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In my last State of the Race post, I discussed how tight the race was. Biden, despite the majority of Americans think he's old and r-slurred, had a very narrow lead over Donald Trump. I called it to close to call. Then the debates happened, and it became quite easy to call. Sleepy Joe was so bad that after some humming and hawing, he gave up and put Kamala in charge of the race. Any dreams of a 1968 Democratic shitshow were quashed as Harris extremely swiftly united the vast majority of the Democrats behind her candidacy immediately, with the ambitious types like Newsom and Pritzker instead bickering for second place as her running mate.

So, what does this mean?

Donald Trump (Crips - NY)

The facts for Teflon Don remain mostly unchanged. Here you have a tremendously unpopular man tied to tremendously unpopular Roe v Wade repeal (because America loves killing babies ) who can only win when he's facing off against people somehow less popular. There has been one major change - his running mate was announced

This eyeliner wearing cute twink has been the campaign's biggest weakness since announced. He is Trump's worst traits made manifest - while Trump has said he won't sign federal abortion bans, Vance has called for a total abortion ban without a r*pe or incest exception. While Trump's attitude towards women offends the median voter, Vance has said women in abusive marriages shouldn't leave. When Trump is left reeling trying to adapt to a new, much stronger opponent, J.D Vance has a minor media cycle about fricking a couch. (He probably didn't) (Probably).

Picking Vance was a double down to bring out his core base, despite the fact he had the r-slurred edgelord vote locked up, based on the idea that Trump would slap around Sleepy Joe. Up against someone that can form coherent sentences, he's suddenly a piece of dogshit.

Is Drumpf in an unwinnable situation? Not necessarily. His opponent is deeply flawed. She was given the thankless job of Border Czar, and that's an issue Trump has a massive leg up on. She can speak full sentences without sounding like she's about to die, but she's still tied to the unpopular Biden administration. There's already been a few decent ads attacking Kamala as a radical liberal, which could be effective. But will these ads generate more disccusion when Vance gets involved in another scandal about how people without kids shouldn't vote or whatever? Trump in the cycle has been strongest as an abstraction - the idea of Trump, this butthole who made the economy strong and preceded over a peaceful world, was someone the voter's could hold their nose for and vote. Trump, the butthole lunatic that hates women, does not get the same treatment.

And I'll address this now - plenty of people here will say "um who cares about Vance lole". Median voters do. The people who don't follow politics and like it to be nice and boring will care that the Vice-President would be a particularly r-slurred 4chan /pol/ user.

Kamala Harris (Alzheimer's Association - CA)

The above post makes it sound like Kamala's got this locked up, like the guys she got locked up for weed as DA in California, but that's not exactly true. Trump's net favourability averages out at -9.6%, while Cackling Kamala averages out at -13.6% according to the most recent gallup poll. The popular vote for Trump vs Harris ends with Trump leading by 1% - when Hillary Clinton won the PV with 2%, this seems dire for Kamala. So why was I pooping on J.D Vance so much?

Besides the fact he deserves it for robbing Burgum, there are only 2 issues with Kamala. 1. She's a terrible speaker 2. She's tied to Biden's administration.

Both of these problems are easily countered by her strength - she's not an old, old, old Catholic.

She is ready to make abortion, the Democrat's strongest issue, front and centre. And frankly, her likeability issues are overstated. It's not 2020 anymore, she doesn't sound like a high wine aunt anymore, she sounds fine. She's not good, she's not exactly Reagan or Bill Clinton, but she is entirely adequte. With just some modest rebranding, she can work on being more likeable in a away Trump can't work on his likeability issues (since being an butthole is his brand) and Biden's age issues (because he was dying). With months until November 4th and a massive cash advantage over Trump, it's my belief that she will win this race. And don't take my word for it - Trump is scared of her too, kittying out of the debates they had agreed on, since he cannot win against someone coherent and not dying.

Also I want to get this off my chest - I've seen people say online say "erm why are Republicans making fun of her laughing a lot lol they are weird" the laughing is bad!! It's annoying and fake and she should cut that shit out!! Don't you dare call her a Happy Warrior!! She is no Hubert Humphrey!!

Caveat

Kamala is seriously considering four men for her running mate. Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Secretary of Transport Pete Buttigegig. For the most part, these are all excellent choices. Shapiro has a controversial stance on education but would ensure the key swing state of Pennsylvania, Beshear is popular enough to win as a social liberal in deep red Kentucky but the Kentucky Dems don't want to lose him, Kelly was a fricking astronaut but has a poor record on unions.

Then there's Mayor Pete. Shapiro and Kelly having glaring weaknesses, but they're dull policy weaknesses. They aren't campaign derailing frick ups like calling all single women "cat ladies" to just really piss off every woman into getting up and stopping you from winning. They aren't Vance. Mayor Pete is. He provides no strengths and plays into Kamala's worst weakness, her ties to Biden. With the other running mates, Kamala is an agent of modest change. With Mayor Pete, she becomes the Joe Biden second term. Trump is likely praying for her to pick to Joe Biden, so he can reuse as many attacks as possible on her. If Mayor Pete is her running mate, then I believe Donald Trump would win.

