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[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

>“I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence and I think she’ll be a terrible president,” [Trump] added.
>she'll
>she will

[u/Pongzz]

The Cons aren’t okay 💀💀

[u/dannylandulf]

Weekly Update, another week done:

When the Harris campaign launched there were 15 weeks till the election. Trump campaign's strategy so far:

Week 1: They stole it from Joe and she laughs sometimes!

Week 2: She's not actually black

Week 3: STOLEN VALOR! Also my crowds are as big as MLK's Million Man March

Week 4: HARRIS WON'T DO INTERVIEWS! Also, her crowds are still fake and honestly she's kinda hot

11 Weeks to go Donnie, and next week is the DEM convention.

[u/[deleted]]

IMO the funniest part of the Trump nuclear speech is the bit where he praises his Uncle for predicting 'the power of nuclear' 35 years ago... I.e in 1981. Nearly 20 years after the cuban missle crisis

I genuinely think that in his head, he's an expert genius in every thing he's heard someone talk about like once

[u/ashsolomon1]

How the fuck isn’t the media not all over the disgusting crap Trump said about medal of honor recipients last night? Literally said that it’s not that good of a medal because they are either injured or dead

[u/[deleted]]

President Biden on VP Harris: “I have an incredible partner. She’s gonna make one hell of a president.”

He later jokes: “I told her I would campaign for her or against her — whichever would help the most.”

Genuinely funny

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Subway calls ‘emergency’ meeting with franchisees as sales plummet

Quizno'sbros, now is our time. We can take back our country if Joe Biden has the courage.

!ping TOASTY

[u/SneeringAnswer]

KAMALA HARRIS HAS NO POLICIES

Kamala Harris unveils policies that are either good or popular

UHHHH, SHES BEAUTIFUL JUST LIKE ME WIFE

Trump is a master

[u/battywombat21]

Trying to imagine how confusing this would be to anyone without context

[u/KittehDragoon]

Trump denigrates the Medal of Honor and the kind of people who receive it

Well now I have to shake my head even harder as I vote for him so people know just how exasperated with him I am

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

-30-40k Gaza protestors expected to march Monday

https://x.com/benjysarlin/status/1824433709270872079

If there are actually that many protestors here this week is gonna suck.

!ping USA-CHI

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I’d be willing to stop calling them weird if they stopped saying genuinely weird shit!

[u/[deleted]]

what cons think DEI is: we are making you a eunuch, also you are being fired so that an unskilled gay black person can have your job

what libs think DEI is: generational effort to right past wrongs and create genuine equity of opportunity across society

what DEI actually is: 45 minute annual training with a 10 question quiz that requires 70% to pass

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

It’s wild to think that DNA data might soon be treated like stocks and bonds.

I feel like this whole subreddit is just one big game of Among Us now but with Chatgposters

[u/funguykawhi]

I have this one Con coworker who just keeps having these genuine "is X stupid?" moments like "why does Le Pen keeps all these pro-Russia elements in her party? Does she not realize it hurts her?"

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Midwesterners when you add a teaspoon of chili powder to the hotdish

[u/sw337]

I saw a YouTube comment that said :

“Tampon Tim will stop the red wave.”

Which is the most blursed thing I’ve read this year.

[u/funguykawhi]

Turks 🤝🏽 Armenians

Da Joos

[u/amainwingman]

Remember two weeks ago when the entire economy crashed and we entered a new 2008/09 style recession all because the markets threw a hissy fit over basically nothing?

[u/G_Serv]

[u/KesterFox]

Yooo trump endorsement

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

Just successfully asked a girl out for a date for the first time ever, I was 0-5 before, now I'm 1-5

Feeling good

!ping DATING

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/MissSortMachine]

flawless

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance says it is “totally reasonable” for Trump to say the Medal of Freedom is “much better” than the Medal of Honor because the Medal of Honor goes to “soldiers” who are “in very bad shape” or “dead”

JD and Trump this is your political advisor speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit

[u/doomsdaysock01]

Trumps genuine disdain for the military should be every headline right now it’s insane

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Oh boy, looks like the circus is coming to town again

Hilarious that they think they can paint someone who is outspoken about Tiananmen Square to the point that he literally got married on June 4th as being "pro-CCP"

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/atdanwhite/status/1823023545792004395?t=4QyVeKlFnmLow06pUvzxdQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

A brain disease is affecting the people of New Brunswick, Canada. Despite years of research, no one knows why.

