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Kamala has been taking out ads that are literally just links to news articles... with the headlines changed to make it sound like they're endorsing her. So you search for something and you get "Ad by Harris: CNN: Harris is amazing and all the cool kids are voting for her!" then "CNN: Harris stumbles as questions about Walz horse semen addiction remain" some distance under her ad.

Literally the same thing Joe Rogan is suing them over doing, only with release headlines.

The drunk wine aunt's plan appears to be to manufacture a narrative that all the cool kids are voting for her, so you should too. Literally the TikTok Candidate.
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  • The campaign has complied with all of Google's rules, although a technical glitch in Google's Ad Library made it appear as though some ads lacked the necessary disclosures Google requires when they ran. (A Google spokesperson confirmed the glitch and said it's investigating what happened.)
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So they didn’t comply with Google’s rules then.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
The reality is Israel is not that wealthy. Their GDP is roughly equivalent to the state of Michigan. The merits of their aid is obviously up for debate in this thread, but that's why the US gives them so much money: they cannot fund their own military.
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People forget that Israel is an European crust (Ashkenazi) over an Arab substrate (Mizrahi and Palestinian). As the former fades, it will shed that European nature and return to the regional norm- consider how much trouble the Palestinians have recently given the mostly-Mizrahi army or the autocratic overtones its politics have taken.
 
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But you have to remember that only on the far right is desegregation still a grievance, 90% of Americans at the very least view what happened at little rock or other places as acceptable. The line between the two might be clear as day, but most people couldn't see it you shoved their head in it.
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Let what happened then be a lesson how to how today is potentially viewed decades from now depending on the path the United States goes down.

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AnitaSarsleezian said:
Obama's first election was the first time I had experienced what we've come now to see as the weaponization of politics which sadly has become fairly normal. At the time I was playing in a broadway pit, had a lot of relationships with other well known musicians, and performed regularly on all kinds of awards shows and stuff going on in NYC. During some down time on a gig where a bunch of musicians were circle jerking over Obama I had foolishly mentioned that I wasn't voting for him. The reaction was immediate and severe.
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Obama was the first successful deployment of the line, "This candidate is so incredibly perfect there is no valid reason not to vote for him except naked bigotry." With Biden and Harris, they've gone with the opponent being so nakedly evil, but in general, they've graduated from attacking candidates to attacking voters, turning democracy into a cold civil war.
 
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The craziest shit with Walz is that he stuck to his stolen valor stories while he knew full well he had political aspirations, and, in padding his military story to bolster his political clout, he was setting himself for some heavy-duty scrutiny.

I mean, it's one thing to fluff your military service up a bit when you're shooting the shit with your drinking buddies down at the VFW. Swapping bullshit sea stories of your military heroics with your cronies is pretty much what they do as a bit of harmless fun in those places.

But to slap on rank that you never earned, and crow about it in public for the political clout? That's just outrageous, and to do it with the audacity of thinking you weren't going to get called out? That's some pathological chutzpah right there.

There's really only three ways you're going to get called out for stolen military valor-

1- Apply for a of job that requires some form of security clearance, and have an employer closely scrutinize your service record accordingly, and spot your bullshit.

2- Brag so obnoxiously and autistically about your military exploits that you finally annoy somebody into examining your DD214, and calling out your bullshit in order to humiliate you into shutting your yap.

3- Run for high-profile political office, and try and leverage your fake rank/military experience for clout and political gain.

Walz had to know that trying to climb the political ladder while boosting himself up with military service lies was a very dangerous game that could go very badly and embarrassingly for him, but that certainly doesn't seem to have stopped him, or even given him pause.

I doubt it was just a matter of mere stupidity leading him to think he wouldn't ever get caught. I think he was so thirsty for the atta-good-soldier asspats, and so hungry for the political power, he was willing to be a disgraceful liar and roll the dice.
 
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Irene and 22 others said:
That was some dumb shit the Clinton camp cooked up during the primaries that the Republicans later decided to grab and run with. Obama's team probably laughed with glee because as long as his opponents were latched on to that they wouldn't bother digging for anything else. Even now people are likely to disbelieve any stories or rumors about Obama being gay because of how overplayed the whole birth certificate debacle was.



