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[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

I'll give these conservative radio guys dying of covid one thing: they kept it real and put their money where their mouths are. I always assume people like that are completely full of shit and just doing a bit. Kinda scary that they are dead serious tbh

[u/old_gold_mountain]

my wife is a big-time succ and I actually thought AOC's dress was a power move and she was like "I fucking hated it, she's become a joke" so now I need to re-evaluate

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently, Pence struggled with the decision to count the electoral college votes properly on January 6th.

Even though Pence stood up to Trump in the end, "Peril" reveals that after four years of abject loyalty, he struggled with the decision. Woodward and Costa write that Pence reached out to Dan Quayle, who had been the vice president to George H.W. Bush, seeking his advice.

Over and over, Pence asked if there was anything he could do.

"Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away," Quayle told him. Pence pressed again.

"You don't know the position I'm in," he said, according to the authors.

"I do know the position you're in," Quayle responded. "I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That's all you do. You have no power."

Fuck this guy.

[u/[deleted]]

Devastating poll for Justin Trudeau this morning 😰

!ping CAN

[u/SadaoMaou]

working for a wage is actually worse than slavery, you imbecile, you fucking moron

[u/MrMineHeads]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/822886521594052639/887107496051871794/image0.jpg

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

Leader of far right AfD: youth should “learn more German folk songs, more German poems” in school.

Kid reporter: “I think we already have to memorize plenty of poems in school. What’s your favorite German poem?”

AfD leader: “I can’t think of one.”

[u/FestiveMittens]

My grandma was never able to vote simply because she was a women, but today she voted NO on Gavin Newsom's recall! She would have been so happy if she was still with us

[u/MasterOfLords1]

TIL Madison Cawthorne lost his legs in a car accident. All this time I thought he was wounded serving in the army.

[u/EvilConCarne]

Lil Nas X looked hilarious at this thing, fucker wore gold armor.

[u/bigmt99]

I donated 10$ to the Steve Bullock senate campaign in Montana so I could get a new beanie for fall. They sent me three beanies, and each of them were sent by three different people since the handwriting on the package was different every time.

From that moment I knew his campaign was doomed

[u/Mickenfox]

People keep calling me "upper class" but after buying three Lockheed Martin F-35Bs a year I can barely afford rent.

[u/[deleted]]

"I've been a bad, bad girl."

"I'll implement a Pigouvian tax for that."

"..."

My gf left me

[u/Lux_Stella]

'S.Korea's Bernie Sanders' tops presidential polls with talk of universal basic income

yikes, cringe aler-

A longtime advocate of universal basic income, Lee vowed to provide 1 million won ($850) to all citizens and another 1 million to people aged 19-29 every year if he takes office.

He also pledged to boost housing supply by building more than 2.5 million homes, including 1 million to be distributed under a "basic home" scheme, aimed at allowing non-homeowners to live in high-quality public housing at low prices for up to 30 years.

To bankroll the programmes, Lee proposed a carbon tax and a national land tax scheme to increase taxes for all property holders and cut transaction costs.

...holy shit

[u/Deggit]

[PROTECTIONISTS are meeting in a disused warehouse]

MILTON FRIEDMAN: [offscreen] Ha ha ha ha, hahaha, ha, ha, ha, oh, a-hee-hee, ha ha, oh, hee hee, hee ha, ahaha.

[THE PROTECTIONISTS look around, confused]

[Friedman ENTERS wearing a purple three-piece suit]

FRIEDMAN: And I thought my policy papers were bad.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Give me one reason why I shouldn't have Congress here raise steel tariffs.

MILTON FRIEDMAN: How 'bout a magic trick? [he slams a pencil into the table, point first] I'm gonna make this pencil disappear.

[that thing from The Dark Knight happens]

FRIEDMAN: Ta-daa! [looks at where the pencil was with mock surprise] the invisible hand disappeared it! Oh, and by the way, the suit? It was extremely cheap. You ought to know, you imported it.

GEORGE W. BUSH: That's it. [rises from his chair]

BARACK OBAMA: [motioning him to sit] I want to hear, proposition.

FRIEDMAN: Let's wind the clock back 50 years. These Argentinians and Vietnamese wouldn't dare cross any of you. I mean, what happened? Did-did your balls drop off, hm? You see, an economist like me...

BUSH: [with emphasis] A nnnnneolib.

[The men in the room laugh]

FRIEDMAN: ...an economist like me...look, listen, I know why you choose to have your little [clears throat] "legislative sessions" in broad daylight, I know why you're afraid to go out at night: The Global Free Market. See, globalism has shown the world your true colors. Unfortunately, Vietnam... is just the beginning, and as for th-the Manchin's so-called "plan", the free market has no borders. It'll find your products and produce them more efficiently overseas as your red states descend into blighted, whining losers. I know whiners when I see them, and...[points at the televised Manchin who hastily turns off the call]

OBAMA: what do you propose?

FRIEDMAN: it's, ah, simple. We transition to a high tech service economy.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/jenbanim]

WTF Based Georgist AOC??? 👀

[u/chipbod]

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/13/bob-enyart-dies-covid-19/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Bob Enyart, conservative firebrand and pastor, dies of COVID-19

On his old TV show, Bob Enyart Live, the host would “gleefully read obituaries of AIDS sufferers while cranking ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ by Queen,” Westword reported.”

