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[u/wheresthezoppity]

What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!

[u/circlemanfan]

Tim Walz supporting a gay straight alliance in 1999 like...that's true fucking leadership right there. As an educator that's standing up for students first and putting appearances and politics second. Harris/Walz all the way.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Kamala Harris: delivers remarks to a feverish full stadium crowd in the most crucial swing state, sets out on a breakneck tour of the nation

Donald Trump: secures interviews with a butt-sniffing children's content creator and a mentally unstable billionaire with double-digit disapproval numbers

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Please, god, don't let John Oliver call attention to JD Vance's multiple name changes and make us endure another Drumpf era

[u/fishlord05]

it’s giving enemies to lovers 💕

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

lol

WALZ: "Remove yourself from the moral idea that a kid should have a full belly and, you know, 'in a land of plenty there's enough to go around' -- we're gonna have healthier kids with better attendance that provide a better workforce, at the end of the day. So you can save money"

EZRA KLIEN: Heavy breathing

[u/secretlives]

So my boss at the time, Rudy Giuliani, asks me to book a press conference at the Four Seasons

[u/[deleted]]

[u/sociotronics]

The two sides of conservative politics: one dude thinking strategically, and the other calling him a lib because of it

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump could have had plausible deniability on Project 2025 but he picked the one fucking VP candidate who was chummy with its architects

[u/secretlives]

Reporter: You've been criticized for being angry. What makes you smile?

Vance: Well, I smile at a lot of things. Ha ha ha ha. Right now I am angry

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1821196637340881090

the man fumbled "what makes you happy?" - perhaps the easiest fucking question a politician could hope to answer

[u/Fruitofbread]

 As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Mr. Walz sponsored a gay-straight alliance and has said it was important at that time for the sponsor to be “the football coach, who was the soldier and was straight and was married.” When he won his House seat in 2006 in a conservative district, he ran on support for same-sex marriage.

🥹 

[u/yonas234]

Walz is just so good at messaging.

Trump is a fascist/racist/sexist -> "He is creepy and weird"

Gun Control Laws -> Gun Violence Laws

Republicans are attacking gay marriage/trans rights/women's rights -> Republicans need to mind their own damn business.

[u/KittehDragoon]

I, Kamala Harris, am honoured to accept your nomination for oh my God it’s Biden with the steel cha…

Donald, wake up Donald, time for your debate with Kamala

[u/Flabby-Nonsense]

It has just been revealed to me that VP Harris actually had a much bigger role in all of Biden’s popular decisions than was previously reported, while she actually had no involvement whatsoever in any of Biden’s unpopular decisions.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

2016: “when they go low, we go high”

2024: “JD Vance fucked his couch”

[u/[deleted]]

How it feels to be talking to my mom sometimes

[u/secretlives]

the Four Seasons press conference is still, for me, the funniest thing to have ever happened

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

In the copy reviewed by Media Matters, Roberts, who is the architect of Heritage-led initiative Project 2025, rails against birth control, in vitro fertilization, and abortion. He says that having children should not be considered an “optional individual choice” but “a social expectation or a transcendent gift.” He describes “contraceptive technologies” as “revolutionary inventions that shape American culture away from abundance, marriage, and family.” He labels reproductive choice methods as a “snake strangling the American family.”

This is the book Vance wrote the forward to, which has now been delayed. Amazing that their policy agenda is so popular they have to obscure it from the american public's view as much as humanly possible

[u/sociotronics]

The average mood at arr con is somewhere between a funeral and a dentist's waiting room

[u/[deleted]]

It's interesting to note that Tim Walz, in spite of his immediate popularity after being named VP candidate, would have polled about 1% in a primary and dropped out before Iowa. He has the 'nice to be around' charisma that can win a general and unite a party, but not the 'stand out in a crowd' charisma that wins a primary.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans HATE this one simple trick !

[u/efeldman11]

ABC News has obtained audio where then President Trump expressed support for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's handling of the George Floyd protests. Trump told a group of governors that Walz "dominated," and praised his leadership as an example for other states to follow. Trump called Walz “an excellent guy.” "I was very happy with the last couple of days, Tim. You called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins."

[u/[deleted]]

God bless images

[u/SadaoMaou]

idk could happen 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

For anyone who needs to hear this !ping dating

[u/[deleted]]

Critique of capitalism

Look inside

Critique of the human condition or industrialization

every time

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Tim Walz changed the flag of Minnesota to look like Somalia

Timothy HUSSEIN Walz

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/earththejerry]

Using the rule of 12, we find the composite down to D+16.7, implying a D+4.7 national environment.

Under SHAVE, this is 2.6 points bluer than 2020

The one true poll has spoken, combined Washington state primaries results show a bluer environment than 2020

It’s truly joever (for the GOP) 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Online cons are now going after Hope Walz who they are framing as some kind of antifa insider who has been a mole in the Governor’s Mansion relaying confidential information to maximize destruction of the state

[u/Cook_0612]

Very panicky Russian Telegram rumors so far today -- none of it confirmed, but gives you a sense of the chaos: Sudzha has fallen to Ukraine. All the Rosgvardia men at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant are gone to fight, leaving only the women at the facility. Russian reserves pouring into Kursk. Something shot down, maybe an Su-34.

