Joseph Biden, Closet Pedophile

There's a lot that any normal human being would despise about "Joe" Biden. Let's bulletpoint them:

• He's spent his entire political career in the U.S. Senate and as Vice President of the U.S. working to increase repression in America. Examples are numerous. He was behind a number of draconian "crime" bills. He created what became the PATRIOT ACT, the architecture for a more complete police state. He's anything but "nice." The compulsive, giddy smile is a Big Lie in itself, a cynical politician's gimmick to dupe the easily duped.
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• He's a lifelong racist. Two of his closest allies and "friends" in the Senate were the arch-Segregationists and fascists Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, with whom he pushed repressive "bipartisan" legislation. His speeches attacking "busing" for school integration, and demands that "predators" (black muggers) be locked up sounded like George Wallace.
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• Of course he's an imperialist. Imperialism is criminal behavior on a national scale. It is all about subjugating other people and taking their resources and exploiting their labor, by force and violence. "Modern" imperialism, or neo-imperialism, works by the installation of client or puppet regimes that are subcontracted to do the dirty work of repression, their "security services" trained by the CIA and U.S. military and funded and armed by the U.S. (In the case of oil states, the client regimes pay for the U.S. "aid" in subjugating their own populations.)
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• He's an aggressive political agent of the banking and credit card industries. His state, Delaware, is where many of these businesses are based. One of his crimes against the citizens as part of his service to his masters was passage of "bankruptcy reform" that tightened the screws on average people seeking bankruptcy protection, and making it impossible to discharge student loans through bankruptcy, making former students indentured servants. These industries lavishly fund his canpaigns, and if this evil creep ever "retires" from politics, he will be rewards with millions of dollars in corporate board seats, no-show "jobs," and grossly inflated "honoraria" to drone through banal, platitudinous speeches.

But now there's even more. At least, more that I just discovered. Not that it was never reported by "the" media. Just that it has received nowhere near the attention it should have, so it is not common knowledge.

Joseph Biden is apparently a closet pedophile.

Sounds crazy? Of course it does. You've been subjected to years of propaganda promoting "Joe" Biden, Regular Guy, by the corporate oligarchy's media, because Biden is beholden to the corporate oligarchy and loyally serves their interests inside the outside the U.S.

So you need to watch a video compilation of his startling behavior molesting children, in public. Just watch. [1]

"The" media (the propaganda bullhorns of the corporate interests Biden fronts for) has been energetically promoting this tired old warhorse of imperial capitalism for president. They have even pushed the preposterous notion that he is "more popular" among "progressives" than Bernie Sanders! Excuse me: Sanders had and has a huge popular following. He has done extraordinarily well raising funds from average people to run for president in 2016 and now 2020 Biden, on the other hand, ran for that office twice, in 1988 and 2008, and both times his campaigns crashed and burned almost at the beginning of the process. (For instance, he came in fifth in Iowa in 1988 I think it was, and Iowa is the "first hurdle" the bourgeois media erects for candidates. Iowa and New Hampshire, both small, lily white, and very reactionary states, are set as the first bars to overcome to ensure that candidates for president have to be rightwing.)

So this is a fine time to take stock of who this creature really is, behind the affable "regular Joe" mask.

"Joe" Likes 'Em Young!

And it looks like he swings BOTH WAYS!

1] The video is: "Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses."  And read the essay there, which goes into the complicity of the parents of the children and what it says about the moral corruption of the U.S. power system. There are also links to articles on Biden's propensities to molest children, and adults too, including from the Washington Post. The Post article was written as an imaginary intervention called to try to get Biden to stop molesting women. which is "meta" since the article, published in 2015, seemed to have exactly the same purpose as the fantasy intervention- to warn Biden he better stop pawing women and a girls and sniffing their hair and rubbing their faces.

Mueller Lays a Goose Egg. Predictably. (And Predicted.)

There is so much to debunk, and that has BEEN debunked, about the gigantic pile of horse manure agitpropaganda that "the media" has heaped on our heads these past 2+ years, that my brief remarks here can only touch on a few points.