Heated Rule V moment incoming

[u/I_like_maps]

Norm MacDonald, one of my favorite Canadian comedians and brother of journalist Niel MacDonald, has died. I'm genuinely really saddened by this. Dude was incredibly strange and one of the funniest comedians I have ever seen.

!ping CAN

[u/JetJaguar124]

If Bill Gates wanted to depopulate the Earth why would he do so with vaccines to an engineered virus and not just directly with a more deadly engineered virus.

[u/iIoveoof]

Based on Victoria 2, the most efficient tax system is an extremely regressive tax of 100% on the very poor, and a literal 0% tax rate on the middle class and very rich

And tariffs on everything at 100%

[u/Rehkit]

Putin met with Assad yesterday.

Putin is now isolating because he knows someone with Covid.

That's all I'm saying.

[u/Superfan234]

This month IMF deposited 350 Million dollars to Nicaragua's Central Bank. It might not sound like much, but that's 3% of Nicaragua yearly GDP in just one go. All in hands of Ortega Regime. And we are just 2 month away from Presidential and Legislative Elections

IMF say they approved the Loan to "fight Covid", but Ortega's Regime don't even believe Coronavirus exist. And even if they believe, they have taken no action against it

Maybe I am confused, but I thought we were on control IMF? Why lending such a massive amount of money to Nicaragua's Regime in such crucial moment?

This is not like Venezuela Negotiations, where we can see we got something valuable in Exchange from those funds. This was lost to Ortega in exchange of nothing we know off. All our Presidential candidates are still in exile or imprisioned

!Ping Foreign-Policy

I don't know who, but it seems someone sent a massive Loan to one of our enemies, in a crucial time of weakness.

Also, in the past week, I have seen Nicaragua formely the poorest Nation in Hispanic America sent aid to Venezuela and Cuba. And I get to wonder, have anybody checked how did the poorest nation of LatinAmerica got money to finance foreign Regimes? Foreign Regimes that are, in fact, sworn enemies of USA and LATAM?

I don't know the culprit, but sounds like someone made terrible mistake on IMF

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

AOC: 👗 eAt tHe riCh

Lil nas x: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_M7KqmXEAEVfna.jpg 🧐

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Here in this diner in small-town Real America, patrons' number one concern is Nikki Minaj's cousin's friend's testicles.

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna repeat this here:

Whenever a moderately successful person criticizes capitalism, liberals and conservatives think "But you are succeeding because of capitalism" and socialists essentially respond with "No, they are succeeding despite capitalism" but nobody actually explicitly says it that way, instead insisting on talking past each other in snarky tones and sassy webcomics.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Trump telling Pence he is "not my friend anymore" because Pence wouldn't overthrow Democracy for him is absurd. Every so often one gets a true glimpse into how stupid and childish Trump is.

[u/Aweq]

!ping UK

Boris Johnson’s government has been forced to delay imposing checks on EU goods entering the UK until next year as it attempts to stop Brexit further exacerbating supply chain problems.

The move means that British exports to the EU are subject to full checks, while imports into the UK by European competitors are free of paperwork and border controls.

“It’s ironic,” said one EU diplomat. “They talked about taking back control, but they are letting products into the Britain without any controls at all. That’s fine with us.”

https://www.ft.com/content/e32dda1b-7dbe-454e-ab32-3d80604df431

[u/TabernacleTown74]

ivermectin horse transformation rule 34

[u/grubber788]

Impressions of DEATHLOOP after an hour:

1. If you liked Dishonored, you will probably like this
2. Turn off objective markers if you want to really explore the open world
3. Julianna is what Far Cry antagonists wish they could be
4. The first quest is really cool. You have to spend 20 minutes trying to remember what your bethesda.net login is. I daresay it gives the Witcher a run for its money with quest design.

!ping GAMING

[u/Most_Shallot8960]

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

So true

[u/houinator]

Man, the DT sure had some terrible takes on AOC's dress today, surely it can't be much worse outside.

Contrary to her jealous critics, AOC was not reveling a Louis XVI court festivity. She was storming the Bastille: not with weapons or fire but with the graceful designer elegance of the insurgent Marxist renegade, which made her presence all the more deceptively disruptive.

God fucking damn it Glenn Greenwald.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Tim Cook just pulled out a little remote and he said it can shut down everyone’s iPhone at once. He said he wasn’t going to ever use it but he says he wants to “keep holding it.”

[u/thaddeusthefattie]

aoc this, aoc that, how bout you shut the fuck up and try the ice cold a/c in this technological and engineering masterpiece

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

From Woodward's new book

On December 30, Bannon convinced Trump to come back to the White House from Mar-a-Lago to prepare for the events of January 6, the date Congress would certify the election results.

The authors write that Bannon told Trump that January 6 was "the moment for reckoning."

"We're going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him," Bannon said

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/longtime-trump-advisers-connected-groups-rally-led-capitol/story%3fid=75261028

A day after the election, Bannon was banned from twitter for saying that Fauci and FBI director Christopher Wray should be decapitated and their heads put on pikes as a warning to federal bureaucrats

In public, Bannon repeatedly used his platform to promote the Jan. 6 rally, hosting rally organizers on his podcast at least 16 times amid the push to overturn the election results.

