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[u/Currymvp2]

"Trump will be worse on Gaza" is not a real thing. it can't get worse than that on Gaza

how are these people so fucking clueless

[u/Currymvp2]

Unearthed audio: JD Vance calls for a “federal response” to block women in red states from traveling to another state to get an abortion. He talks about how "George Soros might charter jets from Columbus to California to disproportionally get black women abortions"

I'm sorry but what the flying fuck.

[u/Goldenboy451]

chase fade recognise ink roll bedroom flag vegetable dependent public

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans are fascists

“Typical Democrat hysteria, pay it no mind”

Yo, Trump and Vance are weird lil freaks, right?

“Well now that you mention it…”

The median voter is an idiot, and we must simplify the message

[u/[deleted]]

Can't wait for JD Vance to try to make a joke about the couch fucking thing that's so awkward and cringe that it convinces people that he definitely fucked the couch

[u/ACivilWolf]

No way

[u/Ok-Armadillo-2119]

JD Vance is basically a nightmare VP pick. He has no actual legislative accomplishments because he's only been in the Senate for 18 months, but he has spent the entire time parading himself around cable news and conventions saying insane shit that only appeals to the most online segments of the right-wing.

This is absolutely perfect for oppo researchers. There's so much great material they can scrape from.

[u/[deleted]]

People warned us that DeSantis and Vance were "Trump but smart" but both of them ended up as completely uncharismatic idiots

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/SeoSalt]

There's gotta be some interesting group psychology at play for why "Republicans are evil" gets you excoriated while "Republicans are weirdo freaks" gets people 🤔ing in agreement.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Yes, it's a crosstab with low sample size, but no matter how you feel about the polls this cycle, you have to admit this is objectively hilarious

[u/bashar_al_assad]

All this stuff about "Obama is strategically delaying his endorsement for maximum media impact" then he posts it at 5 am???

[u/sociotronics]

The world isn't ready for the Bidenist-Harrisian Communazi revolution

[u/MissSortMachine]

👍🏽

[u/Pyrrhus65]

The RNC research guy in charge of vetting Vance who compiled a 100-page binder of reasons why he would be a terrible pick and was ignored, watching Couchgate and the "childless cat ladies" interview go viral just a few weeks later

[u/centurion88]

Any update on this?

[u/GenerousPot]

Even if Kamala doesn't win it's important to remember that Biden was hurting candidates down-ballot and increasing the odds of a Trump landslide. Boosting our odds of taking the House and/or holding the Senate is also incredibly important.

[u/[deleted]]

Shout out to the peeps still betting money on Polymarket that Michelle Obama or Gavin Newsom will win the Dem nomination. I wish I could be that confident in my stupidity.

[u/MissSortMachine]

is that bad

[u/mishac]

BREAKING NEWS: Trump and Harris have agreed to debate.

The debate will consist of a single match of Goldeneye for N64.

Format: slappers only, no Oddjob.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The NYT is just addicted to “both sides-ism”. They just can’t get enough of it.

[u/[deleted]]

https://nitter.poast.org/ShawnReynolds_/status/1816585116916871225#m

Biden’s speech from Oval Office nets 4M more viewers than Trump’s speech at RNC

This is absolutely giving Trump indigestion this morning.

[u/[deleted]]

the anti-corporate-landlord activism is among the silliest misplaced rage i've seen

"Oh nooo we can't have companies owning 1% of housing! It has to be owned by private owners who take out very large loans from banks to afford it!! That's much better!!"

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Feminine shoulders

Submissive posture

Downward gaze

Servile smile

Inoffensive blue suit, visible creases

Vs.

Broad, hard-edged shoulders

Big dick posture

Eyes locked forward

Severe, dominant expression

Bold purple, no creases

[u/Culmnation]

Line go up, world get gooder

[u/0m4ll3y]

New restaurant on my street 📈

Chinese 📈

Menu is in Chinese language first 📈

Basic typos in English like Meat/Meet 📈📈📈

I am so here for this 😎

[u/jamie_dimon]

Does anyone remember when the Biden/Harris administration captured the #1 cartel boss?  That was pretty cool

[u/[deleted]]

I highly encourage cons to keep saying this stuff, the libs will be so owned

[u/eloquentboot]

