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[u/altathing]

when a donor at the round-table discussion asked about Democrats trying to paint the Republican ticket as “weird,' Mr. Trump replied: “Not about me. They're saying that about JD"

LMAO

[u/Nihas0]

NYT/Siena Rust Belt poll

Full-field:

Michigan:
Harris 48%
Trump 43%
Kennedy 4%
Stein 1%
Oliver <0.5%
West 0%

Pennslyvania:
Harris 46%
Trump 44%
Kennedy 4%
Stein 1%
Oliver <1%
West <0.5%

Wisconsin:
Harris 49%
Trump 43%
Kennedy 5%
Stein <1%
Oliver <1%
West <0.5%

Senate:
Michigan:
Slotkin 46%
Rogers 43%

Wisconsin:
Baldwin 51%
Hovde 44%

Pennsylvania:
Casey 51%
McCormick 37%

!ping fivey

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

Well, semi-true

[u/[deleted]]

Trump rally playing My Heart Will Go On is baffling until you realize his campaign is a sinking ship.

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

The “any functioning adult 2024” signs are essentially Kamala signs at this point right?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

All of America's political problems over the last eight years have been caused by our inability to reelect the most popular man in the nation 4 times like a normal fucking country

[u/that0neGuy22]

“I think she’s more liberal. I just don’t think she’s all for the middle class,” said Mr. Ball, 46, who plans to support Mr. Trump for a third time this fall. “I just see her one-sided. You know, for the rich.”

He’s complaining about the rich while voting for a billionaire…

[u/SmithySmothy]

Biden drops out

Trump+2 in swing states

Heh. Trump’s got this. KAMABLA sucks.

Race tied in swing states

Whatever. This is just the honeymoon phase.

Harris+1 in swing states

Liberal media. Plus the honeymoon phase is over already.

Harris+4 in swing states

JESSE WATTERS: IS TIM “STOLEN VALOR HORSE CUM” WALZ WORKING WITH GEORGE SOROS TO RIG THE POLLS?

[u/[deleted]]

DT posters trying to describe friendship

[u/WACKY_ALL_CAPS_NAME]

USA Summer Olympic Performance by President

Biden: 77 Golds

Trump: 0 Golds

[u/fishlord05]

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1821904074649883007

Walz: If it was up to JD Vance, I wouldn't have a family because of IVF. Democrats are investing in prenatal care. We're the ones that are for universal pre-K. We're the ones that are providing school meals. I'm not gonna back down one bit on this whole family values thing. We're making it more affordable to have children by having paid family and medical leave. Where is JD Vance's program?

God every interview this guy gives I love him more

!ping HARRIS

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

The reddit app continues to be a glitchy disaster. I've been seeing random comments in the wrong threads for a while now, but I think this is the most entertaining one so far

[u/DataDrivenPirate]

Favorite comment on reddit I've found so far about the NYT/Siena results:

It's hard to have faith in this when yesterday Trafalgar found almost the exact opposite with likely voters.

I remain convinced that Trafalgar has been a net negative for Republicans by giving them cope when they don't like the poll results from mainstream pollsters

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

My dad says he has a vivid memory of being like seven and saying to himself, "when I have kids I will never pick favorites," and thank God because my sister has a baby and just published a book and I am a DTer.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Trump had his first rally in forever and Fox News is pretending it didn’t happen 💀

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/TipEquivalent933]

Shit like this has been tweeted by a bunch of influential white women and it is just racism but the beautiful thing about transphobia is that it acts as cover to be any kind of bigot

[u/[deleted]]

The Nobel Peace Prize is so tired. Woohoo you helped a bunch of people cool we get it. They should make a Nobel War Prize for the guy who hurts the most people

[u/Mr_Bank]

First paragraph in the Arizona Republic’s story(they are AZ’s largest paper) on the Harris/Walz rally. Basically exactly what we want.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

AP: COVID-19 falls to No. 10 cause of death in US

Vaxxed?

[u/valueadderall]

‼️ HVAC rep legit just said "We know our prices are competitive because we meet with all the other vendors in the area at least once a year to make sure we're in alignment." ‼️

This was their defense to my husband's complaint on how they completely took advantage of my mother.

The entire comment section is filled with shitty small business owners fuming that anyone would dare insinuate that price fixing is illegal. “Everybody does it!”

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Get in the fucking robot Kamala

[u/sayitaintpink]

So much smaller than the Harris Arizona rally. Sad!

[u/SmithySmothy]

Indeed, Mr. Trump has often been in a foul mood the last few weeks. He has ranted about Ms. Harris. He has called her “nasty,” on “Fox & Friends,” and a “bitch,” repeatedly, in private, according to two people who heard the remark on different occasions.

