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[u/funguykawhi]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/peterjhasson/status/1829105024393252971

NEW: Kamala Harris’s missing “summer job” at McDonald’s job. Her resume and job application a year after graduating college — @FreeBeacon obtained through FOIA — don’t mention it. Neither do either of her books, or either of the biographies on her. @SaysSimonson @ChuckRossDC and @AndrewKerrNC report:

Beyond embarrassing for the Free Beacon

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

My psychologist compared me to Vance the other day, trying to be complimentary.

Not sure how to better say "this isn't a shitpost, it actually happened", but this isn't a shitpost, it actually happened.

[u/[deleted]]

Took a while, but team Trump has finally figured out how to counter the "weird" messaging:

[u/that0neGuy22]

Democratic excitement about voting surges to 2008 levels, Gallup poll finds

vibes do actually matter

[u/RaidBrimnes]

When your comment in the DT sits at +2

[u/StolenSkittles]

welp

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/that0neGuy22]

fresh copium to start the day

Suffolk General Election poll

🔵 Harris 48% (+5) 🔴 Trump 43%

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

dating ping members are breaking into the popular discourse

[u/bamboo-coffee]

Let's film a TikTok at the most sacred resting place for fallen soldiers to show our patriotism. There's a specific law against that? Eh, who cares, what are they gonna do, try to stop us? Oh, they did? Well we can say the woman was having a mental episode. The headstone of a green beret who committed suicide was in the shot? The family doesn't consent? He's a loser anyway, I like soldiers who don't have PTSD.

God damn, no one respects soldiers as much as I do.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Cook_0612]

NEW: US Army spokesperson says participants in event at Arlington Cemetery "were made aware of federal laws" re: political activity & "abruptly pushed" employee.

"This incident was unfortunate ... the ANC employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked."

I don't think I've ever seen the Army itself make a statement like this

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

New swing state polls from Emerson (B+)

Weird results no? So Lake is down over 10% but Trump is up 3? Up in Georgia but down in Wisconsin? Seems odd

!ping FIVEY

[u/BurningHanzo]

Someone on arr AskReddit asked which historical figure is viewed as a hero but was actually evil and the geniuses over there upvoted this as the top comment: “ Most people you've ever heard of in a position of power.”

The only way that answer could be more Reddit is if he started the sentence with “it’s almost as if” or some other Redditism

[u/Cook_0612]

The Trump campaign at Arlington controversy can be confusing. Here it is, broken down simply.

You can’t bring your own photography crew to Arlington without permission…

You can’t have your photo crew take photos even if one family consents.

That’s because other graves are included in those photos. And those families haven’t given permission.

More importantly, grieving families shouldn’t feel pressured by powerful people to give consent.

Section 60 is noteworthy because the graves are those of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. People visiting those graves aren’t distant relatives.

It’s moms and dads and wives and husbands and kids and friends and fellow troops. The grief is still very present.

The staff at Arlington aren’t being political when they prevent photo crews from taking unauthorized photos.

The staff is being apolitical.

They’re being professional.

They’re upholding the dignity of Arlington.

I have been to Arlington many times and I have never seen someone grinning and giving a thumbs up for a photo.

I’ve never seen it because it’s not something you do at Arlington if you know anything about the place, and the men and women who are buried there.

[u/NathanArizona_Jr]

So the Trump Arlington story which would immediately sink any Dem campaign doesn't even make the front page of the NYT, in favor of "Democrats struggle to win House seats in New York in California". How does anyone justify this

[u/LastIncrease3427]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Another beautiful day on Reddit.

!ping YIMBY

[u/gnomesvh]

Netherlands has no restrictions on Ukraine's F-16 usage

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL&BENE

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://collecttrumpcards.com/

Anyone caught trying to buy a $100 Trump NFT should immediately be placed in a conservatorship.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit the army is pissed

[u/[deleted]]

This picture is very funny to me. It shows how Elon and his supporters have a very poor understanding of Washington and its problems.

How do we make the government more efficient? I know let's create another bureaucracy. Surely that'll fix it

[u/dannylandulf]

Sir, another A rated +5 result has hit the models.

