Wednesday, May 11, 2022

JOE BIDEN'S WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA'S ECONOMY

 the reality of bidenomics

Hannity: Biden's economy a complete disaster


videos

Poverty after the Pandemic: Americans in Corona-Fueled Economic Crisis | Poverty in US Documentary


America's Broken Dream: The Middle-Class Families Living in Motels | Poverty in the USA Documentary





Working & Homeless: The Death of the American Dream | Poverty in the USA Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwDAaKJXKPE

In the USA, many people are working 2 or more jobs and still living below the poverty line. Families are forced to move their children between motels and city campsites, always afraid of losing the next job - these are the 'working poor'. Around 15% of the US population live below the poverty line. Since the economic crisis of 2009, over nine million jobs have been created in America. Officially, the recession is over. But American workers have come out of the crisis more vulnerable and even poorer than ever. Meet the people behind America’s economic recovery. Germania has two minimum wage jobs, working 18 hours a day. Three-quarters of her salary goes on paying for the 15m square motel room she shares with her two children and her mother-in-law. But even with two jobs, she struggles to buy food for her family. In the past four months, they have stayed in five motels, moving every few weeks to ever-cheaper rooms as their money runs out. Joe and Chelsie live with their two young daughters in a tent in a church car park. Their bathroom is a porta-potty they share with 50 other people. Around 500 families in Seattle live in these temporary camps. Like Germania, Chelsie works full time but she can no longer afford to live in the city she works in. Trade Union leader, Scott Slawson, has worked for General Electric for 13 years. But a few days ago, he was told his job will be re-located to a state with no wages and 50% lower salaries. He doesn’t know if he will be able to find another job. This documentary was first released in 2016.

Over the past two years of mass death, the wealth of US billionaires grew by more than 70 percent, to over 5 trillion dollars. Five trillion dollars. Fueled by the money-printing operation of the Federal Reserve, median pay for US CEOs at major companies rose to $14.2 million last year.


Ralph Nader: Biden's First Year Proves He Is Still a "Corporate Socialist" Beholden to Big Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTIUtjkDss 

BIDENOMICS: The issue is not the survival of what the leader of the most powerful imperialist country calls “democracy.” Joe Biden really means capitalism, the profit system, which has produced a level of economic inequality that is entirely incompatible with any genuine democracy. Instead, it is generating fascist movements all over the world, which aim to  abolish all democratic rights and subject the working class to the naked dictatorship of the rich.  PATRICK MARTIN

The president mistakenly said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was from Wisconsin and said the senator “has a problem” when told about Scott’s call for him to resign.

“Resign? That’s a good idea,” Biden replied sarcastically.

He also insisted inflation was his “top domestic priority.”   .... WELL, WE KNOW IT ISN'T HOMELAND SECURITY!


Exclusive – Veteran Entrepreneur Colin Wayne Says Biden’s Economy Taking Toll on Small Business: ‘It’s Worse than I’ve Ever Seen It’

courtesy of Colin Wayne
courtesy of Colin Wayne
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Colin Wayne — a veteran, entrepreneur, and founder of Redline Steel, described by host Alex Marlow as a “made-in-America success story” — spoke to Breitbart News Daily about his background and beliefs, and his struggles as a small business owner in President Biden’s America, stressing the importance of the “silent majority” speaking out.

Wayne joined the military at 17, serving in three tours — Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan — before getting injured in Afghanistan and undergoing 15 months of physical therapy and lumbar block fusion surgery. Shrapnel went all the way through his right leg, Wayne explained. He ultimately landed on the cover of Ironman magazine, which kicked off his fitness modeling career as he “landed 50-plus magazine covers from Alabama.” At that point his social media blew up, and he now boasts over half a million followers on Instagram alone.

courtesy of Colin Wayne

Colin Wayne in Basrah, Iraq (courtesy of Colin Wayne)

“I’m a Christian and I believe that God opens doors and closes them for a reason,” Wayne said, explaining that things continued to “compound,” and he realized he could “be a voice for the voiceless.”

“[That] is why Memorial Day that’s coming up is so important to me. We’ve, my business has donated over $5 million dollars to charities, nonprofits, first responders, medical staff, partnering with great nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity, Midnight Mission, [and] USA Cares,” he said.

