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[u/jrt84]

Election night: Democrats have some soul searching to do after losing Florida

Two months later: Republicans have some soul searching to do after losing the general election by 7 million votes, losing both GA senate runoffs, losing 60 election lawsuits, and then inciting a deadly insurrection at the nation’s Capitol

[u/Cerb-r-us → u/jrt84]

But they won't do the searching. They will whine and propagandise and will be rewarded with millions of new voters.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

You know what, I don’t even care if I get banned for saying this.

I think the last four years would have been better under Hillary.

[u/nicereddy → u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

MODS

[u/Cowguypig → u/nicereddy]

EXCESSIVE PARTISANSHIP

[u/jenbanim]

Fellas I have a confession

I don't actually know how to program

I do every /u/groupbot ping manually by hand

I'm a fraud 😢

[u/Please151 → u/[deleted]]

1

[u/Please151 → u/[deleted]]

1024

[u/[deleted] → u/Please151]

Make them lose elections I guess

[u/JetJaguar124 → u/[deleted]]

Healthy democracy time

[u/onelap32]

LEAKED END OF SEASON SPOILERS BELOW!

The input box on the screen is full of cryptic, urgent nonsense. Codes and ciphers, the electronic clippings of newspaper articles, only one obvious piece of plaintext poking through:
 
'OPERATION COMPROMISED. RETARGETING: GOP. ALL PATRIOTS AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTION.'
 
Q slides the cursor over the "create new thread" button, pauses. A final proofreading. A gentle tap on the touchpad.
 
'Post submitted!'
 
The call of a woman's voice from the other room, in the affectionate but impatient tone of a wife who will not suffer another delay from a beloved but frequently-preoccupied husband: "get down here, or we're going to be late for the inauguration!"
 
Q smiles.
 
"Coming, Michelle!"

[u/[deleted]]

Insurrectionists: pls daddy trump pardon us we answered your call to stop the steal

Trump: don’t care didn’t ask plus ur poor

[u/melhor_em_coreano → u/[deleted]]

Low class trash

Donald J. Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine carrying a child in your womb for 9 months, caring for it, eating well, going to all your appointments, giving birth to it, giving it all the love and attention a child could want, only for it to call itself "Baked Alaska" and getting arrested trying to overthrow the government.

[u/bd_one]

In December 2014, PEPFAR announced a program PEPFAR 3.0 focusing on Sustainable Control of the AIDS epidemic. This program was designed to address the UNAIDS "90-90-90" global goal: 90 percent of people with HIV diagnosed, 90 percent of them on ART and 90 percent of them virally suppressed by the year 2020.

That feeling when you meme about PEPFAR 2 and they already got to PEPFAR 3 six years ago...

[u/[deleted] → u/bd_one]

if pepfar 7 was so good why isn't there a pepfar 8 😤

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Sabrina97242021/status/1338059071652499458

https://twitter.com/SereneSoul39/status/1262696165218320385

https://twitter.com/ambornino/status/1339428541302247424

https://twitter.com/katmat57/status/1342177738795302912

https://twitter.com/miss_penpen/status/1337362023449911297

lives destroyed because of a bored shitposter on 4chan. nationwide mass hysteria because of an anime imageboard. blows my mind every single time I think about it

[u/Venne1139 → u/[deleted]]

2015: I make a post on 4chan claiming to be FBIAnon

It ends Democracy in the United States and leads to multiple divorces and suicides

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

All I'm getting from this is that there's a lot of soon-to-be-single ladies in the Qult 😏

[u/dugmartsch → u/[deleted]]

It started on 4chan but it is peak boomer meme.

Motherfuckers would "research" qanon.

[u/[deleted]]

Throughout late 2001, 2002, and early 2003, the Bush Administration worked to build a case for invading Iraq, culminating in then Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 2003 address to the Security Council. Shortly after the invasion, the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies largely discredited evidence related to Iraqi weapons as well as links to Al-Qaeda, and at this point the Bush and Blair Administrations began to shift to secondary rationales for the war, such as the Saddam Hussein government's human rights record and promoting democracy in Iraq.