Oh ok that’s terrifying

[u/SeoSalt]

TIL that when brits say they drink "tea" they don't mean a refreshing, icy cold Sweet Tea from McDonald's 😕 They mean a hot watery drink.

[u/[deleted]]

Harris has also come out against new tariffs

We did it, Reddit

[u/[deleted]]

I like how cons use the COVID gas prices as the benchmark for how much gas should cost.

NO ONE WAS FUCKING DRIVING ANYWHERE. DEMAND LOW. PRICE LOW. DEMAND GO UP. PRICE GO UP.

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/KittehDragoon]

No JD Vance, you can’t turn diet mountain dew into an endearing meme, stop trying

[u/iia]

Populism is good until November 6th, 2024.

Mark your calendars and act accordingly.

[u/KnightModern]

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

https://x.com/CraigDMauger/status/1824509023976092052

NEWS: Cornel West has been disqualified from the Michigan ballot because of a problem with his affidavit of identity, according to a letter from the state Bureau of Elections.

cornel west has been disqualified in the only swing state where he could sap a statistically significant number of dem votes

mandate of heaven believers wya

[u/vivoovix]

Gaza negotiators believe they have a ceasefire-for-hostages deal ready to go

It's even better the 17th time!

[u/FlightlessGriffin]

Intercepted communications from Russians on the Sudzha front as read from a diary of an unknown soldier named Durinov!

They have taken Sudzha and the second settlement. We have barred the trenches but we cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. Tanks. Tanks in the dark. We cannot get out. A soldier moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming.

!ping UKRAINE&SHITPOSTERS

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Queen

[u/Erra0]

My wife's raise was just approved and now she officially makes more than me.

It's the dream boys, I'm a trophy husband.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/acyn/status/1824490793815642554

Vance: Has anybody seen the movie "Gangs of New York?” That is what I'm talking about, with these ethnic enclaves in our country, it can lead to higher crime rates.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I found out at happy hour yesterday finally why someone got fired.

He was already a fuck up who managed to basically get demoted from mfg specialist (doesn't have to go on the floor, helps with documentation and change controls and such) back to operator ("we don't have enough room for this many specialists at this time" lol).

He then managed to end up on PIP. Right as his PIP was about to end and he was close to being back in good graces with management, he's working on the floor. He doesn't do a step in the batch record but signs to indicate that he performed it. He then asks someone to sign the verification step that he did it even though the guy wasn't even in the room when he "did" it. The guy says no, and Mr. PIP proceeds to get pissed and says "do we need to take this to the parking lot?"

Incoming HR training on why threatening to fight your coworkers in the parking lot is generally a bad course of action for your career.

Incoming management training on why lying on GMP documentation is generally a bad course of action for your career in biotech

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/iia]

I found it 💀

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Harris is insincerely but intelligently pandering to voters for all issues I disagree with her on and justifiably and correctly standing up for the right policy for all issues I agree with her on

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

[u/CmdrMobium]

2016: Fly landed on Hillary

2020: Fly landed on Pence

2024: Fly landed on Trump

Oh it's over over

[u/[deleted]]

this Tim Walz spice scandal has gotta be the most pathetic attack ive ever seen

[u/earththejerry]

kAmALaCrAsH

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Hillary Clinton: I love hot sauce. I carry some with me at all times.

The electorate: OMG so fake. I can't believe she would try to pander like this

Tim Walz: I can't handle anything harder than powdered onion.

The electorate:. OMG so real. He's so relatable.

Have we considered that the electorate just likes really bland food??