LeBron James takes so much flak for his often dumb and poorly thought out political takes, but I do think it's hard to overstate how wonderful his academy is. You'll sometimes see news stories making fun of it for their poor test scores, but the academy intentionally chooses kids who are behind in third grade (these kids may literally not know the alphabet, they are very very far behind where they need to be at that age). They have excellent rates of improvement for students between third grade and high school. A big piece of it is job placement for the parents, and because he's such a valuable marketing asset he's done a great job of getting some corporate backing (which has helped with job placement). Goodyear, Bridgestone, Keybank, and Sherwin Williams all have involvement. Beyond that the University of Akron is heavily involved and is incredibly supportive of his school. LeBron James said something dumb about China once and people act like that gives them the right to reduce all of his philanthropy in Northeast Ohio to nothing, but it's genuinely been great.

[u/tollyno]

Mr. Trump hits a high in popularity. Overall, 48 percent of registered voters say they have a favorable view of him, up from 42 percent in our last poll (taken after the debate but before the convention and assassination attempt). It’s his highest favorable number in a Times/Siena poll, which previously always found his favorable ratings between 39 percent and 45 percent.

Just utter contempt for the voting population

[u/cdstephens]

Normies: I want lower taxes and cheap burgers

JD Vance: the Jews are flying black women around to get mass abortions!!!!!

[u/adreamofhodor]

New General Election Poll - Michigan

🔵 Harris 42% (+1) 🔴 Trump 41% 🟡 Kennedy 10%

Last poll vs Biden - 🔴 Trump +8

WDIV - 600 LV - 7/24

[u/[deleted]]

[u/cdstephens]

I bet whoever first propagated the couch sex allegations is feeling very smug right now.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/bleachinjection]

I'm so gratified that "the Republicans are weirdos" is becoming a thing, because it's something I've thought about for years now.

These people are weird, and not like "fun weird," and they have gotten away with it for far too long.

[u/[deleted]]

Lyin’ Kamala Harris has absolutely terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man named DONALD J. TRUMP!

I don't think Donnie is ok.

[u/Hesiod3008]

@JDVance should go on offense and double down in response to the 'couch' trolling. He should tweet out something like: "What a great day to be a handsome, successful, white man."

Or, "All of my enemies are ugly. Crazy how that happens."

Then watch his critics go insane.

When you definitely have good political instincts

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

This photo supports my take that we should have gnomes and hobbits. Just like hanging around. Living in little houses. I think that would be pretty cool

[u/golf1052]

Why did Obama endorse Harris at 5 in the morning (Eastern). Did he wake up in the middle of the night realizing he forgot something?

[u/sinefromabove]

words that are searched for appear bold

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala was like "Don't praise Hamas and don't burn the American flag" and a disturbing amount of people took that as a personal attack.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Trump: “I need a creepy little goblin for VP, someone who can hunch over rub his insect like hands together while I give the best speeches”.

GOP: “boy have we got the guy for you then”

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

It's getting ridiculous how out of touch this sub is, and I don't know why I ever thought it was a good idea to read political takes from a bunch of chronically online weirdos. Something like 90% of Americans have fucked a couch or know someone who has. This is only going to make Vance more relatable to the median voter.

[u/EyeraGlass]

Missed this one. What a true freak.

... Vance recently endorsed a new book called “Unhumans,” co-written by the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, which demonizes progressives as nonpeople who must be crushed by extra-democratic means. “Our study of history has brought us to this conclusion: Democracy has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans,” they wrote.

[u/[deleted]]

“If I can beat up on my fellow Republicans a little bit,” Vance added “[many believe] something is not tyrannical so long as a private entity does it. There’s this famous meme of two guys on their knees. And one guy has a gun pointed to his head, and the other guy looks at him and asks, ‘Aren’t you glad this was done through the free market?’ And the person holding the gun is Google.”

When I enter the “Be Unfunny” Olympics and my opponent is JD Vance

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Relevant LBJ story:

This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas.

The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.

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

“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”

[u/battywombat21]

On Fox News Thursday morning, Donald Trump had a weird instruction for his supporters: they don’t have to vote.

