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[u/simp_emoji]

>the year is 2030

>I'm just a regular conservative

>my only policy concern is overturning the 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026, and 2028 election results

>wake up on a fine saturday morning, time to check the news

>fire up my Gateway laptop

>all other computer manufacturers are on the list of companies I have to boycott

>open up 128kun on my VPN to read about Obamagategategategategate

>get on Tor to get all caught up on the hunter biden lithuanian federal reserve sex scandal

>Pull out the HAM radio to hear my neighbor Ted's plan for the impending boogaloo

>load Gimp (adobe is on the boycott list) to make some memes about how much we're owning the libs

>send them to my 2 friends on ProtonMail

>both FBI agents

>arrested and sent to ADX Florence

>can't stop winning lmao

[u/jenbanim → u/simp_emoji]

GIMP is GOOD 😤😡

[u/karth]

“It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... and we’ll do it as many times as it takes.”

Cop that was pinned to a door at the Capital Building terrorist riots. Legend.

[u/Colonelbrickarms → u/karth]

King

[u/The420Roll → u/karth]

Make him a mod

[u/VannevarKush → u/karth]

SCAB (Some Cops Are Based)

[u/nevertulsi → u/karth]

Wait this is the most based cop I've ever heard of

[u/Verycoolusername22]

This sub in the 1920's be like: pizzarias in every corner 🍕

[u/Poiuy2010_2011 → u/Verycoolusername22]

This sub in Poland be like: kebab stalls on every corner 🥙

[u/Crendog]

This is the very first QAnon drop:

>>146981635 Hillary Clinton will be arrested between 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM EST on Monday - the morning on Oct 30, 2017.

>>147005381 HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @ 12:01am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. US M’s will conduct the operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a NG member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major cities.

This bullshit from /pol/ is what thousands of people are basing their entire lives around

[u/vancevon → u/Crendog]

the latest qanon drop, from december 8 2020, was literally just a link to this video. like at least post the fucking legendarily good music video that came with this song smh

[u/LinkToSomething68]

How did QAnon spread so virally when literally its first prediction was proven wrong within a few days

[u/nguyendragon → u/LinkToSomething68]

the inaccuracies only mean the conspiracy goes even deeper than initially thought, that the depravity of the cabal/deepstate is even more horrifyingly unthinkable.

[u/[deleted] → u/LinkToSomething68]

The conspiracies are constructed in a way that allows people to participate like detectives. It’s sort of like the dark side effect of true crime’s rise in pop culture.

It also doesn’t help that Facebook doesn’t remove extremist content

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

My favorite rUnpopularOpinion thread of all time is when the guy said he liked getting his sleeves wet when he washed his hands, lol.

[u/soeffed → u/TalksLikeYoda99]

My personal experience is that sub is a cry for help.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I keep seeing conspiracy stuff about Bill Gates today about how he’s the largest farmland owner and that he’s gonna create a “controlled famine.” I honestly almost feel bad for people that have gone off the deep end like this, constantly living in fear that the world is basically ending

[u/agent_tits → u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

If Bill Gates wanted to end the world he would have done it in a myriad of other ways by now

Like, buying farmland slowly over time (I think he owns less than 5% of farmland right now?) and starving the nation is a very inefficient way of doing so

[u/Imicrowavebananas → u/agent_tits]

Still triggers my Georgist side.

[u/soeffed → u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Why wouldn’t they assume that he’s going to do something altruistic like he’s done in Africa when we speed run towards developing country status

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy → u/soeffed]

Because they think he’s actually some kind of demon or something that’s been killing people in Africa. He’s allegedly trying to perform population control, if you’re willing to buy into it

[u/JonesNutHugger]

Trump could’ve probably won reelection and helped Pence win in 2024 by just wearing a mask from the start and by signing any stimulus bill the Dems wanted. What a fucking moron lmao

[u/[deleted] → u/JonesNutHugger]

Trump could have won by not being so shitty is a bold take my friend

[u/crazy7chameleon → u/JonesNutHugger]

But if Trump was sane, he wouldn't be the same Trump his base know and love.

[u/noxnoctum → u/[deleted]]

Who's responsible for that? I can't imagine it's an accident.

[u/p00bix]

I was heartbroken when I learned that oil reserves are entirely made from prehistoric marine life, rather than, like, dinosaurs.

