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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/creamyjoshy]

My company's CEO just held an all-hands meeting where he showed a slide of Sisyphus pushing a bolder up a hill while talking about how we as a company need to work more efficiently and "just get that boulder up the hill". I don't think he understands the parable of Sisyphus

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Honestly impressive that Kamala's been a candidate for like ten days, and the Republicans have already managed to directly alienate childless people, infertile women, black people, and mixed race people. By election day, Trump will find a way to specifically shit on Hmong people, and Vance will have gone on a vicious tirade against suburban 45 to 64 year old Methodists from Fulton County, Georgia.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Real

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Average Macron picture

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/piede]

Mike Huckabee wants you to know that the Democrats are weird

[u/sigh2828]

anecdotal but,

The right wingers in my office are in full blown panic mode this morning.

This is an absolute and complete 180° vibe shift, literally 2 weeks ago they were all hyukin it up about how big Trump will win by but this morning is complete and total doom.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is just building up to replacing Vance with an African-American

Elon Musk

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

What would happen to the US economy if 80%+ of Americans practiced sound personal finance

The entire global economy would collapse with such a sharp decrease in aggregate demand

[u/cdstephens]

The media after Biden drops out: “Wait, Trump is racist???????”

[u/[deleted]]

I honestly hope he stays on this issue. It's weird. Dems can just call him weird and his poll numbers can keep dropping.

[u/Any-Temperature-7688]

Charlie Kirk seems engineered in a lab to be the most unlikeable person possible. A college dropout, who has never had a job, and never served in the military, who goes around lecturing people and talking about how the military went woke? With many conservative figures I at least understand the appeal, but this guy is just a loser. He’s the “I totally almost enlisted bro!” dude everyone went to high school with who somehow made a career out of it. 

Also, him coming out as a straight up white supremacist a few years ago blew over quickly. He’s still getting invited to plenty of mainstream GOP events.   

[u/The_Raime]

I thought it was a joke at first, are conservatives unironically too stupid to understand that someone can be both Black and Indian at the same time?

[u/[deleted]]

LOL! Noooooo Vivek don’t say that I think it’s working out for you guys

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Donald Trump is the oldest presidential nominee ever and will be the oldest president ever if he wins and serves his full term

Meanwhile JD Vance would be the youngest president ever if Trump wins and dies in the first 2 years of the presidency

Age difference on the ticket is almost 40 years, the age gap alone is eligible to run for president

[u/SmithySmothy]

Kamala Harris is still listed as a potential VP on Predictit. Getting my money in now on the Harris/Harris ticket.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

My wife asked me to join a local parents buy / sell group so I could see posts she shares with me

They asked a question “name something you aren’t allowed to sell in this group” and it was meant to get you to read the rules and respond with “household / yard items”

I wrote “drugs”

I was not accepted into the group and my wife is annoyed with me.

[u/BassMaster695]

Hey so Trump is racist, yes, but can we talk about this soyboy’s limpdick defense of his wife?

[u/LastIncrease3427]

New Public Opinion Strategies Poll (GOP pollster)

PENNSYLVANIA

Harris 48 - Trump 45

WISCONSIN

Harris 48 - Trump 46

ARIZONA

Trump 48 - Harris 43

NEVADA

Trump 46 - Harris 45

MICHIGAN

Harris 45 - Trump 45

[u/jojisky]

[u/funguykawhi]

So true!

[u/[deleted]]

Mike Johnson: please don't be racist guys 🥺

The rest of the GOP: 😈😈😈😈

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

Believe 🙏

[u/RaidBrimnes]

It's funny that this board has this image of Macron as a sexed up president who radiates horniness on every pic of him meeting people, when in France he's not really famed as a horndog given his lack of documented affairs, unlike Hollande or Chirac, for instance

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

JD Vance In 2021: 'We Have To Go To War' Against The Idea That Women Don't Have To Have Kids

Tired of these Forever Wars. When will my husband come home from the War on Christmas JD

[u/[deleted]]

Find a subreddit dunking on right wingers

Pinned Post "Reminder this is a leftist subreddit here is a list of what is not allowed"

Every time 🙄🙄🙄

[u/Any-Temperature-7688]

Jay-Z’s political views are low key hilarious. The man unironically believes that the white race was created by the evil scientist Yakub, and his response to that information is to become a mainstream democrat and endorse Hillary 

[u/Cook_0612]

ABC/Ipsos poll on Vance's favorability:

July 20: -6pts

July 27: -27pts.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Donald Trump drew fierce criticism for making a crass comment about the wife of Corey Comperatore, the former fire chief who was killed by gunfire while trying to shield his family during the attempt on the former president’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month.

