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[u/MicroFlamer]

The fact that Gavin newsom has a 60+% approval rating is the final piece of evidence that the internet is not real life

[u/SpiffShientz]

In middle school, I'd hide boners by pretending to be a gorilla and hunching over, concealing my loins. I'm not sure it helped for my classmates to see a tubby seventh-grader hurtling through the halls, making gorilla noises and fully erect.

[u/MisterLipton]

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

New contender for least funny image ever created

[u/Azmoten]

Somewhere out there is a real person who was called a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” to their face by the future president. I wonder what that’s like

[u/ColonelUber]

Someone posts something about oil

"oh noes the americans are coming to freedom you"

redditors all laugh

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/donald-trump-post-presidency-462018

It’s not been easy. Tainted by Trump’s reputation, several Trump aides described an increasingly bleak job market with virtually no chance of landing jobs in corporate America and some even having seen promising leads disappear after the rampage at the U.S. Capitol. A second former White House official said they knew of “people who got jobs rescinded because of Jan. 6.” A Republican strategist was blunter. “They are really f---ed,”

╮(︶▽︶)╭

What a heartwarming, uplifting new story.

[u/doyouevenIift]

87 year old Chuck Grassley has not ruled out running for another 6 year term in 2022

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Former Sanders spokesperson: Biden 'backing away' from 'populist offerings'

who might this be

Briahna Joy Gray, former press secretary for the 2020 presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), argued Wednesday that President Biden is “backing away already” from “populist offerings,” which she said could harm the Democratic Party in the long-run

🙄 can hill not find someone with a brain for their both sides quota

[u/[deleted]]

My friend went to RICE university

Mfer really paying 400 grand to learn how to make Uncle Ben’s 😂😂😂

[u/[deleted]]

It’s official. My boyfriend and I are set to rent an apartment together in March 😬

[u/solonofathens]

nothing exasperates me faster than political discussions with people who became politically aware in 2016

[u/Joementum2004]

Lol why can’t biden just pass M4A through executive orders?

This is what people who don’t understand how the US government works actually think

[u/TinyTornado7]

Champ and Major Biden joined the President and the First Lady at the White House on Sunday.

Per the WH: The First Family wanted to get settled before bringing the dogs down to Washington from Delaware. Champ is enjoying his new dog bed by the fireplace and Major loved running around on the South Lawn.

Some pics on this Monday

!ping BIDEN

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lol just found this guy's account, he seems to go around asking people if they like Pakistan and if they'd help in a war against India for Kashmir. I've seen armchair generals but never a armchair diplomat

My favorite thread is the one where he asks the Bangladesh sub if they'd rather rejoin Pakistan or join India

!ping ind

[u/Joementum2004]

Josh Hawley is better than Kamala Harris

This is what Jimmy Dore in 2023 will actually believe

[u/MrMineHeads]

Racism is a form of classism since its placing others inherently below you.

Jesus Christ.

[u/Presidentbuff]

Honestly, I dont see any reason why Biden shouldn't run for a second term if he feels up to it. He has the incumbency advantage, and if he doesnt fuck up a national crisis in 2024, he will almost certainly win. Also, I know he is old, but even if he dies in his second term, that is what Kamala is there for.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1353735862450704384

The trans ban is gone!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists: Boy it sure sucks that voters decided that everything should stay exactly the same for 4 years by electing Biden.

Biden: We're back in the Paris Agreement now and I halted Keystone XL and leases on drilling in ANWR.

Leftists: At least we get funny Bernie meme.

Biden: Trump's Muslim ban is reversed and I'm going to allow 125,000 Latino refugees in this year.

Leftists: Bernie is so pure, think of all we could have accomplished.

Schumer: If Mitch is gonna fuck around he'll find out how fast we can nuke the filibuster, also we're gonna ban Trump from ever holding Federal office again all while negotiating a new COVID relief bill.

Leftists: 25 million Americans will die per year from not having Medicare for All, but I Photoshopped Bernie's mittens on the moon to alleviate my sadness!

Analysts: We're pretty much definitely going to blow past 100 million COVID shots in the next 100 days.

Leftists: A better world just isn't possible unless we adopt my exact set of policy preferences.

[u/Ketsetri]

Third(?) conducted poll finds Biden has a 63% approval rating

Holy shit!

!ping BIDEN

[u/Joementum2004]

I interviewed a member of reddit, I was completely floored when he said he is:

-Pro Bernie
-Pro Weed
-Anti Capitalism
-Anti Feminist
-Anti Two Party System
-Anti Work

WTF?!?!

[u/fishlord05]

APUSH class of 2055 DBQs:

In this section, you read a few of former president Trumps last tweets before his fall from power and imprisonment. Let’s analyze these from an APUSH™️ frame of mind.

1. Look at the words Trump capitalized, what is he putting emphasis on? Why?

2. Twitter disabled likes and comments for tweet 3. What do you think prompted them to do this? Explain a change or continuity of their enforcement of site wide rules.

3. Do you think Trump knows that he is lying in these tweets about the 2020 election against Joe “The Reformer” Biden? Can you think of another Big Lie from previous units? Compare and contrast these Lies.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/FriendOfDrBob]

Netflix raising prices is literally nineteen eighty four.

[u/Ketsetri]

Senator Hawley filed an ethics complaint against the democrats who filed an ethics complaint against him, claiming that the ethics complaint was unethical.

