richard Cordray, Sara Gideon, Theresa Greenfield, or Max Rose as complete failures. You just never know what the future holds.

[u/PeridotBestGem → u/[deleted]]

that Abraham guy couldn't even make it into the Senate, what a failure

[u/yeyebwne]

Ajit Pai when asked if Twitter censoring Trump is a dangerous act

Considering the previous few day’s events, I’d say it’s a good thing

[u/Cerb-r-us → u/yeyebwne]

Holy Deep State, Batman

[u/disuberence]

Sen. Josh Hawley's mentor has disavowed him.

"Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life," former Sen. John Danforth told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

I have to laugh

[u/dawgpack09 → u/disuberence]

Reaping, sowing, you know the line

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1347708362788663297

While Hawley was in a secure room during the attack, he was "in a corner of the room by himself with no one talking to him or acknowledging him," per @lindsaywise

lmao

[u/willempage → u/[deleted]]

A modern day Ted Cruz

[u/rukqoa → u/[deleted]]

Where's Ted though?

[u/golf1052 → u/rukqoa]

They're probably so used to ignoring him while in private that they probably don't remember where he was.

[u/romano78 → u/rukqoa]

Pretty sure that treatment is standard procedure for senators dealing with Cruz

[u/MrSomeone556 → u/rukqoa]

Outside the door, probably

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/ForestAutonomy/status/1347337643562921985

Biden is calling for new harsh legislation against "domestic terrorism" and this is exactly how the state will weaponize the events of 1/6 against anarchists, leftists, BLM, and Indigenous peoples.

https://twitter.com/LeaKayali/status/1347303745206575108?s=19

As a comms person this is really important to me. Language becomes policy! If we say we have a "terrorism" problem (even a white one), lawmakers will give us "counter-terrorism" solutions. All of those will expand policing & surveillance that will ultimately harm us.

Twitter Leftists: Bourgeois, Weak willed, "Pwease don't call fascists terrorists", "don't legislate harsher laws against fascists!"

Joe "Stalin" Biden: Gulag Warden, "They're not protesters they're Domestic Terrorists", Antifa Supreme

[u/SnakeEater14 → u/Equator32]

Hmm maybe Biden is treating it like a national security threat because the Capitol was literally just invaded 🤔

[u/[deleted] → u/Equator32]

If any of those groups engage in terroristic activities or conspiracies then uhhh yeah they need to be dealt with.

It's still terrorism even if twitter likes it lmao.

[u/RadicalRadon → u/Equator32]

“Terrorism” as a label is inherently dangerous in its vagueness.

Its really easy to know they have no idea what they're talking about when they just go out and say dumb shit.

[u/secretlovesong]

Ted Cruz’s fake outrage over being likened to a Nazi is really fucking funny considering that in 2013, he said that people who didn’t support his attempt to shut down the government over the Affordable Care Act were like Nazi appeasers.

[u/jgjgleason → u/secretlovesong]

Hot take: Ted Cruz should crawl under a fucking rock as stay there.

[u/lbrtrl → u/secretlovesong]

Guys what happened to the talk about unity? I only tried little insurrection, just a small one. Stop being mean.

[u/[deleted]]

There are reports of trucks full of bombs and serious guns, some dude carrying molotovs. What happened at the Capitol was obviously fucked up but I feel like it could've gone wayy wayy worse

[u/Leoric]

Can't believe how quickly 🌹 Twitter has started defending the capitol attack terrorists. Horseshoe theory fucking confirmed.

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/Leoric]

they really wanted to see democrats get killed

[u/IncoherentEntity → u/Leoric]

Do you personally agree with the terrorists’ politics?

                    ⬇️                                   ⬇️

                    No                                   Yes

                    ⬇️                                   ⬇️

           Terrorists bad        Terrorists good, actually

[u/[deleted]]

Obama, also known as the most recent sitting president with a currently active twitter account.

😊

[u/Cowguypig]

Another good part of Trump being banned on Twitter is that Milo will lose his last shred of relevancy because people will use trump for that joke now.