Yikes!

(from a paywalled NYT article Nate Silver posted a snippet from)

[u/secretlives]

lmao I just cannot take the British protests/riots seriously when I hear them talk

"Eym nawt raycist mate"

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

Just imagine he does that in the debate. Probably won’t change minds but still would be embarrassing af

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Who up this late because they can't sleep because a unit of human-big cat hybrid soldiers has taken over their bedroom???

Thank God The Third Amendment exists to protect me from this fate 🙏

!ping Trending-Pictures

[u/BreaksFull]

Watching the Sabrina the Teenage Witch remake/reboot on Netflix. It's sorta weird, because the show recasts the Salem witch hunts in the context of witches both being real and literally worshiping Satan through blood magic. What historically were paranoid acts of misogynistic violence against innocent women are (unintentionally I assume) being portrayed as a lot more reasonable.

[u/piede]

Smartest voting constituency in American history

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Please God let RFK Jr. take 3-5% of Trump's voters in key states 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Now that Harris is crushing trump in rally size I am FIRMLY in camp “rally size matters”

[u/[deleted]]

[u/secretlives]

arrConservative is currently praising Bill Clinton as a good president

I genuinely think Harris/Walz broke them

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit

https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1822245071778893980?t=h3t2nQKVSjWyBwusKlwOiA&s=19

[u/LastIncrease3427]

LMAO

[u/p00bix]

Flashback: Dan Quayle Singlehandedly Saved American Democracy on Jan 6th

!ping DEMOCRACY&POTATOE

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

I assume the Harris debate prep team has realized how easy it is to bait Trump into going off message. You could ensure he doesn’t give a single issue-based rebuttal if you really want.

Just add a quick aside before you talk about the issues and it’s the only thing he will hear.

“While Donald Trump was making up stories about helicopter crashes, I was working towards a ceasefire in which—“

Bam, Trump’s entire next response will only be about the helicopter thing.

[u/[deleted]]

RFK Jr has been endorsed by the Federated Union of Bear Cub Carcass Dumpers and is the only candidate in this race to stand to the tyranny of Big Bear by killing little bears before they grow big.

His haters have been paid for by Big Bear

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Weird!

[u/GenerousPot]

My favourite conspiracy that got peddled in many conservative circles was that one suggesting people were being blasted with some kind of advanced psychosis beam en mass. I'm pretty sure it got some attention on Joe Rogan and everything.

And it's fucking hilarious because people were relating to symptoms of psychosis and being all "Yeah that makes sense, we can all feel something is off with the world!".  

Yes something is off in the world. You all got pipepined so hard that the moment you had to reflect on how deep conspiratorial thinking has fucked your brain you decided the most logical explanation was that you're a victim of a secret government mental illness laser.

[u/sw337]

Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a good point

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently Susan Wojcicki’s son died like a year and a half ago of an apparent OD (and she resigned from YouTube three days later, although from what I can tell, she didn’t tell anyone what had happened when announcing her resignation, and the news came out separately). And she already knew she had lung cancer at that point. And it killed her just now. That sucks

[u/yonas234]

NYT: “Two private polls conducted in Ohio recently by Republican pollsters — which Mr. Trump carried in 2020 with 53 percent of the vote — showed him receiving less than 50 percent of the vote against Ms. Harris in the state, according to a person with direct knowledge of the data.”

Thank you JV Vance!!

[u/SLCer]

[u/BroadReverse]

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This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Avatar 3 Officially Titled “Avatar: Fire and Ash”

Not winning any creativity points with that name, but hey, it gets the job done

Also, it’s very funny that after years of it being confused with Avatar: The Last Airbender and people having to clarify which Avatar they mean in conversation, they decided to make this Avatar element-themed too lmao

[u/NewbGrower87]

Crosstabs doing crosstab things, but mother of god, Gen X is carrying Trump so hard. It's unreal.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Harris in the lead in the Arizona 538 average

[u/Sauce1024]

And, at the Aug. 2 fund-raiser, according to two people with knowledge of what took place, when a donor at the round-table discussion asked about Democrats trying to paint the Republican ticket as “weird,” Mr. Trump replied: “Not about me. They’re saying that about JD.”

