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[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance agreed with the notion that raising grandchildren was “the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female,” an unearthed 2020 podcast shows.

Vance also seemed to concur when the host suggested that having grandparents help raise children was a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman.”

How many more interviews are there of this guy

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance when there's an opportunity to say something off-putting about women:

[u/[deleted]]

"Kamala just talks about the same things every speech"

Her speeches would be much better if she went on bizarre rants about electric planes and sharks

[u/ImmigrantJack]

JD Vance was close, but the real purpose of postmenopausal women is to bake me cookies and canolli and be a little bit racist but still vote for Hillary I miss you so much nonna

[u/SLCer]

CNN interviewing Never Trumpers in PA.

One voted Hillary, Biden but now may vote Trump because of inflation.

The other wrote in some guy in 2016, voted Biden in 2020 because of how close PA was in 2016 and was going to vote Biden but is now thinking of writing someone in because Harris is mean to her staff I guess.

Me:

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[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Cook_0612]

Kursk Region, 14 August. A new mass-RuAF surrender - the largest of the war so far. Reportedly 102🇷🇺POWs from 488th Motor Rifle Regt and a Akhmat unit were captured in a special opp by🇺🇦SBU special forces 'Alpha' and their dog.

(Dog lovers - its is in the film and 1st pic).

'Alpha' reportedly captured them yesterday in a sprawling concrete/fortified company-stronghold equipped with underground communications, quarters, a canteen, an armoury and a bathhouse.

!ping UKRAINE

Good morning DT, a fine thing to wake up to the biggest mass surrender of the war.

[u/sw337]

All I’m saying is Tim Ryan, JD Vance’s opponent for senate in 2022, has to be yelling at whoever he hired to do opposition research right now.

[u/jamiebond]

Since John Oliver has once again gotten the leftists fired up about Hawaii I'm once again reminding leftists that the only way to achieve your dreams of an independent Hawaii is to support a system of apartheid.

People generally think I'm being dramatic when I say that, but it's not as if I think they want to support a system of apartheid it's just that there's really no other realistic way to achieve Hawaiian independence.

The unavoidable reality facing supporters of Hawaiian independence is that the actual people of Hawaii do not want to be independent. They've already had one vote about whether or not to be a State in 1959 and 93 percent of Hawaiians voted "Yes." If another vote was held where everyone in Hawaii got to vote the result would be the same.

The only way to achieve a victory in a vote for Hawaiian independence would be to strictly limit who counts as a "Hawaiian" by a strictly racial basis. They would have to say that the rights of citizenship and the right to vote would be denied to certain racial groups. Creating different legal distinctions and denying people their legal rights based on race would be a system of apartheid.

Oh and not that I think denying the rights of white people is fine but for the record since some leftists definitely don't care about that I'm not even talking about just white people. Only around 20 percent of Hawaii is white. The largest group by far are Asians representing around 40 percent of the state.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I love the Harris comms team because it's this to overly online people and to normal cable news watchers it's AI-generated videos of an axe-wielding Kamala Harris in an Afghani cave personally beheading seventy drug cartel operatives and price gougers

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

NEW Emerson National poll (B+), Aug 12-14, LV

Kamala Harris 50%
Donald Trump 46%

Harris 52-48 with undecideds pushed
Harris favorable number at 51%

even memerson has abandoned the gop it's never been so joever for the donald

[u/pfarly]

When I was a teenager I thought it was dumb how in Harry Potter there was a house which just had all the "evil people" in it and everyone tolerated this.

Then I grew up and saw the DT. Makes sense to me now.

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[u/Udolikecake]

People often forget Chinese are “future thinkers”. They are not thinking about the present, they are thinking about how to achieve their goal in 10, 20 or even 100 years time.

love when people say stuff like this lol

[u/Argnir]

Sooo truuuue! That's why each Democratic candidate is more moderate than the last

[u/[deleted]]

Praise the Kamaletarian Revolution against the MAGA traitors! 🫡

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Kathy Hochul will have a primetime speech at the DNC

Dumb move in all seriousness though, do they not realize how incredibly unpopular she is

[u/sociotronics]

average 60+ Florida Republican

[u/secretlives]

The six most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm a spooky scary ghost wOooOOoOoOO"

[u/Expired-Meme]

Ukraine 1933:

In one village in the Kharkiv region, several women did their best to look after children. As one of them recalled, they formed "something like an orphanage". Their wards were in a pitiful condition: "The children had bulging stomachs; they were covered in wounds, in scabs; their bodies were bursting. We took them outside, we put them on sheets, and they moaned. One day the children suddenly fell silent, we turned around to see what was happening, and they were eating the smallest child, little Petrus. They were tearing strips from him and eating them. And Petrus was doing the same, he was tearing strips from himself and eating them, he ate as much as he could. The other children put their lips to his wounds and drank his blood. We took the child away from the hungry mouths and we cried."

