@ Posted by: donkeytale | Aug 15 2020 1:01 utc | 109
But why would the mafia kill Kennedy, if he had a second invasion in the making? It would be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Remember: the theory is the USA would conquer Cuba and make it a giant resort with Casinos having absolute freedom, thus greatly benefiting the American mafia. The mafia was, therefore, in favor of the continuation of the invasion of Cuba, not against.
The most likely explanation here is the mafia wasn’t in control of the situation: it didn’t control Oswald and it didn’t have a choice on Oswald’s fate. That only leaves the CIA (which we know fully briefed Johnson at the least).
Johnson almost immediately called off the second invasion of Cuba (April 7th, 1964). And nothing happened to him or his family. Well, if the mafia killed one (very beloved) POTUS, it certainly could kill another one – specially a not directly democratically elected one (it’s not in the American tradition to take the veep into consideration until 2016). The only explanation here is the CIA (therefore, Johnson) was in control of the situation the whole time.
And think about the USA in 1963: an exuberant empire growing at an amazing speed, where every POTUS elected would be so with ample consensus and absolute power (hegemony). It is very unlikely to imagine a POTUS in an early 1960s USA to be so easily taken down without his Veep’s direct participation.

Posted by: vk | Aug 15 2020 1:17 utc | 104

b, I think your point that Harris is a detriment as part of the Democratic ticket – but only if you suppose that what voters want is the decisive factor.
I also didn’t see this making sense, until I read the following from a comment on today’s Water Cooler at nakedcapitalism.com:

Burns
August 14, 2020 at 4:12 pm
“That politico article about the left wing is spot-on. Allow me to propose a qanon conspiracy of my own: Biden was never intended to be the presidential nominee. Harris was.
I think the Democratic leadership wanted Harris from the start. She checks all the boxes: neoliberal, not white, female. All other options were either after thoughts or completely unacceptable (E.g. Sanders).
Unfortunately, that pesky thing called voter preference fouled up the Dems’ plans and Harris got smoked before the Iowa caucuses. Donors saw her polling and realized no amount of money would secure her Iowa victory.
The rest of the contest comes down to Sanders and Biden. We all know how that played out, so no need to go into detail. However, when the Dems knife Sanders and see how dusty Biden is, they realize Harris is back in the game. Biden as Prez, Harris as Veep. It’s the perfect opportunity to backdoor her into POTUS and end-run around the electorate!
That’s my political conspiracy. Probably bunk but, I think, plausible…”

My thanks to the above commenter – this is just a partial comment, but it did make sense to me. The factor we need to remember is who has control of the process. Dems, those who are active in the process, were not impressed with her as a candidate for president. b’s point is she doesn’t strengthen the ticket, normally how you choose a runningmate.
There was a thread within the Water Cooler to the effect that the 2016 strategy may be the only one available to progressives, even if it meant re-electing Trump.
I had been going to vote Green. But apparently Howie Hawkins is a Russiagate fan. I can’t go there! International affairs are important to me.

Posted by: juliania | Aug 15 2020 1:23 utc | 106

Reformist politics are disappearing in the rear view mirror.
Harris?

Posted by: Duncan Idaho | Aug 15 2020 1:59 utc | 108

Kamala Harris is as Indian as Obama is African, so just only the skin color.
Three main reasons she was chosen: she is a woman, she is of color and she is from California. Nothing about her personality of views thus.

Posted by: Antonym | Aug 15 2020 2:13 utc | 110

At 112 I meant to say, of course, that I think your point is correct,b. And one could also suppose, as others have said, that neither Trump nor Biden really want to win. Which would make for an interesting finale.
Be safe, everyone!

Posted by: juliania | Aug 15 2020 2:31 utc | 112

Madison James #117
leaky email addresses: the entire internet is a sieve. Everything passing through gets caught on the NSA grate. Based on that assumption you should proceed with caution and expect the odd email as your address and nom de plume may well have been sniffed out on exit from your device loooong before it reached its destination.
That router on the wall or that wireless service is a treacherous weak link.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 15 2020 2:58 utc | 114

uncle tungsten 121
Anyone thinking uncle five-eyes is not aware of who is saying what on the internet is somewhat naive.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 15 2020 3:17 utc | 116

casting pearls before swine… oh well. i didn’t realize i was disagreeing with you so strongly, or that my comments were insincere… this is my last comment to you…

Posted by: james | Aug 15 2020 3:44 utc | 118

You think to complicated. Harris has been nominated for two reasons:
1. She is a woman and non-white.
2. She is non-threatening.

