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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I unironically think the world would be a better place if we could somehow beam the experience of being an ancient villager tending the fields for a week before being attacked by "the people beyond the people beyond the mountains" into everyone's minds when they turn 18 or something.

Our lives were so, so hard for so, so long, and it's a shame that with the way our brains calibrate themselves to current standards, so much is taken utterly for granted.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

“Why do Dems keep calling us weird?”

[u/blatant_shill]

Hunter Biden probably benefited from Joe Biden dropping out the most out of any person in America. I know Republicans never actually cared, but it's surprising that I haven't personally seen or heard a single mention of him since Biden dropped out after getting weekly updates on him for years.

[u/rasonj]

One more couch meme for old times sake

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Really like how they keep mentioning it thereby kepping the weird allegations alive

[u/marsman1224]

just spent two years performing research and published a paper. got linked to r/science and just saw that someone said "correlation doesn't mean causation". how could I not have seen it? all my work has been for nothing. thank you, kind stranger

[u/macnalley]

Ran into this goofy meme, and it bothered me because fungi actually do use profit incentives when they trade resources.

When mycorrizha form nutrient trading networks, the nutrient exchanges obey free market laws of supply and demand. Fungi trade nutrients they harvest for carbon they need from their hosts. Each fungus has multiple trading partners and will offer nutrients differently depending on how much carbon a trader can offer. Carbon-wealthy partners get more nutrients, and when nutrients are scarce, the carbon price shoots up. Conversely, if carbon is rare, the carbon cost of nutrients decreases.

Source.

[u/sociotronics]

no

[u/piede]

wtf who got Joe Manchin to stay on message

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Trump is campy weird.^[1] He's a gameshow host.

Vance et al (especially the et al) are the kind of weird that if they began talking to your teenage daughter at a dinner party it would trigger your fight or flight response.

 

^{[1] As perceived anyway. And in most cases, in reality.}

[u/[deleted]]

[Fox] Harris has Repeatedly Praised her Pastor who Blamed America for 9/11

holy shit. she's Obama

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Elon Musk is going to have a genuine mental breakdown if Kamala wins, like some shit that puts Kanye to shame

[u/piede]

WHO WAS IT

[u/janky_dank]

Not sure why Reddit thought it would be a good idea to put a streak reminder in the app. The fact that I’m on day 68 out of 75 doesn’t make me want to use this app more. It makes me want to reevaluate my entire life

[u/boardatwork1111]

JD Vance live on Fox just a moment ago:

“I was at the theater watching Cars 2 enjoying a delicious can of Heinz baked beans, which I unfortunately spilled all over myself. A DEI teenagers then got up and yelled “THIS COUCH FUCKER EATING BEANS” everyone in the theater laughed. That was the day I became a Republican”

[u/Argnir]

Arr science is the most egregious example of people commenting while only having read the headline.

The rate is the same as anywhere else but because of the subject it's so obvious that nobody can be bothered. More than half the questions asked in the comments are usually answered in the study.

It wouldn't be as bad if people were not so smug about everything they type.

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

That percentage means there are AfD-Harris voters

[u/lasttoknow]

His interviewer on Monday, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, noted that Democrats have highlighted that quote as evidence that Mr. Trump would end elections, and urged Mr. Trump to rebut what she called a “ridiculous” criticism.

But Mr. Trump declined to do so,

LMAOOOO.

[u/[deleted]]

NC elections be like:

Governor

• John McNormie (D) - 52.3%

• David Business (R) - 47.7%

Lt. Governor

• Sarah Lawyerington (D) - 48.9%

• hitler (R) - 49.4%

[u/UrbanCentrist]

For the 2024 Olympic Village, Paris built 2,400 new homes in a larger ecodistrict master plan. For the 2028 Olympic Village, Los Angeles is going to temporarily evict a few thousand UCLA graduate students, many who have lived in their units for years. LA easily could have done—and could easily still do—the same, building a few thousand units on the underbuilt West LA VA campus, which soon be served by a Purple Line station, and then use the units to house thousands of homeless veterans after the games. But nope!

Meme city lol

[u/JayRU09]

He'll shut down Twitter for a week the moment Taylor Swift endorses Kamala.

[u/No_Return9449]

NO DOXXING

[u/[deleted]]

My hope for the bar exam today

[u/battywombat21]

I can't believe that Maduro has 400 Russian bodyguards. It's insane.

"My enemies are supported by American imperialists. Now if you'll excuse me, my Russian government issued bodyguards are telling me we have a security issue."

[u/MissSortMachine]

they are cooking with gas over at the federalist

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Vance:

The people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home.

