So the threat to people's pets was not in fact Haitians but republicans themselves? Amazing.

Bernie can control a room on power of pure charisma, force of personality and personal authority in a way few people are capable of. Just watch his Fox News town hall.

“I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term," McCabe said. "But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”

“You have to have some very serious questions about, why is it that Donald Trump … has this fawning sort of admiration for Vladimir Putin in a way that no other American president, Republican or Democrat, ever has"

He is obviously not a recruited asset, but I think it's fair to say he is so dense, dumb, self-unaware and transparently susceptible to simple flattery that he is almost having the same impact as one in practice.

When I hear "UbiSoft" the first word I think of is "lukewarm". Mediocre, inoffensive junk food gaming that's rarely so bad that it's unplayable but also never meaningful, interesting or memorable.

This has been their m.o. for decades, I don't know what people were expecting?

Shapiro would have given him so much material to work with. He would have called him a classic coastal elite, uppity lawyer, dyed-in-the-wool career politician. He would have called him an Obama impersonator.

Walz is giving him no angles of attack, it's really an inspired pick.

Both. It's both.

The Republican senator and Donald Trump loyalist Lindsey Graham...

Loyalist!? He has flip-flopped enough on Trump to make you dizzy!

A plank with a face drawn in Sharpie on it would eclipse Vance in favorability.

I believe it. There was a steamcommunity post last year detailing all the cut content. I believe some of it has been added back through the patches (I only played through the game once, around launch).

To me the tadpole consequences is the most egregious, as the whole system and decisions connected to it feel so hollow when they end up not mattering at all.

He has a lot of baggage that has the potential to tank the ticket and stifle the positive trajectory Kamala has going. Part of her momentum is hoping for a better stance on Gaza compared to Biden and Shapiro would be harmful for that image. You can argue some of it isn't justified, but politics is more emotional than rational and even past that some of his negatives are tough to swallow - like response to protestors, school vouchers, potential cover-up of an aides sexual misconduct...

It's just an unnecessarily vulnerable pick.

I always sort of assumed as much. For one, there is something about Mr Beast giving me bad vibes, I think he kind of gives off psychopath vibes. Maybe it's the eyes. I've also heard people who have interacted with him talk about how he spends basically all his time thinking about attention economy and views and just... it doesn't sound healthy.

But also, yeah no shit he basically does reality TV on steroids. And reality TV has been fake ever since they first figured out it's better TV than boring actual reality. So it tracks that his videos are also fake.

It's insane how much of politics comes down to ~vibes~. Yeah Biden was too old, but I still can't fathom how many were ready to let Trump win just because voting for a tired grandpa "didn't feel good".