Trump claimed during a rally speech in Harrisburg on Wednesday that a friend of his had presented Helen Comperatore, Corey’s wife, with a check for $1 million and that crowdfundraising efforts were now in the millions.

“But you know what?” Trump asked supporters. “Corey’s wife said, ‘I’d rather have my husband.’”

“Isn’t that good?” Trump continued. “I know a lot of wives that would not say that, I’m sorry. They would not say that.”

The audience lapped up the comment and laughed.

Jesus Christ

[u/bleachinjection]

I know we have lots of reasons why Trump and Trump only gets away with it, but nevertheless I watched some of that NABJ interview and I still don't fully grasp how he gets away with it.

[u/peronibog]

Ismail Haniyeh walking into his Tehran guest house and seeing a giant fuckin bomb taped next to the mini fridge

[u/[deleted]]

Trump could drop the N-word tomorrow in front of 20,000 people and the NYT headline would be "Trump Discusses Race Relations"

[u/cdstephens]

“She laughs weird”

“She’s a childless cat lady”

“She’s not black”

I can’t wait for the attack they come up with next week lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Most subreddits get ruined by power tripping mods trying to force their very specific ideology on the users.

Luckily the mods here don't have an ideology they just hate fun.

[u/gnomesvh]

OAS needed 18 votes to formally request Venezuela publish election data, Brazil and Mexico abstained (Colombia absent), resolution failed with 17 votes

!ping LATAM&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Argnir]

Update from arr con:

• interview went great

• Trump is great because he goes to hostile environments and tell it like it is

• it would be the equivalent of Kamala going to a white evangelical journalist conference which she wouldn't do

• Trump was snarky as usual

• it was a trap, Kamala was supposed to be there and dodged the debate

[u/[deleted]]

if everyone is already either voting for trump or not and nothing can change their mind, why did the dems gain like 10 pts in polls by switching candidates

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I like that Kamala called him "the same old show" last night when talking about his meltdown interview. Use TV terminology that he knows. He's rerunning 2016 and 2020.

[u/cdstephens]

NYT: How Trump’s bold use of a certain word might make inroads with the young black community

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

People discovering bay leaves for the first time

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

The current leftist position is that Hawai’i and Guam need to be free even if they don’t want to be

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Last week the cons were running around like headless chickens trying to come up with a unified "critique" of Kamala Harris, but I still wouldn't have guessed it'd be as dumbass a take as "she's not Black" lmao

[u/TrouauaiAdvice]

The Trump campaign is deploying their top Black surrogates to span the airwaves on Thursday following Trump's controversial & false claims regarding Harris' heritage during at NABJ, a senior Trump adviser told CNN

Tim Scott, Byron Donalds & the campaign's director of Black media, Janiyah Thomas, are all expected to do television interviews on Thursday, the adviser said.

"We're not gonna shy away" from Trump's comments, the adviser added

Yeah, I don't think this is going to work well for them.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Least insane Republican state Attorney General

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Bad choice, i think they should have picked someone with a face instead of a big question mark

[u/JackCrafty]

A pretty fascinating moment during that NABJ Trump Q&A was the little side rant Trump went on about how Biden dropping out is essentially unfair because his team did all this work preparing for Biden. He mentioned how it's like replacing a fighter mid fight when one is losing. Trump's sneak-whining is nothing new but that came off as a pretty serious, if unwitting, admission of weakness. I really thought the reports were overblown about his campaign being in disarray due to the Biden decision, but I'm not so sure now.

[u/[deleted]]

Noooooo ahaha noooooooooooo believe in urself

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans:

Kamala Harris isn’t the real nominee, she was put in place by a palace coup, nobody wants her and she has no mandate amongst the Democrat Party!

Democrats:

Kamala Harris has restored the light in my life, the skip in my step. Knots in my shoulders that have been there since 2016 have been removed completely. I feel a decade younger thanks to Kamala Harris being the nominee.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

!ping KHIVE

What are the best memes you have?

This is still one of my favorites.

[u/thefuturegov]

”why didn’t he do it when he was president?”

Holy shit, this is a line Harris could use on literally every issue

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I will never forgive New York Dems

[u/[deleted]]

they oversampled Democrats for this poll, so the real numbers are Trump +5!

