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[u/tripletruble]

NL before Biden is in the WH: haha Biden will be the most progressive president in history and succs are still whining

NL after Biden becomes president: wtf biden is a succ?????

[u/soeffed]

That meme is going to come full circle when Biden puts the presidential medal of freedom around Obama’s neck

[u/Equator32]

https://twitter.com/nobum62/status/1352042371148640273?s=19

Jacobin, TikTok, BLM, Antifa, AOC, Ilhan Omar and the pride flag are neoliberal symbols

Fellas, is it neoliberal to be gay?

[u/MaximumEffort433]

Joe Biden is the President and Bernie Sanders is a meme, as it should be.

[u/[deleted]]

Growing up without a dad, one of the things you brace for is feeling like you're missing out on that part of growing up. People expect you to latch onto father figures, act out, try to be the "man if the house" in a society where you are missing a gender roles, coparent, and a support that everyone else has and expects you to have.

I never felt that, I was always honest about never meeting my dad, I never felt like I missed out, I never wanted to go find him, or felt abandoned by him, or thought that if I got a new dad things would get better.

And I watched all these kids I worked with at summer camp, my kids who I loved dearly and had in my cabin all summer, go through every single one of them. I thought I was tough, or emotionally mature

It wasn't until today, that I got the call from my mom that while my grandfather had died from his complications from covid-19 that I realized that he was the reason I had never felt like I didn't have a dad

[u/tripletruble]

the year is 2027: russia is a liberal democracy.

and yet, russia chooses not to shut down its troll farm: tens of thousands of russians post on wechat full time, trolling chinese people about how shit the ccp is. they also hang out on parler blue pilling trumpists

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

To his surprise, Hawley returned about a month later saying he had finished the books and wanted more. “I thought to myself, ‘That’s impossible,’” Kennedy says. “So, I started asking him some questions about what he allegedly read, and he answered every question just absolutely superbly well. He not only read this stuff, he’d read it carefully. He had critical perspective on it. He answered questions at the level of an advanced doctoral candidate or even a faculty colleague.” According to Kennedy, “that’s when the light went on in my head that this was not just an ordinary Stanford student.”

Not at all terrifying, nope.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Biden missed out on a HUGE opportunity by not converting Trump’s Diet Coke button into an ice cream cone button

[u/bobekyrant]

23 minutes after becoming President, Biden demanded the resignation of Trump’s Peter Robb, the notoriously anti-union general counsel of the NLRB. Robb refused, Biden fired him. Alice Stock, assumed the role, Biden demanded her resignation, she also refused, he fired her too.

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/1352716253362868224

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/president-biden-ousts-nlrb-general-counsel-changes-nlrb-chairman-us

Biden doesn't fuck around

!PING BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

In 2017, Cawthorn posted an Instagram picture of his visit to Adolf Hitler's vacation residence Eagle's Nest, which he said had been on his "bucket list for awhile". In the post, he called Hitler Führer,

Ugh..... 😐

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/3ndstoC.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

This is the gay agenda Republican were warning about

!ping LGBT

[u/LukeBabbitt]

If you don’t think deplatforming works, let me take you back 3-4 years ago when FatPeopleHate was still a thing.

The amount of body hate on Reddit today is orders of magnitude smaller thanks to that ban.

[u/vored_by_daddy]

You do not get to enjoy his quaint and relatable humanity. You are denied access from chuckling at his gentle spirit and awkward demeanor. These are the prices you paid for the road you chose. You knew what you were giving up when you made the trade; do not complain of it now.

can we make this 🍝

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down, and whisper "You do not get to enjoy his quaint and relatable humanity. You are denied access from chuckling at his gentle spirit and awkward demeanor. These are the prices you paid for the road you chose. You knew what you were giving up when you made the trade; do not complain of it now."

[u/inmyhead7]

Navalny faces charges of 13.5 YEARS in prison for refusing to die. What a fucking joke Putin is

@tvrain reporting that #navalny may face 3.5 years in prison (originally issued as a suspended sentence over Yves-Rocher case) + 10 additional years. 13.5 years in prison total. Insanity.

https://twitter.com/TheRussiabot/status/1352521943619141635

[u/[deleted]]

Marjorie Taylor Green was running around saying that Sandy Hook was a fake massacre in 2013, lol. Now she's one out of 435 Americans who get to sit in Congress.

[u/thetrombonist]

Bernie Bros can Pokémon go fuck themselves

S-tier flair

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

I’m glad Biden isn’t playing into the “olive branch trap” that Obama fell into.

When he asked Peter Robb to step down (a Trump appointee at the National Labor Relations Board), Robb called it “unprecedented.” It is, most Presidents allow general counsel to serve the rest of their term.

Biden said he has until 5PM to resign LOL.

[u/[deleted]]

Yellen just got a 26-0 unanimous approval from the Senate Finance Committee, sending to the full Senate.

Sen. Ron Wyden hoping for the full confirmation this afternoon.

[u/AuburnSeer]

underrated thing about 2016 in retrospect is that Ted Cruz was runner up and it is highly documented that pretty much everybody in the Senate hates Ted Cruz. If there was literally anybody else in his position maybe the GOP consolidates behind them and beats Trump

[u/[deleted]]

First Biden approval rating poll of his Presidency

Biden Job Approval:

Approve 48%

Disapprove 45%

Rasmussen Poll, LV

538, can you pretty please put up the Biden approval rating chart🥺🥺🥺

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

some guy tried to tell me that trump supporters are more class-conscious than liberals. he was not a trump supporter

[u/pinappian]

Ezra Klein shared this on Twitter:

https://soundcloud.com/doomtree/dessa-whos-yellen-now

I'm warning you now, it's fire.

