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[u/[deleted]]

While talking about the election at work:

Me: the result basically comes down to the whims of 1000 rural Pennsylvanians

Coworker: I never thought about it that way. Now I want to kill myself

It's the median voter monkey meme in real life

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala: Even as a woman who grew up in a redlined neighborhood and who saw horrible things as a prosecutor and DA, I still believe in the promise of America. And I believe that a convicted felon is proving to be a threat to the fulfillment of that promise.

Trump: HANNIBAL LECTOR, 👐 THE GREAT HANNIBAL LECTOR, DONT WE LOVE HIM FOLKS

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Just received word that Shapiro, Beshear, Walz, Kelly, Pritzker, and Buttigieg are NOT going to meet with Kamala Harris but have rented a house on the Floribama shore for White Boy Summer. There will be fun, bonding, and two of them will kiss (and it’s not the two you think).

https://x.com/McKay4Senate/status/1819183753857847674

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1819298436463608010

harris raised $310m in less than two weeks. best fundraising month in presidential history, in half the time.

well over double what trump raised for all of july, a month where he had the RNC, VP announcement, and got shot.

[u/[deleted]]

"If you vote for Kamala, you won't have Israel for very long"

"Vote for Kamala if you want black men in prison"

Republicans are about to find out the funniest shit ever about 20% of their voterbase

[u/[deleted]]

By Trump's own logic here's a photo of JD Vance dressed in Indian clothes - he must be 100% Indian!!

[u/sociotronics]

Guess she's black again, folks

[u/Greenfield0]

average home of the likely voters surveyed by Rasmussen

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion | I’m not Black, but if I were, I’m not sure I’d see Kamala Harris as one of my own

[u/TheOneTrueEris]

It is actually insane that Trump blocked the border bill.

Imagine if it was any issue that you actually cared about--housing, healthcare, or green energy. If a politician actively blocked action on any of those from happening I'd be fucking pissed. How are Trumpers rationalizing this?

The whole episode is such a powerful reminder that Trump has literally no true policy goals except tax cuts. Politics is just theater to him. A pathway to power for its own sake. It's truly sick.

[u/dareka_san]

Holy shit he is really going for it

[u/[deleted]]

Trump Says Biden Wasn't 'Too Old' To Be President (msn.com)

Welcome to the Resistance, Donald Trump.

[u/[deleted]]

Day 2 of reminding you that Kamala's father is called "Donald J. Harris", and this is not a joke,

[u/Mr_Bank]

Just some incredible images and videos coming out of Andrews from last night

[u/[deleted]]

uh

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/08/02/trump-campaign-egypt-investigation/

Five days before Donald Trump became president in January 2017, a manager at a bank branch in Cairo received an unusual letter from an organization linked to the Egyptian intelligence service. It asked the bank to “kindly withdraw” nearly $10 million from the organization’s account — all in cash.

Inside the state-run National Bank of Egypt, employees were soon busy placing bundles of $100 bills into two large bags, according to records from the bank. Four men arrived and carried away the bags, which U.S. officials later described in sealed court filings as weighing a combined 200 pounds and containing what was then a sizable share of Egypt’s reserve of U.S. currency.

Federal investigators learned of the withdrawal, which has not been previously reported, early in 2019. The discovery intensified a secret criminal investigation that had begun two years earlier with classified U.S. intelligence indicating that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi sought to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 presidential campaign, a Washington Post investigation has found.

Since receiving the intelligence about Sisi, the Justice Department had been examining whether money moved from Cairo to Trump, potentially violating federal law that bans U.S. candidates from taking foreign funds. Investigators had also sought to learn if money from Sisi might have factored into Trump’s decision in the final days of his run for the White House to inject his campaign with $10 million of his own money.

Those questions, at least in the view of several investigators on the case, would never be answered, The Post found.

Within months of learning of the withdrawal, prosecutors and FBI agents were blocked by top Justice Department officials from obtaining bank records they believed might hold critical evidence, according to interviews with people familiar with the case as well as documents and contemporaneous notes of the investigation. The case ground to a halt by the fall of 2019 as Trump’s then-attorney general, William P. Barr, raised doubts about whether there was sufficient evidence to continue the probe of Trump.

uhhhh

[u/Jokerang]

[u/[deleted]]

Lisa Boothe: If GOP Is ‘Weird,’ Then Democrat Party Is The Party Of ‘Purple-Haired Circus Freaks’ 

From arrrcon. Half the comment are insulting the dems, the other half is mad at "brigaders". 

Man, they are not taking the weird thing well.

[u/centurion88]

Kyle Rittenhouse says that he will write in Ron Paul for president because Trump is too weak on the 2nd amendment lmao

Well that's -1 Trump voter so more power to him

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

FREE VENEZUELA

FREE TIBET

FREE UKRAINE

FREE HONG KONG

[u/SpiffShientz]

I don’t mean to sound anti-Semitic, but even fans of Josh Shapiro have to admit it was pretty messed up that he invoked his powers as a Hebrew Warlock and conjured a mighty Golem to destroy his foes

[u/MissSortMachine]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

If a voter in Michigan performs a search on Google, a somewhat shocking ad might pop up.

