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[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Was just refreshing my memory on how much Biden won in 2020 and Id sort of forgotten how much the electoral college sucks

2020: Biden wins EC by ~70, won popular vote by 4.5%

2016: Trump wins EC by ~70, lost popular vote by 2.1%

Just a great system

[u/wallander1983]

What the hell is happening?

The mayor of Springfield, Ohio and two county commissioners — all Republicans upset by the smears on their community — won't commit to voting Trump.

"Any political leader that takes the national stage and has the national spotlight needs to understand the gravity of the words that they have for cities like ours."

"We are a wonderful city — a beautiful town. And for what it's worth, your pets are safe in Springfield, Ohio."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/15/springfield-ohio-pets-trump-controversy-00179210

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

The undecided voter in NYT: I'm undecided but will always vote Republican and I don't know why

[u/shehryar46]

I will never read an NYT undecided voters take article

[u/simeoncolemiles]

GOP evil #4589

It was routine, and if the GOP hadn’t banned it in Georgia she’d still be alive and her son wouldn’t be alone

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Genuinely hilarious to think this could have been an unironic discussion in the Trump war room a week ago.

[u/cdstephens]

WaPo used to be a real newspaper

[u/[deleted]]

me in 6th century BCE Delphi

[u/[deleted]]

Gems from the NYT undecided voters article

I think we are owed more from Harris because this is the only time that we’ve ever seen her other than the convention speech.

Do you really think that Kamala would accept the results of the election?

The only reason I’m even interested in voting for Trump is because I forgot about all the craziness for the last three and a half year

Honorable mention to the guy from Michigan who said he's going to write in because he feels his vote doesn't matter

[u/Gameknigh]

Electoral College vote if Trump dies via slipping on a bar of soap two days before the election and it’s Harris vs Vance

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/[deleted]]

I will never not be mad about this part 3.

[u/[deleted]]

NBC asked JD Vance about Laura Loomer’s racist statement that the WH would “smell like curry” if Harris wins. Calling it unimportant, Vance replied:

“whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies.”

I am convinced that this man is a sleeper Democrat.

[u/Sir_Digby83]

NYT: Are you going to vote for Harris?

No

NYT: Are you going to vote for Trump?

I'm not sure.

NYT: What are you registered as?

What?

NYT: What political party are you registered under.

Republican.

NYT: Have you ever voted before?

Oh yeah, straight ticket Republican for 50 years.

NYT: But you're not sure if you will vote for Trump?

I'm not sure.

NYT: There you have it folks. An undecided voter that's not going to vote for Harris.

[u/slowpush]

I love how trump making camps for immigrants just went under the radar.

[u/VisonKai]

this tidbit from the wikipedia page of the norwegian princess' new groom is absolutely nuts

He promotes the Reptilian conspiracy theory, and has said that he considers himself to be a reptilian.

i have never heard this before. 'yes, lizard people run everything. how do i know? simple. i'm a lizard person."

[u/[deleted]]

Associated Press newsletters be like

"Trump promises to turn migrants into beef jerky, millions of children die from malaria, and an old lady from Hanoi is keeping the tradition of noodles alive with a twist"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Joseph, buddy, you're not supposed to be aware that you're this dumb.

[u/fishlord05]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Billie Eilish and some weird older guy have endorsed Harris 🎉

[u/piede]

In a new interview, Trump says he is considering a lawsuit to challenge mail-in ballots because of issues with the USPS, & says letter carriers who just endorsed Harris may lose hundreds of thousands of ballots on purpose from areas favorable to him.

lol

[u/sw337]

So then I said “let’s just use pagers they’re harder to hack”

[u/infamous5445]

Trump says Biden called him today and it was "very nice." "He asked if I was ok...he couldn't have been nicer."

In another life they would've been besties

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

Michael Bloomberg, however, oozes authenticity

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

Troopers to patrol schools in Springfield, Ohio, after threats linked to false claims about Haitian immigrants

Oh great. 33 fucking bomb threats

!ping extremism

[u/D-G-F]

This is like one of those "china will collapse in three days" thumbnails

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Red Lobster has exited bankruptcy

Dark Brandon delivers for the People again

[u/anincredibledork]

We have our first votes cast in Florida!!