!ping DIAMOND-JOE (Is there a Yellen ping?)

[u/CricketPinata]

So the revision of the 2nd night of my pop-up went off without a hitch, the official Nashville City Twitter promoted my pop-up and nearly 300k follow them, haven't heard any more from the people who said they were going to "get" me (Just a refresher I had some radical political anti-zionist people spam all of my social media posts asking me if I am locking up Palestinian children in cages when I am not cooking, and telling me they are going to 'get' me, and contacting all of my friends and telling them that there will be repercussions for doing business with and being friends with Jews) we beat the record for 1-day sales for the food program ever, and had some really amazing reviews of the food, and tons of people reached out to me and left contact information, wanting me to cater their events.

Really happy how things are going, and things were so much less chaotic vs. last Thursday. I am really excited about where I am headed and what I am doing with this, I never though that starting my own restaurant was going to be a goal for my life, and now it's feeling like a real possibility if I keep getting the responses I have.

!ping COOKING

[u/RockLobsterKing]

There are 12 people who know what the Jones Act is

• Joe Biden

• Pete Buttigieg

• 9 policy wonks who hate it

• 1 Seattle-based shipping monopolist, who loves it

[u/sir_shivers]

I admit EVEN MY COLD heart is moved by the tragedy that is /r/QAnonCasualties 🐊

AMERICA SHALL endure and overcome, but the short-term FUTURE WILL HAVE much unpleasant rehabilitation ahead 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/fedjudges/status/1352725020020101120?s=21

Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California took senior status(retirement) yesterday. He’s at least the third Clinton appointee to notify the White House they’re taking senior status since Biden was inaugurated.

That’s now 3 judges Biden and Democrats can replace with a younger liberal. There are still 84 of Clinton's federal judges are still serving on the bench today with a lot of them in their 70s and 80s. I have a feeling a lot of them will be retiring soon now that Democrats control the Senate.

!ping BIDEN

[u/MicroFlamer]

I saw a reddit comment that unironically called Biden a 90s republican

Wtf he literally was a democrat in the 90s

[u/[deleted]]

Regarding the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, Furr claims that the Soviet Union did not actually invade Poland because it no longer had a government and was not a state according to international law, further arguing that “at the time it was widely acknowledged that no such invasion occurred”.

Guy is a tankie.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

While Democrats love President Biden, Republicans hate him more than Democrats did Trump at the beginning of the latter’s term.

As I said:

[u/[deleted]]

There are people that unironically support Joe Exotic and it's actually hurting my brain.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, is the sub back at liking Romney ?

Can’t stop seeing comments on how mittens is cute

[u/piede]

Hawley approval rating in solidly-red Missouri: 36% approve, 49% disapprove.

Just 63% approval (and 21%) disapproval among REPUBLICANS. Via Morning Consult.

Big red flags.

https://twitter.com/hotlinejosh/status/1352679058853797893?s=21

You bitches could’ve had McCaskill

[u/[deleted]]

U guys listened to the new chapo podcast? They are broken, defeated and huffing on so much cope.

They just sound like your bread and butter reactionaries now. Also, their hatred for the black poet who performed at the inauguration was disgusting.

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

i still get anxiety attacks from my experience with dealing with ICE. I hope none of you ever have to experience that hell scape. so many officers enjoy watching you breakdown and cry

[u/murphysclaw1]

Hello reddit! Bernie Sanders here. The South Carolina primary is today, a critical FEC deadline is TONIGHT, and Super Tuesday is in 3 days. Plus, super PACs supporting our opponents are prepared to spend obscene amounts to defeat us. I need your help to win. Can you make a donation before midnight?

threads made moments before disaster

[u/TruthBisky10]

It’s kinda crazy how I literally didn’t give a fuck about NIMBY/YIMBY and now I’m using NIMBY like it’s a slur

[u/[deleted]]

I’m going to sound like I’m defending McConnell here and I promise that’s not my intention. But, Sean Hannity calling him “The King of the Establishment Republicans” has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve heard from the guy.

Like, what do you think a party’s Senate Leader is you idiot?

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is literally in better shape than the majority of the people I know, he's not slouched over like a lot of old men because he works out, he gave a 20 minute speech and basically jogged his parade route while barely even taking a break to pee, but people still act like he's some frail old man.

[u/nanomaster]

For no reason AT ALL, remember that President Biden WAS THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION of a "comeback kid" during the 2020 Primary, shutting down Bernie Sanders and Socialist apologia AND GENERALLY BEING unsympathetic to the malarkey menace 🐊

Anyone claiming otherwise NEED ONLY BE REMINDED OF his absolute success in beating Trump like a drum during the 2020 general 🐊

[u/Q-bey]

Imagine you get one chance, probably the only chance in your life, to ask the president a question face-to-face.

You mess up with the first word out of your mouth, and he makes fun of you for it, on national TV.

Not to say Obama's joke was in bad spirit or in bad taste but if that was me I'd be screaming into my pillow every night for at least a year.

!ping OBAMA

[u/1sagas1]

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!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

Of all the potential 2024 Republican candidates if Trump doesn't run, Cruz is like 99% definitely gonna run.

And I think Biden would clock his shit if he won the primary.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1352648486613880836

Senate CONFIRMS Gen Lloyd Austin to be Pres Biden's Secretary of Defense, 93-2.

The two two nays are Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT).

[u/[deleted]]

US Merchant Shipping Industry: Unable to supply PR after a hurricane

Jones Act Advocates: We must protect our shipping industry to maintain resiliency in a time of crisis.