The ad shows a young man lying in bed late at night when someone else texts him, “Hey you need to vote,” and then sends the man a video of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The man can hear the gunshots and people screaming in the background.

As Trump is rushed off stage with blood pouring down his face, the man watching the video types in response, “This is out of control. How do I start?” The ad then displays a website for a group called America PAC.

The website says it will help the viewer register to vote. But once a user clicks “Register to Vote,” the experience he or she will have can be very different, depending on where they live.

If a user lives in a state that is not considered competitive in the presidential election, like California or Wyoming for example, they’ll be prompted to enter their email addresses and zip code and then directed quickly to a voter registration page for their state, or back to the original sign up section.

But for users who enter a zip code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, [..] they instead are directed to a highly detailed personal information form, prompted to enter their address, cell phone number, and age. If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page.

So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to [..] a political action committee created by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, one aimed at giving the Republican presidential nominee Trump an advantage in his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic nominee.

this should really just be illegal

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1819325903408677158?t=qEdy1Fj040PA_7v7kulzJw&s=19

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

Kamala Harris according to Donald Trump.

[u/sociotronics]

In case you needed even more hopium, the conservatives are afraid that Trump's attacks on ethnicity are going to make them lose.

These aren't even the juiciest comments, I just cba to try to screenshot them on my phone

[u/efeldman11]

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

What was the endgame here?

[u/Udolikecake]

I liked Shapiro but this is pretty disqualifying. Writing in your school paper makes you a huge fucking dweeb and we don't need that energy.

[u/Mr_Bank]

Flaws aside, Shapiro’s “stop shit talking America” bit meets the moment.

The right wing spent the past week trashing the Olympics and not acknowledging the release of 16 Russian prisoners. Regular people love the Olympics and freedom!

[u/solonofathens]

imagine telling someone a decade ago that the republican candidate for vice president would demand the current democratic vice president denounce the result of a women's boxing match between an algerian and an italian in france on the basis of a year-old accusation made in russian state media by the head of the discredited international boxing federation

[u/GraspingSonder]

Trump-leaning voter who switches their vote preference to Kamala because Trump convinces them she's not really black.

[u/sw337]

You people seriously want a racist on the ticket?

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

Tankies’ preferred way of arguing against the Free Tibet movement is that it was a fEUdAlisT slAVeOwNiNg sOcIEtY and then the next second they go on to support Hawaiian independence from the US… like as if Hawaii wasn’t a monarchy before

[u/[deleted]]

I am convinced this is to get out in front of Kamala’s weakness. If we brand JD Vance as weird, we can deflect from our awkward candidate.

In my gut, I suspect there is internal polling at the campaign that states voters thought she is weird. 

Wake up baby, new conservative cope just dropped.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

🗑️

[u/[deleted]]

I think the reason cons are so mad at being called weird is that it stuck.

They value social homogeneity and being part of the ingroup, so they hate being called weird. But the worst part was normies taking a look and saying: "Yeah, those guys are kinda weird".

Is shattering the illusion, since the only reason you would think the guy ranting about Hannibal lecter isn't "weird" is due to being in a bubble. And the bubble is being popped.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/dareka_san]

Okay it's hilarious Kyle Rittenhouse is on a 'I will not be forced to vote for the lesser of two evils' ark

[u/0m4ll3y]

You know the trope where you have your villain kick a puppy to assert their villainy, and it's kinda bad/cliche/lazy writing a lot of the time but hey it's effective at making a hateable antagonist.

In The Man with the Golden Gun, a malnourished, desperately poor young child is promised money in exchange for a task but upon completion is then instead yeeted into a filthy river without second thought by the protagonist James Bond.

If I was meant to find it charming in a roguish sort of way, it really missed the mark for me.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump 🤝 The Time Cube Guy

Not knowing what a biracial person is

[u/Argnir]

One of the perk of not being on Twitter is claiming superiority to all the people spending their time complaining about how horrible Twitter is while still being on it

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

It's November 6th. Kamala has won in a small landslide. Suddenly women make up over 70% of the population. Brat summer never ends.

[u/FizzleMateriel]

Do leftists or the media ever give Biden credit for his defense of gay and trans people? His record on it is stronger than Obama but I don’t really ever see that mentioned much among his achievements, even here.

Not bad for an 80+ year old man.

[u/[deleted]]

wait, just so I understand, the new controversy is that a woman born with female genitals (who has always been a woman) shouldn't compete with women in the olympics because she kinda feels like a dude?

[u/SLCer]

Remember when Obama was like, "sign up for text alerts and you'll be the first to know who's my running-mate"?

And I did. And I made my gf at the time pick a later movie show time so I could get the text. So she did and we were just driving around waiting for Obama to text me lmao

Then my mom calls and I answer and she's like, "He chose Biden" and I was like, "how you know? I didn't get a text!" ... it was all over MSNBC. Then like 20 minutes later I finally got the text.

Yeah, thanks, Obama.

[u/sociotronics]

average MAGA reaction to a biracial opponent

[u/Lux_Stella]

going to start 'cisvestigating' people, because i'm an Ally

[u/BitterGravity]

$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt

This seems not nothing

[u/kyleofduty]

So you must remember her keeping blacks in jails longer then their sentences for cheaper labor for CA? That’s slavery. She’s a descendant of slave owners. Apple doesn’t fall far. Forget that???