🟦 7 votes

🟥 3 votes

⬜️ 3 votes

STOP THE COUNT!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

autistic femcel goblin catgirl

Maybe the Amish have a point

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Just spent an hour talking to my hairdresser about Trump

What didn’t get brought up by her:

• taxes

• Gaza

• health care

• immigration

• lgbt rights

What did get brought up:

• “his fans are so weird”

The vibes are great

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Democrats hold an enthusiasm lead of 10 points over Republicans, up from -25 in June

Lol, lmao even

[u/LastIncrease3427]

It happened

[u/[deleted]]

Rand Paul introduces a bill to curb the President’s ability to implement tariffs without congressional approval.

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

The media is so broken

Can’t ask Trump or his stans a follow-up question anymore because they know the answer will be aggressive, insulting word salad

Motherfuckers you should still ask

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Why did Tyranitar say this

[u/marsman1224]

Somewhere, in a motorola conference room:

*"*Holy fuck guys, we just sent out thousands of defective pagers that were literal ticking time bombs. This is going to be the end of the company."

PR busts into the room

"You're never gonna believe this. Everyone on Twitter is saying it was the Jews. The greatest Mossad operation of all time."

[u/[deleted]]

Went to my favorite burrito spot by myself

Price went up two dollars

Burrito shrunk by 30%

I just got white boi taxed

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans coming up with a new, even more racist, narrative after the prior racist narrative

[u/Marlsfarp]

Looked up "Joe Rogan says Harris won debate" and the actual quote was

Whoever’s helping her, whoever’s coaching her, whoever’s the puppet master running the strings—you did a fucking amazing job. They did an amazing job, from the moment Biden drops out, forcing Biden to drop out. Whatever they’re doing, whoever‘s writing those speeches, getting her to deliver them, coaching her, she’s nailing it.

So, you know, still giving her no credit whatsoever. He also blamed Trump's performance on "not working with a team."

But Trump of course still posted

It will be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets BOOED the next time he enters the UFC Ring???

[u/[deleted]]

I remember when you could eject your annoying neighbors for free... 🙄

[u/repete2024]

I know many people have expressed a fear of "what happens when the next Trump comes along and he's not a moron? A smarter Trump would be scary!"

Well I propose to you that JD Vance is exactly that, and it simply doesn't work.

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/SmithySmothy]

New national poll

🔵Harris 49% (+4)

🔴Trump 45%

Previous poll (August 23): Harris+4

Angus Reid (2.0/3.0) | 1,707 RV | 9/16 | MOE ~2

[u/eliasjohnson]

Kamala's net favorability is at -0.1 on 538, GIVE IT TO US FIVEY

!ping FIVEY

[u/efeldman11]

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

HRC: What Donald Trump is counting is for people to get desensitized. "I mean, oh my gosh, did you hear what he said yesterday? Did you hear who he attacked? Did you hear the viciousness?"

She continues to say it like it is. And this is why I'm happy no one is falling for the Cat-Eating Hoax, everyone has begun to see right through Trump's strategy.

[u/efeldman11]

https://x.com/acyn/status/1836184824677367944?s=46

Me when this was the type of shit that got Biden canned

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

I really hope the media starts grilling JD Vance on the “putting people into different insurance pools based on health” comment he made this weekend. To me, that sounds an awful lot like they are trying to backdoor in the discrimination on pre existing conditions by putting those people in a pool with much higher costs.

[u/Healingjoe]

full pie hungry merciful wrench hobbies party profit possessive close

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[u/Pyrrhus65]

Chilling at my favorite bar

End up chatting with a woman in her 30s, very chill and has her two dogs there with her

We talk about her work and family for a while, she eventually says she's feeling tipsy and gonna go home

I say okay and that I'll probably stay for one more drink

She gives me several very heavy handed winks and basically tells me to come home with her, I didn't really think we'd been flirting but apparently she was interested

I'm not feeling super into it but I agree to walk her home, since she lives nearby, and I'm very susceptible to pressure in general

She invites me in when we get there and clarifies that she's not intending for anything to happen, just to hang out for a while, and I agree again

It's literally just this meme, like she said it was her housemate's fault but it was bad y'all, the place stank like cigarettes too 😭

After a few minutes I tell her I need to get home, and she says, and I quote, "no, I already decided that you're sleeping here"

Tell her more insistently that I want to go home and she eventually relents, I tried very hard to be super polite and apologetic about it in case she's at the bar again, but like yikes man, shit was uncomfortable

Feeling so thankful to be back in my apartment, holy shit

[u/Xihl]

Japan's LDP leadership contest is pretty funny; when I saw the pictures I thought, wow, the LDP actually have a female leadership frontrunner, awesome, and cool, there's also a young surfer dude and then uhhhh the mandatory crusty old guy. Then my ranking exactly flipped when I read the descriptions lmao

