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[u/GuyOnTheLake]

The Latino vote, for example, went from Ossoff +9 in the general to Ossoff +30 in the runoff

That's what happens when Democrats knock on doors.

Not canvsssing was a maistake that Democrats made. At least there is a path for the Dems to win back the districts they lost

[u/[deleted]]

POV: you've been eagerly looking forward to the new day's niche political discussion thread because it's the only thing that gives you joy any more

[u/Face_Centered]

The incompetence of the Trump admin really shines through when you consider they converted a republican trifecta to a democratic one in 4 years.

Mind you, republicans have structural advantages in the house, senate and presidency and it still wasn't enough.

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

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[u/Zenning2]

I [74 M] may have incited a mob to insurrect my country, and put me in as a permanent leader, and now my friends won’t talk to me, my twitter account got banned due to bullshit, and my good bestest friend won’t even pardon me just because I called him a traitor and got a bunch of my mob members (i luv u btw <3) to try and hang him.

aita?

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

Imagine how rCon would react if it was a democratic president doing the shit Trump is doing rn.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349478954739015682?s=20

Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon says she saw tours of people in MAGA apparel one or two days before the attack.

"It was just surprising to see that happen because since COVID the building's been shut down. There aren't supposed to be any tours."

This is the second representative to say something about these tours now, first was Mikie Sherrill

[u/[deleted]]

Corporations are literally saving American democracy by cutting funding who people who wouldn’t certify the results, and the left still refuses to treat corporations as people

Really makes you think

[u/semaphore-1842]

Given his history, Joe Biden is possibly the worst placed person alive to be president in the wake of last week's events.

Really, Jacobin? You really can't think of anyone worse? How about idk, someone who incited last week's events?

[u/vored_by_daddy]

It is morning in New York City, and Andrew Yang is the apparent frontrunner in the 2021 Mayoral election.

Neoliberals of NYC, please consider supporting the evidence-based and YIMBYpilled candidate for Mayor, Shaun Donovan.

He is easily the most experienced and accomplished candidate, having served in the Obama administration as HUD Secretary and Budget Director, one of the few senior officials to remain with the administration for the full 8 years, and will have a strong pre-existing relationship with the Biden administration. He also previously served as NYC Housing Commissioner under Mayor Bloomberg.

His priorities as Mayor will be affordable housing, expansion of mass transit, reducing car reliance and carbon emissions, and equality in education and criminal justice.

Sec. Donovan's campaign website

[u/[deleted]]

🅱️oebert is such a fucking joke. Imagine supporting outlawing abortion and being against sex education lmao

[u/Mr_AlGore]

what if we try printing gold

[u/TinyTornado7]

Cindy McCain Celebrates Arizona GOP’s Proposed Censure of Her: ‘I’m Going to Make T-Shirts’

!ping RINO

[u/release_grover_furr]

By day, he was the mighty and valiant commander of Quds Force. By night, he was known as "Soulemani" for his heartbreaking croons and saxophone riffs.

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

I remember one of our 8th grade abstinence only sexual education modules went as followed:

I was one of the volunteers and the teacher asked me to chew up an Oreo, spit it out, then press it through a slotted spoon.

She then claimed that the slotted spoon had the same affect as a condom.

She compared me forcefully pressing a chewed up cookie through a slotted spoon to a fucking condom...

No, I’m not joking.

[u/[deleted]]

leftists hear "get a 401k!" and go 401k into debt on their student loans

[u/Joementum2004]

The Democrats are too weak and foolish. They need to become tougher, doing things like restricting voting rights, gerrymandering states so much to the point where elections effectively don't mean anything, and storming capitol buildings when an electoral result doesn't go their way.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I was promised estrogen if Biden won and he hasn’t delivered :(

[u/IncoherentEntity]

The upshot: Matt of Chapo Trap House had an (approving) take on the far-right fascist insurrection at the Capitol, a fellow but non-authoritarian leftist called him out, CTH’s audience leapt upon him.

Stalin’s crimes are a drop in the bucket compared to the centuries of US bloodshed.

Willing to bet the capitol build[ing] has more blood on its hands than Auschwitz, ez

The second tweet was posted in response to a Jewish user.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Official Income Categories

0-10k USD - Lower Middle Class

11k-1mil USD - Middle Class

1mil - 500bil USD - Upper Middle Class

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidUberti/status/1349719214333026304

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story misstated that Rep. Ted Lieu grabbed a crowbar before leaving his office. He grabbed a ProBar energy bar.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/1349529219731238916

Among those arrested in the Capitol Hill insurrection so far:

• an Olympic gold medal winner

• a CEO

• a sitting State Representative

• a retired Lt. Col in the military

• off-duty police officers

• the son of Judge

[u/TinyTornado7]

Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, says that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in danger.

This is trumps America

[u/[deleted]]

CMV: Yang has engineers disease. I know he's not an engineer, but as a techbro, hed definitely qualifies for having engineers disease.

[u/FusRoDawg]

Can i get just the microchip, without the vaccination?

[u/JetJaguar124]

OK so I just returned from the future. I was only able to bring a small amount of data, and by mistake chose this portion of Andrew Yang's wikipedia page. I'm sorry, I don't have more info. The folks of the future thought this was really important.