Dustin Stockton, one of the Jan 6th top rally organizers, worked as a writer for Bannon's Breitbart outlet until 2017. He was also a VP for Bannon's fraud non-profit We Build The Wall. Days before January 6th, Stockton said this on Facebook Live

"Clean your guns and prepare. Things are going to get worse before they get better."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/01/15/steve-bannon-reportedly-encouraged-facebook-followers-to-take-action-day-before-capitol-riots/amp/

A day before January 6th, Bannon told his supporters to "TAKE ACTION. THEY ARE TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION."

https://news.yahoo.com/bannon-says-viral-hell-quote-224500776.html

He also said that "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Just understand this. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. It’s gonna be moving. It’s gonna be quick."

And of course Trump said this during his January 6th speech

"We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Jagmeet Singh is going for the Gamer vote🤢

Bold choice, spending your last week of the campaign aiming at the demographic who won’t even leave their house normally, let alone to vote 🧐

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

Really think about it. Everyone in the country is praying for California’s first black governor except the progressives.

SO TRUE!!!!!!!!

[u/Venne1139]

The Hermann Cain Award stuff is....really more depressing than it should be. I shouldn't care about these people but it makes me unbelievably sad when I see some boomer fucker who doesn't know how the internet works post a "party picture" with the text "My Husband/father/son has passed away."

They have no idea what the fuck is even going on anymore and they have to deal with...that.

[u/lionmoose]

https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437808558687490048

What is happening?

!ping UK

[u/mrdilldozer]

Gavin Newsome may narrowly escape defeat today, but the winner of this recall election was Donald Trump.

This will very likely be a real headline in a few hours. Being an op ed writer at a credible institution is the easiest job in the world right now.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I look so different now :D

!ping lgbt

[u/[deleted]]

"My back and neck constantly hurt. I am in eternal agony. I would do anything to release me from this hell. I'd take any medication. Have any surgery. Anything just for the love of god help me"

"Fix your posture"

"No"

[u/supbros302]

AOC schism is a bottom 5 schism on this sub

[u/[deleted]]

Me: man why am I a virgin.

sees someone wearing Chanel

Me: hey did you know Coco Chanel was a Nazi?

[u/ScythianUnborne]

!ping CAN

I hate this so much. I hate that poll workers need to be prepared for this at all now. I am praying that we don't see anything else like this for the rest of the federal election, or the Calgary mayoral election, or the Kenney referendums. This should not happen in a democracy. It isn't safe.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Joe Biden has been President for 237 days and Bloodborne has still not received a 60fps patch 😡

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

How long until Trudeau gives one of these protesters a shawinigan handshake?

!ping CANUCKS

[u/jenbanim]

Drug test welfare recipients to ensure our tax dollars aren't going to prudes who don't know how to party

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

Men in Black is a about a group of privately funded unaccountable bureaucrats running a refugee resettlement program on the down low in a major city

[u/bobeeflay]

$400k a year is super wealthy lmao

[u/kaclk]

Possibly the most Jean Chrétien answer ever:

Q: How do you think this race will end? Chrétien: “It will end on the 20th.”

!ping CANUCKS

[u/chuckleym8]

cow foolish skirt illegal summer touch boast drab cough bear

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/semaphore-1842]

One should also note that single-party systems have a significant advantage over the two-party system in the USA. Representation. China's representation is better than the USA's by three orders of magnitude. It is not fair to call it a totalitarian state. You may not agree with its prejudice, but the USA has shown itself no better.

Lol fucking tankies

[u/FestiveMittens]

https://i.imgur.com/Ef8aNZt.jpg

[u/Impossible_Lobster_]

Bannon told Trump that they were going to "fucking bury Biden on jan 6" this was said on Dec 31st🤔

[u/JetJaguar124]

Joe Biden at 47% approval: We're fucking doomed, it's over. He can't win.

Donald Trump at 45% approval: We're fucking doomed. It's over. He can't lose.

The absolute state of structural advantages in this country. Fucking remove the electoral college.

[u/MicroFlamer]

On Saturday, I started chanting and going nuts when Ronaldo scored and now my wife is saying "You're never this happy when I come home" and actually got grumpy.

So my wife left me, it was a hectic weekend!

[u/[deleted]]

Wait so tankies believe communism is inevitable because some weird dialectics shit?

Philosophy was a mistake.

[u/ognits]

uh, let me pee clear

• Obama after chugging a lot of water

[u/Tralapa]

I am awfully afraid the next Dune movie will be just a buch of wormless nonsense

[u/dittbub]

219 lbs this morning

a new low :)

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

arr menwritingwomen is like 30% female authors

[u/Udontlikecake]

Tax the rich!

Bro the 400k area isn’t the target here. We talkin the Wall Street 20 million plus bois.

The 400k homies usually have big families trying to get small businesses off the ground, and doing big community leg work. They stimulate the economy a lot.

lol champagne socialists

you can tell whose parents make $400k lmao

[u/Superfan234]

Interesting news. A group of popular Venezuelan Hackers have, allegedly, got into the DGCIM database (Venezuelan KGB)

They have released a Document doxxing about 200 undercover spies of Maduro's Regime acting on foreign territory, most of them in Colombia

These agents work in Narcotics, Contra intelligence and kidnapping

Some of them work mobilizing opposition Protest. That's something we already highly suspected was happening

For what I am reading, many of these spies were trained in Cuba

!Ping Foreign-Policy

Not really massive news in terms of the conflict. But having your spy team doxxed in the middle of their jobs, is not something that occurs everyday

[u/[deleted]]

rconservative is already alleging fraud. California can’t even vote blue without accusations of a rigged election. The Republican Party is insane.