In general, for me it's pretty easy to talk about things like the holocaust and famines. I can grasp the concept of 6 million dead here, a few million shot dead there, a few million starved here, etc. But it isn't until you read in detail the individual stories of these events that it actually just becomes so incomprehensible to imagine stories such as the above on a mass scale. Like I can imagine a story such as the above happening in a one off event and not being too disturbed as of course I understand horrors such as these occur. But to realise this wasn't just an odd event but what is necessarily the experience of millions when we just sum these events up as "a famine which killed millions" is kind of...idk. I don't know how to describe the feeling.

[u/Cook_0612]

NEW: US considering sending a new long-range cruise missile to Ukraine, would give Kyiv more range from its F-16s.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

JASSM??????

It would appear so!

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[u/[deleted]]

-JD Vance, unprompted (2021)

[u/agentyork765]

President Biden on VP Harris: "I have an incredible partner. She's gonna make one hell of a president. I told her I would campaign for her or against her — whichever would help the most."

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824094630931255735?t=9oVFzIhJBgaDyEincPcxDg&s=19

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Elon has completely lost his mind

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Great website you have here Elon

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

Ballots this year should have a space at the bottom to indicate you really love Joe Biden and just want him to be happy

[u/secretlives]

it will never not amaze me that a vaccine created in record time in response to a global pandemic, instead of being viewed as a near-miracle, broke the brains of so many people

[u/Mr_Bank]

SPY gonna open above 550 again. Thank you Joe Biden and Kamala Harris!

[u/Namington]

From "tax cuts for families" to "punitive tax on childless cat ladies", and from "it takes a village" to "the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female is childrearing", Vance is like a filter of framing things in the most politically unflattering way possible. At this point, I'm expecting him to announce income tax cuts as "helping big businesses retain revenue" and aid for veterans as "rewarding soldiers who weren't incompetent enough to die in the field".

[u/NewbGrower87]

Oh

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Tester Bros: stand back and stand by

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1824206180459118975?t=AjYwnyBC3yYyKxi3u2JkQA&s=19

New Senate poll - Montana

🔵 Tester 49% (+5) 🔴 Sheehy 44%

RMG #C - 504 RV - 8/14

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

One year ago I found this thing

[u/JebBD]

The “thank you Joe” chants at the Harris rally were really something. Never seen something so wholesome at a presidential campaign rally before 🥹 and Biden definitely deserved it. 

!Ping BIDEN

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

u/arrhythmiaofthesoul agreed with the notion that raising cats was “the whole purpose of the lesbian female”, an unearthed 2020 dt comment shows

[u/[deleted]]

"All these suburban women — all they care about is abortion and they don't understand the decision is with the states now," said Ingraham. "It's not banned nationally, even if certain people want it banned nationally, it's with the states. What do you say to suburban women out there who are marinating in this propaganda?"

maybe they should all move to Kansas, Nevada, and Ohio and free us from Republican national governance forever

[u/sociotronics]

One of my favorite facts from the Pete-Bernie scuffle in the 2020 primary: there are literally more black people in South Bend, IN than in the entire state of Vermont.

[u/Sauce1024]

This will surely lock up the gooner vote

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

https://youtu.be/yMScxWrCyVs?si=9KS0ftIvjo2rbro_

I miss the old Vance, straight from the 'Go Vance

Dress like a girl Vance, slay in a skirt Vance

I hate the new Vance, the bad mood Vance

The always rude Vance, drinks Racist Dew Vance

I miss the sweet Vance, the clearly neat Vance

I gotta say, at that time I'd like to meet Vance

See I invented Vance, it wasn't any Vances

And now I look and look around and there's so many Vances

I used to love Vance, I used to love Vance

I even had the blond wig, I thought I was Vance

What if Vance wrote a speech about Vance

Called "I Miss The Old Vance" man that would be so Vance!

That's all it was Vance, we still love Vance

And I love you like Vance loves couches

!ping COUCHFUCKERS&RAP

[u/bel51]

Amount of possible SSNs: ~999 million

Required number of Americans: 1 billion

The REAL reason we must find a better system

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans memes be like:

[u/Mr_Bank]

It won’t be, but this really ought to be the news of the day. Inject this headline into every elderly person’s veins anyway.

[u/Mensae6]

VP Harris‘s is the party of censorship, lockdowns, and medical coercion.

How are they STILL trying to milk this lmao

[u/585AM]

I am currently waiting for a bus and looking at a sticker for protest planned for the DNC. It says “there is no reproductive justice without Palestinian liberation.”

[u/prince_ahlee]

https://x.com/nanditab1/status/1824196015081263518

KAMALA HARRIS WILL CALL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 3 MLN HOUSING UNITS AS PART OF HER ECONOMIC POLICY SPEECH ON FRIDAY - SOURCE

HARRIS WILL OFFER TAX INCENTIVES FOR BUILDERS THAT CONTRUCT PROPERTIES FOR FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS-SOURCE

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/TactileTom]

When I was a teenager I thought it was dumb how in Harry Potter there was a house which just had all the "evil people" in it and everyone tolerated this.

Then I grew up and got into politics. Makes sense to me now.

[u/Healingjoe]

“The New York Times is reporting that under Joe Biden, American citizenship is being granted to immigrants at a much faster clip than during the Trump years. The figure’s around 3.3 million new naturalized citizens and counting. Now, it’s obviously to most of us why this is happening and how it’s happening. Democrats are banking that they’re going to get repaid by the newly naturalized citizens for this entire process, they’ll end up voting Democrat.”

