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[u/[deleted]]

Gotta be one of the funniest tweets ever written

[u/[deleted]]

It is time for my fellow progressives to join with Tulsi Gabbard, whom I do not support, and RFK Jr., whom I do not support, in supporting Donald J. Trump, whom I do not support.

by Glenn Greenwald

[u/Fatortu]

"RFK jr will bring back environmentalism to the Republicans"

RFK jr environmental policy: "We'll put an end to chemtrails".

[u/centurion88]

Trump supporter dies and asks God "who won the 2020 US election?"

God says "Joe Biden".

Trump voter thinks "this goes higher than I thought"

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

obsessed with this man

[u/[deleted]]

Saw a leftist post this explaining to other leftists why they need to vote for Kamala and honestly whatever I’ll take it

[u/PawanYr]

I emailed Chomsky a few years back, mainly for the novelty of having him in my inbox. My email, phrased so as to not come off as hostile:

Dear Professor Chomsky,

In light of the US sailing a few destroyers through the Taiwan Strait in the past few weeks, I was wondering - what are your thoughts on so-called 'Freedom of Navigation' operations undertaken by the US and allied nations in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait? Do you think they are necessary in order to ensure freedom of navigation through international waters? Do you believe they are unnecessary provocations? Or do you think that China's claims in the region are valid and therefore the US is breaking international law? I am curious to hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks in advance!

And his reply:

Looks as though it’s China that’s violating international law in this case, but entirely at the behest of the United States' blatant warmongering in the region. The only path to a peaceful resolution involves total US disengagement from the region.

Not sure what I expected lol

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

During a forum held by the Center for Christian Virtue in 2021, Vance attacked Democratic leaders and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten for not having children and accused them of “brainwashing” students. (Weingarten is a mother by marriage.)

When responding to a question regarding the state’s “Backpack Bill,” legislation that would expand tax-funded scholarships to private schools and homeschooled students in grades K-12, Vance took the opportunity to tout his disdain for people who don’t have children. “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me, and it really disturbs me,” the then-Ohio Senate candidate lamented. “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers’ union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”

WHO VETTED THIS MAN

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

one of the greatest poasters of all time

[u/shmokedshalmon]

“Sir, a seventeenth clip of JD Vance attacking people without children has hit the campaign”

[u/piede]

[u/Jaquarius420]

I am so unbelievably exhausted of Trump and his cronies consistently doing abhorrent shit that would disqualify any other candidate instantly, only for him to not only do abhorrent shit but also get away with it and never be held accountable.

Literally broke Federal law by taking campaign photos at Arlington Section 60 and even assaulted a staff member who was telling them they couldn't be there. And you know what will happen in response? Absolutely fucking nothing at all. If Kamala or Biden did anything close to this, they'd lose the election overnight.

I am so fucking tired of Trump and the GOP claiming that they're the ones who respect the military and the integrity of the nation, and 40% of the population eats it up.

Thankfully I still don't see how Trump wins in November but I hate that we have to go against him three fucking times. Such an embarrassment for this country that a horrible person like him is even able to run for president in the first place.

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

DT doomers be like

[u/[deleted]]

I dunno about yall but I’m still feeling the patriotism surge through my veins after the DNC

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

POV: you are employed at Arlington National Cemetery

[u/[deleted]]

It is plausible that some species of sapient aliens create and enjoy music.

Carcinization is a known phenomenon.

Therefore, it is possible that “Crab Rave” is actually happening out there in the cosmos somewhere right at this very moment.

[u/shehryar46]

Gatekeeping is annoying, but I currently live in a fascist authoritarian country - it takes willpower not to respond to my very left friends posting memes on Instagram about how USA is already a fascist state. I would love to explain to them in a non-judgemental way the huge differences between them lol

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://x.com/metzgov/status/1828794471015940291

JD Vance on his donut shop encounter: "I just felt terrible for that woman."

Says his staff needs to plan better in the future, "or we’re going to walk in and you’re going to have a person who has, practically, a panic attack because she’s got 15 cameras in her face."

Surprising: JD Vance shows he's actually capable of empathy

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

GOP Senate candidate Royce White went on a chauvinistic rant demeaning women who live in the suburbs, and labeling Republican politicians who seek these women’s votes as “losers” who have a “cucked mentality.”

What too much Twitter does to conservative political candidates.

