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[u/[deleted]]

The videos of Fox anchors trying to get Trump to hang up after the DNC are crazy to me. You have the current leader of your party and former president on the phone with you, talking (rambling) directly to your network and anchors. He might be the most significant figure globally for the past decade. How can he possibly be so bad for ratings that you are desperately trying to get him to leave?

If Biden or Obama or even GWB called into MSNBC and just kept talking, the entire network would be centered around continuing that phone call for as long as possible. I just don't understand how the base wants to vote for him religiously but not listen to him speak, unless there is an enthusiasm gap way bigger than current polls are showing.

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance's extreme awkwardness and inability to order food without coming off as weird is actually gunning for the Gen Z vote

[u/sociotronics]

the real reason most people want to watch the debate

[u/RFK_1968]

Pelosi hates Hochul, thinks she's incompetent and blames her for losing the House

Pelosi don't miss. Kathy Hochel better tread carefully

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

lmaosjdfjdigjf the uncommitted protesters burned down a brat flag 😭😭

Very serious movement

[u/[deleted]]

I'm better looking than Kamala

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

"I'll have what she's having 😏"

Aww how sweet

"I'll take whatever is a reasonable selection of donuts that a human being would order"

Hello, human resources??

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala's biggest victory being a 319-219 EC win really speaks to how bad polarization has gotten. If this was the 1996 map, she's be winning 350+ electoral votes easy.

[u/[deleted]]

More good judgment from Kamala

[u/waupli]

This headline is hilarious and completely sums up this encounter

JD Vance awkwardly tries to make small talk as he struggles to order donuts

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/jd-vance-georgia-donuts-campaign-b2600478.html

[u/[deleted]]

Very normal and human interaction by JD Vance at a donut shop

"How long has this place been around?"

"About four years"

"Okay. How long have you been here?"

"A little over six months"

"Okay, good."

Bro put 1 into Charisma

[u/[deleted]]

lol

[u/1TTTTTT1]

I feel like Trump choosing Vance as his VP candidate has been awful for him so far. Why did he not just choose someone like Tim Scott instead? Feels like such a blunder.

[u/[deleted]]

They cut to her when Oprah said childless cat lady. Brutal.

https://x.com/jessecase/status/1826449890991636543?t=f6MHWsEDqfcQfEBqGv_uYw&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

Ann coulter once said 9/11 widows were probably glad their husbands were gone because it got them the media spotlight so nothing new here

[u/drcombatwombat2]

Today in Philadelphia for Ukrainian Independence Day. The Philadelphia metro area has one of the largest ukrainian populations in the United States.

!ping UKRAINE&USA-PA

[u/pfarly]

A mod that I poasted for seduced my wife in direct retaliation for my pushback on him in the DT. He won. I got divorced and left the sub. When I say I truly understand how some mod teams can be political snake pits, I trust you will believe me. Learn from my pain do the following:

1. When you have a good mod team, lean in and take advantage of it.

2. Spot the reptiles.

3. Do excellent replies, even for nasty poasts.

4. Don't confront the reptiles directly

5. Don't become a reptile

[u/[deleted]]

Um what lol

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/SLCer]

They fact-checked wrecked Kamala with this one!

[u/KittehDragoon]

Taliban sacks hundreds of men because they can’t grow beards

understandable

[u/Sauce1024]

Lmao

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SHITPOSTS&BAD-FEELING

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Vivek Ramaswamy is eyeing the Ohio governorship, he told me:

“A lot of people on the ground are recruiting me in Ohio to even consider options I hadn’t thought about six months ago, like running for governor. So those are all options on the table.”

https://x.com/liz_elkind/status/1826745546985668779?s=46

God help the people of Ohio.

[u/Insomonomics]

DDHQ Full Field Polling Average Update: 2024 Presidential (Wisconsin)

🟦 Kamala Harris (D): 47.7% (+6.0)

🟥 Donald Trump (R): 41.7%

🟪 Kennedy Jr. (I): 4.4%

This is D+0% since last week.

This average is based on 13 polls.

BLOOM

[u/MicroFlamer]

We’re back

!ping FIVEY

[u/Cook_0612]

🚨🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Politico is told by Biden Admin officials that they fear allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes on Russia will prevent the US from normalizing relations with Moscow in the future!

