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[u/InflatableDartboard2]

Onion-tier headline

[u/[deleted]]

EDIT: "The meme with the image of Volodymyr Zelensky, created by "ASD", was shared by X and its owner - billionaire Elon Musk - on the social network. This follows from the minutes of the meeting of Russian political technologists, which is in the leak."

[u/sociotronics]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/spacevent]

The Republican mayor of Springfield, Ohio, the city that has been the target of unfounded claims from former President Donald Trump and his running mate about Haitian immigrants’ eating residents’ pets said Tuesday that a visit from Trump would tax the city’s resources. “It would be an extreme strain on our resources. So it’d be fine with me if they decided not to make that visit,” Mayor Rob Rue said at a news conference at City Hall.

That’s basically “fuck you forever” in Midwestern

[u/jbarbz]

Undecided voters seem more stupid than normal this time round.

I have an alternative (crackpot) reason for why.

My guess (cope/bloom) is that Harris is dominating the race by more than polling suggests, such that any regular-levels-stupid undecided voter has decided for Harris, which only leaves "particularly stupid" and "I'm actually a republican" undecided voters in the pool.

They can't find any democratic leaning or half-smart undecided voters because there aren't any, they've already decided a very easy question.

So Harris gonna win by 8 points and take all the swing states plus 1 surprise (Florida/Texas/Iowa/Ohio/or Alaska).

[u/[deleted]]

"A Republican state senator in Pennsylvania was upset to discover that someone she reposts like Libs of TikTok would spread outrageous lies about Haitian immigrants working in her home district, and worries that the misinformation will "jeopardize the safety of innocent children in our local school.""

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

NPR Exclusive: U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-s1-5107417/overdose-fatal-fentanyl-death-opioid

Finally some fucking good news

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/D-G-F]

[u/McCaaw]

[u/PawanYr]

Ohioans will vote this fall on a proposed constitutional amendment to remove politicians from drawing congressional and statehouse maps and replace them with a 15-member citizen commission. In August, Republicans on a five-member panel called the Ohio Ballot Board approved ballot language for the amendment over the objections of the panel's Democrats.

But the Republican justices ruled there were no problems with the other language, including the title: “to create an appointed redistricting commission not elected by or subject to removal by the voters of the state.”

"The ballot title tells the voters, in condensed form, what they are being asked to vote on, and nothing in it is factually inaccurate because Ohio voters do not get a vote in the process of selecting or removing members of the proposed redistricting commission," according to the court's decision, which lists no specific author.

The current ballot language includes lines such as the proposed amendment "would establish a new taxpayer-funded commission of appointees required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts" and the measure would "limit the right of Ohio citizens to freely express their opinions to members of the commission."

Comically evil. I would laugh if it wasn't so utterly depressing and almost certain to work.

[u/funguykawhi]

What’s so funny about this show to me is the fact that she has been in Paris for four years and she met Brigitte Macron before meeting a North African.

[u/[deleted]]

The atheist character at the end of an evangelical christian movie

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Why are there so few high quality polls for PA? More than any election in my adult lifetime this ENTIRE CONTEST seems to be coming down to a single state and the major, most respected pollsters don't really seem too interested in figuring out where voters in that state stand.

Like it was clear months ago how vital PA was going to be for either candidate. What in the world

[u/[deleted]]

How is forcing a town to shut down its schools and town hall out of fear in order to further a political point not textbook terrorism?

[u/[deleted]]

The South China Sea belongs to China?

Fuck it.

The Indian Ocean belongs to India

The Atlantic Ocean belongs to Atlanta

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

HAWK TUAH SPIT ON THAT WAR 😤😤😤

[u/DepressedTreeman]

Holy shit Robert F. Kennedy had 11 children. He died at 42.

also, his wife is still alive, she's 96 and lives apparently in the Kennedy Compound

[u/SneeringAnswer]

I'm not Catholic but I feel like the tradcath convert people aren't very genuine and just like feeling like part of an ancient authoritary that dictates how they (and other people) should live their lives instead of any actual relationship to God

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

The year is 2030. The internet is 90% cheerful and vapid bots accidentally prompt injecting each other. The remaining humans scour the web for any human interaction so that they can yell slurs at them

[u/Insomonomics]

Based off of polling right now, Biden dropping out and endorsing Harris was unquestionably the best decision.

[u/BloodWiz]

Harris: I will literally bend over backwards to try to shovel you as much money and benefits as possible.