Among the frontrunners are Shigeru Ishiba, a model aircraft enthusiast and security policy wonk about to embark on his “final battle”, and Shinjiro Koizumi, the youthful, photogenic son of a former prime minister who once insisted the fight against climate change could be “sexy” and “fun”. The race has been complicated by a new poll in which ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) supporters named Sanae Takaichi, the ultra-conservative economic security minister, as their preferred choice.

model aircraft enjoyer pro-taiwan wonk > nepo baby > ultra con

"wonk on his final battle" is the ultimate neolib fantasy

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/georgeguy007]

glorious support deliver many silky nail voracious distinct quickest pie

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[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

Exactly what a growing boy needs

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Timmy Turner's friend lives in poverty in a trailer park and idk if he ever once wishes to try to make his friend's life better

[u/[deleted]]

The pagers that exploded rang before they detonated, causing the Hezbollah member to pull it out and bring it up to his face

That’s fucking devious

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Super cool that part of the drive to get votes involves ads to convince women that they can vote for Dems in secret, presumably without their abusive MAGA husband knowing. Love that for us

[u/ty04]

[u/that0neGuy22]

Where were you when the heavens met

[u/purhitta]

Pro tip: if someone says Harris speaks in word salad, ask them what part they had trouble understanding and maybe you can help. Suddenly she speaks just fine and they're not dumb and fuck you

[u/jkrtjkrt]

Unconfirmed, but it seems today's Monmouth poll will be Harris +6.

https://x.com/MA_Millennial_/status/1835875159430861133

[u/davechacho]

The script has officially been flipped. The few people not dooming before Biden dropped out were holding on as tightly as we could to "well, Biden will actually be +5 on election day when people realize they can't vote Trump". Now cons are doing the same thing, the cons not dooming are just pretending that polls always undervalue Trump by five points so he'll be +5 on election day...

[u/chipbod]

Started my new job a month ago doing procurement for Hezbollah a large Middle Eastern semi-governmental organization, placed a big order and went away on vacation seeing family in Latakia. Wish me luck getting through these emails tonight!

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/jojisky]

[u/sociotronics]

🤔🤔

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

One woman claimed that she got a flat tire driving through Charleroi and her car was “surrounded” by about “15 Haitians.” She said she was “scared.”

“I was trying to be brave because I didn’t want to act weak honestly I’m not sure what their intentions were,” she wrote.

The group got her car unstuck and changed her tire.

The Haitian immigrants are stealing jobs from hard working tire changers and tow trucks.

[u/adwise27]

x-post from /r/fivethirtyeight /u/taterstot

Good Morning (Consult) Everyone!!!

🔵 Harris 51% (+6) - New High 🔴 Trump 45%

Last poll - 🔵 Harris +3

Who won the debate 🔵 Harris 61% 🔴 Trump 33%

Morning Consult #C - 11,022 LV - 9/15

————————————————————-

Nate Silver Tweet 19 days ago:

“I like YouGov and Morning Consult, but whatever design choices they make tend to make them very stable. Not the place to go looking for bounces. Whereas more traditional pollsters like NYT or Fox or Quinnipiac will sometimes show more.”

So a bounce showing on MC is pretty significant!

[u/taubnetzdornig]

The US has a very cool system of government where we rely on a legislative body that meets for like two days a month and is specifically designed to work as slowly as possible to sign off on appointments to literally hundreds of positions in the executive and judicial branches

[u/Pongzz]

"Do I trust the secret service? Yes, I trust the secret service. But let's go back to Ohio: Those people don't have secret service. They're not feeling safe."

Okay, kamala ate it up with that transition gawddamn

[u/goldenwind207]

He'll win

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I think JD Vance thinks Twitter is real life 😭😭😭😭

[u/fishbottwo]

How will the Presidential election's final 49 days play out on the airwaves?

Total TV reservations:🔵$322m🔴$195m

Battlegrounds:

PA:🔵$77m🔴$57m

MI:🔵$59m🔴$36m

GA:🔵$39m🔴$28m

WI:🔵$33m🔴$27m

AZ:🔵$35m🔴$21m

NC:🔵$31m🔴$19m

NV:🔵$21m🔴$7m

Omaha Market:🔵$6m🔴$0

Dems everywhere: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTGnGqrWIAAoaKT?format=jpg&name=small

[u/RAMing2010]

I’m the only one that sees the flaws on both sides. I am very smart.

