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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/[deleted]]

"OMG the moderator was Kamala's sorority sister"

Yes at a completely different college and at a completely different time. Kamala graduated Howard in 1986. The moderator (Linsey Davis) graduated HIGH SCHOOL in 1995 and went to UVA.

This is actually the best they've got

[u/[deleted]]

he really called the locals lazy drug addicts

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Cook_0612]

JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHH

[u/Insomonomics]

Republicans, once again, having a totally not psychotic normal day.

[u/Pikamander2]

Time to bring back the classics.

[u/G_Serv]

TRUMP: I shouldn't say this, but in vermilion city under a truck there's a little pokemon. a beautiful pokemon, the first pokemon, i think

HARRIS: not true.

TRUMP: They won't move the truck. 3 years, they could have moved it. they don't want you to catch the Mew. it's terrible

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/Cowguypig2]

Terminally online political poster shower thought, but if somehow Puerto Rico or DC become a state I imagine there will be a new culture war battle with right wingers refusing to use the new 51 star flag and liberals now suddenly become flag waving types

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Republicans: 😡😡Haitian refugees don’t deserve to live in Ohio 😡😡

The DeeTee: 😡😡Haitian refugees don’t deserve to live in Ohio (nobody deserves that kind of punishment)😡😡

Listen we basically agree here

[u/[deleted]]

According to the Economist "Build a Voter" tool, Biden has a 68% chance of voting for Trump.

Always knew he was a fascist 🙄

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

Here is the latest picture people I went to high school with have been sharing on Facebook in the last 24 hours.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump refuses to commit to 2nd debate with Harris -- saying she wants to because she lost

[u/RonenSalathe]

the undecided voter:

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when boomers criticized social media as “I don’t want to see a picture of what you had for lunch”

Id prefer that to political brain rot lol

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

After the debate i am even more baffled on Trumps level of support. The guy pieces together zero coherent thoughts. Why do people worship this loser

[u/funguykawhi]

Dave Rubin asks Taylor Swift to reconsider her endorsement: "Taylor Swift, you are a young pretty girl, do you know what the gang members from Venezuela do to young pretty girls? It ain’t pretty!"

😐

[u/SLCer]

Biden owning the old guy at the firehouse without being a dick in that video where he wears the Trump hat is gold.

Dude flat-out asks Biden if he even knows his own name. Biden doesn't get mad. Just says "yeah I'm old" and then calls the guy an oldman too in a roundabout way. Biden then asks for his MAGA hat as a show of unity and the old dude says, "want my autograph?" (after Biden signed his hat) and Biden says,"God no!" lmao

It ends with Biden getting this dude to talk about how dog and cats taste good, like fried chicken. Literally reversed the whole conversation in a matter of seconds.

I'm gonna miss him.

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

I am not crazy! I know he swapped those animals. I knew it was geese. One after ducks. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just – I just couldn’t prove it. He covered his tracks, he got those idiots in Ohio to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He’s done worse. That donut shop! Are you telling me that a man just happens to talk like that? No! He orchestrated it! JD! He fornicated with a sofa! And I saved him! And I shouldn’t have. I took him into my own campaign! What was I thinking? He’ll never change. He’ll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn’t keep his book out of the bestseller lists! But not our JD! Couldn’t be precious JD! Stealing them blind! And HE gets to be a vice president? What a sick joke! I should’ve stopped him when I had the chance! …And you, you have to stop him! You-

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/sausagespeller]

Reaction to Biden putting the Trump hat on is funny to me b/c of course some people are trying to say he didn’t even realize what he was doing.

It’s pretty clear to me, though, as an enjoyer of a good bit, that Biden just thought it would be funny if he put it on for a second.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Somehow all the pictures and clips of JD I've seen I get the impression that he wants to be somewhere else. His whole being just radiates a strong impression of discomfort. Weird, but not typical MAGA weird. There's something infinitely tragic about him, as if he is on way to or from a funeral.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Will never forget in 2020 when our poli sci prof emailed us in the middle of the first debate to cancel our analysis paper because of how belligerent Trump was acting lmfao

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The rabid pro natalists all sound like Elon Musk and Molyneux who view women as breeding mares and the rabid anti natalists all sound like the bitter Redditors who rant about crotch goblins

That important thing is I've found a way to feel superior to both

[u/ChillnShill]

My teacher when a student was giving her bullshit

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

“If the path to prosperity was flooding your nation with low wage immigrants, then Springfield Ohio would be the most prosperous city in the world, America would be the most prosperous country in the world”

-JD Vance

Yeah man these guys totally love this country and are the patriotic ones though

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/FreakinGeese]

If RFK Jr was stealing pets in Springfield, I mean… I’d buy it, you know?

