Thursday, April 30, 2020

TROIKA OF BRIBES SUCKING CORRUPTION, WAR PROFITEER FEINSTEIN, LA RAZA PELOSI AND PAY-TO-PLAY CLINTON ENDORSE SENILE BIDEN - You can wage that Joe will not prosecute them for corruption!

After the 2008 crisis, the Bush and Obama administrations orchestrated the bailout of Wall Street, buying up all the bad debts, particularly in mortgage-backed securities, that had been used as vehicles for an orgy of speculation. As a result, social inequality increased to record levels. Corporate cash hoards rose to $2 trillion. Some $4 trillion was funneled into stock buybacks.

THE CRIME DUAL OF HILLARY & BILLARY, THE “HOPE & CHANGE”  HUCKSTER OBAMA AND CIRCUS FREAK TRUMP….. Their march to the guillotine.
Let us hope they take the Bush Crime Family with them!



"But the Clintons personify this corruption just as much as Trump, even if they made use of a different mechanism and on a somewhat smaller scale. They amassed a fortune exceeding $150 million in the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, mainly through six-figure fees for addressing corporate and Wall Street audiences. Barack Obama will shortly take a similar path, reaping his reward from the financial aristocracy whose interests he safeguarded so assiduously over the past eight years."

Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden
On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton, the Democrats 2016 presidential candidate, endorsed the partys presumptive 2020 candidate Joe Biden. The official endorsement took the form of a 50-minute split-screen video event, the same format as the one used by Bernie Sanders on April 13 to complete his capitulation to the long-time senator from Delaware and vice president under Barack Obama.
Coming one day after the endorsement of Biden by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the event signaled the alignment of all factions of the Democratic Party behind the long-time political factotum for the corporate elite and the military-intelligence establishment, who was the most right-wing of the major contestants in this years Democratic primaries.
The event was billed as a Womens Town Hall on The Impact of COVID-19 on Women. Biden introduced Clinton as the woman who should be president of the United States right now.
Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama (Photo: Twitter @HillaryClinton)
The emphasis on gender politics was in line 
with the efforts of the Democratic Party to 
distract attention from the COVID-19 
crisis exposure of the unbridgeable chasm 
separating the interests of the working class 
from those of the capitalist ruling elite.
Strikes and protests by workers against the drive to force them back to work are growing under conditions where tens of millions recognize that the ruling class did nothing to prepare for the pandemic and has focused its response on utilizing the public health and economic catastrophe to protect and increase its own profits and wealth, at the cost of untold thousands of lives. The Democratic Party has supported this criminal policy, voting unanimously for the multi-trillion-dollar Cares Act bailout of the corporate-financial oligarchy.
But the feminist focus had an added significance, coming in the midst of a simmering scandal involving allegations by a former Biden aide that the then-senator sexually assaulted her. The accusation, unsubstantiated and dating back to an incident that allegedly occurred 26 years ago, has exposed the hypocrisy of the Democratic Partys #MeToo campaign.
That operation, underway for more than three years, has mobilized more privileged layers of the middle class around a hysterical witch hunt based on the insistence that charges by women of sexual harassment must be believed and accepted as fact, and the accused men turned into pariahs without any presumption of innocence or due process.
However, now that the target is the partys choice for president, #MeToo leaders, the entire Democratic leadership and media outlets aligned with the Democrats such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and NBC have either buried the story or exonerated Biden. That includes Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and the dozen or so women on Bidens short list to be named as his running mate.
There are, however, elements in and around the Democratic Party, including some former officials in the Sanders campaign and pseudo-left Sanders promoters who are demanding that Biden be removed as the partys nominee. Recently, for example, Claire Sandberg, the national organizing director for Sanders’s presidential campaign tweeted: “There is simply no moral justification for Biden to continue as the presumptive nominee. Out of respect for survivors and for the good of the country, he should withdraw from the race.”
This controversy has added to an already existing crisis in the Democratic Party, fueled by widespread popular hatred and contempt for Biden among working people and especially among youth, many of whom backed Sanders but are not inclined to vote for a man who supported the wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria and helped oversee the 2008-2009 bailout of Wall Street.
There was no mention during the video event of the sexual allegations against Biden by either the candidate or Clinton, both of whom avidly backed #MeToo and embraced its slogan of "Believe women."
