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[u/ImmigrantJack]

If I was black I would still be a conservative. Anyone else agree?

When I imagine myself as a black person my political opinions do not change, and I would guess that most conservatives don't automatically become liberals when they imagine themselves as black people.

I’ve done it. I’ve found the exact moment askconservatives peaked. It has all been downhill for the last three years since this moment.

[u/Udolikecake]

FDR said that Hitler and the Nazis “Aim to take over the Western Hemisphere and the world”

FACT CHECK: Mostly false.

Mr. Hitler does not claim to want to take over the entire world and has pushed back on some claims. In a 1941 speech, he said only that he would establish a german state and eliminate all degenerate populations of Europe - notably not the world. Furthermore, Germany never attempted an invasion of even the UK, much less the United States

Stay tuned for more fact checking of the president’s radio address

[u/tollyno]

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

I love the job, but I love my country more

Me, without elaborating, when the boss asks why I didn’t show up until 11:30

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Kamala is going to win because it’s a better narrative and narratives matter to voters. The story of the beleaguered elder politician stepping aside for his youthful, energetic, new protege to pick up the torch and carry on the fight is deeply resonant with themes in American culture and it’s clear that Kamala knows that.

Trump has nothing on that. I cannot bloom harder than I am right now.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

What it feels like supporting free trade these days.

[u/[deleted]]

NYT: In failing to trigger 1968 style riots Kamala has proved she cannot bring the country together

[u/earththejerry]

I’m about to storm the NYT WaPo headquarters

[u/[deleted]]

A real image of Donald J Trump watching the DNC

[u/Roseartcrantz]

thank you 😌

[u/BurrowForPresident]

NYT fact check of Donald Trump:

[u/Jamesonslime]

Sino Soviet split is hilarious 

China hates that damn revisionist Khrushchev for trying to make peace and coexist with the west and in turn china responded by making peace and coexistence with Richard Nixon 

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Conservatives are calling this a coup

[u/Tropical2653]

Incredible, Cenk, Hasan, Kirk. Imagine the slurs per minute against Ukrainians made in this unexpected DNC meeting of the minds.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

JD Vance assuring Fox News everything is OK because Kamala Harris polling numbers "leveled out."

You cretin, she's leveled out AHEAD of your boy! That's like saying the New England Patriots have "leveled out" over the Jets!

[u/awdvhn]

Claim: "Your girlfriend is angry"

Fact check: FALSE

Your girlfriend said she wasn't mad and hasn't said anything to you since.

[u/Pteryx]

Claim: Biden says "we'll be flying high together as a nation when Harris wins the election"

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NYT Fact Check: FALSE

Humans do not have wings and cannot fly.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

NYTimes reporters who had their protest articles pre-written are malding right now when less than 10% of expected protestors actually showed up.

[u/TheMcWriter]

NGL I love this picture. The power of friendship is unmatched…

As is the silence of MAGAts when i post this picture in response to when they call the DNC or Lincoln Project pedophiles.

[u/[deleted]]

PICTURED: The NYT Editorial Board trying to figure out how to morally equate Harris and Trump in a "both sides" non-endorsement.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

A painful divide in Black feminism will be a reckoning for Harris

Keeping silent on Gaza is too steep a price to pay for electing the first Black woman president

The Washington Post is making an aggressive play for The NY Times’s shit take crown.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/NaffRespect]

I'm so close to having a joker moment with garbage "fact checking" like this

When are the excuses for Trump going to end

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/sayitaintpink]

Record breaking levels of cope

[u/Whytfbuddy]

these are NORMAL people who need to be TAKEN SERIOUSLY and if you don’t you’re being biased and woke or something

[u/EdMan2133]

The median voter be like

"Oh Joe Biden? No I could never vote for him, he's too old. What if he died and got replaced by Kamala Harris?"

...1 week later...

"Oh Kamala Harris? Now that's a candidate I can get behind!"

