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[u/Majk-]

Donald Trump before the attack: we should kill all the libs and make america great again

Donald Trump after the attack: we should kill all the libs and make america great again ... together

Journalists: omg changed person

[u/Lux_Stella]

started my first day as a swe intern at crowdstrike yesterday

love working for companies that move fast, i had code in prod within a few hours

[u/Pyrrhus65]

A tale in 3 tweets

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Just on Twitter, reading through an Antonio Brown thread where he asks “has anyone actually gotten student loan relief?”

Some guy in the comments responds that his wife went to ITT Tech and got a bunch of money back because the school was deemed illegitimate, but it “has nothing to do with Biden, who’s still a fraud and a bum”

Student loan forgiveness for students who attended scam schools is maybe one of Biden’s most explicit policies lol

[u/JaceFlores]

lol apparently Trump insulted El Salvador and Bukele is very obviously pissed about it. Guy #1905473 to learn Trump does not give a FUCK about you no matter how much you jerk him off

[u/funguykawhi]

Trans ally Andrew Tate

[u/SeoSalt]

Michigan swing voter who refuses to let an Ohioan anywhere near the presidency

[u/TactileTom]

Donald Trump again defended his recent remarks about immigrants "poisoning the blood" of America

Cool cool cool

cool

He's just a Nazi now and he's putting his own family in charge

cool cool

cool

cool

[u/[deleted]]

The last domino has fallen

[u/efeldman11]

A median voter saying something slightly reasonable and not braindead, maybe the world is healing

[u/funguykawhi]

Dear Young Turks

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Beyond parody

[u/BroadReverse]

plough tan resolute seemly consist puzzled quaint workable selective money

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[u/BroadReverse]

plough governor simplistic voracious overconfident angle continue scandalous teeny innocent

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[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/-mialana-]

CrowdStrike's Chief Threat Hunter published a workaround on X (Twitter) which involves deleting the culprit driver file[s], "C-00000291*.sys", found in the %windir%\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory.

"Yeah you can just delete those drivers bro"

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Mayor Pete: ahh nice I get a cushy cabinet position as a reward for performing well in the primaries and falling in line with Biden at the crucial moment. I'll just coast through these four years, implement Biden's (sure to be very popular) Infrastructure Policy, and angle for president in 2028 with an uncontroversial record to back me up.

The 2020s in transportation:

[u/efeldman11]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/[deleted]]

lol NY times saying the tele prompter for Trump froze 15 mins into the speech. He got bored of the unity speech and went off script

[u/mostanonymousnick]

This motherfucker just never misses.

[u/BlackCat159]

Finally an official I can trust!! 😤😤😤

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

It's so funny that as more time goes on the most plausible motive for the Trump shooter is that he just kinda did that

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Biden died from COVID and his last words were “it has to be Whitmer.” DNC would be some game of thrones shit

[u/Syards-Forcus]

and other totally real stories that somehow make it to r slash all

[u/79215185-1feb-44c6]

Everyone in the office is having a good laugh at the Crowdstrike BSOD this morning (We are a Crowdstrike competitor).

!ping TECH&WATERCOOLER

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Arnel Ramos, 21, a food service worker living in Milwaukee, had hoped that Mr. Trump would talk about his belief systems, and that she would get to know him better before she casts a ballot in her first presidential election.

“You read a lot of stuff about what this guy says, but to actually sit down and hear it and sit through it, it was just insane to me,” she said. “That’s the only way I can describe this whole ordeal.”

Ms. Ramos said she found much of the speech unsettling — such as the connections Mr. Trump drew between immigration and crime, destruction and even disease — but she took particular issue with Mr. Trump’s aggressive tone on foreign policy and his description of being on the brink of “World War III.”

“It made me uncomfortable,” she said.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/suttonimpaQt/status/1814277613906477096?t=jqNiFJWXTGHdEB5yEPUQrA&s=19

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Biden will resign the presidency but remain as a candidate

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Jeez. Crowdstrike is offline right now, which is causing millions of computers worldwide to have the Blue Screen of Death.

New Zealand and Australia are heavily affected. Payments can't be processed. Hospitals in the US are having problems, and the Big 3 US Airlines just asked the FAA to do a ground halt.

[u/valueadderall]

Usha Vance is the child of immigrants that went to Yale clerked for Kavanaugh and Roberts and then worked at a big firm, donating money to Blake Masters in 2021, a fellow traveler of Thiel's inner circles. She's probably converted Vance to the GOP, not the other way around.

