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- Ramanisky22
October Surprise?? lol
- PhanLo1
Today North Carolina becomes the 22nd state to allow in-person early voting. Check with your state’s registrar for rules and locations.
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From QBN member's project.
https://www.instagram.com/daysto…have really enjoyed checking it.
- thanks PhanLo!wordssssss
- ^Such a good project! Really dig all the design.PhanLo
- drgs0
Yes
- nb0
The truth is that no one knows what's going to happen on Nov 3rd. I'm thinking Biden wins in a landslide.
(*Using the ridiculous two-party American electoral system definition of landslide which is winning by like 6% or so.)
- I predict that IF Biden wins, it will be by a small margin and Trump will lose his shit completely and throw a tantrum like the fat bitch child he really is.monospaced
- I definitely would not bet money on the outcome of this election. No one knows. We live in post-truth.nb
- already so distorted and setup no one will believe it.********
- That’s what idiots saymonospaced
- Nairn1
The last lines in this are, I think, very interesting and a testament to all in the establishment who might deeply loathe Trump but have to keep the flag flying.
This video's very little to do with expletives - I clicked it for that, but was impressed by it otherwise. Just don't expect him to drop any C-bombs...
- If Trump had anything close to Nixon's brains we'd all be in cages right now.garbage
- Ramanisky23
In today’s edition of A Basket of Deplorable's
- This is also the guy who blamed a shooting in AZ on "Joe Biden's America". Last month.garbage
- How low are these republicans willing to go. Good lord. Sad sack of people. Rudi and his cunts are just plain evil.tank02
- This is really going to sink Hunter's campaignFNP14
- I am not voting for Hunter after this. no-sir-e-bob. not a chance.capn_ron
- What's crazy is Biden admitted that Hunter had a drug problem, beat it and that he was proud of him during the first debate.FNP14
- At this point, Paul is just making fun of families of former addicts. Guessing there's a great many of his constituency in that boat.FNP14
- Pretty stupid political move.FNP14
- ^ It sadly tracks with a certain base.garbage
- This tweet is from a doctor, a christian and Republican...it all makes sense.utopian
- More about paid interests than crack... Rember trump tax was all about paid interests... Oh and leaked unsubstantiated info was nope. And shared********
- focusing on his kids lifestyle lame. more about peddling political interests********
- jsut got brow beat anyone should not be president if any side hustles. and current one seems clean while new on not so much********
- you are a batshit insane db. Trump is 'clean'. This is why we can't have discussion.tank02
- @tank Discussion is also impossible because even though English is his first language, it sounds like it could be his seventh.garbage
- Have to assume as much with tax "leaks" no side hustles. Unless u have as much proof as bidens********
- .. or u mean u can't discuss because just no evidence. It comes down only to belief********
- doggydoggdog5
As if Don Jr. doesn't do drugs.
- Clean as a whistleRamanisky2
- Higher than giraffe pussy.BusterBoy
- Tippy Top Highutopian
- allthethings2
Pasting bc of paywall.
Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office.
BY CAROLINE ROSE GIULIANI
Vanity Fair, OCTOBER 15, 2020
I have a difficult confession—something I usually save for at least the second date. My father is Rudy Giuliani. We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise. I’ve spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate from my last name, so publicly declaring myself as a “Giuliani” feels counterintuitive, but I’ve come to realize that none of us can afford to be silent right now. The stakes are too high. I accept that most people will start reading this piece because you saw the headline with my father’s name. But now that you’re here, I’d like to tell you how urgent I think this moment is.