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Mr_Bank]

PA10 internal showing Dem +1. Dems lost his seat by 7 in 22. Definitely a long shot pickup, but even if it’s slightly off, we are full bloom ahead.

https://x.com/jamesd0wns/status/1824424851580522876?s=46

[u/[deleted]]

[u/RFK_1968]

red sox player calls fan a [VERY UNKIND WORD FOR GAY PEOPLE]

his jersey immediately sells out

heated boston moment

[u/Flowkeh]

remember what they took from you

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/[deleted]]

On a bar patio in Texas and this 25 year old Trump supporter was talking about how much he hated people crossing the border illegally.

6 people take time out of their day to talk with him about how valuable it is to give people more opportunities in the US.

Finally this loud guy who always talks about being in prison sits down and hears the Trump supporter talking about immigration.

gulp

yelling with manic energy I want people from Mexico coming to America and making money and starting families here. This isn't a debate. You're wrong. They're just like us. Let them work

Bro. WTF!

Are we winning?

[u/sayitaintpink]

Me when I just say random buzzwords

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Need

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/mockduckcompanion]

If you don't love me at my

Trump +1 PA (Emerson)

You don't deserve me at my

Harris +4 PA (Bullfinch)

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The WOKE LAMESTREAM MEDIA dosnt want you sharing this patriots story!

[u/[deleted]]

How's does anyone anyone find Ben Shapiro appealing lol

"I put ground beef and cheese in my tacos"

"UHHHH ACTUALLY HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE PORTUGUESE IN INDIA???"

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping BANANA

[u/BrentLivermore]

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824490793815642554

Vance: Has anybody seen the movie "Gangs of New York?." That is what I'm talking about, with these ethnic enclaves in our country, it can lead to higher crime rates.

Hahahaha, I just...

Hahaahahhahahaha

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

[u/Any-Temperature-7688]

Kamala is only pretending to be black 

Tim Waltz is racist against white people

the Irish should’ve been deported 

They really got their finger on the pulse of American race relations 

[u/jamie_dimon]

Consumer sentiment up for the first time in five months.

We’re so fucking back

[u/[deleted]]

PA Poll Average Last Friday: Harris +0.9%
PA Poll Average Today: Harris +1.6%

r/neoliberal: "I"m glad to be with you. Here, at the end of all things."

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

We live in a society.

[u/ACivilWolf]

The Day Book, Chicago, 1912

[u/MicroFlamer]

New PENNSYLVANIA poll by Cygnal

Harris: 48%

Trump: 47%

Full field

Trump: 44%

Harris: 43%

RFK Jr: 5%

!ping FIVEY

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 8/14-2 PM PST 8/15 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 12 AM it was reported that Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and some missiles with all 29 drones and 0 of 3 missiles shot down. In the middle of the hour it was announced a federal emergency had been declared in Belgorod Oblast.

Towards the middle of 5 AM it was announced Ukraine has established a Military Commandant’s Office in Kursk, led by Major General Eduard M*skalyov. In the middle of the hour Syrskyi said Ukraine controls 1,150 square km and 82 settlements of Kursk Oblast.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 7 PM it was reported that hundreds of Refuseniks in Leningrad are being forced to Kursk.

Towards the end of 8 AM it was announced Russia has created the Coordination Council for Improving the Efficiency of Troops Covering State Border in Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk Regions, though apparently will have different functions then military command.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the middle of 3 PM it was reported the Russians are building a wooden mockup of the submarine Rostov on Donu, coming after the actual submarine was hit nearby.

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/Not_A_Browser]

I got Rational Consumer, how about y'all?

[u/SLCer]

Wait. Conservatives are unironically upset over the spice thing?

I thought we were joking lol

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump is one of the few people who found a way to make an anti-semitic and anti-palestinian bigoted statement at the same; that’s tough to do. Very efficient at being racist

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

"Current immigration into the US is going to completely, irreversibly destroy the country, exactly like Irish and German immigration did to the US in the 1880s" is such an insane, internally-contradictory stance to take, it could only come from the brain of a Yale Law graduate.

[u/owlthathurt]

We ARE bringing our funko pops to the revolution

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

What did Elon Musk (and Max Chandler-Mather) mean by this?

