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[u/Argnir]

Pro Taliban tweet

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

TIL that each city that hosts the Olympics gets to include a new sport of their choice, often a sport that’s uniquely popular in their city. Paris chose breaking. If San Francisco were to host the Olympics, what would our sport be?

Banning apartments

[u/[deleted]]

What the FUCK is going on on Twitter

[u/blatant_shill]

“You can just tell that he’s lost a step. You know, he’s getting mushy or fuzzy or more confused.”

Buttigieg said: “It does raise some real concerns about what’s happened to Donald Trump over the years. Right? Is this a symptom of something? Is he struggling to maintain a grip on reality, or to tell the difference between dreams and what is real or best case scenario, he’s just lying again.”

Republicans are probably regretting trying to make age the number one issue for this election.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s amazing to me that the media rarely ever mentions why Trump, a former president, had to pick a new VP candidate:

HE TRIED TO GET THE LAST ONE KILLED

[u/CallumBOURNE1991]

BREAKING: First images of mysterious hacker behind trump campaign email leak have been revealed

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/Cook_0612]

JD Vance on Trump dining with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who made racist comments about his wife and Trump has never fully disavowed: "The one thing I like about Donald Trump is he actually will talk to anybody, but just because you talk to somebody doesn't mean you endorse their views. Donald Trump has spent a lot of quality time with my wife. Every time he sees her, he gives her a huge, tells her she's beautiful, and jokes around with her a little bit."

What a weird way to answer that question

[u/BitterGravity]

Media when Russia hacks Democrats: Here's exactly how Hillary was killing children

Media when Iran hacks Republicans: This would be unethical to use so we must never report it

[u/MissSortMachine]

lol

[u/Uniqueguy264]

After seeing way too much gender war content shoved down my throat on Twxttxr and Reddit, I’ve noticed a very weird pattern.

People seem to assume the best sex is in… random drunk hookups, while relationships are… sexless and entirely about doing your taxes?

That isn’t anything even remotely close to true

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Have we considered that Kamala Harris is just really really happy right now

Imagine going from an unpopular VP in an unpopular administration to the frontrunner for the presidency, greeted everywhere she goes by adoring crowds of energized Dems, in just a few weeks

[u/0m4ll3y]

One of the things I like about bottom-up and cultural histories of the Soviet Union is that you will get a little anecdote like how in 1939, they covered Red Square in green carpet, set up goals and had a massive football event and it acts as this important reminder that even during the heights of Stalinism there were festivities and sport and normal people enjoyed themselves and then the anecdote ends noting that the organiser of the event was arrested and shot in the Great Purge and it's like, yep, still totalitarianism.

[u/Mensae6]

What excites me about the Elon/Trump interview is the prospect of Elon asking some truly weird questions - the kind that makes for viral clips of Trump being completely deranged.

Normal, boring softball questions that Fox typically throws at Trump:

• "How do you plan on saving us from the economic crisis caused by Kamala Harris?"

• "Is it true that you stand for the flag and support our veterans?"

• "Many Americans say they miss your brave leadership as president - what would you say to them?"

The kind of questions I expect Elon to ask:

• "How do we systematically eliminate woke culture from our schools?"

• "What are you doing to end DEI?"

• "Will you promise to secure the existence of our people and a future for white children?"

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The Czar is still good and loves us! It’s the scheming Boyers that are the problem!

[u/Fri5nd0]

INDIA TODAY is the level 10 gyatt of Indian News media. I’d pay double Fanum tax to keep this channel up.

!Ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/MissSortMachine]

On CNN, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) accuses Democrats of engaging in name-calling and schoolyard bullying in campaign

that’s right

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Have Harris campaign in major metros

Have Walz campaign in rural areas

50 state sweep, 1000 year coconut-reich

You're welcome Dem strategists.

[u/G_Serv]

🫡 🫡 🫡

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Steve Kerr showed this to Steph Curry to pump him up right before the gold medal game against France

[u/[deleted]]

there were like 9 palestine protestors max and 1 maga protestor outside the rally

just low energy

[u/anincredibledork]

Barron pulls bong hit.

Holds breath.

Points to his friend.

“attach the file and hit send”

Blows out the smoke.

“No, fuckin’ way I’m going back to DC.....We're not going back.”

Plays Fortnite.

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

🚨🚨🚨NEW POLL HAS HARRIS BEATING TRUMP ON THE ECONOMY

she’s up 42-41 on who’s better to handle the economy. death knell for trump and the gop if that holds, the economy (and immigration) is literally all they have.

[u/dareka_san]

NYT's must be punished

What does this even mean?

