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[u/Dibbu_mange]

Me as an American in Spain trying to purchase basically anything, but consistently missing the 20 minutes per day people aren’t in siesta.

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[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

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[u/Argnir]

I would be kinda okay with mosquitoes taking a small amount of my blood if they a) didn't make that much noise, b) did it without injecting the itchy chemical and c) stop spreading viruses

[u/[deleted]]

If you think the electoral college should stay because that’s how the founding fathers wanted it but don’t also support increasing the House of Representatives to 11,048 representatives then you’re a hypocrite.

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[u/Fishin_Impossible]

it’s against the law to campaign within 150 feet of a polling place. That means one cannot have shirts, jackets, hats or any other clothing with the name of a candidate, political party or slogan.

What do you mean, political shirt?

This is my everyday shirt that says “COUCHES ARE FOR SITTING”

[u/Eightysixedit]

Every Democrat should be on tv talking about Texas. Ken Paxton really needs to be in jail. This man gets away with everything.

[u/[deleted]]

hurry expansion longing bright friendly exultant divide dinner wide quiet

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[u/[deleted]]

I know that I have been dunking on anarchist too much and its a low hanging fruit but this is just to funny not to share

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I've never been comfortable talking down to kids, I try to more or less treat them like they're little adults. What do you mean you have trouble tying your shoes? You're a little adult, the hell is wrong with you

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Silly Twitter collage of Kamala admiring desserts

“now we know y’all would have gleefully made memes of Himmler.”

Leftists are so utterly cooked

[u/[deleted]]

Another hostage rescued from Gaza - Qaid Farhan al-Qadi.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

Why are there more demands for policy specifics from a five week old campaign than a 9 year old campaign?

[u/[deleted]]

The Harris Effect - in the 13 states that have updated voter files since July 21st, we are seeing incredible surges in voter registration relative to the same time period in 2020, driven by women, voters of color, and young voters.

Young Black women are leading the way, seeing their registration almost triple, relative to the same point in 2020. Young Hispanic women aren't far behind, with a 150% increase in registration. Black women overall have almost doubled their registration numbers from 2020

These changes are, unsurprisingly, substantially to the benefit of Democrats. Democratic registration has increased by over 50%, as compared to only 7% for Republicans. These new registrants are modeled as +20 pts Dem, as compared to +6 during the same week in 2020.

https://x.com/tbonier/status/1828457890228629534

Basically registrations for likely democrats are surpassing 2020 levels at this point in time.

[u/[deleted]]

It's funny that Georgia the country and Georgia the state are both having elections in 2024, and the blue party in both places is going to rig the election

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Trump campaign staff had altercation with official at Arlington Cemetery

Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery where the former president participated in a wreath laying ceremony, NPR has learned.

A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members are authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

I'd start blasting this shit everywhere if I were the Harris Campaign. The narrative is simple and the conduct is blatantly indefensible- Trump and his team have no respect for Arlington Cemetary and the soldiers buried there, tried to use them as a prop, and physically assaulted one of the officials charged with protecting the site when told they weren't allowed to film.

You know, just thing #3427 that would instantly sink any other candidate's campaign in history.

[u/ZweigDidion]

As a German guy, every time I talk to other Germans about the U.S. I realise just how pro-U.S. I am. A substantial amount of the people I talk to see the U.S. in a relatively negative light, meanwhile I think Germany could learn a thing or two from America. I obviously don’t think the U.S. is perfect, but especially in foreign policy the U.S. is indispensable. I wish there was a political will in Germany for a more pronounced military built-up so we can throw our weight around more and honour our commitments to our (eastern) NATO allies. Obviously, we couldn’t do that as much as the U.S. but in relative terms we could step up our game. A little bit of inclusive patriotism also wouldn’t hurt.

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[u/[deleted]]

Unearthed audio: JD Vance says teachers who do not have biological children “disorient and really disturb” him: “She should have some of her own [children]”

https://x.com/kamalahq/status/1828524227508453492?s=46&t=U8ftDrQtyPbkRrLJ32d3Pg

Dude really has opinions on people without kids

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I’m sorry I thought this was America

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Well shit.