What did Ben Garrison mean by this

Say it louder for the transphobes at the back

Trans women are biological women

!cuteandinvalid !chasers

Isnt he perfect oh my God!

https://www.amazon.com/Kamala-Harris-Future-America-Essay/dp/B08HGZK7P4

Cope, chuddie

!khive

New ping group- !fosstards

!chuds wonder what subreddits Alec moderates

lmao he looks just like you would imagine

At this very moment, 120,000 to 200,000 children (The American Bar Association)(Archive) are being held in hellish conditions, very literally tortured and brainwashed by design, killed through neglect, and often r*ped (2008 GAO hearing to the 110th Congress, Archive), by shady for profit organizations that keep them as long as they can in the name of 'treatment' and make $50 billion per year among the entire industry, with $23 billion coming from federal, state, and local programs. (Youth Today)(Archive) Furthermore, the ABA adds that, for example, Sequel(Archive), infamous for killing a recently orphaned, not otherwise "troubled" kid for throwing bread crust in Riverside Academy in 2020, makes $200 million a year in revenue among its facilities, and 90% of it comes from Medicaid, Medicare, and some 500 or so additional federal, state, and local programs. Sequel collects as much as $800 per day per child from these government programs.

What is a "Program"?

The common term for such a facility that brainwashes kids into what is best described as "Stepford children" for profit. They take any kid for any reason, and will change the lie about what they are to tailor their pitch. The same program is simultaneously a drug rehab, a 'reform school', a normal boarding school, a 'therapy school', or a foster program for orphans, depending on who is signing and paying.

What do you mean by "Torture"?

Being bound, caged, or both, or forced into stress positions:

Seclusion for days to months at a time:

Strip searching as punishment, placement in isolation rooms for months on end, physical restraint on gurneys, extended time in cuffs or shackles, and being locked in cages; forced exercise, stress positions, beatings, painful joint-damaging restraint, constantly hearing someone enduring any or all of this, constant fear of that being inflicted upon one's self; intense, constant humiliation for any slight, any mistake, any past transgression before being sent to the program, and even any made up sin or flaw that will be repeated until it is true. Being forced to rat out other kids to move up in the program and be treated better, being forced to become unpaid "junior staff" to graduate including being made to restrain lower level children one's self, and being subject to the whims of violent predators and p-dophiles at almost every single facility, often including the owners.

As bad as that is, what every survivor says was the worst part was the 'Attack therapy', 'Encounter sessions', or 'Large Group Awareness Trainings", which are used by almost all programs in some fashion to break and mold children into drones. These are directly comparable to "struggle sessions" from communist states and can be directly linked to Synanon's Game. Shorter sessions happen daily at almost every program, while some feature long marathon sessions that completely destroy a sense of reality in the mind of those made to participate and leave people with lifelong emotional scars.

Where's your proof?

The 2007 Governemnt Accountability Office report on Residential Treatment Programs. The GAO Hearing from 2008. Extensive, consistent survivor testimony from the past 30 years.

The recording of the hearing on YouTube is a trip. It was held back in 2008, and direct comparisons between these programs and Abu Ghraib and Gitmo were made. Sadly, congress did nothing.

What's the big deal about WWASPS?

We know enough about it to study it, and with that, figure out the industry and other programs and program networks.

WWASPS went too far for its time, even among peers such as this industry, and has been sued enough for legal discovery to yield a lot of information that explains the inner workings of this industry, and serves as the best case study we have to date. While WWASPS per-se is no more, almost all of the same programs with the same people are just hidden under other shell companies with new names. Others joined NATSAP, which is basically just WWASPS 2.0. Still more operate independently.

WWASPS was also big - there are a lot of survivors, with estimates starting at 36,000 victims, enough for there to be a few who actually remember everything and saved their receipts for us to work with. Indeed, The Program on Netflix is about the documentarian herself surviving Ivy Ridge, a WWASPS program sued by the State of New York for fraudulent diplomas, which has since been implicated in enabling p-dophiles to groom and r*pe children, most notably Amy Ritchie and John Free, who is spoken about in greater detail in the linked to post.

This can't be real.

Read on. Suffer with me. Do something about it and you'll feel a little better.

Netflix has just released a survivor's documentary called The Program, detailing her survival of a hellish, cult-like scam masquerading as a school called Academy at Ivy Ridge, one of many former 'schools' of the now defunct WWASPS network (World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools), before going into the WWASPS network itself, and the greater industry as a whole, including how corrupt politicians protect and profit from it. You can find it here The Program, but this thread isn't about the documentary, it's about the subject matter itself. And, increasingly, Narvin's lolcowing as he tries to cover his butt, in addition to former staff of Ivy Ridge being outed as pedos or having affairs, complete with emails!

This is only half the write up. Click the link to read the whole article complete with photos and videos.

/r/iamveryculinary believe there should be no barriers around food, that no food belongs to any one country, that recipes are gatekeeping... but also that American food is superior to all others. As such, they are not amused by this YouTube Short in which an Asian woman suggests that American food boils down to burgers, ketchup, fries and self-service cola machines.

Let's see what the commenters say:

Oh boy, my favorite subject that makes me become extremely patriotic.