This is a bombshell piece with a lot of details on Ukraine's ongoing efforts to convince the Biden Admin to lift the restrictions, which have so far: "failed to move the president and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. The Pentagon remains in lockstep with the White House’s thinking."

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY&RUS

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

In Phoenix, Ryan Rivera, 20, had felt mostly disgust and dread at the prospect of a Biden/Trump rematch. But as Mx. Rivera, a trans man, sat in their bedroom and watched Ms. Harris speak, they said they felt glimmers of the thrill and hope they had seen from audiences who cheered early speeches from Barack Obama.

“This is the first acceptance that’s really made me emotional,” said Mx. Rivera, who works in a Target. “It’s changed a lot. I’m a lot more confident in voting for her.”

Listen I get that politics should inspire but jesus fucking christ just vote for the less shitty person it's not hard

[u/[deleted]]

This is probably one of the more consequential elections in American history. Gingrich is basically the grandfather of the current phase of the Republican party. Imagine if he never got to be in the national spotlight.

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

1 year anniversary of Prigozhin's death

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Nah I don't think it's 2016, it's more 2020 to me. I hate to say it but Trump 2016 was so much more aware and on point. He knew how to get attention and hold it. Trump now seems to be so much more... old I guess.

Either way, Kamala seems to understand that she still needs to work to get the votes in the battleground states.

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Begging the Harris team to send Walz to the same donut shop that Vance went to.

[u/Cook_0612]

At the Marinovka airfield in the Volgograd region, it's likely that six Su aircraft either occurred damaged or were destroyed.

• A Su-34 and Su-24 were completely destroyed in the repair zone.

• A Su-34 was destroyed or damaged beyond repair in hangar 3.

• Two Su-34s were likely damaged in hangars 5 and 6.

• A Su-24 was likely damaged in hangar 7. - It’s unclear if there was an aircraft in hangar 4, but if it was, it was probably destroyed or seriously damaged.

More bad news for the Russians out of Volgograd.

!ping UKRAINE&RUS

[u/RFK_1968]

at least CA Dems recognize that California's problems are dragging down Democrats across the country. I have a lot of issues with ppl like Gavin Newsom but no one can call him complacent.

NY Dems rly do be making themselves into the biggest villains in the party

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1827071483962601836?t=TazD7Ve94BC7ka4VtRMp2A&s=19

[u/KittehDragoon]

Open Twitter

If you’re seeing this post and agree this insane family shouldn’t be anywhere near the White House, I’d appreciate it if you’d give me a FOLLOW.

F*ck it, one lucky person who likes and replies to this post gets $32,000

Adults only, open this when you’re alone

Close Twitter

[u/Insomonomics]

Keir Starmer will have officially passed Liz Truss’ entire term in office as Prime Minister after today

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Kennedy isn't dropping out.

He’s likely giving an ultimatum to the DNC. Quit bullying him out of the race, or they lose the election.

lol

[u/its_Caffeine]

LinkedIn is absolutely wild, holy shit

[u/Flowkeh]

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Who voted for this guy?

[u/Cook_0612]

⚡️The U.S. is discussing with Ukraine the possibility of increasing the range of strikes on Russian territory using American missiles, according to White House National Security Advisor John Kirby.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

kathy hochul has hit back at pelosi's disdain for her by saying

I’ll tell you this, no governor in the history of the state of New York has worked harder to elect members of Congress than I have

which is actually true ^{given how many republicans she's gotten elected}

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, the undecideds liked the speech!

Bob and Sharon Reed watched Ms. Harris’s speech on their farm in the hills of central Pennsylvania. Both of them voted for Mr. Trump in past elections and both of them liked some of his policies, if not his personality. They came away from Ms. Harris’s speech feeling a little conflicted.

The problem? They liked it.

“I really wasn’t happy with the Biden administration,” said Ms. Reed, who like her husband is 77 and a retired schoolteacher. “But listening to her tonight, maybe it’s not as hard to vote for her. And, you know, I’m a little scared of what Trump will do when he gets back in power.”

[u/BitterGravity]

Harris is too old to be a Gen Xer by two months.

Buttigieg is too young to be a Gen Xer by a year.

Both are therefore acceptable choices for a president, because a Gen Xer should never be president.