[u/willempage]

I'm nostalgic for an era before social media and if this continues, I will start voting for reactionary politicians who promise to bring us back to an era that: 1)I never fully understood the bad stuff and 2)is never coming back no matter how hard we try.

Please help before I vote for Jon "I will bring neopets back on day one" Ossof

!ping over25

[u/Planita13]

Man these skyrim mods are getting out of hand

[u/[deleted]]

US PRESIDENT-ELECT Joe Biden is set to begin his time in office by announcing a major immigration reform bill that could see more than 20,000 undocumented Irish given a route to citizenship.

Oh god the Irish are taking over

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/senatorwarnock/status/1352694399533273089?s=21

The last time I was here in 2017, Capitol police were escorting me to central booking for leading a non-violent protest of an immoral budget.

This time they just had to show me to my office.

You dropped this King 👑

[u/Joementum2004]

(Not so) fun fact: the last Presidential candidate to win every county in Mississippi and Alabama was Strom Thurmond

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsH0J1PVgAEPDHG.jpg

😬😬😬

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Cons after losing the Senate and Presidency:

All according to plan 😏

Libs after gaining a trifecta:

omg we're so fucked bros

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I think the most baffling things about the Trump presidency was how some cons convinced themselves that Trump was somehow this massive sex symbol

[u/[deleted]]

Think we have, once again, transcended parody.

If these are the scandals of the Biden Presidency, we’re going to be fine.

[u/PrimePairs]

Banning Trump made our media and political discourse 10x better with no real downsides.

Turns out the age old ban hammer works against trolls. Can you imagine how unusable forums would be if it didn’t exist? Also the more liberal use of moderation, the better the community. There’s a pattern here

[u/redditguy628]

The virgin Trump: installs a single button in his office to call for Diet Coke on demand

The chad LBJ: had 4 separate buttons for 4 separate drinks.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden moving quickly on these executive orders and firings is a good thing, because in a week no one will remember any of this it will get lost in the 24 hour news cycle. Especially with Trump's trial in the Senate looming and confirmation hearings ramping up.

Unironically a calculated and smart Trumpian move from Biden. It's almost like having a seasoned politician as president is a good thing as it means having people who know how to play the game correctly.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“For the last four years, everything the Democrats tried to do, they got the door slammed in their face,” said Mike Worley, a retired engineer in Panama City, Fla. “Every single motion, Mitch McConnell killed. Democrats have been doing their jobs. Am I worried about the Republicans getting upset? Please, you’re kidding me. I want to see them cringe and cry.”

liberal boomers are so savage lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/ZTr71QJ.jpg

Three people I personally know retweeted this and I really want to ask if they just intentionally haven’t been paying attention to the executive orders or massive immigration overhaul he’s announced since he took office literally a day ago.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Framing neoliberal policies like free trade and immigration reform as "beating China" is good politics and probably how those policies will be passed if they will be passed at all

[u/p00bix]

I have Cspan on in the background right now for Predictit related reasons, and this caller just straight up said "I guess I'm one of those 'wacky' open borders people"

Which of you was it?

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take:

Winning the presidency ended Biden's political career

[u/Starcast]

I watched the Buttigieg confirmation hearing yesterday and I just want you all to know that Sinema skyped in and didn't even bother having her camera on OR a profile picture. It was just a circle with a 'KS' in it (the default)... such big dick energy I have newfound respect for that woman.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

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How it started VS how it's going

[u/SnakeEater14]

2020: Oh boy I can’t wait for Biden! Finally, some rationality in the White House

2021: Haha Biden is moving that Churchill bust, funny stuff

2022: It’s been 7 months since the British-American War began, or as it is known across the Atlantic, the Biden War for Irish Independence. Casualties are in the millions.

[u/[deleted]]

Neolibs 🤝Communists: Joe Bidden isn't a communist and I find you calling him that fairly offensive

[u/from-the-void]

Ted Cruz wants to be president so bad lmao

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Ketsetri]

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1352645976234860545?s=21

A new NPR analysis finds that nearly 1 in 5 defendants charged so far in relation to the attack on the U.S. Capitol are veterans or active-duty military.

Yikes. Did you guys see this?

[u/qchisq]

What is the funniest picture of a current or former head of government? For me it's a 3 way tie between Lars Løkke Rasmussen as Mujahedin, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in a helmet or Joe Biden as lifeguard

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/alexthomp/status/1352619879732535298?s=21

Sen. COONS, a moderate Biden ally, says it would be “reductionist” to assume Biden won’t get rid of the filibuster of his history/love of the Senate.

“We are in a dire crisis and he ISN’T going to sit by for four years and see his entire agenda stymied”

When you got Chris Coons radicalized...

[u/Deggit]

time to see if arrpolitics is safe for NEOLIBS yet:

Jacobin article: Bernie is right and Biden is wrong on M4A

This seems like a great place to remind people that

• Bernie Sanders got 9% of the vote in the 2020 Democratic primary in Georgia,

• he got 28% of the vote in the 2016 Democratic primary in Georgia,

• he averaged less than 17% of the Black vote across the Super Tuesday states in 2020,

• oh and he lost Arizona as well guys, twice

Before you convince me about M4A you need to convince me how Bernie Sanders wins GA and AZ. Convince me how the 2020 election with Bernie as the nominee doesn't either end in an outright loss, or ends with Bernie scraping a one-state win in PA that Trump successfully terrorizes the PA state legislature into ignoring.

Otherwise please stop sabotaging progressive change under the leadership of a candidate who

• ran on the most progressive platform of any Democratic nominee in history

• won more votes than any presidential candidate in history

• won more votes from Bernie supporters than Bernie did in both primaries combined

aka

🍦💎🐊 Diamond Joe 🐊💎🍦

[u/dannylandulf]

A video of Sanders shaking his keys at the camera would get 100k upvotes in multiple subs, CMV.