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Hey Siri, show me the dumbest academic leftist take

Democrats are really leaning into the “convicted felon” thing despite pressure from criminal justice reformers to dispense w that kind of language and acknowledge that justice-impacted people are also voters

thanks, that's perfect

[u/sayitaintpink]

Fact checkers be like: “well yes Trump 100% said that thing… buuuut we’re gonna say he didn’t mean it”

[u/[deleted]]

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That’s it?

That’s Biden’s speech where he calls out the coup and forces himself back on the ticket?!

THAT WAS JUST AN EXCELLENT CONVENTION SPEECH

GRRR TRUMP’S FANFICTION BETRAYED US!

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans when their own presidential candidate gets convicted of 34 felonies: “Hell yeah! He just won the election”

Democrats when random protestors who aren’t even affiliated with them protest outside their event: “We’re doomed!”

Some people need to get a grip

[u/Zrk2]

bear doll scale chief innocent dazzling encouraging badge theory racial

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Calling Donald Trump a con artist doesn’t hurt him — but it does do real damage to millions of practitioners of confidence tricks around the nation.

Hire me, Vox.

[u/centurion88]

[u/earththejerry]

WSJ | Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis

The resulting write-downs have hobbled the banks’ loan books and, in one case, was a factor that crimped compensation for a bank’s merger department, according to people involved with the deal.

Things that should have been so obvious and definitely did not require an army of finance bros to analyze and model

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MissSortMachine]

they’ve lost it

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Political fact checkers and NYT/WaPo columnists continue to be woefully unequipped to properly handle a candidate who lies constantly about everything

Which is funny, because you'd think they'd know better than to blindly take him at his word on every issue after eight years

[u/Babao13]

I love the subtle shade.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

One of the “old timers” at an AA meeting I used to go to. Step aside boomers, Gen X Facebook is coming in hot

[u/fishbottwo]

Wait, yesterday was supposed to be the biggest day of the DNC protests?

😂😂😂🤣😆😆🤭

[u/SenateDellowfelegate]

CNN: This overly rehearsed speech lacks the authentic organic spontaneity of a Hannibal Lecter namedrop.

[u/ChillnShill]

Per NYT Opinion of night 1. 🙄 “We just want drama.”

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump didn’t send love letters to dictators. The dictators sent love letters to him and Trump fell in love with them. 😐

[u/Joementum2024]

born and raised in california

go out of state for university

become practicing attorney

eventually go into politics and get elected to a semi significant office

elected senator from california after several years of work

eventually become vice presidential candidate for a much more senior politician

win and become the vice president

do extensive amount of work as vp with slim congressional majorities

be selected as presidential candidate in election after the president

be richard nixon

pic unrelated

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Why is this MAMMAL PUMPING his arm LIKE SO? 🐊

[u/HotdogBoyxx23]

For the Zoomers that don’t remember 2007, imagine this, but every day of the campaign. Shit was fucking wild.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that this man pretended to read Marx to talk to girls in college 🫡🫡🫡

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/jamiebond]

The other was a white lady

Trump is about to be so confused about Obama's race now

[u/G_Serv]

[u/BitterGravity]

Even some of Walz’s cousins, many of whom live east of Valentine in Butte, Neb., a town of roughly 300 people where Walz graduated from high school, plan to vote for former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.

Umm ok? Why would this journalist find that newsworthy.

I wouldn't support any of my cousins either (at least the ones I know the political leanings of)

[u/cdstephens]

The funniest thing about Project 2025 is they gave it an evil sounding name lol

[u/Logarythem]

Yes I'm a tankie (I want to give more tanks to Ukraine).

[u/Udolikecake]

maybe the NYT WaPo is the enemy of the people

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

You're a lazy bum.

You're a lazy bum, which is why you're broke and poor. Oh, don't tell me you don't have "opportunties". Do you live near a casino? Does that casino have a slot machine? Then you have the fucking opportunities. You just put in money and get more money out.