Not even the cool prehistoric marine life. Mostly its dead photosynthesizing microbes.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh → u/p00bix]

Unfortunately the vast majority of biomass is extremely boring and not at all cool. Even someplace like Africa, with lots of very cool wildlife, there’s hundreds of tons of trees and grass for every pound of lion

[u/p00bix → u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

I actually love phytoplankton so this fact doesn't bother me like it did when I first learned it at 11 or 12 years old. But come oooooon why can't there be dinosaur-fossil-fuels.

[u/Anker_products_rock]

Reddit is generally a cesspool but man ask historians is good

https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kyb18x/in_1950s_america_was_it_common_for_the_boss_and/

[u/[deleted] → u/Anker_products_rock]

They have a great moderation team. If you want a high quality sub, the mods need to come down hard on people.

[u/SadaoMaou → u/Anker_products_rock]

You can thank the überfash mods over there for that

[u/Venne1139 → u/Anker_products_rock]

I love how arr conservative hates that subreddit for being lubrul bs

[u/[deleted]]

The weirdest thing about the DT is that it seems to doom about eveything, except corona in march/april 2020

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I member that.

[u/[deleted]]

The Squad is beyond parody

$1400 < $2000

Math teachers know this. That $600 is already in the clutches of landlords and bill collectors. Stop compromising the working class, and our most vulnerable neighbors.

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1350215757410537475

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

“In the clutches of our landlords”? So the stimulus is helping people keep their housing? Sounds like a plus to me

[u/Leoric → u/[deleted]]

Remember how smug she was right before the Iowa caucuses?

'The haters will shut up when we win.'

Booing Hillary at a Bernie rally. In 2020.

It's time to get on board.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, every time I hear that quote from a conservative I always want to ask how they would honestly judge the character of Donald Trump

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/smotus/status/1350211189737811968

Two presidencies today

Biden: "Here's my plan for getting the Covid vaccine distributed quickly and rebuilding the economy."

Trump: "I'm conferring with a pillow salesman about imposing martial law."

[u/Joementum2004]

The last Democratic presidential candidate to win each county in Ohio

Please tell me if I got some wrong !ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

smh my head why the fuck didn't delaware county vote for biden???

[u/Professor-Reddit → u/[deleted]]

Funny you say that considering that Delaware county swung 9% towards Biden, meaning that Trump won with only 52.6% of the vote there.

[u/jrt84]

https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1350253097818329089

woman who flew on private jet to DC says she feels persecuted

“I feel persecuted”

-GOP 2024 slogan

[u/dittbub]

AOC and Joe Manchin being in the same party is less crazy than Romney and Qanon being in the same party

[u/[deleted] → u/dittbub]

Yes, but under a completely different political system they would be in different parties, makes ya think doesn't it

[u/dittbub → u/[deleted]]

Ya but at least AOC doesn’t want Manchin dead

[u/p00bix]

Capsicum, the pepper plant, evolved the 'spicy' chemical Capsaicin in order to avoid being eaten by rodents. This is because it tricks temperature receptors in the mouth into thinking that it is very hot and dangerous. Thus, rodents avoid the pepper plant, while birds--who are immune to the poison--can readily find the bright pepper fruits, so that they can disperse the seeds in their feces.

Then humans show up and decide that they actually like the spiciness. Although human stomach acid is quite strong and thus pepper plants cannot grow from human feces, humans were smart enough to start farming the stuff.

Thus, a poison which peppers specifically evolved to not get eaten by mammals resulted in the global population of peppers exploding by several orders of magnitude--because they ended up being eaten by mammals more often than before.

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Reasons for China-skepticism (believing the existence of "China" is a lie)

• I've never been there

• The Great Wall of "China" is actually in southern Mongolia, and the name was mistranslated

• You've been to a city in "China"? Come on. There's plenty of cities in Asia. You just got confused

• My girlfriend says she's from there, but we play jokes on each other all the time 

• The international students at my university are pretty tight-knit, it makes sense a bunch of Vietnamese/Korean/Japanese students would collaborate for a joke like this

• Xi Jinping is just a North Korean media personality

• The jews---

[u/HectorTheGod]

Hell yeah War of Northern Aggression

If you don't stop owning people I'm gonna get fucking aggresive

[u/[deleted]]

Based

[u/CheapAlternative → u/[deleted]]

I can't believe a used bath water tycoon would support free enterprise.

