tomorrow is deadline of icc waffling - last day of submissions of "why israel actually is not under icc umbrella", lead by uk. Then we get list of genocide supporters and whether knighted by nazi queen keir sturmer has continued his warcrime support.

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

ageing British premier Sir Keir Starmer exhibits signs of severe cognitive decline as he fails to recognise handshake offered by "leader of the free world" US President Biden

Thank you Mr President

Finland slipping further back into full blown mask off fascism with the SDP being exactly what Stalin said social democracy is in this vote. The bourge is leveraging russophobia on levels not ever before seen, because in the past there still were commies and countering politics here.

Oh how I miss our big protective neigbour in the East.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20099245

That second last question was perfect. "Would you step down if Kamal were more likely to win than you" Biden: "not unless they came back and said 'there is no way you can win.'"

In other words "I wont step down even if it gives us a better chance to beat trump."

Biden: "I think of [unions] as my domestic NATO."

CPUSA leadership yet again endorses Democratic presidential candidate and plans to commit the Party to do everything they can in their power to ensure the genocidal bourgeoise monsters win over the bourgeoise genocidal monsters, with added bonus of this time capping for a senile, genocidal, geriatric corpse that's surrounded by yesmen

After Biden-Trump debate, the task remains: Block fascism in November

If you're still in CPUSA at this point you're either in it for the retirement community home vibes, a DNC operative/operative-in-training, in denial to the truth, or an outright traitor to the communist movement. Even the CPSU under Gorbachev fought tooth an nail against being dragged behind the barn by Yeltsin's bourgeoise with their failed "coup" before the overthrow of the Soviet Union, and the CPUSA can't even manage to vote down their leadership's "Vote blue no matter who" motion

Two things are clearer than ever after the first presidential debate. First, Trump is a fascist and a liar who can’t be allowed near the White House ever again. Second, despite Biden’s faltering performance as messenger, the task ahead of the people’s and labor movements is still the same: Block fascism in November.

Blow it out your ass CJ

Just minutes into the June 27 debate, as Biden struggled to string together coherent responses to questions and failed to push back on Trump’s falsehoods, social media was alight with speculation that the Democratic Party may now be forced to find a new candidate just 130 days before the election.

Who promised to be a one-term president CJ.

The mainstream corporate press, led by the likes of CNN and the Wall Street Journal, gave scant attention to the substantive issues at stake in this vote and concentrated almost exclusively on Biden’s “unsteady performance.” That’s no surprise, though. To be honest, “unsteady” might be an understatement. But more importantly, Trump’s lies and the threat he poses became almost a footnote in the news coverage and commentary.

Yeah who are you going to believe in regards to why we must vote for biden, the lying Communist News Network and Red Square Street Journal, or CPUSA's sterling leadership?

Thanks to the media circus and Biden’s communication failures, policy differences are not what people will be talking about when it comes to this debate.

What policy differences, CJ?

They won’t be talking about the convicted felon’s plan to pardon himself and his Jan. 6 invaders for the crimes they’ve committed, thus placing his fascist movement out of reach of the criminal justice system – which as flawed as it is, remains an essential check on power.

They won't be talking about the current war criminal-in-chief being given the legal stamp by Trump's supreme court to aid and abet genocide without even a slap on the wrist

They won’t be talking about the white supremacist who will deploy more racist and heavily armed police to the streets of Black and Latino neighborhoods, return to building a wall at the border, and revive the Muslim ban.

They won't talk about the white supremacists who've been dancing in the streets in support of the Biden Administration as they've poured billions of american tax dollars into fascist Ukraine and fascist Israel

They won’t be talking about the wannabe dictator’s intention to ditch democracy by carrying out further assaults on voting rights via racist gerrymandering, abolition of early and mail-in voting, and the appointment of MAGA-dominated election boards in counties across this land.

They won't talk about the literal reincarnation of Andrew Fucking Jackson ruling the USA with his own fucking kitchen cabinet of yesmen who've continued the so-called wannabe dictator's policies from day one of his administration

They won’t be talking about the bleach peddler who chose to let hundreds of thousands of his people die from coronavirus rather than listen to the advice of health professionals in the crucial early months of the pandemic.

CJ guess whats fucking going on right now again under your beloved democrat president

They won’t be talking about how the chosen candidate of the most reactionary sector of the capitalist class plans to further slash taxes on corporations and billionaires, intentionally putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block.