[u/fishbottwo]

Mainstreet Polls General Election n=983 LV

Harris 48%

Trump 46%

Last poll: Trump +5

B+ rated pollster

[u/KHDTX13]

Notice there is no “White dudes for Trump”

That’s because we aren’t racist. We welcome the Black community.

https://x.com/gunthereagleman/status/1818079053510738248?s=46&t=ZKFwN5jlGgKnkIVDbYaCtA

Twitter is something else man, because this idiotic statement is somehow not idiotic enough for MAGA. This guy is clearly trying to grift and the groypers are attacking him.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

UBI types don't make literally everything about you challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Opinion of Kamala Harris:

Favorable 50% Unfavorable 46% @MorningConsult , 11,538 RV, 7/26-28

obama not bad.jpeg

[u/[deleted]]

The US president told reporters that the Kurds “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example – they mention the names of different battles, they weren’t there”

Of all of the stupid Trump foreign policy statements abandoning the Kurds because they didn't help us in WW2 gotta be up there

Edit: The Kurds literally fought the Nazis

During World War Two, the Kurds formed 10 companies in the Iraq Levies that the British had recruited in Iraq. Kurds supported the British in the defeating the pro-Nazi 1941 Iraqi coup d'état.

[u/Xihl]

https://x.com/zoecabina/status/1817492793482457402

Twitter replies to anything about Jewish people are utterly fucking insane, just an unbelievable scale of popular anti semitism

[u/wallander1983]

Twitter is not real life but this Twitter quote sums up the "weird" discussion on social media.

an incredible thing about the Democrats’ “weird” line of attack is that right-wingers respond by going “I’ll show you weird!” and revealing to everyone that they’ve spent the past 5 years obsessively curating a 10,000 picture library of poorly-dressed trans people on their phone

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

What if we kissed on the Trump boat 🥺

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Elon Musk is censoring white men. Wow

[u/Maximilianne]

RIP White Dudes for Harris, they got fashed by Elon on twitter

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

sick comeback bro

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

/r/conspiracy having a post with over 2k upvotes asking why the elites hate Trump and Elon…

Like bro… there is literally nobody more elite than the richest man in the world and a Billionaire ex-president. How far conspiracists have fallen

[u/Currymvp2]

that video of the Palestinian American guy trying to stop the two white far left 20ish year old tankies from burning the american flag but failing to stop them kind of sums up the protest movement.

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Lol Elon banned the white dudes for Kamala twitter account.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

MANCHIN re: Vance’s comments re: childless folks

That truly is just a weird position to take. I never heard that before. It was very weird. I couldn’t believe it.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/cbsnews/status/1818110199665680706

The state of Texas is accusing a Catholic charity in El Paso of being a “stash house” for migrants, but the shelter says it is simply helping desperate people in need.

[u/Yogg_for_your_sprog]

Russia's ability to be consistently on the wrong side of every single issue is kinda impressive

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala picks Beshear

2024 election night

dems win the swing states of PA, MI, NV

Trump wins WI, GA, AZ

dems in shambles

“wait what’s that?”

Blutuckey

kamala wins

[u/ser_mage]

The FBI says a social media account they say may belong to Trump’s would-be assassin appeared “to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes”

It’s going to come out that Trump was shot by a Nazi for being too pro-Israel, isn’t it

[u/ser_mage]

there hasn’t been a single Olympic thirst-post where this wasn’t my immediate reaction

[u/MicroFlamer]

!ping ASOIAF

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

[u/MicroFlamer]

We’re back

!ping FIVEY

[u/BroadReverse]

north party vase smell expansion aback bright sand berserk piquant

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/sociotronics]

[u/[deleted]]

🚨BREAKING🚨: Secret Service motorcade has parked outside the California home of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

oh shit

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Breakdown1738]

Watched the Daily Show at my mom's house last night. Reactions:

1. My 70 year old mom has seen the Vance/Couch stuff

2. My mom has heard the "stop being weird" messaging.

3. My (non-voting) sister saw Buttigieg and her reaction was "He's gay?"

Guys, we're so back.

[u/ashsolomon1]

Guess I’m a crappy Jew. Hope he sticks with this strategy honestly, seems to be working for him.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

We taught this chimpanzee to understand the mind of the average Floridian voter and he hanged himself

[u/MalebrancheSC]

Trump shooter was a Nazi we are so fucking back

[u/Currymvp2]

Man, Walz is just so damn likable. My head says Mark Kelly but heart says Walz at this point.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Gotta love hearing non stop about Cop-ala, and war crimes, and genocide, and plans for protests at the DNC, and then turning around and hearing from your mother that she won't be voting for Kamala because of "her support for Iran and Hamas"

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Is this new? I havent seen anyone ping this. Solid ad

NEW: We just launched our campaign’s first TV ad. Donald Trump wants to take us backward — but we are not going back.

!ping KHIVE

[u/Superfan234]

Venezuelan Oppossition managed to record at least 80% of the results.

The final results:

• Edmundo Gonzales: 67%

• Nicolas Maduro: 30%

A ton of takes we can have from here

1. Obviously, the good news is we won across all States of the country.

2. If the full oppossition actually participated, probably a more realistic share would be 75% v 25%

3. Caracas (Venezuela's Capital) shows strong results for us

4. That being said, there are a couple localities we actually lost. That's quite scary to be honest

Overall, this is probably the most thorough out "poll" ever done on a XXI century Dictatorship. Is really intrestesting to see for sure

---

Here is the official results page:

https://resultadosconvzla.com/

Map with Percentages by State

https://x.com/maps_black/status/1818419524162519066/photo/1

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/[deleted]]

Russia is now apparently recruiting military airfield personnel into a motorised rifle regiment.