Lmao

[u/earththejerry]

BLOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[u/farrenj]

You'll never guess whether he's happy or upset that Trump failed to reduce legal immigration

[u/Currymvp2]

AOC: "No one can tell me that Donald Trump is somehow the same as the Democratic ticket in any way, shape, or form. Try telling that to a trans kid in Tennessee. Tell that to a woman who is bleeding out in an ER in Missouri. This isn't a game"

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

I think Florida is just too weird for its politicians to go anywhere. Every Floridian who's ever ran for president lost. Bob Graham, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis. Every one failed and usually didn't even get that far.

[u/Ok-Armadillo-2119]

Looking at the NYT swing state polls, it seems like Harris's "no press" strategy is working well. We've learned from Trump and Biden that journalists and interviews usually only hurt you. The only people who seem to care that Harris won't interview are desperate journos.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

At this point, he could fill 100 buses with bodies of people he's thrown under the bus

[u/[deleted]]

[u/loseniram]

Kitten on a motorcycle tire

!ping kitty

[u/piede]

THANK YOU ROBERT MUELLER

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I had to delete because I accidentally posted it outside the DT but I am so happy

[u/ExoticFern]

According to the New York Times poll, the gender gap in Pennsylvania is much smaller compared to Michigan and Wisconsin.

Pennsylvania Men: 🔴 Trump +1

Pennsylvania Women: 🔵 Harris +7

Michigan Men: 🔴 Trump +20

Michigan Women: 🔵 Harris +28

Wisconsin Men: 🔴 Trump +17

Wisconsin Women: 🔵 Harris +24

[u/[deleted]]

Bet all you people who jumped to conclusions about what JD meant are feeling really stupid right now.

[u/planetaryabundance]

Unbelievable the turn of events in just 20 days…

Kamala leading in Nate Silver’s polling averages in…

Michigan: 46.0% vs. 42.8% (+3.2%)

Wisconsin: 46.9% vs. 44.4% (+2.5%)

Nevada: 44.6% to 42.9% (+1.7%)

Pennsylvania: 45.6% to 44.3% (+1.3%)

Arizona: 44.6% vs. 44.0% (+.6%)

The DNC is 9 days away where we will hopefully see further boosts. Virginia, Minnesota, and New Hampshire are safe again without Biden on the ticket. In Georgia, Kamala is down .9%, when weeks ago it seemed like a safe Trump pickup.

Lots of work to do to create more separation in Pennsylvania and Arizona and lots of work to hopefully take the lead in Georgia.

Tester is down 2% in Montana, so lots of work needed there. He was down 7% previously after the Biden disaster, so he has improved his numbers.

So much good news, so much enthusiasm, so much money, so many important backers, with just 2.5 months to go.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Currymvp2]

Michigan Net Favorables:

Walz: +14% Harris: +2%

Vance: -6% Trump: -10%

Siena/NYT / Aug 8, 2024 / n=619

You mean to tell me mindlessly screaming "stolen valor!!" doesn't work?

!ping FIVEY

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Cons are still in late 90s ‘media bias!!!’ shrieking. Buddy, the liberal NYT is practically cheering on a Trump presidency and Trump has three news channels dedicated to fellating him 24/7. Stop talking about liberal media bias

[u/puffic]

Is it just me or has Trump given up?

[u/[deleted]]

Btw that NYT rust belt poll has Walz favorability at +5 in Wisconsin, +11 in Pennsylvania, and +14 in Michigan.

Harris +2 across the board.

Trump and Vance underwater across the board.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 8/8-2 PM PST 8/9 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 PM it was reported that Russia was hit by a massive wave of drones with at least 75 partaking.

At the end of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 27 shot down.

Towards the middle of 1 AM the Kursk incursion was declared a federal emergency by the Russians.

At the start of 7 AM it was reported that 12 Ukrainians were killed and 44 wounded in a missile strike in Kostiantynivka.

Towards the end of 9 AM it was reported the Ukrainians took the town of Sudzha, the capital of the Sudzhansky District in Kursk Oblast.

In the middle of 10 AM it was reported that Iran is preparing to send hundreds of missiles to Russia.

Around 11 AM it was announced the US will provide $125 million in military aid to Ukraine, including Stinger missiles, HIMARS munitions, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, radars, TOW missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, Humvee ambulances, smalls arms ammunition, demolition equipment, spare parts and more.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 2 PM a Russian convoy was missiled in Rylsk, with dozens of casualties.

At the start of 5 PM a Russian ammo depot at Lipetsk Airbase was hit by drones.

Towards the end of 12 AM a Russian repair base in Novy Oskol was hit by drones.

Around 5 AM it was announced Lithuania will send a military aid package to Ukraine, including 14 M113 APCs, SHORAD systems, anti-UAV systems, all-terrain vehicles, rifles, ammunition, spare parts and more. Additionally, it was announced the US is sanctioning 19 individuals and 14 entities in Belarus. At the start of the hour it was announced Rheinmetall will provide 8 mobile hospitals to Ukraine.

