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"content": "The Mtn Dew joke was racist tbf, to the mountain people.",
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"content": "Can he? Yes. \n\nWill he? As it stands, I'd give it about a 30% chance-- possible, but unlikely. All Vance has really done is look dumb on camera, which has never stopped 45 before.",
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"content": "Wait, can he? I thought it was locked in after the convention.",
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"content": "Yea Vance can choose to drop or trump is allowed to drop him. Trump is the only thing that cant change for them.",
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"content": "Trump plotted to bring 7 separate slates of electors to 7 battleground states not to wait on lawsuits to find out if everything was legit but to supplant those forged abominations as the real ones and/or have the GOP controlled House vote on it if the slates weren’t returned in time. Pence was a hero on that day.",
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"content": "Think I saw somewhere that project 2025 will actually raise the taxes of any household that makes less than five million a year. Please correct my numbers, but that seems like something that would sway undecideds.\n\nEdit:- Nope, read that wrong. Looks more like $400k is the line.\n\nStill though.",
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"content": "Nope. It will have two tax brackets. 15 percent for anyone who makes anything under I believe 100,000. I believe I currently pay 22% taxes so if anything I see this as a win. More money for miniatures",
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"content": "It also guts a bunch of tax breaks and credits, the child tax credit is just straight up thrown away for example. While they’re criminalizing birth control and banning abortion.\n\nBut if you care about painting miniatures too the point you don’t get laid which I can totally see someone doing, you might come out financially ahead. Sure.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "[https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/contest-for-president-still-up-for-grabs/](https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/contest-for-president-still-up-for-grabs/)\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/tbqabbfp45cd1.png?width=470&format=png&auto=webp&s=202a4e6fc24438a55efde3614f3c790e0848e4c7\n\n>With just days to go before the start of the Republican National Convention, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump continue to be closely matched among registered voters in both a head-to-head matchup and a multicandidate field. **Biden’s support remains relatively unchanged from last month despite the view of many Americans that he lacks the mental fitness to serve as president. However, Biden outperforms Trump on whether either candidate has the character to be President of the United States, and by more than two to one, Americans are more concerned about a president who lies than they are about someone who is too old to serve. Both candidates remain flawed in the eyes of Americans, and majorities say neither should be on the ballot. Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, and Gretchen Whitmer do not improve the Democrats’ chances against Trump.**\n\n>\n\n>Among registered voters nationally including leaners, Biden receives 50% to 48% in the two-way presidential matchup. Two percent are undecided. Biden and Trump were tied (49% to 49%) in last month’s pre-debate NPR/PBS News/Marist survey.\n\n>Among voters who have an unfavorable impression of both candidates, four percentage points separate Trump (47%) and Biden (43%). Trump was previously +7 percentage points over Biden among voters who dislike both Biden and Trump.\n\n>Trump (43%) and Biden (42%) are competitive among registered voters in a multicandidate field which includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (8%), Cornel West (3%), Jill Stein (2%), and Chase Oliver (<1%). Two percent are undecided. In June, Trump (42%) was also +1 percentage point against Biden (41%) with Kennedy (11%) as the only other candidate with support in double digits.\n\n>Among those who say they definitely plan to vote in November’s election, Biden (45%) and Trump (45%) are tied in this multicandidate field.\n\nThoughts? polls are the devil still?",
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"content": "Interesting. It is ok I guess. I hope things can get better.",
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"content": "I intend for it to because I'm not going to be shutting up about Project 2025 from now til Election Day. I know a lot of disaffected Republicans who have a programmed dislike for Democrats but can't stand Trump. They are reachable.",
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"content": "I am very happy to see project 2025 breaking into mainstream. I see normies talking about it and disgusted by it. This is the way we can win",
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"content": "Sure is nice of the heritage foundation to put together the conservative package of bullshit in an easily talked about package",
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"content": "Biden playing 5D chess giving himself dementia so the right feels emboldened enough to publicize Project 2025",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "The Democratic Party were not going to win had the assassination attempt not happened. Initially, it felt like the assassination attempt was going to cause a nightmarish backlash from republicans, but as it came out the identity of the shooter it left republicans mildly confused instead of angry. However, it still created the sense of urgency within the Democratic Party necessary to go through with replacing Biden, and I’m a lot more confident about Kamala’s chances after seeing how people reacted to her becoming the presumptive nominee. What initially looked like a huge win for republicans might actually have turned out to be a major win for democrats. Kinda crazy \n\nI still am not confident Kamala will win, but I do think there is a 40%+ chance which is definitely a step up from where I was before ",
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"content": "My dad just talked to me about this 30 minutes ago and he refuses to believe anything the media or even secret service says about this kid just wanting to shoot whoever came first. He believes he's a trans Democrat based off a photo he saw on fb. Not really relevant, but just wanted to say what the average conservative believes.",
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"content": "I hate to say it, but I think your dad is too far into the sauce to be an average conservative. That's conspiratorial thinking he's displaying.",
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"content": "I guess my view of the average conservative is from an extremely deep red town that I could measure how close I was getting by the density of Trump signs. He's so deep in the sauce that he's Italian now.\n\nEdit: He also thinks McCain and Fox are too liberal and had me in tears in 2008 because he said China would inavde us the second Obama got elected.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Where have I seen this again? Hmm 🤔",
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"content": "If you wrote this in a novel, people would say it was too on the nose.\n\nAre we sure this is real life? I didn't get isekaied into a HOI4 mod or something, did I?",
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"content": "nahhh this is definitely not a hoi4 mod, the US didn't start civil war II",
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"content": "...*Yet*, anyway",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "This is so wrong. The response should be \"I would feel devastated that I let down the future of America.\"",
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"content": "Tf is he supposed to say? \"No we're gonna storm the capitol if we lose\"?",
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"content": "Say that he'll do whatever it takes to prevent Trump from coming to power again. And not acknowledge the possibility of losing other than to encourage people to organize protest and partake in civil disobedience.",
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"content": "The question \"was what would happen if you lost\"?\n\nEven the average dumbass viewer would have been able to tell with \"no I won't lose lol\" would be just dodging the premise of the hypothatical.",
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"content": "How about \"Flee the country with my entire family so Trump doesn't have us executed\"?",
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"content": "Congratulations, now you have a hitpiece about how he promised to aid his convicted criminal son in fleeing the country's justice system.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Look, the election is going to do what it's going to do. You're still going to have work in the morning, or school, or whatever. Your life. Staying strong means staying rested, so go to sleep. Take some melatonin if you have to, just go to sleep. It will make everything easier, whether that's celebrating a victory, or navigating a loss. Take care of yourself, chat.",
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"content": "Why are we still talking about the election like there’s a chance? It’s over. The concession speech will be out before afternoon.",
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"content": "this is explicitly not that lol\n\nR trifecta or not, life goes on and youll have to keep going",
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"content": "I like your attitude. We need more of this",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Biden Needs To Drop Out - Vaush",
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"content": "If voters need \"motivation\" to save their democracy, freedoms, and liberties, we were fucked from the beginning because a new candidate is too much of a gamble and people may still flock to Trump because of the vibecession.",
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"content": "Elections aren’t about facts. Elections are about vibes and the vibes are bad right now.",
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"content": "Another candidate won't change the vibecession. We are fucked either way.",
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"content": "Changing to someone else is risky, but a 10% chance of winning is better than 0%.",
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"content": "Biden still has a 10% chance of winning.",
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"content": "He's got a [52% chance of winning](https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/), from the site that gave Trump a 30-something % chance of winning in 2016 and Biden an 89% chance of winning in 2020. But here's the [interactive map they and ABC put together](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2024-Electoral-Interactive-Map/) that shows where the race currently stands according to polling. Biden's floor is 226, Trump's is 235. The race currently comes down to PA, WI, MI, GA, AZ, and NV. Nevada has a pro-choice abortion measure on the ballot, which should be enough to swing it to Biden. Arizon also has a pro-choice abortion measure that is currently having its signatures validated to get on the November ballot, if it is validated, Arizona is also likely going to Biden. That leaves us with WI, MI, GA, and PA to fight over. The ceasefire proposal framework that Biden put forward has been accepted by Hamas and Israel, if they accept it and the ceasefire lasts through the election, that would lock up Michigan for Biden. If all of this ends up being the case, Biden needs only one of Georgia or Pennsylvania to win the election while Trump needs both.",
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"content": "The abortion issue is also what has been driving me crazy with polls lately, tbh. It's almost like the Dobbs backlash died out in a matter of two years. I hope that's wrong.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/2024-election-campaign-updates-biden-trump-rally/#link-E6S6KETYXZGRBPKBRXNMAL3RAU\n\nYes I know Vaush is talking about it on stream. I want to open up third chat.",
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"content": "Well if he's a Republican like the registration says then this might not do much political harm to the Left/Liberal as thought. Sure the MAGAs won't believe it but the independent and undecided voters will be appalled that someone like Trump has caused so much division that his own supporters are willing to kill him.",
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"content": "The problem with registration is that some register to the opposing party to vote in their primaries.",
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"content": "He registered way before the primary and never voted in the primaries. He voted in the midterms.",
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"content": "The dude was 20 years old. All I'm saying is registration ain't a big gotcha.\n\nHe also donated 15 bucks to ActBlue on Biden's inauguration date, should we assume he was a progressive plant?\n\nHow about we wait until we learn more.",
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"content": "He donated before he could even vote. Registered Republican when he was a full fledged adult. That's all the facts that are out there.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "I love this man. ",
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"content": "I am still impressed by the Lib-Dem's campaign as well. They knew their limits and chose their battles accordingly, picking seats they knew they had a chance to win\n\n\nAlso I wonder if Corbyn could capitalise on the alienated labour votes. Starmer doesn't seem particularly popular among the traditional labour voting base after all",
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"content": "There was a huge grassroots campaign for tactical voting and a non-aggression pact between Labour and the Lib Dems. It wasn't just Lib-Dem brilliance. In big part the Lib Dems did so well because of tactical voting in areas where they were bigger than Labour but the Conservatives were bigger than either. \n\n>Also I wonder if Corbyn could capitalise on the alienated labour votes\n\nIn this election afaik he was only running as an independent in his own seat. He wasn't leading a new party or anything. The risk in general in a FPTP system is that he would only end up splitting the left vote thus handing the Conservatives the victory.\n\nWith some luck Labour will push for proportional representation though (or electoral reform of some kind at least) which would enable Corbyn to start a new Leftist party without the risk of splitting the vote.",
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"content": "Ah, I apologise. I am still a bit unfamiliar with British politics",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "This is GREAT. holy shit, fucking finally. no more canned speeches and formal condemnation. this stuff is what people share with their friends. YES.",
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"content": "We got a link to the interview? I kinda wanna verify the old and quite weird claim for myself.",
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"content": "I think it was on fox & friends if you want to look for it, I've only seen a snippet of it. but it's the same old trite 3 topics, everything he does is the best ever, the others are the worst ever, he's a victim of everyone, but also the strongest, election was stolen, etc etc",
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"content": "Ya know, it’s kinda fuckin wild how hard this is to find. I got what I assume was a cut out segment of it where he vomits words about Kamala’s most recent speech, but I cannot for the life of me just watch the whole damn thing. What does that say about both Trump and Fox News at this point that they seem to be paywalling his propaganda.\n\nEdit: Also based on what I could find, yes. Very old and in fact, quite weird.",
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"content": "Republicans love seeing people suffer",
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"content": "Ngl, I see every Republican talk about aid to Ukraine, but I never seen them talk about Israel.",
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"content": "Ukraine resists fascism. Israel already has fascism",
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"content": "I guess, going in and killing civilians is freedom fighting now... That said, Israel does a piss poor job at making their army look human with all that indiscriminate killing back. But don't pretend hamas is any better and doesn’t deserve eradication.",
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"content": "Dude had shit aim",
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"content": "Why kick him out, as opposed to teaching him the proper way to shoot?",
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"content": "Well the club member said “it was like dangerous” how poor this guys shooting was. Probably didn’t properly handle the gun safely either.",
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"content": "So then teach him how to properly handle the gun then. It’s not rocket science. They probably could have taught in in about 30 minutes to an hour 🤷🏼♂️",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "An open convention can only mean that Pelosi and co. want to push their own candidate, they dont want Kamala, they never did, they dont agree with the majority of his barely progressive policies and they see kamala as an extension of those policies. They are going to push someone to the right of Joe. All of this has been a manufactured ploy by the DNC to screw Biden out of the nomination, this is on par with what was done to Bernie in 2016 and 2020.\n\nEdit: these link didnt post for some[ reason](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/19/pelosi-support-open-nomination-biden-drop-out-00169893)\n\nEdit 2: The vaush clip i wanted to include isnt working so yeaaaaaah . . .",