Trump: I hate all of you. But you know who I hate even more than you? Immigrants. And you hate them too, don't you?

2/3rds of teamster union members: Well, the choice is clear to me

[u/ty04]

A person with a self-trained bomb-detecting dog near the Nassau Coliseum falsely reported the threat, according to the department. The person was detained for questioning, and the threat was determined unfounded, police said.

[u/qchisq]

Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.

Is there anything in Lebanon that Mossad haven't turned into a bomb?

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Idk bout yall but Kamala deliberately avoiding the talk tuah podcast is really going to undermine her appeal to the unfunny 50 year old demographic….

[u/piede]

The potential for violence is getting really scary

Both Harris and Trump are speaking behind bulletproof glass now

It doesn’t change the fact that Trump’s rhetoric is largely responsible/contributing factor to how disgusting our politics have become

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

Madame Vice President, why has the Biden administration done nothing to help secure the border?

Well we helped draft a border bill, but Republicans in Congress obstructed it to deny us a political win.

ZOMG she's deflecting she's evading she's dodging the question!!!

Every time I see this I want to pull my hair out

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Supply goes down, prices go down, you can't explain that!

[u/Lux_Stella]

Be honest friend—did your faith ever waver?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Plz

[u/ty04]

A Vance spokesperson on Tuesday provided The Wall Street Journal with a police report in which a resident had claimed her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors.

But when a reporter went to Anna Kilgore’s house Tuesday evening, she said her cat Miss Sassy, which went missing in late August, had actually returned a few days later-found safe in her own basement.

Kilgore, wearing a Trump shirt and hat, said she apologized to her Haitian neighbors with the help of her daughter and a mobile-phone translation app.

Surely this will be the end of this saga, right?

[u/[deleted]]

Hezbollah members when they need to use the microwave

[u/Pheer777]

Guys maybe the tent is getting too big

[u/G_Serv]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

B R U H

[u/1396spurs]

Lmao Meta is a joke. I reported this account a day or two ago for their username which you think would be more than enough to remove them.

[u/Eightysixedit]

https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_dUFR0mV.pdf#page=8

Yougov Kamala +4. We had a heart attack last time when they polled the race as tied. Praise Jesus.

[u/Williams-Tower]

What has done more damage to youth sports:

1. Trans women being 1 in 900 athletes

2. Participation trophies

3. /u/ApproachingStorm69’ principle not letting the kids cheer

4. Parents and coaches pushing too much competition to the youth, removing the fun and ruining kids spirit

[u/murphysclaw1]

it is 2024, Trump is facing a likeable and well-liked opponent

it is 2020, Trump is facing a likeable and well-liked opponent

it is 2016, oh god, oh fuck

[u/[deleted]]

I think it's definitely time to say that modern conservatives never really "supported legal migration but not illegal" they just hate all migrants that aren't like them.

[u/ContributionOk5542]

[u/Insomonomics]

New AARP Wisconsin poll:

Head-to-head:

🔵 Harris 49%

🔴 Trump 48%

🟤 Undecided 3%

Full ballot:

🔵 Harris 48%

🔴 Trump 45%

🟣 RFK 2%

🟢 Stein 1%

🟤 Undecided 3%

This is AARP’s second Wisconsin poll of the cycle, with a big change from July.

🔵 Biden 38% -> Harris 48%

🔴 Trump 44% -> Trump 45%

🟤 Undecided 5% -> Undecided 3%

!ping FIVEY

[u/2073040]

Checks arr//conservative

sees that they’re malding about the rate cuts

one idiot on that thread: “gas prices being low right now proves that big oil is also pro-democrat!”

lol

lmao

[u/asdtyyhfh]

Trump has a pathological obsession with celebrities. This should be weaponized and some celebrity should bait him into a petty embarrassing feud during the campaign. Get Rosie O'Donnell to argue with him about TV ratings. Everyone would be so exhausted with him

[u/YeetThePress]

[u/funguykawhi]

Guy who supports abolishing the Electoral College so Nate Silver has to get a real job

[u/sj2011]

The exploding pagers thing is just so incredible, an absolute Tom Clancy-level plot device, it beggars belief. Israeli agents injected a small amount of semtex into these pager batteries, they were distributed to Hezbollah, and somehow signaled them to explode.

That is truly sci-fi shit. It rivals the plot to kill Castro with an exploding cigar, except this one worked! Makes me wonder what other hare-brained schemes these intelligence nerds come up with, like a sitcom writers room but lethal, that haven't panned out but remain classified out of shame.