After declaring that she was “thrilled to be part of your campaign,” Clinton focused on the impact of the pandemic on women, pointing out that eighty percent of all health care workers in the US are women. “It is having a disproportionate impact on the front lines on women working, on women caring for others, on women holding down the home as we go through this together,” she said.
Both she and Biden hypocritically complained that “too much money has gone to the wrong people”—big corporations instead of small businesses and workers—ignoring the full support of the Democratic Party for the massive corporate bailout.
Neither of them mentioned the current drive to force workers back to work under conditions of a continuing rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths with neither testing nor safety measures in place to protect workers from the ravages of the disease. Biden published a column in the New York Times headlined “My Plan to Safely Reopen America” on April 12, one day before Sanders endorsed him.
Clinton praised Biden for his ability as a senator to “bring people together to solve problems.” This invocation of Biden’s ability to forge a bipartisan consensus in Washington is in line with calls from both the Times and Republican opponents of Trump to establish a “national unity” government, with Biden as its figurehead. Pro-war reactionaries including Max Boot, a neo-conservative advocate of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Michael Gerson, a speechwriter for George W. Bush, and Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager in 2008, have published commentaries on this theme, making clear the right-wing character of a future Biden administration.
The endorsement of Clinton is the culmination
of two weeks during which the most 
prominent representatives of the so-called 
“progressive” wing of the party—Sanders, 
Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez—have dutifully lined up behind the 
Biden-Clinton-Obama party leadership.
Clinton had the distinction in the 2016 campaign of becoming the second most hated presidential candidate in US history, second only to Trump. She ran as the candidate of Wall Street and the military-intelligence establishment, attacking the fascistic Trump with the fantastic claim that he is a stooge of Putin and the Kremlin. This was overlaid with the promotion of racial and gender politics, combined with undisguised contempt for the “white” working class, which she condemned as a reactionary mass of Trump fanatics, a “basket of deplorables,” in her memorable phrase.
This, compounded by Sanders’ capitulation to Clinton after having won 13 million votes by appealing to anger over social inequality, enabled Trump to exploit popular disgust with the Obama years and the political establishment as a whole.
In January and February of this year, when Sanders was surpassing Biden in the polls and winning the initial Democratic caucuses and primaries, Clinton became the chief attack dog of the Democratic Party, the New York Times and the Washington Post in a concerted campaign to sabotage Sanders and resurrect the collapsing campaign of the semi-senile Biden.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, she accused Sanders of undermining her 2016 campaign and said: “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done… It’s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.”
Asked if she would support Sanders if he won the nomination, she declined to do so. Only after angry protests did she relent and say she would support Sanders if he won the nomination.
She continued to attack Sanders in the following weeks for his “extreme” positions, while the Democratic Party mobilized the Congressional Black Caucus to ensure Biden victories in primaries in the South where the party’s constituency is dominated by more conservative, older African American voters.
Clinton’s endorsement, while never in doubt, nevertheless underscores the reactionary character of both the Biden campaign and the Democratic Party as a whole. It also exposes the bankruptcy of the entire premise behind the Sanders campaign—that the Democratic Party can be transformed into a party of progressive social reform, or possibly even socialism.
Since Sanders’ shelving of his campaign and capitulation to Biden, this “left” version of the increasingly discredited “lesser evil” argument has taken the form of claiming that Sanders and his supporters can push Biden to the left. This is the mantra of the Democratic Socialists of America, Socialist Alternative and other pseudo-left groups that continue to promote Sanders in an attempt to block the emergence of an independent political movement of the working class.




BIDEN: DEAD MAN WALKING.... Along side Hillary Clinton pushing Joe over the edge and into the grave.

Joe Biden is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who absolutely is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, his brother, sister and daughter. 


Hillary is also a narcissist of the worst order, the kind who never takes responsibility for the havoc she has wrought on the lives of others, let alone her country.  She is in fact one of the most corrupt politicians ever to prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for her many deceits and crimes.  