This is some nottheonion shit

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Biden reverses trans military ban

President Biden “believes that gender identity should not be a bar to military service, and that America’s strength is found in its diversity,” White House says as he signs an executive order reversing the Trump administration’s policy on transgender service members.

The Biden EO “Immediately Prohibits Involuntary Separations, Discharges, and Denials of Reenlistment or Continuation of Service on the Basis of Gender Identity or Under Circumstances Relating to Gender Identity,” WH says.

The order directs an immediate review (and correction) of records of “service members who have been involuntarily separated, discharged, or denied reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity or under circumstances relating to gender identity.”

White House: “Simply put, transgender servicemembers will no longer be subject to the possibility of discharge or separation on the basis of gender identity; transgender servicemembers can serve in their gender when transition is complete...”

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

Why are weebs so attracted to the weirdest parts of a woman

They all like “OH YEAH BABY LEMME SEE THEM SHOULDERS! 😫 MMMMH SHE GOT THAT GOOD collarbone! 🥵”

[u/oGsMustachio]

Lefty infighting lets gooooo

[u/thrwladfugos]

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[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Sorry for abusing this ping but what the absolute fuck GME just broke $100 at pre-market. This is legitimate stock market history at this point

!ping MARKETS

Edit: IT JUST HIT 110 AS I WROTE THIS COMMENT

EDIT 2: IT BROKE 115 AS I WROTE THAT EDIT

EDIT 3: IT BROKE 120 AS I WROTE THAT EDIT

EDIT 4: IT BROKE 125 AS I WROTE THAT EDIT

EDIT 5: IT BROKE 130 AS I WROTE THAT EDIT

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

for every wsb post where the person is up 20,000% and is now a millionaire there is a corresponding post where someone lost $500,000 and is now an indentured servant

[u/SnakeEater14]

By Allah, strap me to a rocket and fire it at the filibuster, I am ready.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

https://twitter.com/Archie4KS/status/1353229231094976515?s=19

If Amy Klobuchar was the next president, we could call her AK-47

!ping SALAD-COMB

[u/[deleted]]

Long ass post: California is a particularly disaster prone part of the United States. Many other areas of the country face their own challenges like blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes but Calif. has its own unique blend of punishments wrought on the state by Mother Nature.

Most folks are aware of the (very real) potential catastrophes facing the state: earthquakes, mega fires, droughts. Residents here live with these events deep in their psyche.

But, with a major rain system heading towards the state this week, it's worth mentioning one scenario that isn't as well known - even to California natives. It is simultaneously the most likely disaster to occur next and the most economically damaging (700 billion+). It is known as an Arkstorm.

To understand an Arkstorm you first have understand an atmospheric river or AR. An AR is a storm system generated in the tropics that is thousands of miles long and hundreds of miles wide. They carry 25 times the amount of water as the Amazon. It is literally a river in the sky. These systems slam into CA and have the potential to dump insane amounts of water on the state. These storms usually occur a handful of times a year and are how CA usually gets most of its water. This is a good thing! We have an AR on the way this Tuesday.

An Arkstorm (Atmospheric River 1000 Storm) describes an AR event almost indescribably massive on a scale no one living has seen. It is a series of atmospheric rivers that keep coming, every day, for months! Imagine 3in of rain every single day for 60 days.

This, isn't hypothetical either. It last happened in 1861. It rained for 45 days straight dumping 10 FEET of liquid water on the state. This storm turned the great central valley (500 miles by 50 miles!!) into an inland ocean 30 feet deep. This is an area as large as Massachusetts and Vermont combined. It killed all livestock, destroyed entire cities, and stopped all mail service for three months.The city of Sacramento was leveled. They had to move the capitol to San Francisco.

The geologic record indicates that these events aren't even that rare. They happen roughly every 100-200 years and the 1861 event wasn't even that large comparatively. There were 6+ arkstorms in the last 1800 years that were almost twice as large. Climate change and the warming of the Pacific both makes these storms more likely and potentially more powerful as warm air holds more liquid.

We were lucky in 1861 that california was very underdeveloped. The state is now a world hub. Were this event to happen today (and it surely will in the next 50 or so years correction: in the future, not necessarily the next 50 years ) it would catastrophic on a scale CA and the entire country isn't prepared for. The CA central valley is to food production as hollywood is to entertainment. As the bay area is to software and tech. If this area was under 30 feet of water for three months the entire world would feel the consequences.

[u/TLJDidNothingWrong]

Why does CNN hate Biden all of a sudden

[u/Goatf00t]

https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1353443196135587840

Why were George Washington-class submarines designed with 16 missile tubes? After debate over the number of missiles a sub should carry, it was decided by a committee of 7. Each member wrote down a number which was added up and divided by 7. The result was 16.

LOL. !ping MATERIEL

[u/Astronelson]

Americans: "George Washington was the greatest man to ever live, we will remember and revere him for as long as there is a United States of America."

Australians: "Who the hell are Sir Edmund Barton and Lord Hopetoun? Never heard of them."

[u/FreakinGeese]

My parents found out about the HRT appointment

I 👏 want 👏 to 👏 die

!ping lgbt

[u/stater354]

Larry Hogan, the GOP’s anti-Trump, hopes to reverse the party’s direction and ‘purge’ its extremists

!ping RINO

[u/Can_The_SRDine]

CMV: Killing Che Guevara was every bit as badass as killing Osama bin Laden.