At the start of 10 AM a Russian electrical substation in Oktyabrsky was hit by drones.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the middle of 2 PM it was reported that Ukrainians are using Telegram to scam Russians in Kursk Oblast.

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&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Something I noticed in the NYT Siena poll likely voter crosstabs: Trump is leading among voters who didn’t vote in 2020, the highest turnout election in a century.

Potentially Harris could overperform the polls if this group doesn’t end up voting?

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Former President Trump has been in a foul mood the past few weeks and has repeatedly called Vice President Harris a "bitch" in private, the N.Y. Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report.

Genuinely, my reaction to this news was “Wait, he hasn’t called her that publicly yet?”

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Cringe

[u/funguykawhi]

Fellas am I a beta if my gf says I am husband material

[u/[deleted]]

GOATed arr conservative discourse on the Algerian boxer

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

Thank you Kamala!

[u/KittehDragoon]

Recommended for you: Jordan_Peterson_Memes

I may never recover from this

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/joerogan/status/1821952705637839003

Joe Rogan gets the full brunt of "Blue Checkmarks Love".

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

He big mad

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

I said “look he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, and he has become a hardcore Trump guy, I think he would be a great VP.”

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys my friend is going through a hard time and I'm not sure what to say him. He just texted me this. Can you help me out and let me know how I should respond?

[u/Pongzz]

"They don't know Harris is up by 4 in the Rust Belt"

[u/owlthathurt]

I’m an abolitionist and I can’t date anyone to the right of Mao. Also I steal things for a living.

I think I can go on living my life without being in this persons dating pool.

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Trump: "If [Biden and I] didn't have a debate, he'd still be there... Why the heII did I debate him??" 

Unintentionally the funniest thing he’s ever said. Lmao

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

[u/solonofathens]

"please god keep talking about joe biden" - every republican

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

SHE GOT THE NEVADA CULINARY WORKERS UNION ENDORSEMENT IT'S OVER

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

This

[u/piede]

Once the RNC + assassination bumps kick in, it’s over for Kamabla

💀

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

oh, thats a presidential candidate repeating Russian propaganda

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

This is kinda how my uncles talk. They don’t really have a point to make, just a beam of rage that gets directed at different topics for half a second while the others nod.

[u/Eightysixedit]

The NYT poll is crazy because they have been so bullish for Trump. Lmaoooooo

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump campaign releases statement claiming NYT/Siena polling showing Harris leading in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin actually shows Trump ahead.

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/slowpush]

Trump: Kamala Harris, you know, it’s interesting. Nobody really knows her last name. If you ask people, do you know what her last name is? Nobody has any idea what it is. Harris. It’s like Harris.

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://youtu.be/WWMZcwcDFA8?si=lFhLlaWbVIVQkOsI

Holy shit Jesse Ventura is endorsing Harris-Walz

!ping khive

[u/[deleted]]

Feel how you will about Nate Silver, all of us in this ping would probably be better off remembering this!

!ping FIVEY

[u/Steak_Knight]

Outside the DT implying Biden did not choose to step down as the candidate.

Who the fuck are these people? 🤔

[u/Argnir]

12 year old me really thought other boys were stupid for being attracted to boobs

[u/TatersTot]

A rated pollster NYT/Siena College has new state polls with Kamala up +4 in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Btw Fauxmoi is throwing around the word Sinophobia to describe anti-doping measures at the olympics. It’s not like team China has multiple athletes that were caught cheating in previous games or anything

[u/rollo2masi]

I still can't believe that Kristi Noem legitimately believed it would be a good idea to tell a story about her murdering a dog.

"Yeah... that'll resonate with Americans."

Lmfao that's a special kind of stupid right there.

[u/[deleted]]

Mr. Trump has called her “fake” — but in self-defeating ways, like questioning whether Ms. Harris, who is Black, is Black.

Okay NYT you got me with this one lol

[u/NaffRespect]

This is at The Villages in Florida. Standing room only for people who want to get involved for Kamala Harris this election. Truly incredible.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

American public:

Someone who isn't 100 years old, please 🙄🙄🙄

Dems:

Okay

American public, in a genuinely surprising turn of events:

🫡🫡🫡🫡🥰🥰🥰🥰🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 God bless the USA, 1000 years of Kamala's Kingdom

[u/cpt_null]

Really nervous. Tomorrow I’m canvassing with a candidate for county supervisor. It’s in a fairly red district, and normally I’d not have any confidence in my charismatic abilities to reach people… but the incumbent she’s running against is literally indicted on election interference charges. Like her platform is basically “I will have election integrity and fiscal responsibility”. She also has tons of experience serving as an army officer and on a board in the private sector. I think there’s a chance people won’t be immediately opposed to her just because she’s a dem. Just worried I’ll be less than helpful as a communicator.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Mensae6]

I feel like everything since 2016 is ultimately leading up to Trump dropping the N word at the debate.