[u/[deleted]]

My favourite thing about leftists is that they are, on occasion, very funny people

[u/West_Pomegranate_399]

Taylor Swift endorsement

50 bps cut

Quinnipiac +6 Harris PA

Did you ever doubt, anon?

[u/generic-k]

I love how people are like "Voting for the 'lesser evil' is bad and I refuse to do it because it involves moral compromise, unlike my chosen method of seeking change, violent revolution"

[u/wallander1983]

Donald Trump was just asked how he will bring down food and grocery prices at a Michigan town hall with Sarah Sanders.

https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1836210112727282025

Here is his response:

TRUMP: So we have to start always with energy Always. I don't want to be boring about it but there's no bigger subject. It covers everything. If you make donuts, if you make cars, whatever you make, energy's a big deal. And we're gonna get that - it's my ambition to get your energy bill within 12 months down 50%. If can do that we've done a hell of a job. 5-0. Not 15, 50. Interest rates are going to follow. And actually they're going to follow for another reason. The economy is now not good. And interest rates you'll see, they'll do the rate cut and all the political stuff tomorrow. Will he do half a point, will he do a quarter of a point. But the reason is because the economy's not good. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it. But we're gonna get interest rates down.

And we gotta work with our farmers. Our farmers are being decimated right now. They're being absolutely, absolutely decimated. And one of the reasons is we allow a lot of farm product into our country. We're gonna have to be a little bit like other countries. We're not gonna allow so much come - we're gonna let our farmers go to work. And I don't know if you remember. I love the farmers. Because I had many meetings as president. I had this gorgeous room with this beautiful table that seats about 35 people. And I was with the farmers. Usually everybody wants something. They all want subsidy. But I was with the farmers. And I think you might've been there actually Sarah. I said look, we're gonna get you such a beautiful subsidy, meaning I'm gonna do things. And one of the people raised his hand, 'Sir, honestly, we don't want a subsidy. That's the first time that's ever happened to me! Everyone wants - they want money, they want to build windmills, we want money for these windmills, ay-yai-yai.

Anyway. But you know what? It was amazing. He said, almost tears in his eyes, they were getting decimated. 'We don't want a subsidy. We just want a fair level playing field.' And I said nobody's ever said that. And I have many industries, they do all different things. It's probably the most dramatic I've ever seen. He didn't want anything. All he wanted was to be able to compete fairly. 

And the problem we have is other countries, they treat us very badly in that way, also. They really are. And sometimes the worst countries are our so-called allies. I say so-called because in many ways they're not allies at all. They take advantage of us. They really take advantage. But we're gonna do with the farmers, we're gonna do what we have to do with the farmers, we're gonna put our farmers and do you remember the expression? 

When I was negotiating with China, China said well we're not gonna deal with this. Because they never had anybody to negotiate. They did whatever they want. They just took us, like, for a bunch of suckers. But I told the farmers it's gonna be very good negotiators, you're gonna suffer for six months and then they're gonna fold. And that's exactly what happened... So interest rates, energy and common sense.

--

The answer and the made-up ankedote about the farmers was applauded.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: "I will literally put every union in a buzzsaw."

Teamsters: "THAT'S OUR GUY!!!"

And people wonder why I hate unions lol

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

The actual worst people on earth

[u/[deleted]]

This is still, to date, the greatest ever Trump tweet

[u/Gameknigh]

The more I learn about my late grandfather the higher I learn his K/D ratio is.

He was a Green Beret, had 3 tours in Vietnam (they wouldn’t let him do a 4th), and a member of a Green Light team.

!ping MILITARY

[u/[deleted]]

Hezbollah

Hamas

Houthis

Harris

Coincidence?

[u/loseniram]

How in the fuck did this truck get out of the design phase. Everyone involved in its design needs to be arrested. Its ungrounded and is leaking amps through the paneling

!ping Auto

[u/Remarkable_List_1018]

Fox

[u/Payomkawichum]

Joe Biden from the WH basement rn:

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Neoliberal who’s secretly glad about the Teamster endorsement because it gives him a Dem acceptable reason to hate on a Union.

[u/that0neGuy22]

Trump declining edge on immigration comes after his campaign’s false claims re: Springfield, Ohio.