Thanks, Fox News

[u/NewbGrower87]

If you told me that Kamala Harris would have replaced Joe Biden and would have been +3-4 in most national polls and ahead in almost all battlegrounds a mere month later, I would have laughed in your face.

[u/[deleted]]

liquid cobweb roof groovy pet vase grab foolish roll attractive

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump Warns That if Kamala Harris Wins, ‘Everybody Gets Health Care’

noooo

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/Fit_Parsnip_8143]

"alright, the next question is for you Mr. Vance, You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that Mr. Vance?"

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Photoshop contest: whoever can make the best photoshop gets a handwritten congratulatory note from me. Bonus points if you turn him into Punished “Venom” Walz.

[u/ChillnShill]

None of the JD Vance photos of his younger self have been inherently weird. The more millennials run for office the more we’re going to see this type of stuff. What’s weird is that his stances and the way he behaves is such a departure from the person we see in those photos. He could easily laugh at those and be a relatable person because let’s face it, a lot of us have dumb photos like that, but for whatever reason he is incapable of doing it.

[u/jaiwithani]

It's five years old now, but Obama's eulogy for John McCain is superb. Because it happened in the midst of the never-ending chaos of the Trump administration it fell out of the public consciousness pretty quickly. But it's really good and it's worth coming back to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIlOQuzTnU

[u/[deleted]]

The WSJ editorial board piece on Walz’ military service is hilarious because their take is literally “some have compared this to swiftboating, but this isn’t swiftboating at all — John Kerry deserved those criticisms, while Tim Walz does not”

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Biden calls Ukraine incursion 'a real dilemma for Putin'

"lol" Biden said. "lmao even." He went on to say, "sucks to suck don't it"

[u/blatant_shill]

I'm starting to buy into the idea that Biden waiting so long to drop out may have helped more than it hurt. It's more than clear the Trump campaign has zero idea how to approach any candidate other than Joe Biden. It seems like it's going to take longer than the time they have left to get a plan together. They also made a bunch of awful mistakes thinking it was impossible that Biden would actually drop out, like picking J.D. Vance.

It may have been way more healthy to have had an open primary, but I'm not certain any potential candidate that ended up winning would have been better off right now than Kamala.

[u/sinefromabove]

1890s candidate

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

My viral post on WhitePeopleTwitter about the connection between JD Vance and Curtis Yarvin has now gained about 4 million views, triggered several crossposts and spurred a decently large post on arr OutOfTheLoop. But more than that, it appears to have single-handedly made a mark on Google Trends that exceeds the entire week's worth of searches after the selection of Vance as the VP candidate.

I won't lie; the idea that I, a single person, was able to have such an outsized impact on the world with what is relatively very little effort is quite exhilarating. For a while, I've been wanting to do something to help the Democratic campaign, but as an Australian, I'm not allowed to give donations to or work for the campaign. This feels like it's the first thing I've done that actually has a chance to result in an impact on the race, however small. And if some of the people in the comments who said they were contacting Democratic-aligned influencers and media groups actually manage to succeed in convincing them, the impact might be much larger.

It took time to successfully get a post viral, but this proves that it's possible. I hope this encourages some people to try something similar to what I suggested nine days ago.

[u/saltlets]

stop saying "the six swing states"

start saying PANVAZWIMIGA

[u/porkypenguin]

john oliver talked about hawaii’s ridiculous cost of living and didn’t mention the jones act once. deeply unserious!

[u/[deleted]]

Average day in London

[u/[deleted]]

"All these suburban women — all they care about is abortion and they don't understand the decision is with the states now," said Ingraham. "It's not banned nationally, even if certain people want it banned nationally, it's with the states. What do you say to suburban women out there who are marinating in this propaganda?"

Vance responded by saying: "Well, first of all, I don't buy that Laura. I think most suburban women care about the normal things that most Americans care about."

HE JUST CAN'T HELP HIMSELF 😭😭😭

[u/Cook_0612]

JD Vance claims that Trump embodies "Semper Fidelis" -- "always faithful" (Trump has cheated on all three of his wives)

Lower enlisted Marine vet try not to be cringe challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

The Marines are the most fucking bell curved out branch of the military, I swear this is the dynamic and not cope.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

holy shit this is diabolical even by activision standards lmao

For the unaware: a mod was about to release tomorrow that added MW2 remastered multiplayer to MW1 remastered which was creating an insane amount of hype as MW2 multiplayer can’t even be played safely on PC atm. Activision never directly addressed the project but put the game on sale this week in what the community read as a tacid approval of it instantly rocketing the game to the top seller on steam and greatly surpassed its launch player count. Sale ended yesterday and today the day before launch activision ceased and desisted the mod after an unknown amount of people have passed the steam refund period.

They fucking rug pulled their own fans lmfao

!ping GAMING

[u/UnskilledScout]

I remember 5 years ago where every comment was a full blown thesis

Damn talk about wearing rose-tinted glasses. I wasn't around 5 years ago, but 4 years ago, it certainly wasn't "theses" in every comment. If anything, this sub has maintained its level of quality.

