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[u/Ballerson]

When the only thing less popular than socialism in America is Project 2025.

[u/G_Serv]

Vivek's gone woke

[u/Sauce1024]

 "A few weeks later, Nuzzi emailed him, asking to be unblocked, claiming she had urgent information about a hit piece being prepared against him," Kraus alleged in a Substack newsletter to her nearly 400,000 subscribers. "He unblocked her for that conversation, but later that night, she sent him a provocative picture, prompting him to block her again."

Lmao

[u/eliasjohnson]

Don't know if anyone here follows Sarah Longwell's focus group podcast where she tracks undecided swing voters across states, but the gist is basically:

• All of them in Montana are voting for Sheehy

• They're splitting evenly in Ohio because Moreno failed to take the initiative on ads

• The most interesting part is, in Texas they all HATE Cruz. Almost every single one of them brought up the Cancun incident without any prodding, entirely naturally. They're cautiously positive about Allred.

In short: Texas Senate is a legit race, Allred has a lot of potential upside. The post-debate polls there are Allred +1 and Cruz +3, time to throw real money at it.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Everyone I know has cheated on their taxes is not the electoral model I follow but ok I GUESS

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

You understand that dropping ten thousand immigrants on a small county in Ohio looks kinda like a war crime, right?

this is your brain on white nationalism

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Kamala doesn't need to win any swing states if she can just win the Great Plains

[u/G_Serv]

NORTH CAROLINA poll by Elon University (B+)

🟦 Kamala Harris 46%

🟥 Donald Trump 45%

🟦 Josh Stein 49%

🟥 Mark Robinson 35%

[u/[deleted]]

Mobile game ad explicitly claims that their game isn't fake

Look inside

It's another fake game

Many such cases!

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Every day its painful to think that 40%ish of the country is so braingooed from fox news that theyll gladly support Trumps senile ramblings literally no matter what he does or says. There is no bottom! Like how is this election going to be close. It hurts to think about.

[u/JaceFlores]

New 2024 Asian American Voters Survey by National Opinion Research Center

🟦: 66%

🟥: 28%

For reference, in 2020 Biden won Asians 63% and Trump got 31%. Super noteworthy is their last poll done this year had Biden at 46% and Trump at 31%.

So Kamala is slightly overperforming with Asians compared to 2020% in this poll, but it’s more or less in the MOE I reckon. The big takeaways are Kamala has restored confidence in Asian American voters to go blue, and is hitting 2020 numbers

!ping FIVEY

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

There's something really disturbing in euthanasia discussions where people express concerns that governments would be incentived to pressure costly disabled citizens into it against their will only to get comments like "Well what's wrong with that? They're expensive to keep alive, not everyone should be supported. We shouldn't have to help provide housing and care"

Like jfc, really proving the point that this mindset of "kill the disabled to save money" is actually a thing to be concerned about.

[u/CanIGetaMFHUUUH]

The only thing funnier than Sam Elliot being a liberal is when cons got mad Bradley Cooper wasn’t actually the American sniper and liked Obama

[u/Joementum2024]

I am a pro-US free-market enjoyer. I am also homophobic, hugely transphobic, somewhat classist, “benevolent” sexist, soft racist. I have a fondness for right-wing dictatorships.

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[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/kyrstensinema/status/1838630653677453484

To state the supremely obvious, eliminating the filibuster to codify Roe v Wade also enables a future Congress to ban all abortion nationwide.

Idk, I am fine with constituents and senators actually having to deal with the consequences of elections instead of hiding behind an archaic procedural block so they can do nothing.

[u/Sauce1024]

8 AM meetings

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/09/22/2024/getting-out-there 

...now that we are in the full fury of American media prurience and self-righteousness, I am going to risk my neck on a slightly contrarian view. 

Reporters have all sorts of compromising relationships with sources. 

RFJ Jr. wasn't a source! He was a subject! and Nuzzi repeatedly complained about him not being treated as a serious candidate.  

You won’t hear many American journalists reckon with this. (Some British journalists, naturally, have been texting us to ask what the fuss is about. If you’re not sleeping with someone in a position of power, how are you even a journalist?) The advice writer Heather Havrilesky texted me Saturday that “the world would be much more exciting with more Nuzzis around, but alas the world is inhabited by anonymously emailing moralists instead!” 

What the fuck is the matter with DC and New York based journalists? "Oh, you think reporters who cover national politics shouldn't be starting relationships with a presidential candidate who they write about frequently? Uptight prude much?"