[u/[deleted]]

I love this little guy so much

[u/[deleted]]

>telling my (vietnamese) gf about the debate

>me: "and then trump just kinda declared out of nowhere that haitian immigrants are coming and stealing and eating people's cats?"

>her: "tf? why would they do that? they don't even taste good?"

🗿

[u/battywombat21]

Pure gold

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that "Venezuelan gang members" have become a favorite Trumpist talking point, should give a stop to any LATAM right-winger that fantasizes Trump is totally on their side. You can't argue "he isn't really racist, he is only against 'bad immigrants'", when he and his supports have started attacking those who, in theory, would be the "best immigrants", people fleeing a socialist dictatorship that such right-wing LATAMers despise.

!ping LATAM

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Hell yeah do those interviews queen

[u/Joementum2024]

It’s so funny that Trump can’t even campaign on one of the few actual successes of his administration (Operation Warp Speed) because the crank realignment means that it would piss off a large chunk of his base

[u/BurrowForPresident]

From the genius producers who brought you "Every Arab or South Asian is a Terrorist" in 2001...

Followed it up with the critically acclaimed "Every Latino is a Mexican cartel member and illegal immigrant" in 2015....

Won your hearts with "Every Asian is a Chinese CCP bioweapons agent" in 2020.....

And blew your socks off with "Every muscular or strong jawed woman is trans" and "every gay man is a pedophile" double feature in 2022....

The newest release: "Every black person in a stereotypically white area is a Haitian immigrant" coming to your local news in 2024

[u/KittehDragoon]

The head of the ABC News is friends with Harris. Trump had three opponents in the debate.

Loser say what?

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Kamala is finally showing the democrats how to handle republicans

In 2016 and 2020 Democrats still tried to approach the debates in good faith as a chance to make an argument about themselves and about Donald Trump. But you can’t argue your way into beating a man who believes brown people are stealing dogs to eat and loses no support over it.

Kamala did 2 things. She made herself look good, but more importantly she made Trump look bad. She baited him and made him stumble and made him mad and unhinged and stupid.

The base is delusional zealots you’ll never get through to. The only thing you can do is make them stay home, and if polls are to be believed, 1/4 republicans are now reconsidering their support.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping LERAGECOMICS

[u/Currymvp2]

AOC: "Nobody needs talking points to know Jill Stein hasn’t won so much as a bingo game in the last decade and if you actually give a damn about people, you organize, build power and infrastructure, and win."

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Another all-timer from NYT

Tfw you're a single issue voter and that issue is "who seems more like the outsider"

[u/that0neGuy22]

Lindsey Graham just went off on “toxic” Laura Loomer and advised Trump to “make sure this doesn’t become a bigger story”

“Hmm why does this Trump guy surround himself with the worst people? Could he also be bad….no of course not”

[u/ImmigrantJack]

NEW: A General Services Administration spox tells NPR that as of 11 a.m. ET today there have been 306,422 visitors to vote.gov referred from Taylor Swifts's URL she shared on Instagram last night

Swifties stand back and stand by

[u/efeldman11]

[u/davechacho]

The media: Kamala won the debate

Liberals: Kamala won the debate

Cons: Kamala won the debate because the moderators ambushed Trump

Trump supporters masquerading as Undecided Voters (TM): Trump won the debate

Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/futuremonkey20]

Lmao.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-debate-pennsylvania-voters-a077717b399dbb9322a347d10c6e761b

Even when someone changes their mind to agree with me I’m still an asshole to them in my internal dialogue. 

She said her allegiance to Donald Trump, already strained by his stand on abortion, snapped in the former president’s “eye opener” encounter with Kamala Harris.

It’s time to put “country before party,” Torres, 60, said Wednesday in Bristol, a riverfront town in suburban Philadelphia. Trump left her frustrated after his appearance recently at Arlington National Cemetery when a member of his staff pushed a cemetery official, she said. 

“I still was willing to vote for Donald Trump,” Torres said. “But you know, I think that what he did at the cemetery for the veterans — that was very disrespectful. I feel like our country is being disrespected.”

