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Why Biden Is Worse Than Trump

Lately I find myself needing to refer back to text I've already written about people - correction, alleged people - like Joe Biden. I've stored some of these in emails to myself, and here.

But it would make sense to organize those writings, and to polish them for that purpose. Add citations and links. Make them more powerful. And maybe make them a public resource, not that many people come here. What could I call them, though?

Anyway, here's something I posted in a response to an advertisement on Facebook for Joe Biden. It's based on previous stuff I've written about Biden, but each time I've used it I've polished it a bit more. It still needs a lot of work, and you may recognize a lot of it as something I posted here earlier (my probably-mythical reader), but here it is.

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Joe Biden is actually WORSE than Trump, which takes some doing. He's more of a warmonger; he voted for every war he could in the Senate, and he has made it clear that he will attack Venezuela and Syria as soon as possible. He has also blatantly given Israel a green light for the genocide of the Palestinians.

His vote for the Iraq war helped kill over 182,000 Iraqi men, women, and children. It also killed 4,425 American servicemen and women, while another 31,952 US servicepeople were wounded. The number of suicides among returned military personnel isn't available, but surely isn't negligible. That's a hell of a lot of blood on Senator Biden's hands. And yet he doesn't seem to have any trouble sleeping at night.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/joe-biden-iraq-war-veterans-george-bush-a9380076.html

Biden's 2005 "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" (BAPCPA) made student loan debt inescapable even by bankruptcy. It put millions of American families into financial ruin. But then, that's what Joe's corporate donors wanted.

https://www.gq.com/story/joe-biden-bankruptcy-bill

Joe Biden co-wrote the 1994 Crime Bill (Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act). That bill literally made SLAVES out of millions of poor, black, and brown Americans in for-profit private prisons. How many uncounted American children were deprived of their mother or father so that Joe could say he was tough on crime? But the corporations that run those prisons have rewarded Joe with millions in campaign donations. Apparently enslaving millions of Americans was a price Joe was willing to pay for that sweet campaign cash.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration

Joe Biden has gotten the best free health care for over 50 years now, paid for with our tax dollars. But he proudly asserts, in the middle of a pandemic no less, that he will veto Medicare for All. Nothing but the best for Joe, but the rest of us don't count. He is condemning millions of American men, women, and children to sickness and death. "Sacrifices have to be made" according to Joe! But he and his campaign donors are never the ones who have to make the sacrifice. Funny how it's always working Americans who get stuck in the neck, isn't it?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/10/biden-says-he-wouldd-veto-medicare-for-all-as-coronavirus-focuses-attention-on-health.html

Joe has been trying to slash Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare for his entire career. We paid for those benefits, but Joe wants to privatize or cut them. Is that what a "man of the people" would do? Steal from working Americans?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgqKg41hxg

Ah, but what about the Supreme Court? some might ask. Really? That's a reason to vote for the man who voted to confirm Antonin Scalia? The man who silenced Anita Hill and the witnesses who would have backed her up to ensure that "Silent" Clarence Thomas would have a lifetime seat on the SCOTUS? Joe Biden's record on the Supreme Court is the worst imaginable. And with his constant fetishisation of "reaching across the aisle", there's absolutely NO reason to expect that to change.

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/27/anita-hill-joe-biden-non-apology/

Lastly, Joe Biden's fossil-fuel friendly climate policy will render this planet uninhabitable. In seven years or less, the planet passes the point of no return and human civilization will be doomed. It will literally kill off the human race. 

https://climateclock.world/

But Joe wants to seek a "middle way". He won't even ban fracking. It's kind of like cutting someone's head half off, but not in a funny way like in Harry Potter. It'll kill us just as surely as Trump's policies. But if you think that one version of extinction is better than another, good luck with that.

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/07/joe-biden-climate-policy-advisers/

They are both rapists, they both have dementia, and they both work for the same oligarchs who are killing off humanity. A vote for either of them is a vote for extinction.

If you have children or grandchildren, think about the kind of world they are going to grow up in - and die in. Think about what it will be like for them, knowing that they have no future. Think about the billions of children, born and unborn, who will grow up in a world on fire and drowning.

More and more people are seeing every day that if we want to survive, we only have one option. And it isn't playing the oligarchy's political game.

We have to take to the streets. The only way we get to survive is if we do what the founding fathers did. We HAVE to revolt.

And it starts with a #GeneralStrike.

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Joe Kennedy III, Tool of the Elite

Every time I've seen an ad for Kennedy (and I've seen a LOT of them), I post this comment:

Joe Kennedy III opposes Medicare for All, even though HE gets free healthcare at our expense. He opposes the legalization of pot, even though the people of his state repeatedly voted to make it legal. And he receives more money from Big Pharma than anyone else in Congress.