To anyone who feels overwhelmed or apathetic about this election, there is nothing I relate to more than desperation to escape corrosive political discourse. As a child, I saw firsthand the kind of cruel, selfish politics that Donald Trump has now inflicted on our country. It made me want to run as far away from them as possible. But trust me when I tell you: Running away does not solve the problem. We have to stand and fight. The only way to end this nightmare is to vote. There is hope on the horizon, but we’ll only grasp it if we elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Around the age of 12, I would occasionally get into debates with my father, probably before I was emotionally equipped to handle such carnage. It was disheartening to feel how little power I had to change his mind, no matter how logical and above-my-pay-grade my arguments were. He always found a way to justify his party line, whatever it was at the time. Even though he was considered socially moderate for a Republican back in the day, we still often butted heads. When I tried to explain my belief that you don’t get to be considered benevolent on LGBTQ+ rights just because you have gay friends but don’t support gay marriage, I distinctly remember him firing back with an intensity fit for an opposing politican rather than one’s child. To be clear, I’m not sharing this anecdote to complain or criticize. I had an extremely privileged childhood and am grateful for everything I was given, including real-world lessons and complicated experiences like these. The point is to illustrate one of the many reasons I have a fraught relationship with politics, like so many of us do.
Even when there was an occasional flash of connection in these disagreements with my dad, it felt like nothing changed for the better, so I would retreat again until another issue I couldn’t stay silent on surfaced. Over the years other subjects like racial sensitivity (or lack thereof), sexism, policing, and the social safety net have all risen to this boiling point in me. It felt important to speak my mind, and I’m glad we at least managed to communicate at all. But the chasm was painful nonetheless, and has gotten exponentially more so in Trump’s era of chest-thumping partisan tribalism. I imagine many Americans can relate to the helpless feeling this confrontation cycle created in me, but we are not helpless. I may not be able to change my father’s mind, but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office.
Trump and his enablers have used his presidency to stoke the injustice that already permeated our society, taking it to dramatically new, Bond-villain heights. I am a filmmaker in the LGBTQ+ community who tells stories about mental health, sexuality, and other stigmatized issues, and my goal is to humanize people and foster empathy. So I hope you’ll believe me when I say that another Trump term (a term, itself, that makes me cringe) will irrevocably harm the LGBTQ+ community, among many others. His administration asked the Supreme Court to let businesses fire people for being gay or trans, pushed a regulation to let health care providers refuse services to people who are LGTBQ+, and banned trans people from serving their country in the military.
Women, immigrants, people with disabilities, and people of color are all also under attack by Trump’s inhumane policies—and by his judicial appointments, including, probably, Amy Coney Barrett. Trump’s administration has torn families apart in more ways than I even imagined were possible, from ripping children from their parents at the border to mishandling the coronavirus, which has resulted in over 215,000 in the U.S. dying, many thousands of them without their loved ones near. Faced with preventable deaths during a pandemic that Trump downplayed and ignored, rhetoric that has fed deep-seated, systemic racism, and chaos in the White House, it’s no surprise that so many Americans feel as hopeless and overwhelmed as I did growing up. But if we refuse to face our political reality, we don’t stand a chance of changing it.
In 2016, I realized I needed to speak out in a more substantial way than just debating my dad in private (especially since I wasn’t getting anywhere with that), so I publicly supported Hillary Clinton and began canvassing for congressional candidates. If the unrelenting deluge of devastating news makes you think I’m crazy for having hope, please remember that making us feel powerless is a tactic politicians use to make us think our voices and votes don’t matter. But they do. It’s taken persistence and nerve to find my voice in politics, and I’m using it now to ask you to stand with me in the fight to end Donald Trump’s reign of terror.
If being the daughter of a polarizing mayor who became the president’s personal bulldog has taught me anything, it is that corruption starts with “yes-men” and women, the cronies who create an echo chamber of lies and subservience to maintain their proximity to power. We’ve seen this ad nauseam with Trump and his cadre of high-level sycophants (the ones who weren’t convicted, anyway).
What inspires me most about Vice President Biden is that he is not afraid to surround himself with people who disagree with him. Choosing Senator Harris, who challenged him in the primary, speaks volumes about what an inclusive president he will be. Biden is willing to incorporate the views of progressive-movement leaders like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on issues like universal health care, student debt relief, prison reform, and police reform. And he is capable of reaching across the aisle to find moments of bipartisanship. The very notion of “bipartisanship” may seem painfully ludicrous right now, but we need a path out of impenetrable gridlock and vicious sniping. In Joe Biden, we’ll have a leader who prioritizes common ground and civility over alienation, bullying, and scorched-earth tactics.
