What about that debate between the presumptive Republican and Democratic candidates for POTUS?! I must admit to a distinct bias toward the Democratic candidate despite the fact that he has been on the wrong side, no, make that thing that he has led the charge on the wrong side of so many things over the many years of his vaunted 'public service'.
How many years ago was it that a young Joe Biden inexplicably took up the ardently aggressive baiting of the honorable Anita Hill? If you're old enough to remember, Ms. Hill had never sought any kind of audience for her serial sexual harassment at the hands of a seriously mentally ill Clarence Thomas, but when subpoenaed, took the charge of truthfully reporting her experiences seriously. Of course this was devastating to the depraved entity that happened to share a skin color with the great champion of black and minority rights, Thurgood Marshall, whose monumental shoes this petty and vindictive personality was being inappropriately appointed to fill.
Of course, Clarence Thomas, whose main motivating principle seems to be revenge against all those who discriminated against him in his youth was a beneficiary of affirmative-action who is now happy to kick away the ladders for those coming up behind him with his absurd hubris that no, he had not received any preferential treatment, but rather his keen mind was destined to go to high places due solely to its brilliance.
I'll bet he really believes that Harlan Crow, his Texas cracker billionaire buddy who takes him and his right-wing nutball wife 'Gini' on endless superyacht vacations and private jet excursions, really just love the hell out of him for his wonderful personality! Never mind that the real estate mogul may very well have significant axes to grind before his court. Recuse himself? Appearance of impropriety? Of course not! This shows us just how far out of touch with reality Mr. Thomas and his soulmate Samuel Alito (a.k.a. Scalito) are.
Jesus, it has been a crushing couple of weeks for those of us who pay attention to and care about small-d democracy, supposedly the base on which this country was founded; on many important issues, a healthy majority of Americans hold opinions that are diametrically opposed to the religiously fanatic, dogmatically laissez-faire capitalist views of what is now, catastrophically, the majority of a relatively young Supreme Court, with a number of members stolen from the will of the people, at least in the case of the depraved Mitch McConnell, who Obama should have sent the police to arrest for his partisan stifling of the right of the sitting president to appoint, in this case, Merrick Garland. Garland, no radical, was proposed by Obama as a centrist who might actually garner a little Republican sport. He didn't realize that the Republican right wing cult had, by that time, thrown in the towel on ANY negotiation on ANYTHING proposed by the "left-wing communist Democrat party" (if only!). Unfortunately, on too many issues, such as continuing to fund Israel's genocide, the difference between the parties is negligible.
So here we are, 350 million people or so, asked to vote on the governance of the greatest superpower ever to straddle the planet. We're given a Hobbesian choice between the frying pan and the fire! On the one hand, Joe Biden, rah-rah fan for every military campaign the CIA and the generals have cooked up throughout his entire political career (and there have been many very ugly slaughters of innocents to which I, for one, have paid attention, as one of the lucky few in our country who receive information from outside of the corporate media bubble, thanks in large part to our invaluable public radio station, KZYX). I especially enjoy their more obscure late-night political shows (check the jukebox on their website for those broadcasts; news that you will not hear anywhere else). Not only is Joe Biden a war criminal for his destruction of one of the most impressive pieces of civil engineering in our lifetimes, the Nordstream 2, a gigantic high pressure undersea pipeline bringing Russia's abundant natural gas to their European partners in the project, an absolutely mind blowing 8 billion dollar feat of perfect design and engineering which would have saved the Europeans a gazillion dollars worth of fueling costs. A demand which will now have to be filled by much more expensive, US associated LNG supplies.
As far as I know, the damage to this marvel of human endeavor is irreparable. Of course the excuse was the urgency of defeating Russia's attempt to reunite a couple provinces of mainly Russian-speaking Ukrainians who, as I understand it, would favor such unification, but any negotiation on the issue was strangled in its crib by US military 'largess' always pushing for that 'total victory' which somehow never seems to happen ever since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I guess the entire German glassmaking industry has pretty much had to shut down because of our shocking vandalism there.
Let us hope that reason prevails and Biden withdraws from a race that he will surely lose to a man who represents the worst traits imaginable in a human being; someone who lies like most of us breathe, an idiot savant in terms of deceiving the unfortunately large percentage of the American electorate who can be described as 'low information voters' into believing him when he lies about bringing back two dollar a gallon gasoline or two dollar a dozen eggs, when he has absolutely no intention of or plan for even attempting to do anything but enrich himself and (some of) his family.
I just can't believe that, even if Biden is the nominee, and notwithstanding his many flaws, that the American people will, with their eyes wide open, vote in a fascist dictatorship led by a malignant narcissist, over the price of eggs and gasoline.
For this and previous columns, go to https://inarationalworld2.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-about-that-debate-between.html
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