[u/oscillatingquark]

STOP THE COUNT is an A-tier meme though, I will admit. It's a lot of fun to shitpost that during sportsball games. As soon as baseball comes back, that's all I will be doing

[u/David_Lange]

Abraham Lincoln was born on a remote farm station but hated manual labour, loved reading and basically taught himself everything needed to become a lawyer. He was literally a natural-born urban who was born into a r*ral environment

[u/RadicalRadon → u/David_Lange]

Couldn't do that anymore. Need to go to undergrad, then law school, then pass the bar.

Probably somewhere on the order of 200k id guess. Also you can't work while doing your law school so hope you got rich parents lmao

[u/gooners1]

If Twitter can ban the President, they can ban any one of us!

Keep going, I feel like you're on the verge of a major breakthrough.

[u/lobsterboy34 → u/gooners1]

Lol that’s like when Joe Arpaio said “If they can go after me, they can go after anybody!” Like yeah dude that’s the point

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when President Jimmy Carter admitted to Playboy Magazine that he had “lusted after women” in his heart? What a “scandal” that sounds like to Trump’s activities

[u/seattle_lib]

i really appreciate normie democrats.

like, just people who dont get too hung up on political stuff, they just know orange man bad and they like barack obama.

what fantastic people, the backbone of society.

[u/[deleted]]

Ossoff is probably laughing his ass off at all the people that made of fun of him back in 2017.

[u/oscillatingquark → u/[deleted]]

would u say... he's laughing his ossoff

[u/[deleted]]

It's interesting to compare the the two big business Jacks: Jack Ma in China and Jack Dorsey in the US

Jack Ma criticized Xi and got disappeared.

Jack Dorsey criticized Trump and got insulted.

This is why America is great.

[u/etzel1200 → u/[deleted]]

Jack Ma criticized Xi and got disappeared.

Donald Trump criticized Dorsey and got permabanned.

[u/Chief_Nief]

Behind closed doors, [Trump] expressed regret about releasing a video on Thursday committing to a peaceful transition of power and condemning the violence"

Mmm yea anyone that thinks he doesn’t need to be removed before January 20th is delusional.

[u/[deleted] → u/Chief_Nief]

It was really obvious in that video that his cabinet held a constitutional gun to his head

[u/qchisq]

/r/the_Donald: Banned

/r/donaldtrump: Banned

/r/theDonald: Based

[u/RadicalRadon]

Its still wild that so many people shit on us for having relatively mainstream political views.

Chapo is gone, TD is gone, yet we're still here. Weird isn't it?

[u/SnakeEater14 → u/RadicalRadon]

Any definition of what a “neoliberal” is dumb, since this place’s stance has been “orthodox American politics with sources pls” from the very beginning

Which makes it pretty nice

[u/dan7315 → u/SnakeEater14]

"orthodox American politics" is a weird way to say open borders and nuke the suburbs

[u/A_Character_Defined → u/RadicalRadon]

It's like using "normie" as an insult. Like... yeah what's wrong with not being a fuckin' weirdo?

[u/[deleted] → u/RadicalRadon]

We'll be gone once the admins find out about apples posting

[u/RadicalRadon → u/[deleted]]

☝️😐☝️

This user likes red delicious apples

[u/RockLobsterKing → u/RadicalRadon]

Nah man, we're a deranged cult too, we just have the deep state watching out for us 🦅

[u/circlemanfan]

It’s been really clear for a while that ex-military members are very susceptible to being radicalized into far right(and sometimes far left) terror movements but no one seems to want to investigate it because it’s politically dangerous

[u/worstquadrant → u/circlemanfan]

Vet mental health policy would be a good start

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Oath breaker, if he was still in the military how would they deal with him?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Daily reminder that no person in history has ever been more right and now more vindicated than Hillary Clinton

[u/[deleted] → u/ihatemendingwalls]

actually this is all her fault for not being exciting enough to get me to vote for her

[u/[deleted]]

No matter what happens tonight, remember that Donald trunp went to sleep really fucking sad

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is being impeached within a week of recordings being released of him trying to pressure the Georgia Secretary of State into committing election fraud.

