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[Morethanabitfoolish]

Mayor of Philadelphia seems to have accidentally revealed that Shapiro is the VP nominee

Quick archive for when they pretend this did not happen.

https://archive.ph/ixNQF

 

[Terrifik]

How will Joe handle the Iran issue today?

ice cream sunday & nap
any major issue will be aids & kamala.
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For the late

https://x.com/RadarHits/status/1819466023877464468

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Expect night stockmarket falls

 

[barrow greeter]

The problem is that the Democrats did a strange antisemitic heel turn, so picking a Jew might be a bad move.

I will admit: earlier in this thread (or elsewhere) I said there was no fucking way Kammy HaHa would pick Josh Shapiro, and I must now eat crow.

I wouldn't have bet on it either, it aggravates the current divides in their base over the Israel question. They must be counting on PA as the way to definitively shut Trump out in the EC.

 

[Absolutego]

We already had Iran and Israel trading petulant air strikes against each other six months ago, I'm really not sure why you guys think it'll be an excuse for escalation this time instead of Iran just saving face.

 

[George Lucas]

I recently sold a lot of my equity positions and bought bonds, which I normally don’t do until September as part of an annual rebalance. I guess I lucked out.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

It would be really funny if Iran did absolutely nothing and acted like they just activated some secret plan.

 

[STARS158]

Nobody really wants Venezuela’s oil. It’s hideously sludgy with sulfur, to the point that there are very few distilleries that can work with it. Venezuela collapsed economically once the cost of oil fell and it became unviable to bother to send it sonewhere for processing.

The US Government officials outright tell you what they are doing. But since the news never covers it. You never hear about it.

 

[Breadbassket]

We already had Iran and Israel trading petulant air strikes against each other six months ago, I'm really not sure why you guys think it'll be an excuse for escalation this time instead of Iran just saving face.

It's either more saber rattling or something serious. Guess we'll only know for sure when Iran does something or chooses not to do anything.

 

[Mr. Smiley Good Fella]

We already had Iran and Israel trading petulant air strikes against each other six months ago, I'm really not sure why you guys think it'll be an excuse for escalation this time instead of Iran just saving face.

I expect a bombastic event at the Olympics. That way Iran saves face by obliterating many tranny faces of the decadent West. Inshallah.

But really if the US is willing to reposition ships in the gulf then something has to happen right? They wouldn’t move on a “could happen” situation, that sort of procedure is only reserved for the “is happening” event. They could be moving fighter jets to take down more ICBMs like last time at the very end of the shaheed spam.

 

[Absolutego]

It's either more saber rattling or something serious. Guess we'll only know for sure when Iran does something or chooses not to do anything.

Short of Iran doing some insane shit Israel will just respond by destroying another base with IRGC assets they weren't supposed to know about and forcing Iran to meekly go back to trying to win this war by proxy yet again

 

[Lincoln Osiris]

So, realistically, how much of a threat towards Trump's re-election chances Shapiro really is?

 

[Dr J]

They must be counting on PA as the way to definitively shut Trump out in the EC.

Thing is that, even if they win PA, picking Jew Shapiro could lose them Michigan and Minnesota because the Muslim voters just won't turn up

Or Shapiro could disavow Israel and piss off the Jewish base instead

 

[Forest Portal Triumph 747]

Pennsylvania is a very important battleground state for this election so picking Shapiro would shore up some support there one would think.

won't make a significant enough difference , the Trump/Vance 2024 ticket will win Pennsylvania decisively

 

[barrow greeter]

When Trump wins Pennsylvania, and in the case that it is close enough, Shapiro being on the ticket will be their play intended to make their election night steal in PA believable.

 

[Dr J]

So, realistically, how much of a threat towards Trump's re-election chances Shapiro really is?

Trump has way more paths to victory than Kamala does. Kamala needs PA. Trump might be able to pull off an EV win even without it.

 

[Absolutego]

So, realistically, how much of a threat towards Trump's re-election chances Shapiro really is?

If we are counting on Pennsylvanians not being retarded this election is already doomed, my man.
This is the state that elected an absentee stroke victim who's never had a real job because, at least, he isn't a Jersey carpetbagger who sold woo to housewives.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

So, realistically, how much of a threat towards Trump's re-election chances Shapiro really is?

Depends on whether Democrats backtrack on their Jew hatred.

 

[FrancineCansMcGee]

Left-wing activists aren't big fans of Josh Shapiro apparently.

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Democrats on their opponents: They are weird.
Democrats on their own party leaders: They are genocidal maniacs.

 

[Breadbassket]

Here are the election results from 2016 and 2020 for Pennsylvania to illustrate how competitive it has been in the past few years.

 

[barrow greeter]

Here are the election results from 2016 and 2020 for Pennsylvania to illustrate how competitive it has been in the past few years.

Usually what happens is that the whole state turns red early on in the night, and then the late late returns from Philly flip the entire result.