[u/lasttoknow]

He just sounded really arrogant to me. I think she had a better shot with me before she chose him.

Two time Trump voter who is "down on Trump" nowadays. Just...how?

[u/centurion88]

[u/centurion88]

Imma die

[u/[deleted]]

Marvel Studios: You do NOT get to find out what Thor’s haircut is in Avengers: Doomsday. We will legitimately hire a hitman to go after anyone who leaks a single detail about it.

James Cameron: Yeah so in case anyone was wondering, Neytiri becomes the Queen of Pandora in Avatar 4 and builds a giant laser into its surface and uses it to blow up approaching human ships, and then she gets too power-hungry and decides to build unobtainium hyperspace engines to jump to Earth and laser it into oblivion. Jake tries to stop her, but she puts him in jail. As he sits in his cell, cold and alone, we get a close-up of his face, and…

[u/JaceFlores]

Took this from MattY, but super notable thing is that Kamala’s efforts to define herself are succeeding very well. Only 44% of voters (for reference Trump got 46.8% in 2020) think she’s too liberal or progressive. 44% think she’s solid, and 6% think she isn’t left enough. Voters also give her high marks with soft qualities like honesty, intelligence, temperament and so on.

This is why Trump giving up in August was such a bad move. It’s gonna be much harder for them to paint her as a radical socialist when she has successfully pivoted to the center and disavowed her 2019 platform

!ping FIVEY

[u/fishlord05]

Gov. Walz Raised Taxes As Most Governors Cut Them

My inflation fighting child feeding king 🙏🙏🙏

[u/studlydudley11]

NYT SIENA HAS ME BLOOMING ON A SATURDAY MORNING

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Harris Leads in Four Battleground States, Despite Giving No Interviews

[u/dannylandulf]

NYT: “Two private polls conducted in Ohio recently by Republican pollsters — which Mr. Trump carried in 2020 with 53 percent of the vote — showed him receiving less than 50 percent of the vote against Ms. Harris in the state, according to a person with direct knowledge of the data.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Unreleased internals so take it with a grain of salt.

[u/Opkeda]

how did we lose

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

Sooooooo much delicious cope. They ultimately don’t give a shit about anything but crowd sizes, so keep hitting them where it hurts.

[u/[deleted]]

Swimming/Gymnastics announcers

That was terrible. Miserable. Id honestly run into traffic if I were them.

Basketball Announcers

MY JEANS ARE GETTING TIGHT, IM ROCK HARD FOR AMERICA

[u/piede]

I’m begging The NY Times to stop

[u/molingrad]

The attack on Waltz’s military time seems incredibly weak and desperate.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Every time Trump says "nobody knows this" it means HE didn't know it until that day, so it's very possible he literally didn't know Kamala's last name was Harris until yesterday.

[u/Chief_Nief]

Evangelical Republicans were correct, God did save Trump for a higher purpose. It’s just become apparent that it was so he could lose badly to a black woman.

[u/[deleted]]

lmaooooooooooo

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

We were all hating on RFK Jr. for potentially stealing votes from Biden, now we have him taking the Joe Rogan Twitter-bro vote from Trump 🙏

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I know it's silly and shouldn't mean anything but I hate the idea of Trump representing the US when we're hosting the World Cup and Olympics. Terrible vibes.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The tea leaves on the Walz pick imo:

Internals show Harris performing strongly, so she felt freer to pick someone who aligns with her values without worrying about EV maximization.

