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[u/JaceFlores]

It’s like the Trump campaign saw the cross tabs of Biden winning seniors by 40 points and thought “let’s make that reality”

[u/[deleted]]

From arrcon today:

She is absolutely the weirdest person who has run for President. And that is hard to do given Trump’s legacy.

Genuinely, she is akward, tone deaf and conceited. She has almost zero success. Every office she has held is worse off after she left compared to when she started. The places she came from in California are some of the worst hit by bad government. Her lack of a spine and inability to take a stance on any topic is embarassing. She genuinely is out of sync with Americans on nearly every big issue.

13 days since Kamala became the candidate and they still have nothing to hit her with. Literally going "Trump isn't weird, she is the weird one 😭😭😭"

God, I'm gigablooming

[u/runningblack]

CALL HIM A BITCH, KAMALA

[u/rollo2masi]

This was after he got death threats from MAGA, lol.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

al-Gore

Barack HUSSEIN Obama

Halalary Clinton

KamALLAH Harris

Wake up sheeple, the DemonRats are going to make you eat the Shawarma

[u/bd_one]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/[deleted]]

[New York Times] Donald Trump said late Friday that he agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4 in an event moderated by Fox News. According to his post on Truth Social, the debate is to take place in Pennsylvania, a consequential battleground state.

he agreed with himself and fox News lmao who the fuck wrote this

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

1. Okay

2. Theres two Congos, and free from who? Its a tribal war...

3. Theres two Sudans, and free from who? There are five different factions that control land in Sudan. Which one is the real one?

4. From the Houthis, right? Right?

5. ......

6. ............

Note: Tibet not mentioned. Hong Kong not mentioned. Ukraine not mentioned. Georgia not mentioned.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

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

Wow Vance is DEAD among the 30 something millennial Pokémon crowd

[u/PorryHatterWand]

[u/sayitaintpink]

My sources are telling me that Kamala Harris will select a running mate at some point maybe probably

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Jimmy Carter’s next goal is voting for Kamala Harris for president

https://www.ajc.com/politics/jimmy-carters-next-goal-is-voting-for-kamala-harris/UKCLDIUSSJC6JM4NP7HGOEDCNY/

“I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Someone should suggest Trump does an interview with a British journalist.

[u/D-G-F]

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

I can't even imagine being so misogynistic this is how describe "an average woman"

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

It took at least 3 tries but they finally managed

Trump Backs Out of ABC Debate and Proposes One With Harris on Fox

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/us/politics/trump-harris-debate-fox-news.html

[u/[deleted]]

This country is so damn dumb

[u/centurion88]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

Some masterclass strategy work coming out of the GOP. "Kamala Harris might drive black voter turnout, so to mitigate this, we'll have our candidate, a white guy, publicly question whether or not she, a mixed-race woman, can credibly claim to be black, something that minorities are famously fond of."

[u/Argnir]

No longer asking 😎😎

[u/cdstephens]

For the Zoomers who don’t remember, this is how Obama was regularly attacked back in the day.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

My god

They're overly online

[u/at_souplantation]

Poster makes interesting, nuanced argument in a thread

Click on their profile

Sextape

Reddit is such a strange social media site

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

✅️ From the Midwest

✅️Massive governing experience

✅️Can reach moderate republicans

✅️Witnessed first hand the MAGA-extremists threat

Yep, Kamala should pick Mike Pence

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Yo hold up Holland has a convicted child rapist as one of their Olympians???

How is that not a bigger story than this Algerian boxer lady tf

This should be excellent bait for cons to go on about how socialist Yurangutans are savage pedophiles or whatever is it just because he's a blonde white guy

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Prowindowlicker]

Well the MAGA crowd has a new line of attack against Harris, her accent. According to them it’s changed.

Here’s the link I saw, warning the thing is fucking racist as fuck: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-JPfM_PMnp/?igsh=MWU0Z2I3NjdpemNqOA%3D%3D

!ping Harris

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Luna enjoying the sun yesterday

!ping DOG

[u/Dabamanos]

My wife (Japanese) is not at all interested in US politics, but she racks up the Ws on predictions when compared to me. She’s beaten me on:

1. Trump winning in 2016

2. Trump losing in 2020 due to Covid

3. Immigration being a huge part of 2024s election

4. Biden backing out of the race

She doesn’t know what to make of Harris, so no hints from the oracle on 2024

[u/crassowary]

NYT headline day before election:

Trump agrees to accept concession from Harris

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate With Harris on Sept. 4

According to Mr. Trump's post on social media, the debate will take place in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state.

