Biden is President
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The capitalist class does not care if one of his representative have medical problems, it is irrelevant,( Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer disease ) it is only part of the USA political gossiping, it is an unprincipled system that is in decadence, the whole capitalist system is reactionary and backward and it does not make any different what puppet is placed on power, it can be a right winger or a left winger, young, old or senile leaders.
Barrack Obama was a very young president and he followed the same pattern of his predecessors and he served the capitalist class like any other president, most presidents are like the CEO of a corporation, they must protect and increase the profits of the investors. He used some old guys from Ronald Reagan cabinet, and since the very beginning one personality said: Is he going to serve the Uncle Sam or the Uncle Tom ?
Joe Biden has served pretty well the interests of the capitalist class and they are supporting him, even more, one sector of the USA capitalist class does not support Trump any more, they want to remove him from the political scene, the problem is the concept of leadership, and the cult of personality and workers are still following leaders and they think that a leader will resolve their problems, and since workers do not political consciousness they will support their own exploiters.
The US capitalist system is a very well greased economical machinery
The so called Republicans are the ones making the campaign about mental health and they are repeating like parrots whatever Donald Trump has said, but his own father had Dementia and it has been proven by medical evidences, but there are not medical evidences proving that Joe Biden has dementia, but there are not medical evidences showing that Trump is in good health either, even more, some sources are questioning the doctors of the White House, and there are some evidences shwoing that many members of his cabinets were using up and downer medications due to depression and anxiety
This is a groups that is strongly influencing the minds of the US working class, it is known as Hallow, and they have a lot of cash resources and they have the back up of the Vatican, they are also promoting Christian nationalism, anti communism, and they have telephone apps, computer apps and they are paying for TV and Radio advertising. Millions of workers are paying attention to his crap. They are expanding their tentacles to other countries
Biden is saying that the Supreme Court ruling about the immunity of the president for certain acts means that the president is a king. But that was precisely what the Founding Fathers of the American Republic intended. Its constitution was a republicanised version of the political structure of late 18th century England, with the House of Representatives as the House of Commons, the Senate as the House of Lords, and the President an elected temporary King.
A lurker on this forum has dug out this article which makes the same point about the US President bring an elected version of George III:
Seeing as the whole republican conception of freedom, which motivated the American revolution, is about not being under the arbitrary will of another it would seem strange if the Founding Fathers really wanted to create an elected absolute monarch. Weren’t they concerned with things such as the rule of law?
Thomas Paine – “[…]in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other. But lest any ill use should afterwards arise, let the Crown at the conclusion of the ceremony be demolished, and scattered among the people whose right it is.”
https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/paine-on-the-idea-that-the-law-is-king-1776Seems to me that there really is a move by conservative elements in the USA to try and cement minority-rule through capture and use of state power, Project 2025 and all that. I don’t think it’s melodramatic to say that there is more at stake in Biden vs Trump than just who manages capitalism for the next political cycle.
Or have I fallen for a leftist conspiracy theory?
Funny you should mentioned Project 2025. There’s a longstanding American left communist sympathizer on Urban 75 who’s currently stanning for Biden in this election cycle – especially doubling-down in the aftermath of Biden’s disastrous debate performance – specifically because of Project 2025. He’s convinced it’s a game changer for accelerating America down a road to a right wing dictatorship. He’s adamant that Biden has to defeat Trump in November, and gets very defensive when people point out Biden’s personal and political shortcomings.
Maybe ‘funny’ is the wrong word in the circumstances.
But George III was not an “absolute monarch”. Following the “glorious revolution” of 1688 Parliament was in control though the king retained certain “prerogatives”. Even these have now all passed to the government based on a parliamentary majority. In the US these prerogatives are still exercised by the president as “executive orders”.
“But George III was not an “absolute monarch”.”
Yes of course, I was trying to imply that the Supreme Court judgment had elevated the president to something higher than the founders would have intended – from a constitutional monarch to an absolute one.
But on looking into this more I’m not so sure about that. If the US president is modelled on how the monarchy works in the UK, then saying that the president is above the law (when it comes to official business) is putting them in the same legal position as the British monarch.
This short blog about what would happen if King Charles killed Queen Camilla was entertaining:
https://uollb.com/blog/law/what-would-happen-to-king-charles-iii-if-he-committed-murder“There’s a longstanding American left communist sympathizer on Urban 75 who’s currently stanning for Biden in this election cycle – especially doubling-down in the aftermath of Biden’s disastrous debate performance – specifically because of Project 2025.”
I had to Google ‘stanning’. A bit of an embarrassment, since Eminem is from my generation.
I don’t look on Urban 75, but strange that he doesn’t want Biden to be replaced with another candidate since that seems the more likely way of beating Trump in an election.
I don’t think his concerns about Project 2025 and the threat of an organised religious right are misplaced though.
Surely tonight’s failed assassination attempt has delivered the Presidency to Trump? I can’t see Biden coming back from that.
Excuse the gallows humour but I thought this tweet was funny about the incident:
Incredibly lucky, and yeah, this botched assassination will probably win him quite a bit of sympathy by making him appear “tough” and willing to “sacrifice his life for the American people.” You also couldn’t ask for a better series of photos, with the orange (or red?) idiot standing bloodied with a raised fist (for whatever reason) behind a flag, etc. Joe’s been toast. Sadly another Trump presidency will likely be even worse for Palestinians (with the former Trump administration having been one of the most pro-Israeli administrations throughout Israel’s existence), as well as for countless others.
While governments can’t control or change the way that the capitalist economy works, they can control how the armed forces (the essence of the state of which the government is the executive) are used. It is difficult to see what more help the American government could give to Israel as its proxy against Iran, but it’s possible that a Trump administration might divert military resources from Ukraine — bringing that war to an end — to Israel, risking one with Iran.
Talk about a choice between two evils. Both war-mongers but differing on which war to promote.
After Trump staggered to his feet he gave the leftie clenched-fist salute. This brings to mind the story of Lord Longford who, when a young man, was a tory. He attended a rather rowdy Mosleyite rally in Oxford and was accidentally hit on the head by a chair. When he came round he discovered he was now left-wing.
Thereafter he always carried a grubby piece of elastoplast stuck to his bald head. Perhaps in commemoration?
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