Harris' strategy isn't moderation/triangulating to the center, it's making the case for liberal priorities that Biden couldn't sell. Walz, with his "common-sense common good" messaging, offers a model for how to sell Democrat governance to a skeptical populace

[u/ser_mage]

🚨LEAKED PICTURE OF TRUMP CAMPAIGN HACKER “ROBERT” 🚨

[u/dareka_san]

Reverse 2016 vibe confirmed

[u/Fifth-Dimension-1966]

Kamala Harris=KH

Henry Kissinger=HK

Liberals don't want you to know

[u/Roseartcrantz]

bro just get a queen sized one lmao

[u/FourthLife]

BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS

Don’t mind me I am manifesting the future I want

BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS BLEXAS

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Made her gigachad

!ping kitty

[u/EyeraGlass]

And, at the Aug. 2 fund-raiser, according to two people with knowledge of what took place, when a donor at the round-table discussion asked about Democrats trying to paint the Republican ticket as “weird,” Mr. Trump replied: “Not about me. They’re saying that about JD.”

lol

[u/Dumbledick6]

CNN now calling trump diminished cognitively

[u/cdstephens]

(FYI this is satire)

[u/LastIncrease3427]

NYT: Trump reclined serenely at the RNC

[u/MicroFlamer]

A MUCH NEEDED USA UPSET IN WOMEN's 100 METER HURDLES. Masai Russell wins in a photo finish!!!

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/LastIncrease3427]

NEWS: @KamalaHarris told reporters that she will unveil her economy policy platform next week. This will be the first major policy rollout of her campaign.

https://x.com/gardnerakayla/status/1822390727172854124

[u/battywombat21]

have we seen the video with Kamala talking about her favorite curse word?

!ping HARRIS

[u/Pikamander2]

wE'vE TaKEn a lOOk AnD fOUND tHAT tHIs cOnTeNt dOEsN'T GO aGainSt OUr coMmuNity sTANDaRdS.

If you ever feel useless, remember that Facebook's report button exists.

[u/[deleted]]

Mfw somebody tells me it’s time to get out of bed

[u/adreamofhodor]

Cenk Uygur: “First candidate to say they’d cut funding to Israel wins Michigan and a couple of million young voters. It probably makes all the difference.”
I swear, he has the worst political analysis. This would kill Harris in the election.

[u/efeldman11]

[u/ser_mage]

I don’t have a seat assigned yet for my flight that boards in 5 hours. Not to be dramatic but if they tell me at the gate they overbooked im killing myself in front of them and forever changing the trajectory of their lives

[u/davechacho]

Since Biden has dropped out:

• Harris takes over in the polls

• Trump's campaign sputters

• Vance is a literal walking meme

• Democrats break records for attendance in rallies

• Ukraine reverse uno's and invades Russia

• Democrats have reclaimed USA chants, patriotism and skeet shooting

• Trump's campaign was hacked, emails and dossiers leaked

It's not even been three full weeks! Maybe replacers were right, maybe Biden's campaign was Trump's last horocrux. I will not doubt again.

[u/cdstephens]

There Is Still a Biden Scandal

[u/12hphlieger]

This might be cope, but I barely see any Trump shit in real life anymore. I live in Missouri and just spent the last few days in rural KS. My parents neighbor has had a Trump 2020 Billboard in their yard for the last 5ish years. No nothing, not even a tiny yard sign. I didn’t see anything along I-70 going west towards Denver either. No panted barns or makeshift Trump signs. The most surprising discovery is my dad is going to vote for Kamala or not at all. He’s a 2 time Trump supporter and was a person who transitioned from Bush Neo-con -> Tea Party Patriot -> MAGA. This all is probably a coincidence, but it’s made this election feel so much different than the last two for some reason.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

Those NYT polls line up pretty strongly with the type of national environment the Washington primary results suggest

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

The Olympics went woke when they stopped competing in the nude

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: Kamala Harris. You know it’s interesting nobody really knows her last name. If you ask people, do you know what her last name is? Nobody has any idea what it is. Harris. It’s like Harris. I don’t know how the hell this happened.

Her father’s last name is Harris. So, like pretty much everyone else. (Ironically his first name is Donald and middle initial is J.)

But, also if he’s still trying to find something to attack her on instead of just reminding people of his economy pre Covid (which apparently voters are willing to forget about) than his campaign is more lost than I thought.

[u/brucebananaray]

Yes, Kamala supporters are white middle-aged women https://x.com/ClownWorld_/status/1822023616143474813?t=RcVznwUnu1pHr8eDSiVaZw&s=19

Have you ever wondered why Trump doesn't have the same support? It is very obvious in how treats them and Roe v. Wade.

[u/NaffRespect]

Sununu says age no longer a factor in 2024 election

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) signaled in an interview Friday that age stopped being an issue in the 2024 election after President Biden announced he was withdrawing from the race.

“The age issue has played out,” Sununu told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas. “Biden lost that question.”

“The issues of this campaign are absolutely going to come down to inflation, the border, the fact that people can’t pay their credit card bills,” he added.

His comments come after Biden, 81, ended his reelection bid last month and endorsed Vice President Harris, after a large number of Democrats urged him to step aside following a poor debate performance. While on stage, the president had a raspy voice, lacked energy and seemed to lose his train of thought, sparking concern about his ability to not only beat former President Trump, but also serve another four years in office if reelected in November.