A Biden candidacy — what's the plan? There is always a plan


Why, when Joe Biden's mental decline is so obvious, are so many former Obamaphiles pledging their spurious support for the man?  Something's up. It is beyond clear that Biden is not up to the job. This fact cannot escape the notice of Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, et al., all those conspirators who tried so treasonously hard to destroy Donald Trump.  They surely know better than most that Biden is a dead man walking.  So why the all-out campaign to support his candidacy?  Hmmm.
They must have a plan.  Is their plan to submarine Joe before the convention, admit he is incapacitated, and put up a heretofore untested candidate at a brokered convention?  Or do they have a plan to appoint a V.P. candidate they assume will become president in short order?  Perhaps, as Joel Gilbert speculated here yesterday, the plan is to install Hillary as the candidate to run against President Trump in a last-ditch effort to derail his fabulously successful presidency.  They certainly have some devious scheme to replace Biden by hook or crook, for his dementia cannot possibly have escaped their notice.
The now available Hillary documentary for all to see is probably meant to prime the public for her potential last-minute candidacy.  It is not very likely to be successful.  She is the kind of harridan who makes Elizabeth Warren seem kind and gentle!  Hillary is also a narcissist of the worst order, the kind who never takes responsibility for the havoc she has wrought on the lives of others, let alone her country.  She is in fact one of the most corrupt politicians ever to prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for her many deceits and crimes.  She has been a blight upon the U.S. since she gained power as the wife of the governor of Arkansas.  She spent forty years covering up for her husband's crimes against women and has somehow lived to tell no tales.  Her fans are certifiable morons, susceptible to any and all of the propaganda the left propels into the mainstream media.  She has yet to endorse Biden.  To support his candidacy is to deny his indisputable advancing dementia. 
Credit to the voters of South Carolina is due for sure: they understand the horror an American-hating communist would perpetrate upon this great nation.  A Bernie Sanders presidency would be the end of America as founded.  Those who support him either are tragically ignorant of the genocidal reality of socialism wherever tried or hate their own nation so much they are willing to suffer the monstrous consequences of electing a communist president.
Make no mistake: Bernie Sanders intends to be a communist president if elected.  Like Castro, Maduro, Chávez, Lenin, and all the dictators he so admires, he would be a tyrant.  For nearly fifty years, he has wanted to punish those who fend for themselves and succeed.  A man who admires Fidel Castro must never come to power in America.  Never.  Bless those voters in South Carolina who know this.
Sadly, Joe Biden was their only other choice.  Chances are, those same voters will vote for President Trump in November.  They were savvy enough to know that Sanders would be a disaster; they are shrewd enough to know that Joe Biden is senile.  Most of us of a certain age recognize advancing senility when we see it because we have seen it ourselves; we know the heartbreak.  Joe is done.  So what is their plan? 
Whatever it is, it cannot be good for the American people.  The left never considers the American people, never gives a thought to its constituents.  Leftists are always and only about power and their continued access to the wealth that power provides for them.  They are certain of their own superiority, their due privilege to lead and control the rest of us.  The fact that Mike Bloomberg actually thought he could step in and purchase the presidency with his billions is proof of the left's mindset.  His failure to succeed was delicious; the American people cannot be bought.  Some of them can be fooled for a while, but in the end, their good sense prevails.  That is how we elected the best president in decades, Donald Trump.  They will re-elect him in November despite the left and left media's never-ending attempts to destroy his presidency.  When the history of the left's wholesale assault on America, its founding principles and values from the 1960s on, is written, it will prove that the nation was under constant assault by the anti-American left.  The left has successfully indoctrinated two generations of university students to loathe their country.  Leftists have successfully made race, class, and sex the defining characteristics of every person, who must be a designated member of a victim group or an oppressor.  They give no credence to the value of the individual or to any individual's character.  MLK is rolling over in his grave. 
All of those leftists coming out of the woodwork to support Joe Biden know only too well that he is an intellectual lightweight, "wrong on every foreign policy issue for forty years," (Robert Gates), a mean-spirited bastard who delighted in destroying Robert Bork and humiliating the great Clarence Thomas. He is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who absolutely is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, his brother, sister and daughter. The thought of this man even becoming close to the presidency is abhorrent. Whatever his pseudo-supporters have in mind, it is not good for the American people; not one bit. We will soon learn what their plan is. Chances are it won't be pretty and chances are the American people will not fall for it.