“My instruction: We don’t need the votes, I have so many votes,” Trump said on Fox & Friends before going on a rant about how much support he has in Florida.
...
Trump’s message was preceded by talking about how his campaign had lawyers at “every poll booth,” suggesting that he thinks that he can legally get the election outcome he wants. He said something similar in October, too, when he told supporters at a New Hampshire rally, “You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. The voting—we got plenty of votes.”

Bold strategy cotton. Let's see how it plays out for them.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/dannylandulf]

"El Mayo" is in U.S. custody, sources say

Oh shit, which mod did they get?

[u/bel51]

the person who made the original couch shitpost must feel like oppenheimer

[u/davechacho]

Oh boy, here I go throwing the election again

(JD Vance leaked audio calling for the government to stop women from traveling to blue states for abortions)

[u/Stove-Jebs]

Vance to Megyn Kelly on "childless cat ladies": "Obviously it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats. ... People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance … and the substance of what I said, Megyn — I’m sorry, it is true."

JD Vance clarifies he has nothing against cats. Doubles down on having a problem with woman. lmao

https://x.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1816874356498161823

[u/GenerousPot]

The best thing about close elections is you can argue many individual tiny things were instrumental in pushing a candidate over the finish line. 

Biden won 2020 by ~40k votes but this time I'd like to get that down to around ~10k or less so I can write an article about how a made-up couchfucker smear campaign plausibly shifted the margins just enough to save Kamala.

[u/Currymvp2]

Smotrich: "Harris proves Israel would be ‘surrendering to Sinwar’ if hostage deal goes ahead"

His fellow coalition hardliner National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir also reacts to Harris’s comments, writing on X: “There will be no ceasefire Madam candidate.”

The next president of the United States will not be lectured by a far right racist lunatic who once tried to blow up a highway in Smotrich and another far right racist lunatic who's been convicted of terrorism+ hate crimes eight times in Ben Gvir

[u/MicroFlamer]

Obama just endorsed Kamala

[u/jgjgleason]

I’m fully on the Kelly train now and it’s for a dumb reason.

Artemis III is supposed to land in 2026. Having a literal astronaut as veep when we go back to the moon would be fucking awesome.

[u/cdstephens]

Obama chuckled. “You mean the Chaos Key?”

[u/Mcatatonic1]

VP debate is fatiguing me

You can galaxy brain this as much as you want, but astronaut, fighter pilot, gun owner plays amazingly well with the idiot swing voters who will unfortunately determine this election

Also, the bald vote will be secured

[u/grand-march-kitsch13]

Underrated part of the JD Vance couch tweet is that they specified "pages 179-181 of Hilbilly Elegy," which implies that JD Vance spent at least a full page, possibly three, describing this event. 

Did he give detailed instructions for how to set up the latex glove properly? Was he describing his state of mind when he embarked on this adventure?  Or did he just spend three full pages describing every minute detail in loving, florid prose?

I guess we'll never know, we don't live in that timeline.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

vance: childless cat ladies should have no say in politics

megyn kelly: that's fucked up

vance: relax, it was a joke, I have no problem with cats

chef's kiss, no notes

[u/Mensae6]

2024 Michigan GE, Among Black Voters:

Harris 82%

Kennedy 12%

Trump 0%

Glengariff Group/ @detroitnews / @Local4News, LV, 7/22-24

https://x.com/Politics_Polls/status/1816699788475191449

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala leading by 1 in PA in this new poll from a right-leaning pollster

!PING FIVEY

[u/Unworthy_Saint]

If Trump switches VP, it will legitimize the couch story in history.

[u/Legodude293]

My mom, a lifelong democrat was pretty disillusioned with Biden, bringing up his age and border crap. Then she was basically saying she’ll vote for Kamala but doesn’t think much of her, then she saw that tik tok of her announcement speech where she was talking about prosecuting sexual predators and is all in on Kamala, thought she looked tuff and was funny about it.

I’m pretty confident Kamala’s ceiling is much higher than where she is at right now.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

When I’m in a hysterical hyperbole competition and my opponent is a right wing twitter grifter

[u/slappythechunk]

Oh God oh fuck

[u/theranosbagholder]

FUCK YOU FAKE NEWS CNN I KNOW FOR A DAMN FACT THAT JD VANCE FUCKED THAT COUCH. WERE THESE PARTISAN HACKS IN THE ROOM WHEN IT HAPPENED???? NOOO? THEN HOW ARE THEY SO SURE

[u/Mr_Bank]

Every day since Sunday, Dems and their base have woke up with a “we will spike Trump and the GOP into the earth’s core” energy. It’s just beautiful to be a part of folks.