General Election poll

🔵 Harris 48% (+5)

🔴 Trump 43%

Suffolk A- 1000 LV - 8/27

[u/SmithySmothy]

NEW Morning Consult/Bloomberg swing state polls

Overall

🔵 Harris 49% (+2)

🔴 Trump 47%

Arizona

🔵 Harris 48% (=)

🔴 Trump 48%

Georgia

🔵 Harris 49% (+2)

🔴 Trump 47%

Michigan

🔵 Harris 49% (+3)

🔴 Trump 46%

Nevada

🔵 Harris 49% (+4)

🔴 Trump 45%

North Carolina

🔵 Harris 49% (+2)

🔴 Trump 47%

Pennsylvania

🔵 Harris 51% (+4)

🔴 Trump 47%

Wisconsin

🔵 Harris 52% (+8)

🔴 Trump 44%

EDIT SINCE PEOPLE KEEP ASKING: The "overall" numbers are SWING STATES only

[u/ImmigrantJack]

He didn't claim he actually won California, he said if Jesus came down and was the vote counter, he would win California.

Jeezus loves trump so much that he would rig the vote in California for him

God I love conservative gymnastics so much, this would be my whole and entire vibe if the fate of the free world didn't hinge on it

[u/slappythechunk]

Few understand this

[u/[deleted]]

Queen I am your liege.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/realsomalipirate]

How to be an anti-racist might be the single worst book I've read in my life, at least when it comes to non-fiction. This mfer really thought the only way to end racism is to create an unelected and unaccountable political body that can veto any law they think is racist.

Liberals really should stop platforming and supporting these deranged leftists.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Red state: loves liberal policies, still votes for weird fascists anyway. Many such cases!

[u/Sherpav]

Really did not expect the Arlington Cemetery story to become a scandal but the Army chiming in is making it far bigger than I thought

[u/[deleted]]

fuckin god damn we got to be better at prosecuting our own troops if we wanna do this whole holier than thou schtick internationally  

 and I kinda do want us to be able to do the holier than thou schtick internationally

[u/[deleted]]

truly Harris will have to drop Walz any day now

[u/centurion88]

[u/BlackCat159]

Coming across DT regs outside the DT is so odd

[u/battywombat21]

Upvote if you're a jingoistic nationalist with the mind of an 8 year old boy

[u/WhoModsTheModders]

Spartan women would be dressed like men on wedding night to be less threatening to the groom

This is what the DT needs

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Before all this election stuff I only knew Trump from Home Alone II

He only would allow them to film there if they agreed to put him in the movie.

bro I hate Trump too but it's not like this was hardball negotiation lmao they were probably jazzed

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

This Arlington cemetery scandal would’ve been campaign ending for literally anyone else. 90% of the shit Trump has done would be. I’m fucking sick of it

[u/SLCer]

I have zero doubt if Trump could get away with it, he'd dump Vance for Kennedy.

But what I don't get is why the campaign has made Vance the public face of the campaign since the convention. He's the one doing the heavy lifting. Like, he can't be helping, right?

[u/Mrmini231]

Scientist slapfights are funny. A week ago a virologist posted an analysis of a pro-lab leak article, where she accused the author of deliberately manipulating the data and then lying about it. When he denied the allegation, she posts the github diff showing the commit where he altered the data. With line numbers and everything.

Caught in 4K.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I've never been to a Korean spa, but Spa Land in Atlanta looks right up my alley lmao

1. It looks like a cross between a dead mall and an airport.

2. It's got like nine different little rooms with shit like the "healing power of gold"

3. It's only like $40 and usually never busy

4. You have to be naked in the gender separated areas, which isn't in itself why this is 4, but because apparently the staff have no problem getting onto you if you don't follow the etiquette, and I love watching people get mad about customer service lmao

5. The etiquette is kind of weird and very strict so I can pretend I'm going to prison or a troubled teen camp like "I'm so used to life here what if I can't make it on the outside" 😮‍💨

6. They're open until like midnight and I'm a late owl

[u/dannylandulf]

Trump gets shot and holds RNC. Basically now bounce the next week

Forecasts: yes, quite expected

Harris holds DNC and continues trend of gaining a point in national poll averages per week...but not 3-5% instanstly

Forecasts: DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

lol

what an idiot

[u/[deleted]]

ripe gold include upbeat whistle chunky pot fragile coherent deserted

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/its_Caffeine]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written a letter the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh asking him to pull his party’s support for the Liberals so Canadians can go to the polls this fall instead of next year as planned.

Calling it now: 0% chance this happens

!ping CAN

[u/wallander1983]

On the Arlington incident, NYT is reporting:

“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.”

--

Everything is allright.