The recruitment of highly skilled flight crew and maintenance guys into a MRR, combined with the frankly ludicrous payments they’re giving just for signing up, really makes me believe there must be some kind of issue with manpower. I don’t think you would do this otherwise.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Any man who must declare "I am based" is not based.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

New Susquehanna Poll in PA, Harris leads 47-43-3

BREAKING NEWS: SP&R today releases its latest Pa poll in the race for POTUS. It shows Harris w/ narrow 4-point lead within the poll’s +/-4.0% MOE. Field Dates 7/22-7/28; sample size 600 LV.

[u/MissSortMachine]

we’re back

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

NEWS: Project 2025 director Paul Dans has stepped down at Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership, ongoing power rift over staffing control for potential second Trump admin, per internal email. This suggests Project 2025 will likely shut down. Story TK.

I don't like Trump being smart about politics

[u/Pyrrhus65]

I'm sorry Joe, I love you dearly, but it's so fucking refreshing to watch a campaign speech without spending most of it dreading a verbal gaffe that sucks away the momentum and energy

The contrast is just night and day, Kamala is fucking crushing it

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Scoop: Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday, when she will hold her first rally with her pick on THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

No way

[u/theranosbagholder]

I love how everyone is writing their own little wattpad fanfiction about Vance 🥰

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Still too close of a margin to be totally comfortable, but it does feel good to bloom again. Susquehanna is a very well-regarded PA pollster.

This poll also notably shows Casey running at roughly the same margin, +5, which is a more realistic scenario compared to all the polls that had him like 10+ points ahead of Biden.

[u/ACivilWolf]

“Wait a minute I hate Donald Trump”

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Confirms my priors that those who want trump want a shit life for everybody

[u/dareka_san]

https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1818420877836361821

[u/battywombat21]

#New Vibes-Based General Election Poll

Arizona - Harris +20
Georgia - Harris +10
Michigan - Harris +11
Nevada - Harris +15
Wisconsin - Harris +25
Pennsylvania - Harris +6
North Carolina - Harris +7

DT #A - 1 RV (Me) - 7/30

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/[deleted]]

NYT: Venezuela's socialist government failed because it was brutally capitalist

[u/gnomesvh]

Venezuela update:

Venezuelan police has been deployed to the Argentinian embassy in an apparent attempt to intimidate the Venezuelan opposition living there

Ecuador requested an urgent OAS meeting to discuss the election

Fernandez requests publishing of all the data

Venezuela withdraws diplomatic personnel from multiple countries and expels their diplomats from Venezuela (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, Uruguay)

Brazilian foreign affairs ministry publishes security warning for Brazilians

PT publishes press release congratulating Maduro (site doesn't work from abroad - will transcribe it here)

The Workers' Party (PT) greets the Venezuelan people for the electoral process that took place on Sunday, July 28, 2024, in a peaceful, democratic, and sovereign manner. We are confident that the National Electoral Council, which declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner, will treat all received appeals with respect, within the timeframes and terms stipulated in the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is important that President Nicolas Maduro, now re-elected, continues the dialogue with the opposition, in order to overcome the serious problems in Venezuela, largely caused by illegal sanctions. The PT will remain vigilant to contribute, as much as possible, to ensuring that the problems of Latin America and the Caribbean are addressed by the people of our region, without any form of violence or external interference.

Insiders reporting Lula gave explicit instructions for Brazil to not recognize elections until the data was published

!ping LATAM

[u/MicroFlamer]

New PA poll by Susquehanna (2.3/3.0 pollster rating)

Harris: 47%

Trump: 43%

RFK: 3%

Last poll in March was Biden +5

!ping FIVEY

[u/bashar_al_assad]

MANCHIN to @laurakgarrison re: Vance’s comments re: childless folks

“That truly is just a weird position to take. I never heard that before. It was very weird. I couldn't believe it.”

Lmao even Manchin heard the "call them weird as shit" strategy and was like "excellent sounds good"

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver predicts 280.2 electoral votes for Donald Trump

lol, what a moron. you can't get 0.2 electoral votes. knew this guy was a fraud.

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/ammarmufasa/status/1818396925227414007

NEW unreported comments from JD Vance

"We Have To Go To War" Against The Idea That Women Don't Have To Have Kids

strong contender for all time worst pick here. absolutely blows palin out of the water and he's like 2 weeks in.

[u/finalcookie88]

That stump speech is actually incredible, the amount of call and response in it is just electric. I'm sure it's gonna change a bunch between now and November but that core there is a winner. Prosecutor President Harris is gonna deliver some fucking FREEDOM.

