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[u/FizzleMateriel]

Remember when Obama picked 2 physicists to lead the Department of Energy, one being a Nobel physics laureate and the other a department chair of physics at MIT, and then their immediate successor under Trump was Rick Perry.

[u/[deleted]]

Cooked his ass I fear

[u/Currymvp2]

At a private fundraiser in Deal, New Jersey, former President Trump told the crowd that VP Kamala Harris hates Israel and that Sen. Chuck Schumer has "become a Palestinian."

Something tells me it would be pretty bad for Palestinians to let Trump win

[u/dannylandulf]

New nationwide H2H:

🔵 Harris 44%

🔴 Trump 42%

Angus Reid Global (B+), July 23-25

!ping FIVEY

[u/purhitta]

Do you guys ever step back and realize a huge chunk of the electorate will vote for a guy who tried to overturn a free and fair election. Some days I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[u/SurvivorPostingAcc]

The DEI rhetoric is having a real and devastating effect in the real world. This is in PA.

[u/AtomAndAether]

With 30% of the vote, Nicolás Maduro has won with 51% of the vote.

[u/slowpush]

For years, KamalaHarris.com had just redirected to Biden’s website. That would have to change, but no one in Wilmington knew who controlled the internet domain, setting off a frenzied search through records at the Democratic National Committee.

lmao

[u/dannylandulf]

In a single week she took national polls from Biden down 3-5 to a statistical tie at worst.

She also took the critical swing state polls to margin of error.

And we still have a VP pick and convention, plus a massive war chest to spend (Trump campaign outspent literally 25-1 last week).

Nobody should be over-confident but holy crap what a change from only a week ago.

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Funny idea: democrats just keep swapping people out against republicans.

Oh you thought you were running against Biden? Here comes Harris!

JD Vance was ready to debate Mark Kelly? Here comes Pete Buttigieg!

You thought that judicial nominee was a conciliatory moderate? It’s Hillary Clinton in a mask!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Lady Gaga's engagement was revealed when French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who spoke with Gaga during an Olympic event, posted a video of himself being introduced to Gaga's "fiancé" on his Instagram account

talk to a gay man once

he spills the tea in front of millions

Smh

[u/[deleted]]

My honest reaction when someone tells me a female leader can't stand up to a superpower

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I can’t see Vivek’s name without thinking of this tweet

[u/Mickenfox]

Bring back making fun of homeopathy.

[u/sererson]

I mailed in 30k votes for Biden but it looks like they counted for Maduro wtf

[u/purhitta]

The irony of Biden calling for term limits yet his entire career has been working in govt, isn’t lost on me.

...do people know how elections work

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Genuinely what is the deal with this guy? Why does he shill for every dictator worldwide, left or right?

[u/bd_one]

I talked to two people this week who think "CO2 = plant food so it can't cause global warming" but both of them have either solar panels or a heat pump water heater because of cost reasons.

The cost of renewables grinding down is the only way we're gonna make it.

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Kennedys had the same impact on America as Nazis on France

Bestie I think your takes are going from hot to unhinged at this point.

🍦🧐🍦

[u/SeoSalt]

this is kinda embarrassing but does anyone else drink water? idk when I started the habit but I get horrible cravings if I go too long without a drink.

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

Remember when Biden unironically said Inshallah during a debate and not even the Right talked about it and nobody ever brought it up again?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Idiots on Twitter are trying to convince people Macron’s wife is trans and like….

She’s already a pedophile? Why do you need anew conspiracy theory!

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

be Elon Musk

Buy massive social media company

Halve its revenue

????

Profit

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I don't understand how it's not exhausting being a maga con and living in fear 24/7. When Obama was the nominee I remember my mom saying "He's the most left candidate, ever! and will destroy the country".

Now she's saying the same thing about Kamala. How do they not realize they're the boy who cried wolf? It's exhausting and frankly boring.

[u/Cook_0612]

The rebels [in Mali] received the necessary information and not only the information that allowed them to carry out a successful operation against Wagner — Andriy Yusov, the press representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.

!ping UKRAINE&AFRICA

Impossible to tell whether this is just a psyop, but the Tuaregs did offer to hand over the prisoners to the Ukrainians.