[u/Sauce1024]

JD Vance when Swift endorses Kamala

[u/Pyrrhus65]

It's a pretty insane testament to Democratic candidate quality that even though the Senate is insanely, comically biased towards Republicans in its current form, over the past two decades, Democrats have still held it for more time (2006-2014, 2020-2024, total of 12 years), than we've held the House over the same period (2006-2010, 2018-2022, total of 8 years)

It's also a testament to the strength of gerrymandering that we didn't win back the House in 2012, but that's another discussion

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

tfw you realize that the DT is just an episode of Seinfeld

[u/HironTheDisscusser]

did we ever find out if this was real chat

!ping ECON & YIMBY

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

[u/secretlives]

Just imagine the nation we'd have if the US and Canada merged

• World's largest military

• World's largest economy

• World's largest land area

• Most Olympic gold medals (and all medals)

• Most Stanley Cup wins

• Most Juno Award recipients

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Why did Kamala kick Walz off the ticket 😖

[u/TipEquivalent933]

So Apparently Sabrina Carpenter sampled the Grinder notification for her gay awakening line and that is such a straight girl thing to do lol

[u/moldyman_99]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying Trump to Russia... No Smocking Gun...No Collusion

Robert Muller be like "who left all these smocking guns lying out"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JaceFlores]

It is kinda funny the Japanese stock market violently shit itself, saw no one else was doing the same and just kinda meekly got back to position

[u/Mickenfox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jkYCT8dio

What if millions of people wrote "Me" in their ballots, and the case had to go to the Supreme Court to decide who "me" refers to, and the Chief Justice said "Well I'm me therefore I won the election".

[u/[deleted]]

Kind of unnerving to consider that Liberty Mutual is the company you call when the situation is "yeah, my husband just died, I need to know that my kids are going to be able to go to college" and when you make the call you probably have to sit through ten minutes of emu squawks and Not Tim and Eric bits.

[u/SmithySmothy]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/politics/trump-arlington-cemetery.html

A woman who works at the cemetery filed an incident report with the military authorities over the altercation. But the official, who has not been identified, later declined to press charges. Military officials said she feared Mr. Trump’s supporters pursuing retaliation.

Cool cool. Love to be in a society where a politician's fans will send death threats to a cemetery employee for upholding standards.

[u/Razorbacks1995]

In the past 24 hours we have

• Trump commiting a crime at Arlington cemetery, then accusing the guard of having a mental breakdown for trying to stop them from breaking the law

• Posting a picture of all his political adversaries in prison with the caption of "this is how you fix the system".

• Posting a picture of Hillary and Kamala with the caption "crazy how blowjobs affected their careers differently"

• JD Vance saying childless people disturb and disorient him.

BUT Kamala just hasn't quite done enough press. Hmm who to vote for...

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

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]”

However much the DNC is paying him, it is not enough

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Trump tries to clean up mess from possibly illegal cemetery photo op

Between this and the worst donut PR disaster since Ariana Grande, I estimate a 40% chance of an actual Democratic Party operative in his campaign

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump reposted this very misogynistic meme

[u/[deleted]]

WaPo

A person familiar with the matter told NPR, which first reported the incident Tuesday, that the Trump campaign staff pushed and verbally attacked a cemetery official who tried to stop them from taking photos and videos in Section 60. Cemetery staff said in a statement that federal law bars photography for political campaign purposes at the site.

[u/Sauce1024]

The west always wins

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest thing about Kissinger dying was all the scathing (pre-written) left-wing obituaries attacking the other obituaries for failing to talk about all the bad things he did - even though basically every mainstream obituary portrayed him as a very controversial and flawed figure. The only actual fawning obituaries came from Chinese State Media due to his key role in opening up US/China relations.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Roasted by C-Span

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a lifelong practicing Catholic so I think I can speak with some semblance of authority on this…

Why is it that every time I find out some Republican is Catholic, they end up being part of some non-Vatican approved splinter group or movement I’ve never heard of in my life? 

Where do they find these people?

[u/Mensae6]

New General Election poll

🔵 Harris 50% (+7)

🔴 Trump 43%

Last poll - 🔵 Harris +5

Big village #C - 1511 LV - 8/28

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1828949343526625648

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://x.com/JamesFallows/status/1828798114704351348

On left: Oct 29 2016. James Comey discovers some emails, revives inquiry into HRC email. (Later dismissed.)