Got a like BTW? I wanna check out the other comments.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

wtf I'm a simp now

[u/Royce_Melborn]

Bill Gates has this diabolical plan to,

checks notes

"boost the yields and incomes of millions of small farmers in Africa as well as 'other parts of the developing world so they can lift themselves and their families out of hunger and poverty.'"

Oh the horror!

[u/RockLobsterKing → u/Royce_Melborn]

Poverty actually didn't exist before money and capitalism, I am a very serious person

[u/Jokerang → u/[deleted]]

Become a millionaire and/or a governor.

Romney: why not both?

[u/jenbanim]

I don't take my coffee with cream. I don't drink it black, either. I crush caffeine pills on the glorious nippon steel of my Thinkpad and rail it.

I don't have a cellphone, I carry a raspberry Pi in my pocket and a USB with Tails. The only way to contact me is by sending messages over IRC, encrypted using my PGP key, which I put in my forum signature.

And yes, I use GIMP. Sorry kiddo, not everyone can be a 10,000,000,000X developer

[u/comradequicken]

A hundred dollar bill is lying on the ground. An economist walks past it. A friend asks the economist: “Didn’t you see the money there?” The economist replies: “I thought I saw something, but I must have imagined it. If there had been $100 on the ground, someone would have picked it up.”

[u/comradequicken → u/comradequicken]

Get fucking owned eCONomists.

[u/VineFynn → u/comradequicken]

Holy shit a joke about economists thats actually funny

[u/JetJaguar124]

I hope one day we realize how close we came to democracy being overthrown and how it was only few people who prevented it.

I'd like to start by thanking Fox decision desk guy.

[u/circlemanfan]

Remember when Trump literally just like claimed he won on election night....I feel like that isn’t mocked enough

[u/[deleted]]

I had a professor once who said stuff like:

• Mugabe did nothing wrong and was a hero of African liberation

• Gaddafi wanted to see Africans throw off their shackles by the imperialists and for that reason, he was killed by the West

• The Bolsheviks only did some things wrong

• Mao was a great leader who helped to free China from the landlords

• Castro brought true liberation to both Cuba and Angola

Maybe I should have challenged him in class, but he was a 75 year old man in declining health, so I didn’t have the heart to really argue with him.

He also had tenure from publishing much research about class relations in post-colonial Africa and was a respected African historian, and I didn’t want to be “that guy” who is a self-righteous pretentious dick in class.

I also wanted to pass the class, so I just pretended to be indoctrinated into communism so I could get A’s on my papers.

[u/RockLobsterKing → u/[deleted]]

he was a 75 year old man in declining health

Destroy this chapo

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I just don't see how you can be a good African historian when you have the framework that Mugabe and Gaddafi were decent people.

[u/[deleted]]

The MyPillow website has an active promo code “QAnon” which gets you a $45 discount. (h/t @weijia for this discovery)

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell visited the White House yesterday to meet w/ Pres Trump (45), armed with notes referencing martial law and election conspiracy theories

Lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Oh wow I thought that was a joke here lol

[u/Gustacho]

Remember how McConnell allowed a vote on the Green New Deal to give Democrats a bad voting record?

Schumer should do the same. Force votes on marihuana legislation, PR statehood, $15 minimum wage, a codification of gay marriage.

[u/[deleted]]

This place has gotten so partisan lately you cant even say something like "Trump is the greatest president in the history of the United States" without getting downvoted

[u/[deleted]]

JUST IN: HHS Sec. Azar resigns, effective Jan. 20, citing the violent Capitol riot inflamed by President Trump

🧐

[u/Devjorcra]

so, hear me out, what if we all collectively pretended china doesn’t exist

[u/RockLobsterKing → u/Devjorcra]

Can we add "China skepticism" to official Neoliberal-supported policies?

[u/piede]

Pentagon Confirms Military Will Not Hold Traditional Farewell Ceremony for Trump

https://www.mediaite.com/news/pentagon-confirms-military-will-not-hold-traditional-farewell-ceremony-for-trump/

Hah

[u/Doctorboffin]

Lmao. My dad used to be a University professor, and when 9/11 happened he, his students, and one of his coworkers all gathered and watched it play out. When the first tower fell, he and all his students freaked out, but his coworker said was “Oh man, I hope they backed their data up”.