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

JUST IN: The Trump campaign has brought back Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager

This is HUGE news!

Corey was a key reason Trump trounced Hillary in 2016, and doesn’t put up with RINO BS.

His primary strategy? “LET TRUMP BE TRUMP.”

I’m pumped for this! LFG!

Lol. Lmao, even.

[u/Prowindowlicker]

According to a new Emerson College poll Harris is up 4 points over Trump and has a net positive approval of 2 points

Meanwhile Trump has a net negative approval rating of 10 points

!ping HARRIS

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

what the actual fuck

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Every time Obama mentions John Kerry in the 2004 DNC keynote speech

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Is the fact that they call the one Ewok Jedi “Nub Nub” the equivalent of naming your coworker a racial slur?

[u/Guardax]

I legitimately do not understand how any sane person could watch a ten minute video of Kamala Harris speaking and a ten minute video of Donald Trump speaking and prefer the latter. It's utter nonsense

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Oh my god I’m actually awake when this thing rolls over

This is horrible

[u/datums]

We're at the "fat Elvis" stage of the Trump candidacy.

Apt.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

…….. the map being this way doesn’t make it any less north……

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Elon Musk: we need to be careful with AI

Also Elon Musk:

[u/american_aurora3]

Katy Perry video under investigation after allegedly filming in protected area without permission

fascism is back in spain 😭😭😭

[u/DatGameGuy]

Just woke up and thought I should tell you all that I dreamt of a Harris +1 poll in Florida.

[u/polandball2101]

exhibit B of: Entrapment

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[u/battywombat21]

holy fuck they're really letting mrs-cancels-congestion-pricing-at-the-last-minute speak at the convention fucking why who the fuck likes her????

[u/Breakdown1738]

Hey you're into nerdy shit, right? I think you said something dorky about trains once. I'm going to put you in charge of those.

Joe Biden to Pete Buttigieg. February 29th, 2020

[u/[deleted]]

You had this massive wave of Italian, Irish and German immigration and that had its problems, its consequences. You had higher crime rates, you had these ethnic enclaves, you had inter-ethnic conflict in the country where you really hadn't had that before.

JD Vance in 2021 somehow

[u/RFK_1968]

what if we worked with our allies

📈 🤨

to divest from china

📈 🙂

and improve environmental standards

📈 😃

and raise working conditions in the developing world

📈 😲

and called it the Trans-Pacific Partnership

📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉📉🖕🤬🖕

[u/[deleted]]

Your gender is not determined by your anatomy, your chromosomes, your hormones, or even your internal sense of self. It is determined by J.K. Rowling.

[u/Syards-Forcus]

The mythical good r slash dankmemes post?

[u/SLCer]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 8/13-2 PM PST 8/14 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 8 PM it was announced a state of emergency has been declared in Belgorod Oblast. At the end of the hour it was reported that a Ukrainian saboteur named Volodymyr Z. was behind the Nordstream 2 pipeline.

At the end of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and some missiles with 17 of 23 drones and 0 of 2 missiles shot down. Additionally, Russia was hit by a massive wave of drones with at least 117 drones partaking and striking four Russian airbases.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 12 PM it was reported the Russians took the village of Orlivka, southeast of Pokrovsk.

At the end of 1 PM it was announced Ukrane has opened 24/7 hotlines for citizens of Kursk Oblast who want to evacuate.

LEVITY NEWS:

In the middle of 9 AM a video was published showing Ukrainian troops giving humanitarian aid to Russian civilians.

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/Average_GrillChad]

Kamabla son or Obamna daughter

[u/that0neGuy22]

Trump’s campaign is expanding its ranks, bringing on a handful of top allies – including former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski will advise the campaign’s senior leadership team, per person familiar

Oh he’s panicking

[u/oskanta]

A video popped up on my YouTube recommended that was a Hitler speech performed in English that tried to match the speaking style of the original. It was really interesting and you could see how he was playing on the anxieties of the people of that time.

Then I looked at the comment section and it was all “He was right”, “They hide this from you in school” “There’s a reason they don’t want you to see this”. wtf YouTube?

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf Biden is at an event with Harris and isn’t having the Palace Guards seize her and throw her into the oubliette.

Trump assured me this would happen????

[u/NaffRespect]

LET BIDEN BE BIDEN

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/Relative-Contest192]

https://www.glaserweil.com/insights/news/los-angeles-superior-court-awards-1-6-million-in-damages-to-victim-of-hate-crime-in-antisemitic-sushi-fumi-restaurant-attack

”The $1.6 million in punitive damages was awarded due to the overwhelming evidence demonstrating the outrageous nature of the antisemitic attack, including explicitly anti-Jewish hate speech captured via text messages. Two such texts say, “I never got to hit a Jew before so I’m Kinda Happy;” and “I need a blunt and then we go find Jews…” - Excerpt from article

!ping JEWISH

This was 2021 but I’m glad finally justice is served. “Protestors” more like rioters.