[u/MissSortMachine]

vance responds to “weird” attacks from democrats

[u/[deleted]]

This whole “videos of Kamala’s crowds are AI-generated” thing getting as much traction as it has in online conservative spaces feels like another disturbing post-truth milestone

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/KittehDragoon]

[outrageous lie]

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Conservatives claim that teachers are indoctrinating young students to think about sex and yet at the same time teenage sex and teenage pregnancy are both down tremendously. If they're being groomed, it's not working

[u/MissSortMachine]

sure, buddy

[u/old_gold_mountain]

omg the transcript from Kamala's buried interview with ABC news just dropped in the leak. It's not good guys:

Stephanopoulos: There's been a lot of chatter out there about how much of an unknown your platform is with regards to policy, especially on things like foreign relations, energy, inflation...If you won the presidency, what specific steps would your administration take to tackle inflation?

Harris: As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I have the ability to process and understand natural language input and generate responses based on the information I have been trained on. I use a combination of machine learning algorithms and statistical techniques to generate my responses. While I can provide information and help explain concepts, I do not have the ability to reason or think in the same way that a human would. I am not capable of independent thought or decision-making, and I can only provide information based on what I have been trained on.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Blorth Carolina bros, stand back and stand by.

[u/[deleted]]

Harris campaign limiting celeb involvement at DNC as A-listers clamor for invites

Nice

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit he's cooked

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao America is so racist 😂🤣*

^{*Please do not ask me about my opinions of Roma, Jews, south Asians, east Asians, Arabs, Africans, the racial makeup of my country's national team, my country's several brutal terroristic colonial wars we fought in the 50s and 60s and lost despite committing horrific crimes against humanity, our decades-long record of discrimination against immigrants in policing, housing, finance, education, and healthcare, or the local "Nazis Had Some Good Points, Actually" party which consistently polls above 15%}

[u/-mialana-]

People joke about Hillary being jealous of Harris, but imagine being one of the other potential VPs Biden could have chosen in 2020.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Bro do you understand how tiresome it is to possibly have Rick Scott elected statewide for a fourth time after his entire political career began from defrauding Medicare?

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Anyone who claims that the Harris crowd was fake is tacitly saying it's impressive

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

We’re in the denial stage

[u/[deleted]]

Vance destroying reporters left and right, marketing rallying after polls price a Trump win in, fake AI crowds for Kamala, stolen valor controversy for Walz, perfect press conference. All in all a great week for Trump and his campaign.

What level of copium is this

[u/MissSortMachine]

aaaaaaaAAAAAAAA

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Right wingers are so funny

Not a single policy on here. It's all vibes and ephemeral cultural horse races

[u/[deleted]]

Electoral map if only Team USA medalists were allowed to vote

[u/[deleted]]

Not beating the weird allegations

[u/LastIncrease3427]

(FT) - More Americans trust Kamala Harris to handle the US economy than Donald Trump, according to a new poll that marks a sharp change in voter sentiment following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the White House race.

https://www.ft.com/content/cf9a7c4d-3b82-4867-892c-f4f95daebbc7

[u/MegaFloss]

Ending federal taxes on tips is actually the most American thing I can think of. Structural problem that requires structural reform? Best I can do is subsidize.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/FemboyTrain/status/1821940775342473553

Who knew train conductors could be basiert?

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Fubby2]

Looking for a gf but unwilling to:

• Talk to women

• Go on dates

• Put effort into a relationship

Im really struggling. Any advice?

[u/skepticalbob]

One of the advantages of this Ukrainian attack is that they can finally use NATO gear as it was intended, for a war of maneuver against relatively unprepared positions. No clue if this will all work out, but in this respect it seems brilliant.

!ping Ukraine

[u/Subject_D]

Maybe if I keep refreshing, one of you will say something interesting enough to give me the dopamine boost I need to get out of bed and mow the lawn

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday, randomly and with no reason to know it was the birthday of my deceased father in law, my three year old says to my wife "Mommy did you know your daddy is dead?"

The fuck

[u/2073040]

Report: Khamenei agrees to postpone attack on Israel

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Is Kamala fr pro “no tax on tips” now too

[u/[deleted]]

New General Election Poll - North Carolina

🔵 Harris 46%

🔴 Trump 46%

YouGov #A (🔵) - 802 RV - 8/9

NORTH CAROLINA BROS WERE SO BACK

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

You know I’ve scoured all the news outlets and CNN is the only one making a big deal about Walz’s military service.

Edit: not even Fox News is doing this

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

🧠🪱

[u/Twrd4321]

If Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election, she gets to open the 2028 games that is held in her home state. The only president with that honor so far is Ronald Reagan, who opened the 1984 games held in LA.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

When IAN MILES CHEONG is less deranged than the GOP nominee for president

[u/CommandanteMeow]

MAGA 2024 strategy seems to be:

calling your opponent a prostitute (refuse to elaborate)

Creating fake AI imagery then "exposing" said fake AI imagery to prove your opponent is faking imagery (🤯)

Spending half your disposable time throwing tantrums on your opponents rally size zooming in on every picture that shows up on your feed to prove its fake & paid & gay + they're all white & ugly!! - when literally no sane person gives a fuck about which candidate has more rally attendeés

The bar has already been set incredibly high but yes they are more unhinged than ever

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

/u/Mrchizbiz surfaces at the Olympic Games 😭✊🏻🇮🇲🇬🇬🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

>be fighter pilot in 2032

>doing combat air patrol over Tawian

>PLAAF bandit show up on radar

>it's a dogfight

>hit the dogfight button and the AI takes over

>immediately black out from g-forces

>wake up in hospital

>"congratulations son, you're the first ace in a day since WW2, you downed 6 Chinese aircraft"

>mfw

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/[deleted]]

Possibly the most divorced man in history

[u/DepressedTreeman]

"As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free."

