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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 8th to July 14th, 2024 - Nevertheless, He Persisted

Image is of the Big Wet Boy surviving an assassination attempt with his Matrix-esque bullet dodging skills.

Trump's victory, and the further mass oppression of minorities, is closer than ever before. May god have mercy on our souls.



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  • Two days ago, on the first day of the Islamic month of Muharram, my son was born. The little fucker busted out of my wife a few weeks too early, but he's finally here. We left the hospital a few hours ago after two days of medical checks and both he and my wife are now peacefully sleeping while I'm writing. I won the naming battle and we settled on a traditional, but cool name in my very biased opinion. I'm now Abu Hassan, which sounds unreal, because how the hell am I a father lol. Now the real battle starts, I cannot do the same mistakes that Pete Buttigieg's father did and accidentally make him a liberal. Maybe in 16 years or so, you'll have Hassan LargePenis posting a VR interactive three dimensional chad n cuck ranking in the news mega about the slow Russian progress in the Central European front of WW3. Thank you all in advance for the well wishes!

  • why do I even bother touching grass when extremely funny things keep happening while I do so.

    I saw this when I loaded up Hexbear and I was just like "oh fuck, has Israel invaded Lebanon or did Russia hit NATO or something?":

    must once again make an effort to be 100% online at all times. put the newsmega microchip in my brain

    the sheer whiplash from "WE MUST DEFEAT TRUMP AT ALL COSTS! we're so desperate that we have to consider ditching the president to do so. it's the ONLY WAY to defeat fascism and Project 2025" to "<3 get well soon, hope your hospital stay is good, xoxoxo" from liberals is going to be extremely entertaining. violence is never the answer unless it happens to be against Palestinian children.

  • Every westerner who has opinions for a living is going

    over the Trump shooting right now. "Political violence" is unacceptable, we are told. It's an attack on Our Democracy™, we are told. People who were talking about how dangerous Trump was are now wishing him well because of how beyond the pale the shooting was.

    Meanwhile, in a very different instance of "political violence", the very same people are sitting on their ass doing absolutely nothing as hundred thousands of Palestinians are being murdered in the zionist genocide. That's not a big deal to western professional opinion-haverd, at least not big enough to do anything about beyond at best saying that both sides are bad and voice an uncommitting support for the general idea of a "two-state solution".

    It has never been more clear that when the media- and political elite are talking about how "political violence is unacceptable" what they really mean is that it is unacceptable for the violence to affect them personally. They are clutching their pearls because the violence that they are so nonchalant about inflicting on others suddenly got too close to one of of their own.

  • Remember in the first days of the genocide, when Israel bombed a hospital (I think it was Al-Shifa?) and killed like 400-500 people? Except Israel came out and said “oh that wasn’t us that was a wayward Hamas rocket”. And then the American media did a full court press of taking everything Israel and the US govt said at face value. And even beyond that, all the major news outlets would keep bringing on OSINT guests who would explain how it could have been a Hamas rocket, but rarely if even did they explain why it was Israel?

    No one can possibly think that it was anyone other than Israel now. But that whole thing has been memory holed (like the beheaded babies) so even if you try to remind people about it, they don’t care.

  • The new theorized death toll numbers (from Lancet) are too much to bear. If those numbers are true, then the genocide of Gaza - in terms of a percent of the population killed and wounded - is right up there with the worst crimes of the 20th century. The Nazi invasion of the USSR, the American genocides in Korea and Vietnam, the bombing of Cambodia, etc. And all of those took place over a matter of years, not months.

    Death to America and Death to Israel. Libs in the US had better pray to whatever deity might be out there that this country never gets what it actually deserves. Because Jeremiah Wright was right. We absolutely deserve hell on earth.

  • The Samsung strikes in South Korea. They can't fly socialist symbols but this sure doesn't look like a liberal union aesthetically.

  • This old fuck is hell bent on destroying every last ounce of respect he has left

    The guy they said was literally Hitler is the same guy they are now sending their thoughts and prayers.

    I guess between endorsing genocide and kowtowing to the DNC he still finds time to pull this shit

  • All the redditors who salivated 24/7 over gore footage of surrendering Russian conscripts being shot are now telling us that political violence is never acceptable.

  • Chinese Shinzo Abe meme

    Since July 8, 2022,
    Shinzo Abe has not uttered a bad word about China,
    paid respects to war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine,
    involved himself in Cross-Strait Affairs,
    nor has he whitewashed WWII war crimes!

  • Okay what the fuck, I disappear for a few days after my son's birth and I miss the assassination attempt on Big Don T. What a world, this is why one should never log off. What a moment for the dumbass undecided voter who votes on pure unfiltered vibes, one guy can barely talk while the other guy gets shot and then raises his fist in victory. Say what you want about Donny, but there hasn't been such a good showman politician in a long time. His brain scattering on the floor would've been funnier and more iconic, but this is better for the accelerationists here, a more unhinged Trump on a revenge tour might just send America deeper into the spiral. Trump dying would mean that the old party heads nominate some robot loser who wins and actually stabilises the deep brainworms.