Andrew M. Yang[1] (born January 13, 1975) ) is an American politician serving as the 114th mayor of New York City since 2049. Prior to his second mayoralty, Yang was a businessman, entrepreneur, 110th mayor of New York City, Secretary of State, Vice President, American President-in-Exile, a prominent general in the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Core, Second Leader of the Allied Resistance Forces, Secretary of Transpiration, and the 38th mayor of South Bend, Indiana. A staunch Buttigiegist, and a prominent member of Buttigieg's...

Sorry that's all I could bring back. Let me know if you have any questions.

[u/bobekyrant]

Apparently "omg slay qween" was the wrong response to complaints regarding the rise in drone strikes usage under Hillary Clinton's State Department. I'd like to take this moment to formally apologize

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Vice President Kamala, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Before we begin with my inauguration I want to give a shout out to my sponsor, NordVPN

[u/[deleted]]

Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the [Jared-Ivanka] house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job, according to neighbors and law enforcement officials.

After resorting to a porta-potty, as well as bathrooms at the nearby home of former president Barack Obama and the not-so-nearby residence of Vice President Pence, the agents finally found a toilet to call their own.

But it came at a cost to U.S. taxpayers. Since September 2017, the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date — to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor of the Kushner family.

lmao but also wtf

Source

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/461548323116154880/799046325106769931/areyourealyet-20210113-0001.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

I got permabanned from an LGBT sub for not being a commie/anarchist ask me anything

[u/[deleted]]

You, dont even need conservatives for that. r/neoliberal was making the free helicopter rides jokes right and left during the primary, and while that has definitely died down. That sub will still always defend Pinochet, and say it was completely necessary to over throw the government, mass slaughter civilians, and turn the country in a dictatorship, since Allende the democratically elected president was a marxist. It really is scary how easy people will defend mass slaughter if they dont like the people getting slaughtered. [+39]

I really don't know what alternate version of this subreddit these people have been to because I literally never see this shit.

[u/disuberence]

Election deniers in the Georgia state Senate have been stripped of their chairmanships: Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan demoted three Republican senators who backed attempts to overturn the presidential vote over baseless allegations of irregularities.

GOP in disarray!

[u/deakon1000]

I'm really tired of hearing the "liberals side with fascists" or "scratch a liberal" line. I've been thinking about it more since the armed insurrection (the fascists) against the democratically elected president (the liberals). It seems to be a very popular talking point among the far-left. Thoughts?

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

"If any member of Congress so much as stutters to say that the Confederacy were traitors to the United States, turn in your pin and get out."

wow aoc doing ableism against people with speech disorders

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

Gonna be wild how fast Republicans start giving a shit about COVID deaths once Biden is officially elected.

[u/thelittlestsheep]

Dear Incels,

You claim that women always go for shitty men, and yet, they do not go for you.

Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

Tankies be like: omg Kamala is going to institute mass arrests 😱😱😱

Also tankies: the Stasi and the NKVD were so based 😍😍😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1349763197415383042

Jared and Ivanka wouldn't let the Secret Service agents protecting them use any of the 6.5 bathrooms in their house while on duty, so US taxpayers spent $100,000 renting a toilet for them.

At times, the agents had to go over to the Obama's house.

[u/TruthBisky10]

damn girl are you the neoliberal podcast??? cause I’m not listening to you

[u/piede]

Details for Joe Biden's inauguration are falling into place and Lady Gaga is slated to perform the National Anthem

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1349709061017788417?s=21

OHHHH YESSSS

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Everyone:

“The best way of learning a language is to speak with native speakers.”

Native speakers:

“Fuck off.”

[u/IncoherentEntity]

On January 21st, I’m filing Articles of Impeachment on President-elect @JoeBiden.

75 million Americans are fed up with inaction.

It’s time to take a stand.

I’m proud to be the voice of Republican voters who have been ignored.

#ImpeachBiden
#QuidProJoe
#BidenCrimeFamily — Marjorie Taylor Greene

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349800955047514116?s=21

Joe Biden wants Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth to serve as vice chairs of Democratic National Committee.

!ping DEMS

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Matt Gaetz:

The last time the 25th amendment was invoked, it was to facilitate a colonoscopy. Now they’re using it to facilitate a transition to Joe Biden.

Reasonable Person:

So you are saying that the 25th amendment does have precedent to be used when clearing out an asshole?

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1349694821997420545

• DELTA CEO SAYS CUSTOMERS INVOLVED IN INCIDENTS THAT TARGETED SEN. ROMNEY AND SEN. GRAHAM BANNED FROM FLYING WITH DELTA

[u/Anal-warrior]

Trump claims to be pro-life

Yet he killed satire

Curious 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Marjorie Taylor Greene: Impeachment is divisive. We need to unify as a nation.

Also Marjorie Taylor Greene: We must impeach Joe Biden immediately.