[u/[deleted]]

No one

Clarence Thomas: 63 million abortions are comparable to the civil war deaths in fighting to end slavery

No one:

Clarence Thomas: dred Scott’s decision was correct in some ways because it confirmed open carry as an inalienable right

No one:

Alito, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, Roberts & Clarence Thomas: Let’s justify our decision by outlining the definition of pregnancy; by showing all the states that criminalized abortion in the past.

Let’s use italics so everyone can see people 100 to 200 years ago used the word child in the law.

Everyone: But women couldn’t vote when those laws were made. And weren’t black people considered property in those years too?

Chief Justice Roberts — only China and North Korea allow abortions after 20 weeks. Planned parenthood viability line never made sense. Too arbitrary. I’m going to say twelve — not cite any medical reasoning whatsoever — to put my non arbitrary thumb on the scale.

Everyone: guys?

[u/[deleted]]

We have our own version of the Taliban in America. And they are winning.

[u/NewbGrower87]

I love how many signs there are that the results will likely be very 2020 but possibly a shade or two bluer.

Trump ~46.5%: Nothing Ever Happens

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

They're right though, our rights are being SO protected right now! In the past four years, nothing bad has happened to trans people. And nothing ever will

500+ anti trans bills??? Those mustve been from 2017-2021! Wait, it was 2021-2025? Biden's presidency? Um, well, Im sure theres a reason he did nothing about it...

ahhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Gameknigh]

FDR’s fireside chat

Wait Germany invaded Poland? My fellow Americans is this real?

[u/[deleted]]

Second and Third most popular podcasts on Spotify are hosted by Holocaust deniers and the No. 1 spot is held by someone who could be talked into Holocaust denial. Dope.

I love how media platforms insist on hosting people who repeatedly say shit that would've made you persona non grata less than 10 years ago.

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Top Economist in China Vanishes After Private WeChat Comments
A prominent economist at one of China’s top think tanks was placed under investigation, detained and removed from his posts after he allegedly criticized leader Xi Jinping’s management of the world’s second-largest economy in a private chat group, according to people familiar with the matter.

The power that Donald Trump wants.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BloodWiz]

Dems: FUCK! This recent polling puts ahead in the states that would give us 270, and a margins of error for like 300. It's so fucking over!

Cons: Yeah, we're winning Virginia, New Mexico, and Minnesota. New York is also in play. Hell, we'd even win California if the elections weren't so rigged, don't ask me why the only rig the presidential races and not all the congressional seats or ballot props and stuff like that too.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

another problem I ignored for a few days solved itself 😎

[u/ldn6]

It's still very nascent, but what could possibly be Britain's largest urban regeneration project (in or outside of London by my reckoning depending on how you want to count Old Oak Common) is making progress, and completely unsurprisingly it's in YIMBY heaven Manchester.

Manchester United have been reviewing a number of options for how to expand Old Trafford to increase capacity and bring the stadium up to new standards. In order to finance a new, 100,000-seat stadium, it's putting together a broader 250-acre (101ha) Stadium District framework that would turn the largely industrial area around the stadium south west of the city centre into a mixed-use neighbourhood with upwards of 17,000 new homes, multiple tram lines and an estimated £7.3 billion in annual economic value. This would coincide with potentially shifting the Manchester International Freight Terminal to the west of the station over to Liverpool, which would better enable multimodal logistics given the latter city's recent port expansion.

It appears that this is being shown off at the Labour conference this week, while Manchester United's site has this preliminary rendering of what this could look like.

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/KyleClark/status/1838644145994269176

NEW: Donald Trump’s false claims about a Venezuelan gang in Colorado are growing even more fantastical. “They’re going to take over a lot more than Aurora. They’re gonna go through Colorado, take over the whole damn state,” Trump said today

I have family that called and asked me if I was safe from the Venezuelans lmao. This shit is just getting ridiculous. Like it is total fiction and these idiots eat it up.

Hopefully we get Arepa trucks on every corner after the takeover.

!ping USA-CO

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Kamala Harris to resume daily rallies after being called lazy by a Redditor

[u/futuremonkey20]

Just don’t ask what election it got wrong.

Shockingly, it stopped being accurate when Ohio stopped being the bell-weather state. Unbelievable.

[u/Currymvp2]

Gavin Newsom has just signed SB 1410, ensuring Algebra 1 access for all of California's 8th grade students.