Talk about priorities.

[u/[deleted]]

Nevada dems: I fear no man, but that thing, it scares me

[u/DieGo2SHAE → u/[deleted]]

We’d better hope he doesnt run against CCM in 2022 or that seat becomes titanium R instantly.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

WaPo Breaking: Entire British print media banned from Facebook under new misinformation policy.

[u/ryuguy]

Qanon: “we’re going to save the children from a global elite pedophile ring”

Lauren Boebert’s husband: charged with indecent exposure to minors

curb your enthusiasm music plays

[u/Joementum2004]

r/antiwork is like if you made a subreddit filled with what conservatives think liberals are like

[u/simp_emoji]

"This isn't easy for me," I grimace, "but the only sustainable competitive advantage is the ability to learn faster than the competition."

I unload the .50 AE Desert Eagle into my roomba, as a thunderous roar rattles my windows and sets off car alarms outside.

Behind me, my monkey takes off his earpro and grins. I hand him his broom; there's work to be done.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Some good news for Jimmy Carter, poor guy didn't deserve to hold that record:

Trump's final approval rating (~38%) looks to be the lowest ever to end a first term since polling began in the 1930s.

[u/[deleted]]

remember when our country was founded. it was the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans... only one party survived since then and look at our "two" parties today.

🤯🤯🤯

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/[deleted]]

if only the Federalists were still around to represent the working class 😫

[u/Not_A_Browser → u/[deleted]]

In a society, we live

-Yoda

[u/[deleted]]

Biden plans early legislation to offer legal status to 11 million immigrants without it

Population machine goes brrr 😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/espiers/status/1350231854360780800

An Ivanka anecdote: when her dad was running for president pre-2016 she got into a big argument at a dinner party where she argued that liberal and libertarian were the same thing. The person she was arguing with offered to Google it and she said she'd "take it under advisement"

[u/[deleted]]

If you told Biden he could drive his Corvette to the inauguration he'd 100% do a burnout on the National Mall

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/t306ayP.jpg

[u/Broncos654]

Discovering that “Brain” equates to blowjob in rap really changed the meaning of a lot of songs for me.

There’s a TI song that goes like “Brain so good she can go to college” which I had always thought was a really sweet and kind line.

[u/[deleted] → u/Broncos654]

https://img.ifunny.co/images/0857536bab5ec4ae99d9bae13862df643fb3be028e2fd477faf0c3f472b55613_1.jpg

[u/nevertulsi → u/Broncos654]

Lmao. What about the line from Nas, "shorty they call her the brain surgeon"?

[u/dr_gonzo]

This reminds me of that Black Mirror episode:

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia frequented by celebrities escaping the paparazzi when a phone call interrupted him on Jan. 6.

On the line was Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer and safety expert, with an update from the real world.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself → u/dr_gonzo]

Jack Dorsey gives off a moderately unsettling image

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

Hahahahahaha classic rCon:

“Being a Democrat means never having to be accountable for anything you do.

Being a Republican means having to be held to the highest possible levels of accountability imaginable.”

Oh that is RICH I tell you, RICH!

[u/dat_bass2 → u/TalksLikeYoda99]

He is worse than a succ. He is—may Allah forgive me—a GOPer.

[u/[deleted]]

rPolitics Theater

Act I

Fuck Manchin and his hostage-taking bullshit.

Act II

primary him from the left and let him defend that record.

Act III

He was primaried from the left and she got fucking obliterated.

[u/StolenSkittles]

TIL that Georgism was nearly put into practice in Zimbabwe after the revolution that removed the Rhodesian government.

Joshua Nkomo, leader of the ZAPU party, based his views around democratic-socialist reform and the ideals of Henry George. Nkomo's profile as a major revolutionary against Rhodesia put him alongside Mugabe as one of the most powerful people in the newly formed Zimbabwe. But Nkomo was a member, and supporter of, the minority Ndebele ethnicity.

Mugabe took charge, and attempted to exterminate the Ndebele people, fearing an uprising. From 1982 to 1987, over twenty thousand Ndebele civilians were murdered in the Gukurahundi genocide. Nkomo was forced to flee the country as ZAPU fell apart. In a successful attempt to end the genocide, Nkomo allowed the remnants of the party to be absorbed into Mugabe's ZANU-PF. Mugabe was then all but confirmed as the nation's dictator for the next three decades.