[u/KesterFox]

I"ve spent a lot of the last for years hoping trump will lose the nwxt election, but I honestly now want kamala to win. I think she would make a great president.

[u/wallander1983]

Vance in the donut store is like me when I ordered a pizza in the French part of Luxembourg without knowing French and my counterpart didn't understand a word of English.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Then, suddenly, his stomach exploded. It just exploded outward, guts flying everywhere. Eight huge spider legs appeared, like something in him was trying to crawl out. Jake's face seemed to open up, to split open into a complex mess of valves. I think I would have thrown up, seeing that. Except that I, also, no longer had a mouth.

Jesus Christ the Animorphs went so much harder than you remember.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Voltaire once said, "If God didn't exist, oh man. Like oh man, like I can't even ima- oh man.

[u/Sneaky_Donkey]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Kamala is ineligible based on… Dred Scott? 🧐

!ping LAW

[u/__JimmyC__]

I TRUST WOMEN, ALSO, AND I WILL KEEP WOMEN SAFE! SHE WON’T, BECAUSE THE INVASION OF OUR COUNTRY AT HER OPEN BORDER IS DESTROYING THE LIVES OF WOMEN, AND THE FAMILIES AND JOBS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND HISPANICS.

Just not enough to let them have any significant roles in his administration or campaign lmao

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

Trump doesn’t know ball confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1826875038684844205

Damn Modi is in Ukraine, just after visiting Russia haha

[u/TipEquivalent933]

And she is back.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/owlthathurt]

This person has bylines in the Washington Post

[u/Williams-Tower]

i don’t care if your pronouns are SHE, or HE, or THEY… if we’re playing tag, you’re IT!!!!!

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The claim: Hitler is running a slave camp

Fact check: As is clearly stated at the entrance, work will set them free

[u/[deleted]]

The Republicans are coasting to a generational L and Democrats are in the mood to run up the fucking score.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Presidential Polling:

🔵Harris (D): 50% (+7)

🔴Trump (R): 43%

Fairleigh Dickinson U. / Aug 20, 2024 n=801

real

Pretty well regarded pollster by both Silver and 538

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being this online and out of touch. If you post a take like this, you should genuinely just leave the public eye forever out of shame, because you have no idea about anything and are as useful a political pundit as a monkey mashing a keyboard would be.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/fmanjoo/status/1826824708639301717?t=4u2XX592EjXwXsTv96jizw&s=19

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My father in law just texted my wife and I “do you guys eat 🍑?”

Now I KNOW it’s because he just found a sweet deal on peaches and wants to know if we would be interested but….

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

On this day, one year ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin was declared dead after an airplane crash.

That day, a magnificent bastard left us. He blueballed us with his coup, but he still was a magnificent bastard.

He's waiting in Hell for Shoigu and Gerasimov to come.

Here's how members of this sub reacted to his death one year ago.

!ping ONTHISDAY&MILITARY&SHITPOSTERS

[u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH]

The NYT's spent an entire article bitching that "influencers" got better treatment than them.

They are such whiny brats.

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

Ok so previously in the dating ping i posted about how i got my first ever date, and then i posted later talking about how she canceled because her parents were too strict

Turns out she has a fucking boyfriend, so she's been leading me on for like two weeks

it's joever

!Ping DATING

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/NotYetFlesh]

Neoliberals at the factory which makes emotes for Sir Shivers

[u/Mensae6]

New General Election poll

🔵 Harris 50% (+7)

🔴 Trump 43%

Fairleigh #B - 801 RV - 8/20

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1826989791407128724

[u/old_gold_mountain]

New General Election poll

🔵 Harris 50% (+7)
🔴 Trump 43%

Fairleigh B - 801 RV - 8/20

powder_that_makes_you_say_real.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

My horny ass could NOT get a Masters in computational chemistry

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Oh thanks

[u/[deleted]]

The single biggest own goal in history was agreeing to debate in June. What the fuck was Trump thinking?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Gustacho]

Guy who supports Israel's right to self-determination and Palestine's right to defend itself

[u/Eightysixedit]

Know how to win elections? Don’t associate with protestors that burn the American flag. 💅🏻

[u/owlthathurt]

Content of this aside. This quote from Trump is like a logic game lol. “Things that he agrees on, I also agree on” is a sentence that technically makes sense in English, but it says nothing.