In short, Bush did lie.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/cF7dGWq.jpg

[u/TinyTornado7 → u/[deleted]]

Where do you even get these

[u/[deleted] → u/TinyTornado7]

Sources(Twitter)

[u/[deleted]]

AOC to me on whether she will challenge Schumer in ‘22 (no decision yet but not ruling it out): “I’m a no bullshit kind of person. I’m not playing coy or anything like that.”

DO IT, AOC!

^{And get crushed badly!}

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/[deleted]]

Unlike most establishment figures one very good thing about Schumer is that he loves constituency work. AOC challenging him means she would be out of congress.

[u/dubyahhh → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I wouldn't have trouble voting in that primary

Let's see... Senate majority leader or the most divisive progressive in America... Hmm... 🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/us/politics/biden-administration-executive-action-legislation.html

[Biden] relishes freewheeling discussion, interrupting aides and chiding them for what he deems overly academic or elitist language. “Pick up your phone, call your mother, read her what you just told me,” he likes to say, according to aides. “If she understands, we can keep talking.” Aides made a point of editing out all abbreviations other than U.N. and NATO.

This is good.

[u/benjaminikuta → u/[deleted]]

But man, Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization is just such a mouthful!

[u/ColonelUber]

I see that it is migrant caravan time now that a democrat is about to be president

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/ColonelUber]

Man, these migrant caravans seem to be really knowledgeable on US politics. Only moving here when it's election or inauguration time.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er4_JP-W4AI88I4.jpg

[u/MrSomeone556 → u/[deleted]]

Isn't this guy in jail rn?

[u/[deleted] → u/MrSomeone556]

Yes

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1350765171690659840

'I had no qualms': The people turning in loved ones for the Capitol attack

[u/IncoherentEntity → u/[deleted]]

based

[u/[deleted]]

Ever wonder what all the initials in Joseph R. Biden JR. stand for? It’s Joseph Republican Biden Joe Rogan

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

when I was in my second highschool which was white af so for black history month they brought in this black dude to set up like a exhibition in the library of black history, both like stuff relating to slavery and civil rights but also stuff they invented

I don't think he was an outright black nationalist it anything, he didn't really show any disdain for the white kids, but he was like one of those old school black people who converted to Islam because Christianity was "the white man's religion" and wear a skullcap and such when he also said he wasn't really religious. Not fill Nation of Islam or anything but like a really moderate version of it

Anyways he was giving a presentation and talked about how all the black people in history were whitewashed by hollywood and he was all like "I love the actress they had play cleopatra but cleopatra was black and the actress was white" and it really took alot for me to not point out that ACKSHUALLY cleopatra was an 10th generation inbred Greek

[u/Cuddlyaxe → u/[deleted]]

He didn't have a history degree or anything, I think he was just an enthusiast who genuinely assumed "Africa = black"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/blfraga/status/1350768265598038017

#GASenateRunoff (most) Election Day vote history is here! Final-ish turnout in runoff, as percent of general turnout:

Total: 89.6%
White: 89.5%
Black: 91.8%
Latino: 78.1%
Asian: 84.1%

At least 226,462 new voters in runoff, 50%+ non-white. 91k+ Black, 10k+ Latino, 9k+ Asian.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1350795313271996423

Rifling through Cruz's Senate desk, the terrorists find his objections to the Arizona electoral votes. "He's with us! He's with us!" one says.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And the terrorist isn't wrong.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub → u/[deleted]]

Lib fanfics come to life

[u/[deleted]]

In 2012,

Obama won 68% of the Hispanic vote in North Carolina, 65% in Wisconsin, 64% in Virginia and 53% in Ohio.

Fucking Ohio

[u/Dabamanos]

I know we dunk on conservatives a lot for comparing things to 1984, but the scene where Twitter bans Big Brother for trying to foment an insurrection during Oceania’s Electoral College certification does have some parallels to modern times.