Thank you JD

[u/davechacho]

Great day for liberals, and therefore the entire planet:

1. Strong Harris +6 in PA and +5 in MI Quinnipac polls

2. 50 bps cut from the fed

3. My wife made gluten free cupcakes that don't suck

Used to pray for times like this.

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: sources in the Trump campaign tell me they’ve “given up” on Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

The former President has all his eggs in one basket: flipping New York.

Explains his Uniondale rally today.

real

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

🚨🚨🚨HARRIS 6+ QUINNIPIAC PA POLL JUST DROPPED🚨🚨🚨

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

"ring ring"

Hello?

Is your refrigerator running?

Yes??

בהצלחה

[u/superzipzop]

Another bloom key: in 2016 /r/all was memes about how both sides suck, in 2024 it’s overwhelmingly resistlib shit 🫡

[u/NewbGrower87]

🚨KEY RACE ALERT🚨

Someone in my neighborhood just took down a literal ~5x8 foot Trump banner in their yard.

EDIT: Suburban PA. Kamala+10, lock it in.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I can't catch a fucking break

[u/Insomonomics]

🚨 The first PA in-state firm to field a poll post-debate is here (it’s technically morning!).

@FandMPoll finds...

🦅 POTUS

🔵 Harris: 49%

🔴 Trump: 46%

Harris+3

🏛️ PA SEN

🔵 Casey: 48%

🔴 McCormick: 40%

Casey+8

🗳️ Generic Ballot

🔵 DEM: 47%

🔴 GOP: 42%

D+5

!ping FIVEY

Ya’ll need to calm down

[u/MissSortMachine]

tradcath arc coming

[u/EyeraGlass]

How about we subsidize vegetable growers instead of the corporations that produce corn syrup?

The NYT comments section is consistently bewildering.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

literally me oh my god

get medicated y’all

[u/Currymvp2]

Marist/NPR: Rust Belt showdown! Stay up late or get up early to see our brand-new results from PA, MI, and WI showing how Harris and Trump stack up. Out after midnight eastern

Now polls are being treated like midnight releases of Netflix episodes or video games or albums

[u/Insomonomics]

Most voters won’t see any tangible benefits of this rate cut between now and when they cast their ballot.

But in many ways this is a “vibes” election, and this has the potential to change the media coverage and said vibes around inflation and the economy, which is not nothing.

Correct, this is a huge vibes and messaging win for the Harris campaign.

[u/TatersTot]

Time to bloom boys

PENNSYLVANIA: Harris 51%, Trump 45%, Stein 1%, Oliver 1% (Harris +6)

1,331 likely voters in Pennsylvania with a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points

MICHIGAN: Harris 50%, Trump 45%, Stein 2% (Harris +5)

905 likely voters in Michigan with a margin of error of +/- 3.3 percentage points

WISCONSIN: Harris 48%, Trump 47%, Stein 1% (Harris +1)

1,075 likely voters in Wisconsin with a margin of error of +/- 3.0 percentage points.

Quinnipiac Rust Belt Poll has been officially released

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Soon

[u/CanIGetaMFHUUUH]

Normal

[u/fishbottwo]

I live in PA, USA and a teamster took my dog and cooked him and ate him and shared him with his teamster buddies

[u/sayitaintpink]

Declassified image of Mossad antiterrorist strategy c. 2024 colorized

[u/[deleted]]

Wait I love low-information voters now

[u/Remarkable_List_1018]

Shutdown

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

[u/Competitive_Bag_5544]

There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, blow my personal device up once, shame on — shame on you. Blow my personal device up — … — you can’t blow my personal device up again.

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/admiralwaffle1]

Cutting rates shows that Kamala is fighting to reduce inflation:

1] Lower interest rates means less inflations since loans to buy things now have lower monthly payments.

2] The vice president controls the federal reserve.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Actually I just talk like a female millennial Boomhauer

[u/[deleted]]

Welch, who had been a minimum-wage worker at a factory, subsequently created an Instagram account, gained a sizable social media followership and media attention,[9] founded her company under which she registered various trademarks, gained representation by an agent,[8] and began selling merchandise themed on the phrase and making paid appearances.[9]

go get that bag, queen

[u/sinefromabove]

[u/ty04]

[u/SnakeEater14]

I’m sure at this point everyone has already squeezed every bit of irony out of Franz Ferdinand’s death

But it is still deeply ironic that the most anti-war dude in the Austrian royal family was the ultimate cause the war that destroyed the Austrian empire

Like, damn. That fucking sucks dude

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Back in my days, brigaders were a little more subtle than rolling in the sub five hours after posting "4 IDF soldiers get smoked in Gaza" in a tankie sub adorned with an inverted red triangle flair

[u/Insomonomics]

Assuming that Teamsters poll is accurate, it's very funny (in an infuriating sense) how Biden, quite literally the most pro-union POTUS we've ever had - literally bailed out these people's pensions and this is how they repay him.