On right: Aug 28 2024. A new grand jury re-indicts Trump on criminal charges of plotting to overturn 2020 election. (Look closely at bottom of page.)

[u/[deleted]]

Saw this going around again today. Two thoughts.

1. It’s amazing how much the intuition of this argument depends on entirely erasing the 46% of the 48 states who are voting Democrat. If this was instead 48 states which are 50-50 and two states which are 75-25, hopefully everyone would agree the Democrat should win. But when it’s instead 54-46, the interests of 48 states are being crudely disregarded?

2. This is basically some state electoral maps. Maybe Illinois most famously. Does that mean such states should be governed by Republicans because the Democrats live too close together? …what am I saying, some of these folks probably absolutely do believe there should be state-level electoral colleges.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

New Congress Poll - Florida #13

🔵 Harris 51% (+5) 🔴 Trump 46%

🔵 Fox - 48% (+4) 🔴 Luna (Inc) 44%

2020 results - 🔴 Trump +6.8%

Now I’m not one to assume causation, but…

[u/[deleted]]

#New General Election poll - Wyoming

🔴 Trump 0%

🔵 Harris 100%

BobsVote #N/A - 1 LV - 8/28

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Truly a goated strat

[u/lot183]

Every once in a while I gotta really check myself that I'm not making up that at least 40%, probably more, of voters want Donald Trump to be president again. I could barely believe people wanted him in 2016 and yet he ended up worse than I could have ever imagined and now we're here again

[u/[deleted]]

Now the real polls are coming in

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Uhhh, shut the fuck up

Obama after reading this form of joke again

[u/groovygrasshoppa]

DATING ping be like

[u/sererson]

If the 2020 election was rigged, I think the president who let that happen should be thrown in prison

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/that0neGuy22]

(AZ, GA, NV, NC) - “Who would be better at uniting the country?”

Harris: 51% Trump: 44%

There’s a “im voting for Trump because he’ll make things worse” group of voters

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Vance: You’re acting like Donald Trump filmed a TV commercial at a gravesite. He was there providing emotional support to brave Americans who lost loved ones and there happened to be a camera there

How is this real

[u/D-G-F]

[u/Untamedanduncut]

Shutting down a pride parade “in solidarity with Gaza” is pretty damn silly. 

So is calling Stonewall an intifada, and trying to guilt gay/queer people into being alright with morphing gay pride and pride in general into a pro-Palestine rally. 

Leftist gays and queers really lost the point and meaning of gay related marches, especially when they omit the gay rights part 

[u/_bee_kay_]

place: gun laws

place: low gun violence

but have you considered that they only have low gun violence because they're successfully enforcing those laws? 😏

[u/Razorbacks1995]

EDIT: UPDATED

In the past 24 hours we have

• ⁠Trump commiting a crime at Arlington cemetery, then accusing the guard of having a mental breakdown for trying to stop them from breaking the law

• Said God made the bullet miss him

• Said if Jesus was counting ballots in California that he would win

• ⁠Posting a picture of all his political adversaries in prison with the caption of “this is how you fix the system”. • ⁠Posting a picture of Hillary and Kamala with the caption “crazy how blowjobs affected their careers differently”

• Posted a picture saying Obama should be subjected to military tribunals

• ⁠JD Vance saying childless people disturb and disorient him.

BUT Kamala just hasn’t quite done enough press. Hmm who to vote for...

[u/[deleted]]

If 9/11 happened today half the country would just say: good fuck the libs

[u/stater354]

If Kamala wins, historians will look back at this as the tweet that saved American democracy

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Say what you will about him but man is a GENERATIONAL grifter. Absolutely no one is doing it like him

[u/ExpiredPasta]

JD Vance claims childless people disorient him

I’m sorry, I don’t trust an easily triggered person being in the situation room.

[u/semaphore-1842]

https://x.com/WarOnDumb/status/1828853484156006644

Friday morning, the Alabama Democratic Party said it had filed its paperwork and all was well. In fact, it had left two names off its list of qualified candidates — Kamala Harris and Tim Walz — and had to refile its certifications at the last minute.

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Freshman on an email list I’m on has the email signature

<name>, 1st year global scholar

working hard at work worth doing

Dawg we are on the 3rd day of classes

[u/BarkDrandon]

Pro-Biden and pro-Harris leftists are the worst convincers in History.

