SUCKING THE BRIBES LIKE A PARASITE LAWYER
A POLITICAL LIFE OF LIES!
BIDEN'S video CONFESSION:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mk5gm_iENNg
With no moral code, no center, nothing matters. You just read what’s in the teleprompter and hit the sack by 7:00 while your degenerate son collects piles of cash for the family until you’re free to do it on your own. All you have to do is what you’re told, your handlers and the media will take care of the rest.
DEREK HUNTER
Biden lied about his undergraduate degree and his majors, lied about his rank in law school, lied about scholarships and educational aid he had received, lied about his stance toward the Vietnam war while in college, lied about his plagiarism of other politician's writings and speeches, lied about the circumstances around his first wife's fatal accident, lied about how he met his second and current wife, and lied about the affair they were having when they were both married. MARK CHRISTIAN
Such statements, and the pro-corporate policies that he pledged to continue, will only pour fuel on the flames of the far-right threat. The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce further interest rate hikes that are aimed at driving down wages and throwing millions into unemployment and poverty. What are the soon-to-be-unemployed going to make of Biden’s claim that his administration is “opening doors,” “creating possibilities,” and “focusing on the future”? Biden denounced Trump for relying on “lies told for profit and power,” but he is only a pot calling the kettle black.
Biden’s national address warns of imminent threat of dictatorship
US President Joe Biden’s address to the nation Thursday night, delivered in prime time with Philadelphia’s Independence Hall as the backdrop, was extraordinary both for what he said and what he did not say.
In the first half of his 24-minute speech, Biden described a nation on the very knife’s edge of dictatorship. “Equality and democracy are under assault, and we do ourselves no favor by saying otherwise,” he said. Donald Trump and his supporters are “a clear and present danger,” who “placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy” on January 6, 2021.
The threat is live. Trump and his network of far-right backers within the state are engaged in “preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections” to “nullify the votes” of tens of millions of Americans, Biden said.
While stating that “not every Republican” is a pro-Trump “MAGA Republican,” Biden for the first time declared, “There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated and intimidated by MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.”
He continued, “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution, they do not recognize the will of the people, they refuse to accept the results of a free election. They are working right now in state after state to give power to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine the elections. They are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to a country where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.”
Biden said that Trump and “MAGA Republicans” are engaged in “more and more talk about violence as an acceptable tool in this country.” Referencing Trump and Lindsay Graham’s comments threatening “riots” if Trump is prosecuted, Biden said, “Public figures are predicting and all but calling for mass violence and rioting in the streets. This is inflammatory, it’s dangerous, it’s against the rule of law, and we the people must say this is not who we are.
“We are at an inflection point, one of those moments that determine the shape of everything that is to come after,” Biden said. “We are still at our core a democracy,” he said, defensively, adding, “American democracy is not guaranteed, we have to defend it.”
These statements are a staggering self-indictment of the Biden administration and Democratic Party’s role in covering up the plot for 19 months since January 6.
If Trump is “a clear and present danger” against democracy, why has Biden allowed him to remain free? If “we do ourselves no favors” by denying the threat, why did Biden say in his March 2022 state of the union address that “the State of the Union is strong,” that “we are stronger today than we were a year ago,” and “we will be stronger a year from now than we are today”?
Furthermore, if the Republican Party is “a threat to the country,” why has Biden and every other Democratic politician referred to them as their “friends” and “colleagues” for the last year-and-a-half, as he worked to forge a bipartisan unity to wage war abroad and an assault on the working class at home?
Are Americans to believe Biden pledge that he “will not stand by and watch elections be stolen” when this is exactly what he and the Democrats did as the events of January 6 were playing out? Not only did Biden stand by, he even called on Trump to appear on national television and address a national audience in the middle of his coup!
While the first half of Biden’s speech laid out in the starkest terms yet the danger of dictatorship (significantly, he did not use the word “fascist” in this speech, as he did in a speech last week), the second half showed why the Democratic Party is incapable of stopping it.
Biden and the Democrats are organically incapable of explaining the true source of the danger. So fearful is the ruling class of telling the truth about the degeneration of American capitalism that they can only talk to the American people like they are children. Speaking like a Catholic priest, Biden claimed Trump sprang like the devil from the depths of hell. Trump’s rise, he said, was a product of “hate,” “chaos,” “darkness” and “evil.”
He made no references to the immense social inequality that dominates American social life, to the wars abroad that have had devastating consequences for so many of the towns and cities where Trump won votes, to decades of deindustrialization, to rising opioid deaths, to the corrupting influence of the right-wing media, to the climate of extreme nationalism and anti-immigrant hysteria that has dominated under the War on Terror. He made no attempt to explain how Trump won 70 million votes in the 2020 election, including in many areas that once voted overwhelmingly Democratic when the party was still associated with a policy of social reform. He could not do so, because he and his party are responsible for creating the very social crisis from which Trump draws strength.
Biden’s presentation of contemporary social conditions and of the response of his own administration to the pandemic flatly contradict the everyday experiences of tens of millions of people. He presented America as a land of “opportunity,” asserting that under his administration “millions of Americans have been lifted out of poverty,” even as millions are thrown into poverty as a result of soaring inflation.
As the pandemic continues to ravage the US and the world, Biden declared that his administration has “lifted America from the depths of Covid, and today America’s economy is stronger than any other advanced nation in the world.” He did not once recognize the extraordinary toll the pandemic has taken—and continues to take—on the population, including an unprecedented decline in life expectancy of three years. After rattling off the various pro-corporate legislative giveaways his administration and the Democratic Congress have passed since taking office, he said, “Cynics and critics tell us nothing can get done, but they’re wrong.”
Such statements, and the pro-corporate policies that he pledged to continue, will only pour fuel on the flames of the far-right threat. The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce further interest rate hikes that are aimed at driving down wages and throwing millions into unemployment and poverty. What are the soon-to-be-unemployed going to make of Biden’s claim that his administration is “opening doors,” “creating possibilities,” and “focusing on the future”? Biden denounced Trump for relying on “lies told for profit and power,” but he is only a pot calling the kettle black.
There were several additional notable elements of the speech.
Hecklers could be heard shouting “F- Joe Biden” in the background throughout the speech, and this distracted the president to the point where he was forced to recognize their presence twice.
The question of war against Russia was notably absent, and Biden did not attempt to connect the fight against Trump to waging war abroad. The administration evidently felt that any attempt to do so would only weaken the limited popular appeal they were attempting to make in the lead-up to the midterm elections, in which Trump’s Republican Party may win back control of the House or Senate. This was a recognition that the war has almost no public support outside the affluent middle class that forms the base of the Democratic Party.
Finally, before the speech began, two US Marines in dress blues walked out of the doorway of Independence Hall, saluted the cameras, and stood on either side of the door. They remained there throughout Biden’s speech, backlit in a menacing red color, their white gloves illuminated by ground lights. The message was: Biden is the representative of law-and-order and wields the repressive power of the military and the intelligence apparatus.
He concluded his speech with the same tired appeal to “vote, vote, vote” for the Democrats in the midterm elections. But the outcome of the election will have no impact on the long term threat of fascist dictatorship, which draws its strength not from Trump the individual but from the crisis of American capitalism and the rot of its oligarchic political system.
US life expectancy continued to decline in the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic
A provisional report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row, falling by 0.9 years in 2021. In 2020, the decline was 1.8 years, making the two-year total 2.7 years. The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced US life expectancy at birth to 76.1 years, the lowest level since 1996 and the largest two-year reduction since 1923. Such is the result of “learning to live” with COVID-19.
The report is a damning indictment of the homicidal response to the pandemic that has characterized the Trump and Biden administrations. Biden—who was elected in large part because of popular revulsion at Trump’s callous and anti-scientific response to COVID-19 and who was armed with effective vaccines from the beginning of his term—stands thoroughly exposed. He is a ruthless representative of the ruling class in its war against the working class. If the profit interests of corporate America and the financial markets require the subordination of all considerations of protecting human life from a deadly virus, Biden is more than willing.
Had the pandemic been brought to an end as Biden promised and had even basic mitigation measures been enacted and maintained, life expectancy in 2021 should have begun to recover from its devastating decline in 2020.
However, in 2021, when Biden had at his disposal not only life-saving vaccines but also a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, as well as the support of much of the population who elected him on the promise of “following the science,” 460,000 people needlessly died, a 20 percent increase from 2020. In 2022, 220,000 people have died so far, bringing the cumulative official death toll in the United States to 1.07 million.
The report was published against the backdrop of the Democratic administration’s systematic dismantling of all remaining mitigation measures, including the ending of free COVID-19 testing, as part of its “forever COVID” policy. This agenda has been critically aided by the CDC itself, most recently with its latest COVID-19 guidelines, which removed quarantine, testing and contact tracing recommendations in most settings, creating the conditions for widespread transmission as tens of millions of children across the US return to schools with virtually no mitigations in place.
COVID-19 was the single greatest contributor to the decrease in life expectancy, accounting for 50 percent of the untimely deaths. The second greatest contributor was “unintentional injuries” at 15.9 percent, about half of which was attributable to overdose deaths, according to Robert Anderson, the chief of the mortality statistics branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, speaking to STAT news. Heart disease (4.1 percent), chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (3.0) and suicide (2.1) were other contributing factors. As a reflection of the deepening social immiseration of the population, overdose deaths rose dramatically in both 2020 and 2021, by 30 and 15 percent respectively, with a record 108,000 people dying in 2021.
Horrific in and of itself, the decline by 0.9 years was actually moderated by a decrease in deaths attributed to a number of other causes, most significantly “influenza and pneumonia” and other “chronic lower respiratory diseases,” which declined by 38.5 and 28.8 percent, respectively. These decreases are largely the result of the limited public health measures that were in place in 2021, including what remained of mask mandates, social distancing measures and remote learning options. As these measures are universally abandoned, respiratory viruses such as influenza will be able to more freely circulate, and deaths in these categories could very well climb again, leading to what some are calling a “double-whammy” of flu and COVID-19.
