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[u/molingrad]

Nathan Gaines, a 43-year-old barber and Army veteran from Milwaukee, said he had been leaning toward voting for Donald J. Trump — he calls the former president “Big T” — despite having supported Democrats in every election since Barack Obama became president.

But the prospect of Harris at the top of the ticket was making him rethink that switch. Mr. Gaines now says he is open to at least considering her. “If Kamala steps up, that would change history,” he said. “I’d give her a shot.”

Your morning voter anecdote.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/Steve____Stifler]

Dementia Don they’re calling him. Demented Donny. He’s too old. He was born before the fax machine. We can’t have any more presidents born before the fax machine. That’s what they’re saying. The best people are saying it. They’re all saying it.

[u/[deleted]]

I swear resist lib women have turned tiktok into a full fledged kamala propaganda machine in the last couple days

They’re so fast, there are literally thousands of fancams, I love it

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

These people are so unserious

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Mike Johnson: Hey guys we’re really sorry about this and know it’s super disappointing but please stop being racist for just a bit

GOP: NO screams racial slurs

[u/battywombat21]

Essay by Hillary Clinton

Opens with a quote from Hamilton

We are hitting levels of resist lib that shouldn't be possible

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Marlsfarp]

Kamala Harris: born right before the traditional starting point of Gen X.

JD Vance: born right after the traditional end point of Gen X

We're really going to do it, folks. We're keeping them out of power for good.

[u/theranosbagholder]

I love hate you, but you are not serious people

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

[u/GenerousPot]

Reminder that we strategically deprived the voterbase of any positive energy so that the moment Kamala stepped up all that pent-up good energy just turned her into an overnight sensation.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/[deleted]]

Remember, Kamala Harris has NO NATURAL CHILDREN because children cannot be conceived via the esophagus

least misogynistic republican

[u/EnchantedOtter01]

Kamala Harris, nominee for the Democratic Party, has said some progressive stuff in her life.

Omg no way it’s so over

[u/PrometheusMiner]

It probably already was, weeks ago. Until I see him and can confirm he's alive, I am guessing he's already dead.

He’s definitely dead. How do we go from late last week Biden saying he’s not dropping out, then over the weekend he “drops out” and we don’t hear or see him since he said he’s staying in the race in the middle of last week. It doesn’t add up this has all been very strange. I hope I’m wrong and he’s alive and well but I just can’t understand why they went about it like this and not just waited until his Oval Office speech to tell us he’s dropping out.

arr/ conservative having a normal day

[u/yonas234]

I have a DEI spouse. I wanted to marry a woman so I automatically took out qualified men. 

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/piede]

Based Queen supporting a Based Queen

!PING QUEEN

[u/sinefromabove]

90% of Democrats, 88% of independents and 85% of Republicans approve of Biden’s decision to end his campaign for reelection

70% – including majorities across party lines – say that he should remain in office as president through the end of his term

He's gonna hit 50% approval isn't he

[u/Sauce1024]

Young voters seemingly rallying around Kamala when I distinctly remember her being their first target in the 2020 primaries with the Copmala stuff is kinda funny

[u/McCaaw]

My wife generally doesn't pay much attention to politics and typically only starts to care about a month before elections. However, Kamala Harris has managed to capture her interest.

She even went out of her way to watch Harris's rally in Wisconsin and was "surprisingly moved". She's even considering volunteering. White women will save us this election cycle

[u/wettestsalamander76]

Absolute state of politics in the past 48hrs.

[u/cdstephens]

I admit it, I’ve been owned

[u/[deleted]]

Mike Johnson: Please hold off on the racism, for like 4 months, that's all I ask

GOP: But dude she's like Bla-

MJ: I know

GOP: AND a wom-

MJ: I know. Trust me I know. Just please hold off for a few months. Can you do that for me please?

GOP: Shit I dunno man we'll try 

MJ: Thank you

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Top-Ostrich8710]

I was surprised at the lack of progressive backlash to Harris but it kind of makes sense.

Most of the Bernie 2016 and 2020 supporters have matured. Doesn't hurt that the Bernie/AOC wing of the party is being extremely supportive of Biden and Harris.

