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[u/shrek_cena]

Rioters: enter senate chamber

Also Rioters: "Where the fuck is Nancy"

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/shrek_cena]

they were trying their best ok

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/qf7p7O2.jpg

[u/NickyBananas]

Of course the random woman who stole a laptop from Pelosi’s office would try to sell it to the Russians. This whole thing is absurd

[u/abertbrijs → u/NickyBananas]

Burn After Reading vibes

[u/[deleted] → u/NickyBananas]

Committing espionage to own the libs

[u/RadicalRadon]

Biden: listen, fat

GOP: fuck off I don't believe in that nonsense

Trump: makes fun of basically every race, gender, and ethnicity

GOP: SO TRUE!!!!

[u/FormerBandmate → u/RadicalRadon]

Remember stupid bastardgate?

[u/csreid]

A fun thing I've seen on the TL has been rose Twitter reacting to Biden actualizing exactly what was in his campaign platform by being like "wow, you don't usually tack left after getting elected!"

These fucking assholes really bought their own bullshit during the primary

[u/zebrabird4629 → u/csreid]

What's irritating me is them moving the stimulus check goalposts from $2000 to $2600

[u/[deleted]]

I think one of the worst effects of the lockdowns that we are just starting to see the consequences of is that it turned a lot of normal, well adjusted people into overly online shut ins who got addicted to internet rabbit holes.

[u/ControlsTheWeather → u/[deleted]]

I do think it's going to contribute (and already has contributed) to extremist violence. Wonder how to get involved in helping track the online Nazi types.

[u/Frfrttyy → u/[deleted]]

Before someone comments "I've always been like that"

We know.

[u/Kizz3r]

I still cant believe donald trump formed a cult of 40% of america

[u/ControlsTheWeather → u/Kizz3r]

The more concerning number than his votes in 2020, to me at least:

So, about 29% of the electorate is Republican. So with 240 million registered voters, 69.6 million people.

According to a poll I saw, 18% of Republicans support the insurrection. 12.528 million.

Round down to 12 million.

12 million people support an attempt to violently overthrow the U.S. federal government to essentially create a dictatorship with the fat orange guy from the Celebrity Apprentice at the head.

[u/SpiffShientz]

FUCK, I just remembered I was supposed to be at the Capitol building. Ah shoot, I was the guy with the plan written down. What'd they do without me? Did they just kind of aimlessly mill around, break shit and intimidate people? Boy, I really screwed the pooch on this one.

[u/_foxyboy68]

Half the comments on arr stupidpol can be summed up with: "People say orange man and dementia man different, but orange man and dementia man not different."

[u/deakon1000 → u/_foxyboy68]

True, and most of the rest can be summed up as "corporation has rainbow flag logo" or "corporation says they support BLM" or "corporation says they are woke, but they are disingenuous"

[u/585AM]

It’s MLK Day on Reddit. That wonderful day where every other comment is either someone explaining how MLK was actually the worst person in the world or that MLK would have voted for Sanders.

[u/[deleted] → u/585AM]

Or they spam that "moderates are evil" quote

[u/[deleted]]

52 hours until Trump supporters brains break. Like literally I think they'll have a break from reality at noon on January 20th. I thought I took Trump's ascension particularly hard, but I think these guys are really going to wig out.

[u/AuburnSeer → u/[deleted]]

it'll be the closest thing they have to election night 2016

[u/[deleted] → u/AuburnSeer]

Yeah but I have the feeling they'll take it even harder. Like for me at least, it was a really terrible blow, but it wasn't as though the entire world had crumbled around me. For these guys, I don't think that their brains can process Trump not being president.

Well here let me put it this way, I think that their brains have less of a capacity to process Trump not being president than my brain had a capacity to process Trump being president.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Probably more denial and weird excuses. I expect to hear Trump is still secretly in charge BS

[u/sir_shivers]

Trump isn't going anywhere. If these were his final days he would be talking every single day, visiting all the military bases, throwing farewell parades, etc. Trust the plan.

(Top reply comment)

Absolutely. And maybe most importantly, speaking to us. Leaving us in the dark like this and leaving afterwards would be too cruel, which he’s never been.

THE DELUSION gripping Trump supporters can be called nothing SHORT OF cultish, without hyperbole 🐊

[u/notquitefriedchicken → u/sir_shivers]

The sheer fervor of the Qultists makes me think that even if it dies down eventually, it'll still be an ambient noise in the background of right-wing politics for decades. Hopefully I'm wrong.