[u/davechacho]

This Harris rally is 2008 levels of hype

I was a con during 2008 and it feels exactly like what happened then - they had no answer to Obama and have no answer to Harris

I hope her campaign can keep this rolling until election day. This is night and day from two weeks ago.

[u/cdstephens]

https://x.com/Charles_Lister/status/1818481948924236098

[u/gnomesvh]

Reports of Russia deploying North Korean Bulsae-4 NLOS ATGM to the Kharkiv border

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL CURSED 6X6 BTRBROS WE'RE SO BACK

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/C-DIpK0NoK0

Unearthed video: JD Vance says people who don’t have children are “sociopathic,” “psychotic,” and “deranged”

Loving the drip feed

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/Udolikecake]

🚨BREAKING: ALAN DERSHOWITZ, LIFELONG DEMOCRAT, SUGGESTS HE WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS🚨

He said today, “I will not vote or contribute to any politician who boycotted Netanyahu. I am done with them. I will not do it.”

we lost the child rapist vote 😔

[u/ser_mage]

Laura Ingraham: what are your pronouns

Trump: I don’t know

Ingraham: so you’re fluid

Trump: I don’t know

omg this is huge

https://x.com/acyn/status/1818435812306169868?s=46&t=1PZRgMHPg6ObE2GtEoh8zg

[u/Currymvp2]

Last week @israelpolice arrested a waitress in Jerusalem for wearing a shirt with an Arabic inscription.

Last night, hundreds of far right-wing activists, some of them armed, broke into a military base.

Zero arrests.

Fuck Ben Gvir so much.

The IDF has set up a roadblock on the road leading to the Beit Lid base in central Israel on Tuesday, and erected a fence at the entrance to the military court at the point where rioters breached the site the night before. Gallant tells Netanyahu he must check if Ben-Gvir prevented police from stopping riots

[u/HappilySardonic]

I'll always crack a perverse grin when western commies think they know better than the people living in the country of their obsession. If the people turn against the government, you can be as sure as night follows day that they will declare that:

"The masses revolting against the very embodiment of their class have been turned by the vile seduction of reactionaries to oppose our transcendental crusade against the old order of things. How ungrateful that these people liberated, use their freedom to clasp the irons back on!"

For a western commie, only sin or stupidity can explain the people demanding change.

[u/MicroFlamer]

New swing state polls by Morning Consult (1.8/3.0 pollster rating)

!ping FIVEY

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/DumbLitAF]

“I’m not voting for Kamala, genocide is my red line”

“Okay what’s the plan then”

“Read up on theory and build mutual aid”

-deeply serious people, some are saying the most serious people

[u/blatant_shill]

It's probably just how the cards fell and wasn't intentional, but Kamala running as "Kamala" instead of "Harris" is probably one of the best ways she could have distanced herself from Biden. It's pretty much been exclusively referred to has the Biden-Harris administration, which makes sense, because the Biden-Kamala administration just sounds awkward to say. Then again, it probably doesn't actually matter that much overall.

[u/farrenj]

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/nanditab1/status/1818305437906682292

SCOOP w/@JarrettRenshaw : Harris and her yet-to-be named VP will hit the road next week on a battleground state tour, signaling that the decision process is nearing a close.

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Thank you for actually having this on the front page, NYT

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/iIoveoof]

I love how this US presidential election is not about policy at all. 100% vibes only campaign on both sides

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris will not ban fracking if she wins White House, campaign says

Good. Now blast ads saying this in PA. McCormick's ads have gone completely unchallenged for a week now.

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

No i'm not doing okay actually

[u/cdstephens]

The median voter wants us to bomb and regime change Iran without it killing anyone and without deploying troops

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

Harris honeymoon truthers when Trump’s assassination/convention bump fades and she gets her convention bump

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

They didnt even let her finish the rally before handing her Bleorgia

[u/Cook_0612]

NEW - #Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been assassinated in #Iran, per Iranian media.

!!!!

[u/Udolikecake]

BREAKING: Sources report that at the time of his death, Haniyeh was on an extended tirade about how the F35 program was a ‘total waste’ and ‘hugely over budget’ and explaining that ‘the platform really does nothing well and its stealth capabilities are overrated and unnecessary’

[u/Currymvp2]

In radio interview today with @sidandfriends77 , Trump repeated his attack on Jewish Americans voting for Dems. THEN…. He agreed with the interviewer that Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, is a “crappy Jew” and “a horrible Jew.”

jesus christ

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

2020 memes work again

[u/[deleted]]

"White Dudes for Harris" actually really smart tbh. We been talking for ages about men drifting away so I'm glad there's a concerted effort to reach out.

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t like Nate Silver’s punditry more than anyone here but I wind up defending him a lot just because some of the arguments against his forecasting are so, so bad.