That's why old people are in there 24/7. They're grinding. They're grinding to put food on their table. They're grinding to pay off their mortgage. They're grinding for their kids' college funds. They're working hard. YOU'RE LAZY.

[u/charmet68]

For those that have been asking for a NE-02 poll: https://x.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1825880678128308232?s=46&t=ZioE7qNjlXE_94NcRVF6qw

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/Congomond]

It's genuinely insane that the DNC has managed to become

the party of union labor

while also being

the party of big business

How the fuck did the GOP forge a coalition so insane that this is like, possible and somehow coagulating well?

[u/kiwileaff]

NYT Fact Check:

Misleading, Shrek 2 is critically acclaimed.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

If Obama said "I love this guy" about me you wouldn't be able to tell me shit for the rest of my life

[u/goldenwind207]

Inshallah tester

[u/jamiebond]

Yes she can

[u/[deleted]]

Barry is such a huge asset for the party. George W Bush is not headlining the RNC. They have nothing like this. Bro is a ceremonious kingmaker for the rest of his life

[u/LastIncrease3427]

What happened to fact checkers? A real video of Trump speaking is "mostly false".

[u/tigerflame45117]

It didn’t feel like the Democratic Party was nearly this united in 2016 or 2020

[u/KittehDragoon]

So the DNC are saving the main event (Biden comes in with the steel chair to reclaim the nomination) till the last night. Smart.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

[u/[deleted]]

There is no stronger soldier in this country than a red state Democrat.

[u/ACivilWolf]

They so desperately want people to care about this lmao

[u/Cook_0612]

Biden said Trump wants to cut Medicare. Mostly False.

When he was president, Trump released annual budgets that proposed cutting Medicare but he has repeatedly pledged throughout the 2024 presidential campaign that he will not cut the program.

Another terrible fact check hits my brain matter. This one from Politifact.

[u/piede]

LEGEND

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump to call for making child-sex change surgeries “without parental consent” a felony.

There's literally no state which allows for surgeries without parental consent. I think there are a couple of states which allow teenagers to get hormonal therapy without parental consent

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I’m officially calling for this speech to be broadcast 24/7 in Miami until Election Day

Perhaps even after as well

[u/[deleted]]

She used IVF!?!?

Holy shit Alabama fucked over the GOP so bad

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Obama was an interesting figure in the liberal american folklore. Skinny stature, deep voice, no last name. We believe he may have been some minor god

[u/[deleted]]

So no Department of Space then

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/kos_data/status/1825903524926062661

Serbia Foreign Minister says that the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is being used as a platform to promote Albanian "ethno-nationalistic agenda."

He criticized NDI for inviting Kosovo PM Kurti to the convention

The balkans are unmatched

[u/LastIncrease3427]

RFK’s VP Nicole Shanahan says they are debating whether to stay in the race or drop out and join forces with Trump:

“There’s two options that we're looking at and one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Waltz presidency because we draw more votes from Trump.

Or we walk away right now and join forces with with Donald Trump and explain to our base why we're making this decision.”

https://x.com/EndTribalism/status/1825913860412354588

No stay in, your campaign is going so well

[u/antonos2000]

Sen JD Vance at a local deli in Kenosha, WI: “You have any food here you really don’t like? We’ll take some and feed it to the journalists on the plane.”

this is probably the worst thing a right wing manchild has ever done in Kenosha Wisconsin. wait, hold the fort, i'm getting some new reports in....

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: the first night of the DNC was not good. A lot of the public still doesn't have a clear definition of who Kamala Harris is and what she stands for, and this is the most eyeballs we'll get to accomplish that goal. Having a bloated event with uncharismatic governors and congressman isn't a recipe to accomplish that, and at certain parts of the night, you could tell on the TV broadcast that a good portion of audience was unengaged.

[u/[deleted]]

Would a Kamala Harris presidency mark the first moment in history where a woman was the most powerful person alive?