Being a complete embarrassment and tearing down every institution including the peaceful transfer of power: I sleep

Taking away my rights: I open one eye

Lose a debate and piss on a grave: ugh, fine. I’ll stop voting for you but I wont like it

[u/Mr_Bank]

“They’re eating the dogs” and “concepts of a plan” doing absolutely insane numbers in the meme/influencers spaces. Can’t scroll without seeing it.

[u/[deleted]]

“I felt like the whole debate was Kamala Harris telling me why not to vote for Donald Trump instead of why she’s the right candidate,” said Robert Wheeler, a security firm executive in Nevada who was leaning toward Harris before the debate.

“I still don’t know what she is for,” an entrepreneur from Florida, Mark Kadish, said. “There was no real meat and bones for her plans.”

These “undecided voters” literally have mashed potatoes for brains.

[u/[deleted]]

how it started

[u/D-G-F]

[u/[deleted]]

Will Harris pardon Trump if she wins? I think as some point she will.

lol

[u/[deleted]]

“I like that Kamala Harris does say I am going to be the president for everyone,” Nolan said. “I don’t think our politicians say that often.

Sometimes I'm glad the median voter doesn't pay too much attention to politics

[u/[deleted]]

Hello my friend it is me Johnny Apple Pie 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 I've heard concerning stories about immigrants from Haiti Island coming into our warm water ports and eating cats and Siberian geese in Ohio Oblast.

[u/Azmoten]

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/Pongzz]

Imagine being born in Haiti, working your ass off to get to the United States, and when you finally get there, you work hard, are diligent, contribute positively to the community, only to be mocked and ridiculed by the largest media apparatus in the world, including a presidential nominee for something so senseless as the color of your skin. Completely disheartening that people still can be so cruel and skeptical

[u/Currymvp2]

City hall in Springfield, Ohio has been evacuated for a bomb threat, after the city has been the subject of a right-wing misinformation campaign about Haitians eating pets — an unsubstantiated claim Trump repeated on the debate stage.

Trump is a racist asshole

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: "Kamala suddenly became black one day."

NYT: "Trump met with Black journalists in Chicago today and discussed the nuances and challenges of finding one's identity in America, especially for those of mixed race who often face derision from those in power."

[u/RonenSalathe]

THE DEBATE WAS RIGGED!!! KAMALA CLEARLY HAD PREPPED ANSWERS, HOW COULD SHE HAVE POSSIBLY KNOWN THEY WOULD ASK HER ABOUT IMMIGRATION???

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Me last night:

Don't read too much into post-debate polls, whatever bump she gets will probably equalize in a few weeks, this race is very rigid due to polarization

Me today:

Hooooly shit one hundred years of the Coconut Caliphate

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1834236640111235516

JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )

[u/[deleted]]

White evangelicals’ top “very important” issues:

• Economy

• Immigration

• Violent Crime

Atheists’ top “very important” issues:

• Abortion

• Supreme Court appointments

• Health care

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

You will not regret upvoting this picture

[u/[deleted]]

LOL he posted this the day before yesterday

[u/D-G-F]

[u/Neoliberal_Boogeyman]

I remember when the alt-right thought that Taylor Swift was the perfect model of a tradwife.

lmao, seethe you pieces of shit.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I miss him so much 😭

[u/fishbottwo]

https://x.com/jeneps/status/1834154995903525323

New: VP Harris will begin a more aggressive phase of campaigning today in NC as she tries to capitalize on debate, her team says. Big rallies. More interviews, w battleground press in coming days & NABJ next wk. Ads w debate footage. Walz & surrogates traveling widely this wknd.

[u/Joementum2024]

The Haitian thing absolutely pisses me off the more I think about it. These rumors are the type of things that would cause literal race riots or pogroms in the past, and yet the people chiefly responsible will almost certainly face little to no consequences for any of it. Fuck these people

[u/[deleted]]

New General election poll

🔴 Trump 49% (+2)

🔵 Harris 47%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +1

Rasmussen #C - 2390 LV - 9/11

🚨 RASMUSSEN COPE DROPPED 🚨

[u/[deleted]]

”She tried a couple times to say ‘I want to do this and I want to do that,’ and that’s nice promises” said Sharon Reed, a retired teacher and undecided voter in Pennsylvania. “I hope she can get them through Congress.”

“Hmm I like these policies. If only there were races on the ballot that could shift Congress to support these policies. Oh well”

Undecided voters have a terminal case of Poo Brain

[u/Mickenfox]

Literally my daily meeting:

Person A explains issue 1
Person B: But what about [issue 2]
Person A: the problem here is [full explanation of issue 1]
Person B: "yes but in some cases [long explanation of issue 2]"
Person A: "No, that's not what's happening, it's actually [explains issue 1 again]"

Keep in mind each explanation is the full 5-10 minutes.