Hey CJ did you hear about all of the most reactionary sector of the capitalist class have been supporting biden all the way up until the debate? Are you gonna call them progressive because they vote blue like you? Sounds like you're also calling for class collaboration with both international and finance capitalists, CJ.

They won’t be talking about the corporate chieftain’s plan to go to war on workers by obliterating the National Labor Relations Board, putting bosses in charge of labor law enforcement, and stripping 40 million people of their health insurance.

Cj if you love feasting on the dust particles that comes off of the crumbs that the democrats let fall off the table to the point you'll clap like a seal and bob your head like a parrot for them, you fucking deserve crumbs you line of shit out of a worm's ass.

They won’t be talking about the serial rapist’s intention to permanently finish off abortion rights and women’s access to health services. His right-wing-dominated Supreme Court already crippled Roe v. Wade, and his state-level acolytes have rushed to abolish reproductive freedom wherever they have power. He’s made clear he wants to go even further.

CJ, the name Tara Reed sound familiar? Also Roe happened under Biden and he's said he will roll over and beg like a dog at whatever they rule. The anti-democratic supreme court will continue to roll back every concession we've gained until in the souls of the People the grapes of wrath are filled once more.

They won’t be talking about how the best friend of the big banks will go even further than he did before to roll back laws aimed at preventing the Wall Street gambling and speculation that incinerated jobs, pensions, and workers’ homes during the financial crisis and the Great Recession it triggered.

They aren't talking about how nothings been done under biden to prevent this, nor his roll under obungler in ensuring that wallstreet was rewarded with golden parachutes for their crimes against the american working class, who themselves were left out to dry after their livelihoods were destroyed.

They won’t be talking about how the nation’s No. 1 liar will team up with media moguls like Elon Musk to further put the squeeze on freedom of the press and elevate the power of fascist platforms like Truth Social and reactionary outlets like Fox News.

As fucking if any of the lying press is worth a wet shart

They won’t be talking about how Netanyahu’s favored nominee believes the only thing wrong with Biden’s Gaza policy is that it hasn’t helped kill enough Palestinians. “Let Israel finish the job,” he says.

YOU FUCKING GENOCIDAL FREAK

So, it falls to independent working-class outlets like People’s World to turn the spotlight back on these existential threats.

Neither independent, nor working class. My posting on hexbear's more independent and I just got off the clock from my job to ragepost about your shit genocide-supporting articles, CJ

As for Biden, well, the panic is on. Democratic Party big-shots and their big money apparatus are scrambling, convinced that finding a new nominee is imperative. From inside a meeting of donors in Atlanta, one observer summed up the feeling of the room during the debate to a Politico reporter: “Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or he dies. Otherwise, we are fucking dead.”

Good.

All the talk is about Biden’s poor performance and how it might have sunk the campaign. But even if Biden performs “well”, what does that mean? A more well-executed genocide in Gaza? A more well-defined deportation policy to seal the border and shut out refugees? A more well-crafted NATO policy to provoke military conflict in eastern Europe? A more well-designed Cold War against China?

the answer is yes to all the raised questions.

Whether there is a replacement candidate or not – and honestly, such an outcome is still highly unlikely – there must be replacement policies. If everything is left to the ruling-class-aligned elements at the top of the Democratic Party, we’ll still be in trouble. For months, the democratic, peace, and labor movements have been warning that several of the administration’s policies – like Gaza and immigration – could split the coalition needed to defeat Trump.

THIS IS LITERALLY HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES EVERY FUCKING TIME YOU FUCKING TURKEY STARING AT THE HURRICANE

Aide: So obviously, Trump got a big boost from the assassination attempt. So we have thought of a similar plan to even the odds

Biden: You're going to botch an assassination of me?

Aide: not quite...

Bolsonaro: Gets stabbed in the gut like a loser

Trump: Gets shot in the ear by a republican

Cristina Kirchner: The guns fails to shoot her at point blank due to the power of the Ghost of Peron

Well well well, if it isn't one of the weeks when decades happen.

To quote the great poets, The Butthole Surfers, "Well, it should have been a better shot, and got him in the head."

Pretty good interview: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The US Can’t Beat Russia Or China In A War

Goes into Ukraine/Russia, Palestine, BRICS, decline of empire, and more.

