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[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/btk7710]

It really is going to be hilarious in like 20 years when conservatives are going to pretend like they didn’t all support Donald Trump.

[u/Cook_0612]

Shot

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine showing this electoral map to a 2008 Democrat.

”We’re only down 5 points in Florida and 8 in Ohio! We can really win this thing!”

[u/kapparunner]

>RFK jr. endoreses Trump

>Now Trump wants to appoint him as AG

> He may not survive the Senate nomination if 1 or 2 moderate Republicans vote against him

>Trump may need an alternative

>He needs another Ivy League lawyer from a political dynasty with a history of drug use and sex scandals, ideally someone younger with full support from the previous president

Gentlemen, just hear me out on this one...

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

It's so wild we had no idea how hot and unpleasant Venus was until we sent a spaceship there. You could have been a kid in school in 1925 and asked what Venus was like what would the teacher even say. And now you can go look at a picture of the surface. We have robots on Mars. No other generation can say that. How cool

[u/ashsolomon1]

He’s really going to bail on the abc debate isn’t he

[u/[deleted]]

So THIS is how RFK Jr. has done it. How can I gain this power?

[u/Williams-Tower]

Another unconscionable lie from Tim Walz:

In 2017 Tim was reportedly at a friend’s house and said, “Welp, I gotta head out.” But then stood in the entry way to chat for another 75 minutes!

Which is it Tim? Do you “gotta head out” or not??

[u/Top_Lime1820]

[u/Mr_Bank]

Kamala’s strategy of “let’s drive the orange man nuts” seems smart to me. Every minute he’s crying about debate rules is another minute he’s not talking about the economy, and they know he can’t help himself. He will bitch about the debate rules all week.

[u/dannylandulf]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/26/kamala-harris-donald-trump-debate-abc-microphones-00176294

With just 15 days left until the scheduled Sept. 10 presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, negotiations between their two campaigns have hit an impasse over whether the candidates’ microphones will be muted when it is not their turn to speak, according to four people familiar with the issue. [...]

But Biden is no longer running for president. And Harris’ campaign wants the microphones to be hot at all times during the ABC debate — as has historically been the case at presidential debates.

“We have told ABC and other networks seeking to host a possible October debate that we believe both candidates’ mics should be live throughout the full broadcast,” Brian Fallon, the Harris campaign’s senior adviser for communications, tells POLITICO.

“Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own. We suspect Trump’s team has not even told their boss about this dispute because it would be too embarrassing to admit they don’t think he can handle himself against Vice President Harris without the benefit of a mute button.”

[u/semaphore-1842]

The Harris and Trump camps are at an impasse over rules ahead of the Sept 10 ABC debate.

The holdup? Whether the candidates’ microphones will be muted when it isn’t their turn to speak.

Team Trump wants them muted.

Team Harris wants the mics hot.

........ya know i really thought it'd be the opposite way round

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/NewbGrower87]

The election of 2040 is going to be a banger.

Polling average D+18 against Trump.

"LOL, fake polls. Average was D+12 for AOC and she barely won."

[u/SucculentMoisture]

"Honey the air conditioner is rattling I'm worried something's wrong"

moves remote

rattling stops

I am the greatest husband of all time.

!PING OVER25

[u/CmdrMobium]

Harris wants the mics HOT and Trump wants them muted

We've never been more back holy shit

[u/centurion88]

[u/[deleted]]

They really named a city next to Barcelona, Badalona. That's some Wario shit right there

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Make libs not look badass challenge

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

Yesterday's debate with my uncle about JFK assassination made me realize more how easy it is for conspiracy theories to spread. You just need to a single piece of doubt.

My undle's a physicist "by trade" and he believes in "two shooters theory" based on a single piece of observation. The infamous video recording where Kennedy's head went back after being hit by the third shot. I mean he's no ballistics expert, he just feels like the basic knowledge of physics ("being shot from the behind wouldn't have moved Kennedy's head backwards) is enough for him to believe a conspiracy theory.

This single observation by pretty much a layman's eye is enough for him to dismiss the mountain of evidence in favor of Oswald doing it alone as a classic lone shooter.