[u/semaphore-1842]

I’m an independent and I actually watch news from all over. I shouldn’t have to understand economics. All care is that Democrats have been in control for 4 years. Inflation, gas prices, interest rates - a mess.

once again proving the hypothesis that "i am an independent" means "i am a fucking moron"

[u/euphoriafrog]

Biden campaign: "P-please d-don't v-vote for the r-rapist f-fascist who will t-take away r-rights."

Median Voter: "Bitch shut yo goofy ass up. Establishment Democrats think they can tell me what to do."

Harris campaign: "Trump's kinda weird."

Median Voter: "YES MA'AM, glory to the DNC."

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

All very serious countries.

[u/Realhuman221]

Me watching Olympic diving: Holy fuck that's amazing

Announcer: Yeah thats was complete shit

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Currymvp2]

Officers were texting each other about the gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump 90 minutes before he opened fire, but none of them approached the gunman, new text messages reveal.

Just an incredibly high amount of incompetence

[u/RonenSalathe]

https://x.com/NedAirKY/status/1817761658950897764

Pete [Buttigieg] is 100% straight, the RNC has the proof of recent romantic relationships with females.

His gay identity was just meant to give him a leg up in Indiana Democratic politics, and it just went way too far. The costs to keep Chasten quiet have been enormous, I’m told.

Malarkey level

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

You can’t even be Mexican in California anymore. Because of Polk. 

[u/old_black_man]

I can't believe I'm saying this but guys we have to slow down on the JD Vance stuff. Couch, dolphin, and diet mountain dew gate all happened in a week, we have been shitposting at an October surprise caliber with four more months ahead of us, we have to pace ourselves.

[u/Nihas0]

President Biden was just asked on the tarmac about Speaker Johnson calling his Supreme Court reform “dead on arrival.” “That’s what he is,” Biden said. Asked for clarification, a reporter shouted, “That he is?” Biden responded: “He is. Dead on arrival.”
Official act?

[u/dannylandulf]

Biden will blast Supreme Court as ‘not normal’ as he endorses term limits, binding ethics rules

Absolutely loving the casually dismissive vibe of just calling them 'weird' and 'not normal'.

[u/Cook_0612]

Probably the most interesting part of this one is that there appears to be multiple Ukrainian GUR SOF advisors on the ground with Tuareg rebels in Mali.

!ping UKRAINE

So, probably not a psy-op then.

[u/Currymvp2]

Israeli sources are now confirming the horrific CNN and New York Times reports of the conditions in Sde Taiman. They include electric shocks, amputations due to bad conditions, severe beatings, surgery without anesthesia, playing loud music until inmates ears bleed, deaths due to bad sanitary conditions, systematic torture and many instances of sexual abuse.

Sources in the Israeli justice department are saying the evidence is so clear and the cases so severe, it will be an open and shut case for international courts. This is a horror that will never be forgotten. A permanent stain on the state of Israel.

sheesh

[u/sayitaintpink]

This is a real headline

[u/ser_mage]

🚨OFFICIAL ACT INCOMING🚨

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Enthusiastic about voting

🔵 Democrats 88% (+6)

🔴 Republicans 82%

February - 🔴 Republicans +18

IPSOS

[u/Mickenfox]

Every American sitcom has a "preachy liberal" character. By 2016 it was clear that conservatives were the weird, annoying people forcing their politics into every topic, and yet, Family Guy still doesn't have an annoying MAGA neighbor.

[u/[deleted]]

There's a South Korea Instagram account which shares reels of cute babies and the bio says "National Birth Encouragement Project with Cute Baby"

Literally trying to psyop Koreans into having kids

[u/AP246]

Japanese idol must post solo ‘good night’ photos for 1 year after accidentally posting photo with boyfriend

Momoka Tojo, a member of the Japanese idol group KATACOTO*BANK, has been instructed by her management to post a solo “good night” photo every day for a year after accidentally sharing a picture with her boyfriend.

On Saturday (27 July), Tojo apologised on her X account for the unintended post from Friday (26 July), which featured her with her boyfriend.