Welp can't say ya didn't deliver.

An unpleasant thought occurs to me: /pol/ must be going wild rn.

I don't have anywhere else to post this so it's going here because it's funny.

Fellas, do you think the shooter was a demonrat, or a Nazi who's more right wing than trump?

More people need to read Human Acts, by Han Kang, in spirit of South Korea being the COTW. It is historical fiction showcasing the human impact of the very real Gwang-Ju massacre.

Edit: Should put a CW, there's SA, child murder, and grotesque depictions of torture, bodies, and mass graves.

DPRK warns that Japan is dumping nuclear-polluted water into the Pacific ocean

source http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/ad0b1bd7ea9551c1e4d1d9abf606bfd1.kcmsf

Lmao we’re so on the wrong time line, literally an inch or two to the left and BUHBYE

A few links I posted in the dying hours of the last mega:

Actually worth reading:

https://www.intellinews.com/long-read-the-war-in-ukraine-is-inching-towards-a-ceasefire-as-pressures-mount-331639/?source=russia

A long read on the diplomatic, financial, public opinion aspects of the war in ukraine from Ben Aris, noted realist lib and friend of ukraine. He is worth reading as despite his reflexive dislike of Putin, he has consistently had a good read on the economic/intra-EU politics end of the war and the failures of energy sanctions on Russia

Neoliberalism in action:

https://archive.is/Ffg8p

Kellogg said if Trump wins, he would likely suggest a NATO meeting in June 2025 to discuss the future of the alliance. He said NATO could subsequently become a "tiered alliance," in which some members enjoy greater protections based on their compliance with NATO's founding articles.

Bazinga brain:

Shaping Tomorrow: A Roadmap for Ukraine’s Reconstruction using Virtual Assets https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/policy-briefs/shaping-tomorrow-roadmap-ukraines-reconstruction-using-virtual-assets

The full-scale invasion only strengthened Ukraine’s ambition to build a blockchain-friendly economy. As a result, two competing draft laws are currently in progress, both primarily aiming to address the tax issues in relation to virtual assets and thereby provide a basis for regulating the virtual asset market.

The assets they use to rebuild ukraine will be virtual alright

FIX THE GATEWAY GOD DAMMIT I WANNA POST

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.

reposting because new mega was put up 2 minutes after i posted.

What happened in kyiv? Russia bombed a children's hospital? On purpose? Would like some clarity from someone who isn't a redditor

edit: for some reason fucking Sky News is the only outlet I see reporting this:

In the aftermath of the attacks, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed its forces had carried out strikes on defence industry targets and aviation bases.

They denied they had targeted civilians, and alleged Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles, launched to repel the attack, had caused the damage instead.

some unbiased reporting from CBS as well:

Russian officials acknowledged the massive missile strike on Monday but denied, as they always do, targeting any civilian infrastructure. The Defense Ministry in Moscow, in statements reported by the country's state-run media, said the strike was a response to attempts by Ukrainian forces "to strike Russian energy and economic facilities," and it claimed it had hit Ukrainian "military industry facilities in Ukraine and aviation bases of the Ukrainian Armed Forces."

The Russian defense ministry said, without offering evidence, that the images of destruction in Kyiv were "due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile."

yeah, not seeing anyone else reporting these details.

They should just book the DNC like WrestleMania. Show starts off with Anderson Cooper running up to Genocide Joe getting out of the presidential SUV asking him if he's going to drop oit, he says no and walks away, Anderson looks shocked into the camera. Some sort of musical numbers kicks off the DNC, we get some interesting mid card speeches, and then Joe comes out to take the nomination. He starts giving his speech, when suddenly lights go out. A creepy piano piece starts playing. After 30 seconds, it transitions into a familiar tune. The lights go up, and it's Hillary standing behind Brandon with a steel chair. She fucking swings and Brandon goes down. He's bleeding the hard way. Hillary swings again while he's down. Huma Abedin comes out and taunts a passed out Biden and then kicks him a few times for good measure. She has a second chair, and she helps Hillary give Brandon a ConChairTo. Hillary picks up the mic, says "ITS MY TURN" and then drops the mic and she and Huma do the D-Generation X "suck it" taunt.