In 2016, Wayne founded his business, Redline Steel, the largest customized steel manufacturer in the nation, which focuses on American-made home decor, including “patriotic Christian faith-based custom monograms” as well as canvas items and mats.

courtesy of Colin Wayne

courtesy of Colin Wayne

 

“Even President Trump purchased a flag from us, and he sent me a thank you note that he signed when he was in the White House,” Wayne said. “It’s all made in the United States, domestic raw materials.”

courtesy of Colin Wayne

courtesy of Colin Wayne

“That’s another huge component of what we do is domestic sourcing, and it’s been a huge challenge for supply chain,” he continued, telling Breitbart News Daily that it is the “worst” he has ever seen it.

LISTEN:


Breitbart · Colin Wayne – May 10, 2022

Sourcing domestically, Wayne said, is an issue, as they are having to order from up north, in Michigan “and different places that we have never as a company had to do.”

It is “compounding efforts,” he said, explaining that his business did over one million orders on their website direct to consumers last year, but shipping rates still went up.

“You know, you look at inflation holistically across the border. I think they’re saying it’s around 7.8 percent. You know, we’re seeing a substantial increase on the steel side, which is our primary domestic material,” Wayne explained.

“This past year has been, I’d say over the past 15 months really since he took office, it’s worse than I’ve ever seen it,” he said, noting that he has not paid himself since March of last year. Rather, he is investing back into the company.

“I’m happy to be in the black,” he said, later adding there is “no incentive” for domestic suppliers.

courtesy of Colin Wayne

courtesy of Colin Wayne

“President Trump was trying to do a lot from tariffs that that took place. I think there’s still a lot of room to go, but I don’t see a lot of economic incentives,” he said, adding that Biden’s Build Back Better plan has not accomplished anything.

“If you really look at his plan, he wants to unionize everything, and so we’re getting closer to a Communist country,” he said, adding that there is not “enough being done,” which is what inspired him to start another business — his software company Drop Hook. He seeks to “totally reimagine the entire drop ship landscape and provide through technology a direct integration with vendors to source their products to thousands of merchants and add products to their store with one simple click and no cost to the end merchant or vendor.”

Ultimately, the successful entrepreneur also spoke of the importance of using his massive social media platforms to speak out and inspire other Americans to do the same.

“I think that it’s imperative. I think more now than ever. … We get labeled as the silent majority and that shouldn’t be the case that we should be the loud and proud. Like we should literally be vocalizing what’s on our mind and not afraid of stating what’s obvious.

“Censorship and it’s real, and I think that if you can use your voice for a louder cause, it’s imperative to do it,” he added.

Billionaires, no taxes, bezos

Big Banks, Big Pharma, Big Tech Partner with Globalist Democrat For Open Borders and Endless Floods of ‘cheap’ Labor That Middle America Will Get the Tax Bills For the True (staggering) Cost

Amazon, Facebook Spend Millions Lobbying Congress for More Legal Immigration, Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/joe-bidens-crony-modern-slaver-jeff.html

 

Refugee resettlement costs taxpayers nearly $9 billion every five years. Over the course of a lifetime, taxpayers pay about $133,000 per refugee and within five years of resettlement, roughly 16 percent will need taxpayer-funded housing assistance.

 

Ralph Nader: Biden's First Year Proves He Is Still a "Corporate Socialist" Beholden to Big Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTIUtjkDss 

 

BIDENOMICS: The issue is not the survival of what the leader of the most powerful imperialist country calls “democracy.” Joe Biden really means capitalism, the profit system, which has produced a level of economic inequality that is entirely incompatible with any genuine democracy. Instead, it is generating fascist movements all over the world, which aim to  abolish all democratic rights and subject the working class to the naked dictatorship of the rich.  PATRICK MARTIN

Chamber of Commerce Cheers Biden’s Expansion of American Job Outsourcing for Amazon, BlackRock (blackrock is joe biden's biggest paymaster and operates out of the white house under gamer laweyr brian deese-a blackrock employee), Facebook

Profits of Doom: Globalist Elites Doubled Their Wealth During Coronavirus Pandemic

 

Bidenflation Squeezes Parents and Pet Owners: Prices Up for Baby Food, Toddler Clothes, Breakfast Cereal, Milk, Juice, Snacks, and Pet Food

Boy hugging his dog
John Howard/Getty Images
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The last year of inflation has made it much more expensive to raise children or own pets in the United States.