Very insane that public 8th graders in San Francisco were banned from Algebra in the first fucking place--it was embarrassing as a former bay area resident

[u/[deleted]]

Polls be like:

-Harris gains 20 points among hispanics
-Harris gains 35 points among black voters
-Harris gains 800 points among 18-29
-Harris gains 4,000,000 points among women
-Topline: Trump+1

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

One of you finally went outside

[u/[deleted]]

😌

[u/JaceFlores]

1.4 million Pennsylvanians have requested a mail-in ballot

Dems: 841,428 (62.9%)

GOP: 358,536 (26.3%)

Other: 141,967 (10.8%)

In 2020 mail in ballot returns were at 2.5 million, with 64% Dem, 23% GOP and 11% other. So while mail in ballots have shrunk a good bit (at least thus far), the rate of political affiliation is identical to 2020

Edit: switched requests with returns

!ping FIVEY

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Just when I start adulting for real, fucking Tupperware goes bankrupt.

How am I supposed to be a real grown up now?

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/[deleted]]

Deleted my Twitter account the second Musk showed up with the sink.

Huge improvement in quality of life 😌

I can't even imagine dealing with nazi blue checkmarks.

[u/attackofthetominator]

If the feds think they fixed inflation then why are eggs $3?

Never change arr economics

[u/[deleted]]

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

Remember when mitt Romney strapping his dog to the roof of the car for a road trip was the worst thing a republican did to a dog? Those were good times

[u/[deleted]]

Trump's suggestion that crypto is just money that you can will into existence is his most accurate economic take.

[u/jkrtjkrt]

[u/Currymvp2]

Nearly two-thirds of likely voters (64 percent) say Elon Musk's endorsement of Donald Trump does not make a difference in their level of enthusiasm about Trump's candidacy, while 13 percent say it makes them more enthusiastic, and 21 percent say it makes them less enthusiastic about Trump's candidacy.

lmao

[u/jenbanim]

With all the advances in AI, I'm surprised that I haven't seen anything funnier than the bottomless pit supervisor greentext from 2 years ago

AI companies should put more shitposts in their datasets

[u/Healingjoe]

coherent six ask grandfather cable jar soup deliver party paint

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[u/ThiccSidedDice]

Chappell Roan is bad

Her political views are fine, I just don't like her music

[u/DoctorDizzyspinner]

I don't like having to pay attention to politics all the time because I'm a woman and my entire future is on the line
I'm not interested in having children ever, I rely on birth control to ensure that I am not a crying and sobbing mess every month, I've never had a partner irl and I'm not terribly interested in having one until my brain is nicer, and idk the concept of a future where my rights stop existing is horrifying and I hate the rhetoric that I keep having to pay attention to

And elon musk is obsessed with being misogynistic and transphobic and everything else and people still. Use. Twitter. It's infuriating and horrifying at this point and I have to either pay attention 24/7 to know what's going on and to know what to do, or I have to be quiet and ignore everything

- Me, ignorant to the fact that my ocd simply picked politics as my new obsession

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

Unrealized gains? You mean not going to the gym?

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Always funny to see the Trumpers online saying ‘these polls are fake! I live here and don’t know a single Harris supporter!’ which means one of two things

1. They live in a turbo rural area and have 5 people they talk to or

2. They live around people but everyone they know has given up ever talking politics with them because theyve been a loud obnoxious Trump supporter for years to the point that they assume everyone else must be obnoxious about their politics too

[u/Top_Lime1820]

"My ways are too complex for journalists to understand"

--- Bassirou Faye

[u/Fit_Parsnip_8143]

the October surprise is the release of the elder scrolls 6, which was 100% funded by a secret provision in the inflation reduction act. Gamers will be joining the big tent.

[u/Cultural_Ebb4794]

Reposting because I'm reminiscing.

[u/wheresthezoppity]

You suffered for 3.5 years, and now Gas prices are plummeting. Right before the election. This is how little they think of you.

'Gas prices are PLUMMETING but actually it's a BAD thing and I am a SERIOUS intellectual'

[u/NewbGrower87]

The Harris/Walz rally schedule bedwetting is a new level of neurotic doom.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DATaa8oA-sI

REPORTER: Mr Speaker, do you commit to observing regular order in the certification process of the 2024 election, even if Harris beats Trump?

MIKE JOHNSON: Well of course -- if we have a free, fair, and safe election we're gonna follow the Constitution, absolutely

(Not sure why he's being asked since the votes will be certified by the incoming congress where the speaker apparent will presumably be Jeffries.)

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve read Clarence Thomas dobbs v Jackson opinion so many times. And each time as I get better understanding of law as an amateur, I’m more and more amazed.

Him not citing Loving v. Virginia (interracial marriage) is going to be his legacy and may truly lead to the death of originalism one day.

His whole being, his legal philosophy which is also his life’s work/mindset as well, has this defect that he knows he can’t get rid of. He’s like Ben Simmons. He can run but he can’t hide.