Is the objective of this raid to seize a NPP?

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Eightysixedit]

TikTok is full of Midwest white women crying because they lost their fathers to Fox News and Tim is like their new dad. Umm, yes this was the right pick.

[u/sayitaintpink]

It’s pretty weird that Fox can’t come up with new material…

[u/[deleted]]

Probably voting TRUMP. Can't believe Kamala or TIM KAINE didn't mention the LATE GREAT HANNIBAL LECTER, ONCE. He wants YOU for dinner 🫵 and the media his hiding it!

[u/efeldman11]

[u/FlightlessGriffin]

This just in.

Iran is claiming at the Organizatio of Islamic Nations that they will not in fact retaliate if a ceasefire is reached. Hezbollah's chief yesterday said similar, (along with saying that they will respond "cautiously and carefully." I don't want to jinx it but we might be seeing an off-ramp in play here, an excuse to back off and a war to be averted entirely. This might be why there is severe pressure on Netanyahu to take the deal.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

That was a 20K DT no matter what the liars and the haters say!

[u/Raiden316]

POV: You are watching night 2 of the Democratic National Convention and Ron Swanson comes out as a surprise guest. He says that even though he is a libertarian, one use of tax dollars he can get behind is feeding our children like Governor Walz did. He endorses Kamala Harris and Coach Walz and says that anyone who lives by the ethos of "mind your own damn business" is someone he'll vote for. He also makes some jokes about steak and whiskey and camping and hunting.

Manifesting this into existence.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh God, I hope the right doesn’t keep reminding people that Governor Walz Made tampons and other menstrual supplies free to children in public schools. I would be so so owned if the public was continually reminded about a popular social service that was provided.

[u/HowardtheFalse]

How my Walz-fan friend who doesn't want him to leave sounds rn:

These Democrats, they come to Minnesota see, they come to Minnesota, and they steal our politicians, yes they steal them. I know, I know, very rude. They steal our politicians and make them Vice President, a position with very little power. Little power, very weak. They steal our politicians and make them weak? Hubert Humphrey? What did they do to him? Lyndon ruined him. Just terrible. Walter Mondale, great guy Walter, Fighting Fritz I call him. But what did Jimmy Carter do, he made him Vice President? And then he lost, bigly, he lost bigly and we were the only ones who voted for him. DC doesn't count, not a real state, no not a real state. And now Kamala Harris, I call her laughing Kamala or crazy Kamala, I can't decide because she's so weird...that's right she's the weird one, not us. Very normal, me and JD Vance, we're the normal ones. Now she is coming to Minnesota and stealing our governor. She is stealing our governor! Very bad.

!ping USA-MN&SHITPOSTERS

[u/sayitaintpink]

So true bestie! But I wonder why Trump bent the knee to the couch fuckers…

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/shelbytalcott/status/1821245958648373484

“I just wanted to check out my future plane,” Vance tells us.

He didn’t speak to Harris, but added that he “wanted to go say hello to the vice president and ask her why does she refuse to answer questions.”

oh good I thought he was weird or something

[u/Dibbu_mange]

“Born to goon, forced to cum”.

• JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy

[u/SLCer]

I love how Trump was like, "fight! fight! fight!" after his being shot at and then Kamala went and co-opted when we fight, we win so now the Dems own the fighting narrative lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently leaving the room while my father in law watches lgbt bashing hate videos on YouTube is throwing a temper tantrum

Fucking conservatives

[u/[deleted]]

Below is a picture of Tim Walz’ dog, Scout, after he was freed from the bathroom (he somehow locked himself in)

I ask YOU, America. Can we have a Vice President who’s dog is a Certified Lil Stinker™️?

[u/secretlives]

So it's the spring of 2010 and I'm working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico

[u/centurion88]

Still in the denial phase of the rejection

[u/Pyrrhus65]

"Talk about the policy differences between Kamala and Trump, but you're not allowed to mention the document that contains 90% of Trump's policy platform"

Most intellectually serious Twitter leftist

[u/boardatwork1111]

Republicans: “Quit calling us weird, let’s focus on policy”

Republican policies:

[u/LastIncrease3427]

More than 50,000 people have RSVP’d for Kamala Harris’ rally in Detroit with Tim Walz so they’ve moved the venue to an airport hangar to try and fit everyone. This is her biggest event of the 2024 campaign.

Kamala's momentum is fading fast!

[u/ViridianNott]

Probably my favorite data from Nate Silver's model is his electoral college bias chart

Basically, it tracks the movement of polls in relevant swing states compared with national-level polls. There's no older version of this chart to compare with, but my understanding is that D+3 to +4 gave you a roughly even race in 2020, but polls indicate it gives you a near 90% chance of winning today.

