Trump's victory, and the further mass oppression of minorities, is closer than ever before. May god have mercy on our souls.
previous preamble
The totalitarian capitalist dystopia which was created by the United States in the aftermath of the Korean War has increasingly experienced problems as the multipolar world is being gradually birthed.
Due to the widespread exploitation of the population, long work weeks, and high housing prices, the population growth of South Korea has plummeted, with the lowest fertility rate on the planet, and the highest suicide rate in the OECD. While a capitalist "success story" before the 2008 recession in terms of profit accumulation for the richest at the expense of most others, conditions have grown more dire in the Long Depression since the crash. GDP growth per year has averaged out at 2-3%. For more concrete figures, labour productivity has stagnated, particularly in the service sector. The rate of profit hit a peak when the dictatorship ended in the late 1980s, but has since massively tumbled. These dynamics are not unique to South Korea; they are happening throughout the West.
While South Korea is stagnating, perhaps even falling, its northern neighbour is rising. With Russia already persona non grata to much of the developed world and yet still maintaining fairly good economic growth and continuously albeit gradually moving towards victory in Ukraine, Putin sees no reason to be intimidated by the West's shunning of the DPRK, and Russia is establishing ties as well as military and economic deals. This seems to portend an end to the post-Soviet period of forced isolation due to UN actions forbidding the people of the DPRK to leave the country (which many westerners believe is a policy originating from the Korean leadership due to their propagandized education).
Many in the West are still, regrettably, unable to properly analyze the geopolitical situation of Korea due to their government programming, leading to bizarre takes about imminent collapse, or desperation on the part of Russia or the DPRK, unable to recognize that the DPRK has a powerful military sector all its own, and decades of autarky has created a durable society where limited resources must be used efficiently and effectively. The position of the Korean Peninsula seems likely to be a critical part of the US-China conflict, whether this is an outright war or instead a series of proxy wars. Indeed, Korea's position may soon become very important in global trade routes if the US tries to cut off the Strait of Malacca to Chinese-bound cargo ships, with vital resources like oil and food potentially transported both over land and via the Arctic Route over Russia and through the DPRK to China. Russia's leadership clearly sees the importance of Korea in the future, hence their actions now; and, of course, South Korea siding with Ukraine has also forced Putin's hand to oppose them more openly.
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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section. Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war. Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language. https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one. https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts. https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel. https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator. https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps. https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language. https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language. https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses. https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
All of you tankies think that the assassination attempt was "cool" and "funny" but you forgot that political violence is only justified when it is directed at children in Gaza
Republican National Convention (RNC) starts today. American hogs are going to go wild for the next 4 days. Trump will become the official Republican Presidential Nominee today.
Trump got shot? Wow. I didn't know that, you're telling me for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that. Thank you very much.
When did the gun get to the roof?’ Pennsylvania police ask questions about Trump’s shooter amid FBI investigation
Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe says that when his officers were notified about a suspicious person at former president Donald Trump’s Saturday rally, there was no mention of any weapon. By the time one of his officers spotted the individual on a rooftop, the man was holding a rifle.
“When did the gun get to the roof?” Sheriff Slupe asked. “Was it the night before? And I’m not telling you something that I know – I’m asking the question myself.”
Before Trump’s speech, Sheriff Slupe said the officers received reports of a suspicious person on the grounds. Officers were given a photo of the individual to help their search, he said.
“The police responded immediately, and when that [report] was sent, there was no mention of a gun,” he said. The sheriff said he is still not clear on the exact chain of events as it is still under investigation, but it’s his understanding that some people at the rally alerted officers to an individual hiding on the roof of a low building not far from the stage.
From there, his officers went to the building and another officer gave his colleague a boost up to see. The officer gripped the edge of the roof to see if anyone was up there. Sheriff Slupe said it’s crucial to remember the officer was not expecting to see someone with a gun
“I don’t know if he popped his head up. I don’t know how far he was up. I don’t know any of that, but the shooter apparently saw or heard him and turned toward him. The officer let go and fell to the ground,” the sheriff said.
At that point, the shooter took aim and fired at Trump. Within seconds, the shooter was killed by a sniper.
Sheriff Slupe said he had been sitting just two rows back from the stage where Trump entered. He, like many, thought the loud pops were firecrackers. Earlier in the day, his office had received a noise complaint about someone else setting off fireworks about a kilometre away from the rally.