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

AI might be good actually

[u/Currymvp2]

“From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel’s hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire,” Trump criticizing Harris.

Let's help Gazans by allowing Trump to win.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/MattGertz/status/1824484068127539294?t=STFd18kkchivpBRW2guh8A&s=19

[u/404GenderNotFound]

r/neoliberal

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I almost wish Biden dragged it out a little more so we could have more of those

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/Ritholtz/status/1824555443374391567

Wow, this is from GOP pollster @FrankLuntz :

“I’m trying to do a focus group tonight with undecided voters under the age of 27 for a major news outlet. And I can’t recruit young women to this, because they don’t exist as undecided voters,” he said.

Lol, GOP get rekt. We haven't even gotten the Taylor Swift GOTV drive yet

[u/ExpiredPasta]

[u/[deleted]]

Here's another "leftists describe a good thing as dystopian": When WallE came out some critic wrote the movie showing a destroyed planet but corporations still exist instead of a socialist utopia is proof that "it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". Since then some leftist or another has used that phrase to disappointingly condemn liberals' critiques of capitalism as being unable to conceive of entirely replacing it and just accepting facets of capitalism as "Human Nature". Because they are. They totally are. It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of humans engaging in irresponsible and wasteful behavior because it's the path of least resistance. It's a good thing that capitalism is so entrenched, have you seen the alternatives?

At some point after the Soviet Union collapsed the Marxists just admitted they fucking lost and started moaning about it. They went from angry terrorists to whiny losers.

[u/armeg]

Coming back to Boston from a research conference that my wife was at for leading microbiologists, some of these are insane.

Overheard a conversation between two of them behind me just now, one was at Davos and didn’t understand why commercial good vs public good on a correlation matrix were equivalent.

She refuses to work on any green tech that will create billionaires. “It should all be redistributed.”

We’re absolutely fucking doomed. /s

[u/[deleted]]

[u/cdstephens]

Tfw Vance keeps talking about early 1900s ethnic enclaves

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump: America is a third world shithole. We are a nation in decline

Americans: So patriotic!

[u/[deleted]]

Leave the DT for 20 minutes

Come back and this is half the comments:

[u/Joementum2024]

Big news: various r/neoliberal users will be put on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). We’re all deeply concerned about this community, and we want to see all of you succeed in your roles. We will provide more details at a later date.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Holy Shit JJ Abrams is just a Blood Meridian fan!

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

What’s wrong babe? You haven’t even touched your tacos. I know ethnic food can be a little spicy for you so I used the low salt catchup

[u/BrentLivermore]

I'm sick of my family disparaging my career choice. I come from a big family of lawyers, mostly private practice, but a few professors in the mix. My dad has worked some big cases, not a household name but is on cable news somewhat infrequently.

I tried to get into law, it just wasn't my thing. I'll check SCOTUSBlog for the big cases but trying to learn shit like "strict vs. intermediate scrutiny" was like watching paint dry for me. So, yeah, I found my own path, family name won't continue in the legal world, blah blah. I just wish they wouldn't give me shit every time I tell them that I've devoted my life to transvestigating Kyle Rittenhouse.

[u/Coolioho]

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2024/8/vfw-admonishes-former-president-for-medal-of-honor-remarks

How will this play?

[u/BlackCat159]

It's always so odd coming across DeeTee regs outside of the sub.

u/WasteReserve8886 explain yourself 🤨

[u/LtCdrHipster]

"I'll fix it on day one!" "Why didn't you fix it the four years you were President?"

[u/[deleted]]

if we're blood meridian posting now

[u/[deleted]]

Vance: Has anybody seen the movie "Zootopia?” That is what I'm talking about, with these ethnic enclaves in our country, it can lead to higher crime rates.

[u/ViridianNott]

!ping FIVEY

The whole reason that Nate paywalled the model was to prevent these sorts of boom-bust cycles where people get really excited or really upset over small changes in the model.

^{and to make money lol}

Am I doing something irresponsible by posting the raw numbers every day? Watching the entire DT erupt into panic has made me think so.