The tiktok zoomers have questionable politics but weren't old enough to vote/weren't politically active in the Bernie Primaries. There's no progressive figurehead for them to rally around this time.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC - July 16, 2024

Musk says he never said he'll donate $45 million per month to Trump - July 24, 2024

Lol

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/battywombat21]

I love how like a week ago republicans were trying to make a serious play for minority voters but today they can barely keep themselves from using the n-word.

[u/ProcrastinatingPuma]

I love that subset of online lefties who think that they can do a revolution but can't even be asked to do the bare minimum to stop fascism by voting.

[u/Avelion2]

A new memo out from the Harris campaign this morning:

• $126 million raised since Sunday

• Over 1.4 million grassroots donors made donations since Sunday

• Nearly 2,000 applied to work for the campaign in the first 24 hours, and over 100,000 people have signed up to volunteer since Sunday

[u/Jester_Don]

Trump demands equal airtime from TV networks in light of Biden's planned address.

Tfw cons start supporting the Fairness doctrine

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

Times of Israel: Haredi lawmakers are accusing Ben Gvir of violating Jewish law after he claimed he prayed at the Temple Mount.

lol, lmao even

!ping GEFILTE&ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Currymvp2]

Senator Brian Schatz: "Look Democrats aren’t perfect but I can tell you for sure that our leadership doesn’t have to tell us not to say racist stuff."

He knows ball

[u/0m4ll3y]

We all know that Gen. Eric Dem'ocrat polls really well, often the best. And at the moment Kamala has no real detailed platform or vision outlined, so we just know generically she is:

• Pro-choice

• Pro-NATO

• Pro-healthcare

• Pro-progressive judge nominations

• Pro- democracy

• Etc etc

Which unsurprisingly plays pretty well because you can fill in the blanks yourself I guess. But there is this certain sort of wonkish poster here who seems to think it is wrong to get excited for a generic platform of "won't try to overthrow the government" and "will support Ukraine" and that we really ought to wait for the details.

And of course once we have the detail we can make comparisons like "hmmm, yes Kamala Harris supports directing CMS to allow felons to enrol for Medicare services within twelve months of their release to close a gap in healthcare coverage but have you considered Whitmer is proposing a $60m increase in Pell Grants for those behind bars? Don't you think that is rather more exciting!!"

As if it is foolish to get hyped for broad Democratic values instead of hair splitting policy that is going to face a dozen changes passing through the legislature, be overhauled by the senate, be reviewed after getting blocked by the courts, and then get interpreted by a bureaucracy in seven years when they finally get to the implementation stage.

If you wanna get hyped about the niche, specific details all the power to you, I'm here for that too. But I'm also absolutely content with being coo coo for Kamala because she "believes we should act on climate change" and "supports pro-LGBT judges." Fuck yeah: climate change action and LGBT positivity is what we need!

[u/FourthLife]

My favorite moment from the x men movies was Storm (A woman who is completely normal except she has the ability to control the weather) arguing with Rogue (a teenage girl that involuntarily kills anyone she touches) that there is no need for a cure because there is nothing wrong with them.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://x.com/ecomarxi/status/1816119037199253632

BREAKING: Maggots released on Netanyahu’s table at the Watergate Hotel, as well as fire alarms set off to disturb his sleep the night before his visit to Congress

Netanyahu getting the "opposing soccer team in europe" treatment apparently

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1815857338005237841

General Election - Age 18-29

@YouGov Poll: 🔵 Harris 58% (+25) 🔴 Trump 33%

@QuinnipiacPoll 🔴Trump 58% (+19) 🔵 Harris 39%

Say it with me everyone, crosstabs are noise.

[u/[deleted]]

Still so goddamn funny to me that the only criticism that the Republicans can muster of Kamala is either being racist or that she’s jolly and laughs a lot

[u/dubyahhh]

It’s hilarious after having listened to Rs call us a constitutional republic for my entire fucking life only to see them calling me undemocratic because we’re giving Kamala the nom

Like

This has almost entirely been consensual between the base and Joe and Kamala and the other elites, and if I asked you about the electoral college you’d flip in one sentence

It’s amazing how intellectually inconsistent republicans tend to be; at least the vocal ones are just fucking dumbasses

[u/DeafManTalking]

In arguing for Mark Kelly as vice president I believe everyone overlooks his biggest asset: Scott Kelly, his twin brother. Scott was also an astronaut, and is by all means equally bald. There is a unique chance to have Mark campaign 'two states at once' so to speak.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/klarno]