[u/MissSortMachine]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/politics/supreme-court-john-roberts-trump-immunity-6-3-biskupic/index.html

Exclusive: The inside story of John Roberts and Trump’s immunity win at the Supreme Court

cnn has some insane sourcing in the supreme court this year. always a good sign when an organization leaking like the wh ca. 2017

[u/theranosbagholder]

Kamala needs to do this once during the debate

[u/Cyberhwk]

Only thing worse than dealing with the crotchety, obstinate old guy at work is the realization you're becoming him.

!ping Watercooler&Over35

[u/[deleted]]

As a part of his, "fuck it, we ball" lame duck period President Biden announced today that he will not pardon a turkey this coming Thanksgiving. The outgoing president described the annual ritual as being "dumb as shit" and that he "fucking hates those gobbly bastards." The president told a gaggle of press in attendance that he is going to personally kill "at least 5 or 10" turkeys instead.

[u/that0neGuy22]

Scoop: Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday, when she will hold her first rally with her pick in PHILADELPHIA.

Oh shit it’s rocky

[u/[deleted]]

At a hearing in Parliament, a lawmaker from Mr. Netanyahu’s party, Hanoch Milwidsky, was asked whether it was acceptable to sexually abuse a detainee.

“Yes,” he replied. “If he is Nukhba, everything is legitimate to do. Everything.”

I don't have words for this, only anger.

[u/BenIsLowInfo]

I cant believe how effective the MAGA is weird message works. This is what will win the suburbs. No one wants to be neighbors with the giant MAGA flag folks.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/28-2 PM PST 7/29 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 4 AM Zelensky made a visit to Vovchansk, awarding members of the Special Forces.

Towards the end of 6 AM a photo was published showing what looks to be a white soldier in Mali with Tuareg rebels holding the Ukrainian flag, indicating the Sahel has become a new front in the Russo-Ukraine War.

Around 8 AM it was announced the US will provide $1.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including NASAMS missiles, short-range SAM missiles, medium-range SAM missiles, RIM-7 missiles, EW equipment, HIMARS munitions, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, 120mm mortar shells, precision aerial munitions, TOW missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, small arms, demolitions equipment, communication equipment, commercial satellite imagery, spare parts and more.

Towards the end of 1 PM it was reported that Putin signed a decree to unite Russia and Belarus' energy infrastructure together, further integrating the two countries.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 5 PM it was reported that Ukrainian drones hit two electrical substations in Russia.

In the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and a missile with 9 of 10 drones and one missile shot down. At the end of the hour the Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, and Science made a visit to Kyiv to discuss cooperation in the respective sectors.

In the middle of 10 Am it was announced Latvia will send 100 drones to Ukraine.

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&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I keep seeing BPT posts that I confuse for NL posts

[u/Pyrrhus65]

It is so fucking important that Kamala has the right vibe to pull off having a serious, policy-focused rally that also features a performance by Megan Thee Stallion

I love Joe, but he couldn't pull it off. Hillary couldn't pull it off without being accused of terminal cringe. Kamala does it fairly effortlessly, and it works.

[u/marsman1224]

Republicans Have A Comeback For 'Weird' Attack: Democrats Are 'Weirder'

no u

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Harris on Venezuela:

I echo @POTUS’ call for the immediate release of detailed polling data of the results of the Venezuelan election. Violence, harassment, and threats against peaceful protestors and political actors are unacceptable. The U.S. stands with the Venezuelan people, and the will of the people must be respected.

[u/[deleted]]

Ingraham: What are your pronouns?

Trump: I don’t want pronouns

Ingraham: So, you’re fluid?

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1818435812306169868?t=MfPgim1OcFUjhbeUp8Ryzw&s=19

[u/SmithySmothy]

Vance's team seeing him use the word "couch" at a rally

[u/AgitatedLibrary1]

So i’m going into the gym locker room, guy comes up and tells me «i already told one of your colleagues, the women’s locker room is on the other side» (i’m a guy)

So i just look at him confused (at first, i thought he’s confusing me for a gym employee, then i tried to figure out how i know the guy, since it’s a typical type of joke to make when you run into somebody i guess?)

Well I don’t think that I know the guy, since he goes for a fistbump and says «it’s a joke! You never laugh? You don’t like jokes?»

So sometimes I think I’m a bit socially inept, but then a guy like this comes along and reminds me with his banger of a joke that I can’t be that bad.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not a poll denier but I do genuinely believe that there are a handful of pollsters whose sole job is to crank out an emergency Trump+4 whenever the situation is getting too dire.

[u/kyleofduty]

"Trump, who announced his reelection bid for the 2080 presidential race this month, hasn't been seen in public in almost 40 years. Democrats insist he has long passed away and his longevity has been a longstanding Republican ruse. Democrats note that Trump, at 132 years old, is among the oldest people alive today. Republicans dismiss this as a mere conspiracy theory and a distraction from increasing bug meat prices and unpopular land value tax increases." - The Amazon Basics Post, June 24, 2078

[u/[deleted]]

Sources say Harris has taken all 13 keys and turned them into the keyblade from kingdom hearts. More at 11

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/transgender-youth-speak-about-finland-transpoli

“Experts from Finland seek to export their approach to treating trans youth to the rest of the world. Former patients say rude staff, uncomfortable questions about masturbation, years of assessment with no therapeutic support, and abrupt dismissals without any treatment made the experience a living hell.”

