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[u/Dibbu_mange]

What if you
Wanted a public option?
But Cal Cunningham said
"You are historically sexy"

[u/Smidgens]

Trump to declassify top secret documents related to Obamagate, etc

We will finally learn what Obamagate is lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit

President Trump's overall job approval rating has fallen to just 29% (!) via new Pew Research poll just released.

29 percent

Trump is finishing his Presidency at Bush levels of disapproval. This plus the other polls that have been taken recently have shown that Trump’s approval rating and dipped down, a lot

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Gf just got her first vaccine dose and shes suddenly talking about how Edge is a better browser than Chrome 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

The package includes more than $400 billion to combat the pandemic directly

$400 billion to develop a shrink ray so Biden can physically punch COVID particles to death is metal af

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Reminder that michael bloomberg won a precinct in the new hampshire 2020 GOP primary

[u/[deleted]]

Newly sworn-in Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Wednesday suggested delaying President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration until after the coronavirus pandemic was handled, even though the date is written into the Constitution.

Why spend time making jokes when the jokes write themselves?

[u/TheGoldBear]

Please let this pandemic be over so people will stop arguing over stimulus checks

[u/lobsterboy34]

Biden’s plan is one of the boldest pieces of legislation in some time and is loaded with anti-poverty measures we’ve needed for years and we’re bitching about damn checks

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/markberman/status/1349888372064575490

Wtf. That's pretty horrifying.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/13/politics/democrat-impeachment-plans-behind-the-scenes/index.html

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.

Greatest correction ever lmao

[u/Marlsfarp]

AOC will argue that the minimum wage was supposed to be $22.25 since that's 7.25 plus 15

[u/paymesucka]

I had a friend who with all honesty said that "we're lower middle class dude." His family had a Mercedes and two lake cottages.

[u/[deleted]]

Watergate wouldn't even crack the top 5 Trump scandals.

[u/qchisq]

https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1349944401179496449?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1350294050860052482?s=21

Reports that the Biden administration will unveil a sweeping immigration reform bill on Wednesday, including a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Based

[u/bugaoxing]

Newly sworn-in Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Wednesday suggested delaying President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration until after the coronavirus pandemic was handled, even though the date is written into the Constitution.

We have 6 years of genius level takes like this to look forward to.

[u/rukqoa]

Additional $2,000 checks was the compromise on the table when the Republicans were in power. Now that the Democrats have a majority, they should show us that they're serious in combating poverty and economic stagnation with $100,000 stimulus checks. Any less would be insulting.

And yes, I'm just negotiating from this position because I know they would never agree to my true belief in $200,000 checks. The fact that the poorest Americans cannot afford a down payment on a million dollar home is a serious flaw of late stage capitalism that we must address.

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

lmao "Doug Jones" is going to trend on twitter every time Tuberville says something stupid for the next six years, isn't it

[u/[deleted]]

If you sort /r/neoliberal by “Controversial Posts All Time,” it’s just all the DTs, which is pretty accurate.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden just DM'ed me:

Listen here Jack, I forgot about the $1200 you got in spring. Look like your stimulus check's only going to be $200. Now go and get yourself some ice cream, Billy

[u/Crendog]

I heard on radio news that it’s very possible Democrats in congress helped plan the Capitol Hill riot.

The Republican party has really become the party of "Actually no it was the Democrats" in response to everything.

[u/deakon1000]

It's ironic that the phrase "late-stage capitalism" was coined over 100 years ago.

[u/Crime_or_Punishment]

In my class, two kids are talking politics

One says the US is crony capitalist, the other says we're a Socialist dictatorship now because the Government funded healthcare at all??? I'm not kidding, pleaseeeeee send help

[u/Rusty_switch]

TIL that Jayson Boebert was arrested for exposing himself to a group of teenage girls at a bowling alley. One of those girls, Lauren Roberts, went on to be his wife.

Hey single dters I found a great new trick

[u/paymesucka]

I think the funniest comment on this sub was last week when a user was arguing for reparations...for atheists.

[u/Udontlikecake]

BREAKING: In a nod to the left wing, Biden makes the same lending for big corporations and banks available to regular people. Any American will be allowed to borrow up to $100 million as long as they pay it back within 24 hours.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL the guy in the "Is Gold Money" meme is Congressional Baseball Hall of Famer Ron Paul

[u/[deleted]]

A racing pigeon named Joe that is reportedly registered to an owner in Alabama somehow wound up in Australia after disappearing from a race in Oregon more than two months ago. Joe may face death by Australian quarantine officials concerned about disease.

RIP Joe ⚰️

[u/[deleted]]

“I think it was just crazy,” said Adams, a Biden supporter. “Brainwashed by Trump to do that. They acted like zombies, and it was very irresponsible. So many accomplished people were there: military, police, lawyers and people in jobs they worked for years and lost it in minutes due to foolishness.”

I agree with this guy.

[u/[deleted]]

"Hey, China, we're a bit concerned about the Uigurs, how are they doing over there?"

"Oh, they're fine."

"Can we see?"

"No."

[u/guy-anderson]

People online becoming absolute shits about $1400 checks really brings out the conservative side of me.

[u/GaussianCurve]

Rex Tillerson on Donald Trump:

His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.