His run against Ed Market violates the DNC's own rules against challenging a Democratic incumbent. Nonetheless the DNC is pushing him HARD in order to punish Markey for co-sponsoring the Green New Deal. This spoiled son of privilege serves himself and the oligarchy only.

"Joe Kennedy III opposes Medicare for All, even though HE gets free healthcare at our expense. He opposes the legalization of pot, even though the people of his state repeatedly voted to make it legal. And he receives more money from Big Pharma than anyone else in Congress.

His run against Ed Market violates the DNC's own rules against challenging a Democratic incumbent. Nonetheless the DNC is pushing him HARD in order to punish Markey for co-sponsoring the Green New Deal. This spoiled son of privilege serves himself and the oligarchy only.

"Rep. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) might be pharma’s favorite Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, given that he’s received more than $57,000 from the pharmaceutical/health products industry in this current election cycle alone. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, that’s approximately four times more than pharma’s average contribution to House Democrats. Over the course of his short Congressional career, Kennedy has received more than $348,000 since 2011."

- Center for Responsive Politics

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00034044

The State of Things To Come

Don't despair. By adopting a corporate platform and dutifully serving the oligarchs (along with their colleagues, the Republicans), the DNC is unintentionally helping to produce the conditions for a revolution that will end up destroying them - and, with luck, saving the human race.

You've probably heard me say this before, but unemployment is at the highest level since the Great Depression - and with the continuing surge of Covid-19, it's only going to go up. At the same time, Congress (with the compliance of the Democrats) is going to cut unemployment benefits by at least $800 to $1,000 per month. And 28 million Americans at least are in the process of being evicted from their homes, or will be in the next two or three months. That will increase the unemployment rate still further.

If children are forced back into school next month (and it seems likely that they will be, in most states), Covid-19 rates take another major surge - not only among children, but in their families, their working parents, and those parents' co-workers.

So: in the next few months tens of millions of Americans will be desperate, homeless, and on the streets - men, women, and children. We already have huge numbers of protesters on the streets, all over the country. Trump is taking EXACTLY the wrong approach to the protests - with secret police and open police brutality, he's throwing gasoline on the fire. And the Democrats in Congress are helping him by constantly voting to give him all the funds he wants, and more.

Can you imagine any way that this DOESN'T turn into a massive, nationwide protest, shutdown, general strike, or revolution? There's no way that the establishment can survive this, I believe.

So hang on. Change is coming. It won't be easy, but at least it will offer the human race a chance for survival. And maybe, even, a better world.

Our Revolution Sells Out

I've been suspicious of Our Revolution from the first. Any organization that springs into existence and seems well-funded strikes me as likely to be a sheepherdering group - in other words, fauxgressives, designed to sucker leftists into dead ends for the DNC.

Today, I got an email that confirmed my suspicions.

According to the email, the majority of their member support Elizabeth Warren to be Biden's vice President. Elizabeth Warren. The candidate who stabbed all progressives in the back not once, but twice.

Any so-called "progressive" or "revolutionary" organization that supports candidates like Biden or Warren (no matter how much they claim that they can supposedly move those candidates to the left) is just another mouthpiece for the DNC and the oligarchs behind them.

Response to a neoliberal:

You don't understand democracy, it seems. No candidate has a right to our votes. They have to earn them. If they fail to earn them, that's on them - not us.

And Biden is actually worse than Trump, which takes some doing. He's more of a warmonger; he voted for every war he could in the Senate, and he has made it clear that he will attack Venezuela and Syria as soon as possible. He has also blatantly given Israel a green light for the genocide of the Palestinians.

Biden's Credit bill made student loan debt inescapable, and put millions of American families into financial ruin. But then, that's what his corporate donors wanted.

Biden's crime bill made slaves out of millions of poor, black, and brown Americans in for-profit private prisons. And the corporations that run those prisons have rewarded him with millions in campaign donations. But I guess that doesn't bother you.

Biden has gotten the best free health care for over 50 years now, paid for with our tax dollars. But he proudly asserts, in the middle of a pandemic no less, that he will veto Medicare for all. He is condemning millions of American men, women, and children to sickness and death. But apparently that's okay with you, too.

Lastly, Joe Biden's fossil-fuel friendly climate policy will render this planet uninhabitable. It will literally kill off the human race. So will Trump's, but if you want to tell me that one version of extinction is better than another, good luck with that.

They are both rapists, they both have dementia, and they both work for the same oligarchs who are killing off humanity. You work for them too, since you are pushing their little lesser-of-two-evils game. But more and more people are seeing every day that if we want to survive, we only have one option - and it isn't playing the oligarchy's political game.

We need to take to the streets. If we want to survive, there must be a revolution.