"It is nonsensical to think of either of them as a lesser evil."
It's time to stop this nonsensical, dualistic thinking style in the West. The opposite of "evil Biden" isn't "good Trump" or vice versa. It's "both men are evil capitalist puppets of the billionaires." If you keep that in mind, you'll be able to see through the propaganda and glimpse their true owner-operators at work.
So glad to see so many Americans chatting online with Chinese folks on Red Note. The world becomes a more peaceful and happy place the better we get to know each other.
People are so indoctrinated, it’s impossible to talk any sense into them. It’s a class war and we should stay together and take back what is deservedly ours!
Harris' policy stance was "Joy" if you recall. How the heck can anyone with a conscience feel "joy" when their government is arming/funding a genocide of innocents? She really must have wanted to lose.
It's actually perfectly normal to put tampons in every bathroom in a school. Most schools in the US do it. Why? Because GIRLS HAVE SPORTS TEAMS. When you've got two entire girls teams changing you flipping well want to give the visiting team a different bathroom to change in. That means giving them the boys room.
(Also, it's way more expensive at a procurement level to start micro-managing your bathrooms instead of just putting standard fittings in all of them.)
This was, as usual, the Murdoch propaganda machine taking something perfectly normal that everyone does, lying about it to make it sound weird, then lying again to say it's a Democratic thing.
Yeah, so I think this is part of the machine. That when its time to throw it over to the other party to balance public sentiment, the reciprocating party will often (not always) work to throw the election.
I don't think anything has exasperated me as much as how weak of a leader Biden was his entire life. Always half measures, always waiting till the time had passed to make a decision. His entire administration was indecisiveness and "looking into it". You won't be missed
I don’t think Biden was weak. He strongly supported a war with Russia and he brought on the Ukraine mess. He strongly supported Zionism and American and Jewish exceptionalism and he let the Zionists know very early that he supported a genocide. I think he did exactly what he and the establishment behind him intended to do.
Biden was a "bio-rubber stamp", along the same lines as those thousands of "bio-robots" who fought the disaster at Chernobyl by removing debris from the roofs around Unit 4. Biden was a textbook example of a feckless figurehead, managed and manipulated to do the bidding of the Great and Powerful Wizard behind the velvet curtain. I believe that we can safely say that Biden was the antithesis of JFK, and we all know what happened to JFK. It is never safe to go against the wishes of the Great and Wonderful Oz!
Biden was always pure evil (going back to the 80s), but few people (including myself) were aware of just how much. His presidency showed us just how much (Ukraine and Gaza).
As long time senator from Delaware he was essentially a tool of finance capital, the “Senator from MasterCard and Visa”. He skimmed lots of cash throughout the years for himself and his depraved family.
Every bit of that, Jorge, is accurate. He was however, a perfect example of what America has become. He was the perfect example....dementia on two shaky legs.
America is the same.
I have a feeling in my bones that someone, somewhere will see what Biden was, and has always been and show him and the world that his extremes....zionism, genocide mass murder, starvation, rape, children's deaths, etc., can only be tolerated for a period before some form of penalty must be paid.
In the olden days it would have been well over by now, so if I was Biden, enjoying the Pope's blessing through regular Mass in his Roman Catholic environment in Delaware every week, I would keep a very low profile. After all, I believe it is written in the New King James Version of the Bible, stating clearly from Romans 12:19, “Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord.”
Let us leave it up to the Lord then, but the sooner the better.
Failing that result, the list of volunteers would be endless.
(Please keep my reference to the Bible secret. My mention of the Bible could end my lifelong membership of the Rationalist Party because of this hypocrisy, Rationalism being defined as a mental attitude that accepts the supremacy of REASON.)
I don't think he was weak. He was a fully functioning committed sell-out to corporations, including the military-industrial corps, and (obviously) to the zionist cause, to which he strongly delivered whatever they wanted year in and year out to this last day. He wasn't "weak" for us, he was paid to do other things than serve us.
You can bet anytime something of that magnitude happens, it’s a false flag. Especially in this day and age, with the level of surveillance that is happening.
Requires a longer conversation. Involves probability, statistics, randomness (i.e. coincidences), baises and fallacies in thinking (false dichotomy, availability heuristic, apophenia, confirmation bias, anecdotal evidence, many others).