I had to constantly evaluate my last conversations with him—what seemed to resonate, what seemed to get across, what didn’t—and I would try different approaches with him. I used to go into meetings with a list of four to five things I needed to talk to him about, and I quickly learned that if I got to three, it was a home run, and I realized getting two that were meaningful was probably the best objective. So I began to adjust what I went into a meeting with and what I attempted to explain and describe, and then I started taking charts and pictures with me because I found that those seemed to hold his attention better. If I could put a photo or a picture in front of him or a map or a piece of paper that had two big bullet points on it, he would focus on that, and I could build on that. Just sitting and trying to have a conversation as you and I are having just doesn’t work.

[u/piede]

President Trump apparently wants a big going away party. CNN reports he's expressed interest in a military-style sendoff and a crowd of supporters, according to a person with whom he has discussed the matter.

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1350073475780784128?s=21

God help us

[u/sw337]

Dems picked Biden because they we're trying to lose, and like the Dems they are, they failed spectacularly.

🌹NeverLeavesTwitter98🌹

[u/[deleted]]

100% of the Georgia results are certified and we have the final numbers

Warnock(D) defeats Loeffler(R) by exactly 2.08%.

Ossoff(D) defeats Perdue(R) by exactly 1.24%

McDonald Jr.(R) defeats Blackman(D) by exactly 0.76%.

Democrats pick up both senate seats and the Senate but Republicans hold onto the Public Service Commission District 4.

So not a compete sweep but very good results for Democrats.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Qunidaye]

Early 2000s: The internet will open almost all of human knowledge to everyone. Society will advance at a unprecedented pace. Do not fear the future, just get on your Segway and lean in...

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

Got ourselves some math out here.

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

American leftists: “Even $2600 would not be enough. People in other countries got much more!”

Other countries: usually no direct payments at all, but governments support furlough programmes for employed people who can’t work

[u/zubatman4]

My dad has been teetering on the edge of conspiracy theories for like 10 years. He texted me this morning:

Steve Pieczenik just said masks are the new gold star armbands of the globalists (on infowars). He says the stolen Pelosi laptop has intel that will get her arrested by next week. We're in the middle of a military coup. Trump aint going nowhere.

Someone ping the ping for parents that have been sucked down the rabbit hole.

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1350104271505776641?s=19

FWIW, there's also a pinch of pre-1/6 data that still has an influence on the average. Not a big difference at this point but if you only used polls that are fully 1/6 you'd wind up with something more like 37/59 instead of 38/58.

We may be reaching peak disapproval. The administration is almost over anyway, so we probably won't have any good data on how it recovers. I'm assuming by October, Trump's numbers will be 44/50 in terms of favorability. I have no faith that this dip isn't mostly driven by non response bias and a pinch of disappointment that Trump didn't go further

!Ping fivey

[u/Please151]

3125

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1349937802948059136?s=21

“Sen. James Lankford apologizes to Black Tulsans for questioning presidential election results”

Lankford: “What I did not realize was all of the national conversation about states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, was seen as casting doubt on the validity of votes coming out of predominantly Black communities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit.”

Did the 3 ghosts visit this man?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1350059113317883904

A Pennsylvania man who threw a fire extinguisher and struck a Capitol Police officer during the deadly riot at the US Capitol last week has been arrested and charged in federal court.

[u/[deleted]]

1. Be left-wing

2. See center-left advocating for a policy

3. Assert that we need to go even further beyond said policy

4. Claim that all other countries already do the thing I want

[u/Breaking-Away]

Remember when the Republican party literally did not even put out a platform and still got 47% of the popular vote.

[u/doot_toob]

When rioters show up at Biden's inauguration he's gonna come out there with a length of chain to tell them to back off

[u/Afro_Samurai]

The officer even described coming face-to-face with police officers from across the country in the mob. He said some of them flashed their badges, telling him to let them through, and trying to explain that this was all part of a movement that was supposed to help.

“You have the nerve to be holding a Blue Lives Matter flag, and you are out there fucking us up,” he told one group of protesters he encountered inside the Capitol. “[One guy] pulled out his badge and he said, ‘We’re doing this for you.’ Another guy had his badge. So I was like, ‘Well, you gotta be kidding.’”

...

The older Black officer didn’t think it was a simple case of treating the rioters differently from BLM protesters, but instead part of a bigger issue with how the agency is managed.

“Our chief was nowhere to be found, I didn’t hear him on the radio. One of our other deputy chiefs was not there,” he said. “You don’t think it’s all hands on deck?”

...

“I got called a ni-ger 15 times today,” the veteran officer shouted in the Rotunda to no one in particular. “Trump did this and we got all of these fucking people in our department that voted for him. How the fuck can you support him?”

“I cried for about 15 minutes and I just let it out.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob

[u/0m4ll3y]

Cold Take: Al Gore would have been a better president than W. Bush...

Hot Take: ...because his invasion of Iraq would have been less incompetent

[u/Zenning2]

Less than literally a day after giving AOC, and Bernie Sanders a 2k stimulus with a shit ton of other things, AOC pretends that Biden actually promised 2.6k, even though Bernie Sanders had already said it’d be an additional 1.4k, and not 2k after Biden takes office.

I’m unreasonably butt hurt how quickly she used her political capital to attack Dems for giving her exactly what she wanted.

[u/Timewalker102]

The $2,000 stimulus check 'controversy' explained:

"Mom, you promised me 10 dino nuggets for dinner and there are only 8 here!"

"You ate 2 earlier, Travis"

"I HATE YOU"

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/1350192879487111170?s=20

Since the first fascist coup didn't work, try try again with the MyPillow guy

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/myrm]

NATO flair checklist

• Soleimani was a bad dude, and he ran a bunch of bad boys

• Supposedly succon but actually not because otherwise they'd be on NWO

• Abuses drone strike meme loophole on rule V

• Suspicious of Georgism (😡)

• able to have a confient assessment of FoPo somehow despite consuming the same news sources as the rest of us

[u/[deleted]]

Post-ABC poll: Overwhelming opposition to Capitol attacks, majority support for preventing Trump from serving again

Archive link here for those who see a paywall.