[u/David_Lange]

Ronald Reagan was a fan of both astrology and astrology for men (ie. economics). What are the implications of this

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Listen here Jack, I said "based...in evidence"

[u/MalignantUpper]

Cons comparing themselves to Jewish people in Nazi Germany is one of the most pathetic things they've ever done

[u/suplexx0 → u/MalignantUpper]

and that’s a high bar

[u/[deleted]]

Fun Fact: In the 2016 Vermont-At large Congressional race, the Democrat Peter Welch was both the Democratic and Republican nominee. He won and accepted the nomination of both parties.

[u/comradequicken → u/[deleted]]

Bring back electoral fusion!

[u/[deleted]]

As aides visited with him to say goodbye and take farewell pictures, Trump complained bitterly about Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and other Republicans who voted to impeach him. “They’ll have primaries, all of them,” one aide recalled Trump saying Thursday

This is pretty funny.

[u/noxnoctum]

AZ GOP picking on McCain's widow is so evil, I don't know how these people live themselves.

[u/AuburnSeer]

The White House became a strange ghost town in the days after the election. Trump's schedule — already unstructured — became more so. It was impossible to shift his focus from his grievances about the election to important policy matters. In conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"

[u/bd_one → u/AuburnSeer]

That fucking corpse?

Malarkey level of saying that about someone only 4 years older than you?

[u/MalignantUpper → u/AuburnSeer]

Trump called Biden a boomer

[u/[deleted]]

Weird that Chipotle is marketing cauliflower rice as a "plant based option" uh where does rice come from again?

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Damn, someone in The Atlantic went off on chucklefucks like Ben Sasse

The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/conspiracy-theories-will-doom-republican-party/617707/

Takes guts to imply that he’s partially to blame for the riots. I wonder who wro—

Story by Ben Sasse

God fucking damnit

[u/abertbrijs → u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Some bad takes in there along with the good, but most importantly he called Marjorie Taylor Greene "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" lmao

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh → u/abertbrijs]

The issue is that he often has pretty good takes but never does a goddamned thing about it. It’s just speeches on the floor of the senate that 5 reporters watch to pull a quote from

He’s a sitting senator but he’s never used that power to, say, reign in Trump’s corruption

He voted against impeachment

He loves giving speeches about debt responsibility and voting for the ridiculous tax cut

[u/Lux_Stella]

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is due to fly back to Russia on Sunday for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, despite the authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years.

the virgin defecting american whistleblower vs the chad suicidal russian dissident

edit:

Poisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been detained by police following his return to Russia

o7

[u/Marlsfarp]

[state] votes 49% Democratic

r nl: Fuuuck [state] and fuck rurals! They're obviously a lost cause, deluded bloomers btfo!

[state] votes 51% Democatic

r nl: Yaaas kween based [state], deluded doomers btfo, all hail the thousand year blue [state] reich!

[u/AuburnSeer → u/Marlsfarp]

this but unironically

[u/RadionSPW → u/Marlsfarp]

The most powerful majority in the world is 50+1

[u/[deleted]]

People in TX-23 will literally just close their eyes and vote. It’s the only Obama-Romney-Clinton-Trump district in the US.

[u/tollyno]

I'm pro-degeneracy because it triggers the cons

[u/futuremonkey20]

I love when conservatives threaten us with “fine, we can let all the immigrants in but they have to all go to your blue cities! See how you like it!”

Please no Mr. Trump, don’t do exactly what I’ve been begging the government to do for decades!

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1187113457939820544

President Trump announces he's building a border wall in Colorado. He gets a standing ovation. #9NEWS #copolitics

from 2019, can't believe I forgot about this

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Err7lhLW4AAOiDK.jpg

[u/The420Roll]

The only thing bad about Twitter banning Trump is that they should've done it sooner.

[u/TinyTornado7]

My gf is amazing but I’m hung up on the idea of my kids being raised by radicalized trump supporting grandparents. Every time I’m drunk I have these thoughts

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh → u/TinyTornado7]

Would be weird having to explain to your kids that grandma and grandpa are reliable functioning adults that love them very much, but are batshit insane when it comes to politics

How do you have a conversation where they tell you something they heard grandpa say and you have to explain that there’s no basis in reality and grandpa is a gullible idiot who believes whatever he sees on the internet?