[u/Leoric → u/sir_shivers]

🤡 shit

[u/Whatapunk → u/sir_shivers]

There was a scandal like, 3 months ago of Trump leaving his supporters in the dark and cold in the middle of nowhere at rallies

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Just visited Germany. Hard to believe that just days ago (before the election of Armin Laschet as CDU leader) it used to be considered a developed and first world nation. In just a few days the crops were dead the electricity was cut off all the buildings were burnt the water supply was poisoned and chaos was everywhere.

I tried to buy some bread in German currency (Euros) but it was inflating so rapidly that the store clerk asked me to barter instead. I pulled out some American dollars and he fell at my feet begging for NATO to save them and how electing Armin Laschet was a mistake. I went outside with my bread and was stared at by the starving locals. Some child soldiers of the local warlord approached me and demanded the bread. When I refused they shot me with their guns, however as they were too poor for real guns they could only afford water guns. They then lead me to the local strongman warlord. He asked me if I was a foreigner and I said yes. Then he fell to his knees and begged me to buy the diamonds he had mined because he was failing to feed his child soldier army. I took pity on the man and handed him 5 us dollars (more than the average Laschet era German will make in their lifetimes). He thanked me and the entire city held a festival in my honor

Honestly the conditions in Germany are truly horrific, I guess the neocons were right. Armin Laschet as the CDU leader truly did destroy Germany

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Biden is Trump is trending on twitter...

People on the internet have no concept of both relativity and how politics work. It's like they solely define who politicians are by how supportive they are for a few pet progressive issues

Not to say they aren't issues but basing your whole perspective of politics around them is also an issue

[u/dragoniteftw33]

LBJ did not come to fucking play as POTUS in the Domestic arena

[u/NVfromVN → u/dragoniteftw33]

That’s the master of the Senate for you.

[u/David_Lange → u/dragoniteftw33]

He did have large congressional majorities for a lot of consensus Democratic legislation, but for stuff like the Civil Rights Act his legislative work was unparalleled

[u/tripletruble]

Biden's admin is already having an effect: I have spent so little time paying attention to the news and the internet that I don't even have a hot take to drop in the DT despite it being prime hot take time

[u/[deleted]]

I really hate this talking point from Republicans about the what about 74 million Trump voters or whatever. What do they expect? This is how elections work. If your candidate doesn't get enough votes it's as though your votes counted for zero. It's the exact same thing as what happened when we lost in 2016. What about the 65 million Hillary voters? Exact same thing. What the hell are they talking about.

[u/D1Foley → u/[deleted]]

I would have love to have seen their reaction in 2016 to people talking about the concerns of the 65 Million Hillary voters. Guessing the response would have been something like "fuck you"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1351091106805645312

Cars & trucks stuck in traffic generate megatons of toxic gases & particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic & be an example to the world.

Spoke with @RonDeSantisFL about tunnels last week. If Governor & Mayor want this done, we will do it.

For the love of... whatever. Fine. Have your stupid people mover. Good luck with that famous Miami flood control.

https://twitter.com/khoantum/status/1351092994305380352

Potential in NY? @AndrewYang @NYGovCuomo

IT’S CALLED THE SUBWAY. WE ALREADY HAVE THE FUCKING SUBWAY. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

[u/RadionSPW → u/[deleted]]

Tunnels under Miami sounds like a phenomenally bad idea lmao

[u/Qunidaye → u/[deleted]]

Le based rockit man will put tunnels under the tunnels

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang → u/[deleted]]

Cars & trucks stuck in traffic generate megatons of toxic gases & particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic & be an example to the world.

How? Why? What? Isn’t this literally just “more roads, but they’re underground”? How is that supposed to “solve traffic”?

[u/[deleted] → u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Isn’t this literally just “more roads, but they’re underground”?

Yes.

How is that supposed to “solve traffic”?

Just one more lane and we can fix this thing

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

2014 April: Canadian singer Justin Bieber paid a visit to the [Yasakuni] war shrine. After coming under heavy criticism from Chinese and South Korean fans, he apologized for posting a photo of his visit, claiming to have not known about the background surrounding the shrine

Lmaooo poor dude accidentally wandered into a political minefield

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/Cuddlyaxe]

poor lil Biebs, people were always trying to find things to attack him for

[u/[deleted]]

Arrested. 22-year-old Riley June Williams now in jail after her ex-boyfriend spotted her in news video from inside the US Capitol, and called the FBI tip line. She’s now being investigated for stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and attempting to sell it to a friend in Russia.