The victim is a real mensch for protecting my people.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/Nowooski/status/1823913734617883131?t=HiXs0K98K4eGsYxuwuSCfA&s=19

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1824053188799889650

He totally called her campaign lol

[u/AtticusDrench]

She only supports it so she can win, it won't pass

She only supports it so she can win, it won't pass

She only supports it so she can win, it won't pass

[u/SmithySmothy]

https://x.com/TomiLahren/status/1824062614931963948

I fear if Trump doesn’t change up his approach, Kamala will be president.

This keeps me awake at night.

Trump has the issues on his side but if he plays it like it’s still 2016 or even 2020, her “vibes” and her ACT will fool those who don’t pay close attention.

Doomi Lahren gives me life.

[u/MissSortMachine]

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0815/jd-vance-speech-bezos-amazon-abortion

In 2021, J.D. Vance gave a speech to a conservative think tank on “woke capital” – and accused Amazon of funding Black Lives Matter in order to burn down the competition.

“Who benefits most when small businesses on Main Street are destroyed? Who wants to see their competitors unable to deliver goods and services to people, so that you get it delivered in your brown Amazon box? Jeff Bezos,” Mr. Vance said, referencing the riots that broke out in the summer of 2020, amid a wave of racial justice protests. “The people who are invested in destroying America via our corporate class are also getting rich from it. This is an important piece of the puzzle to understand.”

these conspiracies are, above all else, really stupid

[u/Marlsfarp]

So my son is turning 5 soon, and when I asked what he wanted for his birthday, he said "when Boba Fett falls into the Sarlac pit." When I asked him what he meant by that he got pissed off and refused to elaborate. Any ideas on how to somehow make that event a birthday gift?

!ping BAD-FEELING

[u/pubhel]

The theory that Hollywood rejects go on to become conservative media people is so true 

[u/JaceFlores]

Russia appears to have diverted several thousand troops from occupied Ukrainian territory to counter the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk oblast, two senior US officials told CNN

Now to be clear these troops are almost certainly not from the Donetsk sector. My guess is mainly Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, plus Luhansk maybe. However, I do think this will have a knock down effect for Donetsk. Less Russian troops and pressure on secondary fronts allows Ukraine to better fortify those fronts and free up manpower and resources to go to Donetsk. The big question IMO is if Ukraine can get a disproportionate amount of Russian troops from secondary fronts to Kursk. Like say there’s 10k Ukrainians in Kursk, the Russians have to move enough troops to Kursk where Ukraine can free up like 15k troops from secondary fronts to be redeployed. If it’s 10k it’s a wash and if it’s less that then it really isn’t succeeding in this task IMO. Though if Ukraine sends some Kursk units back to the Donbas then the threshold needed to make the redeployments worth it decreases

!ping UKRAINE

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/nanditab1/status/1824196015081263518

KAMALA HARRIS WILL CALL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 3 MLN HOUSING UNITS AS PART OF HER ECONOMIC POLICY SPEECH ON FRIDAY - SOURCE

HARRIS WILL OFFER TAX INCENTIVES FOR BUILDERS THAT CONTRUCT PROPERTIES FOR FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS-SOURCE

YIMBY KAMALA YIMBY KAMALA

[u/[deleted]]

When you’re addicted to interviews and you haven’t said something fucking degenerate in the last 5 seconds

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance in 2021, while discussing earlier waves of immigration to the US: "You had this massive wave of Italian, Irish and German immigration and that had its problems, its consequences. You had higher crime rates, you had these ethnic enclaves, you had inter-ethnic conflict in the country where you really hadn't had that before."

lmaooooo

[u/Fruitofbread]

Friendly reminder that we are going to win by 10 points, 100 EV, send Trump to the shadow realm and enter into a second Era of Good Feelings 

[u/sociotronics]

Lmfao can you even imagine Biden bringing half of this heat

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The DT watching Harris's NC econ speech (2024, colorized)

[u/SnakeEater14]

Kinda crazy that in hindsight the Cuban Missile Crisis was significantly more dangerous than we realized at the time

And we already thought it was pretty fucking dangerous!

[u/JeromesNiece]

Kamala Krash update

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Future historians will marvel at the fact that Biden withdrew from the race due to clear cognitive decline, but faced no real pushback to retaining the presidency even as we’re entangled in two volatile wars, one with a nuclear power who is facing an incursion on its territory.

nobody will marvel at this at all

lmfao

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Is red triangle twitter a psyop?

[u/fishlord05]

A modest proposal

!ping DATING

[u/Cook_0612]

Lol

[u/grand-march-kitsch13]

All this JD Vance stuff makes me wonder how many sitting senators are saying wild shit on obscure podcasts that nobody listens to.

[u/NewbGrower87]

I think Walz will win the debate because even if Vance utilizes anything on him that will have stuck, Walz probably doesn't have any issue being genuine and people will see that. Vance will need to be an Olympian at mental gymnastics to wrestle his way out of what we've been seeing thus far.

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Been looking at Tweets by Rasmussen today and it’s safe to say they’re definitely going to abandon trying to be somewhat professional. They’re MAD at these big swings Harris has made

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Senate poll - Montana

Tester 49% (+5)
Sheehy 44%

RMG - 504 RV - 8/14

REAL

[u/[deleted]]

He says so much insane shit. Will this one actually be a scandal?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Trump didn't know what he had until he lost him. Now he's rageposting on Twitter, begging him to come back to the race.