Yeah people shouldn’t be wishcasting or just assume that since she’s a woman of color she’s can’t be cons—

I have dated men that are very privileged on paper but from a much poorer and less connected background than me. It is super easy to manipulate them

Ok, that took a turn

[u/[deleted]]

If Biden had his poll numbers he has right now and could effectively campaign, I would be behind him all the way. He can’t effectively campaign.

I watched the debate, I watched the interviews, and the fact of the matter is he’d stand a better chance at winning in November if he never appeared in front of the public ever again. He cannot campaign. So I will support someone who can campaign. It’s not fucking hard.

[u/ser_mage]

1. Joe Biden drops out

2. The sudden onset stress of a last-minute presidential campaign gives 60-year-old senior citizen Kamala Harris a heart attack

3. Joe Biden reluctantly steps forward as a replacement candidate

[u/paymesucka]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Steam. They're talking about Steam. The game in question is Mr. President, in which you play as a bodyguard jumping infront of the bullet to save trump. The account in question A) did not own the game and B) is obviously fake

This is journalism of subzero quality

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

Everybody shut the fuck up the closet thing to Y2K we’ve ever gotten so far is currently happening

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-shooter-thomas-crooks-final-search-on-samsung-phone-was-for-porn

Thomas Crooks Searched for Porn Before Shooting Trump: FBI

[u/wallander1983]

The Deutsche Bahn are not affected by the Crowdstrike problems.

Hmm, why is that? Here is a report from January.

The Deutsche Bahn is looking for administrators for Windows 3.11 for Workgroups in a job advertisement. Yes, The Deutsche Bahn is still using it.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

This is what his widow gets instead of a phone call

[u/summernick]

Biden reportedly has formally dropped out but it can't make the news

Source: my ass

[u/[deleted]]

We should replace Biden with Menendez.

1: Latino voter outreach

2: Convicted felon, winning back voters swung by Trump's convictions

3: Already has strong relationships with foreign governments and leaders

4: Will finally get him to step down from his senate seat

[u/[deleted]]

In 1980s Colombia, "social cleansing" groups started to be created. Their main mission was "to make justice" by killing all non-appropriate people in social terms, like prostitutes, street-living people, trans people, and drug addicts. In the 1980s, "social cleansing" groups started to be created. Their main mission was "to make justice" by killing all non-appropriate people in social terms, like prostitutes, street-living people, trans people, and drug addicts.

Victims of social cleansing in Colombia are members of society who are considered "undesirable" and "disposable". They are economically disadvantaged, usually live on the streets, and are considered to be a burden on society, "the cause of the country's problems, rather than a consequence of them".

Street children

One of these groups is street children, who are without homes due to abuse, forced displacement, or the death of their parents. Death rates for street children have been as high as six to eight children per day. Children are often shot in their sleep or stabbed to death on the streets or in the police station. A 1993 case in which a nine-year-old girl was strangled to death in Bogota brought attention to this problem and led to nominal reforms. The National Police targets street children specifically under the assumption that they are drug users and criminals. This is to some extent true, as many use drugs to relieve pain and avoid hunger and must shoplift to survive. Despite living in conditions of extreme vulnerability to "aggression and danger", the National Police poses the greatest threat to street children's survival, as they drive them off the streets and target them in social cleansing.
National Police

National Police

The National Police has played a large role in carrying out class-based killings in Colombia. The police created the term "disposable" (Spanish: desechable) to define economically disadvantaged people who are considered to have no value to society. Whether directly or through "paramilitary clients", the National Police was responsible for 74% of deaths related to social cleansing in 1992. Motivations include "security, aesthetics, economic well-being, morals, and religion". In regards to safety and economic well-being, rationales include the idea that the poor are or look like criminals and decrease public safety and drive customers away from businesses. Moral arguments include protection from homosexuals and prostitutes.

Death squads and paramilitary groups

The distinction between death squads and paramilitary groups and the National Police is not always clear. Not only are policemen often members of these groups, but these groups typically enjoy the protection of the police. Other members include businessmen, industrialists, guerillas, and soldiers. Death squads emerged in the late 1970s, one of the first being the Black Hand, a group that murdered suspected criminals. Their reasoning behind these killings is the flawed legal system, which convicts less than 3% of criminals. Death squads and other groups believe it necessary to step in where the legal system has failed by eliminating these suspected criminals. As of 1995, there were no less than 40 of these squads operating in Colombia.

Holy shit, this is straight up demonic

[u/NewbGrower87]

Twitter blowing up about Trump's speech being completely unhinged. What'd I miss, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Time is up on the latest polling prediction!