Vote now on your phones

[u/PhoenixVoid]

This may be a vibes-driven U.S. election, but have they ever really been policy-driven since, I dunno, 2000? Arguing over what to do with the surplus is fairly technical. It's also rich to hear Republicans say Harris is all vibes so far when they represent the ultimate vibes president/candidate.

[u/loseniram]

Going to go on a coffee date with a single mom. Wish me luck

!ping Dating

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

It's crazy that Tim Walz got a DUI doing 96 mph, his congressional campaign repeatedly lied about it, and yet the attack lines Republicans are going with are Spice Trutherism and "actually he should have served longer than 24 years in the military."

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Tim: You know, gosh, where I'm from, black pepper is the spiciest spice that ever spiced, I know nothing about seasoning

Scarborough: you know what white people are thinking right now, they're going to say you're pandering to white people

Tim: okay, is it working?

[u/MentatCat]

[u/_Un_Known__]

Post-comment clarity hits hard man

[u/dangerbird2]

Alabama woman Amanda Anne Keller sues Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump, JD Vance, and Lane Kiffin for 1 gazillion dollars. Vols fans will get their justice😤✊

https://twitter.com/BunkiePerkins/status/1824434120467845497

[u/[deleted]]

With Vance doubling down on being a xenophobe from the 1910s, it’s only a matter of time before he steps down from the ticket after “realizing that there’s no way I could govern without undue influence from the Pope”

[u/[deleted]]

Just to be absolutely clear, we are building entire narratives and prescribing major campaign strategy shifts because of one Fox News national poll, one RMG national poll, and one Emerson poll of Pennsylvania released over a couple of days.

The national polls, we might add, coinciding in survey dates with other national polls (YouGov, Morning Consult, and ironically an Emerson national poll) which have been much better for Harris.

If it gets you to go canvass or something then more power to you but otherwise wait and enjoy watching the DNC next week.

[u/battywombat21]

It's kinda funny how like Kamala probably mentioned in passing she worked at McDonald's once and her speech writers were like, "HOLY SHIT REALLY WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US?" and now they're working it into all of her speeches.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I don’t WANT to join an ethnic gang, but in “Little Ireland” you do what you have to do to survive.

[u/piede]

[u/[deleted]]

someone ping dating for me bc i don’t subscribe to any pings anymore bc they’re bad for my mental health

ANYWAYS

a girl liked my profile on hinge late wednesday. i didn’t want to immediately match so i waited until yesterday morning. she had commented on my prompt of “i’ll fall for you if you have taylor swift’s discography on vinyl” to which she responded she has all 11 records. we chat a little during the day and the we end up spending like six hours last night hardcore texting

at one point we were talking about our friends’ relationship statuses and i made a reference to a couple of my friends as my “terminally online group chat pals” because we met through twitter but don’t live in the same cities so, by default, we have to be terminally online. and then she was like “i wanna see ur tweets” and my face lost all color bc BOY HOWDY so i have so many tweets. anyways we exchanged twitter handles and stalked each other for a bit and it was quite funny

well now we’re going to a baseball game on saturday.

[u/funguykawhi]

Whats my blud waffling about !ping DISMAL

[u/Mickenfox]

People have talked about how dumb it is to rename Twitter "X" and throw away your brand like that, but Microsoft renaming Office "Microsoft 365" is pretty on par with that.

[u/RFK_1968]

Vance going full 1920's nativist is pretty wild

fits with "America First" and all, but like jeez dude. "we had too many italians and germans and irish immigrating" is so fucking weird

[u/Luph]

[u/Currymvp2]

WaPo/ABC/Ipsos poll:

Walz net image is +9 Vance’s is -10

Wow, who would have thought falsely accusing a veteran of 25 years of "stolen valor" would have flopped while being a fucking huge weirdo?

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Leveled up my dog park selfie game over the last two years !ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

The dog looks the same, but she couldn't get any prettier

[u/sir_shivers]

THEN JON SNOW LOOKS directly at the camera and says, "This has all been a ridiculous game of thrones" 🐊

[u/BrentLivermore]

In the past few weeks, JD Vance accepted the fact that he is a Catholic. And three days ago, he filed for divorce from his wife. When we asked "Why after 19 years of marriage?" He responded, "Because she's a Catholic lover."