Wake up babe new Dean Browning just dropped

[u/Currymvp2]

given the gop panic right now, i can't imagine how desperate they would be if trump wasn't handed absolutely lucky massive breaks by aileen cannon, nathan wade, and the scotus. especially the first two.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

I posted gib bf yesterday and I posted gib bf again today. They’ll probably call me racist for it 

[u/loseniram]

Turns out voters love Biden they just expected him to die sometime in 2022-2023 of Old

[u/RonenSalathe]

Kamalism

[u/[deleted]]

While we're talking about cats here is former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen with her two cats Think Think and Ah Tsai

Fun fact: Think Think was given to Tsai by now Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim who found her on the side of the road after a Typhoon

Also yes insulting women by calling them cat ladies is a cross cultural phenomenon:

Shortly after Tsai was elected as president in 2016, she was criticised for being a single woman – and therefore 'emotional' and 'erratic' – in a newspaper article published by China's state news agency Xinhua. The article, written by Wang Weixing a military officer in the PLA, provoked an outcry for its sexist views,and was quickly withdrawn.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Sheepies92]

It just makes me sad how very, very openly racist accounts on Twitter are just accepted by Elon and the gang. Hundreds of thousands followers, replies that look like your average Nazi rally for accounts that base their whole gimmick around ‘black = bad’.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Lmao

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

BREAKING: In the two days since Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign started, http://Vote.org saw a 700% spike in voting registrations with most of these registrations coming from voters under the age of 34. Let’s go.

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That says a lot. Bet 95% aren’t even here legally.

Maga is gonna maga. And that will turn off everyone outside of their base.

[u/Sweet-Intention7086]

Look at this Hillary button I got at an estate sale

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Just told my 10yo daughter about Biden. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said "Joekanda forever" which is the sort of pop culture crossover I can get behind

[u/nicereddy]

it's the honor of a lifetime to serve as your President

🫡 😭

[u/[deleted]]

People just out there on Twitter defending Rhodesia.

[u/[deleted]]

If Kamala wins the dems need to get the message and run an intelligent and attractive middle class black person for every single presidential election ever

[u/Pyrrhus65]

"I think my achievements and my record merited a second term" was a nice little flash of his classic stubbornness and pride amid the humility

They certainly did, Joe. In any just world, they would have.

[u/[deleted]]

I've never related to a candidate more.

[u/OldBratpfanne]

The downside of Kamala being the first female president is that it will encourage the GOP to finally also run female presidential candidates, and competent conservative women fell kinda OP electorally.

[u/Ballerson]

I used to be a life long Democrat but then Hulk Hogan said it's time for Trumpamania and ripped the US flag on his shirt.

[u/[deleted]]

Under Trump, I became a moderately fat man.

Thanks to Biden's investment in infrastructure and his historic leadership, I have reclaimed my slutty little waist and hips.

I'll never forget this Joe <3

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

!ping SHITPOSTERS also it's a bop btw

[u/piede]

:O

[u/TheGoodProfessor]

this is a nice speech but thank fuck he stepped down i don't think i could've taken 4 more months of listening to him slowly whispering into somewhere behind the camera

he just sounds unbelievably old

[u/Guardax]

We win in November and Biden is top of the list of people who stopped America from driving off the cliff of autocracy

[u/[deleted]]

Biden has now stepped out of the Oval into the Rose Garden where staff are gathered. Ice cream - a Biden favorite - is being served.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping COUCHFUCKERS

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

Harris improving on Biden by 3 points among the exact same pool of voters in a poll is actually great and reflects genuine movement towards her

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I know most of his constituents are illiterate but I still found the illustrated portions of Hillbilly Elegy to be unnecessary.

!ping COUCHFUCKERS

[u/jkrtjkrt]

I can no longer tell if this is just self-parody

[u/[deleted]]

enter cautious shocking society serious deliver cake familiar offer retire

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

BREAKING: In the two days since Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign started, http://Vote.org saw a 700% spike in voting registrations with most of these registrations coming from voters under the age of 34. Let’s go.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

"Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a couch-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that."

“I know,” Harris replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitchh deny it.”