Speaking of scorched earth, I know many people feel paralyzed by climate despair. I do too, but something still can and must be done. As climate change begins to encroach on our everyday lives, it is clear that our planet cannot survive four more years of this administration’s environmental assault. This monumental challenge requires scientifically literate leadership and immediate action. Joe Biden has laid out an aggressive series of plans to restore the environmental regulations that Trump gutted on behalf of his corporate polluting friends. Biden has a transformational clean-energy policy that he will bring to Congress within his first 100 days in office, and perhaps most crucially, he brings a desire and capability to reunite the major nations of the world in forging a path toward a global green future.
I fully understand that some of you want a nominee who is more progressive. For others the idea of voting for a Democrat of any kind may be a hurdle. Now I have another confession to make. Biden wasn’t my first choice when the primaries started. But I know what is at stake, and Joe Biden will be everyone’s president if elected. If you are planning to cast a symbolic vote or abstain from voting altogether, please reconsider. It is more important than ever to avoid complacency. This election is far from over, and if 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that anything can happen.
We are hanging by a single, slipping finger on a cliff’s edge, and the fall will be fatal. If we remove ourselves from the fight, our country will be in freefall. Alternatively, we can hang on, elect a compassionate and decent president, and claw our way back onto the ledge. If I, after decades of despair over politics, can engage in our democracy to meet this critical moment, I know you can too.
- Thanksgiving is going to be douuuchechiiilllllllnb
- Yeah Thanksgiving is gon’ be lit.Ramanisky2
- Spoken like an ignorant child. Actually think her pops will be happy she is positioning herself********
- Short memories but even rudy was dem and won and celebrated before positioning himself with trump. Shallowness of politics********
- We are multiverses apart, politically and otherwise.
end of story.sted - but if that was the end of the story sted it doesn't help her launch into monetization. trup has another 4 years tops, its about capitalization. u think trump********
- more important than his daughter. self interest and high school politics********
- i mean come on "’Ive spent a lifetime forging an identity in the arts separate from my last name, so publicly ..."********
- bs... play the peeps.********
- nb8
A whole swamp-load of prominent republicans are now starting to disavow Trump despite being silent and complicit.
There’s hardly two weeks until Election Day. They want to go on the record now to distance themselves.
Republicans are scum. Shame on them.
- What ideology of Republicans do you think is scummy********
- Really?monospaced
- haha yea. because the "really?" is fake deflection********
- Try again.monospaced
- And still no answer to dummy ideology... Makes one so fer if they're no different than religious nuts on a god dick of a political party********
- And still not a single thing. Let the record stand. Nb thing 0 ideology by reps is scummy. Se with mono********
- What ideology of Republicans do you think is scummy
- monNom-5
- that cover image is a bit click-baity, but I think Jimmy Dore does a good job of reminding us we can't trust any of these motherfuckers.monNom
- cue the passive aggressive downvotesmonNom
- Too long, but he has a point.PhanLo
- i downvoted, not passive aggressive though. more of a casual passion. just to be clear.capn_ron
- Fair enough. Thanks for the feedbackmonNom
- Reasonability kind of went out the door on qbn some time ago, mon... reality no longer supersedes emotion. Enjoy the underserved DVs (aka: badges of honor) :)PonyBoy
- I gave it an upvote.PhanLo
- Dudes not wrongGnash
- Typical youtuber, has 2 minutes of actual content but spreads it over 20 fucking minutes.cherub
- As for his message, I liked it. No upvote or downvote.cherub
- Rachel Maddow is pretty bad but then again so is Jimmy Dore. He spreads a lot of misinformation himself.yuekit
- Nothing passive about a downvote. Here, have another.Khurram
- dorf4
- colin_s-1
hillary clinton and nancy pelosi have both endorsed the male incumbent candidate in an LA city council race, even though he was arrested on a rape charge in 2002 and his opponent is a woman of color.
she was endorsed by bernie, though, so obviously we can't have that.