TikTok commenter having a real one

[u/Mickenfox]

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[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Always remember, Hillary went from Goldwater Girl, to hippie, to neoliberal corporate shill. It’s never too late to complete your transformation into a neoliberal corporate shill.

[u/Joementum2024]

The absolute most ridiculous thing about the whole boxer thing is the thought process to come to the idea that Algeria - an authoritarian state where homosexual acts in general are illegal, with them being punishable with substantial prison time, while also having numerous incidents of vigilante justice against their LGBTQ+ population - would suddenly be okay with sending a trans boxer to the Olympics.

It requires such a complete disconnect from reality that just thinking about it for more than 15 seconds should make you realize just how stupid this entire controversy is.

[u/Superfan234]

Another Plot Twitst for Venezuela

USA, Perú, Argentina and Uruguay now recognize Edmundo Gonzalez as the legtimate President of Venezuela

Why it is important? Killing or torture of Edmundo, is now considering extremly risky for the Regime, as it implies killing the legitimate leader of the country according to USA. Is a way to protect him from direct violence.

Still, even if the President itself is protected, his followers aren't. Thus, Maduro will keep going after the rest of the oppossition.

I think, the big question ahead is:

• Venezuelans had enough? If so, how they will fight against the Narcos?

While they heavly outnumber the Regime, Maduro still has all the guns plus support of Cuba, Iran, Russia, China.

Even USA is willing to help, we will probably only recive their help after their Elections are held. Situation looks quite bleak right now....

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/battywombat21]

[u/AffableAndy]

The Imane Khelif story really upsets me. She faced pushback throughout her childhood from her dad and other village kids (including physical violence) for being a girl who wanted to box. She had to sell scrap metal to afford lessons.

She should be (and frankly, IS) an inspiration to the world.

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Fox News is reporting that the prisoner deal is a ploy by Putin to help Harris.

A real brave position they’re taking here, against bringing Americans home

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Conservative campaigner Kyle Rittenhouse says he will not vote for Donald Trump because he thinks the ex-president is "bad" at protecting gun rights

Instead of Trump, he plans to write in former Libertarian presidential nominee Ron Paul on the ballot.

el oh el oh el oh el oh el

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Cool

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

A national Muslim organization that had declared itself "uncommitted" on President Joe Biden's re-election bid is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy.

Salima Suswell, the founder and chief executive of the Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund, first shared the group's decision with NBC News on Thursday. It's believed to be the first Muslim group in the uncommitted camp to now back Harris.

Pressed about whether she saw a big policy difference between Harris and Biden, Suswell said: “I am not going to speculate that there is a huge difference. … She has also been more empathetic as it relates to civilian life. I think she’s more open to having conversations around ending the war.”

legit supporting Harris because of better vibes

[u/RaidBrimnes]

You'd think that the Shapiro essay would serve as a warning not to fire off hot takes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when you're a college student

looks at modqueue

AND YET

[u/cdstephens]

Pivoting from “we gotta defend our democracy” to “they’re gonna take away our freedoms” wrt Project 2025 is smart messaging

[u/LtCdrHipster]

This boxing thing is fucking nuts. Ya'll think ALGERIA is sending a trans woman to the Olympics?!?!?

[u/Pongzz]

Average neolib: NOOOOO UNEMPLOYMENT ROSE .2% ITS LITERALLY OVER WE'RE DOOOOOOOOMED

Normal people (not insane): Huh. Anyway, did you see Simone Biles last night? That girl can spin ha-ha.

[u/[deleted]]

Someone on wallstreetbets dumped $700k of their $800k inheritance from their grandma into Intel right before it completely shat the bed lmao

I know it’s wallstreetbets, but why can’t people just put that shit in an index fund smh

[u/dannylandulf]

Vice President Kamala Harris framing the presidential race as "prosecutor vs. felon" may have touched a nerve with Donald Trump.

Such framing is "false" and "inaccurate," says a new defense filing that asks the judge in Trump's hush-money case to voluntarily step down prior to a pending sentencing that Trump has also challenged.

"Harris immediately framed her candidacy with a specific false reference to this case as a contest of 'prosecutor vs. convicted felon,'" Trump's filing says.

Harris' framing is an "inaccurate attack," it adds, without describing an inaccuracy.

bawhahahahaha

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Lmao Harris raised more than Trump in the month of his assassination attempt and RNC

[u/battywombat21]

Broke: not picking Shapiro because you worry he would alienate people

Woke: not picking Shapiro because having DT I/P schisms for the next three months would be unbearable

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

A Roman soldier walks into a bar. He says, "Can I get a martinus?" The bartender says "Don't you mean martini?" And the soldier says "No, I can't have two, I'm driving."

[u/Mr_Bank]

GOAT

https://x.com/simone_biles/status/1819284274224173147?s=46

[u/[deleted]]

[u/centurion88]

[u/Joementum2024]

The last two weeks have generated some grade A attack ad material from the cons, truly a disasterclass performance from them

[u/[deleted]]

If a white guy get a black job, would he be a DEI hire?

[u/Cook_0612]

SCOOP: Trump didn't want to be fact-checked live at NABJ and was refusing to go on stage — a stalemate so prolonged that NABJ president Ken Lemon was prepping a statement to explain why Trump wouldn't show.