Many people that believe in "conspiracy theories" and conspiratorial thinking also exhibit signs of Apophenia (Apophenia is common in conspiracy theories, where coincidences may be woven together into an apparent plot), false flag events, etc.
Note: This does NOT mean that there are no false flags or no conspiracy theories. It simply means that the evidence required to prove the hypotheses has not been met (conclusively or rigirously or through evidence-based experimentation and analysis).
You haven’t done jackshit in regards to evaluating the evidence about either event. You just spout off your pat admonition about “conspiratorial thinking” in your trademark know-it-all fashion with your trademark condescending “note” (replete with capitalized NOT).
Oh Chang. You know I luv ya, but how much evidence is it going to take to convince you that Amerikkka and its little Buddy are the rulers of false flag incidents?
Gulf of Tonkin “ incident”, anyone?
And surely, Chang, you must know that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill JFK.
Gypsy, it's not only the quantity of evidence. What's more important is the QUALITY of evidence and the METHOD OF ANALYSIS of the evidence.
Even IF the US has committed false flags before (AND IT HAS), it doesn't mean EVERY low-probability event is a false flag. An event has to meet the EVIDENTIARY BURDEN to be proven as a false flag event (which none of these events have met).
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
Caitlin's line : "It's not that Trump is good, It's that Biden was just that bad", shows the paucity of language if nothing else. It is well to remember that all American Presidents were/are war criminals. And it comes from the impeccable research of a public intellectual and a linguist.
We have plenty of terrible times ahead of us to test how less of an evil Trump is going to be. He already has told Netanyahu that "... you do whatever you are supposed to do...".
The gathering of U.S. presidents at President Carter's funeral was referred to as “The World’s Most Exclusive Club.” As something I read the other day noted, "What other club of so few has caused so much suffering to so many?"
Very true. When I saw that photo of all the presidents sitting together at Carter's funeral, all I could think was, "Where's a 2,000 pound bomb to drop on top of all those war criminals at once when you need one?"
I don't like to "hate" people, either, but when you see so much evil sitting together in one place like all those former presidents at Carter's funeral, you realize that you must take action to stop that evil from continuing on in order to save future generations. It truly is "love" to take out evil. To paraphrase Chris Hedges: "I fight fascists not because I think I can win. I fight fascists because they are fascists."
Have always known this. The democratic and republican parties do not deserve anything. They should become remnants of the history books, sad reminders of a savage time when the so-called enlightened West existed.
If Israel signed a ceasefire agreement, why did it then ramp up hostilities and deaths???? A few more days of destruction.
The true intentions of Israel remain unchanged, kill and destroy Palestinians and their home.
This is all just a farce. A political stunt by Trump. Once he has got that card, "I stopped the killing", Israel will be given more weapons and the go ahead to continue based on Hamas is still active.
Only this time the Israeli murderers will be told to tone down the celebratory videos.
The corruption in the system is deeply ingrained and provokes a wild entropy that takes enormous energy to overcome. It's an intractable beast, Voting is like bouncing a dart off its thick hide. Taming it is a hopeless endeavor.
Ah, the "subtle abuses" of the Obama regime, like when they utterly destroyed Libya, the country with the highest per capita income in Africa. President Gaddafi was making the desert bloom. NATO not only bombed the aquifers, they bombed the factories that made the pipes to lay the aquifers. Thank you, Hilary Clinton, who convinced President Obama to publicly murder President Gaddafi, (drag him from his car, beat, sodomize, and murder) and destroy his country, a dysfunctional hell-hole ever since. Her "We came, we saw, he died" quip was monstrous.
Both parties have lost the ability to deliver candidates worthy of the office. Trump faces daunting challenges, many of which he is not even aware . He does not have the rationality or knowledge base to be effective. He is running on ego, bombast and narcissism. It is going to be interesting to see how long he lasts, given his age and everything else.
Agreed. Once an organization becomes corrupt (as when the Republican Party and then the Democratic Party sold out to the corporations) they cannot let anyone into their group who is smarter, or less corrupt than they are. Thus, every political generation (two years in this country) becomes more stupid and more corrupt, until we are left with the pair of clown car shows we see today.
If he is good and decent he cannot become POTUS, until we find a way of by-passing the Democratic and Republican machinery. Neither the Dems nor the Reps will set a person in power over them who is smarter and less corrupt than any of them.