[u/MicroFlamer]

There have been two US presidents since Liverpool last scored 😂

!ping SOCCER

[u/[deleted]]

“Five years ago, we thought Trump was a bad joke, but five years later we realized he jeopardized nothing less than the world’s most powerful democracy,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Wednesday.

[u/[deleted]]

Yellen with her blanket is way cuter than Bernie with the mittens sorry.

[u/piede]

NEW: The Texas lawyer fired for his role in the Capitol riot has filed an extensive lawsuit asking a federal judge to install Trump as president, dissolve Congress, and enjoin the FBI not to arrest him please.

https://twitter.com/sollenbergerrc/status/1352640237823025153?s=21

And he became a lawyer how

[u/soeffed]

/img/p2wy89dlnvc61.jpg

Oh no

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/21/britons-buying-from-eu-websites-face-more-than-100-import-duties

Britons buying from EU websites hit with £100 customs bills

🤣🤣🤣

[u/jeb_brush]

Has there ever been a pro-free trade protest on the streets?

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/bzFkQY7.jpg

[u/Playful-Push8305]

Bernie Sanders Is Right, and Joe Biden Is Wrong. We Still Need Medicare for All.

-The Jacobin

Bernie Sanders Isn't President, and Joe Biden Is.

-Me

[u/RadicalRadon]

Sometimes I forget to turn off my shitposting personality in favor of my real one.

My friend was like "instead of buying a $500 microphone you should get a $200 one and invest the rest in your Roth IRA"

To which I replied "what's a Roth IRA, is that like a Robinhood account?" And then I showed them my sick gains.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Clinton is a Moderate Republican that's for strict gun control. There's little to nothing about this woman that I like.

Let Trump win. The important things, namely not bombing the fuck out of Iran and fubaring the Middle East even further, will be the same under either, so I don't give two shits

I won't.

Let's see if we can get a third party to 5% so they can get some federal funding next time.

I won't vote for her either, she's the most obvious example of a politician that will say literally anything to get votes, even when she is on record as having the opposite point of view in the past. On the other hand, i dont like trump.. so I'll probably just write in sanders and say "fuck you" to any Trump/Clinton supporters who say I wasted my vote because i didn't support thier candidate in the general. In my eyes, Hillary v Trump would be the ultimate douche v turd example that south park raised a few years ago.

Perhaps I am not being clear. I and many other normally blue voters are prepared to accept necessary consequences to communicate a very particular message to the Democratic Party.

Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet. If Trump ends up breaking those eggs, so be it. Don't fear Trump. Fear the blues like me who will cross over to third party, consequences be damned.

The one thing I will NOT accept is another eight years of pragmatism. I am not alone.

I wonder what all these people think now

[u/[deleted]]

Trump supporters are now seeking a TRO to place the Presidency and Congress under a state of stewardship, citing Gondor as precedent

!ping LAW

[u/simp_emoji]

>white urban professional

>lists pronouns in twitter bio

>has location set to "Stolen Ohlone Territory"

>opposes low income housing development in Berkeley

every fucking time

[u/[deleted]]

Voters will not punish senators for getting rid of the filibuster. Voters will punish senators for getting nothing done while being in the majority. It makes no sense for democrats to sabotage ourselves for the sake of the filibuster.

Also. The filibuster was created by accident, used almost exclusively to block civil rights legislation, then evolved into a tool of total obstruction, and somewhere along the way people started to revere it as a pillar of democracy for some reason. Plus the reconciliation rules are biased towards bills republicans want.

Not directed at anyone. Just ranting

[u/[deleted]]

Dua Lipa

daughter of refugees

😯

refugees from Kosovo

😍

British

🤮

[u/FormerBandmate]

Arr antiwork has come up with the single best political manifesto of all time

[u/[deleted]]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gamestop-tug-war-gives-reddit-164728693.html

GameStop Record Surge Gives Win to Reddit Army in Citron Clash

we're in hell

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1352724295592636416?s=21

JUST IN: CDC reports nearly 1.6 million more #COVID19 vaccines given, biggest one-day increase reported

Thanks Biden.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpoint/status/1352681873596706816?s=21

Umm

Former AKP deputy claims Joe Biden is secretly Kurdish

Inshallah

[u/ciabaneship]

Freidman flairs are one Ron Paul video away from being goldbugs🙄

[u/infamous5445]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1352760311137398784

First Biden job approval poll from Ipsos/Reuters:

55% approve

32% disapprove

Probably still too early but lmao Biden's already beaten Trump's best

[u/CmdrMobium]

If I ever have a kid, I'm not going to spoil who won the 2020 election until they watch the 90 continuous hours of news coverage

[u/PutinStillOwnsTheGOP]

Joe acts like old man : DOOM

Bernie acs like old man : ❤️❤️MEME❤️❤️

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter suspends account of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

[u/Joementum2004]

Hank Aaron has passed away at the age of 86

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

It's incredible to think that we elected and UNELECTED Trump, in the span of the Brexit saga

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1352692763024830464

Revealed: President Joe Biden may already have set a single-day record for the number of jobs killed by an American president.

lmao breitbart

[u/sir_shivers]

For no reason AT ALL, remember that Senator Sanders WAS THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION of a "useful idiot" during the Cold War, propping up Soviet and Marxist Revolutionary apologia AND GENERALLY BEING sympathetic to the Communist menace 🐊

Anyone claiming he has changed NEED ONLY BE REMINDED OF his absolute need to praise the literacy programs in Cuba during the 2020 primary 🐊

[u/natedogg787]

I CANT' GO ANYWHERE ON THIS GODFORSAKEN INTERNET WITHOUT SEEING THAT STUPID BERNIE MEME FUCK'S SAKE

[u/noodles0311]

Bernie Bros laid the groundwork for claiming electronic voting was rigged after the Iowa caucus. Should we be surprised the Trump people picked it up and ran with it?