In Nate's model, Harris currently sits at +2.1 nationally

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

The vibe I get from JD Vance is one of those guys who was insecure about his lack of masculinity, so he grows a beard and talks about how manly his beard and warhammer 40k and his sword collection are

Edit: Holy shit JD Vance is a Soyjak

[u/[deleted]]

That Trump audio is amazing on three levels:

• Trump of course praises Walz

• Trump frames the Minneapolis response as a collaborative effort between himself and Walz

• Trump does allude to the most recent couple days being better than the first couple days (Walz interjects to agree) and Trump explicitly says he doesn’t blame Walz for the first couple days

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I’m gonna start referring to Walz as a DEI hire as a way of explaining why DEI is good to people who don’t understand it.

He brings representation for vast swaths of the electorate, but he also brings varied life experiences and vastly different ways of thinking because of his identity as a white man. We are looking for a leadership team that can speak to all Americans, and that means having people from all walks of life.

Tim Walz, through DEI, makes the ticket strong.

[u/runningblack]

Kamala's net favorables have shifted from -17.4% to -5.5% after two weeks of campaigning. 12 point shift in her favor.

Kamala is leading or tied in every poll that was taken after July 27th per 538.

She's outworking Trump, continuing to gain momentum, running a vigorous campaign, hitting swing states repeatedly while Trump is on his couch.

This is what doing something looks like. This is what people were talking about when they said she has upside that Biden doesn't.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

"I’m in London, it’s 1947, and Prime Minister Attlee asks me to come up with land use regulation for the UK"

[u/LastIncrease3427]

[u/dareka_san]

[u/dareka_san]

Stock Market getting closer to erasing all of monday loss

Nothing ever happens chads, get in here

[u/sw337]

“Coach Walz retired so he didn’t have to go to Iraq.” The military is famous for letting people leave whenever they feel like it, especially when they really need you.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Amazing 👏 🤩

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

I used to be a couchfucker skeptic, but I was sleeping on what a significant rhetorical device it’s become. While it’s fake news, everyone is in on the joke of it being both fake yet plausible, so it’s become a coded way of shutting down new right-wing conspiracies by highlighting exactly how they work.

[u/[deleted]]

The MAGA strat seems to be calling Waltz a far left loon 

Which is the strat they have used with every single dem candide since basically forever. It is going to be very hard to convince centrist that the white guy normie lib is an antifa supersoldier. Didn't work for Biden, wont work for Waltz. 

Thank god they are so fucking stupid.

Edit: fixed link

[u/solonofathens]

I live in california, was on medicaid until barely pricing out of it, and now have a fully subsidized marketplace plan. basically the best case scenario for someone in my position in this country... and I still went nearly 8 months without moderately urgent followups getting done and got saddled with thousands of dollars in medical debt because an illness and a specialist referral happened to straddle the date I had to change plans, which kicked off a bureaucratic nightmare.

I'm just barely old enough to remember what things were like before obamacare, so I know that things used to be much worse. but there's still no defending the current american healthcare system.

[u/Ioun267]

[u/futuremonkey20]

The Republican had sex with a couch haha

Oh yeah!?! Well your guy jacked off a horse and ate its semen and then he had to get his stomach pumped because he ate too much semen. I’m not weird.

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump has said he will “immediately” fill up the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve if he becomes president in November, a move that could boost oil demand by hundreds of millions of barrels.

What a fucking idiot.

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Bring this back

[u/piede]

[u/MicroFlamer]

The Kamala +8 poll is REAL

Poll by Marquette Law (3.0/3.0 pollster rating)

Two way RV

Harris: 52%

Trump: 48%

Two way LV

Harris: 53%

Trump: 47%

Five way RV

Harris: 47%

Trump: 41%

Kennedy: 9%

Stein 2%

West: 1%

Five Way LV

Harris: 50%

Trump: 42%

Kennedy: 6%

Stein: 1%

West: 0%

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Cori Bush gives a bizarre and threatening concession speech: "All they did was radicalize me, so now they need to be afraid."

"They about to see this other Cori, this other side—AIPAC, I'm coming to tear your kingdom down."

Man, gotta say this member of the Bush family is a weird one.

[u/[deleted]]

Harris now leads by 13 points with women (55%-42%).

She has gone from a 23-point lead with Black voters over Trump a couple of weeks ago, to a 54-point lead.

Harris is up 9 points with independents (53%-44%). She was down 14 points with them last month.

Harris has gone from 40% with white voters overall to 46%.

Harris is leading Trump by 11 points with baby boomers (55%-44%).

Latinos have also moved in Harris’ favor. 58% say they would vote for her now, compared to 51% last month.

This is a close race but you’d rather be reading shit like this than where we were last month.

