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Sitting US President Joe Biden has passed the torch to Kamala Harris, who is now the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party for the US 2024 Presidential Election. As the current Vice President, she is President Joe Biden’s right-hand woman. See below for more information about Kamala and some of the memes associated with her! Credit for aggregating these links goes to [u/AniNgAnnoys](https://www.reddit.com/user/AniNgAnnoys/) over on [r/neoliberal](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1e8y31r/get_coconut_pilled_an_intro_to_kamala_memes/?share_id=g38jMC4lU3_TohD8e1YX-&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1&rdt=52362). **Meme-able Moments** - Coconuts: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hRx5Gbilv1Q - Loving good news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Oe_D5svog - Wheels on the bus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBy3CAhJtmE - We did it Joe: https://youtu.be/xJB8G4J5kzg?t=11 - Kamala on Straws: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZF9yYdhyV4 - Venn Diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWR2uTfrh-k - What can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amhTPJS0jdk - Wakanda for Ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRZe9cR1zqc **Kamala Having Fun:** - Kamala Dancing: https://youtube.com/shorts/nvmn7yKEPr0 - Moar Dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wdhyrFthZ0 - On the goofballs (no laughing isn't a problem): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OyyBQDNg77Y - Kamala Pride Kween: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfSVGsh-yn4 **Awkward Moments:** - A moment in time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jc-kL22fQU - Veep teasing her word choices: https://youtube.com/shorts/-Pg1nNL5wVE - Kamala gets a call mid way through describing a recipe: https://www.tiktok.com/@wearedigitaldiplomacy/video/7305878339200273695?lang=en **Personal Moments:** - Kamala speaks about becoming "Momala" to her husband's children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_XCKpxsp5k **Crushing it Moments:** - Kamala v Kavanaugh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DH8WnLLT4I - Kamala v Barr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1CjMtRs59g (full exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHd_UlebyoM) - Kamala succinctly explaining how Trump caused Roe v Wade to be revoked and why it is important to reinstate it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9pFXI62LuQA
www.270towin.com
An interactive and visual illustration showing how either candidate can win the Electoral College.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely US election outcomes.
www.foreignaffairs.com
The new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—populism, nativism, isolationism, and protectionism—tend to ride together, and they are challenging the political center. […] Generating support for an internationalist foreign policy requires a president to paint a vivid picture of what that world would be like without an active United States.
www.economist.com
Geothermal energy may be approaching its Mitchell moment. George Mitchell, a scrappy independent oilman, is known as the father of fracking. Nearly three decades ago, he defied Big Oil and the conventional wisdom of his industry by making practical the hitherto uneconomic technique of pumping liquids and sands into the ground to force out gas and oil from shale rock and other tight geological formations. The enormous increase in productivity that resulted, known as the shale revolution, has transformed the global hydrocarbon business.
www.economist.com
“Instant polls suggested viewers judged Ms Harris the victor. Her performance delighted Democrats, and she supplied far more of the punchy moments that tend to get highlighted in subsequent newscasts and shared online.”
www.theguardian.com
>The research by More in Common said the party struggled with relatability, particularly in Liberal Democrat areas, by focusing on topics “which excite the base, or the highly politically engaged” but were distant from ordinary people’s lives.
www.nbcnews.com
“Because of the danger that [Donald Trump](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump) poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” Cheney said in a video of remarks [posted to X](https://x.com/emmacline_/status/1831448799488983353). The university separately provided a clip of Cheney’s remarks to NBC News.
www.bbc.com
Famine is ravaging Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) - which claims to be the government of Sudan - took a small step towards alleviating that famine earlier this week by allowing 15 UN aid lorries to cross the border from Chad to bring food to the starving.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday threatened to shut down the local operations of X, formerly Twitter, unless its [billionaire owner Elon Musk](https://apnews.com/hub/elon-musk) names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.
While abortion remains one of the most contentious issues separating the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, a new survey finds that regardless of political affiliation, nearly 15% of women of reproductive age have had an abortion at some point in their life, while three-quarters of those same women believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
The Arizona Police Association announced Monday it is throwing its weight behind Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in the Arizona Senate race, despite endorsing Republican Kari Lake in her gubernatorial bid last cycle.
538 predicts a 2020 sized Harris victory, Georgia and North Carolina flip. THQ predicts a tight Harris win, mostly in the Rust Belt & maybe a NC grab? RCP predicts a tight Trump victory via Pennsylvania. All 3 agree on Georgia going red and Michigan and Wisconsin going blue. Those states have held their colors firm for quite some time.
Speaking at the Democratic convention, Bill Clinton suggested that the partisan “score” on job creation since the Cold War was 50 million to 1 million. It is.
www.economist.com
Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention on August 22nd marked the culmination of one of the most rapid and comprehensive political reinventions in modern American history.
Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell said Friday he expects the central bank will cut its key interest rate in the near future in response to slower economic growth and cooling inflation.
Whether former swing states, captured ex-solid states, or states that have always had close margins. I picked 7 for each side(I was gonna do 3, then 4, then 5, but the number on one side always felt awkward like one side had a weird outlier edge case or something. Pink has a clean base of 4 while Cyan has two main ones and then like, 5 is the next one where it all fits) Pink States are Iowa, Ohio, and Florida(former Swing States in the 2000-2016 era), Texas, South Carolina, and Alaska (Red States weakening) and Indiana(2008 pick up that's been red before and after). Cyan States are Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado, and New Hampshire(former swing states in the 2000-2016 era), plus Maine and Minnesota(perpetually teetering states) and New Jersey(Blue state weakening).
www.economist.com
One has never been to China, the other has visited 30 times
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into Minnesota Gov. [Tim Walz](https://www.axios.com/2024/08/06/tim-walz-kamala-harris-vp-house-democrats), Democrats' candidate for vice president.
SAO PAULO/WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES, Aug 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday seemingly backed a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela's ruling party and its opposition which [both claim victory](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelans-vote-highly-charged-election-amid-fraud-worries-2024-07-28/) in the July 28 contest.
Democratic nominee to address thorny economic issue by calling for more construction, tax incentives
The government has reduced a backlog of applications that built up during the Trump administration. New citizens say they are looking forward to voting in November.
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