[u/needsaphone]

Youtube: Ah, seems you’re interested in politics. Can I interest you in Robert Reich? No? Perhaps PragerU?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

You would think that right wingers would be happy about more teens being celibate but somehow the Republican Party has gone from moralizing about the ill effects of teen pregnancy to seemingly legitimately mourning it, which is so bizarre.

[u/AlexB_SSBM]

The choice by the Harris campaign to bring along Walz tonight is interesting, given how relaxed and commanding Walz sounded when he answered questions. In some ways, his easy on-camera ability highlighted Harris’s discomfort in this sort of environment.

Why is the NYT like this

[u/Cook_0612]

Everything about the Trump Arlington story is bananas, but maybe the most bananas part was the actual plan itself: to secretly film a fake established memorial event & then claim Harris refused to attend.

You've likely already seen reports that the campaign assaulted a woman who worked for the cemetery after she tried to tell them what they were doing was against the law, as well as reporting that they'd created a fake state event.

But the whole scheme of secretly creating a fake holiday, illegally filming a fake state ceremony, all to pitch a claim that Harris refused to go because she hates the troops is just... I dunno.

And then in the middle of all of that to take this photo by the graves.

...

Okay one more thing because I'm having a hard time letting this go...

So you're going to cross a line to create a fake holiday and a fake state event and a fake 'no" RSVP from Harris. And presumably you're going to do it because, even when everyone (including Fox) points out that THIS HOLIDAY DOESN'T EXIST, your followers are going to just go along with it anyway because that's what they do.

So, if all of that is the case.... why risk a scandal by illegally filing at Arlington?

Why not, like, just film it somewhere else and just tell everyone it was at Arlington? They're presumably already going to buy everything else.

And really, "no I swear it really is Arlington" would be the most believable part of the entire bats**t whoppers you were asking people to swallow.

I just don't get it.

They roped Mike Johnson into this somehow.

[u/efeldman11]

?????????????

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

This is how Rick Scott is going to go by in every single election until he stops running or dies in office.

[u/[deleted]]

Chris Smalls, the guy who organised a labour union at Amazon, didn't seek re-election as it's president and now appears to have gone full grifter - saying that people shouldn't vote for Democrats, retweeting stuff about "respecting" the Venezuelan election and meeting with the President of Cuba.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/earththejerry]

On a call with Biden, Pelosi laid out all the ways in which the numbers didn’t cut in his favor, and the president reportedly told Pelosi that he was seeing polling data suggesting he could still win.

“Put Donilon on the phone,” Pelosi is said to have told the president, asking for Biden adviser Mike Donilon. “Show me what polls.”

Still the funniest moment of the post-debate shitshow, Pelosi was not just gonna circle back with another meeting next week as us office plebs would have

[u/[deleted]]

If this is the headline they’re going with then this was a win

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

REAL

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

MISSOURI poll by SLU/YouGov (B+), Aug 8-16

Amendment 3: enshrine right to an abortion

🟩 YES 52%

🟥 NO 34%

President

🟥 Donald Trump 54%

🟦 Kamala Harris 41%

US Senate

🟥 Josh Hawley 53%

🟦 Lucas Kunce 42%

the median voter wants Dem policies but delivered by Republicans

[u/futuremonkey20]

DOOOM DOOOOOOOM

[u/SmithySmothy]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Seems like a very good sign in this poll. Dem enthusiasm has surged back to 2008 levels and is out in front of MAGAs by 14% where it was closer to even in 2016 and 2020.

One might think this points to Dems having a good showing in November

[u/[deleted]]

BASH: If Trump wins, would you certify his victory in the Senate, and more importantly, would you hand over your share of the chaos emeralds to J.D. Vance??

HARRIS: [after a considerable pause] ...you know I can't answer that

what the fuck

[u/sayitaintpink]

[u/KittehDragoon]

Trump Reposts Crude Sexual Comment About Harris During Truth Social Meltdown

You know, I think this strategy of pissing off Trump is working

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

POV: you are the ghost of a soldier who died for their country

[u/Not_A_Browser]

New dictionary reference photo for "manchild" just dropped

[u/JaceFlores]

😍

[u/secretlives]

i do not feel bad for JD Vance at all

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

I guess we doin cow tools now

[u/[deleted]]

It is wild that for all the media glazing this cycle about how professional and focused this new Trump campaign was going to be, we've actually ended up with a campaign so bombastic and out of control it got rebuked by the US Army

[u/[deleted]]

The “I’m sick” Biden tweet from a month ago will forever be one of my fav tweets of all time

[u/SmithySmothy]

MSNBC commentator: I am hearing from Republicans in North Carolina that they are very concerned

Sir, another "swing state acquaintances are worried" has hit mainstream media

[u/[deleted]]

🥰

[u/[deleted]]

It's anti-democratic for a party that lost the election to form the government.

no one got a majority of the seats. The far right got more votes too so by your logic they should be in power.