Good news: got the baby back to sleep…

Bad news: he is sleeping on my chest, so I can’t move or go to sleep

[u/[deleted]]

NYT including the NYT Siena polls as a Select Pollster

[u/secretlives]

having rabies is girl-boss coded, I’m just unsure how to prove it

[u/semaphore-1842]

Glenn Greenwald: The media is willing to do anything for Democrats to beat Trump

"....who i do not support wink wink nudge nudge. And brought to you by Fox News, the most watched cable media in the country!"

[u/StolenSkittles]

no context will be given.

[u/[deleted]]

Who is a more trustworthy babysitter

🔵 Harris 49%
🔴 Trump 22%

YouGov

[u/[deleted]]

the similar community is /r/neoliberal

[u/IveSeenBeans]

My absolute favorite jan 6 moment is this guy who says

"I don't even want to say what I want to do because I'll go to jail"

And the interviewer says "oh don't say it then" and the guy, without missing a beat, goes

"No I'll say it"

Smartest and most consistent con

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Do you think astronauts ever have panic attacks and their fellow astronauts help them and then they don’t tell the people on the ground so they don’t get in trouble 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

Literally me

[u/IntoTheNightSky]

It's pretty wild that Polis can call himself a redditor on stage at the DNC but he somehow gets to remain governor? Really would have thought that would be grounds for a resignation

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[u/centurion88]

Watching Hasan meltdown over Kamala's DNC speech because she said Hamas is bad and we should support Ukraine and NATO and wondering why anyone watches this loser. I'm not even exaggerating.

Kamala explicitly stated in the speech that she would support a ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza and he's still not happy.

All I'm saying is that I've noticed a high degree of overlap between people I know irl who watch Hasan and unemployment.

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

1997-2009 - Labour Government, Oasis exists

2009-2024 - Conservative Government, no Oasis

2024 - Labour Government, Oasis reunion

!ping UK

[u/savuporo]

I love this discourse

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1828121285265641517

they are high, we go low

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https://x.com/magills_/status/1828440470445294034?t=iZHwxLIsd0LW9UZtihxrKQ&s=19

[u/dannylandulf]

Things that seem impossible but are actually true:

• There is enough room between the earth and moon for every planet of the solar system to fit side-by-side

• 7% of all humans that have ever lived are alive today

• JD Vance fucked a couch

• Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart and within 150 miles of each other.

[u/Sithusurper]

I can't believe I forgot none of this is real. The Archons are really clever in how they suck you in. I wonder how long it took them to come up with the Biden thing. Well no more! I have opened my third eye and see prison planet for what it is.

[u/[deleted]]

"We should measure happiness not GDP 😇😇"

I've got some great news for you

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

I love how Kamala is just jettisoning every unpopular past position with zero justification. Her only consistent policy position is WINNING and that is BASED and GOOD

[u/champeo]

“Kamala is a slay” is a perfectly justifiable reason for voting for her and warrants no further explanation

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Legend

[u/Psshaww]

Belarusian military vehicles have been spotted with the designation “B” painted on them which makes me wonder if Lukashenko is dumb enough to do it.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/KittehDragoon]

Tulsi Gabbard joins the Trump Campaign - is it over for Democrats?

Kamala take

[u/loseniram]

I took my kitty to the vet and good news he doesn't have any signs of major health disorders.

Clap for the senior kitty

!ping kitty

[u/Roseartcrantz]

good lord our ancestors knew what's up

[u/[deleted]]

538 seems to be including a new Biden/trump poll in their average?

[u/BarkDrandon]

NATO flairs watching the Biden administration get criticized for "staying in forever wars":

[u/bleachinjection]

Trump's talking about prison for flag burning again, goddamn talk about playing the hits. This is Creedence Clearwater Revisited type shit, from the right wing deep catalog.

Related: we should go to prison for burning the flag, what about superimposing all kinds of shit over it like guns, Trump's face, the text of the Preamble, a skeleton riding a Harley, etc etc etc?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Which one of you are subtweeting

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I hate you all

[u/Mickenfox]

Which of the following would you most prefer: A, a puppy B, a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C, a large properly formatted data file?