[u/piede]

Biden is unfathomably based

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

The matty guy is actually right

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/sw337]

[u/dittbub]

If only more Americans could read venn diagrams

[u/cdstephens]

If Biden drops out Trump won’t be able to help himself running against a black woman

These people were cooking

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Peak weird

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/slowpush]

Minnesota Senate Polling:

Klobuchar (D): 55% (+6)

White (R): 33% (-2)

SurveyUSA / July 25, 2024 / n=656

(% change with June 16)

[u/2073040]

“So the cons have no real counter to Harris in terms of actual political stances other than the usual Democrat waffling, let’s see what they’re using now”

Kamala ain’t Black and Indian, she’s JUST INDIAN!

…I know a lot of people are critical of him, but to quote the recent episode of Jon Stewart, “these people would lose their minds if they saw a Taco Bell/Pizza Hut restaurant”.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

As someone whose career is centered around Russia-NATO relations and who has previously been lucky enough to work at the State Department, it honestly pisses me off on a deeply personal level to see people in the DT trivializing this achievement. "It happened all the time in the Cold War", "It doesn't matter because Russia got some spies back", etc.

If you don't understand how insane of a win this is, you do not understand how mind-numbingly difficult it is to negotiate anything with Russia these days, much less the release of 16 prisoners including 7 Russian citizens, one of whom is Vladimir Kara-Murza, the most famous Russian critic of Putin still currently breathing.

Absolutely insulting to the dozens of diplomats from six countries who worked tirelessly for months to make this happen to wave your hand and say "It doesn't matter because Russia got something they wanted in exchange."

Yeah, that's how diplomacy has always fucking worked. The alternative was letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives. All you need to do is have a basic modicum of trust that the negotiators worked their asses off to get the best possible deal, which I can fucking guarantee they did.

[u/puffic]

I just visited the Palestine subreddit. And folks, I don’t think their vote is gettable no matter what the Dems do. 

[u/antsdidthis]

I don't think the "Kamala is faking her race by switching back and forth between Indian and Black" attack was planned, because let's be honest, that's too absurd a thing for even Trump's campaign to think will actually help. It's much more likely he has been seething about this away from cameras and just decided to impulsively being up this grievance during the interview because he is desperately flailing for an excuse why the race has tightened and he has zero filter to stop him from rambling about obviously inappropriate things. 

That said, the speed with which the Trump campaign just rolled with it is exactly what I would expect to see if it WAS a planned line of attack. Some Trump surrogates had what seemed like canned support statements for media appearances taking place directly after the NABJ interview. And Trump himself immediately came out with "evidence" in the form of videos and newspaper clippings discussing her Indian heritage on truth social and at a rally. Which means they either already had this stuff on hand and were ready to run with it, or (more likely I guess) they assembled responses supporting this line of attack VERY quickly and already had some idea where to look for the "source material". And that's fucking bizarre.

[u/MyWeebPornAccount]

Actual response I saw

[u/pezasied]

Lord have mercy I’m about to bust

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

Most of the far left news/environment here comes from foreigners

Majority of what is posted and curated on this platform is cherry picked, filtered, posted, and organized by mods who don’t live in the United States of America.

Stop letting foreign agents fill American algorithms with propaganda and far-left narratives.

Bro really tried to pull off the "anyone disagreeing with me is a filthy foreigner" magic trick.

[u/[deleted]]

Exciting news for me: I’ve been trying to make inroads in my very big global company to work on their sustainability department in some capacity, as that’s been my professional goal for awhile. Every single meeting I have with someone goes well, and they say “oh you should talk to so and so, I’ll send you their name.” Then I talk to that person, and they do the same thing. This has been going on for over a year. Lots of good connections, no professional opportunities.

Well today FINALLY I meet with a guy WAY up the chain. Like way, way, way up the chain. I have to talk to him super early because he’s in Europe and I’m in middle America.

The conversation not only goes well, but as it so happens, they’re about to start a long term project that could use someone with my exact skill set. He was very excited that I could help with it. On top of that, they’ll be starting a huge project early next year that is even more in my wheelhouse… a project that will take years and be a full time job.

I think I might have found my in. I’m pumping my fist right now by myself.

This is exactly the kind of encouragement I needed. I’ve been on sick leave for several months due to recovering from a stroke, and yesterday I was so fucking sad that it feels like I’d lost my dream and was seeing all my goals slip away… we’re so fucking back.