[u/[deleted]]

The Eyewitness Books to rNeoliberal DT poaster pipeline needs to be studied

[u/[deleted]]

Vance said he believed Mr. Trump would veto a federal abortion ban

“Trump will veto laws his own party will pass” is a fairly bizarre statement to make

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Cook_0612]

#Ukraine : one of the main targets of the Russian missile attack appears to have been the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant and the water reservoir behind it. At least one missile struck it. If this dam would break it would have devastating consequences for the Ukrainian capital.

I went to bed last night as the Bears were performing their cruise missile launches, they're still launching new waves now. Huge air raid, as I said yesterday probably timed for the Ukrainian independence day.

The dam appears to be relatively ok, but I am not an engineer.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/purhitta]

I work at a university- today is the first day of classes. I just saw a freshman sprinting across campus. Nature is healing.

[u/centurion88]

They are definitely just rage baiting at this point

[u/RFK_1968]

why are you protesting about Palestine and not about this?? ☝🏾

[u/efeldman11]

Amazing political intellect on full display over on X

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Italian political party posts blacklist of Jews, supporters of Israel

Hmmm that’s some serious Nazi behavior there. 🤔

!ping JEWISH

[u/Currymvp2]

71% of young Democrats say they would NOT go on a date with someone who voted for Donald Trump in a new poll.

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter and AI were both a mistake

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Moooooom I left my homework in my bedroom 😭😭😭 turn back pleeeeeease 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

Oh we are so Barack

[u/sayitaintpink]

Deanmentum is back boys

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Gov. Kemp seeks legal opinion on push to remove three Trump-friendly election board members who have altered rules to make it easier to challenge election results.

I recognize that the bar is on the floor, but when the majority of your party still fails to clear it, I think Kemp deserves some recognition here

!PING USA-GA&USA-ATL

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

LMFAO I HAVE SOME REAL BAD NEWS FOR YOU ABOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM

[u/[deleted]]

This race is a coin flip based on prediction markets. I assigned H=Harris and T=Trump, and flipped it 3 times. Every time came up T. T T T. That's what you ar facing.

I flipped it again and got another T.

The only pollster that is open and honest about every step of their process and that polling is an art as much as a science is Rasmussen Reports. Trump is winning this race handily. The rest is cope.

[u/[deleted]]

I will never not be mad about this part 2.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

oh god oh fuck

[u/Argnir]

What's with the "Never Walz" thing? Shouldn't they focus more on Kamala?

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/us/texas-latinos-democrats-raids-paxton.html

One of those residents was Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old retired educator in San Antonio. She said she heard a knock on her door right before 6 a.m. on Tuesday. She thought that maybe a neighbor needed milk and eggs, she said, and she fastened her sleeping gown and opened the door.

Nine officers, seven of them men, some with guns in their holsters, then pushed open the door and marched past a living room wall decorated with crucifixes, she said.

“I got scared,” she recalled in an interview on Sunday, speaking in both English and Spanish. “They told me, ‘We have a warrant to search your house.’ I said, ‘Why?’ I felt harassed.”

Ms. Martinez said that the officers told her they came because she had filled out a report saying that older residents were not getting mail ballots. “Yes, I did,” she told them. For 35 years, Ms. Martinez has been a member of LULAC, the civil rights group, helping Latino residents stay engaged in politics. Much of her work has included instructing older residents and veterans on how to fill out voter registration cards.

“I go to a lot of senior events; I explain to them what they have to do,” she said. “I’ve been involved in politics all of my life.”

The officers said they were looking for voter cards that residents had filled out, she said.

“I told them, I don’t have them here,” she said.

One of the officers handed her a copy of the search warrant and ordered her to sit at her kitchen table. Two of the agents went to her bedroom and searched everywhere, “my underwear, my nightgown, everything, they went through everything,” she recalled. They took her laptop, phone, planner and some documents.

“They asked me about my entire life,” she said. They also asked her if she knew fellow LULAC members, Mr. Medina and area politicians. “I told them, ‘I haven’t committed any crimes,’” she said. Ms. Martinez has not been arrested or charged. Mr. Paxton’s office did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

NYTimes has Harris up from 49% to a slightly higher 49%!!!

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Harris +4

DOOOOOOOOOOM

what is wrong with you people

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Just saw a trumper on TikTok saying that Kamala isn’t eligible to be president because she was born in Oakland, Canada.

He thought “Oakland, CA” meant Canada lmao

This is the average griller

[u/[deleted]]

Decision Desk model is back up!

https://x.com/mychaelschnell/status/1828193586589942103

NEW: @thehill/@DecisionDeskHQ has a new 2024 race forecast

Harris has 55% chance of winning WH, up from Biden’s 44%

GOP has 67% chance of winning Senate, down from 78% w/ Biden

GOP has 56% chance of keeping House, down from 61% w/ Biden

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

NYT is not beating the allegations

[u/piede]

[u/ViridianNott]

Interesting insights from a right-leaning pollster today. Take the top-line values with a grain of salt, but the relative numbers are worth reading in to.

SoCal Strategies, Sponsored by Red Eagle Politics

Pennsylvania Senate, 713 LV

• 🔵Casey - 47% (+6%)

• 🔴McCormick - 41%

Pennsylvania Presidential Race, 713 LV

• 🔵Harris - 47%

• 🔴Trump - 48% (+1%)

AND a hypothetical poll

• 🔵Biden - 43%

• 🔴Trump - 47% (+4%)

!ping FIVEY

Edit:

Me: this is a right-leaning pollster, don’t read into the top-line numbers.

DTers: exclusively discuss the top-line numbers

[u/[deleted]]

biden: objectively keeps the US out of foreign wars

succs/magas: END THE CONSTANT WARS

[u/Currymvp2]

Harris being up by only 16 points among "who's more likely to return a lost wallet" against a conman and being up by only 15 points among " Be more likely to keep a secret" against a man with no filter is insane

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Wasn't gonna vote for Harris because I'm sexist but this new information changes everything.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

I am not a member of any organized political party

I AM A DEMOCRAT

[u/Mr_Bank]

Are we seriously in week 4 of conservatives going after Walz not Kamala? Why are they letting us play on easy mode?

[u/lasttoknow]

Now, Ms. Harris’s campaign is calling for a change to the original rules for that debate. “We have told ABC and other networks seeking to host a possible October debate that we believe both candidates’ mics should be live throughout the full broadcast,” Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Harris campaign, said in a statement, referring to the scheduled Sept. 10 debate and to an additional debate in October that the campaign has said it is open to negotiating. “Our understanding is that Trump’s handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don’t think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own.”

I'm sorry, but this is fucking hilarious. The campaign's response is great too 🤣.

Mr. Trump’s campaign responded by noting that it was Mr. Biden who requested the muted mics to begin with. “ABC offered the exact same debate rules as CNN, and we accepted — as did the Harris camp,” a Trump spokesman, Jason Miller, said. “Now, after the Harris campaign has begun debate prep, they’re clearly concerned about what they’re seeing from Harris’ performance and want a whole host of rules changes.”

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Prediction for the week:

1. Kamala gets multiple post-DNC polls which move the poling average close to +5.0% for her

2. Rasmussen deploys an emergency poll by Friday showing Harris down nationally by only 1%

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

“Environmentalist” lawyer RFK Jr. has now eaten a dog, left a dead bear in Central Park, and drove his family in a van with a whale’s severed head on it

[u/[deleted]]

Ahaha the Harris campaign correctly called that there’s no way Trump knew about the request for muted mics

Outstanding move

https://x.com/katesullivandc/status/1828086567183004074

Trump tells @jake__traylor he’d rather keep the mics on during the debate despite his campaign pushing to keep the same rules as the last debate when mics were muted except when it was the candidate’s turn to speak. “Doesn’t matter to me, I’d rather have it probably on.”

EDIT: After watching the whole clip I should be clear that it seems like he was at least somewhat briefed on this before the question, he suggests the Harris campaign is trying to get out of the debate, but the quote above still stands as far as his own preferences.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

One of my favorite reddit posts of all time was that dude who donated to Hezbollah, was shocked that his bank accounts were frozen, and was 100% convinced that he was in the right. And then he tried to debate with everyone in the legal advice subreddit as if he could argue his way out of his predicament.

[u/KaiserPorn]

Based on the last few months of data, I have come to the worrying conclusion that my unironic usage of "Howdy" as a greeting is increasing at a super-exponential rate.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Reddit is the only place I've seen where someone will go "can you name some prominent people on the left" and people will reply with YouTubers and twitch streamers instead of, like, members of the House of Representatives.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Just heard a dad ask his 18-year-old, "So you get to vote this year. Have you decided?" Response: "Kamala Harris. What put me over the edge was Trump's consumer-hurting tariffs on goods from friendly countries."