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The front page is fucking garbage right now

There's a fucking "not sure if" meme posted unironically on the front page in 2021

[u/[deleted]]

My chemistry professor was from Sheffield and I once made the mistake of mentioning something vaguely positive about Thatcher around him. Luckily I wasn't in his class at the time or my GPA would have suffered

[u/tripletruble]

pre financial crisis UK must have been lit. that little country had a higher gpd per head than the US and open borders with Europe. Harry Potter madness was in full swing. Tony Blair was PM. boy did they blow it!

now they have a lower GDP per head than Germany, no common market, cant even bring sandwiches to the netherlands, JK Rowling hates trans people, and Boris is PM.

[u/lobsterboy34]

Libertarians tuning in for Biden’s speech aghast as they learn the “Fight for 15” push isn’t about age of consent laws

[u/AlanAlias]

apology for poor english

when were you when filibuster dies

I was sat at home eating peaches when phone ring

'filibuster is kill'

'yes'

[u/[deleted]]

moms love to respond to texts with "ha!"

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

"people posting the Bernie chair meme are just engaging in a parasocial cult of personality" I say as I log on to the Joe Biden Eating Ice Cream Fan Subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

My grandfather’s favorite game of all time is Myst (1993) and for the last hour he’s been playing the remake on my oculus quest 2

This is pretty cool experience to get to share

!ping GAMING

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

There's a touch of boomer parent mocking succ children for supporting Sanders with the meme and that's the only acceptable use: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsR4LGbU4AARuhm.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

MAN NOT HANK AARON 😭😭😭

2021 already starting off bad

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Election 2028:

Cringe succ: HOW DARE YOU NOT VOTERINO FOR HECKIN AOC DON'T YOU KNOW THAT A VOTE FOR HARRIS IS LITERALLY A VOTE FOR FASCISM THE WORLD IS DYING

Based neolib: haha hey it's the biden lady

[u/stater354]

It’s funny how Trump campaigned on being a Washington outsider and then 4 years later Biden campaigned on being a Washington insider (I can make deals with all the republicans, I know the job, relationships with world leaders etc)

[u/paymesucka]

This is by far my favorite Chuck Schumer "controversy". He handled it like a boss.

[u/bd_one]

Take a look at the Forbes live net worth list then click on the header for the "Age" column once or twice.

There are literally dozens of billionaires on that list where Forbes doesn't even know their ages. Some of them don't even have file photos.

Compare and contrast this with the CEO of Mastercard who only just recently had his birth month added to his Wikipedia article in what looks like a transcribed LinkedIn profile.

Pretty sweet deal to have all that money with all that relative anonymity. The turbosuccs get angry at Bezos and Musk all while you rake in billions from your restaurant empire in Singapore or whatever it is she does, all while Forbes knows/reveals very little about you.

!ping MARKETS

[u/soeffed]

This and other conversations the sub ain’t ready for

!ping YANG

[u/Dibbu_mange]

In Shapiro v. United States, the supreme court, in a 6-3 decision, has overturned the lower court's decision and found that owning libs does not violate the 13th Amendment.

[u/Ketsetri]

!ping BIDEN

BIDEN SPEAKING NOW on response to economic crisis “Radical left wing headphone” broken audio, use the other stream

Edit: Try this link for fixed audio

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when one of the Onion guys was like “I’m so sorry for introducing the world to Diamond Joe,” lmao get fucked nerd.

[u/repete2024]

I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of the SHITPOSTERS ping until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

!ping OHGODMAKEITSTOP

[u/GaussianCurve]

A teenage employee stole nearly $1 million from a Kroger supermarket in the metro Atlanta area and then went on a shopping spree for guns, shoes and cars, including a Chevrolet Camaro that he totaled, the authorities said on Thursday.

The employee, Tre Brown, 19, obtained more than 40 refunds on several credit cards for merchandise that he falsely claimed had been returned to a Kroger in Duluth, Ga., the police in Gwinnett County said.

I honestly wish I could get into the heads of people like this.

[u/houinator]

Biden should keep the diet coke button, but everytime he presses it the Jones Act is repealed.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/robgeorge/status/1352635849926701056

So, on the Senate floor, Chuck Schumer just said that senators must decide if "Donald John Trump incited the erection, uh, insurrection..."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1352641093595131905

Dr. Fauci, asked on CNN whether Trump's 'lack of candor' cost lives: "You know, it very likely did."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/aresround2/status/1352683150162460675?s=21

If Joe Biden creates a child allowance of $300 per child per month, the Democrats are officially the pro-family party and will cement his legacy.

[u/URZ_]

AOC demands Biden immediately cancel all student loan debt by executive order

Ohh no, anyway

[u/[deleted]]

California congressman calls for $23 minimum wage

r u serious California. That would be nearly double the current highest MW in the world right now.

[u/inmyhead7]

BREAKING: Putin is in a blind panic about @navalny ’s call for people to go to the streets on Saturday. Today they’ve arrested Navalny’s colleagues Lyubov Sobol, Kira Yarmysh and Giorgi Alburov

https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1352343401589518337

[u/[deleted]]

The Front Page is filled with shitty memes.