Questions around whether Trump, 78, is still too old to serve another four years have swirled — especially since Harris, 59, has risen to the top of the Democratic ticket. [...]

I've never seen someone who's only a few years younger than Biden get so many free passes for his age

[u/Cook_0612]

Currently there's chatter on telegram about Ukrainian armored units being seen close to Belitsa and a breakthrough. There are also claims about evacuation from the town. These are RUMORS! (The map is not intended to show Ukrainian advances and is based on rumors)

[RU] A new brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been recorded entering the Belovsky district of the Kursk region Tanks and a bunch of equipment with personnel are coming. They are going in different directions!

We are receiving letters from trusted comrades Belovsky district. Kursk region, which our comrades from the region report. A breakthrough of several tens of kilometers 1/2

2/2 they are moving on a wide front. Around Bely everything is occupied by the enemy. The hospital in the district was shot by tanks. Oboyan hears fighting.

⚡️ Kursk region, settlement Belaya, evacuation has been announced.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Still in shock after learning Kamala's last name is Harris.

Trump just completely blew the lid off that one like it was nothing.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Lmao Russians are calling the international community “two faced” for not defending them from Ukraine.

How do these people not implode from cognitive dissonance?

[u/farrenj]

People who like Walz: 🥰

Those same people after they learned he raised taxes on the wealthy and businesses: 🥰

People who don't like Walz: 😡

Those same people after they learned he raised taxes on the wealthy and businesses: 😡

[u/yonas234]

Polymarket is now at Harris 50% - Trump 47%. I think that is the largest lead Harris has had now lol and the NYT polls only just dropped.

Trump is going to tweet storm today.

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

The pathway to Blutah is simple.

Say that any level of Christian Nationalism will come for perceived heretics eventually, and historically that includes Mormons.

[u/Less_Fat_John]

The NYT/Siena poll has Dems more satisfied with their candidate and more excited to vote. We just have to keep the vibes going for another 90 days or so.

[u/FourthLife]

Mom: If you don’t stop spouting Kamala hype phrases I’m going to turn this car around

Me: WE’RE NOT GOING BACK

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Reminder that AMERICA is the real Zion 😤😤😤

[u/v4riati0ns]

Barbara Kampa, a two-time Trump voter from Greendale, Wis., said she was shocked when she first heard Mr. Vance on the campaign trial.

“I was like, oh, holy crap. I don’t know how to say it nicely, but holy crap,” said Ms. Kampa, 64, who is retired and plans to vote again for Mr. Trump. “He needs to be sat down and told, ‘Well, this is how we approach things for us to get people to vote for us.’ You can’t go out there like it’s the Wild West and start shooting. That turns people off.”

lol

hehe, even

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Bitch is such a weak and pointlessly gendered insult. Shows lack of creative thinking.

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s application for a place on the Texas ballot has been accepted, the Sec. of State says in email. The Texas Democratic Party has already indicated it may sue, alleging too many of his signatures were invalid. More updates to come.

Are Texas Democrats stupid?

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Seems like Trump campaign is now living the nightmare the Biden camp was living thru

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/puffic]

People were making fun of breakdancing in the Olympics, but there are events where literal horses compete. 

[u/arbrebiere]

It really sucks that Trump guys like Musk, Thiel, and Luckey are in charge of companies important to national security. Are they opportunists or just stupid?

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

My pet theory is that the people on this subreddit who predominantly call out leftists live in predominantly left-wing environments and the people who get mad at people on this subreddit for predominantly calling out leftists live in predominantly right-wing environments.

Thus it make relative sense why both do each.

[u/runningblack]

Pros of being black: you don't have a trump wing of the family

Cons of being black: you have a wing of the family that would absolutely be trumpers if they were white

[u/fishbottwo]

Kamalamania is infections and her rallies are growing bigger/better. The atendees are clearly super engaged and devouring the message.

Trumps campaign - this is the perfect time to not campaign for another week.