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OK, new funniest possible outcome: Biden technically wins, but the electoral college collectively negotiates to elect a different Democrat who is more palatable to the GOP electors and also not senile.
Interesting. I saw this in the (now) shithole of /r/DemocraticSocialism:
The true believers at Project 2025 came for [Trump] when he threw them under the bus.
Is Trump now becoming less than 100% Hitler in even the libs' eyes? Will he, too, "save us from Project 2025"? LOL.
Anyway, it's an interesting take. I'm not quite as quick as others to think that because some fool registered for the Republican primaries that he was necessarily a reactionary (though it certainly ups the chances, there are also people who register as "Republican" voters in order to influence their primaries, even if they don't agree with the GOP platform)...this isn't exactly the worst theory of how such a person might come to hate Trump enough to throw his life away in an assassination attempt.
the whole ruling class crying about "political violence" after months of manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide of Palestine is entirely about the state reclaiming their monopoly on violence, right?
My conspiracy theory is that Biden ordered the hit but intentionally found the worst shot he could, knowing he'd miss, just to have a chance to demonstrate how civil he could be.
Unironically, Biden’s numbers could be boosted if Trump doesn’t play his card right and the Democrats capitalize on the threat of a new wave of Republican terror during Trump’s second term.
If Trump is as politically astute as he thinks he is, he will back off from the more aggressive fascist rhetoric and even switch to a more reconciliatory tone. He’s practically won at this point, and it would’t hurt his numbers to campaign on a softer tone.
On the other hand, if Trump does not hide his streak for vengeance, then it might re-mobilize voters to vote for the Democrats to prevent Trump’s second term again. Biden might squeeze out a win from this if Trump makes the wrong move.
So, one wildcard assassination incident has changed completely the electoral calculus.
Biden is no longer facing the heat of having to step down from being the Democratic nominee (all the criticisms about his poor debate performance are now thrown out of the window), the attention has successfully been diverted away from the genocide in Gaza, and instead he can now fully capitalize on the perceived terror of Trump’s revenge if he gets into office once again.
People who said they would not vote for Genocide Joe, are now having second thoughts about whether handing the presidency to Trump is truly worth it. In fact, we are already seeing an underlying current of this thought on Hexbear based on the comments I’ve read.
A funny outcome would be if Biden croaks before election day and since no one wants to step up to eat the inevitable 50 state L, the Democrats decide to not bother fielding a presidential candidate. They'll pull some civility bullshit about not fielding a candidate for the sake of not dividing country. Another funny outcome would be the same except they get a patsy to be the sacrificial lamb as in they got some random 35-year old shmuck to be the candidate.
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.
We're still in the process of contextualizing the attempted assassination but I saw something on reddit about the possible challengers to Biden stopping their movements to oust him. Someone speculated that the dnc is going to just give up on 2024. I can believe that. Who is really going to do that to Biden just to face a stronger Trump? No one can be that stupid, self centered, and arrogant right?
Or is it her turn? (She's probably the only person who could successfully lose every state to Trump)
Anyway, I think the dnc is considering their options and they'll probably have an understanding to let Biden fail but not tell him the plan. I can't think of anything they can do that isn't outside of their character that could win against Trump. Like they'd have to go hard on something like the Epstein connections and accusations and even then.
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
“Rather than verbally attacking Trump in the coming days, the White House and the Biden campaign will draw on the president's history of condemning all sorts of political violence including his sharp criticism of the "disorder" created by campus protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict, campaign officials said on condition of anonymity.”
Imagine if Biden went full BlueMAGA. He would claim that the assassination was staged and say that they have the right to question whether the assassination was fake or not. But they will never do that, Democrats are only aggressive towards minorities and foreign nations.
It was during the twilight of King Brandon the Feeble-minded's reign, back when the realm still struck terror across the seas with fire and steel. The corridors of Brandon's Great White Hall were teeming with whispers of plots by illoyal jarls to dethrone the aging and inept monarch. Yet, these murmurings fell silent when bards delivered grim tidings: a mere peasant had dared to take the life of the Orange Troll King. Though the attempt failed through what was believed to be divine intervention, it was deemed a dire omen, foretelling great calamity.
Despite his trollish nature, the Orange Troll King was of royal blood, and the attempt on his life was seen as a sacrilege, angering the ancestral spirits who founded the kingdom in ancient times. Throughout the realm, priests and nobles gathered, publicly beseeching the heavens to show mercy and spare the kingdom from divine wrath.