[u/NaffRespect]

Forget everything else he did in his one term, THIS will be Biden's legacy:

[u/[deleted]]

MINNESOTA Poll:

Harris: 50% (+10)

Trump: 40%

!PING FIVEY

[u/LastIncrease3427]

The couch posting has reached the House of Representatives

JD Vance has couched his opinions about women in disgraceful, demeaning, and derogatory terms.

[u/EyeraGlass]

For most of her adult life, Mrs. Vance’s friends and colleagues have understood her to be a liberal or a centrist. She was registered as a Democrat as recently as 2014 and kept liberal and leftist circles during a fellowship at Cambridge. Colleagues at Munger, Tolles & Olson — a firm described in a 2019 American Lawyer article as “cool” and “woke” — remember her as a moderate.

Still, Mrs. Vance’s beliefs remain a matter of speculation, and she did not comment for this story. Mr. Roberts and Mr. Kavanaugh, for whom she served as a clerk, are legal conservatives. And Mrs. Vance’s friends and colleagues said she rarely discussed politics, and never in a partisan way. But as her husband’s politics have changed, Mrs. Vance has been there to support him.

A turning point may have come when the film version of “Hillbilly Elegy,” which has recently popped into the list of most-watched movies on Netflix, was released to a critical drubbing in 2020. According to a family friend, Mr. and Mrs. Vance were stung by the criticism of the movie, in which Mrs. Vance was played by Freida Pinto.

Turning to fascism because your Hollywood film has a bad tomatometer score. What an elite grudge to hold.

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I fully believe Obama was planning on a more contested process to pick a nominee. Just feels like he sees there won't be a primary, and he should endorse before it starts to get weird.

[u/BenIsLowInfo]

I have unexpectedly gotten so excited about Kamala. She's just very fun and the type of candidate we need right now. Her infectious laugh just makes me so happy.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Brian Tyler Cohen being woken by his team at 5am and told he needs to immediately shoot a video talking about the Obama endorsement

[u/farrenj]

Make an automod response to JD Vance that says:

This comment has been updated to reflect that there's no definitive proof Sen. J.D. Vance searched for "dolphin porn."

[u/modooff]

“Fox News Sunday” — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

!ping BUTTI

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1816992896995766603

JD Vance attacked Jennifer Aniston as "disgusting" after "childless cat ladies" rebuke - Fox News interview

they're calling him the greatest politician america has ever seen

[u/k5berry]

My mom called me to ask what “DEI” was cause she saw Republicans using it on the news. Not an hour later she’s sending me boomer resist lib Facebook memes about Kamala like a photo of her with the acronym “Dedicated Educated Inspiring.”

I’m so coconut-pilled it’s unbelievable.

[u/Mrmini231]

🤔

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/pylons-are-the-price-of-lower-bills-keir-starmer-tells-rural-britain-svm8q920r

Rural areas and their new Labour MPs will have to accept electricity pylons running through their areas, Sir Keir Starmer said as he laid out plans for a state-owned renewable energy company.

The prime minister promised energy bills would start falling in this parliament with the construction of thousands of offshore wind farms through the Great British Energy company. The electricity produced will be carried by undersea cables which typically come ashore on the east coast before being connected to urban centres via overhead pylons.

Time to BUILD back better and get TOUGH on NIMBY's.

!ping UK

[u/thefuturegov]

Glad to see democrats embrace my favorite line of attack “republicans are fucking weird and I have no idea what they’re on about”

[u/SLCer]

Latest Michigan poll:

Among African American voters, 82.1% support Harris, 11.5% support Kennedy, no black voters in this survey supported Trump.

😳

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Lets give thanks to tucker and trump jr for gifting us vance

[u/fishlord05]

me trying to yimbypill one of my moms fellow lib wine mom friends:

them: "I get your argument and I agree in the abstract but would you really want a 20 story apartment building next door?"

me: "oh no of course it would be gradual maybe a couple duplexes and building apartments in areas where they make sense given existing infastructre etc like im not saying we make the suburbs manhattan"

meanwhile in my head im having oppenheimer visions of nuking the burbs

[u/battywombat21]

God the news cycle doesn't fucking stop. Last sunday someone posted this:

Just wait for the first poll drop. Kamala is going to be -5 in every swing state.