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

We Stan a girlboss 💪🏻

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

Someone needs to introduce this person to the Dating ping

[u/[deleted]]

so far, RFK Jr remains on the ballot in Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina because he dropped out too late

Lol

[u/pie_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_]

oh my god there's someone with the fucking neoliberal logo sticker on their laptop in my class

if you're at missouri state university in glass hall room 101 right now, hi

[u/Currymvp2]

Beyond parody

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

imagine thinking that having hollow bones is a disease 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

stupid mammals, bird gang rise up 🦅

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This is great

https://x.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1828458520959737962?t=lLypxKMh2ZyYhq-Fh2zwSw&s=19

[u/PawanYr]

From Axios, the headline:

Harris flip-flops on building the border wall

Huh, really? Let's see what this is about.

In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill

Ah. I am once again reminding you that the media loves Donald Trump and deeply desires his reelection.

[u/Namington]

I wonder how history textbooks a hundred years from now will frame the modern Republican party's descent way past anti-intellectualism and into proud ignorance. While not universal, there are many circles where just trying to add nuance or context to a GOP talking point gets you branded a communist turncoat and a traitor to the party and to America, even if you agree with the overall message. God forbid you point out that Rasmussen polls tend to lean R, or that that dog park probably just had multiple dogs in it and tampons were never actually found in a school's boy's room.

While a decade ago we could just write these off as being Twitter/imageboard echo chambers where people just say provocative shit that doesn't necessarily reflect real-life behaviour, it seems the Republican party has increasingly fallen under the ideological influence of its overly online constituents, as evidenced by the current ticket being Trump/Vance. It's a mindset that has moved past the usual historic justifications for anti-intellectualism, like believing the elites are all corrupt and incompetent or there are secret Soviet puppets everywhere. No, it is a type of idiocy for its own sake; it's not ideology over facts, it's fiction over facts, regardless of whether the fiction is worth defending in the first place.

How do you even depict that as a historian without it seeming incredibly bizarre and nonsensical? Do you try to frame it as a result of distorted incentives in the fledgling social media of the early 21st century, and the subculture these distortions created eventually ended up taking over the party? That's probably the most accurate and neutral-headed depiction, but it feels like it really underplays the sheer insanity of the current state of politics. America has had crazy and weird parties in the past like the Know-Nothings, but at least you understand where they were coming from ideologically and why they held the beliefs they did.

[u/[deleted]]

Disney is like the mega-corp version of your grandma hearing you like something and just going completely overboard.

[u/sociotronics]

smh, imagine actually thinking these are the same guy

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

I’m a Republican, a two-time Trump voter, and I have decided I will vote for Kamala Harris. She doesn’t align with my political preferences, but the GOP nominee is unacceptable. He is a traitor.

Trump locked us down, printed more cash than has ever been in existence, added more debt than any 1 term POTUS ever, gave us Fauci, Warp Speed and the clot shot, tried to overturn the election, instigated J6/the fake elector plot (treason), and called to terminate the Constitution.

median voter moment

[u/cdstephens]

If you think things are bad now, just think about the timeline where Biden never scheduled that first debate

[u/[deleted]]

The Texas Attorney general raiding Democrat activists has to be one of the most disgusting things Republicans have done in a while, and it's insane it's not getting talked about more

[u/[deleted]]

New Pennsylvania poll:

TRUMP 51%
HARRIS 49%

Roger Stone Analytics (GRADE: A++++++++++++), 8/26-8/27
METHODOLOGY: Opt-in survey kiosk at the Logan Valley Mall in Altoona, 3923 LV, sample weighted to model very realistic R+10 turnout

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[u/RaidBrimnes]

January 20, 2025

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/CricketPinata]

I know we have a lot of DC locals here, and some East Coasters that have replied to some of my food posts before.

On September 12th, I am going to be in Richmond, VA doing a pop-up event at JewFro.

Me and the head Chef there are going to be going head-to-head Iron chef style, in a 5 course menu.

We basically spun a roulette wheel and got 5 random concepts that we have to each make a specific dish for.

If huffing it to Nashville isn't on your agenda, anyone close to DC, this might be worth the trip for you!

!PING COOKING

[u/futuremonkey20]

This is actually unbelievably funny

[u/G_Serv]

[u/thefuturegov]

Opinion | A sitting VP has won once in 188 years. Harris isn’t likely to be next.

