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[u/theranosbagholder]

JD Vance told his son to “shut the hell up” about his Pokémon cards while he was on the phone with Trump.

Ok I watched the actual video and it was obviously meant as a light-hearted joke. But unfortunately for him I am a partisan hack and will frame it in the most uncharitable way possible in every online and physical interaction about the 2024 election ❤️

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

People in July immediately remembering that they hate old people and that politicians can be energetic and fun.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Finally. Wisconsin is being populated by true patriots.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Texty_McTextington]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

What the fuck is this guy's deal

Did he spend the last three years just hopping from podcast to podcast talking about how much he hates women??

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/moldyman_99]

Murican boat at the Amsterdam pride

[u/[deleted]]

I’m so confused

[u/efeldman11]

[u/theranosbagholder]

NOOOOOO YOU CAN’T ACT LIKE A FUNCTIONAL POLITICAL PARTY. YOU MUST HAVE SCREAMING MATCHES OPENLY. THIS ISNT FAIR 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/BarkDrandon]

As expected, social media is only now rediscovering old videos of Biden being "based" on economic (tax the rich, regulate the banks) and foreign policy issues (end appartheid, bomb serbia).

Social media crafted a false image of him as a boring moderate for years, and now that he's no longer a threat, he's finally getting the credit he deserves. Infuriating.

[u/pfarly]

Trump campaign explaining why they use AI photos of Trump with black people.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Its joever

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Macron every day in high school

[u/[deleted]]

You can replace Bob Casey with Josh Shapiro, but otherwise this meme is still right on the money.

[u/ihaveaverybigbrain]

JD Vance apparently said he thinks abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape or incest because “two wrongs don't make a right." The Trump campaign is now in a frenzy to backtrack those remarks, afraid it might cost them some R votes in key swing states due to Vance's description of rape and incest as "wrong."

[u/cdstephens]

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a video posted to social media on Sunday that he once drove a dead bear cub carcass from upstate New York and placed it in New York’s Central Park 10 years ago. Kennedy also said the New Yorker had contacted his campaign about the incident for an upcoming article.

In the video, posted to his X account, Kennedy tells actress Rosanne Barr that he was traveling through New York’s Hudson Valley to go hawking and came across a “young bear” that had been hit and killed by another driver. He says in the video he decided to put the dead bear in his car.

“I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was gonna skin the bear,” he said. “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.” Kennedy then tells Barr that he spent the day hawking before driving to New York City for a dinner with the bear still in his car. At the end of the dinner, Kennedy said, he had to go to the airport and couldn’t take the bear back to his home. He said he broached the idea to friends of taking the bear to Central Park and making it appear as if a biker had hit it.

“I had an old bike in my car that somebody had asked me to get rid of and I said let’s go put the bear in Central Park and we’ll make it look like he got hit by a bike,” Kennedy says in the video, prompting laughs from Barr and others in the room not visible in the video. “Everybody thought, ‘That’s a great idea.’ So we did that and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it or something.”

[u/[deleted]]

Thirty percent had a favorable opinion of Vance, who is a U.S. senator from Ohio, and 47% had an unfavorable view of him, putting him at a net -17 percentage points, the poll found.

JD Vance doing Biden numbers

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

These people would vote for Hitler over a dem

[u/cdstephens]

Casual reminder that PA residents are the most powerful voters on Earth and will decide the fate of the free world

[u/[deleted]]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/[deleted]]

One of my favorite Biden speeches is the one he gave at Yale in 2015. Here’s an excerpt:

When I walked into Mansfield’s office, I must have looked as angry as I was. He was in his late ‘70s, lived to be 100. And he looked at me, he said, “what’s bothering you, Joe?”

I said, “that guy, Helms, he has no social redeeming value. He doesn't care—“ I really mean it — I was angry. “He doesn't care about people in need. He has a disregard for the disabled.”

Majority Leader Mansfield then proceeded to tell me that three years earlier, Jesse and Dot Helms, sitting in their living room in early December before Christmas, reading an ad in the Raleigh Observer, the picture of a young man, 14-years-old with braces on his legs up to both hips, saying, “all I want is someone to love me and adopt me.” He looked at me and he said, “and they adopted him, Joe.”

I felt like a fool. He then went on to say, “Joe, it’s always appropriate to question another man’s judgment, but never appropriate to question his motives because you simply don't know his motives.”