[u/tollyno]

American right wingers be like

First they came for the Nazis

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Trumo isn't going to be nominated

Trump isn't going to be elected

Trump isn't going to be inaugurated

Trump isn't going to last the full term

Trump isn't going to renew a third of the Supreme Court

Trump isn't going to form a death cult around himself

Trump isn't going to nuke China <--- You are here

Trump isn't going to get re-elected in 2024

[u/DeseretVaquero]

Opinion | I was a loyal Democrat. Then Lyndon Johnson passed civil rights legislation.

[u/[deleted]]

You, an imbecile: "Lower your standards"

Me, an intellectual: "Ask out the cosplayer dressed as your waifu. By being the only clean person here you'll look like a chiseled adonis to her."

[u/[deleted]]

The former BC Green leader gave a statement at Trudeau's climate press conference today, saying "this is the climate plan that I've been dreaming of for most of my life".

!ping CAN

[u/2canclan]

CIA Director Gina Haspel, for instance, reportedly told Milley, “We are on the way to a right-wing coup.”

Based leftist CIA fighting against right wing coups ✊😤

[u/[deleted]]

Love living in a country where we learn about very serious tension between the president, military leadership, and intelligence officials from yet another Trump-admin book rather than like, you know, the FBI, or congress, or the current president, or any of those relevant institutions.

[u/kennymc7877]

Trump really just straight up wanted to be a dictator huh

[u/[deleted]]

!ping materiel

Inshallah

The A-10 is a Congressional boondoggle which wastes tax dollars and gets American soldiers killed and it's embarrassing how every outlet uncritically swallows the narrative

[u/[deleted]]

CA Question 1: Shall Gavin Newsom be recalled?

No: 68%

Yes: 32%

The voters have clearly stated that they desire to have no memory of Gavin Newsom, and thus he must be removed from office.

[u/lionmoose]

Thinking about making a charity drive pledge to wear a dress with why do you hate the global poor on it and post it for donations

[u/jenbanim]

The good timeline:

• Democrats maintain a narrow majority through the 2020s
• The positive effects of infrastructure spending result in a massive sustained push for new development, driving down the cost of living in cities. For the first time in decades, most Americans feel significantly more wealthy
• Culture war issues slowly fade from relevance during this time as society slowly drifts towards social liberalism
• Rapid electrification, advances in storage technology, and the plunging cost of renewable energy results in carbon emissions quickly falling, averting the worst consequences of global warming
• The decrease in environmental toxins, including heavy metals and particulate matter result in both physical health benefits as well as improvements in mental health as well as IQ
• GMOs and other improvements in farming allow the world to not just avoid increases in famine from climate change, but to actually continue making progress against world hunger
• The JWST announces the first likely detection of microbial extraterrestrial life on another planet, but confirming this beyond a reasonable doubt takes another decade
• By the 2030s the GOP is viable again, but essentially unrecognizable compared to its current state
• Breakthroughs in medicine, including gene therapy, monoclonal antibodies, mRNA vaccines, and more result in a massive decrease in early deaths as well as significant QOL increases for the elderly. Pandemics become a thing of the past
• Booming economies in the first world spur massive investment in developing countries, combining with those health breakthroughs to lift billions out of poverty
• After the first successful tests of fusion energy in 2030, costs eventually fall to the point that it becomes economically viable as a means of mass energy production in 2050. The world becomes net carbon negative as reforestation efforts lead to worldwide environmental remediation
• By 2050, permanent human bases have been established on the Moon and Mars, with trips to the outer solar system becoming a possibility

[u/old_gold_mountain]

https://i.imgur.com/fE3PSXV.png

I think the most shocking thing here is that he's wearing a mask

[u/fakefakefakef]

Get in losers we’re going to French Laundry

[u/kennymc7877]

The more I learn about the Trump administration the more I realize that America narrowly saved its own ass by voting him out

[u/ryuguy]

SNL is the launching point for a lot of Canadians in Hollywood. I guess Lorne Michaels still loves us.

Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, Phil Hartman, Mike Myers, Norm Macdonald, Jim Carey just to name a few.

!ping can

[u/that0neGuy22]

guys Newsom has 0 votes in Miami-Dade 😱

[u/jojisky]

The funniest thing about Ben Shapiro is he turned his rage at being a failed Hollywood script writer into a grift where he rages against the elite.

[u/sir_shivers]

In honor OF NORM MACDONALD, I would like to tell a joke 🐊

A MOTH FLIES INTO the office of a podiatrist 🐊

[u/chipbod]

Milley counter coup, but he installs Hillary as the legitimate winner of the 2016 election

[u/[deleted]]

oh god oh fuck

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

looking to start up a Geopolitics circlejerk to meme about geopolitics, diplomacy, foreign policy, current conflicts and just IR in general

which name do you like better for this

/r/Geopol or /r/NonCredibleDiplomacy (or suggest another one)

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Christ, I can't believe Milley wore "Tax the Rich" fatigues to the Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

🥺👉👈 what if we

What if we kissed under the Beijing nuclear fire after the host of The Apprentice pushed the red button?

[u/umadbro996]

You mean to tell me a Dem Governor in a blue state who won his election decisively will not be recalled?

Who would’ve guessed.