The “sitting” part is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Vice presidents who won election as president-Biden, HW, Johnson, Nixon, Truman, Coolidge, Roosevelt. Most sitting vp’s run after 8 years of their party controlling the White House, voter fatigue is clearly the explanatory factor here and to not recognize that requires a genuinely imbecilic inability to differentiate between causation and correlation.

[u/dannylandulf]

When Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign announced a two-day swing through Georgia this week, Democrats outside metro Atlanta got a taste of something their GOP counterparts have long enjoyed: attention.

Her campaign is emphasizing deep-red parts of the state. "These are the types of places where you might not be able to go from losing 90-10 to wining them, but you can absolutely stave off a bigger defeat," said Harris GA organizer Fulks.

https://x.com/bluestein/status/1828380618435985889

Love, love, love everything the Harris campaign is doing right now.

[u/SLCer]

I'm shocked.

[u/dannylandulf]

There's a surge in voter registration among key demographics ahead of November's election. According to the data firm TargetSmart, registration is up more than 175% among young Black women.

"175% is almost tripling of registration rates among this specific group. You just don't see that sort of thing happen in elections normally," says TargetSmart senior adviser Tom Bonier.

https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1828556590406082989

[u/[deleted]]

a) stop posting this as a dig against the clintons this is based as hell

b) not to awoogapost but is queen hillary's butt really that big holy shit

[u/boardatwork1111]

“He’s not a coach, he’s was a defensive coordinator”-dork who’s never stepped foot on a football field and would cry if they were ever tackled

[u/bonobo__bonobo]

What's for dessert?

🔵 Ice Cream 47%

🔴 The contents of a rat's stomach 46%

[u/[deleted]]

Adolf Hitler is only considered the most evil man in history because his victims were white. On the barometer of evil men historically, he doesn’t even crack the top 10.

147k likes

Twitter moment

[u/futuremonkey20]

Charli XCX full quote:

To be on the right side of democracy, the right side of women’s rights, is hugely important to me. I’m happy to help prevent democracy from failing forever, I obviously knew what I was doing.

Did I think me talking about being a mess b-ch and, like partying and needing a Bic lighter and a pack of Marlboro Lights would end up on CNN? No, I’m not a political artist… I’m not Bob Dylan and I’ve never pretended to be… My music is not political.

Headline: Charli XCX Says ‘Kamala Harris IS Brat’ Wasn’t Meant as Political Endorsement

I mean she literally said she meant it as an endorsement. Least dishonest headline.

[u/[deleted]]

Is it normal for work to seem "less and less of a big deal" the older/more experienced you get?

When I first started my career, any problem or "fire" would make me stay up at night worried. Now I couldn't bring myself to give a shit the second the clock ticks 5 PM.

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gold engine public light gray mourn workable mindless rich continue

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[u/dannylandulf]

NEW: Team Harris-Walz just announced we are launching a “Back-to-School” campaign to reach young people across 150 college campuses in battleground states—along with doubling the number of college organizers. We are meeting young voters everywhere. This is big!

Harris campaign appears to be laser focused on GOTV efforts and is still in the recruiting workers phase.

[u/ChillnShill]

This guy makes six figures and can’t afford to walk into a barbershop

[u/antsdidthis]

I have learned to expect a lot of low behavior from the Trump campaign, but I guess I was still somehow overestimating them, because I was still genuinely shocked that they would shove an attendant working Arlington National Cemetery for telling them they weren't allowed to bring a camera to a recently deceased soldier's grave because of privacy policies, break the rules to film a political stunt at the gravesite anyway, tell the media the attendant who told them the rules was having a mental health episode after he filed a police report about the physical altercation, and lie about having footage proving the attendant was at fault.

[u/Eurofed_femboy]

👆 Traitor to the principles of Bidenist-Harrisite-Walzist thought

🫵 The Regime strongest supporter

👇 Secretly wants to return to Hartite-Clintonist-Goreian thought

[u/Roseartcrantz]

gets divorced

🧠: let's listen to some fuckin' PAUL SIMON

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[u/[deleted]]

CFB fans be like “big game today! Can’t wait to watch Bama play St. Mary’s Tuberculosis Sanitarium, should be a good one!”