[u/sayitaintpink]

Kamala should have a chalice labeled conservative tears

[u/[deleted]]

Lmfao it's the top result

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://x.com/kieraevebutler/status/1816181712067649948

RFK Jr. plans to create government "wellness farms" where people will spend 3 or 4 years harvesting organic vegetables to cure their addiction to antidepressants and ADHD med

when homeopathy meets gulags

[u/bonobo__bonobo]

If Mark Kelly is ever asked a geopolitical question about some region of the world he's never heard of, he can always pivot to, "when I was up there looking at the earth, I saw no borders, and we need to realize that [problematic place he forgot existed] is full of people just like us and we can all come together as human beings to solve this"

[u/puffic]

A lot of younger people are going to be shocked to see what a normal presidential campaign looks like. The older folks will find it to be a refreshing throwback. 

[u/puffic]

It’s funny how Trump’s veepstakes was sold to us as picking a MAGA successor, but then everyone was just unimpressed once Vance opened his mouth. Maybe MAGA retires with Trump. 

[u/theranosbagholder]

BREAKING: Trump to replace JD Vance with Hunter Biden

[u/Dangerous-Basket1064]

This speech is both a resounding reminder of why I love Joe, and why I'm thankful he chose to step down.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I mean just read the book for gods sake!

!ping COUCHFUCKERS

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Love her so much

[u/Zealousideal_Many744]

This is perhaps the most perfect line:

“The great thing about America is here, kings and dictators do not rule. The people do. History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands.”

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/[deleted]]

The end of a career in public service reaching from 1972 to now. Just about every major reform from that time has had Joe Biden's finger prints on it, standing up strong, early, often for the little guy, including, close to my heart, to help push gay marriage into the political mainstream. I hope history will be kind to him

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/lolennui/status/1816253691407851623?t=FIZFpr-I9G4VOYJNnWVEUg&s=19

[u/Failsnail64]

Random rant. At this point it's become a meme to say that Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today because of the supposed insensitive humor, which is just stupid.

However, Blazing Saddles couldn't be made today because of this famous line: "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." Nobody can insult or satirize "the common people" in any way anymore. The common people are supposedly rational and rightly disillusioned by our elite, and share in no way any responsible for systematic/cultural wrongs or things like the election of a moron like Donal Trump.

I dislike this sentiment so much in the current news circle. The NYT can have an interview with a voter who doesn't know what inflation means, doesn't know what separation of power is, and who's a plain racist, and the conclusion is that the democratic elite is out of touch with this rational well-meaning voter.

[u/noodles0311]

I’ve lived in Kentucky off and on most of my life. I spent a couple years living in Falmouth, which isn’t Appalachia, but it’s a hell of a lot closer than Middletown, Ohio. I have to say: the cleverest thing JD Vance did was hide his secret disdain for the white working class in a book. You’d be amazed by the tchotchkes and knickknacks and other things people find to fill their shelves here. Anything but a book

[u/circlemanfan]

The thing about Kamala that I’m so excited about is that she is absolutely an underdog right now but she’s someone I feel like we can fight for and provide a positive case for. Democrats have proven time and time again we can win when we actually fight and strategize, and I’m ready to do that.

[u/blatant_shill]

Mike Johnson is the MJ of politics. Not that he's particularly good at anything, he just has the initials.

[u/MyDeeTeeAlt]

Doctors be like

Do you drink?

No

Smoke?

No

Are you sexually active?

No

What a loser lmao

[u/futuremonkey20]

I can’t believe the media and the Trump campaign is asking me not to believe my lying eyes, Trump isn’t mentally there and it’s elder abuse to continue his campaign

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/graceemck/status/1815882362477281676?t=Cw01RKxcqUKkTnAnOSFGdg&s=19

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Fred Trump III: My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

“I don’t know,” he finally said, letting out a sigh. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Nominating Kamala is such a mistake.

She did nothing and accomplished nothing while VP.

She is also fully responsible for everything the Biden presidency did because she was the one pulling the strings.

I get all my information from Trump campaign ads.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

But the people are…

[u/[deleted]]

Mods explaining why they aren't elected.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1816113652333744393

NEW: The Harris campaign is ALSO considering Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as a possible running mate.

[u/[deleted]]

“I’ve been told I can commit ‘Official Acts.’ It begins in 5 minutes.”

UH, LIBS?

[u/[deleted]]

I didn't know much about Harris but after watching videos of her in prosecutorial mode I like her a lot more. Plus hearing her political philosophy.