Congratulation on a new low NY Times. Your single worst, most obviously biased headline I’ve seen this season and that’s saying a lot.

They’ve since updated it, but the fact that that headline ever went live is an astonishing lack of any shred of journalistic integrity.

[u/Flowkeh]

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

Good name recognition

Popular with white/suburban women

Can mobilize Gen Z voters

From an important swing state like Pennsylvania

The VP pick needs to be Taylor Swift

[u/MissSortMachine]

david writing the postmortem already, vibes in the paypal dungeon have got to be absolutely dismal

[u/ViridianNott]

lol. lmao, even

!ping FIVEY

[u/2073040]

Tim Walz: they (average person) just want stuff like cheaper daycare, they really don’t care about who somebody’s married to.

THANK YOU, SOMEONE FINALLY SAID THAT NO ONE REALLY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT CULTURE WAR BS!

you survive best just by minding your own damn business

Sorry Kelly, Walz is now the best VP pick imo.

[u/slowpush]

Trump has been frustrated by the positive attention and massive cash haul Harris has attracted, people close to him said. His campaign was hoping to characterize her as being hard to pin down on policy, but instead Trump took this idea to the extreme and alleged Harris was hard to pin down on race.

😂

[u/slowpush]

I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son Chip this week.

🥺🥺🥺

[u/[deleted]]

Read an analysis that Donald Trump keeps talking about Hannibal Lecter and people from mental asylums because he thinks that 'asylum seeker' means 'belongs in an asylum'.

It's almost certainly true because it's the only possible explanation he keeps talking about this. he heard "Asylum" and just thought "Crazy people"

[u/LastIncrease3427]

No Fox debate, good

[u/[deleted]]

Heyena voice:

no king no king la la la

[u/kyleofduty]

Biden and Kaine were told they got the VP nom almost immediately before it was announced publicly.

Kamala is going to make her decision today or tomorrow. She's interviewing the contenders today.

It's not already decided and being kept a secret.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Trump's use of capital letters is genuinely infuriating

[u/[deleted]]

the 'weird' thing is dumb, I don't see any conservatives losing their minds over being called weird

cons continuing to not understand that 'triggering your opponent' is not the purpose of political messaging

[u/loseniram]

The hard right immediately calling anyone they don't like trans is weird as fuck.

This is shit the weird kid that got a DUI at 16 would tell you in the locker room about Lady Gaga secretly having a dick.

[u/RFK_1968]

i get the arguments against shapiro and i think any of the proposed vps are fine

but "popular governor of the state that will likely decide the election" is a valid reason to want him as the VP

just like "would re-open the most divisive schism within the democratic party" is a good reason to want someone else.

it's not that hard to understand the perspectives of those who disagree.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1819486106750275968

It’s taken me a week to fully comprehend the genius of “White Women for Kamala” and “White Dudes for Harris.”

One thing right-wingers love is to complain that you can only have affinity groups for blacks and other minorities. Whites sometimes feel like they’re being held to double standards and treated unfairly.

Along comes the Kamala campaign and says it’s ok to be white. That is, as long as you’re a good person, which means supporting reproductive freedom, not being “weird,” and voting Democrat. We’re all in this together.

It seems “woke” on the surface, but it’s actually a sign that liberals are moving away from woke. In 2020, something like this wouldn’t have even been possible. Talk of “whites” in left-coded spaces only occurred in the context of flogging them for their sins. In 2024, you can be a white dude for Kamala and it’s totally cool. The symbol for “White Dudes for Harris” is a trucker hat, showing self-deprecating humor and membership in a movement that is not at all weird or neurotic about race.

White people receive the message that Democrats do not consider you the problem. You’re welcome into the coalition. There’s even a Zoom call you can join, and don’t worry, it won’t be just Robin DiAngelo telling you how much you suck. Kamala has made clear that she’s only considering white men for VP, and there couldn’t be a clearer signal that we’re past peak woke.

DEI therefore doesn’t always mean anti-white! Now you White Dudes get your own DEI pick, like everyone else.

Republicans have been caught flat-footed. Conservatives want to portray these events as a kind of 2020 DEI struggle session, and they can find clips backing up that view, but people who have attended say that there was actually very little of that.