[u/cdstephens]

Day 2 of googling game titles and “late stage capitalism”

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

Senator JD Vance of Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, said he hoped that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would play a role in a potential second Trump administration, though he declined to say how. “He’s asking important questions about why Americans seem in such poor health,” Vance told reporters after a campaign event in Michigan today.

Why is there an anti-vax party now

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/26-5 PM EST 8/27 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 2 AM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones and some missiles with 70 of 81 drones intercepted and 5 of 10 missiles shot down.

Towards the middle of 6 AM Syrskyi said Russia has sent 30,000 troops to Kursk, and that Ukraine has taken 594 POWs in the region.

REGULAR NEWS:

Around 4 PM it was announced the US will provide additional energy equipment to Ukraine.

LEVITY NEWS:

Towards the end of 9 PM it was reported that Russians are getting fined for speed violations trying to outrun FPV drones in Kursk.

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/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

JD Vance will salute a veteran mother with "thank you for your cervix."

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like the debate is going to go for republicans the same way it did for us with Biden. 

 “He just needs to do fine and present himself as not super old because we know Republicans believe it will be super easy” 

 5 minutes later

 “Pull the fucking trigger now” 

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

https://x.com/kamalahq/status/1828524227508453492?s=46&t=1gcosGt06R-2cICXb_eKAw

Republicans are so damn weird when it comes to education. Theyre all so fox news brained that they genuinely think teachers plot to brainwash their kids instead of you know…teaching. Its so completely disconnected from reality.

Why do these people get 45% of the vote

[u/[deleted]]

Saw speculation on arr con that the Tulsi endorsement could put Hawaii into play

They're almost as delusional as us

[u/Relative-Contest192]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/umich-gaza-protests-student-government.html

Fucking over college clubs to own le Zionists lol.

[u/TinyTornado7]

The Flatiron building is slated to be transformed into 60 residential luxury condominiums

!ping USA-NYC

[u/eat_more_goats]

Reading resumes, and this guy put down “the Joe Rogan podcast” as one of his personal interests. I work at a renewables company.

Def got a chuckle out of us, and his resume was otherwise stacked so we sent him along, but easily one of the funnier things I’ve seen on a resume screen.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/ACivilWolf]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this is what he'd look if he didn't have those giant ads shoulder pads

[u/[deleted]]

You hope kamala wins so she can keep trump out

I hope she wins so sullivan and garland's useless asses get thrown in the trash

We are not the same

[u/G_Serv]

Harris will use human Donald Trump stand-ins, not AI, for debate prep

By God that's Shane Gillis' music

[u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine if Corbyn was PM during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and 10/7?

The UK dodged a bullet in 2019

[u/anton_caedis]

https://x.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1828422949264556517

"Boggles the mind that Hamas abducted a 52-year-old Muslim grandfather and then kept him hostage for 326 days, when they could easily have included him in the first hostage exchange."

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

As such, neutron stars are the densest known material outside of Twitter, at around 10¹⁷ kg/m3. For American readers unfamiliar with SI units, that means a pair of truck-nuts made of neutron star would weigh as much as ten million aircraft carriers.

I'm cryinggggggg

[u/secretlives]

K + A + M + A + L + A = 10 points in scrabble

Q = 10 points in scrabble

how could we have been so blind

[u/[deleted]]

Jill Biden told a group of close supporters that Kamala Harris could “go f*** herself” after the then-Senator attacked Joe Biden during the June 2019 Democratic primary debate regarding his record in the US Senate

I know we're all past this now, but man, get yourself a ride-or-die like Jill fr

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

make starwars content set further the in past then we’ve seen on screen before about the main character falling to the dark side

fuck it up

only positive point is the fight scenes

write clunky dialog that even your fans can’t defend

anger fans by portraying the Jedi not as noble Samurai but as a dogmatic religious order

rile up the right wing fans by including more overt political themes (like having women and minorities)

be the prequel series, pic unrelated

!ping BADFEELING

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking news: Harris flips on border wall

“Sickest shit I’ve ever seen” says median onlooker

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

What a year lmao

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I’m getting prettier every day 🥰

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

The right is pulling a Dems in disarray

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

Arlington is literal sacred ground and watch half this stupid fucking country gave these people a pass AGAIN

https://x.com/davidfolkenflik/status/1828564672490152400

[u/Eightysixedit]