In a rare moment of lucidity, King Brandon commanded all forces defending the realm against the raiders of the Orange Troll King to stand down. He feared the spirits might interpret resistance as an endorsement of the sacrilegious act, thus inviting their vengeance upon the land.
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.
The Russian government has made an official reaction to the failed Trump assassination. Spokesman Peskov starts by stating that Putin has no plans to call Trump and goes on to say:
It was obvious to all outside observers that the life of former US President and new presidential candidate Donald Trump was in jeopardy, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"After numerous attempts to remove candidate Trump from the political arena using legal instruments at first, courts, the prosecutor’s office, attempts to politically discredit and compromise the candidate it was obvious to all outside observers that his life was in jeopardy," he said.
“The idea that there’s political violence … in America like this, is just unheard of, it’s just not appropriate,” said President Joe Biden, the backer of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine, with a death toll that researchers believe could reach 186,000 Palestinians. Biden’s narrower point was correct, though: Deadly attacks on the American ruling class are vanishingly rare these days. Political violence that is not “like this” — the political violence of organized abandonment, poverty, militarized borders, police brutality, incarceration, and deportation — is commonplace.
Besides myself this morning seeing all the liberal clowns tripping over their dicks to line up and kiss Trump's ass because they know what's coming in November and it's not pretty.
Unless something wild happens, Trump is by far the lost likely winner in November. Of course all the boot-licking reactions to the assassination attempt is grounded in elite class solidarity but a lot of it can also be seen as various political actors, inside and outside the US, making sure that they are going to be on good terms with the president in waiting.
European rulers might consider Trump a vulgar burger pig that says too many of the quiet parts out loud for their comfort but no matter what he is going to be their overlord in a few months so they have to show him respect.
The more I read about the shooter, the angrier I get that this kid thought he could pull off an actual assassination.
His high school photo from two years ago makes him look like a little baby. Thanks for making it harder for professionals to take him down in the future. Biden would literally need to give the order for it to happen now.
I was offline yesterday training about potential hazards with a bus driver in revenue service when this trump thing happened.
This country is so cooked, the trump nuts in my family are getting absolutely uppity and are blaming gays and woke. It's genuinely depressing and overwhelming- I'm getting absolutely sick to my stomach and I don't know how to process everything happening all at once so I think I'm gonna stay offline for a bit.
is full of feckless losers. Trump, good sir, I apologize wholeheartedly for any danger that came your way! Alas, we will beat you in a fair competition in November, or else our democracy will be destroyed by your victory.
The funny (sad, not "haha") thing about the failed assasination of Trump isn't that it will galvanize supporters or make people switch their vote or vote harder for him but that it will be wasted by Dems/Biden who can't stop tripping over themselves to do things that show they really don't view Trump/Republicans/Conservatives as the existential threat they constantly are painting them as.
I'm thinking it will make it harder for fence sitters to vote for Biden or any D flavored politician.
I'm incredibly interested in the future volume of votes in the general election compared to the last few.
I'm also really interested to see if this triggers actual gunfire at polling places.
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
People are being so conspiracy-brained about this. Many people seem to think a nice photo with an American flag coming from a rally is somehow so unlikely that it has to be staged. I saw someone claim the whole crowd was paid actors but they were also not trained to react like how a crowd reacts when there is a shooter, for some reason. And for what, it's not obvious this will even help him that much.
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.
Trump wins, US slava-USainifies itself, europe militarises, nato ends, eurasia becomes closely knit through trade, the next 10-15 years are going to be wild.
Just put 2 and 2 together and how wild is it that the same day Trump nearly gets domed the guy most famous for impersonating Trump gets away with killing someone
Gee I don't know, my Leader doesn't get shot at by random people at speeches... , tells you a lot about the differences between China and the sick man of the world.
Do you people think Trump will be emotionally scarred from this? Like will he develop a massive fear to be just randomly assasinated at any rally in the next four to five years? He will develop some paranoia?
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 yr old from Bethel Park, PA. He was wearing a gun youtube merch shirt and is a registered Republican for what its worth. Kind of looks like a lone crank honestly. Thank god it wasn't a leftist doing a
I think I'm going to deny that Trump got shot. Like, if anyone brings it up to me, I'm just going to say it's an internet hoax. Same I do with the cicada broods.
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.
Had the bullet killed Trump, the criminal would have a quick painless death while standing among his supporters by one of their own. He would forever remembered as a hero among them.