Posted by: m | Aug 15 2020 3:51 utc | 120

@ Peter AU1 | Aug 15 2020 3:26 utc | 125 with the back and forth about Harris’s India connect et al
If you think about it, the exceptionalist culture of India fits with that of empire in contrast with China culture.
Empire knows it can’t stay in control by merit and they can’t have the China aligned socialist axis show their anti-humanistic traits more than the Covid virus is doing…..so where from here? I somehow can’t conceive of full bore trade war with each side having its own supply chain and protection for it…the world is too interwoven at this time for this to be real in less than a year minimum.
So, where from here? Will the public ever get to have input to the social contract of the future, if there is one?
Where are the fucking aliens? The mass of humanity, not to mention the rest of the earth’s species, have been stuck in this poorly designed freak show long enough to be eligible to file a claim against interstellar species abuse….

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 15 2020 4:25 utc | 122

b thank you for an excellent post.
There are two disconcerting aspects to this whole tawdry saga:
the video you link to runs for 46 MINUTES and 38 SECONDS!!! That is an OD of dementia!
The image you reproduced of the two scumbags walking across the stage with Biden’s face mask upside down?

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 15 2020 4:56 utc | 124

As #45 said, it was the zionist that chose her. She was the only candidate that was servile enough to go the AIPAC conference even when Bernie did not do so. She is an isreali firster and her husband is her mossad handler. She even went so far as to have a jewish wedding so effectively america will have its first jewish president who they have been pushing for years. This is after she pushes biden down a flight of stairs or he has some other type of accident.
One other thing that needs to be considered. So called African Americans have been responible for some heinous crimes along their masters. When you look at colin powell who was of jamaican ancestry, the oligarchs were able to point to a brown face as they slaughtered millions in the middle east. You have the mutt obama who was not truly african american and you get the same killer results. Susan Rice is another one as we now know about kamala who not African American but plays the card to get to political office. As an African American, she doesen’t fool us and I think you will see a lot of Black people staying at home. In the end, it doesn’t really matter. Mark Twain said, “if voting really mattered, it would be against the law.”

Posted by: Tonymike | Aug 15 2020 4:58 utc | 126

Creepy Uncle Joe
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/2/18290345/joe-biden-lucy-flores-amy-lappos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ-YjGmpO4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEC0eRFQvLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSDACKjdIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAUOurZIVfI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCf2Nfd9iCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lM8qY09Bpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XqF4wA-dco

Posted by: Mao | Aug 15 2020 5:05 utc | 128

Jackrabbit #127

Looking forward to vk’s answers to donkeytale’s questions @Aug15 1:01 #109, though.

Yep me too. That will take some mansplaining. I think donkeytale speared the mammoth with that one.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 15 2020 5:11 utc | 130