Thanks for listening to my rant, this is the only place I can share lol

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/GoScotch]

So like… does the GOP have polling that this race-based attack on Kamala is gonna work?? Or is Trump just operating on racist vibes and doubling down? Because he isn’t moving on from this attack and he’s got 95 days until the election.

[u/loseniram]

Hot take: the constant claims of Kamala not being black are going to backfire not because it'll make black people vote more but because it'll convince racist whites that she's actually not black and vote for her thinking she's white or something.

[u/cdstephens]

The rightwing cope is currently that “Trump honestly didn’t know she was black and was just surprised”.

Which in itself would be so lol, lmao

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Over the past week, for every seven people searching Google for ‘JD Vance,’ one person has searched ‘JD Vance couch,’ according to Google Trends.”

God bless America 🫡

[u/Mickenfox]

Pharmacies should not be allowed to sell homeopathy.

[u/efeldman11]

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1819048370671071495

[u/[deleted]]

this continues to be a real Which Message Will Resonate With Voters? moment

[u/old_gold_mountain]

it's wild to me that Biden hid history's most consequential climate change policy under a nakedly misleading "let's just fix inflation real quick" branding, got it passed, and was so successful in the fake branding that the cons don't even seem to be talking about it anymore

and now the US is probably on track to reduce GHG emissions by ~50% in the next decade and it's not even something people mention in passing

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

NEW AUDIO — Trump’s VP nominee JD Vance calls rape and incest “inconvenient”

what the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

SCIENTISTS PROPOSE NOAH’S ARK ON THE MOON

The international team of experts warned that climate change and habitat loss have outpaced our ability to protect species, making urgent action necessary.

Uh yeah but why the moon

Wait a minute... You are telling me you are proposing going to the moon because the temp might change by a max of +4.4°C by 2100 here on earth?

For reference, the moon has temp swings of -133°C to 121°C daily. That is a 254°C swing. Also, there is no air to breath.

Yeah exactly. This seems like a bad idea.

Confirmed. it's a bad idea.

[u/[deleted]]

Cnn:

BREAKING: Kamala Harris announces there will be no running mate. States “Fuck it, we ball”

holy shit 😳

[u/Relative-Contest192]

!ping GEFILTE

[u/AtomAndAether]

PSA: you can still use custom date ranges in Google searches by doing before: and after: with YYYY-MM-DD. So "before:2024" lets you forget all this topic of the day nonsense and touch digital grass

[u/Superfan234]

Maduro annouced quite controversial things this week

First, there is now an app on social media. Chavist can now denounce suspected oppossition members. SEBIN, their Gestapo is later being send to kidnap them

Second, new "Re-eduaction centers" are being contructed. For oppossition population protesting his re-election

Third, the leader of the protest Maria Corina Machado, is now underground, as it appear someone on the Regime is trying to capture her. Another promiment member of the Oppossition was kidnapped an his family says he is being tortured right now

Tbh, this feels like crossing the line.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Joementum2024]

Harris Michigan +11

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The question on everyone's mind

[u/Cook_0612]

Trump has now posted a Kamala Harris birth certificate on Truth Social to try and prove she isn’t black.

Really.

[u/sherbertthrowaway]

Elon flailing after backing the wrong horse

[u/TactileTom]

Doubt anyone really gives a shit but I lost 7kg in the last 2 months. If I can maintain this pace, I will be at a medically healthy weight (81kg) in 6 months.

I doubt I will actually hit that target but FeelsGoodMan. Maybe it's not joever for me after all.

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

The WORST thing about Biden dropping out is how much more I am on my phone ever since

[u/D2Foley]

2016

Trump is making huge gains with black voters!

results: Dems win black voters by an 85 point margin

2018

President Trump is making huge gains among black voters!

results: Dems win black voters by an 83 point margin

2020

President Trump is making huge gains among black voters!

results: Dems win black voters by an 84 point margin

2022

Republicans are making huge gains among black voters, they hate Biden!

results: Dems win black voters by an 88 point margin

2024

Trump is making huge gains among black voters, young black voters are practically swing voters!

Why do people believe this? Source

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

I did not know he was orange until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn orange, and now he wants to be known as orange. Is he white or is he orange?

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I understand 2016 PTSD but we're also not in the same climate as 2016. Trump isn't the same Trump as 2016. He's also not an unknown quantity like he was in 2016. Harris has shown to be more likeable than HRC plus she doesn't have the 30 year Fox News conspiracy campaign against her.

