https://www.salon.com/2024/10/09/weaponizing-tragedy-for-political-capital-donald-trumps-assassination-attempts-fuel-maga/

!chuds

There is a 54.4% chance of Trump winning according to Polymarket traders.

This is a record high for Trump on the Polymarket prediction market. pic.twitter.com/HIpyxYV8OG

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 10, 2024

I guess Helen and Milton didn't help her

Colbert just asked Kamala if she would do ANYTHING differently than Biden.

She gives no answer and then serves 60 meaningless seconds of word salad. pic.twitter.com/oIyj4I6saF

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 9, 2024

!chuds She's not Joe Biden

"I am not Biden and with 28 days to go, I'm not Donald Trump… If you think about the significance of what the next generation leadership looks like were I to be elected president. It's about, frankly, I love the American people. I believe in our county. I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people. We have aspirations. We have dreams. We have incredible worth ethic. I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we achieved in a way to continue to grow opportunity."

!chuds how dare anyone use "russia hoax"

Stupidpolllers are stupid subhumans and should get the joker treatment

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/video/harris-media-interviews-mckend-pkg-10091aseg1-cnni-politics-fast

https://old.reddit.com/r/vcu/comments/1fz1b0n/propalestine_vcu_students_march_through_richmond/

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/07/marines-fly-food-shelter-kits-tarps-aid-philippines-after-typhoon-destroys-homes.html

Keith Olbermann calls on Biden to deport Elon Musk. The Elon Derangement Syndrome is off the charts pic.twitter.com/IBZCFu36ux

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 8, 2024

As a big Reddit fan, I'm so excited we launched a White House account on the platform today! Meeting more people where they are to get out critical information about the work this Administration is doing 🫡 (With a perfect first comment from this Redditor on our first post) pic.twitter.com/UfnuY7vVfo

— Megan Coyne (@MeganCoyne46) October 8, 2024

Biden, responding to screaming reporters trying to get him to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with false claims he’s being political about #Milton and not chatting with Vice President Harris:

“The Governor of Florida has been cooperative. He’s said he's gotten all that he… pic.twitter.com/0q5tUxZptQ

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 8, 2024

!burgers thots?

He hates her - 103 votes

Dementia moment - 6 votes

According to plan, Kamala 2024 - 4 votes

All of the above - 30 votes

This is what they voted for tho

For as long as I'm able to do so, Pol will be metadrama free, for politics only. Calm, cold discourse will occur in the comments, or else.

Thank you and have a pleasant day.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/07/elon-musk-trump-campaigning-2024-00182706

🚨Election Interference: 70,000 Arizona State students received a text from the Kamala Harris campaign which is data from the Arizona state database and should be confidential!

Everyone should demand answers from @ASU about how this has happened. @AZGOP pic.twitter.com/x0BTwfjykd

— College Republicans at ASU (@asu_gop) October 6, 2024

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMajorityReport/comments/1fuycsd/ana_kasparian_announces_that_she_has_left_the_left/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Hasan_Piker/comments/1fv4g28/bois_it_has_happened_ana_kasparian_announces_that/

https://kasparian.substack.com/p/independent-and-unaligned

After Trump came onto the political scene, and especially after he was elected in 2016, the us-vs-them mentality immediately took shape. Anyone who refused to "resist Trump" was seen as a threat to the country, and I was fully on board with that mindset.

It all felt righteous at first. But eventually, the tactics deployed to fight Trump became repetitive, boring and ultimately fruitless. Polling shows that he has increased his support among Black and Latinx voters despite wall-to-wall coverage on his unsavory, racist or bigoted remarks. Several years of media raising alarm over Trump's threat to democracy has only resulted in a tight presidential race between himself and Kamala Harris.

I can't help but acknowledge that the only thing that was accomplished by resisting Trump was less understanding and more division among Americans. I personally became reluctant to challenge my "side" or engage with voters who disagreed with me. In turn, I became less knowledgeable about the people and world around me. I saw Republican voters as an evil monolith and that was a big mistake.

My evolution started in 2022 when I was sexually assaulted by a homeless man in my neighborhood as I was walking my dog. That horrible experience alone didn't change me politically, but the treatment I received from the far left and some progressives after sharing the story did.

I was told that by publicly sharing what had happened to me, I was stigmatizing my "unhoused neighbors." Others accused me of feeding into racist tropes because they assumed that my attacker was black. But I had never even disclosed the man's race.

He was white.

Not only did I suddenly see the flawed thinking of some on the left, I also witnessed their cruelty and hypocrisy in real time. These terrible traits that I had associated solely with my political opponents were obviously not exclusive to their tribe. I was stupid for ever thinking that was the case.

That doesn't mean everyone on the left thinks or behaves in the way this small group of lunatics do. Far from it. But it does mean that there are factions and flaws on both sides of the aisle and no one has a monopoly on truth.

Then there was the insane reaction to one of my tweets in March 2023:

All heck broke loose after I posted those words. Most "friends" in left-wing media didn't bother reaching out privately to discuss their disagreement with my personal preference. Instead, many self-described socialists took it upon themselves to profit from conflict by publicly attacking me with monetized videos.

A smaller leftist YouTube show put out five separate videos skewering me about the tweet, while conveniently erasing the advocacy I had done on behalf of the transgender community throughout my career. They even went as far as drawing a link between my tweet and trans suicides, which sadly wasn't the most unhinged outcome of the debacle.

TYT's volunteer YouTube chat moderators quit over the tweet, and someone reported me to Human Resources. An on-air transgender contributor even resigned from the company after being urged by online mobs and leftist shows to do so. Curious that not one of those shows hired her after she took their advice.

I never apologized for the tweet and I never will.

That whole experience forced me to come to terms with the intolerance on the left and it allowed me to publicly reject the ideological shackles that kept my world small and less informed.

Today I'm less certain and more curious than I was four years ago. I've made humiliating mistakes while covering political news because I was previously unwilling to consider or understand the perspective of Americans who vote differently from me.

What to Expect From Unaligned

I'm hungry for dialogue, a space for in-depth analysis and a judgement free zone. That is what I plan to do here. Every week I will provide subscribers with:

• two to three written pieces that dig deeper into the big stories of the week with the intention of finding truth rather than promoting a political side.

• video posts sharing details on breaking news and political events.

• a weekly podcast beginning in November that will feature long-form discussions and debates with guests from all walks of life.

• engagement with me in the comments section for paid subscribers. Join me and be part of the dialogue.

The point of this new project is the pursuit of intellectual freedom and open mindedness. I want to nurture curiosity without fear of offending the sensibilities of loyal partisans. I reject arguments about the evils of platforming people who are considered too naughty to converse with. I want to facilitate dialogue.

I don't know what my political identity or label is, and I'm not even sure I want to be pigeonholed. This is my effort in pursuing extreme honesty and humility in the quest for common ground and truth without the constraints of a tribal identity.

Once again, Donald Trump is a liar.

He's the guy who redirected relief funds as president. We are moving heaven and earth to make sure that everyone affected by Hurricane Helene gets what they need. pic.twitter.com/xQ8ArpqPdB

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 5, 2024

NEW: Hillary Clinton says social platforms like X need to censor & monitor content because if they don’t, “we lose total control.”

She’s not even secretive about it.

“We should repeal Section 230… if they don't moderate content, we lose total control.”pic.twitter.com/q0VY2SjZpJ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 5, 2024