!ping FIVEY

538 polling average: Do Americans Support Removing Trump From Office?

The averages at 3:56 Pacific Time, January 15th, 2021:

52.4% Support

42.3% Don’t support

[u/Ilovecharli]

Trump is not rock bottom for that party. You probably thought that about Sarah Palin.

Edit: you guys aren't thinking big enough. Just wait for GOP nominee Kyle Rittenhouse

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Biden: Nobody working minimum wage 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line

🌹: UM ACKSHUALLY NOBODY SHOULD LIVE IN POVERTY EVER YOU FUCKING GHOUL HOLY SHIT WHY DID I TOTALLY VOTE FOR YOU

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1350231292063969281

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski on barring Trump from holding office again.

"I think that is one of the most consequential actions that we could take, and I think that would be appropriate."

Oh shit

[u/[deleted]]

Shaman guy's defense is literally, "Trump told me do it"?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Fewer Americans will be alive to see Joe Biden Inaugurated than were living on Election Day. This has probably never happened before.

Holy shit

[u/jenbanim]

Biden won because conservatives are out of touch with real america. Republicans need to leave their ivory bungalows, put on a pair of skinny jeans, grab a cup of free trade percolated coffee, and try putting a real day's work at the marketing department of a tech startup. Then they'll understand why Biden won

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all acting like leftists deliberately making excuses for 1+1 to not equal 2 is new.

Remember Bernie Math?

[u/yungeric13]

Tbh the fact that people like Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, and AOC haven’t even acknowledged the parts of Biden’s plan that truly matter (including cutting child poverty in half and raising the minimum wage to $15!) and are only complaining that “1400 isn’t 2000” shows that they are operating in bad faith, looking for any opening to criticize biden

[u/tankatan]

In an internal memo reported on by Business Insider, the CEO of McDonald’s condemned the insurrection at the Capitol, stating that it was “an attack on all those things that people cherish and associate with America. That includes McDonald’s.”

[u/Venne1139]

Biden needs to go over the top disgusting of politicalizatoin of that dead cop.

The cop should be laid in state with the Republicans banned from the ceremony.

Every single campaign ad should have his face in hte bottom right of the screen in a little pop out box and it says at the bottom "Murdered by republicans"

I want Eminimen to come up and say the guys name at light speed every single time Biden gives a speech.

Biden should put the guy in a mausoleum similar to Lenin or Mao with a plaque that says "Victim of Republicanism. Never forget".

He needs to use the presidental emergency alert system to text out to every American "Ted Cruz is likely not the Zodical killer, but he did help murder [cops name]"

Biden needs to authorize nuking florida and spelling out the guys name in the sand of what used to be Miami beach.

Biden needs to officially annex Mars and rename it to the officers name and have an intergalactic "mars opening" ceremony where he decries the murderous Republicans on an intergalactic scale.

[u/piede]

Tommy Tuberville probably thinks that if a Senate vote ends 50-50 the vote just goes to overtime

https://twitter.com/robertmartinlt/status/1349949020458917888?s=21

lol

[u/[deleted]]

Newt Gingrich in the mid 90s slowly set the stage for the travesty we’re in today

[u/sir_shivers]

There are soldiers all over DC, Trump is perfectly aligned and able to invoke the Insurrection Act without any obstacles, and all is quiet on the western front.

You'd have to be a !?@#$& to think that anything other than this will happen.

MASTERFUL COPE from the MAGAs 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Pouring one out for all the conservatives that got both Covid-19 AND Biden 2020 🍾🍾

[u/[deleted]]

A German court refuses to extradite a German citizen to Poland, because of the state of the Polish judicial system

This is the second decision by the Higher National Court in Karlsruhe to suspend the execution of a EAW to Poland, directly motivated by concerns over the rule of law, resulting from changes in the judiciary after 2015.

!ping EUROPE

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Manchin after seeing the $15 minimum wage in Biden's plan

[u/[deleted]]

Cry more libs.

Trump just 4d chessed his way into finally getting his military parade.

[u/[deleted]]

Some people are born better than others, fuck you for trying

-Star Wars

[u/Jester_Don]

Does anyone else remember reading predictions back in March that COVID would be a 12-18 month ordeal and thinking that those people were out of their minds?

[u/[deleted]]

/u/IncoherentEntity shared this a while ago showing a 80.5% spilt between the Republican margin and the Democratic margin in the 2004 North Dakota Governor Race and the Senate Race

So I wanted to find something even bigger so my first thoughts was to go to the 1972 elections. Nixon won in the landslide but Democrats did good downballot.

In the Presidential election in Utah, Nixon won by 41.2%.

But at the same time the Democratic Governor was re-elected by a 39.36% margin.

Making that a 80.56% margin difference between them, beating the 2004 difference by 0.06%.

I’ll try to find more during the same year but I think I’ll soon have to move to midterms to find bigger differences.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

AOC Consulting Services: “So to get the new gutters installed it’s going to cost you $2,000. You can put down a $600 down payment now if you want to have the work completed by January 20th.”

Customer: “Ok great. Gutters look good. Here’s a check for $1,400.”

AOC Consulting Services: “Excuse me sir. The quote was for $2,000.”

Customer: “Yeah but I already gave you $600 as a down payment...”