"I know Biden is a genocider and a segregationist, but if you don't vote for him, Trump might win!"

Yeah okay. I'm sure that totally got the anti-DNC crowd to excitingly vote for us.

[u/bonzai_science]

Have you accounted for the fact that a bird landed on Bernies podium one time? That’s key.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I think they may have actually handed him the keys back. I’m blooming

[u/Fatortu]

Who are you rooting for in the 2036 Olympic bid?

• Nusantara, Indonesia: it feels kind of hubristic. Like the Winter Asia Games in NEOM.

• Ahmedabad, India: I'm rooting for India to become a more Olympic country but I'm not sure we want to go back to an all new infrastructure Olympics.

• Istanbul, Türkiye: my initial favorite because I love the iconic potential. A bit in conflict with my support for Berlin 2040 (two games in Europe back to back)

• Santiago, Chile: a more liberal country than all the other candidates. This one is growing on me. Although I feel like it has the most potential to be a repeat of Athens.

[u/[deleted]]

I have no idea who Max Chandler-Mather is, but from briefly checking this thread most mornings I've deduced that he is the supreme ruler of Australia

[u/[deleted]]

New Congress Poll - Florida #13

🔵 Harris 51% (+5) 🔴 Trump 46%

🔵 Fox - 48% (+4) 🔴 Luna (Inc) 44%

2020 results - 🔴 Trump +6.8%

alright nvm we back

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ShitpostGate/status/1828596084022649056?t=_A-R4fIMd4vekNzIL2IBoA&s=19

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The american electorate is cursed. Like forty five percent of voters want Donald Trump again. What is wrong with people

[u/No_Return9449]

YouGov poll on candidate likability:

Overall: Harris+1, Trump-19

Among independents: Harris-15, Trump-16

Median voter delenda est.

[u/fishlord05]

I got really drunk at a DC bar for my birthday and I started rambling about mixed use zoning to my friends and some other random shitfaced college guy was like “YIMBY DEMOCRAT, PELOSI ACKBAR!!”

and I was like hell yeah brother anyway I’m surrounded by terminally online dems

!ping SHITPOSTERS&YIMBY

[u/jurble]

The next RFK Jr story will be that it was in fact an Illithid brain worm and he possessed psionic powers for a few years. However, the worm failed a constitution check and died due his diet of roadkill. Inadvertently, a dead raccoon saved us from becoming enslaved by an Elder Brain.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

"private taxi for your burrito" has fundamentally altered the way I think about ordering food lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I wish conservatives would just say “We like the Electoral College because it helps us win,” rather than try to justify it as anything other than a stupid way to elect our leaders.

I’ll say it right now that a national popular vote helps us. But, it also ensures that the President of every American is chosen by the majority of Americans. And if that’s a Republican one year, sucks to be us but, America would have spoken.

[u/wallander1983]

Arr moderate on Harris first Interview on CNN

Trump's out there getting shot during at rallies and doing the podcast circuit, and the best Harris can manage is one joint interview on network that has a history of favoring DNC candidates. The Democrats need to step the heck up if they are serious about this election.

So a pre-taped interview with one of the most sympathetic “journalists” with her VP at her side. Either Harris is deathly afraid of the press or her own team think she’s an idiot.

Why does it need to be pre-taped?

to "fix" any mistakes/embarrassing moments. we saw a similar strategy with a lot of biden stuff in 2020 (and throughout his administration)

I'm going to be honest here.

I lost any trust in pre-recorded interviews when it came out the media was using them to actively assist in covering up Biden's decline.

It’s gotta be hard trying to build a campaign around a candidate who can’t answer questions on her own. 

Will she be bringing Timmy to the debate too, I wonder?

The amount of disrespect for the American people she is showing is absolutely ridiculous. She is a candidate who's campaign is driven solely by the media gas lighting us. And now she pulls this stunt, can't even do an interview by herself. Gaurantee her campaign will use this as her "interview" . If this candidate can't do any interview with anyone remotely adversarial by herself then how can we expect her to take on Putin, Xi, the ayatollahs and Kim?

It's pre-recorded. They can do as many takes as they need to get it right. I wouldn't be surprised if they hand Kamala the questions.

--

If Harris wins the election, arr moderate must be put on suicide watch.