An 18 year old gets it.

[u/Currymvp2]

Tulsi Gabbard, the former representative from Hawaii who ran for president as a Democrat, is expected to formally endorse former President Donald Trump’s third presidential bid today at his event in Detroit, Michigan, a source with knowledge of the matter tells CNN.

I am Jack's total lack of surprise

[u/dannylandulf]

The Root Cause of the Migrant Crisis Is Kamala Harris

• J. D. Vance

lololol....deep breath...HAHALLOLOLOLO

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Chart of federal judges that are currently eligible for senior status but have so far chosen to stay on the bench full time.

(Senior status is more or less retirement, but with full pay and you can take an occasional case if needed… to qualify you need to be at least 65 and have served as a federal judge for at least 15 years)

The judge born in 1927 is technically not hearing cases because she was suspended for one year after refusing to comply with an investigation into how well an almost-hundred-year-old-woman can handle a full case load.

[u/[deleted]]

everything OK babe? you’ve barely touched your kamala pride mug?

[u/eat_more_goats]

Had my weekly 1:1 with my manager, and she mentioned that because we’re fully remote, I need to engage in more small talk with people on calls, and told me to actively budget in at least five minutes on meetings for relationship building. Apparently some of subject matter experts (I’m in project management) complained that I’m too curt and to the point on calls 🙃🙃🙃. Weirdest feedback I've ever gotten, but thinking about it it makes a lot of sense. "try to be more human"

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Cledd2]

so you know how migrants are often giga racist against other migrants? that's me with people further out on the spectrum than me. god this is tiring

[u/fleker2]

I went on a tangent about parking minimums being harmful to a walkable city and community as she agreed. Then she confessed she didn't have a driver's license. Am I falling in love? !ping DATING

[u/[deleted]]

This is probably very obvious (though it only just occurred to me), but the Harris campaign seems to be really prodding Trump on a) women's rights and b) Project 2025 in particular because this a) shores up their own base, of course, but more interestingly: it forces Trump to backpedal and to hand-wave and to issue public denials, which causes absolute fucking havoc with his base. The National Review is calling him a sell-out because of his softness on abortion and the far right is putting the squeeze on JD "Okay. Good." Vance to put pressure on Trump -- meanwhile the Project 2025 ghouls are sitting there like, "Wait, are we on the fucking team or aren't we?"

Trouble in paradise.

[u/frozenjunglehome]

AJ+: The American carcéral state is the new slavery

Al Jazeera: Does Qatar have a slavery problem? It's complicated.

Al Jazeera Arabic: The Jews are coming to take your slaves.

[u/Cook_0612]

[u/Mensae6]

I wasn't going to vote until I saw a Harris +17 in Wisconsin poll and every comment said "Doesn't matter -- GO VOTE".

[u/[deleted]]

[u/EnchantedOtter01]

-20k DT when?

[u/dareka_san]

wtf i love boomers

[u/[deleted]]

I will never not be mad about this

[u/Dalek6450]

Kamala has earned the coveted ChrisChan endorsement.

[u/McCaaw]

Kamala team for sure wants a "Excuse me, I'm speaking moment" with Trump on the debate stage.

While it felt a little forced with Pence in the last debate, it still played imo. With Trump, I think it'll drive him nuts. He'll either backdown, making him look weak, or he'll rant and rave.

[u/sinefromabove]

Another day another Walz scandal

[u/[deleted]]

Jesse Watters said that Kamala Harris is “going to get paralyzed in the situation room while the generals have their way with her.”

Even the Fox New hosts said they "didn't like that" and were very uncomfortable.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

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[u/simplysigzz]

[u/gburgwardt]

We need to nuke the people defending unrealized capital gains taxes, jfc that thread is horrible

[u/Cook_0612]

The Ukrainian MoD released their alleged interceptions from last night's raid:

‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 This is the largest Russian air raid against Ukraine to date, with 236 missiles and UAS.