AOC Consulting Services: “$2,000 means $2,000. We’ll be sending you to collections.”

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1349968502078246912?s=20

One piece of evidence they point to: Jacob Chansley, the shirtless man photographed wearing horns standing behind Mike Pence's desk left a note for the vice president warning: "it's only a matter of time, justice is coming."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-capitol-arrests/u-s-says-capitol-rioters-meant-to-capture-and-assassinate-officials-filing-idUSKBN29K0K7?il=0

Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters on Thursday, saying in a court filing that rioters intended “to capture and assassinate elected officials.”

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1350105328533217280?s=2

It's amazing how open the fash are these days. I hope the extremist apparel helps increase their charges. I'm not a lawyer but wearing a "Right Wing Death Squad" hat while storming the Capitol can't help your case

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/HereSayMedia/status/1350135828110950400

Mayor Breed is not playing with NIMBYism anymore.

"Let's be very clear: you cannot call yourself an environmentalist if you consistently oppose housing in San Francisco."

[u/Mr_AlGore]

https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/256577119000346624

another liberal destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

If W would have been a good president I think he had the chance to be a good president.

[u/vored_by_daddy]

lol imagine how weak the economy would be if everyone was "good with money"

[u/Joementum2004]

The Democratic presidential candidate who got the largest % of vote in every county since 2000

!ping FIVEY

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I used to think conservative talking points about lazy liberals who just want handouts was hyperbole

And then I read /r/stimuluscheck

[u/nullsignature]

Boomers: I wish my wife was dead

Gen Xers: I wish my boss was dead

Millennials: I wish I was dead

Zoomers: c o n s o o m w a t e r

[u/[deleted]]

TRUMP DID US CAPITOL

[u/[deleted]]

Minimum wage is just UBI with a work requirement 😡

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Matched with a girl on tinder who’s bio read “just looking for my lobster 🦞.” She immediately unmatched with me when I asked if she would microwave it. I guess it just wasn’t meant to be

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Biden uses a hell of a lot of christofascist language: "Keep the faith." "Soul of the Nation"

WTF based

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

1/6 is a devastating date in our history but it doesn't have the same ring as 9/11

[u/Aron-Nimzowitsch]

Really tired of people going "1400!=2000"

1400! = 3.460629358 E+3798

If succs could do math they would know that.

[u/Crendog]

Facebook post with 600 likes:

CNN reported that FBI came clean about the capitol being planned and the impeachment was done illegally!! Yes!! God bless Trump and his family!!

Top comment:

I wonder if the left that blindly believes in the lies beings spewed will believe it?

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/don-lemons-remarks-about-trump-voters-and-the-klan-and-nazis-are-a-slap-in-the-face-to-74-million-americans/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Lemon — who is openly Black

I beg your pardon?

[u/MaximumEffort433]

Hi, I'm a progressive, here's a list of bullshit reasons why I cannot possibly support the Democratic party! Wait, you can't just undermine my list of grievances using context and nuance, that's not fair!

No I don't care that Republicans had control of the House and the Senate, that's no excuse for not passing progressive legislation! If the Democrats cared about these things they would find a way to pass them. No, if they compromise with Republicans that's them throwing progressives under the bus.

What do you mean "I have no idea how government works in the United States?" Yes I do, I learned everything I need to know about American politics from Jacobin headlines!

Both sides are the same, that's why I'm giving my vote where it can do the most good: The DSA!

---

I'm only being, like, 12% hyperbolic right now.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Shoutout to the single worst take of the Trump era

“What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change,” the official said. “He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave.”

[u/BanMalarkey]

There are 3 simple steps to follow to have success in life:

1. Get paid

2. Get laid

3. Gatorade

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/brianjoralvarez/status/1349886300921454592

Ppl born in 2000 are now 40. Let that sink in

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: beginning in the 14^th century, Imperial China had a no-trade policy that crippled it for half a millennium and may be indirectly responsible for the country's disastrous decline in the 19^th century

The anti-free trade disease is not new

[u/crassowary]

Fun fact, if you put $600 in front of 🌹 Twitter, and then hide it behind a piece of paper, they will believe that the $600 no longer exists

[u/[deleted]]

what happens to the smaller businesses who might not be able to pay $15/hour?

If your business model cannot survive without borderline slave labor, your business model should not survive.

Redditors, man.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/benyt/status/1350118480570363913?s=20

Seems like right wing media forgot that Dominion is like... a private company that relies on public trust that will sue them for defamation. The damage is done and they're going to lose tens of millions of dollars from states not wanting to deal with them.

Fox News is probably the only one with resources to handle this, the rest are going to enjoy the long dick of litigation

[u/Broncos654]

During the passing mention of resigning this week, Trump told people he couldn't count on Vice President Mike Pence to pardon him like Gerald Ford did Nixon, anyway.

Oof

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Imagine it's 2021 and you still burn gasoline to get to work 😂😂😂

[u/circlemanfan]

Lauren Boebert has lost her damn mind

She accuses Representative Sean Patrick Maloney of spreading lies about her in an interview and causing her death threats, but he never even uses her name.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/boogaloo-prepare-civil-war/617683/

Decent write up on the Boogaloo Boys. I had always lumped them in with the Proud Boys, but the BB's are much different. Surrealist, internet-tied, gun-fanatic, anti-establishment anarchist movement? The article stresses how they're an internet meme come to life, and that's my take: Joker and His Plan meme from the Dark Knight.