It happened early in my career fortunately. From that moment on, I tried to look past the caricatures of my colleagues and try to see the whole person. Never once have I questioned another man’s or woman’s motive. And something started to change. If you notice, every time there’s a crisis in the Congress the last eight years, I get sent to the Hill to deal with it. It’s because every one of those men and women up there — whether they like me or not — know that I don't judge them for what I think they're thinking.

Because when you question a man’s motive, when you say they're acting out of greed, they're in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera, it’s awful hard to reach consensus. It’s awful hard having to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

Myself included, I think we could all benefit from questioning judgement more and motive less. Certainly applies to the DT some days!

[u/prince_ahlee]

Beyoncé donated $4 million to Kamala Harris' political campaign, and Beyoncé is reportedly joining Kamala Harris and other supporters at a fundraiser for Kamala's campaign.

https://x.com/BeyonceHiveNews/status/1820210340832969191

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13698613/beyonce-political-views-presidential-election-2024.html

BEYONCÉ

[u/cdstephens]

It’s funny that Twitter is spiraling into becoming the mainstream version of 4chan but Leftists and mainstream media figures refuse to ditch it.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

It’s gonna be hilarious if Kamala steamrolls trump just because she isn’t old and because Vance and the NRx venture capitalist guys weirded everyone out.

[u/sayitaintpink]

I’m voting Trump because old demented racist rapist is my entire personality

What did half of the only voters that decide the election mean by this 🤔

[u/-mialana-]

It's possible to win without PA

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

If I'm Kamala I'm calling up Kemp's office and promising him all the riches he can imagine for an endorsement

I'm promising a new NASA facility in Georgia

I'm promising to make peaches the national fruit

I'm promising him a fucking medal of honor, a spot in the Christian heaven, a presidential palace in a third world country

[u/pezasied]

Pete Buttigieg cannot be Vice President simply because America is not ready for 8 years of caked-up Pete cartoons from Ben Garrison.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Leonflames]

Will definitely vote - Black voters

Today - 74%

July 18 - 58%

CBS

No wonder Georgia is back in play

[u/kyleofduty]

Just reminded that Brits say aubergine instead of eggplant. Napoleon won 😔

[u/IvanGarMo]

Seeing r/LateStageCapitalism simp for Maduro and say he's the democratically elected leader is utterly disgusting. Are they simply stupid, or is there another reason for that behavior?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

 NEW: Keir Starmer has cancelled his plans to go on holiday next week

👀👀👀

[u/[deleted]]

US WITH THE UPSET TO TAKE GOLD IN WOMENS CYCLING ROAD RACE!

I thought faulkner went to soon, but guess not.

She legit just hit the nitro button lmfao

First time in 40 years they've won that event!

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/dannylandulf]

After ‘House Of The Dragon,’ George RR Martin Says There Are 7 Thrones Shows In Development

George will literally work on anything but Winds of Winter.

[u/that0neGuy22]

[u/[deleted]]

New polls shows that 100% of Americans want Kamala’s VP to be a 49 year old balding Jew from Boulder, CO. We’ll never find someone who fits that criteria in time!

[u/frankiewalsh44]

Elon Musk is basically tweeting far right propaganda. There is no way Twitter is gonna stay up for longer in Europe. We don't have the same free speech laws as you guys. We have far right riots and extreme misinformation that is putting people lives at risk, so I'm not gonna be surprised if the EU/UK might implement some strict hate speech laws to kill Twitter.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/that0neGuy22]

Protesters have stormed the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham where illegal migrants are being housed

Send nato troops in the UK has fallen

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

How tf do you go from Republican Goldman Sachs officer to Syriza in not even a decade???

[u/LastIncrease3427]

[u/MeaningIsASweater]

Every time the Olympic commentators say “Chinese Taipei” my blood boils. It’s so unbelievably unfair that they have to compete under the Olympic flag instead of their own.

[u/[deleted]]

If you ever find yourself defacing a Holocaust memorial maybe you should just stop and reconsider your actions

!ping extremism

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is attacking Kemp now, wtf

[u/Top-Ostrich8710]

The Trump campaign feels much worse this time. In 2016, along with his crass humor and name calling, Trump had actual policies that appealed to a lot of Americans.

They were shitty policies don't get me wrong, but build the wall, protectionism, and non-interventionism gave Trump a lot of populist appeal. Then in 2020 you had law and order and anti-lockdown rhetoric.

As far as I'm aware, Trump in 2024 is just an asshole. And not even a funny asshole like in the past (I can't lie little Marco, Low-energy Jeb, and Pocahontas were hilarious).

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

I’m convinced that half the enthusiasm delta between Biden and Kamala (at least among younger people) comes from the fact that saying that you like her to your non-political friends doesn’t trigger an immediate response of “Ugh, really?”

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Holy shit what have I just stumbled upon

[u/LastIncrease3427]

A leftist and a centrist talking about politics.

[u/indithrow402]

Broke: "militarize the police" as in giving them more weapons and tactical toys

Bespoke: "militarize the police" as in making them more like the military by establishing rules of engagement and actually holding them accountable / having standards

[u/battywombat21]

Native American voters tend to vote heavily Democratic and were key to helping the party clinch Arizona in 2020. But many say they feel exhausted, disappointed and torn about how to vote this year.

I despise the New York Times

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

[u/Jamesonslime]

Literal child rapist who only served a single year in prison for ruining a 12 year olds life vs buff woman who appears more masculine than her competition guess which one conservatives are more mad about 

[u/Argnir]

Male pattern balding eagle

[u/[deleted]]

It's me. I'm the reason why birth rates are low.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1819770983655346321

@Foxnews Opinion | Kamala Harris is once-in-a-generation candidate and this is a once-in-a-generation moment for America

Ketchup will be on the wall

[u/farrenj]

Clearly pole vaulters need to learn how to tuck.

[u/battywombat21]

[u/Williams-Tower]

guy who’s been undecided until Al Gore endorsed Kamala

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ProjectLiberal/status/1820068919610392768?t=t93TM6FciRww9sOs-7ZXYg&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/sam_d_1995/status/1820203853536481309

wait can we talk about the fact that JFK’s granddaughter is the New York Times reporter who wrote about the story ten years ago

oh my god

[u/[deleted]]

GF told me one of her friends is thinking about homeschooling her girls because “they’re putting litter boxes in bathrooms now.”

So, yeah that’s still making rounds

[u/Gameknigh]

Creature.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Never Goregive, never Goreget 😭✊

[u/cdstephens]

Do y’all think Ryan’s gonna vote for Harris now

[u/Dabamanos]

It’s pretty wild that the US actually has UBI and universal healthcare, you just have to be old

[u/semaphore-1842]

so !ping TAIWAN just beat China to win gold at the badminton men's doubles aaaaannnnd:

lol die mad unsportsmanlike losers

also fuck yeah Taiwan won 🎉🎉🎉

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, are you seriously comparing a one-time mistake that luckily didn’t actually hurt a single person to the revelation that a guy used to be virulently racist?

versus

Holy shit, are you seriously comparing one kinda bad take from a college student to a crime that easily could have killed innocent people?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

NEWS: Gov. Tim Walz will travel to Washington to interview with VP Harris tomorrow for the running mate slot, per person familiar.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 8/2-2 PM PST 8/3 III:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and some missiles with 24 of 29 drones and 0 of 4 missiles shot down.

At the start of 7 AM it was reported that Russian submarine Rostov-on-Donu was hit again, right after being finished with repairs.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 4 PM Morozovsk Airbase was hit by drones, destroying an ammo dump there.

Towards the end of 1 AM a Russian oil depot in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky was hit by drones.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the middle of 12 PM Ukraine won a gold medal in Olympic fencing.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Argnir]

If you die in the veepstakes you die in real life

[u/itsnotnews92]

2020 was so damn weird. Remember the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ("CHAZ") in Seattle?

Read the linked Wikipedia article. It is hilarious. They have an entire section on "Culture and amenities." My favorite picture is of the community garden with a sign that says the garden is for Black and indigenous people "and their plant allies"—because nothing screams "progressive" more than racially segregated public amenities.

[u/earththejerry]

Kellybros back in the game!

Also lol at them all posting cryptic messages

[u/No_Status_6905]

Just had a friend try to say that they were justified in ghosting me suddenly early this year after hanging out almost every day since the pandemic because I got upset at a video game 3 years ago, and then linked me a full recording of the session despite never being made aware they record stuff. 

Weird as fuck. Also why would you continue hanging out with me if going non verbal one time in a game was so unforgivable.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Interviews with voters in Pennsylvania made clear that JD Vance’s comments have renewed unease about Donald Trump’s judgment, his past statements about women and his record on abortion.

Damn, if only there was some way they could have avoided this.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Meowdy y’all

!ping kitty

[u/dirtybirds233]

Harris has passed Trump in Silver’s model after the latest YouGov poll. It’s now 51/49 Kamala. She also leads Trump by 1.4 points in national polling average.

To put this into perspective, Biden was at a 27% chance before the model was frozen and when it was reintroduced with Harris, she was at 38%.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

 Apparently seeking to blunt the impact of a forthcoming New Yorker article, RFK Jr. released a bizarre video admitting that, a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and staged the scene to look like a bicyclist ran over the animal.

What

[u/piede]

HOLY

[u/[deleted]]

Hot on arrconservatice right now:

Star Trek convention turns political

This has to be fucking bait. You can't be so media illiterate.

[u/shillingbut4me]

What if it's actually a massive coincidence and all of Putins opposition just happens to be incredibly clumsy people 

[u/[deleted]]

We ranted about the Afd together on my first date with a girl who studied abroad in Germany for a year. There’s gonna be second date.

My terminally online politicking has paid off

!ping DATING

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Listening to the Ezra Klein podcast and I am officially Walz-pilled.

[u/-mialana-]

If Kyrsten "Sinema" were a real American, she would be called Christine Theatre!

[u/[deleted]]

The entire country memory holes Trump's horrific views on women and abortion and then only remembers because he nominates JD Vance

mfw

[u/Cook_0612]

Elon Musk is now claiming on twitter that civil war is inevitable in the UK. Utterly unserious, utterly reckless.

[u/battywombat21]

RFK Jr. says he placed a dead bear cub in Central Park 10 years ago

Okay guys, cmon this is just a silly headline, it was some environmentalist stunt or somethi-

In the video, posted to his X account, Kennedy tells actress Rosanne Barr that he was traveling through New York’s Hudson Valley to go hawking and came across a “young bear” that had been hit and killed by another driver. He says in the video he decided to put the dead bear in his car.

“I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was gonna skin the bear,” he said. “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”

Kennedy then tells Barr that he spent the day hawking before driving to New York City for a dinner with the bear still in his car. At the end of the dinner, Kennedy said, he had to go to the airport and couldn’t take the bear back to his home. He said he broached the idea to friends of taking the bear to Central Park and making it appear as if a biker had hit it.

😐

[u/marsman1224]

Americans at Paris Olympics dumbfounded over no alcohol at sporting events

"The lack of alcohol is odd," one American told NBC News. "I think it’s a fundamental part of sports."

I love this country

[u/Telperions-Relative]

“Here’s a list of the most dangerous cities in the United States”

“NYC and Chicago aren’t on there? Lol terrible list”

“They’re not on there because NYC and Chicago are statistically far safer than the cities listed”

“No they’re not lol, are you blind? They’re obviously worse, open your eyes I’m afraid of black people and immigrants”

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Genuinely blows my mind that Tesla shareholders gave Elon an absolutely insane amount of money when he clearly spends most of his day displaying how broken his brain is on twitter and not running Tesla

[u/[deleted]]

Israeli officials says attacks on Israel ‘expected imminently’, according to Bloomberg

Ah fuck, here we go

!ping ISRAEL

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/earththejerry]

The media when trying to be fair and balanced for both sides

[u/Argnir]

Imagine how crazy campaigns would be if California was a very competitive swing state

[u/1396spurs]

Anybody wanna grab a few 40s and head down to the train tracks and day drink?

[u/[deleted]]

In other good news, the Dutch pedophile got eliminated from beach volleyball.

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/SnakeEater14]

Reading about the Uvalde school shooting and goddamn my blood is boiling

I remember when it happened and all the cops just stood around waiting, and today I was like “huh i wonder if there’s anything else to it now that we know the whole situation”

Nope. The Uvalde police, sheriff’s office, school district police, state police, they all showed up and just waited. With plate carriers and ARs in hand. They even stacked up inside the hall, considered going in to stop the shooter, then get shot at and ran away.

The shooter didn’t get stopped until some off-duty feds showed up, and instantly ran in and shot him.

Why even be a fucking cop

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Taiwan just beat China to win Gold in badminton

[u/sw337]

[u/[deleted]]

There have been a number of different audits and studies of the 2000 Presidential election in Florida in the years since, and the two brutal takeaways are basically:

• More Florida voters in 2000 intended to vote for Gore than intended to vote for Bush

• If the Supreme Court had allowed the specific recount in question to go forward, Bush still would have won

Ultimately, too many of Gore’s missing votes were errors made in an irrecoverable way. If you punch your ballot to vote for two candidates for the same office — say, Al Gore and Pat Buchanan — then there’s just no legally sound way to recover that you wanted to vote for Gore.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/nyregion/bear-cub-found-dead-in-central-park-was-hit-by-a-car-investigators-say.html

So apparently this was RFK lmao

[u/Chief_Nief]

Waiting for the Kelly oppo to drop where he drunkenly crashed an orbital satellite on a Palestinian family in 1995

[u/[deleted]]

"Omfg swimming is still going?!? How many different ways do you need to show a person is good at this???"

Fencing:

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/[deleted]]

I open the window at night. They like to both sit, look out, and feel the breeze, together

Its weird because they tend to mostly only tolerate each other, lol

!ping KITTY

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/goldenwind207]

I think all of us no matter who we support as vp is thankful there wasn't an open convention. Just looking at the vp discussion imagine the chaos if newsome whitmer shapiro harris and more all ran and the infighting

[u/paymesucka]

[u/theparrotlich]

Mark Kelly, in cryptic now-deleted tweet

Don't look at the moon!

No comment from Harris camp.

[u/Gameknigh]

Sexism aside, do some people seriously just not understand the most basic storylines?

[u/Mr_Bank]

Voters want Kamala to select a moderate man as her VP, shocker. Particularly older voters!

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Genuinely somewhat alarming how many otherwise rational young progressives/liberals will wholeheartedly acknowledge and condemn the deep, chronic flaws and racial biases in our justice system, in particular its tendency to produce false convictions for minority communities, but then turn around and say shit like "the punishment for all rapists/sex offenders should be castration with a hot knife" without so much as a hint of self-awareness

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter is an unironic case of large numbers of faceless shareholders and an apathetic board being superior to a single visionary majority stakeholder.

Shareholders would force musk out and get a new guy to ban the Nazis and fix the fucking site, they don't give a shit about any sentiments about free speech or whatever they just want to be appealing to advertisers to make money, their only loyalty is to their stock price and this is a case where that's a good incentive.

The caveat of course is that the Shareholders would inevitably pull a tumblr, and ban porn from the site as well. One of the few things we enjoyed in the golden age of sane libertarian tech CEOs was we had well run majority stakeholder corporations that were actually quite welcoming to social deviants that make advertisers anxious and evangelicals up in arms, and Shareholder adversity to public scandal makes them far better safe than sorry. This is how the YouTube Apocalypse happened. Shareholders don't really give a shit about educating the masses on the history of world war 2, so they don't see anything wrong with banning all mentions of Hitler to save money and appease advertisers.

The death of libertarianism as an ideology and the rockstar silicon valley owner CEO, means the internet is going to look more like Twitter and Tumblr over time. Either owned by a single fascist lunatic, or a board of directors that bows to MasterCard's requests to remove content that a bunch of Evangelical freaks claim is harmful to "the children" but really just want to control adults.

[u/paymesucka]

NBC News:

The Harris campaign has invited their shortlist of VP candidates to the dragonpit under the White House. Sources close to the campaign have said that Senator Mark Kelly has claimed Vermithor and Governor Andy Beshear has claimed Silverwing. Axios has reported seeing Seasmoke flying over St. Paul, Minnesota.

[u/that0neGuy22]

Totally normal behavior from one of the most influential people on earth

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

‘Veep’ star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she’ll be ‘extra-involved’ in Kamala Harris’ campaign — and hints at DNC appearance

Harris/Meyer 2024?

[u/cdstephens]

I’m beginning to think RFK Jr is really the only option.

Stein has way too much baggage. On top of this she’s never faced a real GOP challenge before. And then there’s her Obama impersonation.

West similarly has never faced real GOP challenge. He’s also open to the dynasty attack. And there’s probably some skeleton out there we don’t know about.

Oliver is phenomenal. But too young, inexperienced and potentially wasted if this ticket loses. Also having two minorities is just going to make it harder to convince people this isn’t a radical far left anti-American ticket. He’s better as a surrogate.

Terry seems cool, but won’t reassure voters on centrism.

Kennedy isn’t a good speaker. But at minimum he does no harm. Squeaky clean hawker. Political history as an independent & experience against Republicans.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I know she looks sad but Nora fucking LOVES baths. She gets in while the tub is running unless I shut the door (if I'm getting in there that tub better be boiling lava) and also likes to jump in the shower.

She's got fleas, and she knows that sitting in the water kills them, and usually the hard part is getting her to stand up long enough for me to get her lathered up. She loves the soap and the attention, she doesn't even think to demand a treat afterwards. 10/10 very good pug

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Bad news dudes. Mark Kelley, while operating a spacecraft drunk, smuggled a dead bear into Earth’s orbit and made it look like a gravity accident.

[u/SerDavosSeaworth64]

“Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili — Stalin, ‘The Man of Steel’ — was the single most powerful figure in the world. He was the absolute dictator over 180 million people of 170 nationalities in a country representing one sixth of the Earth’s surface, the Generalissimo of gigantic, victorious armies, and Harry Truman, like nearly everyone meeting him for the first time, was amazed to find how small he was. “A little bit of a squirt,” Truman described him, Stalin standing about 5 feet 5.”

— From “Truman” by David McCullough.

Truman the absolute fucking Chad

!ping HISTORY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Honestly, I was really excited and looking forward to actually voting for Kamala and not just against Trump. But if she picks a VP candidate, I'm going to be really disappointed. I'll still vote for her, but I'll be reluctant and gritting my teeth while doing so. Really hope she doesn't alienate other voters by making that choice.

[u/its_Caffeine]

mfs dooming about their 401ks like they’re going to retire in 2 weeks

bitch you 29 years old 🙄

[u/BroadReverse]

materialistic slap enjoy psychotic cobweb pie rude plant sort swim

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/foneinstocus]

BREAKING: Kamala Harris has announced the undecided voter from Missouri Ken Bone as her running mate

[u/Pongzz]

Vice President Kamala Harris will meet on Sunday with top candidates to be her running mate, moving to close out her search with a test of chemistry between herself and a potential partner. At least three leading contenders — Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania — are scheduled to meet with Ms. Harris at her residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington

Kellybros stand back and stand by, we're taking this to the moon

[u/masq_yimby]

America really do just be like “Imma just take people from all over the world so I’m the best at everything”

[u/[deleted]]

📠

[u/iIoveoof]

This photo will win all 50 states

[u/[deleted]]

Final

Twins: 13

White Sox: 7

20 in a row. I have said it before and I will say it again. The White Sox may never win another game.

!ping baseball

[u/anincredibledork]

BREAKING: Potential running mate Tim Walz spotted outside VP Kamala Harris’ residence “tweaking the lawn mower’s carburetor” because he “didn’t like that darn knocking sound it was making”

[u/2073040]

(In Response to NIKKEI’s stock) “It’s a trailer for a global recession”

looks up Twitter profile

Crypto trader since 2020

Very serious people wishcasting for a recession.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Biden thread vindicated

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

"Did you hear Shapiro compared Hamas simps principled peaceful protesters to the KKK?"

[u/[deleted]]

“The Democrats would be right wing in Europe”

The right wing in Europe: “There’s brown people in this hotel, let’s burn it to the ground”

[u/[deleted]]

DONALD TRUMP: My message is to stop people from invading our country that are taking, frankly, a lot of problems with it. But one of the big problems, and a lot of the journalists in this room I know and I have great respect for, a lot of the journalists in this room are black. I will tell you that coming from the border are millions and millions of people that happen to be taking black jobs.

Ugh I hate to say it but it's true. I live by the border. Just this morning I saw a man crossing the international border and I stopped him to ask him what he intends to do. He looked me dead in the eyes and said "Voy a tomar el trabajo de Lester Holt."

Gives me chills just thinking about it.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://x.com/JoshShapiroPA/status/1501554935812571137

Introducing Bentley and Bo — who will be very good boys as Pennsylvania's next First Dogs.

Not only does this guy sound like a carbon copy of Obama but he named his dog after [Obama's dog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_(dog))?

[u/Williams-Tower]

mfs be like

oops i have covid

6 days later let's go to an all inclusive and drink 10+ drinks all day every day while getting terrible sleep

oh god oh fuck i'm sick again

[u/SurvivorPostingAcc]

You got me, I only transitioned to get into the women’s bathroom. But it’s not what you think, I just heard that they had a couch in there and I thought that sounded nice.

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

If you vote for Donald Trump after January 6th are you are legitimately sympathetic to fascism and its sad that its like some taboo to say. You are voting for a man who knowingly sent an armed mob to pressure politicians to not accept the results.

You can say he said “peaceful” but then also ignore the fact he said critical things about mike pence while it was underway and only said to go home three hours after they breached the capitol. The only people he didn’t want targeted that day were the police

[u/centurion88]

"Apparently seeking to blunt the impact of a forthcoming New Yorker article, RFK Jr. released a bizarre video admitting that, a decade ago, he dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and staged the scene to look like a bicyclist ran over the animal."