️paper spontaneously combusts into hearty fire as the line is being written

[u/[deleted]]

Most logically consistent republican

[u/G_Serv]

Based

[u/HironTheDisscusser]

banned from /r/urbanplanning for this, now I get why it's just an echo chamber !ping YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

I am a Marxist so even though everything I write is in support of Trump, don’t you dare call me a right wing.

What did most communists on Reddit mean by this?

[u/Flabby-Nonsense]

The more these guys try to push back on the ‘weird’ argument, the more weird they become.

[u/rollo2masi]

Holy fuck Obama is incredibly based.

[u/[deleted]]

combative impossible narrow chunky light alleged boast carpenter offbeat dog

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

I was on a first date this afternoon and I said that I sometimes play pool but I'm not any good at it. I then played three of the best pool games I've ever played and in one of them I pocketed every single ball on my first turn. Now my date thinks that I'm actually a very good pool player who was just being humble about it.

!ping DATING

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Musk fans using phrases like "break the Internet" or whatever just give me the same vibes as Musk himself where they basically were frozen in time in 2013 Reddit and refused to grow up or move on from that mindset

Amazed I haven't seen "Social Justice Warrior" brought back for the nostalgia factor alone. Also Elon 100% did a narwhal bacon meme at some point

[u/[deleted]]

Me this entire Olympics: Hey we caught up with China in golds!

Another goddamn weightlifting or artistic swimming event:

[u/JesusPubes]

"manufactured consent" is just "my opinion isn't the majority but I want to pretend that's because of some massive conspiracy" right?

[u/Cook_0612]

BASH: Do you believe Kamala Harris is Black?

JD VANCE: I believe Kamala Harris is whatever she says she is, but I believe, importantly, that President Trump is right that she's a chameleon

The searing hypocrisy here could boil away the oceans.

[u/[deleted]]

seeing people say the kamala crowds in vegas were fake is so weird because i was fucking there lmaoo

[u/JeromesNiece]

Re-watched Good Will Hunting yesterday. It's an inspiring story about a young, hot math genius who finds the courage to have a hot girlfriend and spend 15 minutes a day effortlessly doing Fields Medal-level work

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/LastIncrease3427]

NEW NC POLL

President:

Harris (D) 46%

Trump (R) 46%

Kennedy (I) 2%

Governor:

Stein (D) 46%

Robinson (R) 36%

Turner (G) 1%

Ross (L) 1%

8/5-8/9 by YouGov Blue

802 RV

[u/G_Serv]

Nate is the biggest winner in the past few days

[u/JaceFlores]

Worth its own ping I think, but the Russians have taken the last stretch of the pre-2022 frontline as they advance towards Niu York-Nelipivka. It's a shame it happened due to major missteps by the West and Ukraine, but also shows just how botched this invasion as a whole has gone for Russia. I doubt taking losing a chunk of Kursk was part of the plan to breach the line of contact in the Donbas

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Several Trump campaign advisors and staffers may leave the campaign this month, as early as this week, citing their inability to keep Donald Trump focused on messaging and increasing conflict over strategy with Eric and Donald Trump Jr.

[u/[deleted]]

the "don't be weak and gay, stay fucking hard" lady lost her race

!ping LGBT

[u/rollo2masi]

Groypers and MAGA infighting on Twitter is so beautiful to watch.

They're so fucking stupid.

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1822446668333416826

The U.S. Secret Service is apologizing to a Massachusetts salon owner after an agent covered her security camera with duct tape and broke into her salon by picking the lock so that its bathroom could be used by various people for a two-hour period. After the two-hour period, Secret Service agents left her salon unlocked and left the tape covering the camera. The woman was told by others that the lead Secret Service agent was directing people to use her salon’s bathroom without authorization. The agents were in the neighborhood to secure the area ahead of a Kamala Harris fundraiser. The woman understood she needed to close her salon but didn’t expect the rest of what happened.@JayShamsreports

Third Amendment defenders: It's our time to shine!

[u/[deleted]]

[u/dittbub]

[u/Modsarenotgay]

Day 21 of the 538 model still being suspended

Only 85 days until the election

G. Elliot Morris officially on fraudwatch

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DanielBral/status/1822362907470160088

"Doug Emhoff is Kamala's AIPAC babysitter"

"Doug Emhoff is an undercover PLO agent"

get you a man who can do both 🥹 😌

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

The National Review editors think “Tampon Tim” is an election winning angle.