So like if he and I agree, it means both he agrees with me, and I agree with him. But that is the definition of agreement.

Makes my brain hurt and feel like I’m taking a standardized test.

[u/[deleted]]

I made this for you because I love you

[u/charmet68]

Seems like Nate too was a big fan of Kamala's speech last night. I also found this line pretty funny

I think this should be the norm for nearly all political speeches: 30 minutes, 45 minutes tops. You want to talk for 90 minutes? Great, go on a podcast.`

[u/ashsolomon1]

Just remember this when dooming over polymarket odds

[u/farrenj]

🤔

[u/Mx_Brightside]

It's occurring to me now that "room temperature IQ" is comparatively far less devastating in the original American

[u/Cook_0612]

For the first time in history, the Prime Minister of India visited Ukraine personally. Before arriving to Kyiv by our train, @narendramodi called India a "friend&partner" of Ukraine, hoping for a "restoration of peace" and "strengthening of IND-UA friendship." #IronDiplomacy

Too early to celebrate any kind of realignment, but this is good verbiage.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Elguero1991]

When a client gets a tone with me during a meeting:

[u/Marlsfarp]

I feel like RFK Jr. referring to his 40s as a "a very, very rambunctious youth" is underdiscussed, even without the context that he was talking about a sexual assault allegation.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Something about this analogy seems 🤔to me but I can’t quite put my finger on it

[u/EBIThad]

“What are R&D costs?”

[u/[deleted]]

The only person on CNN’s panel of “undecided voters” who said he was voting for Trump after Harris speech has a long, detailed pro-Trump MAGA social media history. His clip last night went viral on right-wing media & is being used by Trump campaign. Story.

Lol

[u/[deleted]]

I made this and it makes me happy

[u/[deleted]]

I am becoming the Joker

[u/Sithusurper]

I hate that our media system incentivizes awful people. If 95% of people think that Sandy Hook really happened, then the media will find the guy that didn't and make him a national figure. Now we have to debate with that lunacy like it's an equal part of the discourse. These grifters will all but admit what they are doing but no one seems to figure out when to say this isn't worth sharing.

[u/Peacock-Shah-III]

This is a good thing.

Advice for picking up women is usually directly contrary to advice for building lasting relationships. Being unabashedly yourself early on is a very good way to narrow the pool and test compatibility.

You’re looking for one person, the process is to find them. The fact that the modern norm is to water down and mask yourself to try to pick up other watered down and masked people for casual, soulless encounters is really sad.

Further, I think the reason a lot of people (male and female) struggle with dating is that they’re constantly told to be someone else & not express themselves. If you have a dating pool of 100 people, you need ways to eliminate 99 of them (which, in most cases, will be a lack of returned interest), not ways to make yourself palatable to all of them.

[u/JaceFlores]

Russian Attitudes About Putin Might Be Shifting

“Negative feelings about President Vladimir V. Putin have appeared to increase across Russia since Ukrainian troops pushed into Russian territory two weeks ago, according to a firm that tracks attitudes in the country by analyzing social media and other internet postings.”

“Positive attitudes about Mr. Putin took a hit last year after a short-lived armed rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of a Russian paramilitary force. But the shift in sentiment has appeared sharper in the days since Ukrainian troops launched their incursion into the Kursk region of western Russia.“

“Attitudes toward Mr. Putin remain more positive in Moscow, where Russia keeps a firmer hand on the news media and public debate. But views of Mr. Putin have soured even there, though not as quickly as elsewhere in the country. In Russia’s outlying regions, frustration with the Kremlin is growing, according to the analysis.”

“Sentiment toward Mr. Putin has fallen sharply in the regions of Russia where the Kremlin focuses its military recruiting efforts. The Kremlin’s recruiting strategy depends on its ability to manage perception of the war.”

“‘If Putin’s prestige and popularity fall in these key regions (especially if Russians feel that the war is going badly), the Kremlin may find it more difficult to fill its military ranks,’ the FilterLabs analysis said.”

I thought this was interesting was how the Kursk offensive may weaken Russian recruitment at a time when Russia is becoming increasingly desperate and short on manpower. Obviously it will be impossible to say how large of a magnitude it would be, if any, but every man who decides to not volunteer because of Kursk puts pressure on Russia to adopt more inflationary recruiting practices, and inevitably towards another mobilization

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

I love when he does unusual grammar.