It is revealing that the report is presented entirely in race and gender terms, with no analysis of the impact of socio-economic factors. The most precipitous drop by racial group occurred among non-Hispanic American Indians or Alaskan Natives, whose life expectancy fell 1.9 years in 2021. Since 2019, life expectancy for this demographic fell by a catastrophic 6.6 years, from 71.8 to 65.2. In this group, COVID-19 and unintentional injury each accounted for roughly 21.4 percent of contributing causes, while “residual” causes [other factors] accounted for the largest portion, at 29.9 percent.
The omission of socio-economic factors is all the more glaring given that for the population as a whole, one-quarter of the decline in life expectancy was attributed to such “residual” causes without any explanation. One can assume, given the impact on the job markets, loss of wages, and intensification of the class struggle, that poverty and such social factors weighed heavily in the residual column.
Refuting the narrative pushed by the petty-bourgeois purveyors of identity politics, for 2021, the second greatest decrease in life expectancy by racial group was the 1.0 year lost by the non-Hispanic white population. Indeed, a number of important reports that have examined the relationship between socio-economic status and COVID-19 mortality demonstrate clearly that the pandemic is fundamentally a class issue affecting workers of all racial backgrounds.
A pre-print epidemiological study released in April by researchers in California reviewed US COVID-19 mortality data from 2020 by industry and occupation. They found that essential workers died at nearly twice the rate (1.96 times) of non-essential workers, with the highest death rates among workers in accommodation and food services; transportation and warehousing; agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting; mining; and construction.
Another study published in the Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by researchers in Florida analyzed the deaths of 70,000 working age adults (25 to 64) from COVID-19 in the US in 2020. They found that 68 percent of deaths occurred among those defined as having a “low socioeconomic position (SEP),” namely those employed in labor, service and retail jobs. Further, the death rate among the low-SEP population was five times higher than among the high SEP population.
Finally, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in July examined specifically the relationship between life expectancy and income over the course of the pandemic among residents of California. Already before the pandemic, in 2019, there was an 11.52-year gap in life expectancy between the highest and lowest income percentiles. This gap widened dramatically during the pandemic, to roughly 15.51 years in 2021.
The decrease in life expectancy is part of an international trend, with global life expectancy estimated to have dropped by 1.64 years since the beginning of the pandemic, the first decline since the United Nations began tracking this figure in 1950. Almost universally, capitalist governments throughout the world have pursued the “herd immunity” strategy of mass infection. Those that initially adopted a “mitigationist” approach based on minimal and inadequate measures to slow transmission, including the Biden administration, abandoned even the pretense of infection control during the Omicron surge last winter.
However, countries in the Asia-Pacific region which sought to eliminate the virus, including China, experienced a growth in life expectancy during 2020 and 2021. These “positive experiences” underscore the immediate benefit of an elimination-eradication strategy, which only the International Committee of the Fourth International has continued to demand.
Even before the pandemic, advances in global life expectancy began to slow as a result of the decades-long social counter-revolution following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, which saw the vast eruption of American imperialist war abroad and class war at home. The COVID-19 pandemic, which the World Socialist Web Site has analyzed as a trigger event, rapidly exacerbated the underlying contradictions of the world capitalist system and has led to a social and political crisis of historic proportions. This crisis is expressed not only in the pandemic but also in deepening attacks on democratic rights, the reckless war provocations against Russia and China, and finally the upsurge of the class struggle in the US and globally.
As Robert Hummer of the University of North Carolina commented to the Associated Press, life expectancy is “the most fundamental indicator of population health in this country.” That the wealthiest country in the world, which saw the enrichment of its billionaires by over $2 trillion during the pandemic, has been incapable of providing the resources to protect the population from preventable disease and death, proves that this rotting social economic system has reached the end of its rope.
The grave implications of the ruling class’ demand that the population be forced to accept perpetual mass infection and death cannot be overstated. What has taken place is the start of a catastrophic reversal of nearly 80 years of progress in public health, not just in the United States but internationally. As long as the capitalist class remains in charge of society, COVID-19 and every other emerging pathogen, including monkeypox, will be allowed to spread freely.
At the same time as the ruling class demands the working class “live with” COVID-19, it also demands the working class bear the brunt of its deepening economic crisis, promising “pain” as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates in order to trigger mass layoffs and beat back a wages push by workers.
The working class must recognize that it produces all of the wealth and resources available to society, and on this basis, it has the power to put an end to the pandemic and every other social ill facing humanity. To put this into practice requires, above all, a political struggle against the social system responsible for this calamity. This necessitates a revolutionary mass movement led by the working class to conquer state power and rebuild society on socialist foundations, with the goal of satisfying social needs and protecting human life.
Boots on the Ground...Sept. 1st...Prepare for the long haul do not waste time or money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-OVOLnILc
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