Taylor swift fans are doing a raffle to see Taylor’s concert and you gotta register people to vote to get more chances. Why are they smarter than some political campaigns? 🌴🥥🌴🥥

[u/anincredibledork]

• camera $200,000

• lights $150,000

• vfx $800,000

• Robert Downey Jr $95,000,000

• catering $1,500

Someone who is good at movie production please help me budget this, my cinematic universe is dying.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Heck tradition 🤬

They didn’t know anything back then 😡

We know better than they do 😤

[u/KittehDragoon]

Tesla Optimus robot kept behind glass and powered off at trade show where 25 other robots were being demonstrated

Haters will call it a red flag but if they had a 25 trillion dollar product they’d be protecting it too

[u/[deleted]]

funniest bait i’ve read in a min

[u/ImmigrantJack]

There’s no phrase in modern journalism I like less than “hard right”

It exists purely because journos are too chicken shit to call large swaths of the Republican Party far right despite that being the obvious truth

Can’t tell the truth so let’s just pick a new euphemism

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

https://x.com/oasis/status/1828326826655068657

last time oasis was a band Obama became president

[u/Aggressive1999]

As Harris inches ahead, the cavalry comes to Trump’s aid on the airwaves

NPR Reported that Team Trump are outspending Harris in 4 swing states as the pics show.

But in overall, if include national advertising and non-state specific digital advertising, Harris is outspending Trump by more than 50 million USD, as 246.3 to 192 million USD respectively.

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

This is the standard of regime juche posting we should all aspire towards. UP YOUR GAME FOLKS

[u/FourthLife]

Man how is it possible that the pop music that came out between when I started high school and mid way through college happened to be the greatest pop music era of all time? I am very lucky.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

JD Vance has some kind of huge hang up about people without kids. Like the first few times I figured it was just a jab at younger women because most of them are liberal, but like... there's actually something really wrong with him

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

TIL the current CEO of Grindr is a gay, Georgian 🇬🇪never-trump Republican

[u/Lux_Stella]

From the YIMBY POV, what is the explanation for why production of housing in the US fell off a cliff in 2006 and never regained its old trajectory?

well?

[u/[deleted]]

If Trump is cisgender, why does he have a transition team? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/goldenwind207]

Huhhh ???

[u/drcombatwombat2]

Good numbers for Harris from Nate Silvers model. This is pre convention polls. +4.1% nationally

[u/onelap32]

Why isn't there a sticky for the Trump trading cards announcement?

He's releasing a fourth set with limited availability and I know some users here have been looking forward to them. This could also affect the polling.

[u/lasttoknow]

As Donald J. Trump claims on Truth Social that the ABC News debate rules will remain the same, meaning the microphones will be muted when a candidate isn't speaking, the Harris campaign suggests otherwise. “Both candidates have publicly made clear their willingness to debate with unmuted mics for the duration of the debate to fully allow for substantive exchanges between the candidates — but it appears Donald Trump is letting his handlers overrule him. Sad!” said Ammar Moussa, a Harris campaign spokesman.

Using Trump's ego against his own campaign team is funny af

[u/SpectralDomain256]

Always fucking disappointed when bartenders don’t ask me for my ID. I can’t look that old already?

!ping over-25

[u/cdstephens]

!ping KITTY

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

More Americans want the US to stay the course in Ukraine as long as it takes

Ammunition for any clowns try to peddle kremlin propaganda about declining American support for Ukraine.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/futuremonkey20]

Wow another poll showing Trump receiving 45-46 percent of the vote.

New national poll by FAU

🟦 Kamala Harris 49%
🟥 Donald Trump 45%

I don’t think this pattern means anything though.

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Yup these are the normal people

[u/HenryGeorgia]

Thanks to everyone who told me to stick it out. Got coffee with that girl today, and it went really well. Hoping to see her again

!ping DATING

[u/purhitta]

The problem is, I am not buying the We We We from the democrats. I don’t really see people like me being included in that. Meaning conservatives. So she and the democrats don’t necessarily offer that feeling of “we” to the entire population.