The $37 Trillion question for the new administration is: Will it bury the Neo-con/Neo-lib hatchet and engage with China and the BRICs nations to promote F.D.R.s Good Neighbor policy throughout the Global South?
Humanity is hopeful for the end of Imperial/Colonial oppression.
Imperial/Colonial oppression is the unifying principle of the US government. The whole thing revolves around this. It has the big advantage of keeping the people in fear and deprivation, thus sapping strength from the rebellious have-nots, then absorbed by the security state.
Great post, Caitlin. Indeed, the Biden-Harris Duo of Dunces was indescribably bad. My prediction: the Colonial Zionist monster will take this interlude (42 days, is it?) to really, really stick it to the West Bankers: it's its continual M/O: don't miss any opportunity to exploit an opportunity. Viva Palestine!
It was the window dressing. The air drops and the wash-away-able pier, the pretence that Biden cared while also donating billions in weapons designed to kill as indiscriminately as possible. As if leaving the overt Zionist Blinken in charge had not already signalled his brutal intention, as if his every action did not make it clear that obliteration was fine by him. 'I am a Zionist!' Biden said for the cameras, then let the televised slaughter prove it. How utterly vile and unspeakably revolting. How he must have chortled as he imagined viewers thinking 'He's sent aid! Maybe he's a good guy after all'. Too little, of course. Just enough to look good on tv. And, of course, Israel soon made it clear they were against anything at all that might keep Palestinians alive. Starvation, disease, cold, tainted water, makeshift tents, no power - if Israel wanted it, Genocide Joe and the US Veto made sure they got it. What scammer. What a cynical manipulator. What contempt for decent people. What a nasty, nasty man.
Confucius, Sun Tzu and Mao Tse Tung were born from the Chinese people. They (the Chinese) know how to fight, they are motivated to fight and they have a holistic vision of the future. They will no longer be put to sleep by opium, they believe in things that are feasible, they have the largest population on the planet and they do in a month what we do not do in less than a year. They trust in the effects of the progressive level of development of the productive forces and they know who is best to ally themselves with. They have, in my humble opinion, only one limit: they still believe in the function of the state. But, that is because, in China, the state is not the means of the richest.
You could also have mentioned that the Chinese Govt has just about the highest level of trust and respect of their people, than almost any other govt. in the world.
Certainly way higher than Amerika, Australia or the UK.
>>"You could also have mentioned that the Chinese Govt has just about the highest level of trust and respect of their people, than almost any other govt. in the world."
David Avenell, you are SO MISTAKEN. Have you lived in China and/or actually talked to/with people in China in an environment that is NOT monitored (i.e. surveillance)?
There is an INCREDIBLE amount of fear, corruption, etc. in China. Just as MANY are fooled by US propaganda, similarly please don't be fooled by Chinese propaganda. (This has NOTHING to do with what the West says about China - I'm talking here about REAL experiences and REAL conversations)
Chang, let me tell you a story about my neighbors.
He was a GM engineer who was sent to work in China for a number of years. She taught English there. When they returned to Amerikkka they missed China so much that he begged to be sent back, which they were for several more years.
They’re back home now, but often return to visit the country they love for weeks at a time.
Additionally my near genius-level grandson is teaching himself Mandarin. I strongly encourage this; since he plans to go into engineering, I told him he may wish to live in China someday.
Seriously? You're doubling down on a fallacious argument? Including strawmanning?
Did I mention not to consider academic research? (here's your strawman argument insinuating that I am not considering such information - though I have NEVER alluded to such a thing).
Also, WHAT academic research? And by whom? Academic research by people biased AGAINST China? Or academic research by people biased IN FAVOR OF China? Do you think ALL academic research is objective and unbiased?
We have had Trump before and how you had wrote that the empire managers didn't like his outward style. Compared to the well spoken Obama for example who was no less evil.The smooth talking Clinton...Or George W. The guy who was the butt of many jokes. The fact that the Democrats had the sitting president sit out the election was a sign they truly failed or succeeded spectacularly...It doesn't matter who we vote for, who we vote for is the choice of the empire. They choose those that serve their interests. Trump will be horrible, but more experienced, he will be more subtle...he will eventually be seen as the new George W. Democrats spun the same song with him as they did Trump...Harris didn't win the popular vote like Hillary, they lost seats in both houses, not that it matters, just saying their message lost its effect, that Trump was a super dictator. Maybe I am wrong, Trump could be the new Reagan...Again, same empire mission, new veneer.