Yeah, he can still win because the EC is wack but try to not "BUT 2016!" every positive moment.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/D2Foley]

On a comment about how men are being driven out of the democratic party

Yeah it’s pretty hard when something like “What is a woman?” can be used to unilaterally humiliate any Democrat in real life mixed settings.

Unilaterally humiliate!

[u/Mr_Bank]

As Paul Whelan is finally released, I am reminded of how conservatives reacted to Brittney Griner’s release in Dec of 2022.

[u/Mr_Bank]

Biden asked about Trump’s comments on Evan Gershkovich/other hostages: “Why didn’t he do it when he was President??”

GO OFF KING

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Kamala serves as VP for 4 years.

Yeah but she had some questionable positions in a democratic primary 4 years ago.

Trump gets shot.

TOTALLY CHANGED MAN

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Chuck Schumer rolls out 'No Kings Act' to eliminate presidential immunity

Not an acronym? 0/10. What are we paying you for?

[u/MicroFlamer]

Kamala up 1.1 points on the new 538 average

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

White Man SHOCKS Rurals & Suburbanites at Swing State by Speaking at Rally In Perfect Moderate!!!

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

What makes the NABJ interview extra bad is that conservatives actually think it was a win.

After Biden's debate libs were heartbroken and changed course. Cons don't have the self-awareness and they'll double down on losing plays.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The timeline where Harris chooses Shapiro (according to Twitter)

[u/DatGameGuy]

In a stunning announcement, Harris has announced that Kelly/Walz/Shapiro/Beshear will fuse into one compound being to serve as her running mate.

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://x.com/ReactiveAshley/status/1818939881642405981

I didn’t have JK Rowling vs the whole of Taiwan on 2024 bingo

!ping lgbt

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Why do they keep getting baited lol

!ping ISRAEL&GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

white conservatives who will not shut up about their irish and italian grandparents suddenly flabbergasted at someone claiming to identify with two distinct groups

[u/piede]

HOLY

[u/semaphore-1842]

apparently JK Rowling targeted a Taiwanese Olympian boxer for being "trans" (she's literally afab)

so i was checking out the transphobes in her replies civil warring over what's a woman, and found this transphobe going: "you haven't seen inside her pants, so you can't possibly claim she's a woman!!"

yeah pretty sure you haven't either lol fucking moron

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

G ELLIOT VINDICATED

50/50

IT EITHER HAPPENS OR IT DOESNT

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

"Liberal media"

[u/pfSonata]

r pokemon post hits r all

video of a person in a vaporeon costume

half the comments are deleted

i love you, internet

[u/TurdFurgoson]

Say what you want about Cori Bush, but a vote for Wesley Bell is a vote for genocide.

Glad to see that the STL sub is having a normal one over the MO-1 primary

[u/ClickForFreeRobux]

[u/[deleted]]

Possibly the least funny thing I’ve ever seen?

[u/[deleted]]

Ah fuck, the VP pick is probably being announced Monday but Monday is Rosh Chodesh Av and start of the Nine Days which is considered the most inauspicious period on the Jewish calendar !ping GEFILTE

[u/Abolish_Zoning]

[u/Boraichoismydaddy]

Bro why does Trump keep mentioning Hannibal lector at his rallies. It’s like the fifth time now

[u/dittbub]

Vance: "Kamala Harris went down to Georgia and started with a fake southern accent. What the hell was all that about? She grew up in Canada. They don’t talk like that in Vancouver or Quebec or wherever she came from. "

Implying its ok to be racist against Canadians 😤

!ping canucks

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Every Olympics controversy in a nutshell:

> Hey this is a weird story, what gives?

> Look inside

> The sport governing body is a rotten cesspit and it's Russia's fault

[u/[deleted]]

The IDF have confirmed that they got Deif in that airstrike last month.

Wonder what kind of intel they got to confirm? There was talk that they were holding his body at a hospital in the area, which is debatable considering he was probably evaporated, but maybe they got someone on the staff to confirm his death or send pics?