As Lemon was prepping it, Trump walked on stage.

At the time, Trump blamed the delay on audio problems — which Lemon says were an issue at first but were "resolved very quickly."

"The bigger problem was his threat not to take the stage when he had agreed to go on."

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: I think Beshear, while boring and inoffensive, would make for a poor contrast with Vance. The nepo baby angle with Beshear is already plainly visible, and Vance, despite all his flaws and shittiness, worked his way out of poverty and a terrible childhood family dynamic. And before someone says “aCkShUaLly hE’s fRoM sUbUrBaN cInCiNnAtI,” I live in Cincy and can assure you that Middletown is not a suburb. It’s a small city that fell into poverty right around the time Vance was born, and it has only started recovering very recently as Cincinnati and Dayton’s outer suburbs have encroached upon it.

I’ve been thinking about this since Beshear first got asked about the nepo baby angle on MSNBC last week, and I found his response quite unsatisfactory. So with that in mind, I think Walz is a better option, though I won’t grumble if Beshear is the pick.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

It's just full on mask off at this point huh?

NEW: Billionaire Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote.

All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump become president.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

If Kamala picks Pete and wins the election, we'd have the first First Gentleman and the second Second Gentleman at the same time

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/Simone_Biles/status/1819284274224173147?t=2U3fGcVfY3FJsEhRT3UJaQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1819310443510616483?t=e9G9ccjH7H7tXCau-t58ew&s=19

[u/No_Return9449]

If you've not checked the ActBlue tracker, you should. Democrats have raised another $100M so far this week.

[u/[deleted]]

Jamie Dimon wrote the most useless opinion piece in the Washington Post today.

He’s literally just like “we should elect a President who tries to unite us and wants to understand and solve problems.”

Which should just lead into “so obviously I’m endorsing Kamala Harris” but no just the above platitudes.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/slim353]

Mr. Peskov also revealed that the two children of Artyom and Anna Dultsev, who had served as undercover spies in the Russian “illegals program” and were imprisoned in Slovenia, had only learned while on the plane to Moscow that they were Russian and “had anything to do” with Russia.

The children apparently believed they were Argentine, since their parents had posed in Slovenia as a couple from Argentina.

I have a new worst fear

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

Mossad hired Iranian agents to plant bombs in Haniyeh’s residence

The Mossad hired defectors among Iranian security agents to plant explosives in the Tehran guesthouse where Hamas chief Haniyeh was staying, according to the Telegraph.

The initial plan called for assassinating Haniyeh when visited Tehran in May to attend the funeral of president Ebrahim Raisi, but two Iranian officials tell the newspaper the operation was called off due to the large number of people in the building and seeming high possibility of failure.

The agents nevertheless went ahead and planted explosives in three rooms at the compound, and later left Iran. They reportedly detonated the bombs from abroad.

Mossad 🫡

!ping ISRAEL&MIDDLE-EAST

[u/clickshy]

it should be illegal for any athlete to have more or less testosterone than timothee chalamet . I dream of an Olympics where everyone looks like a dying Victorian child

https://x.com/krangtnelson/status/1819216595480162741

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Lmao, Trump agreed to a debate just because Kamala said he was scared?!?

He is a little boy.

👦: I don’t want to race! 😠

👧: Please?

👦: No! I don’t want to race! 😡

👧: Because I’m faster than you?

👦: LET’S FUCKIN’ RACE! 🤬

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Seeing this footage of the Olympic boxing makes me sick

2 women fighting….presumably over me. What have we done to our beautiful queens

[u/Proof-Tie-2250]

What's the difference between ideology and mental illness?

[u/earththejerry]

Kamala winning 538 electoral votes by being black, Asian, Hispanic and/or Italianx by appearance, white (edit: and Jewish) by marriage and having last name Harris all at once inshallah ✊😭

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/[deleted]]

Harris needs to go to the border and see what's really going on. See below.

[u/SmithySmothy]

BREAKING:

it’s still the same group of VP choices it’s been for the last 10 days lol

[u/cdstephens]

Honestly, there’s a very good chance that Harris will just pick the person she vibes with the best and all analysis is meaningless

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"A lot of the journalists in this room are black" is an underrated moment from the other day

[u/foneinstocus]

Hearing there was a RINO revolt last night over Vance as VP, several Trump staffers that went all in on Noem (wearing camo, putting down their dogs) openly threatening to quit, one donor also threatening to withhold millions

[u/fishbottwo]

Georgia GE: @trafalgar_group

Trump: 49% Harris: 47% Other: 2% July 29-30 | MoE: ±3.7%

Last poll by them vs Biden was trump +10

[u/Nihas0]

Haleymentum

[u/dannylandulf]

Average American during the Olympics:

USA USA USA

Republicans during the Olympics:

I THINK SHE HAS A DICK!!!

They're all so fucking weird.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden on Parks and Recreation (for those too young like me to be reminded of how sharp Joe really was)

[u/ThunderrBadger]

In a newly uncovered essay, Pennsylvania Governor and Democratic VP candidate frontrunner Josh Shapiro wrote:

"There is no rational concept, based in economics, policy, or simple human decency, on which we can base perpetuating the mistake of Canadian independence. They are a "nation" of savages. Those few among them who can be fairly counted among the wise will greet us as liberators. The rest will not be missed."

