Days after the election, sentiment was, Biden's going to help us sleep at night. We won't need to hear about angry presidential tweeting at three a.m. That's so annoying to have to go through, especially so since it's our choice to go through it or not.
Barack Obama weighed in, in conjunction with touring and interviewing to promote his non-mea culpa book, reflecting on how nice it will be to have "stability in the Oval Office."
The stability, he means, of signing off on people's deaths, on his kill list.
Trump represents one group of killers. Biden represents another group of killers. Our condition has not improved, it's deteriorating under the brain dead leadership of a wealthy class bent on destroying the country and the world, and us, while enriching itself beyond the daydreams of Kubla Khan. They seem blinded by their power.
I watched Donald and Melania, still America's First Couple, entitled to lead the dancers, give a Christmas message, about two minutes long. Donald looked uncomfortable, like he wanted this little thing done, but he was willing to put up with it for her sake.
"She's going to be the most beautiful First Lady this country's ever seen," remember Trump said in 2016.
Trump says he'll veto the 900 billion dollar Covid relief bill unless they raise the stimulus checks from 600 to 2,000 dollars. Biden, it turns out, negotiated with Mitch McConnell and other Republicans to drop the initial offering of 1,200 dollars to 600. Biden prefers Republicans to Democrats, his history shows that clearly.
Trump out-lefted Biden and the rest of the Democrats by suggesting 2,000 dollars.
People think Biden will be a good president. Let that sink in. Think about how brainwashed and ignorant of Joe Biden's corporation-run career one must be to believe Biden will be a good president.
"Give him the benefit of the doubt."
My father said that at the beginning of George W. Bush's presidency. At the end of his life he was crying that Bush won reelection.
No, Dad, don't give this proven motherfucker of humanity from a disgusting white collar crime family, the Bushes, the benefit of the doubt, ever.
Same for Biden.
It must be obvious to lots of people now that Joe Biden and the Democrats want them to have 600 dollars while Trump wants them to have 2,000.
"He's just buying our loyalty for his run in 2024 (a possibility, perhaps)," some may argue.
Maybe so, but do I care about the motives of a man giving me 2,000 dollars? Most people don't. Money talks.
I do care that the other guy, Joe "I'm the guy" Biden, wants us to have less than one-third of what Trump's proposing. It hints at the coming Austerity Joe of the Early Twenties. The political philosophy precisely the opposite of what we need to survive. The economy will begin to thrive if people get money from the government. Andrew Yang's Universal Basic Income (UBI) has never been more relevant than now, during a pandemic in a country where citizens do not have free health care. Covid-19 death rate in the U.S. correspondingly and logically the highest in the world, making this nation, the "greatest in the world," a third or fourth world country when it comes to institutional neglect of its own citizens.
As a matter of policy.
Joe Biden as a sleeping aid may work for liberal, upper class work-from-home sorts, but most of us will have to deal with a leader growing more and more senile, more prone to angry outbursts, guiding the military while advised by psychopathic Pentagon warmongers with defense contracts and appointments after retirement.
Are we tired, yet, of militarism? Does it do anything for you? Does it really just steal money from the neediest? Steal it so that bombs can dismember and vaporize children?
Mark Esper looks like a college basketball coach. He used to be a Raytheon man and while he was Trump's Secretary of Defense he probably still was a Raytheon man. Esper makes money off of killing people. He's a hit man, although hit men work on one target at a time. Esper's hits blow up schoolchildren. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have killed more schoolchildren than the Newtown, Connecticut shooter.
Top executives toast each other, weapons manufacturers, contracts with the United Arab Emirates, CIA accesses torture prisons in east Yemen run by UAE.
The secret is, it's not a secret. Lack of coverage on a "story," meaning, an event, an incident, an ongoing situation (like 9/11 or the Balloon Boy), dooms the story from being known generally. News organizations like CBS or Fox don't do hour-long documentaries about what it's like to live in Gaza City. What it's like to have phosphorus land on your neighbor's head during an Israeli attack. How Covid-19 has spread through Gaza.
Presenting Biden's multi-racial and bi-gendered cabinet picks as "revolutionary" sugarcoats our expectations that we expect the next to be Hispanic, Black, a woman, an Asian, but they're all from Wall Street, the Military Industrial Complex, Silicon Valley; they're Neoliberals, they're Neoconservatives. They're the kinds of people who sold the Iraq War to Americans. They're corporate hogs, our exact enemy. Trump, a visible face of evil, but now the evil's invisible, it's force field is called
C I V I L I T Y
The great trick is, and let's hand it to the Boomer generation, they managed to make millions of people believe the ruling class of America isn't the enemy of America.
Merry Christmas.
Vic Neptune
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