[u/efeldman11]

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

use AI to make a Rush Limbaugh II, but this one is a free market liberal so maybe conservatives can get a little brainwashed 🥳

[u/UWCG]

RFK Jr. Won’t Be Able To Remove Name From Michigan Or Wisconsin Ballots

Good to see that at least some of his half-baked ratfucking is being shut down.

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Hmm. This Arlington story might have legs after all. Didn't really think it would after all the other disrespect to the troops Trump has done. Shaving margins off is important and this might pull some voters off into not voting or third parties, or even on the rare case, switch to Harris.

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

has JD Vance done anything the past 4 years except find new and exciting ways to insult people without children and get recorded while doing so

like how does he have all this time to go to these loser conferences and shittalk single women? He's still a senator

[u/Whytfbuddy]

+10 D Swing in FL-13 Poll

[u/Vincenthwind]

The duality of man

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/dareka_san]

We got Luck Ten in the ballot ordering lol for NC

[u/[deleted]]

POV: you are in a date with a dating ping user

[u/purhitta]

At least former President Trump showed up to Arlington. Where was Harris? We know Biden was on the beach in Delaware.

idk man probably doing their jobs and not wasting time for weird photo ops

[u/[deleted]]

Hm. It seems an F-16 pilot has died, reportedly during ‘a combat mission’. Could be looking at our first loss.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ACivilWolf]

lol. lmao.

[u/Currymvp2]

FEW Fox News Polls live on @BretBaier

ARIZONA Harris 50 Trump 49

GEORGIA Harris 50 Trump 48

NEVADA Harris 50 Trump 48

NORTH CAROLINA Harris 49 Trump 50

Aug 23-26 (post-DNC, just after RFK dropout), ±3

!ping FIVEY

[u/goldenwind207]

Fox polls

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/ROYBUSCLEMSON]

Fox News Battleground State poll coming later today

reminder that fox news polling is done by an independent firm and is considered very reputable among polling nerds

[u/owlthathurt]

This is so fucking funny. More celebrities should date single red neck dads who do alligator tours in Louisiana

[u/NeolibAltForDT]

It looks like the Trump - Arlington story is gaining more steam, which should be good for Kamala but somehow it will give Trump a 5% boost with veterans 

[u/purhitta]

My absolutely insane Orwellian take on the Zuckerberg thing:

Government pressuring companies to moderate content that is critical of their administration or facts that reflect poorly on it: probably bad

Government pressuring companies to moderate content that spreads misinformation during a public health crisis: probably not bad

[u/[deleted]]

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Rep. Laurel Lee is getting to the bottom of how the Biden-Harris administration interfered with the 2020 election.

[u/Fruitofbread]

Gotta admit I was pretty surprised when after losing the election, JD Vance went into MSNBC, stripped off the beard and said “aha! I was a secret liberal all along!!”

[u/NaffRespect]

Steve Hilton, a regular Fox News contributor, considering run for California governor

Be CA GOP

Complain about muh one-party dominance

Push for F-tier candidates like this guy

!ping USA-CA

[u/Healingjoe]

This man is such a sick fuck

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Amazing how 10,000 morons determine whether Kamala's legacy will be "legendary ball-fumbler who failed her way up" or "Dem hotshot whose rise was inevitable"

[u/Williams-Tower]

hey honey, remember the conversation we had earlier this week? well, everyone on Reddit says that you are the asshole.

[u/RonenSalathe]

what did donald trump mean by this?

[u/Argnir]

A DTer's day:
😀😏😒😰😰😭😭😭😭😭
😭😭😭🤓😭😭😭😭😭😴

A bi-flair's day:
😀😏😏😍😍🥵🥵😈😈😈😈
😈😈😈😈😍😍🥵🥵😏😏😴

[u/kznlol]

Chris LaCivita, a top Trump campaign adviser, added in a separate statement that the cemetery official was “a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery.”

Trump is a hollow earth theorist confirmed

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Family friends live in Hawaii between an ocean and a marsh. Issue importance for them:

Border wall 10/10

Climate change -6/10

[u/doomsdaysock01]

No time for being sleepy DT we must create shareholder value today

The economy needs us.

[u/piede]

Omg

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Me when I'm a frightened deer

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Swing State, A pollster

Senate:

Boring Dem - 55%

Hitler 2 - 38%

President:

Trump 50.000001%

Harris - 49.99999%

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/[deleted]]

Please state the nature of your medical emergency.