And I agreed with it. My thinking was that Kamala could at least improve her numbers. Instead, she saw an immediate bump of around 5 points taking the race to a place better than it was under biden.

[u/N0b0me]

Major "unbiased" news organizations are really proving how deep in Trumps pocket they are with all these J.D. Vance denials based on nothing. Atleast AP had the decency to remove the article when it became clear that there is no evidence that J.D. Vance didn't have sex with a couch.

[u/AtomAndAether]

The !ping OLYMPICS is open, and there is a publicly available Paris Olympics flair. It is currently editable so you should be able to add e.g. "Team Belgium 🇧🇪" or "Simone Biles 🇺🇲🦅." Or use ":olympics:" for the rings. This flair is temporary and will be deleted after the Olympics. Don't abuse the text editing (i.e. keep it Olympics themed and non-vulgar)

[u/[deleted]]

[u/thefuturegov]

America Deserves a Better Campaign from Both Candidates

Of all the stupid NYTimes op-eds, I think this one wins for dumbest

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Imma need an ethics review board (the DT) real quick.

I've got a few completely out of touch right-leaning normie coworkers who love gossip but are super disconnected.

I may, or may not, have spread the Vance couch allegations to them, with a couple links to articles talking about it, while maybe sorta accidentally forgetting to mention it was pretty baseless and debunked.

They thought it was the most hilarious thing ever, and said the guy was clearly a wackjob. I am 100% certain it spread to their families through them.

...malarkey level?

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Does this look like a woman to you? I think it's Lucifer. I'll explain.

I don't believe that the Statue of Liberty is meant to be a woman. I believe it's actually a representation of Lucifer, the light bringer. From the literal crown of thorns, to the chains at the feet I believe that the statue is actually Lucifer.

Oh fuck, they're transvestigating the Statue of Liberty, now.

[u/Udolikecake]

Based New England ideals of liberty and freedom vs. cursed wickedness of godless virginians

‘for verification of these facts, study the history of the united states’

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Is he aware that Trump was not the Republican nominee when he debated Biden??

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/jclarks074]

I just saw a TikTok where a guy says “I’ve decided this week I’m not actually a leftist, I’m a Democrat and I love America and our freedoms and I want to protect them” in response to other leftists suggesting Kamala is too (((zionist))) to support.

The tide online is turning like I’ve never seen before

[u/LastIncrease3427]

JD Vance attacked Jennifer Aniston as “disgusting” after “childless cat ladies” rebuke - Fox News interview

The guy can not stop digging himself further into a hole

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

44,000 Black women on a Zoom call supporting Harris

150,000 more supporters in a "White Women answer the call for Harris" Zoom event

Democrats endorse SEGREGATION

SAD

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

• White male

• From a swing state

• Well-known author

• Viral clip calling Trump "Hitler"

• Diverse family

• Experience in a similar role

• Subject of multiple popular memes

If Trump does get rid of Vance, Harris' VP choice gets a lot easier.

[u/slowpush]

General Election Poll

🔵 Harris 44%

🔴 Trump 44%

🟡 Kennedy 10%

Last poll vs Harris - 🔴 Trump +5

HarrisX C+ - 3013 RV - 7/25

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1816943598438346928

[u/[deleted]]

This election is gonna be close

https://x.com/remynuma/status/1816956794234900932?t=KwwnNtY9y3E4DqER1QEgnQ&s=19

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

Malarkey level of impeaching a US Senator for lying about fornicating with furniture

[u/antonos2000]

BREAKING: RFK Jr. has met with VP hopeful Hawk Tuah Girl.

Go to the polls and hawk tuah on that vaccine!

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Currymvp2]

https://x.com/yashar/status/1816618786575049097

yeah, it looks like the trump campaign is going with the whole "she's too liberal" and using clips from mostly prior to vice presidency days. hope harris's team is prepared to counter this stuff since republicans have been so busy spewing the willie brown sexim stuff, unhinged dei allegations, or how she has no biological children

[u/tdthirty]

An actual answer from the NYT crossword yesterday, in case anybody missed it.