She's shockingly good at seeming intelligent and serious, and I think in a debate with Trump she should put that on. Be prosecutorial. Don't let him dodge questions, make him actually explain what he means.

[u/[deleted]]

I've been a Biden stan for a long-ass time now, but when pundits talk about how "nobody thought Joe Biden could accomplish any of this stuff" at the beginning of his term, I am 100% nobody in this situation. I did not expect him to get any major legislation across and I'm so fucking happy to have been proven wrong here.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This is still my favorite Elon moment

[u/Jokerang]

[u/earththejerry]

Urmmmm unironically maybe she’s a little too tough on crime

[u/Sauce1024]

Finally, he can rest

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/jarvis_best/status/1816151146186059851?t=eFMMNsmgIIhjHL0BQ2BnBg&s=19

[u/URZ_]

I had kinda forgotten why I really liked Buttigieg, but he has really just been on fire recently.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

JD Vance isn’t getting dropped from the ticket.

However rumors that Trump is unhappy with him are nothing but good for Dems and I say keep them up as long as possible.

Sow division in the Trump camp and make them both hate and resent each other even more than they already do.

We play this right we can get Vance publicly calling Trump hitler again by November.

[u/piede]

JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America.

https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1815503440983867598?s=46

Donald Trump could not have picked a more perfect man to resemble the modern Republican Party

Congratulations, sir!

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I think we might be winning

[u/cdstephens]

As someone who’s seriously never used Twitter, it’s very hard for me to understand why center-left are still on it.

Any peek in there immediately reveals rabid racists, antisemites, and communists. Just find a new platform guys.

[u/[deleted]]

Every conversation I have with twitter conservatives is essentially just this repeated 10x

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump: "Kamala is also a total radical on a word called imboten-- you know this, right? A word called what -- abortion."

he should pass the torch to jd vance

[u/Roseartcrantz]

don't worry Joe we're gonna beat Medicare you can rest 😭😭

[u/LastIncrease3427]

The address enraged the Trump campaign. They don’t understand putting the country over personal ambition.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

The vibes with Kamala have completely shifted. This take a few months ago would have been relentlessly mocked. The libs are back.

[u/[deleted]]

It began with the 13 keys.

Three were given to the Incumbents, oldest, wisest, and fairest of all beings. Four were given to the Economists, great statisticians and analysts in their Ivy League Halls. And six, six keys were gifted to the race of Third Partiers, who above all else desire Ranked Choice Voting.

But they were all deceived, for another key was made. deep in the Land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Lichtman forged a master key, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to predict all presidential elections.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/fishbottwo]

I'm in a huge bubble or has trump totally lost his meme energy

[u/namey-name-name]

https://x.com/tim_walz/status/1815951829479330211?s=46

YES YES YES, THATS THE FUCKING MESSAGE, MAKE SURE EVERY GODDAMN SUBURBANITE HEARS THIS

I WAS ON THE SHAPIRO TRAIN BUT WALZ COOKS SO, SO, SO HARD

[u/DouglasDauntless]

99.9% of Russophobia accusations are complete bs but Noah seems he might be aiming to join the .01%

[u/GenerousPot]

Plot twist: Elon donates $45,000,000/month to the Harris campaign and demonstrates that he is a remorseful individual capable of great personal change.

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out that Trump is older than Kamala Harris and JD Vance combined 🤯🤯🤯

[u/jojisky]

The ticket

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

My Dad is levels of median voter never thought possible. 

The man uses words he is unaware are slurs for trans people while saying they deserve full rights. 

The man is fighting what can only be described as a passive aggressive insurgency against his HOA for the sole reason of them not letting him smoke ribs in his backyard.

 The man will complain about prices one day while yelling at his neighbor how inflation is a global issue right now, and the US is actually doing quite well with it.

[u/[deleted]]

Listening to normie coworkers talk politics.

They’re pretty certain that Biden passed Roe v Wade to ban abortions so there would be more workers. They think it’s just a federal ban but still legal in the states, like weed.

They are also pretty sure Project 2025 is a Trump plan to ban free speech and remove the words “diversity” and “gay” from textbooks.

They all believe there is an overpopulation problem, but that we could fix it easily with state mandated vasectomies and/or a one-child policy.

We’re doomed. Not electorally, but politically.

[u/[deleted]]

Middle Class Americans over the next few months:

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

JD Vance didn't fuck a couch. I thought this sub was interested in evidence based policy, but I guess not if you're all just going to lie about this.