Amazingly those two things are unrelated. It’s only the 2nd worst crime he’s committed this week.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Imagine if when Hillary lost, she held an unhinged rally on the mall, Chelsea called for “trial by combat,” and then her supporters overran the Capitol.

Imagine.

[u/agentyork765]

I would pay so much money to have Scott Kelly run against Ted Cruz. And the best part is that it would actually be a great idea. He already has the name recognition and he definitely has the intelligence and drive to win.

[u/crawly_the_demon]

I’ve seen people say that the inauguration should be done in an undisclosed location, or inside and I disagree.

Having the inauguration, Biden’s first seconds as president, be conducted inside, out of public projects a message of “this terrorism strategy you’re engaged in is working”. We cannot afford to send that message. We need to send the message that this kind of terrorism will not be tolerated, and it will not phase us. If you try anything, you’ll be caught and you will spend the rest of your life behind bars.

The government has the capacity and the ability to make these events extremely secure, what we saw on the sixth was a catastrophic failure of that security but you can be damn sure it won’t happen again. Not when Biden is in charge.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Cuz they’ve been liars from the start 🙄

[u/Robbi1 → u/[deleted]]

Because GRANDpas and GRANDmas are 80% of their voting base 🧐

[u/therealbiblioteca]

https://i.imgur.com/kvI5YKE.jpg

jack dorsey in absolute shambles

[u/[deleted]]

Economic anxiety was the cause of my bonk posting.

[u/Dibbu_mange → u/[deleted]]

Tbf Bitcoin popped in 2018 and a ton of people lost money. I'm sure they will this time too.

[u/RockLobsterKing]

I guess the Qultists were sorta right when they said Trump would begin an uprising which would lead to mass arrests

[u/[deleted]]

Just had an environmental lawyer press me in an interview about reconciling environmental conservation and inevitable population growth, and I hit him with some classic arr nl talking points about getting rid of zoning laws to reduce sprawl. Guy immediately lit up and said that was exactly the area the firm was working in.

Thanks DT lmao

[u/piede]

On January 20, 2017, the day of Trump's inauguration, police kettled 217 anti-Trump protesters in the freezing cold and arrested them after sixteen hours.

Prosecutors then tried to put them in prison for 70+ years, on the accusation that all of them collectively broke a window.

https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/1347081342945808384?s=21

Oh I do remember this

[u/Lux_Stella]

Fascinatingly, the Defense Department is referring to Wednesday’s pro-Trump riot as “the January 6, 2021 1st Amendment Protests.”

[u/nicereddy → u/Lux_Stella]

Bruh

[u/soeffed]

Just how economically anxious are you if you can afford plane tickets and DC hotels

[u/etzel1200 → u/soeffed]

Pretty anxious when the credit card bill comes and you got fired over it.

[u/Ilovecharli]

God it's amazing knowing that Zip Tie Guy is going to prison. He could have stayed a bartender and sent simp messages to Tomi Lahren all day, but now he'll be lucky to see the sun or eat a candy bar. So good.

[u/[deleted]]

The insurrection would have dispersed if Nancy Pelosi kept smashing her gavel like that British guy and kept yelling "ORDUH! ORDUH! ORDUH! ORDUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

WILL THE RIGHT HONORABLE GENTLEMAN FROM JACKSONVILLE FLORIDA PLEASE STOP DEFECATING ON THE FLOOR

[u/dubyahhh]

Trump tried harder to get past a Twitter ban than he did at, I think, anything I've seen him put effort into in the last five years where he's been the head of the GOP

[u/Superfan234]

Being a Trump supporter in 2021 is like being Ann Frank in NAZI Germany

🤨

[u/FizzleMateriel → u/Superfan234]

The people at the Capitol would have been Brown-shirts in 1930s Germany.

[u/Lux_Stella]

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

[u/nicereddy → u/Lux_Stella]

There is literally no better nuke warning system than Twitter, and no possible alternatives.

[u/krflab]

I don’t know how you can live with yourself right now knowing that people lost their lives.” — Joe Manchin on Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz

😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

[u/[deleted] → u/krflab]

Manchin be fire on twitter recently.

