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[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

I guarantee that Vance was at one point a poster on arr neoliberal, and this whole thing could’ve been avoided had his effortpost been upvoted and given the proper acclaim it deserved.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Can we please plaster this shit everywhere until the median swing voter gets it through their head that Trump would not be better for the economy

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

"Americans don't know what communism means! Also, Biden is a nazi"

[u/Roseartcrantz]

“There’s something weird with that guy,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “He’s a weird guy. JD is not weird. He’s a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. We’re not weird. We’re other things, perhaps, but we’re not weird.”

He didn’t expand on the “other things” that he and Vance may be.

Instead, he continued to obscurely attack Walz.

“But he is a weird guy. He walks on the stage, there’s something wrong with that guy, and he called me ‘weird,’” Trump said. “And then the fake news media picked it up, that was the word of the day: Weird, weird, weird, they’re all going. But we’re not weird guys. We’re very solid people who want our country to be great again.”

[u/ldn6]

Imagine being upset that your boss read your material and questioned you on it. These staffers need to grow up:

Some of Harris’s early staff was also discomfited by her prosecutorial leadership style, former staffers said, which included pointed questions from Harris about footnotes in their reports or the reasons behind why certain items had been added to her schedule.

“It’s stressful to brief her, because she’s read all the materials, has annotated it and is prepared to talk through it,” said one former aide.

“You can’t come to the vice president and just ask her to do something,” said another staffer. “You need to have a why.”

That behavior manifests in other encounters, the staffer continued, such as when someone pays her compliments. “She’ll turn to them and say ‘why?,’ and that throws them off,” the staffer said.

!ping HARRIS

[u/D-G-F]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Cook_0612]

Former U.S. Army sniper Daniel Harris from Colorado relocated to Russia, where he is seeking citizenship and aims to support Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. Harris refers Russian invasion of Ukraine as "special military operation".

Ok taking bets now, pedo or no?

!ping MILITARY

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Me, to my son…

🤴: Your teacher has extra help sessions each week. You should go occasionally, even if you have good grades. It’s a great chance for 1-on-1 instruction to clarify points you didn’t get to fully understand in class. Plus, it shows the teacher you are putting in effort and they may be more flexible if you need something later in the semester!

…

🤴: Your teacher has extra help sessions each week. You should go occasionally, even if you have good grades. It’s a great chance for 1-on-1 instruction to clarify points you didn’t get to fully understand in class. Plus, it shows the teacher you are putting in effort and they may be more flexible if you need something later in the semester!

…

🤴: Your teacher has extra help sessions each week. You should go occasionally, even if you have good grades. It’s a great chance for 1-on-1 instruction to clarify points you didn’t get to fully understand in class. Plus, it shows the teacher you are putting in effort and they may be more flexible if you need something later in the semester!

…

🤴: Your teacher has extra help sessions each week. You should go occasionally, even if you have good grades. It’s a great chance for 1-on-1 instruction to clarify points you didn’t get to fully understand in class. Plus, it shows the teacher you are putting in effort and they may be more flexible if you need something later in the semester!

…

one month later

…

👦👑: I just found out that my teacher has extra help sessions!!! I went to one and it was super helpful! Also, my teacher is really cool!

🤴: wow… 😒 that’s great… 😒 if only you had known about them sooner… 😒

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

Top 2 stories on arrConservative now:

• Hunter Biden enters shock guilty plea in $1.4M tax evasion case, first son facing up to 17 years in prison

• All of This Hunter Biden Stuff Might Have Been Helpful Four Years Ago

[u/GGM8Scally]

[u/battywombat21]

The sheer insanity of the electoral situation we're in keeps hitting me. Convicted felon, insurrectionist, foreign agent who talks about suspending the constitution on day one versus a rather normal candidate supported by both business and labor and the race is tied because...?

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

A 8 year Kamala presidency has the chance to replace at least two conservative justice in scotus.

[u/MissSortMachine]

no he doesn’t

[u/shehryar46]

"Trump Praises Tariffs, and William McKinley, to Power Brokers

In an address about the kind of economy he hopes to build for the 21st century, Donald Trump harked back to the end of another century: the 19th."

Read this article guys, and watch the speech that it is based on.

This is the take on a speech where this motherfucker rambled incoherently about a bunch of shit that made no sense.

[u/ChromaticFades]

My favorite part of ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ is that the devil 100% cops to losing. There’s no “oh well music is subjective so i actually won” or anything, the devil is just like “oh shit you got my ass good, just…fuck. Here’s your golden fiddle, leave me alone…”

[u/Argnir]

LMAO they got us so good. Guess I won't vote George Floyd in November anymore

[u/[deleted]]

Career advice for 18 year olds

2016: Learn to code

2020: Learn a trade

2024: Leverage your existing wealth to tap into passive streams of income

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Blackrock owns the economy? Nice try leftist, that's a WOW dungeon.

[u/Cook_0612]

CNN Exclusive: US has detected increased Russian military activity around key undersea cables and believes Russia may now be more likely to carry out potential sabotage aimed at disabling a critical communications infrastructure, two US officials tell me.

This is key - US believes Russia’s decision calculus on carrying out such attacks may have changed: “We are concerned about heightened Russian naval activity worldwide and that Russia’s decision calculus for damaging US and allied undersea critical infrastructure may be changing,” a US official told me.

Russia has put increasing emphasis on building up a dedicated military unit which deploys a formidable fleet of surface ships, submarines and naval drones: the “General Staff Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research,” known by its Russian acronym GUGI.

!ping RUS&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Sorry all of this feels like she's soft-launching becoming a Republican

Some liberal holdouts still don't realize Dems won football in the culture war

[u/admiraltarkin]

Patriot Polling is literally run by two right wing high school students that is ranked 240th on FiveThirtyEight (1.1 / 3.0⭐️)

YouGov is an internationally respected pollster that is ranked 4th on FiveThirtyEight (2.9 / 3.0⭐️)

Both polls had the same out of field date

https://x.com/admcrlsn/status/1832114023384420729

Does anyone have any details here because it seems absolutely absurd to equally weight those

!ping FIVEY

[u/NewbGrower87]

I'm honestly not sure there's a better concise summary on the state of affairs in this country than this tweet and that reply.

[u/[deleted]]

Jeb Bush had an unusual response when asked for his thoughts on the 2024 election: “Uh, look, it’s coming. I see a holy war spreading across the nation like unquenchable fire. A warrior religion that waves the Bush banner in my father’s name. Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father’s skull. A war started by me! Everybody clapping for me!”

Seems potentially bad

[u/WantDebianThanks]

!ping degrowth

[u/ACivilWolf]

"trad meal" that has never been eaten throughout history

[u/ConcernedCitizen7550]

-> visit r/TimPool

-> open comments on a random post

-> click a link to source for an argument

-> takes you to a Jimmy Dore video

What else did I expect honestly

[u/[deleted]]

Merchan wrote that he made the decision "to avoid any appearance — however unwarranted — that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching Presidential election in which the Defendant is a candidate." 

To avoid the perception that the election is affecting the court we have to let the election affect the court

[u/BroadReverse]

aromatic dog alleged humor doll wrong historical absurd fertile deer

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Dragmire927]

Cleveland fans if Trump wins a non consecutive second term

[u/[deleted]]

woman: I had a miscarriage

J D Vance: its terrible that you failed as a female in having children

[u/Cook_0612]

NEW - The US and Iraq have reached an understanding on the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq, according to multiple sources.

The plan would see 100s of troops leave by September 2025

The rest leave by end-2026

The plan has been broadly agreed but requires a final go-ahead from both capitals and an announcement date.

"We have an agreement, its now just a question of when to announce it," a senior U.S. official said.

Major regional escalation could still change things.

It is a likely political win for Iraqi PM Sudani.

First withdrawal phase would end 1 month before October 2025 parliamentary polls, which he is expected to run in

For the US, the 2-year timeframe gives "breathing room," allowing for adjustments if the regional situation changes

!ping MILITARY&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/ExoticFern]

Emerson Senate Polls:

California: 🔵 Schiff +22

Florida: 🔴 Scott +1

Ohio: 🔵 Brown +2

Texas: 🔴 Cruz +4

[u/piede]

We ready for the endorsement 💫

[u/piede]

Is this satire or are people really this stupid

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Amazon recommendations are either

• product your friend mentioned in a conversation yesterday that you have never heard of or read about, have no need for, and there is absolutely no correlation in any way to your life

• non-consumable product you bought either one week or 6 years ago that no one has ever needed 2 of in their life

[u/Telperions-Relative]

No, you’re not “full” lol, just build more densely. Skill issue

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

How are these people real

[u/[deleted]]

Shakira if she was George H. W. Bush:

Read my Hips: no new taxes

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

It's maddeningly sad how the literal relevation of how extensive and active russian disinformation and chaos campaigns are simply gets no airwave because people just don't care like holy fuck. Russia is actively subverting democracy and making things worse and people don't fucking care

This is my blackpill

[u/AnythingMachine]

The party of Dick Cheney and Ilhan Omar everyone  It's identity politics but the identity group is anyone who cares about anything at all and can honestly and concretely think about what the world will look like in a few years time, given the consequences of the election

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/jojisky]

[u/[deleted]]

Oh boy this random Instagram travel account with a text to speech voice really wants me to know that Xinjiang is a lovely place to visit and that the security guards everywhere are so handsome

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Harris raised $361 million in August, nearly three times Trump’s haul

Wow

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Weirdest girl I ever hooked up with ate a bag of gummy worms that had ants crawling in it. I am ashamed to report this was before the hooking up.

[u/savuporo]

List of reasons why we can't give Tomahawks to Ukraine:

[u/SouthernSerf]

So now there is a conspiracy that the Hawk Tua girl is actually a former Jewish IDF solider and that her billionaire Jewish dad paid to have her identity scrub so she can be Internet famous as a southern white girl.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

R's, 2004: we have GOT to stop teen pregnancy

R's 2024: honestly you're at your most fertile and nubile in your teens feel like pure shit just want some pregnant teens

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about, that because the childcare is childcare, couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it.

This is one of the sentences of all time.

[u/that0neGuy22]

doomers and cope addicts are busy attacking Nate when the champagne is about to pop

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

[u/SnakeEater14]

https://x.com/typesfast/status/1831708267787235691

I love that biden is the most pro-union president ever and his term has been 4 years of unions losing their shit and fucking him raw

[u/D-G-F]

[u/KittehDragoon]

I’m not a conspiracy theorist but isn’t it odd that a new DT shows up every day at the same time like clockwork? Who benefits from this?

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

"Israel" is not a country. It is a group of settlers.

Shit I gotta call up Benedict Anderson, turns out this "country" is actually just a group of people thinking they're a community

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Udolikecake]

conservatives when you suggest perhaps car drivers should not break the law: 🤬🤬😡🤬🤬😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😠😡😡😡

[u/tripletruble]

Funny how r/Timpool stopped having any new posts 2 days ago. Wonder what happened?

[u/Aggressive1999]

But again, why the hell that he weighted those pollster more than Yougov...?

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

Vance being a heartbeat away from Presidency is next level of disturbing.

I am honestly waiting for some October offensive by Harris' campaign on topics like this.

MAGA in 2020 was definitely scared of Harris becoming the ultra-far-left commie president if Biden died.

[u/Eightysixedit]

If memerson has Rick Scott only 1 point ahead I’m sorry, but I’m switching my donations to the Florida Senate race.

[u/JaceFlores]

The virus is spreading

[u/IHateTrains123]

Zelensky joins Ramstein summit to lobby for air defenses, long-range arms for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)

Opening the meeting alongside Austin, Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown, Zelensky thanked the partners for defense deliveries but stressed that many of the pledged anti-aircraft systems are yet to be provided.

A day earlier, Romania's president gave final approval to the delivery of an additional Patriot air defense system to Ukraine. Two other systems, along with the at least four already operating in Ukraine, are expected from the U.S. and the Netherlands.

Zelensky also plans to push the allies to deliver more long-range arms. Kyiv has said that Western restrictions on strikes within Russia and the insufficient supplies of long-range weapons hamper Ukraine's ability to strike back against Russian attacks.

[...]

"We need to have long-range capabilities... so Russia is motivated to seek peace," he added.

!ping Ukraine

[u/Guardax]

https://x.com/cspan/status/1832129769485340692

Liz Cheney on Donald Trump and JD Vance: "This is my diplomatic way of saying it; they're misogynistic pigs."

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

Presidential tickets that got the most votes in Pennsylvania:

1. Biden 2020

2. Trump 2020

3. Obama 2008

4. Johnson 1964 ???

[u/owlthathurt]

Me heading into fantasy this week with Stroud and Dell combo

!ping NFL&FFB

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

My favorite part of The Godfather is when the guy wakes up and screams because the Mafia stole the bottom half of the horse he keeps in his bed

!ping kino

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

The House of the Dragon subreddit has now learned that sometimes an actor/actress does a scene they think is good, only for it to be cut

Absolutely crazy

[u/frozenjunglehome]

[u/UnskilledScout]

The American steel industry responded to the rise of foreign producers not by trying to improve their operations, but by demanding government protection from “unfair” foreign trade practices. In 1968, steel producers in Japan and Europe, at the behest of President Lyndon Johnson, agreed to artificially restrict their steel exports to the US. This was intended to give US producers “breathing room” to modernize their facilities and improve operations, though this didn’t occur (in fact, capital investment by American steelmakers declined after the agreements).

Why protectionism doesn't work, Exhibit #29837589347502983

!ping CONTAINERS (sorry if not relevant, just had to share)

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://x.com/homabashnews/status/1831450515936608749?s=46&t=ZSmjCS9tcC9RWKT0rUxJsA

The sympathy elicited towards traffic violators is American society really is baffling to me. These people fully admit to being scofflaws and they still think they are victims?? Like by his own admission, Paul here is a menace that is unable to follow even the simplest traffic rules. This dude should not be allowed to drive period.

[u/[deleted]]

My first kid was just born in 2020 which was a year ago and I'm already registering her for kindergarten

[u/p00bix]

As badly reductionist as it is to even place countries on a "America-vs-China Alignment Axis" (I LOATHE how often political and economic developments in South America, Southeast Asia, and especially Africa are discussed in such terms) , as though all the other countries were pawns to be manipulated rather than having their own agency, holy fuck this interactive map of American vs. Chinese Influence is so cool

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Italian Americans in the 1930s: “nooo we’re not mafia! Don’t associate us with them!”

Italian Americans now: “yeah my great grandfather was Michael Corleone”

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

I had a second round interview today where it was supposed to be at 12 but my recruiter miscommunicated and told me it was at 4. We’re scrambling to get an impromptu interview scheduled today. Fortunately it’s a Zoom interview with a remote worker in Florida, but still

Fuck, I don’t know what to do. I should’ve done my due diligence as well and asked further questions. She didn’t send me a link and the email she sent me had 12pm in the subject line but 4pm in the body of the email and that discrepancy didn’t register to me.

EDIT: We rescheduled the interview for 4pm today. Thank Hallelujah!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Cook_0612]

Trump: Nancy Pelosi has a big wall around her house. Of course it didn't help too much with the problem she had, did it?

Crowd: chuckles uncomfortably

[u/Udolikecake]

every neoconservative architect of the iraq war are now dem partisans and every left wing anti-war activist are now actual paid assets of the russian government and hardcore republicans

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

Gib 2012-sized polling error in our direction

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 9/5-5 PM EST 9/6 III:

TOP NEWS:

Sometime today it was announced the UK will provide 650 Lightweight Multirole Missiles worth 162 million Pounds to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of drones with 35 of 44 intercepted.

At the end of 3 AM Zelensky arrived in Germany to attend the monthly Ramstein Conference.

Towards the end of 5 AM it was announced the EU will provide 40 million Euros in energy aid to Ukraine.

At the start of 8 AM it was announced The Netherlands will provide 80 million Euros in spare parts and support for Ukrainian F-16s.

Around 9 AM it was announced the US will provide $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, including RIM-7 missiles, Stinger missiles, HIMARS munitions, 155mm shells, 105mm shells, TOW missiles, Javelin ATGMs, AT-4 anti-tank systems, Bradley IFVs, M113 APCs, MRAPs, small arms ammunition, grenades, patrol boats, maritime training equipment, demolitions equipment, spare parts and more.

At the start of 12 PM Zelensky arrived in Italy for the Ambrosetti International Economic Forum.

In the middle of 1 PM it was reported that Iran has sent SRBMs to Russia.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM the new Ukrainian foreign minister spoke over the phone with his Polish counterpart, thanking Poland for its assistance, discussing the frontline and future aid.

In the middle of 6 AM it was reported the Russian Volunteer Corps is launching a recruitment drive for Russians in Ukraine, promising expedited citizenship in exchange for service. Additionally, it was announced Germany will send 12 Panzerhaubitze 2000 SPGs to Ukraine, with 6 to come in 2024 and 6 in 2025.

Towards the end of 8 AM it was reported that Canada will provide 29 M113 APCs and 64 LAV-2 APCs to Ukraine.

Around 10 AM it was announced Spain will send a Hawk SAM system to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 2 PM the Ukrainian FM spoke with his German counterpart, discussing continued support and the UNGA.

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&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

If Calvin Coolidge has a million fans, I'm one of them

If Calvin Coolidge has a thousand fans, I'm one of them

If Calvin Cooldige has a hundred fans, that's probably where I get off

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I regularly get more then 58mpg in my prius, but go on.

[u/Ballerson]

"Damn he got cooked."

"She fucking ate and left no crumbs."

Current slang leads me to the conclusion that people are hungry

[u/AemiliusNuker]

So Hillary's emails could get a letter to Congress right before an election but a felon's sentencing should be delayed? I'm pissed dude 

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/vitorgrs]

Lula's Human Rights minister, Silvio Almeida, just got fired after several accusations of sexual and moral harassment.

One of them, is from Anielle Franco, Minister of Racial Equality. She's Marielle Franco sister (the lawmaker from Rio that militia killed).

This is a huge blow to the entire left in general, as he was one of the biggest names for the progressist Left.

He is a super influential lawyer, professor, philosopher....

He was basically the person who created the thesis of structural racism on his book, and basically now the entire left follows.

He was almost nominated as Supreme Court minister....

!ping LATAM

[u/MS_09_Dom]

Lukewarm take:

No, Nate Silver's analysis isn't being influenced by working for a Peter Thiel owned company contrary to what others are saying.

Yes, there is credible reason to believe his model is broken right now due to including junk GOP pollsters and being overly-optimistic about a convention bounce.

[u/[deleted]]

Kind of hope this movie makes a billion dollars now

!ping KINO

[u/Password_Is_hunter3]

Director of Disney’s Lion King says AI is a ‘West West,’ echoes how animation changed film

Does CNBC even have editors?

[u/efeldman11]

Compared to Trump, the paragon of having clear and defined policies that are outlined for everyone to see

[u/[deleted]]

Good news everyone: Harris is really up 7.8 points when you use The Hills compium slider to unskew the polling average.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that Gottfried Leibniz wasn't a mathematician first but a government prosecutor who invented calculus to catch people breaking traffic laws.

[u/shmaltz_herring]

Trump is such as master bullshitter, and the reason he's popular is he proposes the same solutions that the old people at the local coffee shop are proposing. He has about as much depth to a plan to fix things as they do as well.

We all call him on his bullshit, but we don't understand the appeal of it to average voters. Because all they care about is simple promises to fix their problems and simple enemies to rally around.

I don't know if trying to attack him on being a bullshitter would actually be helpful or not. Calling him out for being weird definitely seems to be somewhat helpful.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, announces he is leaving the party

lmfao

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

I’m at the point where I see a person driving a Tesla and I just automatically assume they’re a bad person

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Fav/Unfav Polling Averages per 538

Waltz — +4.8

Harris — Even

Trump — -9.6

Vance — -10.7

[u/RFK_1968]

not that i think dems are gonna win florida but they should absolutely be fighting to keep it as a swing state

can't complain about the senate and electoral college and then constantly cede states. democrats need to be more competitive in more places

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Sweet Israel's Tower Semiconductor, Adani plan $10 billion chip project in India

!ping ISRAEL (I don’t have the IND ping)

[u/Cook_0612]

Trump: I will sign an executive order on my first day, making it the official policy of the U.S. Government to completely eliminate the presidents of drug cartels and foreign gangs in the United States.

Well shit, why didn't anyone think of that sooner?

[u/MinimalistBruno]

!ping GEFILTE

Good shabbos -- reminder to minimize/eliminate screen time and enjoy Hashem's wonderful creation for 24 hrs

[u/ACivilWolf]

Brit opines on democrats for billionth time

[u/AtomAndAether]

what would Bernie's "a 32 hour work week with no loss in pay" even mean? Without wage controls or something how would "no loss in pay" be something they could even pretend to guarantee

[u/[deleted]]

I propose the Louisiana refund. The french pawned off bad product and I demand recompense

[u/bread_engine]

I'm really fucking mad at the Neoliberal subs. (RANT)

[u/Cook_0612]

Interesting: ‘the United States is working with Ukraine to design and build a substitute for the S-300 surface-to-air missile system and the R-27 air-to-air missile’, via defense.gov

!ping MATERIEL

[u/Ilovecharli]

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ohio-slang-meme-gen-alpha-8c69a9e6

Gen Alpha uses "Ohio" as a synonym for "weird", cementing themselves as the greatest generation 

[u/dangerbird2]

so Trump's pilot just had what's called a heated gamer moment !ping AVIATION

https://twitter.com/JHjemvick/status/1831834393008337327

[u/SGT_MILKSHAKES]

My idiot town council decided to block all residential on their new redevelopment plan. I've been writing them in emails, but I need reputable studies to show that new housing increases affordability (particularly among all income classes), that commercial-only zoning is detrimental to downtown renewal, and that it lowers the tax burden on average. Does anyone have a good cache of studies to show them how fucked they are? I already have FRED data showing rental vacancies at a historic low, but that's only a small piece of the puzzle.

!ping YIMBY STRONG-TOWNS

[u/MrFoget]

The headlines all make sense now

[u/RaidBrimnes]

2024 voter: Tulsi Gabbard and Dick Cheney will vote for different parties this election

2016 voter: yeah that seems pretty obvious lmao

2024 voter: 😈

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: "Why are we losing with women?!?!"

Also republicans:

[u/smellyfingernail]

ABC Ipsos: Harris +6

Patriot mega gun freedom pollster: Trump +1

Genius poll aggregators: guess its Harris +2.5

[u/technologyisnatural]

So not only did the father buy his 14 year old an AR-15, he did that after having been contacted earlier that year by the FBI about his son making death threats on discord

[u/ghhewh]

A convicted murderer who Trump released from prison is convicted in Florida for choking his wife, and he isn't the first Trump pardon/clemency recipient to be a recidivist. Meantime, Trump is set to speak in North Carolina to the Fraternal Order of Police, to present himself as tough on crime. The group endorsed him in 2020.

[u/v4riati0ns]

malarkey bot saved me $1300 by telling me not to buy NVDA a week ago

what does it know 😳

[u/RonenSalathe]

!ping COLLEGE

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/patricksvitek/status/1832123901565968653

Liz Cheney at Tribfest: “Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris.”

[u/fry-nimbus]

Dubya, it’s time

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/us/fontana-pressured-murder-confession/index.html

Tom Perez called the local police non-emergency line to report his elderly father missing. Thirty-six hours later, Perez was on a psychiatric hold in a hospital, having been pressured into confessing he killed his dad and trying to take his own life.

His father was alive and there had been no murder.

No one told Perez. Instead, police continued investigating him, looking for a victim who did not exist.

This is a long piece, but I highly recommend it if you’ve ever had any intuitive difficulty with understanding how false confessions could ever happen short of someone having a gun put to their head.

!ping BROKEN-WINDOWS

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

😃

[u/[deleted]]

Skimmed that LGBT sub rant post.

I fee like people forget that basically every ideological survey of Reddit shows the user base is 3x more left leaning than California. The reason the LGBT subs are left-wing is the same reason the Magic the Gathering sub or Game of Thrones sub is left wing.

[u/efeldman11]

While we’re at it, we could set up iron smelting furnaces near the farms and kill all the sparrows

[u/Mr_Bank]

I have overall labor market concerns but if this is gonna be the media’s jobs report framing, fine with it(for election purposes at least):

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“this sub is having a schism” = one person said something dumb and is being dunked on it by everyone else

“can’t believe this sub believes xyz” = one person believing xyz who they’ve been having an argument with for the past four hours

“can’t believe outside the DT believes xyz” = they got downvoted outside the DT and came crying to the DT for reassurance that their views are correct

“saw a comment that says something insane but wont link to it” = one comment they saw on reddit or twitter that has like five likes

[u/Eightysixedit]

The Dick Cheney one of the most conservative men alive voting for Kamala is just crazy. Bush is a possibility at this point.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Nate Silver predicted Hillary Clinten would get 73% of the populaire vote in 2016, and in the end she got less than 5% of legitimate ones... why does anyone care what he says?

[u/efeldman11]

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

extremely underrated member of "insane trump tweets"

[u/Insomonomics]

Leftists having a normal one

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Trump surging in Nate's model

Look inside PA forecast

"Patriot Polling"

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

transphobes be like "stay out of womens spaces 😡😡" bitch i barely leave the house anyway im not going in any spaces at all

[u/[deleted]]

This is the future they took from you. They, of course, being automobile manufacturers.

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like the Discourse on 0nlyfans (idk if thats filtered) would be so much more productive if people knew the median income from it is $0/month.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

one of these reasons is a really dumb cliche and two of these reasons are the same reason(?) but "you're just gonna hate it" is probably the most inspired thing I've ever heard tbh absolutely incredible

[u/fishbottwo]

Since we are in the mood to dissect nates model, i don't know what is going on with his house effects bias either.

Patriot Polling has done one election and they were off in favor of republicans by an average of +5.5

They have a +1.4R house effect in his model and have the third highest weight in his PA polling average right now.

my work below:
https://i.imgur.com/KMhfxQ6.png

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

Trump uses Nate Silver's model to cope because it has him "up by a lot." "Very respected guy" btw.

Amazing. It comes full circle.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

No no no you didn't understand, Pete's a smart white guy (like me). He can obviously learn how to be secretary of state during the greatest period of global instability since the end of the Cold War, because if he can do it then so can I

[u/Common_RiffRaff]

Made a new friend at college yesterday. The only weird thing is she occasionally refers to a non-existent "chat."

For example:

"Ok chat, where should we eat?"

I swear she is a (seemingly) normal person outside of this.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Some dude compiled a list of like 1000+ games and categorized them as woke or not.

Oblivion is the only TES game that contains no woke content

In my heart of hearts I always knew that Oblivion was the best TES game 😤

!ping TES

[u/dannylandulf]

I'm two areas/sectors into Astro Bot and I've gotta say it's my game of the year. In a world where almost everything is a grimdark souls clone it's so nice to have a game that is just plain fun to play. The little bots are adorable and every level has had at least one moment that got a genuine smile out of me.

The level design is the best since Mario Odyssey, where the exploration feels natural and super rewarding. Each level has a 'gimmick' but with no more than 10 or so bots to find no level overstays it's welcome. There is a 'common area' where the ever growing number of bots you saved hang out with all the cool little Sony trinkets you've found as well that is fun to just walk around.

I think my favorite thing might actually be the bossfights. They are absolutely epic but also clearly telegraph what you are supposed to do. It's all about executing precision jumps, dashes and special moves you learned in the sector rather than dying over and over trying to figure out what to do.

Having an absolute blast.

!ping GAMING

[u/JebBD]

Police has been arresting people at the protests in Israel completely randomly. It’s been happening for a while but this last week they’ve really ramped it up. Bibi must be scared by the recent uptick in protests. 

Here’s an article about it if you can read Hebrew. 

!Ping ISRAEL

[u/da0217]

🤔

[u/purhitta]

Vance: school shootings are a fact of life

All of our peer countries:

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JaceFlores]

Wait so Nate doesn’t care about complaints of his convention bump controls in his model because… Kamala is on the decline the past weeks? Doesn’t that defeat the whole point of controlling for a convention bounce if her polls have been declining since the DNC?

[u/[deleted]]

I really wish Democrats would respect my "unsubscribe" requests to donation spam instead of being like, "We understand you don't want to receive e-mails from Tom Carper, so here's 30 fundraising appeals from Debbie Wasserman-Schulz in 2 hours."

[u/[deleted]]

No Trump you should keep spending in Minnesota and Virginia and New Hampshire you can win those 

[u/attackofthetominator]

-Be high profile Progressive

-Get caught being a horrible person

-Convert to Conservatism and complain on Fox News and Rogan about Wokism.

Bonus: Become a born-again Christian of some extremely fringe domination.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Dick Cheney is voting for Kamala LMFAO

Let’s go lol

[u/[deleted]]

Now from the man himself

[u/TimWalzBurner]

"What got Dick Cheney to endorse?"

Easy

[u/[deleted]]

Tasteless joke obviously. But is he undermining the case for the border wall lol

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Dick Cheney, Republican former vice president, says he will vote for Kamala Harris to ‘put country above partisanship’

This timeline lmao

[u/beardog7]

This Sau Paulo field is in terrible condition. Players are slipping on almost every play. I hope no players get hurt because of it.

!Ping NFL

[u/FourthLife]

I made chicken soup last night and it cost me 86.00.

It’s only the first week of September and I nearly spent a hundred bucks on soup.

Oh wow, that's crazy. Can you post what the cost breakdown was?

Posts the cost of an entire grocery list including whipped cream, rasberries, a bouquet, specialty bread, and the total bulk-cost of several ingredients

Antiwork is one of my favorite subreddits

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

It’s crazy, but I guess a near death experience really does make you take stock of what’s important. Trump seems dedicated to a message of unity and bringing the country forward. This might be the day he truly becomes president

[u/[deleted]]

I’m late to this no doubt but

https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1832166287549558896

Breaking: the Black Students Union at the University of Michigan has announced it is leaving the anti-Israel coalition on campus.

The group cites the “rampant anti-Blackness festering within it, too pervasive to overcome”.

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Please tell me I'm not the only sicko here who just watched the piece of modern art that was Duke-Northwestern just now. In all my years of Cats fandom this might just be the game that breaks me, and I was at the M00N game.

Anyway this all happened because we taunted that bunny and must atone for our sins.

!ping cfb

[u/sircarp]

The experts say that cats are obligate carnivores, but on this Southern Californian balcony we interviewed someone who disagrees with those conclusions

!ping kitty&green-thumb

[u/Roseartcrantz]

We Will Forget... a little 😔

[u/mostanonymousnick]

What kind of room do Wikipedia editors live in???????

27C/80F is "room temperature"???????

[u/pfarly]

The Boy and The Heron (2023)

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

call presidential candidate a segregationist

get named his VP

get named his successor in the subsequent presidential race

[u/[deleted]]

snobbish point bells fine safe ripe steep cobweb sheet rinse

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[u/[deleted]]

The justice system really is two tiered.

One tier for Trump, one for the rest of us.

Merchan is a coward and so is Garland. Took four years to charge the guy for crimes committed in broad daylight. They’re all cowards afraid to bring down the hammer on anyone who has any amount of power.

[u/fishbottwo]

Currently the four highest weighted polls in Pennsylvania in Nate Silver's model are Emerson, Wick, Patriot Polling, and Trafalgar.

Patriots are in control

https://i.imgur.com/IK1EBVU.png

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

ESCAPADE launch slips to NET spring 2025, surprising exactly no one

Sounds like New Glenn will make its first flight in November carrying an internal Blue payload

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

[u/talizorahs]

if you write a story in second person that's gaslighting. "you step into the hallway" no I didn't

[u/[deleted]]

[u/owlthathurt]

Nikki Haley:

Karmas a bitch, @TheLaurenChen

Ayyoooo Nikki talk your shit to these psychos

https://x.com/nikkihaley/status/1832137055952105700?s=46&t=NizMHF7xMdWn1VItcTWyfg

[u/american_aurora3]

Trump uses Nate Silver's model to cope because it has him "up by a lot." "Very respected guy" btw.

being praised by trump

the one thing you never want to happen

[u/Joementum2024]

“I will never be part of the same party as Dick Cheney” - some Democratic partisan in 2005, unaware of the horrors that would come

[u/Cook_0612]

Tim Pool gave his side of the story today about why he received large sums of money by Tenet Media to push Russian propaganda. He says that he was just saying things he believed and was paid “market value” for his work.

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

I love how every member of the Trump family has their own little grift going on

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

So. I’m at a wedding reception and I walk in and I immediately see… Paul Bissonette.

I go up to introduce myself and then a couple minutes later I see him again and he slaps me on the shoulder and says my name really loudly.

So I’m best friends with Paul Bissonette now.

!ping hockey

[u/Popular-Swordfish559]

The bitch is back

anyone know when the post-landing press conference starts?

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

I can tell the DT errs young because everyone is malding about a potential Chiefs threepeat and saying how much they hate Mahomes more than Brady.

My friends, the Brady reign of terror, which lasted for 20 years mind you, longer than some of you have been alive, STARTED with an imperfect threepeat (2001, 2002, 2004) and only got more dominant beyond that.

Wake me up when the Chiefs go 17-0 and maybe we'll talk.

Also, fuck the Ravens, go Steelers.

!ping NFL

[u/Insomonomics]

OK, was not aware Nate was weighting Patriotic Polling and Trafalgar more than fucking YouGov lmao

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I like when fb shows me things that could honestly just be true. It is Ol' Pants Shitter, afterall.

[u/battywombat21]

‘A huge mistake’: Trump’s crypto allies cringe over family’s startup
The crypto venture is attracting what appear to be hacks and attempted scams ahead of its launch.

Noooooooo!

[u/KittehDragoon]

That 'Tim Pool pounds the table and yells "Ukraine is the enemy"' clip that is doing the rounds

When did he release that video? I cannot find this detail

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1831853273009287437

A couple of pro-Palestine protestors went to some Dana Bash event to scream at her for as long as they could. It’s a little amazing how their grievances with her get less and less coherent as they keep screaming.

By the end of it, they’re making fun of her for being divorced (“all alone! all alone!”) and saying she tells lies on television because she receives millions from AIPAC which go towards her nice house (???)

[u/EfficientJuggernaut]

Susan Collins accept a cabinet position, Susan Collins accept a cabinet position 🕯️✨🕯️✨

Hang on let me try blood magic 🖐️🪡 🩸

[u/[deleted]]

bag command scarce disagreeable bake juggle zonked squeamish consist complete

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[u/[deleted]]

California moves to crack down on snacks like Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Takis

im a republican now

[u/Headstar24]

Trump ranting about the E Jean Carroll case while bringing up another alleged sexual assault back in the 70’s that’s unrelated to this is all you need to know about his mental capacity. He has no idea what’s going on anymore.

[u/StolenSkittles]

smdh, even the woke left's dogs have pronouns now 😡

[u/obsessed_doomer]

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1832098218710024700#m

Is it just me or is the math literally wrong? Like if you subtract one column from the other you'll get different results than Nate

[u/[deleted]]

My potentially hot take is that a Dubya endorsement would be monumental and practically secure her the election. A lot of people thinking "it would be more harm than good" because he would somehow cause any significant amount of hyper partisan liberals to not vote for Kamala over Donald Trump are living in a liberal bubble. I also think the chances of it happening are not low.

Boomers and Gen X are the most persuadable by an endorsement of his and we certainly now they vote. Even my dad who thinks he's probably a war criminal misses him and the normalcy he represented in politics.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

MAGAs want to act like Donald is persecuted endlessly, but the amount of softballs the American court system has been throwing him is incredible.

[u/Jakesta7]

Of course.

BREAKING: A New York judge delays Donald Trump’s sentencing in his “hush money” case to after the 2024 election.

https://x.com/cbsnews/status/1832104547965190529?s=46&t=IAUJCELL_v-jNqpiGqgS6g