  • I am really starting to think that the liberal infighting and constant media coverage about Biden's age is an attempt at hedging against any argument that his electoral failure is tied to his support for the genocide in Gaza. Biden was not going to win the election against trump before this debate, it was already assured that millions would refuse to hold their nose and vote for him regardless. But now the ruling class can ignore this sort of analysis and focus on, "Biden lost because he was too old, he couldn't connect with young people" and they will hammer that home until they can completely erase the effect of the first anti-imperialist mass movement in the USA since the Vietnam war. The death toll coming out from the Lancet article had really driven this home for me. They have fully convinced themselves they can invent their own reality. The public hand-wringing the Biden admin has done, all while being primarily responsible for the genocide continuing as it has, is just so absurd for anyone paying close attention. This is probably the worst atrocity of the 21st century (so far

    ) and they will try their best to erase any electoral consequences, and thus erase anti-imperialist discourse from popular understanding of history. Seems even more important now to symbolically vote for an anti-imperialist candidate like Claudia de la Cruz, because even a relatively large, but still marginal vote in a battleground state would be hard to ignore, particularly if liberals decide to demonize and blame 3rd party voters for a Trump victory. "If everyone who had voted for de la cruz in Georgia voted for Biden, he would have won" etc. etc.

  • the frantic text polling of "Will you vote for Joe Biden to save democracy?" has now changed. this morning I got a spam poll asking me if I would accept Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee

    it's never been more joever

  • George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.

    Somewhat noteworthy given he's probably the highest profile non-politician to speak out, but the real juice is this:

    It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.

    I think that's the first time someone is going on the record to say they've seen him go doo-doo brain in another instance. Of course it was known that's been happening at least 15-20 times thanks to Carl Bernstein and co., but that was all on background or deep background.

  • been listening to

    a lot recently and I love how the libs in the chat are getting more annoying by the day. They make a big talk about "pushing the democrats left", but when someone actually tries to do something akin to that they flip their fucking shit with:

    Why are you always only critiquing only the democraaaaaaaaaats!!!

    Admit that you're secretly a republican!!!!

    Oh so you want Trump to win???????

    ah

  • I’ve posted this multiple times before, but I’m going to say it again as my mind is still blasted from knowing this:

    • Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff took a “career break” in the 1980s to run a pub in South Armagh (which to the unfamiliar was an area of, shall we say, “active community involvement” in the fight for Irish freedom)
    • Keir Starmer defended Berlusconi as part of his legal team during his appeal at the European Court of Human Rights
    • Keir Starmer was part of the legal team that got the murder conviction of Sergeant Lee Clegg quashed
    • Keir Starmer played with the Parachute Regiment in an 11-a-side football “grudge” match against the Royal Military Police
    • Keir Starmer decided as Director of Public Prosecutions that an MI5 agent should not face torture charges for participating in interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. Starmer then attended the leaving party of the head of MI5 a year later
    • Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions when the Criminal Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute Jimmy Savile in 2009
    • Keir Starmer is advised by Peter Mandelson, who according to an internal report by JP Morgan had “a particularly close relationship” with Jeffrey Epstein
    • Keir Starmer served on the Trilateral Commission
    • Keir Starmer secretly assembled a leadership campaign team days after Mike Pompeo’s private comments were “leaked” to the press wherein Pompeo pledged to “do [his] level best” to prevent a Corbyn premiership
    • Keir Starmer’s campaign instructed its candidate running against Nigel Farage to leave the constituency, banned from printing leaflets, blocked from using campaigning software and had access to the campaign’s social media overridden. This happened after the candidate started being a threat to Farage. Farage’s party’s vote share drove Labour’s victory, in a reversal of what happened in 2019.

    But reassured, Keith is a normal, regular guy who doesn’t work after 6pm on a Friday.

  • Everyone knows that large amounts of new comments means something happened, but when the title and preamble get edited, that’s when you know something really happened

  • Cpusa, who have spent the past decade pissing their pants and crying that Trump is a fascist says violence against fascism is wrong and we gotta follow Biden to victory over fascism

  • Remember when Shinzo "Have Sex" Abe died, and his supporters started blaming the JCP, CDP and Reiwa for "inciting" people to kill the former prime minister?

    The Republicans are literally doing the same thing to the Democrats. While the Democrats are being polite to a guy who has said several times that he wants to arrest them all and send them to Guantanamo Bay, lol.

  • I thought you had to scratch a liberal to expose a fascist. A fascist got scratched and all the liberals are showing they are fascits all on their own

  • Qassam sniper: I keep looking for Yair [Netanyahu] to put a bullet in his head. But Netanyahu won’t send his son to fight, just these morons. (He then shoots an Israeli soldier).

    CW: Death

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