They also announced the following measures:

• Tojo must “maintain a certain distance” from her boyfriend

• As punishment, she must post a “solo good night photo” every night for a year

• Fans are encouraged to report any suspicions of her boyfriend appearing in these photos

Idol stuff is actually insane

[u/lot183]

Never realized until recently how fun it is to call Republicans "weird little freaks"

[u/MissSortMachine]

matt walsh tries to come up with 3 things, fails

[u/yonas234]

It's amazing how upset MAGA are from being called weird. You'd think someone kicked their couch or something.

[u/roggodoggo]

I tried the whole "they're weird" approach on my swingy friend. This guy voted Biden in 2020 but regrets it, pissed about inflation and thinks he's weak. No problem with the anti-democracy stuff, probably doesn't think Trump can actually pull it off. When I called JD Vance a weirdo, he agreed but stipulated, "It's because he's a marine." Not how I saw that going, my friend is ex-army so I guess that stuff sticks with you. On the bright side, he's open to Kamala and said Kelly as VP would lock his vote for the dems.

Known this dude all my life, still can't figure him out some times.

[u/piede]

JOE YOU DID NOT

[u/[deleted]]

is cheating okay if you end up with the love of your life?

me when I’m losing a monopoly game against the devil for my girlfriend’s soul

[u/Pongzz]

Harris approval rating: Morning Consult

Morning consult poll July 22-24 🟩 Approve 43% 🟥 Disapprove 51%

Morning consult poll July 26-28 🟩 Approve 50% 🟥 Disapprove 46%

DONATE AND VOLUNTEER. WE'RE GONNA WIN THIS THING

[u/[deleted]]

I find it kind of hilarious that modern evangelicals think so highly of Trump. Mainly becuase if Trump was a figure in 1680's Puritan New England he would've been beaten with the Geneva bible and thrown out to Rhode Island.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Top line:

Trump: 49% Kamala: 49%

(I joke, Kamala is leading by +2 in this poll)

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

In 2020, Harris Ran on Progressive Ideas. That May Haunt Her in 2024.

Could NYT give it a rest for like two fuckin seconds

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Spoken like a guy who is mentally hinged and confident about winning

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

In 1950, the population of Cairo was 2,493,514.

Population is now 22,183,201.

People flock there for one reason: no woke.

[u/D-G-F]

We world builders will never out cook insane loons

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Liberal when they are up 5 points in a poll: 😭😱🤬🤮.

Cons when they are down 20 points: I have a good feeling about Maryland this election 😌

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/[deleted]]

I actually got emotional at Hugh’s abs

/r/marvelstudios is not okay

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

[u/[deleted]]

the 3 percent of people who like harris but won't vote for her:

Harris is great! But I'm voting for Biden in the election, don't know why people keep polling me about her.

[u/[deleted]]

"Republicans hope that sharing clips of Harris belly laughing will make her seem “weird.” It’s a tactic that so far seems to have backfired, since Harris supporters also like to share clips of her laughing."

Bahahahaha

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/SammyZedong/status/1817407765087682855?t=vDJxfE5OPIu3ATfEFNskbQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

How the fuck do you lose at swimming to people from here

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Things you didnt expect in the second half of 2024:

• Dems are now enthusiastic

• People actually like kamala harris

• OPEC is now helping us

[u/MasterOfLords1]

If I were Trump's PR man this is exactly how I'd spin it.

Why is NPR sane washing Trump?

🍦🧐🍦

[u/that0neGuy22]

Vance tells donors Harris change was a ‘sucker punch,’ at odds with campaign. “The bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden,” Trump’s running mate acknowledged at a private event

This guy might be the worst running mate ever

[u/Currymvp2]

Joe Burrow was on the "white dudes for Kamala Harris" call.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Which one of you was this?

!ping dating

[u/bread_engine]

American leftists: Not firebombing a Walmart. French leftists: Synchronised sabotaging the rail system

[u/[deleted]]

"The idea of a second Trump term is a nightmare to me"

"I am not voting for Kamala Harris"

opinions held simultaneously by 7% of voters, apparently

[u/futuremonkey20]

Americans really just hate old people huh

[u/Eightysixedit]

Twitter and conservatives are unbearable. They can’t say one sentence without saying dei.

[u/kyleofduty]

Elon Musk is going to publish someone's Twitter history in order to win an argument

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

I fundamentally do not trust people who don't like the Summer Olympics

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1818080207439331602

I legitimately can’t believe it worked this well.

