09-11-2021, 02:51 PM
(09-11-2021, 02:16 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: ** 11-Sep-2021 World View: Kamala Harris vs Joe Biden
I've stated several times that if Joe Biden steps down, then the next
two in line - Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi -- are just as
incompetent as Biden.
Repetition does not make something any more true, as must be said of people who try to convert us into believing that the Earth is flat or that the moon landing was faked on a motion-picture or TV sound-stage. You know how the latter goes: if you look closely behind the screen you might see the set of Green Acres.
Quote:That's true in a sense, but this morning as I listened to Kamala
Harris's speech I realized that I was also wrong.
Harris gave an airhead speech about the unity in the country following
9/11/2001. She couldn't help herself from making some snarky
accusations about discrimination against Muslims and Sikhs, but those
were brief. She uttered empty words that said that just as the
country was unified then, unity is important today. It was a mindless
speech saying almost nothing.
We have limped along with little unity over the last twenty years. Maybe Donald Trump did not engender the pervasive contempt that he so deserved that Herbert Hoover got ninety or so years ago.
Quote:But I contrast it to the speeches and statements given by Joe Biden
the last two days on Covid. It's not just that he's mandating that
everyone must be vaccinated, though that has a lot of problems. It's
how he did it. He spoke endlessly about the "an epidemic of the
unvaccinated," by which me meant Republicans, and he criticized the
"cavalier attitudes" of Republican governors who, he said, didn't care
about the deaths of children.
If we have a demographic group that gets into inordinate trouble -- let us say alcoholics when they drive cars -- then we have a demographic problem in need of correction. COVID-19 has killed a population of Americans about the size of Boston, El Paso, or Oklahoma City... we have a problem. We lose about 30,000 people to 'vehicle incidents' every year and we spend huge amounts of money to reduce those. Many of us scream bloody murder about bungled wars.
If I were a right-wing commentator I would tell people not inoculated to get inoculated so, at the least, they could have a better chance to vote out Democrats and bring about that glorious world of a Christian and Corporate State that creates unimaginable prosperity, but first for people already super-rich, outlaws abortion, and promotes favored superstitions and pseudoscience in K-12 curricula as a norm to 'improve' kids.
COVID-19 is now disproportionately killing conservatives -- not liberals who trust liberal media, medical science, and statistical evidence.
Quote:I was particularly struck by the tone of this speech. After the
Afghanistan debacle, Biden's handlers could have fashioned a speech
that was uplifting and unifying. This was a unique opportunity to do
that. Instead, what he said indicated a desire to further divide the
country and destroy it. Biden's presidency will never be "normal,"
because Biden himself will use every opportunity to destroy the
presidency.
Joe Biden is not the sort to sugar-coat a nasty reality. Trump cut the deal.
Quote:There's a certain irony that a large segment of the unvaccinated are
blacks. Blacks are very suspicious of the vaccines because last year,
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said loudly and repeatedly that they
didn't trust the vaccine and that it was dangerous because it was a
"Trump vaccine." Andrew Cuomo actually said that the development of
vaccine was "bad news" because it had been developed during the Trump
administration. So blacks listened to Biden, Harris and Cuomo, and
they are the "unvaccinated" that Biden is talking about, more than
Republicans.
Among blacks of low socio-economic status (SES) distrust in institutions is high, much as is so for white people of low SES. Would it have mattered if the successful vaccine had been advanced by some racist pig?
Ill-educated people, at least if black or white, are vulnerable to rumors. It's usually easy for people of average-to-above to discern whether a rumpr has validity: check it against reliable news sources. "I heard some guy say" is not a valid source.
Quote:So while Harris's speech was a weak attempt to unify the country,
Biden's statements were the next in his evil attempts to sow hatred
and divisiveness, and to destroy the country.
Yeah, sure... Trump really unified America.
fought to destroy America during the Civil War, and which had sought
revenge by creating the KKK and the Jim Crow laws. Biden's mentor
was Senator Robert Byrd, who had been a Grand Wizard in the KKK.
Quote:Now, Joe Biden is in office, and he has adopted one policy after
another to sabotage the United States. These include: open the
border, flood the country with illegal immigrants from 170 countries,
flood the country with Chinese fentanyl and meth, open the prisons,
let violent criminals out of jail, defund the police, destroy black
families, encourage the murder of thousands of young black men by
other black men in Democrat-run cities, close the Keystone pipeline
and then beg Saudi Arabia for more oil, destroy America's energy
independence, teach racial hatred in school (critical race theory),
censor political opposition, pay people not to work, etc. These
policies were capped by his disastrous policies in Afghanistan,
withdrawing the army and allowing thousands of Americans and billions
of dollars in advanced weapons to fall into the hands of our jihadist
enemy. These were all intentional acts with intentional consequences
with the objective of reversing the Civil War outcome and destroying
the country.
The only people among whom drug use is growing is poor white people. Black people in their sixties and seventies who know what heroin do excoriate it at every possible turn. Heroin was not a problem in Appalachia or the Ozarks in the '60's and '70's.... but it is now.
Quote:I've written thousands of articles about all sorts of historical
events, and I know what evil is, because I've seen it over and over,
and I know what fanatics are like, and Biden is definitely a fanatic
and Biden is definitely evil.
But I see Donald Trump as evil for introducing a despotic style of governance, for ridiculing the handicapped and unfortunate, for pushing medical quackery, and for (this should have warned us all) exploitative dealings in business and vile misconduct for women.
Quote:So I now see Biden as an evil fanatic pushing the country to disaster,
as a protagonist in a Greek tragedy, who through his own nature pushes
to a climactic catastrophe. There's no doubt in my mind that Biden is
an evil force in what would be a Greek tragedy, but it remains to be
seen whether the climactic catastrophe will be personal, or will be of
the entire country, which is what AOC and many other Democrats want.
I've also seen people on line who follow Joe Biden in his evil and
fanaticism. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of evil and
fanaticism in the world today.
So I've said in the past that if Biden steps down, or is impeached, or
is forced out of office, then Kamala Harris will be just as bad. I'm
now saying that I was wrong about that.
What I'm saying now is that Kamala Harris is a clueless airhead, but
that's MUCH better than the evil hatred and fanaticism of Joe Biden.
And who knows? Maybe Harris will grow into the job and be a decent
president. But she will never be as bad or evil as Joe Biden.[/quote]
Joe Biden is a moderate.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