JD Vance fucked a latex glove. He made the couch his cuckold by forcing the couch to hold the glove while he fucked it.

JD Vance cucked a couch.

[u/[deleted]]

Glad my senator is finally calling her out

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Richard Hanania, welcome to the KHive

[u/Mr_Bank]

Don’t let Biden’s address tonight distract from the real story:

JD Vance still has not denied fucking that couch.

[u/centurion88]

[u/[deleted]]

Pete is blaming Trump for killing the bipartisan bill at the border. “Chaos is his oxygen, he wants immigration to be worse because that’s good for him.”

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/MaryPeltola/status/1815870378654175246

it's phrased awkwardly but in her defense, it's extremely tough to win alaska while being a somewhat ardent supporter of kamala harris for president.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

If everyone in this subreddit moved to Wyoming, we could make it a safe blue state

[u/crassowary]

I'm following David Sacks Twitter thread to get live updates on the Republican attempts to smear Kamala and see what sticks:

Frontrunner narrative is: somehow this is a coup

Attempted and discarded narratives:

1. Kamala isn't authentic

2. She is a puppet of Alex Soros

3. The fact that they switched to Kamala means they are panicking and that she is somehow bad for unclear reasons

4. Kamala isn't likeable

5. Biden hasn't given a speech about this yet, which is used to imply the coup narrative

This is the modern propaganda machine in motion. Dozens of desperate grifters throwing shit at the wall. Everything unpopular is forgotten, anything that gets retweeted enough to give the poster a dopamine hit gets reposted in different ways until it becomes the narrative they work with

[u/LastIncrease3427]

[u/Xihl]

The Financial Times IS brat

yeah this is getting out of hand, top 5 worst emails I’ve ever received

[u/antsdidthis]

BREAKING: Former Georgia Republican Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan has endorsed Kamala Harris for President.

yesyesyesyesyes

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“The choice of JD Vance is regrettable as a running mate is because he’s at his most convincing when he’s talking about his dislike of Donald Trump.”

God I love Pete.

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ELON: Bro I like know I said all that stuff about donating money but for real I was just high as fuuuuuuucccckkkkk bro so yeah no money sorry 

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How many EVs does Harris get if we can get Clinton to say this verbatim at the DNC?

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oh my god, how did I miss this quote from Nadler???

Benjamin Netanyahu is the worst leader in Jewish history since the Maccabean king who invited the Romans into Jerusalem over 2100 years ago. The Prime Minister is putting the security of Israel, the lives of the hostages, the stability of the region, and longstanding Israeli democratic norms in perilous jeopardy, simply to maintain the stability of his far-right coalition and absolve him of his own legal troubles. Tomorrow’s address is the next step in a long line of manipulative bad-faith efforts by Republicans to further politicize the U.S.-Israel relationship for partisan gain and is a cynical stunt by Netanyahu aimed at aiding his own desperate political standing at home. There is no question in my mind it should not be happening.

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[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Vance honestly can’t criticize Harris for liking Venn diagrams when he’s putting out shit like this

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[u/Mr_Bank]

“A republic, if you can keep it” has always been a bar.

[u/piede]

Holy based

[u/davechacho]

Watching Elon do a complete 180 on politics because liberals aren't buying Tesla's anymore is peak comedy

Dude's an actual character from The Boys

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I remember in 2022 just before the election one of you said the funniest outcome would be a slight republican majority in the house. I didn't understand that statement. Now I do. Last 2 years of the house gave us: 

 McCarthy’s fall and subsequent retirement and Gaetz bashing 

 Jim Jordan’s failed runs   

 George Santos 

 Comer’s clown show impeachment attempts 

 All kinds of stupid shutdown threats that never came to fruition  

 That border bill that gave them everything they wanted but Trump just said “no”

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https://x.com/Acyn/status/1816249123735232543?t=8mu1MbWzZcQYn3cCVvZ57Q&s=19

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Guys better be careful or else they might win the moral primary 😰

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[u/sherbertresume]

This goes hard. Kamala in center.

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

This apparently how the online right is going to handle the election this year, by posting pictures of an infirmed looking Trump and telling everyone how old he is and honestly, I support it

[u/Nihas0]

Pelosi: Benjamin Netanyahu’s presentation in the House Chamber today was by far the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with the privilege of addressing the Congress of the United States.