I want him to become the President again with Mike Pompeo and the rest of his band. Because this way he is going to make stupid decisions like Israel did when they targeted Iranian embassy and watch that fear in his eyes.
The person who is literaly a daily YT grifter, rarely ever misses a day, Mercouris said he wasn't going to do an update on Sunday. Yeah "exceptional circumstances" sure. At least a 1% chance he knew and went to find a bunker just in case this turns to WW3 lol.
It was a false flag folks. The "shooter" was a
Groyper connected agent. The Secret Service ignored all warnings and proper protocol, confirmed by my FBI source (a guy that worked in the Hoover Building cafeteria). Trump wasn't even hit, they smeared cranberry sauce on his ear.
I'm going to make so much money riling up the Biden diehards. But importantly I will not make any of the mistakes Alex did.
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.
I'm watching a longer video of the stage and the SS really look like chumps. they let trump up, no bulletproof blankets, the cameraman has a clear view of trumps head. I thought these guys were supposed to be competent?
New theory: The MAGA guy that got ventilated was an assassin sent by Killary to kill Trump. The shooter on the Roof was Biden's guy sent to stop Killary's assassin to protect democracy. Biden's guy whacked Killary's guy, saving trump, then got taken out.
I was surely a fool to think that the Biden campaign wouldn't collapse under its own weight long before October, and now Trump has just cinched it by taking fire from some great man theory dipshit
Now netanyahu doesn't even have to bother leaking audio from calls with Biden in October. I still hope he does though. I want democrats to be forced to stare directly into their complicity.
Seems reddit mods/admins are deleting the dumb conspiracies about it being staged. Can't believe BlueMAGA is that deep into conspiracy. Like who would stage a headshot...
Liberals have completely lost their minds saying that the Trump shooting is fake. Really going full BlueMAGA now. Spectators died and there's videos of the shooter's body on a rooftop. It happened.
i need someone to release an emergency podcast just to get me away from hasan's stream. i've watched the clip of trump getting shot probably hundreds of times by now. my brain is turning to mush
I saw some chud on Twitter say that they believe that Mossad is behind the assassination attempt. Ah yes, Israel is going to assassinate the guy they'd rather have as president because he's an even bigger Zionist than the current one.
Looks like the shooter might have been wearing a demolition ranch shirt, who is a very large (11m subs) gun youtuber. I will be interested to see what the news makes of this.
Not gonna lie, watching the Americans slowly making their country collapse is entertaining. Tho I feel for the comrades and friends who will be put in dire straights because of it. Here in Europe there has (maybe? my bubble is pretty small) been a slow realization in the liberals that relying on America is kinda a shitty idea in the long term. How much do you guys think that America will change its geopolitics when trump takes over?
I haven't really been (actively) following American domestic politics the last few years, its too much of a drama fest.
i'm chilling on tumblr and hear about the shooting. its 50% people being sad that the shooter missed and 50% being like "nooooo this is such a propaganda W for him, he's gonna win now :("
so obviously i have to immediately get out of bed and sprint to hexbear, where i know you nerds will have the correct take on this shooting - its fucking hilarious
Anyone else find the flase flag theories a bit hard to swallow? I mean. I wouldnt put it past Trump to orchestrate a failed assasination, but this worked out too well for him. I find it hard to beleive this was scripted. One slight mishap or second earlier and hes legit dead....
4:21 PM PT -- A source who has spoken with a member of the Secret Service tells TMZ, Trump was not hit by a bullet. Rather, a bullet hit his teleprompter and the glass struck him by the ear.
Pro-tip for all the patsies out there: make sure you take your gun out to the range and sight it in yourself. Don't let your handler just give you a gun day of.
Saw a clip of a BBC interview with an audience member who claims he and several others saw the guy on the roof and tried to warn security but they were ignored. Interesting
He's going to win so fucking hard now. I mean he was going to win before this but now it's 100% over. He will campaign so hard on this and he'll fucking win lmao. There's no fucking way a walking cadaver can win against Trump who just had an assasination attempt.
“This evening Joe Biden spoke to Donald Trump. The President also spoke to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Butler Mayor Bob Dandoy.” POTUS is returning to DC and will get an updated briefing from DHS and law enforcement officials.