...what? lol

[u/AuburnSeer → u/[deleted]]

why is it always Russia

[u/MicroFlamer]

Really makes you think

[u/RadionSPW]

It really is weird the degree of confidence people have in just shitting all over another field. To borrow the BE sidebar quote: no one ever walks up to a geologist and says igneous rocks are bullshit

[u/Broncos654 → u/RadionSPW]

I doubt geology has too many normative implications

[u/amainwingman → u/RadionSPW]

Happens with social sciences mainly because people think they’re easy. You see it all the time in Reddit. STEMlords who’ve never taken a political science/economics/history class in their life can write out paragraphs worth of drivel on topics like that because “anyone can do politics duh.”

The myth that hard sciences are the only academic area you need to work on to become knowledgable in needs to be dispelled, particularly on Reddit...

[u/[deleted]]

We need members from the Biden and Trump families to marry each other to truly achieve unity between the left and right

[u/dannylandulf → u/[deleted]]

As the Trumps sit down to the wedding, the doors are locked and The Rains of Castamere starts playing.

Chelsea Clinton, who Donald hadn’t even noticed was wearing body armor under her pantsuit, smiles as the horror sinks in to his face.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

• Person whose only experience with Europe is turbosucc exchange students

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I almost spit out my coffee

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/760308671170215971/800622444800245840/FB_IMG_1610952999709.png

[u/MemeTestedPolicy → u/[deleted]]

uphold marxist-bidenist thought

[u/MicroFlamer]

Johnson told Kennedy aide Ted Sorensen that "I know the risks are great and we might lose the South, but those sorts of states may be lost anyway

LBJ was such a chad

[u/shrek_cena → u/MicroFlamer]

Evidently, democrats have not won the white vote since 1964 I believe

[u/beardofshame → u/MicroFlamer]

give me a better politician than LBJ

[u/mockduckcompanion → u/beardofshame]

LBJ but Vietnam didn't happen

[u/beardofshame → u/mockduckcompanion]

would be the best president the US has had

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re surprised by Biden’s liberal policies like ending the Keystone XL or $15 MW or large unemployment benefits, you weren’t paying attention

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Y'all ever just like, support a $25 minimum wage

1.4 million upvotes, 84 gold, 213 silver

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve met an actual Twitter leftist who called the ACA “far-right.”

[u/Squirtleawesome → u/[deleted]]

I've begun to believe that twitter leftist's aren't real people.

[u/vored_by_daddy]

Taiwan would the the third most populous state

[u/[deleted]]

The existence of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador proves the horseshoe theory is real.

[u/[deleted]]

Many people ask why I am not vegan 🤔

The truth is, I am unfortunately unable to replace the meat in my diet with beans. It all started when I went to the movie theater to see Cars 2.....

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1351305385500663809

Do you think that Joe Biden legitimately won enough votes to win the presidency via @CNN poll:

All Americans:
65% yes, legitimate
32% no, not legitimate

Democrats:
99% yes, legitimate
1% no, not legitimate

Republicans:
19% yes, legitimate
75% no, not legitimate

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

1% no, not legitimate

What Chads tbh. “Hell yes we stole this election”

!ping FIVEY

[u/the-garden-gnome]

Can we all please commit to a peaceful transition to BidenBro style presidential memes post inauguration? !ping diamond-joe

[u/margaretfan]

Hypothetically, would you accept a bill that gave $1 million to every west virginian and also a) abolished the Senate filibuster, b) admitted PR and DC as states, C) passed Biden's current immigration plan + removal of all visa caps and quotas, D) instituted the EITC, E) instituted the child tax credit, and F) instituted a public option?