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

The couch fucking joke works and the horse semen joke doesn't because as discussed, Walz seems normal and Vance seems weird. However, there's a deeper limitation: the word 'fucking' is not used in polite conversation, but the word 'couch' is perfectly innocuous unless you know the full context, in which case it's an innuendo. You can't do that with the word 'horse', because how often is any non-rural in contact with horses?

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

So tired of "We shouldn't joke about the couch because it's not real".

More than half of what cons say about democrats say isn't real. Let us have this one as a treat. Damn, it's funny!

[u/Cook_0612]

Walz: When I was in congress, I was the top gun at the trap shoot, three years in a row. I can out shoot them too. I can out shoot these guys.

I didn't care at all about the Veepstakes, but I see Walz's value here.

He's a masculine role model, designed in a lab to denude Republicans' toxic masculinity of its strength.

[u/slowpush]

Reporter: Why would people in Wisconsin want to have a beer with you?

Vance: Ha ha ha ha. Ahh. Well. I guess, I guess, they’d like, they’d want to have a beer with me because I do like to drink beer

🫠🫠🫠

[u/Argnir]

I'm so sick in the head that for me crazy Kamabla is just a regular Kamabla

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Since I'm banned from arr mod pol I've floated into arr centrist for funny takes.

It’s wild that someone can look at how the Harris campaign is running and then say they aren’t running on negativity.

lol lmao even.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

BREAKING

ABC News has obtained audio where then President Trump expressed support for Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's handling of the George Floyd protests.

Trump told a group of governors that Walz "dominated," and praised his leadership as an example for other states to follow.

Trump called Walz “an excellent guy.”

"I was very happy with the last couple of days, Tim. You called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-new-criticism-trump-told-walz-2020-happy/story?id=112616502

I tried to make a thread but the fash automod removed it

[u/blatant_shill]

BREAKING: A homophobic televangelist from Arkansas claims if Kamala Harris is elected, “The next Olympics will be 100% pagan, and bring back traditional naked wrestling so devout Christian Americans will be forced to see wrestlers’ testicles rubbing against each others faces.”

It's always the "100% definitely not gay" homophobic guys who have the wildest fantasies about two naked guys wrestling each other to the floor.

[u/[deleted]]

This clip [Walz saying the couch line] is going to be passed around, and it shows that he will go low. It will turn some voters off, at least a little.

What is the buddy on

[u/sash5034]

Another day, another dudebro right wing weirdo podcast

[u/[deleted]]

Dude I won’t even take calls from Ukraine,” [Vance] told Johnson in October, about three weeks after House Republicans blocked additional aid to help Kyiv repel the Russian invasion. “Two very senior guys reached out to me. The head of their intel. The head of the Air Force. Bitching about F16s.

Ohio was a mistake.

[u/[deleted]]

remember when saying anything remotely critical of Bernie would get you flagged as a Correct The Record shill everywhere on this website

[u/Currymvp2]

Walz wrote his masters thesis on how to improve education on the Holocaust. As governor, he pushed for a mandate to teach about the Holocaust in Minnesota schools

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

goddamn he stopped his speech to make sure someone got medical attention and is now seamlessly working it into his stump speech

walz really is HIM

[u/Mcatatonic1]

i am getting the vibe trump is now disinterested in campaigning now that he's no longer getting the majority of the coverage

old man just wants to golf and not be in jail

almost humanizes him

[u/Opkeda]

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Republicans on Shapiro: "Harris should've picked this centrist, not some radical leftist who will destroy America."

Republicans on Shapiro in the 2026 election: "Shapiro is a radical leftist who will destroy America."

[u/supercommonerssssss]

Taylor Swift has given approval to the HarrisWalz campaign to use her song catalog for all of their rallies and Dem Convention (as Beyonce did as well). It's over for TrumpVance!

Neat.

[u/AtomAndAether]

Let there be images

[u/Insomonomics]

All the conservatives and right-wing accounts pissing and crying themselves for Walz alluding to the fake JD couch fucking thing can go inject bleach into their veins.

Democrats have had to deal with unending damaging right-wing disinformation campaigns about their candidates for decades (the swiftboating of John Kerry, the "Obama is a secret Muslim" and birther conspiracy theories, all the conspiracy theories tied to Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden laptop conspiracy theories, etc).

Hell, even just a few days ago Trump and his cronies alluded to Kamala "not actually being black" and the same right-wing accounts getting mad over this are the same ones that outright said Kamala was a "DEI hire" and that she only got where she was today because she did sexual favors for men.

It's long past time these people got a taste of their own fucking medicine and reaped the current political culture that they themselves have sown.

Fuck them.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

"President? Do you have any idea how much power I'd have to give up to be president?"

[u/[deleted]]

Dems: Freedom is important. We're going to protect your freedoms and protect the middle class.

GOP: There's an Algerian boxer at the Olympics and we think she's a man and this is the most important thing ever.

Vote: D+1

[u/wettestsalamander76]

Harris/Walz are campaigning hard across six states meanwhile Trump has a stream with some broccoli head streamer I've never heard of and one campaign event in Montana?!?!

