Pretty funny how boomer liberals who grew up with Nixon as their Trump are now voting and cheering for people to the right of him and Kissinger.

What prompted this thought was finding out that Stephen King supported Gary Hart’s run for presidency back in 1984. Gary Hart was one of the earlier adopters of neoliberalism in the Democratic Party that would eventually become the New Democrats.

Smoke plume from battery plant fire near Fredericktown forces evacuations

at this point, no other country will need to bomb us, all of our stuff will simply explode on its own given enough time.

what you leftists don’t seem to realize is that this is The Most Cringe Election of Our Lives

Does anybody have any articles or other places to learn about china’s aging demographics and low-birth rate/sex-imbalance stuff that isnt western stuff and doomerism “china is OWNED they’re gonna COLLAPSE ANY DAY NOW” and preferably from a communist pov? Though any neutral source would be great cause so far I’ve only seen western stuff and I never trust those to be transparent and non-propaganda.

The new Tory party leader btw:

I heard an interesting take on the USA elections and the Democrats today. Of course Trump is rejected by many people, but his popularity and the way he manages to really draw a crowd are remarkable. No Democratic politician today can do that, I think the last one who really did it was Obama during the 2008 elections (which in four years’ time will be 20 years ago). The Democrats simply can’t draw a crowd like Trump because their candidates have no charisma and no real proposals for the people, all they do is “We’re not Trump, we’ll protect democracy”.

Now, compare any Kamala/Biden speech (except the MINI SODA speech) with Trump’s rallies, of course Trump says a lot of nonsense and garbage, but he knows how to get the crowd going. Meanwhile, the Democrats are all boring and no energy. It seems that their voters are hostage to the Democrats because they fear that if they don’t vote for the Democrats, they will lose all their rights and that at least the Democrats will slow down the decline of freedom a little.

I’ve seen some comparisons between democrats and socdems/leftists in Latin America. Lula da Silva, who is the same age as Trump, is always energetic, the crowd is always cheering and talking, he’s there making jokes, comments about soccer, using language and slang that most people will understand, making proposals that actual affect people in a positive way. Compare Lula’s rallies with Bolsonaro’s. All Bolsonaro does is cry about the fact that the “evil” Supreme Court judge Moraes won’t let him do livestreaming anymore (even his supporters are bored of this shit). And Lula is a cancer survivor who literally has a broken hip bone. The same goes for Nicolas Maduro, he’s always dancing, making long speeches, bringing cool guests, he knows what his people want to hear, when people say Maduro is like the left-wing Trump, they’re not lying, his rallies are very energetic. The same goes for Petro, José Mujica and even the Kirchners in Argentina.

If France attempted to attack Algeria, who would they attempt to set up as puppet rulers? There will be consequences for Western Sahara being thrown under the bus.

Fed seen on track for 25-basis-point rate cuts next week and in December

Traders of futures that settle to the Fed’s policy rate instead moved to price in about a 99% chance that the central bank on Nov. 7 would cut its policy rate by a quarter of a percentage point to the 4.50%-4.75% range, compared with 92% before the release of the jobs data. They see about an 83% chance that the policy rate will be in the 4.25%-4.50% range by the end of this year, compared with 69% earlier.

Fed policymakers will begin their next two-day policy meeting a day after the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, and though the result is not expected to directly factor into their decision two days later, many analysts see election uncertainty as an added temporary weight on the labor market in October that could be reversed in coming months.

Financial markets currently see the Fed lowering its policy rate to the 3.50%-3.75% range by September of next year.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: September’s first rate cut really marked the commencing of Phase 2 of US imperialist war against the rest of the world. This is quite possible the most evil plan that the US is about to pull.

As I’ve said before, the rate cuts will do two things: first, all the dollars sucked into the US capital market will flow into the foreign sector again, to make the Global South countries become addicted to the dollar again; and second, the rate cut will dry up the interest payment that had a huge contribution in the US deficit spending over the past two years, which can only mean a recession.

Remember when all the economics pundits crying about how Biden’s interest rate hike will cause a recession from 2022-2024? Well, they were all wrong. I’ve always said that the recession will happen after they start to cut the rate, and this is well timed to happen until months after the election (we won’t see the consequences until at least 6-9 months from now, depending on how fast the interest rate is being cut and how much deficit the Treasury is creating to compensate for that).