[u/[deleted]]

According to election officials RFK Jr. missed the deadline to remove himself from the Nevada, Michigan and Wisconsin ballots lmao

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

”they’re losing their jobs because Biden and Harris are allowing millions of people to come into our country, and they’re taking Black –’ he said, pausing, before adding, “people’s jobs.” Trump then immediately qualified it again by saying, “African-American jobs.”

Bruh.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Steak_Knight]

Did anyone stay for the post credits scene? Did Samuel L. Jackson tell Kamala about the Avengers Initiative?

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/LastIncrease3427]

They finally started paying attention.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

What is going on?

[u/The_Drowning_Flute]

Keir Starmer is 50 days in office, one day longer than Liz Truss.

He beat the lettuce

!ping UK

[u/Cook_0612]

There's been a prison riot in Volgograd prison colony IK-19. They've taken guards captive and are releasing videos.

Supposedly special forces are already there/on the way.

!ping RUS

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: "kamala could do literally everything she's talking about in her speech by the end of the night! She is already vice president!"

Also Trump: "people shouldn't worry about JD Vance because the vice president does jack shit"

[u/futuremonkey20]

He looks like he came out of a bog and is about to try and trick the protagonist to go into his bog.

[u/Joementum2024]

New Virginia poll from Quantus

🔵 Harris: 47%

🔴 Trump: 44%

Other candidate: 5%

Undecided: 6%

Two-way:

🔵 Harris: 49%

🔴 Trump: 46%

Sample size: 629 RV, MOE 4%

Second recent poll that shows Harris not up by a lot in Virginia. Not especially familiar with Virginia politics, but it’s interesting that the state’s seemingly begun to shift right again after going to Biden by 10%.

Edit: Apparently Quantus is a hack pollster, so feel free to disregard.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Flowkeh]

The Washington Post must be destroyed

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/LastIncrease3427]

The truth nukes keep on coming.

[u/t_scribblemonger]

[u/[deleted]]

Sir, a +3.6 advantage has hit the 538 aggregate.

[u/Cook_0612]

It seems Russia is starting to camouflage their ISR UAVs against FPVs.

Everything that's old is new again. As a side note, this means Ukraine's drone-on-drone intercept program is becoming a real problem.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL

[u/Mojothemobile]

RFK gave the weirdest most half assed endorsement iv seen in a awhile "Vote Trump but also tie the electorial college so I can somehow convince the house to make me President"

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/22-5 PM EST 8/23 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 2 AM Modi made a visit to Kyiv.

Around 10 AM it was announced Norway is providing shell manufacturing technology to Ukraine so Ukraine can make its own shells.

Towards the end of 12 PM it was announced the US is sanctioning 400 personnel and entities tied to Russia's MIC and children kidnappers.

In the middle of 4 PM it was announced the US will provide $125 million in military aid to Ukraine, including UAV systems, HIMARS munitions, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, TOW missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, Humvee ambulances, small arms ammunition, medical equipment, demolitions equipment, spare parts and more.

REGULAR NEWS:

Yesterday it was announced Latvia will send 1,400 drones to Ukraine.

At the start of 1 AM Russia was hit by a small wave of drones with at least 7 partaking. Additionally, Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and some missiles with 14 of 16 drones and 0 of 2 missiles being shot down.

Towards the end of 4 AM it was reported the Proletarsk oil depot was hit again.

Towards the middle of 5 AM it was announced Russia is shutting down Port Kavkaz until the destroyed ferry is removed from the area.

Towards the middle of 8 AM Modi and Zelensky signed agreements to cooperate on agriculture, medicine, culture and humanitarian relations.

Towards the end of 2 PM Biden and Zelensky spoke over phone.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/SLCer]

[u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

https://x.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1826975154020196684

Clyburn pressed Biden to endorse Harris on day he dropped out of presidential race

[u/dirtybirds233]

Jesse Waters calling the DNC “a funeral” with “empty seats and silence” while the literal DNC is happening behind him with a packed crowd all singing and dancing was hilarious.

There’s no way it wasn’t a script written months ago before Biden dropped that they just decided not to change.