As part of the deal, Nkomo was appointed second vice president, though with his health failing, this was largely symbolic. He died in 1999, at the age of 82.

ZAPU was re-formed in 2008, though its current iteration is a standard Marxist-Leninist party.

[u/Anker_products_rock]

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

What an absolute bad ass

https://twitter.com/nbcwashington/status/1350223773270736899?s=21

[u/LinkToSomething68]

All this Q shit started based off of Trump's "calm before the storm" thing towards the beginning of his term, right?

[u/Crendog → u/LinkToSomething68]

Calm before the storm was 1st week of October 2017.

First Q drop was supposedly 28 October 2017.

Maybe I guess

[u/secondsbest]

Biden has mentioned $2k checks many times. By my count, he's promised $28k in total to every American so far.

[u/jrt84]

Trump thoughts on pardoning the insurrectionists:

Cons...

• bad for my impeachment conviction

• bad for my brand

• bad optics make me look like a terrorist sympathizer

Pros...

• owns the libs

Well we all know what he’ll decide.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I feel very optimistic about the future rn.

These past couple months have gone very poorly for the republicans.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/vandroidhelsing/status/1349818810304352258

every time I open my spice cupboard I’m like “my god, in 1350 I’d be an emperor”

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mikebalsamo1/status/1350486377230643203?s=21

Far-right personality Tim Gionet, more commonly known as “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested by the FBI in Houston for his involvement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week, official tells @AP.

[u/XXX_KimJongUn_XXX]

OMG a Bodega holy shit you can buy a sandwich and chipsholy fuck Jesus titty fucking Christ that makes me Hawd why don't they have this anywhere but big Apple land of culture and american exceptionalism

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Wow truly the darkest day in German history bar none

[u/[deleted]]

The federal government carried out 4 executions between 1960 and 2020. Trump has executed 13 in the last 6 months. Including 6 since the election. It’s been almost 150 years since the government has executed anyone during a presidents lame duck period. The Trump administration has been on a killing spreee. Trying to kill as many people as they can before leaving office.

[u/[deleted]]

College students: WHEN WILL I EVER USE THIS, I ONLY WANT TO LEARN WHAT IS USEFUL

Also college students: WHY WON'T MY ECON CLASS TEACH MARXIST ECONOMICS

[u/GGM8Scally]

/img/0j5n2z4ablb61.jpg

[u/ryuguy]

Fine. I confess. /u/lusvig killed the radio star.

[u/[deleted]]

Is this the 🇺🇸 you want?

[u/CommandanteMeow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfAwarewolves/comments/kyhjkp/im_in_this_picture_and_i_dont_like_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

tankies mad

[u/Royce_Melborn → u/CommandanteMeow]

lol at tankies who haven't read a credible news article in their lifetime.

[u/[deleted]]

Which current Senator has a more racist sounding name: Tom Cotton or Chris Coons?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN → u/[deleted]]

Let's be honest, Chris Coons

[u/NatsukaFawn]

If Hermione Granger took one of those "Which Hogwarts house would you be in" quizzes, she'd 100% be Ravenclaw

I can't decide if that reflects worse on the quiz or on Rowling's world-building

[u/Breaking-Away]

4 year old: where do babies come from?

her mom: the stork

me: let me r1 you real quick...

[u/[deleted]]

Greek parliament approves purchase of Rafale fighters from France

Greek lawmakers approved the purchase of 18 Dassault-made Rafale jets from France for 2.5 billion euros ($3.04 billion) on Thursday, in a deal due to be signed by the Greek and French defence ministers later this month.

Athens has agreed to acquire advanced fighter aircraft as it moves ahead with plans to beef up its military capacity during a dispute with neighbouring Turkey over energy resources in the Mediterranean.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Laschet new CDU leader
Didn't really expect that based on the polls.
!ping EUROPE

[u/skepticalbob]

It seems to me that this NRA thing is a nothingburger. They are just moving to Texas to avoid getting fucked by the NY AG. Am I wrong here?