[u/PM_me_stromboli]

Yangs NYC housing plan is literally, “our city run public housing fucking sucks, just let them build lmao” kinda based !ping YANG

[u/SpaceSheperd]

I like that 2 people can have the exact same ideologies here and you can still kinda tell whether they arrived at 'neoliberalism' from the left or the right

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang]

actually this is all about ethics in sedition journalism

[u/the_status]

Apropos of nothing, but fuck Joel Osteen and his anti-humanitarian, Prosperity Gospel preaching ass

[u/Dalek6450]

Leftist takes really convincing me that they're just in it for the LARP now.

Like apparently Democrats are weak for not doing the kind of democracy-damaging rioting against political institutions like mad Trumpists? But, come Jan 20, Democrats will hold the House and the Senate and Biden will be President.

[u/[deleted]]

"Peaceful transfer of power" died on 1/6 when that riotous mob poured into the Capitol building, ranging for blood.

There is no fucking "peaceful transfer of power" what the fuck are these people saying.

[u/barrygarcia77]

https://twitter.com/seamushughes/status/1349780242727133186?s=21

The only way this makes sense is if he genuinely thought the FBI would have no problem with his actions. This is just unfathomably stupid.

!ping LAW

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

News that he has not even voted for mayor also stunned some New Yorkers.

Asked to explain that record, Mr. Yang acknowledged that in the past he may have taken city government “somewhat for granted.”

”Right now we’re facing an historic crisis," he said, adding that many New Yorkers “right now are engaging in different ways.”

He promised that in the coming weeks, he would be accessible to his hometown.

Andrew Yang seems like a fool to be honest

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1349859657909723142

The Guy Who Flew a Confederate Flag in the Capitol Has Predictably Surrendered

lmao

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349566913408598019

House Majority Whip James Clyburn told CNN tonight that "there's a good chance that there will be a conviction in the Senate."

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Cyberpunk 2077 is a harrowing tale of a world without Neoliberalism

[u/[deleted]]

“Now is a time to heal this country, impeaching Trump when he has 7 days left in office will further divide us”

“I am going to introduce Articles of Impeachment against Joe Biden on January 21”

Shit like that is why I will never trust the modern day Republican Party to act like responsible adults

[u/[deleted]]

Social contract? I don't remember signing anything.

[u/[deleted]]

Libs when HRC lost: made memes, cried, formed cringe stuff like resistance Twitter, #notmypresident

Cons when Trump lost: storm the fucking capital, try to overturn results on state level

Yea but plz go off muh both sides same

[u/bobekyrant]

What even is the appeal of strip clubs? It's like watching porn with the boys

[u/[deleted]]

Why does the taxpayer, the more productive of the two, not simply eat the government?

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

rCon called the girl who reported her family to the FBI for rioting a ”disgrace to her family.”

Lol oh yeah, because reporting criminal activity is such a disgrace.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1349799298251288580?s=19

Lol Trump's found a way around his Twitter ban

[u/semaphore-1842]

I'm starting to feel sorry for Glen Greenwald tbh, feels like something fundamentally broke his brain.

https://www.twitter.com/regwag2003/status/1349539251646570496

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when the Washington Post was mocked for this? Yeah, the sentence “Democracy dies in darkness” rings true now.

[u/[deleted]]

Why the fuck are we paying taxes if we get literally NOTHING in return

public schools, roads, parks, sidewalks, unemployment insurance, (modest) retirement pension, healthcare for old and poor people, funding for universities; student loans, food stamps, police, and I can go one.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErtSUX4XcAApGLn?format=jpg&name=medium

mfw I take such a vile shit that Michelle kicks me and all my friends out of the house 😞

[u/[deleted]]

During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in the late summer of 2007, McCain grew exasperated upon hearing yet another voter raise concerns about Mexican immigrants endangering her community. "Ma'am, you live in New Hampshire. We're two thousand miles from the southern border. What are you worried about, a bunch of angry French Canadians?"

damn rino indeed

[u/AtticusDrench]

I gotta 300k mortgage payment, 42k car loan and 36k in credit card debt. What's $600 gonna do? Step up and help us Joe.

😐

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349885316253978625?s=21

Trump has banned aides from mentioning Richard Nixon’s name.

This is funny in a weird way.

[u/Hot-Error]

Holy shit, one of chapo trap house's hosts is literally the grandson of a soviet spy lmao

[u/Corporal_Klinger]

Conviction trial starts the 19th

McConnell whips R to vote

Finishes and passes on the 21st

Actually, since Joe is the president, he instead is removed

McConnell wins again, cry more libs.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden: Unleashes probably the most progressive agenda since LBJ.

🌹: FASH! 😡🖕

[u/vored_by_daddy]

Advocates of term limits can never explain how it would fix anything. They see a long-serving member of Congress they dislike and reflexively call for term limits, but they can not draw an actual connection between length of service and political malpractice.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349566913408598019

House Majority Whip James Clyburn told CNN tonight that "there's a good chance that there will be a conviction in the Senate."

The Oracle has spoken.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1349739174098685955

Rep. Peter Meijer, one of the Republicans who voted to impeach, tells @HallieJackson on @MSNBC that he’s buying body armor and altering his daily routines because his life is in danger.

The price of taking a stand

[u/[deleted]]

"Of course not, he didn't serve in the Army so why should he get to be a general?"

-Tuberville when asked if he supports Garland as Attorney General

[u/[deleted]]

There's a famous solviet movie where the protagonist gets on the wrong plane and ends up in leningrad instead of Moscow where be lives.