Straight troof, although I might have wished Americans communicate with Russians or Iranians.
Any people anywhere that might disperse their Marvel Comics view of the world.
China is fine but, yeah, Russia or the Persians are right up there near the top.
The point is to disperse one's "Team America" worldview.
From Iran:
https://youtu.be/NWxU-pS4fDc?si=yefV4BaTDEyP2zE6
apparently your father fought for nothing
What's that? I don't understand the language of a yapper.
"It is nonsensical to think of either of them as a lesser evil."
It's time to stop this nonsensical, dualistic thinking style in the West. The opposite of "evil Biden" isn't "good Trump" or vice versa. It's "both men are evil capitalist puppets of the billionaires." If you keep that in mind, you'll be able to see through the propaganda and glimpse their true owner-operators at work.
So glad to see so many Americans chatting online with Chinese folks on Red Note. The world becomes a more peaceful and happy place the better we get to know each other.
>>"The world becomes a more peaceful and happy place the better we get to know each other."
🎯💯❤️
People are so indoctrinated, it’s impossible to talk any sense into them. It’s a class war and we should stay together and take back what is deservedly ours!
The truth is, the offerings of the Democrats
( Kamala & Tim ) was so bad,that Trump actually seemed less dangerous.
It is like the Democrats just winged it without even trying. Harris had no meaningful stance or issues or policy in my opinion.
Harris' policy stance was "Joy" if you recall. How the heck can anyone with a conscience feel "joy" when their government is arming/funding a genocide of innocents? She really must have wanted to lose.
Or is a psychopath.
I believe they intentionally lost the election.
Vance wearing dresses is bad enough.
But Walz, with his idea of tampons in boys bathrooms was past anything close to sanity.
Joy,nah.
Laughing gas was more like it.
Uh, no. That was Republican propaganda bullshit.
It's actually perfectly normal to put tampons in every bathroom in a school. Most schools in the US do it. Why? Because GIRLS HAVE SPORTS TEAMS. When you've got two entire girls teams changing you flipping well want to give the visiting team a different bathroom to change in. That means giving them the boys room.
(Also, it's way more expensive at a procurement level to start micro-managing your bathrooms instead of just putting standard fittings in all of them.)
This was, as usual, the Murdoch propaganda machine taking something perfectly normal that everyone does, lying about it to make it sound weird, then lying again to say it's a Democratic thing.
She didn't, Marquis. I've been doubting that the Democrats wanted to win for a long time now.
So, we have election rigging in reverse?
Yeah, so I think this is part of the machine. That when its time to throw it over to the other party to balance public sentiment, the reciprocating party will often (not always) work to throw the election.
I think there's some truth in that.
I don't think anything has exasperated me as much as how weak of a leader Biden was his entire life. Always half measures, always waiting till the time had passed to make a decision. His entire administration was indecisiveness and "looking into it". You won't be missed
I don’t think Biden was weak. He strongly supported a war with Russia and he brought on the Ukraine mess. He strongly supported Zionism and American and Jewish exceptionalism and he let the Zionists know very early that he supported a genocide. I think he did exactly what he and the establishment behind him intended to do.
You beat me to this response!
Hi Ron
I don’t believe it was all ByeDone making the decisions; it was his proxy president, Bloody Butcher Bastard Blinken.
Biden was a "bio-rubber stamp", along the same lines as those thousands of "bio-robots" who fought the disaster at Chernobyl by removing debris from the roofs around Unit 4. Biden was a textbook example of a feckless figurehead, managed and manipulated to do the bidding of the Great and Powerful Wizard behind the velvet curtain. I believe that we can safely say that Biden was the antithesis of JFK, and we all know what happened to JFK. It is never safe to go against the wishes of the Great and Wonderful Oz!
Amen!!
Exactly.
Biden was always pure evil (going back to the 80s), but few people (including myself) were aware of just how much. His presidency showed us just how much (Ukraine and Gaza).
As long time senator from Delaware he was essentially a tool of finance capital, the “Senator from MasterCard and Visa”. He skimmed lots of cash throughout the years for himself and his depraved family.
Every bit of that, Jorge, is accurate. He was however, a perfect example of what America has become. He was the perfect example....dementia on two shaky legs.
America is the same.