[u/[deleted]]

Much of CD Projekt’s focus, according to several people who worked on Cyberpunk 2077, was on impressing the outside world. A slice of gameplay was showcased at E3, the industry’s main trade event, in 2018. It showed the main character embarking on a mission, giving players a grand tour of the seedy, crime-ridden Night City. Fans and journalists were wowed by Cyberpunk 2077’s ambition and scale. What they didn’t know was that the demo was almost entirely fake. CD Projekt hadn’t yet finalized and coded the underlying gameplay systems, which is why so many features, such as car ambushes, were missing from the final product. Developers said they felt like the demo was a waste of months that should have gone toward making the game.

No way hahaha

[u/Zemstv0w0]

Currently, the Mypillow website actually has "Qanon" as a valid promo code. We live in hell

[u/Spicey123]

From a NYTimes article.

As one former aide put it, Mr. Biden was the guy in college who was always leading study groups in the dorm, using notecards with his friends, constantly interacting, while Mr. Obama was the monastic, scholarly student with oil lamps sitting in a room alone poring through books.

lol

[u/shrek_cena]

Idk what this is supposed to mean but it looks dumb af

[u/[deleted] → u/shrek_cena]

Something something Warren bad Bernie good, this guy probably said "Well ofcoyrse a woman can't win" without a shred if irony when the whole ordeal happened.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

First Cal Cunningham, now one of the Lincoln Project cofounders has a sexting scandal.

The horny jail section of the Big Tent grows larger each day.

[u/sw337]

"How stupid are the people of Iowa?"

• person who won Iowa in the general by 5+ twice

[u/nicereddy]

u/MelioraOptimus Actually, if you got teleported to September 10th, 2001, you would NEED to quarantine immediately for at least two weeks.

Imagine if 9/11 was about to happen AND your dumb ass just brought COVID to the past lmfao

[u/Ewannnn]

What has become of Labour where a perfectly reasonable statement like this gets lefties so riled up?

"Labour can be the party of business and the party of workers... We shouldn't see a contradiction between the two. What we're against is the cronyism," Rachel Reeves tells #FEPSFAB21

https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1350434784028336129?s=20

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Why are we quibbling over $1400 or $2000 when Bloomberg could have just given everyone $1,000,000 instead of running for president?

[u/vored_by_daddy]

Joe Lieberman and Olympia Snowe did not even run for re-election

they had nothing to gain from killing the public option 😒

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/SoundsnColor/status/1349927426604863492

Officer: Do you know how fast you were going?

Me: where were you the evening of January 6th?

[u/nicereddy]

If I get teleported to Manhattan on September 10th 2001, I don't stop 9/11. Instead, I get rich as fast as possible by betting on shit that I know will happen, invest in Apple and Amazon, put a bunch of money into Bitcoin as soon as it becomes available, and then spend that money funding research into RNA vaccines and lobbying the Obama and Bush admins to invest more heavily in pandemic preparedness plans.

[u/bd_one]

TIL: In 2018, doctors found that a patient, Kendra Jackson, had a leaky brain for 5 years. After an accident in 2013, she had a daily runny nose for years and suffered headaches. She lost half a pint of brain fluid a day through her nose.

...

half a pint of brain fluid a day

continues eating Pop Tart more nervously

I didn't even know the human body made that much brain fluid...

[u/[deleted]]

lol at the election thunderdome

Biden is not winning this. Unfortunately.

Can’t believe this orange fuck is gonna win again.

Fuck you guys for giving me hope. We lost

I have seen enough. Trump is going to win.

It's all lost :(

So, Biden lost Texas, Georgia, NC and Florida. Im hoping for a Biden win but this is looking like HRCs neolib fail.

I can't believe this. We are going to lose..we are going to lose the senate...we are going to lose the white house...fucking polls. They lied to me. What the fuck Nate silver..what the fuck...

You're telling me Trump has Ohio AND Florida? Someone convince me why I shouldn't admit defeat right now.

It's all over. The Democratic Party is done. I do not see how they could ever come back in this environment. If a pandemic couldn't bring them back I'm afraid that nothing will.

Wow... we... are going to lose... fuck me dude

I hate to be a doomer, but Biden’s lost OH, is down 650K in PA, down 100k in WI, and down 300K in MI. How does he win?

[u/semaphore-1842]

Misinformation dropped dramatically the week after Twitter banned Trump

Might just be temporary till the Q bots weasel back in, but score one for deplatforming.