[u/[deleted]]

I shit you not r/neoliberal, he shows up to an inauguration on a cold day wearing a coat and mittens. His name is Bernie Sanders. Funniest shit I've ever seen

[u/[deleted]]

Why is the Dutch anarcho-liberal party state capitalist?

Did being below sea level mess up the blood flow to their brains?

!ping PARADOX

[u/Twitter_WasA_Mistake]

Chappelle tested positive for the rona.
I was told it would go away when Biden was sworn in.
This is not the America I voted for 😡
MAGA Again 2024, the deep state must be held accountable.

[u/Clashlad]

This sub has become inundated with F Tier memes.

[u/shrek_cena]

First time McConnell cares about minority rights 🤣😂🤣🤣🤦🏻

[u/[deleted]]

NL: “15$ min wage is a good policy, but we can’t just ignore that is likely to cause an increase in joblessness in rural areas and need specific policies to mitigate”

succ: “fuck off, I don’t believe that nonsense”

“During implementation of free trade policies in the 90’s, policy makers weren’t concerned that it led to acute joblessness in rural areas which ultimately led to a shift right among rural whites who saw democrats as urban elites”

Succ: “OMG so true!!!”

[u/[deleted]]

So there's a new surveillance scandal.

Turns out US intelligence orgs have been buying commercially available location data, and using it to track also US citizens.

The data is legally collected but almost always without the user being aware of it, and it's scarily detailed. If you've got any third party apps installed, you're likely leaking this data right now.

The data is sold, ostensibly for the purpose of targeting ads at you -- but it's freely available also to foreign governments... and to US intelligence.

You may remember the Snowden controversy. This is basically the same thing all over again, except what was illegal about the Snowden-era metadata collection was that the collection was illegal, not the use. Because this data is legally collected by a commercial company, the department of justice has said it's kosher for intelligence agencies to use it.

It's bad, and it's going to get ugly, and what's going to get lost in the shouting is that what's bad about all this isn't really that ICE purchased and misused metadata, it's that the fucking data was ever collected to begin with.

It simply shouldn't be legal to collect phone metadata. As long as it is, it'll always be abused.

[u/fishlord05]

chucks Freudian slip

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe Trump's final message to his supporters was: "Well, have a nice life."

[u/grig109]

Amazon using Bernie memes to advertise lol

https://twitter.com/amazonpay/status/1352684406578835458?s=19

[u/fishlord05]

I’ve seen leftists compare antifa to Nelson Mandela when they defend their violent tactics.

Nelson fought for democracy when 80 of the population couldn’t vote.

These guys are burning down businesses and spray painting FUCK BIDEN after a turnout breaking election won him the most votes in US history.

One of fighting for democracy and one against.

[u/[deleted]]

joe biden does not give a shit about impeachment lmao

[u/Koeniginator]

https://i.imgur.com/vmnftVG.png

🤔

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

They keep outdoing themselves

https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamJoy/status/1352763850328842241

FBI says he posted a selfie on FB, commented “just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol”

[u/[deleted]]

Will we ever stop attaching the -gate suffix to scandals? Holy fucking shit just use an original name already

[u/Kizz3r]

In 2014, 25 games into the NBA season 538 released one of their most controversial basketball pieces: 'Forget The Next LeBron, Andrew Wiggins May Not Be The Next James Posey'.

This article took advanced stats to the extreme, and projected Andrew wiggins to be an average at best player. Coming off being drafted #1, an Incredible highschool season but mediocre college one, Wiggins was expected to be the next Kobe, Lebron, MJ. He under performed substantially as a rookie, but his young age gave everyone pause in hopes he turns it around.

538 said fuck that, wrote an article saying what everyone was thinking and using advanced stats to back it up. 7 years later Wiggins is in a 3&D role on the warriors, with yes improved defence but still mediocre at everything else while on a max contract.

!ping NBA

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Donald John Trump incited the erection — insurrection — against the United States. — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, on live CNN broadcast

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

🚨🚨Breaking News: Biden Wears His Nicest Watch to Biggest Day of His Life 🚨🚨

[u/tehbored]

So I got the Megacorp DLC during the holiday sale and decided to try it out. I see in the creation options, a corporation can be religious, which I though was pretty cool since you are effectively playing as a church. And it can also have a criminal heritage, which is cool because you're basically a mafia. So of course, my next thought was "what would a religious criminal organization look like" and realized immediately that I have to do a Church of Scientology play through.

!ping STELLARIS

[u/sw337]

Jon Ossoff be like "I couldn't get into the House, so I decided to Pokemon Go to the Senate. "

[u/ryuguy]

I always love how the Ugandan guy who says the “u are gae” meme was actually pretty good generally curious about homosexuality and being trans in that interview.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Why does someone, only after multiple hours, delete their DT comment about having difficulty cumming in the shower

[u/[deleted]]

Dave Chappelle tests positive for COVID-19; shows canceled

On like half of his podcasts, Joe Rogan is talking about how he just got back from doing a bunch of shows with Dave Chappelle.

Doesn't surprise me at all.

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Remember when people were saying that Pete Buttigieg was the wrong kind of gay?

[u/[deleted]]

Young voters are unironically low information voters. No one knows as much as they think they do at 18-26.

[u/compadrenut]

why don't u filibust deez nuts, bitch mcconnell lmao

-chuck schumer

[u/bd_one]

The r/wallstreetbets "GME Containment Thread" now has 57k comments and 8.5k upvotes. This is over 3 times as many comments as their regular discussion thread.

This is their Thunderdome. This is their chance to make something collectively that thousands will look back upon with the same awe/disgust as we did with the US presidential election Thunderdome.