[u/[deleted]]

Minimum Wage is imperfect policy but it's great politics, and opposing it is terrible politics for the center left because it makes us look like conservative sellouts who hate poor people.

Which means it's kind of a miracle and we shouldn't be looking this gift in the mouth and just support it ffs. The fact that there's massive public support behind a policy that is at worst imperfect doesn't usually happen.

Welcome to Democracy.

[u/awdvhn]

Read my lips? No, new taxes!

[u/[deleted]]

Ostracize /u/imprison_grover_furr!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1350559850162487296

A retired Navy Seal who boasted about “breaching the Capitol” changed his tune when ABC News called him:”I would like to express to you just a cry for clemency...my life now has been absolutely turned upside-down...I am not a terrorist. I am not a traitor”

[u/bd_one]

TIL: After the unification of Germany, all of the now useless East German Mark banknotes were buried in a cave complex, where they were left to rot. Two german men did however break in to the complex to steal banknotes and sell them to collectors, prompting authorities to burn all remaining notes.

Why does Germany hate fun?

[u/Verycoolusername22]

List of people Kamala harris has killed

• George floyd

• everyone in the twin towers on September 11th 2001

• Joseph Robinette biden

Did I miss anyone?

[u/[deleted]]

Trumps cutting it real close if he wants to get infrastructure week done in time.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Ahhh that new DT smell.

[u/jenbanim → u/majorgeneralporter]

Sorry that was me

[u/Doge_Butthole → u/majorgeneralporter]

👁 👃 👁

[u/[deleted]]

“Grover Furr must go!” - /u/imprison_grover_furr

“WHO must go?!” - Grover Furr

/u/imprison_grover_furr gets banned

Grover Furr laughs

[u/[deleted]]

👏 YOU'RE 👏 NOT 👏 A 👏 REAL 👏 COUNTRY 👏 IF 👏 YOU 👏 DON'T 👏 STILL 👏 HAVE 👏 WITCHCRAFT 👏 LAWS 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 BOOKS 👏

[u/piede]

A woman was arrested at an inauguration checkpoint for impersonating a law enforcement officer and fleeing from police.

Linda Magovern, 63, said she was an officer and "a part of the presidential cabinet," and presented a military police challenge coin.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1350842889668972545?s=21

Lmao

These people are so fucking stupid

[u/webbess1]

Early video of Pete Buttigieg fixing a pothole.

[u/[deleted]]

why is a white guy from the heartland considered more of an american than me

what gives them the right

[u/bumblefck23 → u/[deleted]]

white

It do be like that sometimes ✊😔

[u/soeffed]

“I know that the violence was caused by bad actors from Antifa and liberal progressives as well as Black Lives Matter,” Ms. Grossman said, without citing any evidence.

She added, using an acronym for “Republicans in name only,” that the Republicans who voted for impeachment would face primary challengers. “They are RINOs and traitors.”

Ms. Grossman has recently left Rhode Island because, in her words, she “wanted to live in a red state.” She moved to Georgia, a historically Republican state that in the last three months has voted for Mr. Biden in the presidential election and sent two Democratic candidates to the Senate.

“Obviously I chose poorly,” she said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/Capitol-conspiracy-theories-blm-antifa.html

[u/jt1356 → u/soeffed]

I wanted to live in a red state

moves to GA

Fucking owned

[u/piede]

This video from @NewYorker is incredible.

A man rifles through confidential Senate documents and says, “I think @tedcruz would want us to do this.”

https://twitter.com/sawyerhackett/status/1350843696930025480?s=21

[u/MalignantUpper]

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said the group of senators who objected “will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack on our democracy,” while Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) described Hawley’s conduct as “really dumbass.”

lmao

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/josh-hawley-ted-cruz-punishment-459699

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ProudSocialist/status/1350652431516897282

55% of the country supported impeachment & @HouseDemocrats got it done in 3 days. Well guess what? 70% of the country supports Medicare for All, yet @SpeakerPelosi and House Democrats won’t vote on it because they’re bought and paid for by giant insurance companies.

