comedyblissoption posted:

lobster shirt posted:

shant be reading this thread but i encourage all who do to report posts that are just tweet dumps, so i may punish them. thank you. or dont.

atelier morgan posted:

willa pointed out that lyin' leon was overly obsessed with her so leon edited every single one of his posts that ever mentioned her by name before posting 'anybody can click post history and see i never do that'

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.

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

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

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?'”

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 ... )

mcmagic posted:

Defending Elon and Trump is the real left position.

Bootleg Trunks posted:

good news for media literacy!

https://newslit.org/

HallelujahLee posted:

ive said it in the palestine thread but western media should 100% be charged with complicity in genocide

at minimum nyt cnn npr reuters ap,bbc and fox

Automata 10 Pack posted:

lmao no they aren’t. the left are more targeted than the right

Jon Carbuncle posted:

not sure I see anything here other than a healthy distrust of the government

if I missed something let me know, but I was feeling similiar to those posts at the time of being cautious about anything being rushed by a rotten apparatus

that rot of course wasn’t all trumps fault, it’s been there for years

Uncle Wemus posted:

President Biden’s recent battleground state campaign tour didn’t draw major crowds.

But critically for the Biden campaign, it did produce a lot of content.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/bidens-strategy-reach-tuned-voters-content-crowds-rcna146146

quote:

Biden’s campaign hopes to reach those people through their own social media and what is known as relational organizing. The strategy relies on an army of volunteers and paid campaign staffers not just to knock on doors and make other voter contacts but also to tap into their own personal networks, especially online, to share information — news articles, images and videos — that carry the campaign’s message to people otherwise tuning out political outreach.

“One of our core tenets of this campaign is that people talking to their friends and family is one of the most important things that they can do. And getting content that gets shared is a huge part of that,” Biden deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said in an interview.

1glitch0 posted:

Yep, the internet is pretty much dead at this point. Pretty sad tbqh.

Jimong5 posted:

Saw this the other day:

https://x.com/SoundInvestig/status/1777697750764658927

I do love this gay catfishing format of journalism btw

HallelujahLee posted:

hes running as independent as far as i know and jill stein as green and then finally we have the psl

mcmagic posted:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1778103528147366048

Here is a winning political argument lol

mcmagic posted:

I am dumb and deserve to be made fun of.

mcmagic posted:

This is really the level of discourse you think is fun to post at as an elderly person?

ClassActionFursuit posted:

Rude

I'd have to imagine Willa is a way better hang than you

Gumball Gumption posted:

It's crazy that Willa has cooked their entire brain on the NY Post and still runs circles around so many of you

mcmagic posted:

Willa will follow me around to like the 3 threads I post in in CSPAM just to be nasty which is views as owning me.... I'm actually shocked that she hasn't shown up in the MLB or AFC East thread.