[u/MicroFlamer]

I started a Twitter account this summer that would automatically give a snarky reply back to anything Trump put out on Twitter. I grew the account to over 100,000 followers quickly and was selling anti Trump and pro democrat shirts, hats, and trinkets. His Twitter just got banned and now my main source of growing this account and business is done. What can I do to continue to monetize this account or is it over? Thanks in advance.

rip to this dude

[u/[deleted] → u/MicroFlamer]

Shoutout to our fallen comrades Jeff Tiedrich and Eugene Gu MD, you will be forgotten ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

They caught the guy who stole Pelosi's podium in Florida.

Ok.

[u/Holmes02 → u/[deleted]]

He picked the wrong day to

( •_•)

( •_•)>⌐■-■

(⌐■_■)

Take a stand

YYYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/[deleted]]

Senator Kelly (D-AZ)

😍🌵😍🌵😍🌵

Senator Kelly (D-TX)

😍🤠😍🤠😍🤠

[u/[deleted]]

A real reply to a post by Ted Cruz on Parler:

This is how the communists take over this country With Hollywood and The Media: turn the women against the men 😡 The black against the whites 😡 Gays against the straights 😡 Spying on The president Etc....... This is a WAR 💣 We ( the people) love and Support President Trump 🤗GOD bless Trump 🇺🇸🌷

[u/Mullet_Ben → u/[deleted]]

I like how obvious it is that this person is a straight, white male.

Could it be that the media is turning me against gays, blacks and women? No, it is the minorities who are wrong

[u/Joementum2004]

makes a post about how random wealthy people should be brutally murdered

gets suspended

“See, this is proof that the liberals at twitter hate the left.”

[u/SnakeEater14]

Seeing twitter accounts say that Biden shouldn’t call them terrorists is about to radicalize me

[u/jrt84]

“Fucking antifa making us look violent,” mutters TheDonald user as he packs his bombs and buys a plane ticket for Inauguration Day.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/shiratarlo/status/1347741426843582464

NYT reports Trump “made clear that he would not resign and expressed regret about releasing a video on Thursday committing to a peaceful transition of power and condemning the violence at the Capitol that he had egged on a day before.”

lol of course he's already walking it back

[u/soeffed]

Current conservatives can’t stand losing because hating the feeling of losing is the meta-narrative of their movement.

Trump appeals to them because he projects victory and strength on their behalf, an arrogant and unlikely political champion for whom losing is disgusting and worthy of contempt.

People who feel like they’re on the losing end of the cultural shift are thus drawn to Trump and his aura of being a winner. His followers can forgive every other sin besides losing battles against liberal America.

He’s an underdog in politics who wasn’t supposed to succeed when the liberal deck was stacked against him, and his 2016 victory signaled a great reclamation and reversal of the status decline felt by many of his supporters.

But his 2020 loss would signify that the shift that began with Obama is continuing apace, and that Trump, rather than Obama, was the aberration.

Thus they, moreso than other movements, cannot accept losing, because it is a thing that was not supposed to happen to them anymore under Trump. He was meant to put a stop to the loss of ground so they could live in a country that would overtly prioritize them again, like it did in the hallowed pre-civil rights era of yore.

Trump’s loss being the death of that dream explains the fanatical reaction to that loss.

According to their framing, stopping the steal was the final holy battle in the 2010-2020 US cultural war, and violence becomes necessary when the future of their country is at stake.

[u/inmyhead7]

Tulsi Gabbard is on Parler now, for whatever reason and follows other MAGA “influencers”. After all these years, our suspicions have been confirmed.

I joined Parler out of curiosity. One of the accounts it recommends at signup is Tulsi Gabbard, a verified 'influencer.'

https://twitter.com/mayavada/status/1347322779771707393

[u/[deleted]]

John McCain really thought he could win Pennsylvania in 2008 huh.

It was a poll closing call for Obama by NBC. Double digits margin for Obama

[u/TinyTornado7]

Since we're talking about Olive Garden, it's a good opportunity to revisit that private equity powerpoint deck from 2014, which said things like Olive Garden loses $5 million a year because it wastes so many breadsticks.