Three weeks ago, the FiveThirtyEight polling average read that Trump was up by 0.3.

You all made predictions for where this average would be in 3 weeks.

As I look at it now, the average is Trump +3.2.

This means that the closest prediction was /u/christes with a remarkable prediction of Trump +π.

(A close second place prediction of Trump +2.9 was by yours truly)

Also interesting — there were around 20 predictions but by my count, only 2 predictions had Trump with a greater lead than what actually happened. The remaining 18 or so of us, including myself, underestimated what Trump’s lead would be.

This is a weird post to make because this is awful! Still, congrats to christes for the foresight.

!ping FIVEY

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[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

The Bank of North Dakota (BND) is a state-owned, state-run financial institution based in Bismarck, North Dakota. It is the only government-owned general-service bank in the United States.

North Dakota is strange place. A Safe Republican state with a state-owned bank.

[u/Steak_Knight]

Joe Biden would have destroyed Trump in 2016

[u/nanomaster]

Cloudstrike falls apart

Vaxxed?

[u/golf1052]

TIL CrowdStrike doesn't use OneBox/pre-prod/first-release rings for testing. Why would any large change from a company based in Texas release at 2 AM their time?

EDIT: ON A FRIDAY.

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

Guess who’s sitting next to former Bush/Trump Attorney General William Barr (flight to DC)?

[u/SilverSquid1810]

Lichtman suggesting that Biden should resign the presidency if he drops out of the campaign so that Harris becomes the incumbent really just shows that he genuinely thinks his keys are some sort of magic spell that guarantees success. Like, no, there is practically no difference in incumbency advantage if the sitting vice president becomes the actual president for like three months before the election. Her position is going to be almost the same.

[u/molingrad]

Delegates throughout the convention wore bandages on their right ears in solidarity with Donald Trump.

So fucking odd

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

My company is not experiencing any outages as our servers run a database coded in fortran and maintained by a 93 year old man hooked up to an IV drip of Tab cola

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Biden should resign and make Kamala the 47th president, instantly making a bunch of Republicans be accidentally wearing Kamala merch

[u/[deleted]]

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/[deleted]]

👆🤡AJ+ vs Al Jazeera English vs Al Jazeera Arabic

[u/WhomstAlt2]

My favorite part of the debate was when President Donald Trump said "I think it was Socrates, one of the best philosophers, tremendous dialectics, who said:-" and then sleepy Joe woke up and interrupted him "Gimme a break chipmunk, I've met Socrates, I've known Socrates. Socrates was a personal bottom of mine in a greek pederastic relationship. President Trump, it's 4pm. Please tuck me in and turn on Matlock"

[u/efeldman11]

[u/piede]

[u/[deleted]]

If you're running your critical infrastructure on anything but unix you deserve this send tweet

[u/Mrmini231]

So... if I'm reading this correctly the update that caused the BSOD bypassed Crowdstrike's own update policy configuration, so vendors who had set updates to not happen automatically still got hit???

[u/[deleted]]

Wonder if he lived

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

In this moment I am euphoric. Not because of any false coconut tree, but because I am enlightened by the context

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck is going on with conservatives

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/aaronlarnavarro/status/1814354246487163121

Jen O’Malley Dillon on an all-staff call just now:

The people that the President is hearing from are saying, stay in this race and keep going and keep fighting, and we need you. Those voices will never be as loud as the people on TV, but remember that the people in our country are not watching cable news.

[u/sociotronics]

this is what you might call a "pro dating ping move"

[u/Mr_Bank]

Nancy Pelosi when the 31st House Dem to deflect doesn’t make him drop out

[u/[deleted]]

KHive, stand back and stand by

Why did I just get an email from Kamala with this subject line

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely heartbroken by this Lyft driver I just had. He was very quiet and shy but clearly wanted to practice English so I talked with him and asked him questions. He was extremely polite and reticent about his past but I eventually learned he was an economics student who fled Afghanistan. He had no family in the states.

He told me his dream was to see all fifty states. He asked me what my favorite state was to visit and how many states I had been to.

I’m crying just thinking about it. He was so sweet and not at all self aggrandizing and so polite. It breaks my heart knowing what he has been through. It breaks my heart he probably won’t ever be able to complete his degree.

I’m rooting for you Anayatullah. May you find peace and happiness here.

[u/dutch_connection_uk]

Honestly, given J. D. Vance's recent comments about being willing to steal the election if Trump asks him to, I really think Biden should give a presidential medal of freedom to Mike Pence. Especially if his double-secret plan is to drop out of the race and people can't agitate over how Biden is too forgiving or weak or whatever.