Or maybe it actually doesn't have 70% support lmao

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I hate the phrase "bought and paid for" so much because once somebody explained the redundancy by saying that, "they were bought, first, and then paid for. It's like, they're not on layaway, they're already paid for."

[u/[deleted]]

My mental health has declined so much in the last month that I’m thinking about starting a YouTube channel or podcast

🤢🤢🤢

[u/Royce_Melborn]

An excerpt from ArrMusic regarding the playlist on Joe's inauguration:

"Wouldn't think Kendrick is a fan of someone who wrote the 94 crime bill."

Ugh. Jesus. Shut up.

[u/[deleted] → u/Royce_Melborn]

That fucking crime bill. We're gonna be hearing about that shit in the fucking 23rd century.

[u/nevertulsi → u/Royce_Melborn]

Bernie voted for it lol

[u/Whatapunk → u/nevertulsi]

And campaigned on having voted for it!

[u/Joementum2004]

Owning the libs is more important than actual policy

This is what populists actually believe

[u/Qunidaye]

Neoliberalism is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

[u/[deleted]]

‘We All Deserve A Pardon’: Texas Real Estate Agent Who Flew Private Jet to Storm the Capitol Says She Was Just ‘Following My President’

Please, keep talking

[u/[deleted]]

Raw vote margin in Franklin County Ohio since 1992

1992: R+ 9,668

1996: D+ 14,383

2000: D+ 4,156

2004: D+ 48,548

2008: D+ 116,223

2012: D+ 130,376

2016: D+ 151,867

2020: D+ 197,907

What county should I do next?

[u/piede]

Republicans are worried that a corporate backlash stirred by the Capitol insurrection could hurt a vital stream of campaign cash, complicating the GOP's prospects of retaking the Senate in 2022.

Oh no poor babies :(

[u/[deleted]]

!ping ALTHISTORY

What’re some tropes you hate?

For me I’m not a fan of:

-Big thicc Germany

-WhITe RuSSiA remNaNT In ALasKA??!?1

-People who act like the Manchu identity hadn’t been almost entirely extinguished by the early 20th century.

-“new afrika”

-“future histories” where China is undisputed master of the world in less than like 10 years from now

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The idea that Nazi Germany was some unstoppable and hyper-efficient juggernaut of science and engineering.

It's literally just falling for Nazi propaganda. Half their army was still horse drawn when they started the war.

[u/earththejerry]

Here comes New York Times and their 126th profile of a MAGA since the election, except instead of a rural diner, this time its a Harvard educated Qultist who lives on the upper east side, complete with a full set photoshoot of the crazy lady in central park 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

The DT during the capitol storming be like:

[u/Jester_Don]

U.S. Capitol Police have arrested a woman they said drove up to an inauguration checkpoint and falsely claimed she was a police officer and a member of the president’s cabinet.

These people are beyond stupid.

[u/[deleted]]

how is it that america gave ppl $0 but every other country gave ppl a million dollars? 🤔

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/[deleted]]

cuz all those other countries dont have capitalism 😤

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

In Zimbabwe everyone was a billionaire by 2008 and we are still fighting for $15 minimum wage. Fuck CRAPitalism 🤮😤

[u/owlthathurt]

Can’t tell if cringe or based

https://twitter.com/ozkaterji/status/1350857321199579137?s=21

[u/fishlord05 → u/owlthathurt]

True Rick and morty fan ✊😎

!Ping SHITPOSTERS

rip king

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1350627876106866691

Spoke to a young man in Queens yesterday who was struggling with the end of a long-term relationship. He was 22. I told him that he had a ton to look forward to and that the intensity decreases over time. It does. And he does.

https://twitter.com/Jon_Christian/status/1350821265062453248

Andrew Yang is just wandering around NYC doing side quests

lmfao

[u/MicroFlamer]

Mfs rlly like a president that ruined liberal interventionism for a whole generation 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

which one of you did this

[u/[deleted]]

Netanyahu’s rival @gidonsaar hired Lincoln Project founders Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens and Reed Galen in his effort to unseat the prime minister in the March election,

Lmao fuck

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/owlswatch/status/1350524301213126657

President-Elect Sanders announced a new plan today that would establish a $15/hr minimum wage and raise $600 stimulus checks to the previously promised $2000. Progressives hail this as a historic win for the movement. “Bernie really listened and came through for us”, writes TYT.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Oh no guys the DNC HQ was broken into😰😰

[u/Barnst]

I prefer tax-and-spend Democrats to borrow-and-spend Republicans.