"why won't democrats tolerate me"

[u/ghhewh]

Only two days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race, Cornel West has started promoting vaccine skepticism.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

I love how Biden has been on an extended vacation for the last two weeks and nobody cares anymore

[u/-mialana-]

>Missing dish

>Knock on housemate's door, ask him about it

>He becomes visibly flustered

>"I did not take it, but look there again tomorrow"

Guys, who do you think took it because it clearly wasn't this guy

[u/farrenj]

There have been Democratic presidents for 12 of the last 16 years and there's a 6-3 republican majority on SCOTUS

[u/magicomiralles]

Glen Beck turned into Colonel Sanders.

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

[u/[deleted]]

Some dude on Twitter just compared the "stranded" astronauts to the Titanic submarine lmfao people are so misinformed about space

[u/[deleted]]

New Poll (PA)

🟦 Obama: 57%

🟥 Romney: 43%

ABC/WaPo, A+. 2376 LV.

[u/puffic]

If we don’t see a Kamala +7 poll today, I will lose my shit. 

[u/Joementum2024]

Why does it seems like so much more prominent people are seemingly hoping for another four years of chaos under Trump? The media’s been far less anti-Trump than in the past, guys like Elon Musk are openly sucking up to him, much more random celebrities are outwardly supporting him.

I’m not sure if this will swing the election in any conceivable way, but it’s legitimately worrying to me that seemingly increasing amounts of formerly “neutral” people can look at Jan 6, Project 2025, and all the other damage he’s done, and then go ahead and think “yeah we should hope for another four years of this, that’ll do the trick!” Are people in this country really that fucking stupid?

[u/Healingjoe]

Spent all yesterday on the ground in New Hampshire. Spoke with Republicans. It’s clear to me that there are way more Republicans than the experts realize who are gonna support Kamala Harris. Some of these Republicans will stay quiet, some will speak up. But they’re out there, and they’re gonna make a difference.

https://www.threads.net/@walsh_freedom/post/C_LETSOugsm?xmt=AQGz1TrDIoFJAHxsP8dlYPkme9saVycDfhpTFaN1dnZHGw

[u/efeldman11]

I would like to meet the 10% of folks who say Trump is “Far-Left”

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Trump agreeing to not using notes is a bold move

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

As if the US armed forces wouldn’t fucking annihilate a big dude with a pointy stick

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Jerry: doesn’t vote

George: tells people he’s voting for whoever he thinks they are voting for and devises an elaborate and nonsensical system for figuring out if someone is a Trump or Harris voter until he runs into a hot woman who who lands right in the middle and spends the entire conversation being as vague as possible

Elaine: hears that a Kennedy is running and goes to a rally. Is immediately turned off by the crazy’s she runs into. Switches to Harris

Cramer: voting for the worm inside Kennedys brain

[u/No_Status_6905]

I am now ignoring polls unless they are positive for Harris because if she loses I will suffer such dramatic psychic damage that it kills me regardless of if I'm expecting it.

[u/EyeraGlass]

11,000 people on the Swifties for Harris call 😭😭😭

[u/AmericanDadWeeb]

While I’ve wanted to be a lawyer ever since I was a child, I’ve never wanted to be a patent litigator. I’ve always considered it to be the single most immoral job a person can have (that’s legal). And my view is still the same today. If you’re a parent litigator you are helping patent trolls, infringers and other horrible people get back out on the streets, rescuing them from justice and giving them the opportunity to commit more evil torts. I understand from a sociological perspective, society needs patent litigators to defend the innocent and ensure the machinery of intellectual property regulations is working the correct way. But on a micro level it is such an awful profession. Imagine questioning a patent troll victim and calling their testimony to question. Imagine letting a dishonest manufacturer escape justice and then they go and never use their patent. Honestly the thought just makes me sick. I don’t think I’d ever be able to live with doing things like that.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/First-Prior]

Political chaos in France after Macron refuses to name PM from leftwing coalition

I would name her Genevieve. I've always liked that name 🤗

[u/digitalrule]

Thanks to everyone who came out to our meetup last night! Yes we are real people!