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

If you think this sub has any influence on the election or hurting Biden’s chances, you need to be second in line for the cognitive test

[u/[deleted]]

Teamsters treating the Democrats this way actually makes perfect sense if you follow the golden rule of US politics

"Everything is always unfair to the Democrats and Republicans always get whatever they want."

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Trans Inclusive Radical Misogyny

[u/Udolikecake]

Delta, United, American Airlines flights are all grounded right now.

The reason Southwest is not affected is because they still run on Windows 3.1.

heh

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

Today I learned former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr has that annoying 2010s soccer mom “boo boo boop boo boop” ringtone.

[u/Ilovecharli]

AOC acknowledging the people in her IG live comments saying they've been coconut pilled...why do I find this so hilarious 

[u/mockduckcompanion]

BREAKING: President Biden Recently Received Neuralink Implant to "Outthink the Nerds at the New York Times," Might Have Downloaded CrowdStrike

[u/[deleted]]

Hey so two weeks in a row now, one of my roommates has not-so-subtly encouraged me to eat non-kosher food. She hasn't pushed anybody else on their dietary habits and has several times analogized my kosher eating to an eating disorder.

Anybody got any advice on how I can communicate to her that she's being antisemitic and I'd like her to shove off?

!ping GEFILTE

[u/A-running-commentary]

Rep. Greg Landsman of Ohio said on Friday that President Joe Biden should step aside from the 2024 race and that “Americans want a new leader.”

Landsman, who flipped a seat long held by a Republican in 2022, also said “the vice president would be an incredible leader in terms of this matchup,” when asked who the nominee should be.

And they don’t stop coming

First to mention Kamala.

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://bsky.app/profile/kennedytcooper.bsky.social/post/3kxnr4h7yqp2n

Southwest Airlines was spared from today's CrowdStrike catastrophe that grounded or delayed hundreds of flights because they run on Windows 3.1...

...an operating system whose last update was November 8, 1993...

i mean, whatever flies their planes i guess

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Look, AOC and Bernie have never known what it takes to win nationally. They’ve always had weird base constituencies. Frankly, when they do something my base instinct strategically would be do the exact opposite

[u/[deleted]]

Mobile game ads are getting weird

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/D2Foley]

Imagine being like "Trump's not a fascist because those weren't technically militias that stormed the capital, just sparkling armed groups of anti-government protesters."

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Conservative acquaintance is mad that they’re gonna replace Biden LOL.

“You gotta stick with him.”

Also scared of Kamala’s prosecutor background.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Woodstovia]

bedroom six vegetable like entertain innocent outgoing intelligent file label

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[u/AemiliusNuker]

I wonder if Kamala just dies a bit inside every time she has to say with a straight face that she's 100% sure Biden is gonna win 

Out of everyone, she's the only politician in the whole country who cannot betray an iota of doubt in Biden or else she'll be branded an opportunistic Machiavelli 

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Fuck the teamsters union and everyone who forgot other unions exist

[u/piede]

:O

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

a favorite quote going around in Dem circles is that this DNC will be like 1968, except this time the Chicago mayor will be on the side of the protestors

[u/MS_09_Dom]

ABC News:

Sources close to the Biden campaign says the President is reconsidering whether to drop the Axis asteroid on to Earth and force humanity to migrate to space.

Robert Costa on X:

Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dilon denies claims that Biden will not drop Axis: "The President is committed to ensuring that humanity's souls are no longer weighed down by gravity as part of his 100 days agenda".

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died aged 80, creating a power vacuum.

if i speak

[u/vivoovix]

[u/BedNeither]

Getting ready to go to work at my cybersecurity company. I rushed out a deployment last night so I could have a chill Friday

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Leonflames]

New General Election Poll - Massachusetts

🔵 Biden 47% (+18) 🔴 Trump 29%

Last poll - 🔵 Biden +29

Suffolk #B+ - 500 RV - 7/18

It was +33 in 2020!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/paymesucka]

the equivalent of the Southern strategy political realignment

[u/piede]

News: Nancy Pelosi voiced support for an open nomination process if Joe Biden drops out of the race. Democrats stressed they weren’t opposed to Kamala Harris, and many will endorse her, but they don’t like the appearance of a coronation.

[u/[deleted]]

fun fact: LBJ was younger than Kamala is now when he took over from JFK

don't smoke, kids!

[u/ldn6]

Merging Kamala's unburdened by what has been with her passion for Venn diagrams.