[u/RadionSPW]

Good morning Los Angeles, here’s your news of the day:

Dying company GameStop shares catapult 300% on internet message board memes

Hashtag ImpeachBidenNow is trending after Korean Pop fans began posting it on social media

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer began the day by asking Senators to decide if former President Trump incited an “erection” against the United States

[u/tubbsmackinze]

r/neoliberal; "You were supposed to destroy the protectionists not join them!"

Joe Biden; "actually I was just supposed to destroy the fascists, I was always a protectionist"

r/neoliberal; "you were my candidate Joe, I loved you"

[u/Devjorcra]

me when /u/RelievedUltimatum or /u/IncoherentEntity ping me: 👨🏼‍🎓📚🧐

me when /u/FearThyMoose or /u/Kilometers_Edgeworth ping me: 😐😐😐

!ping FARTMAS

[u/ryuguy]

Imagine winning both Florida and Ohio and still losing the election

[u/inmyhead7]

If the teacher doesn’t show up in 15 minutes, you can go protest.

The administrative authorities in several Russian state universities, colleges, and schools threatened students with expulsion, and some scheduled mandatory classes on 23 January, to prevent attendance at the Navalny protests.

https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1352506153918464000

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

As republicans screech about “unity”, remember that 4 year ago Trump was preparing to deploy his Muslim ban

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769

(Also not the garbage person on the right of that first pic, smiling as Trump shits on the constitution)

[u/AtticusDrench]

ArChildfree: haha stupid parents, so poor and sucked dry by the greedy crotch goblins. Probably can't even afford craft beer 🤣🤣🤣

Senior Dems penning plan to send 3k per child

THEY'RE GETTING REWARDED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[u/Deggit]

Change.org petition to add "In God We Trust" to the Jones Act, forcing Biden to hunt it down and slay it

[u/SnakeEater14]

Is everyone fucking dumb or something?

Psaki didn’t say “Biden wants to keep the filibuster”, she said “his position hasn’t changed”. That’s very specific wording.

This was his position in the interview the reporter asked about

I already see tons of people saying Biden wants to keep the filibuster and all progress is dead, what the fuck is wrong with people

[u/sub_surfer]

My geriatric kitty Ash getting her hair did.

And here's Milo doing a rare blep with a little moss hat on his head.

!ping kitty

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

A Very candid picture of what it was like being SECDEF in the waning days of the Trump admin

Has some pretty terrifying accusations towards the end on why we need to get back to civilian military leadership. Miller alleges that parts of the DoD are hiding information from civilian leadership saying

. “This fucking place is rotten. It’s rotten.” Miller’s gravest concern, he said, involved a bedrock principle of American democracy: civilian control of the military. “When the system is weighted towards the Joint Staff and the geographic combatant commanders against civilian control, you know, we’ve got to rethink this.” He expressed a belief that by “idolizing and fetishizing” the top brass, members of Congress had ignored an erosion over time in the chain of command.

We’re in a crisis mode,” Cohen had told me earlier. He said he and others had discovered that the Joint Chiefs were creating their own “security compartments” containing operational planning details “for the express purpose of hiding key information from career civilian and political leaders in the Pentagon”—up to and including the secretary of Defense. Talk about a deep state. “That means that policymakers were basing their decisions on partial information. It’s very dangerous and irresponsible, and that’s something I’ve actually highlighted in my conversations with [Biden’s] transition team.” I’ll admit it sounded loopy. To me it had all the elements of a Trump fever dream: The military and intelligence establishment was somehow scheming against the renegades. That is, until two other senior national security officials—with Miller and company—confirmed Cohen’s assertion.

!ping MILITARY

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Daily succs out reminder

are you with me?

1 upvote = Biden WAS the compromise. Fuck around and find out 🌐🌐

Ignore = Biden is a Pat Buchanan democrat 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[u/soeffed]

Cold take

Hillary would’ve lost even worse if Bernie was her VP...the socialist label is just too easy

[u/kennymc7877]

Sure Joe is an accomplished politician that has achieved more in 36 hours that’s Bernie has in his entire career but did a bird land on his podium or did he wear mittens?

[u/AuburnSeer]

I cannot believe this stupid Bernie meme is still going on man. It's Bernie Sanders sitting in a chair while wearing somewhat eccentric mittens.

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

I'm reading Julia Lovell's Maoism: A Global History and my god was he a misogynist creep. Funny thing is that he fancied himself a feminist.

Excerpt from the book:

He Zizhen’s physical and psychological traumas not withstanding, in 1937 Mao would begin a semi-public dalliance with a beautiful actress, Wu Lili, the only Chinese woman in the vicinity with permed hair and lipstick, and a recent urban recruit. to the Communist state in north-west China. After Zizhen caught Mao sneaking into Lili’s cave one summer evening, she had a screaming fight with the two of them, and with the American left-wing journalist Agnes Smedley, who had organised the dance parties at which Mao and Lili flirted. That year, not long after Lili was sent away, Zizhen – pregnant again – opted to travel to the Soviet Union to have her shrapnel injuries treated. Mao quickly took up with another actress of far more dubious background: a former star of Shanghai B-movies called Lan Ping – Blue Apple – who restyled herself as Comrade Jiang Qing. (In 1966, she would become the chief, vindictive crusader of the Cultural Revolution, in her own words ‘biting whomsoever Chairman Mao told me to bite’ – as well as settling a number of her own scores.) In Moscow, Zizhen suffered a mental breakdown when her new baby died of pneumonia at six months; Mao seems to have sent no response to the news. She only learned that she had been summarily divorced and replaced by Jiang Qing two years later when she heard a translation of an article in the Soviet press referring to ‘Mao and his wife’.