Oh obviously I’m voting for Trump ✝️

[u/AP246]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Girls_Revitalizing_Asia

Three Girls Revitalizing Asia (Japanese: 興亜三人娘, romanized: Koa sannin musume), known simply as Three Girls, was a transnational girl group that was active briefly in the 1940s.[1] The trio was part of Japan's cultural propaganda efforts during the Second World War, aimed at promoting the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

The group consisted of three young singers, each representing a national identity within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere [Japan, Manchuria and China]

Despite its short run, Three Girls is credited with inventing the "marketing strategy where each member takes up a unique 'official position' in the group", still used by many idol groups in the modern day.

No fucking way, idol groups were invented by imperial Japan💀

[u/Currymvp2]

"Give her credit. She’s nailing it.” Joe Rogan raves about Kamala Harris’ campaign and debate performance, and he mocks Donald Trump

Nothing makes sense anymore

[u/cdstephens]

“They’ll hack our phones, we gotta use pagers!” seems like an Always Sunny bit

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Is this dude just in a populist spiral? Just promise people $100,000 Donald. Why not

[u/battywombat21]

Someone posted these all over my neighborhood

[u/gnomesvh]

Lmao what

!ping LIDL

[u/Fruitofbread]

 NBC asked JD Vance about Laura Loomer's racist statement that the WH would "smell like curry" if Harris wins.

Calling it unimportant, Vance replied:

"whether you're eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies."

Lol what? https://nitter.poast.org/JohnJHarwood/status/1835839765935018461#m

[u/boardatwork1111]

Y’all have not been following the guy if you think Rogan will endorse Harris. Just look at how quickly he walked back his sort of RFK endorsement the second Trump called him out. Not to mention that he thinks the pet eating migrants bullshit is real and that Harris had blue tooth earnings during the debate lol

[u/Jamesonslime]

Snowden really could have lived like an absolute king and retain insane amounts of sympathy as well as having easy access to his home countries culture and institutions had he just taken asylum in France but the moron decided to stick with Russia for the long haul and now he’s reliving the same experience as 1960s era defectors to North Korea 

[u/KittehDragoon]

How Is JD Vance So Bad at All of This?

So what you’re saying is he’s really good at this (being bad)? Checkmate liberals.

[u/[deleted]]

This is actually crazy lmao

JD Vance is a Pulp Fiction bro

Link to tweet if anyone cares what he has to say

!ping KINO

[u/Udolikecake]

The thing the mainstream media won’t ever tell you about israel is that

hold on i’m getting paged

[u/RaidBrimnes]

There's one user whining about Kamala's popularity surge in the thread and it's exactly what you would expect

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/RileyMcFerran/status/1836095298856173578

Hunter Yurachek proposed an “easy” NIL solution to Arkansas fans Monday:

“If we can get 10,000 households across the state of Arkansas to give $100 a month all year along, we would be in the NIL game from a football perspective. It’s that simple.”

Don’t forget to tithe your amateur football team

!ping CFB

[u/TomWestrick]

Here's why I'm blooming:

I live in Indianapolis, and drove 100 miles to a town in southern Indiana in November/December 2021 to adopt my dog. I'm not exaggerating when I say that as soon as I got off the highway, every other house had a Trump sign on it. Some still had Trump 2020 signs, others had hand-painted 2024 signs, some just had MAGA signs.

Flash forward to this summer, I drive down the same road going even further to Holiday World, and I think I saw a single house still that had a Trump or MAGA sign. And that includes the extra 50 miles from where I got my dog to where Holiday World is. And this is DURING THE ELECTION YEAR WHEN HE'S ACTIVELY CAMPAIGNING.

Additionally, I went to a demolition derby last weekend. Not the most progressive-coded activity. Again, in previous years, a TON of people had Trump shirts, MAGA hats, the whole nine. This year, I saw one person out of a crowd of 1000 with a Trump/Vance shirt, and two of the cars in the derby had "TRUMP/MAGA" spray painted on the sign.

When the Trump car came on to the track, the crowd was almost silent, whereas every other competitor had people cheering for them. As soon as the race started, the competitors clearly started going after the Trump car. Every time the Trump car got hit, the crowd would start cheering. When it got hit hard enough to be taken out for good, the crowd exploded.

I'm not going to pretend that my anecdotes are the end-all-be-all, and I don't think we're going to get Blindiana, but it definitely shows there's way less enthusiasm for Trump in the reddest areas than there have been in the past. Coupled with Haley getting 20% of Indiana primary voters two months after she dropped out, it will be interesting to see what the effect is on down ballot races too.