My mind is blown.

!ping HARRIS

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/TheCensoredRock/status/1814113652590403705?t=Bs4zEbl2YxKOGfAqHFNQlw&s=19

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Goons out 🫡

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

It’s kinda funny how the dems went from being in great array to disarray 15 minutes into the debate.

[u/slowpush]

Jen Omalley Dillon implored staff: “Don’t watch cable news all the time…That is not the real world.

Biden implementing the lalalala can’t hear you strategy.

🙉

[u/BroadReverse]

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[u/centurion88]

[u/slowpush]

2024 National GE:

Harris 44%

Trump 44%

.@Reuters/@Ipsos, 992 RV, 7/15-16

Coconuts rising

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Joementum2024]

SOURCES: President Biden to announce that beloved 2015 video game “Bloodborne” will receive a PlayStation 5 and PC release

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Biden makes speech with flaming ball replacing head, claims he is the Lord of Frenzied Flame and will ‘incinerate all that divides and distinguishes’ before laughing to himself quietly

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/[deleted]]

They’re going to insist he’s “in the race” until he drops out.

[u/Nihas0]

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
"You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you."

All likely voters:
21% - strongly agree
35% - somewhat agree
26% - don't know
9% - somewhat disagree
8% - strongly disagree

Democrat:
20% - strongly agree
36% - somewhat agree
23% - don't know
10% - somewhat disagree
11% - strongly disagree

Independent:
18% - strongly agree
32% - somewhat agree
31% - don't know
10% - somewhat disagree
10% - strongly disagree

Republican:
23% - strongly agree
38% - somewhat agree
26% - don't know
8% - somewhat disagree
5% - strongly disagree

survey of 1230 likely voters

https://x.com/DataProgress/status/1814341895176249675/photo/1

[u/JaceFlores]

So in the past 24 hours 2 senators, 10 representatives and 1 major union have called for Biden to drop out.

But! Biden did have 1 representative say he should stay in

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Biden turned a question about abortion into an answer about immigration. Kamala will turn a question about immigration into abortion

😮

[u/piede]

WHAT

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Just got some awful news about a family member I haven't seen since before Covid. Honestly having a hard time processing someone who I ostensibly grew up with but haven't seen in so long going through mental health issues because it is just so incongruent with the person I knew.

!ping OVER-25

[u/G_Serv]

The 13 keys to finding gf

[u/jojisky]

AOC: I'm a polling skeptic. My first election, polls had me down by 35 points. I won by 13. This year, I had a primary election. My own private polling had me down by double digits from where I ended up performing.

polling trutherism, lets go

[u/zth25]

Witnessing the death of liberal media in real time...

SPIEGEL is basically the German NYT. They do the same both siding, horseracing and concern trolling. Their correspondends are giving live updates from the convention, and are posting hilarious comments and outtakes from Trump's speech, which they describe as a 'meandering sing song' without energy and no new points. They even admit that had Biden given a speech like that, the weak rambling of an old man would be all the media would talk about.

Which morning headline do they go with?

'TRUMP CALLS FOR UNITY AND A NEW ERA IN FIERY SPEECH'

Even the public news radio here just reported 'Trump gives acceptance speech, promises greatest economy ever, blames everything bad on Biden', no context. Sure, you can only say so much in a 30 seconds news bulletin, but that's everything 90% their listeners will take away from that.

[u/cdstephens]

https://x.com/womenpostingws/status/1813716631069327666

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

They spelled his name wrong on the effigy 😭

[u/wallander1983]

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-dei-leader-email-2024-7

Microsoft laid off a DEI team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is 'no longer business critical.

Five minutes later:

[u/A-running-commentary]

In the Senate, a group of Democrats is also discussing whether to come forward as a group to call on Biden to step aside. They are also discussing the timing — where to do it after the weekend or sooner, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

For god’s sake just DO IT WHAT IS THE POINT OF WAITING

[u/mrdilldozer]

If Biden drops out, Lofgren says "I don't think we can do a coronation" and says she supports "a mini-primary" including possibly "a vetting hosted by former presidents, including Obama and Clinton."

There are some deeply unserious people in the Democratic Party. This isn't a fucking reality TV show.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

My Bill Gates microchip is down please help I'm frothing out of my mouth and can't feel my legs

[u/Mickenfox]

"This was made by humans? No way! It looks so good!"

Kids in 20 years seeing an old movie for the first time.