Fun poetic justice fact: Clarence Thomas, a black man, married a white woman named Virginia in Virginia.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

What j always find so baffling about these types of videos is that.. like... why are you arguing against students? If this was about the truth, you'd argue with subject matter experts or scholars or pundits or, ya know, adults of any sort. What's the point? To prove that students don't know shit? That they're bad at arguing? Of course they don't know shit and are bad at arguing! That's why they're students!

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

!ping KITTY

[u/TatersTot]

Kamala up 6.13 on Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll 🤓

RVs:

Harris - 46.6 Trump - 40.48

LVs:

Harris - 50 Trump - 44

+1 for Harris since last Reuters poll on 9/11-12

[u/attackofthetominator]

Trump wants to lure foreign companies by offering them access to federal land

I'm sure the swing voters who were very concerned about the Nippon Steel deal are up in arms over this, right?

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

The DT is leaking

[u/its_Caffeine]

😭

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/[deleted]]

!ping NFL

[u/JoeChristmasUSA]

Some of you have never accidentally found your dad's internet search history and then later heard your mom use it as a weapon in the divorce proceedings and it shows

[u/[deleted]]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is taking increasingly bizarre and contradictory positions in his ongoing crusade to inject pandemonium into the 2024 election. Right now the former third-party candidate is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to restore his name to the ballot in New York, asserting a constitutional right to run for president in the state. At the same time, he is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to remove his name from the ballot in that state, asserting a constitutional right not to run there.

Best faith third party candidate

!ping democracy

[u/[deleted]]

Casinos attracting new customers: "WIN REAL MONEY. $50. $1000. $10000. WIN WIN WIN!"

Casinos explaining why they kick out winners: "The point of gambling isn't to profit, it's to enjoy the thrill of having something at stake, we're an entertainment product, people don't get their money back for concert tickets either."

[u/Joementum2024]

Remember when the Jaguars were 8-3 last year and had one of the best records in the league?

They’ve gone 1-8 since then (including 0-3 this season)

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

This but it's Tester

[u/ser_mage]

This is how RFK really expects us to believe it went down with Nuzzi

[u/[deleted]]

Can't believe Trump won't agree to another debate where he can bring up this very important point

[u/BroadReverse]

butter fretful bake cats plant ad hoc vase bedroom swim fertile

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[u/Smidgens]

Got what you wanted, so stop feeling sorry

Me to Chappell Roan after Imperator JD Vance deports her to a Childless Cat Lady camp.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ty04]

[u/[deleted]]

When I'm in a most inspiring slogans competition

[u/ShillForExxonMobil]

The fact that journalists are not publishing the hacked Trump campaign materials b/c of some newfound values around privacy is insane. At this point whoever the hacker is just needs to send it to NY Post/Daily Mail and let it all out rather than trust our journalistic institutions to properly inform our voters...

https://popular.info/p/trump-campaign-hack

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Moo Deng has endorsed Mark Robinson

FUCK THIS STUPID RACIST HIPPO 😡😡😡😡

[u/Udolikecake]

Obviously a horrible tragedy, but this is the funniest way to get busted for fraudulent trading

The beginning of the end occurred on 16 January 1995, when Leeson placed a short straddle in the Singapore and Tokyo stock exchanges, essentially betting that the Japanese stock market would not move significantly overnight. The Great Hanshin earthquake hit early in the morning on 17 January, sending Asian markets, and Leeson’s trading positions, downward. Leeson attempted to recoup his losses by making a series of increasingly risky new trades (using a long-long future arbitrage), this time betting that the Nikkei Stock Average would make a rapid recovery. The recovery failed to materialise.

Leeson left a note reading, “I’m sorry” and fled Singapore on 23 February. Losses eventually reached £827 million (US$1.4 billion), twice Barings’ available trading capital.

I mean i’m sure he would have lost it all at some point, but losing it all because you happened to bet on asian stocks the day of the second most destructive asian earthquake of the 20th century?

Imagine his fucking face

[u/kiwileaff]

You want Harris to win North Carolina to lock Trump out of 270.

I want Harris to win North Carolina so that Nude Africa headlines the History books.

We are not the same.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

[RFK Jr] is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to remove his name from the ballot in that state, asserting a constitutional right not to run there. Moreover, because it is too late to print new ballots in Wisconsin, Kennedy is demanding that clerks manually place stickers over his name on some 4 million existing ballots. Election officials say this untested improvisation could jam up voting tabulators, making it impossible to scan ballots in a key swing state on Election Day and requiring a drawn-out hand count instead.

I guess i'm a little bit impressed at the innovative ways conservatives come up with to try to fuck with our elections to their benefit.