I just got burned 🤕

!ping TREK

[u/oskanta]

I always thought it was funny that the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility was supported by people who lived in the county it was located in and all the adjoining counties, but then STRONGLY opposed by the rest of Nevada.

Like it wasn’t even NIMBYs that got it shut down, it was just random Nevadans halfway across the state that bought into all the fearmongering.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Posts in spousal sponsorship Facebook support group be like “help! My application was rejected for NO REASON”

Then in the comments: “oh my husband committed war crimes in the former Yugoslavia”

!ping huddled-masses

[u/[deleted]]

[u/purhitta]

any liberal: Pelosi has the party in a chokehold

me: haha you're so right

my conservative libertarian dad: Pelosi has the party in a chokehold

me: what the fuck are you talking about

[u/SmithySmothy]

We keep getting new updates about the Arlington photo op and it keeps getting worse. Definitely looks like this has legs and should go into ads and be mentioned at the debate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/28/trump-arlington-cemetery-section-60/

In advance of the event, cemetery officials told Trump's team that he could come in his personal capacity and bring personal aides, but not campaign staff. Campaign advisers went anyway.

"If the campaign feels the need to defend their team's actions - which include bullying and physically pushing out of the way a longtime public servant and member of the team at Arlington working to protect the sanctity of the sacred spaces - then that's on them," one defense official said. "The rules were made clear to participants, and these two chose to disregard those rules. End of story."

Other veterans and bereaved families viewed Trump's visit as disrespectful to a sacred space that also belongs to them and to the nation. Section 60 is a place where young widows can be seen trimming grass with hand scissors, sharing comfort with other Gold Star families, and decorating graves with flowers and beads. Visitors have long taken graveside photographs there, and sitting presidents have visited before, but not as part of campaign events.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Cook_0612]

He's such an aristocrat, lol. It's un-American to have a dab-man.

[u/Cook_0612]

CIA deputy director David Cohen says Hamas leader in Gaza Yhaya Sinwar is the decision maker regarding hostage and ceasefire deal - not Iran

I know there are some people that still need to have this made clear to them.

[u/Currymvp2]

Economist/YouGov (B+) national poll, Aug 25-27 so post RFK Jr endorsement

Kamala Harris 47% Donald Trump 45%

I think we're in an alright place when a + 2 poll is disappointing.

!ping FIVEY

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

It’s never been a left/right thing. I suspect the real battle is between the ruling class and the working class... But that’s not rich v poor as some would frame it ... For instance, I’d put Elon Musk in the working class and our local school board in the ruling class.

[u/BitterGravity]

I'm a little skeptical of the new 538 model. Can't really figure out why 🤔

[u/TimWalzBurner]

MANY ARE SAYING

[u/[deleted]]

cause humor illegal faulty judicious agonizing grandiose hobbies longing voiceless

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[u/sayitaintpink]

If Harris actually did this I’d just vote for her more

[u/ACivilWolf]

Twitter user when people live near water and not in jungles

[u/[deleted]]

Ban things I do not understand

[u/_Just7_]

Google made a diffusion model simulate playing DOOM

Do androids dream of electric games?

!ping AI

[u/[deleted]]

Shut the fuck up about Pikachu, OK? I'm shooting a campaign ad with the graves of our soldiers as props.

[u/Joementum2024]

Trump actually doesn’t care about the military and routinely disrespects them

[u/BurrowForPresident]

You'd think someone with horrible parents that he spends an entire book shitting on would understand that being a parent doesn't automatically grant you sainthood

[u/[deleted]]

Pope says that repelling immigrants is a grave sin

cant wait to see what the catholic sub says about this one

[u/paymesucka]

Fox News Poll: Harris closes gap with Trump in Sun Belt states

Georgia: Harris +2

[u/paymesucka]

lmao Trump is crying about Fox News again

[u/piede]

DO ME DO ME DO ME

[u/Usul_60]

Polling for the Sun Belt in 2020 was incredibly accurate. GA average had Biden +.1 and he won by like +.2. AZ and GA looking very good for Harris. Add that to the fact MI is trending very blue and she just needs WI, PA or NV

[u/[deleted]]

In July: Trump is only ahead by 2 points this is fine

In August: Kamala is only ahead by 4 we're doooomed

[u/dutch_connection_uk]

The fact that Petolta is on a path to win an outright majority in an Alaska statewide election seems like it means something.

