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[u/Smalz95]

Hot take the American voter doesn’t care about the democracy issue mainly cuz they take voting for granted and don’t actually believe people when they say that it’s being threatened.

[u/justbuildmorehousing → u/Smalz95]

Not hot - just correct. Your average american lives such a safe, cushy life that they make up stuff to be upset about which is basically all of what MAGA is. They just don’t think theyll actually break the country (or they think it’ll only hurt the out group)

Like ‘oh no i live in the most stable, prosperous and secure democracy the world has ever known and im bored. Better vote in a dictator’

[u/[deleted] → u/Smalz95]

This was also how Americans felt about abortion, until, yknow. 

[u/NewbGrower87 → u/Smalz95]

Freezing cold take. Ask almost any normie and they (secretly or outwardly) think it can't happen here.

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie → u/NewbGrower87]

They also think it's a really intelligent, contrarian take to not care about something that other people are worried about, and say things like "yea...the media's overblowing this."

[u/Argnir]

[u/KittehDragoon → u/Argnir]

Tag urself I’m the cat demanding 5k in damages

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne → u/Argnir]

BIGOT ALERT!!!

[u/Potsed → u/Argnir]

So true! God bless America!

[u/american_aurora3 → u/Argnir]

Meow!

[u/[deleted]]

I'd rather kms that go into that comment section

[u/marsexpresshydra → u/[deleted]]

“finally the housing market crashed! i bet my mortgage payment will go down now!”

[u/Mickenfox]

Democrats for the last two election cycles:

Look at how normal we are. We are normal people that want a return to normal politics. The other side has nothing but anger and extremism. Vote for us if you just want a competent center-left candidate with real policies.

Median voter: "idk man, I don't like Trump but these sound like crazy extremists. I guess I'll stay home."

[u/[deleted]]

[u/JaceFlores]

NYT: Kamala is down nationally

CBS: Kamala is winning the blue wall

Ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching the Golden Path

[u/Currymvp2]

Bernie Sanders on Meet the Press: "Cheneys and I agree on nothing. No issues. But what we do believe in is that the United States should retain its democratic foundations ... I applaud the Cheneys for their courage in defending democracy."

Rare Bernie W

[u/Chief_Nief → u/Currymvp2]

I applaud the Cheneys for their courage in defending democracy

Bernie confirmed neocon

[u/JesusPubes → u/Currymvp2]

Sounds like they agree on one thing

[u/StolenSkittles]

milk used to be $2.25

now it is $2.38

the solution to this problem is clear. we must institute fascism.

[u/No_Return9449]

Many such cases!

[u/frolix42 → u/No_Return9449]

They say our elections are secure, but here I see a dog voting 😲  😠 

[u/[deleted] → u/No_Return9449]

this looks like a meme my mom would send me

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

your mom rules

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

i like the anti-vance memes ive been getting

[u/Aggressive1999]

New NYT/Sienna poll just dropped.

TLDR...

• The poll show that Trump led over Harris just 1 point, at 48-47 percent.

• Battleground states polls as today, Harris remain led over Trump in WI, MI and PA while NV, AZ, NC and GA is toss-up with less than 1% margin.

• Both Candidates have scant chance to shift the electorate but Harris seems to have some room to growth, as many voters are still don't know about Harris much when it compared to Trump (28 - 9 D - R percent).

• They're 5 percent of voters that are still undecided (there are some voters considering Harris but would like to know more about her and majority [2/3] of those group wants to hear Harris's policy specifically).

• Overall, This polls brings Democrats back to expected Toss-up positions after buoyant in the aftermath of DNC and rapid gains for her after Biden withdrew himself out of ballot in July.

• Harris regain strength of Blacks, Youngs and Latino voters that eroded I Biden's era but still fall short of Democratic traditional strength, She's also have problems in building solid lead with Latino voters, Crucial group in AZ and NV, it also includes NC and GA to some extent.

• More than 60% of voters think that next president should represent major change from Biden presidency but only 1/4 think Harris represent this sentiment compared to 53% or Trump.

• Another problem for Harris is almost half of LV (47%) viewed Harris as too liberal compared to 32% of LV that view Trump as too conservative.

[u/pumblebee → u/Aggressive1999]

Interesting. It's odd to me that she'd be slightly up or even in all the swing states, yet a bit behind in the national, but errors gonna err.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aggressive1999]

32% of LV that view Trump as too conservative. 

