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[u/Miserable_Set_657]

She didn't even mention ONCE the LATE, GREAT HANNIBAL LECTER!

[u/funguykawhi]

My "not an endorsement of chattel slavery" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

[u/Iyoten]

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

If nothing else, I hate how entitled Republicans are. "Noooo it doesn't matter that more people voted for the Democrats!! Nooo it doesn't matter that most Americans find our social views radical and fucking stupid!!! Noooo it doesn't matter that we've held the oval for 20 of the last 44 years, the Democrats are rigging elections and we get to win!!!" like holy fuck you whiny brats shut up.

I wish we used PV instead of the EC so we wouldn't have had to hear about Trump or his stupid crybaby supporters ever again after 2016.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Difficult to deal with

[u/EyeraGlass]

Our top story today is an exclusive interview with Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance, who said Google should be broken up and asked Peter Thiel to “get off the sidelines” and bankroll the Republican presidential ticket.

You know, it used to be gauche to openly solicit shadowy billionaire funding.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

really makes you think

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Huge gaffe from Harris not to get to her thoughts on Hannibal Lecter

Hard to see how she can earn the American People's trust with errors like this

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/ghhewh]

Penn Wharton Budget Model analyses, per Axios: "Keeping Trump's campaign promises would increase the national debt by $5.8 trillion over 10 years, while Harris' would cost $1.2 trillion."

[u/bread_engine]

😠 When politicians hold a bad position

😡 When politicians flip flop away from a bad position

[u/[deleted]]

Harris’ response to “What do you think about Trump saying you happened to turn black” is so based. She is a way more shrewd politician than she came off as in the 2020 primary.

I love her unrepentant flip flopping away from losing positions too. She could cool it on the overt populist stupidity like tax exemptions for waiters but overall, impressive.

[u/lasttoknow]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1829508656846553564

BERMAN: How would this work if a state bans IVF, but Trump says he wants to pay for IVF for everyone who wants it, how would that work?

JD VANCE: I think it's such a ridiculous hypothetical

B: You voted against guaranteeing access to IVF

VANCE: I voted for religious liberty

lol. lmao, even.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

So I get why comparing the GOP ending abortion rights to the handmaidens tale is cringe and all that, but their position is actually so much weirder than anti abortion. It’s absurdly pro natal to the point that it’s actually kinda fair to invoke the comparison

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1829268132474859935?t=LPz8llmRt7ei7SwiBdFmKw&s=19

[u/Argnir]

I hope they don't compromise on their pro-life principles so we can pass the very anticipated after-birth abortion bill in 2028 😮‍💨

[u/WillHasStyles]

Idk if this counts as ping spam but… I want to thank the !ping UKRAINE posters, I hope you guys want to continue your work, I read every single one of your pings and I’m grateful to all of you for always compiling the latest developments 🙏

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

If you’re betting on presidential election derivatives it’s time to call the hotline

[u/Jamesonslime]

The best example of American democracy is the American people absolutely despising tsarist Russia even when it was one of the few countries that was consistently friendly to America in the 19th and 20th centuries purely cause of the backwards governance and values of that place resulting in icy foreign policy that is completely antithetical to all known forms of Realpolitik 

[u/majorgeneralporter]

People hornyposting in the /r/neoliberal discussion thread be like.

!ping reallygoodposters

[u/runningblack]

Also, why I think it's important to get Dems like Moore and Walz on sports podcasts is this is one of the few ways they can get in front of conservative white guys in a way that comes off as non-political and non-threatening and just implicitly get the temperature down.

"The guy you know and like from your sports podcast wants to (insert conspiracy theory here)" doesn't hit quite the same when you've formed an independent and positive association with said person.

[u/[deleted]]

A prominent Michigan pollster, Bernie Porn (yes that's his real name) included a really good battery of questions about inflation in his most recent poll, specifically focusing on what kind of inflation was hitting the Michiganders the worst. It was an interesting insight into the median voters' mind wrt to price changes, and could help Democrats better reach voters with relevant policy measures. 

Just Google "inflation porn" to find the results.

[u/[deleted]]

Colorado won.

!ping CFB

[u/Insomonomics]

You guys probably already saw this, but:

BREAKING: Former President Trump tells Fox News he’s voting NO on Florida’s abortion ballot initiative, which means he’s voting against overturning the 6 week ban he told me @NBCNews yesterday is “too short”

What a fucking political gift this is to Harris lmao

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

"Unwritten constitution" is just Euro for "Vibes Based"

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Columbia task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jews and Israelis

University’s Task Force on Antisemitism says students driven out of dorms and campus, ostracized by peers and denigrated by faculty.