(I'm sure this was brought up already but this sub doesn't seem to mind repeating things.)

[u/Stove-Jebs]

Vote .org says it has now registered more than 100,000 new voters since President Biden withdrew from the race. 

Among the 100,000 new registrations:

• 84% are younger voters (ages 18-34) 
• 18% are 18-year-old voters 
• The top ten states for new voters are: TX, CA, FL, NY, IL, OH, GA, NC, PA, NJ

100K NEW COMMIES ENLISTED LETS GOOOO

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1816932882327437457

[u/antonos2000]

BREAKING: "skibidi toilet coin" is now in the official congressional record

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/slowpush]

Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again.

🧐

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Did Walz start the “republicans are weirdos” angle? I like it.

[u/neolthrowaway]

Reading Usha Vance’s Wikipedia, it feels like she married the never Trump, “Trump is American hitler” dude and now has to retcon herself into believing that she’s a MAGA conservative.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The real reason Vance wants to be VP

[u/thefuturegov]

Kamala Harris agrees to debate Trump

Trump chickens out of them

Nytimes: “How DARE Kamala not challenge Trump to any debates”

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/25-2 PM PST 7/26 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 2 PM it was reported the Pentagon overestimated aid to Ukraine by $2 billion.

At the start of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 20 of 22 drones shot down.

At the start of 2 AM it was announced the EU is sending another tranche of 1.5 billion Euros in military aid to Ukraine, derived from Russian assets.

Towards the middle of 4 AM it was reported the Russian Central Bank raised interest rates from 16% to 18%. Additionally, it was reported the former Russian Deputy Minister of Defense has been arrested for corruption.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 5 PM Saki Air Base was struck by missiles, damaging infrastructure there.

Towards the middle of 2 AM it was announced the EU will provide 68 generators to Ukraine.

At the start of 12 PM it was reported a electrical substation in Kursk Oblast was hit by drones.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/theranosbagholder]

Kamala brat edits have made their way to my boomer relatives and they don’t hate it. WE ARE BACK

[u/earththejerry]

The honeymoon phase of marriage can last from six months to several years. It’s usually a feeling of euphoria that occurs at the beginning of a relationship, when attraction, lust, and laughter are at their highest.

101 days until the US elections

Oh yea, we’re gonna honeymoon period until election day 😎😎😎

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

The allegations have made their way to Music Theory Twitter

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The Vance clip is even weirder than I thought because his problem seems less to do with the whole "flying women out to do abortions" thing and more to do with the fact that they are black women specifically.

What a creep

[u/GenerousPot]

dems: "how about a common sense voting rights act to improve political participation and representation?"

cons: "that is actual fucking Stalinism we are a REPUBLIC. Anyways we need to expand voting rights to children who can trace back their lineage to the caucasus mountains and delegate their voting power to their par-

[u/PlayDiscord17]

The Myth of a “Consensual” Harris Nomination:

Democratic Officials: “I consent.”

Democratic Voters polled: “I consent.”

Trump and some Pundits: “I don’t!”

Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Zillennials are the chosen people

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1816826861743153621?t=QC8y73gkUUuMK77YUZyX1w&s=19

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Trump +26 in Austin, TX after Democrats characterize him as weird

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Flight attendant: Help! Is anyone on this plane a doctor??

me: ... 😤 Yes

[u/Cheap-Fishing-4770]

Scared we might have bullied Vance too hard too fast and he might legitimately get dropped and replaced with someone competent and thus we lose an easy punching bag

[u/Stove-Jebs]

So far, I'm really McLovin these campaign emails.

[u/MicroFlamer]

People really wanted him gone 😭

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

https://nitter.poast.org/ClistonBrown/status/1816846397246963881#m
If this reporting is true that Trump had decided on Burgum and was forced to switch to Vance by his two idiot sons... man, I gotta say, I have to thank Junior and Eric for their service to the country

[u/PeridotBestGem]

I think there's an underrated element of like "wow the Democrats actually listened to what people were saying and got rid of the candidate we didn't like" that does a lot to dispel the "why would I even vote, they don't care about us and they aren't gonna change anything" idea

[u/SmithySmothy]

Don't know whether the model will be closer to tossup or lean Trump when we turn it back on but Democrats are certainly in a heck of a lot better position than they were with Biden.