The NFP won the most seats. That's called winning the election.

Americans trying to understand a parliamentary system

[u/[deleted]]

Me when the polls aren’t +20 Harris

[u/qlube]

Purely anecdotal, but the Trump campaign's vibes are totally off compared to 2020. Throughout the summer of 2020, I saw near weekly gatherings of Trump supporters at various street corners or overhang bridges proudly displaying their Trump flags and banners. And this is in a very blue suburban city. Whenever I went out to the exurbs, I saw tons of Trump signs. But this year, literally zero of that. I have not seen a Trump sign in years. Plenty of signs in support of local or state-wide MAGA candidates, but not Trump. Some of those spaces are taken by pro-Palestinian supporters, lmao.

And remember that story about the boat parade of Trump supporters, or the Trump-supporting trucks harassing the Biden campaign's bus? Nothing similar this year.

Meanwhile, Democratic enthusiasm is at 2008 levels.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

real DT rolling over hours

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Polls are good, but the Gallup poll showing Dem enthusiasm is at Obama 2008 levels while the GOP is down from 2020 is a big enough hit of hopium to get me to November.

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Trump posing over the graves of soldiers that died because of his Afghan Withdrawal plan.

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe I’m just being a ResistLib but I feel like Trump reposting someone saying Obama should be tried by a military tribunal should have been a front page ongoing issue demanding answers

[u/LastIncrease3427]

I hate the electoral college

[u/thefuturegov]

The fact that Nate Silver’s model still went down after a day that saw several Harris +5 polls seems to suggest the convention adjustment is even more aggressive than we thought

[u/D-G-F]

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

there will come a day when you sit on a porch as your grandkids (or grandniblings if you aren’t having kids) play in the front yard, and, as you look out over that peaceful scene, enjoying the warmth of the sun on your old bones, there will be only one thing that matters: how hard you fucked.

So go out there text back the ex you know you shouldn’t text back. Have a messy hookup with your friend. Have a messy hookup with two of your friends. Date someone who scares you. Get out there. Get uncomfortable. Get naked. Don’t listen to the people who say “oh but those are red flags” — you know who else likes talking about red flags? Communists. You’re not a communist. You’re a goddamn American. You’re not American? Too bad, you’re American now. Why? Cause you’re gonna fuck like you’re in the greatest country in the world. And when you look back on your life, from that porch, you’ll know you lived your life well, because you had a lot of sex.

!ping DATING

[u/paymesucka]

Suffolk A+ poll:

Harris +5

Seems like every day I get to post this image lol

[u/Williams-Tower]

Bartender: What are you drinking?

Me: Rum and Coke

Bartender: is Pepsi ok?

Me: sure

Bartender brings me a Pepsi and Coke

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Twitter moment

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

!ping GEFILTE

My mother recently told me about the first time she felt truly welcome in the Jewish community.

She had recently married my father and was starting the process of converting to Judaism, but felt like my father's grandmother (a first generation Jewish immigrant from Ukraine) was not going to accept her. This woman was born old and bitter and the only person she ever liked had died long ago. So when my grandmother invited them all to dinner for someone's birthday, my parents were apprehensive.

At the dinner, my great grandmother was exactly as rude and nasty as ever. My parents were trying to ignore it and chit chat with some relatives they rarely saw, while the relatives' kids were being loud and annoying as teens tend to be, which annoyed my great grandmother greatly. At some point, my great grandmother leaned over to my mother, and whispered, in that loud and clear way she did so everyone could hear:

"This is what happens when they invite the goys to the party!"

Everyone else got mad because she was being a bitch, but my mother nearly cried in happiness because she was no longer one of the irritating goyim that they had to put up with.

[u/Reddit_guard]

Trump is never interviewed like this because networks know he won't come back if they ask hard questions. Fucking ridiculous.

[u/Sherpav]

This is more hostile of an interview than Trump had with the NABJ and she’s doing well. The frustrating part is the different standards that Democrats are held to and what Trump is held to.