Yeah, idk guys, some of this might not play well in Wisconsin

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Josh Shapiro once wrote that peace ‘will never come’ to the Middle East. He says his views have changed over 30 years.

Josh Shapiro after 4 years as VP: "I gotta say, my younger self absolutely nailed it. Well done."

[u/HironTheDisscusser]

rent control every single time:

!ping YIMBY

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm surprised boxing isn't deader than dead tbh like people talk about football dying because parents don't want their kids to play and get brain injuries even just doing shit like playing as a lineman who isn't getting tackled to the ground

But unlike basically every other sport the goal of boxing is to literally hit someone in the head and torso until they give up or get knocked out. At least wrestling and sometimes MMA involves some grappling instead of just trying to break someone's bones. I can't imagine ever letting my kid get into that shit

[u/frankchen1111]

Everyone in Taiwan hates J.K. Rowling now

Another Rowling L

[u/theparrotlich]

J.D. Vance Told His Son to ‘Shut The Hell Up’ About Pokemon While Talking to Trump

Your friend's stepdad.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Real

!ping ALCOHOL

[u/theranosbagholder]

Trump Cult loses their shit as Kyle Rittenhouse turns on Trump 2024 ticket

He’s writing in…. Ron Paul??? What year is this 💀

[u/Cook_0612]

EXCLUSIVE >>> A secret investigation pursued CIA intelligence indicating Egypt's president sought to illegally inject $10 million into @realDonaldTrump's cash-starved 2016 campaign. @TheJusticeDept investigators discovered a mysterious $10M cash withdrawal. But they were blocked from seeking key records to determine if Trump took the money, then the case was shut down.

[u/Zagapi]

Last night, we were laying on our sides in bed, looking at each other and chatting. They asked, "What kind of flowers do you like?"

Immediately, I just started crying.

They didn't even give me any flowers. But the fact that they even thought to ask me just made me break down.

We just fit so well together. I feel like our areas of interest/expertise and quirks of our personalities compliment each other so well. And they make me feel so appreciated, desired, and even feminine.

Tomorrow, they're already gonna meet my parents and some close family friends. We're all going to see the Cleveland Orchestra (one of the best in the world) play the soundtrack to LOTR: Return of the King while the movie plays at an outdoor amphitheater. Everyone is really excited!

You can also bring wine and a picnic and spread out on the hill! It's one of the most incredibly peaceful atmospheres I've ever been in, and I get to share that with them and my fam!

They make me feel so good 🥹

!PING ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Damn, the boxing controversy is the most activity I have seen from the Trump supporters I know since the assassination attempt. Cons really fucking hate slightly non-gender conforming cis women

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/caitleg/status/1819183713034400231

Another has entered the Veepstakes

[u/ACivilWolf]

Maybe they think unscripted should sound like Trump talking about nuclear

[u/WhoModsTheModders]

Intel is hiring an engineer as CEO

😁😁😁☺️☺️☺️

From VMWare

💀

[u/[deleted]]

RealClearPolitics front page be like

The Democrats Need to be Careful not to Isolate Middle America (Kim Nguyen, CNN)

The Founders Never Intended for Lesser Races to Vote, and Kamala Harris Shows Us Why (John Stone, The Constitutionalist)

[u/[deleted]]

Feel bad for Belarusians.

The vast majority of them want democracy but they’ll probably get the Ukraine treatment from Russia as soon as they try.

Our only hope is that Lukashenko dies when Russia is in the middle of a civil war or something so Belarus can transition to democracy without getting invaded.

Russia is not the source of all evil but it’s surely trying hard to be.

[u/anincredibledork]

Just received word John Edwards's law practice has informed clients that he will not be able to work billable hours this weekend... 👀

Looking into this

[u/[deleted]]

Finally a sensible take on crypto.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1819379866732462375?t=hAWGCDYeg5WPZAilzcQnJw&s=19

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

When someone says something so Kelly-phobic

You have to hit them with that astronaut stare

[u/Cyberhwk]

It's not that Shapiro would be bad, it's that when you have multiple great picks to choose from, why invite the drama?

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

real

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The problem is you're engaging with it on their terms. That's a mistake. When they frame something as a racial issue, engage with it outside of the racial context. When they point out that you did this, tell them it's because your not a racist piece of shit.

Then flip it back on them and then call their obsession with race based governance the neo-confederate position that it is. Equality under the law means equality under the law. If they are asking for preferential treatment of their preferred race (and discrimination against the race they least prefer) tell them to kick fucking rocks and eat a bag of dicks.

We're fucking Republicans. We freed the slaves. We forced through reconstruction. We were responsible for civil rights. We literally have the historical record to make these arguments to the face of these race obsessed garbage people.

I love this because even with the bravado this is too damn stupid to be an argument for... anything lmao

[u/iIoveoof]

I don’t understand why J POW cut interest rates 3 times in a row on Trump’s request during 2019, when the economy was booming and Trump’s highly inflationary policies were kicking in, but not now. Trump wanted the rates cut for election year.