I have a feeling in my bones that someone, somewhere will see what Biden was, and has always been and show him and the world that his extremes....zionism, genocide mass murder, starvation, rape, children's deaths, etc., can only be tolerated for a period before some form of penalty must be paid.
In the olden days it would have been well over by now, so if I was Biden, enjoying the Pope's blessing through regular Mass in his Roman Catholic environment in Delaware every week, I would keep a very low profile. After all, I believe it is written in the New King James Version of the Bible, stating clearly from Romans 12:19, “Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord.”
Let us leave it up to the Lord then, but the sooner the better.
Failing that result, the list of volunteers would be endless.
(Please keep my reference to the Bible secret. My mention of the Bible could end my lifelong membership of the Rationalist Party because of this hypocrisy, Rationalism being defined as a mental attitude that accepts the supremacy of REASON.)
Vengeance is mine, sayeth the horde.
As usual, perfect response, Ned B.!
I have also heard it said that God helps those who help themselves.
I don't think he was weak. He was a fully functioning committed sell-out to corporations, including the military-industrial corps, and (obviously) to the zionist cause, to which he strongly delivered whatever they wanted year in and year out to this last day. He wasn't "weak" for us, he was paid to do other things than serve us.
He wasn’t a leader. An 80 year old figurehead.
Hi Klonda
I’m not convinced he’s actually alive; he’s propped up with cement in his shoes with a demented ventriloquist making him speak.
“Weekend at ByeDone’s”.
9/11 and October 7. Both false flag ops.
You can bet anytime something of that magnitude happens, it’s a false flag. Especially in this day and age, with the level of surveillance that is happening.
Nope - neither was a false flag. (Jan 6 was also NOT a false flag).
Your rationale?
Requires a longer conversation. Involves probability, statistics, randomness (i.e. coincidences), baises and fallacies in thinking (false dichotomy, availability heuristic, apophenia, confirmation bias, anecdotal evidence, many others).
Many people that believe in "conspiracy theories" and conspiratorial thinking also exhibit signs of Apophenia (Apophenia is common in conspiracy theories, where coincidences may be woven together into an apparent plot), false flag events, etc.
Note: This does NOT mean that there are no false flags or no conspiracy theories. It simply means that the evidence required to prove the hypotheses has not been met (conclusively or rigirously or through evidence-based experimentation and analysis).
You haven’t done jackshit in regards to evaluating the evidence about either event. You just spout off your pat admonition about “conspiratorial thinking” in your trademark know-it-all fashion with your trademark condescending “note” (replete with capitalized NOT).
Not sure what your problem is dude. I DON'T need to convince YOU of ANYTHING. You are free to believe WHATEVER you want.
Oh Chang. You know I luv ya, but how much evidence is it going to take to convince you that Amerikkka and its little Buddy are the rulers of false flag incidents?
Gulf of Tonkin “ incident”, anyone?
And surely, Chang, you must know that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill JFK.
Oops, forgot those “WMDs” in Iraq…
Gypsy, it's not only the quantity of evidence. What's more important is the QUALITY of evidence and the METHOD OF ANALYSIS of the evidence.
Even IF the US has committed false flags before (AND IT HAS), it doesn't mean EVERY low-probability event is a false flag. An event has to meet the EVIDENTIARY BURDEN to be proven as a false flag event (which none of these events have met).
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
(https://effectiviology.com/sagan-standard-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence/)
>>"And surely, Chang, you must know that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill JFK."
There is MORE REAL evidence that Oswald DID kill JFK than alternate hypotheses. (Yes, I know that 90% of the US population thinks otherwise).
Here are some resources (though I doubt you'll check them out):
(1) "Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination: Debunking the Myths and Conspiracy Theories" by Michel Jacques Gagné (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61668209-thinking-critically-about-the-kennedy-assassination)
(2) "The Kennedy Assassinations: JFK and Bobby Kennedy - Debunking The Conspiracy Theories" by Mel Ayton (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61434059-the-kennedy-assassinations)
(3) How to Think About Conspiracy Theories, JFK Assassination (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLueJPOpdkU)
Have a little more imagination, Chang.
THAT is the problem - TOO MUCH imagination and not enough logic/critical thinking.
Caitlin's line : "It's not that Trump is good, It's that Biden was just that bad", shows the paucity of language if nothing else. It is well to remember that all American Presidents were/are war criminals. And it comes from the impeccable research of a public intellectual and a linguist.