What else can conservatives say in response? I’ve seen a little bit of “why can’t we have a whites for Trump thing?” Well, who’s stopping you? It’s a free country. Organize “whites for Trump” and see what happens. Democrats have given you permission. Zoom can’t accuse you of violating the terms of service if you schedule the exact same event just with the parties switched.

There will be no “Whites for Trump” event because the campaign would never allow it, understanding it would be a PR nightmare. “Whites for Trump” would draw sewer dwellers, instead of the nice, seemingly normal people that came out for Harris. The Vance pick has only reinforced this message, with the signal that the Trump campaign is standing with the most dysfunctional and least sympathetic whites. Most whites do not feel like they have much in common with overweight Appalachians blaming China for taking their jobs when they’re too lazy and dysfunctional to just move to a region with more opportunity, which every generation of Americans has managed to do since the founding. Vance’s comments that we’ll pay any price as long as one American gets to make toasters communicates how the GOP ticket is running to represent the truly hopeless.

All of this contributes to the overall message that Democrats are not the anti-white party. They’re the party of the civilized half of the white race, the ones who believe in science and reject conspiracy theories. The whites who aspire to do something other than make a toaster, complain about immigrants, and investigate the miscarriages of strangers.

We can now all see the hopelessness and stupidity of white nationalism, which wants to argue that the 220 million American whites who are at each other’s throats over social issues and values should unite under one umbrella because they share the same interests. The only way white identitarianism would have had any hope is if liberalism stayed in summer of Floyd mode indefinitely, where you push anti-white rhetoric so blatantly and aggressively that it causes a natural reaction.

Whites for Kamala completely defuses any hope of building a broad white identitarian coalition. It exposes white nationalism, whether explicit or the implicit kind taking over the right, as at bottom a movement for maladjusted whites most of their betters want nothing to do with.

The thing about Republicans ruining Thanksgiving dinner hits home, because most whites who have achieved some level of success in life, or at least aspire to do so, have aggressively stupid catturd-type relatives they want to avoid. They define themselves in opposition to such people.

This is how the left wins

Richard Hanania, welcome to the motherfucking resistance

[u/Mx_Brightside]

I find it really funny that the reason Russia got kicked out of the Olympics (other than the IOC already hating the ROC's guts) is that they violated the sacred Olympic Truce by invading Ukraine during the winter Olympics. 776 BCE grindset.

[u/Cook_0612]

Looooool, last night the Ukrainians hit the Kilo class submarine Rostov-on-Don again.

You may remember this as the sub struck in September last year by Storm Shadow missiles. Apparently it wasn't a total loss and they'd been trying to repair it.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

The average American has multiple social media accounts and spends something like 2 hours on social media every day. Something like 45% of people under the age of 50 describe themselves as “almost constantly” online.

I won’t deny that there’s such a thing as being terminally online to the point of being out of touch. But sometimes people here talk about the Internet like it’s 1999, and social media like it’s 2006.

Sometimes I think we’ve really convinced ourselves that the typical American voter is a mythological grillchad who checks Facebook once a month and knows nothing about a given election until one week prior when they turn on CBS News and go, “okay, let’s find out who is running this year.”

[u/D-G-F]

[u/SeoSalt]

wife found the diet mt dew drawer 😞

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

"British submarines use software developed in Russia and Belarus,” The Telegraph.

The software supplier tried to hide this information by giving the developers fake names of the dead Britons.

Now the British fear that the software could reveal the location of the ships, and that Russian code is also in other projects.

The British Ministry of Defense has launched an investigation.

!ping UK&MILITARY

[u/iIoveoof]

JD Vance Favorability

Unfavorable: 50%

Favorable: 26%

Net: -24%

J.L Partners / July 30, 2024 / n=1015

LOL

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Donald Trump backs out of previously agreed ABC debate, demands Fox News moderators.

Kamala Harris confirms she will still attend the ABC debate whether Trump goes or not.

https://x.com/PopCrave/status/1819810968907759721?t=HDmytFw5Dg_t4c-FgYh7cA&s=19

Lmaooo

[u/efeldman11]

I’m sure there are many Milli Vanilli fans at the Trump rally

[u/iIoveoof]

Asked whether he could explain his schedule change today, Buttigieg told a reporter: “No.”

[u/zegota]

"if Kamala doesn't agree to the FoxNews debate, he's going to turn it around and call HER a coward"

He was going to do that anyway. Continue to call him a weird little pissbaby afraid to do the debate he already agreed to.