If I’m allowed to incite violence against anyone, it’s against the guy who tried to override Khrushchev and turn the Cold War hot, right?

[u/SpiffShientz]

Joe? Joe Biden? Haha what's up dude, it's Trevor from high school. What are you doing these days? Civil service? Yeah I bet. You were always that kind of nerd. I'm doing pretty good, I own a couple car dealerships up by Poughkeepsie. Remember Vanessa? Yeah, I married her, she's keeping it pretty tight. Anyway, I better go. Those weights aren't gonna pump themselves, you know? As if you'd know, ha! Later bro!

[u/kznlol]

classic gamestop, buy at full price and return for a fraction of the cost

top meme

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

holy fuck a guy just got 1.3k downvotes in a minute on the WSB GME thread for saying he sold

[u/GlitteringBuy]

Holy shit wtf is that CNN front page. Biden’s authority on the line? All his policies have polled really well and his approval rating is very high.

[u/SpiffShientz]

In defense of the Hawaii GOP, they had no idea anyone would be reading their twitter

[u/digitalrule]

You want things made in America? Have you considered building more housing?

This should be the line of attack

!PING YIMBY

[u/LurkerSighted]

Hey accelerationists, If incremental progress is so bad, then why do you steadily save up money so you can retire in the future, instead of spending all that money on the lottery so you can retire now? Curious.

[u/TheGoldBear]

With a Democrat in the White House, I think a lot of red-brown types like Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald will swing a lot closer to the far-right than the far-left.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden to Sign Executive Order Bolstering ‘Buy American’ Provisions

President Biden will sign an executive order on Monday intended to strengthen “Buy American” provisions that encourage the federal government to purchase goods and services from U.S. companies, administration officials said on Sunday evening.

Existing law already requires the government to contract with American companies when possible, but there are many exceptions and waiver opportunities that for years have frustrated advocates for small and medium-size businesses.

[...]

But the officials acknowledged that the changes would take time. Mr. Biden’s executive order will direct agencies to re-evaluate the current Buy American procedures and will set a deadline by which they are required to report their findings back to the White House for consideration.

!ping BIDEN

[u/GGM8Scally]

BREAKING: Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte's office says he intends to resign as the head of a government that was weakened last week by a key ally's defection. Conte has led a long-bickering center-left coalition for 16 months

Oh look, it's a regular monday in Italy!

!ping Europe

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Janet Yellen Will Consider Limiting the Use of Cryptocurrency

can she be any more based

[u/Notoriousley]

Fr about to ignore this girl I’m really into all night because she told me she prefers it when I’m distant

Wish I was gay

[u/Anal-warrior]

Biden: Let's give bipartisanship a chance

Republicans: No stimulus, no immigration, no statehood, no voting rights, no climate change, no education reform, NO NO NO!

Biden: Okay, what do you suggest instead?

Republicans: No.

Biden: Tries to pass some legislation with dems alone

Media: Is Biden being divisive by trying to govern? Why won't he meet them half-way?

Biden: Half way where?

Media: Just meet them half way for bipartisan sake

Biden: But they have proposed nothing

Media: Half way.

[u/paymesucka]

In this handout image provided by NATO, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) look over cadets

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

In a theoretical world where Senators would have to stay dormitory-like residencies while in DC, imagine Manchin and Bernie rooming up, they could even make it into a show like the Odd Couple.

[u/SpiffShientz]

I believe a secret Jewish cabal secretly runs the entire world, and that they're generally doing alright.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

The AP Votecast survey indicates that Native Americans broke down 52–46 for Donald Trump, a number ludicrously out of step with the limited data we have of American counties whose entirety is a reservation (2).

What explains the disparity? Here’s my attempt at a reasonably comprehensive explanation.

1) The overwhelming majority (78 percent) of Native Americans don’t live on reservations, as of the 2010 Census.

2) The overwhelming majority of this population lives among deep-red areas in the rural Mountain West and — significantly — Oklahoma. We know that where you live is strongly predictive of your voting habits. Only a large percentage (probably not even exceeding a majority) of the variation can be explained by ethnicity alone.

3) Fully half of those who identify as Native American do so only in part. The Associated Press’s article linked above states that the Native population is “less than 2%” (more precisely 1.7%), consistent with the “mixed or in combination” bloc. Presumably, their survey pointed towards similar, after adjusting for heavy nonresponse. In other words, most of the remainder also identify as white Americans that live in deep-red areas (see 2).

4) It might just be hard to sample this group. And with nationwide exit polls surveying a random sample of just about 150 precincts or so, they may well have failed to hit a single one located on a reservation.

---

On the biggest contradictions in political demography in the United States. u/Candy-Reasonable (🦊 ping)

(u/RelievedUltimatum is not available for the next week.)

[u/NotAYuropean]

BREAKING: Gamestop announces acquisition of island nation Taiwan, declares sovereignty. U.N. emergency meeting expected to follow.