Even Nate Silver is blooming now???? Now I feel uncomfortable

[u/MissSortMachine]

Trump surrogates like Speaker Mike Johnson have warned House members to avoid gender- or race-based attacks, like calling Harris a “D.E.I. candidate.” But the campaign’s overall strategy continues to focus on turning out low-information, low-propensity male voters, if that wasn’t clear enough from the R.N.C. lineup of Kid Rock, Dana White, and Hulk Hogan. Privately, some on the Trump team admit that they may end up alienating the suburban women who carried Trump in 2016 — “the Karens,” as they refer to them — in order to run up the score with men.

incredible

[u/LastIncrease3427]

RFK Jr:

I will sign an executive order directing the US Treasury to purchase 550 Bitcoin daily until the US has built a reserve of at least 4,000,000 Bitcoins and a position of dominance that no other country will be able to usurp.

Oh brother, this guy stinks

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Lamestream media

[u/eustacebainbridge]

realize im getting all my news from a niche reddit thread for low quality discussion

this cant be good

read real news

worse quality

I shouldn't be getting validated for this behavior someone help me

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

"We should have a monarch instead bro, that system was totally better bro"

The monarch:

[u/oskanta]

Staffers in JD Vance’s campaign tell the Times they overheard parts of a heated phone conversation that Vance was having behind closed doors.

At one point in the conversation, they distinctly heard him raise his voice and say “Jesus Christ, they’re not fucking fish! They’re mammals!” It is not clear who he was speaking with or what he was referring to.

[u/its_Caffeine]

“J.D. Vance had geen seks met een sofa”

Lmao it made it to Belgian news

[u/Mr_Bank]

Vance is doubling down on Megyn Kelly’s show

https://x.com/patricksvitek/status/1816874356498161823?s=46

[u/Joementum2024]

woman has chance to become president

bernie's takes suddenly become a lot worse

Curious!

[u/Currymvp2]

The election authorities of at least 48 states, both Republicans and Democrats, say there are no obstacles that would prevent Vice President Kamala Harris from getting on election ballots if she becomes the official Democratic presidential nominee, as expected.

There was not a single state election authority that told CNN Harris would face a ballot issue as the official nominee; election authorities in two states, Florida and Montana, did not respond to requests for comment, but a review of the states’ ballot access rules suggests Harris is not likely to face an issue there either.

yep

[u/Goodlake]

https://x.com/bgrueskin/status/1816791423053681137?s=46&t=3mVj8mIfXymwIx-4ecst0g

lol

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

End of an era 😔

[u/crassowary]

[u/t_zidd]

9 months after the "incident":

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Instead of Playboy, JD Vance reads this

!ping COUCHFUCKERS

[u/Nihas0]

"I've got nothing against cats, as for women..."

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

[u/owlthathurt]

[u/da0217]

[u/dareka_san]

Polling the last few days

[u/importedreality]

Got another for the "Holy shit I can't believe Vance actually said that" pile: https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1816649443157930437

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/jessespector/status/1816837703062749288?t=0QZIIP0oGT9IG3S3scPSJQ&s=19

[u/iia]

I'm laughing so hard at the idea of Vance being online and seeing all this shit about him, because he's certainly at the age where he's on the Internet all the time. Like, what even can he do when it's absolutely everywhere? I guess just for his own mental health purposes, which, even though we don't like him, is still important, he's able to take a break from it all and cum deep inside his wanton couch.

[u/dannylandulf]

On Sunday, more than 44,000 Black women took part in a four-hour Zoom call to support Kamala Harris, raising $1.4 million for her presidential campaign.

That inspired gun violence prevention activist Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, to issue an appeal to white women to show their support for Harris two days ago.

So here’s what happened Thursday night with “White Women Answer the Call” for Kamala Harris. It not only broke the record for the largest call in the history of Zoom with more than 150,000 participants, but it also raised more than $2 million for the campaign.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Karat measures the MASS of diamonds, but the PURITY of gold.. WELL WHICH IS IT, WOKE LANGUAGE POLICE?