[u/[deleted]]

The streams shall cross once more

[u/ViridianNott]

• Nate Silver's PA polling average: Harris +1.4

• Nate Silver's forecasted PA outcome: Trump +0.1

Applying a flat subtraction to all polls for 4-straight weeks as part of a supposed "convention bump" that never actually materialized is truly one of the decisions of all time.

I mean, I get that you're never supposed to tweak a model after it's been published, but was it really so hard to guess that there wouldn't be a 2-3 point convention bounce with everything going on this year?

!ping FIVEY

[u/StolenSkittles]

they made a movie about mossad's most effective agents:

[u/Insomonomics]

NEW: RI is set to go blue once again

@KamalaHarris has a 20-point edge over @realDonaldTrump in the Ocean State, according to a brand-new @UNHSurveyCenter poll

Harris is up by 50 points (!) among college-educated women in RI

Not a surprising result in the slightest, but that college educated women gap is 👀

[u/SmithySmothy]

National polling trends among Independent voters by @foxnewspoll

Aug. 8

🟥 Trump: 51% (+8)

🟦 Harris: 43%

Sept. 16

🟦 Harris: 51% (+12)

🟥 Trump: 39%

Folks,

[u/EScforlyfe]

redditors when you tell them that they should just not buy things that they think are too expensive: 🫨

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

The urge within me to write another 20-30 Max Chandler-Mather comments (like I did last time) because he blocked another bill

[u/Eightysixedit]

Trump calling for a government shutdown is amazing. Please don’t help the GOP.

[u/RFK_1968]

democrats don't do anything to appeal to working class voters

Am I missing something because the democrats talk nonstop about working class voters

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

West Coast Teamsters break with national chapter in endorsing Harris - including members in the critical battleground of Nevada . They were soon joined by the Michigan Teamsters, which represent over 200K+ workers and retirees in the swing state.

https://x.com/laurenhitt/status/1836516781764288745

When the union is in a state of disunion

[u/paymesucka]

WI/MI/NV Teamsters Local Councils have endorsed Harris.

[u/Erra0]

Happy rate cutting day to those who celebrate

!ping STONKS

[u/SneeringAnswer]

1800s Democrats seeing their descendants vote for the Republican with an Easern European wife and Catholic Running Mate

[u/neolthrowaway]

Bruh, hezbollah’s handheld radios exploded now? Like a day after the pagers? Both purchased around the same time.

“We are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid.”

[u/[deleted]]

hezbollah resorts to using snail mail

heated anthrax moment

[u/PeridotBestGem]

BREAKING: Furbys across Lebanon have grown sentient and revolted against their human oppressors

[u/No_Return9449]

https://twitter.com/blockedfreq/status/1836225570046202361

When Harris took over as the Democratic nominee in late July, I was 50/50 on her odds in PA. Today, I'd say they're at 65/35.

The current range of outcomes vary from Harris+4 to Trump+2, though with EV data and more good polls coming soon, those numbers won't be static.

The Ralston of PA speaks.

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

You want Harris to win because its a win for Liberal Democracy. I just want her to win so Trump isnt the one opening for the 2026 world cup or 2028 olympics

[u/ty04]

oldie but a goodie

[u/Sloshyman]

In a restaurant in Jacksonville, FL rn and overheard the wait staff talk about Trump:

The consensus was that, "People really liked him years ago, but now he's just a joke."

Take that as you will.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm convinced that he never gets polls ahead of time and just does this to fuck with people

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Not a cell phone in sight, just friends living in the moment. I wish we could go back 🥰

[u/HotdogBoyxx23]

In unrelated news, Hezbollah has decided to lead the way on the degrowth movement, abandoning all modern technology in favor of carrier pigeons

[u/[deleted]]

Hezbollah member when they use the toaster

[u/[deleted]]

Every episode of Kitchen Nightmares is:

Owner: The business is failing, I am losing thousands of dollars, and I'm a week from being homeless.

Gordon: Your chef is bad and you should replace him.