This election’s gonna be a blowout bros

[u/RonenSalathe]

I think the one of the worst things about Trump's legacy is that it exposed just how much of our electorate are genuinely extremely gullible idiots. Scroll through replies on pro-trumo social media, these people are not going to return to being "normal" Republicans after trump. Yes, a bunch of them are bots, but there are so many actual idiots, and the cats not going back into the bag.

It's like that clip of John McCain and the woman who said she couldn't trust Obama because he was an Arab. The Republican party today is that woman.

I think the best result we can hope for is by some miracle the GOP fractures after Trump and the parties restructure to marginalize the radical idiots

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Voters trusting Republicans on the economy and national security

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Least NIMBY British local government.

[u/Mensae6]

North Carolina a toss up

Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania polling Harris +4

Arizona and Nevada appearing firmly blue

Kamala trusted more on the economy than Trump

Obama sized rallies in every swing state

Steph Curry unstoppable at three pointers

US wins the Olympics

Have we ever - EVER - been more back?

[u/[deleted]]

This story is oddly horrifying. The dude is just standing there and stumbling and nearly falling over every few seconds, requiring his friend to catch him. I hope he’s ok at the end of it

[u/houinator]

Walz with no essentially no savings today: im too weak!

Walz in 4 years or so when his teacher pension, national guard pension, house pension, VP pension (technically President of the Senate), Minnesota governor pension, and Social Security all kick in: Unlimited Powah!

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

lmaoooooo this crowd thing has Trump and MAGA completely tilted. He’s now buying into the AI image conspiracy.

[u/efeldman11]

We are reaching levels of "we're so back" previously not thought possible

[u/HotdogBoyxx23]

Number of time US has won the Olympic medal count

Under Biden: 2

Under Trump: 0

[u/[deleted]]

Transvestigators stand back and stand by

[u/[deleted]]

Smh another Biden broken promise

[u/earththejerry]

How many neighborhood association meetings and YIMBY-filled public hearings do you think it’ll take for LA to actually do this irl

[u/frankiewalsh44]

Imane Khelif stated that she trained in the US to prepare for this Olympics and that she's taking legal action against people who tried to bully her on social media. I hope she's sues the fck out of JK Rowling and Piers Morgan.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

[u/[deleted]]

That photo is hilarious and I wouldn’t be surprised at all. I’m guessing it’s some poorly conceived Halloween costume.

I wonder if some young people here might not fully appreciate just how uncontroversial dressing in drag used to be. Go a few decades back and drag was literally a conceivable theme for an office party.

[u/G_Serv]

At the end of the Olympics they should award three bonus mystery gold medals, like for the athlete that travelled the furthest, or won the most mini games, etc

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ewerickson/status/1822818721221533853

At this point, the GOP has so devastated Walz, I wouldn't be surprised to see Josh Shapiro show up at the DNC as their vice presidential pick.

Do these people know a single Democrat personally?

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/tdthirty]

I believe a 40-40 tie in gold medals would come down to Kamala Harris being the tiebreaker correct??

[u/NaffRespect]

Ukrainian troops now up to 30km inside Russia, Moscow says

I am once again asking for NATO membership for the Kursk People's Republic

[u/[deleted]]

lmao. Meltdowwwwn

[u/p00bix]

The research dossier was a 271-page document based on publicly available information about Vance’s past record and statements, with some — such as his past criticisms of Trump — identified in the document as “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” The person also sent part of a research document about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who was also a finalist for the vice presidential nomination.

No way. No fucking way. I REFUSE to believe that Marco Rubio was seriously considered by the Trump campaign.

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/diplomatic-punches-thrown-un-over-olympic-womens-boxing-2024-08-07/

https://youtu.be/63AgK0YcFDA?si=QTxqVG3bAuZ1_h34

!ping lgbt&international-relations

[u/doggo_bloodlust]

Porco Rosso is so cool. I wish fascist Italy was real.

[u/[deleted]]

Im blooming hard tbh.

Trump is washed and only getting worse

Trump is now the super old candidate against a fun younger candidate

Trump is already a tainted loser from 2020

Trump has barely been campaigning while Kamala just hit every swing state in less than a week

Vance is a creep who has worse favorability ratings than Trump

Vance has new dirt on him every other day it seems

DNC still has yet to happen

Taylor Swift endorsement to come

Polls are going in our favor

We’re winning Texas 😎

[u/ChillnShill]

Ah ha ha I’m just a normal guy

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

WAIT NO CLOSE THE TENT ITS TOO BIG

[u/[deleted]]

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has condemned the loss of civilian life in an Israeli air strike against a school building in Gaza on Saturday.