Japan (Has some of the most strict gun laws in the world): Guy makes a handmade Looney Tunes ass double barrel doohickey, successfully pulls off an assassination
America (has the most readily available guns in the world with some of the most freedom to practice using them): Can not even do one successful assassination
If the shooter is a minority there will be incredible amounts of chud violence (even more than there already is) ensuing. If the shooter is Arab the DNC will proclaim Trump god-emperor and swear undying fealty to him
This is a week where decades happened. America's president exposed himself as a cognitively impaired senile, and the opposition leader was just struck by a projectile in an apparent assassination attempt. Nobody will respect the country after this week.
I’ll admit it’s a little odd hearing Americans talk like Trump winning will turn their country into something out of a dystopian novel. As someone from a country that more closely resembles one it would take more than his victory to have paramilitaries on the streets. It took us CIA, Mossad, and KMT backing plus a 50+ civil war to reach that state.
Your best bet would be the entire country looking more like a deep red state. So yeah, pretty shitty. Just not Handmaiden’s Tale level of shitty.
Did a liberal finally take the "Trump is the greatest threat to our democracy" thing seriously and do what Joe Biden should have done last week when he was declared immune from prosecution by the Supreme Court?
Did a liberal pumped full of msnbc great man theory just light the American reichstag fire, or was it a Trump supporter with terrible gun safety habits?
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat, has offered support to law enforcement as investigation to incident at Trump rally begins.
“I am monitoring the situation at President Trump’s rally in Butler and I’ve reached out the State Police to offer support,” Casey said in a statement on X. “Political violence is never acceptable and I am hoping former president Trump & all attendees are safe. Everyone in Butler should listen to law enforcement.”
You hope he's safe? Seriously? The dems hem and haw about fascism and then hope the fascist leader is safe?
Edit: Bernie, too.
AP News:
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said on X, formally Twitter, that political violence is “absolutely unacceptable” and “I wish Donald Trump and anyone else who may have been hurt, a speedy recovery.”
Obama, too. Lmao
There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.
Trust us, bro--you gotta vote for Genocidal Joe, Trump's a fascist. But uh, yeah, we wish him a speedy recovery.
and, we got Pelosi as well:
“As one whose family has been the victim of political violence, I know firsthand that political violence of any kind has no place in our society,” Pelosi said in a statement posted on X. “I thank God that former President Trump is safe. As we learn more details about this horrifying incident, let us pray that all those in attendance at the former President’s rally today are unharmed.”
During Joe Biden’s call with the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the president said his staff passed him a note to “stay positive you are sounding defensive.” Biden read the note aloud to participants on the call.
Wondering how badly my cousin's chud husband is seething right now. He was talking about going and "fighting" in DC if Trump lost the 2020 election. He didn't go to Jan. 6th, but he has to be in a frenzy now.
Seriously curious if this was a radlib who got duped by all the project 2025 fear mongering or a "leftist" who thinks all that project 2025 shit matters
news thread is gonna overtake the trans thread this week
edit just so this isnt shitposting: is this gonna be America's Reichstag fire moment? I can only imagine the hogs are going to get even more extreme after this
Liberal American expats cheering on the Trump assassination attempt and saying Trump’s immigration policies are terrible while getting very defensive about Biden’a policies. Mind you this is while they’re staying in Guatemala lmao
listening to these people is a great insight of the average liberal boomer voter.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., independent candidate for President of the United States, says that “it is time for all Americans who love our country to put aside division and unite in prayer” for Donald Trump.
red maga go on a revenge rampage while blue maga solemnly shake their heads at violence and all that talk of Trump being a totalitarian fascist that must be stopped at all costs ends as they decide Biden will drop out of the race and no Dem candidate will stand this election in an act of self flagellation for such an unacceptable breach of norms then after Trump wins he sends them all to a camp.
So the overall result of the election is pretty much fixed now. But now I really wonder what the EC map is going to look like. Will Biden’s decline combined with this actually turn blue states into battlegrounds? There was already a poll that had Trump up 1 point in New Jersey. Could he actually win New Jersey now?
eSStonian Supreme Court ruled the phrase "from the river to the sea" to be "pro-Hamas, pro-genocide, pro-war crime" just on Thursday. One person has to pay not only €120 in fines, but €10,000 (€830 pm) within a year for "expertise fees".
The only way this gets defused is if it turns out that it was a BB gun, or something that isn't considered a "serious" weapon. If it's even a .22, then this is a massive boost for Trump.
Blue QAnon is the more authentic and pernicious form of QAnon.
Regardless of whether the original QAnon was a psyop or grew organically out of a bunch of deranged Trump supporters, its influence on the top echelons of the government has been extremely limited at best, if not completely irrelevant.