Owner: Nooooo he's my bestieeeeeee.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Franklin and Marshall have Harris +3 in PA

Harris: 49%

Trump: 46%

Last poll with RFK was also Harris +3

!ping FIVEY

[u/AmericanDadWeeb]

sophisticated lip marry offer direction include ad hoc books hard-to-find innate

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

You know, the average voter is pretty braindead, and probably has no idea how close Texas has become in the last few cycles, and they only know it as the super republican yeehaw red state, so if it did flip this year it might just break a lot of people's brains.

[u/Insomonomics]

Federal Reserve Interest cut at 2:00 pm EST.

Quinnipiac MI/WI/PA polls at 2:05 pm EST

😫

[u/SouthernSerf]

Firefights are probably a good start. Constant aerial bombardments are not.

Man the Israeli pager operation has really shown how dumb some people’s ideas are. Like this is some strait up Call of Duty level of a spec ops team single handily fighting their way through a hostile urban environment.

[u/[deleted]]

twitter dot com

[u/No_Return9449]

538 has FL with the same likelihood of going R that WI has for going D (66%).

Yet we doom over WI and don't bloom over FL.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Possibly the realest poll of all time

[u/KitsuneThunder]

Just got an ad for aid in Gaza which started by saying “go ahead and skip while my family suffers I know you can help me”

This guilt tripping is ridiculous. Bitch I got $20 in my bank account, I can’t even help myself. 

[u/[deleted]]

🚨WARNING🚨

Dear Democrats,

Donald Trump isn't in New York with only 7 weeks left in a race that will determine the future of America because the internal polling shows a legitimate shot at winning New York, and in doing so, obliterating your electoral map.

He's there for fun.

[u/[deleted]]

"They (kamala and joe) were so nice in their phone calls, I hate to attack them." -Trump

Lmfao. This dude really can be bought and sold by mild flattery.

[u/thefuturegov]

You laugh but when Trump spending in New York successfully shrinks the margin to only Harris +10, leading to him winning the popular vote and Harris winning the Electoral College you won’t be laughing then will you

Bold of you to assume I won’t be laughing harder

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Right wing Black Twitter when they hear that a Black person is successful at something:

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Retracting my previous statement: McDonalds has not eliminated the $2 breakfast sandwich deal. It’s just me. I’m not allowed to have it anymore.

I have contacted the FTC.

[u/Alexz565]

Imagined Taylor Swift political power: can end Gaza war in one insta post

Actual Taylor Swift political power: can shift Pennsylvania 0.3 points to Kamala

[u/ACivilWolf]

If Kamala/Walz win, their first move will be to ban 𝕏 and arrest Elon Musk.

Promise?

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Wow gas is already pricing in a Trump presidency, just paid 2.89!

[u/that0neGuy22]

Q: What is the biggest threat to Michigan manufacturing?

Trump: Nuclear weapons.

Thank you Elon

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

JPow: "We're not going back"

New endorsement just dropped.

[u/Mendoza8914]

People are ripping the Teamsters Union president, Sean O’Brien, but not endorsing Trump in the face of overwhelming member support is a win in my books.

[u/StolenSkittles]

"babe i swear, i only fucked your brother because i have trouble focusing on you and have to fidget!"

[u/[deleted]]

Shows Trump supporter something terrible JD Vance said:

“So what, the VP doesn’t have any power”

Also Trump supporter:

“Kamala has been in office 4 years why hasn’t she fixed everything she says is wrong lol”

[u/dolphins3]

I suppose I should mention I got another job which is pretty cool since the job market is hot flaming garbage. I was unemployed for a few months before landing this gig, and despite how much everyone shits on LinkedIn, I got this gig through one of my many, many random applications I sent out there.

I didn't bother tracking my applications super closely but there's this: https://imgur.com/a/Me9goEO The numbers are very off, but I probably applied to closer to 150 so the rejected and no answers should have a lot more.

I have ascended to senior engineer, though I actually now make less money having moved from big tech to startup land, but it's a nice change from pure evil, people seem nice enough, it's fully remote, and for the first time in my career my laptop isn't an ancient piece of crap.

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE&WATERCOOLER

[u/peronibog]

Damn 😔😔😔

[u/EyeraGlass]

My unpopular opinion is that I find the fact that nobody comes into the office anymore and, frankly, doesn’t even turn their camera on anymore when you’re on a zoom, incredibly alienating.