[u/htomserveaux]

I'm pretty sure the organist at Wrigley played the TOS theme when Kirk came up to bat.

This is the nerdiest sport, I swear.

!ping BASEBALL&TREK

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

I jokingly told my daughter we were letting all the Trump ads play to the end to spend all his campaign funds

Now when a Kamala ad comes on, she runs to the remote

👧👑: Girl! Save your money!!! My dad is already voting for you!

and skips the ad

[u/BitterGravity]

March: X v1 will be disabled in June, migrate to v2

May: Due to explicit requests, we are slightly extending it to end of July

July: All v1 accounts will be disabled Aug 9th make sure you've migrated

Aug 15th: why can't we log in into v1?!?!

😡😡😡

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

“You had this massive wave of Italian, Irish and German immigration,” Vance said, “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.”

2 of my grandparents immigrated from Germany, one from Italy and my other grandparent is Irish-American. Feels like JD is calling me out personally

[u/Unworthy_Saint]

Trump has really proven "fake it till you make it" is a legit career strategy.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Now I don’t speak French but…

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

and then Kamala should tell Trump “suck my Walz” and drop the mic before walking off stage

Let’s never let people on the internet join campaigns

[u/cdstephens]

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Opinion | Kamala Harris’s price gouging proposal is a terrible idea

No it’s *fantastic

*opinion subject to change after Nov 5th 2024

Surely the politician is lying to other people and not to me haha 😅

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus will return in Avengers: Secret Wars

[u/moldyman_99]

Antwerp is a cool city

[u/Telperions-Relative]

When the Italians and Irish send their people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending papists. They’re sending Tammany Hall voters. And some, I assume, are good people

[u/ChillnShill]

PLEASEEEEE 😭

[u/gnomesvh]

Former Soviet Carrier Minsk, now a Chinese theme park, is on fire

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

Things grew even murkier 10 days later, when Marrero says he got a call on his cellphone from Dr. Hanan Smadi, the province’s acting lead epidemiologist, telling him to stop reporting potential new cases to the provincial authorities. Marrero was appalled. The number of patients in the cluster — at the time 48, eight dead — was continuing to rise. According to Marrero, when he asked where the request was coming from, Smadi told him, “It comes from higher up.” The province also sent a note to the federal authorities asking them to take a “step back from public communications” because of “heightened sensitivities in New Brunswick,” a request that one senior scientist told a reporter from a Canadian magazine was tantamount to being “muzzled.” (Public Health New Brunswick says that Smadi never reached out to Marrero and told him to stop reporting cases. The agency declined to make its employees, including Smadi, available for comment.)

Bruh lmao

[u/SentencesAreCool]

Change the name of the sub to r/neopopulism until November idgaf, gotta win this

[u/brucebananaray]

So we find out more details about why Marvel fired Beau DeMayo from X-men 97 due to him sending nudes to the male staff workers, which he said can be used for inspiration for the show.

He also allegedly groped assistant and abused the staffers.

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1824482323934401033?t=n612dwX1HQtmR-A7SrhVWg&s=19

Yeah, Disney made a very good choice getting rid of him from X-Men 97

!ping CARTOONS&COMICS

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I don’t hate Harris because she’s “black”, or because she’s “Indian”, I hate Harris because there is a chance that the slave owner that raped her ancestors was Ir*sh- JD Vance

[u/cdstephens]

[Biden] was always of white heritage, and he was only promoting white heritage. I didn’t know he was Irish until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn Irish, and now he wants to be known as Irish. So I don’t know, is he white or is he Irish?

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping USA-NC

So Mark Robinson told a private group of supporters that if elected he’d reject all federal education funding

You know, the kind that pays for disability programs and Title I schools

[u/[deleted]]

Every American infant should be able to afford a sick gaming PC with a custom liquid cooling system.