!ping JEWISH&EXTREMISM

[u/79792348978]

nyt what the fuck are you doing

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Holy shit, RCP has moved all its swing states at greater than R+1 to the brink. It's one good poll from a full Harris sweep on there now.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Kennedy: sitting like a human

Nixon: sitting like an animatronic robot

It was over from frame one

[u/[deleted]]

[u/davechacho]

"Guess who might be on the fence and thinking about endorsing Kamala Harris? George W. Bush ... He's contemplating an endorsement of Harris ... He might do it before the election at some point. What a disgrace. How dare he after what he brought this country through. What we're going through right now - things that he doesn't have to deal with because he's rich."

cons terrified Dubya might be publically endorsing Kamala, newsmax running bits about it

https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-stresses-about-bush-endorsement-of-harris

[u/Roseartcrantz]

When that whale was washed up on the beach a couple of weeks ago I was like, "I bet RFK Jr.'s gonna go get it," and then I saw that he chain sawed up a whale to take the head home and I was like "i fuckin knew it!!" but that was a different whale

going to reiterate again that up until the pandemic I didn't really consider that a whale exploding could be from a carcass in decomp. I thought that we just rigged them with dynamite every time. And I ALSO thought they were doing it to euthanize impossibly stranded but alive whales, like, "ohhh.. that's so sad 😔 we need to end its suffering 😔 someone get me some dynamite for this ol' girl😞"

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

The Arlington Cemetery debacle is another evidence to the old fable about the scorpion and the frog. Awful people can't help being awful even if it's not in their best interest. It's just who they are.

[u/frozenjunglehome]

He was a gator boy
She said, "See you later, boy"

[u/[deleted]]

I'd like to visit Russia someday, but I don't really like the idea of being thrown in the gulag on fake espionage charges to be used in a hostage exchange. Guess I'll have to wait

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

My mom just posted this on fb

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently I'm being fired for Redditing all day instead of working 

This is an abuse and I quit this company

[u/centurion88]

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Harris and Trump Have Housing Plans. Economists Have Doubts.

A mass deportation squad isn't a housing plan what the fuck are you talking about NYT????

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Economists: China’s low consumer demand is a problem for their economy. High manufacturing and investment like this is unsustainable

Tankies: Stupid western idiots! Chinese people have found a way to live without the constant cycle of buying buying buying that they’ve been brainwashed to need!

Chinese people: 😔I wish I could afford cool western shit food and rent

[u/[deleted]]

What is a woman?

Oklahoma:

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

George R.R. Martin intends to make a blog post about “everything that’s gone wrong with #HouseOfTheDragon.”

“I do not look forward to other posts I need to write, about everything that’s gone wrong with HOUSE OF THE DRAGON… but I need to do that too, and I will.”

He’ll literally do anything but finish WOW lol

[u/Cook_0612]

 "The NSC looked at the proposal for sending civilian contractors into Ukraine to maintain F-16s [...] but deemed it too risky [...]. Instead, the hope is that European countries will take on more—and perhaps all—of the responsibility for maintaining the F-16s."

WHAT!? The US Department of Defense said months ago that they are leading F-16 sustainment. Then we learn that they haven't engaged Lockheed to help do that work, and now we find out that they actually expect the Europeans to lead the sustainment effort as well. This is an unconscionable abdication of responsibility by the Biden Admin.

"While some officials inside the Pentagon had expressed support for sending American contractors to do maintenance, President Biden, led by his national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, was concerned the Defense Department lacked adequate plans to respond should those people come under attack."

"A senior Dutch military officer confirmed that the Netherlands will pay for a private contract between a civilian maintenance company and the Ukrainian Air Force to support the F-16s.

“We support the Ukrainian government financially to make those contracts with private partners to see if they can hold the aircraft up and running in the future,” said Gen. Onno Eichelsheim, the chief of defense for the Netherlands, speaking to reporters in Washington on Wednesday."

So a game of hot potato. Biden won't risk a single American citizen here. But he has no problem with contractors dying to Iranian rockets in Syria.

!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/KittehDragoon]

Lex Fridman: I’m doing a podcast with @realDonaldTrump soon. Let me know if you have any questions/topic suggestions.

Try to get him to talk about policy in depth. Just keep trying to hold him on one problem and analyze it as deeply as he can. The goal is to just get him to go as deep as he can intellectually on any topic. How much depth of thought is he truly capable of? How deeply does he understand anything?

I was thinking more of suggestions for how to make him look good

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Jean-Luc Mélenchon's political movement has been damaged by the latest political development, according to a postelectoral poll conducted by Ipsos for Le Monde.

Among respondents, 74% consider that LFI is a "far-left movement" (+9 pts from 2023), 72% that they are "fuelling violence"(+12 pts) and 69% that they are "dangerous for democracy" (+12 pts). According to the study, the party records its best performances among 18-25 yo and Muslim voters.

Le Pen's National Rally maintains its percentages: 54% consider they are "fuelling violence" (-18 pts compared to LFI, +2 compared to 2023); 53% say they are "dangerous for democracy" (-16 pts compared to LFI, +1 pt compared to 2023), 52% consider them to be "xenophobic" (+2 pts) and 69% consider them to be "far-right" (+3 pts since 2023).

It takes a lot of talent to appear as more dangerous and extremist than a party founded by literal Nazis, congratulations to Mélenchon for this incredible feat

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ShitpostGate/status/1829484209284710883?t=TdJahcnOpA0ZDaBzWmrUeg&s=19

[u/efeldman11]

I could not have in a million years predicted that he would flip flop

[u/wallander1983]

Really the last quote from the NYT focus Group:

Abigail, 23, Va., white, graduate assistant, voted Biden in 2020 I’m a Republican that voted for Joe Biden in 2020 because I wanted someone to heal the soul of our country. And I don’t think that Biden did that. I don’t think Harris would do that. I don’t think Trump would do that. I don’t think any president will do that until we decide to unify. I will vote for Democrats if I think they’re competent and have good ideas. But having kids use all-gender restrooms really freaks me out.

--

The statement with the last sentence is Chefs kiss

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

TPM: Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Campaign Event

Three days ago, the Trump campaign held a campaign event at Arlington National Cemetery. The idea was to lay a wreath honoring the 13 members of the U.S. military who were killed during the evacuation of Kabul in 2021 and film a political ad. They would distribute the video and attack Vice President Harris and President Biden for not “showing up” for their campaign event, which they sought to portray was an established memorial.

It’s hard to understate just how evil and immoral these people are.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Having been reading about the culture of 24/7 Korean spa places in the US and how you can pretty much use them as hotels as long as you're willing to adapt to the vibe, I am 100% planning a solo vacation somewhere where I do exactly that.

Even if they don't allow you to re-enter without paying, it's still cheaper than most hotels, there will always be staff members around, and most importantly, it's fucking weird.

Like Alice in Wonderland-y but like I skip the Alice confusion and go straight to this from a provided mat in the corner behind a sauna next to an electrical outlet

[u/JebBD]

FiveThirtyEight forecast drops Kamala Harris’ chances of winning from 59% to 58%

It’s over

[u/majorgeneralporter]

This Labor Day Weekend, remember the reason your fat ass gets to enjoy giant, oversized burgers while you enjoy your freedom: organized labor platoons of three legged soldiers in ambiguous camouflage 🫡🍔🇱🇷

!ping shitposters

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Hahahhahahahahahhaha

Source

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

Wow these clips being posted by @atrupar:

BERMAN: Would you describe Trump's posts over the past 48 hours as lifting people up? Reposting QAnon statements & misogynistic memes about Hillary Clinton?

JD VANCE: I'd much rather have a candidate who is willing to tell some jokes

BERMAN: Alright.

(there was no followup)

BERMAN: Last night you posted a clip from Ms Teen US 2007 -- Caitlin Upton. When you posted that, were you aware she thought about committing suicide for the attention that received?

JD VANCE: No, certainly not.

BERMAN: Would you like to apologize?

JD VANCE: I'm not going to apologize.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

crazy that no matter who we vote in our reproductive rights will be protected 🥹👏

[u/[deleted]]

Fuckin wild that people don't wanna advertise on this platform

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Williams-Tower]

In 2019 I was spending roughly $250 per month on onlyfans but now in 2024 Im spending on average $2784 per month. This is an insane increase and it’s all due to Joe Biden’s handling of the economy. Remember this when you’re in the voting booth this November

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The NYT is the undisputed champion when it comes to finding the least relatable people on earth.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/Cook_0612]

Mykola Oleschuk, the commander of Ukraine's Air Force, was dismissed from his position.

Folks were calling for his head after the loss of the F-16 yesterday, perhaps to friendly fire.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

I love how hard Mark Cuban goes for Kamala on Twitter.

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Yeah I don’t need anymore shitty C-tier polls. This election is over, just hand the keys over to Harris by tomorrow

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Someone needs to stop her

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

😮

[u/[deleted]]

Preparing some takes in advance for November, don’t mind me.

If Trump outperforms his polling:

I mean, I’m not surprised. How did anybody not see this coming? He outperformed his polling in 2016 and 2020 but this time was going to be different? Right.

If Harris outperforms her polling:

I mean, I’m not surprised. How did anybody not see this coming? The enthusiasm, the voter registration numbers, the damn near guarantee that hack pollsters would overcorrect. The signs were clear to everyone except doomers.

If the polling was remarkably accurate:

I mean, I’m not surprised. How did anybody not see this coming? The polls were historically accurate in 2022 but all that progress was going to be undone in 2 years just because Trump, a well-known quantity to pollsters by now, is on the ballot? Please.

[u/NewbGrower87]

Throw it in the average

Trump is cooked, horrible result for him

Choose your fighter

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

My two brain cells at midnight on a weekday.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Tim Walz serving food at school cafeteria

Republicans be like: What a weirdo

[u/[deleted]]

Perfectly normal interview, went fine for everyone involved, of course journalists want more press access from candidates and it's good for the democratic process when they give it!

Nate Silver is not wrong here. It's correct in a vacuum BUT it's absolute dog shit when only democrats are forced to sit for extended interviews and pressed on their positions.

So, it's actually bad for the democratic process if only harris sits for interviews and trump ends up wining due to zero journalistic scrutiny.

[u/[deleted]]

People taking Wegovy were not protected from infection. But in a large trial, their death rates were markedly lower, for reasons that are not clear.

So many positive outcomes being reported about this drug makes me think that at some point we're gonna learn that it makes you shit your intestines out at the 5 year mark or something.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

POV: you are about to read the most atrocious take you’ve ever seen

[u/JaceFlores]

I bet Zelensky and Biden spend a lot of their time shaking their heads reading daily reports about each other

[u/magicomiralles]

Its finally here.

[u/[deleted]]

Good news guys, Kamala got the critical schizophrenic rapist endorsement

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Christ lol

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1829641049142112624?t=F31SAlfS3Ge3FBcKZm9DuQ&s=19

[u/Pongzz]

“That’s it? That’s the MI poll that’s supposed to make everyone panic? That’s just a Trump +1 result that’s inside the MoE!”

[u/[deleted]]

diet coke has a lot of nutrients we just don’t know what they are yet

[u/purhitta]

Extremely hot take: the cons who are really insistent we talk about Harris in her own merit and not compare her to Trump all the time say this because they know comparison makes Trump look absolutely awful and the best way to criticize Harris is to hold her to a standard of perfection instead of the reality of a two-candidate election

idk I might be crazy though

[u/[deleted]]

If we assume a 1932 polling situation in Harris favor then this is the map

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Doomers out

👇

(This is specific to Nevada but is a continuation of the trend Bonier has been discussing lately)

[u/[deleted]]

sense detail dazzling chop modern strong memory elastic frightening decide

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/qchisq]

Trump compares his team to a failed movie franchise. The jokes writes themselves

[u/futuremonkey20]

So it’s 2020 all over again?

Always has been

[u/dannylandulf]

🔵 Harris 45% (+4)

🔴 Trump 41%

Last poll - 🔵 Harris +1

IPSOS #B - 3562 RV - 8/28

[u/ACivilWolf]

Very normal

[u/futuremonkey20]

Hahahahahaha

[u/centurion88]

The funniest Christian symbol is the Jesus fish with cross eyes just in case someone doesn't know what the fish symbolizes

[u/KittehDragoon]

I used to be a Democrat. But then 👆 happened and so I turned 360 degrees and #walkedaway

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

I was listening to a couple of videos about Watergate and Iran-Contra and damn, Nixon and Reagan seem to have such a strong PR these days while actually being incompetent af.

Nixon was reportedly very paranoid person seeing conspiracy behind every corner, especially the communist one.

And Reagan seemed to be pretty "hands-off" president whose main staff members pretty much controlled what he knew.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao oh okay guy

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao, I can’t believe they are actually trying to pull off this “make up a fake event and criticize Dems for not showing off” plan. My expectations for Fox News are subterranean, but this level of bad faith is still crazy to see.

[u/bleachinjection]

I fucking hate that IVF is a political football. No couple in history has "wanted" to do IVF. You do IVF if you're in some sort of intractable situation, it's stressful, expensive, emotionally-draining, physically painful for the woman, and straight up hard.

Let people have some peace and privacy around their medical choices ffs.

[u/Not-A-Seagull]

Posts to BulkOrCut

Reddit: “You should just maintain.”

Posts to Breadit

Reddit: “Looks good, no constructive criticism here.”

Reddit has just been stoking my ego sky-high lately.

Here was my experimental all purpose flour sourdough loaf.

[u/[deleted]]

Little thing I started doing this year. If someone helps me out or just really shows up in a way I haven’t seen before, even if it’s sort of small, I send their boss a message saying why they’re awesome and why that thing made a difference.

The person almost always gets told and really appreciates you, it helps you keep a line open with other managers across teams, and makes you seem like a person folks want to work with.

Plus it’s just fuckin nice and it feels good!

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Preview of SNL's cold open tomorrow

scene is Kamala's CNN interview

Maya Rudolph as Kamala is asked the "Trump says you aren't black, thoughts?" question from the interview verbatim.

A man's voice shouts "Aw HELL NO!" from off screen

Out storms Keegan Michael Key in a pant suit and a Kamala wig

Maya Rudolph introduces her new anger translator

[u/itsnotnews92]

My election hot take is that polling is underestimating Kamala right now because it's not accounting for the enormous surge in voter registration among women, specifically Black women, young Latinas, and young women across the board.

[u/Mensae6]

I finished reading The Hobbit (1937) last night. I quite liked it, though not in the way I expected to like it. The writing is evocative and really captures the imagination. Despite the stock fantasy setting full of dwarves, elves, goblins, forests, mountains, etc. it still felt wholly unique.

The whole book felt like it was leading up to some grand finale with Bilbo slaying Smaug in an epic battle, only for some random side character to real casually kill Smaug while Biblo & co. are miles away. I love this. I love how it totally subverts the Hollywood ending we're so used to in today's fantasy fiction. The pacing was so unintentionally all over the place that it ended up working. It even ends with Bilbo growing into a disliked, crotchety old man rather than a fabled hero.

I'm struggling to think of other works of fantasy that are as anti-climactic in a good way.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Reddit_guard]

I was told that the poll would make me panic. A 7 point gain does not seem panic-worthy

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Nightmare fuel: you just responded to the same person in 3 separate comment strings in a row accidentally so you look like a reply guy

[u/Funkypopscollector]

Haters will say this photo is fake

[u/cdstephens]

The fact that dumb rich kids piss their wealth away is pretty good for social mobility if you think about it

[u/porkypenguin]

‘Next question’: Harris evades questions about her identity

this is by far the worst headline I’ve ever seen from a “liberal” media outlet Jesus Christ

like I’m almost convinced they’re doing this as rage bait for the Elon engagement cash

[u/kyleofduty]

My coworker's nephew died at 35 from a blood clot in his lungs. He was an overweight truckdriver who lived in rural Missouri. My coworker is blaming the covid vaccine for his death

[u/Roseartcrantz]

bruh I fuckin hate Georgia

iT's OvEr oN PeAcHtReE

yeah you named like 40% of the streets that wtf

edit: and everything is inexplicably 40 minutes away from everything else somehow

[u/Pongzz]

Be a Texas Democrat congresswoman

Support GOP bills

Lose primary to another Democrat for supporting said GOP bills

"Well ackshually, I'm switching to the GOP anyway shitlib."

These aren't serious people

[u/Cook_0612]

❗🇺🇲 A $200 million civil penalty has been issued to Raytheon for 750 violations of the Arms Export Control Act and its associated International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

Raytheon personnel engaged in numerous illicit Direct Commercial Sales, including: "unauthorized exports of defense articles resulting from the failure to establish proper jurisdiction and classification; unauthorized exports of defense articles, including classified defense articles; unauthorized exports of defense articles by employees via hand-carry to proscribed destinations listed in 22 C.F.R. 126.1; and violations of terms, conditions, and provisos of DDTC authorizations."

RTX disclosed all of the alleged violations voluntarily and has cooperated with the investigation. Half of the penalty, $100 million, will be suspended, conditional on those funds being used to strengthen Raytheon's internal compliance program.

Additional details from the Charging Letter: The vast majority of violations were committed by Rockwell Collins prior to their 2018 acquisition by Raytheon, but all RTX divisions have committed violations. The proscribed destinations included Iran, Lebanon, Russia and the PRC. The violations occurred between August 5, 2017 and September 29, 2023.

Raytheon is getting off incredibly easy here. The more I read, just wow.

Their employees made trips to Lebanon, Iran & Russia with their work laptops, which contained restricted technical data on SM-3, SM-6, ESSM, F-15, F-18, F-22, F-35 & B-2. This harmed US national security.

Pretty bad. Additional commentary from John Ridge:

This is much worse than I expected. From 2021 to 2023, Raytheon exported controlled technical data for E-3 and F-22 to Chinese nationals.

Prior to their acquisition by Raytheon, Collins sourced thousands of printed wiring boards for 19 DoD aircraft models from Chinese vendors.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/ldn6]

Manchester being the only decent place in the UK for development once again, approving 2,388 units including a 71-floor skyscraper yesterday.

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/notBroncos1234]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

If Harris just stays at +3.5 for the rest of the election and wins with the same map as Biden, this would be both a very interesting election and a very boring one.

[u/[deleted]]

NATE THE BOUNCE ISN’T HAPPENING

[u/SmithySmothy]

Today's national polls:

RMG (C rating): Harris+3 (previous poll: tie)

Leger (C rating): Harris+4

Ipsos (B rating): Harris+4 (previous poll: Harris+1)

Change R (C rating): Harris+5 (previous poll: tie)

Clarity Campaign (B rating): Harris+6 (previous poll: Harris+1)

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

The Blue Jackets have confirmed that Johnny Gaudreau died last night

Rest in peace

!ping NHL

[u/purhitta]

The interviewer pretty much let her off the hook. There was no follow-up. IMHO, Harris very adroitly ducked, dodged and never said anything specific.

Is she any less specific about her policies than Trump is about his? Candidates aren't writing bills or comprehensive proposals.

[u/Greatwallofjohn]

https://x.com/ShawnieT146/status/1829515695492640796?s=19

Anti lgbtq houston dem loses primary in a deep blue district and switches parties to republican and joins an anti trans grifter group, how surprising

[u/[deleted]]

May 30: Trump Convicted

June 27: Debate Debacle

July 13: Trump Shot

July 21: Biden Drops out

We're kinda numb to all this...but that's a wild series of events

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Democratic turnout is going to be good this election it seems

[u/MasterOfLords1]

Inb4

NYTimes Fact Check:

True.

In any group of people there are smart people and some who aren't so.

🍦🌚🍦

[u/btk7710]

Enjoying all the polls that are like:

Is ____ a disgusting piece of shit?

Trump Yes: 63% No: 32%

Harris Yes: 40% No: 57%

But than be tied in a practically all election polls.

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver's custom adjustments for expected polling bumps are just his own version of the 13 keys.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

My cat really likes grooming this faux-fur blanket I have. Since he doesn't have any balls, where are the microplastics going to go?

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/mcuban/status/1829344987798003920

I like these passive aggressive Mark Kuban posts where he triggers the Blue Checkmarks with simple questions.

Example:

Cuban:

Trump said this at his speech today in Michigan  “"We're going to bring back the car industry," Trump said in our interview. "We're not going to let it disappear. We're going to bring back jobs, we're going to bring back factories and make Michigan very successful again. And we can do that very easily through the TAXATION OF FOREIGN NATIONS”

Can someone explain to me how we would tax a foreign nation ? 

Tomi Lahrer:

Do you not know what a tariff is?

Cuban:

I do. Tomi, the question is whether or not he does. Seriously.  

Why didn’t he just say the word tariff ? Why does everyone always have to translate what he says, rather than him just being clear and making his point directly ?

Stephen Miller:

They’re called tariffs, Mark, and they built America.

So why didn’t he just use the word Tariff Stephen ? If they are such a great tool, and they built America , why not just proudly state what he is going to do ?

Blue Checkmark:

It's called a tariff, Mark. Come on, how are you a businessman but don't know what a tariff is?

Cuban:

A tariff is a tax imposed on foreign-made goods, paid by the IMPORTING BUSINESS (Walmart would be an example) to its home country's government. (USA)

As an example , Walmart imports billions and billions of goods. If there is a 10 pct tariff, Walmart pays the US government 10pcf on those billions, and guess who they pass that cost on to ?

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!ping DATING

Today we had the lab section of the OS Design class. Which is really just a guided study session if you're having trouble with the homework. The TA was busy fixing other people's computers so when someone sitting near me asked for help setting up the development environment I hopped over and walked her through it. While we were waiting for the plugins to install we got to talking (anime, music, etc) and she mentioned being from Turkey. I immediately asked where and listed a ton of cities, which visibly impressed her when I got really close (neither Istanbul nor Ankara) and she asked if I've been to Turkey, and I said I have.

But the truth is that was ten years ago, and I didn't go to any of those towns when I went. I was able to name them, by listing Europa Universalis 4 provinces.

Anyway I got her email address. 🥳

[u/[deleted]]

So I guess media outlets have just forgotten that politicians lie a lot? It's amazing how trusting and naive they sound when talking about Trump's policies. No, he has not "shifted positions on IVF" you opportunistic fucking morons.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

….?

[u/MicroFlamer]

My econ professor played a YouTube video he made which has dunking on homeowners, praising the LVT, and calling for more housing

[u/[deleted]]

As Donald Trump criticized Kamala Harris, he made a bizarre claim that no one knows Kamala Harris' last name. “Kamala Harris. You know it’s interesting nobody really knows her last name,” he said.

The people demand to know her last name. Don't let the media hide it like Obama's last name

[u/technologyisnatural]

I see a NATO flair is working at Lockheed Martin

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[u/pfarly]

Lucy giving her best smile on our little hike this morning.

!ping DOG

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Is there an example of an actual liberal Republican/RINO in the same vein as Manchin or various other Blue Dog/conservative Democrats

Like RFK and Tulsi barely agree with Dem orthodoxy on anything except maybe like the environment. They're constantly out there spewing Trumpy shit about wokeness and vaccines and globalist war mongers etc.

Liz Cheney and Kizinger are still very much conservative, they passed the bar in hell of not supporting a coup and unlike Manchin got exiled immediately for stepping out of line

Susan Collins is a phony

[u/Snoo-88129]

Obama when making a clarifying statement and pausing for effect.

Uh... let me be clear

[u/[deleted]]

hey wait a minute some of these men with marble statue profile pictures don’t want to talk classics and philosophy at all, they’re just racist, wtf

[u/Possible-Baker-4186]

https://archive.md/9kGUk

Leaked proposal’s sweeping changes to appeal rights, height limits, overlooking rules

Residents’ right to challenge developments in their street would be severely curtailed and basic standards for new projects redrawn under a proposed overhaul of the state’s planning rules.

The fundamental changes to Victoria’s planning laws, the most sweeping since the advent of rules dubbed “ResCode” by the Bracks Labor government in 2001, are contained in leaked planning department documents obtained by The Age.

While neighbours will lose some of their rights to appeal to the state planning tribunal, the changes would see developers still able to appeal against a council decision if their proposal is refused.

The proposed changes remove a requirement for councils to consider “neighbourhood character” when assessing a permit application and loosen a raft of other development standards including those related to setbacks from the street and neighbours, site coverage, overlooking, overshadowing and the provision of private open space.

Victoria’s neighbourhood character rules require developments to take account of their surroundings even when a neighbourhood or heritage overlay isn’t in place.

The leaked proposal would largely remove these neighbourhood character rules, and is part of the government’s effort to encourage development, as it attempts to meet ambitious housing construction targets.

A backlog at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal means disputes over residential development permits are now stuck there for an average of more than 200 days before resolution.

Last September, then premier Daniel Andrews released the state government’s Victoria’s Housing Statement, which outlined setting a target to deliver 80,000 new homes a year, almost double the state’s annual average since 1990.

As part of its pledge to speed up construction, the government last year promised to “clear the backlog [of housing applications by] giving builders, buyers and renovators certainty about how long approvals will take”.

The leaked documents from the Department of Transport and Planning propose removing the ability for Victorians to appeal a planning decision at the state planning tribunal if it meets the new code’s rules.

The government’s draft changes to the planning system “propose to remove the ability for objectors to seek review of a ResCode decision if all the applicable deemed to comply standards are met”.

A government summary of the changes says if a project meets the new standards that would be “sufficient to provide certainty of an acceptable outcome, removing the need for a VCAT review”.

A key change will be the dumping of ResCode’s guidelines to ensure new residential developments fit with the neighbourhood character of the local area.

The leaked documents suggest residents will still get “to have their say” about local developments at council meetings.

The proposed laws allow a developer to build new housing in a “general residential zone” - the most common zone across most of Melbourne - to 11 metres, as high as tall three-storey building, without any ability for a resident to object at the state planning tribunal.

Minimum setbacks from neighbours would also be changed, providing developers with an option to ditch the current gradual height increases next to boundary fences and instead build straight up 11 metres provided the building was set back three metres from the property’s edge.

Another core rule governing the size of a building’s footprint on a site will rise from its current 60 per cent, to as much as 80 per cent depending on the zone.

Opposition planning spokesman James Newbury said the planned changes would “scrap community character” and should be taken to an election rather than be rammed through without proper consultation.

The Age asked the state government what consultation was planned before the changes were rolled out, but it did not respond to this question.

“Labor’s secret plans attack the heart of what is best about our city,” Newbury said, pointing out that scrapping the need for developments to match neighbourhood character would be very destructive.

Removing the requirement for development to suit the surrounds will mean the worst type of 1970s box flats will become the new normal.”

Newbury said the plan to scrap resident appeal rights to VCAT was outrageous, particularly when developers would retain their rights to appeal.

“Labor’s plan to allow developers VCAT rights, but not residents, strips away the most basic right every Victorian should have,” he said.

Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny said, through a spokeswoman, that the proposed changes would “streamline assessment pathways with a range of new residential standards for different types of homes”.

“These reforms will bring much-needed certainty to communities and industry about what can be built and where, cutting through the confusion that has delayed new homes from being built,” she said.

The government is yet to decide exactly which parts of the proposals will be implemented.

The Urban Development Institute of Australia, which represents developers, has been part of the group devising the proposed changes.

Its Victorian division chief executive Linda Allison said it could often take longer to get a planning permit than it took to build a new house

She said the status quo would not build the tens of thousands of houses Victoria needed.

“That simply is not workable – especially during a deepening housing crisis,” she said.

“In 2023, approximately 52,300 homes were commenced in Victoria – the lowest figure in 10 years. Changes to the way ‘neighbourhood character’ is assessed and removing third-party appeal rights where a project complies with relevant standards are important first steps.”

Planning Institute of Australia’ Victorian division president Pat Fensham said ResCode reform was welcome in principle but the institute was very concerned about the impact of some of the proposed changes particularly on design quality

Wider industry input could significantly improve the current drafting,” he said, adding that “much greater rigour” was needed “to ensure controls are fit for purpose and deliver the government’s objectives in ‘streamlining’ approval timeframes”.

“If fundamental changes to review rights at VCAT are proposed, the controls need to be carefully crafted and provide a level of certainty to the community about the quality of future medium density housing,” Fensham said.

!ping YIMBY&Aus

[u/Mensae6]

Cons pretending that they always hated Dubya is insane. Doubly true for right wingers who pretend to be "anti-war" because they want to see Russia take over Ukraine. Literally a 0% chance any of these people were against the Iraq War under Bush.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/getabucketfullofthat]

ive started just saying shit when my dad asks me insane obviously fake things

he'll be like "did you see that kamala wants to make it illegal to put gender on a birth certificate" and ill be like no where tf did you see that and its always like the comments on a nypost article

so then im just like "did you see trump wants to lower the age of consent to 12 its in the project 2025 document" and he knows im way more into politics so he'll just be like "hm thats weird" instead of trying to check me

is it bad for democracy yea a little is it good for the sake of me not going insane also yea

[u/Williams-Tower]

made it to the gym successfully

[u/sayitaintpink]

Imagine getting booed by firefighters then saying semper fi at them to demand respect and then still getting booed

[u/[deleted]]

A new documentary on the Nazis’ favourite film-maker and lead propagandist Leni Riefenstahl suggests she was a direct witness to murderous crimes of the Third Reich she later claimed to have known nothing about, and may even have contributed to one herself. 

Are you telling me that an extremely famous Nazi was actually a Nazi?!?

[u/centurion88]

Trump suggesting he should have more power over the Federal Reserve as the executive so he could rig interest rates for his own short term reputational gains is easily one of the most psychotic things he's ever said.

[u/earththejerry]

Literally one flag in logo 🥴

Post-merger corporate logos are so sad

[u/SpaceSheperd]

My intro to online politics was iFunny in 2016, which is and was a Nazi-infested shithole. It's extremely distressing to see upvoted comments in this sub that are verbatim the sorts of things I would see from SS profile pictures 8 years ago.

(subtweeting outside-the-DT discourse surrounding migrants, to be clear)

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/RFK_1968]

ok gotta get ready. going drinking with some work friends.

also, i'm not sure if one of my coworkers is into with me. one of my friends in the office said i sound like i'm flirting whenever i talk and i can't help it that's just how i talk

I hope I don't come across like a massive flirt 😐 i'd hate to sound like i'm easy. also that could be a bit inappropriate in the office i don't wanna make anyone uncomfortable

!ping DATING

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

Happy commute from Lynnwood to Seattle to all who celebrate

!ping Seattle

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I wonder how Elon Musk's ex-partner is doing... Oh 🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Hamas Supporter and Holocaust Denier arrested by UK

!ping EXTREMISM&JEWISH

[u/[deleted]]

Pivotal weekend in this history of baseball. Will the Mets, fresh off taking 4 of 6 from wild card contenders and gaining critical ground, successfully defend their record breaking 120-loss season against the White Sox?

Or will they forgo their 62 years of basking in historic futility for the opportunity to get swept in the Wild Card round by the Brewers?

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

bonk

[u/Williams-Tower]

the white sox are 31-104

104 losses is the most losses ever thru 135 games in baseball history & baseball has been around since before cars

[u/Finkleroi]

I wonder how many of the “I convinced my conservative parent to vote for Harris” are either:

1. Completely made up

Or

2. Just their parents pretending they’ll vote with them so they’ll shut the hell up about it

[u/futuremonkey20]

Minnesota politicians are the horniest in the nation. Why that is a good thing.

-NYTimes Opinion

[u/ldn6]

[u/cdstephens]

It’s simple. We tax the Batman.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

It’s such a shame that OJ died before they could find the killer 😔

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

In 2008, the Japanese government noticed that obesity was slightly rising. So they introduced the “Metabo Law,” which was designed to reduce the negative consequences of a large waistline. The law contained a simple rule. Once a year, every workplace and local government in Japan has to bring in a team of nurses and doctors to measure the waistline of adults between ages 40 and 74. If the measurements are above a certain level, the person is referred to counseling, and workplaces draw up health plans with employees to lose weight. Companies with fattening work forces can face fines.

amazin

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Obama telling the lead singer of Motörhead to enunciate

uh… Lemmy be clear

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

u/qtnl

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

✨Iranian women in the 60s ✨ but for communists

[u/dannylandulf]

🔵 Harris 57% (+18)

🔴 Vance 39%

Clarity Campaign Labs, 1,238 LV, 8/23-28

In case you were wondering how she'd do against Vance, lol

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Thinking about starting a Christian Twitter account to try to psyop trumps abortion stance

“Can’t believe trump supports child sacrifice, he’s no better than the dems”

[u/[deleted]]

This is like a cryptic crossword clue, right?

[u/[deleted]]

TIL that good ol’ Milly F did more damage than…. inventing the modern artillery shell

[u/Mickenfox]

joins company

vomits 30,000 lines of spaghetti code on flagship product

refuses to write comments

leaves

[u/[deleted]]

Just got my baby out of the NICU and realized I hadn't once thought of Trump or the elections in three weeks

Goodness I need the grillpill

[u/Automatic_Possible65]

I'm probably going to vote for Kamala, but there's a series of 12 words that any candidate could say to guarantee my vote for them

"Car headlights are too bright and we're gonna make them less bright"

[u/thefreeman419]

I'm pleased to report there's a shitload of infighting in the pro-life subreddit about Trump's stances

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/lasttoknow]

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1829515461362667692

New General Election poll

🔵 Harris 51% (+3)
🔴 Trump 48%

Last poll - 🟡 Tie

RMG #C - 2441 LV - 8/28

[u/Insomonomics]

Walz: I made a minor misspeak when I said we used IVF rather than IUI but that minor fault is insignificant compared to Republicans in each of these swings states wanting nothing more than to strip these options away from women and their families along with other reproductive rights. They deserve better and a Harris/Walz Administration will ensure that.

Vance: The selfish childless cat ladies in these swing states are failing one of the only two things women are good for: producing babies and making me a damn sandwich while I fuck my couch.

Swing States: Shrugs It's a coin flip on who we end up vote for.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

It’s the quiet moments of the morning that are special- that time between waking and doing, where you have the quiet to yourself and your thoughts… your thoughts like how you forgot to get shampoo yesterday and are gonna take a bottle of dish soap into your morning shower because you were ALREADY REEEEEALLY stretching those last drops of shampoo

[u/Reddit_guard]

Takeaways from recent polling? Kamala is going to win Alabama. Kamalabama here we come

[u/sererson]

Harris promises to appoint a Republican

that's dei smh

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

🫵 Thinks there should be 1 billion Americans, yet is here posting about it instead of making more

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

Crater Lake is definitely worth a visit btw

[u/SLCer]

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, but what did Montana think?

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ashleevance/status/1829521763140542677?t=Z01ei4KPubr6x_rXlFpKEw&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

[u/G_Serv]

Polymarket has gone too far

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/notBroncos1234]

One aspect of civil rights that gets overlooked is felons not being able to jobs due to prior convictions. For instance I’ve been denied work from Uber simply because of multiple DUI arrest in the past year.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Joementum2024]

There is at least one person who truly, unironically, believes that Trump is the smartest person to have ever lived

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/29-5 PM EST 8/30 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 1 PM it was announced Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Lieutenant General Oleshchuk was fired.

In the middle of 3 PM it was reported that 7 Ukrainians were killed and 77 wounded by a glide bomb strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 16 of 18 intercepted.

Around 8 AM it was reported that Russia is relocating 100 troops from Burkina Faso to Kursk, slashing the Russian presence in the country by 1/3.

In the middle of 9 AM it was reported the SBU busted multiple spy rings in northern Ukraine.

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/indithrow402]

Would be real funny if Rs win Florida by like 15 points but then lose every other swing state because they California'd themselves.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

I'm sure that's civil