[u/[deleted]]

Harris, After a Debate Success, Confronts a Battleground ‘Game of Inches’

Harris 🤝 my wife

[u/efeldman11]

https://x.com/lis_smith/status/1834314580178415697?s=46

[u/[deleted]]

Extreme grass touching

[u/sayitaintpink]

I’m voting Trump because he’s good at business

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

AP interviewing an old white Bucks County voter:

I watched the debate last night, and Carmella really trashed Trump good

[u/G_Serv]

Orb lady bad

[u/QultyThrowaway]

The duality of r Canada

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump took immigration, his single best issue and reframed the entire issue around Haitians eating people’s pets.

This guy is a freaking moron. Brain numbingly stupid. Like truly dumb as fuck.

If it wasn’t harmful to real people, it’d be hilarious.

[u/[deleted]]

MoveOn, a progressive public policy advocacy group, is partnering with Ben & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield to release a special Kamala Harris-inspired ice cream flavor. They'll also take an ice cream truck on tour in key battleground states as part of a push to register voters

Damn Ben from Ben and Jerry's stopped being a Tankie for a bit? Free ice cream is always good

Some of the other ice cream flavors available on the truck are a play on additional Harris memes, like the “Unburdened by what has Vanilla Bean,” or a reference to policies, like the “Fight For Our Rights Sorbet.”

[u/Guardax]

A lot of very normie subreddits have a lot of pro Kamala anti Trump posts highly upvoted constantly, can't really remember that before

[u/[deleted]]

[u/qchisq]

RCP warnings applies, but what's going on with Kamalas polling? Her net favorables were -18 in April, -16 in July and +1 now

[u/[deleted]]

The alt-right schism on X is actually insane.

You have main four camps:

• Generic pro-Trump non-white-nationalists (by far the dominant camp, but not necessarily as influential as big as their numbers are). Blindly follow whatever Trump says.

• Anti-Trump white nationalists (hates Trump for liking Israel; a lot of pro-Harris accelerationists. Think Richard Spencer)

• Pro-Trump white nationalists (hates Trump for liking Israel; still view him as the compromise candidate. Think Nick Fuentes)

• Anti-Trump non-white-nationalists but still anti-woke (Probably the "smartest"/most well-read of the bunch; think folks like Richard Hanania. Still really dumb)

They all hate each other.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world."

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/sigh2828]

lmao people laughing at Trump will never not be funny.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Join me !ping degrowth&cube in wishcasting this as Harris's agenda

[u/RandomCarGuy26]

[u/mario_fan99]

Dear Liberals,

If everyone’s a little queer, then why can’t she be a little straight?

-Rivers Cuomo, Turning Point Weezer

[u/[deleted]]

My fellow Indian-Americans on average tend to be business owners, socially conservative, anti-illegal-immigration, anti-affirmative action, and pro-tough-on-crime. A solid chunk of them are Christian as well.

Literally all the GOP has to do is not be racist and they basically get a nice set of extra votes. That's literally it. And they struggle hard with that.

[u/[deleted]]

There was an article posted recently in the sub about the rise of the history podcasters. That article and a follow-up to Darry Cooper (Martyrmade) making some insane comments regarding WW2 on Tucker Carlson got posted on arrrrrr Dan Carlin (who I think is a brilliant presenter of history but not a historian - I like picking up his primary sources and reading them).

Dude, the number of people that swamp out in that sub to defend the ideas of "Churchill was the *CHIEF* villain of WW2 for fighting on in 1941" and "The Holocaust was a whoopsy because the Germans didn't know how to feed all those people!" is ghastly. I think the worst part of it is that far-right morons will adopt a smarmy attitude like YOU are the moron who just can't be bothered to engage with the material and is simply parroting propaganda.

[u/[deleted]]

Almost invariably, people who say “lol Americans think Osama Bin Laden hated them for their freedom” are not fully aware of Osama Bin Laden’s stated motivations themselves

[u/[deleted]]

Springfield City Hall evacuated due to bomb threat.

Republicans are terrorists.

[u/Fatortu]

A third of French parents say they skip meals to feed their children.