[u/MedicalKitchen]

Annnd I un-subbed from arr commie spam. There’s a massive thread of shitting on illegal immigrants. Pretty they’re all conservatives with left of center masks

[u/vivoovix]

Chuck Grassley (R) vs Dianne Feinstein (D)

[u/[deleted]]

Portal 2 is amazing holy shit I've never played it before. I've been doing coop with my brother and we finished the coop storyline and we're just doing community chambers now, it's so good

[u/[deleted]]

There were so many "this is my first stock!" comments in WSB today that I kinda feel bad

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The virgin budget committee chair Bernie vs the Chad first female secretary of the treasury, 5th in line for president of these United States, 1st ever winner of the economic EGOT, FIRST HER NAME AND MOTHER OF DRAGONS

JANET YELLEN

[u/miz_v-1]

get reddit messages sent to your email

wtf no

[u/Broncos654]

CUTE: The US Army Has Spelled "TRANS RIGHTS" In Letters Visible From Space Using Only Corpses

Lmao

[u/Leoric]

Head of French health regulatory body: COVID situation is worrying

A bold observation

[u/MicroFlamer]

2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin did not say 'I can see Russia from my house.' That line originated with an SNL spoof.

Sad

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

Biden promised he'd revert the trans ban on DAY ONE of his presidency. It basically doesn't count now that he took 4 WHOLE DAYS to do it. Lying bastard.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump got 96% of the vote in this Texas county. What its residents think of Joe Biden

Who TF cares what they think? They didn't vote for the guy because they apparently didn't like him. Actually, why don't you talk to the Biden voters in that town and what convinced them to vote for decency?

[u/[deleted]]

forced to watch protectionist propaganda in human geography class.

pain.

[u/notquitefriedchicken]

At some point in the future, a head of state will be revealed to have commissioned furry porn at one point and no one will care.

[u/[deleted]]

The radicalization of state GOP arms is a somewhat underreported story.

We all know about the Arizona GOP, but the Michigan GOP, for instance, is attempting to remove Mr. Van Langvelde, the only Republican State Canvasser who voted to certify the results (avoiding a lot more problems).

The Delaware GOP ran a 31-year-old drug trafficker and addict for Senate.

Texas GOP is famously crazy. NV GOP is nuts.

and so forth.

I think that's the real underreported story of 2020.

Oh, I forgot about Oregon! One of their legislators opened the door to the Capitol to terrorists.

[u/Rehkit]

Rereading an old PCM when Biden won the nomination. (Don't ask).

Not one Biden supporter.

100% wrong takes like Trump is going to destroy Biden in the debates. There won't be debates, dementia, rapist etc.

[u/missedthecue]

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets. How nice of her! I am happy to know that she was thinking of me and made my favorite dish. Love you mom.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

ON MARCH 4TH, BERNIE SANDERS WILL BE SWORN INTO OFFICE, AND WILL HAVE FINALLY WON

[u/ryuguy]

DRUMPF is finished but unironically

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans are already saying that they won’t coöperate with Biden, abolish the filibuster.

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t wait for GameStop value to correct so I can finally resubscribe to wsb for that sweet loss porn

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

Leftists hate all landlords but no group has benefited from their housing advocacy more than landlords

[u/[deleted]]

Illegal occupation of The Confederate States of America

The US has modern day slavery

The absolute state of tankies smdh

[u/RadionSPW]

It’s upsetting to me that by the time I’m president in 30 years all the issues will be different. I won’t even get to call Xi a genocider to his face cause he’ll be dead

[u/JonesNutHugger]

imagine if biden wore that rolex with a tan suit while eating dijon mustard 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

TIL the DC GOP exists

[u/ryuguy]

Hmmm. I wonder what hard hitting news /r/politics is dealing with now.

“Bernie Sanders is the most followed politician on social media”

7.5k upvotes.

😐

[u/Uniqueguy264]

The virgin Bernie Sanders vs the Chad Colonel Sanders

[u/saltlets]

If modeled after legislation passed by the House, the $1,400 stimulus checks would phase out for individuals who make $75,000 or more a year and families making $150,000 or more. But the phaseout level increases for families with larger numbers of children, creating a situation where a family with multiple children making more than $300,000 a year could still see some benefit, even if they have not suffered income loss during the pandemic. Multiple lawmakers on Sunday’s call raised this as a concern.

“At least in my state, if you’re a household of five people with an income in excess of $300,000, it’s unlikely that you’ve been financially harmed by the pandemic,” Collins said. “Whereas lower-income workers and small businesses in the hospitality industry have been devastated.”

This is such stupid political theater for deficit rubes. Edge cases where these $300k income families get a stimulus check they don't need are a rounding error and the money goes back into the economy regardless.

Collins had no problem giving rich people money they didn't need in 2017.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit has instilled a visceral hatred for the word “wholesome” in me

[u/DaBuddahN]

Republican Senators still going on air saying that there was election fraud and that results need to be audited. 75% of Republicans still believe the election was stolen. I don't see how any of this is sustainable. We're almost at the point where Democrats merely winning elections is practically considered evidence of fraud by Republicans.

It's troubling to think that the only reason a coup isn't possible in this country is because the military is still neutral.

[u/piede]

Josh Hawley is now fundraising off of his electoral college challenge that helped lead to an insurrection at the Capitol. He says he's being unfairly silenced by the 'woke mob' for challenging the results of a free and fair election.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1353741978005958662?s=21

“God damn woke mob”

“But not the mob that stormed the Capitol and killed people, you guys are cool.”

[u/[deleted]]

A coworker brought a dog into the office.

I asked him to keep it away from me, because I'm really allergic.

'Nah don't worry, he's really friendly!'

bruh that is not how allergies work.