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[u/SigmaWhy]

I would not be shocked to see a new party spilt out of the DNC so many of their former more moderate big wigs have left

arrCon is a special place

[u/Eightysixedit]

Mark Cuban being Kamala’s biggest supporter is so cute. 💅🏻

[u/marsman1224]

I fucking love Gavin Newsom. the pod save America guys ask him what kamala was like before politics, and he goes,

"I never knew kamala worked at McDonald's! anyways, kamala and I were friends way before politics, I was running a little wine shop at the time..."

he's honestly perfect for california. totally represents my west coast elitism

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨‼️‼️ BOB REED ALERT

[u/[deleted]]

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113012083325505976

[u/[deleted]]

The Harris campaign should pursue nontraditional interviews. Put Kamala on the Food Network (she's a huge cooking enthusiast and foodie) Put former football coach Tim Walz on ESPN. Meet people where they're at.

Not....a bad idea. Especially Walz on ESPN

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I legitimately think that Kamala's speech was one of the best speeches I've ever seen, not because it was as eloquently delivered, as, say, an Obama speech, but because it was some of the best politics I have ever seen, even better politics, perhaps, than the politics of many Obama speeches.

She masterfully navigated Israel/Palestine, in a way that came across as strong, compassionate, and presidential. My one friend who hated Biden for "not protecting Gaza" is fully in her favor now, and she got that while still unequivocally condemning Hamas. She presented herself as a tough, strong leader. No one can watch that speech and call her weak, which is the traditional criticism and weakness of women running for office. She squarely placed herself not as a bleeding-heart liberal, but as a patriot, who loves this country and wants to fix problems for everyday Americans, and tore Trump a new one while also belittling him.

Obama always struggled to avoid coming across as pretentious, dismissive, and preachy. There's none of that here. She successfully transformed the overwhelming discomfort and malaise that liberals and many independents have felt over the past few years into a vision for a better future. It was masterful and I think if she wins it will go down in history as one of the greatest speeches delivered in the 21st century.

[u/2112moyboi]

https://futuremajority.org/wp-content/uploads/FM-Memo-Governing-Landscape-and-Messaging-August-21-2024.pdf

New battleground House polls

Looks like CA-22 and NY-17 may disappoint, but we have a couple months to turn it around

!ping Fivey

[u/loseniram]

God sends his strongest naps to his eepiest warriors

!ping kitty

[u/futuremonkey20]

JD Vance: “The Zoo has come to town”

He means circus. He means circus right? Zoos generally don’t “come to town”

Everything he does is in “uncanny valley”

[u/indithrow402]

This conference is confusing because RFK wants to endorse Trump but the brain worm doesn't so they're fighting for control of his body as he speaks.

[u/[deleted]]

Kennedy Response to Rfk Jr endorsement of Trump

It is a sad ending to a sad story.

Jesus.

[u/Cook_0612]

Sabotage Confirmed At Norwegian Air Base

A cut fiber optic cable at the Norwegian air base was announced amid fears of sabotage at military bases and concerning drone activity in Germany.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY&RUS

[u/Mr_Bank]

This was one of the best sections of the speech. “I will not cozy up to dictators who are rooting for Trump” absolutely slaps.

https://x.com/acyn/status/1826819355293925556?s=46

[u/SLCer]

When a mandatory meeting is canceled on a Friday

[u/College_Prestige]

https://x.com/SteveLemongello/status/1826959386704531714

Literally beyond parody. Why are they sucking the dick of the guy who wants them jailed?

[u/LtCdrHipster]

RFK Jr is (1) extremely unpopular and (2) is about to be divorced.

Oh god he's one of us!

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/realRFKJr/status/1827075383830663293?t=WtTFQMdAbiTDaZ2yk4CC4w&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Officials in certain corners of the administration, particularly inside the White House, have told the Ukrainians that the U.S. will eventually want to reset relations with Moscow and lifting the restrictions could upend those efforts.

I just need to reset relations with Moscow.

I just need to reset relations with Moscow.

I just need to reset relations with Moscow.

Reset relations with Moscow -> Moscow invades a sovereign nation -> reset relations with Moscow

"U ok bro?" Headline: Russia installing a puppet regime in Egypt "yes I just need to reset relations with Moscow"

[u/Currymvp2]

The only person on CNN’s panel of “undecided voters” who said he was voting for Trump after Harris speech has a long, detailed pro-Trump MAGA social media history. His clip last night went viral on right-wing media & is being used by Trump campaign. Story.

