Bulletins and News Discussion from August 5th to August 11th, 2024 - LGBT - COTW: Iraq

Well, Iran and their allies' response may happen sometime this week and apparently they aren't talking to the US in order to negotiate how and where they will hit Israel (and Shoigu arrived in Tehran rather auspiciously), the Bangladeshi government just fell, F16s have been given to Ukraine, there are fascist riots in the UK, and Japan just had its worst stock fall since 1987 and seems to be taking several other countries/corporations with it. I don't really know where to look right now.

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Sure, electorialism is a fuck. But it's also funny as hell sometimes.
Let's recap: Trump was going to win so hard against Biden, he had it locked. The Democrats were scrambling all over the place trying to convice stubborn joe to drop out, but he wouldn't, the Democrats were showing a lot of weakness. Then the assassination attempt happened, and it was super joever, 99% guaranteed he was going to win. But then genocide joe dropped out, KKKamala replaced him just because she's next on the line (if the Democrats had an actual primary she would have lost 100%). Meanwhile Trump selects JD Vance, a man with the charisma of a dirty diaper, as his VP, then Kamala begins to grow in the polls, appoints the generic wholesome old white man as VP, then stares down at people calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (no no no, not for the actual disappearance of the genocidal state, FOR A SIMPLE CEASEFIRE) and now Trump is completely lost and doesn't know what to do. He doesn't have an effective strategy against Kamala nor Walz (his attacks are very erratic like trying to call Walz "more radical than crazy Bernie" and trying to put Biden back in the discussion) and his VP is a fucking problem.
This happened in like 3 weeks lol.
Either way, neither Trump nor Copmala can save the United States of America from it's downfall. It's coming.
- We've been getting a lot of humor out of it anyway.
  They just announced that RFK will be on the ballot in Texas, it'd be hilarious if it went blue
- All western politicians are off-putting losers by default. This means that if any of them makes an actual effort to seem appealing to people, or even if they just feel like someone new and different, they come off as vastly better than their competition.
- One of the best attacks that Trump and his followers had was pointing out how "Biden's America" was shit. That still works as an attack on Kamala, but for some reason they can't figure out how to make it work.
  The assassination attempt seriously made Trump nearly guaranteed to win, and he's wasted the photo of a century because he can't figure out a good line of attack against Kamala.
  
  At least the assassination photo can be repurposed into an ad for Trump Burgers with little effort if he doesn’t slip into the WH.

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