I hate Trump and his swamp as much as anyone. However, I cant stomach Biden/Harris. Basically the DNC flipped off their base so it looks to me like the DNC is throwing the election (actually we knew that with Biden but going with Harris is giving them the bird with both hands) . Trump couldn’t have picked a better opponent for himself.
Both parties are controlled by the same Globalists. Trump is their trojan horse, pretending to be otherwise but allowing the Globalists to exploit COVID/BLM so they can push through their Green Technocratic 2030 Agenda.
OTOH, if Trumps mission was to bankrupt America, he has already accomplished his mission. Him, Ross and Mnuchin are experts in bankruptcy and foreclosures. They have demolished the Real Economy and got the gun toting right sitting on the sidelines rooting for their favorite Tyrant. A complete disintegration of the US would occur if Biden/Harris were to win or contest a Trump win, as the right has little tolerance for Tyranny by others. That would lead to civil war no doubt. Remember, its not who votes that counts, or how they vote, its who counts the votes. Thats done in each state.
I suspect the election results will be contested with the purpose of creating total chaos and breaking up the US into several parts that will lead up to the Great Global Reset in January. While a civil war in the US seemingly puts the US on the sidelines a New World Order free of American hegemony will be supported by the rest of the world. Unknown to most, the Global elite who secretly control the US will also control the new Global Republic. Out of the cooking pan and into the fire for them since there will be no freedom or democracy in this New World, and the same tyrants will rule them as in the US.
A divided America, after the end of the Civil War will reluctantly join the Global Republic as several separate nations. Global peace keeping forces will keep the peace and the US military will be integrated into the Global Republics Peace Force.
Biden/Harris will run the West Coast state. Trump gets the East Coast . What they plan for the middle I don’t know, maybe just a bunch of independent states with trade agreements with the East and West. Or maybe a group of non-Trump Republicans take it and run it.
Bipartisan Plans are being worked out for the chaos to come that will be triggered by the elections
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/25/nation/bipartisan-group-secretly-gathered-game-out-contested-trump-biden-election-it-wasnt-pretty/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
WASHINGTON — On the second Friday in June, a group of political operatives, former government and military officials, and academics quietly convened online for what became a disturbing exercise in the fragility of American democracy.
The group, which included Democrats and Republicans, gathered to game out possible results of the November election…..
“All of our scenarios ended in both street-level violence and political impasse,” said Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor and former Defense Department official who co-organized the group known as the Transition Integrity Project. She described what they found in bleak terms: “The law is essentially … it’s almost helpless against a president who’s willing to ignore it.”
Using a role-playing game that is a fixture of military and national security planning, the group envisioned a dark 11 weeks between Election Day and Inauguration Day, one in which Trump and his Republican allies used every apparatus of government — the Postal Service, state lawmakers, the Justice Department, federal agents, and the military — to hold onto power, and Democrats took to the courts and the streets to try to stop it…..
Brooks, Gilman, and others recruited a slate of players including a former swing state governor, a former White House chief of staff, and a former head of the Department of Homeland Security. They invited both Democrats and Republicans who they knew had concerns about Trump’s comments on the election; nearly 80 people in all were involved.
They included Republicans Trey Grayson, the former Kentucky secretary of state, and conservative commentator Bill Kristol, as well as Democrats Leah Daughtry, who was CEO of the 2008 and 2016 Democratic National Convention Committees, former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen, and progressive Democratic strategist Adam Jentleson…..
Trumps boys are also running Operation Blackout exercises in each state run by an Israeli company named Cybereason which specializes in cyber security. The exercises involved cyber attacks on election days that are blamed on another state and end in the cancellation /Postponement of the election and Martial Law

Posted by: Kay Fabe | Aug 15 2020 5:38 utc | 132

Kay Fabe #140
Surprise surprise. And every one of them was fully aware that if they failed to follow the script leading to civil disorder they would get no more dollars from the MIC or the Police Union or the local military fort conveniently located in every state.
They probably also considered the not so remote chance that their election rally events could be unfortunately invaded by the ‘deplorables’ or ‘BLM whities’ waving banners and throwing bricks.
Then they might be very mindful and even frequently reminded that there is always the chance that someone would accuse them of being ‘ant-semitic’ as “that always works”.

Basically the DNC flipped off their base so it looks to me like the DNC is throwing the election (actually we knew that with Biden but going with Harris is giving them the bird with both hands) . Trump couldn’t have picked a better opponent for himself.

Sure looks like that but if a credible third party run took off soon then there could be a start on the changemaking that is really needed in the USA. If there was one USA election that is wide open for a streaker to run then this is that election.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 15 2020 6:24 utc | 134

psychohistorian 130
Sometimes you have to just sit back and watch history in real time. Not for the squeamish I guess. For me it was late in life that I got the urge to travel a bit and see how other people lived, cultures and so forth. I would very much have liked for my children to be able to travel if they wanted to without any of this cold or hot war bullshit.
A bit of stuff on how China will react ect in a few of these threads. When china moves, US will find itself hit as hard as the heroic jawan in the Galwin gorge.
History is full of of clowns like US and wannabe India.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Aug 15 2020 7:30 utc | 136

With Biden winning the next action will be to get him declared incompetent and have Harris take over. With Harris “in charge” she will need a vice president, and guess who.