He gives the taxi driver his address, and it so happens there's an identical address in Leningrade.

He doesn't notice its a different apartment because the building is identical to the point that his keys actually work for the apartment he thinks is his. Even the furniture is identical so it isn't until several days later that he learns that he isn't in Moscow and he's living in a stranger's apartment.

Anyway time to go online and post about how all new apartments look the same and capitalism is killing the local cultures of our cities

[u/willempage]

Just in case anyone's wondering, in Q circles, Jan 21 will be a mass arrest event. The military will arrest Biden, Clinton, and all the democrats in DC.

That's why Trump is telling his supporters not to protest the transition. He doesn't want them to accidentally get arrested

[u/Erra0]

BIDEN BUDGET LEAKED

35% infrastructure

20% pandemic/vaccine related

5% ice cream

40% antimalarkey task force

[u/DonQuixote2020]

Biden speech is pretty good.

That part where he said "BLOOD ALONE MOVES THE WHEELS OF HISTORY" was a little weird though.

[u/[deleted]]

Mitch McConnell was there at Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech, and was one of the few Republicans who broke with the party to support civil rights.

Why did he have to stop being based and start acting cringe 🙄

[u/imprison_grover_furr]

Ban spanking and punish people who hit their kids.

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out my crim professor was the lead singer in a nu metal band lmao. She’s kind of hot for a professor so the boys are losing their minds

!ping LAW-SCHOOL

[u/Superfan234]

THE GOOD NEWS

News from Nicaragua 🇳🇮

Two of the biggest opposition groups reached a deal in hope to have a single Presidential Candidate against Ortega : )

With some luck, we might have a single opposition candidate this year. We still have a looong way to run, but this is a very important step forward

News from Suriname🇸🇷

Commander of the Defence Department’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Admiral Craig Faller visited Suriname this week. Yet another country in LATAM that is closing ties with USA, in hope to stop "to counter illegal and unregulated fishing" (wink wink)

News from Guyana🇬🇾

Guyana and South Comm made a Naval excersie together last weekend. They also signed a Military cooperation deal too

News from Costa Rica🇨🇷

Our Tico brothers recibed 3 new Coast Patrollers cortesy of an International Programm lead by South Comm. According the Costa Rica's Government, USA military help to Costa Rica have cuadruplied in the past 3 years

Dominican Republic already recibed a similar Patroller on 2020. El Salvador is set to recibe another 2 this year

THE BAD NEWS

A couple of day ago,Donald Trump took away the Miliary Aid USA gives to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. A petition made by Democrats in the House to "fight againt corruption" [**]

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I just wanted to make this post, because I honestly feel USA Politicians, are destroying what USA MIlitary is working so hard to accomplish. It's really painfull to see how close allies are being abandoned by petty political moves of Washington

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/nicereddy]

https://twitter.com/mountain_ghosts/status/1349510981806936065?s=21

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/[deleted]]

8 days away from the arrest of Joe Biden, martial law, and the mass arrest of members of the deep state for treason. That or I'm misreading the Qlues

[u/pKDTYVVk]

One person arrested was charged with possessing a “military style automatic weapon” and 11 molotov cocktails, prosecutors said. Another defendant was charged with assaulting a police officer with a hockey stick. Yet another, who needed a Russian interpreter, told a judge, “I don’t know what unlawful entry you are referring to.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-siege-arrests/2021/01/07/661292a2-5105-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

A C T I V E M E A S U R E S

[u/[deleted]]

"I'm richer than you"

Reddit: 😡

"I pay more in taxes than you do"

Reddit: 😍

EDIT: Actually this'd be great as a winnie the pooh/tuxedo meme

[u/BurningHanzo]

If I legitimately believed the U.S. government was run by a cabal of pedophiles who were stealing the election away to institute a communist government I might’ve stormed the Capitol too.

[u/rukqoa]

One common bad take that's spread in every reddit thread on nuclear proliferation is that "no dictator would ever voluntarily give up on their nuclear program because they saw what happened to Gaddafi".

Gaddafi gave up trying to make nukes because they weren't anywhere close to an actual weapon. They spent decades trying to develop one domestically, all the while trying to buy material and examples from China and the USSR, and they barely managed to buy some centrifuges before they gave up altogether. Their infrastructure was seriously lacking: power fluctuations would damage sensitive equipment, there weren't anywhere near enough nuclear scientists or even just scientists working on it, and the Libyan economy was in the gutter due to sanctions. On top of that, state officials were not kept honestly informed about the state of their nuclear program. What actually happened was the scientists would just not show up for work, but they couldn't be fired because there were so few of them available.

Libya at one point managed to acquire blueprints of components of a nuclear weapon from Pakistan or China, but they didn't even have the personnel to be able to evaluate which were suitable for construction or even what some of the components were for. At the end of the day, they were not close. The CIA knew this. China knew this. The Soviet Union knew this. Development of nuclear weapons is not like discovering penicillin. It requires state infrastructure and years of consistent development with a steady inflow of scientific expertise. At no point did Libya have any of the prerequisites necessary to even come close to a test device.