The latest report on the Consumer Price Index showed that prices overall are up 8.3 percent compared with a year ago. That number may actually downplay the real toll of inflation because prices were already rising rapidly last April, so last month’s price increases are on top of already high prices.

Parents may be feeling especially squeezed because of rising prices on food, childcare, and even clothes for children.  Here are some of the 12-month changes in price hikes of stuff for children.

  • Baby food: up 13 percent.
  • Infant and toddler clothes: up 8.8 percent.
  • Breakfast cereal: up 10.3 percent.
  • Hot dogs: up 6.9 percent.
  • Fresh and frozen chicken parts (think: nuggets): up 17.9 percent.
  • Fresh whole milk: 15.7 percent.
  • Ice cream: up 4.7 percent.
  • Fresh fruit: up 8.3 percent.
  • Fresh vegetables: up 6.3 percent.
  • Canned fruits and vegetables: up 10.4 percent.
  • Juice: up 9.3 percent.
  • Snacks: up 9.8 percent.
  • Fast food: up 7 percent.
  • Boys clothes: up 3.8 percent.
  • Girls clothes: up 4.7 percent.
  • Boys and girls shoes: up 5 percent.
  • Bicycles: up 8 percent.
  • Sports equipment: up 6.8 percent.

Baby formula, of course, is unavailable in many stores across the country thanks to a nationwide shortage.

Parents can take some comfort that toys, playground equipment, and games are up only 2.5 percent from a year ago.

Pet-lovers are also feeling the pinch of Bidenflation.

  • Pet prices are up 7.2 percent.
  • Pet food prices are up 7 percent.
  • Veterinary services are up 9.8 percent.
  • Other pet services are up 5.9 percent.P

Record gas prices cut further into US workers’

real wages

Despite assurances from the Biden administration that inflation would be a temporary problem, consumer prices continue to spiral out of control.

Gasoline and diesel fuel prices hit an all-time high once again on Tuesday, just two months after the national average for gasoline surpassed $4 per gallon for the first time in 14 years. According to the American Automobile Association, the nationwide average price for a gallon of gas reached $4.37, a 17-cent jump in the past week alone, while diesel prices rose to $5.55 per gallon.

The rise in gas prices comes amid US-NATO oil sanctions against Russia and a sharp drop in the supply of wheat and fertilizers due to the war in Ukraine. The US consumer price index reached 8.5 percent in March, the highest rate in decades.

A March analysis by Yardeni Research, a global investment and business strategy consultant, found that the average American household will pay nearly $2,000 more for gasoline in 2022.

For months, stores across the United States have been struggling to stock baby formula, forcing parents to scramble from store to store. The shortage, originally spurred by COVID-19 supply disruptions in 2021, was exacerbated by the Food and Drug Administration shutdown of an Abbott Nutrition factory in Sturgis, Michigan. The FDA found that four babies had suffered bacterial infections after consuming formula from the facility.

According to Datasembly, a data analytics firm, between 2 and 8 percent of stores could not stock baby formula in the first half of 2021. However, between November 2021 and early April 2022, the out-of-stock rate jumped to 31 percent. In just three weeks, that rate increased by 9 percentage points, and now 40 percent of stores in the US are completely sold out of formula.

In six states—Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Texas and Tennessee—the out-of-stock rate for baby formula was over 50 percent during the week starting April 24, according to Datasembly. Additionally, 26 states had out-of-stock rates higher than 40 percent, compared to just seven states three weeks earlier. Major US pharmacies such as CVS and Walgreens have imposed limits on how many cans customers can buy at a time.

According to the US Department of Agriculture, at-home food prices are expected to rise another 5 to 6 percent in 2022, and food-away-from-home prices are predicted to increase between 5.5 and 6.5 percent.

President Joe Biden delivered a speech Tuesday blaming inflation on the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a statement dripping with hypocrisy, Biden claimed he understood the problems with which working Americans are grappling, and said his administration and the Federal Reserve were treating the matter as a top issue.

“I know that families all across America are hurting because of inflation,” Biden said in a 20-minute speech from the White House. “I want every American to know that I am taking inflation very seriously and it is my top domestic priority.”