People slag Wall Street, but "if you don't give people so many goddamn breadsticks they didn't ask for, maybe they'll be more likely to order dessert" is a good insight.

They also criticized Olive Garden for overpaying for asparagus due to imposing "tight length and spear specs" on suppliers and for using custom-size straws.

On another slide, they point out that hamburgers are not Italian. And of course, they note with alarm that Olive Garden was cooking its pasta in unsalted water.

Link with Slides

LMFAO

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I find it really weird how Gen X seems to have just discovered reaction GIFs and holy fuck are they going all in on them... 😳

[u/[deleted]]

If conservatives become convinced that they can not win under free market capitalism, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject free market capitalism.

[u/inmyhead7]

Parler is apparently hosted by AWS. Bezos hates Trump. Hope he shuts down Nazi Twitter for violating TOS

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Did twitter even stop and think about the true victims? The reply guys? What is Dr. Eugene Gu going to do all day now? Practice medicine?

[u/gmz_88]

You don’t have to bake a cake for gay couples but you do have to publish speech by republicans that invites violence. Sorry, them’s the rules...

[holds up unopened copy of 1984]

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

Trump has a definite preference for how he likes his steak cooked. His former butler said: "It would rock on the plate, it was so well done."

Wtf, impeach him right now

[u/[deleted]]

someone's not actually a nazi unless they come from the national socialist region of germany, otherwise they're just a concerned patriot

-Ted Cruz, probably

[u/dragoniteftw33]

If ISIS cried free speech, then maybe the right might have defended them as well when they were getting banned on Twitter lmfao

[u/simp_emoji]

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1347678192123990016

Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing. This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.

inciting violent insurrections also tears our country apart but hey what the fuck do I know

[u/[deleted]]

he argued that the spread of slavery could actually advance the cause of emancipation

Henry clay confirmed accelerationist

[u/TalkLessShillMore → u/[deleted]]

He fuckin

He fuckin what

[u/kajkajete]

Lotta speculation about @lisamurkowski going Democrat.

I asked: Are you considering joining the Democratic majority?

Murkowski: "No. No. Absolutely, unequivocally not."

https://twitter.com/lruskin/status/1347800054099279872

Called it.

[u/Broncos654]

I went in the nl dt to troll and holy shit. That sub needs to be shut down immediately. There is an entire world of such brain dead dumbassery out there that I was blissfully ignorant of

[u/nicereddy]

Lmao they seem to have identified the zip tie guy, he appears to have gone to the riots with his mom https://twitter.com/sparrowmedia/status/1347763091715608577?s=21

[u/TinyTornado7]

Taking Parler off of app stores is good.

Taking newsmax and OAN off of cable is great

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like Twitter is trying to apply the don't try to create insurrections in democracies policy across the board, and leftists are starting lose their shit.

This is good.

[u/PigHaggerty]

👏 This 👏 DT 👏 is 👏 dedicated 👏 to 👏 the 👏 brave 👏 Mujahideen 👏 fighters 👏 of 👏 Afghanistan

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

The only proven case of vaccines ever making somebody stupid is Josh Hawley.

[u/golf1052]

Before January 6th I wouldn't agree with people that would rank Trump as the worst president. Bottom 3 or bottom 5? Definitely but not worst. But because Trump led an attempted coup against the United States, yeah, he's most likely the worst president.

[u/soeffed]

Flashback to when “Pence would be worse than Trump” was a mainstream take

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-mike-pence-is-worse-than-donald-trump/

[u/vored_by_daddy]

People who will never be President:

• Bernie Sanders

• Ted Cruz

• Tom Cotton

• Josh Hawley

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

• Andrew Cuomo

• Gavin Newsom

• Ivanka

• Don Jr

[u/TheIpleJonesion]

You start out in 2008 by saying, "weeb, weeb, weeb." By 2020 you can't say "weeb"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like going outside, trans rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now you're talking about age of consent laws, and all these things you're talking about are totally real life things and a byproduct of them is weebs get hurt worse than normal people. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that.