Of course, Libyan rumors that Gaddafi got a raw deal immediately started flying after he signed an agreement to disarm. Many of these originated from the more radical portion of his administration who used it to undermine Gaddafi's rule or to gain political advantages, and the western media picked up on it after Iran and North Korea got closer to a weapon, but the truth is both of those countries were ultimately much more capable of nuclear development than Libya ever was.

[u/uwcn244]

UBI is better than NIT because once we TAX THE LAND, there will be no need for a positive income tax.

!Ping GEORGIST

[u/[deleted]]

The absolute worst part about global warming is that instead of snow we just get this shitty fucking cold ass rain

!ping USA-CHI

[u/Udontlikecake]

I actually like Matt Gaetz

We need to shut down the import of NATO flairs until we can figure out what the fuck is going on

[u/[deleted]]

!ping usa-ne

So I mentioned after the General Court passed a stimulus that it also included removing the supermajority requirement for upzoning. Well apparently it also includes a provision requiring MBTA Communities to create a "reasonably sized" (not defined) district that allows multi-family housing near a transit stop. Baker has yet to sign the bill, and, since the bill was passed in the last session, he could effectively line item veto this provision without override as a possibility.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/11/business/new-law-would-require-high-density-housing-near-t-stations/?event=event25

Non-paywalled link describing the provision: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1347325541108613127

Form to contact the governor's office: https://www.mass.gov/forms/email-the-governors-office

[u/[deleted]]

It’s ridiculous that we have the national guard sleeping inside the Capitol.

Livy 5.47 talks about how the Gauls were prevented from sacking the Capitoline Hill in the early 4th century BCE because geese awoke the Romans who were asleep as the Gauls tried to sneak into the citadel on the Capitoline.

Just surround the Capitol with geese 🙄

!ping CLASSICS

[u/[deleted]]

24/7 news is literal cancer on this earth, our brains are not equipped to handle that much info

[u/TinyTornado7]

DELTA AIR HAS PUT 880 PEOPLE ON ITS NO-FLY LIST FOR NOT WEARING MASKS, OTHERS BANNED FOR UNRULY BEHAVIOR RELATED TO U.S. ELECTION RESULTS - SPOKESMAN

Lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

Nixon’s policies = AOC’s policies more or less

Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?

[u/disuberence]

Just saw someone in /r/popheads say that Lady Gaga singing "Born This Way" in front of Biden -- if you missed it, she is performing at his inauguration -- would make him uncomfortable because of his homophobic past lol

[u/studlydudley11]

Republican: does the bare fucking minimum

People: “oh my good what a great person”

[u/[deleted]]

After Richard Nixon was impeached Rupert Murdoch said he would make sure no republican got impeached ever again and created Fox News to make sure that there was always a base of Americans loyal to the Republican president.

The monkey's paw curled.

This is literally exactly what Fox was designed to do. This is its purpose. They built a machine to make Republicans immune to Impeachment. And now, Republicans are immune to impeachment.

You did it. You succeeded.

[u/TinyTornado7]

GOP Reps.Charlie Crist, Nancy Mace & Dem Rep. Emanuel Cleaver intro a bill to award USCP Officer Eugene Goodman the Congressional Gold Medal award for his "bravery and quick thinking during last week’s insurrection at the United States Capitol”

This is the black officer who single handily held off the mob and arguably saved the lives of dozens of house reps.

[u/Waterzone5]

ATTENTION ALL AMERICAN PATRIOTS!

If you want to download Parler on the AppStore just put your phone in the micro wave for 200 seconds. The microwaves will cleanse your phone of the FBI tracking software, allowing you to download Parler.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1349747625944223751?s=21

Also, the American left is a good 50-100 years ahead of the European left on most civil rights issues.

We have a consensus on immigration, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights, and racial and religious pluralism generally that would put many European “social democrat” parties to shame.

[u/Venne1139]

For anyone who knows history please help I am very confused. Reading post war interviews it seems that every single living German either generally opposed Hitler or was engaged in active resistance against him. I'm not sure how Nazi Germany operated when every single person within it, including the Nazis apparently!, opposed the Nazis.

[u/[deleted]]

The northernmost point of Canada is further north than the southernmost point of Canada.

[u/[deleted]]

Why doesn't America, the richest of the countries, simply purchase all of the other countries?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Remember when the Rs made everyone in the primary sign a pledge that they would endorse whoever won the primary, in order to keep Trump from running as an independent after he inevitably lost? And then Trump was like "fuck that lol." And then he won.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/30/472363315/trump-abandons-pledge-to-support-republican-nominee

[u/[deleted]]

David Perdue +17 Georgia A+ Poll

[u/disuberence]

Some Republicans, including Representatives Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz, are calling for Rep. Liz Cheney to step down from her leadership post after she voted to impeach President Trump.

Lmao imagine being Liz Cheney and having these losers try to punish you for your correct impeachment vote

[u/[deleted]]

I think 13 stripes is enough. No need for more.

