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Did Biden Quit?
Given the headlines which say he did you might wonder why I ask if Biden has quit his attempt to get reelected.
But look at 'his' rather weird letter which was distributed via the Joe Biden campaign X/Twitter account.
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There is no official letterhead. The formulations are obviously not by Joe Biden and the signature looks canned.
I doubt this Politico account which claims that Biden posted the letter all by himself:
Steve Ricchetti, who’s been with Biden since his days in the Senate, drove to see the president at his house on the Delaware shore on Friday.
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In addition to presenting new concerns from lawmakers and updates on a fundraising operation that had slowed considerably, they carried the campaign’s own polls, which came back this week and showed his path to victory in November was gone …
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The only other people with Biden in the residence when he arose Sunday were first lady Jill Biden and two other trusted aides: deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini and assistant to the first lady Anthony Bernal. At 1:45 p.m., he notified a somewhat larger group of close aides that he had decided the night before to end his quest for another term, reading his letter and thanking them for their service. A minute later, before any other campaign and White House staffers could be notified, he posted the historic letter from his campaign account on the social media site X.
This says that Ricchetti, Biden's aide, wrote and posted the letter.
There was no speech and no press conference. People working on Biden's campaign had no pre-warning.
Biden allegedly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democrat candidate for the presidency.
Let's remember that Harris, of Asian/Indian decent but playing black, is a former California prosecutor who failed in 2020 to get any votes in the primaries. Biden selected her as his vice because she was a woman of color not because she is a person fit for the job.
What does it say about a democracy when some obscure party functionaries and billionaire donors contradict the will of the primary voters and decide against another presidency for Joe Biden?
What does it say about a democracy when similar powers install a new candidate who is by no means qualified and has never received any votes?
What does it say about “democracy”?
What “democracy”?!
USA is not a democracy by any definition.
It’s not proportional, not representative, there’s no plurality of opinion in MainStreamMedia, no multi-parties system, most agencies are obscure, when real Journalists whistleblow about what USA is really doing thy are arrested (ex: Assange), the rule of law protects the rich, there’s no implementation of Human Rights laws, the Washington buildings are bursting by the seams with corrupted politicians bought by billionaires, the Pentagon is a war criminal institution whose casualties reach the levels of the Nazi Germany, workers don’t have a de facto right to unionize, only a de jure virtual right that is crushed by fascist tactics by fascist employers. There is systemic racism, which combined with a police state almost resembles an Apartheid in some areas. USA makes bloody coups, illegal sanctions to try yo starve other people, USaa collaborates with Nazis, supports terrorists, and is an accomplice in an ongoing genocide. The political class in USA resembles more a Monarchy. The Capiltalist class in USA implemented a de facto oligarchy. The lack of freedom has reached a point where “neespapers” like the NewYorkTimes acrually work together with FBI to arrest whistleblowers instead of protecting their sources. Guantánamo is an illegally occupied area of Cuba where USA created a Soviet style gulag/prison. The WallStreet billionaires control the economy against the working people. The Military Industrial Complex decides USA’s “foreign politics”, aka forever wars. People in USA have no human right to healthcare, their education depends on the size of the wallet of the family they were born (and so that also defines the opportunities of those individuals throughout their life). The pension system is a casino where 90 year olds might have to work again if a pension fund loses its stakes at the casino economy, as happened in the Great Recession of 2008-2011.
The oligarchy has NeoLiberalised the regime so much that nowadays the super rich pay fewer taxes than the working class.
I could keep writing about this all day long. People in USA have no idea of what a democracy is, because they never lived in one and/or never saw one…
This Genocide Joe, or Senile Biden, episode, is just a small cherry on top of the huge cake that is USA’s regime, a non-democratic genocidal naZionist empire that has assassinated more than 20 million humans since 1945.
The fact that most people in USA don’t understand or don’t even know what I’m talking about, is just further evidence about the nature of an authoritarian regime whose existence 100% depends on the biggest propaganda, fakenews, and manipulation/brainwashing machine ever create by mankind.
If Orwell was alive, he would say that his “1984” looks like heaven when compared with this reality. Because at least in the “1984” dystopia a large group of people, perhaps even a silent majority, knows that the regime is evil. Things in USA (and his vassals in the collective west) are now much worse than that, because the brainwashing is almost total. In “1984” an in traditional dictatorships, any dissent is crushed. In this so called Liberal “Democracy”, dissent cannot even be created.
The fact that, on top of this, the fascists in Washington and London and Brussels (both the Globalists and the non-globalist Capitalists) are also re-writtin history by calling “freedom fighters” to Nazis that fought against the Soviets and now fight against the Russians, and even made laws that compare Nazism with Communism/Socialism, a most disgusting kind of McCarthyism that just makes everything even worse. I can go as far as saying that the current period is a repetition of the 1933-1939 era.
Guess what comes after that…
Aaron Bushnell was the single decent man in USA’s regime. He killed himself to try to stop a gebocide. The genocidal lunatics are still on the lose, and no “elections” farse in USA will change that.
We need an army of Aaron Bushnells that burn the USA’s regime’s institutions instead. A revolution that, due to the nature of the current regime, can only be successful in making USA decent again if it is a bloody one. Monsters like Biden, Obama, Clinton, Trump, Bush, Lindsay Graham, Musk, Bezos, Soros, etc, have to end up like Mussolini, hanging upside down in a public square.