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"content": "Harris is the only logistical choice legally and financially. Anyone else will just cause more damage than what has already been done.",
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"content": "Why? An open convention would be the absolute best for this party. Kamala is not popular at all while someone like Whitmer is very popular especially in the Midwest where the election may be decided.",
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"content": "Yeah go look up 1968, and how the next 20 years went.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "If this is true and she gets rid of Lina khan we know what type of president Harris will be ",
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"content": "If it was easy as \"Donors dictate where things go\" then Lina Khan would have been sacked ages ago. Joe's Donors are kamala's Donors, they've been itchin for lina since the admin approve her",
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"content": "Hope your right did Joe ever indict things like this to donors like he wouldn’t be harsh on big business or stuff like that",
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"content": " During a event with donors he bragged that \"nothing of substance\" would change.then he became one of the most pro-union pres in years to the point walz union ties is what kamala considered with a VP. You have to remember that donor events are just big old Glazing fest. They want them to spend money at these events",
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"content": "As we all know, this subreddit is all libs. But now there are two kinds of libs here. \n\nFirst there are the khivers. The real vaushites. The brave liberal feminists. Those who watch vush and basically any sane left-leaning content creator out there (so mostly just vush). Then there are Biden copelords in denial. Random people from the wider reddit. People who haven't watched Vush ever or haven't watched him for a year. Smooth brain libs with bad analysis and outdated perceptions.\n\nI am sorry, but it's Joever guys, Biden is done in this community. We have joined the KHive now. We are anarcho-kamalist (kemalist?). It is Momala time. We will not cum. We will all laugh like the Joker. Everything is in context, we did not fall from a coconut tree. We are unburdened by what has been. We stan the first black woman president, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be able to finally retire now. We yass the queen, the girl is a you go. Only with a woman's perspective can we become better at enabling the Palestinian genocide.\n\nA little unexpected, but it is what it is now lol. Vote for Biden if he somehow survives but Jesus fucking Christ pls God almighty holy shit get him the fuck out.",
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"content": "At least She's not an octogenarian.",
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"content": "Biden being an octagenarian, weak or even senile is not/would not be the problem. Neither is whether the median voter knows or cares about it.\n\nThe problem is he cannot actively campaign and his base fucking imploded. If he avoided these pitfalls, he could be 90 or whatever. You cannot win with your base being in shambles.",
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"content": "As we all know, this subreddit is all libs. But now there are two kinds of libs here. \n\nFirst there are the khivers. The real vaushites. The brave liberal feminists. Those who watch vush and basically any sane left-leaning content creator out there (so mostly just vush). Then there are Biden copelords in denial. Random people from the wider reddit. People who haven't watched Vush ever or haven't watched him for a year. Smooth brain libs with bad analysis and outdated perceptions.\n\nI am sorry, but it's Joever guys, Biden is done in this community. We have joined the KHive now. We are anarcho-kamalist (kemalist?). It is Momala time. We will not cum. We will all laugh like the Joker. Everything is in context, we did not fall from a coconut tree. We are unburdened by what has been. We stan the first black woman president, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be able to finally retire now. We yass the queen, the girl is a you go. Only with a woman's perspective can we become better at enabling the Palestinian genocide.\n\nA little unexpected, but it is what it is now lol. Vote for Biden if he somehow survives but Jesus fucking Christ pls God almighty holy shit get him the fuck out.",
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"content": "https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/presidents-general/2024/national/\n\nIt's probably an outlier or recency bias regarding the debate, but Michelle Obama beating Trump by double digits in head-to-head polling while everyone else is losing by five or six points is... interesting.",
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"content": "It's because she hasn't been in office or forced to take a side on issues. Every time a politician takes a side, they lose support from the opposite side.\n\nIf she ran, her approval would plummet pretty quickly once she's asked what should be done about divisive issues like immigration, abortion, Gaza, etc. And it doesn't matter what she answers.",
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"content": "I think it's also nostalgia; people yearning for a simpler time when politics weren't so fucking exhausting, which the Obama family represents to the general public.",
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"content": "Nobody's going to point out about how ridiculous it is that he thinks cows and sheeps are kept outside on green grass and not in giant concrete buildings.",
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"content": "In the UK they actually are kept outside in pretty rolling green hills. It’s just that those cows and sheep in a tiny proportion of the animal products we use and we actually import most of our animal products.",
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"content": "I really am having a hard time understanding this. I know there's the optics issue of the progressive wing attacking Biden from the outside, but if that were it, why wouldn't they just mostly stay out of the conversation?",
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"content": "no idea, but now with a new candidate we might get 2 more Dem terms, hopefully this time they reverse things the Reps did instead of just letting them be.",
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"content": "Whatever hopium you're smoking, I want a cut. This just seems like going from a weak position to an infinitely worse one.",
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"content": "Kamala has all of the advantages of Joe with few of the downsides. What is bad about her beyond her being somewhat charismatic (Joe’s Charisma was lost after 2020).",
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"content": "What advantages? She's a dark-skinned woman with a foreign name, I don't see how that's more electable in every one of those swing states this sub has been freaking out over.",
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"content": "America voted for a man named BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA twice, and won states like Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Iowa. Cocanutcels in shambles, burdened by what was and afraid of what can be.",
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"content": "Maybe talk like a real person if you want to convey an actual point.\n\nThis isn't 2008 anymore, America *barely* voted in the most well-spoken black man one could find, and Kamala is not Obama.",
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"content": ">America barely voted in the most well-spoken black man one could find, and Kamala is not Obama.\n\nObama won in a landslide in 2008. There was a 10 million difference in votes between him and McCain, nothing even close has been seen since. And, he got 365 electoral votes.",
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"content": "I know all the talk right now is focused on Biden's mental faculties, but let's not forget that on the other side there's a 78-year-old fat guy.\n\nWhat happens if he croaks? What does the GOP do? What do the Dems do? Does this encourage the Dems to drop Buden since both sides would then have a new candidate?\n",
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"content": "then a new candidate takes his place and we definitely lose, since the Dems are running on a campaign against Trump instead of telling us what why we should vote for them",
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"content": "Thae assumes the GOP can get its shit together enough to pick someone else, which given the cult of personality it’s become legit may not be possible.",
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"content": "Then they get Don Jr.\n \nClose enough",
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"content": "Is he though? Ivanka and Eric would also be willing to step up to that plate and none of them have Don Sr’s gift for grift.",
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"content": "He's got more energy than those 2 combined. \n \nPlus like you were saying, it's a cult. Don Jr. Would just be a totem of the late cult leader. That would be enough to get them through the last couple of months in the race before it all falls apart.",
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"content": "Yeah, but again - he ain’t got the gift. And Ivanka is clearly Sr’s favorite so Jr’s faction might be the biggest but…",
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"content": "BREAKING: Someone just shot at Trump at a rally and grazed his ear. It’s all over the news ",
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"content": "This'll probably end up helping Trump unfortunately.\n\nUpdate: I've never been so happy to be wrong.",
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"content": "It’s only gonna galvanize his base which was going to happen anyways. This probably won’t affect independent or swing voters.",
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"content": "Ya that's cope. This is going to massively help him with independent and swing voters. Update your passports, save money, buy guns, build local community. Trump is gonna win unless we get a last minute miracle and we're fucked.",
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"content": "Senior democrats right now (If Jake Tapper is to be believed)",
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"content": "In spite of Biden being up in some recent polls. SMH “senior” congressional democrats deserve what they get. I don’t care what allies, what candidates, what odds. Do what you can with what you have where you are. Nothing else concerns.",
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"content": "Do you mean 1 poll? There's literally only one single poll whsre Biden is up. 1 poll doesn't cancel out all the other current polls. Let's not act like Trumpers and ignore reality and latch onto one thing while ignoring all other evidence. ",
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"content": "Ok want reality? Republicans have been collecting Ls in every election since 2016. Right wing populism worldwide just underperformed dramatically, and pollling has been gradually becoming less and less accurate each cycle as landlines have become less and less reflective of the average household. People don’t change their minds each new round of polls and the truth is we have no earthly idea how the candidates are poised. Doomerism is less helpful than pragmatism, and could very well be unwarranted. It should be treated as dire but not hopeless.😩",
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"content": "It's crucial to put pressure on Biden to drop out while there is still time. No one was excited for this re-run election in the first place. Now, his chances of winning against Trump are so dismal post-debate that even Democrats in New York are panicking that the state has become a battleground. Immediately after the debate, polls showed 46% of democrats said Biden should not be running, and likely those numbers have only grown as the media shitstorm has dragged on. I would also echo what George Clooney said yesterday, \"Joe Biden is a hero; he saved democracy in 2020. We need him to do it again in 2024.”\n\nWe cannot rely on democratic officials to be bold enough to push him out - which is why I am hoping there is some sort of concerted effort from voters to push this message online. Despite how corny it may sound, something like a catchy hashtag repeated on all major social media could change the narrative from \"the media and democratic elites want Biden out,\" to \"democratic voters demand Biden steps down.\" Thoughts?",
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"content": "Replace him with who? Name one candidate who, if dropped into the race right now, would have a better chance at beating Trump.",
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"content": "Kamala, Newsom, Whitmer, really any prominent democrat as the polling bears out.",
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"content": "You honestly believe that with 4 months left in the election, they would be able to perform better than Biden?",
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"content": "KAMALA NEEDS TO HIT TRUMP ON BEING AN EPSTEIN PEDOPHILE",
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"content": "Hit him where it hurts most.",
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"content": "His ear? Its probably pretty sensitive right now.",
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"content": "This is a job for Tyson.",
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"content": "Look at those wrists movements!\n\njust come out already!!",
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"content": "You don't know he is gay he might be a conductor.....of cock",
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"content": "I've noticed among my friends who fit such a category and some Leftist streamers, a profound lack of fear for the potential of a Trump presidency. I even saw Xanderhal state that he'd consider Trump over Newsom - \"Here's the thing though Trump would take your rights away, Newsom would take my rights away\" \n \nIt felt surprising to me the lack of concern for the danger Trump poses and is making me question whether the fear i've seen online is just from all other demographics and that maybe Leftist white male Allies are just simply not personally worried about it.",
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"content": "Are you kidding? I'm fucking terrified.\n\n\nSee, I may be white. I may be cis, *but*, my net worth is under $100 million. I'm not exactly the favored group.\n\n\nNot to mention, I have gay and trans friends, who I'm frankly worried sick about. I also have a sister who might need an abortion one day (pregnancy complications aren't unheard of in my family).\n\n\nI'm 21 and in pretty good shape. If anyone's getting drafted into Trump's war with Iran (which would almost certainly require one, Iran is 4x the size of Iraq and has prepared for decades, and they talked about a draft for Iraq), it's me.\n\n\n\nAnd the most important bit: I'd still experience the same climate apocalypse as everybody else. Again, I'm no millionaire, let alone billionaire. There are no bio-domes in my future. No bunkers to hide from the proles...because I'm one of the proles.",
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"content": "Tbf the climate apocalypse thing is kind of a done deal, I dont think that we can realistically stop it from fucking shit up big time because it kind of already is. Trump would find ways to make it worse but not even the Lorax as president would just be able to fix this I believe",
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"content": "Don't know why you are getting down voted, you're right.",
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"content": "I was comparing January 6th to the Bierhall Putsch, this recent assassination attempt to the burning of the Reichstag, and if nothing changes then Project 2025 will be the Chancellery appointment. The first reply was from a German friend agreeing with me. \n\n",
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"content": "Relax man. Nothing is set in stone until it actually happens no one has voted yet so it hasn't happened yet.\n\nYou can plan for the worst if you want but a better use of your energy is putting in the effort to actually win this election.\n\nThe shooter was not obviously a left wing shooter so while the right makes up everything anyway there isn't a direct link between the shooter and cracking down on left wing groups.\n\nWe also don't have \"centrist\" monarchists who want to reinstate the king that will hand over power to nazi's to prop up their own ambitions, the USA is not the Wiemar Republic.",
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"content": "Wild that you are wrong on every point.",
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"content": "wild that you don’t care to elaborate",
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"content": "What's to elaborate on? \n\nWait for votes < They actively ignore votes. \nUse energy to win < You can't vibe reality to be different. \nShooter wasn't leftwing < They believe in Jewish Space Lazers. \nThere is no centrist king < The SC literally just named Trump a king above the law.",
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"content": "MAGA are at most only 30% of the population. Most people are not that far gone and will not just accept the take over. Although that was also roughly the number of Nazi's in WR. The WR was a new democracy in a country used to being autocracy, the USA was built on democracy (although an arciaic rittikey form), it is part of the countries culture. People will fight for it. \n\nIts not vibes its going out there and campaigning, knock on every door in Pennsylvannia and Biden can still win.\n\nAh, okay you got me on that one. You could also say that the non MAGA republican bootlickers are those \"centrist\" monarchists in this scenario.",