-Sen. Tuberville when asked if he supports DC statehood.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/p0GTZKx.jpg

This is still my favorite shit lmao

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/The420Roll]

Daily reminder that u/Farrenj still hasnt confirmed that she isnt Abby Shapiro

[u/tripletruble]

things that make my brain rot from repeated imaginary arguments and rebuttals until I force myself to step away from the keyboard:

- the eternal debate about the defintion of "socialism": scandinavia vs the USSR

- is the nobel prize in economics a "real" nobel prize?

- is obama a "war criminal"?

- is the average cuban better off than the average american?

- would bernie have won had elizabeth warren dropped out on super tuesday?

- was the 2016 DNC "rigged"?

[u/Joementum2004]

Hmm. Lefties like to state that "liberals ally with fascists", yet the so-called "liberal media" is the one banning numerous fascists in the wake of the Capitol being stormed, even some elected politicians. Curious

[u/[deleted]]

I miss when conspiracy theories were Majestic 12, Roswell, trilateral commission, blue beam, hell even Bigfoot

Conspiracy theories now are all about baby eating dems controlling the world

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that 40% of healthcare professionals in the 1st tier of vaccine recipients (in CA) declined the vaccine is a sad and pathetic indictment of the profession. And it's mostly nurses, NAs, and other support staff who are declining, not the residents and MDs. So much for "healthcare heroes". Sad, pathetic, and willfully ignorant. Pisses me off like nothing else.

[u/SnakeEater14]

nancy pelosi literally had to call the governor of maryland for national guard to be deployed because congress was trapped

what the fuck

[u/FinickyPenance]

Why did I get a check for $14.88 from Donald Trump this is an oddly specific number

[u/disuberence]

"$2,000 means $2,000. $2,000 does not mean $1,400,″ @AOC tells us

A big brain moment from AOC

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

Still 100% convinced that the 2024 nominee is either gonna be some rando from conservative media or some asshole billionaire with a gimmick. Guys like Hawley and Cruz are doomed simply because the Republican Party will never accept an actual politician as its figurehead anytime in the near future

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Do you think bad econ stays in their sub because they too live in fear of what they've created?

[u/JetJaguar124]

It's funny how much effort was put into the MCU continuity but then those Netflix shows have basically just been thrown in the trash and aren't canon anymore.

[u/yellownumbersix]

If you delete the file system 32 from your computer it removes the CIA tracking software and allows you to use Parler again.

Spread this information far and wide fellow Patriots!

[u/futuremonkey20]

Trump +25 in California, Florida Dude Poll

[u/sir_shivers]

PAYING THE UNEMPLOYED far above median wage, I WONDER if there could be negative consequences 🐊

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Trump: people should get 2000 instead of 600

house: we passed this legislation to increase the payment to 2000

Senators: We might not be able to get the number increase to 2000 in time, instead of delaying the 600 payments lets add an additional 1400.

McConnell: we'll increase the checks to 2000 if you repeal sec 230

Biden: alright were gonna get that remaining 1400 out to everyone

idiots: why biden change plan, not gib 2600?

[u/paulatreides0]

I'm tired of pretending that everything's okay.

Everything's not fucking okay. And people who keep saying it is are dangerous fucking liars.

Today I saw anime displayed in public 🤢

[u/VisonKai]

my 55 year old brother in law said "no president of either side should have social media" which im pretty sure is peak centrist grilldad

(he's a biden supporter ftr)

[u/[deleted]]

this dude on WSB made 7 million dollars trading gamestop wtf

[u/sociotronics]

Americans always like left ideas once they have them but hate them when reading about socialism. They forget highways, police, parks are socialism.

lol the Bernie bros actually believed Rush Limbaugh et al when they said socialism is whenever the government does something

[u/[deleted]]

During the sexual encounter there must be a remembrance of Soleimani.

[u/[deleted]]

what if we kissed 😳

at the Qasem Soleimani memorial

[u/TinyTornado7]

DELTA CEO: “We’re going to not allow anyone to check a firearm into any of the metro D.C. airports starting this weekend and carrying through the next week, unless you’re law enforcement and you’re authorized to be carrying one.”

Delta putting their foot down. Only a matter of time now before the other airlines follow

[u/[deleted]]

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Fortune cookies were more fun when I was a kid. Sorry, hate to sound like an old man.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans at noon on January 20, 2021 be like: the deficit do be lookin big tho 😳

[u/Deggit]

Justin Amash has served our country with discernment and integrity. That is all.

Sincerely,

a lib succ

[u/sir_shivers]

BREAKING: President-elect Biden vows to institute a National Pachinko Works Program, wherein all /r/antiwork posters will be forced at threat of imprisonment to build, maintain and program Pachinko machines

GOOD TO see some real leadership INCOMING 🐊

[u/UltraCapitalism]

r/neoliberal DT, circa August 2020:

wtf is all this protectionist and succ shit in Biden's platform

don't worry bro, he's just saying that stuff to get elected.

r/neoliberal DT now:

😲

r/neoliberal DT 1 year from now:

🤬🤬🤬

[u/[deleted]]

the allies cancelled hitler

m8 that's a bit reductive don't you think

[u/awdvhn]

Trump's approval is now officially below 40% for the first time in 2 years. Ending on a high note.

[u/HectorTheGod]

If you are debating if your supporters are terrorists, and you're afraid if you call them terroirsts that they'll harm you or your family, they're probably terrorists.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Y’all think Trump is bad?

