What a choice!

 

Biden/Trump 2024

Donald Trump just told Israel that they were doing the wrong thing on Israeli TV. Here's the thing: Trump's a scumbag, and a professional heel (as in professional wrestling). He's a real-estate con man and narcissist.

But he's not a mass-murderer like Biden. He knows what appeals to his audience. That's pretty much the stock in trade of a con man. So he talks big and says all kind of shit that he knows his audience loves to hear - or do you believe that he's really an evangelical Christian?

War scares him. It's too big for his level of relatively petty criminality and graft. That's why he was the only President in decades not to start a new war. He even tried to shut down a war, and the generals and military-industrial-Congressional complex jerked the reins out of his hands and flat-out refused to end it. They only ended it for Biden because they knew the resources were needed for the upcoming war in Ukraine.

The DNC has been pushing the idea of Donald Trump as the Antichrist, Satan, and Hitler all rolled up in one turgid package. They see terrifying their voters about Trump as the only way to get them to swallow the shit sandwich that is #GenocideJoe. But Biden is actually killing children every day, probably close to 20,000 by now. He's jailing more refugee children at the border than Trump did. He's happily denying millions of American children (and their parents) basic health care, while he and his family enjoy the best health care in the world for life, paid for by our tax dollars. And don't get me started about Biden's penchant for grabbing little girls and smelling their hair. The guy's a senile creep!

Biden's the genocidal fascist. Trump's a sleazy crook and con man. They're both rapists, of course. But between the two, Trump is clearly the lesser evil. Because genocide, particularly of a population which is half children, can never be anything but the greatest evil possible.

Biden also serves the oligarchs and the military-industrial complex with unquestioning loyalty (or at this point his puppetmasters do, since his brains seem to be mostly tapioca). He's brought the world closer to the brink of World War III than any President since JFK. Trump's ego is so huge and his need for applause is so deep that sometimes - only sometimes, mind you - he unintentionally foils the will of the oligarchs.

Both of them belong in jail. Neither of them deserve to be within a hundred miles of the White House. They're both contemptible. But selling the DNC's painfully-concocted lie that Trump is the Ultimate Evil (a lie they've used in every single election for the past forty years) is just ridiculous.

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Either/Or

The Democratic Party leadership don't give a shit about democracy. If they did, they wouldn't have put a visibly demented, doddering old  octogenarian up against Donald Trump. 

OR, this is all just a game between the two major political parties and who wins is meaningless - the oligarchs win either way. In which case we don't have democracy and probably haven't had it for decades. If ever. 

The World's Best Heel

There's a simple insight which will completely change your view of Donald Trump: he's a heel. Not in the sense of being a bad person, although no doubt he is. Rather, he's a Heel in the sense of professional wrestling.

Do you know about professional wrestling? They offer a timeless battle between good and evil, using stage personalities. Faces are the good guys, the ones the audience cheer and applaud. Heels are the bad guys, the ones who hit the good guys from behind with a folding chair or illegally double-team a Face. It's all an act, of course. Sometimes Faces become Heels, or Heels become Faces...but it's all part of the show.

Trump is a Heel. He's always been on TV, even back when I was a teenager. He claims to be a businessman, but his real role has always been media personality. That's what he loves more than anything. That's why he can't shut up, even when a judge orders him to. He's a professional Heel, and he just might be the best one in the world.

Which is probably why Bill and Hillary Clinton approached him before the 2016 election with their Pied Piper scheme. Donald would run for the Republican nomination, supplanting all of the "legitimate" competitors. But he'd be so odious that Hillary, the designated Face, would crush him in the general election. Except...

I'm inclined to think that Hillary simply underestimated just how loathsome she was, and how much people hated her. Any experienced wrestling impresario could have told her that she wasn't Face material. They could have also warned her that even though audiences love to boo Heels, they also love them.

You know the rest. Donald Trump was probably as surprised as Hillary on Election Day. But he still did his best to play the part. And the Democrats shrugged and decided that they could raise LOTS of money for four years, campaigning against President Heel. Which is exactly what happened.

He's actually a narcissist, cunning but not all that intelligent. But he's great at being a Heel, which means he's great at judging an audience (in this case, about half of the American electorate) and giving them what they want. His Hitler quotes are a bit over-the-top, but that's what a good Heel does sometimes. The one thing a Heel dreads more than anything else is boring the fans. And of course when the media and the Democratic elite clutch their pearls and squeal, well that's just music to a Heel's ears.

The DNC makes money, the oligarchs make money, and the only people who get hurt are the ones who don't matter: the poor, refugees, civilians in far-off countries...the nobodies.