America has some of the most diverse food in the world, and its culinary scene is among the best if not the best in the world (in terms of things like global impact, food diversity, world-renowned dishes, Michelin stars, etc)

The American culinary scene is so vast that it varies dramatically even by region, with each region having unique styles and recipes inspired by dishes around the world. Even excluding cultural fusion foods, America still has incredible food that was entirely originated in America.

Oklahoma puts onions in their burgers and New Yorkers don't use mustard on their hotdogs.

Number one burger defender.

America simultaneously has no authentic food and no unique food.

Where's the lie?

The same people that complain that American immigrant food isn't authentic because it's not exactly what they have back in their country also say it's not American, because it's a copy of what they have back in their country.

America is a young and diverse country of immigrants with many agricultural zones, so of course what "American food" is will challenge the concepts held by anyone who's country is old, mostly one ethnic group, and mostly one agricultural zone.

"Which agricultural zone should we dine in tonight? Corn Land or Potato World?"

And then 15 separate comments that boil down to "ummm your point is invalid because of cajun food".

The YouTube comments are also pretty good:

They're unironically right, American food is basically airport food.

American food is diverse because there's a panpipe cover of "My Heart Will Go On" in the background of this video pooping on American food.

@r-slur @Lappland @Dramamine defend your culture and try not to mention tater tots this time x

Live link to a thread since I didn't see anything elsewhere - https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/683820796

Sounds like all the login deets got yoinked

Edit -

https://old.reddit.com/r/turtlewow/comments/1ecn11t/someone_is_trying_to_make_turtle_soup_out_of_our/

comment link

From their website / groomercord

"REGARDING THE ONGOING OUTAGE

Unfortunately, our network has been the target of an extensive attack culminating in hackers gaining access to our login DB. As of now, we can confirm that the hackers gained access to the account data, but no character data is lost.

This means that while no progress should be lost once servers are back online, the encrypted passwords and emails are at risk of being leaked. However, the party behind the attack has made no demands nor have they given any intentions beyond "entertainment."

It is our responsibility to inform you all the risks, even if login details were not stored in plaintext. Further, we encourage you to change your password if you used the same login information anywhere else. While passwords are encrypted and hashed, it is still encouraged to exercise caution and change your login information anywhere it was used.

While we "could" have the server back up and running almost immediately with little to no lost progress due to the backup system we have in place, we are choosing to delay while we further reevaluate our infrastructure, consult with cybersecurity professionals, and ensure similar methods can never be used to gain access to our servers again.

We are deeply sorry for allowing such an incident to happen, and will double our efforts to ensure such an attack never happens again."

I was on when it happened. They were spamming the N word in big yellow server announcements in chat

Olympics they will never forget since the journey is we took together and the friends we made in that journey is what matters

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo215647301574

Here some Mexican skateboarders riding on street of Paris because the bus forgot to take them

Next time they will know Muhamed don't give a shit that it's Latinx tradition to be late

https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/olympics/story/olympics-us-gymnast-simone-biles-defends-german-gymnasts-on-crowded-paris-bus-2572175-2024-07-26

Legendary Parisian politeness. Not giving seat to Olympic athlete because frick him, he is healthy and can stand

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/olympic-games-paris-2024/articles/305898-special-olympic-games-transport-fare-of-4-per-ticket-starting-saturday

Parisian hospitality not only sell now one 333ml can of cola for 14 euro

https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/news/olympic-games-paris-2024/articles/305898-special-olympic-games-transport-fare-of-4-per-ticket-starting-saturday

They also doubled the cost of transport for everyone because frick you

I was basically looking for the story when people bitched that the Olympic busses don't have AC but sadly didn't found it

https://www.ratp.fr/en/discover/coulisses/daily-life/not-too-hot-not-too-cold-how-can-we-maintain-right-temperature-public

Not too hot, not too cold: how can we maintain the right temperature for public transport?

The earth is perfect and knows what we need so no AC

I am sure we'll hear more amazing story from real life Disney land

Off topic googled Paris Disney land and first video is this soy

Didn't sleep yesterday night (hopped up from desipramine + adderall - Epic mix, give it a try).

I wasn't even dozing off, I muted the speaker, put my head down and went to sleep and they eventually had to call me. I was dreaming about yachts and blowies when I was rudely woken up by a strag. I said my parents are sick, so I drove to meet them and came back to my apartment last night.

I hope that's the end of it. Seriously speaking, why would a non-profit expect a corporate stand in to listen to their yapping?

Please, please stop shaming people for using convenient food. Disabled people exist and it can be the difference between them/us eating or not. https://t.co/LSXqeZ0ppj

— Candace D. (@DiaryofaSickGrl) July 25, 2024

Original tweet (ratioed and deleted):

Boiling eggs is really hard you guys:

https://twitter.com/shanewallick/status/1816286745773642033

https://twitter.com/megaforte84/status/1816296864431419663

https://twitter.com/DiaryofaSickGrl/status/1816299652981088693

Cripples mad:

https://twitter.com/VelvitMonroe/status/1816134471894327387

https://twitter.com/seezusthekid/status/1816093019809996990