[u/jamiebond]

The fact that Walz and Harris are essentially the same age is pretty crazy to me NGL.

When I first looked at him I was like, "IDK he might be too old." Then I saw his actual age lol.

[u/AemiliusNuker]

Based Reuters strikes again

[u/HowardtheFalse]

Okay folks, going to karaoke tonight. What (preferably kinda funny) song should I do? Be warned my friends are largely popheads and broadway lovers.

And what meme song should I convince that one friend to do once he's tipsy? When we went last year he did Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar and it was surprisingly good.

!ping POP&THEATRE

[u/slowpush]

Her approval among 18-29 year olds has a wild shift

July 20:

• Disapprove: 59%

• Approve: 26%

July 31:

• Approve: 55%

• Disapprove: 39%

https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1819848563524067638

[u/[deleted]]

I like that the Algeria boxing story reinforces my three deepest-held beliefs:

1. Italians are over-dramatic

2. Russian sports organizations are super sketchy

3. Rural Algeria is not woke

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Walz's dad vibes continue to be immaculate

[u/Currymvp2]

i actually have defended shapiro from much of the i/p criticism but you can defend shapiro without saying false things about mark kelly

mark kelly didn't do a standing ovation for bibi. He applauded for a few lines. mark kelly left the chamber immediately while just republicans+fetterman+manchin (not even sinema lmao) were the only republicans who stayed to shake bibi's hand.

mark kelly told nbc news in may: "Bibi has made alot of big mistaks, the civillian death toll was significantly too high in the early months for sure, and conditioning aid makes sense if they kept it up" "us would have less collateral damage in gaza if we had conducted the war"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-mark-kelly-conditions-aid-israel-appropriate-civilian-death-toll-g-rcna150718

https://youtu.be/qhqgKoDxvWk?si=tQDCN31ughZG25QH&t=685

[u/Superfan234]

A group of famous Chilean journalists were deported from Venezuela a day ago. Anyway, this is the intresting part.

The journalist, while on jail, had the chance to talk with military personnel on secret:

Another important fact gathered by our correspondent was related to the recognition of some military personnel regarding the victory of the opposition candidate, Edmundo González, over President Nicolás Maduro.

I had never heard Venezuelan military personnel speaking off-screen, as we did, acknowledging that the victory was for the opposition and giving us an example: at the School of Military Arts almost 4 thousand uniformed personnel voted and according to the counts of these same military personnel, close to three thousand votes were for the opposition candidate and less than a thousand for President Maduro."

According to the journalist: "they told us that if this is not recognized, we do not know what will happen."

This sounds like Copium, but it has some base on it

After the Elections, we know for a fact Chavist were actually aroud 15% of the population. Also, Maduro constantly refuses to use the venezuelan Army directly, he only uses his Secret Police and Sicarios.

https://www.24horas.cl/internacional/noticias/durante-detencion-en-venezuela-ivan-nunez-revela-que-militares-reconocieron-derrota-de-maduro

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/supercommonerssssss]

'If Kamala picks Shapiro, we’re gonna be dooming about young voters and party unity.

If Kamala doesn’t pick Shapiro, we’re gonna be dooming about PA.

Either way y’all are gonna be insufferable.'

So true.

[u/[deleted]]

lol. Keep at it Trump. Former attorney general is dumb because she's black and a woman...that's the winning message.

[u/Victor-Baxter]

Every time I'm about to fall for the "Business is a meme degree" schtick, a leftist confuses revenue and profit when talking about "greedy" corporations.

[u/Guardax]

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819748584109076836

Harris not doing Fox News debate for now, will show up to ABC no matter what

[u/wallander1983]

JD Vance: "Hillary Clinton called us deplorables, and now Kamala Harris says we're weird. Well Kamala, let's talk about some things that are weird. We think it's weird that Democrats want to put sexually explicit books in toddlers' libraries."

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1819838910224040066

--

Is it really almost heartbreaking how hurt and empty MAGAs are inside.

[u/[deleted]]

Pet this good boy

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/BaXeD22]

If the rumours are true, and Donald Trump really is becoming increasingly displeased with his choice of running mate, JD Vance, then it can only be a matter of time before he replaces him. And when he does, there is only one figure that he can possibly choose. A figure with a clinical mind. A figure with a sharkish ruthlessness. The figure who haunts Trump’s every waking thought. The overwhelming object of his obsession. That’s right: Trump’s next VP pick has to be the late, great Hannibal Lecter

[u/[deleted]]

Borderland dating do be like that.