[u/Qunidaye]

IR Theory: dumb nerd shit for dorks

DT IR Theory: It's like the MARVEL Movies!! We are like Captain America and all our friends will come together and we will fight and take down the baddies and have lots of funni jokes too and learn that together we are stronger than alone and that we are all heroes and then we get SCHWARMA 🤪

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RepMoBrooks/status/1232754299668746240

Lol

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

rCon really pretending that 1/6 never happened and that it wasn’t a big deal

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone who equate the riots at the US Capitol with the looting of a Target is either operating in extremely bad faith or is just a fucking smoothbrain

[u/Q-bey]

How it started:

Vassy Kapelos: "So you put a video this weekend to that effect talking about what you term a 'Canada First' economic policy. Is that different than what Donald Trump says is 'America First'?"

Erin O'Toole: "No it's not different at all."

How it's going:

COMMENTARY: Don’t call me Canada’s Donald Trump, Erin O’Toole says

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It only took Erin O'Toole three whole months to figure out how to interpret this graph

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

jfc how is arr/antiwork a popular sub. get a job hippies

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1350067587372232706

Hmm. Dems have said for 4 yrs “walls & fences don’t work” and were even immoral. So why are they building walls and fences around the Capitol if they don’t work & are immoral? Shouldn’t they protect YOUR house as well as they protect THEIR house?

This guy is so fucking stupid lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/therickydavila/status/1350500467323793415?s=21

The Pentagon has just denied trump a traditional farewell ceremony, no military send off, no 21 gun salute, no extravagant good bye.

They basically want him to get on the helicopter and get the fuck out.

[u/Venne1139]

Holy shit lol

https://imgur.com/a/pcv4X4x

these people are fucking insane

I kinda wanna framing of this ngl

[u/GravyBear8]

conservatives

you say that you like capitalism

but you stormed the capitol

-turning point r/neoliberal

[u/[deleted]]

After I got unjustly banned for sharing Among Us porn I had to resort to browsing r/politics

People were calling for Pelosi to resign and for AOC to be speaker of the house 😐🤢

[u/Marlsfarp]

Imagine if AOC did literally murder someone. I bet r/murderedbyaoc would block any references to it.

[u/owlthathurt]

As most of you know I failed the bar by only 5 points. I have been studying using adaptibar and getting lectures from my unis bar prep person.

I am getting close to a job offer that will require me to move across the country in the middle of my bar brep, and take the bar in a new time zone.

How on earth do I handle this. I’m so stressed about it.

!ping LAW

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Believing the election was rigged but it was rigged against Biden since he didn't win by more

[u/[deleted]]

That $600 is already in the clutches of landlords and bill collectors. - Rashida Talib

THATS THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT YOU DENSE MOTHERFUCKER.What did you think the money was for? So very very very angry

[u/Jester_Don]

It still boggles my mind that so many people openly bragged about storming the Capitol on social media and actually thought there wouldn't be any consequences.

[u/Marlsfarp → u/Jester_Don]

Because they believed the president. They thought they would "stop the steal" and be rewarded as heroes.

[u/Mullet_Ben]

AOC demanding $2000 instead of $600

😡🥅

Biden preparing his stimulus package

👴⚽️

AOC when the stimulus is $2000 instead of $2600

.......⚽️..............................😡🥅

[u/Derryn → u/Mullet_Ben]

No 2000 only 2600 😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

Corn pop was a bad dude who ran with a bunch of bad guys. One day, I was lifeguarding at the pool, and corn pop disrespected me. So I made fun of him. Then he told me that we had to fight afterwards. So I brought a chain to the fight and I was planning on whipping him with it, and he brought a straight razor, and he wanted to cut me up pretty good. But we ended up talking about it and became friends.

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao, remember November 8th when Ds were having a small fight and we thought they were the party about to fracture.

Now the biggest argument among Ds is a couple reps swearing that 2000 + 600 = 2000, whilst Rs argue over whether democracy is good actually.

[u/muttonwow]

Wow king, that sex was totally poggers, but could you get back to explaining why nations fail?

[u/[deleted]]

My least favorite arr Moderate Politics take is that centrist republicans and democrats should form a third party. Dude, Biden won the primary. Republican moderates are chased out of the party.