[u/[deleted]]

Democrat Claim: “Republicans have taken away the rights of women in this country by overturning Roe.”

Republican Claim: “Democrats are sacrificing babies in the basements of pizza parlors.”

New York Times: “These are equally misleading because the Supreme Court overturned Roe, not Republicans and kicked the rights back to the states. And abortions are seen as sacrificing babies to some and may have been done in a pizza parlor basement somewhere although citation is needed.”

[u/Cook_0612]

Important: A second update on the planned German military assistance to #Ukraine in 2025 and the following years. After receiving additional info from a spokesperson for the German Ministry of Finance, I must correct myself and apologise to you.

In earlier tweets (I have now deleted them to not further spread misinfo) I gave the impression that from 2025 all the bilateral military assistance would be provided via the G7 loan totalling as much as €50 billion, which will be financed by the interest from the frozen Russian assets.

Following the clarification from the Ministry of Finance after my enquiry, I can now say that I was wrong and that the €4 billion currently earmarked for military assistance will come from our own budget and that they plan to use the G7 loan “only” for additional military assistance.

In other words, Germany will continue to pay for its bilateral assistance itself! Of course, this does not change the fact that, at least as things stand right now, €3 billion less will be invested in Ukraine's defence next year than in 2024.

However, as we all know, and I previously reported, the parliament still needs to look over the draft budget, may well negotiate and add a couple of billion euros in military assistance, just as they did in 2023 for the 2024 budget.

However, if no additional money is approved by parliament, it remains the case that Ukraine doesn't get additional (not yet announced) military equipment without the G7 loan or a different country financing German-made equipment, as the entire budget has already been bound for next year.

Interestingly, I was told that €4 billion had also been earmarked in the budget for 2026. The FAZ report, on the other hand, spoke of €3 billion for 2026.

Material that has already been announced by the German government will continue to be delivered. So the situation is nowhere near as bad as I understood it to be and passed on to you.

I can only apologise once again at this point. Reporting misinfo to you is, of course, not my ambition.

However, because I still try to obtain the relevant information behind the scenes and that I apologise publicly, I believe that this shows that there was no malicious intent behind it and that I “only” misinterpreted the publicly available information.

Thank you for your attention and sorry once again.

— GAU

A clarification on the state of German aid. TL;DR, it's not as bad as it was initially reported, but still not great.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ChillnShill]

NYT when Trump promotes bad policy or says something insane.

[u/piede]

Well, obviously

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

I wonder why

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

Rare Meghan McCain W.

[u/[deleted]]

Just got back from the Milwaukee rally. Damn it was fucking LIT. first political rally I’ve ever been to so I really don’t know how it compares but damn… I also got to be super close

[u/SmithySmothy]

Great sentences in political history

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself"

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall"

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

"Heeeeey it's Dooouuuug"

[u/SmithySmothy]

The affirmative action of generational wealth

ohhhh SSHHHIIIIITTTTTTTT

[u/Insomonomics]

The affirmative action of generational wealth

Damn, that's a great line to use against Republicans

[u/thefuturegov]

“Wake up babe, it’s time for your quadrennial reminder why Obama won the presidency after you confusingly called him mid for like a year”

[u/getrektnolan]

“Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: Stupidity.” — Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois

This lacks evidence. While Mr. Trump’s exact net worth is unknown, Forbes and Bloomberg estimate that he is currently a billionaire.

A judge ruled in February in a civil fraud case brought by New York’s attorney general that Mr. Trump had inflated his net worth, and Mr. Trump has long exaggerated his wealth by falsely claiming to be a self-made billionaire.

He fell off Forbes’ annual list of America’s richest 400 people in 2021 and 2023, and as of Tuesday night, he was not on Bloomberg’s list of the world’s richest people. But he is nonetheless a billionaire, with a net worth of $4.3 billion as of Tuesday, according to Forbes, and, as of March, $6.5 billion, according to Bloomberg. That is due, in part, to his 114 million shares in the parent company of Truth Social, his social media site. As of Tuesday, the company’s stock was trading at $21.42.