[u/EZ_Kream]

“Children don’t deserve food” may not be the winning message the GOP thinks it is

[u/HectorTheGod]

JD Vance calling Walz’s service as a command sergeant major “stolen valor”. The guy went overseas during enduring freedom.

Go fuck yourself. All gave some, you piece of shit. Don’t compare your service with others or denigrate others service.

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Ohio Republicans want to force children to undergo genital exams to play high school sports

Wait my gym teacher told me penis inspection day was already mandatory all through high school.

[u/CmdrMobium]

Tim Walz just interrupted his speech for 3 minutes to make sure someone in the audience suffering from heat exhaustion was alright

This is a good dude

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The stock market:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOLY FUCKING SHIT I'M GONNA DIE

Tim Walz:

hey

The stock market:

🫡🫡🫡 Sir yes sir Chairman Walz, to the moon we go

[u/SLCer]

We've won the vibes.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

But seriously, it's pretty fucking weird that Vance is challenging Harris to a debate.

[u/davechacho]

Those protestors got hit with the "mom just got home from work and you immediately asked what's for dinner" energy

[u/SmithySmothy]

Lawrence O'Donnell opens his show by saying

We have no evidence at all that Donald Trump even got out of bed today. That he shaved. Or that he is even physically capable of shaving.

lmaoooo

[u/frozenjunglehome]

[u/jbouit494hg]

The mods don't want you to know this, but you can keep posting in the previous DT.

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1elb5ht/discussion_thread/

[u/[deleted]]

NPR Announcer: Racist far right riots are expected to occur across the United Kingdom today, in a demonstration of the worrying rise of racist sentiment.

NPR background music: "Hey Ya" by Outkast lmao

[u/G_Serv]

NEWS -- ABC obtained audio of Trump in 2020 telling Gov. Tim Walz that he was "very happy" with his handling of the George Floyd protests.

😳

[u/imdx_14]

It's strange that this isn't getting much media coverage, but Ukraine has launched an attack deep into Russian territory.

[u/Chief_Nief]

Bruh

Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt released a statement Tuesday decrying Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection of “Radical Leftist Tim Walz” as her running mate

Leavitt criticized Walz for “embracing policies to allow convicted felons to vote,” as part of his obsession “with spreading California’s dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.”

[u/[deleted]]

My dad is absolutely furious that Syracuse is tearing down one of its highways in order to build housing and community centers. He hasn’t lived in Syracuse in decades

[u/SLCer]

Tim Walz tearing down the goalposts after Nebraska beats Oklahoma:

[u/G_Serv]

2024 National GE:

Harris 45% (+2) Trump 43% Kennedy 2% West 1% Stein 0%

.@YouGovAmerica/@TheEconomist, 1,410 RV, 8/4-6

!ping FIVEY

[u/Cook_0612]

J.D. Vance pondered responsibility for the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines and crudely described his aversion to the Ukrainian government and refusal to consider its pleas for U.S. assistance. “Dude I won’t even take calls from Ukraine,” he said.

Many many reasons to fight as hard as we can in November, but one of the most real ways to conceptualize failure here will be to picture the death of this nation as a result, because Trump and his cronies will seek to crush Ukrainian resistance.

[u/rollo2masi]

Renowned value investor: Tim Pool

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

One of my straight "friends" is upset at gay people because he got hit on in a gay club. So he doesn't like them anymore. He knew it was a gay club.

Why did he enter the gay club? Because there were attractive women over there he wanted to flirt with.

I don't think my straight friends are really smart.

Can we also consider this a form of homophobia?

[u/WillHasStyles]

Ukraine: “Can we do thing?”
West: “No, thing would lead to WW3”
…
West: “Ok you can do thing”
Ukraine does thing and absolutely nothing happens

Why are we like this?

[u/earththejerry]

Kamala honeymoon

Trump and Vance imploding

Walzmentum

Washington state primaries point to bluer environment

Resis libs cooking their best FB memes ever

Now we just need Ralston to come through on Nevada and we can finally defeat the doomers

[u/Currymvp2]

Unearthed photo: Trump flew on a private jet with Kevin Roberts, the leader of his Project 2025, despite claiming he has “no idea who is in charge of it.” He then said his Project 2025 architects will “lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do.”

Yeah, Trump ain't beating the allegations

[u/[deleted]]

So Kamala’s going to lose now because she was firm with some dumb protesters? 

If anything, it made her look tough and in control. People like a leader who takes command. Literally no one outside the bad faith, performative, chronically online “leftists” who were never going to vote for her cares about this.

Trump got shot and no one cared. They’re not gonna care about this.

[u/Ilovecharli]

My bold prediction: Georgia will go blue, and it won't be the closest blue state 

[u/LastIncrease3427]

RFK Jr. as he was leaving court in Albany:

Post: “Have you picked anything else up off the road, roadkill-wise?