Although the White House advertised Biden’s speech as being focused on how his administration would combat inflation, he devoted most of it to denouncing “MAGA Republicans” rather than laying out new proposals to combat the worst inflation in 40 years. Focusing on a plan put forward by Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Biden decried the “ultra-MAGA” policies that would be enacted if Republicans took control of Congress in November.

“My plan is to lower everyday costs for hardworking Americans. And lower the deficit by asking large corporations and the wealthiest Americans to not engage in price gouging and to pay their fair share in taxes,” Biden said. “The Republican plan is to increase taxes on the middle-class families, let billionaires and large companies off the hook as they raise profits, raise prices and reap profits at record amounts. And it’s really that simple.”

While Biden hastened to reiterate his assurances that he was a capitalist and had no problem with businesspeople compiling billions in wealth, the only concrete steps to curtail soaring gas prices he could cite were the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and emergency measures to expand biofuel sales during the summer. He dared not suggest measures that would challenge the stranglehold of energy giants such as Chevron and ExxonMobil on the country’s gasoline supply.

The US oil monopolies are reporting massive profits generated by jacking up prices and imposing cuts in the real wages of oil workers, with the assistance of the corporatist unions. Chevron refinery workers in Richmond, California, have been on strike since March 21. The United Steelworkers union has isolated their determined and courageous struggle, working hand in glove with the company in its attempt to force through a wage increase far below the inflation rate.

Biden also cited his proposals to raise taxes on billionaires and allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, claiming these policies would help bring down inflation.

But these proposals will never be passed by Congress, as Biden well knows, and American workers are not buying the Democrats’ claims that their hands are tied by Republican opposition.

Following his remarks, Biden took several questions from reporters. When asked if he and other Democrats deserved a share of the blame for high prices, Biden claimed the Democrats’ narrow control of Congress was to blame.

“We’re in power. We control all three branches of government. Well, we don’t really,” he said, and then pointed to the filibuster rule in the Senate, which, as a practical matter, requires 60 out of 100 votes to pass legislation. He failed to mention that he has repeatedly opposed efforts to weaken or eliminate the anti-democratic rule.

The inflationary pressures workers face are a direct product of bipartisan policies pursued by both Democrats and Republicans. When the pandemic led to a severe economic downtown in 2020, the US Fed and other major central banks poured an estimated $16 trillion into the financial markets, hoping to prevent a collapse and continue the parasitic growth of the stock market. But the consequences of this “quantitative easing” are being felt by workers in the US and across the world.


May Day 2022: The revolutionary role of the American working class

This is the report delivered by Joseph Kishore to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Kishore is the national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States. To view all speeches, visit wsws.org/mayday.

Joe Kishore, National Secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (US)


This May Day rally is being held as the war policy of the US and NATO against Russia has brought the world to the very brink of catastrophe.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union more than three decades ago, American imperialism has been in a state of continuous and expanding war, targeting one country after the next with invasion, occupation and destruction. The eyes of Washington are now fixed on Russia and China, the principal geostrategic barriers to its dominance. Regional war is developing into world war, and the danger for all of mankind is enormous.

Any assessment of the world situation, of the possibilities inherent in the trajectory of events, however, is incorrect, if it leaves out the most powerful social force within the United States itself, the working class. What has always distinguished the Trotskyist movement was not only its understanding of the central role of American imperialism, but of the enormous social and political power that is the American working class.

We say to workers throughout the world: There are two Americas. There is the America of Wall Street, the Pentagon, the CIA, the plutocracy, which lies, threatens and bullies. But there is also the America of the working class.

Nothing so clearly exposes the reality of class rule in America than the response to the pandemic. The ruling elite, absolute indifference to human life, refused to adopt the necessary public health measures to stop the pandemic. After bailing out Wall Street, they sent Americans back to work.

More than 1 million died, and the rich got richer. The life expectancy of Americans fell by nearly two years, and the stock market soared. Portfolios and gravestones. Two Americas.

No major capitalist country is so unequal as the United States. In the course of its conflict with Russia, the American ruling class has begun to speak of the wealth of the Russian oligarchs. “We’re going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill-begotten gains,” Biden declared on Thursday.

The ruling class is playing with fire. There is no wealth that is more “ill-begotten” than the wealth of the American oligarchy.

Over the past two years of mass death, the wealth of US billionaires grew by more than 70 percent, to over 5 trillion dollars. Five trillion dollars. Fueled by the money-printing operation of the Federal Reserve, median pay for US CEOs at major companies rose to $14.2 million last year.