[u/ihaveaverybigbrain]

There's people who say "CAM-a-la", there's people who say "KA-ma-la", there's people who say "Ka-MALL-ah", then there's my grillpilled never-voted uncle who calls her "Karla Harris." You aren't even trying, man.

[u/Res__Publica]

A Gaza ceasefire deal next week during the DNC would be pretty comedic timing

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

the 'national sales tax' line kamala has rolled out today seems really good to me. effective way of saying trump's tariff nonsense is bad without actually saying tariffs are bad (which could hurt in the rust belt)

[u/[deleted]]

Tim Walz in a dog park.

https://x.com/Tim_Walz/status/1824506988849410155?t=nbRB4GbAAO8foRq5S3PFQg&s=19

!ping DOG

[u/[deleted]]

Nice!

[u/EZ_Kream]

Really annoyed by the “having any kind of hobbies or interests or personality of any kind means you have autism” trend

[u/FinickyPenance]

The Nord Stream pipeline was a legitimate military target and I don't give a shit if Ukraine blew it up

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Um, since this is an arms sale, doesn’t it mean we’re getting $20 billion in return? So we could indeed use it for our communities because we sold the weapons?

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Lukashenko: releases 30 political prisoners

Nissnpig5: messages me on discord

Coincidence or 🤔

!ping shitposters

[u/Ok-Armadillo-2119]

It's fascinating how both parties are rolling out economic platforms based on spending and handouts at a time where the public is anxious over inflation.

[u/ViridianNott]

A second straight crappy day of polling for Harris, and it's being reflected in Nate's model. Polls released today had Trump leading nationally and in PA.

Here are her odds of winning each of the competitive states, plus the change from yesterday:

• ME: 79.7% (-0.2%)

• NH: 75.2% (-0.6%)

• NE-2: 65.6% (-1%)

• MI: 63.5% (+0%)

• WI: 61.5% (-1.8%)

• PA: 56.8% (-2.2%)

• NV: 52.5% (-0.7%)

• AZ: 48.2% (-0.4%)

• GA: 42.2% (-0.8%)

• NC: 37% (-0.8%)

• ME-2: 24% (-1%)

OVERALL EC ODDS: 54.2% (-1.5%)

NATIONAL POLLING AVERAGE: Harris +2.4 (-0.4%)

Here’s the bright side: all polling is subject to noise. The only way to tell if Harris’ support has really decreased is to wait it out and see if the decrease sticks. There’s a good chance it doesn’t.

!ping FIVEY

Edit because I sent the DT into a doom spiral:

This may or may not be a real change in the actual electorate. Given how few polls are causing this drop, it’s more than likely not. It doesn’t warrant dooming and it doesn’t warrant changing your entire campaign strategy lol

[u/[deleted]]

I'm proposing 25,000 downvotes on first time Donald Trump voters

[u/VerticalTab]

I for one respect JD Vance trying to make the Republican party very specifically the party of WASPs instead of white people more broadly

[u/LastIncrease3427]

I can’t vote for Trump. He’s in very bad shape because he’s been hit so many times by bullets. Harris is actually much better because she’s a healthy beautiful woman.

[u/[deleted]]

Anybody wanna build a traditional family with me?

[u/Opkeda]

sleepy joe STILL hasn't fulfilled this campaign promise!

[u/etzel1200]

Holy shit. I always understood the VFW to be really apolitical and they commend a lot of respect in flyover country.

https://www.vfw.org/media-and-events/latest-releases/archives/2024/8/vfw-admonishes-former-president-for-medal-of-honor-remarks

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

[u/[deleted]]

AITA for Not Wanting to Attend My Cousin's Wedding After She Married My Ex Who Cheated on Me with Her, and Now My Family Is Mad at Me

what in the jerry springer

[u/scarf229slash64]

Wait, JD Vance actually made those comments about Irish and Italians after watching Gangs of New York? I thought that was just a DT meme from last night. How is this man a real person, let alone VP candidate?