We witnessed absurd conspiracy theories, with every ill in the Western world being blamed on Russian online memes that "divide us." The rise of rightwing populism in Europe is blamed on Russia (not discontent with those in power!). Chuck Todd, the Dumbest Man On Television, speculated that the terror bombs that turned out to have been mailed by a pro-Trump zealot, Cesar Sayoc, were sent by Russia.

Russian clickbait and spam from a troll farm was equated with Pearl Harbor and 9/11 by political demagogues of the Democratic Party. Congressman Adam Schiff made a name for himself as the worst political mountebank in the nation, against stiff competition.

Much was made of the "lies" that tripped up Trump's erstwhile minions. (People Trump threw overboard at the first sign of trouble.)

And what were the lies Mueller obtained convictions for? Inconsequential things. Except for Michael Flynn's lies. Flynn conspired with Turkey to kidnap Fethullah Gulen from the U.S. to hand over to the Erdogan regime. And what were the consequences? Flynn got off easiest, with no jail time, as recommended by Mueller's prosecutors. He was even praised by the judge for his murderous military record. (He served U.S. imperialism in a high position, so he gets privileged treatment.)

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's main lie was to Congress, when he claimed attempts to do a deal for a hotel in Moscow ended a few months sooner than they actually did.

The severest penalties were meted out to Paul Manafort, for things totally unrelated to Trump and his presidential campaign. Mainly hiding his money from the IRS (which the attempt to do made him guilty of money "laundering" as well as tax evasion), bank "fraud" (he put false information on applications for bank loans- something Trump himself has done with impunity, in fact overstating his assets by $2 BILLION to obtain a loan from Deutsche Bank), and failing to register as a foreign agent. (Because he worked in Ukraine, NOT in the U.S. representing Ukraine, trying to steer the president the U.S. later overthrew, Yanukovych, into pro-EU pro-U.S. actions. He wasn't repping the Ukraine in the U.S., so how could he be guilty of that? At the same time, Flynn got away with not registering as an agent of Turkey, and AIPAC, the AJC, the Congress of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, the Zionist Organization of America, et al, act as agents of Israel, take directions fron Israeli government officials in frequent meetings with them, and are NOT prosecuted for refusing to register. U.S. justice certainly is blind. Or rather, it looks the other way for those with special privileges and power.)

Manafort made the stupid mistake of not throwing in with Mueller, relying instead on Trump to protect him! What a dumb grifter. Trump is only loyal to himself,  and to his family who are psychologically extensions of himself.

So what, finally, did Mueller "discover" about Trump's "collusion" with "a hostile foreign power to interfere with our election and subvert Our Democracy"?

Nothing. But the Democrats are twisting this to say Mueller didn't DISPROVE it!

Talk about diehards.

Aaron Maté of the The Nation magazine and formerly at democracynow.org summed up the more than two year saga of a full court press propaganda campaign by most of the major U.S. media and elements of the secret police and Department of "Justice" to paint the president of the United States, Donald Trump, as beholden to Russian president Vladimir Putin and a co-conspirator with him in "stealing" the 2016 presidential election from Hillary Clinton. 

Maté  put it succinctly and accurately thus: "This entire affair is journalistic malpractice." [1]

As for the result of over 2 years of investigating by a large prosecution team with all the "tools" of "law enforcement" (including secret ones) at their disposal, with a howling pack of media dogs sniffing out every factoid to "connect the dots" into a picture of criminal culpability, what did it all add up to? Maté did the arithmatic:

"In terms of the substance of this issue, which is whether or not there is a conspiracy between Trump and Russia, we arrive at zero."

So with the buried treasure chest of the Mueller report turning out to contain only sand, what are the Democrats going to do now?

The Democratic Party's poohbahs STILL intend to press on with it, thus undercutting their own presidential candidates for 2020.

Good luck with THAT.