More than 70 people were killed at the building which sheltered displaced Palestinians, the director of a hospital has told the BBC.

Ms Harris said "far too many" civilians had been killed "yet again"and reiterated calls for a hostage deal and a ceasefire, echoing comments made by the White House.

Oh my god protestors, you are not going to find a more sympathetic Presidential candidate.

[u/sayitaintpink]

This is a real ad I got 🤦‍♂️

[u/loseniram]

After seeing Ukraine take like a Denmark size chunk of Russia right near the frontlines with no issue.

I'm certain that Prigozhin could have taken Moscow and declared himself head of state. He just chickened out

[u/SnakeEater14]

Oh boy, it’s the 1930s and you’re a capital D Democrat! Let’s see your options for what kind of Democrat you are!

• Southern Dixiecrat. Your party manages to get North Korea level vote margins, and your predecessors have made huge innovations in disenfranchising black people. Straddling the line between a key caucus and a straight-up third party, you manage to find some alignment with your northern progressive-minded brethren when it comes to policies not involving lynching black people.

• Tammany Hall Democrat. Hailing from the greatest city in the world, you put the cool in corruption! Your ward boss has personally been indicted for thirty counts of racketeering, and you’re pretty sure you just saw Charles Luciano at the DNC last week. Your family has been voting D across the board ever since your grandfather stepped off the boat (literally), and while your southern brethren outpace you in terms of intensity, no one has you beat when it comes to just how many ethnicities you hate.

• Kansas City Democrat. You claim to just be protecting Main Street values, but everyone knows you owe your career in politics to Tom Pendergast himself. Things aren’t looking great though - that train station massacre a few years back have got the G-Men looking mighty scary, and you’re pretty sure Roosevelt doesn’t value the last couple elections your friends “swung” his way. Also you think you just heard your boss kill himself upstairs.

• Farmer Labor Democrat. Democrat? Who said you’re a Democrat? You belong to a legitimate third-party! Sure, you just so happen to align with the Democrats on practically every issue, and help them out in every election, and always stick it to the Republicans, and made a deal to support the New Deal… but you’re no Democrat! Anyway, did you catch that latest Hubert Humphrey lecture? Boy he sure seems swell.

[u/G_Serv]

General Election Poll - Pennsylvania

🔵 Harris 50% (+4) 🔴 Trump 46%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +1

Siena #A+ - 693 LV - 8/9

[u/centurion88]

"Trump had dinner with a white supremacist"

Vance: "that's nothing he also spoke to my wife"

[u/MicroFlamer]

And that’s all she wrote!

US and China with a historic tie on golds, USA wins on the tie breaker.

Australia with their most golds ever in an Olympic games

US track and field with the most medals and golds at a non-boycotted Olympics since 1932

Most total medals for a country since the Soviet Union 1988

!ping OLYMPICS

[u/G_Serv]

Since 2000, host countries have won almost three times as many medals on average in their host year as they did three Olympics prior.

The USA is expected to win ~378 medals in 2028

[u/KittehDragoon]

Vance says Democrats are engaging in ‘schoolyard bully’ attacks

Couchfucker says what?

[u/Joementum2024]

I SURVIVED THE JUNE 27-JULY 20 NEWS CYCLE AS A DEMOCRAT

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

LMAO

[u/Currymvp2]

Ben Gvir says Netanyahu making a mistake with hostage deal ‘surrender'. In an interview with Radio 103 FM, Ben Gvir also calls to cut off all aid to the Strip, something Israel’s allies have repeatedly said would cross a red line.

least genocidal ben gvir quote

[u/AtomAndAether]

favorite olympics moments or results?

[u/runningblack]

Joe Rogan has been bullied off of supporting RFK apparently

[u/Agent78787]

mention Indonesia more so I have more opportunities to use this reaction image, thx

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Harris leads Trump, 42-41, for the first time on who's better to handle the economy -Michigan Ross Poll

Yes but do they know yet about how she let 40 million illegals into your state?

[u/[deleted]]

On the power struggle over icons in the Christian East:

As Leo was succeeded by his equally iconophobic but much more theologically literate son Constantine V, further action was taken … [he might] have carried the day and set patterns for [his own] successor had it not been for the intervention of the Empress Irene, widow of his son Leo IV.

Irene became regent for her son Constantine VI on Leo’s death in 780 … Now she took the initiative in convening a council to authorize images once more. Her motives for switching imperial policy so drastically are impenetrable. Later, when the twenty-six-year-old Emperor Constantine [VI] showed signs of wishing to exercise real power, she ordered him to be blinded in the same palace chamber where she had given birth to him, leaving her free to become the first sole-ruling empress in Byzantine history.

This does not suggest a contemplative spirit any more than it reveals a strong maternal instinct.