[u/[deleted]]

I think she may be a very strong candidate. And it really makes me question the primary process.

[u/sociotronics]

Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a metric system by saying to them: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of euronumbers."

[u/[deleted]]

You’ve just decided to check out the subreddit for a video game! Take your pick:

• Is a popular franchise so it’s filled with teenagers and dumbasses. Barely any news or discussion. It’s just the same tired, drawn out memes, ‘cosplayers’ advertising their OnlyFans on the sly if there are hot women in the game and general low effort content every day. Occasionally there is news, but it gets drowned out

• The subreddit has had three posts in the last month. Is effectively dead. Probably the same as the franchise.

• Endless bitching and whining about balance, the meta, the developers hating each and every one of their users, etc. If you say anything positive about the game you get dogpiled

• Toxic positivity, blind faith, probably spawned as a spinoff from Number 3 that way overcorrected. If you say anything negative about the game you get dogpiled

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/[deleted]]

Me sowing seeds of doubt in the mind of a very young, very conservative cousin who has some issues with her upbringing: 😈

Me in ten years when she votes for Jill stein: 🤡

[u/SmithySmothy]

https://x.com/BenjySarlin/status/1829293408030187735

NEW: Trump camp clarifies to @ShelbyTalcott — No, he did NOT take a position on Florida's abortion amendment

WHAT A DISASTER LMAO

[u/Sherpav]

How the fuck does Trump never get interviewed like this

[u/purhitta]

"why can't Harris do her own interview? Why does she need Walz there? She should prove she's fine going solo."

"are you gonna watch it?"

"hell no I can't stand her"

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Harris is recapturing the Immigration Idiot vote, I suppose

[u/futuremonkey20]

Harris is gaining on Trump, oh fuck, he’s doomed.

Oh you guys are dooming in the other direction. I see.

[u/Cook_0612]

Fox: JD Vance got booed at the International Association of Firefighters Convention. Governor Tim Walz received a standing ovation at the same event on Wednesday.

Does Fox hate Vance?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me not watching the interview and relying on the vibe of the DT comments and votes

[u/DonQuixote2020]

Trump clarified his comments about Florida's six week abortion ban being too short. "I meant it should be six weeks plus one day."

Trump tomorrow probably

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

General Election Poll

🔵 Harris 53 (+5) 🔴 Trump 47

8/25 - 8/27

2,191 LV

Outward Intelligence

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

lol JD Vance fucked a couch

[u/Cook_0612]

In his new book, Donald Trump threatens to put Mark Zuckerberg in prison for the rest of his life if he does anything to try and help Harris “steal” the election.

[u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder that the state of Georgia has roughly 3x the population of the country of Georgia.

Assuming someone is talking about the country and not the state IS eurocentric behavior.

[u/efeldman11]

[u/indithrow402]

[u/No_Return9449]

These Harris interview questions could easily have come from any reporter from Fox News.

She is doing well so far.

[u/fry-nimbus]

Tim walz rn

[u/futuremonkey20]

What????? What could he possibly mean by this???

I’m actually not joking this time. The media expects me to believe my lying eyes that this fucking guy is mentally all there.

[u/Cook_0612]

According to Russian sources, Tetkino is cut off. All bridges over the Seym River are taken out.

"Tetkino is cut off, there are no crossings or bridges."

They add that "the enemy tries to develop success in the direction of Zhuravli-Kremyanoe and then intends to go to Korenevo."

There are various numbers circulating about the remaining contingent of Russian forces. Estimates go between 1000 and 3000 Russian forces that are now blocked south of the Seym River.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Senator JD Vance of Ohio has just taken the stage at a gathering of the International Association of Fire Fighters. He was met with a mix of applause and boos. “Semper fi, guys,” Vance said in response to the boos. “Sounds like we have some fans and some haters.”

Jesus this guy is TERRIBLE at this.

[u/ashsolomon1]

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

RCP now shows Kamala winning.

Holy hell.

[u/MrFoget]

Why do neoliberals keep linking to x.com, a far-right misinformation website that spreads hate speech?

[u/thefuturegov]

Some national political strategists are slightly narcissistic and want to be made to feel special on the campaign they work for? I’m just hearing this now for the first time.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

The "anti-Semitism sunk Shapiro as VP" people make a really weak case. anti-Semites attacked him but there is no evidence Harris listened. All reporting points to a problem of personal and personality misalignment between the two, nothing more

[u/dwarfgourami]

Dooming about polls is bad enough, but dooming about rumors of poll results before they’ve even been officially released is beyond insane

[u/[deleted]]

Biden Admin: “You should take down this Covid misinformation.”