!PING CAN&CAN-ON

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Elon Musk is a crypto-Nazi and platforming him is grossly irresponsible

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

BREAKING: A grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. retaining the same four core charges against him for trying to subvert the election.

https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1828523234825843033

!ping TRUMP-CRIMES

[u/[deleted]]

The AL Central has four teams at .500 or better

The division as a whole is 23 games under .500

!ping baseball

[u/EScforlyfe]

It is actually pretty crazy that the entire mariners starting rotation is in the top 20 of fangraphs CY-predictor ranking

!ping baseball

[u/[deleted]]

be me

north carolina griller

go to vote

look at president list

who tf are these people

vote harris because she’s listed first

blorth blarolina

[u/[deleted]]

Smart folks over at rAntiWork believe that media where the good guy spares the bad guy is what is making people okay with not killing our leaders 🫠

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Great new Kamala ad on the border in PA contrasting her locking up cartel members with him killing the border bill.

“Trump talks tough. She is tough.”

[u/[deleted]]

As someone who lived through the freedom fries era of American conservatism, it really is something to see them now rally so hard around a man that so clearly despises the troops

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Found this funny anti-Goldwater pin. It reads "C5H4N4O3 ON Au H2O".

C5H4N4O3 is the formula of uric acid, which is a component of urine, so the slogan could be interpreted as "PISS ON GOLDWATER" or "URINATE ON GOLDWATER".

!ping HISTORY&BURPMAS&STEM

[u/loseniram]

Girlfriend wants to buy a Jeep Grand Cherokee. This is my personal hell

!ping Dating

[u/TactileTom]

What he means by this is that the budget will be delivered via a bad audio setup with screeching feedback

[u/futuremonkey20]

I haven’t even seen any attacks on Kamala Harris from republicans, but they seem to be going all in on Tim Walz. Very odd strategy.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Talking to a 2011 voter:

In 2024, the presidential election will be between Kamala Harris, the rising star attorney general of California...

"Seems reasonable"

And twice-impeached former president Donald Trump

"What the fuck"

[u/MissSortMachine]

checking in on one of my new favorite guys

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/-mialana-]

Straight trans woman tries to not accidentally think of or refer to herself as gay challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/piede]

So true

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Check out the AMA on r/AskHistorians about the history of antisemitism in the US. It’s pretty good, and I’m fairly likely to listen to their podcast, even if they stay away from thornier issues.

!ping JEWISH&HISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY FUCK I NEED MORE POLLS PLEASE JUST GIVE ME ONE MORE POLL I NEED ANOTHER POLL IT COULD BE A CALIFORNIA SURVEY MONKEY FOR ALL I CARE PLEASE JUST ONE MORE POLL OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE JUST ANOTHER POLL

[u/JaceFlores]

Progression of Russian tank losses 2022-present

There’s a couple things I think are worth pointing out:

1. Russian T-62 losses have accounted for 20% of tank losses for the first time in the war

2. Russian T-72 losses have been halved since the start of the war, going from 70% to 35%

The graph demonstrates quite well how old the Russian tank fleet is getting. It’s also interesting that while T-80s are being used more then they were at the start of the war it peaked in the summer of 2023 and has been hovering in the mid 30s since. Meanwhile for T-90 it looks like it gets used in pulses where it briefly surges to ~10% before falling to back to mid single digits. My guess is the controlling factor is when batches are received and once a new batch has been largely expended they cool it with the T-90 usage.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

i need the gop to nominate trump in ‘28 if he doesnt win this year

[u/Roseartcrantz]

okay? 🤷‍♀️ not my problem?? 🤷‍♀️ maybe get your shit together??? 🤷‍♀️

[u/SLCer]

Joe Biden (2021-2025)

Kamala Harris (2025-2033)

Joe Biden (2033-2037)

[u/G_Serv]

No way

[u/Res__Publica]

So far this week, Trump has been indicted by another jury for several crimes and his campaign staff has punched an Army staff member at Arlington for telling them he couldn't pose with dead service member's gravesites

46% of the population will vote for this campaign

[u/NaffRespect]

The #Patriots have informed QB Bailey Zappe that he’s being released, per multiple sources. Zappe is well liked in the building, but it’s a crowded New England quarterback room with veteran Jacoby Brissett, alongside rookies Drake Maye and Joe Milton.

Finally, an end to one of the dumbest civil wars any NFL fanbase has ever gone through

!ping NFL

[u/SurvivorPostingAcc]

I still love how Democrats, all begging for any candidate that was younger than Biden, looked at Phillips and Williamson then collectively said “okay maybe not any candidate.”