Tobi | Aug 14 2020 18:46 utc | 31:
I’m expecting the virus to be used to explain Biden’s demise. The “deplorables” would get the blame. Harris declares some kind of nationwide lockdown to prevent any protest when Bill Gates pushes his Digital Certificate. But, Harris will soon find out that it’s next to impossible to enforce it. As for the VP position, I can’t see Hillary returning only to play second fiddle. It wouldn’t matter anyway as the nation would be engulfed in chaos and violence.
Honestly, I’m with Jackrabbit on this one. The Democrats want Trump to win.

Posted by: Ian2 | Aug 15 2020 8:38 utc | 138

@uncle tungsten | Aug 15 2020 5:08 utc | 137

Wouldn’t a Carrington event be a poke in the eye?

A quick note to say I appreciate your posts in general, and totally agree on your comments about those ‘smart’ devices. I see the ‘smart’ terminology as a kind of sign language between those in the know, one should keep anything marked as ‘smart’ at more than an arms length. It may be ‘smart’, but not the way most people think.
Indeed a Carrington Event would be more than a poke in the eye, it would cause an instant return to a society without abundant technology, and cause massive starvation and death. Such events are real and not fake like the covert-19. The Sun is a moderately variable star and the Carrington Event did indeed happen in 1859 when society was not as technologically vulnerable as it is today. It will happen again.
Another natural event of similar magnitude with even more recent historical precedent is the Tunguska 1908 meteor. If it happened over a populated area, it would wipe out millions in an instant if it hit for example St. Petersburg (city chosen since the Tunguska meteor would have hit St. Petersburg if it arrived only 4.5 hours later). Also the Chelyabinsk 2013 event should be a reminder that these things are real and do happen. If we rewind only 13 000 years (i.e. nothing even in the perspective of humans), a much bigger event erased the megafauna in all of north america, likely caused by a fragment of the Taurid stream. If it happened today, the US would be completely wiped off the map and the rest of the world would suffer as well.
The political events of today, exemplified now by this Harris imbecile, illustrates a society that has become completely self-consumed and totally ignorant of its own vulnerabilities. Regardless of any natural events like a Carrington Event or something bigger like the comet that caused the Younger Dryas, such a society has no future.

Posted by: Norwegian | Aug 15 2020 9:01 utc | 140

Paul Craig Roberts has an insightful article about recent events, and their place in the bigger picture.
On his website, dated 14Aug20 and titled “The November Election Is About Race”.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/08/14/the-november-election-is-about-race/
Kamala Harris is part of this picture.
:))

Posted by: jc | Aug 15 2020 9:29 utc | 142

It’s simple to understand why: First, Joe Biden getting the nomination. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together KNOWS he wasn’t the right choice. They forced the other candidates out before the primaries just like they did Sanders four years ago. Second verse same as the first. Second, there can be no doubt in any thinking person’s mind that Kamala wasn’t the right pick. She has done at least equal harm to the black community as Joe Biden himself. SO – WHY? – because they have NO plans of having an honest election. They needed their puppets (Joe and Kamala have both proven to be good servants) in place to continue with their destructive policies which ensure their riches, at the peril of Americans. If you hear a popping sound after reading this then you will know you have successfully gotten your head out of your arse. Thank you

Posted by: Trish Schild | Aug 15 2020 10:31 utc | 144

willie | Aug 15 2020 10:44 utc | 145
c’mon willie, there is plenty of racism here on the old continent and most of it quite overt. I remember talking to a brit living in Germany who told me there was no racism where he lived. I asked him how many non whites lived in his village to which he replied “none”.
how many of you enlightened europeans are thrilled with the idea of gypsies and Rom moving into your town? most europeans I know hate to some degree muslims and are kinda wary of Hindus and Sikhs too.
but don’t feel too bad about it, it is really normal. you find the same thing when you go to predominantly black countries….only the other way around.
tribalism and campanilismo are not new by any means.

