The Triumphant Comeback of the Kamala Harris Meme
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The New York Times ^
| July 23, 2024, 12:33 p.m. ET | Amanda Hess is a critic at large who writes about internet culture.
Kamala Harris is a highly memeable presidential candidate. She
dances in a loose and enthusiastic manner. She has an idiosyncratic speaking style. She laughs easily, including at herself. This has not always worked in her favor.When Harris said, in a May 2023 speech, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?,” a Republican YouTube channel snipped the clip from its context and tossed it to commentators, who used it to compare Harris to a daffy talk show host or to joke that she sounded high. Videos of Harris dancing at campaign events were labeled “cringe.” The stickiest anti-Kamala...
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GOP Should Learn From Far-Left Comeback in France, Expert Says
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The Daily Signal ^
| 9 July 2024 | S.A. McCarthy
Conservatives in France suffered defeat in the final round of national elections, despite winning the highest percentage of the popular vote. In
last week’s first round of voting, the conservative National Rally party led the far-left New Popular Front and the establishment moderates Ensemble by wide margins, prompting the NFP and Ensemble to form a tacit alliance. On Sunday, that alliance paid off.
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France's Left Pulls Off Shocking Comeback Finishing First in Parliamentary Elections
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Red State ^
| 07/07/2024 | streiff
A coalition of left-wing parties pulled off a stunning upset in the final round of France's parliamentary elections, relegating the right-wing National Rally to third place and seemingly guaranteeing paralysis in the French government. In
the first round of voting last Sunday, Marine Le Pen's National Rally (RN) won 34 percent. The leftist New Popular Front (NFP) — a coalition of five parties that range from lunatic leftists and environmentalists to run-of-the-mill socialists — took 28 percent of the vote. French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Ensemble alliance was essentially repudiated by the voters gathering only 20 percent. The election wasn't...
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5 Classic Car Nameplates That Deserve a Comeback
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Hagerty ^
| June 25, 2024 | Brandan Gillogly
Thunderbird Italien Ford Ford CEO Jim Farley stopped by The Smoking Tire podcast earlier this month to talk vintage sports car racing, EVs, and driver assistance, so if you’re a fan of events like the Rolex Monterey Motorsport Reunion, you should give it a listen. We
also took note of some of Farley’s comments about the new car market—comments specifically about cars rather than SUVs. “I do not like generic cars and trucks,” said Farley as he railed against “appliance-like vehicles” while defending Ford’s decision to leave the sedan market. It’s a segment that Ford hasn’t completely written off for...
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Are the Ten Commandments Making a Comeback?
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New American Prophet ^
| June 27, 2024 | Dr. Jerry Newcombe
Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, has been stirring a hornets’ nest recently by promoting a law that mandates the Ten Commandments in that state’s public schools. Already
the ACLU are suing to block the new bill on behalf of some parents. Fox News reports on the controversy Gov. Landry has sparked. The governor said: “I didn’t know that it was so vile to obey the Ten Commandments.
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Oilers, Panthers bracing for historic Game 7 in Stanley Cup Final (Edmonton tries to cap improbable comeback; Florida seeks 1st championship )
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NHL.com ^
| 6/23/2024 | Dan Rosen
SUNRISE, Fla. -- Welcome to the unimaginable. Game
7 of the Stanley Cup Final has been played 17 times since 1942, most recently in 2019 and before that 2011, 2009, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001 and 10 times before the turn of the century.But not since 1945 has Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final been necessary after a team took a 3-0 lead in the series.Not until now that is, or, rather, Monday, when the Panthers and Edmonton Oilers play Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, play for everything from the Stanley Cup to history to legacies at Amerant...
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Biden campaign hits back over Joe's 'freezing' videos with montage of Trump 'getting confused, lost, wandering off, and waving to nobody' (lame comeback alert)
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Daily Mail ^
| June 20,2024 | NIKKI SCHWAB
President Joe Biden's campaign tried to play pot, meet kettle on Thursday by highlighting some of former President Donald Trump's more awkward moments. The
@BidenHQ X account shared a nearly 2.5 minute-long video to counter a trio of 'cheap fake' videos where 81-year-old Biden appears to 'freeze' or wander away from world leaders. At recent campaign stops, Trump, 78, has had a field day with these viral videos, knocking Biden for 'not knowing where the hell he is.' 'Here is a montage of Donald Trump getting confused, lost, wandering off, and waving to nobody,' the Biden campaign countered. The clips...
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Confederate names make comeback, triggering lawsuits
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The hill ^
| 6-15-24 | LEXI LONAS
A Virginia school district was sued this week after it restored Confederate military names for two buildings, foreshadowing a broader battle that is heating up ahead of the election. The
Virginia NAACP sued the school board in Shenandoah County after it voted to change Mountain View High School to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary back to Ashby Lee Elementary. The NAACP argues in its federal lawsuit that students’ constitutional rights were violated by the district’s act of reverting back to Confederate names. It invoked the First Amendment and 14th Amendment in its lawsuit, saying it “prohibits racial...
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Economist Forecast: Donald Trump Has 2-in-3 Chance of Making Greatest Comeback in Modern American Politics
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Breitbart ^
| 12 Jun 2024 | Wendell Husebø
Former President Donald Trump has about a two-in-three chance of completing the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, an Economist model forecast Wednesday. The model gave President Joe Biden an 83 percent chance of victory in 2020 four years ago.The model is predicated on national polling and is updated daily with
economic indicators. “To work out the likely electoral-vote totals, we run over 10,000 simulations of the election,” the Economist explained.”Trump has consistently led Biden in the forecast since March, when the Economist began the simulation.June 12 represents the largest spread between the two candidates. Trump sits at a...