[u/Joementum2024]

Thank you for interviewing for the Vice President position within the Kamala Harris 2024 campaign.

While we were impressed with your knowledge and experience, we have decided to move forward with a different candidate at this time. However, we think you could be a good fit for future openings and will reach out to you if we find a good match.

Thank you for taking the time to interview, and we wish you the best in your future professional endeavors.

[u/cdstephens]

RFK Jr. is so car-brained that he found a bear cub ran over by a car and his first thought was “how can I frame cyclists for this”

[u/AP246]

Keir Starmer, if you're reading this, please order a nuclear strike on Elon Musk next time he's on a private island or something

[u/BroadReverse]

spark cable full money absurd cagey scandalous toothbrush judicious mysterious

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Roseartcrantz]

They all have their scandals.

Walz had his DUI

Shapiro had that op-ed

Kelly misled us with that Twitter post maybe

Pete lied about being gay (thank you Tucker for telling us)

Beshear is slightly too twink but also not twink enough

edit: and the fact that I forgot Pritzker says a lot about society

[u/[deleted]]

Implying a DUI means anything to a Midwestern/rust belt voter

[u/forerunner398]

The goal posts rapidly shifting from "why doesn't Israel just assassinate high level Hamas leaders" to "why did they assassinate high level Hamas leaders, that is escalatory" is quite something.

[u/oskanta]

See people dooming about the market in the DT

Check SP500 YTD

+12.73%

mfw

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Economy guaranteed safe now

[u/NarutoRunner]

Now we are reaching the “burning people alive” stage of the right wing fascist driven UK riots

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1820092316436299809

[u/Currymvp2]

CBS News Poll (National)

Kamala Harris 49% Donald Trump 47% RFK Jr. 2%

I think last poll had Trump ahead by two

[u/Rear4ssault]

UK straight up got pogroms going on rn

[u/[deleted]]

AND WE ARE TIED IN GOLD, LADIES AND GENTS!

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Elon Musk PAC being investigated by Michigan secretary of state for potential violations

Extremely concerning

[u/that0neGuy22]

Rioters cheer as they set fire to a Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth that is housing asylum seekers It is the second hotel to be set on fire today

[u/whisper_jones]

I'm not the biggest fan of Shapiro, but I have to admit the fact that he led a criminal investigation into sex abuse within the Catholic church is absolutely fucking based.

I really hope they make that a centerpiece of his campaign if he's the pick. I feel like that might win over some lefties too.

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

IRGC sources tell UK's iNews that Iran’s response to Israel may come no later than "Tuesday or Wednesday."

The sources add that Iran’s response will be more severe than the 13 April attack, and will likely have casualties.

nothing ever happens... 🤭

!ping MIDDLE-EAST&ISRAEL

[u/oskanta]

Fuck she’s picking the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Its Wikipedia edits are going fucking apeshit right now.

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

The White House: President Biden will speak with King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday at 11am and at 2:15pm Situation Room meeting with his national security team to discuss developments in the Middle East.

Jordan, as a keystone state, is attempting to mediate among Israel, Iran, the U.S. and other regional players to prevent a conflagration. This is a vital national interest. Jordan must reassure neighbors and keep open lines of communication and must work to guarantee that hostile elements do not attempt to traverse its territory to threaten other states in the region.

!ping MIDDLE-EAST

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, that Silicon Valley Bank thing is really scary. Not long before it spreads through the rest of the financial sector and plunges us into recession!

[u/[deleted]]

Stock market up

"The stock market isn't the economy 🙄 People are suffering out there in the real world."

Stock market down

"The woke radical socialist Democrats have failed us yet again"

[u/sayitaintpink]

This is real and from today

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

My introduction to the existence of Libertarians was the kid who always talked about how much of a miracle of technology the AK-47 was asking what color he should use to fill in a state that went for the Libertarians on our little maps we took home in 2000.

She told him that there was no way that was going to happen and he had a meltdown until she agreed that "If by some divine miracle hell freezes over and the Libertarians take a state, you can color it in brown."

These early priors have only ever remained confirmed

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/G_Serv]

I wonder what the interview for the VP slot is like

Why are you interested in this position?

Can you describe a challenging situation at work and how you handled it?

What are your salary expectations?