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"content": "Is the gas leak in TYT ever gonna get solved? Because I think they went across a point of no return...",
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"content": "This is a rare TYT W through the gas leak. Cenk is actually not wrong here, the Trump campaign got handed an incredible propaganda tool.",
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"content": "He doesn't have to help the Trump campaign though. All I see is a feckless liar and criminal pantomiming strength for his dumbfuck audience after suffering the consequences of his own actions.",
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"content": "How is this helping Trump’s campaign?",
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"content": "So on a scale of 1-10, how doomed are we",
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"content": "Where he's not wrong is that if anyone wants to run they should step up. Otherwise he's quitting with 4 months left , with no one even lined up to replace him. Im not excluding selfishness or fear of losing power but I can see why he would not want to leave under those conditions. There needs to be a plan",
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"content": "He already has a replacement—Kamala who can actually possibly campaign effectively.\n\nHe’s just pulling a Ginsburg by pretending that no one can be better than him.",
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"content": "I would agree with you if he hadn't said multiple times that he picked Kamala because he trusts she can do the job. There have also been headlines where he has asked for polling on Kamala's numbers. Meanwhile, the donors are saying they want to skip over Kamala entirely, so if anything, I wonder if that is contributing to his decision to step down",
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"content": "he’s not going say his Vp is incompetent if asked even if he had no intention of stepping down(he doesn’t).\nStop pretending Joe Biden is a political outsider, donors were on board with him until it was clear he’s a walking corpse.\nThe dems in congress including Pelosi shown they’re willing to back someone capable of doing an interview without sounding like they’re dying.",
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"content": "I'm not pretending he's a political outsider, or even that he has 💯 faith in Kamala. I'm just saying there are a number of factors as to why he's staying in and one of them may be, however delusional and misguided he seems, he truly believes he's the best chance of beating Trump and perhaps he also believes that the donors insisting on replacing Kamala would backfire",
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"content": "https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4773262-vance-trump-running-mate-front-runner/",
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"content": "The ads of Vance shitting on Trump in 2016 are going to be fun.",
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"content": "assuming the Democrats are smart enough to run those ads",
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"content": "We Just Reached Another Turning Point - Vaush",
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"content": "This has definitely felt like one of those \"decades happening in a week\" moments",
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"content": "Be prepared for all Biden’s project 2025 signs to come down and the media to stop talking about it",
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"content": "Purists are a plague. Cooperation is the key to defeating fascism. Look at France. If you can't buckle up and help defeat fascism at the polls, it IS your fault for letting fascism win.\n\nYou want change? Voting is a part of that. We need to sweep the floors with leftist candidates and get them into seats. That requires voting in everything from school boards and city councils to the top. We also need organization, which people on the left seem to be allergic to. The right are pros at setting up grassroots organizations and merging them into larger ones. We tend to stay in our little camps yelling at each other.",
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"content": "I think it's probably still more the fascists fault for voting for fascists, but aside from that you're totally correct.",
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"content": "Not really. Fascists are just inherently dumb people who fall for vibes-based politics and rhetoric. People who aren’t literal drones and don’t cooperate in the fight to defeat fascism have just as much blame for letting it happen.",
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"content": "You think Trump voters are fascists? Get a grip.\n\nThese “holier than though” tendencies from the online left will cost democrats the election, comparing the other side to hitler supporters is just obnoxious and embarrassing",
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"content": "Lay off the salvia and shrooms dude.",
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"content": "Nice ad hominem",
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"content": "You’re the one who thinks Trump supporters aren’t literal fascists lmao.",
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"content": "Thats a wild claim, that like half the country are fascists. Stop butchering langauage, you’re diluting the meaning of words like fascist and Nazi. \n\nMost Trump supporters like his populist sentiments",
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"content": "\n\n[View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/1dyav5l)",
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"content": "When hes officially elected to be the nominee. Also if he likes idk pisses himself on stage or gets a heart attack and almost dies later after hes been nominated, dont see that happening though",
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"content": "My brother is a registered nurse who frequently has to deal with problematic elderly patients. The issues the elderly frequently have when the sun goes down and loss of coherence is always surprising to me. In my city the nursing homes frequently offload problematic elderly on the hospital so he gets to regularly see sweet and lucid old men and women turn into dementia demons and crazy people every night. \n\nWith Biden’s statement of nothing after 8pm, I can’t help but imagine the same thing is possibly happening.",
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"content": "My grandmother has alzhemiers so i have seen it myself, where she goes from being mostly normal but a little confused to extremely confused and agitates. Its sad to see, and i fear what a president in that condition would do, both for his own sake and for everyone else \n\nHis not working after 4pm also is really concerning, because hes not going to get to reschedule that other debate in September, and he cant cancel it either or he will look extremely week. We are almost guaranteed to see a repeat of the first debate",
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"content": "Just a side note but I find it very weird how everone calls her Kamala like they called Hillary Clinton Hillary. Why is it that female politicians are called by their first names but male politicians by their last names? I don't know these people personally, why would I call them by their first names? It feels a bit infantilizing towards women.",
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"content": "How?",
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"content": "I don't call people I don't personally know by their first names, let alone the Vice President of the USA. People usually do this to children or people they know personally.",
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"content": "Um… I call people who are my co-workers by their first name all the time though.",
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"content": "Holy moly the New Popular Front is now the largest bloc in France.",
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"content": "Francophilia somewhat vindicated, nice",
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"content": "Francophobia in a bit of a pickle, but we recover fast.",
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"content": "Unlike the french! 🇫🇷🔥",
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"content": "Ok, So bit of context I have been talking to my neighbors the past week or so about Project 2025. I live in a Ruby red state. After I tell them about Project 2025 and that their Taxes on goods will go up due to tariffs, That their favorite Nail Tech will go back to Vietnam due to Mass deportation, That Retirement Benefits will go away, Pensions vanish, That social security which they have paid in for their entire life will go away. \n \nThey tell me they are no longer are voting republican. I have had more success talking politics in the past few weeks than in the past 4 years. \n\nIt does not take much. Bring up something that will effect them! ",
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"content": "Tell me more of your secrets, sensei",
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"content": "Just start a conversation be kind, be civil, be helpful. People like that. If some one mentions something that project 2025 touches on. Bring it up :)",
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"content": "they're not ready for this power level. that's some OP advice, project 2025 is the devil and don't forget the president of the thinktank[ Kevin Roberts said.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BhhulOa97Xg) You could not make a more shitler-vaguepost comment, especially with the context of project 2025. Especially with the SCOTUS literally saying *absolute immunity* in their ruling \"When the President exercises such authority, Congress cannot act on, and courts cannot examine, the President’s actions. It follows that an Act of Congress—either a specific one targeted at the President or a generally applicable one—may not criminalize the President’s actions within his exclusive constitutional power. Neither may the courts adjudicate a criminal prosecution that examines such Presidential actions. The Court thus concludes that the President is absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for conduct within his exclusive sphere of constitutional authority\" then cherry-pick some project 2025 proposals and man, IDK how anyone except an actual Nazi could support this.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Man…",
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"content": "Brace yourselves the attacks are gonna be nasty af!",
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"content": "Let them be as racist as possible imo, HOPEFULLY it’ll just push the moderates further and further left.",
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"content": "Exactly. Obama won in 2008 and 2012 partially because Republicans couldn't help themselves and became openly racist against Obama. The Birtherism, Schoolerism (demanding to see his high school and college report cards/GPA and SAT/ACT scores because they think he got his degrees due to \"Affirmative Action\"), and open anti-black and anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia against Obama drove away tons of fence-sitting Moderates and apolitical types. I remember white suburban swing voters being turned off because of Republicans calling him racist epithets like \"Obongo\", \"Obunga\", and \"On**ger\". I saw it at college too, some of my conservative white classmates having reservations about voting for McCain because his supporters being openly racist and VP candidate Sarah Palin seeming to encourage it.\n\n\nRepublicans/the far-Right going full Klan hood-on grosses out a majority of fence-riders and encourages some Republican-voting minorities to sit out or switch over. The far-Right no longer hiding their full-on hate group level bigotry as their numbers and popularity rise, combined with the weak and apathetic/ineffectual response of Centrist and Moderate parties to the bigotry, is part of what's leading to the simultaneous rise of the Left in Europe to counteract the rise of the far-Right. People who aren't a right-wing heterosexual white man get freaked out when the far-Right goes mask-off, and when the Center has a meek response people start looking at the Left to defend them.",
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"content": "BUT THE DEMOKKKRATS ARE THE KKK!!!",
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"content": "Hahahaha I love that talking point because it allows me to ask Republicans \"So then let's take down those monuments to those Democrat Confederate traitors, yeah? Republican Abraham Lincoln is turning over in his grave about those Democrat Confederates having American military bases named after them. Let's change that!\" Watch them start squirming and turning around to defend the Confederates 🤣",
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"content": "Harris says no to genocide it seems",
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"content": "In before armchair revolutionaries still dont want to vote for her anyways because of \"principles\" or some shit\n\nEdit- dirtbag leftist was the wrong term, armchair revolutionaries is better",
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"content": "I fucking hate short-sighted nihilist tankies",
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"content": "I'm literally an Anarchist yet I'm nowhere near as nihilistic as Tankies. Not even close. Despite the fact Marxist-Leninism is closer to the current system and more easily achievable compared to Anarchism, since Anarchism has no hierarchical central government while M-Lism does. It's kinda hilarious that the people whose aspirations are closer to achievable reality in the foreseeable future (Marxists, some SocDems and DemSocs) are the most nihilistic ones who want to give up on electoralism altogether and wait for the Raptur -- oh! I mean, uh, Revolution. Lol",
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"content": "Tankies aren't really leftist, I think it's more useful to think of them as Soviet (Ultra)nationalists.\n\nThey don't reject imperialism, they reject _western_ Imperialism.\n\nThese guys insist the Baltic states and all of russia's remaining colonial holding are rightful russian soil, whilst also supporting Palestine because Israel's a western project.\n\nThat's also why the takes these idiots have on the war in Ukraine and the Uyghurs are so bad.",
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"content": "Exactly. Tankies are more reverse American Exceptionalists (American Diabolists) than Leftists. They're just anti-American Nationalists. Like the Flag Smashers from Marvel Comics and the MCU, but devoted to anti-American/anti-Western regimes instead of to a global decentralized community like the Flag Smashers. Tankies lack almost all nuance to understand that:\n\n\nAnti-American/anti-Western =/= Leftist \n\n\nWestern-friendly =/= Neoliberal \n\n\nThere are Western-friendly left-leaning and Leftist parties and anti-Western right-wing and far-Right parties. The left-leaning and left-wing parties getting voted in in Latin America and Africa right now are mostly West-friendly or amenable towards being friendly to the West and US. They can look at India, Iran, and North Korea to see anti-Western right-wing and far-Right parties.",
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"content": "The amount of \"dont vote for Biden\" I've seen in Leftist spaces has made me lose faith in the online Left. Even in fucking union I see people waffling about Biden being bad. I implore them to think. Use the fucking rock floating in the waste basket they call a head to try to form a coherent thought. \"B-b-but Third Party\" The one that isn't going to win? You're putting the Fascist in power to gain bragging rights? Are MLs and the like actually going to become a Leftist, or are they going to stay a fly, hovering around the piece of shit they call coherent ideology. And the accelerationists are the worst! They have decided to help the Proletariat by letting it be genocided. How thoughtful! But don't worry, workers, if you're lucky, Socialism will be instated and not another fucking Capitalist society, this time being exploited by the other countries that surround it.\n\n\"Revolution!\" they cry in unison, for they are truly the most Leftist. Yeah, let's launch a revolution, based upon an Ideology that most people think is akin to Hitler Germany, and with half of its supporters proving them right! And while were at it, let's do it against the most militarily capable country in the world! While the Fascist is warning about this takeover. I'm sure his party won't try to assume military control. Skepticism I hear, what are you, a fucking Liberal tard?\n\nNever have I been more Doomerish, and it's not because of Biden, it's because of those idiots who are supposed to my ideological allies. Sorry for the rant, but I knew I would've had hordes of mouth-breeders incessantly whining.",
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"content": "I believe the correct position to take would be to argue for him to step down however continuing to hold the stance of voting blue no matter who.\n\nAnything else is performative, and does not address material conditions.",
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"content": "I’ve had some tankies tell me that it’s actually better for everyone’s material conditions to get worse via letting Trump win rather than voting for Biden.",
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"content": "Yeah, counting on accelerationism is a massive fucking gambit, one that may just end in fascist total victory. I aint voting to be sent to the death camps in the hopes I get liberated out of em.",
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"content": "Weird how people act like accelerationism will get easier by choosing the uphill battle.",