Blue QAnon is derived from an inner circle of people with close access to the POTUS himself. Their ideology has been so thoroughly shaped by Russiagate that they genuinely believe that the whole world is conspiring to destroy the Biden campaign, which would destroy their only hopes of stopping Trump.
These people are extremists with distorted view much like the QAnon cult followers but also occupy positions of power. They are willing to burn bridges with top party donors, threaten to cause massive destructions to all sides because they believe that Trump (and all of America’s enemies) will prevail if Biden is being replaced.
The threat of Project 2025 (real or fantasized) compels them to take extreme measures to prevent Biden from stepping down. And if that means blowing the whole world up, then so be it.
(On a sidenote: I have a friend who told me that his dad who had been otherwise normal his whole life became obsessed with MSNBC and Russiagate after Trump won in 2016. It’s not hard to see how this could precipitate in a wave of Democratic supporters who are predisposed to extreme paranoia to join the campaign and their religious-like fervor against the threat of a Trumpian fascism compelled them to rise to the highest ranks of the campaign staff and take over its internal discourse)
Im in between the barely living embodiment of dementia and what that barely living embodiment of dementia would be if he had more energy and worse manners
Both support genocide but thats not a deal breaker for me
I think these current wars will possibly expose the tendency of world economy going forward.
Since WWII, american capital has developed on the destruction of lesser economies so that land, resources and labor would be taken over by american companies. This has become the condition for the maintenance and perpetuation of this specific form of capital.
But nowadays, struggling economies tend to turn towards not american companies, but Chinese ones. This means that the precondition for american capital is turning into the precondition of Chinese capital. Every time america tries to expand, it expands China instead or along with it.
The interesting thing is that the Chinese strategy for growing further is way different: being an industrial economy, it depends on the other nation being able to acquire their industrial production. In other words, it depends on that nation developing a functioning industry and economy to absorb Chinese products into it, which not only strengthens China, but further weakens the misery-dependent american capital.
On the other hand, that means america will need increasingly devastating wars and coups to keep going.
Former Venezuelan deputy and former leader of the opposition National Action party, Carlos Prosperi, declared himself "independent" and announced his support for Nicolás Maduro's candidacy.
In August 2022, he announced his presidential pre-candidacy in the primary elections of the Unitary Platform.15 On September 13 of that year, he received the support of his party, being Henry Ramos Allup who announced Prosperi's candidacy, within the framework of the anniversary of the white platform, becoming the first official presidential candidate of AD since the candidacy of Luis Alfaro Ucero in 1998.
6 Days before the primary election, Prosperi requested the National Primary Commission to postpone the electoral act due to what he alleged was a disproportion in the drawing of table members for Vente Venezuela, accusing the organization Súmate, linked to María Corina Machado, of such irregularity, as well as for the lack of delivery of credentials to members of his party AD.181920 Elections expert journalist Eugenio Martínez explained that Vente Venezuela had more table members assigned because it had nominated more people than AD.
On election day, a video was leaked in social networks where Prosperi disowned the results of the primaries in advance when the process had not even been completed, which was widely rejected. When he went to vote in the nucleated center of the San Pedro Parish in Caracas, he was booed and rebuked by a group of voters. After the primary, he published a communiqué rejecting the results and Machado's victory, despite having obtained only 4% of votes, against 92% obtained by the winner.Prosperi alleged that several irregularities overshadowed the result. The Acción Democrática party rejected Prosperi's personal opinion.
On July 13, 2024, Prosperi announced his independent support for the candidacy of Nicolás Maduro, stating that he was capable of "guaranteeing economic growth and dialogue with all parties".
Looks like Jez wants to start something like Extinction Rebellion's "People's Assemblies", except they'll be "People's Forums" under him. I suspect that everyone that thought that was a good idea will transfer their interest across to him, it will suck the wind out of XR and under his command. He wants it to become the foundation of an electoral movement down the line.
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, now an independent MP, has launched a new political strategy aimed at challenging the “stale two-party system” in the UK.
In a column published in the Guardian on Friday, Corbyn said he would begin a monthly “People’s Forum” in his constituency of Islington North, which he said was a “shared, democratic space for local campaigns, trade unions, tenants’ unions, debtors’ unions and national movements to organise” for the future.
He said he believed that such forums could be replicated around the country, and form part of grass-roots campaigning which will help people to “stand up for themselves and against those who have ignored their demands for peace and humanity".