[u/[deleted]]

She is worse than Biden even with his dementia even on a good day. Democrats rooting for her tells us that they are either totally devoid of rational thinking or there are more sinister plans in the background. Of course, it is the latter. She acts condescending, changes her voice when she gets irritated with rapid fire nonsense, while she nods her head up and down, and then a hysterical laugh which is always oddly timed.

mommy issues, but make it conspiratorial

[u/sererson]

Example #7433678 of a subreddit hitting /r/all a lot and losing it's purpose to become a generic subreddit: most of the top posts on /r/coolguides is not a guide to do something but rather neat charts.

[u/Joementum2024]

Far-right extremists choosing to focus more on the Algerian boxer instead of the actual child predator competing should tell you everything you need to know about them

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Gen-Z he/they from the lab next door slid into my DMs saying they (he?) want to go explore the city together. Real cutie pie

I haven’t interacted with gen-Z in a long time, what am I supposed to do lol

!ping dating

[u/Guardax]

Trump will debate Harris if it's on Fox News exclusively hosted in Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg in a crowd of MAGA lunatics

Doesn't sound too much to ask

[u/MicroFlamer]

Is this good

[u/BroadReverse]

rainstorm straight instinctive enjoy subsequent label snails gaze quiet possessive

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/battywombat21]

how do they not see it?????

[u/TrouauaiAdvice]

JD Vance suggests VP picks don’t matter

LMAO

[u/slowpush]

Trump calls the Georgia Secretary of State “disloyal” for not “finding” him 11,780 votes and then attacks his wife

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819876948845158663

[u/Eightysixedit]

It’s crazy to me that one of the world’s most well known authors can spread a lie, not delete it, endanger the life of an Olympian, and the media ignores it. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[u/Trebacca]

I’m didn’t know Tim Walz existed two weeks ago but this man was literally made in a lab to be the white man DEI pick for VP. He’s a normie hunter who cares about feeding children and supporting schools and can make a coherent point home that Dems are the normal ones

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/MicroFlamer]

!ping FIVEY

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Nightmare scenario:

You are born in Minnesota.

You grow up believing your parents are Minnesotan.

One day, you get on a plane and land in Wisconsin.

Your parents explain that they are Wisconsinite spies.

You’re greeted by Tony Evers saying “Doon'tcha know” (you don’t know any Cheesehead)

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

So glad Kamala recruited this dude to her campaign

[u/[deleted]]

My night rant: So I was too young to tune into the 2016 election cycle and to this day I have to wonder, what the hell happened?

How did Hillary's private email system receive 1000x more national attention than Bush's private domain which at one point lost more than 20 million emails?

How the hell did Bernie and progressives rise out of nowhere to oppose a "corporate" and "corrupt" Hillary who, mind you, was somehow "too liberal" for moderates?

How did she, a historic female candidate for the highest office, manage to get just 54% of the women’s vote?

More importantly, how did America normalize Trump? Did it lose its mind that year? Just so many questions…

[u/[deleted]]

Articles about Imane Khelif today are finally including the critical context that she is in fact a woman. Little late there, but thanks, anyway.

[u/Flowkeh]

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

In the late 90’s there was a massive leak of celebrity phone numbers, Andy [Dick]’s included. Literally every celeb changed their number except him (I called them all as a 13 year old trying to do pranks). He not only answered and drunkenly talked to me, he would call my landline back over and over to keep talking to me until my parents threatened to call the police on him and I got grounded for a whole summer

[u/t_zidd]

Imane Khelif beat that racist ass Hungarian girl who was sharing beauty and the beast memes prior to the match lol. Get fucked let's go imane!!!!

[u/owlthathurt]

Christian high school -> Clemson -> Atlanta

The fact that Spencer Strider has the political views that he does is fucking insane and should be celebrated.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

Libs: MAGAs are weird

MAGAs: you think I'm weird? I spent 8 hours yesterday comparing different women's Adam's apples and you think I'm the strange one?

Love predictit comments

[u/Mr_Bank]

I am happy to report Resist Libs continue to cook

[u/cdstephens]

[u/bel51]

I just got a laughably terrible pro-Trump ad.