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"content": "It’s narcissism/main character syndrome and sociopathy rolled up into a finely crafted blend of online fuckery. \n\nTurns out having vaguely correct political opinions doesn’t save you from being a pathetic fuckwit. \n\nI’ve spent years trying to figure out how these sorts of people get popular in leftist spaces, and I’ve more or less been come to the conclusion that a lot of people who claim to be overtly progressive are only doing so for their own self-interests, and it reveals itself through the lack of critical thinking required to jump to accelerationism. \n\n“Well, I can’t get 100% of what I want from my elected representatives, so I’m going to ensure that the Worst Possible Option wins out because that will *somehow* lead to the People Rising Up (tm).” No undue thought required, no actual effort necessary. Just hope that somehow the worst option guarantees your side winning, even though, historically, that has *never* worked out in favor of lib/left interests.",
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"content": "Allan Lichtman, Mr. 13 Keys, just dropped his electoral map prediction",
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"content": "Yeah he’s a dumbass. He has us getting Michigan after Bill Clinton’s speech",
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"content": "we'll still win it. his speech won't do too much damage",
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"content": "Im hopeful for west michigan and central michigan actually showing up. The repubs in the 4th and 5th district have been schziming over trump, and were hella tight in 2020, but less in 2022.\n\nThe thumb worries me though",
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"content": "[https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/contest-for-president-still-up-for-grabs/](https://maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/contest-for-president-still-up-for-grabs/)\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/tbqabbfp45cd1.png?width=470&format=png&auto=webp&s=202a4e6fc24438a55efde3614f3c790e0848e4c7\n\n>With just days to go before the start of the Republican National Convention, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump continue to be closely matched among registered voters in both a head-to-head matchup and a multicandidate field. **Biden’s support remains relatively unchanged from last month despite the view of many Americans that he lacks the mental fitness to serve as president. However, Biden outperforms Trump on whether either candidate has the character to be President of the United States, and by more than two to one, Americans are more concerned about a president who lies than they are about someone who is too old to serve. Both candidates remain flawed in the eyes of Americans, and majorities say neither should be on the ballot. Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, and Gretchen Whitmer do not improve the Democrats’ chances against Trump.**\n\n>\n\n>Among registered voters nationally including leaners, Biden receives 50% to 48% in the two-way presidential matchup. Two percent are undecided. Biden and Trump were tied (49% to 49%) in last month’s pre-debate NPR/PBS News/Marist survey.\n\n>Among voters who have an unfavorable impression of both candidates, four percentage points separate Trump (47%) and Biden (43%). Trump was previously +7 percentage points over Biden among voters who dislike both Biden and Trump.\n\n>Trump (43%) and Biden (42%) are competitive among registered voters in a multicandidate field which includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (8%), Cornel West (3%), Jill Stein (2%), and Chase Oliver (<1%). Two percent are undecided. In June, Trump (42%) was also +1 percentage point against Biden (41%) with Kennedy (11%) as the only other candidate with support in double digits.\n\n>Among those who say they definitely plan to vote in November’s election, Biden (45%) and Trump (45%) are tied in this multicandidate field.\n\nThoughts? polls are the devil still?",
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"content": "Interesting. It is ok I guess. I hope things can get better.",
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"content": "I intend for it to because I'm not going to be shutting up about Project 2025 from now til Election Day. I know a lot of disaffected Republicans who have a programmed dislike for Democrats but can't stand Trump. They are reachable.",
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"content": "I am very happy to see project 2025 breaking into mainstream. I see normies talking about it and disgusted by it. This is the way we can win",
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"content": "Sure is nice of the heritage foundation to put together the conservative package of bullshit in an easily talked about package",
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"content": "also good on them for making the title sound scary too \"Project 2025\"",
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"content": "The NATO summit seems... interesting",
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"content": "No matter who the president in the US is though, I just can't with the \"the leader of the free world\". There's an unelected post if I've ever seen one (and a made up one, too). I get the Americans saying it, as a country they're the hotbed of Main Character Syndrome, but a European diplomat saying it is just weird. A person compromised by the behemoth that is the US popculture, I guess. Either that or somebody who thought to use that phrase because Americans were the target demographic here for this whole statement.",
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"content": "> Either that or somebody who thought to use that phrase because Americans were the target demographic here for this whole statement.\n\nProbably this.\n\nAlso \"leader of the western world\" is pretty accurate, given that \"the west\" is pretty much synonomous with \"america's sphere of influence\" these days. (France is probably second in the west because they run their own nukes top-to-bottom, unlike the UK who buys heavily from the USA to maintain theirs)\n\nSubstituting \"western world\" to \"free world\" is a pretty clean pandering to the americans move that's unlikely to alienate many people.",
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"content": "Germanies large economy makes them one of the top three as far as economy/military to my knowledge its basically usa, france, germany, uk, canada, australia, and slightly differently socioculturally but rapidly assimilating is powers like poland and finland and such so.. yeah theres america and then waaayyy down theres a few big european countries and australia and canada and then all the smaller european countries and thats more or less my anglosphere ranking thanks for coming to my ted talk and dont forget if you see someone using punctuation nuke them from orbit",
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"content": "> usa***[,]*** france***[,]*** germany***[,]*** uk***[,]*** canada***[,]*** australia***[,]*** and\n\n> if you see someone using punctuation nuke them from orbit\n\n🤣🤣🤣\n\nNot arguing with your ranking though.",
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"content": "You used punctuation im making an independent breakaway puppet state in your backyard and shelling your house from it",
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"content": "CAIR poll on Muslim vote",
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"content": "Voting for someone indifferent to genocide? Yeah, not the best. Letting Netanyahu's strongest solider win? Yah that's not the play. So frustrating that people vote with their feelings",
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"content": "> Voting for someone indifferent to genocide? Yeah, not the best. Letting Netanyahu's strongest solider win? Yah that's not the play.\n\nFun fact, people who vote for Stein are actually doing both.",
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"content": "Either Trump wins, or if Harris sweeps without them, both of which their choice fucks them they’ve removed themselves as a voter base.",
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"content": "itll be the start of a beautiful friendship",
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"content": "I'm genuinely deeply disappointed in Vaush here. I caught the Squidtips' video right when it was uploaded, and though I agree the name drops of Contra and Prof. Flowers was a needless detraction; tuning into stream just now to find Vaush actually looking at the video only for him to then watch less than a fifth of it by jumping to random points coupled with his doubling down on being an ignorant shithead was pretty disheartening to see.\n\nAnd don't get me wrong; I knew full well given his attitude the last few years that there was a strong chance I was going to be let down here, but I was none the less hopeful this could've been a constructive heart warming learning opportunity for him to have in front of his community, recanting his initial idiot-carbrain take on motorcycles. It hurts to watch him be so confidently wrong about something he seriously knows nothing about, only to then see him double down without even substantively addressing the totality of the video.\n\nI just really have a hard time reconciling that this is the same person that made the very thoughtful and thorough video addressing his own bad faith allegations, then in turn engaging in bad faith and really ridiculous hyperbole when faced with genuine criticism.\n\nIdk, this pretty suddenly let the air out of my tires; the combo move of all the recent Kamala hopium + hearing all my brain-rotten conservative coworkers coping over being called weird + potentially getting Vaush on a motorcycle, had me feeling genuinely positive for the first time in a while. This fucking sucks guys.",
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"content": "Why do you give a shit about Vaush not liking motorcycles? An opinion he literally stated to have based on his personal experiences with them.",
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"content": "This is just the weed thing over again man",
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"content": "It genuinely is. It's so bizarre seeing people trying to debate bro him into liking something he doesn't like.",
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"content": "The squid guy immediately lost the argument when he tried to convince people that motorcycles aren't actually louder than cars and that Vaush is wrong for feeling like it louder. Like why would you even try to argue that",
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"content": "He died in 2020. But his posthumous book *The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity* is one of the best things I've read in the last decade. ",
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"content": "1000 million%. It's what's driving me mad about the whole Biden debate. \n\nI've been over and over this in mind, the best way I can phrase it is, vote Biden AND THEN WHAT. \n\nFINE, Biden is elected and then?!?!? Trump goes away and then?!??! It solves f*cking nothing. It just kicks the ball into the long grass. It'll be the same damn thing in 2028. The problems don't go away. The saving pass WAS Obama, after Bush he gave us the time to sort the sh*t out, climate change etc etc, but they are just status quo idiots. It's beyond frustrating",
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"content": "That's only partially true.\n\nFor example, under the IRA, the US is spending $400B for climate change. That's not status quo. That's change. That's a lot of fucking money, and it will snowball things.\n\nPart of the problem is that Dems don't have enough of a majority to actually pass a lot of stuff that would be nearly impossible to then go back on. For example, the ACA is now a thing. It would take a complete collapse of Dem voting to have it overturned.\n\nIs it perfect? No. Is it the best option? Also no. But it's a damn sight better than what came before. But Obama had over 60 Dem Senators.\n\nBiden needs Kamala to break ties.\n\nActual measurable change happens if one party gets effective majorities. And that means 50% of the HoR, and 60 Senators, with a President to sign it. Until then, it's going to be small increments, as they require GOP compromise.\n\nAnd sure, they could get rid of the filibuster. But that would swing both ways. Imagine a world where every 2-4 years, the GOP retakes the Senate, and can pass, with 50 votes, a nationwide abortion ban. The catastrophic damage that would do.",
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"content": ">For example, under the IRA, the US is spending $400B for climate change. That's not status quo. That's change. That's a lot of fucking money, and it will snowball things.\n\nBut that's the thing. The sort of activist types the person you're replying to is speaking in behalf of don't want material change that doesn't come from them, and they have no real plan to fix any problem beyond sending angry people out in the streets or, worse yet, putting themselves politically in charge.\n\nThey likely also despise your deep down for being a penniless plebeian and therefore not being able to consume in a way they consider ethical.",
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"content": "Today, I donated $10 to the Harris campaign, and you should too (if it's within your means)",
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"content": "When do we get the coed showers?",
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"content": "There's already one in your house if you can get some chicks in there 😎",
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"content": "When do I get my ration of chicks in this new regime?",
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"content": "I love this man. ",
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"content": "The Bernie Sanders-Jeremy Corbyn bromance is a beautiful thing ❤️❤️\n\n\nIf Biden is actually serious about winning reelection he would pick up Bernie Sanders for a Cabinet position if the Democrats win enough Senate seats.",
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"content": "Corbyn would make a fantastic Home Secretary in the UK. \n\nOne thing I respect Biden for is bringing the left along with him rather than fighting them.",
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"content": "I would put him somewhere else. Work and Pensions (that handles welfare), Health, or Housing. Home Office primarily handles immigration and policing; the former of which he has taken a ‘they’re depressing wages’ position influenced by the unions in the past, and the latter of which he’s had a mixed record on. Something based on social spending would be better imo, and play to his best ideological strengths (his class politics).",
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"content": "Poll: 67% of Americans say Biden should bow out of presidential race",
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"content": "He has said that only God could convince him to drop his ego and bow out.\n\n\n The American people aren't God, so he doesn't care what they think.\n\n\n Buy guns and update your passports while you can.",
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"content": "Convenient for him to spout that bullshit since gawd don’t exist. Well Joe, my wish granting purple unicorn says you will.",
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"content": "I don't care about God either, you should be careful making such cringe comments.\n\n\nYou might seriously injure yourself with all that edge.",
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"content": "‘Not acceptable in a democracy’: UN expert condemns lengthy Just Stop Oil sentences",
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"content": "Kier Starmer ran under the motif CHANGE. He won, and when immediately faced with a grave legal Injustice involving antidemocratic law introduced by the last load of soulless politicians, proclaims its not a politicians job to change anything. Brain-worms",
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"content": "Kier Starmer’s government can’t just unilaterally intervene in the ruling of a judge. They don’t have absolute power. The judge is clearly quite a devout conservative and has allowed that to define many of his rulings, James O’Brien went over his history a bit on LBC. It’s pretty bad. Hopefully that’ll help their case.\n\nHopefully, they’ll be able to do something about this later down the line. But there are laws that even PMs have to abide by.",
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"content": "Kier Starmer has the power to call out this bullshit instead of capitulate it. He's the prime minister he can put on THEE ultimate pressure. He can disagree not agree. He can work to repeal anti democratic law and signal support for the activists. He can do a lot",
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"content": "Freedom of speech for me but not for thee ",
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"content": "Kyle Gas said nothing that was wrong!",
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"content": "Not true, he apologized didn't he?",
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"content": "He withdrew it. \n\nPeople who are also innocent of crimes are also goaded into making false confessions to crimes they are accused of. Wait… Did you actually have a point, or are you just $tup1d?",
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"content": "She's walking on eggshells, not wanting to leak DMs so to speak, but the general vibe I'm getting is that if Biden drops out, we're not getting Harris, there's no unified plan, and everyone in the party is gonna be pushing for their own interests, culminating in an open convention and it's going to be a shitshow.\n\nNow maybe she really is out of the loop and there is a plan being developed, but if that's the case I can't exactly criticize her for being kept in the dark. I know I have zero faith in the Dem leadership to get shit done, why should I expect this time to be different.\n\nI would love to get a Harris/Buttigieg or Harris/Shapiro ticket come November, but if the Dems don't want Harris on the ticket for whatever reason then honestly I think we would be better off with Biden.",
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"content": "I agree its gotta be either biden or Harris. NO on open convention. i think that would be a disaster for us!",