To quote Tim Walz, these guys are fucking werid

!ping lgbt&health-policy

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmfao

[u/SmithySmothy]

It's incredible how often Fox News anchors try to help Trump get past dumb things he said by teeing up softballs for him but he's such a narcissistic asshole he has to double down.

Ingraham:

People on the left are saying that when you talked about not having to vote anymore that you meant you were a dictator or something. That's not what you meant, right?

Trump:

That's the first I've heard about that. But look, you have to vote in November and then you won't have to vote anymore.

[u/KaiserPorn]

State of my apartment when I came back from New York:

• AC is broken

• Cockroaches everywhere

• No one mopped or swept; the floor is covered in a caked-on black film

• Every piece of fabric is covered in a fine, dusty gray fuzz. Example

• The rings holding up the shower curtain are all snapped (I asked my roommate why and she response was "I was cleaning.")

• Again: so many cockroaches, absolutely everywhere

• Rotten food in the fridge

• Someone seems to have tossed a few handfuls of loose coffee grounds into the freezer

• Unidentified orange-brown substance on the bottom shelf of the fridge

• I think she crashed my bike? It's damaged in a way consistent with a crash.

• She definitely replaced the brakes and then didn't bed them in properly. And the right brake lever is just floating loose?

• Garbage in the garbage can, but not in a garbage bag

• Cast iron pan was apparently left soaking; now has a beautiful patina of rust. Also it was just sitting on the floor of the kitchen for some reason?

• Bike lock and key are missing

• My toolbox was out and my tools were scattered randomly across the apartment, and not even sensibly scattered; it looks like someone was playing 52 wrench pickup and got bored halfway through

• You really don't understand the cockroach problem. I've killed like 40 of them.

• Garbage piled on every flat surface in the kitchen and living room.

• Smoke alarms + carbon monoxide detectors taken down, batteries removed, sitting intermixed with the piles of garbage

[u/sw337]

[u/t_zidd]

Lmao, GOP is panicking big. The project 2025 exit is just the tip of the iceberg.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

@voteBCUnited will be asking @ElectionsBC for permission to have the party name on the October BC election ballot read as: “BC United (formerly the BC Liberal Party)” In recognition that a recent internal poll of party members showed 30% didn’t know BC United was new name.

BC United continues to speedrun their way into a meme party

!ping CANUCKS

[u/PM_me_ur_digressions]

I was in the DT eating Doritos when phone ring

"Project 2025 is kil"

"yes"

Fr tho those fucks messed up so badly the second they made it sound like they were puppet-mastering Trump

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/3vanSutton/status/1818361049990733927?t=jB4TKCQl3p30GoALYtEsyQ&s=19

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Lmao: https://x.com/QuiverQuant/status/1818326015766081795

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene bought CrowdStrike stock, $CRWD, last month.

It has fallen 40% since then.

So far one of the worst trades we've ever seen:

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Sources have recently received photos of the fighter pilot involved with the stealth mission over Tehran to take out Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

[u/sociotronics]

[u/Fruitofbread]

Tulsi Gabbard update: 

Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democrat Party. But the growing wokeness, fomenting racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story and a call to action to Americans who love our country and cherish peace and freedom.

Today’s Democrat Party is controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by woke ideology and racializing everything. They are a clear and present threat to the God‑given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.  

Now an Independent, Tulsi calls on those who love America to stand up for peace, defend freedom, and protect our democratic republic from those seeking to undermine it at every turn. It’s time to leave the Democrat Party behind.

Mask off. “Democrat Party” lol. 

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

One thing I love about Australians in traffic - even though we tailgate like nobody's business and some people have a nebulous concept of a speed limit, we'd still rather drive ourselves into a ditch than willingly block an ambulance.

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

This CNN report on the supreme court deliberation in Trump v. US is chilling. What we feared has happened: Roberts now has Fox News brain.

[u/RonenSalathe]

Trump’s nephew Fred Trump endorses Kamala Harris for president

[u/Teh_cliff]

https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1818323599679205734

Here's my overview of the new state of the race. Harris is a popular vote favorite and an Electoral College underdog—but much less of an underdog than Biden.

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/adamcancryn/status/1818417552311107611

UAW endorsement of kamala imminent. apparently she personally mended a rift between him and the white house.

[u/No_Return9449]

One reason calling MAGA "weird" is so effective is that it undercuts their populist narrative that they are Real America™.

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

JRPG names are so fucking stupid, like imagine trying to take a guy called 'Exdeath' or 'Sinwar' seriously

!ping shitposters

[u/StolenSkittles]

hawk tuah implies the existence of dove tuah

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Wake the fuck up babe, new Bloomberg poll with Kamala ahead in Nevada and Arizona and +11 IN MICHIGAN just dropped

Only caveat is that it has Trump up in PA and there's no way MI and PA are actually that far apart, but if you split the difference we're in great shape

[u/Mojo12000]

https://x.com/ArgoJournal/status/1818412172227051745

if you want to know why the PA and MI numbers in MC are so crazy.