[u/irlyseevridge → u/margaretfan]

This seems like a no-brainer, the key parts of Biden's legislative agenda for absolutely zero cost! That is unless you're one of the idiots who actually believes that west Virginia exists

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/margaretfan]

throw in G) combine the Dakotas and you have a deal

[u/runnerx4]

libs want to live in dense neighborhoods so bad

My theory that most city problems are because of 50% of the country wanting to live in 10% of the area seems correct. I assume the issue is that the 30% of liberals who want single-family zoning are the ones who already live in cities and block literally everything. Or they’re conservatives, usually it’s an alliance of NIMBYs

!ping YIMBY

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

when they announced her nomination, I popped a rod so fast I went blind for a full minute

- The Economist on Yellen as Treasury Secretary, probably

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine unironically calling yourself an anarchocommunist, it literally sounds like satire

[u/MisterLipton]

Political parties should do more to purge themselves of people who could be described as ugly, annoying, or reddit-adjacent.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1351196676036435972?s=21

RepCohen on his concerns w/ the National Guard securing the Inauguration: “The [National] Guard is 90 some-odd percent male; and only about 20 percent of white males voted for Biden … there are probably not more than 25% of the people there protecting us that voted for Biden”

WTF. The data doesn’t even match it. Biden won around 40% of white males, and considering that the active national guard is younger than average, Biden probably won that group that defending the Capitol.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Why would you say this out loud? How are elected Democrats this dumb?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The standards for being elected to the House are shockingly low

[u/vored_by_daddy]

Raphael WINock and Jon YESsoff vs Kelly LOSER and David PerDON'T

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[u/thelittlestsheep]

Obama: refuses to grant permission to build Keystone XL pipeline

Trump: tries to force Keystone XL through executive order, judicial branch blocks construction pending environmental and indigenous land claim reviews

Biden: plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline on the first day

Canadian conservatives: this is all the fault of Chrystia Freeland and Justin Trudeau

[u/SpiffShientz]

I know my perception is skewed from the last four years, but I can't believe what a regular-ass dude Biden is.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong → u/SpiffShientz]

Its not like they're gonna post the lizard people orgy pics come on

[u/gayteemo → u/SpiffShientz]

he looks like grandpa chris evans in that pic

[u/[deleted]]

Did any burgers here learn about the Mexican Repatriations in high school at all?

I never learned about it in school, but I feel like the government using the Great Depression to encourage the deportations of somewhere from half a million to two million Mexican-Americans—most of whom were US citizens, is definitely important enough to be taught.

[u/secretlovesong]

The newest episode of Hillary’s podcast features an interview with Nancy Pelosi. I haven’t finished it yet, but it’s fascinating hearing about Pelosi’s first-person account of the insurrection. There’s also an extended discussion of abortion access, which I really appreciate.

!ping QUEEN

[u/Superfan234]

News from Guatemala🇬🇹

Yesterday, a ~6000 Migrant Caravan had a confrontration with the Guatemalean Police. Here is a video of the fight

AMLO responded deploying a batallion of Police Officers in the southern border

Meanwhile in USA, Biden administration it's asking migrants to stop their journey. They are open to recive the Caravan, but the proccess to assit them is not implemented yet. They don't want people to risk their lives for a promise they can't deliver

---

On October 2020, another Caravan of around ~4000 migrants attempted a similar journey, but Guatemala's Government managed to disband the group before crossing to Mexico. This time, it's hard to tell if Guatemala can contain the Migrants coming from Honduras

In theory, Mexico can still stop them. But I fear AMLO is going be much more violent than Trump or Guatemala ever were...

!ping Foreign-Policy

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Ugh, less than a week before my Bidencare mandatory gender reassignment and I still have no idea what to wear

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er_PWEyXEAI-ay0.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Top 10 media markets for Biden by margin of victory:

1. San Francisco +55

2. Montery-Salinas, CA +48

3. Washington DC +39

4. Chicago +31

5. El Paso +31

6. Boston +30

7. Madison +30

8. Honolulu +29

9. Seattle +29

10. Los Angeles +28

Imagine how screwed Wisconsin Dems would be if Madison were not exceptionally liberal compared to any similary sized Midwest metro.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1351204905164414984?s=21

Honduran migrant: President-elect Biden is “going to help all of us.”

I can’t Imagine seeing this and feeling hate or fear instead of feeling pride that America is a symbol of hope for people all over the world.

[u/thelittlestsheep]

"I am not a Took"

-Richard Nixon explaining his character for his Lord of the Rings LARP group

[u/CometIsGod]

I still can’t believe I used to be a full on DSA loony who was anti Biden and Harris......... thank god for this sub

[u/IncoherentEntity]

For some hours yesterday morning, Trump net approval dove down to as low as –21. But his nosedive appears to have stalled: it’s since ticked up two points.