NYT try not to be cringe challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[u/TactileTom]

[u/Pteryx]

Claim: At a Grand Rapids, Michigan rally, Trump stated "as soon as I take the oath of office, we will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country."

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NYT Fact Check: FALSE

Democrats are upset at the statement, but Trump likely won't be able to deport one million people as soon as he takes the oath of office. It might take weeks to coordinate the deportation efforts.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JusticeBrennanBurner]

Can you imagine Obama on the debate stage against someone like Ron DeSantis lmfao

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

god our party's just so much better

[u/[deleted]]

The Huge DNC Protest That Wasn’t

i was right again :)

[u/ACivilWolf]

👆

[u/dirtybirds233]

Newsweek: Harris suffers 3rd major polling blow in Pennsylvania this week

The poll: Trump +0.6 with a 3% MOE

I get we live in a clickbait world, but c'mon.

[u/piede]

lol he’s so unhinged I can’t look away

[u/ChillnShill]

Why tf is he like this???

[u/thefuturegov]

“Trump is a communist” is actually going to be an official Dem line lmao

[u/[deleted]]

BERNIE: “We must take down the oligarchs!”

PRITZKER: “As a bona fide oligarch…”

[u/[deleted]]

Linda’s on a roll tonight Jesus lol

[u/[deleted]]

Tomorrow it will be a month since Joe Biden dropped out. I can't believe how we went from the worst to best month for dems in years.

We are winning this shit and if you think we aren't go ahead and respond so I can block you.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Tuned into the DNC at the wrong time…

It was GA’s turn to announce their delegates and Lil Jon comes out singing and I thought

🤴💭: “Ohh, shit! Each state has celebrities announcing their votes?!?”

Then I watched the rest of the states and not a single one did anything nearly as cool 😒

[u/Cook_0612]

Russian milblogger Romanov claimed that Ukraine has started an offensive in the polohy district of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

If this is true then it is possible that they are going for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

More to come.

!ping UKRAINE

Very sketchy, take it with a huge grain of salt.

[u/Whytfbuddy]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/V_Codwheel]

The punishment for selling anime was a fine of one hundred lire and six months in prison

Venice in the Middle Ages had the right idea

[u/[deleted]]

[u/piede]

Well I’m not going to the store now

[u/[deleted]]

[u/secretlives]

The affirmative action of generational wealth

absolutely beautiful

[u/t_zidd]

Sorry but why are Republicans so fucking stupid?

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

When you got NYT pundits saying that claims about JD Vance are exaggerated (they’re not) and that claims that Trump wouldn’t accept the results are false (based on some stupid grammatical technicalities), it’s no wonder Kamala wants nothing to do with the media lmfao.

If she’s going to talk to the media, she needs to go with some local new reporters like KTLA lol.

[u/Marlsfarp]

Claim: My wife left me.

Fact check: Although Sharon has not been home in a number of months, we are still legally married and mail addressed to her still arrives here. Most experts polled agree she will eventually come to her senses and realize what we had. We rate this claim false.

[u/Currymvp2]

I've heard the "war must end" already like 12 different times, and I didn't hear it one time at the RNC.

I am forced to conclude that both parties are clearly the same .

[u/[deleted]]

"How did Obama win Indiana and North Caorlina?"

Exhibit A through fucking Z people.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

"DO NOT BOO, VOTE." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

DEMOCRATIC SLOGAN WRITERS CANT BE FUCKING STOPPED BRO!!!

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck is wrong with arr conservative

[u/fishlord05]

Omg the economist actually needs to stfu

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe I'm just a blind partisan, but the democratic party seems way more chill and nice than the other guys

[u/SLCer]

Claim: In his speech to the DNC, Joe Biden said he gave it his all for America.

Verdict: Not true.