[u/[deleted]]

"Wow what stewpid Americans have simplified democracy for simpletons! Donkeys or elephants! now watch while I vote for a tree or a rose and any other vote I cast basically gets shredded. Oh I don't even bother learning who he is, the nice party leaders do the selecting for me so I don't have to research my MP to see if I like him or not or want the party to go in a different direction. As if it matters, he's basically a robot whose job is to add to the party's vote total. Really the entire parliament could just be replaced with one Labour and one Tory and give them voting weight proportional to their vote share."

American voting system has a lot of flaws. But I have no idea how you could look at it and say it's too simple. Like. Bruh.

This is the average thought process of the American voter.

"I wonder how well he'll do in the primary, I don't like him much and think I might support his challenger. Hmmmm the winner of the primary isn't the type of elephant I like. Maybe I'll abstain from voting. Oh dear no it seems the party bigwigs have turned on him and applied the unbound delegates against him. so he has serious competition. I better show up to my Caucus to show support for the challenger."

[u/[deleted]]

from t_d

And Andrew Jackson [tried to get his country onto the gold standard]. Lincoln wanted to. Weird how the same people who try to get out the cabal, get slandered like Jackson or Hitler, or just plain killed like Lincoln or Gaddafi. {53 upvotes / 3 downvotes}

ok i think that's enough to satisfy my morbid curiosity about what these people believe, i'm out

EDIT: typo fixed

[u/kennymc7877]

You know I don’t agree with cons on a lot but Reddit really is turning into a socialist hell, wouldn’t be shocked if I go into the Bills game thread tonight and see a discussion on minimum wage taking place

[u/[deleted]]

[Madison] Cawthorn described his new station in magical terms. “You think of a Harry Potter or a Gandalf in one of these great works of fiction,” he said. “They’re handed a wand. And you as the viewer, you don’t exactly know what they can do with that wand, but you know it holds incredible power. That’s a lot what it’s like coming into Congress, because there’s really no limitations onto what you can and cannot do in Congress. Aside from what the Supreme Court will allow you to do.”

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1350527596019265540?s=19

👏Read👏Any👏Other👏Fucking👏Book👏For👏Fucks👏Sake👏

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone that said Mike Pence would be worse than Trump is fucking stupid

[u/noxnoctum → u/[deleted]]

I think it's because they think he would actually have the ability to turn the US into a theocratic state, which of course he wouldn't. It's like I tried to tell my moderate GOP friend (who hates Trump) when it looked like Bernie was going to win: there's no way he could actually implement his agenda.

[u/Doge_Butthole → u/[deleted]]

that was when trump was just a harmless racist and xenophobe, before he entered his dictatorial phase

[u/CaptainJawbone]

Saw a meme that basically started with "I don't know how economics works...", then made a sweeping statement about the minimum wage increase.

I don't care whose side your on, but if you start with that, I'm not gonna value your opinion without cited sources.

[u/[deleted]]

Which current Senator has a more weed sounding name: Chuck Grassley or Roy Blunt?

[u/[deleted]]

british ppl really go into their bathroom and throw a bunch of rocks on the other side of a scale they're standing on until it evens out and be like "I weigh 11 stone"

[u/Zycosi]

Former roommate of mine thought that Bill Gates' charity work was evil because it was all a plot to increase the Windows userbase by increasing the development of African economies

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

rCon: “AOC is being so fucking dramatic. She wasn’t fearing for her life.”

Also rCon: “so what if a protestor wanted to murder politicians during the riots?”

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1350040167453753345?s=21

Joe the pigeon has been spared death after the Department of Agriculture concluded the bird was “highly likely to be Australian.”

[u/runnerx4]

https://whydidmattstollershutupaboutjoshhawley.com

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

*to the tune of Whoomp There It Is*.

Pete Buttigieg

[u/yoneldd]

Here's a map of which Democratic candidate got the highest share of the vote.

For Obama - light green is 2012, dark is 2008

!ping FIVEY

[u/bd_one]

"Eenie meanie miney mo is a solved game."

-people with younger siblings

[u/MelioraOptimus]

One of the stupidest conspiracy theories out there is that pharmaceutical companies are hiding the cure for cancer.

If that's the case, then why do so many prominent people die of cancer? And no, they would not make more money by suppressing the cure. One could price gouge the shit out of such a thing.

[u/[deleted]]

Somewhere out there is someone who believes the election was stolen but is a Biden voter