Media treating it like a Palestinane Hospital

CNN: "Trump speech interupted by Secret Service"

reposting a question i asked at the end of the old thread: what is the nouveau front national's take on the sahel states? have they said anything about them?

Death to America

Did something happen today?

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

President-Elect of Iran Stands Firm in Support of Palestinian People and Resistance Efforts

Long term reluctance of the Democratic Party to drop Biden is something to admire. Now you see the Anti-Bidenite Clique rushing all over the place using the State Sponsored Media to promote the idea of replacing the aging Party Leader with someone else ahead of their clash against the Trumpite Clique. However, certain elements of society have been demanding for the Party to drop Biden for years now, even after he defeated Trump four years ago. Now they're running about with urgency, don't they? They played deaf ears for years now, it serves them right.

And won't they think? Dementia is not something you can cure with a pill or whatever the fuck. It stays with you and it gets worse and worse. Imagine if the Bidenite Clique wins the power struggle and he beats the Trumpite Clique in the "elections", he has to "work" for four more years as the President. Dementia will continue to degrade this person and they'll have to stick with it until the end. If Biden dies as President, he leaves a power vacuum that will be most likely filled in by zealot elements within the party like the Kamala Clique, the Clintonites or the Californian Warlord, Newsom. They're buying bread for now, starvation for later.

Like, for real, you see Biden now completely unable to string four words together. Imagine him in three years from now...

CPUSA leadership is using the recent victory of the French Communist, Socialist, and Social democratic alliance against Le Penn's fascist and conservative bloc in their wonk-ass parliamentary system as grounds to double down on beating the Revolutionary Left over the head over not wanting to vote for President Oskar Dirlewanger over Cheeto mussolini.

France proved the popular front strategy is the way to beat fascism

Georgi Dimitrov would be smiling this morning in Marxist heaven, if such a thing existed. The Bulgarian Communist is credited with introducing the “people’s front” (or popular front) strategy of uniting labor, left, progressive, and centrist forces to block fascism back in 1935, and France – the first country to elect a popular front government almost 90 years ago, has just done it again, maybe.

My money on what the kind and benevolent uncle Georgi would say about your article is something along the lines of

The left-wing “New Popular Front” coalition defied the polls and knocked the neo-fascist National Rally (Rassemblement National) party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella out of first place in the final round of parliamentary elections.

yeah yeah, I'll take back maybe like 5% of the shit I say about the French over this.

The left bloc’s victory is a win not just for democracy and the working class in France; it is also proof for those of us fighting similar battles against the extreme right that broad unity, organization, and mass mobilization are the way ahead. With less than four months to go before the U.S. elections and the “Biden question” diverting attention away from the effort needed to block Trump, the popular front strategy is more relevant than ever.

SHUT THE FUCK UP THERE IS NO COMMUNIST PARTY, SOCIALIST PARTY, OR ANY SHITSUCCDEM PARTY TO FORM A POPULAR FRONT. THERE ARE ONLY DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. MEANING IT IS STRUCTURALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO UTILIZE A POPULAR FRONT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING FUCKING THERE TO PUT UP FRONT

France’s example

That is inapplicable to the U.S's material conditions, but such marxist concepts are beyond your liberal scope.

The New Popular Front is an alliance of the French Communist Party (PCF), France Insoumise (France Unbowed, the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon), the center-left Socialist Party (PS), and Les Écologistes (a green environmentalist party).

CPUSA HAS LITERALLY CONDEMNED THE U.S GREEN PARTY OPENLY ON THE ILLOGICAL GROUNDS THAT LIBERALS USE OF 'A VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT BIDEN IS A VOTE FOR TRUMP' WHY SHOULD THE GREEN PARTY DO ANYTHING BUT SPIT IN YOUR FACE? in fact I encourage that, any members of the green party here I encourage you to embrace a strategic stance of hostility against CPUSA. Persuade any members willing to listen to abandon ship for redder communist pastures and stonewall any zealot bluMAGATS in denial.

The coalition won 182 seats in France’s 577-member National Assembly, the most seats but not an outright majority. In second place was President Emmanuel Macron’s center-right Ensemble group, with 163. National Rally captured only 143 seats, despite media predictions it was going to win.

Coming in first should give the New Popular Front the right to form a government and propose a new prime minister. But Macron, with the support of big business, continues to stoke fears of the left, just as he did in the elections. He’s looking for a way to keep New Popular Front out of power and has asked his current prime minister, Gabriel Attal, to stay on “temporarily,” even though the latter offered his resignation.