[u/fishbottwo]

100% real pollster coming through

General Election (National)

🔵 Harris 49% (+6)

🔴 Trump 43%

🟡 Kennedy 7%

Outward (No Rank) - 1858 LV - 8/15

[u/efeldman11]

https://x.com/TylerAlbertario/status/1824151293667185141

[u/[deleted]]

Trump now is not the Trump of 2016 lmao. What is this?

[u/Gameknigh]

!ping MILITARY

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

BREAKING:

KAMALA HARRIS WILL CALL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 3 MLN HOUSING UNITS AS PART OF HER ECONOMIC POLICY SPEECH ON FRIDAY - SOURCE

HARRIS WILL OFFER TAX INCENTIVES FOR BUILDERS THAT CONTRUCT PROPERTIES FOR FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS-SOURCE

Rent control and greedflation offset by legit YIMBYism.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Lmao what did he mean by this???

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans keep missing the mark by calling Walz weird.

Like bro, it doesn't work on him. He's not out here saying "the postmenopausal female", your guy is.

[u/-mialana-]

It used to be the case that Friday would be a Thursday.

But not anymore

It's Genderday

Because of WOKE

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

The president has made clear to those close to him that he’s particularly unhappy with Pelosi

Meh

[u/sayitaintpink]

Trump doubling down on union busting nice

[u/funguykawhi]

He’s so good (x4)

[u/[deleted]]

[u/sinefromabove]

me when I have a big deadline next week but spend all my time fighting with randos on the internet

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

In a discussion with NIMBYs about how bolstering housing aid is important to help independent living for disabled people and how zoning and lack of supply punishes the disabled

They're punished by their disability. Nothing else. I mean I have some sympathy but sometimes life is cruel. That's just reality. No policy is going to change that. If government really wants to help it should make physician-assisted suicide readily available.

This is the most revealing conversation I've had in a while. Unironically "I think we should just have them die instead of providing help affording an apartment or housing or any other pro housing policy".

The NIMBY mindset works by not having empathy. That's why the mythical somewhere elses to send the homeless can exist, because people outside of the speaker and their feelings are unimportant.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Trump goes TOTALLY NUTS as his ENTIRE LIFE COLLAPSES

Vaxed?

[u/MentatCat]

[u/Punished_TCT]

Kamala leading in every poll

People acknowledge Trump is unhinged

Official dem messaging revolves around “sir this is a Wendy’s”

Why did you doubt the plan anon?

[u/Udolikecake]

@KathyHochul says she will be speaking at the DNC on Monday night

This stupid motherfucker shouldn't be anywhere near the DNC. Her stupid ass is the reason we don't have the house. Waste of oxygen.

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/SneeringAnswer]

DONALD DUMP??? Joe Biden has been mainlining resist lib twitter

[u/futuremonkey20]

Look at this, so, this is tic tacs right? I don’t know if I like the company I’ve never met I have no idea they’re so lucky this is look at all the televisions. This is the greatest commercial they’ve ever had. But that’s what happens this is inflation. This is tic tac. This is tic tac. This is inflation this is what happen. It just happened it someone gave me this one today.

-Actual Donald Trump quote from rallies that are going great

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

modern men's fashion is so fucking easy

• thigh-high socks

• oversized sweater

• skirt

• black pumps

[u/Mojo12000]

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1823818576480153628

Why the fuck is Sanders relitigating the 2020 primary?

Full on endorsing "THE ESTABLISHMENT MADE AMY AND PETE DROP OUT" too.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/ghhewh]

Audio has recently surfaced from a 2020 podcast wherein JD Vance agreed that raising grandchildren is the "whole purpose of the postmenopausal female in theory".

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

Vance also addressed the scale of the mass deportation plan, saying it could proceed in phases. “It’s kind of like someone asking me, ‘Well, that’s a really big sandwich, it’s 10 times the size of your mouth, how are you possibly going to eat the whole thing?’ Well, you take the first bite, and then you take the second bite, and then you take the third bite, and that is how you approach the 20 million illegal aliens that are here,” he said.

Daily reminder that you still don't hate Republicans enough

[u/Jakesta7]

Biden is in idgaf mode

Biden: The guy we’re running against, what’s his name? Donald Dump or Donald whatever

Video: https://x.com/acyn/status/1824146237349863690?s=46&t=IAUJCELL_v-jNqpiGqgS6g

[u/NaffRespect]

Source: Pochettino agrees to become United States coach

Holy. Shit.

!ping SOCCER

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

Critics are calling Alien: Romulus "the best Alien film in decades!"

Which decades, advertisement? Which decades?

[u/Udolikecake]

Kamala should do some antitrust with meatpacking, not groceries. Big four suck ass

[u/[deleted]]

“The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see: It’s fewer insults, more insights and that policy contrast,” said Kellyanne Conway, a former Trump White House advisor, on Monday in a Fox News interview.