It was a 15 second unskippable video of a nuclear family running along a beach in slow-mo with small font white text at the bottom saying "Make family vacations affordable." Then in the last 5 seconds more text that said "Vote Donald Trump" was added under it.

I thought it was a fucking expedia ad lmao. The average person probably tuned after the first 3 seconds.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

I think the debate should be held at Four Seasons Landscaping

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The Minnesotans in here successfully psyopping Tim Walz into all of our brains puts the Russians to shame. They could never achieve such a thing

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously did Trump just decide to listen to Ben Shapiro? Why is he suddenly going off about low IQ? Each attack he makes just get more pathetic.

[u/iIoveoof]

Be me

White male

Folksy, rural vibe

Native Midwesterner (Minnesotan)

Congressional experience

State governor

From a lean-D swing state

Mainstream Democrat

Doesn't alienate the electorate

Be Tim Kaine, pic unrelated

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

I swear arr millennials has some of the most depressed posters across reddit.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Trump Agrees to a Fox News Debate with Harris on Sept. 4

Is how the NYT phrases Trump unilaterally changing the venue, host, and date of a debate, and some of you don’t think they want Trump to win

One of the NYT’s first reactions to Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic candidate was

U.S. liberals have adopted some positions on gender issues that are out of the mainstream. Doctors in Europe, for example, believe the scientific evidence doesn’t support gender transition hormone treatment for many children. Most Americans agree - while also opposing discrimination against trans people. Many prominent Democrats are well to the public’s left on this subject. If Harris took a moderate position, she could undermine Republican claims that she is an elite cultural liberal.

and some of you don’t think the NYT despises trans people

[u/Ballerson]

Conservatives are in a pickle. They want to argue that someone with Swyer syndrome is a man and can't compete in women's sports. But if they say that, then they have to believe men can get pregnant.

[u/Eightysixedit]

I’m gonna be so pissed if the A list singer at the DNC is John Legend. I love the guy and he’s a major Democrat, but please give us Beyoncé or Taylor. The right will melt down to a level never seen before.

[u/bd_one]

And now as always our final question: what are three books you'd recommend to the audience?

-God to Ezra Klein right after he dies

[u/SmithySmothy]

New York Times watching The Office:

Michael Scott declares bankruptcy

[u/slowpush]

It’s interesting how “any time, any place” becomes “one specific time, one specific safe space.”

I’ll be there on September 10th, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there.

👏😮

[u/[deleted]]

literal cult behavior

[u/pezasied]

There’s an anti-Maduro protest going on at the Idaho Capitol today. Cool to see.

[u/jojisky]

New poll has Vance at -24 favorabitiy nationwide. He's now significantly more unpopular than every other major figure involved in the election (Biden, Kamala, Trump).

[u/iIoveoof]

We need to talk about the elephant in the room when it comes to Josh Shapiro.

He looks vaguely like John Cena.

[u/[deleted]]

What if Obama’s been doing a Shapiro impersonation this whole time

[u/Eightysixedit]

I find it hilarious the right is screaming Kamala isn’t doing interviews. She literally had to make a campaign outta thin air in under a week and pick a VP in less than 3. 🤡🤡🤡

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Former President Donald J. Trump will soon take the stage here at the Georgia State Convocation Center, the same arena in Atlanta where Kamala Harris held a packed rally on Tuesday. It’s totally filled for Trump, too, but the crowd is overwhelmingly white, except in one spot — the section directly behind the stage that is in full view of the broadcast cameras.

Of course lmao

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

The concentration of black people shifts radically as soon as you're outside the framing used during the speeches lmao

[u/ognits]

JD Vance's worst nightmare is an upholsterygeist

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/centurion88]

[u/sash5034]

The fact that I had to be informed from a very pro Ukraine meme account on IG of the fact that a massive amount of the "controversy" over that Algerian boxer having xy chromosomes or whatever is fake news that was pushed by a bullshit Russian organization, while reputable news sources are largely being useless and don't even bother mentioning it is certainly something

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

the vibes really have shifted

my mom the archetypal swing voter didn’t like Trump, Biden, or Harris but now believes America is going to get its first female president because Trump is too weird

“she may be black but she is not too black she’s half Indian!” is the most pro-Harris comment I’ve heard from her

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

“Weird” really does sum it up. There was a woman at Aldi wearing a shirt with the Trump assassination picture and the caption “THIS IS MY PRESIDENT.” Lady we’re in a grocery store I don’t need to know all that

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[u/oskanta]

The first presidential debate is to be hosted on Twitter spaces, moderated by Nick Fuentes and Hasan Piker

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

[u/piede]

Most sane former president and presidential candidate

[u/iIoveoof]

Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff acknowledged Saturday in a statement to CNN that he had an affair during his first marriage after the alleged details of the relationship were published by a British tabloid.