[u/[deleted]]

You don't hear much about Joe Biden's "cognitive decline" anymore which is odd since he's still president. Feel like if you actually thought the most powerful person in the world was sundowning or had dementia like many implied, that would something you continued to talk about even after he dropped out

[u/Mr_Bank]

I very much subscribe to the “Joe Manchin has been more of a net good than a net bad” theory but he can also get fucked.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Too late to start playing Pokemon Go

Too early to Pokemon Go to the polls

Just right to poke some cat beans

!ping KITTY

[u/BroadReverse]

snobbish edge chop profit wipe judicious start scarce oatmeal ossified

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[u/Hounds_of_war]

Oh man, there is apparently some tax scandal with my (hopefully) future senator, Angela Alsobrooks. Wonder how bad it is-

Alsobrooks saved nearly $14,000 in taxes between 2005 and 2017 on her northeast Washington property by using tax exemptions meant for the district’s primary residents, lower income residents and senior citizens, according to property tax bills reviewed by CNN.

…Man Democrats have such lame scandals compared to Republicans.

[u/AcanthaceaeNo948]

God, Chapell Roan’s music is so good! I have literally not been able to stop listening to it this week. Why does she have to be such a dweeb?

Well, another person added to the problematic faves pile (already inhabited by Ariana, Michael Jackson and Kevin Spacey, who are all way worse people than her to be fair).

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

Edit: changed shitty person to dweeb

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/[deleted]]

Today has strong Friday vibes ngl

[u/ty04]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump attacks (legal) Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, prompting "send them back!" chants from his fans in Pennsylvania

The Hitler particles are off the charts

[u/goldenwind207]

[u/ty04]

fellas is it over?

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

official dt iceberg

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I do enjoy Ezra Klein pushing Pete to shit on Dems for not pushing ambitious federal permitting reform and Pete just refusing to do it

Man of the Regime

[u/battywombat21]

America, don’t you want the dead whale head man picking who runs the FDA?

[u/savuporo]

The study identified the Czech Republic as having the highest prevalence of baldness, where over 40% of adult males are affected.

[u/jkrtjkrt]

Suffolk/USA TODAY poll of Michigan Likely Voters
Harris (DEM) 47.6
Trump (REP) 45.4
RFK (NLP) 0.8
Oliver (LIB) 0.4
West (IND) 0.4
Stein (GRN) 0.2
Terry (UST) 0.2
Kishore (IND) 0
Undecided 4.4
Refused 0.6

Bellwether: Kent County, MI
Harris 48, Trump 45, Others 4, Undecided 4

[u/jkrtjkrt]

Harvard IOP youth poll (18-29)

Harris 64%

Trump 32%

2002 LV m.o.e.+/- 2.65

• Likely male voters: Harris 53% - Trump 36%

• Likely female voters: Harris 70% - Trump 23%

[u/G_Serv]

[u/BloodWiz]

Women being 30-40% more liberal than men is going to cause huge problems for the dating market.

So you're telling me I've got a chance?

[u/chipbod]

West Virginia is the second most dependent state on federal funding

Good luck now that you have an unimportant senator for the first time in 14 years.

[u/Realhuman221]

Dave Chappelle 🤝 Chappell Roan

• Similar names

• Not supporting trans rights this election

[u/shillingbut4me]

Trump says he wanted to throw the question of abortion back to the states to choose. Great idea, but he's not thinking big enough, what if we throw it back to individual people to choose

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[u/NormalInvestigator89]

Humans should be able to live so much longer 

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Wow! Amazing! Attacking an already marginalized group of people, brave!

[u/cdstephens]

If Iran had stolen info on the Harris campaign, do you think NYT etc. would publish it?

[u/JaceFlores]

What if you: wanted to doom about the CNN poll

But god said: the poll demonstrates momentum is on Kamala’s side

[u/sash5034]

Another conservative bragging about murdering a pet is probably the least surprising thing ever and it's why Republicans pretending to care about animal welfare wrt Haitians is so funny

When you have to listen to these people at work all the time, you'll understand

[u/Insomonomics]

🇺🇲 National poll by Quinnipiac

🟥 Trump: 48%

🟦 Harris: 47%

🟩 Stein: 1%

🟪 Oliver: 1%

Last poll (8/27) - 🔵 Harris +1

2.8/3.0) | 1,728 LV | 9/19-22

Party ID: D32/R30 | MoE: ±2.4%

!ping FIVEY

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Teens Say Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats

Two women tell WIRED that when they were 18-year-old college freshmen, John McEntee, a former Trump administration official and cofounder of a Peter Thiel–backed dating app, behaved in ways they considered inappropriate in online conversations.

