Month: August 2024

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Simone Biles Throws Major Shade At Donald Trump After Her Big Olympics Win

Team USA’s Simone Biles has once again cemented her legacy as the greatest American gymnast of all time with her performance at the Paris Olympic Games, winning the highest honor of all on Thursday.

As NPR reports, Biles not only helped her team earn a gold medal, but also took home all-around individual honors.

For the second time in her remarkable career, the peerless gymnast Simone Biles won the Olympic individual all-around final title, only two days after leading the U.S. women’s team back to the gold medal in the team event.

Unlike many of her other medals over the years, this one did not come easily. Her gold required overcoming an unusually poor performance on the uneven bars that briefly put her into third place behind two strong competitors, including Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, the gymnast widely considered to be the world’s second best.

But the setback was not enough to prevent her from winning her sixth Olympic gold and her ninth Olympic medal overall, more than any other U.S. gymnast ever.

After Biles reached her historic accomplishment, singer Ricky Davila congratulated her on Twitter with this post: “Simone Biles being the GOAT, winning Gold medals and dominating gymnastics is her black job.”

The “black job” reference is a clear dig at failed one-term ex-president Donald Trump, who said at the June 27 presidential debate with President Joe Biden that undocumented immigrants are “taking black jobs now.”

Biles replied to Davila (and Trump) with epic shade aimed directly at the convicted felon and 2024 Republican presidential nominee.

That prompted an outpouring of applause and kudos from others on social media.

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Donald Trump Elections Polls

Conservative Polling Firm’s Latest Numbers Show Trump Is Hemorrhaging Support

Failed one-term president and convicted felon Donald Trump loves to brag about how well he’s doing in the polls, but new numbers from a well-known conservative polling firm are leading some to suggest that his 2024 campaign is toast and “it’s over” for him and his dreams of another term in office.

Rasmussen Reports, rated as a polling firm that “leans right,” has just released a new poll indicating that Trump’s overall support has dropped below 50% and is steadily falling while Vice President Kamala Harris’ numbers are trending upward.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that, in a two-way matchup, 49% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for Trump, while 44% would vote for Harris. Four percent (4%) say they’d vote for some other candidate and two percent (2%) are undecided. A week ago, Trump led by seven points over Harris, 50% to 43%, in the first survey since President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw his reelection bid.

Those numbers led election observers to note that Trump is trending downward and could face a complete collapse of his already tenuous support.

A deeper dive into the Rasmussen poll shows that Robert F. Kennedy is now taking more support from Trump than Harris. In matchups before President Joe Biden decided not to seek reelection, Kennedy was siphoning more votes from Biden than Trump, which suggests Harris’ entry into the race has indeed shuffled the deck.

If Trump continues to hemorrhage support, he could be below 40% support by the end of August, especially since the Democratic National Convention is set to begin in Chicago on August 19.

And if we’re lucky, Kamala will beat the shit out of Trump come November by a historic margin that will finally put an end to Donald’s political ambitions.

 

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Elections GOP Social Media

J.D. Vance’s Accidental ‘Couch’ Reference During Campaign Speech Gets Him Dragged On Social Media

The issue of couches came up once again for Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who was named Donald Trump’s running mate last month and has repeatedly stuck his foot in his mouth every time he speaks.

You may recall that in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Vance admitted he had once masturbated using a glove he placed between two cushions on a sofa in his house, which has led to endless jokes and memes.

And now Vance is owning himself with remarks he made on the campaign trail in Reno, Nevada, HuffPost reports.

The embarrassment happened when Vance was praising his wife, Usha.

“Now, I would call her up here to come and speak,” he told the crowd.

“But then I think I’d have to sleep on the couch tonight, so I’ll leave her alone.”

Some in the audience “tittered” when Vance used the word, reporter David Moye notes.

But the biggest laughs were to be found on Twitter, where thousands of users mocked Trump’s VP choice.

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Donald Trump Elections

Former White House Staffer Predicts Trump Will Drop Out Of The 2024 Race: ‘Don’t Be Surprised’

Following his disastrous performance and interview with the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday, online chatter reached a fever pitch as thousands of commenters suggested that disgraced former president Donald Trump should withdraw from the 2024 race for the White House.

And that’s a possibility, according to someone who served in the Trump administration.

According to Newsweek, former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci weighed in on Twitter, predicting that Trump will abandon his bid for a second term in office.

“Not over yet. Trump may leave the race. Just watch his poll numbers plummet and see what happens,” Scaramucci posted.

“We fight tirelessly no matter what for Freedom, for the Republic, for the Democracy and to end the threat of Tyranny.”

He added: “Don’t be surprised if Donald Trump drops out of the race.”

What might prompt Trump to make such a drastic move? Well, he could have an undisclosed medical condition that is getting worse. But it’s more likely that the real motive would be his fear of losing the election to a black woman, Vice President Kamala Harris, who is surging in the polls and raising hundreds of millions of dollars for her campaign war chest.

And while Scaramucci’s suggestion is certainly thought-provoking, most respondents to his post said they seriously doubt Trump is going anywhere. Take a look: