It's driven by the massive spike in the cost of living, especially the cost of food / housing / energy, which no party is interested in addressing, so yeah, it's a fucking problem that isn't going away.

They can't get him off the ballot at this point, the election is 45 days away.

It's a twitter brained NAFO guy. Funnily enough, the libs own this one.

Although it's still kind of funny that political violence is just becoming a thing now.

The funny thing is that Russia has kept moving into the Donbas this entire time, blasting through lines that have been fortified since 2014, because the Ukrainian reserves that might have held on there are currently getting blasted to shit trying to hold the salient in Kursk.

Someone high up must have really believed all the propaganda about Russian casualties, because the whole thing makes no sense otherwise.

It was deeply boring. One billionaire sucking off another for getting shot at for what felt like a full hour, then Trump rambling on with Musk going "uh huh" "yeah" every minute or so.

Did Kamala's crowd sizes really put the fear in Trump or what? His only rally this week is in fucking Montana tomorrow, with none scheduled for the rest of the month. He's just doing unhinged press conferences.

Imagine if the Democrats had brought this kind of competence and energy to 2016 by running LITERALLY ANY OTHER CANDIDATE!

they keep doing this psycho shit , bragging about brutalizing immigrants to try to get Pennsylvania, and all it's doing is pissing off their base in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado.

There was a period around the 1600s where, relative to their neighbors , they could be described as a pretty well run and meritocratic state. Social mobility generally existed for men who had valuable skills and were willing to convert to Islam. There was a pretty effective administrative state , general internal stability, and the food supply was generally secure.

Your other options in the region at that time were ;

Europe - saw about twelve million dead in the 30 years war and the wars of religion. Widespread hunger as the falling temperatures of the little ice age lowered the crop yields. Glaciers started expanding again, and the altitude at which wheat could be grown decreased by about 200 to 300 meters. Also widespread religious hysteria and witch hunts as the black plague returns to Europe.

Russia - Absolutely wrecked by climate change. The combination of the little ice age , a bad volcanic winter and foreign invasion sees 30% of the population dead in the Time of Troubles, followed by regular famines afterwards. The general collapse of the old feudal relationships sees an increase in serfdom and more exploitation of the peasants.

Persia - Having problems from the rise of the Ottomans and the disruption of the silk road trade, and with some regions only just then recovering from seeing their cities, infrastructure and population almost annihilated by the Mongols 400 years previously. Though still a pretty ok place to live at this time , all things considered.

It is weird that so much of the Trump campaign was built around Biden and Hunter, like IRL years of effort, millions of dollars worth of merchandise, all the attack ads lined up for months in advance.....

with literally no one noticing Kamala or even doing opposition research on her, and now the GOP is trying to switch gears overnight in an election where they now need to really compete for women voters while desperately not mentioning womens rights or the abortion bans, or all the women that died in agony from ectopic pregnancies and septic miscarriages.

I think they might be afraid to get the chuds riled up too soon, because they will jump straight to misogyny and racism. The GOP's biggest weak spots right now are women pissed off over losing civil rights because of Trumps judges, and also a fear that the minority voters the GOP has been picking up will be turned off and go straight back to the Democrats.

Why is RNC research trying to make Kamala more popular with the average American boomer.

well, whatever absolute ghoul is going to be parachuted in as her running mate, they can't be worse than genocide joe

the lathe turns

Kermit the Frog voice "You must slay the dragon of chaos by emptying your piss bottles."

No , but really, it's the depression that makes you not care about the garbage. You have to trick yourself into having motivation, try putting on some music or a tv show so you have something to focus on, and spend fifteen minutes forcing yourself to throw that stuff into a garbage bag. Even if you only clear out half , or a third, you'll feel better for having gotten up and done something.

Well, violence was already normalized in every other sphere of American life, I guess it was only a matter of time. Look at the Trump shooter, by American standards, the only weird thing about him is that he went after someone important instead of just shooting up his local school or walmart.

It's not like anyone is actually voting for him. No one is Biden or bust. People are just voting against Trump, same as last time. Nothing is actually gained by keeping the 81 year dementia patient on the ballot.

why are they trying to sell branded merchandise? He's the establishment candidate, he's not leading a fucking movement.

Yeah, people did start to figure this out two years ago, once Russia pulled back and settled in for a long war. NATO governments spent billions more to procure shells and artillery pieces, and on incentives to get the arms industry to build more factory lines and supply lines.

But decades of neoliberalism have gutted the states ability to do anything itself, or to compel a corporation to do anything, even something as simple as build an artillery shell that was designed in the 1870s. The end result is that the incentive money was used to streamline and automate the existing, privately owned, factories, allowing them to fire workers and run more cheaply , but not to actually expand production. And with billions more dollars chasing the same supply of shells, the cost of an artillery shell has now skyrocketed to ~$9,000 a shell.

I still think that Trump fatigue and the repeal of Roe give him enough of a floor that there's no chance of a complete electoral teeth kicking, but if I still gave a shit about the Democrats I'd be worried.

Yeah, turns out all of this high tech satellite guided shit can be easily defeated by electronic warfare if its used against an enemy that has the time and resources to adapt to it. This is the first time anyone had a chance to figure that out though, because the US has only ever used it against unarmed farmers and goat herders.

Well, at least it's not as bad as the F-35, the multi trillion dollar jet that fails to both electronic warfare and rain.

If anyone is wondering why the POW/MIA flag is a thing in U.S. politics, you should really read up on it because its a fascinating example of boomer brainworms.

After the Vietnamese got good at shooting down U.S. aircraft, the U.S. tried to massage casualty figures by reporting the dead aircrews as missing. Except their families took the Pentagon at its word and believed they were truly prisoners, and began agitating to get a political deal to bring them home. As the war dragged on into the 70s the Pentagon started using the families as propaganda for a lost war, acting like they needed to prolong the war to save the thousands of imprisoned airmen. Subsequently, grifters started selling all kinds of POW merchandise to draw attention to the thousands of U.S. soldiers that Nixon claimed were still imprisoned in Vietnam.

Then the war ended, and the five hundred or so guys that really were prisoners came home, and you'd think the gravy train would end there as the truth came out, but no, Americans believed it was all a hoax. The government was covering something up, and there must really be more than a thousand US soldiers still held in Vietnam. More POW merchandise was sold than ever before, there were blockbuster movies about going back to Vietnam to free the prisoners, there were flyovers for the POWs at football stadiums. Ronald Reagan himself believed it and made threats to resume bombing if the soldiers weren't returned. Americans started traveling to Vietnam to buy information about the POWs and try to bribe people to secure their release, and a lot of Vietnamese people got free money selling bogus rumors and scraps of old US uniforms. This shit continued well into the 90s, with every president giving a big speech for the POW families every year, and the US being unable to normalize relations with Vietnam until almost the 2000s because of it.