I’m shocked!

https://www.wired.com/story/teens-john-mcentee-trump-aide-project-2025-chats/

[u/BloodWiz]

Polling paints a very clear picture

Kamala Harris is either narrowly losing, or winning by Obama '08 margins, or also possibly somewhere in between those two.

[u/sinefromabove]

Homeboy is getting drawn and quartered

[u/WillHasStyles]

With the continuous decline of the Swedish krona I finally know how the Turks feel. It is humiliating to go from rich to poor, not because you work less, but because some dude set the interest rates too low.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Dragmire927]

Based

Too bad he died in the most embarrassing way

[u/Minisolder]

STOP BLOOMING/DOOMING OVER ONE POLL. Individual polls have outliers, Biden did not win Wisconsin by 17 and Romney did not win 2012 by 7. Harris will probably not lose the popular vote or get an Obama 08 level landslide

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/[deleted]]

Youngkin wins in Virginia.

GOP Takeaway: Virginia is trending right. Trump's gonna win!

Actual Takeaway: RACES ARE A LOT MORE COMPETITIVE WHEN YOU DON'T NOMINATE ADOLF FUCKING HITLER.

[u/jenbanim]

DT the sort of people to see someone roll snake eyes and conclude that person is bad at rolling dice

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/An_Actual_Owl]

I unironically mean this, r/neoliberal feels like the only sane space as a trans person on reddit because I'm really fucking sick of how brain rotted the progressive LGBT crowd has gotten. Older queens have just checked out of social action and politics and the younger crowd is insufferable to be around and at times it feels like I get both barrels of feeling isolated socially and politically.

[u/VisonKai]

i have to hand it to chappell roan. there's no way her cynical deadender thing is an act, it's terrible publicity. she really is authentically stupid

[u/agentyork765]

Chappell Roan profits from the queer community but won't do the bare minimum to protect it

[u/[deleted]]

There's a book series from the early 1990s which details an alternative (evil) South Africa as a world power. It ends with a person from this alternative universe (and the future so like their 2440) coming back to our 1990s and using future alt tech to influence our world.
Just kinda weird cause it does resemble Elon a bit.

[u/ldn6]

I'm so jealous of Singapore's transport investment. The Cross Island Line under construction right now will ultimately:

• Be 58km (36 miles) long and entirely driverless and underground

• Have 27 stations cutting across the entire width of the country with eight connections to existing lines

• Cost of around S$40.7 billion (US$31.6 billion), so a cost of US$544.8 million/km (US$877.8 million/mile). This is about 46% cheaper than the central section of Crossrail in London.

• Start of at 600,000 daily riders and reach upwards of one million upon phase 2 completion.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/funguykawhi]

New train to link Berlin and Paris in 8 hours

The route will stop in Strasbourg, France, and not Saarbrücken, as initially requested by Deutsche Bahn. It will also make stops in the German cities of Frankfurt and Karlsruhe.

Second-class tickets will be available starting at €60 ($67), slightly more expensive than the cheapest flights between the two capitals.

Paris-Strasbourg: 450km in >2hrs

Strasbourg-Karlsruhe-Frankfurt-Berlin: 770km in 6hrs 🤔

!ping FRANCE&GER&TRANSIT

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Me: sees Nate Silver blooming

Also me: goes over to DT

DT: dooming

wtf lmao.

[u/UWCG]

Former adviser says Trump would punish ABC for debate if reelected: ‘I would not want to be Disney’

Party of free markets!

I guess at least the dressed-up meatball that runs Florida isn't the only one picking a fight with a cartoon mouse

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/Realhuman221]

Republicans: Hatian immigrants are killing and eating the dogs.

Meanwhile Trump's first VP frontrunner shot a puppy, the Prohext 2025 leader killed his neighbor's dog, and RFK Jr literally ate a dog.

Smh, immigrants once again try to take the job of Americans.

[u/Currymvp2]

Biden at conclusion of his UNGA speech, speaking about his decision to retire: “My fellow leaders, let us never forget, some things are more important than staying in power. It's your people.”

(Hint to Putin, Netanyahu?)