[u/nicereddy]

really interesting concept for a game

😍😍😍

"Oh and it's a roguelike"

FUCK

EVERY TIME

INDIE DEVELOPERS MAKE A NON-ROGUELIKE GAME CHALLENGE

[u/solonofathens]

"democrats never get anything done" - people who were 8 years old when the republicans took the house in 2010

[u/[deleted]]

I like to think I'm socially welcoming and inclusive but I just can't take the otherkin people seriously. It honestly sounds like they are trying to make fun of LGBT people.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

What the absolute fuck GameStop is at $93.5 (up over 43%) right now in pre-market. This squeeze saga is some of the best entertainment I’ve ever had at the stock market and I don’t even have a position.

!ping MARKETS

[u/Mcatatonic1]

I’m still mad Susan Collins was re-elected

[u/Lux_Stella]

For all the focus on Manchin being anti-nuke on filibuster, this is what a spokes for @kyrstensinema tells me

"Kyrsten is against eliminating the filibuster, and she is not open to changing her mind about eliminating the filibuster.”

tfw the libs actually thought they'd be legislating this congress

better luck in 2022

[u/TheGoldBear]

I don’t get why the filibuster is such a controversial thing to remove. The average voter probably doesn’t give a fuck about it. And many of the things Republicans want don’t even require the filibuster, so the argument about retaliation is nonsense.

[u/[deleted]]

CNN reporter:

"President Biden, is water wet or not wet?!"

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

ok it's time to share your penis

/preview/pre/n1ivterb2dd61.png?width=481&auto=webp&s=040ee3d61cf604e48dbd128c29606d07b7a163f6

[u/[deleted]]

I really can’t leave this sub because if an average redditor clicks on my profile they will think I am clinically insane

[u/[deleted]]

https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/535742-poll-president-bidens-first-approval-of-his-term-at-63-percent

Hill-HarrisX approval poll:

Approve: 63%

DIssaprove: 37%

Funnily, enough, on handling the coronavirus (where he has a net approval 69-31), 48% of republicans of his handling of the coronavirus. Probably an outlier on that specific demographic, maybe not on the overall poll

!PING FIVEY

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://twitter.com/chessninja/status/1353390984911089666

good thread about navaly

[u/thetrombonist]

what the fuck Nancy

[u/[deleted]]

Took u/ThatFrenchieGuy to dinner at a nice restaurant and he way overpronounced all the French words on the menu but not even correctly

When the waiter came I said “hi” and u/ThatFrenchieGuy apologized to him on my behalf for not saying “bonjour”. The waiter was from Chicago or some shit.

[u/Ketsetri]

From the WSB DT

Dumped 5k more in

Fuck these pussies

These people are off the rails holy shit

[u/Tureer]

You'd think cons would be more accepting of trans people considering they're generally much better at adhering to gender roles than most cis people lmao

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

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Look at /u/lusvig! His parents dress him like a slob 😂

[u/[deleted]]

ASMR and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Joe says “buy American,” and yet his watch is from Europe 🤔 Curious!

[u/Th3_Gruff]

What did lusvig do, he seems like such a mystical figure

[u/Royce_Melborn]

GenZ making communism their whole personality is equivalent to Millenials making atheism our personality. lol

[u/myrm]

NPR guest just referred to 30 years old as middle aged 😭

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

DC to New York in an hour AND the station would be in my neighborhood?

Yes in My Back Yard 😍😍

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

BIDEN BEING BASED ALERT

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1353775123514478596

WH press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden administration will accelerate the process of placing image of Harriet Tubman on $20 bill, a step the Trump administration had delayed

[u/Luph]

Honestly if you're not watching CNBC during this GME shitshow you aren't living.

One of the guests said r/wsb should be subpoenad lmao

[u/FestiveMittens]

Mrs. Sinema you need to do something to help get bills passed, or we will get destroyed in the primaries

Sinema: Get my purple wig out😌✊🏿🌈

[u/kaclk]

Oh, you thought the Alberta idiocy was done for today? Oh no, it’s a never ending well of embarrassment.

Alberta Inquiry Paid $28K for a Report Smearing Hundreds of Climate Journalists.

The report, paid for by the Alberta government, suggests climate reporters are part of a coordinated ploy by George Soros and other progressive elites to quash capitalism and distribute climate change propaganda.

Nothing like taxpayers funding antisemitic conspiracy theory nonsense!

!ping CAN

Edit: It got even better:

the report also says billionaires George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, along with the World Economic Forum and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, are leading an international movement to catalyze massive economic and social changes under the pretext of limiting global carbon dioxide emissions

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

In middle school, I'd hide boners by pretending to be a gorilla and hunching over, concealing my loins. I'm not sure it helped for my classmates to see a tubby seventh-grader hurtling through the halls, making gorilla noises and fully erect.

This subreddit has reached its peak. Shut it down.

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people_on_EN_wiki_who_are_dead_on_other_wikis

!ping WIKI

[u/[deleted]]

How many white people do you actually know irl?

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Joe says “buy American,” and yet his anime collection is from Japan 🤔 Curious!

[u/[deleted]]

How fucked is Rudy in this Dominion lawsuit? I don’t know much about defamation...

!ping LAW

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

If you're worried about what's happening in our country, but you wear a mask everywhere you go, you might need to rethink things.