We have plenty of terrible times ahead of us to test how less of an evil Trump is going to be. He already has told Netanyahu that "... you do whatever you are supposed to do...".
The gathering of U.S. presidents at President Carter's funeral was referred to as “The World’s Most Exclusive Club.” As something I read the other day noted, "What other club of so few has caused so much suffering to so many?"
Very true. When I saw that photo of all the presidents sitting together at Carter's funeral, all I could think was, "Where's a 2,000 pound bomb to drop on top of all those war criminals at once when you need one?"
It was in my mind too.
👏👍 Well said TRC!
Hatred is false power; understanding is real power.
How about this then -> I like having BOTH real power (understanding) AND false power (hatred of evil people).
yes. The ego loves “hatred” for its seeming empowerment it delivers.
I don't like to "hate" people, either, but when you see so much evil sitting together in one place like all those former presidents at Carter's funeral, you realize that you must take action to stop that evil from continuing on in order to save future generations. It truly is "love" to take out evil. To paraphrase Chris Hedges: "I fight fascists not because I think I can win. I fight fascists because they are fascists."
👏👏
James Garfield was not a war criminal. He would have been one of the good ones, if he hadn't been murdered.
Have always known this. The democratic and republican parties do not deserve anything. They should become remnants of the history books, sad reminders of a savage time when the so-called enlightened West existed.
The guillotine for every single one that voted to arm Israel!
Hi CF
I’d be happy to perform the honors 😁
If Israel signed a ceasefire agreement, why did it then ramp up hostilities and deaths???? A few more days of destruction.
The true intentions of Israel remain unchanged, kill and destroy Palestinians and their home.
This is all just a farce. A political stunt by Trump. Once he has got that card, "I stopped the killing", Israel will be given more weapons and the go ahead to continue based on Hamas is still active.
Only this time the Israeli murderers will be told to tone down the celebratory videos.
This is obviously what’s happening. People are jumping the gun. I wish it was over, but it’s not.
The corruption in the system is deeply ingrained and provokes a wild entropy that takes enormous energy to overcome. It's an intractable beast, Voting is like bouncing a dart off its thick hide. Taming it is a hopeless endeavor.
Ah, the "subtle abuses" of the Obama regime, like when they utterly destroyed Libya, the country with the highest per capita income in Africa. President Gaddafi was making the desert bloom. NATO not only bombed the aquifers, they bombed the factories that made the pipes to lay the aquifers. Thank you, Hilary Clinton, who convinced President Obama to publicly murder President Gaddafi, (drag him from his car, beat, sodomize, and murder) and destroy his country, a dysfunctional hell-hole ever since. Her "We came, we saw, he died" quip was monstrous.
Both parties have lost the ability to deliver candidates worthy of the office. Trump faces daunting challenges, many of which he is not even aware . He does not have the rationality or knowledge base to be effective. He is running on ego, bombast and narcissism. It is going to be interesting to see how long he lasts, given his age and everything else.
Agreed. Once an organization becomes corrupt (as when the Republican Party and then the Democratic Party sold out to the corporations) they cannot let anyone into their group who is smarter, or less corrupt than they are. Thus, every political generation (two years in this country) becomes more stupid and more corrupt, until we are left with the pair of clown car shows we see today.
Hi TS
Have you ever seen an interview with Col. Douglas MacGregor?
Why in the name of all that’s good and decent isn’t HE POTUS?
If he is good and decent he cannot become POTUS, until we find a way of by-passing the Democratic and Republican machinery. Neither the Dems nor the Reps will set a person in power over them who is smarter and less corrupt than any of them.
The $37 Trillion question for the new administration is: Will it bury the Neo-con/Neo-lib hatchet and engage with China and the BRICs nations to promote F.D.R.s Good Neighbor policy throughout the Global South?
Humanity is hopeful for the end of Imperial/Colonial oppression.
The $37 trillion answer is, No.
Imperial/Colonial oppression is the unifying principle of the US government. The whole thing revolves around this. It has the big advantage of keeping the people in fear and deprivation, thus sapping strength from the rebellious have-nots, then absorbed by the security state.
That’s a fat NO!!
Great post, Caitlin. Indeed, the Biden-Harris Duo of Dunces was indescribably bad. My prediction: the Colonial Zionist monster will take this interlude (42 days, is it?) to really, really stick it to the West Bankers: it's its continual M/O: don't miss any opportunity to exploit an opportunity. Viva Palestine!