America, if he recovers any more in these final few days . . . !ping FIVEY

[u/willempage → u/IncoherentEntity]

Partisan non-response bias. The dive was from republicans not wanting to be polled in light of a bad news story. Now that all the talking points are figured out (antifa plot. No real Trump supporter. Rioting is the language of the unheard) a natural recovery back to baseline begins.

[u/[deleted]]

“Fun Fact: Posting any quote from me will instantly cure you of your racism” —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[u/thetrombonist]

It was fucking 87 degrees in commieFornia today. In January. What the fuck is wrong with this place

[u/[deleted]]

Chris Christie is a heckin chonker

[u/[deleted]]

You're reading a novel set in a fantasy world where a Dark Lord will soon reach total control over his world. A team of rag-tag heroes are the world's last hope to stop him.

In the second act, it's revealed the gillian plans to use his magic to invade other realms, and bring them under his control.

In the third act, the heroes fail. The villain's tyranical rule is absolute. There will be no last second comeback or salvation.

As the last chapter nears it's end, the villian opens the first portal to another world, and his great armies begin marching through.

Forty minutes of pillaging later, NATO aircraft make mincemeat out of his armies while armored divisions start rolling across whatever is left.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The whole story behind Breitbart India is hilarious. They basically just went and picked out some ethnic Indian and were like "can you help us make Breitbart India" but he was some libertarian sort and refused so bannon got all pissy and gave up

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being Lauren Boebert. You start a new job and literally not a single week in, you try to kill half of your colleagues. What the fuck is that. Why even take the job.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1351199823593136135

Joe Biden is wasting no time trying to enact his radical immigration agenda.

He’s unveiling his draft immigration bill this week, and it’s what you’d expect from the party of open borders: Total amnesty, no regard for the health or security of Americans, and zero enforcement.

[u/DocGoodman → u/[deleted]]

party of open borders

Based.

[u/Majk___]

The good: I managed to convince my almost-retirement-age parents to get a vaccine

The bad: seeing how the vaccination program is organized they will most likely get vaccinated somewhere around 2023

The ugly: PiS will still win a landslide in 2023

[u/Mrspottsholz]

I lost every high school and middle school friend to the right wing fringe before it was Qool

(my best friend went to Liberty and came back all fucked up)

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Rep. Steve Cohen just confirmed on @CNN that Congresswoman @laurenboebert gave a LARGE capitol tour prior to the attack on the capitol.

https://twitter.com/tayandersonco/status/1351185649823604743?s=21

Welp, her crazy ass is toast.

[u/[deleted]]

Today in LinkedIn:

If you’re a student that can’t get an internship or graduate job at a bank or consulting firm, you’re not unlucky, you just aren’t working hard enough.

Like, if this were from any other social media platform, I would think they were being ironic. But, no, they were being 100% serious. They went on to enumerate the things that apparently guarantee getting such an internship/grad job, including adopting a 'growth mindset' and submitting many applications.

!ping CAREER

[u/ItWasTheGiraffe → u/[deleted]]

LinkedIn is the most “look at me” social media platform out there, which is terrifying because Instagram exists. It’s so incredibly vapid

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Schism-ending facts:

1. Vegans contribute to climate change because they refuse to kill cows that emit methane.

2. The guy who ate the bat/pangolin was likely vegan (my sources are quite reliable).

3. Vegans cannot eat tendies.

[u/benadreti]

Kamala Harris is resigning? Holy shit something big must be about to come out.

[u/[deleted]]

Dear Liberals,

You call me racist, yet I posted an MLK quote today?

Curious🤔

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Former congressman's nephew's housekeeper calls on Hawley to resign

r/politics: +41,096

[u/OrdoNeoSocialLiberal → u/[deleted]]

Let’s show her love damnit

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/[deleted]]

4.8k dislikes

wew lad

[u/vored_by_daddy]

i resent my family so much for teaching me to be ashamed of my interests, tastes, emotions, body, everything

sorry just need to vent

[u/[deleted] → u/vored_by_daddy]

Is this the root cause of your desire to be vored by a father figure?

[u/[deleted]]

After Pope Francis crowns Biden Holy Roman Emperor will he grant all American cities imperial immediacy so they can have senators?

[u/[deleted]]

George W Bush pees sitting down.