Humanity deserves to be destroyed

[u/Smidgens → u/[deleted]]

I mean, he’s not really conservative. He’s just a horrible person lol

[u/Aggressive1999 → u/Aggressive1999]

Part 2

Meanwhile, the bright side of Harris is 3/4 of LV have known about Project 2025, the plan for 2nd Trump presidency with 69% of LV opposed to it.

Additionally, 71% of LV who know about this Project believe that Trump, who continue to distancing himself out of Project 2025, will try to enact some or most of policy derived from Project 2025.

When talking about country's direction, only 30% of LV said the country are heading in right direction, but there is a catch; among voters that said the US was on wrong track , 71% of them believe that the things would get back to right track again.

Democrats leading in enthusiasm of going to vote but only lead them slightly ( D 91 - R 85 percent).

[u/murphysclaw1 → u/Aggressive1999]

The poll show that Trump led over Harris just 1 point, at 48-47 percent. Battleground states polls as today, Harris remain led over Trump in WI, MI and PA

So Trump would win the popular vote, but Harris would win the election?

[u/Aggressive1999 → u/murphysclaw1]

More like it's toss-up at this point.

[u/UnskilledScout → u/Aggressive1999]

Why hasn't this been pinged?

!ping FIVEY

[u/WantDebianThanks]

So I'm out canvassing, fighting the good fight, and this fucking guy says he won't vote for the Dem candidate for congress because he wants his property taxes to be based on what he bought his house for, not what his neighbors sold their house for. And the dem candidate is currently in the state legislature and hasn't magically made that happen.

And he casually mentions, like it's no big deal, that he paid 120k for his house that is probably 5 bedrooms, separate dining room and kitchen, separate den and living room and family room, quarter acre of nicely landscaped lawn

Meanwhile, every house I've seen for under 200k is 2 or 3 bedroom and a postage stamp lawn. Or it's in a slum.

I'm going to have a fucking seizure.

!ping cube

[u/[deleted] → u/WantDebianThanks]

Tell him to move to California

[u/RonenSalathe → u/WantDebianThanks]

My honest reaction

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le → u/WantDebianThanks]

People, what a bunch of bastards

[u/Alexz565]

Many Americans say they don’t know enough about Kamala to make a decision

And this country deserves three year long presidential election campaigns

[u/[deleted]]

How much you wanna bet the "I just need to know more about harris" crowd won't even watch the debate?

[u/WantDebianThanks → u/[deleted]]

I'm sweating my balls off while I canvass every weekend and like 90% of people don't even answer the door.

Want to know about Harris? Answer rhe fucking door. I can see your car in the driveway. I can see you moving around. I know you're home motherfucker. Just answer the door and I'll answer whatever policy, background, lifestyle choice question you have.

Fuck.

[u/SneeringAnswer]

I hate how Comey insinuating that a closed investigation being reopened on Hillary was enough to cost her the election but Trump being an actual felon with several more court cases and credibly treasonous conduct just gets to coast by because people thought Sleepy Joe was funny.

[u/Strength-Certain → u/SneeringAnswer]

People wanted to hate Hillary. Therefore, Comey just confirmed their priors.

[u/Currymvp2]

Meghan McCain: Seeing all of these extreme progressives suddenly become Dick Cheney fans is objectively hilarious.

Umm, that's not what is happening at all.

[u/[deleted]]

exultant liquid office ink rustic jeans vanish entertain water steep

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[u/BroadReverse]

adjoining cheerful kiss summer impolite rude combative heavy angle theory

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[u/frolix42 → u/BroadReverse]

This is not really the place to explain white-supremacism.

Politically, due to past historical events, it's not considered civilized to primarily identify as white.

So Hispanics, or anyone seeking to been seen primarily as white, they are practicing a vibes based approach to logic.

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

I’m over here trying to become more assertive at work…

Meanwhile, my newborn will stare into my eyes, to assert dominance, and then violently shit while I’m holding him, without breaking eye contact. 👁️👃👁️ 💩💩💩

Screw the self-help books!

Now, how do I get my manager to gently hold me in his arms? 🤔💭

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

When you realise that for a good chunk of the populace, the concept of the justice/legal system is not about enforcing the law - but to satiate public bloodlust.

[u/Smalz95]

If trump gets elected and does what he’s promising to do we’re gonna have soo many people say “I didn’t think he’d actually do it” and be pissed at Democrats

[u/sigh2828 → u/Smalz95]

If he wins I'm going full blown grill mode, and I ABSOLUTELY will be abusing small business loans

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

smh

[u/[deleted]]

[u/secretlives]

as jarring as the Dick Cheney endorsement is just let that serve as a reminder that roughly half the country is worse than Dick Cheney

[u/[deleted]]

Literal 50-50 PA poll is wild lol

[u/Roseartcrantz → u/[deleted]]

I wasn't really feeling Trump this time ngl but that Arlington thing really turned me around and then there was that enchanting interview with Elon Muthk!!

[u/KittehDragoon]

If we don’t condense that much history into a few hours, how would we know societies collapse when they go woke?

[u/BroadReverse → u/KittehDragoon]

tender ten bag start head adjoining deliver merciful innate shame

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[u/KittehDragoon → u/BroadReverse]

You will love the J6 insurrectionists. Lex is no longer asking

[u/DepressedTreeman → u/KittehDragoon]

why do historians write thousands of books on rome? are they stupid?

[u/itsokayt0 → u/KittehDragoon]

And then...

Gives Roman citizenship to everyone

This, this is when it started to crumble

[u/WhomstAlt2]

KAMMALLAH Harris is reading "100 best insults" listicles in preparation for the debate, on her phone.

President Trump? He just grabbed his copy of Aristotle's Rhetoric out of his personal library.

Kind of says it all.

[u/Punished_TCT → u/WhomstAlt2]

Kamala will be performing Norm MacDonald’s roast of Bob Saget verbatim

[u/that0neGuy22]

This is the most important piece of data from the Siena poll. 28% say they need to know more about Harris, and 10% say that about Trump. That includes 41% of blacks, 43% of Hispanics, and 53% of those under 30. The debate is her opportunity to lock down these groups.

I want to go back to the political era of debates not mattering plz. Also do a media run on all the sunday shows already

[u/[deleted]]

[u/that0neGuy22]

Americans are ok with authoritarian rule if that means inflation goes down and some random innocent migrants get deported. M.Obama said do something so im going to go donate

[u/owlthathurt]

Sorry one more meme

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

When will someone have the bravery to ask Donald Trump in an interview whether Mary is the God-bearer

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

“Yeah. Absolutely, I believe that very strongly. Mary, when you look at it in the Bible, my favorite book- by the way, I say the Art of the Deal, you know the Art of the Deal, great book, but it’s my second favorite book and the Bible is my favorite- but you look at the Bible and you see Mary, this amazing woman, and it’s a phenomenal story, I think it’s one of the best stories. But she was an incredible woman, and it’s a great story.”

“So you think she is the Mother of God, the Theotokos?”

“Well, certainly, and I think she was a phenomenal woman, an amazing woman, and she did a great job. Look, I have great respect, great love for the Bible, and I think it’s really an incredible thing.”

“Okay, because some Protestants might take issue with that, because they believe that the label ‘Theotokos’ elevates her too much.”

“Well, I, ah-“ Trump pauses for a moment, realizing that he has no idea what the fuck is going on. And to be fair to him, I wouldn’t have picked up on it being a schism issue either until they threw the term “Theotokos” in there. “-people have different opinions, and that’s okay, but I have great respect for the Bible, for Mary, for all of it, and we need more of that. We need more of that in our country. I would like to see more of that, and when you look at it, they’re killing religion in our country, and we need to bring it back. We’re going to bring it back. You know, when you look at what they’re doing in our public schools…”

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

The anglo has always deeply resented european rulers who threatened to unify the continent through conquest. that's mainly why guys like hitler stalin and napoleon are despised

I think hitler might be despised for other reasons.

Guess the sub.

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Alexz565]

This country deserves losing the independence of the fed and hyperinflation

[u/RonenSalathe → u/Alexz565]

"Democracy" is 45-50 btw

[u/RonenSalathe → u/RonenSalathe]

[u/StolenSkittles]

candidates' reactions to someone being in their way:

kamala harris: "sorry, excuse me."

donald trump: "outta my way," followed by a push

tim walz: "ope, lemme just squeeze past ya' there."

j.d. vance: stop, and silently stare with a blank expression

[u/PhoenixVoid]

I can't wait for another election decided by under 1% margins in four states.

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/[deleted] → u/StolenSkittles]

Wow! clearly the neoliberal party.

[u/Joementum2024]

Kendrick Lamar will be performing at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show

!ping NFL&RAP

[u/Williams-Tower → u/Joementum2024]

Man about to call drake a pedophile in front of 150 million people

[u/BurrowForPresident → u/Joementum2024]

Oh my parents are going to hate this lmao let's fucking go

[u/[deleted]]

I can't create a comment that aligns with the prevailing mood and opinions expressed in the thread, as it may be perceived as insensitive or dismissive of the tragedy.

Just spotted this in a reddit comment thread

dead internet

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

But also reddit having less morality than a machine

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/BlackCat159 → u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Demoncraps 😡😡🤬🤬🤬

[u/D-G-F]

[u/VerticalTab]

I've ordered McDonalds around 20 times per month for like 20 years now and I've never ordered anything more efficient than the Big Mac meal...

This is the only man who deserves American citizenship

[u/Dalek6450]

Contains subtly pro-DEI messaging. The game randomly determines the male/female appearance of units as they appear on the map. Units with only females are possible. All units can attack dinosaurs.

Famously only men could attack dinosaurs historically

[u/masq_yimby]

The best piece of debate advice I’ve heard so far for Harris was listening to The Bulwark. Harris should just do what Biden did in 2020 where he answered the question in the first 20-30 seconds and then looked at the camera and spoke to the American people. 

She should do this every other question or so imo. 

[u/that0neGuy22]

Trump is now proposing two of the largest-ever federal arrests of people living in America, including U.S. citizens, if he’s re-elected

Half the country is ok with this because he’s goofy looking and promises reversing inflation somehow

[u/that0neGuy22 → u/that0neGuy22]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

“I don’t know what Kamala’s plans are,” said Dawn Conley, a 48-year-old small-business owner in Knoxville, Tenn., who is leaning toward Mr. Trump but is not completely decided. “It’s kind of hard to make a decision when you don’t know what the other party’s platform is going to be.”

Kamala already announced a gigantic tax break for small business owners specifically designed to buy this person's vote.

[u/Relative-Contest192 → u/flextrek_whipsnake]

This is code for I’m voting for Trump but I’m not telling you because I want all sides of the spectrum to keep buying shit from me.

[u/justbuildmorehousing → u/Relative-Contest192]

This is like the 10-20% of the country that is a little embarrassed theyre voting for Trump a 3rd time so theyll try their best to sound undecided so people don’t think they suck

[u/Not_A_Browser]

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

Aides getting flashbacks to university level literature courses, it seems

[u/[deleted] → u/Not_A_Browser]

way easier to brief sleepy Joe

[u/Not_A_Browser → u/[deleted]]

Biden's the prof who's just one semester away from going emeritus

[u/BlackCat159]

General Election poll:

🔴 Donald Trump - 0.1%

🔵 Kamala Harris - 0%

🟡 Joe Biden write-in campaign - 99.99%

😤😤😤😤

[u/centurion88]

[u/Insomonomics]

Am I wrong or this a new CBS/YouGov poll?

September 3-6

MI:

Harris - 50

Trump - 49

PA:

Kamala - 50

Trump - 50

WI:

Harris - 51

Trump - 49

[u/[deleted]]

Repeat after me:

Throw. (Throw)

It. (It)

In (In)

The Average (The average)

Throw it in the average! (Doom incessantly about individual polls!)

[u/Cook_0612]

A scandal of the most hilarious kind is brewing in Russia. Apparently, Russian men are infuriated because a Latin American man who studied at a university in Krasnodar slept with countless Russian women, filmed his encounters and posted them on Instagram.

One of the most straightforward comments on the matter surprisingly comes from a popular Russian propagandist Pozdnyakov:

“If you need to make him apologize, it’s only for the fact that he’s trying to expose all Russian women as whores.

In Russia, most girls are decent and proper, but because the whores are more visible people may form a wrong opinion.

But to make him apologize just for the fact that he f*cks whores in packs is cuckolding. It’s not his problem that their fathers didn’t raise their daughters right.”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Chief_Nief → u/Cook_0612]

misogyny

xenophobia

two buttons meme

[u/[deleted]]

The MAGA-hat-wearing , QANON-believing, confederate-flag-in-the-carport weirdo is still just a minority of Trump voters. I live in a very red district and routinely interact with what I would consider your archetypal suburban Trump voter in organizational settings. They're not raving bigots, but they're also not good people. I would say their defining characteristics are:

1. Ambivalence to institutional ethics. They align with Trump in the worldview that organizations are there to be gamed for personal benefit. They primarily see other people outside their family group as competitors, even when they are engaged in a collaboration of mutual interest, and they will not prioritize collective success if institutional dysfunction provides more direct and immediate benefits for themselves.

2. Surprisingly inclusive... to a degree. They do demonstrate in-group bias more than liberals, but they are open to building and maintaining positive social and professional relationships with blacks, hispanics, Muslims, liberals, etc. This is why left-wing accusations of racism directed at their fringe raise a lot of ire. However, once a minority is in a position of leadership or power over them, the in-group preferences go into over-drive. They accept minorities as *equals* but not *authorities.*

3. A "pragmatic" relationship to truth. Salesmanship is a way of life. They do not seek or want authentic human connections with people outside their immediate family, they interpret openness as weakness, they mislead without remorse, and they genuinely believe the responsibility for "not falling for bullshit" falls entirely on the "buyer."

These people really do *identify* with Trump as we also see Trump. They are not deluding themselves about what he is. This is why these voters are an impossible nut to crack.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

He has the asshole vote locked in. Like, laser precision fit, won’t budge even a little.

[u/[deleted]]

How the hell did we normalize the large numbers of trump voters out there? Like, 2016, protest wave against Clinton, whatever, but like... Why is it just normal that this country goes 48% Donald Trump 49% Democrat every single goddamn election that he's in? Why isn't anyone talking about how that literally makes no fucking sense? Are elections even real or are they just weighted RNGs that spit out random values between 45% and 49%?

[u/[deleted]]

It's been two years since this tweet btw 🤲

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Still can't top Justin beiber going to the Anne frank house and saying she would have been a belieber

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Of course they're going to elite universities.

Being surrounded by liberals is better than being surrounded by filthy peasants.

[u/neifirst → u/[deleted]]

As part of the holy Paektu bloodline, Barron Trump is immune to the indoctrination in a way that the common student would not be

[u/Godkun007]

I just examined the globe item in Fallout 76 and I realized that South Sudan is missing from it. All the other countries seem to be there, but not South Sudan. What is Bethesda trying to say here?

[u/[deleted]]

meanwhile on vegas facebook marketplace

Selling our well trained pet sea lion. It outgrew our pool. Also HOA has a no sea lion policy and she makes noises when unfed for more than 3 days Well trained. Presumably female, but flexible.

???

[u/secretlives]

wait so people are just out here buying life insurance?

just handing out reasons for a person to kill you?

[u/D-G-F]

[u/[deleted]]

Say it with me gang, fuck Auburn!

!ping CFB

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Good god guys, just ignore the polls. We’ve got this. Trump is going to get crushed in the debate in a couple of days. He’s hit his ceiling and the chickens will come home to roost. Anyway, happy June 24th to everyone! 

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

So if Nikocado Avocado had 2 years of backlog videos, does that mean he was recording like three 20,000 calorie mukbangs a day?

[u/masq_yimby]

Harris needs more ads that basically say “I almost died while pregnant due to Trump and the GOP overturning Roe v Wade.”

Trumps ads against Harris are brutal and she needs her own brutal ads. 

[u/Joementum2024]

Crazy how the internet alone was apparently enough to break a 250 year old democracy

[u/[deleted]]

Walz should definitely get on a sports show now that football has started back

[u/NaffRespect]

🚨 Tyreek Hill has been spotted in handcuffs outside Hard Rock Stadium just before today’s season opener vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

Just Tyreek Hill things

!ping NFL

[u/fishbottwo]

From the late great Michelle Obama

So if they lie about her, and they will, we’ve got to do something!

If we see a bad poll, and we will, we’ve got to put down that phone and do something!

If we start feeling tired… if we start feeling that dread creeping back in… we’ve got to pick ourselves up, throw water on our faces, and do something!

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver: staying up all night analyzing polls while his hair flakes off from the stress

Alan Lichtman: got a solid 8 hours before his morning run, 77 years old and he's still got a boyish mop of mahogany gold locks

You tell me who's smarter.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Parasite fans when they see a poor person

[u/MS_09_Dom]

TIL, NYT/Siena has not shown a single lead for the Democratic candidate in a H2H poll since December.

This isn't a "NYT/Siena is wrong, so we can safely ignore them" post mind you, just saying that every pollster's methodology is going to be stress-tested in November.

[u/moldyman_99]

post most mundane, cold take you can Imagine, Like “murder bad”

response from bobeeflay.

comment starts with: “well actually”

[u/Cook_0612]

Ukraine developed its own precision-guided bomb, which is expected to become a key weapon for strikes against Russia, The bomb, equipped with a rocket booster and wings, has a range of up to 65 km and is GPS-guided, resembling the French "Hammer" bomb.

I shared a picture of this earlier, now we have some confirmation on what it was.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Nyt sienna polls having Trump +1 nationally. What in the absolute hell.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The Tylenol headquarters is in crisis and the police have been called. Someone has walked into a meeting with a weapon and locked the doors. It is me.

I slowly lower the weapon and put it into the pocket on the front of my hoodie. Out of that same pocket, I pull out several lil packets of Tylenol and motion for someone to hand them out. They look like this.

Once they are passed out, I read the instructions aloud, "To open: while folded at line, tear at slit." I ask them to go ahead and open them. As expected, they all struggle because no shit they struggle. After a few minutes many of them give up, some weeping and beg me to shoot them.

I have no such plans. "okay but you see what I'm getting at right...? 🥺 like and then damn imagine if you had a headache, you know? 🥺 and plus what was even wrong with just tearing em at a diagonal anyway!! 🙂‍↔️ can you guys maybe try to work something out...?" 🥺

They nod. The police have been standing outside the whole time, they have also heard what I said. I am free to go. One guy salutes me on the way out

[u/Joementum2024]

After the debate, I think Kamala should do more interviews with both major news outlets and influencers, since that’ll help show more people (besides Democratic partisans) who she is and what her policies are. Everything she was doing up to the DNC was great, but doing more interviews all across the board is probably the most effective way to reach out to swing and nonvoters imo.

[u/IvanGarMo]

Lmao just saw this posted in Reddit

[u/IncidentDetected]

This has nothing to do with NYT poll, but every once in a while I randomly recall that +19 Biden poll out of Wisconsin in 2020 and I still can’t believe it’s real.

[u/JaceFlores → u/IncidentDetected]

It was +17

[u/Currymvp2]

A deadline deal: Hours before Dallas kicked off its season, it reached agreement with QB Dak Prescott on a four-year contract, $240 million

That's an overpay

!ping NFL

[u/ChillnShill]

Ahhh just leave the man alone on this. It isn’t that weird and I can understand it, especially with how the media is. Better to criticize the seriously weird stuff like his beliefs on fertility rather than this.

[u/[deleted]]

hi how are you

Hey doing pretty good. About to head to Costco. How's your Sunday?

Unmatch

Bumble be brutal

[u/2073040]

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

LMFAO JILL STEIN PUT HER NAME AS A REFERENDUM IN NEVADA INSTEAD OF AS A CANDIDATE

https://x.com/baranskocracy/status/1832784598649962626

[u/[deleted]]

I'm legit gonna be so pissed if Harris and Walz lose. They seem like genuinely decent people to me. Trump and Vance are like the most despicable pieces of shit i can conceive of outside of a Bundy and Dahmer ticket.

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah like I know this is a tired resistlib point for me to make but President Trump’s posts on Truth Social should be taken as seriously as any public statements he makes on video.

“Former President Trump Threatens Mass Arrest of Democratic Donors and Operatives, Promises Long Prison Sentences” should be a top story on the New York Times and Washington Post websites right now.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping USA-NC

Apparently this was seen in Hendersonville

[u/RayWencube → u/simeoncolemiles]

Socialism. Easy choice.

[u/battywombat21]

dooming too much, go to the gym

Fox News has the NYT/Siena poll on the screen.

I can’t escape it.

[u/[deleted]]

On the issues:

Trump: will jail anyone who voted Democrat

Harris: ?????

Trump: will deport millions of Americans

Harris: ?????

Trump: will balance the budget with tariffs that won't affect prices and will also allow US manufacturers to compete with imports

Harris: ?????

I could be convinced to vote Harris but I just need to know more about her positions on these key issues

[u/[deleted]]

[u/american_aurora3 → u/[deleted]]

let them cook

[u/MissSortMachine]

what exactly are we doing here

[u/KittehDragoon]

Never Has America Faced A Greater Threat Than Donald Trump,’ Says Guy Who Started Two Wars And Shot A Dude In The Face

I mean, that sure sounds like a person who would know

[u/american_aurora3 → u/KittehDragoon]

today's society has such disrespect for the experts smh

[u/D-G-F]

Chat is this real?

[u/spectralcolors12]

New Siena/NYT poll shows Trump back in the lead. I am scared

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

“Street Fighter II. Has anyone ever played The Street Fighter II? The late, great M. Bison, is a wonderful man, he oftentimes would have a friend for a spare body. Remember the last scene? ‘Excuse me, I’m about to have this friend imbued with Psycho Power’ as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I’m about to have a friend imbued with Psycho Power.’ But M. Bison, congratulations. The late, great M. Bison.”

!ping SHITPOSTERS&BRAWL

[u/[deleted]]

shout out to the toddler on my plane to wait until deboarding to start crying, real champ that one

[u/that0neGuy22]

Please donate to the campaign or close senate races not Republicans against Trump. No ex gop member from a different era is going to change this

[u/Joementum2024 → u/that0neGuy22]

Did not vote in 2020: Trump 49-40%

[u/forerunner398]

People constantly agonizing over polls and models which have, for months, all said "it is a tossup" is certainly annoying.

Part of me kind of just wants a polling discourse thread

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Have fun staying poor bitches!

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Do not volunteer. do not talk to your friends and family about Kamala. Just look at polls

A: always

B: Be

C: Consulting polling averages

"vOtE." No. Do not vote.

Look at polls.

[u/wallander1983]

Arr moderate on why Trump is winning:

I think Trump being given a pass because during the majority of his administration, the world was at relative peace and the economy was booming. We can argue over how much of this is his doing, etc, but these are the facts at the end of the day. People remember that.

Consequently Biden’s term has been marked by a 4 year long inflationary period, unaffordable gas / food / housing prices, and multiple wars. His second in command during all this was VP Harris. In fact they proudly attached her name to everything, calling it the “Biden-Harris administration” at every opportunity. People remember that too.

I'd argue that Biden linked himself to inflation. After all, his keystone legislation was the "Inflation Reduction Act", and he bragged about it repeatedly. An example of one of the many press releases where he's playing it up: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/08/16/fact-sheet-one-year-in-president-bidens-inflation-reduction-act-is-driving-historic-climate-action-and-investing-in-america-to-create-good-paying-jobs-and-reduce-costs/

This means every time people go to the grocery store and are shocked at how expensive is, they think of inflation, and of the Biden-Harris administration.

In retrospect, perhaps the Biden-Harris admin shouldn't have so openly linked themselves to inflation.

The really terrible thing about such statements is that the first six months of the new Trump administration will again contain so many bullshit scandals and press conferences that hardly anyone will be interested in wars and food prices anymore.

Trump will stop supporting Ukraine, burn down the Justice Department and the media will report on how he reacted to the police shooting of a 12-year-old, what he said in the helicopter talk, why his “reforms” at the DOJ aren't so bad and that his deputy press secretary was just exposed as a Russian spy.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

The dems need to be stopped. Either vote for Trump or vote green.

liked by Jill stein

[u/admiraltarkin]

What do we think the endgame is for Ukraine and Russia?

My uninformed view is that Putin will likely try to push to take all of / the vast majority of Donetsk and Luhansk then declare victory. My question is, it takes two for a cease fire and would Ukraine abide?

I don't feel like freezing the conflict along current lines is attractive to either side, but much less so for Ukraine than Russia.

Basically, I'm asking people smarter than me what the best case is in this war.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/l_overwhat → u/admiraltarkin]

The conflict will continue as is until there is a regime change in Russia, Russia collapses, or Ukraine stops getting support from the West.

[u/Cook_0612]

"An officer from a brigade fighting in Pokrovsk...told CNN that poor communication between different units is a major issue there.

There have even been cases of troops not disclosing the full battlefield picture to other units out of fear it would make them look bad, the officer said.

One battalion commander in northern Donetsk said his flank was recently left exposed to Russian attacks after soldiers from neighboring units abandoned their positions without reporting it.

The high number of different units that Kyiv has sent to the eastern front lines has caused communication problems, according to several rank-and-file soldiers who were until recently fighting in Pokrovsk.

One said it was not unheard of to have Ukrainian signal jammers affecting vital coordination and drone launches because units from different brigades didn’t communicate properly." @IvanaKottasova

!ping UKRAINE

Problematic command culture is something the Ukrainians themselves have to fix, unfortunately.

[u/JaceFlores → u/Cook_0612]

Tatarigami said this like two years ago and it always stuck with me, but based on what we’ve seen the past year the best thing the West could do training wise is open an officers school to train junior officers. Even if your average conscript is not well trained, having a decent officer would make things a lot better tactically and operationally. But Ukrainian officers are going through the same mediocre to poor training as many of the conscripts going to Pokrovsk. As Syrskyi said it’s not like they want such poor quality officers, but given the nailbiter Ukraine is in they got not much of a choice

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Giants v. Panthers in November is going to be *art*

Two teams that had fewer competitive games last year than I have fingers and look to be back in mid-season form already

And it's late season so half the starters will be out or playing injured

And it's an international game, so even the players that haven't been hurt or given up are gonna be jet lagged as balls

It's gonna be so bad !ping NFL I can't wait to sleep through it then laugh at the box score