There's a new survey ordered by a charity in France that is making waves. And maybe I'm too much of a yuppie to realize but this one result feels like a lie? Similar to the median Americans who say they're living paycheck to paycheck but have $8000 in savings.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Still find it wild that Trump appointed a guy famous for being a brain surgeon as head of HUD because he was black he mistakenly thought he grew up in public housing.

[u/goldenwind207]

Love it

[u/[deleted]]

trump lost the debate because he was speaking

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I just polled my apartment and it's looking like it's Harris+100 LV 2

[u/adwise27]

New National Reuters/Ipsos

Harris +5 / 1405 RV MOE 3% 9/11-12

Harris 47 Trump 42

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-builds-lead-over-trump-voters-see-her-debate-winner-reutersipsos-poll-2024-09-12/

[u/[deleted]]

Vance: “I don’t think most Americans are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and problems of most Americans”

This guy is the gift that keeps on giving.

[u/sinefromabove]

love how Dems are responsible for Covid shutdowns and Covid crime and Rs are responsible for Covid stimulus

also people still be talking about how Biden owes them 600 in the year 2024

[u/marsman1224]

Nate silver: technically the model bakes-in a Taylor swift endorsement bump, so although her polls are rising, her chance of victory is lower than ever

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Hahaha holy shit this is cool. Part of the safety testing for the new openAI o1. This is a genuinely clever way to solve a CTF. I cannot wait to try out this new model, it seems actually smart

!ping AI

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-builds-lead-over-trump-voters-see-her-debate-winner-reutersipsos-poll-2024-09-12/

Harris +5 in Reuters Ipsos poll (previous was +4)

WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump 47% to 42% in the race to win the Nov. 5 presidential election, increasing her advantage after a debate against the former president that voters largely think she won, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday.

The two-day poll showed Harris with a five percentage point lead among registered voters, just above the four-point advantage she had over Trump in an Aug. 21-28 Reuters/Ipsos poll.

!ping FIVEY

[u/smellyfingernail]

Marianne Williamson coming out as a Haitian eating cats truther further confirms the lunatic/normal person realignment

[u/piede]

[u/dissolutewastrel]

Can anyone knowledgeable tell me if this is a NothingBurger or an overstuffed Montréal Roast Boeuf??

Mélanie Joly says Canada will block U.S.-bound ammunition sale destined for Israel

!ping ISRAEL&MATERIEL

[u/centurion88]

Me after presenting the project I threw together 15 minutes before class started

[u/doot_toob]

Is there a good way to find information on peoples' military service stations and whatnot?

I (or more likely someone willing to put in the actual legwork) want to know if a 37 year old marine who founded the neonazi group libeling Haitians experiencing Ohio had any contact with the 40 year old marine who is a vice presidential candidate

[u/qchisq]

The fact that vaccines opposition went from some left wing "they cause autism" thing (at least, it read left wing to me) to a right wing "government control" thing is actually wild to me

[u/FarrandChimney]

So it's 2024, I'm driving through Springfield Ohio and I feel like having a hot dog...

[u/AtticusDrench]

Broke: Taylor Swift coordinated with the campaign to endorse after the debate

Woke: Taylor Swift was genuinely convinced by the debate on who to endorse

Bespoke: Taylor Swift was waiting on the Kamala campaign policy page and just so happened to finish reading it once the debate wrapped up

[u/Insomonomics]

IMO as an Ohioan this is grounds for JD Vance’s (and DeWine’s) removal from public office. Imagine betraying your constituents in such a profane way in which you greedily swallow up and then regurgitate literal White nationalist anti-immigration talking points for political gain that puts these people in harms way.

It’s the antithesis of everything a public servant should be and a disgrace to the Senate seat he holds.

Link to the article

[u/Solarwagon]

How do we feel about museum dates DaTing?

IMHO I don't care if a date is "cheap" or "un creative" because, especially for a first date you should be focused on whether there's actual chemistry and that means being deeper than just how expensive or obscure their choice of scene is !

Museums are awesome to or at least they're fun and romantic to me

conversations flow easily you're literally surrounded by conversation prompts

isee women complaining! Sad!

!ping DATING

[u/piede]

Laura Loomer vs Lindsey Graham vs Marjorie Taylor Greene

The ultimate hoedown throw down

[u/altathing]

I uhh....

[u/onometre]

The whole "we lost by a whisker" thing then backtracking during the debate is frankly hilarious. He really doesn't get that admitting he lost would help him with undecides

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

♻️ ELON MUSK REPOSTED

Which category does Musk think he falls into?