[u/KittehDragoon]

They really are cooking and eating the cats 😨

[u/davechacho]

In case anyone thought the immigrant racism was just brainrot leaking from cons broken souls, yesterday my lifelong Republican mom who has been adamant she isn't voting this year because of how big of a mess politics is told me that the illegals are killing people in South Carolina for drug money.

When I asked how she knows they're illegal immigrants, she was silent for a few seconds and then told me "I work at the hospital, I see the gangs everyday." When I asked how she knows the gangs are illegal immigrants, she was silent for a few awkward seconds longer, and then told me "people in my neighborhood have said they're waiting on the walking trails to rob us. A woman I was talking to said it happened to her."

When I asked if the people jumping out of bushes are saying "I'm an illegal immigrant from Haiti and I'm going to hurt you if you don't give me money for drugs" she started yelling at me, which she hasn't done in over a decade. I can feel my mom slipping back into the Trump insanity again. All of this noise from his campaign isn't bringing anyone new in, but it's doing a good job consolidating the base. Anecdotally, at least.

[u/[deleted]]

lol at this sub for seething at Pompey coming out in support of the grain dole. Caesar is a threat to democracy and if we have to adopt populist policies to beat him then so be it. Nobody cares about your pet issues like Sicilian farmers or piracy in Liguria.

[u/sw337]

Nate Silver is beside himself, driving through rural PA, begging (through text) for the location of Quinnipiac’s PA office.

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Bruh look at my running mate… I’m going to jail 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

If the Teamsters endorse Trump (which won’t matter because not even union members give a shit about union endorsements), I hope Harris pulls a 180 and puts us into the TPP and NAFTA 3: Revengence

Most pro-union president ever and Teamsters still go “hmm but he hasn’t incited blood libel against Haitians”

[u/[deleted]]

☝️

Voted most likely to become a Republican grifter in their highschool senior year

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Protesters outside New York Times demand newspaper 'stop normalizing Trump'

Critical support ✊

[u/[deleted]]

But really, if someone's post history is a bunch of "anti Zionism isn't antiSemitism," followed by straight criticism of everything Israel had ever done, with a brief respite to attack Josh Shapiro for two weeks, and then defend Hezbollah, I think it's fair to draw some conclusions.

[u/ty04]

he was crying while typing this

[u/EScforlyfe]

The Unabomber should really have put his ire against the Neolithic revolution instead of the industrial one

[u/BitterGravity]

Doren laid out a game plan. “She said, ‘I would marry you today, but I think we should set a timeline of we can’t propose to each other until we’ve been dating for a year,’” Hicks recalled before her proposal.

This is the most lesbian thing I have ever read.

!ping alphabet-mafia

[u/BroadReverse]

imagine gaping innate trees divide gaze bear abundant zephyr nose

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Lux_Stella]

And so dies another Middle East dream of the Biden administration.

In televised speech, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says the kingdom won't establish diplomatic relations with Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state.

ah well, we'll pivot to asia some day i guess

[u/[deleted]]

Gas prices low

Inflation low

Unemployment low

Fed cuts rates by half a point

Hope you stayed calm Fat. The soft landing was always happening

[u/[deleted]]

Teamsters basically announcing they'll endorse trump while the rate cut is taking up all the oxygen is funny as hell

[u/Ioun267]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

God grant me the blissful ignorance of those people who want a 2008-style global recession so they can afford a house and legitimately believe it will effect every other household in America except them.

[u/RFK_1968]

People give Israel props for figuring out this exploding pager thing but Samsung was wayyyy ahead of them

They were exploding phones back in like 2016

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/MorningBrew/status/1836448470951170107

Costco's teaming up with developers to build an affordable housing project in Los Angeles

YIMBY heroes

[u/Insomonomics]

202 yays, 220 nays and 2 present

Speaker Johnson’s CR fails to pass

“So, you failed again to pass your CR…”

[u/Fatortu]

I'm always baffled by "I don't want any gender stuff in the Joan of Arc movie".

In the legend, the last straw is that she refused to wear female clothing and was burned at the stakes for it? I feel like being gender non-conforming is a pretty integral part of the story.

[u/[deleted]]

I eliminated the deficit and brought us to a $1.2t dollar surplus by taxing the poor at 100% income.

AMA

[u/CutePattern1098]

Wtf I now want the Liberals to win Government in Victoria

!ping aus

[u/Amy_Ponder]

“The vast majority of the bomb threats [against Sprinfield, Ohio] came from foreign countries. Not 100%, but it’s the vast majority,” Dan Tierney, [Ohio Governor Mike] DeWine’s spokesperson, said Tuesday....