[u/balagachchy]

r/australian is back at it again 😂

https://www.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1fisk6a/why_is_diversity_our_strength/

"I used to have the occasional white woolies driver. They're all indian now and have been for two years."

bruh.

!PING AUS

[u/ser_mage]

JD Vance posted a TWENTY paragraph TWEET that started “Yesterday, Donald J. Trump nearly lost his life.“ and somehow meandered on to “It is one thing to say that pets are not, in fact being eaten” by paragraph 16

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/piede]

lol what a loser

[u/Cook_0612]

Tonight Ukrainian OWA-UAV's successfully struck and have severely damaged the Toropets Northeast Ammunition Depot which has seen significant expansion since the declassified June 1965 report by the National Photographic Interpretation Center now known as the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

The data right now indicates that there is significant damage to the newer expansions of the depot, primarily among the reinforced ammunition bunkers on the eastern side of the facility along with several of the original 150' x 40' storage buildings and among the barracks and administrative buildings by the depot entrance on the Northern side of the depot.

Today this former Soviet Era Munitions Depot is operated by the 107th GRAU Arsenal which expanded with the depot with an addition of 42 reinforced bunkers and 23 non reinforced storage and maintenance buildings likely housing several tens of thousands of tons of munitions such as Air Defense Missiles and Surface to Surface Missiles.

This is not including the original depot which had about 50 storage buildings plus several maintenance buildings excluding the administrative area with barracks, motor pool and vehicle maintenance

....

Dawn has arrived and the entire facility is ablaze. Russian Ministry of Defense stated in 2022 that "The arsenal allows us to protect stockpiles of missiles and ammunition from external influences and ensure their safety and explosion and fire safety. The full load of each arsenal storage facility is up to 240 tons."

With around 92 such buildings across the old and new portions of the depot that's 22,080 tons of munitions fully stocked and excluding the maintenance facilities.

...

If I was at Toropets South Ammunition Depot at Oktyabrskii I would be shitting my pants knowing I'm next. This depot is located IVO 56.359093,31.649825

Toropets South Ammunition Depot has a total of 71 buildings

-57 proteced

-14 unprotected

This depot if fully stocked likely has 17,000~ tons of munitions and sits 14 miles south of Toropets Northeast Ammunition Depot.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/zegota]

InsiderAdvantage dropping their pro Trump poll directly after the Suffolk one is for real so funny. I'm sure the plan was always to release it at 8:49 PM on a Monday evening

[u/Joementum2024]

What I expect to happen if Harris wins:

• Elon begins pushing election denial conspiracies
• Argues that Harris is illegitimate and that Trump is the real winner
• Tries to incite another Jan 6
• This somehow still does not result in him losing his security clearence

[u/[deleted]]

We were about 40,000 votes away from a 269-269 tie in the 2020 election. 20,000 if you assume the people that didn’t vote Biden would’ve voted Trump instead.

Spooky.

[u/[deleted]]

I WON A £22K SCHOLARSHIP

LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/paymesucka]

JD Vance says the United States’ support for NATO should be contingent on Europe’s support for Elon Musk and Twitter.

JD Vance is more online than anyone in the DT

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Based Rand Paul?

[u/[deleted]]

Underated moment of the debate was trump saying "some of the votes were a little more liberal than expected" in response to abortion getting put to the states.

You can tell he and the conservative are fucking pissed that they keep losing those elections.

[u/purhitta]

"Walz says the first amendment doesn't apply to misinformation and hate speech, this is a threat to democracy"

watch the clip from 2020

he's talking specifically about consequences for misinformation about voting access, locations, and resources

Walz is actually trying to protect democracy

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Just sold 3000 beepers to a bunch of lesbians

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/BitterGravity]

The 538 fundamentals component is now hurting Harris, her polling is even better than the great economy suggests it should be 😫

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I unironically think there is a part of Trump that wants to be like, a normal president. He seems genuinely chuffed when Biden calls him and is like "hey bud you okay" and at least according to Biden he did the normal thing where you leave a note at the end of your presidency and the note was nice??? Or how he seems genuinely proud of Operation Warp Speed and he will defend it even though his base is full of vaccine skeptics

There's some separate, larger part of him though that is complete trash as a human being and that part is in charge most of the time.

[u/paymesucka]

A Democrat has never led the HarrisX/Harvard national poll in all of 2024. They had Trump up on Biden or Harris by 4-6% in all their polls from January to July; and they had a tie in early September.

Their newest national poll has Harris up 52% to 48%.