It was the window dressing. The air drops and the wash-away-able pier, the pretence that Biden cared while also donating billions in weapons designed to kill as indiscriminately as possible. As if leaving the overt Zionist Blinken in charge had not already signalled his brutal intention, as if his every action did not make it clear that obliteration was fine by him. 'I am a Zionist!' Biden said for the cameras, then let the televised slaughter prove it. How utterly vile and unspeakably revolting. How he must have chortled as he imagined viewers thinking 'He's sent aid! Maybe he's a good guy after all'. Too little, of course. Just enough to look good on tv. And, of course, Israel soon made it clear they were against anything at all that might keep Palestinians alive. Starvation, disease, cold, tainted water, makeshift tents, no power - if Israel wanted it, Genocide Joe and the US Veto made sure they got it. What scammer. What a cynical manipulator. What contempt for decent people. What a nasty, nasty man.
Confucius, Sun Tzu and Mao Tse Tung were born from the Chinese people. They (the Chinese) know how to fight, they are motivated to fight and they have a holistic vision of the future. They will no longer be put to sleep by opium, they believe in things that are feasible, they have the largest population on the planet and they do in a month what we do not do in less than a year. They trust in the effects of the progressive level of development of the productive forces and they know who is best to ally themselves with. They have, in my humble opinion, only one limit: they still believe in the function of the state. But, that is because, in China, the state is not the means of the richest.
You could also have mentioned that the Chinese Govt has just about the highest level of trust and respect of their people, than almost any other govt. in the world.
Certainly way higher than Amerika, Australia or the UK.
>>"You could also have mentioned that the Chinese Govt has just about the highest level of trust and respect of their people, than almost any other govt. in the world."
David Avenell, you are SO MISTAKEN. Have you lived in China and/or actually talked to/with people in China in an environment that is NOT monitored (i.e. surveillance)?
There is an INCREDIBLE amount of fear, corruption, etc. in China. Just as MANY are fooled by US propaganda, similarly please don't be fooled by Chinese propaganda. (This has NOTHING to do with what the West says about China - I'm talking here about REAL experiences and REAL conversations)
Chang, let me tell you a story about my neighbors.
He was a GM engineer who was sent to work in China for a number of years. She taught English there. When they returned to Amerikkka they missed China so much that he begged to be sent back, which they were for several more years.
They’re back home now, but often return to visit the country they love for weeks at a time.
Additionally my near genius-level grandson is teaching himself Mandarin. I strongly encourage this; since he plans to go into engineering, I told him he may wish to live in China someday.
Gypsy - that is called "anecdotal evidence" (https://practicalpie.com/anecdotal-fallacy/), one of many fallacies (that critical thinking addresses)
[https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/201708/18-common-logical-fallacies-and-persuasion-techniques]
there's academic research on this.
Yes, there’s academic research on everything (including Covid cures and paranormal activity). It doesn’t mean jack shit.
Academic research is NOT proof (one way or the other) of the validity of any opinion or point of view.
nevertheless, imo it should be considered along the anecdotal evidence you seem to refer to.
Seriously? You're doubling down on a fallacious argument? Including strawmanning?
Did I mention not to consider academic research? (here's your strawman argument insinuating that I am not considering such information - though I have NEVER alluded to such a thing).
Also, WHAT academic research? And by whom? Academic research by people biased AGAINST China? Or academic research by people biased IN FAVOR OF China? Do you think ALL academic research is objective and unbiased?
Your argument is invalid (in this context).
We have had Trump before and how you had wrote that the empire managers didn't like his outward style. Compared to the well spoken Obama for example who was no less evil.The smooth talking Clinton...Or George W. The guy who was the butt of many jokes. The fact that the Democrats had the sitting president sit out the election was a sign they truly failed or succeeded spectacularly...It doesn't matter who we vote for, who we vote for is the choice of the empire. They choose those that serve their interests. Trump will be horrible, but more experienced, he will be more subtle...he will eventually be seen as the new George W. Democrats spun the same song with him as they did Trump...Harris didn't win the popular vote like Hillary, they lost seats in both houses, not that it matters, just saying their message lost its effect, that Trump was a super dictator. Maybe I am wrong, Trump could be the new Reagan...Again, same empire mission, new veneer.