VitalSigns posted:

Also he claimed she was obsessed with him because see a simple search shows she's mentioned his username many times and he's never addressed her at all

Nonsense posted:

twitter just plain doesn't work at all, it sucks rich people genuinely like Elon and don't want to bully him and take his poo poo.

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

Did you know that Lin Manuel Miranda fell into a vat of fermenting tofu when he was a baby?

VitalSigns posted:

Also he claimed she was obsessed with him because see a simple search shows she's mentioned his username many times and he's never addressed her at all

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

A succ headline I came across today, tho maybe this is more doomsday economics

super sweet best pal posted:

Still hilarious that when this finally worked in Nevada the Dems went nuclear and will probably lose the state to Trump.

ex post facho posted:

I did not actually see this and wondered where the lying Leon origin story came from (apart from being a dnd mod) and lol, lmao

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol

lmao, even

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1777797340960616530

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Still one of my favorite Trump related pieces of media:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuregWhlWk

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

A succ headline I came across today, tho maybe this is more doomsday economics

World War Mammories posted:

this was all in a goldmined thread, here's where he tried it
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4021673&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post529063985

then on the next page willa figures out that leon edited her name out of his posts and the thread rockets into the stratosphere

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1777668493447406025?t=bf7SD5_ziPd3cEuPP0hJeg&s=19

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1777668493447406025?t=bf7SD5_ziPd3cEuPP0hJeg&s=19

quote:

Vice President Harris is revealing which Netflix shows she and her husband are binging – when they’re not debating what’s next on their TV watch list.

“You know what I’ve been watching is ‘The Morning Show,'” Harris said on an episode of the “I’ve Had It” podcast, released Tuesday.

“It’s so good. I’ve been watching that,” Harris said of the Apple TV+ drama, which stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as morning TV personalities.

Another favorite, Harris told co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, is Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.”

“Steve Martin is so funny,” Harris said, adding of the comedian’s co-stars Martin Short and Selena Gomez, “That whole trio, there’s great chemistry between them.”

But landing on what she’ll be streaming next is no easy task with husband Doug Emhoff, according to Harris.

“I’m a Libra. My husband in a Libra,” Harris said when asked her take on astrology.

“We will sit on the couch in front of the TV with the switcher for like 45 minutes debating which Netflix show should we start streaming. And we weigh the pros and the cons of each. And then by the time we’re done, we’re ready to go to bed,” Harris, 59, exclaimed with a laugh.

“Doug, he’ll talk about the fact that it’s the Libra in us,” Harris said.

“The window just shut because we’ll just sit there debating like, ‘OK, well on the one hand, do we want to see comedy or drama?'”

Willa Rogers posted:

was that clip of biden talking about russia from 2022? wtf is going on with his hair there? (rather, not there)

comedyblissoption posted:

donald trump is outflanking jon stewart, who pinned a medal on a nazi at disney world, from the left

Willa Rogers posted:

was that clip of biden talking about russia from 2022? wtf is going on with his hair there? (rather, not there)

The Oldest Man posted:

middle picture from an animorphs cover with joe biden turning into a sea cucumber

Willa Rogers posted:

was that clip of biden talking about russia from 2022? wtf is going on with his hair there? (rather, not there)

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol

lmao, even

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1777797340960616530

Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

Stewart couldn't be a worse president than Zelensky, or Biden for that matter.

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol

lmao, even

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1777797340960616530

Uncle Wemus posted:

“There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed. It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line. “
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust

Some Guy TT posted:

Abortion bans are political losers for Republicans, which puts the man who made all this abortion-banning possible by stacking the Supreme Court with religious zealots—former President Donald Trump—in an awkward political position. And his video announcement today that he believes whatever states decide about abortion "must be the law of the land" is not likely to be the political salve that he thinks it might be.

At first glance, Trump's needle-threading on this issue looks astute. Dobbs has clearly been the GOP's Achilles heel for the past two years, and Trump most certainly does not want the election to be about reproductive rights. Suburban swing voters who might otherwise be inclined to vote for Biden because of Dobbs can now take another look at Trump and Republicans and conclude that perhaps they have moderated their stance enough to look past it.

But publicly supporting abortion rights in the more than 20 states where the procedure remains legal could cost Trump with his most committed voters—white evangelical Christians. Eighty-four percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2020, along with 57 percent of white Catholics, according to a post-election analysis by Pew. Of self-identified white evangelicals who voted in 2020, two-thirds said that they attended religious services regularly, meaning that the group that gave Trump his biggest margin in the election is comprised of those who are most committed to their faith's principles. And another Pew project confirmed that white evangelicals are much more likely than any other group to say that religion influences their views on abortion. Twenty-one percent of white evangelicals, far more than any other religious subgroup, say that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances.