I’m sorry if I’m shocking you, but if you really know what’s going on, then you know that this is the only way.
The entire world won’t be safe until this happens in USA and in its vassal regimes.
Posted by: Carlos Marquez | Jul 22 2024 13:36 utc | 29
Our host is often at sea when trying to understand US politics. Biden’s personal decision to drop out of the presidential race is not a state act by the president, thus should not be on official stationery. Similarly, in the US, for ill (in my opinion to be sure) the despicable “one drop of tar” rule applies and by that rule Harris is Black, period. Such basics tacitly understood by American citizens don’t translate well.
This is compounded by the equivocation between ideal and actually existing democracy. In the ideal version, trotted out at irregular intervals for propagandistic reasons, elections—which for some reason includes party primaries, a presumption that inadvertently upholds the Duopoly as the essence of ideal Democracy!—are imagined to be driven by the mass of voters who make meaningful choices driven by political principle. If this were true, “party insiders” is a meaningless prejudicial invective. If parties really were organizations driven by principles, then party insiders are genuinely representatives of those principles. It would be their duty to reach unity on the program and candidate. Even ideal democracy does not require that the mass of party members somehow hold an impossible giant town hall meeting to acclaim “their” choice. In this utopian vision, the presidential election is held to confer a genuine popular mandate for the victorious program.
But in current actually existing US democracy, the legal and informal economic privileges of the bipartisan system throws in a massive decentralized system of primaries in which the ruling class factions game. There are in effect two “parties,” the franchise which sells a brand, and the donor party, in which political entrepreneurs put themselves forward to members of the ruling class as, basically, sales managers. They are not policy makers per se, they are PR agents tasked with selling the policies decided elsewhere. Some of it that is done behind the scenes, but much of it is done quite openly. In the long run, a key source of policy is ultimately worked out in policy institutes created for that purpose.
The notorious Project 2025 from the Heritage Fund is the hot example by now. The probability that Trump personally will read hundreds of pages, much less take orders, is abysmally low. But then, Trump is no more capable of doing such tedious work than Biden. The thing is, his young men in their twenties and thirties and early forties who actually do tiresome labor of reading, writing, phoning, emailing, etc. will read it. That’s why sensible people look at what this thing actually says. The other thing is, such policy institutes are almost all funded by the rich, by the ruling class. Some people live in a delusional world where things like the Open Society Foundation are demonized as somehow leftwing. The Open Society got its name from a book by one Karl Popper, a rightwing member of the Mont Pelerin Society, dedicated to fighting for conservative (i.e., pro-ruling class) ideas. And the main work of Open Society has been fighting against socialism. Those NGOs that conduct color revolutions? Open Society is perhaps the biggest one today.
Some of these policy institutes do sell what is called “woke.” The rule here is, the customer is always right. Shocking as it may seem to MoA commentariat, ignorance, bigotry, superstition, irrationality are not all that popular. The important thing is to divide the working class and, even easier, the petty bourgeois, with identity politics. Someone who really is a nobody but slavishly worships Trump because Trump despises working class immigrants, merely serves the ruling class in the person of Trump. People like Christian nationalists, who would much prefer to rely on government rather than the power of the Holy Spirit, to reform social morals, can’t achieve the professed goals, even or maybe especially when sincere. They only serve the old masters.
J.D. Vance is incompetent at anything but selling himself with a rags-to-riches story, one which sells contempt for losers and exalts winners as self-made men. This has always been popular with the rulers. Selling stories like that to them is like a bank robber robbing banks because that is where the money is.
Choosing Vance is something like entertaining the notion of Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary, reassuring the ruling class that he, Trump, will shovel money their way…and they don’t care about any other harm he does, because they’re privileged and social catastrophes striking the rabble (that’s me, though stray comments suggest higher status and property for MoA commenters,) simply will not perturb their beautiful minds. So what if mass roundups of millions of people will likely kill many people? They’re willing to take that risk precisely because they aren’t taking any risk, not personally. Admittedly this is a historically informed deduction, but that’s not mindreading. Some individuals will object strenuously just as some will applaud.
Political obituary for Biden: Live by the donor, die by the donor. President Band-Aid has never made much difference before and won’t now.
Overall, likely this is the Democratic Party splitting, at least the donor party of Democrats. Even if the political machinery somehow stays united, I’m pretty sure Harris will not keep the donor party united. And as time goes on, there will be an ocean of money for Trump, especially in the last stages when it not only matters most, but won’t get reported till after the election. The ruling class is in for Trump, Trumpers are in the bag for the masters and the Democratic Party is taking a dive. There is just the one problem that Trump and Trump’s values are not really all that popular. Trump lost the popular vote not once but twice. (Claims otherwise are lies.) But that’s why the bourgeoisie spends billions of dollars for the best democracy money can buy, to get around little problems like that.
But I may be wrong. Adam Tooze a very highly respected economic historian very well connected with sources puts out a blog. In this recent entry, Tooze analyzes the big money support for Trump. Being competent he particularly focuses on really big money, not just the local Trumper who has a car dealership or owns a bunch of real estate or manages the local branch of the bank. https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-300-vance-trump-and-the
Posted by: steven t johnson | Jul 22 2024 13:59 utc | 40
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