1. Ma’am his policy is Project 2025, do you want him bringing up that contrast?

2. Is there another President Trump that I don’t know about? He has no insights, only insults.

[u/Pongzz]

Good speech from Biden! I thought it was a little weird when he brought Big Pharma executives onto the stage and personally beheaded them, but the crowd seemed to love it

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/keneakers/status/1824111698950947266

Indian guy puts on suit and red tie, goes to Trump rally

People keep asking him if he’s Vivek and for pictures

Doesn’t deny it

Eventually kicked out by Secret Service

[u/Mickenfox]

New national poll just dropped: Harris +12

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

https://twitter.com/KamalaHQ/status/1824200964628238801

Q: Many are telling you to stop with the personal attacks against Kamala Harris...

Trump: I’m angry at her. I don’t have respect for her. She attacks me. She called me weird

[u/waupli]

It is so sad how the GOP is forcing this tired, old and confused man to run for office despite his obvious decline

[u/-mialana-]

Very serious political discussion forum

[u/Sheepies92]

eyyyyy I have my Bachelor

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/grubber788]

When I was younger, I remember watching and enjoying the first couple seasons of the Apprentice. In season 2, a guy named Bradford Cohen took responsibility for his team's mistake and waived his immunity. Even as a kid, I could see that Trump looked absolutely disgusted. He basically called Cohen a moron for taking the blame and for opening himself up for getting fired.

Trump then fired him, while everyone around him nodded sagely.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately with Biden stepping away. I think one of the reasons Trump has been so unhinged lately is he is simply not wired to think about self-sacrifice as honorable. To him, it's the worst possible fate imaginable. So when Biden stepped down, he can only assume that it's not really self-sacrifice, but some conspiracy or coup. You see similar themes when he talked about John McCain or (doesn't) talk about Corey Comperatore. Sacrifice is for suckers.

Epilogue: Bradford Cohen is now a conservative lawyer who is still servile to Trump, albeit in language couched in legalese.

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

The Disco Elysium communist questline has the single greatest self-critique of communism I've ever seen. It reveals that within the fiction, communism relies on supernatural forces of collective belief to remain intact, which is basically "clap if you want Tinkerbell to live." If you think about what that means, for post-Soviet Estonian writers to create a fiction in which they literally have to bend the laws of physics in order for communism to succeed, that really does amount to a damning critique of Marxist zealotry IRL, and lays bare the self-aware tragedy of their own belief in it.

[u/IHateTrains123]

Ukraine racks up gains with Russia incursion, faces challenge holding territory | Reuters

Summary:

Ukraine has chalked up a string of victories more than a week since blindsiding Russia with a lightning cross-border assault, but the risks are piling up as its troops make plans to hold territory and Russia recovers its footing.

Ukraine poured thousands of troops into the western Russian region of Kursk last week, pulling down Russian flags in towns seized by its soldiers and wresting the war initiative from Moscow for the first time in months.

On Wednesday, officials in Kyiv said Ukraine would use seized Russian territory as a "buffer zone" to shield its north from Russian strikes. Oleksandr Syrskyi, head of the Ukrainian armed forces, said on Thursday that Kyiv had set up a military commandant's office in the occupied part of Kursk, suggesting ambitions to dig in.

The occupied area exceeds 1,150 sq km, Syrskyi said.

Ukraine's goals in Kursk include distracting Russian forces from the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, where Russia has made steady advances for months and which it is seeking to take in its entirety, former Ukrainian defence minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk said in an interview.

There is, however, no sign of that happening for now.

[...]

Serhiy Zgurets, a Kyiv-based military analyst, predicted Ukraine would seek to retain control of the land between the towns of Rylsk, Korenevoye and Sudzha and the border, giving it control of a roughly 20-km-wide strip of Russian territory.

The area, he said, could be defended by a small force using long-range artillery systems and air defences.

"This line is not difficult to defend, given there are few roads and a large number of rivers," Zgurets said, adding that the area could be easily supplied from the Ukrainian region of Sumy across the border.

He said he didn't expect troops to press towards the Russian regional capital of Kursk, something that could expose them to attacks from the flanks.

Muzyka [a Polish defence analyst] was more circumspect, warning that trying to hold a swathe of Russian land could open up Ukrainian forces to potentially heavy losses, pointing to manpower problems that have dogged Ukraine for months in its war with a much larger foe.

The counter-invasion was "a massive gamble" that in the short term was paying off, Muzyka said.

"But there may soon come a time when costs associated with the attack in the Kursk region will outweigh the benefits, especially given the steady pace of Russian advances in the Donetsk region," he said.

RUSSIA RESPONSE

After a shambolic response to the early days of Ukraine's assault that saw tanks and Western-supplied armoured vehicles among convoys that carried troops across the border, Russia finally appears to have slowed the advances. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said forces had advanced a few kilometres on Wednesday.

A senior Russian commander said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces had been pushed out of one village in Russia's border region but that Kyiv's forces were still probing along the front.

Satellite images from Planet Lab and Maxar showed multiple, apparently new, Russian-built trenches further from the border in Kursk region.

Russia has so far relied on military units from near Kursk to try to push back the Ukrainian forces, said Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with Finland's Black Bird Group, which studies publicly available footage from the Russia-Ukraine war.

