the normalization of gun violence in the US is crazy. 14 year olds with AR-15s shooting up their schools. Presidential candidates dodging bullets every few weeks.

And it’s all so dang normal now that they will barely last a news cycle.

Meanwhile this is a headline on Newsweek today:

Egypt Has Violated Its Peace Treaty With Israel. It Must Face Consequences

The propaganda machine in the west is completely insane.

lol the betting markets flipped back to Trump after this interview

Hey Mrs Harris the earth is dying and 99% of people under the age of like 30 will starve to death at some point in their life if we don't stop hitting the accelerator on climate change, but sure, keep fracking for oil.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has “serious concerns” over the veracity of presidential election results in Venezuela on Sunday, after President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by the country’s elections council.

The US is only pro-democracy when it’s convenient to their foreign policy goals.

Libs continue to glaze the shit out of genocide Joe

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeBiden/comments/1ea4k3m/saluting_one_of_the_best_presidents_in_history/

Biden will forever be an inspiration to others about keeping a heart even in a life of high-stakes politics. We will miss Joe being president, but we should all carry his legacy of devotion to a better tomorrow. 🥺🥺🥺🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

I absolutely love Joe Biden. Easily the greatest president of my lifetime (Obama very close second.)

Don’t blame me for Genocide Kamala, I supported Genocide Gavin.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeBiden/comments/1e8vnow/im_sitting_here_taking_in_the_news_a_manual/

Which one of you wrote this highly upvoted masterpiece on /r/JoeBiden?

I'm in shock. I don't know what was the final straw for the President, a man who I have considered -- and still do consider -- to be a real-life Jed Bartlett hybridized with Captain America.

I trust the President and always have. He has never let me down. For him to make such a move means he must have compelling reason to do so.

I keep thinking back to 2020. That year, in a moment of somber and morbid inspiration, we lost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon to whom, if she were a religion, I would convert despite my pro-life -- yet otherwise liberal -- tendencies. Her death was like a clarion call for all of us to rise up and remove the now-convicted-felon donald trump. I wondered much these last few weeks what would be the move which would propel us in this election.

Starting now, we must quickly pick up the pieces and, just as Captain America said in Endgame, we must "Assemble". We have a convention coming up. The delegates, democratically chosen by the voters, will democratically elect at that Democratic convention the nominee of the Democratic Party.

Late stage empire vibes.

• Self-own your own IT infrastructure by pushing out an update on your overly bloated domestic security software peddled by your military industrial complex. Wasn't even an attack from a major cyber rival: you fucked this up all on your own.
• Your space agency cancels their only moon robot because their contractors bled them dry. Meanwhile your main geopolitical rivals are building entire military bases on the moon.
• You have astronauts stranded on a space station because Boeing, your only remaining domestic aerospace company, was taken over by MBAs and can't make airplanes OR space shuttles without endangering your own citizens.
• Your two major political parties are so dysfunctional that one got through a whole primary cycle with a decrepit old man before realizing he was actually too senile for the job and now your political elites are forced to play their veto uno reverse card in the media. And the other party just had their candidate survive a homegrown assassination attempt by a slight neck twitch, only to turn around and start endorsing a public plan to dismantle your own government with their VP pick.

And ALL of this in the past week, lmao.

Shaun Harper

"I am a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) expert"

wow, actually looking more likely than not that Biden drops out. Lots of reports in the media and his lackeys aren’t around to blame it on a bad day, etc.

Dude did so bad in the debate he actually destroyed his chances at the presidency. It’s literally the worst debate performance in American presidential history lmao.

In the tumultuous theocratic monarchy of the United Kingdom, an island nation marked by instability and recent shifts in leadership, Buckingham Palace has disclosed that King Charles III is battling cancer. This development adds to the nation's ongoing leadership crisis, intensified by the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II. The type of cancer remains undisclosed, casting a veil of secrecy over the king's health and highlighting concerns about transparency. At 75, Charles's withdrawal from public duties to undergo treatment underscores the fragile state of the regime. Amidst regular treatments and vows to return to duty, this episode exposes the deepening cracks within a monarchy struggling to uphold its ancient aristocratic traditions against the backdrop of its decline from a global powerhouse to a state grappling with internal strife and a succession of ephemeral leaders.

America has hit that weird death spiral phase where a Trump vs Biden rerun isn’t the epitome of stagnation, but somehow accelerates the decline and Balkanization of it all.