What to expect: many export-dependent countries are going to be economically crippled when the US goes into recession, as consumption and demands for goods and services slump. If the US can replicate the Global Financial Crisis of 2009, expect to see an explosion of IMF loans and waves of mass privatization across the Global South over the next few years.

These countries have been hit very hard since Covid, then the fallout of sanctions against Russia (commodity price increase), US fed rate hike (debt interest went up, investment capital outflows), they cannot sustain another shockwave like this.

The US will then exploit the crippled global economy to reshape the global supply chain to its own interest in its big fight against China. The economy over the next decade is likely going to be bad, and the outcome will be decided by a race to see who - the US or China - will get to reshape the global supply chain over the coming decades.

Fuck, this is so evil I cannot even begin to comprehend how ghoulish it must be to weaponize the global economy to retain its hegemony over the world. Unless China has some trump cards (I’m not seeing them), there’s no way we can escape from this. China’s monetary easing that was timed just after the US fed rate cut was a sign that even China, the strongest economy in the world in real terms, is afraid of what the US recession is going to do. This is the power of monetary imperialism.

The US is about to take a “big bite” on the globe.

(also BRICS has turned into a joke now, we shouldn’t expect to see a real challenge against US hegemony on that front as well)

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/why-does-the-west-hate-russia-so-much.html

Nakedcapitalism.com on British plutocrats’ preference of fascism over communism in the lead up to WW2 with many quotes from contemporary European diplomats. A lot of similar themes from blackshirts and reds.

Fed accounts are bubbling. Rumours of an iranian counter strike.

Earlier today, rumours that ballistic missiles were being transported in Iran.

This evening, rumours that a large scale UAV attack with “hundreds” of UAVs is to be launched from Iraq.

Take with pinch of salt but something might happen.

In other rumour mill news, Ukraine claims they’ve killed 7 DPRK troops and captured one in the Kursk region.

depersonalizing while staring at the “KAMALA HARRIS FOR THE PEOPLE” bumper sticker on the Tesla in front of me

more like KAMALA HARRIS FOR KEEPING INNOCENT PEOPLE IN PRISON TO EXPLOIT THEIR LABOR LEFTIST MEME DOT JPEG

Peru: The Congress approved a draft legislative resolution authorizing the entry of U.S. military forces into the country. The measure, approved and promoted by the government of Dina Boluarte, obtained 62 votes in favor, 23 against, and 7 abstentions.

Steven Seagal is in Kursk

There’s a lady on tiktok that comes up for me very often and she sets off my psyops alarm bells every time.

https://www.tiktok.com/@openbookshelf

She shows up for me often and has nominally soft socialist-adjacent criticisms of power, authority, current government, wealth, landlords, even anti-monarchism and anti-cop, etc etc etc. But when it comes to the biggest issues? The issues of anti-imperialism? She falls on the side of nato EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

She’s a pretty lady, whose brand is basically a caricature of Britishness, she pulls off the British librarian caricature that I can only describe as like Rachel Weisz in The Mummy. Is almost always seen with a mug of tea in her hand and if it wouldn’t make it too obvious I think they’d throw the British Union Jack flag in every video but instead they keep that to only a few.

It’s like she’s tailor-made to suck people in to a kind of up your arse intellectualism that then redirects any potential anti-establishment or revolutionary energy into fucking uselessness.

The biggest giveaway here however is that she worked in China until recently, for the Chinese government she claims, for 3 years. Yet she calls the party by the shibboleth CCP and regularly performs anti-China propaganda unprompted, like it’s a job. She does not promote other left accounts. She does not promote events. She exists solely as a sheepdog.

This strategy is what I think should be called “de-influencer”, the goal is to stick people into the left that appear left and have a great media image that’s attractive and easily something people can be sucked in by, and to use that to suck air out of the sails of real leftist influence in online platforms.

I’m telling you, this woman is a cop. GCHQ, Scotland Yard, MI, some branch of Civil Service, maybe military, I don’t know. But she’s one of them.

The fact that she stopped working in China at the exact moment in time China cracked down on western agents within their government makes me think she was pulled out because it got dangerous.