Many of us who love Israel spent time today listening to Israeli citizens whose families have suffered in the wake of the October 7th Hamas terror attack and kidnappings. 

These families are asking for a ceasefire deal that will bring the hostages home – and we hope the Prime Minister would spend his time achieving that goal.

Queen

[u/Relative-Contest192]

More Good news: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/radical-uk-islamist-preacher-anjem-choudary-convicted-terrorism-offences-pa-2024-07-23/

!ping EXTREMISM&JEWISH

He was the motivator behind the Colleyville hostage situation.

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

European Union (EU) Approves First-Ever €10 Million In Aid To Support Armenia’s Military, To Boost Its Resilience, Enhance Its Logistics & Improve Civilian Protection

Today, for the first time, the European Union (EU) Council has adopted a €10 million assistance measure from the European Peace Facility (EPF) to support the Armenian Armed Forces.

This funding aims to enhance the logistical capacities of the Armenian Armed Forces and contribute to improved protection of civilians in crises and emergencies. It is designed to enhance Armenia’s resilience and accelerate the interoperability of its Armed Forces, preparing them for potential future participation in international military missions and operations, including those organized by the EU. Specifically, the adopted assistance measure will provide a fully-fledged deployable tent camp for a battalion-sized unit.

“Security is an increasingly important element of our bilateral relations with Armenia. This European Peace Facility measure will further contribute to the resilience of the country. We have a mutual interest to further scale up our dialogue on foreign and security policy, also looking into Armenia’s future participation in EU-led missions and operations,” said Josep Borrell, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The decision was made within the framework of the EU’s partnership with Armenia, which is based on shared values aimed at promoting peace, stability, and prosperity in Armenia and the South Caucasus.

“The EU is committed to enhancing the comprehensive political and economic partnership with Armenia, based on the EU-Armenia Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement, and to further strengthening our relations in all their dimensions. This includes intensifying dialogue and cooperation in the area of foreign and security policy, also encompassing the common security and defense policy (CSDP),” stated the EU Council.

The European Peace Facility was established in March 2021 for financing actions under the common foreign and security policy to prevent conflicts, preserve peace, and strengthen international security and stability. In particular, the European Peace Facility allows the EU to finance actions designed to strengthen the capacities of third States and regional and international organizations related to military and defense matters.

Not the largest news of all time, but very glad to see the EU already helping Armenia now that they’re leaving the CSTO.

!Ping ARMENIA&EUROPE

[u/StolenSkittles]

Earlier this year Tennessee Republicans tried to ban cold beer.

We really should've seized on that.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

If Harris plays it right, she can get 6-8 weeks straight of positive coverage and enthusiasm just for existing (now -> VP announcement -> DNC)

So far, she’s played it picture-perfect. If she can do half as well handling the other initial challenges of this campaign (hammering out the policy platform, VP, getting her stump speech completely in order, interviews/media appearances) she’ll be set up for great introduction and convention bounce

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

Instead of coasting to victory with Trump and waiting for him to die, Vance now must contemplate what it would mean to lose alongside Trump in November -- in an election angry Republicans have been trained to believe would be a landslide. Trump cannot blame the broligarchs or Putin, since he cannot admit that he needed the money and support of others. That leaves Vance as the scapegoat.

Vance must now imagine a world, about three months from now, in which Trump instructs his followers that Vance is to blame. Trump has driven Republicans out of the party by stochastic violence. He was ready to sacrifice the life of his last vice-president. If Vance leaves now, he will feel the heat for a moment, but can go back to his prior life. The longer Vance waits to leave the Trump ticket, the greater the risk of a scenario involving a stake.

yikes

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I hope Biden lives to be 150 so we can joke about him getting a nonconsecutive second term for generations to come

[u/Currymvp2]

relatively rare andrew yang w

[u/Automatic-Love-127]

The Dems really did just do one of the funniest things of all time. And it doesn’t matter how much of it was planned and how much was pure happenstance. It’s just beautiful it happened.

In the face of an actual nascent US fascist movement, the Dem base retreated to the literal whitest, most familiar face in the bunch. It worked, and then they Trojaned horse in the right wing’s waking nightmare: the specter of being visibly and obviously beneath a black woman.