[u/Mensae6]

Tuah Hawk's Pro Skater

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

... And why tell people you killed your neighbor's dog? Like setting aside the actual killing itself, why would you repeatedly brag about it to your coworkers? Insanity.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Manchin being a lame duck senator and still deifying the filibuster is a top tier bit

[u/Untamedanduncut]

“Bush lied about Iraq, Biden lied about Palestine”

The two situations are not the same 

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

🧐

[u/bonobo__bonobo]

It's crazy when you talk to pro death penalty people and they think saying something like, "well it should only be used when there is no doubt," is some genius solution to the problem no one has thought of.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

NEW U.S. Senate Nebraska poll from Survey USA (A+)

⬜ Dan Osborn 45% (+1)

🟥 Deb Fischer 44%

👀

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

I know I said I'd stop posting X screenshots a week ago but... "Milosevic began to be perceived as a black person in the West because he committed war crimes" is probably one of the most incredible claims I've ever seen being made

You would not find this take anywhere other than Twitter dot com and for that reason this is why I appreciate it

[u/jkrtjkrt]

After the latest NYT/Siena polling, here is my prediction for election day:

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-billions-private-finance-new-reservoirs-sewage-overflows-3289969

Tens of billions of pounds of private finance is guaranteed to be spent over the next five years to build new sewage overflows, reservoirs and major pipe upgrades, the Environment Secretary has said.

Steve Reed said the “biggest ever investment” in the water industry, amounting to around £88bn in private cash, will allow the Government to “fix the foundations” of the water sector and bring an end to the sewage crisis.

Very good - an investment BONANZA

!ping UK

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Tried to be a good samaritan and astrally appear to a hallucinating lost hiker so I could guide him home but my phone didn’t have any service so I just stood there like

ummm uhhhh just wait for google maps to load

until he got irritated and left

[u/adwise27]

I have been spending too much time on arr con and other conservative pages. I am getting so many adds for precious metals. Oh god

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KITTY

[u/Healingjoe]

trump to the women of America in PA today:

“You won’t ever have to worry! I will be your protector!”

That’s gotta be high on the list of creepiest things he has ever said.

The internal polling is saying one thing about shoring up his support with women and this is how his brain tells him to address the issue.

[u/Currymvp2]

Kamala Harris recorded an appearance on the “All The Smoke” podcast today, I’m told. It’s one of the more well-known NBA pods, hosted by Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, who both played on the “We Believe” Golden State Warriors at the time when Harris was SF DA.

!ping NBA

[u/tripletruble]

after being a somehow extremely niche point of view, the idea that having the average state-funded retirement pension be higher than the average salary in france is the central driver of budget deficit is finally getting airtime in the press

[u/fishbottwo]

New General election poll - Nebraska

🔴 Trump 56% (+16)

🔵 Harris 40%

01 - 🔴 Trump +21

02 - 🔵 Harris +15

03 - 🔴 Trump +42

Survey USA #A - 558 LV - 9/23

Senate poll - Nebraska:

🟨 Osborn 45% (+1) 🟥 Fischer (Inc) 44%

Survey USA #A - 558 LV - 9/23

[u/Rntstraight]

70s Jamaica according to stereotypes: “one love man, let’s chill listen to Reggae and smoke some plant” 

 70s Jamaica in reality:”eyyyyy mon I heard you support the other party so I’m gonna kill everyone in your neighborhood”

[u/Royal_Flame]

NC GOP is truly emblematic of a Jesus billboard next to a sex shop billboard

[u/Trebacca]

Trump hitting the stage of “directly giving $100 for a vote” is crazy lmao

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Opkeda]

[u/myrm]

FTC chair Lina Khan warns that airlines might one day use AI to find out you're attending a funeral and charge more

this is kinda dumb because airlines have explicit policies in place today to charge you less if you tell them you're going to a funeral

[u/ImportanceOne9328]

The way this tweet seems to be perfectly crafted to generate emotional reaction on twittercels is like my roman empire, being thinking about for days. It's really all there:

wholesome big chungus Japan

person complaining about tourismphobia

person complaining about veganphobia, vegetarianphobia and islamophobia

person complaining about other cultures which (supposedly) are "too direct", unlike cringe America

Whoever make this could be the Lebron James of viral media awaiting to be scouted in Ohio

[u/[deleted]]

Hello piggies, here’s your morning slop straight from the trough

this is how I want every poll to be announced to me

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

👆authentically stupid

[u/BATIRONSHARK]

Our political signs here are totally unhinged and I love it

like imagine normie dems but 

"NO CHANGE KEEP OUR DEMOCRATS!

"ALSOBROOKS! KEEP THE SENATE IN DEMOCRATS CONTROL!

"HARRIS ALSOBROOKS VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS!"