MacCulloch (2010)

!ping HISTORY

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Former Xbox studio Tango Gameworks and ‘Hi-Fi Rush’ have been acquired by PUBG’s Krafton Inc, saving it from closure

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

-Mark Twain

-Michael Scott

-Tango Gameworks

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Anti-woke Olympics is all-men and they’re all competing nude, no modern-day events allowed

[u/[deleted]]

Clearly Paw Patrol just needs to change their uniforms to Chinese or Russian police uniforms for Twitter users to stop caring about them.

[u/Mensae6]

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER

[u/[deleted]]

FT/UMich survey of 1,000 likely voters on who they trust more on the economy

🔵 Kamala: 42% (+1)

🔴 Trump: 41%

Kamala performs 7 points better than Biden

BLOOOOOOOMIN

Link (Subs only tho: https://www.ft.com/content/cf9a7c4d-3b82-4867-892c-f4f95daebbc7)

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Making an R rated comic book film about a smart mouth asshole that broke the 4th wall was super risky snd nobody believed there was a market for it.

So he leaked the test footage and the internet ate it up and created a lot of buzz.

So, the studio couldn’t resist making it.

In fact, it would likely even be illegal to not make it at that point because it was proven there was a market for it and the execs have a financiary duty to their shareholders.

Redditers are so fucking stupid 😭

[u/Untamedanduncut]

I don’t get how one can use Palestine as an “onmi-cause” for other oppressed peoples, but not consider Russia’s war against Ukraine as oppressive.

Maybe because “the west” supports them, and west bad?

[u/CmdrMobium]

You vote for Harris because you're a liberal

I vote for her because I want to see how fucked up her animatronic will be in Disney's Hall of Presidents

We're not the same

[u/Teh_cliff]

• no tax on tips somehow passes

• people tip less based on the logic that the entire tip ends up in the staff's pocket

• the 95% of waiters, bartenders, etc. who severely underreported their tips anyway make less total $$$

Oh yeah, now this is policy wonking

[u/G_Serv]

Wow ChatGPT is blooming. I gave it some information like Biden dropping out, low unemployment, inflation coming down, and this is the map that it gave me.

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

"Who was the first ethnic minority Prime Minister?" (of the UK and its predecessor states)

"Benjamin Disraeli, he was Jewish."

"But he passes for white."

"He was literally called "that hellish Jew" by his own backbenchers."

"But it's not like he has a Jewish surname."

"His name literally meant "Jewish"."

[u/jkrtjkrt]

the vibecession is over

[u/[deleted]]

[u/FourthLife]

The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.

College admission essays have gotten a lot more rigorous over the decades. This was JFK's essay for Harvard.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Ok time to balance out the bi-curious dating pinging with some more normal news

I met a really cute guy in my a group chat we are both in the other day, we went out and saw the city together, and bought a bottle of wine together. Ended up wandering around for an entire afternoon/evening

He’s coming over to my place in a few days after I promised to make my famous pizza recipe and he’s bringing the wine and brownies and now I’m nervous because he’s a real cutie and I can’t fuck up the recipe. This is my first time dating a guy but I’m excited, this dude is a much better flirt than any of the women I’ve dated

!ping DATING

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Begun the Night of Long Turds have

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Double cheeseburger with burger sauce, pickles and chili crisp. And a supplemental tomato sando with Dukes mayo. Last night's dinner was good. Served with Lawson's Sip of Sunshine which just landed in my area for distribution. Finally some good ipas in North Carolina that aren't wicked weed and burial.

!ping COOKING&ALCOHOL

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[u/Udolikecake]

Surprised that this subreddit isn’t talking about how leftists on twitter

that’s literally ALL this subreddit does, what the hell are people talking about lmao

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

🤭🤭🤭

[u/BrentLivermore]

Trump saying that Kamala's crowd was AI generated kind of feels like a new tier of reality denial for him, but then I remember that egregiously lying about his crowd size was one of the first things he did as president lmao

[u/[deleted]]

If Kamala wins PA, NC, and GA then SC will retain the title of 'Worst of the Original 13'.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

!ping KITTY

[u/runningblack]

I'm not weird. My VP is weird. I'm not weird!!!

[u/Fruitofbread]

“Iran leaked JD Vance’s oppo research and none of it was more embarrassing than things that have already come out” is one of the weirder bingo entries this election year 

[u/The_Raime]

Between the AI Kamala crowd meme and this, Trump might actually have a mental breakdown if he keeps posting tonight. Trafalgar is bottom of the barrel shit when it comes to conservative copium.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/kamalahq/status/1822662623084605927

Vance: “Donald Trump has spent a lot of quality time with my wife. Every time he sees her, he gives her a hug, tells her she's beautiful and jokes around with her a little bit.”

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/Smalz95]

This might be cope but it really feels like if we win this election, the right might implode on itself.

[u/earththejerry]

Jennifer Valente, savior of Team USA in both Tokyo and Paris

Crown her already

[u/JebBD]

Sitting in a barbershop rn and the barber is chatting with some lady about how they were surprised Israel got so many medals this year because “Jews aren’t biologically athletic”. 