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Broadway sings New York’s blues as crime, costs slow post-COVID comeback
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Nypost ^
| 06/02/2024 | Nicole Gelinas
The Trump verdict last Thursday overshadowed a far more disturbing portent for New York: yet another daytime attack in the heart of Times Square, the second in a month, this time a machete assault outside a McDonald’s at 45th and Broadway. New York’s failure to control crime — regular crime, not Trump
crime — is slowing its tourism recovery, as new statistics from Broadway’s theater industry show. Like New York overall, Broadway is having a slow rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Analysis: Joe Biden’s ‘Blue Wall’ Crumbles Under Weight of Donald Trump’s Comeback
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Breitbart ^
| 04 May 2024 | Wendell Husebø
President Joe Biden’s seemingly unassailable “blue wall” appears to be crumbling in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s greatest political comeback in history.The “blue wall” represents three battleground states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Biden must win these states to prevent Trump from winning reelection.The states are imperative for Biden due to
Trump’s surge in the sunbelt states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina. In those four states, Trump leads Biden between three and six points in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina, FiveThirtyEight’s polling averages show.“There’s a clear divide between the Blue Wall states, where the polling is...
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Thirteen Medieval Words Ripe for a Comeback
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EF Education First ^
| Culture o
13. Sparple This word is not only fun to say, it can also come in handy. It
means to deflect attention from one thing by making a big deal of something else entirely.
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Pathetic Bush Republicans Don't Grasp That They're Vestigial and Won't Be Making a Comeback
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PJ Media ^
| 8 Apr 2024 | Stephen Kruiser
It is undeniable that former President Donald Trump has been the catalyst for division in the Republican Party. I happen to think that's one of the most positive influences he's had on the party. A
majority of the people whom Trump has driven away from the GOP are deeply entrenched establishment types who have been the bane of conservatives for decades. They also have connections to the same two prominent Republicans. The Opinion section of The New York Times is determined to make disaffected, Trump-loathing Republicans feel as if they still have relevance for the future of the party. Because...
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Is a Biden comeback quietly underway?
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The Hill ^
| April 2, 2024 | BY DOUGLAS SCHOEN AND CARLY COOPERMAN
Unless you are deeply immersed in politics, you likely missed a major development over the last three weeks: Since his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden has seen a marked reversal of his fortunes. Indeed,
since Biden addressed the nation in early March, polling shows that Biden is gaining ground, as former President Donald Trump now leads Biden by only one percentage point according to the RealClearPolitics polling average — Trump’s smallest lead since January. In the Quinnipiac poll released last week, Biden led by three points, 48 percent to 45 percent, bringing the total to 12 national...
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Mayors of DC, Oakland claim comeback amid public backlash from crime surge
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foxnews ^
| 03/19/2024 | Jeffrey Clark
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao are both defending their cities amid a surge in crime that has caused a backlash with business owners and local residents. Bowser
told Axios in an interview that while Washington "had a tough year last year" in terms of crime, she still urged onlookers not to be harsh on the nation's capital. "Don't be so down on DC," Bowser told the outlet, despite homicides having jumped up 36% and carjackings having almost doubled last year, "when many other major cities saw declines in violent crime." Bowser pointed to crime data...
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‘She’s Running’: Clinton and Hubby Make 2024 Comeback...'Crooked has been warming up in the bullpen this entire time...'
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Headline USA ^
| March 5, 2024 | Luis Cornelio
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and impeached former President Bill Clinton are “quietly” and “steadily” staging a comeback ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to a lengthy profile published by the New Yorker on Monday. The former secretary of state and her husband are covertly supporting the
scandal-ridden re-election campaign of President Joe Biden, who faces challenges in polls indicating a potential loss to former President Donald Trump, the same opponent who defeated Hillary Clinton in 2016. According to the New Yorker, Hillary Clinton has been providing advice to Vice President Kamala Harris on appearances,...
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The Choco Taco Is Making Its Comeback This Summer
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Food & Wine ^
| February 20, 2024 | Jelisa Castrodale
Summer 2024 can't come soon enough.It’s not an exaggeration to say that humanity had to endure one of the darkest days in modern history in the summer of 2022 when the ice cream overlords at Klondike announced that they would be discontinuing the iconic Choco Taco. “Over the past two years, we
have experienced an unprecedented spike in demand across our portfolio and have had to make very tough decisions to ensure availability of our full portfolio nationwide,” a Klondike representative told Food & Wine at the time, adding that discontinuing “a beloved item” was a “necessary but unfortunate part”...
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Downton Abbey returns! Delight for fans as filming secretly starts on a new series of the show in surprise comeback
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Daily Mail ^
| 2-13-24 | KATIE HIND
Filming has secretly started on a new series of Downton Abbey. The period drama – the last episode of which was aired a little over eight years ago – is making a surprise comeback in a seventh series. Bosses
hoped to be able to bring back some of the big name actors such as Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern and Joanne Froggatt who appeared in the previous six seasons and two movie spin-offs. While it is not known if all of them have signed up, chiefs are said to be 'thrilled' with their casting. The return of the show,...
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String theory nonsense makes comeback
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YouTube ^
| February 7, 2024 | Sabine Hossenfelder
I got a lot of questions last week about an article in Quanta Magazine about Dark Dimensions. it's about an idea motivated by string theory that combines large extra dimensions with dark matter. I
had a look at the paper.The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05318The article in quanta magazine is here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/...String theory nonsense makes comeback | 8:12Sabine Hossenfelder | 1.13M subscribers | 147,734 views | February 7, 2024
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Bitcoin tops $48,000 in a big comeback to end the week
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CNBC ^
| 09 February 2024 | Tanaya Macheel
Bitcoin marched higher to end the week, with its price breaching the $48,000 level for the first time since spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds began trading. [$47,800
as I post]
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