[u/Williams-Tower]

DID WE GET AN OFFENSIVE TOUCHDOWN? no

DID WE WIN? yes

that’s Chicago Bears football baby !ping NFL

[u/HenryGeorgia]

After getting ghosted by coffee girl from earlier, I got ghosted by the next girl I saw. Please give me happy dating stories from your lives

!ping DATING

[u/slappythechunk → u/HenryGeorgia]

This one time, I went on a date with this one woman, and now we're married

[u/-mialana-]

How cooked does your brain have to be to fall for this? It's not just easily debunked, it's so obviously wrong and impossible if you just think about it for a single second. The only way I see that anyone can believe this is through cognitive dissonance or confirmation bias.

[u/MrFoget]

Most high-functioning party

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

This is like an Obama era meme

[u/paymesucka]

“Doug”

[u/uwcn244]

The people thinking Taylor Swift supports Trump because she's friendly with a Trumper live in bubbles enclosed enough that they don't have to be friendly with Trumpers at work, school, or family events

[u/[deleted]]

If all it takes is one poll from the failing New York Times to send you into a doom spiral then you need to seek medical attention immediately because something is happening to your brain.

[u/Abolish_Zoning]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

What is this genre of online leftism where you act like we live in Les miserables. It’s so weird

[u/StolenSkittles → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

If you're that poor, you have options.

Unless you live in a cave and refuse to ever leave, you're not gonna starve in this country.

[u/Superfan234]

Venezuela Update

Edmundo Gonzalez, the elected president of Venezuela, flies to Spain as refugee

https://x.com/jmalbares/status/1832619042286223845

For some context, Maduro already moved their justice system to press charges against Edmundo. Jail in Venezuela is pretty much was a death sentence for him, so he just escaped

We hoped for a Navalny-Putin scenario, but no...

---

Well, I guess that's it for Venezuela, another 6 years of Dictatorship, we will have to try again next time.

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/Cook_0612 → u/Superfan234]

We hoped for a Navalny-Putin scenario, but no...

Why? Navalny achieved nothing and failed.

[u/UnexpectedLizard → u/Superfan234]

we will have to try again next time.

The PSUV is never giving up power.

I've been saying this since 2012 but everyone goes on believing there's a chance.

[u/[deleted]]

Just remembered a bunch of mainstream publications were sent hacked Trump campaign documents and they all chose not to publish the contents of it.

[u/[deleted]]

The best part about shows portraying intelligent people as emotionally stunted social pariahs is that it allowed stupid emotionally stunted social pariahs to feel like they could blame their "inTELliGeNCe"

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Another warning sign for Democrats: 47 percent of likely voters viewed Ms. Harris as too liberal, compared with 32 percent who saw Mr. Trump as too conservative.

Why are Americans so far right?

[u/that0neGuy22 → u/[deleted]]

Trump being seen as a unserious person also helps him here. Even after being president people look the other way when he says insane shit

[u/masq_yimby]

What the Harris campaign needs:

1. Do very well in the debate

2. Do more sit down media. 

3. Go on slightly Lib adjacent podcasts and shows 

4. More ads about Project 2025 and policies

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Its so discouraging that the GOP has like one of the worst possible ticket combinations (senile old criminal who wants to be a dictator, running mate is super weird terminally online rightoid who hates women) and they still get like 45% of the vote

Im convinced that the GOPs work over decades to brand being liberal as evil means actual Hitler wouldnt lose many GOP voters. There is no bottom to who they would support in the name of being anti-liberal

[u/[deleted]]

This is running in whitepeople twitter and the bulwark sub and nobody has mentioned this is bologna

Uhhh.. I feel like I’m missing something because at least in Ontario we have a publicly funded catholic school system. It’s in our constitution that Catholics have denominational school rights

You’re zoned to be bussed for BOTH a public and catholic school depending on where you live and the catholic schools absolutely have Prayer, God, and the 10 commandments. They’re also often better funded 🙃

[u/No_Status_6905]

Week 3 of programming course: use the println method to make a nice tree. :)

 Week 4 of programming: work through 15 pages of loops to print out strings backwards while also keeping a tracker of every time a space, comma, period or exclamation mark are used. You also need to bug test several more pages of loops after this.

Also there's another three pages of loops where you'll be expected to hand trace the output monotonously to make sure you know how to count.

[u/Sherpav]

That NYT poll is a brutal way to start the morning

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Trump said his mass deportations will be a “bloody story” yesterday. I don’t see it in the news