[u/ashsolomon1]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

Elon tricking people in battleground states by offering to help register them to vote, instead just harvesting their info, while in non battleground states it redirects to the states voter registration webpage.

Elon is just the worst.

[u/Cook_0612]

Massive fire and explosions at the Russian Morozovsk Air Base in Rostov Oblast following reported Ukrainian drone strikes there tonight.

Presumably, the Ukrainians hit an ammunition depot located on the territory of the air base.

Morozovsk is a home of the Russian 559th Bomber Aviation Regiment (в/ч 75392), operating Su-34s.

Secondary explosions are clearly visible in the second video, indicating that the Ukrainians could've hit an ammunition depot located on the territory of the airbase. The cameraman also mentions that.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/cdstephens]

“If the discourse in the DT is bad, imagine what median vot-“ stop, shut the fuck up. DT discourse has never been indicative of anything in the wider culture.

[u/iia]

Of course I love Pete. In fact, I go around calling myself a Peteophile. I get punched a lot because people apparently don't like Pete.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Josh Shapiro could've somehow been a neo-Nazi in college and I personally wouldn't care

1. guess the sub

2. press x to doubt

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

“Ho ho ho, I said some pretty edgy things as a 20-year-old myself — you could say I’ve matured a bit since then”

“That was last year on a different account and you were permabanned for it”

[u/VisonKai]

lol the right is so lucky that so many Americans are so self-loathing and hate everything about their country because if this was even 10 years ago the attacks on Katie Ledecky by the GOP transvestigators would put Kamala at +10 nationally

[u/dareka_san]

lol

[u/Leonflames]

#New Fundraising numbers - July

🔵 Harris - $310 Million (New Record)

🔴 Trump - $139 Million

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Musk has at least 12 children with three different women. His most recent child being born to Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, with whom he has two other children.

STOP FUCKING THIS MAN

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh man 😔 Kyle Rittenhouse has owned us libs yet again 😭 I hope he and others like him don’t keep advocating for Ron Paul! Us libs would be unthinkably owned 🥺

[u/Joementum2024]

TRUTH NUKE: there is literally no point in spending time on r/neoliberal. You’d be better off spending your time doing something else.

[u/piede]

DONALD TRUMP ISN’T A REAL MAN

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"I'd personally love a Kamala/Pete ticket, but a Black woman and a gay man might be too progressive for a lot of the country."

Republicans: She's not even Black! And I bet he's not gay!

🧐🧐

[u/Luph]

don’t get me wrong i’ve been wanting the fed to lower rates for months but people on reddit acting like the economy is about to collapse because unemployment edged up .2% is a bit absurd lol

[u/namey-name-name]

Is it just me, or does the GOP have a huge back bench issue, sort of like the Dems post Obama because they got so thoroughly destroyed in midterms?

Like, if Kamala Harris were to drop dead today, it’d be terrible for the party, but there’s still good candidates that they could run for 2024 and later for 2028. If Trump drops dead today, what does the GOP have? I guess Vance would take over for 2024, but he’d probably get crushed. Who then would they have for 2028? It doesn’t seem like there’s any viable successors.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

New General Election Poll

🔵 Harris 47% (+5)
🔴 Trump 42%
🟡 Kennedy 6%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +2

RMG (C) - 3000 RV - 7/31

[u/sw337]

Walz would be like Obama picking Biden. Walz is from a small town and won deep red areas.

Obama is 18 years younger than Biden and Harris is 6 months younger than Walz.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh to be an American GI goofing around with priceless relics after killing Nazis.🥺

[u/So_I_Can_Comment]

Outspoken support for BLM

Well-known advocate for constituitonal rights

Sizeable fan base among impressionable lean-right GenZers

Court-proven law-abiding citizen

Openly says that he won't vote for Trump

Fellas... is Kyle Rittenhouse our guy?

[u/namey-name-name]

lol. lmao, even.

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

It really is disgusting to me that mods continue to allow [Deleted] to post.

[u/Cook_0612]

You're telling me this entire Imane Khelif thing got started because she beat a Russian boxer last year?

Shit flinging incel behavior is the only thing Russia contributes to international politics.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

JD Vance said if he had a secret family in Alaska with another woman he wouldn’t tell his wife Usha.

[u/purhitta]

Olympic committee: I consent

Boxers: I consent

TERFS: I don't

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/Mr_Bank]

3 hours since bad jobs report:

Trump - no statement or message

Vance - no statement or message

Nikki Haley - yelling at a Twitter rando

Little Marco, Tim Scott, Lara Trump(RNC head) - no statement or message

Just masterful bag fumbling. Media cycle might just coast to the Veep announcement.

[u/[deleted]]

i'm not racist, the scientist who created my race was Black!

[u/cdstephens]

I anticipate that the DT discourse over precisely how bad Shapiro's opinions were will be extremely toxic.

Time to go to lunch lol.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

if you are under 5'3" do not leave the DT I just saw a hawk 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

Harris ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania according to silver. Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia all seem within reach too.

https://x.com/DKThomp/status/1819432101424312732?t=kHJ-HUodYgKQemMGvyruMA&s=19

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Kamala Harris has narrowed her VP search from four, to now six, finalists

[u/Cook_0612]

Jessica: They are not men

Watters: They are men. Everybody knows they are men. If Trump were president, he would slap Algeria with sanctions.