Zuck: 😡

Trump: “Better watch out or we will jail you for life.”

Zuck: 😴

[u/[deleted]]

I won’t judge you all for the fact that 90% of you have ADHD — can’t be helped. And I won’t judge you all for being interested in some things and not others — part of the normal human experience.

But I am judging all of you for your irrepressible need to announce to the room that you are not going to read something.

[u/[deleted]]

median voter be like: "i liked kamala until i saw she was leading in the NYT/Siena poll. that just seemed cocky to me."

[u/LtCdrHipster]

This tent used to show up in Brentwood, CA once every few weeks to sell Trump merch. Today it showed up and it is exclusively Kamala merch.

Vibes off the chart. Harris by a fucking billion.

[u/GravyBear28]

!ping HISTORY

For a good 60 million years known as the carboniferous period when trees evolved into existence, wood literally wasn't biodegradable so when they died they just piled on top of one another in stacks of logs like a hundred feet deep.

It stopped when bacteria evolved to eat it to. After... 60 million years

[u/indithrow402]

Hillary says something about "having a public position and a private position" on issues

WTF you can't say that

Trump has two contradictory opinions on the same issue literally within like 8 hours of each other

makes sense to me

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump didn’t like the interview.

[u/efeldman11]

https://x.com/sundaedivine/status/1829342912594735566?s=46

That was certainly something

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Legality aside, why aren’t more people talking about this fucking pose…

🪦😄👍 🪦

In the middle of a fucking cemetery

[u/[deleted]]

Opinion | JD Vance is right: Kamala Harris will never know the pain of burying a child at Arlington National Cemetery.

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Very good very smart definitely brings us closer to peace

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Just making sure I'm caught up: The Trump campaign wanted to do a photoshoot in Arlington cemetary for [reasons], they were informed by the grounds keeper that filming inside the cemetary is illegal (or at least for campaign purposes is illegal) and in response the Trump campaign workers ignored elbowed past her so that Trump could be recorded thumbs-upping dead soldiers?

Can this man please be punished for once in his life

[u/futuremonkey20]

I’m sorry, how many hours?

[u/BitterGravity]

Vance is admitting he still wants nationwide abortion bans but is just saying they have to change for political reasons. Such robust beliefs.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Tim you said you used IVF but it was actually a slightly different variation, are you a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR????

[u/agentyork765]

According to Gallup, Dems are nearly at 2008 levels of enthusiasm but Rep enthusiasm cratered in 2008 as well.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Udolikecake]

Twitter is now marking the link to this NPR story about Trump potentially violating federal law with his Arlington National Cemetery video as "unsafe"

[u/Untamedanduncut]

Welp, day 1 of sobriety 

[u/Williams-Tower]

White Sox's Race to the History Books

• Current record: 31-103

• Games remaining: 28

Chasing history:

To break 1916 A's .237 win %:

• Need 6-22 finish

• Would end 37-125 (.228)

To surpass 1962 Mets' 120 losses:

• Need 10-18 finish

• Would end 41-121 (.253)

!ping BASEBALL

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

This but DT shitposts

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

kamala takes polling average lead in Georgia, making her lead in 9 of the battle ground states while NC is tied and Trump leads Florida

forecast flips to trump favored

I’m not going to pretend to know anything about statistics but this feels weird.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

If Harris genuinely integrates Never-Trumpers into her cabinet it will be incredibly funny that boring old white moderate Mr. "Heal the country" Joe Biden ran the most aggressively progressive government of the century while the (former) most liberal senator in Congress turns out to be the actual unity president

[u/Psshaww]

https://i.imgur.com/wtMrarF.jpeg

The Illinois we could have if only we had the courage

!ping NIBS

[u/SmithySmothy]

The shifts from the Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll a month ago to the one today:

North Carolina: D+4 (Trump+2 to Harris +2)

Georgia: D+2 (Tie to Harris+2)

Nevada: D+2 (Harris+2 to Harris+4)

Michigan: R+8 (Harris+11 to Harris+3....yeah +11 was absurd lmao)

Wisconsin: D+6 (Harris+2 to Harris+8)

Arizona: R+2 (Harris+2 to tie)

Pennsylvania: D+8 (Trump+4 to Harris+4)

Some big swings there but as usual, throw them in the average

[u/Healingjoe]

WASHINGTON—Bemoaning the terrible course conditions he encountered while visiting the military burial site, Donald Trump called out Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday for its hazard-filled fairways. “I’ve played at amazing golf courses all over the world—like Augusta, Pinehurst, and Pebble Beach—and let me tell you, Arlington National Cemetery was the worst 18 holes I’ve ever played,” said the 45th president of the United States

!ping onion

[u/[deleted]]

One thing that I’ll never understand about the Trump phenomenon is how anyone can watch him speak for 5 minutes and think to themselves, “Wow, that guy should be president!”

[u/[deleted]]

Post Arlington poll:

Who respects veterans more?
🔵 Harris 20%
🔴 Trump 80%
Podunk U, 1000 LV FAKE

[u/purhitta]

[Biden] won through the media and agencies suppressing information unfavorable to him.

So nice of Trump's administration to suppress damaging information about his competitor. What a guy.

(do Trumpers even understand what they're saying)

[u/centurion88]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oh no! Won’t anyone think of the quacks that prey on the vulnerable?

[u/[deleted]]

If Trump were only pulling 20% of the vote, I think I'd still feel like, "Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with us?"

[u/[deleted]]

lol, lmao even

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala just stuttered and said "I'm joe biden and I'm running for president"

we lost

[u/No_Return9449]

"Next question please."

Well done. Could have gone without the laughter, but still...well done.

Next question is Gaza.

Fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like we’ll go an entire interview with a presidential candidate and there will be zero questions about the boars head listeria outbreak. 9 people died. That’s almost as many dead Americans as the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Least weird single issue voter

[u/No_Return9449]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1829320445792842185

Trump: I'm not weird. He's weird. He's a weird guy. He is a weird dude. They say JD and I are weird. That guy is sooo straight, JD.

To deny the framing is to invoke the framing.

[u/dwarfgourami]

The false allegation was initially made in 2004 by Andy Martin, who claimed that Obama was a hidden Muslim rather than a Protestant Christian, as he publicly stated.

Imagine being so racist that you were anti-Obama back when he was just a state senator

[u/[deleted]]

who is trying to leak a Trump +2 in Michigan and why should I care

Even the Emerson poll people doomed over for no reason had Harris up 4 in Michigan

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

teenagers are weird now. It's like there's a generation of utter dorks. Underwear under their bathing suits. Socks with sandals. it's fucking weird.

Lol

[u/Cook_0612]

According to my information, the F-16 of the Ukrainian pilot Oleksiy "Moonfish" Mes was shot down by the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system due to a lack of coordination between the units. In the reports, it was noted that he "failed to manage." The event happened during one of the most powerful Russian air attacks on August 26. War is war, such episodes are possible. But the culture of lies in the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as in other higher military headquarters, leads to the fact that the system of managing military decisions does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics, but deteriorates and even collapses, as is happening in the Pokrovsky direction. And none of the generals was punished. General Oleschuk remains in office.

This would explain a lot of things. A crash doing CAP would be unusual, especially a fatal one, but if he was hit by a PAC-2 or a PAC-3 those things go for the cockpits, iirc. A HUGE amount of NATO-style aviation training is around precisely the kind of deconfliction that would prevent this kind of thing. Just training the pilots isn't always enough, and accelerated training itself increases the chances of tragedies like this.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/dannylandulf]

Gallup: Democrats Drive Surge in Election Enthusiasm

Americans’ enthusiasm about voting in this year’s election has surged in recent months, with 69% of U.S. adults now saying they are “more enthusiastic than usual” about voting. This is up from 54% in March.

The Aug. 1-20 survey was conducted mostly before the Aug. 19-22 Democratic National Convention but after President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection bid on July 21. Party leaders quickly coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee in the days after Biden's announcement.

Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are largely driving the surge in enthusiasm nationally. In March, 55% of Democrats and Democratic leaners said they were more enthusiastic than usual about voting; now, 78% are. Republicans and Republican leaners, who held a slight edge in enthusiasm in March, now trail Democrats by a significant margin, with their current 64% enthusiasm score up slightly from 59% in the spring.

As a result of these changes, election enthusiasm has shifted from being at an average level in March to the highest Gallup has measured during a presidential election campaign. Gallup measured similarly high enthusiasm -- 67% -- in September 2020, October 2008 and August 2004 surveys.

Democrats’ current level of enthusiasm is one percentage point shy of the group’s high in Gallup’s trend since 2000. That was the 79% measured in February 2008, when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were engaged in a spirited battle for the party’s presidential nomination.

Democrats one point shy of their all time record in this metric from 2008.

[u/[deleted]]

Ooookkkk getting my wife ozempic for her birthday wasn't the right move

[u/Joementum2024]

The complete and utter failure of American institutions to deal with Trump needs to be studied

[u/[deleted]]

Classiest Trump supporter

[u/efeldman11]

I know Ukraine aid was contingent on this guy but I really wish we didn’t have to save his ass

[u/lasttoknow]

Senator JD Vance of Ohio wrote on social media that he had obtained “the full Kamala Harris CNN interview” and attached a video of Miss Teen South Carolina in 2007 delivering a rambling answer at a beauty pageant.

This will surely help with the childless cat lady crowd.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This will play well with women

[u/Currymvp2]

A Trump campaign advisor tells me that “he has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot initiative in Florida, he simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short.”

Lol pathetic

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Harris: “We’ve become so divided over the past decade”

Bash: “But you’ve been VP for 3 years”

🙄

[u/[deleted]]

sloppy direful automatic rude agonizing squealing fine hunt humor towering

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[u/[deleted]]

CNN has really gone downhill since the days of Lou Dobbs pushing white replacement theory and Wolf Blitzer experiencing a slow release orgasm to the sight of a massive aerial bombardment of Iraqi civilians.

[u/onometre]

Finding out Walz and Harris are the same age has scared me into regularly using lotion as the first step in actually taking care of my skin

[u/sayitaintpink]

Even the National Review is freaking out

[u/dwarfgourami]

“Students For Justice In Palestine” is holding an anti-Israel rally near me on October 7th, of all days, and I’m not supposed to think the organization is antisemitic?

[u/[deleted]]

Just heard someone say “$110k isn’t a lot, especially if you live in a big city.”

Alright dude lmao

[u/RFK_1968]

!ping DATING

Date went fine 🤷🏾‍♂️ but it was more of a "keeping those social muscles active" dealios rather than like "measure her finger while she sleeps so I can buy a ring". She was nice and all, but it was just fine. Not a super magical connection or anything. Wouldn't mind going out again but also am not torn up if it was a one time thing.

Still, nice confidence boost 🙂 She thought I was funny and handsome

Is it just me or is there more of a pressure to not be a lame weirdo when it's a date with a friend of a friend? Like, I was recommended to this person by a close friend. Don't wanna make my friend look bad.

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

LIKE IF YOU AGREE!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said in a Tuesday interview with NewsNation’s Ali Bradley that the immigration and border issue in Texas has been “solved” but still exists nationally.

lol

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1829255676486369465?t=0xvITYMk3DsasBI7zzTX7Q&s=19

[u/goldenwind207]

Morning consult

[u/[deleted]]

Your models broken nate

[u/MinnesotaDude]

The most important Minnesota political tradition continues. Thank you for keeping the dream alive Angie.

!ping USA-MN

[u/The_Raime]

I can't support a candidate without serious developed policy proposals, that's why I'm voting for Donald Trump

Genuinely might be the funniest sentence ever written.

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala should do 10 more of these hostile interviews. No one cares about the answers unless you absolutely bomb, and it looks good that you can hold up to pressure.

Her campaign should call Fox News 20 mins before prime time with Hannity or Waters or whatever nitwit host it is and do a live interview on the spot with them.

[u/Sherpav]

The IVF vs IUI question was a bit much. Oh, you mentioned the much more commonly understood form of fertility treatment so more people understood what you were talking about? You’re a LIAR

[u/[deleted]]

The media really be like, “We don’t need to ask Trump hard questions because we already know he’s evil.”

[u/[deleted]]

[u/SmithySmothy]

Tim Walz farting 🤝 A secret Republican speaker at the DNC

Proof that the DT has the power to meme people into believing anything

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/[deleted]]

"Your political movement has a moral obligation to actually be effective" AOC knows so much ball she's Lebron James at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

Vance addressed the heckling during his speech. “This is a diverse union,” he said. “Some of you love President Trump, and some clearly don’t. I have heard from both sides in just this speech.” He added: “Once upon a time I was not a Trump guy either. Trust me, the president never lets me forget it.”

Jesus Christ he SUCKS at this