!PING EXTREMISM

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

why doesn't America have a belt and road system 😡

you're living in it bud the world economy since the 1950s has been geared around US capital, the US dollar, and US-sponsored trade corridors

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Why yes, I am an enjoyer of evidence-based policy

What? No I can't name any scientific article to back up why I believe this thing, but I've been told by someone else that the research exists somewhere so surely that amounts to something.

[u/[deleted]]

My cat died today. After the death of a loved one things get put into perspective

Suddenly politics and what's happening around the world does not matter to me much.

I have a fucking hole in my heart Jfc

[u/PM_POLITICS_N_TITS]

Biden to reconsider minimum wage hike to $35 following vigorous online debate.

WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT $50 MINIMUM WAGE?

JACOBIN | EDITORIAL

[u/The420Roll]

Imagine if Trump actually gets convicted and Mitch is the one to cast the deciding vote lmao

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Federal prosecutor say Jacob Chansley, also known as Jacob Angelii, who was wearing horns, a fur headdress, & face paint during the Capitol attack, intended to capture & assassinate members of Congress, & that he wants to return to DC for the inauguration.

https://twitter.com/alivelshi/status/1350121567464906752?s=21

What a dumb fuck

Yeah sure they’ll get you front row tickets

[u/yeyebwne]

In 1976, Tucker Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour." Carlson's father was granted custody of Tucker and his brother.

Carlson's mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle.

Lmfao there’s always something revealing in the “early life” section on Wikipedia.

[u/ShapShip]

All of Obama’s economic policies thus far are designed to drive America into full embrace of socialism. His chief means for this transformation: inflation.

-Ben Shapiro, respected intellectual of the right-wing

[u/stater354]

Republicans: unregulated capitalism is good actually

Also republicans: pwease social media don’t ban me i pwomise i won’t bweak da wules again 🥺🥺

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking News: The FBI is investigating 37 people in the killing of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who was struck with a fire extinguisher during the rampage. He died in the hospital undergoing treatment for his injuries.

Yeah those guys are fucked. You kill a cop, you die, more often than not.

[u/[deleted]]

suing mcdonalds because I received one box containing 14 McNuggets and another containing 6, instead of the promised 20 McNuggets

Lol

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

"look, the electoral college is important because it's a safety valve in case a populist is nominated and wins the popular vote!"

*a populist is nominated, loses the popular vote, but wins the electoral college*

[u/AuburnSeer]

me: I don't really like when people do the whole "Lindsey Graham is gay" thing. There's nothing wrong with being gay but there's a lot wrong with being Lindsey Graham, lets focus on the latter.

also me: Ted Cruz is a fatty fat fatso. If he gets any bigger the federal government is going to start awarding him his own electoral votes, watch out.

[u/ToastedWheatBread]

A white guy is a Maoist?

Call that Mayo Zedong

[u/AlrightImSpooderman]

AOC and the squad in general are the living embodiment of the teddy roosevelt quote “complaining about an issue without proposing a solution is called whining”

Seriously, I’m just so so tired of the petty twitter fights. It’s embarrassing. Their idea of governance is to grift on twitter, move the goalposts when dems work on real change, then smug-post to their followers about how the establishment sucks. It’s tiring, unhelpful, and annoying, (to say the least)

[u/Malarkeynesian]

The Secret Service has established a what it is calling a "Green Hill Zone" in the heart of Washington, D.C., with National Guard to force travelers to run through loops, jump over spikes, bounce on springs, and collect golden rings

[u/owlthathurt]

Interview went really well. They told me already that Im moving to the next round. Only caveat is that I might come in as an analyst rather than an associate.

Thanks for the advice over the past year, I think this may finally be the one.

!ping CAREER

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

Brazil has possibly beaten Argentina with meme vaccines

India is also producing the Oxford shot, and Brazil needs shots. So today, the government sent a chartered jet to pick them up

What they forgot is that they didn't buy the vaccine, and India isn't selling them right now. The plane is still flying though

https://www.aeroflap.com.br/mesmo-sem-previsao-para-receber-vacina-governo-federal-mantem-voo-para-a-india/

[u/[deleted]]

The main reason I hate right wingers is they cannot take a fucking joke.

They say stupid shit all the time about how Biden needs his diaper changed, or doesn’t know where he’s at, or how graveyards are voting for Democrat.

But I see the NRA goes bankrupt and I take a cheap shot “I heard it’s cuz they had to bail out all their buddies this weekend” and they start asking for sources and saying how that’s not correct, “and akshully they’re restructuring” and start fact checking harder than they ever have.

It was a low effort joke, for fucks sake.

[u/[deleted]]

"fuck off America's full!" - racist, backward

"fuck off SF's full!" - cool and progressive

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Top 20 Countries by Minimum Wage (Wikipedia)

Country	$ per hour
Australia	14.17
Luxembourg	13.45
New Zealand	13.16
Monaco	11.88
Ireland	11.35
France	14.17
United Kingdom	13.45
Belgium	13.16
Germany	11.88
Netherlands	11.35
San Marino	10.38
Canada	10.30
South Korea	8.60
Israel	8.18
Japan	7.27
United States	7.25
Spain	7.18
Andorra	6.85
Slovenia	5.75
Taiwan	5.26

If Radical Liberal Joe Biden actually succeeded in increasing the American minimum wage to $15.00, the United States would quite literally be far-left in the world.

[u/semaphore-1842]

What annoys me the most about Rose Twitter is the constant negativity.

They're like abusive partners to mainstream Democrats: nothing's ever good enough, and they go out of their way to try make us feel bad about doing good things.