Posted by: dan of steele | Aug 15 2020 11:13 utc | 146

VEEP
Copmala no Impala as she
steamrolls the streets
from west coast haunts like Oakland to
Washington DC
Copmala no apola-gize for
innocent men detained
and the media will help her—do you
even know their names?
Copmala make you holla as she
signals with her skin
after Grandpa takes his long sleep
the real work begins
so dolla-up, Copmala, ‘cause
orange man on the loose
and with your tough exterior you’ll
sell a better noose

Posted by: lizard | Aug 15 2020 12:39 utc | 148

Sympathy for the Devils…
http://www.thebellforum.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=219&sid=c3736aad3fe8695533e404feb48a0edf
old, yet fresh as a newly emergent stinkhorn

Posted by: blindpig | Aug 15 2020 12:49 utc | 150

Every single claim that Harris’ selection as VP is about making her the establishment candidate in 2024 re-affirms the idea that Biden was selected as VP for the same kind of reason. Yet most here are convinced the establishment candidate was Buttigieg or Harris or Clinton, not Biden. Most perspectives here are so confused and arbitrary they really need to be re-thought, thoroughly.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Aug 15 2020 12:53 utc | 152

ralphieboy @Aug15 10:08 #143

And in the end, you have to choose from among the candidates available and not from your ideal wish list.

Rephrased: I play the rigged game ’cause it’s the only game in town!
!!

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 15 2020 13:01 utc | 154

A lot of ‘interesting’ theories by (mostly) people who weren’t going to vote for Biden regardless of who he selected.
The original posts here are pretty interesting, but the comment section frequently reads like graduates of an insane asylum.

Posted by: Sidney Caesar | Aug 15 2020 13:13 utc | 156

Here’s what I was talking about earlier:
Chair of Congressional Black Caucus endorses Biden
If memory doesn’t fail me, Bernie Sanders was walking into a probable nomination, when, suddenly, Biden was put back from his retirement and, almost immediately, won support of the Black Caucus. The Black Caucus then guaranteed Biden an easy sweep in the Deep South States, burying Sanders’ chances of getting the nomination.
I remember commenting here at the time that this episode was ironic, as it was the black community that acted like the decisive reactionary force, stopping the democratic socialists.
It could be that choosing a black woman as veep was part of the negotiations between Biden and the Black Caucus. Hence it had to be a black person. By exclusion, it could’ve only been Kamala Harris.
–//–
@ Posted by: groucho | Aug 15 2020 2:12 utc | 109
It is not surprising Johnson denied until the end of his life. POTUSes of the post-FDR era USA are usually expected to be deified after their deaths (usually, with the creation of a library or a foundation, or both), so Johnson was simply protecting his legacy.
Johson didn’t have connections with the mafia. And that’s precisely my hypothesis: he killed Kennedy in order to stave off the mafia’s ascension within the USG.
But it is certain Castro didn’t have anything to do with it. If that’s Johnson’s final version, then he’s certainly lying.

Posted by: vk | Aug 15 2020 13:20 utc | 158

@Posted by: vk | Aug 15 2020 13:20 utc | 158
I think that we must stop considering that a possibility of someone resembling a socialist would win power in the US exist, as we see how the US stablishment has unleashed a whirlpool of regime change operations starting one end of the Mediterranean to the other in its intends of overthrowing anything sounding in the slightest socialist..an not only at purely ideological sense, but anything sounding as of benefitting people or nation´s sovereignty, and redistributing both wealth and financial burden…

Posted by: H.Schmatz | Aug 15 2020 13:37 utc | 160

Why Kamala Harris?
Because nobody is loyal to her. If Biden’s elected (a big if), she’ll be dumped as VP shortly after the election and Hillary Clinton will be appointed in her place. No Democrat will object because shortly after that Biden will resign and Hillary Clinton will become the first female president of the United States.
Posted by: Ghost Ship | Aug 14 2020 23:56 utc | 98
I agree with the first sentence. But the implications you get are wrong. What would be the purpose of “dumping Harris”? Lacking loyalists, she would be neutral when political appointments will be made, Goldman Sachs will get positions they care about, ditto MIC, pharma etc. Actually, Harris is valuable because she may be a conduit for fabulously rich donors in Pacific region, balancing their Atlantic friends.
As HRC is concerned, as a public person she is a bit old and has a “baggage”. People can achieve some degree of immortality by “soul” transfer, Harris is a better vehicle than most. HRC is ready for a cabinet role.
At this point a more salient question is: what does “interagency consensus” want? The way I see it, HRC and Obama are prime examples of folks who had a stray idea or two when they were younger, but were beaten into proper shape once it was important.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Aug 15 2020 14:06 utc | 162