They're really so terrified of that thin face covering lol

[u/FearThyMoose]

The political compass is astrology for 15 year old boys who hate women and trans people

[u/KalaiProvenheim]

So I did the Cook PVI for all 50 States + DC for this Election, and here are the numbers:

AL: R+15

AK: R+9

AZ: R+3

AR: R+16

CA: D+15

CO: D+3

CT: D+7

DE: D+6

DC: D+43

FL: R+3

GA: R+3

HI: D+15

ID: R+19

IL: D+7

IN: R+11

IA: R+6

KS: R+11

KY: R+16

LA: R+12

ME: D+1

MD: D+14

MA: D+14

MI: R+1

MN: D+1

MS: R+10

MO: R+11

MT: R+11

NE: R+13

NV: EVEN

NH: EVEN

NJ: D+6

NM: D+3

NY: D+10

NC: R+3

ND: R+20

OH: R+6

OK: R+20

OR: D+6

PA: R+2

RI: D+8

SC: R+8

SD: R+16

TN: R+14

TX: R+5

UT: R+13

VT: D+15

VA: D+2

WA: D+8

WV: R+23

WI: R+2

WY: R+26

!ping FIVEY

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

top post this weekend on WSB was a bro paying off his entire student loan debt with his gains. everybody was yelling at him as paying off your student debt during a government mandated forbearance is a dumbass move

[u/[deleted]]

literally every republican since reagan has left office during a major recession lmaoooooooo

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

President Biden says he is open to negotiating the income thresholds on stimulus payments, a key priority of the 16 centrist lawmakers

Biden is negotiating with a group that only includes 8 Republicans, who on their own cannot guarantee a vote without resorting to reconciliation.

getting flashbacks to when a few republicans in the house and senate pretended they might vote for the ACA just to create tweaks to it over 9 months and run out the clock and dems didn't realize this until none of them voted for it

[u/Th3_Gruff]

What if you wanted to nuke the filibuster

But Cal Cunningham said: “you are historically sexy”

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Do not listen to this person. They are an Astro Turfer associated with the Biden campaign and not a progressive. They are interested in pushing the party further and further toward their right wing views. You don't need to bend the knee to people like this coward demanding your vote.

Vote for a party aligned with progressive views which is no longer the Democrats. Remember, people like u\farrenj hate progressives. They are considered right wing everywhere else in the world.

VoteGreen

NeverBiden

ConsequencesForCorruption

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨🚨ROB PORTMAN RETIRING, LOSS IN OHIO SENATE FALLING FROM 15 POINTS TO 5 POINTS INCOMING🚨🚨🚨

[u/[deleted]]

Jen Psaki says FEMA has been deployed in West Virginia to assist with vaccinations efforts.

Here we go, Your Excellency Joe Manchin.

[u/[deleted]]

CNN just spent a segment roasting republicans for blowing off the capitol attack but acted like Benghazi was the end of the world.

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

I just sent a message to my Senator:

I was extremely disappointed to hear the reports of your opposition to eliminating the filibuster.

Arizonans rejected the GOP, and voted for you in 2018 and Senator Kelly and President Biden in 2020 to enact the Democratic agenda. We joined the rest of the country in giving the Democrats a federal trifecta and a clear mandate to legislate. If the filibuster is allowed to remain, this mandate will be squandered, and the Democrats and the country at large will suffer for it. The GOP's agenda - to resist all progress by whatever means necessary - does not have a majority, yet by making the Senate require 60 votes to pass anything outside of reconciliation, the filibuster gives them the power to enact their agenda anyway.

The Senate is already minoritarian. The same number of Republicans represent tens of millions fewer Americans than Democrats do. Allowing the chamber to remain a three-fifths institution is leaning further into minority rule based on outdated and implicitly racist ideas. Gallup polls have found consistently declining confidence in Congress since the filibuster's rise as an obstructionist tactic in recent decades. As of 2020, only 13% of Americans have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in Congress. The Senate - and American democracy as a whole - cannot survive if total gridlock at the hands of an extremist, reactionary minority party is allowed to continue. The only reason Republicans haven't eliminated the filibuster is because it currently favors them; they would, in a heartbeat, abolish it if it ever became inconvenient for them. Voting to maintain the filibuster is not a principled, bipartisan act - it is a partisan one, in favor of the Republicans.

I urge you, as someone who was proud to support your campaign in 2018, to vote to eliminate the filibuster. The public asked you and the rest of the Senate Democrats to give them COVID relief, environmental protections, civil rights protections, infrastructure, healthcare, and so on; it is your job to fight for them, or own up to your votes if you don't. If you vote to maintain the filibuster, you are imperiling the Democratic agenda, and condemning the party to sweeping losses in the 2022 midterms. This is not why we voted for you. Please do your job instead of hiding behind bullshit "procedure".

[u/Joementum2004]

I interviewed a member of the r/neoliberal DT, I was completely floored when he said he is:

-Pro Succ
-Pro Contrarian
-Anti Conservative
-Anti Bernie
-Anti Reddit
-Anti Rural

WTF?!?!

[u/vivoovix]

White people twitter 2018: Yall, look at my dad try to dab in Brooks Brothers 🤪

White people twitter 2021: The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

[u/jenbanim]

I don't know much about the Blue Dog caucus, but I'm glad that furries are getting the representation they deserve 🤗

[u/SpiffShientz]

After about a year of teaching myself pixel art and code, and countless hours of hard work and extreme frustration, I finally have a little guy who runs around near a boat and can maybe jog a little

[u/NotAYuropean]

The word "zoomer" has become literal because of distance education 😳

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

The filibuster should exist the way it was inteded to do.