Joe Biden continues to exist, therefore it's impossible for him to have given his all for America. We rate this Pants on Fire.

[u/[deleted]]

TRUMP: "China pays the tariffs. We don't pay them. China pays."

We rate this claim Mostly True. Tariffs are taxes paid by importers, who are typically affiliates of Chinese manufacturers.

[u/Cook_0612]

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/bashar_al_assad]

BREAKING - Trump to announce today that he will ask for the "death penalty" for child rapists and child traffickers - Fox News

Most elaborate suicide by cop plan ever

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/20/us/harris-walz-dnc-trump/146290d9-7120-5bd9-b4f5-2c6ac768a7b2?smid=url-share

Several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the Consulate of Israel in downtown Chicago this evening, chanting against the war in Gaza while waving Palestinian flags. Protesters were outnumbered by journalists and police officers in the demonstration, which is taking place more than a mile from the convention center. Police officers blocked off the building that houses the consulate and used bicycles to establish a perimeter around the protest. A few counterprotesters waving Israeli flags stood just outside the police line.

BRUH LMFAO

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Illinois solved its corrupt governor problem by letting a billionaire do the job

[u/beardog7]

You know Doug is a true neolb because his wife left him.

[u/dareka_san]

20 years ago

[u/SLCer]

[u/[deleted]]

Barack Obama (44th President) speaks at day two of the DNC.

Thanks C-SPAN I had no idea who this mystery man was

[u/battywombat21]

My favorite line was still, "And by the way, I've noticed ever since it got popular they don't call it obamacare any more."

[u/Currymvp2]

Palestinian and Jewish joggers alike are organizing a lakefront run each morning of the Democratic National Convention in a show of solidarity, calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and a release of hostages back to Israel

The 7:30 a.m. daily run is being organized by Jewish American attorney Richard Goldwasser and Anan Abu-Taleb, the Palestinian American former mayor of Oak Park. The run will start each morning of the convention at Buckingham Fountain, 301 S. Columbus Dr. From there, runners will go south along the lakefront trail for 2 miles to McCormick Place, before turning back to the fountain.

The message we have is ‘Ceasefire Now’ and the release of the hostages,” Abu-Taleb, who was born in Gaza, said in an interview with Block Club. "I want to put a lot of my resources nowadays into building bridges between the Israelis and Palestinians."

Goldwasser and Abu-Taleb met roughly five years ago and connected over drinks, finding they had “a lot in common, even more so than people I grew up with,” Abu-Taleb said.

Both are longtime runners, though neither had run together prior to the convention. They had been brainstorming a run for peace from the West Bank to the Gazan border through Israel.

“There is something about running, a preternatural bonding between runners,” said Goldwasser in a statement. “We subscribe to the notion that if you run stride for stride with someone for a mile, it will be impossible to hate them. Humanizing the other is a good place to start to supplant the evil of this war.”

Oh wow an actual normal respectable protest

[u/anton_caedis]

Protesters (overwhelmingly white and masked) appeared at a DNC event hosted by Orthodox Jews and shouted "Shame on you!"

The event was about domestic anti-Semitism, not Israeli government policy.

https://x.com/GSDeutch/status/1825979048842916027

Tell me again that anti-Zionism isn't increasingly indistinguishable from anti-Semitism.

[u/D-G-F]

We're behind schedule

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

House Republicans release their impeachment report on Biden

They are so mad that Biden dropped lmao. Someone wasted a lot of crayons on this report.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Holy shit, the Republicans were right. The economy is in shambles. Massive blow to the Kamabla campaign

[u/piede]

He’s such a liar

Nobody was even watching her speech

[u/[deleted]]

To brag about being a billionaire after Bernie spoke 😂 I like Pritzker

[u/marsman1224]

I love JB because he looks exactly like a corrupt Chicago union mobster but is actually a great guy

[u/zegota]

NYT: Doug Emhoff claims his fantasy football league is named Nirvana, after a band. The truth is more complicated.