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"content": "I disagree actually. Not only do I think there’s much better candidates than Kamala. I think the open convention is a perfect way to get the media attention and the candidate a little battle hardened for the final push to November. Candidates like Whitmer poll higher better than Kamala and she gives a guaranteed Michigan win.",
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"content": "I just see a huge fight and power grab in that setting. maybe im wrong and that wouldn't happen. but i don't think it will help us win. i really reallly don't want a repeat of 1968!\n\nSo If biden has to step down, im fully on the coconut train here!",
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"content": "Except it wouldn't be a huge fight. There isn't enough time for drama to develop. Also there is probably not going to be big ideological differences in an open convention (no Bernie like candidate). If there was an open convention the focus would 100% be on who is most qualified and who has the best chance to beat Trump. The Democratic party is very united in this regard, we aren't like the Republicans we would all get behind the nominee because of how hated Trump is.",
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"content": "> who has the best chance to beat Trump\n\nI mean, focusing on anything else is suicide at this point.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "This struggle is unyielding ",
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"content": "This probably saved Biden as a candidate, any kind of normal politics is gonna be suspended for like a week minimum and I think it kills the momentum behind getting him out",
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"content": "I disagree though. Establishment dems would be scrambling because they know that trump has just won the election unless they replace him. This was the worst thing that could have happened and it occurred immediately after the previous worst thing that could have happened (the debate disaster). The pessimist in me is saying it’s over and the optimist in me is dead.",
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"content": "We'll see. I think there's a solid chance Trump just flies off the slippery slope into utter insanity calling for the death of the entire left and it repulses the undecideds.",
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"content": "Fuck these guys, seriously, they are going to sit here and implicitly downplay the absolute nightmare that is project 2025 just so they can be contrarian and get 2 pieces of the cake instead of 1?\n\nTo even equivocate project 2025 with Biden dropping out and Kamala becoming the front runner is disgusting, and should be career ending for both cenk and ana. The privilege and the gall",
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"content": "I legitimately think they might be compromised. How can you be so informed and yet play both sides. Michael Brooks wouldn’t have made this mistake. MLK wouldn’t have made this mistake. Most Democrat critics aren’t capable of such levels of stupidity.",
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"content": "Running joke is there's been a gas leak....\n\nBut at this point, it wouldn't surprise me if they're indeed bought.",
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"content": "It's been a year and the gas leak has been the only consistent element of TYT's political coverage",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "I have a dream. An non likely one but a dream none the less",
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"content": "I mean, it's very unlikely but if Texas or Florida went blue I would bust.",
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"content": "If Texas went blue Florida would also go but I don’t believe either will it’s very very unlikely",
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"content": "I'd say Blueorida is much more likely. It would also be very fucking funny",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "LET US BE UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN",
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"content": "He chose the right thing, good job biden! Now we just gotta get Kamala chosen so all that money wont be frozen up for long and we can go back to bash the fash",
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"content": "All they need to do is NOT run Gavin Newsom and we might have a chance of winning",
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"content": "Eh, i think he would have won against trump, but i would prefer almost anyone else",
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"content": "Biden factually would have been at a huge disadvantage. The right has so much dirt and rhetoric against him that they are running laps around the DNC. Not to mention over half of the Democratic voter base doesn’t even want him and was only committing to Biden because they hate Trump. \n\nIf we get a new candidate in now, the right will be struggling to launch attack ads and shape up the rhetoric in this short amount of time. They have had over 4 years to break down Biden’s reputation. Now they only have 4 months to get dirt on a mystery candidate.",
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"content": "It was smart to drop out after the rnc, they wasted all that money and time bashing biden for nothing",
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"content": "So smart that it genuinely wouldn't shock me if later on it comes out that this decision was made long ago and they held on this long precisely to undercut the republicans.",
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"content": "I can’t believe that, because it would require the Democratic Party to be competent which if they were, we wouldn’t be even in this mess.",
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"content": "[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-moore-heartbreaking-biden\\_n\\_668b6d4ce4b07ef2c8176044](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-moore-heartbreaking-biden_n_668b6d4ce4b07ef2c8176044)\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Zl2y0KqPc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Zl2y0KqPc)\n\n>Filmmaker and activist [Michael Moore](https://www.huffpost.com/entertainment/topic/michael-moore) said he thinks President [Joe Biden](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/joe-biden) is the victim of “a form of elder abuse” as those around him push him to stay in the race.\n\n>“Watching the debate a week ago was heartbreaking,” Moore told [MSNBC](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/msnbc)’s [Ayman Mohyeldin](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/ayman-mohyeldin). “Why did they even let him go out on the stage in this condition? Who was looking out for him? Who’s looking out for him right now?”\n\n>Moore said there are people capable of being president in their 80s, but Biden’s [poor debate performance](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-fumbles-debate-donald-trump_n_667e2779e4b0415858d6689d) suggests something other than age.\n\n>“Something was wrong that night,” he said. “We all saw it. We can’t unsee it.”\n\n>**Moore, who is from Michigan, said most people who follow politics there believe the key swing state is “almost unwinnable” for Biden now, not just due to concerns over his cognitive health but also because Arab American voters and younger voters have turned on Biden over his Gaza policy.**\n\n",
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"content": "No shit, he can not complete coherent sentences. Would you let Joe Biden drive your kids to and from a state park?",
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"content": "That's not really new considering he's had a severe stutter all his life, and has always been shit at public speaking. This is like testing a dyslexic person's cognitive abilities via a spelling test.",
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"content": "Here's the thing. Everything you just said, none of it is true. I'm not here to stir up more infighting on the left, that's not productive for anyone. If you feel better between now and 11/5 by telling yourself that were it not for this stutter, he would have aced his debate performance, by all means knock yourself out. But we're not going to get anywhere if we can't first be honest.\n\nWatch instances of his public speaking from 4 years ago. Then look up speeches from when he was VP in 2015, then check out some from his first term. Are you under the impression that he hasn't lost a single step since Obama's 2008 inauguration? When he's bragging about beating medicare, you believe that's strictly a result of this stutter?\n\nWhat % of the American electorate do you think agrees with your point of view on this? Best guess. We want a democrat in office, so ultimately this is the only question that truly matters.\n\nDid you just forget what it was like to be an American between '08 - '16?",
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"content": "How real was Mr. Beast for doing this?",
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"content": "Was it actually him or a fan? I don't really know anything about him besides he gives money away and sells Lunchables now.",
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"content": "pretty sure it was a hack lol",
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"content": "Well, geuss that answers op's question",
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"content": "LET US BE UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN",
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"content": "The best time for this was two years ago. The second best time is now… maybe. All I can say is, let’s just hope the certified big brains at the DNC have some semblance of a plan.",
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"content": "Im betting 50 bucks on an open convention, Kamala will run, biden will endorse, she sweeps the votes, she can inherit the donations and they can brag about how \"democratic\" the process was. Everyone wins (expect biden)",
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"content": "Biden can go have ice cream. He still gets the W of having fulfilled his duty and retiring.",
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"content": "I'd still like to see him held accountable for the Israel stuff, but I'll take him relaxing with an ice cream on a nice Panama beach over him running again any day",
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"content": "It would be nice, but given all the Republicans with Trump to the right of him: we may see it get worst. Which is saying something when the out spoken Zionist Joe Biden is far from the worst person, who still enabled it.",
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"content": "THESE PEOPLE ARE SO MUCH FUN!!!!",
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"content": "I'm convinced some of theese people just don't want to vote. You could have a candidate with a completely clean slate, and they'd just say. \"Yeah we'll they're not literally lenin, so I can't support them.\"",
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"content": "They also don't want anyone else to vote. And they will come up with any excuse to rationalize that stance. It doesn't matter who the candidate is I don't think.\n\nIdk what they actually *do* want.",
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"content": "They want to be able to open up the in game console and input a command that instantly makes the US a socialist utopia. Anything short of that they don’t want to put forth the bare minimum.",
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"content": "Bernie.",
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"content": "No more octogenarians for POTUS!",
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"content": "What about a Bernie VP? It wouldn't give then impression that we're passing over Harris for another old white guy and maybe it would get more turnout? Great asset on the campaign trail (though he'd probably be campaigning for the nominee regardless)",
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"content": "This white guy bad rethoric needs to end. Race and gender shouldn't play the part.",
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"content": "Ok, so maybe not white. But replacing one octogenarian with an even older one would be bad when we asked the last guy to step aside because he was too old. I think it would be pretty hard to convince people that it wasn't racist/sexist motivated if you were to replace Harris with Bernie even if he is way more popular. You'd need some hard numbers showing a clear Bernie advantage in November. It's all about perception that could affect turnout.",
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"content": "Octogenarian refers to old out if touch people who think they know best for people when they don't. People need to stop using this phrase to describe Bernie ffs.",
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"content": "It does not? I agree with your sentiment but octogenarian literally just means 80 year old",
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"content": "Every use of it has been towards those types that I described. Bernie is the only one that seems to be that exception to that which leads me to believe it's not just being old and that Bernie doesn't fit that descriptor.\n\nAnd just so you know, words have definitions and contextual uses that are at times completely at odds with how they're used vs the definition.",
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"content": "Hours after defeat.",
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"content": "Hours? It'll be minutes.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "[Cut it out.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOnAUjXH7P8) We're only doomed if we let ourselves be doomed. Democracy isn't dead yet.",
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"content": "You can doom and not doom at the same time. \n\nI’m dooming in the sense that yes, Trump is almost certainly going to win the election barring a second successful assassination attempt or some catastrophic thing for him in addition to some mega big positive for Biden. I’m voting Biden still, but I ain’t gonna cope my heart out that what’s almost certain gonna happen isn’t what almost certain gonna happen. \n\nBut I’m not dooming in the sense that, as bad as I think Trump is, I don’t think he’s the “end to Democracy”, he’s not the next Hitler, I don’t think 3 years from now Trans people will be in concentration camps, I don’t think Trump’s gonna construct leftist gulags. Shits gonna suck, for some groups more than others, but it will pass, we will survive. \n\nPeople gotta remember as dumb and backwards as conservative policy is, 90% of it is just “let’s go back to doing things the way we used to do”. Most anti-trans policy is essentially just rolling shit back to what it was like only 20-30 years ago. Trans people weren’t in concentration camps 20-30 years ago, trans people still had communities 20-30 years ago, movies about trans people existed and received generally positive reception 20-30 years ago. That’s not to say it wasn’t way worse for trans people back then, it definitively was, but trans people SURVIVED, the inability to get HRT for children didn’t stop trans people from existing or forming communities, trans books not being in schools didn’t prevent kids from growing up to be trans adults, the trans community existed back then and got through it to a better tomorrow. Obviously we wanna do everything we can to prevent rolling back the great progress we’ve made in trans acceptance, but stumbling back a decade or so isn’t the same as “Holocaust 2.0 is 2 years away”. \n\nTrump will suck, it will really suck for certain groups, but we’ll survive and manage. And as much as Trump might try some BS, his maga following is not strong enough to supersede the leftists, liberals, and moderate conservatives, to keep him in power after his second term is over. \n\nAnd if you want hopium, consider that after Trump we are very likely to get an 8 year Democrat. It’s extraordinarily rare for one party to hold the presidency twice in a row outside of two term presidents, so almost guaranteed the next president will be democrat. And after Trump it will have been 12 years since a president served to sequential terms which is a pretty long time to go in comparison to historical trends, so whatever Dem candidate has a very strong chance of getting both terms back to back. And since the Dems almost certain will be using a much younger candidate and hopefully learn a few things from this fiasco, it’s a good chance people will see this new candidate as a course correction and be more interested in them. So your hopium can be that there’s a very strong chance after Trump is done we will have a two term better Dem president that can roll back a lot of what Trump does and put us on a better track to prevent another Trump from happening again.",
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"content": "Okay, so, I want you to be right, but how do you square this with things like Project 2025 and the general authoritarianism of Trump/the Republicans?\n\nSay what you want about Republicans of the 80s, 90s, whatever - they were terrible people for sure - but they weren't promising to be a dictator, as Trump has literally said. They at least were small d democrats, modulo corporate interests, lobbyists and whatever.",
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"content": "There’s essentially one card left to play if trump wins barring the military, the civil service, the entire federal bureaucracy are filled with college educated liberals, if trump tries anything too crazy those people can threaten to resign, and if enough them do on mass all at once, the government collapses. \n\nThe bureaucrats are the people the who run the country day to day, in a modern state, when the government stops working, everything stops working, if the irs resign, trump can’t collect taxes, if the department of transport resigns, roads, highways, ports and railways will stop being run and maintained. \n\nTrump will be bound by the bureaucrats, if he goes to far bad pisses them off, they are the second last line of defence, last is the army.",