The DNC is still playing that game, of course. Donald Trump is Hitler. George W. Bush was Hitler. Ronald Reagan was Hitler. Don't get me wrong, these are shitty and evil people who did a lot of terrible things. But they were all in service of the oligarchs, who always get their way no matter who's in office. You'll never see a candidate on the ballot who doesn't have the approval of the oligarchs.

That said, it's worth remembering that for all of his bombast and threats, Trump (unlike most of his predecessors in office) never tried to start a new war. I suspect that his show-business instincts told him that a real war (unlike an occasional assassination) would be dangerous business, something that could turn the rubes against him fast. If he'd been President during this genocide in Gaza, he'd have made some grandiloquent speeches. The media would have clutched their pearls and squealed, right on queue. But he'd have shut down Netanyahu within a few weeks. For one thing, he and Netanyahu basically hate each other. I think the problem with them is that they're too much alike.

But in any case dying children is bad press, and unlike the mainstream media and the Democrats, Trump knows social media. A Heel has to know his fans; they're his bread and butter. More than that, they give him the attention he craves more than anything else.

My guess is he's going to be President again. Biden and the Democrats have managed to make themselves the greater evil; there's just no way to smooth over 10,000 dead children, not even with bulldozers (ask Israel!). He'll be a bad President, that's for sure. Hell, he might even try to stay in office past his term, assuming he lives that long - although with his diet and weight, that would be a surprise. But he's not the second coming of Hitler, and he's not going to start any concentration camps. He'll put refugees in camps, yes, and that's a terrible thing. But just a reminder, those camps were started by...Barack Obama.

All of which is just my way of saying, try not to freak out. The DNC is spending millions of dollars to terrorize you into supporting #GenocideJoe through sheer terror of Donald Trump. But bad as he is, I'm sure the next designated Hitler will be even worse!

Response to "But TRUMP!!"

So your canned response to criticism of Joe Biden is to try to scare people about Donald Trump? There's nothing positive you can say about Joe Biden to get us to vote for him? Looks like the Democrats and the DNC are the REAL terrorists. In any case, bad as Trump is, #GenocideJoe is worse.

He's taking our tax dollars and making an end run around Congress to murder thousands of children in Gaza. What did those children do to you?

He takes our tax dollars to have the best medical care in the world for himself and his family, along with every other flunky and Congressperson. But he promised to veto Medicare for All it ever came to his desk. Millions of American children go to bed hungry every night, and live without health care. What did those children do to you - or to Joe?

And how much longer are you going to settle for a supposedly "lesser"  evil that murders children? Shouldn't Americans be able to go to the polls without having to choose between two evil old sociopaths? Me, I'm going to vote for Jill Stein. Her policies are great and humane. You have to put your foot down some time​ and say "ENOUGH!".

Refuse the Uniparty

You don't have to compromise your principles or accept complicity in the cold-blooded murder of thousands of children. You can vote for Jill Stein or Claudia de la Cruz. They both have great stances on Gaza, and you'll find that their policies are outstanding across the board - far more in line with what Americans want, rather than the oligarchs.

No matter what we do, Trump's going to win anyway. But we don't have to accept the DNC's cynical forcing of another Biden/Trump contest on America.

To Those Who Agonize Over Trump vs Biden:

 What more does the DNC have to do to prove that voting is meaningless - shoot anyone who tries to vote? They've rigged the primaries twice now (at least), and between voter roll purges by both parties, black box machine voting, gerrymandering, selective polling station closures, and mysterious ballot disappearances and reappearances, only an idiot would believe that our voting system is even remotely accurate or honest. The only thing that makes the general election results even slightly questionable is that the two crooked parties oppose each other - at least, theoretically.

But the fact remains that the 2020 Presidential election is ALREADY fixed. Either way, the oligarchy will get a loyal servant. Climate change will continue on unopposed, and the election system will not be reformed. Voting is literally meaningless, except as an empty ritual to allow the unaware to believe that they have some sort of control over their destinies. Oh, and to allow the parties and various other advocacy organizations to raise money from suckers.

It's far too late for politics to make a difference. Humanity is going to die, unless revolution comes damned soon. Don't forget, by 2030 climate change passes the point of no return. The Earth's temperature will rise to a point where most of Earth's surface will be uninhabitable, and there won't be anything that we can do about it.

We need a revolution. It has to happen soon. Your vote doesn't mean a damned thing, in that context. Get ready to take to the streets, if you care about your future, your children's future, and the future of the human race.

Oh, and stop arguing about voting for the lesser evil. That's just stupid. You're wasting valuable time - your own, and everyone else's.