The Democratic Party Is Wounded and Dangerous

 

Beware the wounded animal.  In pain and desperation, it will do violent things.  It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Joe Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon.  The Democrats and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness.  In his best days, Joe Biden was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the back.  When he wasn't using his position of power for financial gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own pockets.  Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his fighting for him.  If you've ever wondered what happens to the shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just cast your eyes upon Old Joe.  He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic corruption and amorality.  He's what the Democratic Party usually keeps far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment; now he's the main event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire.  He's a freak-show carnival attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble audible words together into a sentence.  The Democrats needed a man who could command a movement; all they got was a man who can barely control his own.
I'm not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag.  Far from it.  We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to take down an American president.  The Democratic Party has most of the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe, global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump from the White House.  In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of history.  After orchestrating a coup against the American president, however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each night.  The corporate news media and institutional government have spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.
So, no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege.  All I am saying is that Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting their oligarchic power.  They wanted a formidable presidential nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly inspiring.  Instead, they're settling for a politician past his expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more soused in crème de menthe.  The Democratic Party may depend on dead voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing altogether.
So just because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving each other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by the beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at heart.  If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home after pill rounds.  This is the one whom the commentariat is celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016 because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years younger.  The vice president during the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being strangely "articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the wives and daughters of White House officials and visiting dignitaries.  Imagine being in such dire straits because the previous Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over a thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by default.  For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling hair."  "Comeback Joe"?  More like "Come back, Joe!"
The Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing the current one from achieving too many victories.  Considering that Brennan and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been remarkably successful.  But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to an end.  If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay, regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the past.  And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long delayed judgment is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy.  The one "reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his "moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal, Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun confiscation.  Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat" like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist socialism.  No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him.  That's what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
Image: Lorie Shaull via Flickr.

The Great Wall Street Heist of 2020

28 April 2020
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have devastating consequences for the vast majority of the population in the United States. The new month begins on Friday, which means that rents and mortgages will come due for tens of millions of workers who have no income to pay for them.
More than 20 million people have filed for unemployment benefits over the past five weeks. In March, less than 30 percent of those who filed received any benefits. Millions more are ineligible for any assistance.
Millions of people have yet to receive anything, including the $1,200 federal cash stimulus, and are desperately attempting to stave off destitution. Food banks are overwhelmed by demand and are running out of staple goods. According to the Economic Policy Institute, more than nine million people who lost their jobs have also lost their health insurance through April 11, with millions more in the weeks that have followed.
There are, however, two realities, two 
Americas. While the economic destitution of 
workers is being used in an effort to drive 
them back to work over widespread 
opposition, the corporate and financial 
oligarchy has seen its fortunes increase.
Gigantic corporations, many of which have massive cash hoards, are laying off employees while continuing to pay executives. Entertainment giant Disney recently came under public scrutiny over the fact that it has furloughed more than 100,000 workers while maintaining its executive compensation program. But this is the general rule.
US billionaires, since mid-March, have 
increased their wealth by $282 billion. The 
collective fortune of these 614 individuals, 
which totals $3.2 trillion, has been buoyed by 
the continued rise of share values on Wall 
Street, which increased sharply again on 
Monday.
A headline in the German newsweekly Der Spiegel yesterday captured the economic situation: “The death toll in the US is rising—so are the markets.” Noting that while businesses remain shut down and joblessness exceeds by far anything seen in American history, Der Spiegel writes: “So if the fundamental economic data actually offer so little incentive to buy, what is behind the rally? The solution to the riddle has three letters: Fed.”
The Fed—that is, the US Federal Reserve—has made clear that it will do everything in its power to support Wall Street. As a consequence, the markets keep going up. “If you wanted to bet on price losses,” Der Spiegel remarks, “you would have to bet against an institution whose funds are practically infinite.”
Beginning in March, as the Trump administration and the media were downplaying the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Reserve began funneling money into the markets—first by reducing interest rates to zero, then by initiating a raft of programs to buy up assets from banks and corporations, providing them with cash to purchase stocks.
The activity of the Federal Reserve was endorsed unanimously by the US Congress in late March, when it passed the “CARES Act,” which allocated $454 billion to finance up to $4 trillion in asset purchases. Every single senator voted for the CARES Act, including the erstwhile “democratic socialist” from Vermont, Bernie Sanders.
The Fed is spending something on the order of $80 billion every day. The central bank’s balance sheet is expected to increase to as much as $11 trillion, from less than $4 trillion last year and less than $1 trillion before 2008. This would bring the overall value of assets held by the Fed to nearly half the entire annual economic output of the United States.
One should call things by their right names. Terms such as “asset purchases” and “quantitative easing” tend to obscure what is happening. This is plunder, thievery, robbery on an unprecedented scale. Since stock ownership is overwhelmingly concentrated among the rich, it is the rich who are benefiting.
The Great Wall Street Heist of 2020 has been aided and abetted at every stage by the Democratic and Republican parties. The various institutions of the state, including the mainstream media, have exposed themselves as nothing more than the paid hirelings of Wall Street, to put the matter delicately. Others might have more expressive terms.
After the 2008 crisis, the Bush and Obama administrations orchestrated the bailout of Wall Street, buying up all the bad debts, particularly in mortgage-backed securities, that had been used as vehicles for an orgy of speculation. As a result, social inequality increased to record levels. Corporate cash hoards rose to $2 trillion. Some $4 trillion was funneled into stock buybacks.
Far from being forced to pay for the economic consequences of the pandemic, the banks and corporations have simply been bailed out again, this time on a far larger scale. Once again, the crisis is being utilized as an opportunity to restructure class relations in the interests of the rich.
Everything turned over to Wall Street will be paid, in one form or another, by the working class--through austerity, the further destruction of social programs and intensified exploitation. Hence the relentless campaign to return everyone back to work, risking a new wave of the pandemic and the deaths of countless thousands of people.
Such measures, we are told, are necessary to “save the 