You must therefore wonder how this group of high-propensity voters that is absolutely critical to any Republican victory this November is going to take this news. My guess is "not well." While some Republicans might be satisfied with the end of Roe and abortion bans or impossible restrictions in 21 states, the most religious white evangelicals want total victory. And Trump just told them they won't get it. Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, issued a statement almost immediately after Trump's video dropped saying that she was "deeply disappointed," although still committed to defeating President Joe Biden. While we shouldn't expect his position to cause dramatic change in his white evangelical support, even a few points could be determinative it what looks like it is going to be an extremely close election.

The other problem here for Trump is that, unlike him, people who care about restoring reproductive rights are not stupid. He did not say whether he would sign an abortion ban if it crossed his desk, a tightrope he will not be able to walk all the way to November without being pressed for a firm up-or-down answer. In private, he has previously said that he would sign a 16-week national abortion ban. And throwing up his hands and saying "let the states decide" still leaves tens of millions of furious women living in states where abortion has been completely banned – including Electoral College battleground states like North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia and Florida—or partially banned, like Wisconsin.

And saying that it should be left to the states also leaves him holding the bag for the most restrictive laws, like the six-week ban that the state of Florida just passed. Will Trump come out for or against the Florida referendum to enshrine abortion in the state constitution? That amendment would prohibit any restrictions on the procedure "before viability." If he supports it, he is endorsing abortion far beyond 16 weeks; if he opposes it, he is effectively co-signing the state's highly restrictive six-week ban.

And there is also the basic Trump problem that no one will or should believe a single thing that this lifelong pathological liar says. This is the same guy that promised he would "rarely leave the White House" in 2015 and then proceeded to spend roughly half his presidency golfing or hanging out at one of his country clubs. The man has possibly the worst baseline credibility problem of any politician on the planet.

Trump's struggles here are illustrative of how "returning abortion to the states" did not settle the issue at all. By stocking the Supreme Court with early-middle-age religious radicals who obliterated the Roe consensus on abortion, Trump all but guaranteed that it will be front and center in our politics for the foreseeable future. And his efforts to have it both ways won't solve the problem that he himself was the person most responsible for the new status quo that leaves almost no one on either end of the abortion opinion spectrum satisfied.

The practical meaning of the current abortion regime in the United States is that 100 percent of Americans live in a state that could completely ban abortion at any moment. The far right's Project 2025 agenda also contains all kinds of plans designed to make abortions harder to obtain even in Vermont or California—with or without a national abortion ban. And that means that Trump's remarks today are unlikely to make you or anyone else feel that reproductive rights are assured in their state, leaving a vote for Joe Biden as the only way to be 100 percent sure that reproductive tyranny won't come to your state.

pencilhands posted:

the vice president of the united states is a moron who believes in astrology

quote:

I'm reminding everyone what we got when people stayed home for Hillary.

Democrats gotta learn, because the other side learned and is doing what they can to repeat that disaster.

That only benefitted the rich, and Uncle Vlad.



• Government dictates what you read, your religion and your private life. Period trackers mandatory, and report to the government.



• Devastating climate change.



• A deadly all-out war on the rights of women.



• More welfare for the rich.



• Americans pitted against each other along lines of race, color, religion, gender, sexuality, and income. Vilification of blacks, Jews, Muslims, lgbtq+ , homeless, and women of strength, with increasing violence, even murder against them.


• Private health care companies deny needed treatments to save money. (Death panels are here!)



• The wealthy pay even less in taxes.

• Every civil right is eroded by clown judges living in the 18th century rewriting the constitution.



• Worker's rights and benefits reduced in order to create greater profits for businesses.



• Safety nets removed, so that homeless, and jobless people are left to die on the streets.



• More, more, more of culture war.



• GUNS, everywhere, with no limitations or requirements. Kids get them freely.



• Minorities and women blamed for every imaginable blip.



• Support of authoritarian regimes across the globe, who eagerly imprison, "re-educate", murder and commit atrocities on others.



• Lies, hate speech and threats are welcomed on "social media" and given support by government officials.



• Medical care and prescription drug costs skyrocket. (and more ... )

ex post facho posted:

luv2shit posted:

quote:

As Muslim families and communities come together for Eid al-Fitr, they are also reflecting on the pain felt by so many.

My thoughts are with those around the world enduring conflict, hunger, and displacement, including in places such as Gaza and Sudan.

Now is the time to recommit to the work of building peace and standing for the dignity of all.

pencilhands posted:

the vice president of the united states is a moron who believes in astrology