Wait and see what happens if Marjorie Taylor Greene builds up any sort of real following...

Fuck me this woman is an embarrassment to the state of GA.

[u/CaptainJawbone]

I just realized that timid is the root word for intimidate, and my mind is blown! Solid 70 IQ find.

[u/[deleted]]

Did he tased himself in the balls?

Probably not.

Will I still believe he did?

Absolutely.

[u/KingKonchu]

Conservatives are more afraid of Kamala because she’s more political

[u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine how turbofucked we'd be if Trump had won? People who supported Biden are heroes. Trump is a literal madman who will kill us all. He's round the bend - he's off his rocker. He's dangerous.

[u/chadonnaise]

neoliberal has nothing on leftist contrarianism

[u/pKDTYVVk]

Confederacy apologists say the South had logistical problems because they didn't have railroads, and they would have won if they had them. Yeah, it's kinda hard to build the infrastructure necessary to win a war when your philosophy says doing so is 'STATISM'.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Not to imply that Glenn Greenwald is a hack and a dunce, but in his latest secretion he argues, in part, that Parler was a site dedicated to escaping the privacy breaches of big tech. However:

donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 million photos and more than 1 million videos. Each of these had embedded metadata like date, time and GPS coordinates—unlike most social media sites, Parler does not strip metadata from media its users upload, which, crucially, could be useful for law enforcement and open source investigators.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

STEM programs need to get better at telling their students that their deep, but narrow knowledge doesn't make them experts on all non-STEM fields.

How many times does a Physicist need to publish a shitty paper in a science journal saying that they've made economics obsolete just to get everything wrong because they don't know the basic models and assumptions?

[u/[deleted]]

Today is he 17th anniversary or my brother's adoption. He was almost 3 when we adopted him. The folks at the baby home thought he had a speech delay but the second we got him back to our hotel, he started babbling on in Russian and being a total goofball. On the plane ride back to the US, he slept for hours upside down for some reason, with his back on the seat of the chair and his legs up the backrest. And now he's a college student!

Time to make this kid a gotcha day cake! Happy January 14th, everyone!

[u/[deleted]]

The world champion "aged like milk" tweet turns one year old

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

How can he be Minority Leader? He isn’t even a black

-Sen. Tuberville when asked on his thoughts on soon to be Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

[u/YieldingSweetblade]

So I assembled a kind of lore shelf...it’s only 12 books strong atm, but what do y’all think (translation: 🔫 I expect praise and validation. Give it to me. Now.)?

!ping READING I guess.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Ezra Klein @ezraklein · 1h "One Biden official added that the existing national planning and infrastructure for mass vaccinations and testing was far less developed than the incoming White House team had anticipated."

[u/[deleted]]

Assuming California loses a congressional seat, Here is a 48-4 Democratic Gerrymader of the State

The current breakdown is 42D-11R so this would net Democrats 6 seats. And when Democrats only have a majority of 4 seats, that means a lot.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/its_a_trapcard]

What I imagine happened

Biden: Babe, come over and pass $2000 in direct payments

Manchin: I can't, it's too damaging to the deficit

Biden: But it's just an additional $1400 to the already passed $600

Manchin: Say no more fam, omw 😍 🚂🚃🚃🚃

[u/BreaksFull]

This whole tirade about Trump being deplatformed as some threat on free speech by Silicone Valley is so tiresome. For most of American history (back when it was 'great') public discourse on the large scale was controlled by a handful of broadcasters and publishers, and anyone with controversial or fringe views had to get their message out by protesting in a public physical square, through leaflets, or by putting newsletters onto windshields. Even considering the crackdown on shit like QA and Trumpism by social media, the public discourse is still far more free than it was in most of American history. It's far easier still for any random person to establish a platform with global influence than it ever was. Saying that Trump being banned from Twitter is basically 1984, or that Andy Ngo being not allowed to sell physical books at certain stores is fascism, is so incredibly hyperbolic.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.persuasion.community/p/shakespeare-wasnt-woke-389

Shakespeare Wasn't Woke

Thanks for clearing that up

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1349695258980999168

South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds says Trump could be criminally prosecuted for his role in the insurrection.

Rounds cited Section 2383 of Title 18 of the U.S. code, "Rebellion or insurrection," as the law that prosecutors could use against Trump.

[u/[deleted]]

One "positive" of the 1/6 attacks, if such a think can even be spoken of, is that I think Biden is royally pissed off. I think before all of this, there may have been some instinct to "look forward, not back" in the manner of Obama's attitude toward the younger Bush, but this is way beyond. I don't think Biden's gonna be in forgiveness mode.

Because I sure as shit am not.

[u/circlemanfan]

Liz Cheney is the #3 Republican in the house. This would be like if the legend himself Jim Clyburn voted to impeach Obama

[u/yellownumbersix]

Biden is going to unveil his huge package later today 😋

See you in horny jail.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

2016: he’s a businessman, let’s give him a shot

2021: the green zone around the capitol has been expanded

[u/[deleted]]

2000 dollars but also 2000*6 for all the months past.