economy.” But “the economy,” like the “American people,” is an 


abstraction. “The economy” that has been “saved” is the economy


of the rich, capitalism. Every measure taken has 


been based on protecting the interests of 


the oligarchy at the expense of society. 


Every policy has been guided by class interests.
A socialist response, that is, one based on the interests of the working class, is of an entirely different character. Trillions must be allocated, not to bail out Wall Street, but to implement an emergency program to build up health care infrastructure and provide protective equipment to all essential workers.
The loans and other mechanisms through which the income of workers is earmarked for payments to the banks must be immediately forgiven. Student debt ($1.5 trillion), car loans ($1.3 trillion) and credit card debt ($1.08 trillion) could all be wiped out with the money that has been turned over to Wall Street, with trillions still left over.
All workers must continue to receive their full income for the duration of the pandemic. The highest quality health care must be available to all, free of charge and on a completely equal basis.
There must, moreover, be real assistance to small businesses. The so-called Paycheck Protection Program passed by Congress, ostensibly to aid small businesses, has turned out to be another massive swindle for large corporations, including restaurant chains, hotel conglomerates and hedge funds.
Such actions and other emergency measures to secure the interests of the working class, in the United States and internationally, could not and cannot be secured within the framework of the existing state institutions.
The entire response to the pandemic—from the initial downplaying of the threat to the failure to organize any significant response, the massive handout to Wall Street and the present campaign to force workers back to work even as the pandemic rages—is proof of the Marxist theory of the state. The state is not a neutral body. The financial oligarchy rules. It is their state. The politicians are their politicians. The media is their media.
The logistics, food production, health care, energy, manufacturing and other basic industries must be restructured to meet social needs, under the democratic control of the working class. The massive bailouts of Wall Street must be reversed, with the social resources redirected to securing the financial well-being and health of the working class.
Such policies cannot be realized within the existing political system. They raise the necessity for the revolutionary mobilization of the working class to take political power in its own hands through the establishment of a workers’ government—that is, a government of the workers, by the workers and for the workers—that will implement the socialist policies required to save mankind from disaster.


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