It is realistic to see Biden as incapable of making any significant decision, so I question that implication or assumption.
I also am inclined to dismiss the implicit idea that an “election” in the sense we understand the word, will take place.
When Bush v Gore was “decided” by Supreme Court Andy Rooney called it a Banana Republic election. That 60 minutes skit is something I myself saw. It seems to have been destroyed.
@ Keiser (Keiser Report – Summer Solutions: How Trump stole 2020 (E1580)) Palast also speaks of Banana Republic, and describes just how the “election” is rigged and, inter alia, a 12th amendment election (each State gets one vote…)
I tend to agree that the token female person is being curated for 2024, but would opine that if there is an “election” in 24, it will be as meaningless as the characters it may boost. Essentially I expect that the rates and magnitude of changes will eclipse such plans.
In 2024 there may not be a US, and portions of the land may well be policed by – well there we get perhaps too speculative.
Recall the prediction that the US population in 2025 will be 54 million….

Posted by: Walter | Aug 15 2020 14:50 utc | 164

The 54 M prediction > “Deagel Drops US 2025 Population Forecast To 54 Million” just use a decent searchengine… Withal, that alone tends to reduce the entire rodeo to farce.

Posted by: Walter | Aug 15 2020 15:00 utc | 166

Sidney-
I agree.
While I have never voted for a repug or dim (well one repug in Maui– the Dims always win and it was spur of he moment)-
the anti Dim makeup of this discussion is revealing.
Reformist politics just keeps the proletariat occupied.
As Emma Goldman pointed out:
“If voting could change anything it would be illegal”

Posted by: Duncan Idaho | Aug 15 2020 15:24 utc | 168

Harris may turn out to be a black Hillary Clinton–mean, vindictive, corporatist, militarist and imperialist. As such, she is a perfect fit for Biden, who was the choice of the Democratic Party establishment right from the start. The fact that she is black and female may inspire some people to vote for her despite her obvious flaws, but on the whole, she is not popular and was unable to win a *single* delegate in the Dem Party primaries. If the Republican candidate were anyone but Donald Trump, Biden/Harris would be food for crows and maggots.

Posted by: Rob | Aug 15 2020 15:34 utc | 170

why Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as running mate?”
I think we must all remember Article II of the US Constitution does not allow any American, no matter its color, age, or religion to vote for either el Presidente or his side kick.. Article II also vests the power of dealing with foreign nations, treaties, military bases in foreign lands and the trillions of government contracts that go with those foreign bases. as well as the appointment of contract supervisors (known as Diplomats) solely, absolutely and completely to the home office operating out of the white house located in DC. (many wonder how the president can have his office in his home, the zoning laws in DC don’t allow offices in ones home).
Anyway, I think K Harris was picked to make more flush those foreign contracts handed out by the Senior crook appointed to the White house.
I think too Harris does just find <=as a pot stirrer in the States, as is evidenced by the confused comments at B's bar today.. controlled planned, and schedule chaos is essential to regime change and the Harris appointment clearly adds to the domestic confusion.

Posted by: snake | Aug 15 2020 15:54 utc | 172

one can sense the cynicism and mistrust on the usa election process here at moa very quickly… i am wondering if this cynicism, mistrust and even hostility is also shared in the much wider communities in the usa?? my impression here in canada is there is more trust or confidence in the system.. i see it much the same here in canada, but if i was to talk to people in my family or people i know – many would be fairly trusting of the political once every 4 year thing for the most part… in the usa is it really being felt across the board a huge level of cynicism and mistrust of the basic every 4 year democratic process?? it looks like it..

Posted by: james | Aug 15 2020 16:05 utc | 174

Why Has Joe Biden Chosen Kamala Harris
well, i suppose with a decrepit career politician like Joe Biden, balancing the ticket makes sense(yes, after all that’s just another insiders game). i mean, they gotta juice a semblance of equity and harmony, honesty and rectitude from somewhere, no? and there’s the rub…with politicians any kind of balancing act’s gonna directly defy the first principle of morality, which of course inevitably leads to precisely where we are now, i.e. mired in bankruptcy and dysfunction, an advanced state of collapse, with a bunch of sociopathic twits at the helm.