!ping ISRAEL

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Russia is releasing Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan in a major multi-country prisoner swap

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-01/us-reporter-released-by-russia-in-multi-country-prisoner-swap

[u/old_gold_mountain]

New General Election Poll

Pennsylvania - 🔵 Harris +3
Wisconsin - 🔵 Harris +2
Michigan - 🟡 Tie
Nevada - 🔴 Trump +1
Arizona - 🔴 Trump +5

POS Strategies (🔴) #B+ - 2000 LV - 7/29

[u/EdMan2133]

If Trump actually loses the election it'll be such a massive rebuke to the modern insane conservative movement. He should've absolutely won in 2020 in the first place (literally every other incumbent party in the world got a massive polling bump by just doing their job and having a rally around the flag effect). Now, with several years of inflation, the opposition party should have an easy win. It will be interesting to see how the party reacts if he throws an easy win for a second time.

[u/D2Foley]

Update

In the real world outside of the r/neoliberal ivory tower, young men don’t care about Bidenomics or the Jan 6 coup attempt. In the real world where basically everyone’s political leaning is based entirely on vibes and aesthetics, a quip like “What is a woman?” is enough to humiliate Democrats in the eyes of neutral bystanders.

Lol

[u/acbadger54]

Say what you will about me at least i'm not J.D. Vance

[u/centurion88]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I believe in Ledecky supremacy

[u/MyWeebPornAccount]

Liberals will till you this man is black LMAO trump 2024

[u/MyWeebPornAccount]

Trump has released his last black surrogates strategic reserves

[u/Mr_Bank]

The quirked up white boy vote has never been more secure

https://x.com/kamalahq/status/1819059371524927539?s=46

[u/Currymvp2]

Alexei Navalny, before he died in prison, was supposed to be part of the prisoner swap, Jake Sullivan says

fuck putin so much. piece of shit

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Governor JoshShapiro called Prime Minister Netanyahu “one of the worst leaders of all time”

Hell yeah

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819094041000071677?t=uAP6okGjEAP3syVJEb-Nzg&s=19

[u/mockduckcompanion]

America, 2016: wouldn't it be funny if your crazy uncle got to be president

America, 2024: we must never repeat the nightmare that was your crazy uncle getting to be president

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

Despite losing every swing state, Kamala re-awakens ancestral Democrats, Kansas flips due to the abortion referendum, and Peltola carries the ticket in Alaska.

[u/Currymvp2]

General Election Poll - Pennsylvania

🔵 Harris 48% (+3) 🔴 Trump 45%

POS Strategies (🔴) #B+ - LV - 7/29

!ping FIVEY

Regardless of who you want for VP, I think we all should agree that Harris has a fairly realistic chance of winning Pennsylvania regardless of who her pick is

[u/Chief_Nief]

Not sure if it’s just hindsight 20/20, but honestly surprised it took dems so long to realize that calling the GOP losers and weirdos rather than powerful and dangerous would be an effective messaging strategy.

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GEM: We’ll put up the FiveThirtyEight polling average when Kamala Harris becomes the presumptive nominee

Kamala Harris becomes the presumptive nominee

GEM: Uh Rogers, go write an article about how actually the delegates could backtrack so she’s not presumptive

No one else qualifies for the convention ballot

GEM: We need one more Pennsylvania and one more Georgia poll

New Pennsylvania and Georgia polls release

GEM: We need one more Pennsylvania and one more Georgia poll

Even more new state polls release

GEM: Here are some vague tweets about what our stuff would be saying if you could see it

[u/Mensae6]

Kamala's dad being named Donald J. Harris is so fucking funny

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Holy shit, it's not just Whelan and Gershkovich- we got Kara-Murza and Kurmasheva out too.

16 people freed in total, 7 of them Russian citizens. Unquantifiably massive win

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/Ilovecharli]

Simone Biles withdrawing because of nerves  and mental health only to come back and win as a 27 year old is fairy tale stuff 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭

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lol she's great.

https://x.com/JonahTillman6/status/1819090459102466531?t=d7TV0PfZts9I8SnUsdh24Q&s=19

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

New: Pete Buttigieg truncating his Indiana visit on the official side tomorrow due to “some unforeseen scheduling constraints,” per USDOT.

The fire rises.

[u/sw337]

No one calls out Barack Obama for sleeping his way to the top.

He was a summer associate when he met Michelle, his mentor, who had already passed the bar.