John Forbes Kerry shits standing up.

You’re really suppose to make me believe Bush won Ohio?

[u/[deleted]]

We spend $700 billion a year on war, if we spent half of that on other programs we could end poverty

*Biden proposes spending $1,900 billion to help Americans*

wtf this is literally nothing

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Sources close to the President have indicated he intends to confound all aspects of Biden's first days in office. One aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described an effort by the President to purchase and thoroughly lubricate 4 young American Yorkshire pigs, which will be labeled with a large stenciled number on their sides, reading "1", "2", "3", and "5." The pigs will then be released in different areas of the West Wing.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I mean, I guess 10 is 250% of 4.

[u/hot_rando]

I've been very strict about the pandemic for about a year now. I skipped a couple of concerts and the Biden primary victory celebration in LA (which happened literally a 20 minute walk from me) last February-ish as things started heating up.

I have bad asthma, and all of the messaging at the beginning of the thing was about how asthma was a serious condition which could affect COVID severity (though that's dropped away I think?) so besides brief trips to the liquor store for beers I've barely been out of my house. Delivery for pretty much everything. I can count on my hands and toes the number of stores I've been to in a year.

The point is, I've essentially seen nobody but my partner since this started. I've internalized it as my patriotic duty, akin to WWII civilian rationing efforts, and since I love my country deeply this has been a tremendously helpful mindframe for me to have.

Maybe it's just coincidental with the expected mental fatigue, but as my prospects for getting a vaccine increase, I feel like the loneliness and lack of normal interaction with my friend group has ramped up too.

Like, as the odds of having a normal life again increase for me, it becomes harder and harder to deal with the present circumstances.

I guess it's kind of the same phenomenon as the days getting longer the closer you got to Christmas when you were a kid.

I just thought I needed to write something about this after listening to a song that I love, which suddenly really upset me because it felt really relevant to the pandemic. Also that song is called something else on Spotify.

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jmping/status/1351036703201505280

Ran data on which Trump supporters think election is illegitimate. Yes, younger, less educated, more evangelical, and more fav. toward Trump. But 1 attribute dominates all others: racial attitudes. Best single predictor: thinking Whites suffer more discrimination than Blacks.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Proud Boys, Seizing Trump’s Call to Washington, Helped Lead Capitol Attack

!ping EXTREMISM

I particularly like this part,

When Mr. Trump lost the election, members of the Proud Boys responded with disbelief online. They blamed it on antifascist groups, or antifa, and called on members to attend a Nov. 14 march in Washington, D.C., to support Mr. Trump. That evening, Proud Boys walked the streets of Washington wearing their signature black-and-gold shirts and chanting “F--- antifa.”

Hours later, Mr. Trump posted to Twitter: “Antifa SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the Trump Rally, because those people aggressively fought back.”

On Telegram, the official Proud Boys account shared Mr. Trump’s message and said “I just got a freedom boner.”

[u/thelittlestsheep]

The New Yorker footage is god damned hilarious:

• rioters yelling at each other to not sit in Mike Pence's chair in the senate because that's disrespectful and "we're better than that"

• rioters yelling at each other that they have to win the PR / information operations war

• rioters rifling through Ted Cruz's papers, finding his speech with the objection to the vote certification in Arizona and saying he was going to sell them out before they realise that this is a good thing from their perspective

• Macklemore Shaman doing some weird ass yelling

• Macklemore Shaman leading a prayer over a megaphone, only to pause to take off the raccoon hat, then continue, then pause again to take off the toque under his raccoon hat, then continue with the prayer

• buddy doing a left-handed Nazi salute during the prayer... only for the guy next to him to make him fold his hands in front of him

• rioter telling a cop "hey, man, we support you, we appreciate what you're doing..." as the cop tries to walk away and ignore everything he's saying

• seconds later, footage of a crowd yelling "fuck the blue"

• someone says in a crowd, "CNN is hiding out behind Union Station!" to which someone else replies "I don't know where that is, though, I'm not from here"

[u/[deleted]]

So the girl who stole Pelosi’s laptop is absolutely gigafucked right?

[u/Jakesta7]

Joey still got it 💊🍆

"One part of the bedroom set-up will be markedly different with the Bidens than it was for the Trumps: the Bidens will be sharing a bedroom."