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, with a quarter of a trillion dollars to his name, received a $23 billion “bonus” last week. He broke the law to force open Tesla plants during the pandemic. Now he is buying Twitter for $43 billion.

Just over 100 years ago, in 1919, the American socialist leader, Eugene Debs gave a May Day speech, heavily influenced by the October Revolution of 1917.

“I am going to speak to you as a socialist, as a revolutionist, as a Bolshevist,” Debs proclaimed. “What is this thing that the whole world is talking about? What is it that the ruling class power is denouncing, upon which they are pouring a flood of malicious lies—what is it? It is the rise of the workers …  who for the first time in history are saying unitedly, ‘We have made what there is, we produce wealth; now we will take what we have produced, for it is ours.’”

Workers throughout the world will take up this call once again.

For nearly half a century, the American ruling class waged one-sided class warfare. The trade unions turned themselves into a labor police force, on the take from management, run by well-heeled executives who profit off the exploitation of those they claim to represent.

The working class in the United States, however, has already begun to fight back. Over the past two years, a series of strikes and struggles of workers has erupted in many industries: Volvo Trucks in Virginia; Kellogg’s; John Deere; Dana Auto Parts; King Soopers grocery stores—these battles were waged not just against management but against the dictates of the trade unions as well.

Autoworkers launched wildcat actions against the efforts to keep plants open as COVID spread. Educators walked out and protested the unsafe reopening of schools.

Among nurses and other health care workers, the impact of the pandemic has fueled a mood of militancy and opposition that extends far beyond the ongoing strike of 5,000 nurses at Stanford in California.

Autoworkers launched wildcat actions against the efforts to keep plants open as COVID spread. Educators walked out and protested the unsafe reopening of schools.

Among nurses and other health care workers, the impact of the pandemic has fueled a mood of militancy and opposition that extends far beyond the ongoing strike of 5,000 nurses at Stanford in California.

As with workers throughout the world, workers in the United States have been slammed by the surge in the costs of basic goods, including food and gas, accelerated by the economic impact of the US-NATO war drive against Russia. As a result of record inflation, workers are confronting a decline in real wages of between 10 and 15 percent in just one year.

According to a Harris poll conducted on April 20-21, 60 percent of American voters said that the economy is weak, and nearly half report that their own financial situation is getting worse. Only a third of respondents said that the country is “on the right track,” compared to nearly 60 percent who said it is “on the wrong track.” The top two fears for American voters are, according to the poll, inflation and the use of nuclear weapons.

There is in the American working class a deep hostility and anger toward the entire political establishment. It is this that explains the mind-numbing propaganda that comes from the official media, the inability of political officials to speak a single truthful word. As Trotsky once noted, the American ruling class is the most fearful in the world.

American capitalism is rotten to the core. Just over one year ago, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, launched a fascistic coup to overturn the Constitution and rule as dictator. The former president cannot deliver a speech without furious denunciations of the danger of socialism.

Earlier this year, Biden declared that he was not certain whether the institutions of American democracy would last another decade. In the campaign against Russia, the American president Biden joins hands with the conspirators in the coup and proclaims “national unity” on the basis of war.

But the United States is not united. It is deeply divided—not along the lines of race and gender, the false divisions that the Democratic Party does everything it can to foster—but along the lines of class.

The American working class has a long and proud tradition of class struggle. Today we celebrate May Day, the day of international working class solidarity. Indeed, the origins of May Day lie in the struggle of American workers for the 8-hour day, in the bloody suppression of workers in Chicago in the Haymarket massacre and frame-up of May 1886 and the subsequent frame-up.

The history of the United States in the 20th century has been a history of militant class struggle. The ability of the American ruling class to thwart the development of a revolutionary movement in the United States was bound up, in the final analysis, with the strength of American capitalism. This objective factor, however, belongs to a distant past.

This prognosis has become a reality. The question that confronts workers is: Upon what basis and with what strategy must their struggles be developed?

The development of the class struggle requires the formation of organizations comprised of and controlled by the workers themselves, independent of the corporatist trade unions.

The expansion of the class struggle and the independent organization of workers must be connected to the building of a socialist leadership in the working class. This means a fight against all the institutions and representatives of the ruling class, from the fascistic nationalism of Trump to the reactionary racial and gender politics of the Democratic Party and the pro-imperialist pseudo-left.