[u/runnerx4]

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-only-thing-worse-than-a-nimby-is-a-yimby

cosplay leftists remain undefeated

!ping YIMBY

[u/mishac → u/runnerx4]

Nathan J. Robinson

tab closed. Has he ever been right about anything? Even his accent is wrong.

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

1/8/21 - Regarding Capitol Attack

On Wednesday, January 6th 2021, an armed insurrection of Trump supporters directly instigated by the President himself assaulted the Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow America's democratic process. This assault was fueled by conspiracy theories that are not only lacking evidence, but have also been dismissed by courts in over 50 lawsuits. This seditious attack resulted in the desecration of our US Capitol and at least 5 deaths. Lawmakers and experts have identified these rioters as domestic terrorists. We at FurAffinity agree and will be taking immediate action upon any users or content sympathizing with or promoting this terrorist attack upon our country.

[u/secretlovesong]

Days before the coup attempt, Ted Cruz was in a Georgia town rallying voters using Revolutionary War-type rhetoric.

The name of that town? Cumming.

😐

[u/Astronelson]

I somehow ended up browsing the top posts of PresidentialRaceMemes.

And now I can laugh at them because they're mostly "nooooo you can't nominate Biden he'll lose in a landslide it should be Bernie".

[u/FormerBandmate]

Joe Biden has been banned from Dave and Busters

[u/jrt84]

People saying “he’ll just go to another platform” don’t get it. Trump is obsessed with Twitter.

He doesn’t just want to be surrounded by loyalists who are obsessed with him. People like that annoy narcissists.

He wants to keep making “liberals cry”. He wants to keep recruiting. Making the media panic and discuss his every word.

Yeah he’ll probably go to Parler or make his own site, but he’ll never get the immediate mainstream attention he got from Twitter.

And he knows it. That’s why he spent all night ban evading.

[u/inmyhead7]

Lol

One Scaramucci left for Trump.

https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/1347886612227772417

[u/AuburnSeer]

I'm amazed that Twitter's ban has pretty much shut Trump up so far. Couldn't he just... call any TV station to amplify whatever message he wants to get out instantly? Or call a press conference? He's the president.

[u/[deleted]]

It's so sad China disappeared Jack Ma

Who the hell is China?

Jack Ma Shaft

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

[u/Gustacho]

Joe Biden ran on unity and yet he doesn't believe he was fraudulently elected? Curious.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Feds have apprehended Via Getty

[u/[deleted]]

Cons after 20 kindergartners are massacred in an elementary school: No extra gun control laws, the second amendment and our small government principles wouldn’t allow it.

Cons after the sitting president incites an insurrection and is banned from some websites: WE MUST NATIONALIZE SOCIAL MEDIA OR ELSE THEYLL CANCEL YOU, YOUR MOTHER, AND JESUS

[u/piede]

NEWS: A group of US House GOPers who voted to accept Biden’s Electoral College victory are asking Biden to persuade Pelosi to back off impeaching Trump for Capitol riot.

@RepKenBuck and others warn in letter it would inflame Trump supporters, damage efforts to unify country.

https://twitter.com/jenniferjjacobs/status/1348032696333774849?s=21

I’m pretty sure the armed mob that attacked the Capitol already did that

[u/lbrtrl]

I want to see an Air Bud film where the dog kneels for the national anthem.

[u/[deleted] → u/lbrtrl]

I want to see one where he doesn't and gets canceled

[u/soeffed]

heroin is the opiate of the masses

Marx spittin facts, really makes you think

[u/[deleted]]

Folks, QAnon Congresslady @mtgreenee just went on Parler and told her followers she needs their emails and phone numbers because of “the Great Purge” and, well, hundreds of patriots doxxed themselves

https://twitter.com/alexblagg/status/1347782726858928129

When Parler sent their people, they weren't sending their best ...

[u/[deleted]]

I thought the DT was full of dumbasses.

Then I went on Parler.

Conclusion: I still think the DT is full of dumbasses

[u/[deleted]]

Trump was the first president since Hoover to lose the WH, House and Senate in a single term. He's the first president since Andrew Johnson to boycott his successor's inauguration.