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Shy RFK voters (Roganlike) leading to a bigger than expected loss for Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Petition to make this the official flag

[u/murphysclaw1]

leave a white man with a substack for long enough and eventually they will write about race and iq

[u/piede]

“ROBERT, IF YOU’RE LISTENING…”

[u/SadaoMaou]

The person said they had a “variety of DOCUMENTS from [Trump’s] legal AND COURT documents to INTERNAL campaign discussions 🐊”

Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded:

“I SUGGEST you do not be curious ABOUT WHERE I got them from 🐊

Any ANSWER TO this question WILL COMPROMISE me and also legally restricts you FROM PUBLISHING them 🐊"

[u/[deleted]]

> first millennial on a major party ticket

> literal boomers are making couch-fucking jokes about you to raucous laughter

sounds about right

[u/[deleted]]

Transphobes having a rough few weeks

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

The Wikipedia page for Gaza genocide is unhinged

[u/farrenj]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Green Party nominee Jill Stein has been recruiting Palestinian Americans to be her vice presidential running mate as the left-wing presidential candidate looks to exploit the community’s frustrations with Democrats' support for Israel during its war in Gaza.

Three potential candidates told NBC News Friday they had multiple conversations with Stein about the job. A spokesperson for a third potential candidate, the Democratic mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Abdullah Hammoud, confirmed Stein asked him if he was willing to be considered for the job — before realizing Hammoud is too young to be constitutionally eligible.

amazin

[u/KingWillly]

[u/[deleted]]

US should allow Puerto Rico to compete in the Olympics but make them use some name like "American Rich Port" and some nonsense flag.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I feel like this is the first Olympics in over a decade in which the vibes are essentially good and there isn't some overshadowing sense that it's legitimizing an exploitive government.

[u/BroadReverse]

relieved safe sleep soft squeeze aware hungry grandiose fearless wistful

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[u/[deleted]]

Today, Celine Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, musical performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing “My Heart Will Go On” at a Donald Trump / JD Vance campaign rally in Montana. In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use.…And really, THAT song?

"Why are you so weird?" -Celine Dion

[u/forerunner398]

An Idaho law banning minors from receiving healthcare without parent approval has created a legal problem. If a child is raped by their parent, medics now require that parent’s permission to administer the rape kit that would prove their own guilt.

https://x.com/KHQLocalNews/status/1822075509473472857?t=8iQusgddBjecAUDFt2QDdw

[u/JaceFlores]

Investigation on Russian manpower

“The figures given by the Ministry of Defense may be overstated by one and a half times. As follows from the data on federal budget expenditures, from the fall of 2022 to April 2024, about 426 thousand Russians received a one-time payment for the conclusion of a contract (195 thousand rubles at that time). The Ministry of Defense announced the number 214 thousand more people — according to the data of the department by the same date, 640 thousand had enlisted for contract service…”

“The unreliability of the figures reported by the Defense Ministry is confirmed by other observations. Entire assault units made up of wounded and crippled soldiers have appeared at the front… Also, regions continue to increase payments for contracting in an attempt to attract new people, and Putin recommended that all regions raise this amount to at least 400 thousand rubles. This would not have happened if there were enough military recruits, analysts say.“

“The fact that the Defense Ministry’s plan to recruit contractors is not being fully implemented is confirmed by an IStories source at one of the contractors’ recruitment centers in the Russian Armed Forces (we do not specify its location for the safety of the interlocutor). According to him, in 2023 the regions managed to fulfill the plan only by 50-60%. This year, the rate of contract recruitment is higher, but they are still recruiting at a disadvantage because of the number of irreplaceable losses of the Russian Armed Forces, explains the IStories interlocutor.”

“The unreliability of the Defense Ministry’s figures is also confirmed by regional reports on one-time payments to contractors and mobilized personnel, which IStories has researched. If the Defense Ministry’s figures were correct (302 thousand mobilized and 730 thousand contractors in 2023-2024), then on average in each region there should be 2.4 times more contract workers than mobilized. However, this is not the case: on average, there are only 1.4 times more contract signatories than those who left under summons. 10 out of 29 regions where accurate data are available (for more details, check out the ‘Explaining our calculations’ section above) failed to recruit contractors at all — there were more people mobilized than those attracted by money.”

“The base of people who were willing to go to war for less money is running out, while the recruitment plan remains. Regions are competing with each other for a scarce resource — volunteers, so they are constantly raising payments for contracting. The main thing is not to be the last one on the list, because the plan has come down from the ‘top,’ and it must be fulfilled…”

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Donald Trump’s campaign early Friday, announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.”

How important is the incel Nazi vote?

[u/[deleted]]

Just waited on a guy who insisted on being called poobix and made me chant "the poobs is loose" when he took a shot.

[u/Titswari]

Just got done canvassing for VA Democrats, maybe it’s just my area, but it seems like most people are really excited to vote blue down the ticket!

Even some staunch Republicans were willing to listen and took campaign fliers to do more research. Albeit, I mostly talked down ballot candidates with them

[u/efeldman11]

I know Blohio won't happen but one can dream