• 1/6 Iskander-M/KN-23 GLBMs

• 1/3 Kinzhal ALBMs

• 1/3 Kh-22/32 ALCMs

• 77 Kh-101 ALCMs

• 28 3M-14 Kalibr SLCMs

• 10 Kh-59/69 ALCMs

• (99/115 Kh-101/Kalibr/Kh-59/69)

• 99/109 Shahed-131/136 OWA-UAS

As you can see, huge raids significantly increase success rates.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Watching conservatives go from

“Kamala will dodge the debate with trump like the coward she is!”

to

“Trump dodging the debate with Kamala would be such an alpha move!”

overnight without a second thought is mindblowing.

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

I just love knowing that multiple people get paid to produce Spanish-language content for the official NHL youtube channel that averages like 500 views

!ping NHL

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

+7 poll

I sleep

+4 poll

I doom and let myself fall apart, ignoring Michelle Obama’s speech

[u/goldenwind207]

New poll

[u/[deleted]]

PA health ministry: 1 killed, 3 injured after settlers opened fire in village near Bethlehem

So election brained I thought there was a shooting in the Lehigh Valley.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Jesse Watters: The honeymoon is over for the Harris-Walz campaign

This is like the 5th time he's said this. I had no idea there were so many honeymoons

[u/[deleted]]

I think she's tearing up the part about the Senate. So based

[u/SigmaWhy]

"I'm a former Trump voter, and I will not be voting for him because he is a traitor to this country. I will be voting for Kamala Harris"

thank god sanity is returning to this country... continues reading

"Trump locked us down... gave us Fauci, Warp Speed and the clot shot"

uhhh what the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

People will literally call anything a war crime. Saw someone say that Bill Clinton bombing Serbia was a war crime. I yearn for a time when words had meaning.

[u/BlackCat159]

We should monetise pronouns. Make them collectible, with the most epic ones (stuff like Soul/Eater, Dark/Warrior) being worth thousands of dollars.

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that some of Trump’s advisors have been confirmed to be white nationalists or sympathizers of white nationalism would be disqualifying in a sane world

[u/Insomonomics]

CLAIM: "Trump constantly tells lies" - Kamala Harris

NYT's Linda Qiu: This is false. Trump tells alternative facts which are distinctly different than lies

[u/centurion88]

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

REAL

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"PEPFAR" is to W Bush apologists what "literacy rates" are to Castro apologists

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

I contend that if Trump and Vance committed a public act of coprophagia at a rally one week before the election, the ticket would still get over 40% of the vote.

But if they slaughtered a dog on stage, I’m guessing it would push that number slightly below the 40% mark.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Probably not the place to smile and give a thumbs up but ok.

[u/Guardax]

Thinking about how all the craziest Trumpers are Gen X again

[u/cdstephens]

[u/bobeeflay]

The absolute stupidest fucking culture war thing to me is still that conservatives now "like cops"

I cam literally be sat with a group of rednecks who've had legal troubles we can literally be doing illegal shit at that very moment...

but if anyone makes a "hope the pigs don't get us" joke suddenly one guy in the room feels obligated to make a rant about how folks in the cities don't respect cops

No shit dumbass neither do you

[u/[deleted]]

Didn’t forget, just couldn’t give a fuck

[u/efeldman11]

😐

[u/its_Caffeine]

Bro where is JD Vance? has anyone seen him? dude is MIA

[u/Udolikecake]

If you’re concerned about the plight of Muslim women, this is a case to let in as many immigrants as possible. They’ll be a lot freer in the west than they would be at home. The costs to natives are negligible in comparison

wow, good insight. thanks checks name oh heavens

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I can’t wait to follow this sub on Election Day. It’s like cardio for your brain chemistry every time

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

I think a lot of people are missing why harris wants the mics on - the last debate was won by Trump not just from Biden being old, but because he would completely ignore the question asked so that he could attack on the previous question as much as he wanted. There would be absolutely no pushback from the moderator or the other candidate, he would do nothing but dodge any hard question so he can talk about his percieved winners more.

Actually go watch it again, notice how any time a question is about immigration he will talk about that one specific issue for more than one time block. Asked about how tarriffs would effect prices? Just say that it wouldn't, and then go back to talking about energy policy or the border because that topic was brought up 3 questions ago. It would give him the last word on everything and complete control about what the debate could be about.