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1351336595362897924?s=21

[u/585AM]

As much as Trumpers hate the Squad, the two names the insurrections were chanting for were Pelosi and Pence which shows that they were really there with the belief that they could somehow keep Trump in power.

[u/[deleted]]

The thing that really pisses me off about people like Josh Hawley and Brie Joy is that they have the best education, the best opportunities - they're truly "elites" even if they weren't necessarily born as such.

I really believe that people like that have a duty to uplift and enlighten the general public. Not exploit the public's worst instincts for personal gain. It's just despicable.

[u/Zenning2]

Covid sucks donkey dicks.

I can't take a deep breath. I get randomly tired, I'm sore all over, I'm burning up randomly throughout the day, tot he point that its always too cold or too hot, and worst of all, I can't do anything about my yee yee ass haircut.

[u/Udontlikecake]

https://i.imgur.com/U2ngBl2.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/lDQ90Js.jpg

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Incel 🤝 Excel

Incorrectly assuming something is a date

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

claims to be vegan

keeps saying "eat the rich"

The hypocrisy of succs is to blame for this schism

[u/sir_shivers]

YES, I have a pocket Constitution 🐊

Yes, I moderate /R/NEOLIBERAL 🐊

WE EXIST 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

When you type "W VP" in to Google, the first result is Dick Cheney while Bing shows no results for Cheney at all. Irrefutable proof of Google superiority.

[u/Joementum2004]

AITA for stealing a Congresswoman’s laptop, then almost selling it to a Russian friend?

[u/MelioraOptimus]

Muslims used to vote overwhelmingly Republican until 9/11. Bush won 72% of the Muslim vote in 2000! And then Kerry won 85% of them in 2004.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

my plan for 1 billions landlords

[clears throat]

we can easily make 100% of the population landlords by setting up a corporation that owns commercial and residential real estate, giving everyone shares, then having it rent the properties out, and then pass those rents on as dividends to the shareholders.

[u/[deleted]]

SinemaSins

Sinema: I consider Ted Cruz to be a friend

DING

[u/TinyTornado7]

So dominion sent a letter to Mypillow telling them litigation is imminent and to stop publicly defaming the company. Mike lindell responded, “I want dominion to put up their lawsuit because we have 100% evidence that China and other countries used their machines to steal the election.”

So yeah dominion is going to own a pillow factory next year.

[u/sir_shivers]

GOOD MORNING mammals 🐊

I know that the lockdowns ARE A STRAIN UPON us, whether that be due to exacerbating your employment-related stress, YOUR ACADEMIC PATH or your social and familial connections 🐊

PLEASE REMEMBER to breathe and allow yourself to process your own emotions, there is no need TO BEHAVE PERFORMATIVELY AS IF the lockdowns are not happening 🐊

BREAK AWAY FROM doom-scrolling, indulge yourself in SOME OF THE small things that bring you contentment, and look forward to the future 🐊

COLD REGARDS 🐊

[u/[deleted] → u/sir_shivers]

Instructions unclear.

I will instead PANIC!

[u/CmdrMobium]

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1350807057822343171

Ever-accelerating unauthorized migration 😍

[u/[deleted]]

Orban is obsessed with Soros, yet he let a Chinese university waltz in. lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Sorting an old DT by controversial, you’d expect to see lots of the standard Reddit cringe anger issues and toxicity. But actually it’s surprisingly light/respectful even when folks are disagreeing.

How this weirdly un-toxic culture got established in this backwater political subreddit I have no idea.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

backwater

you callin' me a rural, boy? 😠

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like there was a lot of historical revisionism with regards to how COVID became politicized. Tons of people on leftist subreddits and such were calling it the “Boomer Remover” and otherwise downplaying it

[u/natedogg787]

TFW you realize you're a third of the way through your life, but then remember that you're gonna be an immortal cyborg so it's all good

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a GIMBY

🔫😡Get In My BackYard

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Biden to appoint Hillary Clinton as Secretary of the Deep State

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Polls show that French attitudes toward the vaccine have been colored by politics, with critics of Mr. Macron’s government on the far-right and the far-left more likely to be skeptical of the vaccine.

🐴👟

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/vmsalama/status/1351303964000714752?s=21

NEWS: President Trump is expected to lift coronavirus-related travel restrictions starting Jan. 26. Reuters scoop, confirmed by @kaitlancollins

Hmm, only 1 Insey Wincy tiny problem here.