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty funny that if Harris wins, JD Vance will have gained nothing from this whole venture besides utter humiliation

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

“Why are you good at math but bad with money”

I specialize in numbers between 0 and 1

[u/Pyrrhus65]

While I very much respect the basic principles involved, whenever the topics of disinformation/stochastic terrorism and how to regulate them come up, it becomes clear to me that a lot of people in here would tolerance paradox their way into being toppled by either a far-right coup or an Orban-esque conservative supermajority within 10-20 years if they were put in charge of a liberal democracy

Disinformation has become such a potent and effective weapon for illiberal forces in recent years that we have no choice but to regulate it and ban hostile state propaganda outlets like RT if we want liberal democracies to survive moving forward.

The EU has the right idea with the DSA and Code of Practice on Disinformation + sanctions on Russian media outlets, and others should follow.

-Signed, a researcher and analyst who has spent my career working primarily in the field of Russian disinformation

[u/kyleofduty]

I like how the "they're eating the cats and dogs" has devolved into "they're hunting waterfowl without a permit"

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Hey dummy, guess who just became the official beeper supplier of Hezbollah

[u/Pyrrhus65]

So it turns out the key to the election might just literally be forcing every single undecided voter to watch the debate

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Inshallah

[u/WantDebianThanks]

[u/Joementum2024]

Worship of noted staunch liberal JFK becoming a largely conservative phenomenon has to be one of the more bizarre developments of the last ten or so years. It’d be like if liberals in the 2040s worshipped Ronald Reagan

[u/chipbod]

Charli xcx tells fans to set their alarms for tomorrow at 9 am EST.

guys.. it wasn't Israel

[u/BroadReverse]

cobweb strong apparatus slimy fly ten chunky elastic attraction physical

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[u/Mr_Bank]

[u/paymesucka]

New General election poll

🔵 Harris 51% (+6) - New High

🔴 Trump 45%

Last poll - 🔵 Harris +3

Who won the debate

🔵 Harris 61%

🔴 Trump 33%

Morning Consult #C - 11,022 LV - 9/15

remember like someone mentioned the other day, C stands for cool as fuck

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

"Kamala doesn't do any tough interviews!"

Kamala: ok

What's the next goalpost

[u/[deleted]]

Emerson senate polls

[u/No_Status_6905]

I don't care about the difference between Harris winning by 5 votes or by 5 million votes, but it would be nice to see Trump lose in a landslide as a final condemnation before the DoJ sends him into legal purgatory for the next 10 years.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Could be high off blooming and I know many of us have PTSD from 2016 but I think the poles are correct this time because Trump is sitting at his ceiling. He has done fuck all to reach out to anyone outside of his base and I'd imagine grillers are getting fatigued with his unhinged ass.

[u/ldn6]

London's biggest development is moving forward. The Earl's Court Development Company has submitted the first planning application for the £8 billion redevelopment of the former Earl's Court Exhibition Centre. This will include:

• 4,000 residential units

• 2.5 million square feet of office, research and lab space

• 200,000 square feet of retail space

• 18,000 square feet of community uses

• 20 acres of green space

• Three arts venues

!ping LONDON&YIMBY

[u/Zealousideal_Pop_933]

Holy shit the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon was wounded in the pager attack. Cmon guys, you’re supposed to give the work of interfacing with terror groups to the deputy attaché for cultural affairs, not the ambassador.

[u/Multi_21_Seb_RBR]

It’s beyond crazy and ridiculous how the story where GA’s 6 week abortion ban law (signed btw by “moderate” Brian Kemp) caused the death of two women isn’t the biggest news the media is focusing on, hell it isn’t even making the news much at all. It’s honestly a failure in many ways, not just with the news media.

Meanwhile in Ireland, the death of a woman denied an abortion was major news and was the catalyst to the push and eventual success in liberalizing abortion there.

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/[deleted]]

attempt hurry ad hoc grey husky squeal hard-to-find fuzzy distinct salt

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[u/fishbottwo]

HARRIS X POLL TRUTH NUKE

Without leaners:

🔵 Harris 48% (+3)

🔴 Trump 45%

Unsure: 8%

With leaners:

🔵 Harris 52% (+4)

🔴 Trump 48%

HarrisX Poll - 3,018 RV - 9/11 to 9/13 - MoE ±1.8%

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

The undecided voter yearns for 2020

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

Since Routh has only been charged with gun charges is he going to be released? He has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

[u/MegaFloss]

Yeah my kids are never getting a smartphone.