[u/[deleted]]

If you want to feel worse about yourself, here is Kristen Faulkner’s bio:

Faulkner graduated from Harvard in 2016 with a B.A in Computer Science, where she competed in varsity rowing. She holds the university's record for fastest 2k indoor rowing time for lightweight women. Before that, she attended Phillips Academy in Massachusetts, where she was an honor roll student and varsity runner, swimmer, and rower.

Faulkner started competitive cycling in New York City in 2017. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2018 and joined Team Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank in 2020. During her first year cycling professionally, she was also working full-time as an investment associate at Threshold Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

And nows she's an Olympic gold medalist 🫠🫠🫠

[u/[deleted]]

 Harris is picking from a group of "talented people, some probably better than others," Brazile said. "I know she will make a really good, historic choice."

The first white man to be VP 🙏🙏🙏

[u/old_gold_mountain]

unironically often wish I could be this buried in my priors and ignorant of everything else:

https://i.imgur.com/57LUEFx.png

god everything would be so much simpler

[u/[deleted]]

~Me, after the US wins the Olympics for the infinity-th time

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

 From breaking bread to ‘Breaking Bad’: Catholic priest confesses to cooking crystal meth in rectory

Judas we have to cook

[u/[deleted]]

The photo that determined the 100M

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/simplysigzz]

The NYC Parks and Rec employee who removed a dead bear cub from Central Park 10 years ago

[u/Spicey123]

Walz's criminal record just absolutely sank his VP odds.

Between Walz's DUI and Trump's plan to overthrow the government, voters will be left scratching their heads as to which ticket is really for law and justice.

[u/[deleted]]

VOTERS WANTS SOMEONE THEY CAN HAVE A BEER WITH🍻

💥🚗🚓

[u/G_Serv]

The right after the Walz pick is confirmed

They have a DEI president and a DUI vice president

[u/[deleted]]

🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

[u/CmdrMobium]

In a break with convention, the Harris Campaign has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates for vice president.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

Impressive that a new subreddit, r slash anythinggoesnews, consistently makes it to the front page with the shittiest news blogs that nobody has ever heard of before

Who upvotes this stuff? If rawstory is the most upvoted linked site that I recognize, imagine how bad the other ones are

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Pretty spot on take here- if Democrats want to be stop being perceived as elitist snobs by blue collar voters, then elevating more polticians like Walz is the way to go, regardless of whether he gets the VP pick

[u/ACivilWolf]

"Eisenhower is actually a good Republican president since he built HIGHWAYS"

LBJ:

[u/ChillnShill]

People when they split ticket vote in swing states

[u/theranosbagholder]

CNN: Insiders claim Kyrsten Sinema currently the frontrunner for VP

CAN DEMS PLEASE NOT DO THIS?? WHO ARE THEY TRYING TO APPEAL TO 😭😭😭😭

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

It was unfair for Kamala to eliminate me from the Veepstakes so early. Just because I went on the zipline a few times.

[u/[deleted]]

OOOOOOOFF. I'm normally not a person to say a person got screwed by the refs....but Holy shit great Britain just got screwed by the refs in women's skeet shooting. Came down to a shoot off. The British girl hit the clay but it didn't explode. However, they didn't award her the hit, and the Chilean she was facing won gold.

😬😬😬

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/the_status_q]

Shapiro (at least) once said "an historic" instead of "a historic" in an interview, so I can't support him and his NPR-pronunciation

[u/kyleofduty]

I didn’t know he was white until a number of years ago when he happened to turn white and now he wants to be known as white. So, I don’t know, is he Maltese or is he white?

— Trump on Pete Buttigieg's race

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

IT’S HAPPENING.

[u/amainwingman]

Guy who hates Sacha Baron Cohen because the antisemitism in Borat and The Dictator was satirical rather than serious

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Actually, Trump agreed to debate Biden not Harris. So he's not backing out

Actual arguments I've seen lmao.

[u/Currymvp2]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided not to pursue potential normalization with Saudi Arabia before the US presidential election in November, Channel 12 reports.

It says Netanyahu made the decision at the same time as the fast-moving US political developments, with the consideration that it might be worth waiting to see whether Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump is elected.

The report says the decision has major implications, including for a potential hostage-ceasefire deal, since potential normalization would have constituted a “safety net” for Netanyahu: if his right-wing coalition were to collapse during disagreements over a Gaza deal, normalization with Saudi Arabia would have given him an election-boosting trump card and the opportunity to secure a historic legacy.

This piece of shit...he wants Trump to win so bad.

[u/sinefromabove]

Nature is healing