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"content": "Let me put this into perspective. I am a teacher, and back in the first year I was teaching the Kids engaged in a meme called \"Devious Lick\" where they destroyed the bathrooms and other belongings of the school. When I warned them against this behavior I told them \"There is no bottom limit to how miserable we can make school for you guys.\"\n\nWell, the kids didnt listen, and one student stole a soap dispenser and another jumped on a Sink until it broke off. The school went full survielance state. Kids had to schedule their bathroom breaks, and only see-through backpacks were allowed. Now I think this is miserable, but it proves a point.\n\n\"Just do a Revolution bro\" Leftists have no fucking clue what they are talking about. Internet being monitored for words like \"Organize, Community, Mutual-aid\". Gatherings of more than 5 people being banned. Cameras in front of your doors. VPNs being a crime to use. Secret Police informants, deputized Proud boys. Sword Rockets mailed directly to your car. \n\nIt can be unbelivably bad and these Leftist Coffee and Book Clubs that meet on Tuesday arent gonna be able to do shit. There will not be a revolution. We will be waiting for years for the American Glasnost. \n\nEDIT: I wanna mention the specific attitude im seeing is accelerationist Lefties claiming that Project 2025 openly fascist America will trigger a revolution. Ask the Russian Federation how that's going for them. ",
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"content": "Totally agree. If these people are so lazy they can't even be bothered to vote, which is literally the safest, easiest way to interact with politics, they sure as hell won't be able to put in the hard work needed for a revolution, even a peaceful one.",
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"content": "They’ll be in their mom’s basement watching porn and eating Cheetos.",
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"content": "I feel attacked",
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"content": "Harris says no to genocide it seems",
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"content": "In before armchair revolutionaries still dont want to vote for her anyways because of \"principles\" or some shit\n\nEdit- dirtbag leftist was the wrong term, armchair revolutionaries is better",
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"content": "I fucking hate short-sighted nihilist tankies",
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"content": "Same. They’re the worst parts of every left-wing group distilled into one. Paranoid, obsessed with purity politics, fully indulgent in conspiracy theories, and addicted to blindly backing anyone who’s an enemy of the US without so much as a glance at what their actual actions and political associations are. It’s fucking obnoxious, and so goddamn tiring to deal with.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "I don’t know about you, but I ship Triden ❤️🥰",
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"content": "Even though it is politically harmful in some ways, I have a soft spot for those ai videos where trump Biden and Obama are friends who hangout on discord playing dnd and Minecraft together",
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"content": "They’re cringe, but those AI vids have their moments.",
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"content": "Obama: \"He's botting, Joe. I see him on Discord right now!\"\n\nJoe: \"Don, cut the malarkey! Are you botting?\"",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Just hours after Biden stepped down, his campaign has officially filed the paperwork to hand it over to Harris for President, and she is raking it in from grassroots donos. CocoMomala is unburdened ",
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"content": "Up to 65 million now. Fun fact: if we think of one dollar as one year, 65 million years ago there were dinosaurs.",
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"content": "Where are can I see this for myself?",
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"content": "Don't know where they pulled the $65 million figure,but [as of 7/21/24 it's at $46.7 million through ACTBLUE.](https://x.com/actblue/status/1815198823771165179)",
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"content": "There's no way to see the figure in real time?",
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"content": "Real time Act Blue tracker: \nhttps://observablehq.com/@rdmurphy/actblue-ticker-tracker\n\n🥥🥥🥥🥥",
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"content": "My name is Bern\\_Down\\_the\\_DNC and you can see my thoughts on Biden from last election in my comment history. I think Biden is our best chance this time around, for the same reasons that Beau lays out in this video:\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRxuOWkr1E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRxuOWkr1E)\n\nI know it sucks, but this is the situation we are in. For what it's worth, I think he has a good chance to win if corporate dems in the party support him, but they are only thinking about what is good for short term profits for major corporations and their own power and welath. They only wanted Biden to win the first time around to stop Sanders. This time the corporate dems don't really care if he loses. so I see them trying to force Biden to drop. It is very much not in our best interest, unless their is a strong plan for another candidate that we don't know about, but that seems very unlikely. Things are not good and I don't think Vaush or Kyle have been doing us any favors by signal boosting calls for Biden to drop.\n\nI probably won't respond to comments since this shit is depressing and stressful. I'm just hoping that more people start thinking through exactly how this will play out. I wish leftists were more practical and strategic since we are dealing with bad people in power that do think like that.",
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"content": "I don’t know what’s up with you people thinking Biden’s the best shot at beating Trump. Every bit of evidence points the exact opposite direction, it seems like you’re just too attached to Biden and it’s getting in the way of you objectively looking at the election.",
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"content": "Did you listen to anything in the video? Changing candidates this late is suicide. You can blame the corporate dems for the situation we are in, but that does not change the situation.",
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"content": "I am going to trust Obama on this over Beau. In the words of the all mighty Vaush, we are the establishment",
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"content": "Obama is part of the corporate ruling class. He has the best interest of the ruling class and corporate dems in mind, not the best interests of you and me. Obama is one of the people who made sure to stop Sanders. You sound like one of the people who would vote for RFK if he called himself a dem. You only care about labels without understanding any of the underlying power dynamics. Dem party is a coalition party, and you seemingly don't care if progressives have jack shit.",
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"content": "Absolutely nothing you said gave Beau more inside knowledge of election processes than Obama. There is not a reality in the multiverse that Biden is less establishment than Obama. This is isn’t establishment vs the people. It’s establishment shutting itself and trying to win an election with a shit hand because a 82 year old needs to convinced to retire.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Americans blame Trump for getting himself shot",
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"content": "Uhh hello? Security failure? At any given time no matter what there are always dozens of people who want to assassinate the president.",
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"content": "The Secret Service are trying to complain it isn’t their fault. In fact, they super improved security because they were expecting an Iranian assassination attempt.\n\nThat a random 20 year old bypassed their super anti-state sponsored terrorism safe guards is entirely on the local police. That building was their responsibility.\n\nI wish I was joking.",
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"content": "The Secret Service can only do so much. Part of the job of the Secret Service is to prevent situations which would potentially compromise their ability to keep their target protected. This in theory means not letting Donald Trump hold multiple rallies with thousands of people. \n\nYou could argue that they weren't doing their job by letting him have those rallies, but I doubt very much that you could convince Donald Trump to not hold rallies, so they did all they could under the circumstances. It just they can't think of every possible thing every single time. \n\nIf Biden were holding rallies across America in open public areas, he has enemies too and it would really be only a question of time before an attempt would be made. \n\nIf Trump continues to hold these rallies, statistically another attempt is possible from sheer numbers. It's like commercial airliners. You can reduce the risk of error, but if you get enough flights, sooner or later plane crashes will happen.",
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"content": "> I doubt very much that you could convince Donald Trump to not hold rallies\n\nI mean, they're the Secret Service. They could lock him down if they really wanted.",
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"content": "They have that authority yes, but it isn't as black and white as that. Donald Trump would dox every single one of his secret service, tell them he's being held hostage, rigging the elections not letting him campaign, tell his followers to leave their homes and kill those secret service to set him free. Nah, on paper they have that authority. In practice, they do what they can get Donald Trump to go along with.\n\nIf the secret service were doing their job, he wouldn't be doing these sorts of rallies in the first place. That said, they're forced to work in a less than ideal situation.",
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"content": "‘Trump Raped Her’: Dark Brandon woke up for a bit. ",
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"content": "Wish he didn’t clarify “wait these are the judges words” like Joe I need you to stand on that shit",
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"content": "I think that was to give the claims more credit by leaning on the judge's expert opinion.",
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"content": "I get it but at a rally that stuff does not matter to people in the moment, gotta be charismatic enough to just say stuff sometimes without going into detail. It sounds like meathead logic but Biden needs all the help he can get on the optics side of things because that’s what’s the main focal point of this election as of now. \n\nHe fumbles his words much more often when he retracts and tries to go into more detail. As long as he keeps it simple and stern, it’ll look/sound much better.",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "I’m sorry, but with the debate performance, you just don’t make mistakes like calling Zelensky Putin. Or saying Vice President Trump. Can’t keep his shit together for a few minutes. ",
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"content": "He spoke for over an hour, but the only 10 seconds that will be made into reels for the next two weeks are those two gaffes.",
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"content": "People are acting like they weren’t accidents. I understand they will be clipped but I feel like it’s obvious that he doesn’t believe his vice president is Donald Trump and that Putin was going to present at the NATO conference.",
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"content": "It is obvious but it’s not a good sign considering a huge part of the job as president is maintaining positive relationships with other countries. Pretty hard to do when you can’t talk. Also probably not great to call someone a president of a country they’re actively at war with",
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"content": "They are doing it, those beautiful idiots. This shit right here is a big reason why Harris is the most viable candidate. ",
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"content": "I was too young to pay attention when Obama was running, were they this openly racist then, too? I know there was the birtherism conspiracy but that at least had some bare deniability.",
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"content": "Social media was different. You had Facebook but the boomers were still too clueless, and cell phones were much shittier. So the racism was still there, but it was more confined and decent people weren't bombarded by it",
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"content": "There was The Donald sub which was eventually banned",
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"content": "OP is referring to Obama's election years (2008/2012), I don't think the Donald was around until Trump ran in 2016.",
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"content": "While Obama was president Trump was putting out conspiracy for years claiming Obama wasn't born in America he did that on Fox news multiple times",
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"content": "You are a redditor in a political subreddit, having a conversation with another redditor about politics.",
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"content": "Man…",
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"content": "They are already falling for the trap, hot damn, they couldn't keep it in their pants",
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"content": "I did political phone polling back in 2018-2019 and asking if people approved of her is the only question that actually got me an actual undisguised racial slur as an answer. Something about her makes them lose their shit even harder than Obama did (probably her gender).",
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"content": "She’s also south Asian so that does it too. It’s like they don’t know which side to make fun of her for because even though being black seems most prominent to them some are like, “nah that’s cool. It’s the snake charmer shit I can’t get behind”",
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"content": "The racial slur I won’t repeat actually referred to her South Asian ancestry.",
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"content": "Ha! Knew it. That still sucks but I knew it",
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"content": "The time you spent on fucking Biden is time not spent on fucking old criminal Trump.",
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"content": "Seriously. No one seems to be asking a convict to step down.\n\n\"But he preformed better at the debate\".\n\nAll that tells me is none of you fucking listened to his answers and it fucking shows.\n\nHint: Trump didn't answer any of his questions and clearly they're all okay with it",
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"content": "I love this man. ",
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"content": "The Bernie Sanders-Jeremy Corbyn bromance is a beautiful thing ❤️❤️\n\n\nIf Biden is actually serious about winning reelection he would pick up Bernie Sanders for a Cabinet position if the Democrats win enough Senate seats.",
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"content": "Corbyn would make a fantastic Home Secretary in the UK. \n\nOne thing I respect Biden for is bringing the left along with him rather than fighting them.",
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"content": "Just keep Corbyn away from forign policy.\n\nHe'd hand Ukraine over to Russia.",
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"content": "With Joe Biden potentially dropping out and every far right think tank or politician arguing against it (stating because it solidifies Trump winning) is basically arguing for the guarantee of Democratic dysfunction when the Republicans gain power and for potentially years after.\n\n“Better to see them break apart when we are in power over seeing them come together before it.”\n\nWhat are peoples thoughts on this?\n",
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"content": "My thoughts are I'm fucking tired of seeing the same \"Biden old, anyone else Biden old?\" threads fifteen times a day since the debate.",
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"content": "He has become the star of this election. He stole the spotlight from Trump.",
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"content": "Everytime he says, \"We'll simply **remind** the voters about Trump,\" I'm like,\n\nWho tf forgot about Trump?",
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"content": "Thanks Greens and Lefty 3rd Party Voters who refuse to hold their nose and vote Harris. Now I may lose my rights in 4 years all so you can play hero with a meaningless gesture that helps no one but “sticks it to the libs”. \n\nEat shit and die! ",
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"content": "Democrats take responsibility for their shitty outreach and campaign challenge level: impossible\n\nGuess that Cheney vote just didn’t cut it this time around",
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"content": "THIS ISN’T A GAME YOU DUMB FUCK! \n\nREAL PEOPLE’S RIGHTS ARE ON THE LINE.\n\nI NOW GET WHY DEMS DESPISE US. WE DUG THIS GRAVE. NOW WE GET TO LAY IN IT.",
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"content": "I’m not the one who played the game with your life. The Democrats did that. You’re not mad at me. I did what I was “supposed to do” even though I didn’t want to. You’re mad at the Democrats for throwing the election against literal fascists.",
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"content": "Poll: 67% of Americans say Biden should bow out of presidential race",