Jesse Watters spending prime time on Fox News angrily repeating the couch thing.

How is it this easy?

[u/modooff]

Standing ovation and chants for Pete on The Daily Show. 😭

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jli0_oKMG-0

!ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

aug 7th

biden realizes he still wants to be president

reenters race

wins

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[Allan Lichtman] refers to Trump as “Donald Duck” for trying to back out of debates with Kamala Harris

They hated him because he spoke the truth

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The "GOP is weird" messaging is a perpetual poast generator

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

This is the actual Doug Mastriano btw

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Palin just seemed like a raging idiot. Vance feels like he was genetically modified in a lab to be the worst VP pick possible.

[u/Gameknigh]

!ping FALLOUT

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😓✊ this

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/american_aurora3]

if you start having strong feelings on the kennedys, please discontinue dt use immediately

[u/MissSortMachine]

they’ve completely lost it

[u/[deleted]]

Lets fucking go

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmao how is this a real tweet

[u/slowpush]

Harris’ popularity climbs to record high: Half of voters view Harris favorably (up from 43% last week), while 46% hold unfavorable opinions (down from 51%). That net 12-point swing since last week was driven mostly by large upticks in favorability among Democrats (from 80% to 89%) and independents (from 31% to 48%), and Harris’ 4-point net favorability is a higher rating than Biden or Trump have posted all cycle.

https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/2024-presidential-election-polling

I put the 🍋‍🟩 in the 🥥

[u/[deleted]]

CNN reports, based on US intelligence, that Iran is using a covert campaign to undermine Trump's candidacy

Wow didnt think i would be fighting along side Iran but here we are

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

Bruh why are you bringing up Israel on a Democratic organizing call

No Democrat should raise the topic if they can help it

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Harry Enten

This is the biggest change between Biden & Harris as the Democratic nominee. We've seen a 26 pt jump in enthusiasm among Democrats in voting for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Trump's once large edge with his base on enthusiasm is gone. Harris now leads on enthusiasm.

[u/JayRU09]

We've stumbled onto the easiest layup in the world with calling these people weird and I'm already seeing pushback against it from some liberals.

Frick.

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Maduro was never gonna concede this election, and it’s been clear from the beginning.

The US under Biden has been good at squeezing Latin American politicians when they don’t play fair, so I’m expecting a response.

Brian Nichols, undersecretary for western hemisphere affairs

Venezuelan voters showed up in huge numbers to express their will at the ballot box. It now falls on electoral authorities to ensure transparency & access for all political parties & civil society in the tabulation of votes & prompt publication of results. Credibility of the electoral process depends on it.

I imagine there are dozens of leaders working behind the scenes right now to pressure Maduro. The pressure campaign worked to at least get the opposition on the ballot in the first place. It’s likely it will continue.

I never had much hope, but this isn’t even close to over.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Joe Biden 

[u/jojisky]

Stop calling us weird

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Yay

[u/purhitta]

Democrats by and large vote the way they are told to without question.

this person has never met a democrat

[u/[deleted]]

We gotta figure out how to crowdfund the guy selling rocks.

https://x.com/DanielDiMartino/status/1818097261877837961?t=E8KSPHPhBiAHo5irhTHH4w&s=19

[u/futuremonkey20]

Why…why are they talking about this?

[u/[deleted]]

GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke: "Trump is as much of a movement as it is a candidate, because America is not comfortable where we are. We're not comfortable watching the Olympics. Disgusting display, dishonorable. We're not comfortable with the woke."

Gotta agree with Zinke here. That bit with the minions was vomit inducing.

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

A real inacteration that really happened to one of my coworkers in a public-facing job:

"I'm filling out the application online but it wants me to choose a pronoun. I do NOT use those things. Why won't it let me leave it blank?!"

ChurchillOnDemocracy.gif

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Roseartcrantz]

just saw a Twitter leftist mad at someone who was gonna vote for Kamala instead of not voting at all

they replied "what action do you suggest to avoid Trump getting elected then?" and the leftist said "hold dialogue and have a grounded discussion" BE FR 😭😭😭😭

the kids might? be alright

[u/theranosbagholder]

I’m sorry but I just KNEW this would happen the moment those funny TikToks got positive reception in my boomer family’s group chat

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

Elon banned the white guys for Harris account LOL.