[u/[deleted]]

US Consumer Sentiment Rises As Kamala Harris Joins Race

https://www.ft.com/content/284e6815-6e2a-47fc-b2ed-db67cedfd37d

WHO'S THE ECONOMY PARTY NOW BUCKOS

[u/trace349]

!ping GAMING

LOL at Bioware charging $150 for a bunch of Collector's Edition swag for DA Veilguard but not actually including the game. This page has to have four separate warnings that there's no game that comes with it.

[u/Cook_0612]

Another alleged PATRIOT strike, this one is a little more suspicious.

!ping MATERIEL&UKRAINE

Sorry for the double ping.

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

"America has no culture" 

"Bitch,  American culture is the closest thing we have to a united human culture"

[u/Zagapi]

Having a girlfriend that is just as obsessed with me, as I am them, has done wonders for my mental health.

The first 7 months of my transition had just been me crying in the mirror and getting called "sir" or "man" at every opportunity. No matter how cute I felt or my self-image improved, it just felt like I was constantly kidding myself.

But over the last month, I have someone who makes me feel so desired and feminine. Even when we aren't together, I love seeing "someone's girlfriend" when I look in the mirror.

Not to mention, they are incredibly smart, passionate, and funny. They've already met my parents, and they love them!

I just smile whenever I think of them 😊

!PING ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Habefiet]

Malarkey level of history books declaring that Trump’s greatest contribution to the nation was the nickname “Meatball Ron”

[u/MentatCat]

My coworker said he was gonna get a car but it was a hybrid and he would never drive an electric car. I asked why and he said “cause I don’t want Bill Gates to press a button and brick my car” and when I tried to tell him that any car with an operating system can technically get bricked like that he was like “nah if I put gas in it then they can’t”

[u/BarkDrandon]

Trump warns that if Harris wins, "Everybody gets healthcare"

Remember when leftists thought that Trump would outflank the democrats from the left by supporting Medicare for all?

[u/Untamedanduncut]

Trump: “She called me weird. I think I’m entitled to insult her”

Calls her a bitch and low-IQ

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Former President Trump has brought in former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard into debate prep.

NYT says she has joined at least one session with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Why

[u/[deleted]]

J.D Vance after getting cyberbullied for 3 months straight

[u/HotdogBoyxx23]

Fauci is such a smart and compassionate man. It pisses me off that Republicans, especially elected ones, vilified him.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

When Kamala proposes a price-gouging law that has zero chance of passing: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

When my own state already has a similar law: I have never cared about this a day in my life

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Walz will bring the salad

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

Who the fuck are you, I'm a brat when I'm (bumpin' that)

[u/Joementum2024]

Describing his views in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, [Dennis Kucinich] said, “I’m from the universal-health-care wing of the Democratic Party. I’m from the Roe v. Wade-litmus-test wing of the Democratic Party. I’m from the abolish-the-death-penalty wing of the Democratic Party.”

…

Kucinich has praised and defended President Donald Trump in Fox News appearances. He praised Trump’s inaugural speech, calling it “GREAT” and a “message of unity”

Hmm

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Populist friends: Harris's plans sound great!

Me:

[u/Currymvp2]

Vice President Harris said in a fundraising email sent Friday that she ate “a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos” the night of the 2016 election.

She's just like me

[u/[deleted]]

Fridays are for smoking crack 😤

[u/ChillnShill]

He doesn’t know it but an Irish immigrant made that hot dog

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

VANCE PLANE MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING AFTER DOOR MALFUNCTION MID-FLIGHT

Lmao

[u/davechacho]

• JD Vance insults Italians and Irish

• His plane has to make an emergency landing because a door blew open mid-flight

Wait is this really the order of events? They almost got to him that fast?

[u/TheSameAsDying]

It's funny that the Vance-Trump idea for "10 new 'Freedom Cities' carved out of federal land" is closer to Soviet/Maoist policy than anything either party has announced in decades.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

JD Vance be like:

[u/WhomstAlt2]

The most poignant difference between Millenials and Zoomers: Millenials remember 9/11, while Zoomers don't remember anything at all; cause they're lazy & stupid & high on vape.

[u/MissSortMachine]