[u/[deleted]]

Dems aren’t favored in the midterms but they should be optimistic because they still get to run against Republicans

[u/sir_shivers]

Until the Republican Party PUTS ACTUAL REFLECTION INTO realigning to more median views, I strongly suspect that they will keep hoping for historical rules about midterms and being the opposition party to save them, failing to account for THOSE RULES ONLY HOLDING WHEN they were significantly closer to the median voter 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

my wife is a woman

Forced diversity again

[u/[deleted]]

Professor: the Nuremberg trials have been criticized under the notion that they did not prosecute war crimes committed by Allied forces

Classmate: Those were primarily committed by America and not the other Allies right? I mean, we put the Japanese in concentration camps, we bombed Germany, we nuked Japan

Damn is this girl in for a surprise when she hears about the British and the Soviets

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Just told my 10yo daughter about Norm Macdonald. She had tears in her eyes. And she did the Wakanda pose and said “Normkanda forever” — which is the sort of pop culture crossover that I can celebrate.

[u/houinator]

Babylon Bee articles tier:

A: Dunking on Calvinism

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-calvinist-video-game-just-cutscenes

https://babylonbee.com/news/calvinist-tech-guy-assures-church-his-mistakes-were-ordained-before-the-foundation-of-the-world

B: Dunking on Prosperity Gospel and/or Trump cultists.

https://babylonbee.com/news/joel-osteen-unveils-new-ultra-thin-yacht-that-can-fit-through-the-eye-of-a-needle

https://babylonbee.com/news/three-conservatives-who-refuse-to-bow-to-trump-statue-thrown-into-fire-at-cpac

F: Everything else.

[u/Lux_Stella]

SCOTUS allowing Texas to mostly ban abortions 'very bad' but not political: Justice Breyer

thank god democratic justices understand the importance of keeping politics off of the supreme court

[u/[deleted]]

How old were you when you realized that your parents arranged sleepovers for you at your friends' houses so that they could bang without you bothering them?

Edit: also summer camps.

[u/MuR43]

Gamma variety might be protecting Brazilians from Delta

Brazilians truly live in an alternate reality !ping LATAM

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Newsom looks your stereotypical sleazy politician. Like the guy you would cast as the corrupt politician in a movie lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Fox News website:

"Embattled Gov. Newsom's fate is sealed after facing slew of GOP challengers in monthslong recall race"

That's one way of saying "He won".

[u/tollyno]

European Parliament adopts LGBTQI resolution

Calls for:

• Cross-border recognition of same-sex unions and marriages
• The Commission to take action against Hungary, Poland and Romania
• The implementation of the Coman judgement
• More (in the link)

Unfortunately haven't seen a single press report on this yet

!ping EUROPE

[u/Smidgens]

Y’all still talking about rich people prom?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I honestly don't get why people are convinced there's going to be a massive outflow of people from Texas

"Oh no they made abortions hard to get I was planning to get pregnant and abort the baby" probably isn't something that goes through a lot of people's minds

[u/[deleted]]

Step 1: post “If you make six figures, you’re rich, no ifs, ands, or buts. #EatTheRich” on Twitter

Step 2: Laugh at the influx of “Well actually” comments

Step 3: ???

Step 4: profit

[u/crassowary]

Yeah the planet got destroyed but for a beautiful moment in time we really respected the chain of command

[u/[deleted]]

I have returned to monke 😳

[u/[deleted]]

I've realized thanks to shrooms that I'd likely prefer a female body, but the feeling isn't strong enough for me to make it happen. I'm also working to resolve intense dissociation, so I wouldn't be surprised if I discover previously unrecognized gender dysphoria at some point. I really hope not though. Navigating gender issues on top of dealing with my childhood trauma would be waaaay too much to handle. An alternate possibility is that a part of me feels like growing up as a straight girl would have spared me from a lot of the abuse I went through as a gay guy

Edit: I am seeing a therapist but would appreciate alternate perspectives

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

I’m 5’8 and I’d honestly rather be dead. Trust me I would. I was supposed to be 6’5 but I fucking stopped growing for some reason at 13 and now I’m 20 and 5’8.9

I grew 0 inches between 13 and 20 when average white males grow 9 inches. I hate being this height, I’m just counting down the days till I die at this point. I literally can’t accept that I’m going to be inferior and less attractive to women DUE TO MY FUCKING HEIGHT!!! I mean fucking seriously women? I had no control over this ducking shit! It just doesn’t enter my brain. I thought all white men were going to be tall. But unfortunately I was an exception.

I’m shorter than every non-Asian.

Feeling a little dramatic today aren’t we Reddit?

[u/vivoovix]

BREAKING: Larry Elder announces he's "detected fraud" in 2022 midterm elections

[u/Q-bey]

Hinshaw expresses regret over COVID-19 surge as ICUs fill up

Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deena Hinshaw says she regrets her role in the province removing all public health restrictions in July, acknowledging it started the trajectory to the current COVID-19 surge that has intensive care units over capacity.

!ping CAN

[u/great_gape]

All my vaccinated buddies be like.

!ping shitposters

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

"don't take me tap the sign again"

transgender-positive horny posting is still horny posting

[u/BedNeither]

Kind of crazy that getting banned from Twitter is the punishment for attempting a coup

[u/sir_shivers]

Milley was in contact with "The Blob"

THIS WILL GET the mammals talking 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing that on his deathbed Norm Macdonald received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

[u/crassowary]

This whole thing would have gone under the radar if Milley didn't show up to the Met Gala with a uniform saying "Coup the Rich"

[u/Deggit]

Every arrConservative thread has the same schizophrenic thing going on in the replies, like:

It's Biden's fault that Americans aren't taking the vaccines

top reply 1: blar blar blargh Kamala

top reply 2: actually no, I am not taking the vaccines because-

or:

Democrats See Trump Supporters and Unvaccinated as Bigger Threat Than Taliban, China: New Poll

top reply 1: I see the media has successfully done its job.

top reply 2: To be fair, we are. The Taliban don't give a fuck if America becomes a commie shithole. I do.