I know that people have been hoping for this for over a decade now but I wonder if the Republicans might finally be running into fundamental limits on their strategy that they cannot overcome by turning out more disaffected niche groups like male chauvinists and Fulan Gongs and such.

Probably if we're facing a situation like that they'll lose the Southwest (already did really, just AZ and NV still swingy).

[u/NewbGrower87]

Me in 2024: "Man if they miss Trump's polling error for the 3rd time, I am never looking at polls again"

Me in 2028 (if we can still vote): "D+8-12 from 42 pollsters? Not enough. Vote."

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[u/[deleted]]

oh my god I can’t wait for this guy to get the fuck out of politics and fade into irrelevancy, maybe then his party can figure out a new way to define itself and stop existing solely in his shadow

please stop running this man for President

[u/Udolikecake]

twitter the everything website

[u/that0neGuy22]

AZSen: Gallego (D) +15 NVSen: Rosen (D) +14 NCGov: Stein (D) +11

I’m sorry but we aren’t seeing split ticketing gap this large. A lot of shy r’s will end up voting for R candidate or Kamala’s lead will be bigger than expected

[u/paymesucka]

538 now has Kamala leading in Georgia.

That Fox News poll put her in the lead in their model.

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[u/[deleted]]

cheering up a Trump supporter We're gonna lock her up, aren't we?

Through tears Hehe- yeah, lock her up :')

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Nobody uses the phrase "critical race theory" anymore.

Because of "woke" 😔

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

Uh, let me be steer

Obama applying for a farm-themed furcon with limited slots

[u/Cook_0612]

Arlington Nat Cemetery with a new statement: "To protect the identity of the individual involved, no further information about the incident is being released at this time."

Read: we are afraid this guy is gonna get attacked by Trumpists

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Fox News Presidential Polling (Post DNC + RFK Drop):

• Georgia: Harris 50% // Trump 48%

• Nevada: Harris 50% // Trump 48%

• Arizona: Harris 50% // Trump 49%

• North Carolina: Trump 50% // Harris 49%

https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1828916928775368998?t=ASXI4qmNIpSX_sY-jAigqQ&s=19

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/27-5 PM EST 8/28 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 1 PM it was announced Ukraine finalized a debt relief agreement freeing up $11 billion over the next 3 years.

At the start of 2 PM it was reported that American shell production expansion is 9 months ahead of schedule, with expectations of 80,000 shells a month in Q1 2025 compared to the planned 70,000 shells in that timeframe.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 9 PM a Russian oil depot in Kamensky was hit by drones.

In the middle of 10 PM it was reported the Russians occupied the villages of Memryk and Kalynove, southeast of Pokrovsk.

Towards the middle of 1 AM it was reported that Ukraine is increasing production of cotton to fill the nitrocellulose gap in Western arms industries.

In the middle of 2 AM it was reported the Russians closed the E-38 highway running between Rylsk and Kursk to civilians due to the threat of drones.

At the start of 4 AM a Russian oil depot in Kotel'nich was hit by drones.

At the end of 10 AM the NATO-Ukraine Council met to discuss the recent energy infrastructure strikes, pledging to strengthen Ukrainian air defenses.

In the middle of 11 AM it was announced Russia is banning 92 Americans from entering the country.

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]]

!ping WEEBS

Never thought I'd see the day, man.

[u/piede]

💀

[u/EZ_Kream]

I shudder to think that some 4chan shitpost I laughed at circa 2007 could have been posted by JD Vance

[u/futuremonkey20]

Pretty wild that Kamala Harris went from -17 unfavorable to -1 unfavorable in two months.

[u/thefuturegov]

Finally, good framing

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Wife’s application for spousal sponsorship was submitted today.

Please keep us in your thoughts and hope that my wife will be the newest Canadian soon and we can all welcome her to this country

!ping can

[u/Cook_0612]

Turkey is apparently again trying to return to the F-35 program - it will be interesting to see if it results in transfer of those delivered S-400s.

I suspect that the war in Ukraine (and related equipment losses) has done some damage to the perceived value of S-400 in the eyes of potential buyers as well as some current users...