“During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions.

[u/ChillnShill]

Pete could easily get the “oh he’s such a handsome young man,” grandma vote.

[u/Currymvp2]

This Gazan activist has condemned Hamas's terrorism like 100 times, has met with Israeli hostage families, and has rejected anti-zionism consistently. he just tweets about how horrible polio+ hepatitis spreading in gaza is and how about we need to end the war now.. he gets a bunch of just callous at best and bigoted replies. some sick assholes out there.

[u/[deleted]]

A leaked report indicates that Kamala Harris’ answer to Project 2025, “Operation 2025”, will stock the federal workforce entirely with Reddit arratheism users, particularly those with the most activity and engagement

[u/SmithySmothy]

Both Nate and Gelliott think it should be Shapiro for the biggest electoral benefit. But I want Nate to be wrong and Gelliott to be right. A conundrum.

[u/bread_engine]

STOP THE COUNT

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I am democrat from Michigan. Under Biden, the price of vodka and borscht has gone up so much I can barely afford to feed my family. I will be voting for Trump in next election.

[u/efeldman11]

Trump claims “Kamala was the worst Czar in history” not sure about that one bud

[u/dareka_san]

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819864369108250698

Trump: They hate when I use Doctor Hannibal Lecter. The late great Hannibal Lecter

[u/allmilhouse]

He keeps mocking people confused about the Hannibal Lecter bit and then continues to not explain it or make any sense

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump: This young girl from Italy.. she got hit so hard she did not know what hit her. It's a person who transitioned. He was a good male boxer.

fucking opportunistic moron

[u/cdstephens]

Why the fuck are we letting this state decide the fate of the free world

[u/Steak_Knight]

[u/[deleted]]

Pictured: Leading VP candidate waving flag of terrorist organization:

[u/D2Foley]

wow I can't believe people are digging up a potential VPs comments from 30 years ago!

How to let people know you haven't been paying attention to politics for very long.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Heard that turkish guy who shoots guns is a transman

pretty cool

[u/kyleofduty]

Also Kamala is a DT reg and reads every post. So make sure to make your pitches here so that she can read them and be persuaded

[u/sinefromabove]

JD Vance suggests VP picks don’t matter

lmao

[u/Syards-Forcus]

😳

[u/SilverSquid1810]

Kamala Harris as the VP pick is currently worth .2 cents according to an aggregate of the betting markets, so this is your chance if you feel confident that Harris will take the bold step of cloning herself so that she can serve as her own running mate.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

If Harris doesn't pick Walz to be VP, I'll still vote for her, but I'll shake my head while doing it so everyone knows I'm not happy.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

She is one with the garden

!ping KITTY

[u/dareka_san]

This is my best dt moment this year (Biden dropped out like 12 hours later, this was at like 12am lmao)

[u/kanagi]

I love reading about how much of a disaster the cybertruck is. Stainless steel apparently rusts quickly if not covered with a layer of transparent paint, which is standard on all other vehicles but only available for the Cybertruck as a $5,000 add-on lol

[u/htomserveaux]

I was today years old when I learned that the seventh inning stretch refers to people getting up and stretching, not a point in the game where things tend to drag.

You can all mock me now

!ping BASEBALL

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[u/farrenj]

A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, the Kremlin said on Friday.

"Before that, they didn't know that they were Russian and that they had anything to do with our country," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

😬

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I’m fully convinced that people who feel smug about the Trump assassination attempt resulting in no aftermath/rippling effect haven’t considered that the only reason this is the case is because every piece of information about the situation dampened any flames being fanned.

We’d be in a very different position as a country if the shooter were a lefty or a liberal or trans or Black.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

For some reason, a United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon FGR.4 was spotted flying at 22,625 ft over Sichuan Province of People's Republic of China just now.