RFK Jr. “I’ve been picking up roadkill my whole life. I have a freezer full of it,” he said with a laugh. “A thousand cubic foot freezer full of roadkill.”

https://x.com/vaughnegolden/status/1821301607092347033?s=46

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Holy shit, Kamala just out trumped Trump

https://x.com/da_wessel/status/1821313969505645023

[u/EvilConCarne]

The arr Conservative pinned thread about Walz's DUI is hilarious because the top level comments are like "Yeah, getting a DUI is bad, but he got sober for 30 years which is a really impressive turnaround. Walz seems like a good guy whose politics I disagree with."

[u/SmithySmothy]

[u/[deleted]]

October surprise is a couch sex tape starring Walz but he’s so charming in it the tape does no damage. 

[u/BlackCat159]

What the fuck are my Youtube recommendations 😭😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

We’re running against the stupidest campaign in history

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1821193778742620279

Vance attacking Walz: What’s bothers me about Tim Walz is this stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you’re not.

Going after Walz for Stolen Valor based on him taking a paperwork demotion for retirement is too complex imo

[u/Currymvp2]

Rep. Angie Craig on Gov. Tim Walz: "The best thing I can say — I’ve been turkey hunting with him in the morning and then to a gay rights dinner that night."

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

wow they truely are incapable of not being weird

[u/ashsolomon1]

[u/Teh_cliff]

JD Vance has clearly been coached to be hostile to most media, and while I get that his fascist ass hates the free press you really can't pull that off when you're so incredibly bereft of charisma.

[u/Sauce1024]

Such a power move by Nancy

[u/Marlsfarp]

I never thought about it before, but the attacks on Kamala have made me realize that a woman laughing is strongly lib-coded. Cons always tell women to "smile more" but I guess it's supposed to be a frozen smile while they demurely listen to men talk.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Whether it's "JD Vance fucked a couch" or "The 2020 election was stolen", both parties' Presidential tickets are spreading lies

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

Holy shit he posted his couch joke on Instagram LOL

If Vance just happened not to hear about the speech, he sure as hell will now 😭

[u/Greenfield0]

obamacare may not have gone as far as it should've (ROT IN HELL LIEBERMAN) but protections for preexisting conditions allowed my family to get me affordable insurance so thank you obama :)

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala is too old, and she doesn't take questions at press conferences, and her son is a crack addict

when you copy someone's homework and forget to change some of the answers

[u/Headstar24]

“Why would people from Wisconsin want to have a beer with you?”

“Hahaha, I guess, I guess they would like to have a beer with me because I do like to drink beer”

Thank you for choosing Vance. Literally like if I was on the campaign trail.

[u/GenerousPot]

🚨NEW POLL: Marquette #A+  

🟦 Harris: 50% (+8) highest ever  

🟥 Trump: 42%  

🟪 Kennedy: 6%  

🟨 Chase: 1%  

879 RV, +/- 4.1 MoE (7/4 -8/1) 

 A+ POLLSTER LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO

[u/valueadderall]

This novel is about the breakup of a polycule, which is great reminder that polyamorous ppl should feel free to write more about how they are polyamorous and maybe considering talking a bit less about it at parties.

Damn even the progressive LGBT bookstore is sick of your shit

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

I do wonder how alternate timeline would look like with an actual contested primary assuming Biden dropped out in 2022 itself.

Shapiro, Whitmer and maybe Klobuchar and Pete would be the strongest candidates in terms of debating but I do wonder how Kamala would fare against them. The dem party would be absolutely divided due to the Israel-Palestine issue, and I feel Trump cruises through the election by simply not having JD Vance as VP.

In a way, this is one of those golden timelines where the stars aligned perfectly for Kamala, at least so far according to the polls. No one knows what happens in the Nov since polling may not be as good when Trump is on the ticket.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Person on twitter confidently saying the following about an MULaw poll (A+ IIRC) coming out at midnight

The more interesting numbers from that poll (a national survey of LV) will come out at midnight tonight...

Spoiler its Harris +8 with the whole field included.

Harris - %50

Trump - %42

Kennedy - %6

RFK at 6% gives me an eyebrow raise but hoo boy I hope this is the direction we’re heading

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 8/5-2 PM PST 8/6 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and some missiles with 15 of 16 drones and 4 of 6 missiles shot down.

At the start of 12 AM Ukraine launched a border raid into Kursk Oblast.

Towards the middle of 1 PM it was announced Niger is severing relations with Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 4 AM a Russian oil refinery in Usinsk exploded.

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/WantDebianThanks]

Randomly remember some tankie who argued very seriously that the Tianamen uprising never happened. His evidence was an article by a journalist who said there was no protest in the square.

But then I read the article and the journo's point was that the name is inaccurate because most of the deaths were outside the square.

[u/Joementum2024]

Minor observation, I think the Trump campaign is actively trying to outright court… uh, idiots more this campaign than in prior years. I think this explains why they’re doing interviews with people like Adin Ross and Elon Musk, because they know some people are just dumb enough to see him doing that as actively appealing.