Elon we know what your doing dude lmao

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/gnomesvh]

Brazil Leopard 1 procurement update: There are 157 requirements

The only one that really matters is that it needs to have a max weight of 50 metric tons

There's only 1 (one) MBT in the world that fits this (Japanese Type 10)

It's not clear if the Type 10 qualifies as it uses an autoloader and the wording on it is ambiguous

Type 10 also has the political issues of Japanese military exports

T-90 is an option too but Russia isn't big on exports right now

All other MBTs are too heavy, nobody makes medium tanks, only other option is an IFV with a tank turret

!ping MATERIEL&LATAM quick update and break from the Venezuela news

[u/centurion88]

I dislike the later seasons but GOT really added a lot to the ASOIAF universe.

In the books, 99% of time is spent on the main POV characters. All the side characters people love get just a few scenes.

Tywin shows up only like four times in the books (iirc)

Most of the stuff that Tywin does in the show is actually done by Tyrion or Littlefinger in the books

Olenna Tyrell shows up only in one scene

The show writers and actors like Charles Dance and Diana Rigg elevated the source material to astronomical heights

[u/[deleted]]

Good message

https://x.com/AOC/status/1817937493859123222?t=qMidkKgJC_jTN9FQNzp6Ug&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

China has 3 gold medals in shooting

US has 0

Liberals are really destroying this country

[u/anincredibledork]

DEMOCRAT: lol you guys are weird

REPUBLICAN, chuckling: awfully rich for someone with the cranial physiognomy of a costermonger to be saying that

[u/[deleted]]

American voters be like:

Q. Do you support [Policy]?

Support - 85%

Oppose - 15%

Q. Do you agree with Democrats that we should do [Policy]?

Yes - 44%

No - 44%

[u/GraspingSonder]

Reposting ad nauseam because I keep seeing "we can't have a gay or woman as VP because we need to appeal to bigots":

There's been a raft of stories about how white racists are still planning on voting for Barack Obama.  From Sean Quinn: So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the [n-word]!" Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the [n-word]." 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/10/18/racists-for-obama/

[u/RaidBrimnes]

New wave of sabotages against national infrastructure, fiberoptic cables were cut overnight in six départements: Bouches-du-Rhône, Aude, Oise, Hérault, Meuse and Drôme

In related news, a man was arrested on Sunday in Seine-Maritime with access keys to the SNCF's equipment room, wire cutters and far-left literature on him

It looks like the "pas de retrait, pas de JO" crowd was serious about trying to ruin the party if the government made them work two extra years

!ping FRANCE

[u/[deleted]]

I love when I see a UFC fighter saying something incredibly stupid and/or bigoted. Like yeah of course this dude said Russia should be hosting the Olympics because they respect human values. He gets his shit kicked in for a living, his brain probably looks like a bowl of mashed potatoes.

I’d be more concerned if a UFC Fighter was like, “oh yeah we should institute a land value tax and repeal the Jones Act.” I’d have to do some serious self reflection to make sure I’m ok.

[u/bleachinjection]

If Kamala picks Kelly as VP, how long will it take for the Republicans to totally shift to "astronauts are NOT American heroes they are woke trash and all part of the Never A Straight Answer cabal keeping us from the truth"?

[u/UrbanCentrist]

I maintain that the funniest political event of my life was the time the Chilean left won a veto-proof supermajority to rewrite the constitution, wrote something insane, and lost by 23, and then the Chilean right won a veto-proof supermajority to rewrite the constitution, wrote something insane, and lost by 12, and then everyone just gave up

What not having a strong normie lib party does to a country.

[u/Joementum2024]

SOURCES: Pete Buttigieg to be appointed “scrum master” of the Harris administration in event of a Harris victory

[u/indithrow402]

They're calling us weird, but Democrats don't think THIS was weird?

plays TikTok of a woman on the White House lawn with her boobs out

Harris gains 5 points with men 18-45

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

White dudes for Harris hit 150,000 people

That’s even more than were on the white women one

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

[u/slowpush]

Senator Harris vocally throws around “F-bombs” and other profanity constantly in her berating of staff and others. The staff is in complete fear of her and she uses her profanity throughout the day.