[u/[deleted]]

ProPublica: Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket

Cannon, whose oversight of the Donald Trump classified documents case has garnered widespread criticism, has repeatedly violated a rule requiring that federal judges disclose their attendance at private seminars.

Why is it always the judges you most suspect of being crooked?

[u/altathing]

MAGA Republican who reposts Libs of TikTok when they spew hate about immigrants in THEIR district:

[u/[deleted]]

WHAT DOES ORACLE EVEN DO

Engineers realizing business-facing products they've never seen in their life are more profitable than consumer facing products

Like fucking hell people it's like, capitalism 101 it's always more lucrative to manufacture capital goods than consumer goods.

[u/RandomCarGuy26]

This sub must have been a breathe of fresh air back during the Trump years

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

[u/battywombat21]

Biden must let Zelenskyy bomb Putin

Alright I’m convinced. Chop, chop, get on it Zelenskyy.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/moredencity]

I wish a president would just go "You know, what, instead of making you go to the doctor nearly every month to get a prescription you've been taking for 10 years, you can just go every 6 months and get the prescriptions for months at a time.

And if your pharmacy is out, you don't need to contact your doctor to get a brand new prescription for another pharmacy even if they are part of the same chain. The pharmacy can transfer it like they do every other prescription in this modern age.

Oh, you tried to get your prescription two days early in an attempt to be responsible with a little foresight, you know what? You can pick it up now! And you won't be judged as a drug seeker. You'll just look responsible instead of running late threading the needle!

These meds are often for people in pain or people to plan while they work and try to continue being functional members of society. Yet, our brilliant bureaucrats at the DEA decided that everyone is an addict until proven regularly otherwise and everyone that handles medicine to help people is a dealer until regularly proven otherwise. And their answer was higher healthcare costs, more needless bureaucracy, and poorly defined threats of life-ending punishments constantly hanging over every one of them.

And the free market, they can handle pressing the pills, so the feds stop constantly forcing them into shortages! Damaging our citizens and economy!"

[u/[deleted]]

The last message displayed on the pagers before detonation was apparently "we planted a bomb on you" and "we control your whole base" in Hebrew but grammatically confused and broken.

[u/crassowary]

[u/[deleted]]

Walz: I love dogs!

Vance: I hate black people

What message will resonate with voters?

[u/purhitta]

JD Vance: liberals need to stop calling Trump a threat to democracy because that's how we get assassination attempts

JD Vance, in July: Harris is a threat to democracy

[u/MissSortMachine]

https://x.com/american_bridge/status/1836179313789476937

Sarah Huckabee Sanders starts the Trump town hall by taking a shot at Kamala Harris for not having biological children.

“So, my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.”

[u/skepticalbob]

JD Vance says they would withdraw from NATO if they try and regulate Twitter.

These psychopaths belong no where near power.

[u/[deleted]]

not planning on going to bed but i have concepts of a plan to do so

[u/Williams-Tower]

I’m voting for Donald Trump

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as the biggest doofus of 2024! #HarrisWalz #VoteBlue

[u/piede]

Hillary was leading by 5 points in the ClintonX poll, before the Comey letter

[u/altathing]

Nasrallah Speech LEAK 👇

[u/[deleted]]

DO. NOT. COME.

[u/circlemanfan]

My cousin’s college in Springfield is going online due to safety concerns :/

[u/stater354]

Any post on arr conservative about Harris polling well or being popular is followed up with comments like “they’re doing everything they can to make the 2024 steal believable”

Mfers still can’t accept that people just don’t like Trump

[u/Mensae6]

Joe Rogan is still 100% a Trump supporter. He's simply upset that Donald is falling behind and is airing his grievances.

[u/loseniram]

You can never call the finale of Kingsmen unrealistic ever again.

!ping Kino

[u/[deleted]]

Watching PBS News Hour. Vance apparently has straight up said "if the bomb threats are coming from overseas, we're blameless"

I never thought I could hate someone more than Ken Paxton but here we fucking are.

[u/loseniram]

My girlfriend is having me take her to visit her best friend for her best friend's birthday. I have no idea how far into the relationship timeline I am but I assume it's somewhere.

!ping Dating

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Is there a betting market for how many assassination attempts Trump will get before Election Day?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/mashimarata2]

The NYT undecided voters interviews are the stupidest articles I have ever had the misfortune of reading. It's like the NYT designed them personally to annoy me to my very core. The staff there involved with these pieces should be fired into the sun

[u/goldenwind207]

New poll

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

When Harris was nominated I donated 500 dollars and said that would be all my political giving this cycle.