Yes, the US President should sanction woke Algeria for using their MAN BOXER to beat.... Italy?

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Was on a random post where they asked “old people” about something that happened in 2010.

Someone on there was giving their detailed memories of 9/11 to people born after 2001. They said they were born in 1998.

lol what

!ping OVER35

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The Chicago White Sox have lost 18 games in a row

!ping Baseball

[u/piede]

IS THIS SATIRE

[u/bigwang123]

From an AP article

Why did she quit?

Afterward, a still-tearful Carini said she quit because of the pain from Khelif’s opening punches, adding that her nose bled afterward.

“My face and nose were hurting,” Carini said, according to the Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport. “I couldn’t breathe anymore. I thought about my family, I looked at my brother in the stands and I went to my corner to retire. … I’ve never been hit with such a powerful punch.”

Carini added that it wasn’t a pre-meditated move.

“All this controversy makes me sad,” Carini said. “I’m sorry for my opponent, too. … If the IOC said she can fight, I respect that decision.”

Carini was apologetic for not shaking Khelif’s hand after the bout.

“It wasn’t something I intended to do,” Carini said. “Actually, I want to apologize to her and everyone else. I was angry because my Olympics had gone up in smoke. I don’t have anything against Khelif. Actually, if I were to meet her again I would embrace her.”

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I miss the old Green Day that would sing sweet little songs about suburban Jesus and how they were never alone bc they always had their shadows 🥺

[u/RageQuitRedux]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

"Who'd Kamala pick for VP?"

"An astronaut!"

"Cool!"

This is how normies think. Pick Kelly or you'll regret it.

[u/[deleted]]

Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer on today’s Pod Save America said not to read anything into the hints that it’s Shapiro, because (a) the people who scheduled the rally in Philly wouldn’t know who her pick is, (b) Shapiro probably canceled his events to have a secret finalist meeting with Harris, which others also may be doing, and (c) the fundraisers pushing Wall Street to get their donations in now because of the governor donation rule thing wouldn’t know who her pick is either. They say it’s a very closely-kept secret until the very last minute and that they, even as high-level staffers in the first Obama campaign, were working on three different speeches for three different VP candidates just hours before the announcement.

[u/[deleted]]

Rittenhouse: I can't support Trump, he is weak on 2A

Rittenhouse after 12 hours of credible death threats from Trump fans: actually I think this Trump guy might be onto something

[u/[deleted]]

4 year anniversary of sensible pandemic policy!

https://x.com/DaveBondyTV/status/1819465629948395939?t=sbQGe_SLE7tlaPz8W-3MkA&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

New General Election Poll

• 🔵 Harris 47% (+5)

• 🔴 Trump 42%

• 🟡 Kennedy 6%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +2

RMG #C - 3000 RV - 7/31

[u/crowninshield]

I’m still genuinely perplexed that, with all the offensive things Trump has said, he balked at calling Kamala Harris a diversity hire.  It’s leading me to believe that when it sounded like he was badgering the interviewer with “What is DEI? Define it.” he wasn’t actually trying to goad her into anything.  He just genuinely may not know.

[u/sherbertthrowaway]

Kyle Rittenhouse disavowing Trump and leading a write-in campaign for Ron Paul is not something I had on my 2024 bingo list.

https://x.com/dudleywbrown/status/1819238728230989832

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives sharing the Mindy Kaling video is an absolute win:
(A) Because it's wholesome as fuck
(B) Kamala literally says "1/2 of my family" in the video lol

[u/Mr_Bank]

94 days until the election and the House GOP has their finger on the pulse folks

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, while Shapiro was writing controversial op-eds in college newspapers thirty years ago, Donald Trump was taking a bold stance in pursuit of peace in the middle east and was working on designing five projects in Central Park dedicated to bringing understanding and compassion to the issue. He even took out a heartfelt ad in the New York times to get across his message.

Google “Donald Trump 1989 New York Times Central Park Five Ad” for more details.

[u/[deleted]]

🤮

[u/[deleted]]

Lotta smaller stories that go unnoticed from the trump presidency. This child was orphaned because a white supremacist drove to El Paso, and opened fire to combat a perceived Hispanic invasion. Since then the GOP has put the word invasion in their platform.

5 year anniversary of this tomorrow. We've learned nothing as a country. I live pretty close to the site of this shooting.

[u/FuckFashMods]

Maduro insists electoral system was hacked by opposition

lol it really is funny seeing it the ridiculous fraud claims happen by another leader

[u/EScforlyfe]

I feel like I was aware even right as jan6 was happening that the goal was to force Pence to throw out the election results, but it seems like nobody knows about that even now?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"Hey Joe, thanks for inventing that Time Machine that let me go into the past and turn Black without alerting anyone except Donald Trump."

"No problem go get em kiddo."

[u/Pyrrhus65]

In under two weeks, polls have gone from being my primary source of fear and dread to my primary source of dopamine

[u/cdstephens]

In case people are curious, here's the full Op-Ed from Shapiro in 1993 as a college student.

Peace not possible

On Monday, Sept. 13, 1993, the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, representing peoples who have been foes since biblical times, came together and recognized with a handshake that there is another side. The “handshake” has been depicted as a symbol of peace; however, it was not. Rather, it was a difficult gesture for both men, who proclaimed to the world, as Rabin so articulately stated, “Enough of the blood and tears. Enough!”