Corbyn said that the movement would not initially entail the creation of a new political party, but would eventually provide an electoral challenge.
“I have no doubt that this movement will eventually run in elections,” he wrote.
“However, to create a new, centralised party, based around the personality of one person, is to put the cart before the horse. Remember that only once strength is built from below can we challenge those at the top.”
He said the movement would grow as long as issues like child poverty, and Israel’s war on Gaza, went unaddressed by those in power in the UK.
“This is just the beginning. It is the beginning of a movement that can win with - and for - communities all over the country. People in power underestimate the power of people at their peril,” he said.
The move comes amid calls for a British left-wing alliance, akin to the New Popular Front (NPF) in France - an electoral alliance of Socialists, Greens, Communists and France Unbowed - which won the most seats in this month's French parliamentary elections.
On Thursday, the campaign group The Muslim Vote called for a political alliance between left-wing parties such as the Green Party and independent groups to challenge the Labour government in future elections.
Former independent lawmaker George Galloway, who leads the Workers Party of Britain, wrote on X last week: “Mr Corbyn must be our #Melanchon He is the best leader to unite all forces behind him in a Popular Front. We in the @WorkersPartyGB and our 210,000 voters will follow him.”
However, left-wing activists told Middle East Eye last week that Galloway's party would struggle to form part of an alliance with elements of the British left, due to socially conservative views and hostility towards the Green Party's agenda on climate change.
'Palestine was on the ballot'
Last week, Corbyn was re-elected as an MP, winning almost 50 percent of the vote in Islington North, the London constituency he has represented for more than four decades.
Corbyn led Labour from 2015 to 2020 but was barred by the party from standing as a candidate and then expelled when he announced his intention to run anyway.
He nonetheless won 49.2 percent of the votes (24,120) in Islington North to win the seat for the 11th time. Labour candidate Praful Nargund, a local councillor, was second with 34.4 percent (16,873).
"Palestine was on the ballot," the veteran left-winger and lifelong pro-Palestine campaigner told MEE last week after his election victory.
"And I promise to stay true to my word to stand up for the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination."
Corbyn had the parliamentary whip withdrawn by his successor Keir Starmer in October 2020 after saying that claims of antisemitism in the party during his time as leader had been "overstated" for political reasons.
Though he was readmitted to the party as a member in November 2020, it refused to let him continue as a Labour MP.
He announced he would stand as an independent when the election was called on 24 May, after which Labour expelled him from the party.
Corbyn is amongst a number of independent candidates elected in constituencies previously held by Labour, where opposition to the party has been fuelled by criticism of its failure to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza until months into the war.
Independent candidate Shockat Adam unseated Jon Ashworth, a prominent member of Labour's shadow cabinet, in the East Midlands constituency of Leicester South.
In the northwestern ex-industrial town of Blackburn, Adnan Hussain unseated Labour's Kate Hollern, while independent Ayoub Khan pulled off a shock win against Labour's long-standing parliamentarian Khalid Mahmood in Birmingham's Perry Barr.
Meanwhile, independent Iqbal Hussain Mohamed earned a resounding victory in the West Yorkshire constituency of Dewsbury and Batley against Labour’s Heather Iqbal. Mohamed won 15,641 votes compared to Iqbal’s 8,707.
Labour frontbencher Thangham Debbonaire also lost her Bristol seat to Green co-leader Carla Denyer.
France has created a new military command to occupy Africa, a move that appears to follow the controversial US Africa Command (AFRICOM) established in 2008.
A French government decree announced that a commander-in-chief, Pascal Ianni, has been tapped to lead the ‘General Command for Africa’ starting on 1 August.
This comes as the European colonial power has pulled soldiers stationed on African soil. Reports say France plans to keep around 600 French soldiers across Chad, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Gabon, down from the 3,800 troops in Africa. News reports claim France plans for ‘discreet’ operations to attract little visibility.
This comes after a series of anti-imperialist revolutions in the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger booted French troops, threatening France’s control over Africa’s Sahel region, which France has militarily occupied for decades through Senegal. Additionally, the Central African Republic expelled the French military in 2022.
NATO officials are discussing taking action to reclaim some Chinese-owned infrastructure projects in Europe should a wider conflict with Russia break out in the east of the continent, three officials involved in the discussions told CNN.