It means forging the strongest bonds between workers in the US and workers throughout the world. American workers are connected, through the process of production and through revolutionary advances in communication, with their class brothers and sisters in every country like never before. There is no national solution to any of the great problems confronting mankind: the global pandemic, surging inflation that is impoverishing hundreds of millions, global warming, and now world war.

And it means the development of a movement consciously directed at capitalism. The ruling class has forfeited its right to rule and has demonstrated the bankruptcy of the profit system upon which it rests.

The basic problem confronting workers in the United States and in every country is the problem of revolutionary leadership. The objective conditions, enormously intensified by the pandemic, create the possibility for socialist revolution. But the transformation of this objective possibility into political reality requires the building of a socialist leadership in the working class. And it depends on the actions of individuals to make the decision to build this leadership.

The Ruling Elites Redefined Character in order to Elect Joe Biden

On August 20, 2020, Joe Biden accepted the Democrat party’s nomination for president by fatuously declaring, “Character and decency are on the ballot.”  Thus, directly proclaiming himself and the Democrat party as the paragons of character and decency as compared to the “vile” Donald Trump and the “racialist” Make America Great Again movement.

A claim which is an unfathomable stretch of the imagination, considering Joe Biden’s long and well-known history of corruption and his uncontrollable penchant for being a serial fabulist and compulsive liar. To run on this platform required not only unbridled audacity but also lockstep conformity in the regime media’s coverage of Biden but also a requisite redefinition of character and decency by the entirety of the ruling class.

Wallowing in their ever-growing abandonment of integrity, the regime media and the rest of the ruling elites were well aware of Biden’s history of duplicity and dishonesty as well as his current mental deficiencies.  Nonetheless, they rallied around a common cause and swung into action by transforming corruption into propriety, mendacity into guilelessness, and arrogance into humility.  Thus, “Lunch Bucket Joe” was the epitome of “character and decency” who would single-handedly restore America.  

It was not only the Democrat elites in lockstep with this deception and mythical mantra but virtually everyone in the Republican wing of the ruling class as well, including media figures such as Bill Kristol and George Will and their compatriot and fellow neo-conservative at The New York Times, David Brooks.

In August of 2019, Brooks, in an interview about Joe Biden’s obvious mental decline and penchant for fabrication, claimed that Joe “is not mendacious, he is not irresponsible.  He may embellish a story to improve its dramatic effect.  Our memories are just more fallible than we think.”

Brooks was so moved by Biden’s cliché-riddled inauguration speech that he was brought to tears over the transfer of power saying “There are good people [Biden] there, standing there talking, they’re wanting to run this country well.”   A few days later he penned an unbelievably fawning op-ed in The New York Times that could have been written by Jill Biden claiming: “The Biden values are there: humility, vulnerability, compassion, resilience, interdependence, solidarity.” 

This is the same David Brooks who in 2015 published a self-serving book titled: The Road to Character, wherein he claimed character starts with having a certain set of universal traits that include a code of ethics -- an inner knowledge of what is fair and just.  Further, character begins with and flourishes when “we move beyond our own self-interest and act for the greater good, whether it’s for the good of our family, our community, our workplace or our country.” [Emphasis added]

What happened to the David Brooks who wrote those sentiments and his fellow travelers in the ruling class?  They fawned over his book while enthusiastically nodding in agreement.  They pride themselves on attending seminars on the significance of character and wax endlessly about the importance of electing virtuous leaders.

Apparently, much of this is for public consumption.  In reality, these elitists believe that they are not only the fountainhead but the arbiters of “character” as, not coincidentally, those they deem to be of character are invariably the “noble,” wealthy, and “higher ups.”  In other words, their fellow elitists. They consider character as malleable as long as it accommodates their avarice and desire for societal control.  Don’t the ruling elites have enough privileges without claiming good character for themselves?  

It was this elitist mindset that allowed virtually the entirety of the ruling class to ignore the long-term welfare of the country as they determined that it was in their best interest to unabashedly promote the most corrupt, senescent, and inept presidential nominee in American history.  The need to eliminate the threat to their financial and societal hegemony, Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, was far more important.  