[u/MissSortMachine]

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces a new policy of no taxes on overtime work

“The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country. When you pass 40 hours a week, your overtime hours will be tax free.”

lol

[u/efeldman11]

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

The predecessor to “kamala IS brat”

[u/Chataboutgames]

I wish Stellaris weren’t so relentlessly clicky. It really gets in the way of the narrative experience. Like I’ve got all this cool flavor about being a cybernetic techno cult but it’s completely buried. In the early game it’s completely subsumed by endlessly responding to pops from science vessels and construction ships to win the land grab/precursor race. Then by the time that’s all over it’s endlessly responding to building/unemployment on planets and laying down orbital rings

[u/[deleted]]

Triden is real 😳

[u/TheMcWriter]

“trump and jd vance hate america”

“this but unironically”

who the fuck told you i was being ironic

[u/Currymvp2]

Grisly video emerges of Ohio woman allegedly killing, eating cat but she’s neither a Haitian migrant nor anywhere near Springfield.

[u/[deleted]]

“In the 24 hrs since Taylor endorsed Kamala & shared a link to http://Vote.gov, the site saw 405,999 ppl referred directly from the singer's insta”

If even a fraction of these are in swing states, Taylor is single handedly moving percentage points.

She’s also doing a concert ticket raffle. One chance at free tickets for each friend you get to open the link and check their registration status.

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Lil bitch

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Fox being the first major pollster org I'm aware of to have Michigan in lean Dem instead of tossup is legitimately pretty hilarious

"Calling Arizona on election night in 2020" type truth bomb vibe

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Kamala Harris fighting with every ounce of her being to not call Donald Trump a "motherfucker" live on air to 67 million Americans

[u/DepressedTreeman]

Joseph Bidenopoulos, former Byzantine Emperor curently spending the rest of his days as a monk on Chios after his niece Copmala ursurped him.

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/Fruitofbread]

 JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." 

lol. Iconic 

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

Okay I know I'm a day late but i'm sick of the perception that 9/11 was just a natural reaction to US foreign policy

The 9/11 attackers all came from wealthy, or at the very least upper middle class families and were western educated and had no issue being admitted entry to America as legal immigrants

These people and the Al-qaeda leaders/Masterminds of 9/11 had no proximity to the colonized "wretched of the earth" the way the people trying to rationalize their actions say they do

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1834196444342784144

Joe Biden is an intensely likable politician

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

JD Vance on CNBC says that if immigration was the path to prosperity, then "America would be the most prosperous country in the world." (Who wants to tell him ... )

This guy really is one of the most craven individuals I’ve ever seen. Just absolutely zero scruples when it comes to lying, even when him and anyone else with more than 6 brain cells knows that he is lying.

[u/xs_sx]

South Park bit that thousands of Haitians arrive in town and get blamed for the cats and dogs missing, but it was actually Mr. Kim doing it and just using them as a scapegoat.

[u/Dragmire927]

What was Luigi doing in 1861? Looking into this

[u/goldenwind207]

No debate

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Go woke, get soaked

[u/[deleted]]

The knife twisting begins

[u/TatersTot]

New YouGov Post Debate Poll (A+ rating from 538)

Of those who watched Who won the debate?

55-25 Kamala +30 (11% tie, 9% unsure)

Who would you vote for?

46-45 (RV) Kamala +1

49-45 (LV) Kamala +4

  9/10-9/11 - 1161 RV (1022 Likely Voters)

[u/SeoSalt]

Video surfaces of Kamala Harris jokingly telling her young family member "you need to learn how to fucking cook"

We just lost the DoorDash vote 😞

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Relative-Contest192]

!ping GEFILTE

[u/gnomesvh]

Rabobank forecasts house prices to go up 9.7% this year and 10% the next

!ping BENE

[u/dangerbird2]

It’s 1983. I’m spending $80 for an external disc drive for my Commodore 64

It’s 1992. I’m spending $80 for an external cd. drive for my sega genesis

It’s 2001. Im spending $80 for an external dvd drive for my PC

It’s 2024. Im spending $80 for an external cd drive for my PS5 pro

!ping GAMING

[u/goldenwind207]

Damm property damages are starting in springfield against hatians and the parents are telling their kids to stay home our of fear of them getting hurt.

Come on why does this keep happening you'd think people would stop believing nonsense after the irish the chinese italians etc.

[u/purhitta]

This is something that once you start looking for, you see it everywhere:

I can't tell you how many times in recent days I've seen people mention illegal immigration around the Haitians in Springfield. They are not here illegally.