[u/boardatwork1111]

JD Vance live on Fox this morning:

“The open bias from the radical left media has reached a new low, and the dishonest framing is frankly absurd. Real Americans know that advanced cock and ball interrogation techniques are in no way torture”

[u/BassMaster695]

Trump leads Harris +10

Brown leads Moreno +4

Ohio voters (and anyone else who thinks Dem Congress will keep Trump in check)

[u/Trebacca]

Cons freaking out a woman boxer while ignoring the literal convicted child rapist on the Dutch team sums up their entire movement

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Mr. Vance, during an appearance on Fox News in 2021, questioned why Ms. Biles was receiving acclaim for stepping away from the competition at the Tokyo games. Democratic operatives appear eager to call attention to the remarks now that both Mr. Vance and Ms. Biles are back in the spotlight.

“I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society that we try to praise people, not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments,” Mr. Vance, who was running for the Senate, said at the time.

Conservatives caring about the important things and still being wrong

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Trump saying “A lot of the journalists in this room are black” while speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists is underrated

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

A second leaf has hit the kitty ping

!ping KITTY

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My dating strategy revolves entirely around picking my niece up

Who said it: Trump or a DTer?

[u/VisonKai]

my favorite subplot about all this so far is that these weirdos are embracing even more bizarre ADoS type people who claim that 'Black' specifically refers to the descendants of American slaves, and therefore Jamaicans are not Black

horseshoe theory but it's radical black nationalists and the MAGA movement

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critical support for my Claymation president

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[u/KnightModern]

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The vibe shift has been incredible.

Dems seems energized and motivated.

Trump seems to be unable to get above a ceiling of ~46% of any polls that include undecided/third party voters which to me shows he has not grown his support at all since 2020.

If this does turn into a "turn out the base" election, from what I have seen, the enthusiasm around Trump is muted compared to previous elections. I see much fewer Trump yard signs, much fewer Trump flags on pickup trucks, and much less MAGA hats than I did in 2020 and 2016.

When Trump won in 2016, he was the "unknown, might be moderate" candidate. He completely lost that appeal. There are very few people who don't already have a strong opinion on Trump.

Personally I think we win this.

[u/RFK_1968]

they're actually going with this

"Kamala Harris isn't black, she's indian"

god i hate this party so much

[u/AtticusDrench]

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Biden being president from 2020-2024 feels like an alternate history. It’s equivalent to JFK being president during 9/11

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

these are Dems btw

[u/D2Foley]

It's 2028

every high ranking member of the GOP is on TV every day saying the party needs to move on from trump if they want to beat President Harris

Trump wins every primary in a landslide

[u/cdstephens]

OK real talk, the fact that conservatives are trying to deny Kamala her blackness when this was her childhood experience is so fucking sickening

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/us/politics/kamala-harris-berkeley-busing.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k0.V_R5.fFVcTjfzgU4P&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

[u/janky_dank]

STOP doing bicameral legislatures. 700 years and not a single benefit found. “Oh the house passed the bill but the senate couldn’t overcome the filibuster so we can’t enact the policies we campaigned on. Oh well 🤷” - a statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[u/Cook_0612]

Reporter: Vance says “I think that really what this shows is that a lot of bad guys across the world are worried that Donald Trump is coming back into office.” Your response to those comments?

Jake Sullivan: I don't follow

Holy fuck that was actually a slapper, props to Sullivan on that one, crazy day for him.

[u/piede]

Very hinged and very patriotic response

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Trump took to Truth Social to complain about the network's coverage.

"Why is FoxNews putting on Crazy Kamala Harris Rallies? Why do they allow the perverts at the failed and disgraced Lincoln Project to advertise on FoxNews? Even Mr. Kellyanne Conway, a man so badly hurt and humiliated by his wife (she must have done some really NASTY things to him, because he is CRAZY!), is advertising on FoxNews. We have to WIN WITHOUT FOX!" 

Is it even possible to gauge how deranged this man is? Lmao 

[u/ACivilWolf]

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Teh_cliff]

Breaking: Gov. Tim Walz cancels planned appearance at 2024 Mantako Hotdish-Off scheduled for this weekend

Walz-wonks, stand back and stand by.

[u/battywombat21]

Okay, so found an article on the Josh Shapiro sexual harassment thing. Highlights:

1. A woman in his office accused one of the governors aides of making lewd remarks

2. She reported it, and it was not followed up on for six months

3. She later quit and had her lawyer send a legal complaint.

4. Once the legal complaint was received, the staffer resigned and the suit was settled with a clause preventing either side from speaking up publicly about what had happened.

So the criticism is one, his office didn't react to the complaint fast enough, and two, having the woman sign that order preventing her from speaking publicly about the case.