Wallowing in this egocentric mindset, these same myopic buffoons knew there was a high probability that the radical left would control the Biden administration due to Joe Biden’s mental incapacity and willingness to do or say anything as well as being, due to his decades of venality, an easy mark for domestic and foreign extortion.  Nonetheless, they chose to continue their self-serving deification of Joe Biden.  

That probability is now a reality as the Biden Administration has unabashedly promoted the entirety of the radical left’s socialist/Marxist agenda including unfettered illegal immigration, de facto infanticide, and the mainstreaming of gender dysphoria.  Further, Biden has refused to condemn or prosecute their militant tactics whenever they choose to physically confront and intimidate judges, members of Congress, corporations, or the average citizen.

This mindset also played a major role in the ruling elite’s justification for covering up the damning contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the casting of the protests on January 6, 2021, as an “insurrection,” initiating as well as participating in unprecedented vote manipulation in 2020, and unabashedly claiming the 2020 election was honest and devoid of fraud.

Perhaps the most significant end-product of this mindset is the abject disdain for the non-elitist segment of the American citizenry, the vast majority of whom are endowed with considerably more sagacity and integrity than virtually any member of the current ruling class.

Perhaps no one has better captured their hypocrisy and duplicity than Joseph Heller in his ground-breaking novel Catch-22 when he wrote:

It was miraculous.  It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism and sadism into justice.  Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all.  It merely required no character. 

By inflicting Joe Biden upon the nation, the treachery, hypocrisy, avarice, and maleducation of the ruling elites have been exposed despite their concocted and narcissistic claim that they are the embodiment and final arbiter of character.  

Thanks to their insufferable hubris, the bulk of the American people know who is solely responsible for the ongoing economic chaos and societal upheaval in the United States as well as much of the turmoil throughout the world. 

Panic is thus setting in at the enclaves of the ruling class as they know their days atop the pyramid that is American society are coming to an end.




They Caught Him Red Handed


Rick Scott: Joe Biden Is ‘Incoherent, Incapacitated & Confused’ amid Inflation

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 20: Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) speaks onstage during the 2021 Concordia Annual Summit - Day 1 at Sheraton New York on September 20, 2021, in New York City.
Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) on Tuesday said President Biden’s cognitive ability is of real concern amid his struggle to tamp down 40-year-high inflation.

“Joe Biden is unwell. He’s unfit for office. He’s incoherent, incapacitated & confused,” Scott said in a statement. “The most effective thing Joe Biden can do to solve the inflation crisis he created is resign.

“He doesn’t know where he is half the time,” Scott continued. “He’s incapable of leading and he’s incapable of carrying out his duties. Period.”

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Polling suggests that Americans agree with Scott. Fifty-three percent of voters have “doubts” about Biden’s mental ability, a Harvard Caps Harris poll revealed. Sixty-two percent said Biden is not fit to be president because he is too old. Sixty-six percent of Democrats said the president is mentally fit.

Scott’s lack of confidence in Biden’s mental ability comes as inflation is likely to cost Americans an extra $5,200 per year, according to Bloomberg.

“Everyone knows it. No one is willing to say it. But we have to, for the sake of the country. Joe Biden can’t do the job,” Scott added.

Biden will deliver a speech on Tuesday that is expected to accuse Republicans of not having a plan to reduce his inflation. According to economists, Bidenflation was fueled last year by spending $1.9 trillion on a coronavirus package and $1 trillion on infrastructure.

“Republicans love to use inflation as a political talking point, but does anyone have a clue what their plan is to bring down prices?” a White House official told Reuters.

It will not be the first time Biden has blamed Republicans for challenges he created. Last month, Biden blamed Republicans for blocking his costly spending efforts.

“I mean this sincerely — name me something the national Republican Party is for,” the Associated Press reported. “It’s not my fault; blame the Republicans,” Biden has said in relation to soaring gas prices and 40-year-high inflation.

In early May, the Democrat National Committee (DNC) also blamed Republicans for Biden’s chaotic presidency. “While President Biden and Democrats work to lower costs and continue the historic economic recovery made possible by the American Rescue Plan, Republicans have done everything they can to try to stand in the way,” Jaime Harrison, chairman of the Democrat National Committee, told the New York Times.

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Democrats Aim to Spend $60B More Taxpayer Dollars During 40-Year-High Inflation

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Democrats on Tuesday are aiming to spend $60 billion more taxpayer dollars during 40-year-high inflation.