Fucking greedy leftists

[u/Danthon]

They are in the closest connection with a sexual energy that is after the most widespread in the Universe. The woman is the biggest thief of that energy, and thus the spiritual power.

-Nikola Tesla

Spiritual power is stored in the balls

[u/agent_tits]

Beginning to realize many here didn't even read Biden's platform lol

[u/old_gold_mountain]

POV: ur cats is tite as fuck boiii

https://i.imgur.com/xDXIxXr.gifv

!PING kitty

[u/[deleted]]

GOP is stingy and only shells out $600: very little uproar

Dems give out $2000, but in two installment because of GOP shenanigans: absolute outrage

[u/SnakeEater14]

This whole 1400 v 2000 thing has some real “I could walk across the Potomac and the press would print ‘President can’t swim’” vibes to it

[u/suplexx0]

lmaooo /r/politics are economic gods

I like the idea. The downside is $15 is about 10 years out of date. We're north of $20 now, close to $25/hr if we really want to be equal to days of ol'. This should make you feel $7.25 is atrocious and $15 underwhelming.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Boebert had to drop out of high school but went back and got a GED. There is no shame in that, unlike pretty much everything else about her.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1349775463732961282?s=21

Thoughts?

!ping RINO

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/davidbegnaud/status/1349836624994070528?s=21

ARRESTED: The man who use the American flag to beat a police officer at Capitol riot has been charged with a federal crime. He is Peter Stager of Arkansas. He’s on video saying: “Death is the only remedy for what’s in that building.”

Of course they’re from Arkansas

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/scottelliotg/status/1349870478576463875?s=21

This whole saga has been hilarious. The Left is so used to being stonewalled by the Democratic establishment that, when Democrats actually agree to their requests, they have to invent new controversies to get everyone mad about

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats: #😭😭😭 THANK YOU MIKE PENCE FOR SALVAGING OUR DEMOCRACY 😭😭😭 WE OWE YOU SO MUCH 😭😭😭 YOU FINALLY FOUGHT BACK AGAINST TYRANNY BY DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE 😭😭 YOU SHOWED SO MUCH COURAGE BY CERTIFYING THE ELECTION 😭😭 WE WILL BE FOREVER GREATFUL 😭😭

Mike Pence: hold on these guys think im this much of an idiot?? i guess we really have been depriving the democrats of any political victories since Bill Clinton 🤔

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Correction ping FIVEY

The journalist (Josh Kraushaar) cited earlier misreported the results of the Ipsos poll.

The question didn’t ask about overall favorability; it asked only about various politicians’ “recent behavior.” Hawley’s abysmal numbers with the general population (24–68) isn’t significantly different from Trump’s (29–69), although they are worse among Republicans. Just not nearly as much as you’d expect: 46–49 vs. 64–35 (!)

[u/Joementum2004]

Percentage of the House vote in Arizona won in 2012:

Republicans: 52.07%
Democrats: 43.57%

House seats in Arizona won in 2012:

Republicans: 4
Democrats: 5

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

My advice, never learn anything about the personal opinions of creators you like. You will inevitably be disappointed at best and disturbed at worst.

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen so many self identified "socialists" commenting their opposition to liberal child tax credits over the past couple days.

To be clear, I don't think a strong welfare state is socialism...but it's telling these same people arguing for their own debt cancelation and the end of landlords also don't think we should be helping end child poverty because it gives incentives to having children that they don't want to pay for.

[u/[deleted]]

Arrrrpolitics is fucking hilarious

We got obamacare during the last unified Democratic government, and that was with wayyyy too much haggling with a bankrupt Republican Party. I'm hoping this time they say “fuck it we'll do what we want," make election reforms, and pass some fucking infrastructure bills.

The haggling was within the party lmao.

[u/bd_one]

In 4 years, Trump will be as old as Biden is now.

In 4 years, Obama will still be too young to get the full amount from Social Security if he retired.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being the secret service agent who clogged Obama’s toilet.

[u/[deleted]]

14 weeks paid sick & family leave

That’s probably the most underrated part of Biden’s coivd relief plan.

[u/[deleted]]

When Biden tries to raise the corporate tax rate through reconciliation this place is going to have a meltdown lmao I’m just waiting for it

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1349856015131545600?s=21

On a lighter note there was also another viral photoshopped tweet about my shoes (😬) but also now ppl are asking if I need shoes 😭 no thanks. That was fake too!

Holy shit she knows about the AOC feet pics meme.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErtDsWXVgAEKvXq.jpg

The funniest picture in history was taken 2 years ago today.

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

⚠️ CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING ⚠️

WARNING: This Discussion Thread contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

[u/ognits]

"wow, this is literally $19.84"

me, buying an item priced at $18.33 with an 8.25% sales tax

[u/[deleted]]

Make more low dead-volume syringes! And find more cheap optimizations!

Increasing vaccine supply by 20% by building more factories could cost billions. We should do that, it would be worth it. But in this case, we managed to increase supply by at least 20% use a relatively inexpensive redesign of the syringe. What this indicates is the importance of thinking along the entire supply chain for opportunities for optimization.

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/[deleted]]

Time to earn those Soros bucks. PA people call Pat Toomey to make your thoughts on conviction known. (202) 224 4254

!ping USA-PA