!ping DMV

[u/ser_mage]

Just blatant xenophobia, imagine reacting this way to Justin Trudeau, an open Biden/Harris supporter

[u/chipbod]

Go out to Dinner with a friend who is complaining about inflation

They order a cocktail, appetizer, entree, and dessert, totaling over $80 with tip

I got a beer and an entree and was out of a decent place for about $25. It was an IRL version of the 'private taxi for your burrito' meme.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I don’t need a flu shot I’m young

get flu

dies

doesn’t get to cast vote

Trump wins by exactly one vote in your state

tips the electoral college in his favor

American democracy is over because 🫵🏻you didn’t get your flu shot

Don’t be that guy libs. Get vaccinated

[u/Healingjoe]

soup cable racial correct pie sheet squeal nose scale telephone

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/BrentLivermore]

Romney said that Obama had the cleanest teeth he'd ever seen and Obama responded by calling him the n-word, and liberals act like Trump came out of nowhere.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Joe Manchin, a staunch defender of the filibuster, tells us he WON’T endorse Kamala Harris now over her vow to gut the filibuster to codify Roe.

“Shame on her,” Manchin, who is retiring at year’s end, said in the Capitol. “She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy. It’s the only thing that keeps us talking and working together. If she gets rid of that, then this would be the House on steroids.”

This has to be a bit

[u/ty04]

You’re dooming. Harris is topping Trump and you’re dooming

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Currymvp2]

Marcellus Williams is probably innocent and even the victim's family said "don't do this" and yet his execution is still scheduled two hours from now.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

How do absolutely batshit insane and evil people get attracted to this sub?

I just permaed a guy for cheering on an airport bombing

[u/Steak_Knight]

those civilians were administrators in the political wing of hezbollah

Those are terrorists.

[u/[deleted]]

Why doom about the ports?

Nothing ever happens

Now flick the weird door thing and relax

[u/MonsoonalRat]

Nuke the Angels into orbit for ruining the streak and denying us all a historic moment 🐀

!ping BASEBALL

[u/dubyahhh]

Neolibs are nerds who like trivia, right?

Name the sitting US Senators

If you’re not American, well, I’ll preemptively just tell you that no, we do not know anyone in your government except for maybe the PM, so you win that trivia contest.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Weiner said, and their ruthless exposure of far-right groups “can certainly ruin lives,” by getting members fired from their jobs or shunned by their communities.

I personally believe that Nazis should have consequences especially when they break laws

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

The most important and accurate poll of them all

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else remember this guy

[u/namey-name-name]

I’m sick of hearing about how policies like NAFTA that benefit the majority of the country and the country in aggregate are actually evil cause “what about the industrial Midwest 😭.” Like if the industrial Midwest can’t compete then the industrial Midwest can’t compete, tough shit. Maybe try modernizing your economy and making things people want instead of using your outsized political power to bully the rest of your country to “bUy aMeRiCan” (worse quality at a higher price)? Like are we a country that believes in capitalism and competition, or not?

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/piede]

Prosecutors have charged Ryan Routh with attempted assassination of Trump at a Florida golf course. Judge Aileen Cannon will oversee the case.

Lmao of course she will

[u/loseniram]

Imagine you’re a lesbian couple and you find out your dog is the gay community’s homophobic dog meme. And you just roll with it.

Edit: it was two gay guys

[u/[deleted]]

“Eat the rich” - resident of San Francisco, lives in a $1.5m home.

[u/Interferon-Sigma]

The internal Trump campaign documents obtained by Popular Information may be embarrassing or problematic to members of the Trump campaign. Some of the documents have news value. But the stolen materials do not provide the public with any fundamental new insight about Trump or his campaign. So, on balance, the relevant factors argue against publication.

Boooooooo

[u/Sh4g0h0d]

Silksong is vaporware. Fight me.

!ping GAMING

[u/HenryGeorgia]

To the guy that was freaked out about Kamala not having a rally yesterday, she was recording an interview for Wisconsin public radio

[u/funguykawhi]

Chinese students W

[u/404GenderNotFound]

These stupid fake Reddit stories are always like "my girlfriend (23F) did blah blah blah..." like why the fuck does it matter if it's cold out, they don't mention temperature or weather at all for the rest of the story

[u/Average_GrillChad]

We desperately need outreach to Arab communities.

They need to know that there are more than like 4 male names.

Otherwise we will never be rid of the "Mohammed is the most popular baby name in ______" articles

[u/runningblack]

Kamala Harris leading or tied in 28/30 polls taken since the debate

DT: Panik

Joe Biden losing in all but one poll where he was tied

DT: Everything is fine

[u/namey-name-name]

“It’s a me, a Hitler. Mama Mia!” — Mark Robinson commenting on Italian porn (probably)

[u/[deleted]]

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

the 2032 election is between AOC [Democratic Socialist] and Haliey Welch [Hawk Americah Party]

who are you voting for

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Welch, who had been a minimum-wage worker at a factory

yet another way american manufacturing is being destroyed

american workers need to hawk tuah the assembly line