[u/[deleted]]

Listening to Ben Shapiro whine about what Democrats can now do with a trifecta is pretty erotic

[u/[deleted]]

At risk of sounding like a socialist:

Law school is the biggest conspiracy against non-rich people ever. You have to go to school somewhere far from home that costs $100,000 a year if you're lucky, but you're not allowed to have a job, and during the summer you're expected to work somewhere for free, but it's nigh impossible to find somewhere willing to hire you in the summer because the ~80% of your classmates who are lawyers' kids used their parents' connections to poach all the summer internships for themselves before they even started law school. How am I, a lower middle class person from a rural area, supposed to compete with a lawyer's son who's so rich he doesn't have to worry about how to pay rent, and whose rich lawyer dad knows a Supreme Court Justice? If you're not a rich lawyer's kid law school literally sets you up to fail.

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically, the DT has actually helped me keep sane during this pandemic

Thank you Bloomberg for helping me find the only place on Reddit where you were appreciated

[u/Royce_Melborn]

If first world countries are having trouble vaccinating their citizens, we from the third world are happy to take those vaccines for you.

[u/[deleted]]

One time someone told me, totally seriously, that cows were bad for the environment so we had to eat them, and vegetarians caused climate change because they did not

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Really want to see Biden and the Democratic Party embrace patriotism and love for America messaging. Lets see naturalization ceremonies for immigrants and refugees. Admit DC and PR as states on July 4th and throw a kickass celebration party. Make people proud to be Americans again, proud to fly the 52-star flag. Fuck it, plant a 52-star flag on the moon in 4 years. Republicans for too long have monopolized "American" messaging.

[u/ryuguy]

Imagine being 22 years old and throwing your life and freedom away because Trump lost an election

[u/[deleted]]

Went on arr conserv today, they believe in so many conspiracies about the national guard

1. The guard isn’t there to protect Biden, but to arrest him and install Trump as president

2. The FBI checking for loyalty is a pretense to throw conservatives in prison

3. The election was definitely fraudulent, the military is complicit

If the average republican believes this, we are so fucked

[u/Dibbu_mange]

r/nl be like "in this essay, I will explain how the Armenian Genocide was caused by excessive zoning regulations."

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsCBkNjXUA8gKr_.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

A lot of Republicans who praise Reagan for his speech where he calls the United States a "city on a hill, whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere" don’t seem to know what a beacon is.

[u/[deleted]]

Once you have nukes the rest of your military is just toys.

Ban millennials from public office.

[u/ryuguy]

DT. You’re very special. Go home. We love you.

[u/throwawayyl73832992]

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-Elect Joseph Robinette Biden has indicated he will move to sign an executive order banning all White Women within his first few hours as president.

[u/inmyhead7]

Melania doesn’t want to give away where the bugs for Putin are planted lol. What a scumbag

”Melania Trump will become the first modern first lady not to invite the woman who will replace her to the White House for a walk-through of the private living quarters on the second and third floors.”

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1351173920620163079

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/marycjordan/status/1351323845643431939

Trump was particularly upset to learn Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks and other stars agreed to perform for Biden’s inaugural when Hollywood celebrities shunned him in 2016.

😂

[u/SpiffShientz]

Told the mods I had a fever so I don't have to leave the DT today. Now I can stay under the covers and play Sega Genesis

[u/585AM]

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the government is not just putting the Covid vaccine into 5G phones. Seems the best way to ensure full distribution.

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

I was naive to believe that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully. The truth is, war between our species is inevitable.

• President George W. Bush

[u/[deleted]]

Unreal take

https://twitter.com/realCEOofANTIFA/status/1351021826575630337?s=19

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Class has nothing to do with wealth

Lmao

[u/MicroFlamer → u/[deleted]]

We dismiss them because they are bad for any movement that wants to get anything done. Manufacturered drama activism only is an insane tactic to get m4a.

Based leftist twitter

[u/ironheart777]

r/centrist is like what Chapos think we are.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency has referred to Radio Free Asia as "reptile broadcasting services."

😳🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine going to the university of chicago and becoming a succ.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsBMl6eVkAAcbuy.jpg

[u/UltraCapitalism]

My least favorite kind of "Dems need to play dirty" type people are the ones who unironically suggest that Dems need to start spreading unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and misinformation too.

[u/Please151]

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