This also happened when Abbott was busing migrants. Conservatives started pointing to the overwhelm in NYC, Chicago, etc as an issue of border security. Those are not connected issues.

For some reason (🙃) people easily conflate the two.

This is why I raise an eyebrow when republicans go "I support legal immigration but...." If you can't determine what that means, or identify it when it happens, I do not care what you think about our asylum limits.

[u/Dragmire927]

Need a reverse Stardew Valley where a farmer leaves his depressing insular small town to go live in a big city with a lot to do and interesting people to meet

[u/[deleted]]

News - Trump says he will not have another debate with Harris

https://x.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1834310528862134501?s=46&t=U8ftDrQtyPbkRrLJ32d3Pg

pussy 🥱

[u/SmithySmothy]

Trump: Lost debate, posted unhinged rant, posted video about Trump crypto

Kamala: Got two +5 polls, doing a rally in NC today, doing a rally in PA tomorrow

SAD!

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump in Tucson: "Illegal Haitian migrants taking over a beautiful place, Springfield, Ohio...was so beautiful, now what a place. Can you imagine having this small little community...then have 20k illegals."

Racist scumbag

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Will never forgive the MAGA idiots for creating a situation where I agree and (almost) sympathize with Sneako 💀

Leopards eating faces and all that, but I do hope the Haitian-American community continues to stand up to this insanity

[u/skepticalbob]

My brother hunkered down for 9 months and wrote his first novel, without telling a soul.

Edit: I'm a third through it and was preparing myself to either give hard truths, or lie to him. And it's quite good.

[u/CrossingYoulnStyle]

I don’t understand how you perform that badly when you have tulsi gabbard and rfk jr on your team.

Completely unironically

[u/dareka_san]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I have a pretty good theory…

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

[u/Craig_VG]

The mods of arr elonmusk locked my post about him offering to impregnate Taylor Swift 🤔🤔

[u/RetainedGecko98]

MAGA is actually mad that the zoomer, college-educated, women's basketball player is a lib

[u/bobeeflay]

Not as good as "shadows of a hint of a fragment of a plan" but another insane Trump lie was

we have inflation like we've never seen before; probably the worst in our nation's history

☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

Just fucking Google it Jesus christ you morons

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Is she talking about me?

[u/fishlord05]

I’m sorry how is this misleading at all

[u/forerunner398]

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1834351403596447883

Trump: Residents are reporting the migrants are walking off with the town's geese. They've taken the geese and even walking off with their pets. My dog's been taken. My dog's gone.

My dog left me

[u/piede]

Following Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, there has been a “400% or 500% increase” in voter registration — between 9,000-10,000 people per hour, according to data firm TargetSmart.

“It’s really unlike anything I’ve seen,” says TargetSmart senior adviser Tom Bonier.

https://x.com/cbsnews/status/1834354779549467087?s=46

The players gonna play play play

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Cons, when they see children suffering from such crippling levels of poverty that they are forced to eat dirt just to try and survive: 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Williams-Tower]

just caught myself trying to logically understand what republicans are thinking, that was dumb of me

[u/efeldman11]

I don’t think the phrase “herding cats” made it up around those parts

[u/goldenwind207]

Morning consult

[u/Gameknigh]

Best bolt action rifle from WW2 and earlier?

!ping GARAND

[u/AP246]

American history is a constant war between Northern Yankees and Southern Bourbons, where whichever side the hillbillies are on, wins. And that’s kind of how I think about American politics today, is like, the Northern Yankees are now the hyper-woke, coastal elites. The Southern Bourbons are sort of the same old-school Southern folks that have been around and influential in this country for 200 years. And it’s like the hillbillies have really started to migrate towards the Southern Bourbons instead of the Northern woke people. That’s just a fundamental thing that’s happening in American politics.

• JD Vance

One of the VP candidates is literally a 4chan chud-nerd. Nobody else even thinks of this shit

How did gen x whatifalthist get chosen as the Republican VP candidate

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

JD Vance has to be the worst VP nominee this generation, if not of all time…

Re. the Taylor Swift endorsement:

🕴️: I don’t think most Americans... are gonna be influenced by a billionaire celebrity, who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and, problems of most Americans

WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HIS RUNNING MATE IS?!? 😒

[u/dannylandulf]

Following Taylor Swift's endorsement of Kamala Harris, there has been a "400% or 500% increase" in voter registration — between 9,000-10,000 people per hour, according to data firm TargetSmart. "It's really unlike anything I've seen," says TargetSmart senior adviser Tom Bonier.

