The Political Thread

[Chris]

Harris Narrows Gap Against Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds

In a survey taken after President Biden stepped aside, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race separated by a single percentage point among likely voters.

www.nytimes.com

In a survey taken after President Biden stepped aside, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are locked in a tight race separated by a single percentage point among likely voters.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Not always, you'd be surprised how many homeless people do have jobs, they just don't make enough to afford everything you need in 2024 to keep and apply for jobs along with housing in certain areas. I'm not saying it's the majority but it's a decent percentage last I remember and pretty harrowing since the prevailing idea of homeless people are jobless beggers

Perfect example : when the housing market crashed

 

[Comrade Khan]

Inflation etc can also put families on the street even when both parents are working

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Thanks, Reagan.

 

[Chris]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/us/sinoloa-cartel-ismael-zambada-custody-report/index.html

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder and alleged current leader of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, is in US custody, according to a diplomatic source with direct knowledge of the case.

A federal grand jury in Texas indicted him in 2012 on murder and conspiracy charges connected with drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime.

The latest indictment against Zambada, one of the most notorious drug traffickers in Mexico’s history, was in February. It charged him with conspiring to manufacture and distribute a substance containing fentanyl, according to the US Justice Department.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

 

[Chris]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/barack-obama-michelle-endorse-kamala-harris-for-president-4450b63b

WASHINGTON—Former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama endorsed Kamala Harris’s presidential bid Friday, lending their support in the most notable sign yet of the vice president’s rapid consolidation of the Democratic Party.

The endorsement from the Obamas came at the end of Harris’s first week since becoming the party’s expected nominee in the aftermath of President Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race against his GOP rival former President Donald Trump.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/us/sinoloa-cartel-ismael-zambada-custody-report/index.html

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co-founder and alleged current leader of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, is in US custody, according to a diplomatic source with direct knowledge of the case.

A federal grand jury in Texas indicted him in 2012 on murder and conspiracy charges connected with drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime.

The latest indictment against Zambada, one of the most notorious drug traffickers in Mexico’s history, was in February. It charged him with conspiring to manufacture and distribute a substance containing fentanyl, according to the US Justice Department.

Update on this, he pled not guilty in court today.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

FBI confirms that a bullet struck Trump's ear during assassination attempt

In congressional testimony this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray had said "there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel" that hit the former president.

www.google.com

 

[Smart Marx]

FBI confirms that a bullet struck Trump's ear during assassination attempt

In congressional testimony this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray had said "there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel" that hit the former president.

www.google.com

Crazy that the fbi has to confirm this.

 

[Chris]

It's weird too bc I don't think it matters? Trump was probably overplaying it even if a bullet hit him, it's the most minor of scandals if one didn't

 

[Smart Marx]

Trump grabs his ear before he even knew there was a shooter, but yeah it makes no difference even if it didn’t.

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Crazy that the fbi has to confirm this.

Allegedly the FBI was double-checking on some inconsistencies, so that's why the announcement was made.

Ftr I don't think Trump staged it or whatever people are grasping at straws about. However *if* (and that's a big if) it came out it was in fact staged, I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Butters]

the rumor was the bullet struck the teleprompter and glass cut him so they just wanted to clear it up

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Oops, accidentally said the quiet part out loud lmao