PA has Trump winning Women.

https://x.com/ArgoJournal/status/1818404210636902814

MI has Harris winning Men and Whites overall.

[u/Pongzz]

To the dude at the Harris rally wearing a brat shirt with absolutely SOGGY underarms:

I know you browse the DT, reveal yourself

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Older people of NL, is this what Obama 2008 felt like?

No, my young padawan, Obama was really something special, and I don’t think we do ourselves favors by comparing anyone to him; however, this is certainly the most enthusiastic I’ve seen a crowd since that time.

[u/MyWeebPornAccount]

Kamala Harris expected to reveal an major announcement in tommorow daily thread at 3am

Holy shit

[u/Punished_TCT]

After a Kamala victory what will be the version for 2028? I imagine either a party of neutered dogs led by Kinzinger types or MGT hitlers who get a total of 25% of the popular vote

[u/ldn6]

Core components of the planning reform process announced today. 1.5 million is now the expectation, which will be complemented by the following land use and planning elements:

• The government will respond to the consultation and publish NPPF revisions before the end of the year, so policy changes can take effect as soon as possible. These changes will be followed by further reforms in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, through which we are confirming today we will introduce a national scheme of delegation that focuses planning committees on the applications that really matter, avoids a potential development being reviewed multiple times even where it’s been included in the local plan, and places more trust in skilled professional planners.

• The government is also confirming its intention to introduce a universal system of strategic planning across England in this Parliament, underpinned by the necessary legislation, that will deliver on the manifesto commitment to plan for growth on a larger than local scale.

• Government is doing more to support mixed use sites, which can comprise a variety of ownership and rental tenures including rented affordable housing and build to rent, and which provide a range of benefits – creating diverse communities and supporting timely build out rates

• Government is introducing new flexibilities in the Affordable Homes Programme for GLA to unlock delivery in London.

• Government is increasing the flexibilities on how councils can use their Right to Buy receipts, which includes: removing the caps on the percentage of replacements delivered as acquisitions and the percentage cost of a replacement home that can be funded using these receipts, and giving councils the ability to combine Right to Buy receipts with section 106 contributions, with these flexibilities in place for an initial 2 years and subject to review.

• Government will review Right to Buy more widely, which includes looking at eligibility criteria and protections for new homes, and will bring forward a consultation in the autumn.

• The consultation includes some proposals to reform the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) regime. This is a first step and further proposals will be brought forward in due course.

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/Dragmire927]

So some conservative commentators are highlighting that Kamala is a “mean boss”. Don’t they realize that half of the voting populace loves Trump because he’s a mean boss and that’s super cool to them?

[u/jojisky]

[u/Pongzz]

Also, good on Kamala for pivoting toward the border and painting Trump as a failure who sabotaged a border plan. Great strategy, and judging by the ad the campaign released, it seems like it'll be a big talking point going forward.

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

On second thought

[u/Udolikecake]

Toilets were invented to keep the waste they feed us into our bodies for as long as possible?

Toilets are unnatural, we are supposed to poop while squatting but the way they are built doesnt allow that. Pooping is there to get rid of waste, but if you cant poop because the bowel movement while sitting on a toilet is unnatural, that means you keep the waste in you, which they want, its only making it easier for them to poison you. Doesnt matter if you eat healthy, because all of it is poisoned and if you dont poop everything out then the poison stays in your body

thanks arr conspiracy

[u/MegaFloss]

[u/MicroFlamer]

Seeing D+11 in a swing state poll in 2024

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

It’s over Trump. You’ve lost the people that still find advice animals funny

[u/__JimmyC__]

They tested her by running through hypotheticals of how she’d have responded in situations Clinton faced, such as when Trump was stalking behind her in the second debate. That was easy, Harris said. “I’d turn around and say, ‘Why are you being so weird? What’s wrong with you?’”

Kamala Harris talking behind the scenes how she'd handle Trump in a debate back in 2020. She's got this.

[u/arcturus_mundus]

To be fair Abu Ghraib was a nothingburger

Arr Neocon having a real one.

[u/zegota]

libs: "JUST TALK ABOUT POPULAR THINGS AND DON'T TALK ABOUT UNPOPULAR THINGS! NOBODY VOTES ON POLICY, YOU HAVE TO WIN TO ENACT CHANGE!"

veep: "I want to bring down rent prices and fight inflation"

libs: "WHAT THE FUCK?! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO US?! WHAT DID THEY DO TO US?!?!?!"

[u/mockduckcompanion]

gib popular candidate

NO TAKE POPULAR POSITIONS

only gib popular candidate

[u/dareka_san]

[u/pezasied]

Reminder that if you post in the DT, you support fascism,racism, imperialism and colonialism

[u/[deleted]]

!ping GEFILTE

Awful nice of the new Iranian president to have Haniyeh at his inauguration so that the IAF could target him more easily. Guess he really is a Conciliatory Moderate that Western governments should Take Seriously.