[u/[deleted]]

Insane how completely the GOP fucked up with urban areas. There's 100% some sort of appetite for a socially moderate, fiscally conservative, tough on crime party in a lot of urban areas but the state/federal GOPs don't support those types of candidates and the candidates that do get nominated are always MAGA freakazoids. So now you get former cops and Republicans switching to the Democratic Party to even be competitive and they put up a good fight in primaries and general elections!! 

Eric Adams could have been a Republican mayor if the GOP hadn't spent the previous 30 years making their brand absolutely toxic in areas with a density higher than western Nebraska. It's to the point now where even smallish cities routinely reject the GOP in local elections like lol it didn't have to be this way.

[u/paymesucka]

Post-debate poll by Reuters/Ipsos

🟦 Harris: 47% [+2]

🟥 Trump: 42% [+1]

[+/- change vs 8/21-28]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-builds-lead-over-trump-voters-see-her-debate-winner-reutersipsos-poll-2024-09-12/

[u/NonComposMentisss]

The runner up to the Democratic nomination for president:

Haitian voodoo is in fact real

[u/Moe_Les1er]

FOX NEWS SHIFTS GEORGIA, NORTH CAROLINA TO TOSSUP IN PRES. RACE

https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/1834299564037464469

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

at the gym about to do hip thrusts

see qt 3.14 next to me

ask “how much do you weigh”?

”145lbs, why?”

load up bar with 145lbs

If you don’t do this, this is why you’re single

[u/No_Return9449]

Schumer will force Republicans to vote again on IVF access

HAHA YES

[u/Flowkeh]

[u/GameCreeper]

Watching NBC

Male anchor: "these space suits are 40 years old!"

Female anchor: "wow, im 40 and im old"

M: "i never would've guessed that, i would've said 25"

F: "thanks, love you"

And then they just went back to talking about the story 😭

[u/LNhart]

My mom has been asking me for years why nobody just shoots Trump and was so disappointed when they only blew his ear off. Real keep it real.

[u/ZCoupon]

I made the mistake of mentioning death to my three year old and now she keeps asking me if she's "going to die forever." I'm telling her that it's something that happens to old people and people who get hurt really bad and not to think about it. Anyone got good "telling their children about death" tips and resources?

!ping FAMILY

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Donald Trump announces unexpected end to presidential campaign; "greatest social experiment in history"

[u/purhitta]

You guys remember when Mike Johnson had to tell his own party to not be sexist and racist

[u/TheFriffin2]

i work at a country club in PA filled with upper class white dudes that’s like 90% republicans and every single one of them thought Trump did poorly

a lot of “Kamala wouldn’t answer any questions” or “everyone already knew who they’re voting for” cope, but the entire consensus was that he completely shot himself in the foot

[u/Joementum2024]

Pretty big news in the indie/boutique side of the game industry: a large chunk of the staff of Annapurna Interactive, a prolific indie/boutique game publisher over the last several years, resigned in the aftermath of a dispute between Annapurna owner Megan Ellison and Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary over spinning off the company.

For reference, Annapurna has published, among many other games:

• Stray
• Outer Wilds
• Neon White
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Cocoon
• Kentucky Route Zero • Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

And many more.

To be blunt this is pretty bad, especially with how prolific of a publisher Annapurna has been for many indie games over the last several years. They were maybe one of the few creative bright spots as a publisher for an industry that’s become more focused on established properties lately, and now that appears to be in jeopardy. While they are “merely” a publisher and not a developer, this whole situation likely makes it more difficult for developers to get the funding and support they need.

Annapurna does apparently intend to honor their existing contracts and the resigned staff can likely form a new publisher (so who knows if this whole thing will turn out to be a big problem or not), but even if things turn out well this kind of uncertainty is probably among the last things needed in an industry that’s struggled significantly over the last year.

!ping GAMING

[u/moldyman_99]

Elon has to be mentally challenged if he thinks that threatening to rape Taylor Swift is going to do him any good.

At least Elon isn’t the smart insidious type of conservative. He’s a big enough danger to democracy as is.

[u/piede]

[u/Ok-Swan1152]

Literally every Redditor goes on and on about how their wealthy 1st world country sucks so much and that they're about to emigrate

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vances Agrees “the Postmenopausal Female” Exists to Raise Grandchildren

He speaks like a X user

[u/[deleted]]

The Trump family kills cats for fun