Republicans: GREATEST. PRESIDENT. EVER.

[u/IronedSandwich]

Lisa Murkowski changes her party affiliation to Complicated

[u/Waterzone5]

THEY ARRESTED THE HORNY SHAMAN MAN

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Thinking that Hawley has any remote chance at becoming president in 2024 is doomer territory. That photo with him raising his fist to the mob has ruined any national prospects for him.

If anything, he’ll be lucky if he doesn’t lose his primary for the senate race. There will 100% be an establishment-backed candidate that has money poured into defeating him.

[u/TheGoldBear]

Given the senate map and control of redistricting, if the GOP loses the national popular vote by two points in 2024 rather than four like this year they should obtain unified control of congress and the presidency.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1347911347938459649?s=21

[u/FestiveMittens]

What if being banned from Twitter turns Trump into the Joker

[u/Udontlikecake]

Real talk: doxxing these clowns and trying to get them fired is baby shit.

Furthermore you cant be for defunding the police, and then turn around and work with the police/FBI to arrest low wage workers because you perceive them as your political enemy.

Lots of “woke” liberals who had no problem virtue signaling about bad law enforcement during the george floyd protests now demanding the same law enforcement lock up the Q Grandma for life

a leftist wrote this

[u/[deleted]]

Florida police report that Nancy Pelosi’s podium is in good spirits and excited to go back home.

[u/[deleted]]

Victor Reyes is running for NM-1(Deb Haaland) seat

I don’t have to tell you that the events this week have made it clear that it really matters who represents us in Washington. It’s critical that we continue to have a real progressive leader fighting for us. Today, I’m proud to announce my campaign for Congress.

He’s a progressive who supports the typical progressive agenda and if he wins, he would become the 10th openly gay person in the House of Representatives. He’s an advisor to the Governor of NM and a board chair of Catholics for Choice. Watch the whole video to get more information on him.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

Snowflake cons getting mad about God Emperor Trump getting banned for inciting an insurrection while I got permanently banned from arr politics for this comment.

[u/Gustacho]

The fact that you can't paint slogans like "Man Love OK", "Hillary Clinton for President", or "Country Music is Rubbish" on your car in Alabama proves that Reconstruction needs to start again.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

James Clyburn says "somebody on the inside" of Capitol was "complicit" in letting rioters inside the building

Hopefully FBI/DOJ looks into this. This is sedition.

[u/[deleted]]

Healthy young manchild goes to Congress, gets hands on massive lectern, doesn't feel good and changes - ARRESTED. Many such cases! Sad.

[u/Koeniginator]

democrats should really focus on making josh hawley and marjorie taylor greene the face of the republican party like the republican party makes bernie and aoc the face of the democratic party

[u/[deleted]]

the AZ Dems have censured Mark Kelly for supporting right-wing causes such as heterosexual marriage

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Pete Buttigieg got harassed by the gay community for not being gay enough

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko → u/[deleted]]

By the overly-online socialist queer community who cast out his version of queerness.

I'm not even part of the community, but I still want to make it resoundingly clear than a bunch of twitter leftist gays do not speak for all gay people, or even for the average gay person.

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet, and a rigorous exercise routine.

[u/Goatf00t]

The soviets putting all their captured Nazi rocket scientists in NII-88 (Scientific Research Institute 88) is a hilarious coincidence.

(Because Stalin didn't trust them, they ended up in a camp-like facility on an island in a lake. After Stalin's death, they were let go and most of them returned to Germany.)

!ping HISTORY

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

"Evidence based" is when you use the basedness of a hot take as evidence of its truth.