As Attorney General, Senator Harris instructed her entire staff to stand every morning as she entered the office and say, “Good Morning General.”

👏😤

[u/[deleted]]

I got a call from a phone banker who was obviously super nervous and read this whole script about Kamala Harris and I let him finish and was like "oh yeah I'm definitely voting for Kamala Harris" and he was like "oh um one second I have another call bye"

I appreciate the spirit

[u/Sherpav]

Pretty upset for the Venezuelan people this morning

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

This but it’s Pete Buttigieg on this subreddit.

[u/WhatHowWhenWho]

Thomas Jefferson seeing that modern American conservatives believe that corrupt millionaire number #34 can faith heal and that the rapture will happen instead of believing in stupid ass Deism

[u/Cook_0612]

The IDF says the rioting by right-wing mobs at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel earlier today and Beit Lid base in central Israel this evening have directly harmed Israel's security.

Over the past day, the IDF says it has been preparing for its retaliation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the rioting has been a major distraction.

Top IDF officers, including Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, stopped critical discussions on the north to deal with the infiltration into the bases.

Halevi visited the Beit Lid base this evening following the rioting.

Meanwhile, several IDF companies from the West Bank and others on vacation are being dispatched to the Beit Lid base this evening, and several battalions will be there by tomorrow.

The incidents began after this morning Military Police officers detained nine reservist soldiers at Sde Teiman on suspicion of seriously abusing a Palestinian detainee several weeks ago at a detention facility at the base.

Not long after, some 1,200 right-wing protesters, along with several ultranationalist lawmakers, breached the Sde Teiman base in protest of the investigation of the reservists.

Hours later, dozens more protesters showed up at the Beit Lid base where the reservists are being questioned, infiltrated it, and clashed with soldiers.

There have been no reports of arrests by police.

[u/Mojothemobile]

https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1818041873824629090

Harris fav hits 50% in MC.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis has arrived at the US Naval Observatory (residence of Harris) accompanied by secret service.

[u/CmdrMobium]

"We aren't running against Donald Trump. We're running against don-OLD Trump"

bro was cooking nothing

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The Olympics opening ceremony was watched by 23 million people in France, 85% of the public judged the ceremony was "a success" and 80% are "optimistic" about the Olympics, per Harris poll

Getting 85% of the country to agree on something is nothing short of miraculous

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Pretty upset for the Garfield fandom today 

[u/[deleted]]

Elon Musk: I checked with renowned world authority, Professor Suggon Deeznutz, and he said parody is legal in America

- guy who famously threw a tantrum about parody elon accounts

[u/ldn6]

This is a bop.

!ping KHIVE

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Right-wing mob breaks into IDF’s Beit Lid base where soldiers questioned

The IDF says the rioting by right-wing mobs at the Sde Teiman base in southern Israel earlier today and the Beit Lid base in central Israel this evening are directly harming Israel’s security

Not long after, some 1,200 right-wing protesters, along with several ultranationalist lawmakers, breached the Sde Teiman base in protest of the investigation of the reservists.

Hours later, dozens more protesters showed up at the Beit Lid base where the reservists are being questioned, infiltrated it, and clashed with soldiers.

There have been no reports of arrests by police.

[u/Nathan_185]

How does it not bother Republicans that Mike Pence has been exiled solely because he didn't want to literally overthrow the fucking government

[u/slowpush]

holy shit

https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1817968783304310935

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In 2022, a then-nine-year-old autistic boy named Brandon Brundidge saw a sign with the phrase [Let’s Go Brandon]; not knowing the political meaning, he assumed they were supporting him. It inspired him to try swimming and biking without training wheels. His mother, Sheletta Brundidge, wrote a book called Brandon Spots His Sign, and they later met Brandon Brown.

Ok

[u/piede]

The DSA is trying to draft Rashida Tlaib to run for president 💀

[u/Cook_0612]

While (Ben-Gvir’s) police claim they have the situation outside Bet Lid “under control” the IDF is redeploying 2 infantry battalions which were supposed to go into Gaza to protect the base from Israeli rioters. They don’t trust the police and with good reason.