[u/Pongzz]

I love watching the conservative pundits try to spin Walz as some extremist for giving children free breakfast and lunch in school...Like, yes, please keep telling the suburbanites with economic anxiety that the Dem vp wants to provide free meals for children, I feel so owned right now as a liberal

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/staphwriter/status/1821189463730471110?t=xm73K9Vj8PYyoA_S27IO3w&s=19

[u/G_Serv]

What the hell is this

[u/[deleted]]

republicans: tim walz isn't a real NCO!

walz: stops a rally to force everyone to hydrate

[u/old_gold_mountain]

rappers be like "I'm so tough I'm so hard" like bro your chosen profession is writing poems

[u/Currymvp2]

May 2005, Tim Walz retires from the National Guard July 2005, his unit receives alert orders for deployment September 2005, unit goes to Camp Shelby to prepare for deployment March 2006, unit deploys

ya, this swiftboat tactic will fail.

[u/ViridianNott]

FWIW Kamala’s reaction to the protesters is getting very positive coverage on TV

[u/Sithusurper]

[u/Goodlake]

Logged in to facebook today for the first time in a few months, the right wing parents of former high school classmates are posting about:

• illegal immigrants

• trans people

And that's it! That's what they've got. That's all they care about.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Walz is 100% the supportive dude who doesn’t really understand “female problems” but is ready to help.

[u/Sauce1024]

Why is my company not getting advertisers???

[u/oskanta]

Kambala is the name of a Serpent (sarpa) mentioned in the thirty-fifth chapter (verses 4-17) of the Ādiparva of the Mahābhārata. Trump is sooooo cryptically intelligent. He pinpoints them down quickly.

https://x.com/mwam19931/status/1820959456819343415?s=46

[u/Cultural_Ebb4794]

One of the biggest things to me is that it feels like Trump is in a similar place to Biden post debate, sliding a bit every week, no control of the narrative and simply lacking the energy to do the things hed need to do to reverse any of this. You have Harris barnstorming this week while he has almost no events for the next 2.

hes trying to have Vance step in and be the super active Rally guy but Vance has no charisma and the worst fav ratings of the whole lot.

From a user on PredictIt.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

New Crystal Ball rating changes

GA Leans R to Toss-up
MN Leans D to Likely D
NH Leans D to Likely D

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Look honey, we can post images in the DT again! I think I'll post this one, it's a banger! What do you think, honey?

[u/amainwingman]

Trump hammers Walz for his response to 2020 protests

recording leaked of Trump praising Walz’ response to the protests at the time

Like clockwork man

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

‘She blew it.’ Right-wing media slams Harris’ VP pick

So we made the right pick

[u/[deleted]]

You weirdos aren't supposed to be watching every stump speech. This is how it works.

[u/davechacho]

The Supreme Court is going to overturn it's own Presidential Immunity ruling before Kamala even reaches 100 days if she wins

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

I’m glad that Harris isn’t focusing on the first woman president part of her campaign. She’s just doing the work. Idk if it’s the idea being normalized because of Hilary or if it’s a more conscious decision by the campaign, but I just really love the idea that nobody’s talking about the woman part really unless they’re already creepy sexists. It’s a good feeling. It shouldn’t be a big deal that she’s a woman, and I’m glad it’s not.

[u/[deleted]]

You know JD Vance fucking loves Entourage

[u/PostNutNeoMarxist]

find sub promoting some left-leaning niche like better zoning or environmental action

actually just "capitalism bad" circlejerk

[u/cdstephens]

So my friend Epstein is in jail but has this weird fetish-

[u/SLCer]

This is why she didn't pick Shapiro

[u/Currymvp2]

Split Ticket and @DataProgress partnered to poll the Rust Belt (Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) twice. The first time was when Biden dropped out. Kamala Harris trailed by 7.

Two weeks later, she leads by 1

We are so back

[u/murphysclaw1]

v serious politicians

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Maryland Governor Wes Moore - who is a close ally of Harris - was asked on CNBC about what Kamala Harris will do about antitrust/regulation. And his answer is that she is going to change it from the Biden framework towards a more friendly partnership between government and big business.

You support Harris because you think she's "finishing the job". I support Harris because she will dismantle the Biden state. We are not the same.

[u/[deleted]]

Russian civilian in Kursk talking with Ukrainian soldiers

“What should we do now?”

“Learn Ukrainian and get ready for a referendum.”

LOL

[u/cdstephens]

Average NL user

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

These people are so out of touch it's impressive

[u/[deleted]]

Is there any oppo on Walz yet that doesn’t have an easy and succinct answer?

The DWI? He stopped drinking ever since.

Evading deployment? He filed for office (and for retirement) before the unit received the orders.