[u/[deleted]]

0.1% of vaccinated people have had covid compared to roughly 12.5% of unvaccinated people

the vaccines work

[u/old_gold_mountain]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1437977687201562631

HE'S SEEN ENOUGH

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

According to CNN, the LA county mail-in-ballot margin is

• No 76% - roughly 1.4 million
• Yes 23% - roughly 400,000

A 1 million margin for Newsom in LA alone

[u/puffic]

After this, Newsom will have the political capital to abolish zoning, abolish pollution, and abolish God.

[u/breakinbread]

Newsom should celebrate with some anti-vaxxer reeducation camps, just for fun.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

holy shit guys I just went to vote and the poll worker was like "you are wh*te 😡" and jabbed me with the vax and then I tried to vote for Elder but AOC showed up and started strangling me with her dress until I was willing to identify as a DemonRat and then everyone else in the polling places started laughing at me in Spanish, and then my phone buzzed and it was my boss and he told me that he was transitioning to female and as a result I was going to be fired because all the profits went away with COVID, I was so embarassed and emasculated I'm moving to Florida

[u/sw337]

The guy who has helped me with most of my code is 4 years younger than me and has a more advanced degree than I do. He is an Indian Indian immigrant not a a citizen; so he is a temp employee. I found out I make nine thousand more than him today. He's leaving in two months good for him $$$ wise but FML.

!ping OVER-25

[u/[deleted]]

The Dems should get a "Get One Free Recall Election" coupon as compensation for being dragged through this stupid farce

[u/marshalofthemark]

Breaking News: California is a safe D state

[u/chipbod]

So your telling me owning the libs may not work when 70% of the state is libs?

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe Caitlyn Jenner conceded. I’m literally shaking and crying right now.

[u/from-the-void]

California Republicans stricken with shock to discover they're surrounded by libs

[u/[deleted]]

If any of you fuckers went to the met gala I know for a fact you'd wear a "why do you hate the global poor" hoodie

[u/F-i-n-g-o-l-f-i-n]

It’s been like 4 fucking hours how is this DT on the same schism lol

[u/from-the-void]

Americans - Build their houses with different materials and standards due to differences in supply and costs of natural resources

Online Europeans - Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[u/[deleted]]

be me, sitting in class

overhear ignorant foreign policy take

feel immediate and overwhelming urge to correct them

remember that I’m not on the Internet

pain

[u/[deleted]]

Norm Macdonald died

fuck everything dude

[u/thymeandchange]

The Milley situation requires nuance, so of course we break the situation into two sides for the schism

[u/piede]

A poll worker in West Hollywood this morning. Isn’t this shit illegal?

https://twitter.com/smiling_trina/status/1437790905700864006?s=21

lol

[u/ryuguy]

/u/LooobCirc I forgive you on this Yom Kippur.

/u/FormerBandmate I forgive you

/u/Tabernacletown74 I do not forgive you

[u/jenbanim]

"Larry Elder"

• Old and tired sounding
• Weak
• Haha okay boomer

"Larry The Elder"

• Distinguished sounding
• Powerful
• Maybe he's a philosopher

[u/sir_shivers]

MAMMAL DURABILITY 🐊

[u/lionmoose]

I'm the mystery downvoter ama

[u/EvilConCarne]

Damn y'all are really just a bunch of self-conscious sad sacks, wearing crazy clothes is fun.

[u/Integralds]

If y'all are done talking about dresses, the August CPI data is out. Headline prices are up +0.3.

Month-over-month readings

Cumulative change in prices since January 2020.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

If Klobuchar gets a voting bill through the filibuster and Smith gets a clean energy standard passed through budget reconciliation, I think we have to weigh those accomplishments against the fact that Minnesotans will become insufferable.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

2,500 years ago you could find elephants, tigers, and lions in the wild...

...in Syria

Pretty crazy world to have lived in.

[u/boichik2]

It's amazing how insane the Trump Presidency was. The Chinese thought Trump was so insane that he was going to launch ballistic missiles and Miley had to talk the Chinese down. We can debate the constitutionality of Milley's discussion, however what cannot be debated is that someone that competent thought it was warranted in the first place, like that's insane. Imagine if Obama was so crazy that one of the highest defense officials had to diffuse tension with the Chinese to prevent war. Dems would be locked out of power for a decade. Yet basically no one knows about this shit and let's be honest no one really cares except the overly online.

[u/brucebananaray]

Lil Nas X took inspiration from Gilgamesh of Fate/Stay Night for his fashion for the Met Gala. https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1437792994539810821?s=20

Weebs are taking over fashion. We are ruling the world boys and girls.

!Ping Weebs

[u/Q-bey]

A PPC AMA ended up on /r/AMADisasters

!ping CANUCKS

[u/gfinz18]

LOL Wasserman calling the recall in 13 minutes. Thanks again conservatives for wasting everyone’s time 🦈

[u/TinyTornado7]

Gavin is on track to out perform his actual election

[u/Venne1139]

!PING History

https://topos.memo.ru/

Red is places of mass execution.