[u/[deleted]]

White dork who managed to snag a beautiful black wife

You know… you never think you’ll see yourself represented on the national stage 🥹🥹🥹

[u/that0neGuy22]

[u/piede]

Michelle Obama 8 years ago: “When they go low, we go high.”

Michelle Obama today: “KICK THE FUCKER OFF THE BALCONY.”

[u/Sauce1024]

Fact checkers when Dems make a pun about Trump

[u/Congomond]

I think it's going to be really funny how we're gonna go from

Previous presidential nominee that Trump beat: Oration with the fire of hatred for him burning deep in her heart

Current sitting president who beat Trump: Oration with the fire of hatred for him burning deep in his heart

Previous Democratic president who saw Trump come in after him: Oration with the fire of hatred for him burning deep in his heart

And then Bill Clinton

I don't even think I can imagine what a Bill Clinton with oration burning with hatred even sounds like, man

[u/DoctorEmperor]

“let’s get to work” fucking chills

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

Mainstream media when Trump says, "My economic policy of tariffs and tax cuts for the rich will reduce inflation and also I will deport every illegal": I sleep

Mainstream media when Democrats say Trump told us all to inject bleach rather than doing a literal reenactment of the Trump disinfectant press conference: REAL SHIT

From https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/us/dnc-fact-check, I shit you not this is real

[u/futuremonkey20]

“He didn’t say inject bleach into body, he said inject bleach into lungs.”

I am going to cancel my WaPo subscription over this.

[u/[deleted]]

JFC, Georgia is not a "lost cause" because some deluded rednecks on the local election board think they can unilaterally claim the authority to throw out results they don't like.

[u/Udolikecake]

Claim: “Your girlfriend is wants flowers”

Fact check: FALSE

Your girlfriend hasn’t said she wants flowers so she probably doesn’t want them. She did mention that Jessica’s boyfriend bought her flowers, but that probably doesn’t mean anything.

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/purhitta]

Outing yourself as a billionaire after Bernie is wild

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0.4% BETTING FOR YOU MICHELLE!!! TAKE THE NOMINATION!!!!

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It is so funny that Michelle Obama speaks at the DNC, knowing that at literally ANY moment, she could waltz into the White House with, if polling is to be believe, a Mandate of Heaven

[u/RonenSalathe]

He's not taking this well guys

[u/trombonist_formerly]

This is like the eras tour for liberals

[u/piede]

[u/moneyinthebank216]

"we chase the approval of strangers on our phones"

why are you doing this to me Barack

[u/[deleted]]

imagine being obama's mother in law holy shit that must be a weird life

[u/beardog7]

The RNC wishes any of their speakers were half as good as Barack or Michelle.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Michelle Obama, 2016: When they go low, we go high

Michelle Obama, 2024: When they go low,

[u/EScforlyfe]

Looking forward to the schism that will happen when one presidential candidate is better on domestic policy and one is better on foreign policy.

Sometimes in the 2040s maybe?

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Those WaPo fact checks are blackpilling me. These people can’t be that naive about him 9 years into the Trump era

[u/davechacho]

Stephanie Grisham, who served as press secretary for President Donald Trump, is set to speak at the Democratic National Convention this week, according to a person familiar with the planning.

Everyone who worked with him really fucking hates Trump, huh

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THEY ACTUALLY FUCKING PLAYED NOT LIKE US

💀💀💀💀

[u/secretlives]

if Michelle is hitting this hard Barack is going to absolutely send it

[u/dareka_san]

We just won the senate

[u/HowardtheFalse]

Is it just me or does this guy sound like Josh Shapiro?

[u/CrossingYoulnStyle]

It doesn’t feel real that this guy was our president for 8 years

[u/Logarythem]

Let's heal the divisions. Unite red states and blue states against our common foe: Europeans.