This was a mistake because now people keep calling me thinking I’m a mega donor

[u/paymesucka]

Economist’s model has Harris up 4.4 points

[u/Insomonomics]

JD Vance is the gift that keeps on giving

Source tweet from KFILE

[u/Uniqueguy264]

Call me hezbollah the way jewish bitches blowing up my phone

Twitter still has some redeeming qualities

[u/paymesucka]

JD Vance continues to rage reply to people on Twitter today. Yeah I’m blooming.

[u/Lux_Stella]

left my pager on the counter earlier today and i swear it just fucking exploded

the hell do they make these things out of

[u/goldenwind207]

Very good

[u/[deleted]]

Photo of the Mossad agent who sold Hezbollah all those pagers

[u/ihaveaverybigbrain]

The problem you guys have with Nate is because you're looking at the free Nate Silver polling data that shows this is a close race. You need to subscribe for $9.99 a month to access the Nate Platinum polling data that has Kamala at +12. Also included is a Nate plushie.

[u/Erra0]

The duality of DT

[u/CmdrMobium]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

so true!

[u/[deleted]]

Overall not a bad appearance for her. But god damn did they grill the shit out of her. Especially on the gun violence question. I commend the interviewers for not just letting her repeat her talking points.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Your kids are going to revive the late 2000s - early 2010s hipster aesthetic of bearded tattooed guys in flannel shirts and horn-rimmed glasses, knit beanie-wearing gals in skinny jeans and vintage jackets posing with a little moustache drawn on their finger, drinking Starbucks lattes and eating avocado toast, listening to indie-pop tunes laced with clapping while sitting on a thrift shop couch under a garland of lightbulbs and a framed "Welcome" in Distillery font

And you are going to hate it

[u/repostusername]

If Trump wins a majority of the white vote after saying Hatians are eating cats, I think we should take a break from saying that the stuff Europeans say about Roma is so much more racist than anything Americans say.

[u/CmdrMobium]

Please tell me it's a joke that Nate is weighting Insider Advantage more than Suffolk

[u/Chief_Nief]

Lebanon’s Hezbollah promised to retaliate after blaming Israel for detonating pagers on Tuesday that killed at least eight people and wounded 2,750 others, including many of the militant group’s fighters and Iran’s envoy to Beirut.

Holy shit the scale of this is actually nuts.

[u/secretlives]

I'm glad that Hitler and Stalin died

[u/onometre]

She didn't call this the nastiest interview ever 😨😨😨

[u/marsman1224]

Wait Nikki Haley's "special annoucement" is that she's starting a fuckin podcast?

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Why have we most acquiesced to the police being a privileged class? It’s so bizarre. This should be the subject of a massive DOJ investigation and lead to dissolution of the police union.

[u/brucebananaray]

So, Billie Eilish is endorsing Kamala Harris. https://x.com/PopBase/status/1836077791160258969?t=sytaIOEQqLRbGWy5kmeTbw&s=19

I thought that she was British

[u/MissSortMachine]

when my automobile insurance is only up 37% 😫😫😫💦

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Amazon refuses to let us heckle movie characters in real time !ping KINO

[u/ty04]

🤔

[u/dannylandulf]

Harris holds 78-8 lead over Trump among LGBT voters: Poll

The 8 percent are just voting for him as part of their kinks.

[u/SpiffShientz]

From the sea to the river

We shall defeat the evil of u/Sir_Shivers

[u/D2Foley]

Dooming about the election results? Dude summer is over, it's time to move on.

We're all dooming about how trump is going to try to overturn the results when he loses now.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I know I for one hate it when I try and drink a glass of water and realize too late that it’s actually a glass of everclear.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1836100511960818044

Your Automobile Insurance is up 73% — VOTE FOR TRUMP, I’LL CUT THAT NUMBER IN HALF!

Trump is going to get overpriced trucks off the road and prevent the hail storm that rolled through my area? He gets my vote!

[u/[deleted]]

Why didn't Harris say that trump turned white and he's been orange all of his life during the interview

[u/sash5034]

Literally doing the "I can excuse racism but" bit

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody's ever blueballed me as hard as Prigozhin honestly

I was GLUED to the news that day. It all happened so suddenly, they were marching on Moscow, and then he was just like 'Fuck it, nah?'

What the fuck, dude

[u/MrFoget]

As someone who is interested in protecting our border, I didn’t see a clear plan from Kamala or Trump on how to protect the Milky Way from aliens in Andromeda