"Sorry about that." Not the Democratic Party's Saviour After All. Square-jawed former FBI secret police chief and U.S. Marine Invader of Vietnam Robert S. Mueller III. Exit right from the Stage of History, Bob.

1] "Aaron Maté sums up the denouément of the Mueller investigation on the Jimmy Dore Show."

Trump, Increasingly Cornered, Lashes Out With Curse-Filled 2-Hour Rant/Whine At Reactionary Convention

That actually is the most accurate, and succinct, description of Trump's behavior at the so-called CPAC convention. CPAC is a gathering of extremely reactionary, malevolent, irrational people, part of the hard rightwing political power structure of the U.S. (CPAC stands for Conservative Political Action Conference. It is held annually by a viciously reactionary outfit called the "American Conservative Union.")

"Conservative" is the standard euphemism in "Western Liberal" discourse for reactionary and fascist. And "anti-communist" is code for fascist.

Trump whined in a loud bray about his business dealings being investigated. His distress is easy to comprehend. So many of his "deals" involved crimes, and even those that didn't often went up to the line of criminality. One of the constants of Trump's life is a total absence of ethics. And now the Democratic Party is belatedly using his vulnerability against him, after squandering two years with a phone "Russiagate" fantasy conspiracy. By pressing this sinister fantasy of Trump as under Putin's control, based on the thinnest of evidence (often no evidence), the Democrats not only wasted time, they wrecked their own credibility and now allows Trump to push the theme that he's a victim of persecution- an emotional theme with natural resonance for reactionaries, who have a persecution complex and see themselves as victims of an oppressive "liberal" establishment, forced to pay for (black and Hispanic) "welfare cheats," etc.

We really didn't need Michael Cohen to tell us about Trump's crimes, or that he's a con man and a racist. The information has been publicly available for years, such as in the reportage of Wayne Barrett and David Cay Johnston. Oddly, that information was always ignored by the establishment. Trump's fraudulent "charitable" foundation, his tax frauds and false valuations, and other actions that should have brought government action, almost never did. (One of the only rare exceptions, maybe the ONLY one, was a consent decree that Trump and his late father entered into with the Federal government, promising to cease their illegal practice of refusing to rent apartments to African-Americans, an agreement they then went on to violate, with no consequences.)

Trump was also caught helping people illegally evade sales taxes. He got out of that one by ratting out others. (These days he decries "rats" and says prosecutors' "flipping" people, i.e. getting criminals to turn state's evidence, "should almost be illegal." The weasel word "almost" doesn't disguise the fact that he devoutly wishes it were illegal now. Just as he's called for harsher libel laws favoring plaintiffs, so he could more effectively shut up those who expose the true facts about him or merely criticize him.)

The fact that a crook, grifter, tax evader, chiseler, four-time bankrupt, and serial fraudster could even RUN for president, much less get elected, is due to the malfeasance and irresponsibility of the bourgeois "authorities" who looked the other way for this man's entire life, until now. [1]

Trump didn't expect to actually become president. Now he is desperate to cling to power. He has to try to run out the clock on indictments, by getting reelected president until the statute of limitations runs out on many of his crimes. (The legal consensus is a sitting president "can't" be indicted, even though nothing explicitly bars that in law or the Constitution.) The Republicans in the Senate will never vote to convict him if the House impeaches him- because the GOP base of voters is fanatically devoted to him, and no facts can change that. They just don't care about facts or truth. This degree of unshakeable loyalty is reminiscent of that commanded by Adolf Hitler.

But could Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, who are currently investigating certain matters about Trump, obtain a secret indictment, and unseal it after he leaves office? An interesting question.

And what happens if magically Trump is removed? We get a reactionary theocrat as president, Michael Pence!

1] I would argue that Trump's repeated "business" practice of stiffing his suppliers and contractors by pretending something was wrong with their work is evidence of criminal fraud. As for taxes, Trump's father Fred and Trump and his siblings created a multi-generational ongoing tax fraud. See "Special Investigation-Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father," New York Times, October 2, 2018; "11 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Trump’s Wealth," New York Times, October 2, 2018.