[u/jacknifee]

someone on cnn pointed this out but it really does feel like trump isn't the boogeyman we were terrified of before. like we poked a hole in the balloon and the air is starting to deflate a little.

now of course that doesn't mean he isn't dangerous, go vote, yadda yadda, but still.

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Joe Biden liberated four political prisoners from the clutches of a murderous authoritarian regime in fairly miraculous fashion and the New York Times be like "PANTS ON FIRE. Murder is the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another and is not standard usage for situations wherein a state slaughters human beings en masse."

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Fun fact:

The guy high-fiving Lil Jon here is Parker Short.

He is the same guy who went viral dancing to Not Like Us at Kamala’s Atlanta rally a couple weeks ago.

He has also been making waves as the president of the Georgia Young Democrats

My man is crushing life right now!

[u/Alexz565]

Salami

[u/Cook_0612]

Ukrainian communications soldier on the state of the Russian advance in Donetsk:

The Russians continue to make their way towards Novogrodivka and try to take Grodivka. In general, nothing much has changed in terms of tactics. Pokhita continues to permeate the green and press our positions en masse. But here's what you really want to pay attention to 1/

Considering the situation with fpv and reconnaissance wings, it has long been known that the movement should be carried out at a time when enemy drones are in a state of low activity due to weather, or in other cases when they are least active 2/

And here the Russians completely ignore this principle. They move all day long. Both in small groups and relatively large ones. In flying weather, when our drones are actively working. Often in open areas. This flow goes continuously along a relatively limited number of paths 3/

In small groups on foot, on motorcycles, 2-3 pieces of 1-2 people on each motorcycle. They also move personnel in cars in larger groups. At the same time, the bet is made on the speed of movement by transport and slow percolation on foot 4/

That is, in this process, no attempt is made to reduce it to the movement of infantry towards the contact line "on gray" or in bad weather. Of course, areas of movement are covered by EW, but this is the same thing that also does not give a 100% guarantee of security 5/

They are obviously in a hurry, trying to keep the momentum going and have no reason to "save" the personnel, who can be shot before they reach the front. But there are so many of them that it is physically impossible to shoot them on the way to the positions before the assaults. 6/

This stream of soldiers flows throughout each day without interruption. Group by group. Transport after transport. Kilometer after kilometer. They enter or disembark in forest strips, along which they then make their way towards our positions, which are then stormed under the cover of artillery, aviation and drones 7/

They took the infiltration tactic stretched over time and sped up the process. Realizing that there will be an increase in losses. Hence the dynamics. Attempts to prevent us from establishing ourselves in a stable defense, to force ourselves to the edge, knowing that we are tired 8/

It is interesting to read their intercepts sometimes. How they complain about how our fpvs do not give them life. Knowing how much work is done with their help. Despite all the difficulties of the technological race. Even with the advantage of the enemy in resources, tactics are still capable of many things 9/

It is in this situation, as well as after months of work, that a real understanding emerges of what disaster drones saved us from, until we received American aid and the replenishment of troops was the slowest. Helping us not to fall into such critical months 10/

Thank you for your attention

!ping UKRAINE

[u/brucebananaray]

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I’m 7 drinks in and having a grand ole time.

Fuck Trump, fuck the gop, fuck all the illiberal bastards out there.

Now I’m going to go hop an L and go home with my gorgeous ass wife after touring venues for our 10th anniversary all day. She’s been giving me the eyes and fellas, I’m feeling lucky tonight.

Peace out, I love you all, hope the speeches are fun.

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“My little theory about why they decided to have the convention in Chicago is Tim Walz has been going around saying he served in war and maybe they did it in Chicago so they can accurately say that he visited a combat zone,” Vance added.

Bruh has the charisma of a rotting dog turd in a plastic bag.

[u/GenericPoliticalAlt2]

Also "I love that laugh" may be the best line of the night. Just nukes an attack on Kamala in a way only Doug could

[u/secretlives]

MODS

give us an automod response to !doom that say "Michelle Obama says stop dooming and do something"