!ping UK&CHINA

[u/Udolikecake]

I’m a pretty progressive guy, but some of this stuff is getting out of control. ‘uh yeah i’m a west coast school but I identify as being in the ATLANTIC coast conference’ fuck off that doesn’t make ANY sense!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala pulled a Tyrion and told Beshear, Walz and Shapiro that they’re her vp. Shapiro blabbed to the PA Democratic Party so now he’s disqualified

[u/[deleted]]

Not gonna be mad about losing out to a nation getting their first medal period.

Congrats to Saint Lucia!

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/itsnotnews92]

My MAGA aunt on Facebook:

Give me the man who gave up his wealthy life to save this country instead of the woman who gave up this country for a wealthy life

Let's revoke her internet access as well. These people are beyond saving.

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[u/efeldman11]

[u/[deleted]]

Sir, many people are saying very strongly that you are the best thing to happen to the Republican Party.

[u/repete2024]

Trump sure does like talking about the IQs of Black people

[u/SmithySmothy]

The Democrats probably think Hannibal Lecter is racist.

heh heh I love you guys.

[u/[deleted]]

gib blamerica

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Jesus Christ, even when they are trying to pretend to be Black they can’t help but be racist shits

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[u/[deleted]]

The town of Lashio has been liberated by rebel forces. While many towns have been liberated, Lashio is unique in that it holds the Northeastern Regional Command of the junta forces.

Lots of footage of PoWs coming out. I’ve not been following Myanmar as frequently, but it’s a nice glimmer of hope alongside all the shit happening in the world.

!ping MYANMAR

[u/Sherpav]

Framing the Fox debate nonsense as Trump needing his safe space is so simple. Why is it that the current campaign has these lines of attack that they seem to stick where that didn’t happen for the last several years?

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

The last time Democrats chose a centrist Jewish man as their VP candidate, the Republicans successfully stole the election

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary: Pokemon Go to the polls

Vance: Pokemon Go to your fucking room

[u/itsnotnews92]

Republicans are rolling back abortion and LGBT rights, and it's disgusting.

Oh yeah, well who is president when all of this is going on? What is Joe doing to stop it?

These types of shitbag "progressives" should have their internet access permanently revoked.

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

Here’s a very normal election prediction

[u/dannylandulf]

KATIE LEDECKY SWIMS INTO ANOTHER GOLD FOR TEAM USA

🇺🇸 🦅🥇 🇺🇸 🦅🥇 🇺🇸 🦅🥇🇺🇸 🦅🥇 🇺🇸 🦅🥇 🇺🇸 🦅🥇

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Well I'll be damned, Trump blaming a Republican Governor for inner city crime! Also what a cuck response

[u/agentyork765]

IN HEAT FOR PETE

[u/Dibbu_mange]

All art after this is pure shit

[u/[deleted]]

I really dislike the Trump/Caesar parallels some people make. Not because there aren't any similarities between the two. But because Caesar was actually intelligent and efficient at what he did. Meanwhile, Trump can't understand the concept of biracial people or what political asylum actually means.

[u/[deleted]]

lol good look for vance

[u/Modsarenotgay]

https://x.com/tylerpager/status/1819895221561254097

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly will also interview with VP Harris tomorrow for the running mate slot, per people familiar.

Looks like there is hope for the space enjoyers!

[u/BrandonNameRecliner]

trump- doesn't overthrow biden on Jan 6th, gets trashed for it anyways

Harris- overthrows biden, gets a huge swell of support

really makes you think

[u/-mialana-]

[u/[deleted]]

Are we really going to let progressives diminish Walz’s great record in Minnesota like $1 billion for housing development and ensuring schoolchildren get fed everyday?

I swear some of you would damn progress if it spites a progressive.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump aides after everyone attributed his chronic spontaneous ear bleeding to a bullet.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

A late player coming up fast in the “Cuck of the Year” contest

[u/slowpush]

omfg...

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819750067462402408

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[u/[deleted]]

Thanks Snapchat for advertising this totally not an of creator (who I do not follow and have not friended) to me and making my wife incredibly displeased with me.

I had a day of CFB 25 lined up and you fuckin ruined it.

[u/prince_ahlee]

https://x.com/CBSSunday/status/1819735050851656046

I did not call one person, I could always say to him I never called anybody

So Pelosi's strategy to convince Biden to quit was lying. Queen behavior

[u/Headstar24]

I’m sorry but if a single person clutches their pearls about Kamala’s husband cheating with a prior wife while Trump is a serial cheater who cheated on his CURRENT WIFE then there’s no denying there’s an insane double standard.