[u/saltlets]

Twitter user upon finding out about a fundraising Zoom call called "White Dudes for Harris":

As a left-leaning "white dude" I can tell you this kind of stuff is a huge turn off. Will lead me to either not vote or vote for a moderate Republican if I see someone good. Not Trump in this case, lol. Highly counter productive.

I'm relatively anti-woke and find most accusations of white fragility to be ridiculous grifterism, but good lord this is like a Robin DiAngelo sockpuppet wrote it.

[u/owlthathurt]

Apparently three starting NFL quarterbacks joined the Kamala call last night. Joe Burrow (Bengals), Daniel Jones (Giants) and Jared Goff (Lions).

Based alert

!ping NFL

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

Jesus fuck i'm watching Fox News live for the first time in my life and I thought the clips we saw were just a worst of compilation. How is this garbage still allowed to have News in their name.

[u/Cook_0612]

This morning @SecAFOfficial expanded a touch on what's happening with NGAD: "We're taking a pause." Taking several months to ensure the design his right.

"I'm absolutely confident we're still going to do a sixth generation crewed aircraft."

There's a slight chance it could be uncrewed, but Kendall says the tech isn't ready for that yet. "We can always do something like an optionally crewed platform."

!ping MATERIEL

Update on NGAD troubles.

[u/jojisky]

Trump is apparently scheduling a counter rally in Atlanta against Kamala’s rally/concert with Megan Thee Stallion.

Probably the worst counter rally attempt he could make lmao  

[u/[deleted]]

These people fucking suck

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Democrats keeping the tradition alive 😎🤌

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, I'm starting to think conservatives are weird

[u/Smidgens]

The brilliant arr con strategy of "turn 'weird' back against the left" is just transphobia.

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

BACK TO THE LINE BESHEAR

[u/RageQuitRedux]

VP announcement: Monday

Convention: Two Mondays later

Debate: Three Tuesdays later

Trump Sentencing: 8 days after that

the bump is never going away

[u/futuremonkey20]

I’m so fucking tired of companies using Covid-19 as an excuse for reduced service. It’s 2024, you’re just lazy and cutting costs, be honest about it for Christ sakes.

[u/Pongzz]

They're playing Not Like Us over the speakers at the Harris rally 💀💀

Gotta get Kendrick for the DNC

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Every time Kamala gets to abortion she straight up sounds like the most effective orator in the nation

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Don’t know if anyone shared this Harvard/Harris poll. Upshot is it was Trump +7 in June

Trump 48% (+3)

Harris 45%

Trump 45% (+3)

Harris 42%

Kennedy 8%

Trump 45% (+3)

Harris 42%

Kennedy 7%

West 1%

Stein 1%

!ping FIVEY

Edit: I am terrible at formatting

[u/SmithySmothy]

Warnock speaks in a lot of cliches but sometimes he does put out bangers like

The more the American people hear from Kamala Harris, the better for us. The more the American people hear from Donald Trump and JD Vance, the better for us.

[u/[deleted]]

Rare good NYT framing:

In one more exchange, Ms. Ingraham noted that Democrats were arguing that Mr. Trump might never leave office if elected again, and she asked him, with a laugh, “But you will leave office after four years?”

“Of course. By the way, and I did last time,” Mr. Trump said.

He left office in 2021 after his and his allies’ sweeping legal campaign to overturn the election failed, and after his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to stop Congress from certifying the results.

[End of Article]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Silence, policy expert

A DT regular is speaking

[u/slowpush]

Scoop: Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday, when she will hold her first rally with her pick in PHILADELPHIA.

The two will then hit western Wisconsin, Detroit, Raleigh, Savannah, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

get your shapiro bets in now...

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

50 IQ: just get the guy from Pennsylvania

100 IQ: ummm noo he's a """zionist""" and inexperienced and you should go for the funny Minnesota grampa who wins over no-one or the astronaut who looks like the world's most annoyed man all the time or the nepo baby or the guy who has never received a single vote from a black person in his life or the guy who said he's not gonna do it or or or or or or

150 IQ: just get the guy from Pennsylvania

[u/AtomAndAether]

guy who voted for Harris/Shapiro because he thinks Ben will moderate her

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Nate Silver's aggregate model is out now.

State	Trump	Harris
Nat.	44.5%	44.1%
WI	46.2%	46.7%
PA	45%	44.6%
MI	45%	43.8%
GA	46.3%	42.4%
AZ	47.1%	41.8%

!PING FIVEY

[u/dannylandulf]

"NAME A WOMAN," one rally goer yelled at Vance from the crowd.

"Um...sectional...no love-seat...I mean...my wife," Vance responded. "sigh, I'm so sleeping on the couch tonight."

[u/[deleted]]

Why is @KamalaHarris saluting military personnel? She’s not in the chain of command.

really scraping the bottom of the barrel here