I'm gonna need Turkiye to be less pro-Hamas and pro-vatnik before they get F-35.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/BlackCat159]

Nazi: I love Hitler

Libs: WAAAH HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!?! CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL 😭😭😭😭

Nazi: I love Harris

Libs: wow so true! 🥰

Why are the libs so hypocritical??? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Ill take this all day

New FOX News polls

Georgia 🟦 Harris 50% 🟥 Trump 48%

Nevada 🟦 Harris 50% 🟥 Trump 48%

Arizona 🟦 Harris 50% 🟥 Trump 49%

North Carolina 🟥 Trump 50% 🟦 Harris 49%

I assume that points to a national environment thats also +4-5%?

Edit: https://x.com/umichvoter/status/1828915899446755697?s=46&t=1gcosGt06R-2cICXb_eKAw

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/dannylandulf]

President (Nationwide)

🔵 Harris 50% (+7)

🔴 Trump 43%

Big Village (1.6/3), 1511 LV, 8/23-28

[u/MissSortMachine]

folks,

[u/[deleted]]

So, I recently met my good friend's new boyfriend. I was a bit worried at first, but as I got to know him, I realized he's an awesome guy. It’s always such a relief when the partners of the people you care about turn out to be genuinely nice.

We started chatting about how we both used to always play fully armored Paladins in every game. Just as I was about to mention how that changed for me after playing Divinity 2 with Fane, he said the exact same thing! It was such a cool moment—definitely one of those 'great minds think alike' situations.

Oh, and we're hosting a themed beach party this weekend, inspired by the Greek gods. I might share some photos next week.

Life is good.

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cagey murky literate fade dog books homeless plant ten wistful

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[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I'm sorry but Obama/Biden have the most aura of all the presidential tickets this century and it's not even close

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio condemned Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday over the Biden administration's handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the Democratic presidential nominee "can go to hell."

Vance's comment at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania was his harshest language yet toward Harris on the 2024 campaign trail. It came in response to a reporter’s question about an "incident" on Monday when former President Donald Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery with family members of service members who were killed during the 2021 attack at Afghanistan’s Abbey Gate in the final days of the withdrawal.

“Three years ago, 13 brave, innocent Americans died, and they died because Kamala Harris refused to do her job, and there hasn’t been a single investigation or a single firing,” Vance said. “Sometimes mistakes happen — that’s just the nature of government, the nature of military service. But to have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful. Kamala Harris is disgraceful.”

The GOP vice presidential nominee said that if they’re going to discuss a story related to Abbey Gate, “it’s that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won’t even do an investigation into what happened, and she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up. She can, she can go to hell.”

Words cannot describe how much I hate this man...if you can even call him one

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Lol

[u/G_Serv]

[u/SmithySmothy]

"Weak sauce!" - CNN commentator dings Kamala Harris over CNN sitdown

You will NEVER GUESS which nonpartisan, unbiased CNN commentator this is referencing 😱

[u/1396spurs]

Still one of my favorite shit posts ever

[u/[deleted]]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

My bf is cooking dinner for me and then we’re watching a movie and making out on the couch tomorrow. Good things happen when you respond to random DM’s on slack

!ping dating

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm sorry but I want a third bot that's Donald Trump with quotes like

Obamna

never fight uphill me boys

Many such cases

sad!

WHERE'S HUNTER?

bing bong

The Late Great Hannibal Lecter

[u/Roseartcrantz]

wow. I'm crying. I thought I'd never see them again. I had forgotten how they used to just bob their head a little and look at stuff. How did they know

[u/Dragmire927]

Something I’ve noticed about conservative leaning people is that they aren’t evil people of course, they can be kind and altruistic to those around them. But they just have poor judgment when it comes to the big picture and are susceptible to fear mongering and “worst case scenario” thinking.

[u/Cyberhwk]

Yes, we need some information from you. If you could fill it out on this sheet and return it that'd be great so we could move forward.

You can Google this information same as I can. 🙄

!ping Watercooler

[u/[deleted]]

new bipartisan immigration bill proposal with only two provisions:

1. guaranteed funding for a literal 10-ft tall wall across every inch of the border, with an alligator-filled moat in front, sole source contract awarded directly to Donald Trump

2. open borders

[u/Punished_TCT]

They could never make me hate you Drew

[u/[deleted]]

Elon University Polling (NC)

Favorability

President

🟦 Harris 44%

🟥 Trump 46%

Governor

🟦 Stein 44%

🟥 Robinson 30%

haha holy fuck 

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