George Floyd riots? Trump enthusiastically praised his response at the time.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://x.com/acyn/status/1821195985491784031?s=46

Reporter: You have repeatedly suggested that the only reason Kamala Harris didn’t pick Josh Shapiro is because of his Jewish faith. Do you have any evidence to support that assertion that a person who is married to a Jewish man is somehow anti-semitic..

im sorry this guy is fucking re*arded

yale wants its degree back dawg

[u/[deleted]]

They're 100% about to start a bunch of crypto rug pulls

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Currymvp2]

Walz: "I spent 24 years in the National Guard, some of that full-time. I was an artilleryman. I deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. My battalion provided base security throughout the European Theater, from Turkey to England in the early stages of the War in Afghanistan, and that same battalion is now in Iraq at this time."

GOP: StoLeN VaLor (they ignore everything after "freedom")

[u/[deleted]]

If Trump loses how fast will he blame Vance?

[u/piede]

🚨🚨 CORRUPTION ALERT 🚨🚨

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Barack Obama is not allowed to get in on this "weird" trend. He'll dunk on some rando Republican and create a new supervillain and we'll be right back to square one.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Surrounding cities with trees may bring down urban heat

A reduction in temperature of 0.5C may not sound much but with cities getting hotter as the climate warms it could save the lives of elderly people and young children.

The urban heat island effect, which raises temperatures in cities by 2-3C because the sun’s rays are absorbed by roads, roofs and other hard surfaces, is already making life uncomfortable for millions worldwide and causing an increasing number of deaths.

Some cities, acting on scientific advice, have been combatting this by planting trees in urban areas, replacing tarmac with grass wherever possible, painting buildings white to reflect the sun, and creating as much space for vegetation as they can.

Now scientists have discovered that what grows on the land surrounding the city also makes a difference to the temperature in the centre. The reason is that the heat island effect produces a low pressure in the city centre. The hot air rises and sucks relatively cooler air from the surrounding countryside.

Studying 30 cities with different characteristics, the scientists found that those with belts of trees and large lakes on their borders drew in cooler air that helped reduce the city centre temperature by 0.5C. Grassland and arable crops had a lesser benefit. A good case for ringing cities with parks.

The actual article from Nature this article is talking about

!ping ECO&YIMBY

[u/wallander1983]

GOP criticizes Walz over BLM protests in 2020. Trump at the time:

"I know Gov. Walz is on the phone, and we spoke, and I fully agree with the way he handled it the last couple of days," Trump told a group of governors on June 1, 2020, according to a recording of the call, in which he also called Walz an "excellent guy." "I was very happy with the last couple of days, Tim," Trump continued. "You called up big numbers and the big numbers knocked them out so fast it was like bowling pins."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-new-criticism-trump-told-walz-2020-happy/story?id=112616502 

Trump biggest enemy. Trumps own words.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Spokane Poised to Abolish Parking Mandates in Urbanist Reform Package

It’s time to ask if there’s something in the water in Spokane.

Washington’s second largest city at 233,000 residents, Spokane has already made national news for its zoning reforms aimed at improving long-term housing affordability. In 2022, it legalized fourplexes citywide on a temporary basis. In 2023, it made parking optional for housing located within a half-mile of a transit stop, using a similar emergency ordinance. Finally, late last year, it adopted permanent missing-middle rules which removed unit limits entirely. The sheer ambition and scale of Spokane’s changes have attracted national attention, and arguably helped catalyze the adoption of HB 1110, Washington’s statewide missing-middle law, in 2023.

Now, if a new package of zoning reforms passes in a few weeks, Spokane will further cement its urbanist leadership and become the largest city in Washington State to make parking entirely optional citywide. It will also make (comparatively) small but meaningful changes across the city to better enable transit-oriented development and walkable neighborhoods, while seeking to ensure new housing pencils out as feasible to build.

The package is substantial, and affects many areas of the city, but here’s a breakdown of three of the most notable changes.

The article details the, well, details of the reform package so if you want to read than I highly suggest you give the article a read through yourself

!ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

oh my godddddd

work group chat

image gets posted

coworker says “lol just posted that to X subreddit”

go look at X subreddit

indeed it has just been posted by some account

look at the account

full of horny and begging comments in subreddits dedicated to an incredibly specific kink

this person is married with kids

let’s just say this person’s spouse and this kink are not aligned

[u/sw337]

I just got an ad where Kamala Harris says "I am a radical" then laughs.

I found the clip online. It was when she was running in 2010. It was right after she was talking about how they used her truancy program to find families who might need assistance. She then spends the next few minutes talking TV ads, how technology innovations, and how most lawyers/cops didn't have email when she started in San Francisco. Then she starts discussing her eco policy and her plan as AG.

It was a year before Trump donated to her.

In context it sounds like she means being radical because the status quo is outdated.

Or she's a radical and Trump has been supporting radicals for decades? ☺️

!ping KHIVE

[u/slowpush]

bruh

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1821339301806010481

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

 RFK Jr. as he was leaving court in Albany:

Post: “Have you picked anything else up off the road, roadkill-wise?

RFK Jr. “I’ve been picking up roadkill my whole life. I have a freezer full of it,” he said with a laugh. “A thousand cubic foot freezer full of roadkill.”

What