They're thinking of seizing assets to start an economic war with China while simultaneously fighting an actual war with Russia. Americans really are hellbent on trying to destroy the euro
My lib mom keeps bemoaning that they can’t run a moderate republican against Trump. (A general election with two Republicans.) She’s a Romney fan. This is what happens your politics are based in civility and aesthetics, and mostly aesthetics. She can’t wait to vote for Newsom.
Do we have a Romney emote? Walter Mondale was the best I could do.
Listen, Hexbears: the President was NOT incoherent last night, and he apparent was NOT incoherent this morning. I want you to think about him as the president who may have done more for the working class in four years than any other president in modern history!
How long before Blue MAGA creates its own Blue Qanon? I mean, they already have the whole "Russian KGB interfered in the 2016 elections!!!" thing, which was pretty funny.
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
"Israel's" relentless barbaric war on Gaza has led to the closure of 46,000 businesses, according to the Israeli Coface Bdi company, specialized in business information for credit risk management.
According to the company, which stated in its report the Israeli sectors that were the hardest hit, "by the end of 2024, approximately 60,000 businesses in Israel are expected to close."
Argentina records inflation of 4.6% in June, slightly above the inflation recorded in the previous month. The index has accumulated an increase of 79.8% this year and 271.5% in the last 12 months.
DPRK condemns future NATO activity in Asia-Pacific
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Press Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Pyongyang, July 13 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued the following press statement under the title "We will deter the looming serious threat with tougher strategic counteraction" on Friday:
The U.S. revealed its sinister intention to further strengthen the collusion and nexus between NATO and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, terming the just and legitimate exercise of sovereignty of the independent states including the DPRK a "threat" at the NATO summit held in Washington.
The "Washington Summit Declaration", cooked up and made public on July 10, goes to prove that the U.S. and NATO, reduced to a tool for its confrontation, pose the most serious threat to the global peace and security.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry most strongly denounces and rejects the "declaration", an illegal document that violates the legitimate rights of independent sovereign states and a confrontational programme that incites new Cold War and military confrontation on a global scale.
The U.S. moves to expand military blocs are the vicious root cause of seriously threatening the regional peace, extremely exacerbating the international security environment and sparking off worldwide arms race.
Before shifting on to other countries the responsibility for the deteriorated security in the Europe-Atlantic, the U.S. will have to clarify who has constantly destroyed the security environment in Europe for the past decades through NATO's reckless policy for eastward advance and expansion.
It should also explain who has persistently tried for the last ten-odd years to inveigle the pro-American satellite countries in Asia into NATO, before claiming that the security between the Northern Atlantic and the Asia-Pacific is linked with each other.
We solemnly warn that NATO's strategy for "globalization", pursued by the U.S., may certainly bring the danger of a worldwide war.
The U.S. should be held totally responsible for seriously infringing upon the sovereignty and security interests of other countries and constantly destroying the strategic stability of the world while wantonly violating the recognized principles of international law including respect for sovereignty, non-interference, equality and mutual benefit.
The prevailing situation requires a new force and mode of counteraction to foil the U.S. attempt for expanded military bloc, an urgent challenge to international peace and stability.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will never overlook or avoid the looming grave threat but thoroughly deter the aggression and war threat with stronger level of strategic counteraction and defend peace and security in the region and the rest of the world. -0- www.kcna.kp (Juche113.7.13.)
Masud Pezeshkian said that thanks to the resistance of the Palestinian people and the heroicism of its fighters victory will be for Palestine.
Iran’s president-elect Masud Pezeshkian assured the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas that his country will continue to support the Palestinian cause under his future government.
Iran “considers it its human and Islamic duty to support the Palestinian nation and its struggle against the occupation and apartheid of the Zionist regime, and will continue to support the oppressed Palestinian nation until the fulfillment of all its causes and rights and the liberation of Al-Quds”said Pezeshkian in a message to Hamas political leader Ismail Haniya.
The elected Iranian president affirmed that thanks to the resistance of the Palestinian people and the heroicism of its fighters “the divine victory will be for dear Palestine”.
Masud Pezeshkian also expressed his sincere thanks for Haniya’s message of congratulations on his election as President of Iran.
Earlier this week, the Iranian president-elect reaffirmed his support for militias in the Middle East region of the ‘Axis of Resistance’, in a letter to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasralá.
Pezeshkian won in the second round of the presidential elections held last week in Iran, an early election after the death in a plane crash of the former president, Ebrahim Raisí.
Masud Pezeshkian will take office as president on July 30 at a ceremony before the Iranian Parliament.
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.