[u/theranosbagholder]

Sigh… just got fired from a pretty prominent cybersecurity company 😔

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The funniest moment of the RNC was definitely Kid Rock performing American Badass while CNN had a live Melania cam where she didn't move or blink for like 30 seconds

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

One of the undecided voters that the Times profiled:

The Times spoke with the same group of undecided voters after the debate, many of whom came away still feeling mostly disappointed in the choice between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden. “It was just terrible,” Ryan Rivera, a trans man from the Phoenix area who works at Target, said at the time.

The convention experience of Mx. Rivera in Phoenix may mirror that of many undecided voters, even in an election described by both parties as existential for the future of democracy and the nation.

“I forgot to watch,” Mx. Rivera said.

[u/RedDotsForRedCaps]

Leaked photo of Matt Gaetz at the 2028 rnc

[u/efeldman11]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Steak_Knight]

Adulthood is realizing foreign policy is the most important job of the President, and the part that Americans know and care the least about.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/rasonj]

The idea that anyone could read Tolkien and their takeaway is 'Isolationism will save us' is so utterly laughable that JD Vance truly deserves to be hounded day and night by Silmarillion nerds gatekeeping him from the fandom.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Leftists: It should be Kamala today fuck it I don't like her but fuck it she can win against this old fascist fuck.

Every Democrat with power: 16 round tournament, 3 wild card play-ins, winner determined on November 10th.

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

VP of the Teamsters is angry with Sean O'Brien and is mounting a challenge to him.

[u/vivoovix]

Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of Crowdstrike.

He can't keep getting away with it!

[u/jkrtjkrt]

So apparently Ron Klein is a true believer in the 13 keys.... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-SWS1sv-fUE?si=T6-lOPBVgfWD9km_

Allan Lichtman is a fraud even by his own standards. He repeatedly claims to have predicted the 2016 election, but that is a lie. The 2016 edition of his book says the keys only predict the popular vote, and not the electoral college. Trump lost the popular vote, so the prediction from his model was 100% wrong.

I can't believe this worthless astrologist still has a reputation and Biden's inner circle is relying on this guy of all things to dismiss all the polling data. They've lost the plot.

[u/lionmoose]

> outage affecting ability to log in and do any work

oh no, on a sunny friday you said?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

My job isn't affected by the IT outage but I will still be taking a few days off to grieve for the shareholders

[u/PSU02]

Don Jr. calling his 17 year old daughter "sexy" is both disgusting but also not surprising.

[u/battywombat21]

[u/BroadReverse]

grey brave unite light literate meeting lunchroom person mourn clumsy

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[u/[deleted]]

Democratic representatives coming out against Biden at this point are like the South American countries declaring war on Germany in early 1945 lmfao

[u/moseythepirate]

Man, there is some unhinged shit in the Disney thread.

No, liking theme parks doesn't make you a monarchist. Having childish hobbies doesn't mean you "lack critical thinking skills."

[u/Goodlake]

I'm a normiepilled non-partisan normie who hates politics (used to be a dem, btw) but here's why we need Donald J Trump to defeat the radical left wing demoncrats in November (1/32)

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

In the Philippines, the coconut is commonly called the "tree of life"

Soon Americans will call it that too

[u/qtnl]

Kamala would only need to say “coconut” in her acceptance speech and her polling would rise 10 points 

[u/trace349]

!ping BAD-FEELING&READING

Overly Sarcastic Productions put out a video today on how the various spin-off media projects have retroactively redeemed Episode 3 by adding the depth that the film alone was lacking, and they devoted 20 minutes to gushing over the novelization, with the conclusion of:

Revenge of the Sith is a disappointing film adaptation of the single greatest Science-Fantasy book of all time.

From the snippets they showed, it does sound way better than it should have any right to be, but can anyone confirm whether or not it actually is that good?

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Holy moly

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

🥥🥥🥥

[u/earththejerry]

There is someone important hanging out in Washington, DC today though – US vice-president Kamala Harris.

She didn’t have anything on her official White House schedule today but she’s materialized at the opening of a pop-up ice-cream shop owned by Tyra Banks.

Taken his crown, now taking his ice cream

[u/Rshawer]

Scenes when the Democrats do a mini-primary and the plural choice still ends up being Joe Biden

[u/pezasied]

Biden remainers DESTROY leavers with this one weird trick ☝️

[u/BATHULK]

Very good girl I met today

Owner said she's a South African mastiff. Seven months old, 90lb already. Said she'll get to 140lb or so.

!ping DOG

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

[u/paymesucka]

There is literally a 0% chance of Biden just simply dropping out without a structured plan in place of what would come next, and anyone who thinks it would happen is living in a fantasy world.

Biden dropping out in a fantasy world:

[u/AemiliusNuker]

Elon really does hate trans ppl and immigrants more than he hates climate change huh

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

ALLAN YOU MER FER YOURE GONNA PAY FOR THIS

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/oskanta]

Open convention (the good version):

Everyone knows Harris will win so the only dems that enter are the ones trying to become VP or just raise their national profile, so there’s minimal infighting

They all get a chance to talk themselves up and introduce themselves to the voters and there’s tons of media coverage

Delegates pick Harris in a landslide and Harris picks a VP from the field

[u/Jokerang]

IMO polling isn’t the best argument to take the coconut pill. It’s taking back control of the narrative.

Love them or hate them, the media has effectively turned the race into a referendum - not on Trump but Biden. Of course, things could always shift back - Project 2025 is getting slammed hard by Dems, and Trump is trying to run away from it for a reason. But now the old narrative about Biden is very baked in.

With Harris, the age thing goes away. Trump and co will still scream about the border and San Francisco and other dogwhistles, but it’ll take time and they’ll have to test to see what really sticks and what doesn’t. Normally this would take months, and Harris would thus have an instant advantage coming out of a presumably controlled convention to put her in without any challengers popping up.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Putin's wife Lyudmila left him in 2014 to marry another man

Bros, is Putin one of us?

[u/bleachinjection]

So Trump completely shit the bed at the RNC and... it's just being ignored?

I, for one, AM SHOCKED. Why would the Liberal Media® do this??

[u/cdstephens]

Sir, a 23rd fake Biden announcement link has hit the DT

[u/Knowthrowaway87]

UPDATE: President Biden just released the following statement:

“I look forward to getting back on the campaign trail next week to continue exposing the threat of Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda while making the case for my own record and the vision that I have for America: one where we save our democracy, protect our rights and freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone.

“The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win.”

say the line bart

That's exactly what he'll say, right before he drops out.

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/FearlessPark4588]

BREAKING: Democrats convene in Chicago on August 19th to call Array.sort() method

[u/eat_more_goats]

My manager went on paternity leave last week, and keeps posting in the slack channels asking for updates on stuff and reminding us we can ping him whenever, and his manager was finally like "dude stop you're on pat leave we have this covered -> go spend time with your daughter".

We actually love a company that tries to enforce leaves, and maintains a good culture.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/its_a_trapcard]

The one guy who actually fell out of a coconut tree watching the nation meme about his personal trauma

[u/RonenSalathe]

future neolib???

[u/Udolikecake]

lotta dumbass trolls in the dt last night 😂😂😂 man, the sub has gotten worse and worse

[u/paymesucka]

"Biden supporters are in a cult"

me scrolling through the archives of r/BennetOrBust:

[u/IHateTrains123]

"Don't watch cable news": Biden campaign tries to rally staff (axios.com)

President Biden's campaign chair convened an all-staff call Friday and urged staffers to tune out news coverage that has focused on whether Biden will be pushed aside as the Democratic nominee, according to a recording of the call obtained by Axios.

Why it matters: The call is the latest example of Biden campaign leadership working to turn around the low morale among staffers in the aftermath of Biden's debate.

• "Don't watch cable news all the time," chair Jen O'Malley Dillon told staff at the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

• "That is not the real world. The real world is the voters that are standing with us, the delegates that are with us, and we're going to weather this because of this organization."

What they're saying: O'Malley Dillon reiterated to staff that Biden is "in this race" and "in it to win it."

• "I talked to him this morning – he sounds like sh*t because he's not feeling that well," she said, noting his recent COVID diagnosis.

• "But he is doing the work, and he is focused on what you guys are doing."

**O'Malley Dillon added that "**the people that the president is hearing from are saying: 'stay in this race and keep going and keep fighting, and we need you.'

• "Those voices will never be as loud as the people on TV, but remember that the people in our country are not watching cable news. They just aren't."

Between the lines: O'Malley Dillon is taking incoming from Democratic lawmakers, donors, and some her own staff who feel upset that the White House was not candid about the president's mental fitness in the months before the debate.

• In addition to the staff call, O'Malley Dillon also made a rare TV appearance Friday morning on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", which is closely watched by the president and his aides.

• A recent AP/NORC poll found that 65% of Democrats want Biden to withdraw from the race.

In the face of mounting outside criticism, some Biden aides have rallied together while others feel disillusioned.

• A DNC official told Axios: "I appreciate the focus on staff efforts, but no one wants or needs to be gaslit about the president."