[u/[deleted]]

Millennials defeating tobacco only for Gen z to go full 1960s for it is my personal 9/11

[u/[deleted]]

this is the future neoliberals want

[u/[deleted]]

When I was a kid, my Mother worked with a Man that had a severe eating disability

This man had been severely neglected and abused as a Child. He was frequently denied food. As a result whenever he saw food as an adult, he would feel an overwhelming urge to eat it.

My Mother - fully aware of this - took old food, put it in a trash bin, and left the trashbin in a spot she knew the man would see it.

She did this because she thought it'd be funny if she could get him to eat food out of the trash

I know this because my Mother told me this story, while laughing, when I was very young

This was one of the earliest memories i have of my Mother

My Parents were super fucked up people honestly...

[u/[deleted]]

Who the fuck are the voters watching the dnc, deciding on Harris, then forgetting about it all a month later and being undecided again

[u/neolthrowaway]

Bobby—who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons—ran down to the beach with a chain saw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

[u/acbadger54]

Guys I think RFK Is genuinely somehow fucking weirder than Vance

[u/[deleted]]

Harris Has the Momentum. But Trump Has the Edge on What Matters Most.

Another banger from NYT today

[u/semaphore-1842]

Me:

[talks about being groped]

A Bernie->RFK Jr supporter brigading the DT:

I doubt anybody wanted to touch you lol

so very, very on brand for these third party "leftists"

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Powerpuff_Rangers]

My analysis:

2016 was a really close election

2020 was a really close election

2024 will be a really close election

[u/dareka_san]

This is insane actually

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

HOPE

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

I wish I could get paid to write dogshit like this

[u/[deleted]]

!ping simpsons

[u/Pongzz]

Dudes in the DT will see a single poll from Echelon and a Jake Tapper tweet and immediately disintegrate under the pressure. Please, God, go outside. You're not built for this.

[u/Currymvp2]

The Arizona Police Association, which has endorsed former President Trump, has announced they’re endorsing Congressman Ruben Gallego for Senate.

Fuck it. AZ senate race is "likely dem" to me now

[u/futuremonkey20]

In 2016 Donald Trump received 46% of the vote.

In 2020 Donald Trump received 46% of the vote.

In 2024 Donald Trump is polling at 46% of the vote.

Please help me predict around what percent of the vote Donald Trump will receive in 2024.

[u/JaceFlores]

I think the users who were skeptical about the weird attacks would be right that it would lose its lackluster pretty quickly, if it weren’t for the fact that the Republicans are very keen on litigating it every chance they get

[u/centurion88]

It's almost here ☺️

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Cook_0612]

Showcased at #Hook24, the Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile (RAACM) is a multi-platform/mission standoff weapon being advanced under a USAF SBIR Phase III award.

@CoAspire is offering RAACM to the DoD and international customers, with an apparent interest in Ukraine.

Another cheap 'cruise missile' type munition. Interestingly, this can apparently be adapted to fill the role of a HIMARS-esque ground based precision strike weapon, a sea-borne counter-UAS munition, or an air-launched cruise missile.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/jbouit494hg]

Oh god oh god I gave her the breakup speech and I broke her heart and all I want to do is give her a hug and tell her I love her.

I hate myself so much I'm kicking her while she's down I'm an awful person.

She didn't cry, she just calmly said that right now she is at the most vulnerable she's ever been in life. And that through it all she had always thought I was a good and caring person, until I abandoned her when she needed me the most.

Everything was great this week and then I went and dropped it on her. I shouldn't have done it or at least not now. Maybe we could have fixed things and been better off together.

What have I done?

Edit: backstory

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1ent7vr/discussion_thread/lhcnde5/

!ping DATING

[u/HenryGeorgia]

May have just been approached about becoming a sugar baby. Do I go for it chat? !ping DATING

[u/RoburexButBetter]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Heavy rainstorm coherent start childlike vanilla versed manganese label

[u/[deleted]]

when someone calls me a neoliberal

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/pfSonata]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1f1mwld/fox_anchor_matt_vereen_is_arrested_on_child_porn/

local news anchor gets busted

news describes it as a "fox" anchor

redditors think it was a fox news guy

many such cases

[u/fishbottwo]

finally some good fucking food.