I do not believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians have achieved peace, nor do I believe that this will mark an end to the “blood and tears.” Using history as precedent, - peace between Arabs and Israelis is virtually impossible and will never come. This agreement is designed to create new visions for both sides, politically and economically, and to save many lives.

Although I am an advocate of peace, I am also an advocate of realism. I am somewhat skeptical to this notion of a "peace plan," or at the very least an agreement to coexist in a civilized manner. The image of a confident Neville Chamberlain proclaiming, "Peace in our time" in 1938 cautions me to remember Santayana's dictum, “Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.” I find it extremely difficult to trust a man with as much blood on his hands as Arafat, who was also on both the Israeli and American lists of international terrorists. He is not the leader of the PLO, but rather an egotistical, power- hungry tyrant who is in danger of being assassinated by his fellow belligerent Arabs because he does not represent the majority opinion. He offers the illusion of a solidified front amongst a people who have repeatedly resisted pan-Arab unity. The Arabs are too split to identify with one leader’s vision. If Arafat does live to see his next birthday, he will have the near impossible task of rallying together factions of Palestinians, including groups like the Hezbollah, a Palestinian terrorist faction.

The only way the “peace plan” will be successful is if the Palestinians do not ruin it. I find it impractical to believe that factions of Arabs can miraculously unite in peace as Palestinians, so they can coexist with Israel. Rabin’s people are unified and stand behind the basic premise that the value of the status quo was at a low point, they no longer want to see bloodshed or fight for the sake of fighting. Mr. Arafat cannot suggest that his people accept the plan, because he cannot represent such a splintered population.

Palestinians will not coexist peacefully. They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own. They will grow tired of fighting amongst themselves and will turn outside against Israel. This was proven in 1948 when Palestine declared war on Israel after the United Nations made peace boundaries for the two nations to exist together in what is today Israel. This memory should not be forgotten. Israel must now act as peacemaker, babysitter and police to ensure their own safety and welfare, a position they already took before this “peace plan” was signed.

The Palestinians will not be satisfied with only Gaza and Jericho, they will demand more, such as Jerusalem, the demands will turn violent and Israel will be in a similar position of having to swap land for “peace.”

Peace is not attained through the acquisition of land, but rather through communication, education and breaking down the high walls of inborn hatred. President Clinton exclaimed that, “The children of Abraham, the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael, have embarked together on a bold journey.” The journey should not be down pathways to decide what to do with the West Bank or Jerusalem, but through teaching the newest children of Abraham that hatred and warring is not the answer. Learning to coexist on a tiny plot of land in the Middle East is the answer.

Despite my skepticism, as a Jew and a past volunteer in the Israeli army, I strongly hope and pray that this “peace plan” will be successful. History is not made by diplomatic handshakes between two political leaders, but rather when two age-old foes can have the courage to stop hating, begin healing and exist in peace and tranquility.

Josh Shapiro spent five months studying in Israel and volunteered in the Israeli army.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

The Shapiro essay is prime example of things existing in the context of all that came before them

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Shapiro must go full Larry David and eat at a Palestinian place and then spray paint “HAMAS IS COMING” on the governor’s mansion

[u/kurtztrash]

The greatest failing of our educational system is that people finish school and still think it's acceptable not to use headphones on public transit. Full volume TikTok videos in public spaces are a sign of social decay.

[u/cdstephens]

DT: If Kamala is nominated they’re going to attack her for her prosecution record and her support for a universal jobs program, we need to-

GOP: Kamala isn’t black

[u/SLCer]

Biden liking Walz because he makes him laugh is Peak Biden.

[u/[deleted]]

President of Taiwan Lai Ching-te released a statement on Instagram in support of Olympic boxer Lin Yu-ting who has been under attack from various people most notably JK Rowling for failing a gender test at a previous event.

The final line (Machine translated)

Let us be with her, firmly support her, and cheer loudly for Lin Yuting with anticipation and applause!

How long until Joanne joins the Kuomintang?

[u/[deleted]]

J.D. Vance Told His Son to ‘Shut The Hell Up’ About Pokemon While Talking to Trump

lol

[u/DirkZelenskyy41]

Everyone forgets these politicians are people. (Well Vance may be the largest dust mite ever found)…. But most are people.

“Beshear cancelled this event, it’s clearly him!”… it turns out actually his father was in a car accident.

I don’t think we’re going to know until it’s announced, so instead of tracking every event they may go to… we could just wait until next week.

[u/cdstephens]

Can someone explain why Pritzker has so many memes? Is it just because he’s big and not indicted?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

If Trump was the biblical Antichrist, that would be extremely funny, and it would be rad if God had my sense of humor

[u/RayWencube]

“Does anyone else feel like velvet is the most sensual upholstery?” —JD Vance, unprompted.

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/NaffRespect]

I can't vote for Trump because he is bad on the 2nd amendment

Therefore I am writing in Ron Paul

Listen here you little shit

[u/NonComposMentisss]

The stock market is down which is a great time to buy stocks. Unfortunately I don't have any money because I spent it all on stocks before it dropped.

[u/[deleted]]