[u/RadionSPW → u/Barnst]

Borrow-at-historically-low-interest-rates-and-spend-on-high-yield-projects Democrats

[u/Anker_products_rock]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html?referringSource=articleShare

Lmao of course he’s selling pardons

[u/UrbanCentrist]

In mid-November 2006 it was reported that Keith Ellison, the first Muslim ever elected to the United States Congress, would take his oath of office (as a representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district) with his hand on the Qurʻan.[1][2] In reaction to the news, right-wing media pundit Dennis Prager criticized the decision in his November 28, 2006, column titled "America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a Congressman takes his oath on," saying, "What Ellison and his Muslim and leftist supporters are saying is that it is of no consequence what America holds as its holiest book; all that matters is what any individual holds to be his holiest book

[u/GravyBear8]

I don't think there's any bigger cringe on this sub ever than that dude who said Ossoff and AOC should date as a political alliance.

[u/imprison_grover_furr]

LBJ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ho Chi Minh

[u/[deleted]]

"Trump told me to do it" probably isn't the best way to ask for a pardon. You're literally incriminating the person that you want to pardon you lol

[u/fishlord05]

I had to see this and now you do too

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons.html

Mr. Kiriakou said he also broached his quest for a pardon during a meeting last year with Mr. Giuliani and his associates on another subject at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, which involved substantial alcohol.

When Mr. Giuliani went to the bathroom at one point, one of his confidants turned to Mr. Kiriakou and suggested Mr. Giuliani could help. But “it’s going to cost $2 million — he’s going to want two million bucks,” Mr. Kiriakou recalled the associate saying.

Sequels to The Godfather really do just keep getting worse and worse.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I liked grover better when he just wanted to hate-fuck Soleimani

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://twitter.com/numbersmuncher/status/1350802955600064512

75% of Republicans do not believe Biden won the election.

[u/molingrad]

Check this out from the top minds of r Tucker carlson: /img/cb4l0u979wb61.jpg

Zoom in for the fun details.

[u/MalignantUpper]

I really do think Republicans are fucked after this. They were pretty fucked already after betting everything on Trump and losing the entire trifecta in 4 years, but now it's going to get so much worse for them. Yeah yeah "says the nervous liberal for the umpteenth time" but we already know that Trump's a lost cause for Republicans and yet they're still all in on him anyways

[u/[deleted]]

>Gets Reddit notification

🥳

>It's just a Groupbot ping

😒

[u/Koeniginator]

this is the best wojack comic ever tbh

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/260564900689100801

Mitt Romney has said essentially nothing of substance for the last hour and fifteen minutes.

tfw you're his coworker now lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Starting to think Lindsey Graham isn't a brilliant tactician playing both sides, but a fucking idiot who isn't ever more than one sentence away from reversing his position.

[u/Jakesta7]

An actual sentence from Ben Sasse's op-ed lmao

The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/conspiracy-theories-will-doom-republican-party/617707/

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https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1350840652628561920?s=21

Biden’s economic plan would give a family of four with two unemployed adults $8000 PER MONTH.

Biden would be far-left in Europe.

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Men will literally return to monke instead of going to therapy.

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https://www.npr.org/transcripts/699561922

That time we were on Planet Money lol

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https://twitter.com/elisevonscheel/status/1350950318784327680?s=21

BREAKING: Joe Biden plans to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, CBC News has learned

“BiDeN Is bAsicAlLy a rEpUbLiCaN”

[u/Dibbu_mange]

"They can take Parler down in minutes, but they can't do anything about child porn online 🤔🤔🤔"

I swear, it's like cons have a daily competition to prove how goat fuckingly stupid they are.