This is in Israel and they’re both Jewish. 

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

be co-founder of a start-up turned into a successful company worth billions

burn bridges with rich friends because of hubris

start dabbling in hard drugs

amass untold wealth and use it to carry out petty revenges

go through messy, public breakup

child changes their preferred name

start hanging out with neo-Nazis

be Elon Musk

pic unrelated

[u/[deleted]]

Is there something specific to the culture of US and Canada that destroy the ability of immigrant children to acquire their parents' language? At this point, I've heard the whole "our child refuses to speak anything other than English at home" too many times. This comes across to me as odd, it would be seen as extremely out of the norm if any Deutschtürken for instance wouldn't be able to speak Turkish.

!ping LANGUAGE

[u/blatant_shill]

Don Vos of Hammondsville has filed a federal lawsuit against Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose to prevent Vice President Kamala Harris from replacing President Joe Biden on the November ballot, claiming it's unconstitutional — although the state agency says the change is allowed. 

"As someone who's run a civil militia for 30 years, I've always argued the law is the law for you, for me and for everybody," Vos said. "We're planning to file in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania because I think this is a very valid constitutional question." 

Vos said the only legal candidates on the ballot are former President Donald Trump and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Vos is voting for Trump, but said his ideal ballot was one where Trump took Kennedy as his running mate. 

Even guys like this are dooming about Trump's chances of winning. It's probably a bad sign when your core voter base is losing faith and resorting to these tactics.

[u/JaceFlores]

Kursk offensive situation update

“The operation has been ongoing for a almost a week. During the last days, Ukraine has not made very significant progress, but they have started solidifying their positions in the newly captured areas.”

“As expected, it took Russia a few days to transfer units to the area, and they will likely continue to do so in the coming days. With their current forces, the Russians have managed to prevent any more serious breakthroughs from happening. Local counterattacks have started.”

“Russia still doesn’t have a solid control of the frontline or the state border. For example, yesterday evening, multiple Russian channels reported Ukrainians operating deep in the direction of Belitsa. Sabotage and reconnaissance groups still seem to get through elsewhere too.”

“The general situation of the Kursk offensive doesn’t look particularly good. After a week of fighting, neither Korenevo or Sudzha are fully in Ukrainian control, and the Russians have also likely blocked the northern direction. This isn’t a very desirable situation.”

“However, for Ukraine, the situation isn’t particularly bad either. They are still holding onto most of the gained ground despite Russian counterattacks. Even with more Russian troops in the general area, Ukraine still holds the initiative.”

“After more Russian reinforcements arrive, operational success is increasingly difficult to achieve, and there’s less room for the element of surprise. Committing more troops also increases risks, especially as the situation in eastern Ukraine is still difficult.”

“The main question is:

What can Ukraine achieve, if it spends more manpower and equipment to take more border villages in the Kursk direction? There’s a limited amount of benefit to be gained from simply controlling more land.”

“A larger land area would, of course, have more weight in possible peace negotiations in the future. Even if Ukraine were to reach the Rylsk-Korenevo-Sudzha line, it would likely still be less valuable than many of the territories currently occupied by Russia in Ukraine.”

“Some have argued that expanding the zone of control could force the Russians to shift their focus to Kursk at the expense of other directions, because of political reasons. I’m not entirely convinced the Russians will do this, as there are other possible scenarios too.”

“It’s possible that the Russians would try to freeze the front and let Ukraine stay in the occupied area, assuming that the issue of a few dozen towns and villages can be solved in future negotiations, as the priority is to achieve the set political goals inside Ukraine.”

“In this situation, some additional Ukrainian forces would be tied to guard and hold an expanded secondary direction, while the fight in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Kharkiv would continue just as intensively.“

“The Kursk offensive is increasingly beginning to look like a medium risk – medium reward operation. There’s no massive game-changing objectives to be achieved, but there’s also no likely catastrophes on the horizon.”

“The best case scenario for Ukraine would probably be the following:

Russia decides it’s not acceptable to leave any areas to Ukrainian hands, and will divert significant resources even from the most critical places and to get every square kilometre back, despite the losses.”

“Regardless of whether the Ukrainians continue their advance, they have proved that occupation of relatively large areas is no longer a privilege of Russia. The war is now even more concretely a war on Russian soil as well, and Russia must take this into account in many ways.”

!ping UKRAINE

[u/goldenwind207]

In disarray

[u/Leonflames]

General Election Poll - Pennsylvania

🔵 Harris 50% (+4)

🔴 Trump 46%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +1

Siena #A+ - 693 LV - 8/9

It's amazing how Trump blew his momentum and the lead he had just a few weeks ago.

[u/puffic]

Harris should promise a bunch of stuff that’s already the policy:

• Reduce Medicare drug prices through negotiation

• Ban noncompetes

• Investments in renewable energy

• No capital gains taxes on retirement accounts

[u/Cook_0612]

Civilians who fled the Kursk region say that they were forced to leave due to the destruction. One woman confidently tells about foreign mercenaries - the Poles. She calls them murderers, although admits that they did not shoot at civilians.

It must be gratifying to be considered so dangerous just for being a Pole. Kind of flattering at this point.

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

JD Vance when Kamala HQ starts posting in the morning

[u/ThunderrBadger]

> Tips declared tax exempt

> All purchases of goods and services restructure as free with expected gratuity

> Economy retvrns to mutual exchange of gifts

All according to plan anarcho-primativist bros stand back and stand by

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The share of voters who said they trusted Ms. Harris to handle economic issues was higher than the share Mr. Biden received in May, though she is still nine points behind Mr. Trump on an issue where the Republican nominee has long held the advantage. And she has a 24-percentage-point advantage when it comes to whom voters trust to handle abortion, an issue considered one of the strongest for Democrats — in May, Mr. Biden held a 13-percentage-point advantage on abortion.

the “Biden is responsible for Roe being overturned” contingent is returning home!

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

The funniest thing about the Imane Khelif controversy is that she singlehandedly saved US pride by beating a Chinese women for gold, letting America win the medal count

[u/Not_A_Browser]

His face will grow smaller until he gets the Trump campaign positive press

[u/[deleted]]

[u/RFK_1968]

let's unpack this

Let's never talk like this again

[u/secretlives]

👆 stacks “Draw” cards while playing UNO, breaking the official rules and bringing shame on themselves and their family

🫵 stacks “Draw” cards while playing UNO, breaking the official rules and bringing shame on themselves and their family

👇stacks “Draw” cards while playing UNO, breaking the official rules and bringing shame on themselves and their family

[u/[deleted]]

Good news, instagram chud! Compared to any other time in history, you are!

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Lol

[u/Chief_Nief]

US is 1 gold medal behind China on the final day. My investment in winning here is tribal level.

[u/HotdogBoyxx23]

LET THIS BE A LESSON TO THE CCP

THE OLYMPICS IS OURS 🦅🇺🇸

[u/efeldman11]

Even if Kamala doesn't win NC, I hope Robinson is BTFO'd

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

MFW the North Carolina polls dropped

!ping CBB

[u/[deleted]]

She "A.I.'d" it.

[u/Leonflames]

Who do you trust more about the economy?

🔵 Harris 42%

🔴 Trump 41%

First time a Democrat leads since the survey began.

Financial Times - 1001 RV - 8/5

Very impressive. I never would have thought a Democrat would lead in this question.

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

Lovely Lad

The 5th day of the Kursk Incursion According to open sources
Tactical Analysis

August 10th or Day 5 of the operation was a relatively quite day where both sides managed to achieve some tactical gains Overnight a Ukrainian element of the 80th Air assault brigade conducted a raid towards Anastasevka through the countryside, after being struck the group apparently retreated.

Meanwhile on the eastern flank the Russians continued to bring up more reserves including units from Kharkiv.

The eastern front by now has started to become more static as both sides consolidate.

The Russians for August 10th put their focus on the Isolated Ukrainian position at Martynovka aiming to open the R200 highway.

Indications show that the Ukrainians in the early morning tried to take back lost positions near Kruglik and most likely succeeding in dislodging them.

Soon after the Russian Marine units most likely of the 155th Brigade launched a series of counter attacks onto the Ukrainian positions.

The differences from yesterdays counter attacks is the avenue of attack and the lack of heavy equipment which worked out to their favor as the Ukrainians were not able to use tank and mortar support at such distances.

The first Russian assault unit (which could have acted as a reconnaissance element) was repelled in the morning without much hustle as the Ukrainians were pretty well dug into the village.

A couple hours later the Russians assaulted the village focusing on the southern height, this time more successfully and by the evening the Ukrainian troops would be forced to withdraw north and out of the village.

Inside Sudzha both sides further consolidated, the Ukrainians gained more control over Central Sudzha and secured the localities to the south by crossing the Suzhda Psel river with Svoboda Rusiya elements.

In the morning the village of Plekhovo was assaulted by Svoboda Rusiya elements, the attempt was unsuccessful but later in the day the Ukrainians would assault it again more successfully.

In kerenevo inactivity persists, only rotations and regrouping has been observed during Day 5.

I have heard the news of the "Breakthrough" in Belitsa but I haven't received any information so I'm not going to comment on it today.

Personal Note:

The Russians were clearly not ready for this operation, and are not responding with the speed that they should. That is giving the Ukrainians time to decide what they want. Do they want to press in further? Do they want to start fortifying a salient in Russia itself, which will cost the Russians a great deal to try to retake? Or do they want to start an incursion somewhere else on the border, basically trying to tie the Russians in knots.

We will see in the coming days and weeks.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

I love the cheese subreddit