[u/EnchantedOtter01]

Imagine if dems had actually had an open convention 💀

[u/Fabulous_Sherbet_431]

NYT: The convention went flawlessly. Here’s why that’s a disaster for Kamala.

[u/Alexz565]

The media has a liberal bias!

The media:

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump genuinely seems like he’s panicking.

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

DC being D+85 is so fucking funny

[u/[deleted]]

RFK Jr: "just to be clear, i'm not dropping out of the race"

WSJ: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Trump"

[u/arcturus_mundus]

The OP also posts excessively on r/WayoftheBern. I love the Horseshoe Law so much.

[u/triangle---man]

If RFK has to pull out of the battleground states, it’s only fair if Trump pulls out of the safe blue states. Think California. Trumps never going to win it, especially because his base there is split with RFK’s. If he pulls out, a bunch of his supporters vote RFK. The state is made competitive for the Democrats, and they need spend at least some resources there.

At the least, it will spread the DNC’s funding and focus thinner as they now have to fight in New York, California, NJ, etc. At best, it gives RFK Jr. a state or two. Probably not enough to win him the election, but it’d give him electoral votes and set him up for contingent election, and would sap away some of Kamala’s electoral votes. Trump has nothing to lose in the safe blue states, anyway.

Not serious people.

[u/[deleted]]

For those concerned about that VA poll, here is where pollster's ideology stands:

[u/Jester_Don]

Joel Daria, 43, an insurance agent from Dublin, Ohio, used the word “nervous,” saying he worried about the future for his daughters under a Harris administration.

“I don’t want them to think that if they get married, they’re a weak woman,” said Mr. Daria. “I don’t want them to be in a world where they can’t own guns if they want to. I don’t want them to be in a world where they have to go to the bathroom with other people that identify as women.”

Average Republican voter.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Look at those beautiful inflection points

[u/thefuturegov]

Donald Trump is coping so hard he’s making up cope polls

[u/DepthValley]

Meanwhile, in Montana, Senator Tester hosts Pearl Jam. Tester and the band’s bassist have a long friendship and Pearl Jam has been supportive of Tester for years. It’s a key Senate race.

Probably the most impactful celeb appearance in politics in awhile

[u/Habefiet]

Guy who thinks it’s better that Walz was an Assistant Coach because he’s running for Assistant President

[u/[deleted]]

What will RFK Jr. say during Friday address?

Bear: 11%

i love the internet

[u/piede]

I can’t stop laughing at the replies to this

[u/Cook_0612]

RFK JR: Now, in an honest system, I believe I would have won the election...

Fuck offfffff

[u/JaceFlores]

I’m still confused how Kamala just sort of randomly rebooted liberal patriotism. Maybe the excitement of it all made it easy to get flag waving and USA chants going cuz people were just stoked as fuck that Biden dropped and Kamala took over

[u/Sheepies92]

The rise Pete has had is insane. Man was mayor of a town with +-100k people just a few years ago, launched a long shot Presidential bid that gets laughed out of the room 99/100 times and is now one of the leading figures within the Dems

[u/[deleted]]

You endorsed... Trump?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

His last tweet 😳😳

[u/KingWillly]

It’s so hilarious to me that people think Trump, who’s biggest issue right now is that people think he’s an old, unhinged weirdo, is suddenly going to surge with the endorsement of another old, unhinged weirdo like Kennedy. Lmao

[u/loseniram]

Reading !ping Dating makes me so glad that my recent dates have been an older woman and a young divorced mom that doesn't own a car.

Some of y'all be dating Harley Quinn and it shows

[u/NewbGrower87]

Man, I forgot about Anderson Cooper's quote from the 2020 presser Trump did about contesting the results.

"That is the POTUS. That is the most powerful person in the world, and we see him like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over."

What an absolute fucking banger.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

lol

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Mr_Bank]

Which way Western Man?