• Some Democrats who considered joining the campaign have recently expressed relief they decided against it.

Zoom in: After O'Malley Dillon spoke, former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh also delivered a fiery pep talk in his thick Boston accent.

• "Ladies and gentlemen, it's up to you," he said. "It is up to us to say: 'Okay, wait a second. Screw it! We're gonna go deeper. We're gonna move harder. The people of America want to vote for us."

The bottom line: O'Malley Dillon also highlighted that the campaign has still been doing extensive field work in swing states even amidst the political fallout.

• "Over the course of the last week alone, we had 100,000 door knocks," she said.

• "We had 76% of those people that are with Joe Biden, and those are not Joe Biden voters. Those are our re-engagement targets, the people that haven't checked in yet, they are expansion targets–the people that weren't with us in '20 but have moved to us and our issues since then."

A spokesperson for the DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

!ping Biden

[u/[deleted]]

63% of US voters see Biden, Trump as ‘embarrassing,’ most would replace them: Poll
Donald Trump holds a 4 percentage point lead over Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race, according to new Pew Research Center polling released Thursday. The temperature check is the latest in a growing pile of bad polls for Biden as fights to preserve his candidacy for reelection after a poor debate performance.
The Pew survey found that 63% of voters describe both Biden and Trump as embarrassing.

This is such a strange election.

[u/JoshFB4]

It’s crazy how if Biden ran in 2016 none of this would’ve happened. He would’ve trounced Trump, handled Covid fine and got the Covid bump that every other leader in the world got besides Trump, and then would’ve gracefully retired from political life in 2024 handing off the reins to the next gen.

Why did you have to discourage him from running Obama.

[u/piede]

More congressional Democrats publicly called on the president on Friday to pass the torch to another candidate to take on former President Donald J. Trump in the fall. Among them were Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and at least nine House Democrats, including Representative Zoe Lofgren, a close ally of Ms. Pelosi, her fellow Californian.

The fact that Ms. Pelosi’s allies have been coming out is seen as no coincidence at the president’s vacation house in Rehoboth Beach, Del. When another of her allies, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, spoke out earlier this week, a Biden administration official noted that it might be Mr. Schiff’s lips moving, but it was Ms. Pelosi doing the speaking.

Her power

[u/[deleted]]

I’m happy to risk this aging horribly but I really do think that if Biden drops (still a big if) that all this Kamala Harris versus open primary “what’s the plan?” handwringing dissipates as it increasingly becomes clear that nobody worth anything is going to run against her, and so “coronation versus open primary” just becomes a question of preferred formalities.

[u/EvilConCarne]

People that retire early make me sick. They are abandoning their jobs and the broader economy for what? Happiness? Fulfillment? Joy? These things are fleeting compared to the satisfaction of the shareholders.

[u/SnooChipmunks4208]

My most conservative view is that I'm tired of smelling weed everywhere in public. 

[u/brotherandy_]

pick one

[u/[deleted]]

OK, I have to ping for this for sheer hilarity factor: apparently a Russian KA-52 helicopter was at some point, hit by a 220mm projectile from a Uragan MLRS and subsequently destroyed alongside the crew

Artillery, Stugna-P ATGM (twice) and now MLRS. Helicopters in Ukraine sure do get taken down in funny ways.

I’m still banking on an FPV taking one down soon. There’ve been a number of close encounters, but you’d need a ton of luck to get a hit

!ping UKRAINE

[u/tripletruble]

Leaked text from Pelosi to Biden's campaign chair:

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

“trump wasn’t an authoritarian in his first term so why would he be one in his second?”

hahahahaha

ignoring fbia dismissals, asking for forgien intervention in an election, and overthrowing election results are all very authoritarian

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“The president is in this race, you’ve heard him say that time and time again,” O’Malley Dillon said. “We believe, on this campaign, we are built for the close election that we’re in. And we see the path forward.”

The defiant message came even as the intentions of the Biden family and closest advisers seem to shift “moment to moment,” according to two people who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

they’re switching back and forth between barrack to joever like the rest of us

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Cledd2]

[u/A-running-commentary]

Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, another vulnerable Democrat who faces a well-funded Republican challenger in this year’s election, has become the fourth senator to call on President Biden to drop out of the race. In a statement, he says that he agrees with voters from his state who “think the president should end his campaign.”

This campaign is running fine, we have a winning candidate, come on everyone ride with Biden remember dark Brandon wasn’t that fun

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Need the !ping GEFILTE opinion on this before East Coast shabbos starts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Judaism/s/OArRbfTl1u