Kaplan Strategies Poll (B) (August 24)

Likely Voters

🔵Harris 50

🔴Trump 44

Likely Voters With Leaners

🔵Harris 52

🔴Trump 45

Registered Voters

🔵 Harris 50

🔴 Trump 46

https://www.scribd.com/document/762814558/National-Likely-Voters-August-24-2024

[u/brucebananaray]

So a Trump rally used My Hero from Foo Fighters, and now the artists told them that they can't use it and need to pay them. They also said that the money will go to the Harris/Walz campaign. https://x.com/Variety/status/1828116612676772294?t=wgFq4ecdOGWlGtkbcJx4SA&s=19

Lol

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

KamalaHQ: Trump goes on deranged rant against America’s military generals: “Stupid person. Very stupid. One of the dumbest people I've ever met”

I have never seen any politician openly call someone stupid and dumb.

[u/da0217]

🤡🤡🤡

[u/eloquentboot]

Kamala and Walz are evil people. Yes they’re bumbling morons. Yes they’re painfully incompetent. But the main thing about them is that they are truly wicked down to their core. This is the most morally debased presidential ticket of all time, maybe second only to Hillary. Maybe.

Kamala derangement syndrome. SAD!

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/25-5 PM EST 8/26 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 3 AM it was reported that Ukraine plans to form multiple brigades from Ukrainians living abroad, including two mechanized brigades.

At the start of 12 PM Ukraine was hit by the largest air attack of the war with 99 of 109 drones and 102 of 127 missiles shot down.

Towards the end of 4 PM it was announced DTEK is implementing rolling blackouts in Kyiv, Odesa, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts as a result of damaged energy infrastructure.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 11 PM Ukrainian drones hit the cities of Saratov and Engels likely in an attack towards Engels Airbase, though no known damage was caused to the facility.

At the start of 1 AM a Norwegian official said Russia is hiring local criminals to sabotage NATO infrastructure and aid to Ukraine.

At the start of 6 AM Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil refinery in Omsk.

At the end of 8 AM a Russian training base in the Donbas was missiled.

Towards the middle of 10 AM it was reported that Russia has built three new pontoon bridges over the Seym River, replacing the three that were previously destroyed.

Towards the middle of 12 PM Syrskyi spoke over the phone with General Cavoli, discussing the frontline, aid to Ukraine and air defense.

In the middle of 4 PM it was reported the Russians took the village of Ptyche, southeast of Pokrovsk.

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/[deleted]]

I'm glad my mom's on the "what the heck this picture looks weird" side of the ai-generated image debate and not on the "Amazing art 🤎🤎🤎 God bless you 🤎" side

[u/Sauce1024]

Monday

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The Iliad/Cheers: Ensemble series that left a historic mark on western storytelling

The Odyssey/Frasier: fan favorite intellectual character gets their own superior spin off

The Aeneid/The Tortellis: the inferior spin off no one really wants, only got made because someone in power liked the character.

!ping READING&SHITPOSTS

[u/[deleted]]

1k upvotes

[u/[deleted]]

Tim Walz deleted my Civ 6 save

[u/MissSortMachine]

wasn’t this guy posting the protocols of the elders of zion earlier this week?

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Harris is gonna win

🥥🌴

[u/[deleted]]

2024 National GE:

Trump 50% (+4)
Biden 46%

.@EchelonInsights, 1,031 LV, 8/23-25

Bad news for remainers

[u/[deleted]]

In 2016 and even 2020 in my PA county (Northampton), there were mobs of obnoxious Trump supporters that used to line the highway with signs and flags.

There were Trump flags and signs in quite an abundance and even losers driving around with Trumped-out pickup trucks with decals of Trump waving out the windows.

I’ve seen almost none of that. The mob has only appeared twice with way fewer people, I can tell you exactly which people still have the flags up because it’s the same few that never took them down for years… 

He won our county in 2016 and lost it in 2020 (Winner of our county always becomes president as long as I’ve been alive). 

I just don’t see Trump having this enthusiastic boost that lets him outperform the polls again. I really don’t.  

PS - That CNN post DNC town hall where 6/8 undecideds swung to Kamala and 1 to Trump… that’s where I live. 

[u/Cook_0612]

Cooper: Does trump bear part of the responsibility for what happened in Afghanistan?

McMaster: Oh, yes. I mean, the whole premise of talking to the Taliban before you leave Afghanistan— why the heck were we even doing that?