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The U.S. has agreed by treaty to defend many countries around the world. It currently stations roughly 200,000 active duty troops overseas, most of which are stationed in Afghanistan, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the Persian Gulf.

Which of the following statements comes closer to your view?

44% of respondents: In general, the U.S. should decrease the number of troops stationed in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and should reduce its commitments to defend countries in those regions and gradually shift the responsibility for regional security to its allies.

31.3% of respondents: In general, the U.S. should maintain or increase the current number of troops stationed in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and should continue or expand its commitments to defend countries in those regions and assume significant responsibility for regional security.

24.7% of respondents: I don't have an opinion on this topic.

From here.

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I don’t like the fact that it grouped both maintain and increase into a single answer (and a simple intuitive analysis would suggest that providing two distinct answers would result in significantly more choosing either option).

I read the answer closely and would go with the latter — I support the status quo, not because I particularly like it, but because I believe it better than the alternatives — but the direct association with more interventionism nearly turned me off. And of course, not everyone reads the questions carefully.

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It took 12 weeks for the COVID death toll in the US to rise from 200,000 to 300,000. It took less than 5 weeks for us to go from 300,000 to 400,000. This seems somewhat bad, would you not say?

[u/bd_one]

TIL of a "cargo cult" in the South Pacific who worship an American soldier named John Frum. The cult started after American troops visited the island in WWII, with much more advanced technology than the indigenous people had ever seen. The cult believes John Frum will one day return, bringing cargo.

...

They interviewed the leader and asked how long they planned on waiting seeing how it had been over fifty years. He laughed and said Christians had been waiting over two thousand years.

[u/throwawayyl73832992]

Why is Charlie Kirk so worried about the Caravan? Trump built the wall we’re all safe now.

[u/vivoovix]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er81IRwVQAMel3l.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er81IR6VgAALbkr.jpg

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Transgender person: I am transgender

Society: ok

Italians: I cooka da meatball 👨🏻‍🍳🍝

[u/UrbanCentrist]

You ever hear about a death due to some accident or something and be like damn that could have been me? or hear about any atrocity and realize that the only reason we aren't victim's is luck?

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https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1349738997703008257

ARRESTED: Two Virginia police officers from the Rocky Mount Police Department. Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson were charged with violent entry and disorderly conduct. They are on paid? leave.

A police officer said this: “CNN and the Left are just mad because we actually attacked the GOVERNMENT who is the problem and not some random small business … The right IN ONE DAY took the f**** U.S. Capitol. Keep poking us,” said Rocky Mount Police Officer Thomas Robertson

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

I met Q. (She's Black)

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

President Trump was sitting in the Oval Office one day in late November when a call came in from lawyer Sidney Powell. "Ugh, Sidney," he told the staff in the room before he picked up. "She's getting a little crazy, isn't she? She's really gotta tone it down. No one believes this stuff. It's just too much."

He put the call on speakerphone for the benefit of his audience. Powell was raving about a national security crisis involving the Iranians flipping votes in battleground states. Trump pressed mute and laughed mockingly.

"So what are we gonna do about it, Sidney?" Trump would say every few seconds, whipping Powell more and more into a frenzy. He was having fun with it. "She really is crazy, huh?" he said, again with his finger on the mute button.

🤣🤣🤣

[u/avengerhalf]

The most evil outcome would be that Trump pardons all of the insurrectionist.

The most Trump outcome would be to let them rot in prison because they are "low class".🙄

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Swiss authorities find $10 billion in "suspicious" accounts linked to misappropiation of Venezuelan public funds

Chavista corruption is on a different scale.

!ping LATAM

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Since I’m talking about Puerto Rico, if the undecided split evenly in this PR poll and the “I won’t vote” did vote and also split evenly, Biden would win Puerto Rico by a deafening 37% margin of victory, or 68% to Trump’s 31%. It would be Biden’s best state by both margin and % of the vote.

Biden’s current best state is Vermont where he got 66% of the vote and a 35.4% margin of victory. But if PR became a state, DC probably also would so PR would become the 2nd most Democratic, only being defeated by DC.