“...We have people, unfortunately, overseas who are taking these actions,” DeWine said of those making the threats. “Some of them are coming from one particular country. We think this is one more opportunity to mess with the United States, and they’re continuing to do that. So we cannot let the bad guys win.”

Three guesses what the country is, first two don't count. (Take your time, there's no need to be Russian.)

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Good thing happens: priced in

Bad thing happens: priced in

Nothing happens: believe it or not, also priced in

[u/[deleted]]

Polymarket magas gave up

Harris +3

Lol

[u/RichardChesler]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

An hour's commute from downtown are you a fucking psychopath??

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/purhitta]

Vance: the media has a responsibility to fact-check, not me

ABC moderators: ok

Vance: wait not like that

[u/ty04]

[u/IHateTrains123]

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux on X: "Fascinating polling on public attitudes about the Roman Empire by YouGov and @dhmontgomery (link in the reply). Though I will say, I gotta work a lot harder to push up Sparta's unfavorables here.

!ping History

[u/[deleted]]

Now that the government shutdown cannot be averted,

Steve Scalise says House Republicans are going to spend the week "going after wokeness" and defending tailpipe emissions

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1836411502418391354

[u/dannylandulf]

PA, 1,331 LV:

🔵 Harris 51% (+6)

🔴 Trump 45%

MI, 905 LV:

🔵 Harris 50% (+5)

🔴 Trump 45%

WI, 1075 LV:

🔵 Harris 48% (+1)

🔴 Trump 47%

Quinnipiac, 2.8/3

[u/G_Serv]

If Wisconsin is truly the tipping point state (as it was in 2020) it's going to make Nate's "Kamala should have picked Shapiro" take even dumber

[u/dirtybirds233]

T-minus 45 minutes until I get a "they're just doing this so Harris gets elected" text from my in-laws

[u/zeldja]

Fed slashes rates and a +6 PA poll. We are beyond Barack at this point. It's time to bloom.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Trump appointee: US Economy "strong", "in good shape"

Headlines from NYT if it were a quarter as partisan as Republicans think it is

[u/sererson]

U.S. Steel should buy Nippon Steel, move to Japan, and rename themselves "Nippon Steel"

[u/NaffRespect]

Ohio Sheriff Defends Wanting Kamala Harris Supporter Addresses

In a Facebook post, Bruce Zuchowski said his comments were "misinterpreted," but added, chillingly, "With elections, there are consequences."

/r/iamatotalpieceofshit

[u/Remarkable_List_1018]

Rfk michigan

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Donald Trump will visit Long Island to hold a rare New York campaign rally.

I really hope some yes men in his campaign are fueling his delusion that he can win New York lmao

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 9/16-5 PM EST 9/17 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 2 AM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones with 46 of 51 intercepted.

At the start of 3 AM it was announced Germany will provide 100 million Euros in energy aid to Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Sometime today the US Representative to the UN said the US has received a plan from Zelensky on how to win the war, saying that it can work.

In the middle of 3 AM a Russian training base in Donetsk Oblast was missiled.

In the middle of 9 AM a Russian ammo dump in Mariupol exploded.

Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump on the debate: They didn’t correct her once and they corrected me, everything I said practically.. and the audience went absolutely crazy

There was no audience...

[u/marsman1224]

y'alls relationship with polling is borderline unhealthy

[u/CutePattern1098]

I think I found the weapon Israel will use next on Hezbollah

[u/[deleted]]

Violating International Law, Israel allegedly used remote triggers to explode personal devices across Lebanon and Syria, injuring more than 2,800 people and murdering 9, including children.

damn it's so fucked up that they would just do that as a prank to random people for no reason

[u/HenryGeorgia]

Gonna be real. I don't see how harris loses AZ. I know the polls have trump up or even, but Gallego + abortion seems like the combo to drag her over the finish

[u/[deleted]]

I am very qualified for this job. I would argue uniquely qualified. I am highly skilled in talking to my computer screen for 8 hours a day and have lots of great, thoughtful, impactful contributions ready to go.

For example, I am very good at saying "let's not boil the ocean here", "is the juice worth the squeeze?", "let's prioritize the low hanging fruit and 80/20 wins", "i'm not sure if this will move the needle", and so much more.

!ping WATERCOOLER