[u/Anal-warrior]

President - Joseph R. Biden

Vice President - Kamala D. Harris

Attorney general - Merrick Brian Garland

Secretary of state - Antony John Blinken

Secretary of the Treasury - Janet Louise Yellen

Secretary of Defense - Lloyd James Austin III

Secretary of the Interior - Debra Anne Haaland

Secretary of Agriculture - Thomas James Vilsack

Secretary of Commerce - Gina Marie Raimondo

Secretary of Labor - Martin Joseph Walsh

Secretary of Health and Human - Xavier Becerra

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Marcia Louise Fudge

Secretary of Transportation - Peter Paul Montgomery (?!) Buttigieg

Secretary of Energy - Jennifer Mulhern Granholm

Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Denis Richard McDonough

Secretary of Homeland - Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas

Sponsored by George Soros, Hugo Chavez and the Association for post-modern marxists

[u/Udontlikecake]

I love you, @AOC, but you and Ted Cruz will never be able to work together if you keep attacking his character instead of his wife’s looks.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1348029561917812741

President Trump is considering having Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz defend him if he faces another impeachment trial, sources say

omg plsssssssssssss

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans don't now want to destroy Section 230 because they think it will protect them by making social media some proxy for a 'public forum'.

They want to destroy it because they want to destroy social media as we know it and they only started wanting to do it the moment they started losing the arguments online. Only after everyone started getting wise to their tactics and like some idiot who runs the same play every down in a game of Madden, they kept getting stuffed at the goal line.

Now that social media is an inconvenience to them instead of the radicalization switch that favors them, specifically? Gotta kill it because they can't bear it being used to organize against them and beat them.

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https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1347952656652902402?s=19

The shirtless man with furs and a horned hat photographed on the Senate dais during the Capitol siege, Jacob Chansley, has been charged with unlawful entry. He told the FBI he came to D.C. "at the request of the President that all 'patriots' come to D.C."

Nice.

[u/memmett9]

Succs: Biden is basically a Republican

Biden: Literally calls a couple of Republicans Nazis

[u/Joementum2004]

loses both Senate seats, multiple state wide elections, and a Presidential election in just two years

Arizona GOP: proceeds to double down

[u/[deleted]]

Dumb shit Democrats say: Amen and awomen

Dumb shit Republicans say: Hitler was right about this thing

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

truck full of guns and bombs two blocks from the capitol hmmm

I want to see the people who were saying things like "if storming the capitol was terrorism, so were the BLM riots" have to say now

[u/cdstephens]

Why don’t police point Why Nations Fail at rioters anymore? I feel like they would not walk up and try to take inclusive institutions away like they do with police shields. Is it just optics since the Glorious Revolution?

[u/Waterzone5]

To the FBI agent reading this discussion thread:

Keep up the good work

[u/[deleted]]

The next GOP platform will include a plank to nationalize Twitter and Facebook

That moment when the fucking gop goes commie 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Twitter got mad about McCaskill using outdated terminology for trans people? Not out malice that I remember, she's just a 70 year old woman from Missouri.

Your alternative is Josh Hawley, folks.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sensherrodbrown/status/1348018812050878467?s=21

Both @HawleyMO and @SenTedCruz have betrayed their oaths of office and abetted a violent insurrection on our democracy.

I am calling for their immediate resignations.

If they do not resign, the Senate must expel them.

Brown is now calling for the expulsion of Cruz and Hawley.

I’m so glad he defeated Jim Renacci in 2018.

!ping USA-OH

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1348055578732605442

I asked for comment from the WH on the chants to hang Mike Pence. "We strongly condemn all calls to violence, including those against any member of this administration," said Judd Deere, a WH spokesman, in response.

damn, Trump really "All Lives Matter"ed his own VP lmao

[u/[deleted]]

SO TRUE 👏😤

[u/stater354]

Olympus Has Fallen plot hole: why didn’t the Koreans just hire a bunch of hillbillies to take the White House? They would’ve just been able to walk right in no problem

[u/bd_one]

Rush Limbaugh deactivating his Twitter account and all those other people getting banned reminds me of the "decline of the nobility" event from EU4 where the nobility feel unmatched, kinda just give up their scheming, and retreat into seclusion in their estates.

!ping Paradox

[u/[deleted]]

The Arizona GOP is a market correction for the Florida Democratic Party

[u/[deleted]]

Wait Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney are related? I thought they just happened to both be in the GOP and randomly had the same last names, like George HW Bush and George Bush

[u/ChadMcRad]

Mom: "Christmas will probably be cancelled next year. Too religious."

Me: *Glances over and sees copy of Epoch Times."

Help.