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"content": "This poll is probably more inflated, but even the poll PBS reported on had over half of respondents say he shouldn't run. And that was a conservative poll that normally would have been indeterminate or pro-Biden. Dude needs to transition the campaign to Kamala. The writing is on the wall.",
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"content": "Oh yeah, that's who will have a better shot of being elected in America: a brown woman.",
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"content": "Her issues have little to do with her race... I'd have far more concern with her lack of charisma.",
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"content": "KAMALA NEEDS TO HIT TRUMP ON BEING AN EPSTEIN PEDOPHILE",
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"content": "She likely won't do it because it would implicate people on her side as well. Remember, this bih is much better than Biden, but she's still an establishment Democrat. She's not gonna draw attention to something that makes guys like Bill Clinton also look bad. This is why Biden hasn't brought it up even though he wasn't involved in any way with Epstein.\n\nEdit: you may dislike it all you want, you naive fools. Just remember my words in the coming months: it won't ever happen. She won't utter the name Epstein not even once. It ain't happening. She doesn't want to rub the establishment Democrats the wrong way so she will never bring it up. Y'all will realize how naive and childish you were in a few months, just you wait.\n\nEdit 2: I just learned the Clintons immediately signalled their support of Harris yesterday after Biden released his announcement. Y'all still seriously think she'd do anything to piss of Bill Clinton?",
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"content": "This is why Biden hasn't brought it up even though he wasn't involved in any way with Epstein.“\nBiden’s political career is practically over—maybe he brings it up in a speech and absorbs the animosity.",
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"content": "This is such a naive take. Biden would much rather protect Bill Clinton than he would protect democracy. Hes not a good guy, he's the lesser of two evils. It's not just Clinton, I'm sure some of Biden's (and now Kamala's) wealthy donors would like this issue to be not brought up at all in the public stage.",
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"content": "She's walking on eggshells, not wanting to leak DMs so to speak, but the general vibe I'm getting is that if Biden drops out, we're not getting Harris, there's no unified plan, and everyone in the party is gonna be pushing for their own interests, culminating in an open convention and it's going to be a shitshow.\n\nNow maybe she really is out of the loop and there is a plan being developed, but if that's the case I can't exactly criticize her for being kept in the dark. I know I have zero faith in the Dem leadership to get shit done, why should I expect this time to be different.\n\nI would love to get a Harris/Buttigieg or Harris/Shapiro ticket come November, but if the Dems don't want Harris on the ticket for whatever reason then honestly I think we would be better off with Biden.",
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"content": "I agree its gotta be either biden or Harris. NO on open convention. i think that would be a disaster for us!",
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"content": "I disagree actually. Not only do I think there’s much better candidates than Kamala. I think the open convention is a perfect way to get the media attention and the candidate a little battle hardened for the final push to November. Candidates like Whitmer poll higher better than Kamala and she gives a guaranteed Michigan win.",
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"content": "do you forget that we're talking about fuckin politicians? Just because they have a D by their name doesn't stop them from being blood sucking opportunist\n\njesus, people are flexing their age here or are listening too many influencers",
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"content": "Yeah this one was an L for Vaush. His reaction was knee jerk and transparent.",
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"content": "Yeah he was pretty rude and dismissive about it. While I get his point that she isn't going to know closely held knowledge like Pelosi, we don't know the extent of what she sees.\n\nI don't know that I fully trust her version either; the part about donors/elites controlling this was a Biden talking point after morning Joe. Its dishonest because it assumes that \"the people\" want Joe Biden still and weren't utterly horrified after that debate. Nor do I expect the democratic establishment to have answers or know what they are doing - they have truly been caught with their pants down. She didn't address how they might win with Biden other than his voting record but relying on old people alone because they like him isn't going to be enough. \n\nAll I know is this feels like crap when there's so much at stake.",
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"content": "> pretty rude\n\nAnd then people are sad that they are called liberals.",
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"content": "[oh no. ](https://youtube.com/shorts/DQvnLFek7Wc?si=ehWCq2zsUd6Y5G9B)",
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"content": "Kyle’s community is actually a little pissed at his reaction here. At least Kyles not a disappointment today ",
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"content": "Having been part of his audience for a time, there's a strong contingent of chronically self-disenfranchised left-leaning people who value the feeling of being \"better than\" voting for an established party and all the Sheep who do. I was one such person.\n\nNo, that isn't Kyle. Not entirely, anyway. He has that streak about him, but he's also happy to call when Dems score wins. He was so happy when Walz passed universal school meals, it's almost all he could talk about for half a year. Prior to Gaza, he was almost a Biden stan.",
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"content": "Good question. He's been applauding the Dems for switching to Kamala and picking Walz, but it's possible he's voting for third party if he thinks that his state is a solid-blue state. At least, that was the tactic he took in the past. (A tactic I've abandoned, hence why I'm here and not following Kyle as closely these days.)",
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"content": "If he votes Jill, then I'll continue to have contempt for him.",
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"content": "He’s voting Jill because of Gaza. I think because of the recent Green Party drama and Kamala not choosing Shapiro for VP I think he could change his tune. We’ll see close to Election Day what he’ll publicly say he’ll do.",
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"content": "Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/2024-election-campaign-updates-biden-trump-rally/#link-E6S6KETYXZGRBPKBRXNMAL3RAU\n\nYes I know Vaush is talking about it on stream. I want to open up third chat.",
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"content": "Well if he's a Republican like the registration says then this might not do much political harm to the Left/Liberal as thought. Sure the MAGAs won't believe it but the independent and undecided voters will be appalled that someone like Trump has caused so much division that his own supporters are willing to kill him.",
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"content": "Best case scenario is this doesn't hurt Biden, but it still galvanizes MAGA. They're already calling Trump a martyr. I wouldn't say for sure this will affect the actual election, though, Teddy Roosevelt was shot during his \"Bull moose\" speech and still lost his campaign.",
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"content": "The difference is that Roosevelt wasn't running with a major party, and ended up splitting the vote. Had he run as a republican or not at all, the Republicans would have won.",
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"content": "Well, if leftists don’t vote for Joe (if he’s the nominee) it will be about 1 second after the results come in and it will be accurate. The idea that the democrats (whoever the hell that is) have some all powerful ability to decide who won the primary in 2020 and have the ability to make Biden drop out now is conspiracy theory level thinking. If not enough people vote for Biden (if it’s him) and Trump wins it’s the fault of everyone who *didn’t* vote for him, just like it was everyone’s fault who didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016 and just like it’s their fault Joe won the primary in 2020 in the first place.",
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"content": "My entire fucking state didn’t even run the democratic primaries. I showed up to the polling place to find that only the republicans had any chance to vote. I registered democrat soley to have a choice in the primaries, but that meant fuck all this January.",
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"content": "We are so fucking back",
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"content": "this is tangential but i really despise the \"rapidly conquered\" and prone to surrender stereotypes you see about France. All of these are, at least as far as i know, only referring to what happened in WWII. You think America would be such hot stuff in WWII if we suffered 6 MILLION CASUALTIES just a couple decades prior? Those are the casualties France suffered in WWI. And if you adjust for population size it would've been more than twice as bad for us, as France's population in WWI was 40 million and ours was over 100 million. And its not like they just rolled over for the Nazis, the french resistance is famous. idk its just always irked me like cut em some slack",
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"content": "I also been doing research on that, the French didn’t actually surrender? A fake government did but the actual representative of the French government kept the fight going. The fake government whose successors are led by Le Pen btw",
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"content": "That's not really true.\n\nFrance's government, the one that surrendered to and then collaborated with the Nazis was the official French govermment.\n\nHowever, there were key members of the French government and French army, as well as French colonies, who had managed to escape to Britain prior to the signing of the surrender.\n\nThe US, for example, recognized the Vichy government as the rightful government of France.\n\nThis lead to some weirdness during Operation Torch when the US landed in Morocco and Algeria, while the British were pushing in from Libya. François Darlan, the French head of the Navy, became, momentarily, the leader of the Free French, despite having been a member of the Vichy government, before he was assassinated by a Frenchman.\n\nAt that point, DeGaule essentially assumed sole leadership of the Free French.\n\nFor those wondering why the Nazis didn't just occupy all of France, and the reason for putting in place a puppet government was for two reasons:\n\n1. Germany had no ability to also occupy France's colonial empire, and they believed that had they just occupied all of France, then the colonial governors would've just sided directly with the Allies.\n\n2. Germany thought that if they fully occupied France, the French Navy, 3rd largest in the world at the time, would've set sail for the French colonies, and then the German and Italian navies would've had to face both the British and French navies, something they had no hope of doing.",
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"content": "Biden has come out staunchly opposed to stepping down and is 100% going to push himself as candidate. If we're being practical, that means we should all shut up about how he needs to be replaced.\n\nThe only real argument for Biden stepping down is that a fast mini-primary would get voter base excited, but any benefit you get there goes out the window if you have to actively fight Biden to get a new 2024 candidate in. Not only does it confuse the entire narrative, it actively starts infighting in the left (though this whole news cycle has been great at doing that anyways.)\n\nWhat I don't get most of all is how this is any different now from the exact argument Vaush made about the primary selection: attack Biden and do everything you can to push him left in primary season, but once he's the guy, he's your guy. In the day or two immediately post debate, it's fine to raise the possibility of replacement. But that ship has sailed.\n\nAm I wrong? Is this not actually inconsistency? It feels like the \"fun based leftist\" thing to keep pushing Biden's replacement, but seems to now just be the new Bernie or Bust.",
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"content": "Bear in mind saying that nothing will convince you to step down doesn't require it to be true. Putting pressure on him and providing a clear plan for a good replacement probably still has value.",
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"content": "But what is the plan?\n\nLot of names have been floated, but none of those names have broken rank to speak up as a potential replacement. So who are we going to rally behind even if Biden steps down? Because if there is no clear replacement at this point? That could very much split the DNC into smaller factions mere months ahead of the election.",
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"content": "I imagine, if it becomes clear that Biden cannot effectively run, someone will be picked behind the scenes, and the first the public will hear is Biden announcing his endorsement of them.",
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"content": "Just hours after Biden stepped down, his campaign has officially filed the paperwork to hand it over to Harris for President, and she is raking it in from grassroots donos. CocoMomala is unburdened ",
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"content": "I haven’t been as politically engaged this election since everything has been so fucking awful lately, but hearing about the dems putting pressure on Biden to step down gave me hope. Then he actually fuckin did it. I chipped in $25 as soon as I saw Biden’s endorsement post. I was never going to donate to genocide Joe. It’s a new day and there’s no doubt in my mind she will be a marked improvement for the people of Gaza than the previous candidates we were dealing with.",
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"content": "I am not American and I am not nearly as familiar with her politics as I am with Biden's. So is she more pro-Palestine or at least less Zionist than Biden?",
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"content": "Yes! She was applauded by an audience at a speech a few months back for very forcefully criticizing israel's response and emphasizing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Most reporting indicates she is personally much less sympathetic to Israel than Biden.",
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"content": "Damn I am really getting coconut pilled now",
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"content": "If you didn't know she also ran in 2020 on Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, legalizing marijuana, and decriminalizing sex work. She's genuinely quite progressive and has changed a lot, especially in the last 8 years, since the 2000s when she was a more moderate District Attorney in California.",
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"content": "A momentary break from the political doomerism. Sydney (my city) is just about to open the next stage of its new metro train network, something that will seriously improve the livability of this city. It's something im genuinely proud to see my country accomplish.",
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"content": "Its privatised. Its already bad, its going to be shit.",
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"content": "What do you mean privatised? It's operated by Sydney Metro, under transport NSW isn't it?",
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"content": "Actually apparently the train system was converted from railcorp to a state owned corporation and holding company calledtransport asset holding entity in 2020, as i understand it transport NSW operated some and now all of them. Although the TAHE is a for profit seperate company that isnt controlled by the state, it has a profit motive and executives to please, i think for all intents and purposes it is privitised.\n\nEdit: apparently trainlink have been operating them waiting for sydney trains to take over and do it? Idk",
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"content": "All A B and M sets are maintained by Downer Rail, a private company, and all the others are maintained by UGL Unipart, so yeah it seems like its changed over time, but as far as i can tell it is currently owned and operated but not maintained by the gov",
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"content": "Really interesting information, thanks for sharing",
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"content": "Almost thought he was gonna support court packing ",
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"content": "Court packing would never pass. This is much more feasible.",
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"content": "What!?!\n\nDo you mean the \"add more judges to the supreme court\" dial *isn't* in the Oval Office next to the \"inflation go down\" lever and \"gas prices go down\" button?!?!?",
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"content": "Can Joe please press the \"give one inch of penis length to everyone\" button a few times 🙏",
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"content": "Kyle with an uninformed take as usual. Obama hasn't endorsed Kamala for one of three reasons:\n\n1. Michelle is weighing up running (very unlikely) and he doesn't wanna ruin it for her.\n\n2. He doesn't want to publicly put his thumb on the scales, as usual, and would rather wait for Kamala/whoever else to be confirmed entirely by Dem leadership.\n\n3. He is saving his endorsement for just before or at the convention to draw headlines and positive press for Kamala while putting the nail in the coffin of any challenge against her.\n\nThere's no universe in which Obama is doing political calculus to think \"Nah, I don't want Kamala, I want Newsom/someone else because I think they have a better chance\". It was already beyond the pale for him to publicly pressure Biden to step down. He's not gonna go leagues further than that and start cherrypicking about the replacement candidate - he'll leave that to Dem leadership.",
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"content": "What do you mean uninformed? All of this is speculation. There’s nothing more to be informed about here since it’s all theory. \n\n1 is not happening. \n2 Kyle said 2 in his video and is basically part of what kyle is saying here. \n3 maybe? \n\nKyle is mostly saying the fact he and Nancy who both have been talking a lot behind the scenes to get Joe to back down haven’t endorsed Kamala while most other dems have. So there seems to be a preference they have that isn’t with her. I think that’s a fair idea, is it true I have no idea. But it’s a logical conclusion to come to.",
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"content": "Biden refusing to condemn the genocide while continuing to fund it and actively play defense for Israel does in my mind outweigh the good. Its a blighted stain on his legacy that could only be topped by Trump winning afterwards and endorsing Israel's actions further. Biden is still better than Trump and Im still voting Genocide Joe and sleeping soundly...but the gaza situation took him from better than average president to garbage in my book.",
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"content": "of course he isn't good, but the \"best president in our lifetime\" saying still stands I'd say, Obama and the other dem presidents of the lady few decades have all been no less pro Israel than Biden, they would've done the exact same if not more",
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"content": "Agree with the best president in our lifetime (domestically at least) but I think it just shows how depressingly low the bar is in that regard. Granted I think most people in this sub were born either under or after Bill Clinton’s presidency.",
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"content": "was Bill Clinton really better than Biden? I don't know too much about his term",
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"content": "STOP THE COUNT",
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"content": "we are beyond cooked. it's over",
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"content": "Idk why you think that, basically every call went as expected so far.",
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"content": "(I know betting odds are not the way to go and they can be heavily skewed) but Trump's odds went from around 45% to win to 72% today, the lowest it has ever been.",
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"content": "I know this is a niche subject but for any fellow vaush gym heads you might want to know Dr. Mike from Renaissance periodization is a race realist and dog whistled his views to his audience. Here is the original video https://youtu.be/WBZGgrgMwvU?si=jyfRW-pNmq1ke8JH",
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"content": "I always assumed he wasn’t too crazy politically because he makes a lot of self-deprecating jokes and talks about being attracted to men all the time lol. I guess my bar for “not crazy” has been “isn’t openly a fascist, racist, or Christian nationalist” lol. \n\nI wasn’t really aware of any race-comments he made aside from his constantly talking about how he can’t dance and isn’t very coordinated because he’s Jewish, which I always assumed was just more self deprecating humor TBH (I was raised Jewish and heard similar comments made in total jest all the time), not actually a serious statement or claim.\n\nHis talk of being libertarian always seemed kind of vague, so I had hoped maybe he was just a “I like smoking weed and using steroids but don’t like paying a lot of taxes” kind of libertarian.\n\nBut maybe I’ve just been biased because he’s funny and has great fitness content? The info in the OP seems pretty explicitly clear.\n\nEdit: tangent incoming, but I come from a fitness/bodybuilding background to a degree. My dad trained under a Mr. USA back in the day, I used to formulate for a fitness/supplement company, etc. During the pandemic, a lot of fitness people came out as very anti-science and anti regulation, talking about how they have strong immune systems from exercise and Vitamins C and D, so they don’t need vaccines or distancing, totally ignoring the impact of copious steroid use on the immune system. There’s definitely a lot of fitness people who have some pretty right-wing views that may not actually manifest until circumstances kind of push them into view or relevancy.",
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"content": "> a lot of fitness people came out as very anti-science and anti regulation, talking about how they have strong immune systems from exercise and Vitamins C and D, so they don’t need vaccines or distancing, totally ignoring the impact of copious steroid use on the immune system.\n\nThey also tend to be dangerously underweight, the really fanatic ones at least.",
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"content": "Underweight I don’t know about, at least the men, as they have a lot of muscle mass usually, carrying too little body-fat to be healthy though, a lot of men are, at least in prep for contests and/or photoshoots, which more and more fitness professionals seem to do year round than in decades past.",
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"content": "Using musclemass as fuel is bad for humans. And we've all been there I think, where you get so sick that you lose 5-10 pounds in a week. It's good to have those available for this scenario.",
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"content": "Again, underweight doesn’t seem to be the right term, but over-lean, or even under-fat. Calling someone who is potentially overweight by BMI “underweight” just isn’t a very useful phrasing IMO. Although I do get the point you’re making.\n\nThis didn’t used to always be a problem though, as in decades past, even elite pros would often bulk up to definitely double-digit body fat % in the offseason, both to build more muscle as well as to give the body a rest and/or lower the doses/cycles of PEDs. Granted, many actual professionals still do this today, but it feels like more and more online fitness professionals who may not actually be truly competitive professionals make content year-round, and therefore try to stay shredded year round, which means being excessively lean year round and/or on decently strong PED cycles year/round.",
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"content": "Curious where we stand, I haven't been too online nor do I trust any polls (some polls gave Biden a BUMP a day after the debate??^(wtf)) - but curious what do y'all think? Do we think he'll drop out within a week, by the convention in mid-August, after, not at all? etc.\n\nAnd any input regarding this yall think of (who we think is the best replacement, but might END up being the replacement etc.) - I try not to be a doomer but I think this is the most doomy I've felt about politics in a while\n\n",
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"content": "i'll give it roughly 40% he might drop. if he does a poor job tonight at the press conference increase it to 50%",
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"content": "He had a real bad gaff at the conference. So bad no one is going to remember what it was for and they'll just play the clip of him saying Putin instead of Zylensky. Clip chimps are going to not include his correction just his gaff",
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"content": "Imagine if Trump got even 25% of the scrutiny Biden gets for word slip ups. Trump rambles incoherently and makes mistakes all the time, including calling Mike Pence (the guy he wanted hanged and he basically fired like 4 years ago) his VP. Motherfucker was talking about electrocuted sharks killing him or some shit at his most recent rally, but I'm supposed to believe Biden is the one in \"cognitive decline\" (also, people need to stop talking in medical terms when they don't actually know what said term defines. I thought the Internet learned this years ago. We also know Biden stutters and a common result of attempting to eliminate stutters in speech, is... *Mixing up words*) and incoherent? Only one of them has publicized their medical history while the other refuses to.\n\n\nWould I like a better candidate and someone who isn't an old bag of shit? Yes. But I would also like to not be thrown into the camps over the next few years. If he stays in, instead of people crying 24/7 and doing a sequel to the 2016 election again (which we won't be getting a trilogy for if that happens), they should instead be full force pushing out info on Project 2025/Epstein files online and offline. The Biden administration is actually smart enough to realize this and is running ads on it. Multiple 30k 40k and even a 80k liked tweets on these topics, and rather predictably, Project 2025 is unpopular. Even mainstream media has started to look at 2025 (CNN, MSM, MSNBC, etc) and NYT (which basically refuses to talk bad about Trump) has called Trump to step down due to being \"unfit to run\". Also think it's great that a bunch of gay furies hacked and leaked a bunch of the info from the Heritage Foundation, showing to the public that 80% of the authors are former Trump staff and many IP addresses supporting it are from China. If he doesn't call it quits, it's time to get it together and lock in people. Calling for him to quit afterwards is unironically doing more damage than any good at that point. I'd rather have another 2020 US election than a 1930s Germany \"election\".",
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"content": "Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/2024-election-campaign-updates-biden-trump-rally/#link-E6S6KETYXZGRBPKBRXNMAL3RAU\n\nYes I know Vaush is talking about it on stream. I want to open up third chat.",
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"content": "He’s a very confusing character. Donated to actblue, but being a registered Republican and having a shirt of a gun YouTuber.\n\nThis at least means the left wont be entirely blamed for this. Yes, conservatives will latch on to his donation, but we can simply say he was a Republican. \n\nThis will still help Trump, but not as much if he was a leftist.\n\nI think he’s a centrist libertarian type? Nicky Haley Republican? Incoherent?\n\nWe’ll probably know more as time goes on. And his political affiliation doesn’t change the fact that he’s a crazed man that harmed and killed innocent people.",
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"content": "hard to latch onto the donation when it lacks the mild name. He's also active member of the nra, so the actblues significance will lose value unless a manifesto pops up",
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"content": "He’s a part of the NRA? Where did you find that? That’s a smoking gun if true.\n\nAlso, from doing some looking(on Twitter, so grain of salt), he only voted in the midterm. So there’s no primary vote against Trump shenanigans going on. That’s the narrative the republicans are going with.",
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"content": "I keep seeing people saying the shooter did NOT vote in this year's Republican primary. Can we even know that, does the FEC data even track primary votes? I've been trying to track this one down",
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"content": "[Twitter post](https://x.com/SocDoneLeft/status/1812378448603521488), but it’s corroborated with others.\n\nHe last voted in the midterms, 2022. \n\nThe primaries were April of this year and he didn’t vote.",
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"content": "Wes Streeting to agree with Tory ruling on powerful drugs for under 18s as his party toughens stance on trans issues",
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"content": "The world is changing. The prohibition of such powerful drugs for children is a position with near-universal support in British society, based on the Cass review, which found “there is no research to support using these life-altering drugs” on children. It has nothing to do with someone’s right to identify as trans, or their right to make medical decisions as a free adult.",
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"content": "Imagine unironically citing the Cass review",
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"content": "Who would be better than Kamala in Kyle's mind? Did he share his first pick?",
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"content": "Yes, his first pick is Putin.",
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"content": "Kyle’s not like that. He’s just a little brain rotted in some areas. Easily still one of the best out of progressive media.",
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"content": "Yes, other then trying to turn the US into a fascist state forever, he's a very credible progressive, I'm sure.",
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"content": "Allan Lichtman, Mr. 13 Keys, just dropped his electoral map prediction",
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"content": "Listen, regardless if Harris wins or not, the election will bring us at least one win, we done have to listen to Lictman again for another 4 years",
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"content": "If republicans win, we may never have to hear from him again.",
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"content": "Damn, maybe it's time to sabotage the election.\n\n/s of course",
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"content": "For all you not watching the speech rn, Biden is not stepping down, and he referred to Kamala as “vice president trump”",
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"content": "I’m not looking at the press conference, just looking at some NYT commentary.\n\nThis particular comment is something I agree with,\n\n“Biden’s ability to speak in detail about policy highlights something important: No one has clearly shown that he is losing his grasp on the substance of his job. His problems are mainly to do with public speaking, appearance and fatigue.”\n\nAnd that last part is a big issue. It’s not just the matter of how good and coherent your policy is. Or that you can do the job as President. It’s also about **looking** like you can.\n\nI think Biden **can** do the job, but does he look it? No no no, not to independents, and not to a lot of Americans. Which is Giga important.",
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"content": "It comes down to the fact that President, and Presidential Candidate, are two different jobs. He’s probably qualified for one, and clearly not for the other anymore.",
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"content": "There's also the idea that while he could handle being President another 6 months, he couldn't handle being President another 54 months.",
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"content": "An open convention can only mean that Pelosi and co. want to push their own candidate, they dont want Kamala, they never did, they dont agree with the majority of his barely progressive policies and they see kamala as an extension of those policies. They are going to push someone to the right of Joe. All of this has been a manufactured ploy by the DNC to screw Biden out of the nomination, this is on par with what was done to Bernie in 2016 and 2020.\n\nEdit: these link didnt post for some[ reason](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/19/pelosi-support-open-nomination-biden-drop-out-00169893)\n\nEdit 2: The vaush clip i wanted to include isnt working so yeaaaaaah . . .",
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"content": ">All of this has been a manufactured ploy by the DNC to screw Biden out of the nomination, this is on par with what was done to Bernie in 2016 and 2020.\n\nDid everyone on this subreddit suddenly become a Joe Biden superfan?? What the hell is this comparison lmao\n\nBiden's old as shit, and he's lost confidence of the majority of Dems because he cannot speak beyond what's on a teleprompter. Good President /=/ good candidate.\n\nKamala's the only logical pick, and if it goes to an open convention it's gonna be a nominal contest where Kamala sweeps and projects party unity.",
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"content": ">Did everyone on this subreddit suddenly become a Joe Biden superfan??\n\nThis subs opinion on this shifts like the wind. Vaush makes a video about why biden should drop out and the sub makes a thread about how he's right and that Biden should drop out, then someone else (aoc, beau or who else ) makes a video on why he should stay and the subs opinion shifts to reflect that\n\nOver and over in a cycle",
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"content": "Beau is pissing me off lately tbh.",
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"content": "The only reason I get annoyed at his mention lately is because people cite him like he's politics god. People never mention any argument he made, it's always just \"But Beau did a video on this.\"\nGreat. So why arent you using his argument instead of linking to his video like it's proof?",
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"content": "His takes on Biden dropping out and Sean O'Brien at the RNC was absolute shit.",
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"content": "Is the gas leak in TYT ever gonna get solved? Because I think they went across a point of no return...",
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"content": "Cenk is right. This is the best thing that could have happened to Trump. Couldn't have asked for a better propaganda coup.",
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"content": "Having a fist raised with a flag perfectly framed behind him. Either really lucky or something....",
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"content": "i hate to say it but…",
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