Much to nobody's surprise liberals prefer to stomp for fascism over taking their medicine and working with the Left. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO YOU SHITLIBS WHEN YOU STOMP FOR BIDEN

The president’s maneuvering to block the left and working class-backed parties is no surprise, however. Macron is a former investment banker who worked for Rothschild & Cie Banque before being plucked by former President François Hollande to become finance minister ten years ago.

And Biden doesn't need any of that fancy finance capitalist background because he'll fucking do it for free like he's done his entire career

In that role and later as president, he pursued policies that privatized or deregulated major sections of the French economy, made lay-offs easier, raised the retirement age for workers, and pursued other capitalist class priorities.

Sounds like the shit both u.s parties want to do

He faced brutal criticism from all sides throughout the election campaign; most people think he essentially helped the fascists nearly take over the country by calling for the vote in the first place. Even Attal criticized his boss.

yeah yeah fuck macaroni salad

Macron plunged the country into the snap election following the National Rally’s runaway win in EU parliamentary elections in early June. He gambled that fear of the right would help him steal voters away from the left and strengthen his control of parliament.

did he actually say that? if so he's a fucking clown

National Rally—formerly known as the National Front—was founded in 1972 by anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen to unite the extreme nationalist right. Among its founders were veterans of the French division of Hitler’s Waffen-SS and supporters of the collaborationist Vichy regime of World War II, which helped the Nazis rule France after they invaded the country.

sounds like fine friends to the biden adminstration. better check if they're getting any of that sweet CIA funding.

Now led by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter, Marine Le Pen, the party has tried to paper over its fascist roots, but it maintains the same toxic anti-immigrant positions, and members are frequently outed as racists in the press. But like many neo-fascist parties, National Rally has also taken steps to make itself amenable to the neoliberal ideology of the capitalist ruling class, accepting the euro currency and promising to follow the budget demands of the big banks.

damn they sound pretty fucking american politically

The Communist Party (PCF) warned that “the noose is tightening” on democracy in France following the National Rally’s string of advances. To block the descent into far-right rule, it took the lead in initiating the New Popular Front.

Now I'll normally criticize the PCF for being eurocom parliamentarian dorks but they've done more in just a few weeks than CPUSA has done in 24 years.

Rather than competing and splitting the votes of the left, the parties of the New Popular Front ran a block of common candidates in France’s 577 constituencies, dividing the seats among themselves. After the first round on June 30, in any constituency where it looked like National Rally might win, the coalition stuck to its united front tactics and backed whomever had the best chance of beating the right, whether they were a New Popular Front candidate or not.

I can see what you're trying to angle at CJ, and you're a fucking clown if you're gonna say what I think you're gonna say a few lines later.

Macron’s forces cooperated in several districts, but in others, they clung on, even if it meant fracturing the anti-fascist vote and handing the seat to National Rally. If he had ordered his party to cooperate more closely with the left and pro-republican forces, the scale of the National Rally’s defeat might have been even greater.

Trade unions, mass organizations, environmental advocates, and other citizen groups, however, did rally to the New Popular Front’s message of unity. The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT, France’s largest union federation) gave the bloc its “full support.” The situation was reminiscent of the original Popular Front victory in the 1936 elections, which saw the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, and the CGT all unite to stop fascism.

Good for the French. Totally fucking inapplicable here.

People’s Front USA

JUMP UP YOUR OWN ASS AND DIE

Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are expressions of the same far-right, racist, corporate-backed trend. In France’s 2017 presidential election, Trump gave her a strong endorsement, calling her the “strongest candidate,” while his now-imprisoned adviser Steve Bannon offered his services to her party.

It took broad unity to block Le Pen and the National Rally this weekend in France. Though the political institutions and voting systems in the U.S. are very different, a similar strategic approach is required to block Trump and the MAGA Republicans here.

If everything is fucking different from what we saw in France, that means its very unlikely towards impossible to utilize a similar approach in the U.S. Also remember when I said "I can see what you're trying to angle at CJ," a few lines up? FUCKING CALLED IT

I didn't watch the press conference, I'm going through this thread to try and reconstruct it and I have no idea what actually happened and what's a bit