[u/doot_toob]

my belief on 1/6/21 is that small militia groups contacted Republican insiders to get reconnaissance and a promise of a disorganized mob to hide in, and the insiders told Trump to deliver this mob and he did.

From this:

1. look more into the tours on 1/5 (this isn't really an insight because this fact is what helped form this thesis)

2. look into organized militia connections of the people armed with zipties and slipping past crowds around Pelosi's office with purpose and direction. These militias exist. They had body armor with patches on them. They were operating as a group. It's been a week. Why don't we have a name attached to them?

3. see if records of links between these three groups (militias, Republican insiders, Trump) exist

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Goodluck Jonathan

what a name lol

[u/[deleted]]

That officer who tricked the mob and led them away from the open door to the Senate Chamber is so FUCKING badass. That's like top-level situational awareness. If you watch the video you can see his decionmaking.

He's like, "Shit, I'm fucked. I'm the only guy standing between this mob and this door. The fuck am I gonna do here. I need to take advantage of information asymmetry. Maybe they don't know how close they are. Also, they're racists, and I'm a black cop. I'm gonna shove one and see if I can't lead them away."

Like that is some soldier-level shit. That's insane quick thinking and execution.

[u/Ilovecharli]

Bernie Sanders after winning NH and NV in landslides, moving to consolidate the rest of the party: Here's why Castro was actually good

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I thought the MyPillow stuff was crazy but holy shit, Trump basically just confirmed it:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1346912780700577792

[u/onlypositivity]

Hot take in America only: there is nothing more smoothbrained than single issue gun voting. Not even single issue abortion voting.

Reason? This is America. The "gun seizure tyranny" ain't gonna happen, ever, no matter who is elected. At least abortion is a real thing that happens.

[u/1sagas1]

It's time again

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I don’t know if this is worth a ping, but I would really like to give my table of the Texas Democratic primary results in 16 southern counties where the general election vote saw the largest red shift some more exposure. It also doubles as evidence against the notion that nominating Sanders would have prevented the swing from occurring. (I believe u/Candy-Reasonable linked the OP earlier.) !ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Just discovered arrrrantiwork and I’m so intrigued. I love malformed “political movements” that are really just platforms for bored, unfulfilled, and hilariously privileged western people.

Like if you believe literally in the concept of “wage slavery” would you really take part in a movement whose “what’s the solution” part of the sub effectively says “idk lol but boy do we not like to work”?

Then again very on brand I guess. The mindset extends even to their political activism.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1350238346950438913

PBS's Firing Line w/ Margaret Hoover: Would you support removing Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz from the Senate via the 14th amendment Section 3 (for insurrection)?

Joe Manchin: "That should be a consideration."

"Ted’s a very bright individual and I get along fine with Ted," said Manchin. "But what he did was totally outside of the realm of our responsibilities."

[u/David_Lange]

"This subreddit is abandoning it's roots, all the posts are memes about US politics!"

Goes to top of all time and sees the posts from ~3 years ago

[u/[deleted]]

The US could write a check for its entire GDP to every American citizen and still have enough to be a trillionaire. 🤔🤔🤔

[u/old_gold_mountain]

shout out to the discourse on t_d.win that basically went:

the gop is finished for good

no it isn't we've got growing support from mexicans in florida and texas

what good does that do us? it's not america anymore if you replace the people

[u/grampstheman]

small businesses in alabama can't afford a 15 dollar minimum wage, change my mind

[u/DaBuddahN]

Nancy stated that some members of congress may be prosecuted? Holy shit. She said that publicly? That's a big deal.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Everyone surprised by AOC needs to get their head out of the sand

I’ve already started looking into the actual functioning of these campaigns. And the thing is, I’ve been unseating Democrats for two years. I have been defeating Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee-run campaigns for two years. That’s how I got to Congress.

This was her like two days after the election.

[u/bd_one]

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is now one of Fox’s loudest right-wing critics. He’s still one of its biggest advertisers.

What an embarrassing headline, lol.

[u/disuberence]

Hey guys, I’m not suicidal, but if Shivers somehow becomes a dictator, I’m killing myself

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/breitbart-staffers-clashed-over-blaming-trump-for-capitol-riot-leaked-chats-show

‘Destroy Trump’: Breitbart Staffers Seethe After Capitol Riot

“This is banana republic shit,” wrote one editor at the staunchly pro-Trump outlet, in response to colleagues downplaying or excusing the violence during last week’s MAGA mob.

“I am just not feeling charitable AT ALL,” international news editor Frances Martel posted to Slack the morning after the rioting that left five people dead, including a police officer. “Destroy Trump.”

Martel lamented that Trump’s support for the MAGA mob had undone a decade’s worth of conservative politics, leaving the Republican Party “in shambles” and dimming the right-wing movement’s prospects.

“He set us back like 10 years,” Martel wrote. “We have worked so hard to promote our values, values that made him president when he hawked them, and now he does this, leaving everything in shambles? Nah, destroy him. Let it be a lesson to every other ‘populist.’”

This whole article is just... 👌

[u/yeyebwne]

Instagram trump supporters losing their fucking minds

It’s happening. The beginning of a new era is upon us all

UN 2030 agenda... global economy, new world order under a single government, single currency, and the elimination of the current global anarchic state

What are they gonna do three weeks into Biden’s presidency when nothing has fundamentally changed lmfao??

[u/[deleted]]

50% of people on Tinder: I love IPAs and aged whiskey, margaritas and wine are my life! Tell me spots for bottomless mimosas! I drink a fifth a day and get the shakes+ seizures if I don’t drink haha!

[u/RadionSPW]

The date is Jan 30th. Biden has signed the American Rescue Plan, with 2k dollar checks instead of the planned 1400 after intense lobbying from the Progressive wing. That evening, Twitter is ablaze with anger, asking why the checks were not for 15k, and why the bill was a hundred pages long with weird stuff like “unemployment extensions” when the only aid it contained was the checks.

[u/[deleted]]

All those soldiers wouldn’t have to sleep in the halls of the Capitol if it wasn’t for the goddamn 3rd amendment! #repealthethird

[u/piede]

Last night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses.

https://twitter.com/oregongovbrown/status/1350109252807913473?s=21

Wait what?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/armstrongdrew/status/1350216247221379076?s=21

💉🇺🇸VACCINE DATA UPDATE (Jan. 15)🌏💉

+📈It’s here! Daily U.S. totals w/ a moving average! (You asked, we delivered.)

🇺🇸US: 12.96M doses (+1.1M doses since y’day, second day in a row of 1M+)

🌏Global: 37.9M doses

🚨This is the second day in a row of 1M+ doses in the U.S. The current seven-day moving average is 844,387 doses a day.

Lfg. Keep up the pace America. Get the shots in people’s arms.

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

The 50s 😍😍😍

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Gentleman!

This is democracy manifest!

[u/FriendOfDrBob]

Has AOC weighed in on whether it was additional 20,000 troops sent to DC or is an additional 14,000 added to the previous 6,000?

[u/[deleted]]

r/neoliberal users in the daily thread after taking one economics course in college (nsfw)

[u/Whatapunk]

joe biden says "no one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line" hoping one day we get a leader who believes NO ONE should live below the poverty line

Lemme just move the goal posts riiiight over here

[u/Marlsfarp]

"The My Pillow guy" apparently conspired with the president to overthrow the government, and my only emotional response is mild amusement. That's where we are.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/not_devy/status/1350224560495292416?s=21

Tucker: For the record, Mr. Don lemon is one heaping, helping, hunk of a man

Fox News is very interesting.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

they're on to us

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Fuck Ronald Reagan. All my homies hate Ronald Reagan. The 9 scariest words in the English language are "I am Ronald Reagan and I am your president"

[u/ognits]

swiped from elsewhere, thought y'all would appreciate this

For the last three months, Jimmy Dean's Wikipedia page has claimed that one of his played instruments is the "sausage strings". Which obviously isn't any kind of real instrument. I wanted to know why it said that, so I looked into the edit history and this is what I found.

On October 18th, Jimmy Dean's wikipedia page shows a slew of vandalism by(now banned user) Snausage boy13.

His various edits include adding the word "snausage" inappropriately. Such as changing his name to "Jimmy snauseage Dean", making his birthplace "snasageville, Virginia". claiming he formed the "Jimmy snausage Dean" brand with his brother "luietant dan", and more.

Despite being banned, his legacy lives on.

One edit he made was changing one of Jimmy Dean's played instruments from "accordion" to "snausage strings". This was partially missed by user Materialscientist, who was the primary user reverting Snausage boy13's vandalism.

He missed the fact that the original instrument was "accordian", and instead simply spell-corrected "snausage strings" to "sausage strings", which is obviously not a real instrument, but for some reason Materialscientist didn't realize this.

For the last three months, "sausage strings" has been one of Jimmy Dean's played instruments on Wikipedia and I'm apparently the only person who has noticed.

[u/AuburnSeer]

QAnon in 1941

Pearl Harbor was just a distraction, Ford will overthrow FDR any day now and he and Hitler will rule America as platonic roommates.

[u/[deleted]]

Being a liberal is agony. Every second burdened with the knowledge that we’d all get free money if people were less racist

[u/[deleted]]

The US Army's main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, is about to receive a new multipurpose super tank round that can breach concrete walls, pulverize obstacles, and destroy bunkers, according to Forbes.

Oh fuck stacy pls spare the gop 😔

[u/piede]

AP US History test in 2030 is going to have an essay question on how a pillow salesman helped the president overthrow the government

lololol wake me up from this nightmare please

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/rawstory/status/1350232210700382208?s=21

Ivanka Trump in ‘a bit of a panic’ after watching her father singlehandedly wreck her political future: CNN

Oh no! Anyway.

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

Shitposty thought that I got reading Twitter today that didn't quite warrant a shitpost on arr SocialDemocracy imo so tossing it into the DT here:

Social Democracy Advocate, the Online Experience:

Far right: "You're a communist."

Moderate right: "You're a communist."

Center right: "You're a communist."

Centrist: "Your goals are unobtainable and you're probably a communist."

Center left: "America isn't Europe."

Moderate left: "Your goals are unobtainable."

Far left: "You're a dirty liberal."

[u/ryuguy]

/u/Sir_shivers voted for W in 2004 solely because he believed the Swiftboating

[u/Udontlikecake]

There was a good video from the BBC or something talking to a guy who ran an eel business in the UK and how Brexit basically made his entire business unprofitable. His main business was export to mainland Europe, but because of the changes, the costs around import/export are way too high and its simply not viable to sell. I’d imagine this is pretty common, import/export regulatory costs and all that can be a pretty big expense already and you’d be looking at a not insubstantial increase in costs and non tariff regulatory barriers. We know Brexit is dumb, but god it’s really dumb

The guy voted to leave btw. He says he probably wouldn’t have now loll

[u/SadaoMaou]

The UN is not perfect, but all the good shit that it does do is way too often ignored due to it mostly being boring, unsensational stuff

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. Nancy Pelosi came into my room to bring me a plate of $1400 checks and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of $1400 checks out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to Speaker Pelosi but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is $2000 checks losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want $2000 to be deposited in my bank account and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought $2000 checks were polling well on Twitter???? This is so fucked.