Posted by: john | Aug 15 2020 16:06 utc | 176

Kamala Harris will expunge all of the “incompetent, unqualified, corrupt” judges appointed by Trump. There are over 200 of them. Once the Maxwell saga begins to unravel, the Democratic Party needs “dependable” judges to deal with accusations that have already reached the Clintons, some lawyers (Dershowitz himself included) and basically the whole deep state and, yes, the Wall Street. Also, her “top cop” reputation will help put the BLM genie back into the bottle as the protesters are getting too close to the nice houses owned by the Democrats themselves and are wrecking Democrat-run cities. Check this

Posted by: Jonathan W | Aug 15 2020 16:55 utc | 178

Posted by: Rob | Aug 15 2020 15:34 utc | 170
She will be even more vindictive, corporatist, militarist and imperialist than Hillary.
Good for you we think alike.. I’ll keep repeating, I’m no Trump lover but will never vote for him now or ever. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein in 2016 and will skip the president vote.
“If the Republican candidate were anyone but Donald Trump, Biden/Harris would be food for crows and maggots.”
Wrong both are “food for crows and maggots, now”

Posted by: JC | Aug 15 2020 17:01 utc | 180

The Dems have already agreed to loose.

Posted by: Johny Conspiranoid | Aug 15 2020 17:06 utc | 182

Posted by: GreatSocialist | Aug 15 2020 17:12 utc | 183
Good analysis.

Posted by: Sidney Caesar | Aug 15 2020 17:20 utc | 184

“Kamala means “horrible, terrible” in Finnish.”
This is a terrible personal attack. In case you did not know, she is part EastIndian

Posted by: a fan | Aug 15 2020 17:35 utc | 186

Maybe, b, it is is the wrong question, and one should ask:
Why did Harris choose Biden? …. 🙂
Imho, amongst the candidates in the primaries Harris was very ‘in’, typical of a Dem Top-Group choice, a favored person. Harris tanked in the primaries, abysmal, in her home State to boot (deservedly so) and it was therefore impossible to hoist her to the top spot in the ‘regular’ way.
So Biden is booted in, ‘takes on a senior role’ anointed with the label ‘consensual candidate’- and poof! a magic puff, all the other candidates quit or somehow vanish into murky twilight zones (Idk if this was OK under Dem Party rules, but hey, nobody cares anymore.)
After some ‘seeming’ hesitation Harris is nominated for the VP slot and, there you go, if the Dems win, Biden will be a figure-head, then he .. falls ill/retires/dies/ whatever, and Kamaleon is Prez.
Harris was the intended candidate from the start, say. Why Biden? Well, VP under Obama is a + point. (Obama => Dem success, glory.) Known, has a background, established figure, etc. MSM can pontificate.
Who else could be suitable and agree to occupy such a place-holder role? A nobody, a newbie, a Clinton, a NY Mayor, are out. (Michelle Obama refused.) So Harris (aka, or in conjuction with, the top-dog Dems who chose her), participated in, or went along with, the choice of Biden as a place holder.
Conspi and fanci (fanciful) sure, but these are the kinds of machinations US citizens are subject to, this scenario is just one version.
Harris, as compared to the other Dem primary candidates, Warren, Sanders, Buttig, and Yang (others i forget) is the only one who has proved herself to be cruel, spiteful, arrogant, and murderous —towards crims, prisoners, mostly blacks btw, etc. She also has quite the portfolio of investments in Big Corps etc. She is also the only one to be publically trangressive (re. affairs .. ) Being gay in a stable relationship doesn’t count.
see also: David G. 22, Josh 37 / 38, Russel 42 (competition with AOC etc) is another good point, annie 96. Others for sure but I couldn’t read it all.

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 15 2020 17:43 utc | 188

The reason we have elections at all is because it is cheaper for the oligarchy than a full blown police state.
With that said, maintaining “The Democracy Show©” has been getting more and more expensive with each new episode. I am wondering when the cost-benefit analysis will go negative?

Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 15 2020 17:55 utc | 190

@ Posted by: oldhippie | Aug 15 2020 17:48 utc | 189; @ Posted by: Walter | Aug 15 2020 16:04 utc | 173
I think you two are mixing two separate plots:
1) Oswald’s one (which killed Kennedy); officially a lone wolf terrorist attack. No evidence of the true plot (not surprising, as the evidence, if it ever existed, was certainly destroyed immediately);
2) Oswald’s assassination, the more well documented plot, which we know for certain was carried on with an alliance between the FBI, the CIA, Texas’ oilmen, the mafia and Johnson himself (as the highest Executive authority).
The “fusion” between the FBI, the mafia and the CIA you refer to are relative to the second plot. Johnson (apud Haig, 1992) later claimed he hid this second plot because he wanted to protect Kennedy’s dignity (his links with the mafia).
The first plot is the one that’s mysterious. The only certainty is that the official version is false: Oswald certainly didn’t act alone. The official version is simply intellectually dishonest: Oswald is pictured as, at the same time: 1) pro-USSR; 2) pro-Castro; 3) pro-mafia; 4) with mental issues and 5) as capable of acting under the CIA’s radar. One doesn’t need to evoke the CIA’s “lost in the bureaucratic paperwork” excuse stenographed via Jane Meyer’s book “Dark Money” to realize this is just bad plausible deniability. Oswald is practically canonized to Deus ex Machina status here, a character worthy of the most over-the-top Shakespearean dramas.

Posted by: vk | Aug 15 2020 18:00 utc | 192

Maybe it’s the wrong question, one should ask:
Why did Harris choose Biden? ………. 🙂
Imho, amongst the candidates in the primaries Harris was very ‘in’, typical of a Dem Top-Group choice, a favored person. Harris tanked in the primaries, abysmal, in her home State to boot (deservedly so) and it was therefore impossible to hoist her to the top spot in the ‘regular’ way.
So Biden is booted in, ‘takes on a senior role’ anointed with the label ‘consensual candidate’- and poof! a magic puff, all the other candidates quit or somehow vanish into murky twilight zones (Idk if this was OK under Dem Party rules, but hey, nobody cares anymore.)
After some ‘seeming’ hesitation Harris is nominated for the VP slot and, there you go, if the Dems win, Biden will be a figure-head, then he .. falls ill/retires/dies/ whatever, and Kamaleon is Prez.
Harris was the intended candidate from the start, say. Why Biden? Well, VP under Obama is a + point. (Obama => Dem success, glory.) Known, has a background, established figure, etc. MSM can pontificate.
Who else could be suitable and agree to occupy such a place-holder role? A nobody, a newbie, a Clinton, a NY Mayor, are out. (Michelle Obama refused.) So Harris (aka, or in conjuction with, the top-dog Dems who chose her), result, Biden to be the place holder.
Conspi and fanci (fanciful) sure, but these are the kinds of machinations US citizens are subject to, this scenario is just one version.
Harris, as compared to the other Dem primary candidates, Warren, Sanders, Buttig, and Yang (others i forget) is the only one who has proved herself to be cruel, spiteful, arrogant, and murderous —towards crims, prisoners, mostly blacks btw, etc. She also has quite the portfolio of investments in Big Corps etc. She is also the only one to be publically trangressive (re. affairs .. ) Being gay in a stable relationship doesn’t count.
see also: David G. 22, Josh 37 / 38, Russel 42 (competition with AOC etc) is another good point, annie 96. Others for sure but I couldn’t read it all.

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 15 2020 18:02 utc | 194

@193 addendum
One can see how Big-Tech is an absolutely essential apparatus to harness and effectively use a controlled-opposition to stifle any legitimate threat.
From this you can see how Dems were able to steer and control the “Race” protests in the last few months and, seeing as how they are offering diminishing returns, are putting the Kibosh on them, even though handfuls of true believers are still out there spraying ACAB and dicks all over local precincts.
It can be a lightbulb moment when you realize how important Tech companies are to our future enslavement and how this feeds into the theory of Dems espousing an open-border, globalized world order where anational elites can fuck us every which way from Sunday and when we take the pitchforks to them, we draw air and the whiff of rosy-farts.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 15 2020 18:11 utc | 196

@ 193 addendum
My other guess pertaining to November is that Trump will vastly increase his votes from liberal strongholds, and he may even flip one or two “always-blue.” I’m thinking maybe Oregon.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 15 2020 18:17 utc | 198

“I’m thinking maybe Oregon.”
Pick as many “always-blue” states (Oregon, Washington, California, NY, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Rhode Island) as you wish- I’ll donate $500 to MoA for each one of them voting for Trump (or whichever Republican ends up running), against $100 you donate for each one that doesn’t.

Posted by: Sidney Caesar | Aug 15 2020 18:31 utc | 200