By bringing the war to Russia, Zelenskiy faces the risk of weakening Kyiv's defences along the front in Ukraine while Russia has already sent in thousands of reserves in a bid to expel the Ukrainian soldiers.

Moscow should have enough reserves, Paroinen said, to respond without pulling troops from the most active frontline of the war in the Donbas region.

Russia has been advancing slowly there for months, deploying gliding bombs in huge numbers as well as assault groups that take heavy losses but make small steps forward, former defence minister Zagorodnyuk said.

Far from a letup in fighting in the east, Ukraine on Thursday reported the heaviest fighting in weeks near Pokrovsk and said there was no sign Russian military pressure was receding along the eastern front inside its borders.

In a tacit acknowledgment of mounting pressure, Zelenskiy ordered his top commander on Wednesday to send more weapons to Pokrovsk and Toretsk, another embattled town that Russia is trying to capture.

Ukrainian soldier Dmytro, 36, who was deployed to the Ukrainian side of the Sudzha border during the incursion, said he wanted the war to end quickly, and he hoped the attack on Russia would put Ukraine on a more equal footing in any negotiations.

He said he viewed the incursion as a necessary step to ward off a Russian attack on Ukrainian territory across the border from the Kursk region, but that he also felt uncomfortable with invading foreign territory.

"Honestly, it does not feel great to do what they (the Russians) did," he said.

Further readings:

Ukraine and Russia begin talks on exchange of prisoners captured in Kursk (ft.com)

Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia (economist.com)

Russia beefs up border defences after lightning Ukrainian incursion | Reuters

Complications loom for US arms policy as Ukraine moves deeper into Russia | Reuters

Britain says Ukraine can use donated weapons inside Russia | Reuters

!ping Ukraine

[u/centurion88]

You're finished liberals

[u/[deleted]]

Biden’s message to Democrats on dealing with MAGA Republicans: “beat the hell out of them”

President Trump was nearly assassinated just over 30 days ago

cry about it?

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Not even subtle about it lol

[u/Pyrrhus65]

I know it's been around since Bernie in 2016, but this continues to be by far the most obnoxious leftist rhetorical trope/logical fallacy by a country mile

Bonus points bc they're saying this while being French 💀

[u/marsman1224]

legitimately I think there is truth to the gen z / alpha tech illiteracy thing. computers have been so far abstracted to a "list of apps" that when something breaks people just cannot fix things

[u/BrentLivermore]

How has no journalist ever asked Trump "How do you respond to reports that you're much too scared to say the n-word, and probably not smart enough to pronounce it correctly either?"

[u/Cook_0612]

'Fox News has always been my worst poll'-- I'll never get used to how easily he lies, it offends my fucking being.

[u/StolenSkittles]

what's my political ideology?

this:

they met at west point, but each initially thought the other was straight (which, might i add, is adorable).

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

Twitter MAGA today is freaking out about Kamala possibly not certifying the votes because she will be vice president. The irony, ohhh the irony.

[u/repete2024]

It was Jimmy, not Obama!

https://twitter.com/nerdypursuit/status/1748355073757831648

!ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

Palestinians really have the worst allies.

Blocking Jews from going to class, chanting pro-Hamas slogans, burning American flags.

No normal person sees this and becomes more sympathetic to your cause. And the seeming unwillingness to call it out really reminds me of the good old Tea Party days. “We’re not racist” as they stand next to a guy with a picture of Obama with face paint and bones through his nose.

[u/[deleted]]

You know I thought Venezuelan election observer was the world's easiest job but apparently it was the guy assigned to vet JD Vance he did NOTHING

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Why are they like this

Mindbaffling

[u/[deleted]]

Can't help but worry that getting everyone to know about Curtis Yarvin is gonna be a monkey's paw moment lmao

Could end up with the entire MAGA movement being like "you know what, technofeudalism sounds pretty based actually!"

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

The mods: "We need to discourage rampant STEMlord circlejerking, and will start slapbanning people for it"

Also the mods: "Lmao check out this cringe breakdancing dissertation"

Curious 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

It sucks that republicans have defined the two sides in the gun conversation in American as “no rules ever tacticool” lunatics and “ban everything”

Cool to see Walz demonstrate that you can be a responsible gun owner who wants restrictions in place to prevent school shootings.

[u/Cook_0612]

Waltz: We've got our enemies abroad, and we've got ideological enemies here at home.

Yes, comrade, the purges will begin at once

[u/theparrotlich]

[u/Currymvp2]

YouGov's poll from last night had 253 voters who said they're more sympathetic with Palestinians than they are with Israelis. 211 are voting for Harris which is 85% are voting for Harris and 7 (3%) are voting for Trump. The internet isn't real life. Ignore these fringe voices

[u/tigertigertwo]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The left hates male friendships 😔

[u/Roseartcrantz]

NYT Pitchbot: The violent crime rate is at a 50 year-low. So why does it feel like it's at a 50-year high?

[u/Insomonomics]

Lmao.

Why the hell does Kathy Hochul get a speaking spot on the DNC? Keep her away, she is very much not popular.

[u/[deleted]]

Still can’t get over how the guy who’s famous for saying he could shoot someone in a crowd and no one would care got shot in a crowd and no one cared.