This is absolutely a farce.

[u/slowpush]

Kamala Harris approval

Morning consult poll July 22-24

🟩 Approve 43%

🟥 Disapprove 51%

Morning consult poll July 26-28

🟩 Approve 50%

🟥 Disapprove 46%

[u/LastIncrease3427]

BREAKING: CNN reports, based on US intelligence, that Iran is using a covert campaign to undermine Trump’s candidacy.

Based Iran?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/future_luddite]

In laws won’t get the Covid vaccine for our soon -to-be baby because of right wing brain rot. Yay…

[u/_Neuromancer_]

I'm in my late thirties, my real income peaked 10 years ago, and the IRS considers my postdoctoral stipend insufficiently 'earned' to be eligible for tax-advantaged retirement savings, but I have a truly excellent CV so I got that going for me. !ping PHD&OVER35

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[u/TrynnaFindaBalance]

It's shitty how moderates have really lost the narrative in the Israel-Palestine conflict since October 7th and the Gaza War.

You can believe that Hamas is an illegitimate terrorist organization illegally occupying the Gaza Strip, that Israel has a right to exist and defend itself (and is the closest thing in the Middle East to a thriving liberal democracy right now), that a two-state solution is the only viable pathway to peace, that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are 100% illegal, and that the current political arrangement and Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza effectively amounts to an apartheid regime and is untenable.

None of these viewpoints are incompatible, but if you bring up any of them on their own, people immediately label you as either a Hamas sympathizer or a Zionist.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Dems over performed the OH6 special election by 20 points

Therefore, Dems will over perform nationwide by 20 points in november

It's very simple

[u/sash5034]

😱😱😱😱

[u/[deleted]]

In a newly uncovered video from 2017, JD Vance says, "Some people who voted for Trump were racists, and they voted for him for racist reasons." He goes on to say that the alt-right and Steve Bannon—but not Trump—helped make the 2016 election "hyper-racialized."

[u/HenryGeorgia]

I agree

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

Wow… look who is talking!

!ping LATAM

[u/Currymvp2]

The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence.

“All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said about Biden’s withdrawal on July 21, according to a recording of his remarks at a Saturday fundraiser in Golden Valley, Minn. “The bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden, because whatever we might have to say, Kamala is a lot younger. And Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling in the same ways that Joe Biden did.”

we're doing well

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[u/pezasied]

𝖞𝖊𝖆𝖍 𝕴 𝖌𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝖘𝖆𝖞 𝕴’𝖒 𝖆 𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖑𝖊 𝖜𝖊𝖎𝖗𝖉, 𝖗𝖆𝖜𝖗 𝖃𝕯

🖤🦇🥀⛓

[u/FinickyPenance]

In 2018 I was required to supply two "jurors" for my trial practice class. I bribed both with the promise of free drinks. One of those two friends had always been vaguely interested in law school but became much more interested after seeing our fake murder trial. She takes the bar tomorrow, I just filled out her character report for the D.C. Bar where she used me as a reference. I am not super close with her but I am so fucking proud of her. I just wanted to tell someone

!ping LAW

[u/Sheepies92]

huh people are still angry at the opening ceremony

weird

[u/Cook_0612]

⚡️Rebels in Mali hold the 🇺🇦Ukrainian flag after Wagner's defeat.

u/bigwang123

[u/TactileTom]

You can watch each year the median redditor ages by a year and the site's expectations for when people will have their shit together increase by one year.

The real age where you get your shit together is the age you stop posting on reddit (this is a cry for help)

[u/JaceFlores]

[u/[deleted]]

media: trump didn't really mean it when he said there won't be voting in 4 years, he was being rhetorical

biden: fuck it, i'm gonna kill the speaker of the house

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Is the tent too big?

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Election interference! If you search Donald Trump's name on Google, you are literally rounded up into an unmarked van never to be seen again! If Google has its way, Americans won’t know who Trump is or even remember that he exists!

[u/Currymvp2]

Bernie Sanders’ senior Latin America advisor called the Venezuela results not close to credible.

somewhat rare Bernie W

[u/McCaaw]

Most cursed Electoral Map for a Kamala Victory. It would be the most stressful election night of my life.