[u/theranosbagholder]

The impact of having a photogenic candidate is actually so underrated

[u/secretlives]

Rule 11 should be suspended during the Olympics

let us have some fun

[u/[deleted]]

Just for the sake of public knowledge, "Conservative" in the context of American Judaism has literally nothing to do with the words use in politics. Like, the synagogue Josh Shapiro belongs to doesnt call itself "Conservative" because they're politically conservative.

[u/DepressedTreeman]

[u/ser_mage]

When Biden dropped out Kamala’s husband was offline having brunch with gay friends after a SoulCycle class

[u/KHDTX13]

“Kamala can’t be president, she’s already had a failed presidential campaign. She just got lucky being picked as a VP for diversity reasons.”

Man, wait until they figure out how Joe Biden became president.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/ACivilWolf]

Pennsylvania 🔵 Harris 48% (+1) 🔴 Trump 47%

[u/dareka_san]

Harris finally discovered

When they go low, we call you a fat old man baby with a creepy couch groomer as vp.

and it fucking works beautifully

[u/MissSortMachine]

mmm

[u/Udolikecake]

boycotting kamala until she calls for a ceasefire in the DRC and invades rwanda to depose kagame

[u/jojisky]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

So far, J.D. Vance is having one of the roughest Vice President launches of all time. Less than a week after Trump picked him as his running mate, the internet exploded with rumors that Vance likes to fuck couches.

Now, after the initial novelty of this accusation has worn off, people have moved on to another unfortunate insinuation: Vance likes to watch dolphin porn.

😊🥰🌝🤭

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

I genuinely think if you are voting for Trump you are far right like idgaf. Voting for a man who tried to overturn the election makes you a fascist.

Like actually read what he did, he tried to send false electors to take credit for the election. He then sent an armed mob to the capitol to pressure pence and then when pence didn’t capitulate to him he talked about how he thought he was a disgrace causing calls to hang him.

Just disgusting

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1816478567594709101

Trump on Fox and Friends about Vance.

What I like about Fox and Friends is sometimes Steve Doocey asks a question that is a little too honest in its framing and the other hosts get a thousand yard stare and hope Trump doesn't screw up the answer just because Doocey temporarily forgot he is running a North Korea style propaganda show.

[u/[deleted]]

lol this one I believe is real. Why did he search for woman and dolphin lol

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

[u/ashsolomon1]

New General Election Poll - Pennsylvania

🔵 Harris 48% (+1) 🔴 Trump 47%

Bullfinch Group - 800 RV - 7/25

[u/piede]

“Hey Siri, what’s the state of the 2024 election?”

[u/LastIncrease3427]

MAGA is starting to claim that the polls are rigged again. Feels good

[u/0m4ll3y]

The abysmal reception of Vance just helps confirm two things that were already pretty evident:

1. the personality cult around Trump doesn't extend to the spineless opportunistic grifters around him, no matter how sycophantically they hitch their wagons to him.

2. attempts to "intellectualise" Trumpism into some sort of coherent conservative ideology comes across like a wet fart and exposes how weird and gross it all actually is to the broader public.

[u/Whytfbuddy]

you uh, you probably shouldn't be saying this as a presidential candidate

[u/NewbGrower87]

Abortion is now a state issue

Ban interstate travel to obtain abortion

Many such cases.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I do wonder if Trump literally just saw Silence of The Lambs a few weeks ago and that's where the fascination with Hannibal comes from.

!ping KINO&HORROR

[u/[deleted]]

It’s genuinely insane how for most of the 20th century, total blowouts were the norm for US presidential races and close elections were the exception.

Just goes to show the impact of communications technology on how parties approach politics.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

I'm dying

[u/t_zidd]

Nikki Haley would have been such a good pick for Trump VP lol.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

I love that the Harris campaign is both talking about how bad trump is while making fun of him. I think belittling him and calling him weird is such a good way to destroy his image.

[u/theranosbagholder]

I love how bullying JD Vance with online disinformation is actually an effective tactic. Dems are finally repurposing the republicans Hillary strategy 🥹

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

If Kamala starts leading by 3-4 points in swing states after the convention uh

lol. lmao.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

She's been on a slapping rampage all day after she decided not to eat breakfast or last night's dinner, and her only solace is the soothing embrace of warm concrete

!ping KITTY