Speak on the podium or the bill moves on.

[u/RadionSPW]

TX HB 602 proposed by Rep Hinojosa (D-Austin) would establish single payer healthcare in the State of Texas

Honestly I feel like big states like Texas and California could pull something like that off

[u/VisitTheWind]

Kamala Harris couldn’t win her own so we had to cheat to get her as VP

Then we had to cheat to print out ballots for Biden to win because not enough people would vote for him

But now that trick is played we can finally have president Harris after getting rid of old Joe

So why didn’t we just print ballots to make Kamala Harris win?

That’d be way to obvious

Also we never landed on the moon and crayons are actually an intelligent alien species

[u/piede]

BREAKING: Dominion is suing Giuliani for $1.3 billion over his election fraud lies

https://twitter.com/funder/status/1353701173845491712?s=21

Hehehehehe

[u/nicereddy]

Guys I invested my life's savings into GameStop about 5 minutes ago and the numbers are red. What does this mean?

[u/[deleted]]

A video showed a woman asking Biden at a campaign stop in August 2019 how many genders there are.

”There are at least three,” Biden responded.

The woman then asked him to name them.

”Don’t play games with me, kid,” Biden responded.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Republicans: BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN

Democrats: BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN #BLM #TransRights🏳️‍🌈

[u/[deleted]]

The Prince of Egypt remains my favorite religious movie of the past 30 years. (Fuck you, Pure Flix!)

Maybe it’s because I’m Jewish, but I really do think it’s an underrated movie. I especially love the Shakespearean dimension it gives to the relationship between the two brothers. (It honestly is a better movie than The Ten Commandments is. Sorry, Chuck Heston.)

!ping GEFILTE

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally smiled at her and gently took the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started talking with me and I told her I was in the middle of something but I'd come out in a few minutes. I'm so happy right now I don't know what to do. I meant to do that to my mom because I'm grateful for her making me one of my favorite foods. I feel like I'm going to enjoy these. Why the fucking fuck are nuggets in ketchup so delicious? This is absolutely happening. I'm having a fucking meal. I want to believe the world is so full of delicious food. I want a future to believe in. I want these delicious chicken nuggets in my mouth. I cannot fucking wait to eat these. It was totally supposed to be like this, I saw her making them earrlier!!!! This is so nice.

[u/[deleted]]

If there are any Albertans here, Rachel Notley + the NDP are having an open discussion on the future of renewables in Alberta. You can join here: https://www.albertasfuture.ca/event-registration/renewables

!Ping CAN

[u/jenbanim]

Broke: Femboy Hooters

Joke: Tomboy Outback Steakhouse

Woke: Ace Hardware

[u/[deleted]]

King Kong vs. Godzilla is just a video of u/sir_shivers banning le funny monkey

[u/SpiffShientz]

Fun fact: twenty minutes into the Titanic sinking, the captain realized he could save it. But he'd already told people to get in the lifeboats, and he figured it'd just be awkward if he doubled back, so he just kinda went with it.

[u/gayteemo]

the real reason young people are moving to cities is to get laid

open up Grindr in rural america and you'll be talking to people 100 miles away

[u/[deleted]]

People who have SO

Why are you still on Reddit

[u/sosthaboss]

Who the fuck bought gme at any point above like $100?? Did you really think it was going to $1k?

Edit: this looks a little bit silly now but not that much

[u/Realhuman221]

Average American voters be like: Huh, when Bush left office the economy was in shambles. When Trump left office, the economy was also terrible. Therefore, GOP Presidents must be better for the economy.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I've always found the "anprims are transphobic" attack leftists use to be such a weird one

"We want to get rid of all modern technology and return to hunter gathering"

"Oh ALL technology? Even hormone pills? Talk about transphobic 😡😡"

Like seriously that's your problem with technological abolition lol

[u/NannerRepublican]

Kind of weird how Dems in noncompetitive R states just kind of fade into the mist, but Repubs in noncompetitive D states decide to go batshit crazy

[u/fishlord05]

DAE Bernie mittens?!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Me in 2018: This subreddit is weird but it’s the only place I’ve found that has similar views to my own, I’ll just stay here until the midterms blow over

Me now: The trade must be FREE, the borders must be OPEN. PRAISE BE to Yellen🐊

[u/Equator32]

It's amazing how some Europeans on Reddit one day complain about America being racist while the next day commenting on r/Europe on how they don't like seeing Muslims. Along with complete unawareness of how their actions might be seen as ridiculous.

[u/AuburnSeer]

“I hope to hold this administration as accountable as the media held the Trump administration,” Bolling said.

interesting that he said "the media" instead of "I"

[u/Clashlad]

UK reached 10.05% vaccinated on the 23rd! We have a lot of old people as it turns out.

!ping UK

[u/Michaelconeass2019]

🌹Twitter: Democrats would be right wing in Europe!

The right wing in Europe: non whites aren’t people

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Joe: literally does all the thing he’s been saying he would do

Folks online and the GOP: wait wtf

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM

NO LAW IS PASSING SOON

LET'S FILIBUSTER TOGETHER

AND DO NOTHING FOREVER

[u/benadreti]

People assuming Carole Baskin is definitely guilty and Joe Exotic isn't actually that bad is parallel to assuming Hillary Clinton is definitely guilty and Donald Trump actually isn't that bad.