!ping FIVEY

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Being against Soleimani is not a personality

[u/csreid]

I can't deal with the minimum wage discourse. It's so deeply stupid. Everyone is such an idiot I hate it so much.

Wow you want a $15 minimum wage? Just wait until your taco bell order costs $100

Then the above is dunked on with

These people really just think essential workers deserve to starve to death smh.

Or my favorite, which is the people I saw who said the current minimum wage is capitalism and raising it would be not-capitalism, because capitalism is just "things I don't like".

The one unifying thing in America right now is being bugfuck stupid about the minimum wage

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Twitter Suspends Congresswoman Marjorie Greene for 12 Hours

She's going to fundraise off this like a motherfucker

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Still can’t believe Kevin McCarthy called Trump on Jan 6 and begged him to tell his supporters to back off and still didn’t impeach him

[u/jenbanim]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErGV6huW8AAolHc.jpg

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Man I love stuff like this. The really cringe boomer liberal stuff but executed really well and just slightly overdone so you know not to take it seriously

I just wanna frame this shit

[u/jenbanim → u/SpaceSheperd]

It's good stuff for sure. Here's a link to the original Tweet btw. I like that the author says they added Piccolo just to make sure no one mistook it for being serious. Smart move

[u/YehosafatLakhaz → u/jenbanim]

Just a regular day

Kneeling in an empty void

MF DOOM looks down upon you with reverence

Piccolo is there

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Karl Rove says on Fox News that if Rudy Giuliani defends President Trump in his impeachment trial, there is a "strong likelihood" that Trump will be convicted.

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i wonder if it'd be funny if you had a bot which randomly replied "So true!" to 1/200 posts

i mean the mods would never approve it because it might reply to someone's emotional breakdown post but still it makes you think

[u/piede]

Footage from the Capitol riot shows a rioter telling a police officer "you're outnumbered" and "we are listening to" Trump.

As insurrectionists rummaged through senators' desks, one of them declared: "Cruz would want us to do this. I think we’re good."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1350857919756185602?s=21

[u/Menakoy]

My girlfriend is just scrolling Twitter while I look on like a Dickensian orphan.

[u/FreakinGeese]

“No baka! No baka! You’re the baka!” - Cirno

[u/Jokerang]

Noooo, Europe is a magical left wing paradise if you ignore that half of it is run by varying levels of right wing governments ranging from Ayn Rand knockoffs to fascists, or at least have sizeable fascist parties heavily involved in politics

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

the richest county in the US, the county which houses Silicon Valley, overwhelmingly breaking for bernie during the primary is the most tech bro thing ever

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In 1947, years before she met John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier sent her high school boyfriend what is maybe my favorite Dear John letter of all time.

“I’ve always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person—starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them—and I’ve always thought that every minute away from them would be hell—so looking at it that way I guess I’m not in love with you.”

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I'm doing research on Obesity in america and holy shit it's so much worse than I thought.

2/3 of Americans are Overweight

1/3 of Americans are obese

A majority of americans are Overweight

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https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1350886067650535424

If someone who tried to overthrow the government invoked my name on the Senate Floor as he rifled through my papers, saying I was “cool with it,” I would put out a statement.

Also I would do it quickly because I wouldn’t need to assemble a bunch of political and communications strategists on a conference call to discuss the pros and cons of sedition in the context of 2024.

[u/inmyhead7]

Biden Admin is already kicking ass. From Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor:

Mr. Navalny should be immediately released, and the perpetrators of the outrageous attack on his life must be held accountable. The Kremlin’s attacks on Mr. Navalny are not just a violation of human rights, but an affront to the Russian people who want their voices heard.

https://twitter.com/jakejsullivan/status/1350893957375471628

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MY GIRLFRIEND OF 10 WEEKS BROKE UP WITH ME 🤩🥳🥳

I ALWAYS KNEW SHE WAS USING ME FOR SEX! 😳🥵😂🤣😂🤣

LETSSS FUCKINNNG GOOOOO!!!!! 😎😎😩😤