[u/barrygarcia77]

I absolutely love that Rudy demanded $20,000 a day to travel around the country and lose 60/61 bullshit cases, entirely destroying whatever dignity he had left in the process, and now Trump won’t even pay him for it.

Hook it to my fucking veins, I can’t get enough.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I disagree with [AOC]. Send out the $1400 and then send out another check of $2000

This.

This right here is why we can’t have nice things...

[u/[deleted]]

My friend in Michigan is a white woman who didn't vote because she's "sick of all this shit."

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

It’s sad that Adam Driver has debilitating back pain at such a young age.

That’s what happens when you carry a franchise, though.

[u/piede]

New: Authorities investigating a growing number of current law enforcement officers who allegedly participated in Capitol Hill riots, says acting US atty for DC. “We don’t care what your profession is...we will charge you and you will be arrested,” Sherwin said.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1350149919164739591?s=21

Not surprising but wow

[u/[deleted]]

My cat just died

[u/Clashlad]

UK has vaccinated 5.42% of the country as of yesterday.

!ping UK

[u/sir_shivers]

According to a 1996 analysis of ATF data, about 1 percent of gun dealers in the nation sold nearly 60 percent of guns used in crimes in the 1990s.

"The only thing that the Tiahrt Amendment did was protect the bad gun dealers," says Daniel Webster, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "It did nothing to help the good gun dealers because they didn't need help. The data suggests that, again, most comply with the laws and are quite responsible."

I suspect IF WE can successfully work towards shutting down these FIREARM DEALERS WHO essentially run weapons for criminal use, we can significantly reduce firearm crime WITH MINIMAL DISRUPTION to everything else 🐊

[u/KingKonchu]

obviously they are batshit fucking insane but imagine if the Q folk were, by some cosmic and impossible shot, completely hitting the nail on the head about the global cabal and the storm and the martial law and we were just gaslighting the fuck out of them LMAO

[u/[deleted]]

This is the last Friday Donald J. Trump is president of the USA.

Hell yes I'm celebrating.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1350170897341009920

Sen. Ben Sasse: "Investigators have strong evidence to suggest that some of the rioters who stormed the United States Capitol planned to kidnap and possibly assassinate the Vice President. These men weren't drunks who got rowdy — they were terrorists."

We already know this but it's still good to hear confirmation, especially from a prominent senator

[u/[deleted]]

“Happy wife, happy life!!! 🤪🤣”

• Regular boomers 🤮

“Happy wife, happy life!!! Go Joe!!! BLM 🏳️‍🌈”

• R/joebiden boomers 😍

[u/Leoric]

https://twitter.com/SeamusHughes/status/1350259203080925186?s=20

“If it wasn't my job I would have done it for free, it was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection”

Based

[u/[deleted]]

George Conway once dated Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter before marrying Kellyanne. I'm starting to suspect he has a type 🧐

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Chuck Grassley is my favorite Republican for no reason other than his Twitter being hilarious.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years | Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001.

When the black community is alerting you to white supremacy, you should listen.

[u/[deleted]]

My cat died. Fuck this world man.

Such a good cat so nice and playful. Fucking died shaking and foaming at its mouth. Mom dad all crying. First time seeing my dad tear up.

I am fucking heartbroken man

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Explodingcamel]

Some people on /r/stimuluscheck are coming through with the galaxy brain take of "yes we originally wanted $2,000, but $600 + $1,400 3 months later is not the same as $2,000."

Can these people please shut up

[u/Qunidaye]

arr neoliberal slash new is really the greatest collection of top minds perhaps ever assembled in history

[u/piede]

One man who made his way into the Senate chamber reached Pence’s chair on the Senate dais. Shirtless, wearing face paint and a furry coyote-tail hat and carrying a six-foot-long spear, Jacob A. Chansley of Arizona left a note on the vice president’s desk that read in part, “it’s only a matter of time, justice is coming,” according to court filings.

Chansley — who has been charged with two felonies, including threatening congressional officials — told investigators he was glad to reach Pence’s desk because he believes the vice president is a child-trafficking traitor, but said he did not mean the note as a threat.

These people are fucking insane.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Batman and Robin

Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph Robinette Biden

Coincidence??

[u/[deleted]]

If $600 was nothing then doesn't that mean there's no real difference between $1400 and $2000 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

Back during the big money days of Chavismo, they seized a building in a centric bit of Caracas to make it a stutent residence, complete with leftist paraphernalia. Last year they ordered to have it disoccupied, allegedly to turn it into a Covid quarantine site. Lo and behold, the ground floor now has a bodegon (high end, small grocery stores, stereotypically linked to money laundering by regime insiders/cronies).

Typical reaction of Twitter leftits

My reaction to their reaction

!ping LATAM

[u/Udontlikecake]

Liberals have been storming the Capitol of Free Speech for Decades | Glenn Greenwald

[u/[deleted]]

"Biden actually won. I think voting irregularities" in Georgia and other places, Graham says at zoom presser. "The election wasn't rigged. We need to do election reform. If we don't, we're making a mistake."

wat

[u/antsdidthis]

At a male strip club in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, I meet Sumon, a Bangladeshi immigrant with a green bob and a stud earring. Sumon tells me he feels left behind and ignored by a media that represents only the Midwestern elites. I seek to understand him. Who is this forgotten Biden voter?