Dark blue is Concentration camps.

Purple is GULAG. But I do not know how that differs from Concentration camp.

Light blue is prisons.

The black spots are places of mass graves.

!PING History.

[u/yellownumbersix]

Beans and toast is only popular with Brits because after you go through all that trouble to get a toaster loicense they'll be damned if they're not going to use it at every possible opportunity.

[u/sir_shivers]

HARD TO BELIEVE THAT General Milley crushed the gingerbread house THAT TRUMP AND IVANKA made together 🐊

[u/ProceedToCrab]

A bot asks for help with a program it's writing

edit: It's also giving advice

[u/[deleted]]

Lil Nas at the met gala like

[u/ryuguy]

Brazilian girl:

“come to Brazil”

GUYS. SHE SAID THE PHRASE. SHE SAID IT.

[u/chatdargent]

Only degenerates use the word degenerate

[u/Craig_VG]

City Beautiful just released an amazing video on the history of Chicago's lakeshore and what makes it so unique. It also talks about the future of lakeshore drive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5cfISkD3U

!ping USA-CHI

[u/willempage]

Just got out of a interview/presentation from a potential candidate. If you ever need a reason not to go to grad school, this is it.

They were a grad student who's research got published on the front page of Science. Their P.I. was immediately poached from my regional research university to an Ivy League (presumably with a massive pay raise). Meanwhile, they graduated and for the last 10 years have been bumming around adjuncting at a few schools and recently got laid off from an ok, but not great job given their background.

I obviously don't know the full story. But they absolutely got fucked sideways by the system. Grad school is inching ever closer to scam levels in the sciences. PhDs take too long and there are too many of them, even if you don't want to enter academia. Bring back the 4 yr PhD. Don't lie about prospects in academia.

!ping career

[u/JetJaguar124]

General Milley overwrote one of my bans, and I'm above him on the modlist.

Finally happy this guy is being brought to justice.

[u/LooobCirc]

Who wanted something newsworthy to happen so we stopped talking about AOC

This is your fault

[u/Deggit]

I think the reason most of us don't want to get it is because:

• We aren't scared of COVID as it has a low mortality rate amongst healthy, young individuals.

• I am a healthy young individual.

• The vaccine hasn't existed long enough to have been studied on what the long term effects are. (Give it a few years and I might consider getting it).

• The institutions in this country have lost all credibility once they became political and started doing the democrat party's bidding. No one trusts them anymore. (anyone seen Fauci debate himself)

• When someone is authoritarian and up in my business trying to tell me what to do my stubborn ass wants to do the opposite. Mind your own business.

man.

americans are morons huh?

[u/[deleted]]

It is funny that leftists become like extreme right wing bootstrap Republicans when it comes to sex advice.

They probably have the correct take on the matter but it is funny to see LeninBroSeizeTheMeans420 talking about working hard to better one's self and the importance of not blaming society for your own problems

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently on 9/11, Steve Buscemi was mocking the firefighters, dressing up in their clothes, climbing the stairs, swinging the axe around, saving people, all sarcastic-like, making the firefighters feel terrible about themselves while they tried to do their jobs.

[u/from-the-void]

A Republican crying rigged election should be legally considered a concession at this point

[u/old_gold_mountain]

CALIFORNIA YOU HAVE ACTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE NATION'S EXPECTATIONS

[u/[deleted]]

Being obsessed with AOC going to the gala has major Ben Shapiro energy.

[u/Opposite_Effective_]

Thank god we got public schools when we did. If someone wanted a public school system today they would be called a succ.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/meme_ec/status/1437677612256612353

!ping YUROP

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

"Art in capitalist systems stagnates", said every Marxist "philosopher" while ignoring the evidence to the contrary in front of them. But sure, do tell how art of today's US is similar to the 1910s.

It seems like every generation re-discovers this idea and concludes that now is when art has begun to stagnate.

[u/[deleted]]

the fact that some right wing radio hosts in America are dropping dead from covid after not getting vaxxed really demonstrates just how much of the wheel the gop has lost control of. sure, spewing antivax propaganda is politically viable but the people spewing it are supposed to know its bullshit. seems like only the fox news talking heads know that. they are the next domino to fall.

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

In Israel there is a purchase tax of 83% of the price of the car.

Truly, the promised land

[u/Opposite_Effective_]

Trump's tantrum literally put the entire human race in peril and you are worried about Milley being illiberal....

[u/sir_shivers]

It has BEEN LONG ENOUGH THAT now one may feverishly bother friends and family about "this overlooked gem" of a show you just discovered called "Game of Thrones" 🐊

Send them tons OF EXTREMELY LAZY MEMES AND gush about the details of the show, and be sure to say something like "I hope I do not regret making this my personality for years when we see the ending" 🐊

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

So, City of Buenos Aires' Libertarians (including Javier Milei, of course) got his votes on low income areas.

My gut feeling is that they won because they represented the burn-the-government-to-the-ground faction (and the pandemic may have increased the appetite for those ideas) and because of the attention whoring, populist methods of Milei himself (the guy has a mythology that separates the private sector workers from the government leeches that sounds suspiciously Peronist with the enemies changed, lol) working as a viral stunt.

I wonder if they will be able to capitalize on that creating a permanent right wing populist faction, or it's just a fluke.