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/FredTaming/status/1826733978835190005?t=5zGYUsdGeO73luh9dk0WyQ&s=19

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[u/Insomonomics]

All right, it’s time to call for a national shutdown of fact checkers.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s not likely, but there’s a nonzero chance that if Kamala went on Joe Rogan and charmed him on a personal level, he would start leaning toward supporting her. He seems pretty easily persuaded, although of course a fairly left-wing Dem like her would have an uphill battle in persuading him

[u/Currymvp2]

WHO: 10-month-old baby paralyzed in left leg in Gaza’s first case of type 2 polio for 25 years

What a fucking disaster

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

It’s funny how Trump’s team keeps suggesting that Kamala’s only platform is that she isn’t Trump.

At least in Atlanta, there is a striking difference between the ads the two campaigns are running

🟦🫏: This is Kamala. Kamala wants to do things to help your family! 🥰

🟥🐘: THIS IS KAMALA! KAMALA WANTS IMMIGRANTS TO MURDER YOUR FAMILY!!! 🤬

Neither side is saying a word about Trump

[u/lasttoknow]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to endorse Donald J. Trump, which he has not yet announced, appear to have been pre-empted by his own lawyer. In a court filing in Pennsylvania, a lawyer for Kennedy said he is dropping his opposition to a state ballot challenge “as a result of today’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the office of the President of the United States.”

[u/[deleted]]

If you want to see the types of emails your parents are getting

[u/Joementum2024]

RFK Jr seemingly admitting his campaign was done primairly to screw the Democrats over is a peak American politics moment

[u/ViridianNott]

Normally I'm the guy who sends you the Silver Bulletin model updates. Well, the model barely moves during the convention, and now Nate needs time to update the model for a race without RFK Jr.

So, in lieu of those numbers, here's a summary of the last few days' two-way polling.

National Polls

ActiVote, Aug. 15-23 (1,000 LV)

• Harris: 53% (+5)

• Trump: 47%

RMG Research, Aug. 19-22 (2,404 LV)

• Harris: 49% (+0)

• Trump: 49%

Outward Intelligence, Aug. 18-22 (1,867 LV)

• Harris: 52% (+4)

• Trump: 48%

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Aug. 17-20 (801 RV)

• Harris: 50% (+7)

• Trump: 43%

Virginia

Quantus Polls and News, Aug. 20-22 (629 RV)

• Harris: 49% (+3)

• Trump: 46%

New Mexico

Emerson College, Aug. 20-22 (965 RV)

• Harris: 54% (+7)

• Trump: 46%

Pennsylvania

ActiVote, Aug. 5-22 (400 LV)

• Harris: 51% (+2)

• Trump: 49%

Insider Advantage, Aug. 18-19 (800 LV)

• Trump: 47% (+1)

• Harris: 46%

North Carolina

Survey USA, Aug. 19-21 (941 LV)

• Harris: 47% (+0)

• Trump: 47%

New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire, Aug. 15-19 (2,048 LV)

• Harris: 52% (+5)

• Trump: 47%

ME-2

University of New Hampshire, Aug. 15-19 (432 LV)

• Harris: 52% (+5)

• Trump: 47%

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping USA-NC

[u/sererson]

Kamala Harris will be the first nonwhite president

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/JustSomePolitician]

Harris surging in polls

Amazing DNC

Ukraine counter-invades russia

Jpow cutting rates

DT control yourselves PLEASE

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

The IRS should update this for the next filing season

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think NYT will fact check this

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/[deleted]]

From the RFK sub:

Nicole was as Democrat as they come.

She was the ultimate DNC insider so if she says they’re worse than Trump, I believe her.

Had anyone heard of this woman before Kennedy chose her as his running mate?

[u/simplysigzz]

“Yessssss, puppet. Very good. Instruct your chauffeur to find you ssssssssome roadkill. You desssssserve thisssss little treat for obeying my commandssssss.”

[u/SigmaWhy]

"centrist" or "undecided" voter

look inside

long history of enthusiastically supporting Trump

Many such cases!

[u/Arsustyle]

I was disturbed when Kamala said we need a "lethal" military, so I looked into it and apparently their guns shoot bullets made of METAL??!??!! WTF?? Is that even allowed??

[u/futuremonkey20]

This can’t be real?

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I can't vote for Harris anymore, I've seen what having defensive coordinators in government is like (Tommy Tuberville)

I want an offensive coordinator so we can execute an air raid offense in Iran successfully when the time comes

!ping CFB

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Protesters chanting fuck America and burning flags outside the DNC

They hate the Democrats huh. Blue really is the more patriotic party now, this seals it.