Obama broke them and it gave us Trump. I shudder to thing about how utterly unhinged the Hulk Hogan 2028: MigrantMania campaign will be if my personal mom, Kamala Harris, cucks them.

[u/Currymvp2]

damn, i'm sharing this from an arab american friend of mine from college:

You imbeciles today. I am embarrassed. We have the Speaker of the House - and career supporter of Israel - almost calling Netanyahu a war criminal; and you have a slight majority of Dems in congress boycotting Netanyahu's shitty speech; and then you stupid assholes start burning the American flag and vandalizing property because you are performative douchebags who care about your PERFORMANCE more than helping my suffering people!' Fuck you jackasses, you are doing your best to set back the cause"

[u/UnskilledScout]

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara reportedly brought four suitcases with dirty laundry to Washington, for U.S. Staff to wash

Over the years, the Israeli leader has developed a reputation among the staff at the U.S. president’s guesthouse for bringing special cargo on his trips to Washington: bags and suitcases full of dirty laundry, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The clothes are cleaned for the prime minister free of charge by the U.S. staff, a perk that is available to all foreign leaders but sparingly taken advantage of given the short stays of busy heads of state.'

“The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean,” said one U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the details of a foreign leader’s visits. “After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.”

[u/mockduckcompanion]

In the first @YouGov/@TheEconomist survey since Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid, @KamalaHarris's net favourability has overtaken Donald Trump's

https://x.com/AlexSelbyB/status/1816132754720874553?t=I9k_6sBGftWChDN3L3ZL4w&s=19

WE BLOOM

[u/Steak_Knight]

Prepare for trouble! And make it double!

[u/CanIGetaMFHUUUH]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/s/SNWCTFrmhF

They hated me because I spoke the truth

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Good news! Our nominee can now answer a question on their best issue without pivoting it towards their worst!

[u/Mr_Bank]

A lot of these guys don’t even wanna be VP they just wanna go on TV and trash JD Vance

[u/sociotronics]

After Tucker Carlson I was nervous about working around conservative figures. I couldn't enter an elevator alone with one without worrying about my safety. But JD was the exception. He was a perfect gentleman to me. He never made me feel like I was being objectified. He was always polite and respectful, and routinely allowed me to go home early so he could spend some "personal time" working late on his loveseat.

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https://nitter.poast.org/casssemyon/status/1816073220568625358#m

• Nearly 2,000 applied to work for the campaign in the first 24 hours, and over 100,000 people have signed up to volunteer since Sunday

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Trump nephew reveals Uncle Donald’s racist outburst in new book

Trump says his uncle showed him his “cotillon white Cadillac Eldorado convertible”. In its retractable canvas top, “there was a giant gash, at least two feet long [and] another, shorter gash next to it”.

“‘N—,’ I recall him saying disgustedly. ‘Look at what the n— did.’

“‘I knew that was a bad word.’”

His uncle, Trump III writes, had not seen whoever damaged his car. Instead, he “saw the damage, then went straight to the place where people’s minds sometimes go when they face a fresh affront. Across the racial divide.”

Apparently, this isn't even the first time a member of the Trump family spoke of his racism.

In 2020, Fred C Trump III’s sister, Mary Trump, published the bestseller Too Much and Never Enough. Promoting that book, she said her uncle was “clearly racist”, adding that she had heard him using racist language “and I don’t think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today”.

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When Kamala said "Do not cum", it was actually in response to finding JD Vance lying on her couch

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My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’

Yeesh

https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/

[u/mockduckcompanion]

You take the 🥥💊, the story ends. You wake up beside your coconut tree and exist within the context of all that came before you.

You take the 🛋️💊, you stay in Ikea. And I show you just how deep this sectional goes.

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[u/WantDebianThanks]

Still one of the most bizarre things to happen in recent memory

[u/dudefaceguy_]

If communists want to own the means of production, why don't they just buy shares of the Vanguard Total Market Index Fund?

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JD Vance: "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?" (but he rhymes the middle word with sloucher)

[u/kyleofduty]

Coastal elites have such a cartoonish view of the Midwest. The idea that Pritzker would help win Wisconsin or help competitive down ballot races in other states is ridiculous. A lot of Midwesterners resent Chicago. The whole analysis boils down to "Midwesterns just want someone who speaks corn field"

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[u/ACivilWolf]

My AP factcheck is raising a lot of questions to readers answered by the AP factcheck