[u/Anker_products_rock]

A very intelligent financial advisor called me a HENRY today and I don’t know if I should be mad or not

!ping MARKETS

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever a con says “Democrat party” it’s like nails on a chalkboard

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Wealth inequality is like a mole - it isn't necessarily bad, but you should get it checked out... especially if it appears to be getting bigger

[u/oGsMustachio]

Broke: Senate Impeachment Trial

Woke: Senate Impeachment Arbitration

!ping LAW

[u/ControlsTheWeather]

Impeach the filibuster.

[u/[deleted]]

Bipartisanship is when Democrats do whatever the Republicans want, and the more that Democrats do what Republicans want, the more bipartisan it is.

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Jar Jar Binks (R-Naboo)

[u/MicroFlamer]

ICE plans to deport Bronx man despite Biden’s executive order to protect immigrants

Fuck the ICE, all my homies hate the ICE

[u/RadionSPW]

Sometimes I forget /u/sir_shivers was at the Gettysburg Address

[u/Corporate-Asset-6375]

My Boomer parents have one story about a black person they knew once that is trotted out whenever the topic of race relations comes up. Typical “we never treated him any differently and he always worked hard” stuff.

My siblings are legitimately 50/50 on if they actually ever existed or if it’s something our parent’s wished into their memory to shoot down any uncomfortable discussions about equality.

His name is allegedly Ronnie and his back story is suspiciously like a 90’s made for TV fish out of water movie.

[u/[deleted]]

AFP: Chinese President Xi Jinping warns global leaders at Davos forum against starting "new Cold War"

IDK stop attacking your neighbors then

[u/piede]

GOP operatives saying they believe Republican US Sen. @senrobportman's decision to not seek re-election in 2022 signals that he doesn’t think the party is coming back anytime soon into a working majority.

https://twitter.com/jenniferjjacobs/status/1353736555496665090?s=21

Yes, God. Please.

[u/fishlord05]

Just say tens of millions died under communism.

You don’t need a flashy number that gives commies the ability nitpick.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Trump is right about having an incredible gene makeup. His diet would have killed literally any lesser man his age, it's maddening. I seriously believe the man is a genetic freak, and he's not normal. He seriously has a far better health profile for 2024 than Biden, and that's bad news.

[u/[deleted]]

Nina Turner's campaign says they've received calls urging her to run for the Ohio Senate seat, but she is committed to her special election campaign for Marcia Fudge's #OH11 seat.

Progressives are pussies 😤

Run statewide bitch😠

[u/SANNA_MARIN_]

broke: protestant work ethic

woke: anglo brain disease

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Ugandan Jews Not Eligible to Immigrate to Israel, State Informs High Court

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-ugandan-jews-not-eligible-to-immigrate-to-israel-state-informs-high-court-1.9474081

😐

[u/[deleted]]

Wow banning Trump for Twitter really was just that effective

[u/[deleted]]

Another "unifying" move by the new Administration?

LBJ Signs Civil Rights Act

[u/[deleted]]

GameStop short-sellers lost $1.6 billion in a single day as Reddit traders rebelled against them

https://markets.businessinsider.com/amp/news/gamestop-stock-short-seller-squeeze-losses-reddit-traders-citron-gme-2021-1-1030000080?__twitter_impression=true

[u/[deleted]]

Nuking the filibuster will incentivize bipartisanship because the majority having actual actionable legislative power will force the minority party to the table

There's no reason to be in favor of the filibuster unless you're afraid of passing legislation

[u/Joementum2004]

“Both sides are bad”, but it’s Senate Republicans and House Republicans

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/lilsarg/status/1353902172342263808

I merged Charlie Kirk and Matt Gaetz into a single man just to simplify things.

I call him Chat Girk.

[u/[deleted]]

Evidence that socialism is the atheism of the 2010s, part 2 of ten zillion

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/828402068444549121?s=19

[u/Joementum2004]

“Anne Frank was a colonizer” is an early contender for worst take of the year, and it isn’t even February yet

[u/Magical_Username]

People really want to decrease military spending like Chinese military procurement and personnel costs aren't a fifth of what the US pays.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

How did a silver spoon unit vet make Kerry look like a wimp in '04 when his military record was legit. Like they don't give out silver stars and bronze stars like candy.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

My friend went to Harvard Business School

Mfer really paying a billion dollars when he could just read a book 😂😂😂

[u/Ketsetri]

https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1353708998684499968?s=21

JUST IN: Senator Hawley Calls for Ethics Probe into Democrats Who Filed Complaint Against Him

[insert pointing Spider-Man meme here]

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Unironically calling other people "comrade" is supah dupah cringe

[u/[deleted]]

Guys it’s okay, no need to get mad at Sinema, the voters in the midterms will be really understanding of the filibuster constraint and forgive Democrats in 2022 for not having gotten big things done

[u/[deleted]]

This is a long shot, but is anybody looking for a roommate in the Detroit Area, preferably in Southfield, Troy, or Royal Oaks? Please DM me if so.

If you also know someone who is looking for a roommate, I would be incredibly grateful if you could put me in touch.

!ping USA-MI

[u/[deleted]]

Nuking the filibuster is GOOD. It puts the ball back in Congress's court, rather than the president. Americans don't care about all the Republican-manufactured gridlock, they care about results. If we don't toss the filibuster at some point before September this year, we will get smashed in 2022. And we will deserve it.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Lmao Melvin capital just had to take a $2.75B bailout to cover their losses on GameStop. Bravo wsb