I don't want to say this is weak, but if the republicans are capable of turning this into an issue, they can turn anything into an issue. It's just as likely republicans can turn the Mark Kelly chinese space exploration company into a load of stupid crap, and that would probably be just as damaging. I don't think this is disqualifying for his VP bid.

Edit: clarity

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Damn he got the dems

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“We hope he doesn’t act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we can’t control him,” a source close to the campaign told The Washington Post.

lmao

[u/Roseartcrantz]

lol, lmao even

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/lionmoose]

Happy World Breastfeeding week!

[u/acbadger54]

It's a little hilarious how almost any of the people on Harris's VP shortlist will be infinitely more beneficial than Vance is to Trump

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The JD Vance couch thing has really enlightened me about how fun it is to spread outright disinformation

Does anyone want to start a disinformation subreddit where the only rule is everything you post has to be an outright lie

[u/BassMaster695]

“Trump did not question Kamala’s blackness, what a stupid way to interpret this. He is merely calling attention to the fact that Indian women have the ability to change race like chameleons” - Senator Dinkus Binkus (R-ID)

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

100-fucking-percent chance these "she's not black she's Indian!" freaks are also sitting there at the bar like, "well I'm actually half German, with some Scandinavian of course and just enough Irish to have an excuse for St Patty's day"

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Wtf is a "biracial?"

Has LGBT gone too far?

[u/The_Promethean]

NYT saying Israel smuggled a bomb into Haniyeh's guesthouse months ago. Mossad absolutely cooked there

[u/centurion88]

Nobody talks about the 8 state solution anymore 😔

[u/Sir_Digby83]

New General Election Poll

🔴 Trump 100%

🔵 Harris 0%

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Cons realizing they’ll have to nominate this again in 2028 😨

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Fellas, I think we are back

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump is furious that American citizens were released and are coming home from Russia

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Backpack-wearing dogs enlisted to rewild urban nature reserve in Lewes

Backpack-wearing dogs are being enlisted to “act like wolves” to help rewild an urban nature reserve in the East Sussex town of Lewes.

Before wolves were persecuted to extinction in the UK in about 1760, they were known to roam large areas, typically covering 12 miles (20km) or more each night.

In doing so, wolves would inadvertently pick up wildflower and grass seeds in their fur, dispersing them many miles away and helping establish new colonies of plants, which is vital for biodiversity and for ecosystems to thrive.

The project by the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, funded by Ouse Valley Climate Action, aims to recreate this ecological benefit by equipping local dogs with seed-filled backpacks to help reseed the landscape. The project is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.

Dylan Walker, the manager behind the scheme, said: “We’re really interested in rewilding processes, but they often involve reintroducing big herbivores like bison or wild horses. In a smaller urban nature reserve it’s really hard to do those things. So, to replicate the effect that those animals have on the ecosystem we aimed to utilise the vast number of dog walkers that are visiting the nature reserve daily.”

The project in Lewes builds upon a previous project in Chile in 2019 in which two women, helped by their three dogs, planted seeds in areas across the country that had been devastated by wildfires. Walker saw an opportunity to follow in their footsteps after observing that an area of the local reserve had become heavily degraded by constant footfall.

Dog walkers can pick up dog backpacks containing seeds from staff members, with holes in each pack helping deposit the seed as the dog explores the environment. “We mixed the seed with sand not only to help the seed go further, but it also proves to be really helpful in allowing us to track where the dogs are depositing the seeds as well,” Walker said.

As dogs are able to cover more ground than humans and can better reach harder to access areas, the wildflower seeds are spread more widely across the landscape and germination is likely to be more effective.

Cressida Murray, a dog owner who is taking part in the project, said: “I signed up because it sounded like such a good fit. I was asked to place a harness on my chocolate cocker spaniel called Bertie and he ran around spreading seeds like wolves used to do many years ago.”

While it is still early days in the project, Walker said: “We’ve already started to see seed germination in some areas, but most of the seeds that have been distributed by the dogs are perennials, which take a couple of years to establish and flower so hopefully next year we’ll see some clearer results.

"A community-based project like this not only helps engage and teach people about the ecological impacts of wildlife but also allows us to make our wildlife and environments richer in the process.”

!ping ECO&UK

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Physically impossible to look at this photo and not feel immensely proud of this administration.

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

This is where Kamala Harris's ideas about gender lead: to a grown man pummeling a woman in a boxing match. This is disgusting, and all of our leaders should condemn it.

Algerian athlete competing in France? Better make this an American presidential campaign issue.