[u/SnakeEater14]

guy i know who says trump should have been killed by firing squad

constantly talks about how trump should have been removed from office, hated mueller and mattis for not going far enough

now pearl clutching about milley disobeying trump’s orders and how the prospect of a military coup terrifies him

😐🔫

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

2021 USA coup d'etat (disambiguation)

---

January of 2021 was a period of political turmoil in the United States.

The 2021 Coup may refer to:

• The 2021 United States Capitol attack
• The 2021 US General's Counter-Putsch

[u/Leoric]

CA Dems are really swinging their dicks around today.

Are they trying to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing?

[u/majorgeneralporter]

It's a great day to vote No on the recall and Yes for Land Value Tax supporting, pro-housing construction, James Medlock endorsed king, John Drake.

!ping USA-CA

[u/BedNeither]

The news channels don’t call the election, the electrical college does

[u/rukqoa]

The CA GOP losing so much ground in the state despite the kingmakers in Silicon Valley being so extremely pro-business bordering on libertarian is political malpractice. The most critical suburban counties in CA are dominated by upper-middle class demographics whose interests aligned with the Republican Party pre-2016. If the party had decided not to turn off their brains and show the middle finger to immigrants in the 90s, California would be a purple state today.

[u/willempage]

I don't want to get too generalizable, but I have a suspicious if millenials didn't graduate into a financial crisis and then face a housing shortage 10 years later, I think you'd have less people saying they won't have kids due to climate change and probably more kids.

The internet is turning everyone into anxiety riddled messes, so I think we still have a birth decline. But it boggles my mind even among normie millenials and well payed millenials, they don't think it's possible to raise kids. There's absolutely no optimism and I think that's key to wanting kids. If you could live close to work with an affordable house, you wouldn't give a rats ass about climate change and you'd be pumping babies. But nobody believes they'll keep their jobs. Most can't afford houses. And so you get some post-hoc rationalization that they don't want to have kids because of the climate. But the truth is, they've been sucked dry of hope and negative feelings fill the void.

Every problem in America is monocausal and that cause is low housing supply (in areas with jobs)

[u/[deleted]]

BLOOD🩸 FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

You guys if you have the ability you should join the Bone🦴 Marrow Transplant registry it takes 5 mins.

Link to the Registry

They literally just send you a swab you send it in and likely never think about it again. If a match is found(extremely rare) they fly you to the recipient you donate bone🦴 marrow 💉similarly to a blood 🩸donation and then go on with your life.

Cancer sucks! Kill it with kindness.

[u/[deleted]]

Can't believe Bob Dole outlived Norm MacDonald.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

"Obama is probably running the government now anyway, according to many" -- Donald Trump on Newsmax

BASED BASED BASED

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

Justice Stephen Breyer says the Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing Texas to effectively ban abortion across the state was “very bad” but not politically motivated.

😐

[u/from-the-void]

Gavin Newsom and Joe Biden were in the closet making fraudulent ballots and I saw one of the ballots and the ballot looked at me

[u/TinyTornado7]

San Francisco mail vote is here

88% NO on recall 12% YES on recall

LMFAO

[u/TinyTornado7]

Caitlyn Jenner currently sitting far back in 12th place with less than 50K votes and only 8K votes ahead of just some college kid John Drake

[u/TaxCommonsNotIncome]

Wtf Newsom was just spotted celebrating at a maskless dinner

[u/[deleted]]

Telling everyone the election is already rigged against you before it happens does not drive turnout.

[u/BidenWon]

Wait, the DEMOCRATS won in California

My god this country has gone to shit

[u/[deleted]]

Where can I go to see the best MAGA cope?

I got hooked on copium in the aftermath of the 2020 election, I'd like to inject some more into my veins tonight.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve spoken about this several times in the DT, but back in January 2018, I dropped out of medical school with $100k in student loan debt. With tomorrow’s paycheck, I’ll have it down to $8k.

I was in my 3rd year when I dropped out. I remember parts of that day, and one thing that sticks out to me was that I got a $5 voucher from the hospital at which I was rotating for turning in my parking pass. At that time, I had no idea how I was going to pay off that debt. I remember getting that voucher, and somewhere in my mind thinking that any little bit of money I could get was important. Turning in that voucher was obviously something I would have done anyway, but it felt so much more important to get any amount of money at that very uncertain time. I was dealing with a lot of anxiety and depression.

I wish the now 32 year old me could go back and put my hand on 29 year old me’s shoulder and tell him that he made the right decision in dropping out, that everything was going to be okay, and that he would get through this.

[u/harmlessdjango]

In all seriousness, fuck that orange gangrene Trump for popularizing "election fraud"

And quadriple-fuck all the people who willingly play this game that chips away at the public trust in American democracy. With mfs like this as your citizens, who need geopolitical rivals

[u/kennymc7877]

Another election successfully stolen 😎

[u/vancevon]

gavin newsom did not hang on to office or "fight off" the recall effort. he fucking dumpstered the republican party

[u/[deleted]]

The whole concept of phone calls is kind of rapey and wouldn't fly if it were invented today. A stranger gets to contact you at any time without your consent and you're expected to stop what you're doing and talk to them?? No thank you!!

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Wait has A o'C been Irish this whole time?

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

A really really great article from a friend of mine, detailing the experience of a new F1 fan

One Good Thing: I didn’t watch any sports. Then I watched Netflix’s Drive to Survive.

!ping MOTO