seriously fuck the democrats, anyone who falls for their facade of identity politics and culture clout has their head in the sand as much as any trump supporter
- who you voting for?fadein11
- Hillary likes them sexual predators, she married one.PhanLo
- Both candidates in question are "people of color" so you can F right of for trying to make this a race issue..jonny_quest_lives
- David Ryu is the incumbent city councilman and Nithya Raman is the challenger.jonny_quest_lives
- Your argument suggest you would vote for the challenger based on sex, race, and a VERY flimsy accusation. YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. Wake up.nb
- i dont think colin can vote in us election, same as a few others..********
- but than again i have a few mail in votes and can also vote in person and no real checks and balances.... maybe u can********
- i am actually curious how you think thats possible? in California everyone has been issued a mail in ballot with a serialized envelope.jonny_quest_lives
- so even if you were to vote in person and use send in amail in ballot you'd get flagged for voting twice as the ballots and voter log would have 2 entriesjonny_quest_lives
- So in nv you are suppose to surrender mail in ballot. But you can just say forgot. But u sign a scary paper saying if lying can be prosecuted********
- My ballots both have unique scan codes but same physical addresses. I can't say for certain but knowing state contractors and systems I suspect no measures in********
- Place to cross check. It's a honor system. Because these are all going to be scanned by unique codes. And why they requested to turn in duplicate mail ballots********
- I'm so tempted to test this system and request even another ballot saying list to see. And voting in person and seeing if I get flagged. Not sure of that's********
- Whitehat or considered felony. But I imagi e plenty of youngins thinking world is gonna end for them will risk fines because saving world********
- Hell nv better than ca. I could register in nv with out a physical address or if or as and select a area for drop off like a homeless shelter********
- The ability to harvest ca is insane. Really elections are so hackable and really only exist on a idea of public trust. I don't think this is gonna go well********
- Also by fucking with usps and dmv database entries you can get a ton entries going back and forth between addresses. If something changes u get a card to fill o********
- Fill it out and say send ballot. How I got multiples. An accident but worked. I think of the ingenuity in gaming where people test and try to gain any upper********
- Shut the fuck up deathboymonospaced
- Ramanisky23
Tova O’Brien with a masterclass interview.
- MondoMorphic2
- To fill in the blanks, it's not because they're trying to create a better government or to better meet our needs; it's to retain power.MondoMorphic
- there are also 8 kinds of democrats.colin_s
- So he supports Kanye running then?nb
- Good question. Free market capitalism provides choice for democratic purchases. But power and state control is a different beast. If you have 30 competing ppl********
- U have no strong rep gov. Only repping a small portion. Which could very well be fine for a republic. But I wonder how people will behave when the majority is********
- Always feeling disenfranchized. No one speaks for them. Civil unrest all the time? 2 party system actually a one party system illusion to keep ppl in place********
- Don't have an answer for this one. Not sure there is one********
- The US is dominated by 2 political parties. Just like the market is dominated by Coke and Pepsi. It doesn't mean that other colas aren't allowed or don't exist.palimpsest
- It only means that those are the 2 people are buying.palimpsest
- nb-4
Honestly, Kanye’s platform isn’t that bad!
I don’t support the all caps website nor his hardline pro-life stance, but otherwise...
- And the prayer in schools thing is just silly. But if he could somehow do everything on his platform, I could forgive his religious fanaticism.nb
- the vision street wear rip on the hat, jfc, this clown...whatthefunk
- selling that hat for $60, jfc, this clown...PonyBoy
- Holy Shit (pun intended)PonyBoy
- jackass :)renderedred
- Agreed on the fashion, but still lots of good stuff in that platform. Not that he has a plan to achieve these things. It’s just a summary of a platform hahanb
- Kanye's hoodie made in China only $200utopian
- there's no o in cuntryjaylarson
- whatthefunk7
- dead?Ramanisky2
- ^ with any luckContinuity
- you can't kill something that is already dead.tank02
- He's dead alright. Dead serious about oppressing minorities!FNP14
- ^come on down to racist stephen's dogwhistle emporium!sarahfailin