If it's because they died I've got some bad news for you.
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Obama's "birth certificate" is only "legit" because all the people in charge of making sure were in his pocket.

"But he can't do that!"

Yeah, tell that to Jerry Ryan's Husband who had his divorce proceedings unsealed to grease the skids for Obama's senate win.
 
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Malodorous Merkin said:
The craziest shit with Walz is that he stuck to his stolen valor stories while he knew full well he had political aspirations, and, in padding his military story to bolster his political clout, he was setting himself for some heavy-duty scrutiny.

I mean, it's one thing to fluff your military service up a bit when you're shooting the shit with your drinking buddies down at the VFW. Swapping bullshit sea stories of your military heroics with your cronies is pretty much what they do as a bit of harmless fun in those places.

But to slap on rank that you never earned, and crow about it in public for the political clout? That's just outrageous, and to do it with the audacity of thinking you weren't going to get called out? That's some pathological chutzpah right there.

There's really only three ways you're going to get called out for stolen military valor-

1- Apply for a of job that requires some form of security clearance, and have an employer closely scrutinize your service record accordingly, and spot your bullshit.

2- Brag so obnoxiously and autistically about your military exploits that you finally annoy somebody into examining your DD214, and calling out your bullshit in order to humiliate you into shutting your yap.

3- Run for high-profile political office, and try and leverage you fake rank/military experience for clout and gain.

Walz had to know that trying to climb the political ladder while boosting himself up with military service lies was a very dangerous game that could go very badly and embarrassingly for him, but that certainly doesn't seemed to have stopped him.

I doubt it was just a matter of mere stupidity leading him to think he wouldn't ever get caught.

I think he was so thirsty for the atta-good-soldier asspats, and so hungry for the political power, he was willing to be a disgraceful liar and roll the dice.
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Walz was confronted about the stolen valor stuff in-person multiple times during various campaigns but the MN press refused to report on it. Why should he care if the media continues to cover for him?
 
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The campaign has complied with all of Google's rules, although a technical glitch in Google's Ad Library made it appear as though some ads lacked the necessary disclosures Google requires when they ran. (A Google spokesperson confirmed the glitch and said it's investigating what happened.)
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Isn't it weird everytime there's a glitch in the system, that it always, without fall 100% of the time, benefits the democrats. If a glitch does, and rarely, benefit the GOPe or Trump, its always ALWAYS recanted within seconds and is put on blast for the world the see. DNC benefits from a glitch: "tee hee. we made a fucky wucky." Story gets drowned out by all the other ones.
 
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I just want everyone who hates CNN to keep in mind that the layoff situation there is relentless. There are two kinds of employees left: Those under constant fear that they will be next and HR drones who are miserable that their entire job has become non-stopped firing people. This is a network with one foot in the grave.

It’s amazing that you could be a Daily Show vet and have any respect whatsoever for cable news, but to have it in 2024 is just a new height of delusion. Nobody at CNN has the faith in CNN that Colbert does. They are on a death march and they know it.

Does he not remember Stewart on Crossfire? Rallying to restore Sanity? Nothing ever changed besides Colbert becoming one of the insane.
 
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Hope he doesn't have gigantism, he'll die in his 30s/40s iirc
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His parents come from three of the tallest genetic pools in Europe:

1. Highland Scots (Viking stock)
2. Northern Germans (ditto)
3. Dinaric Alps (Yugoslavia)

He doesn't have abnormal looking facies or anything that would indicate a growth disorder to my eye. He just got a full hand of tall genes.
 
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Minnesota's 5th district primary is an open primary and the republican is running uncontested. This just happens to be Ilhan Omar's district. Last time she won by sub 2500 votes and doing a crossover vote would knock out one of the queens of the left. Of course Con Inc like Tim Fool are too busy talking about breakdancing and retweeting ben shaprio to get the message out. This is something to watch as it's an easy win that will probably get squandered.

 
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