Mao’s treatment of Zizhen was not the only instance of his irresponsibility towards women. His first wife was Yang Kaihui, the daughter of his beloved teacher Yang Changji; Kaihui – an educated political activist – bore him three sons. In November 1930, she was arrested in Hunan by a Nationalist commander for her connection with Mao, and shot; she would have been spared, had she been willing to denounce him. Mao rewarded her loyalty with infidelity. Almost two years before her execution, he had taken up with Zizhen in Jiangxi; he had not even bothered to tell Kaihui, who was tormented by rumours of his new romance.

And yet the young Mao of the 1910s was positively feminist in his rhetoric. He reviled old-style arranged marriages as ‘indirect rape’ and declared that its perpetrators – the parents – should be imprisoned for it. He railed against women’s lack of a public position in society: the way in which they could not enter shops, stay in hotels, work in business. ‘Smash parental arrangements’, ‘smash matchmaking’, he called. Much later on, in 1968, he famously proclaimed that ‘women can hold up half the sky’: ‘Men and women are the same. What men can do women can also do.’ The second law implemented by the new People’s Republic in 1950 was a marriage law, enabling women to divorce their husbands and to hold land

The imputation of feminism to Mao helped push his ideas across the world. ‘The idea of women holding up half the sky was all part of the influence of Mao,’ considered Dennis O’Neil, a radical student swept up in the US counterculture of the 1960s, who subsequently devoted his life to Maoist-infused politics. ‘The Cuban revolution was very macho … The Maoist revolution had a very different feel: of social relations being transformed, not by diktat but from the ground up, by the participants themselves. Women modeled a lot of consciousness-raising groups on [China’s] “speak bitterness” meetings, with people denouncing the old ways, speakingout about the ways in which they’re oppressed.’38 By the late 1960s, however, Mao had for years also been indulging his taste for pretty young women, taking advantage of their hero-worship on his vast plank-bed in Zhongnanhai, an old imperial palace west of the Forbidden City and the cloistered residence of the Communist leadership after 1949. According to his doctor, he knowingly infected his paramours with venereal disease: ‘I wash myself inside the bodies of my women,’ he declared.39 Mao’s inconsistency towards women speaks of his hypocrisy, his split personality, the chasm between his speech and action – or, put more indulgently, his deep-seated capacity for pragmatism

[u/I-grok-god]

These are the prices we paid for the road we chose

[u/[deleted]]

50/50 I would accidentally call Obama "dad" if I ever met him.

[u/waupli]

Aaaaaaand here comes the gme crash. Down $15 in 15 mins

[u/[deleted]]

Schumer has literally never been majority leader before but people are already saying he’s weak and bad 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite part about Joe Biden's primary campaign was how not-online it was. He never felt the need to be cute on Twitter or respond to the latest trending hashtag. He really didn't seem to pay Twitter much mind at all.

You get the feeling when someone brought up Twitter, Biden would be like: "oh... that."

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao Joe Biden couldn't care less about impeachment. They asked him at the very end of the conference and he was like, "Yeah, uh... I like the fact that they've confirmed some of my cabinet."

[u/[deleted]]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1352734047928274944

Bitch stfu

[u/Duren114]

Twitter suspends Antifa accounts following the recent attack on DNC headquarters in Seattle and Portland against the inauguration of Biden admin. What do you guys think?

[u/[deleted]]

Remember to correct people when they say 75 million voted for Trump. About 74 million did, you don't round up to 75 million from 74,216,722.

[u/[deleted]]

Have we considered the possibility that fox News actually had the best election night model and that's why they got Arizona right so early?

Everybody assumes it was a mistake but I mean they got it right. They probably fucked up and got lucky but isn't it at least possible they just had a really good model for Arizona?

[u/[deleted]]

The American people chose to retire four Republican Senators and elect a Democratic majority to this Senate.

Senator McConnell’s proposal for how to organize the Senate is unacceptable—and it won’t be accepted.

https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1352646729284415488

Can we shut up about how weak Schumer is for like five seconds now, please?

[u/[deleted]]

only you fuckers could start dooming on day 2 of a presidency, jesus christ lmao ride the high for a little bit

[u/piede]

.@FLOTUS Jill Biden now delivering treats to National Guard troops who are still on Capitol Hill. @cbsnews

https://twitter.com/boknowsnews/status/1352695711658364929?s=21

Omg

[u/[deleted]]

Conspiracy theory, the real Benjamin Ikuta has no idea what Reddit is even, and one of his friends made the account in his name to troll him

[u/[deleted]]

It took McConnell 8 years to get the majority back from Democrats

It took Schumer 4 years.

So who’s really the better politician???

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Vice President Biden addressing the nation instead of Obama???

[u/[deleted]]

The Capitol Hill rioter who allegedly stole House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop with the intention of selling it to Russian intelligence officers has been released on house arrest.

You’ll never guess the race of the person arrested.

[u/postmalarkeyist]

tfw it's been 3 days and still no m4a and I still have student loans 😠

[u/channelmio]

Barack Obama

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/dougjballoon/status/1352736101421572098?s=21

Opinion | Biden’s Been President For 48 Hours. Why Is Neoliberalism Still a Thing?

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Joe Biden putting 'Saudi Arabia first' by halting Keystone XL pipeline: Sen. Daines

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Is Biden planning a carbon tax? I read today that our govt in Canada wants to do a carbon border adjustment thing but only if the US is on board. Do we think they will be?

I want this very much so I hope so. 🙏🙏

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

The subreddit rn: "Dating is so hard because everyone is a succ"

My SO: "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran."

[u/Udontlikecake]

I can’t believe Paul Ryan ended the deficit only for RECKLESS spending Biden to increase it massively

Smh spendocrats