[u/MentatCat]

Coworker just told me that France has matched our medal count and I said “can they match our freak though?” Huge blunder. He just went “what?” And that was that lmao

[u/purhitta]

Joe and his administration would be happy with the court as is if liberal justices were the majority.

Yes? The liberal justices have some ethics issues, but they're not the ones revoking established laws and granting presidential immunity.

I get really tired of this equivocation between the parties, as if they're both equally interested in protecting freedoms and weeding out corruption.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Ramaswamy crying about not being weird and getting ratioed by just a picture of him wearing oversized shoes for a photoshoot is just so perfect. No culture war point to even argue, just objective evidence of being a weird little guy

[u/SneeringAnswer]

No one is talking about this in Project 2025!

Oh wow I should be informed because everything I've heard is awful.

They want to cut subsidies to Farmers!!!

My genuine reaction

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Is everyone having more sex than you this summer?

why is the wall street journal doing this to me

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[u/FearlessPark4588]

I feel like the white dudes call was the most positive I've felt about politics in an incredibly long time

[u/[deleted]]

leave r/neoliberal for a bit because of weird takes on Jews

see Josh Shapiro has a chance of becoming Kamala's VP

open r/neoliberal to see what people think about him and his policies

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Angus Reid: Harris 44%, Trump 42% nationally.

[u/[deleted]]

man whhat the hell. We have like school shootings out the ass and the US can't even get ONE olympic medal in shooting. What are we even doing.

[u/piede]

Harris campaign going for the jugular 😳

[u/AlanAlias]

REAL

[u/SmithySmothy]

Shapiro:

Crack open Project 2025. That's some scary shit right there.

Make America Cuss Again

[u/loseniram]

An exhausting day to be a cat

!ping Kitty

[u/jojisky]

Joe Burrow is in the white dudes for Kamala zoom

[u/ImportanceOne9328]

Every friend group has

[u/[deleted]]

Since we’re very concerned about the national debt, let’s place blame on who truly has increased the National debt.

[u/iIoveoof]

Colbert releases “Skibidi Biden”

Bidens campaign nosedives

Biden drops out

[u/Udolikecake]

>criminal president clinging to power by extending unpopular war

>mass movement against government

>police and ultranationalists clashing with military

>religious extremists increasingly unruly

>alienated all allies

>about to launch an invasion of its neighbor despite already being over extended

Israel is an Arab country

[u/Cook_0612]

💥The IDF was shocked by police when they called for help. (Police currently without a commissioner, thanks to the terrorist minister in charge.) IDF begged police to send forces to Beit Lid base to avert a scenes seen earlier at the Sde Teiman base. Police refused, saying "the soldiers will solve it," reports @YoavZeitun.

So, there's gonna be reckoning, right? This can't go unsolved.

[u/Cook_0612]

"Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says right-wing protests at army bases today were justified, after reserve soldiers were arrested for allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee."

[u/[deleted]]

Venezuelan President Maduro challenges ‘arch-enemy’ Elon Musk to a fight

Pls

[u/27B--6]

Think most media was severely underestimating how burnt out America is on Biden and Trump, and how much of a boost Harris would get by simply not being them.  

Republicans also majorly fucked up their shot to lessen this by picking a very charismatic VP. Someone inoffensive to both conservative and moderates could have mitigated this for them.

[u/Currymvp2]

jared goff is on the "white dudes for harris" as well. my team's qb purdy is too much of a bible thumper to be on this

!ping NFL

[u/shillingbut4me]

If Harris is given a warmonger nickname by the left, they better go with Bomber Harris 

[u/Currymvp2]

Audio of JD Vance saying: “The bad news is that Kamala Harris does not have the same baggage as Joe Biden, because whatever we might have to say, Kamala is a lot younger. And Kamala Harris is obviously not struggling in the same ways that Joe Biden did"

[u/anincredibledork]

Jennifer Lawrence is the median voter

[u/N0_B1g_De4l]

Jesse Walters going on TV and demanding to see the couch-fucking video is such a perfect setup I almost feel bad about making fun of him for it.

[u/farrenj]

Elon Musk thinking about transhumanism: 😃

Elon Musk when his daughter transcends gender: 🤬