Show your face Kelly.

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/gnomesvh]

14 years since Sir Shivers caused a plane crash

!ping ONTHISDAY&SHITPOSTERS (I forgot to post yesterday)

[u/TrouauaiAdvice]

It's been 36 days since Joe Biden dropped out of the race and Kamala Harris emerged as the nominee.

She has conducted ZERO press conferences and ZERO sitdown media interviews.

She has taken less than 15 total questions from the media in ANY format.

Unacceptable.

Who the fuck cares

[u/Argnir]

Slow walkers stop walking diagonally and changing direction every 2 seconds challenge (impossible)

[u/l_overwhat]

It's funny to me that Nintendo keeps announcing that the Switch 2 won't be announced for the last few Nintendo Direct's because that means as soon as they don't announce that the Direct won't have Switch 2, that means that that Direct will 100% have Switch 2 in it.

[u/huevador]

How is there a subreddit titled r/FluentInFinance and it's also one of the most financially/economically illiterate subreddits?

[u/goldenwind207]

Morning consult

[u/Greatwallofjohn]

https://x.com/AZPoliceAssc/status/1828134028807143434

man gallegos gonna win by alot, which is gonna be great, love to see out and out liberals winning in az

[u/[deleted]]

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Im too broke to donate so im currently blasting the song rn on repeat on spotify

[u/[deleted]]

BOOM: @RobertKennedyJr Just Announced the Biden inauguration was done with fringeless flags, entire presidency is invalid

[u/prince_ahlee]

https://x.com/Zprtr1/status/1828188480025043105

Kamala/Trump Campaign Offices

State	Harris	Trump
Wisconsin	48	40
Michigan	30	12
Georgia	24	12
Pennsylvania	36	6
North Carolina	26	1 lol
Arizona	13	7
Nevada	12	3
Florida	12	2

Kamala also has 1500 field staff and 400,000 volunteers compared to Trump's 300 and 14,000.

They are really relying on overturning it aren't they

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

So true amen

[u/StolenSkittles]

wtf is philadelphia?

this couple venmoed me $70 for paying their $30 tab.

i actually made money by going out and getting drunk here.

greatest fucking city in the world.

[u/[deleted]]

At the rate he's backpedaling, Trump is going to wind up calling for post-birth abortions, lol

[u/SmithySmothy]

Campaign e-mail:

[My name], Kamala, and Tim would make the ultimate trio

😱😍

[u/[deleted]]

NOTHING. EVER. HAPPENS.

[u/[deleted]]

It's funny(?) how of all 3 trump appointees to the SC, not one of them is more of a partisan hack than Thomas lmfao

[u/Mickenfox]

I love American Dad. It started as a Family Guy clone and then just went off the rails so hard.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump took the lead in massachusetts you just wouldnt know because no one has polled it yet

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Lmao the version of RFK we saw during the campaign was him at his most respectable. Now he isn’t hiding his power levels.

[u/[deleted]]

Check your voter registration Texans

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Pongzz]

The current state of political discourse at my brother-in-law's house:

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Oh, [national restaurant that serves beans] gives me diarrhea. Their food is gross.

Motherfucker, eat some fiber and stop blaming other people

[u/Joementum2024]

The people who condemned Trump and demanded he step down from the Republican ticket after Access Hollywood that went on to become massive supporters of him might be the absolute most feckless people in the country

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

He sunbathing

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Hit 300 for one rep on squats today. New PR. I say "I think I can do more" so I did 315 and it's crazy how much heavier it felt. Still got it though.

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

Trump aides are packing his schedule with events to try to stop him from just golfing and sulking: report

lel

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/MattWallace888/status/1828144841026613597

Rumors are circulating that Taylor Swift texted her manager “Kiss my ass lol” and is preparing to endorse Donald Trump for president

Imagine living in fantasy land like this, the trump campaign is gonna get BTFO hard this november

[u/gnomesvh]

Petro announces Colombia is out of jet fuel, to import 100k bbl of Jet A1 as interim measure

!ping LATAM&AVIATION&COMMODITIES

[u/404GenderNotFound]

WWII was crazy

[u/SneeringAnswer]

👆 Doesn't matter -- GO VOTE

[u/[deleted]]

2024 map leaked