The Democrats’ plan to spend a massive amount of money after spending wildly in 2021. Last year’s spending included a $1.9 trillion coronavirus package and a $1 trillion infrastructure package, which many economists say fueled 40-year-high inflation in the same year.

“A few center-left economists, as well as Sen. Joe Manchin (D–W.Va.), sounded the alarm that an oversized new injection of spending would overheat a growing economy and cause inflation,” Reason reported. “They were ignored, if not mocked. As a result, almost everyone from the Fed chairman to monetary experts spent most of 2021 explaining away inflation without mention of the roles played by fiscal and monetary policies.”

Nearly one year later in May of 2022, Democrats are once again planning to spend massive sums of taxpayer dollars. Democrats look to splash nearly $40 billion dollars to protect Ukraine’s border from invasion, instead of the U.S. southern border. Democrats are additionally aiming to spend about $20 billion for more coronavirus funding. Punchbowl News reported on the details of the spending proposals in Congress:

Congress is going to move forward quickly on a nearly $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. The proposal is $6.8 billion above the White House’s $33 billion request. It provides $3.4 billion more than the Biden administration sought for military aid, plus another $3.4 billion in additional humanitarian aid. House and Senate appropriators spent the last week privately negotiating the proposal.

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House Democratic leaders – including Speaker Nancy Pelosi – have pushed for nearly $20 billion for additional Covid funding, in line with what the White House said it needs. The Senate had been considering a pared-back package worth roughly $10 billion.

The spending comes before the midterms elections. Democrats are attempting to make the election about abortion. But many voters are not buying the sales pitch.

“It’s the economy and jobs,” Laura Wilson told Reuters on Monday about the precedence the economy takes over abortion. Wilson, one of 21 women the publication interviewed, slammed Biden for 40-year-high inflation that will reportedly cost American families an extra $5,200 in 2022.

“Most of the women said inflation, not abortion, was the galvanizing issue for them,” Reuters reported. “Five said they were pro-life and Republican, while 16 said they were pro-choice. Just two of the 16 said the issue was the top priority for them when voting this November.”

Polling supports Wilson’s concern. According to a CNN poll, the economy tops Americans’ greatest worry. Only two percent of Americans said Biden’s economy is “very good.” Seventy-seven percent conveyed Biden’s economy is poor, the highest mark in a decade.

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Joe Biden Blames Everything but Himself for Inflation in Speech Offering No New Solutions

President Joe Biden speaks about inflation in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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President Joe Biden delivered another speech at the White House about inflation on Tuesday, blaming everyone but himself for skyrocketing prices.

The president refused to take responsibility for inflation, arguing his trillions in dollars in government spending in 2021 were only trying to help people.

“I think our policies help. Not hurt,” he said to reporters when asked if he accepted responsibility for the problem.

“The vast majority of the economists think that this is going to be a real tough problem to solve, but it’s not because of spending,” he claimed.

The president spoke as gasoline and diesel prices hit new record highs in the United States.

When asked why he thought Americans continued to blame him for higher prices, Biden acknowledged the Democrat party was in power in all three branches of government but said inflation was “really complicated.”

A political sticker mocking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is seen next to a gas pump display showing a transaction in Los Angeles, Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

“Right now it’s confusing. There’s a war in Ukraine and they’re scratching their head,” Biden said about the American people.

“Most people, the vast majority of Americans are hoping that their government just takes care of their problem and they don’t have to think about it in detail at the kitchen table,” he continued.

Biden said the “average person” just did not understand why inflation was happening and tried to signal he understood their concerns.

“Look I know you gotta be frustrated. I know. I can taste it,” he said.

Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin, the coronavirus pandemic, and big corporations for inflation and berated “ultra MAGA” Republicans for blocking his agenda.

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US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The president mistakenly said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was from Wisconsin and said the senator “has a problem” when told about Scott’s call for him to resign.

“Resign? That’s a good idea,” Biden replied sarcastically.

He also insisted inflation was his “top domestic priority.”

The president rehashed his previous attempts to address inflation and high gas prices by releasing more oil from the strategic oil reserves, shifting American energy production away from oil to green energy sources, putting price caps on insulin, and offering government subsidies to make buildings more energy-efficient.

When asked how long he expected inflation to last, Biden replied, “I’m not going to predict that.”