Biden like past Dims "triangulates" the issue to cover all bets but is pathetic in substance. He is a straw man, a shill for a failing and flailing empire. The proof of this is that every single major candidate for the presidency is likewise a shill for crumbling empire.
"Three months and well over 20,000 defenseless Palestinians slain later, the self-declared leader of the most powerful nation in the history of world now claims to be a helpless bystander." He must think we are as addled as he is. Americans have watched--in some cases literally--the genocide of the Palestinians. "News" accounts have spun every lie imaginable to rationalize it, and the suppression of the truth--ignoring the murder of countless journalists covering this anihialation--make it impossible for anyone with a pulse not to know that the Biden Administration has funded it(without consent of Congress in some cases) and made the whole recent phase of desrtuction possible. If we were the greatest nation in the world (instead of the one with the most weapons of mass destruction), we would seek peace instead of funding war.
This shows why the presidency needs to be eliminated as a position. At best replace the president with an AI bot. Every president from Woodrow Wilson onward has done more damage than good. They are worse than useless
Government has become a religion in USA with president its Pope.
Have a constitutional convention dissolve the government and form a direct democracy
Have 1 million representatives picked by lottery to vote on issues and serve one year terms one per lifetime
Eliminate Washington DC as representatives would stay in their homes and vote electronically
The presidency doesn't need to be eliminated, it just needs to function as the Constitution stipulates. Their sole function is supposed to be to oversee the Federal government, which became grossly inflated under Lincoln then later under FDR.
No, one thing any student of the history of humanity learns is the inevitable corruption of all 'leaders'. There was a time when amerika's pols claimed to be the representatives of the people but that was just a cosmetic lie right from the get go as shown by lobbyists crowding the waiting room of washington's office looking for favours. This is how it has always been because before that kings were controlled by the elites around them who used their willingness/unwillingness to pay taxes and raise armies from their tenants & serfs to ensure that a king did 'whatever was needed'.
Voting for president changed nothing; whoever it is was awarded the status of a king yet was similarly constrained by his/her need for elites to keep paying taxes and supporting the leader's adventures.
Positions are always filled by sociopaths as they are the only human beings prepared to 'do whatever it takes' to get & keep their position.
We can fiddle around the edges introducing term limits or reforming the electoral college or any one of the kazillion other ideas ordinary people have put forward as a means of exerting control over their leaders but all ultimately fail as the sociopaths devise ways to game the system. It is a fruitless game of diminishing returns for us normal types who just want roads built, hospitals staffed and functioning, and the promise of a better life for their children from their leaders.
All of us ordinary normals remain in the same place we have always been, in the box marked afterthought by our erstwhile leaders.
Much better to just dispense with the leadership model and fine tune a system where a wide range of us normals ( the 99%) are represented in decision making in a way such as David Lentz proposes where it can be made impossible for elites to interfere in any meaningful way.
Actually, prior to the Lincoln administration, the Federal government answered to the states (see Tenth Amendment.) Congress was only in session for a few months/weeks every two years. The US attorney general represented the Federal government in lawsuits (Grant changed that.) Prior to 1850 and the creation of the Republican Party, there was only one political party of any significance, Andrew Jackson's Democrats. Jackson was opposed by Whigs but being in opposition to Jackson was their primary function, and they fell apart when he died. As far as a "history of humanity," that's a Nineteenth/Twentieth Century invention.
How american of you to imagine I was speaking only of amerika's leaders. I'm afraid you'll find my characterisation of humanity's leaders applies to every leader whose character I've checked out. (the early Roman emporers are a good place to start). Dig beneath the basic warrior hero crap that was common among the earliest leaders in recorded history and you'll see that parasites have always hung around power like flies around dog shit.
As for pre Lincoln congress, that doesn't refute what I wrote about Washington's lobby being chocka with 'lobbyists' who also crowded similar spaces in Governors' mansions and state legislatures.
Biden has much more endurance when it comes to evil than he gives himself credit for. He originates a lot of it, and I'm sure he could stand back and do nothing while any amount of it is taking place Why would anyone be surprised? He has always been an arch villain on the wrong side of every issue, and history itself. Just look at the tape of - what was it? an interview? an irrelevant and vengeful grilling of Scott Ritter for doing his job investigating the claimed disposal of Iraq's nuclear capability, and eliminating the rationale for the murder of a million Iraqis? Yeah, that's it. He also must have given the signal for Gonzalo Lira's arrest, torture and killing by the Azov's in Ukraine, the criminals who boast they are good at killing people because they enjoytorturing and killing people. It's all too disgusting - makes you ashamed of belonging to the same species. And yes, he is as responsible as Israel for genocide of Palestinians.
Let me see if I've got this straight. According to Genocide Joe's White House, the United States is incapable of persuading the Israeli government to stop a genocide.
Never mind the fact that dozens of governments in dozens of other countries have been blackmailed, bribed, pressured, sanctioned, couped, and outright invaded by the United States when gentle persuasion was ineffective.
Ah! I forgot that Israel has a superpower. It's called AIPAC.
Is not Yemen's engagement on behalf of the victims of the crime of genocide consistent with their international obligation as a signatory to the International Convention on Genocide? If so, the US, already guilty of numerous such crimes, is now compounding its criminality, in attacking a sovereign state without any basis in law, including US law.
the tail is waging the dog of forever wars. Both are in sync...thier tune : force over dialogue and deplomacy in two part harmony. They are brothers in arms. And we be the ones that feed this rabid dog rather than putting it down.
Gaza is an Israeli controlled concentration camp for Palestinians displaced thanks to Israeli ethnic cleansing. It has now become a literal bombing range for the US equipped Israeli Air Force. It doesn’t get any more evil than this. The US has been the world’s most aggressive terror state for the past four decades. Our ruling class has lost all connection with a moral and civilized foreign policy. It has simply become a psychopathic and war mongering state that needs a radical regime change. No one should expect that this will be easy, no one should expect that this will be non-violent. A revolution is not a dinner party.
DeFace the Nation now tells us the toll on human life in Gaza is too high. Gotta get that toll under control. Lower the intensity. Do they mean like a set number of deaths, maiming & amputations per day of children & other non-combatants, with weekly & monthly quotas? Is there some fictive number of allowable war crimes that falls just below a threshold for genocide for an occupied civilian population? Horse apples.
Thank you Aaron, for your clarity and understanding of the reality. I am very afraid that our co-belligerency and blind support and lack of judgment will allow Israel to continue its genocide and destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza ghetto. This is turning into another Warsaw, and the US is encouraging it with our illegal support in violation of not only International Law but our own national laws.
Biden like past Dims "triangulates" the issue to cover all bets but is pathetic in substance. He is a straw man, a shill for a failing and flailing empire. The proof of this is that every single major candidate for the presidency is likewise a shill for crumbling empire.
Aaron, you are always clear, to the point and to the points that are not being made public. Thank you, a grateful supporter.
"Three months and well over 20,000 defenseless Palestinians slain later, the self-declared leader of the most powerful nation in the history of world now claims to be a helpless bystander." He must think we are as addled as he is. Americans have watched--in some cases literally--the genocide of the Palestinians. "News" accounts have spun every lie imaginable to rationalize it, and the suppression of the truth--ignoring the murder of countless journalists covering this anihialation--make it impossible for anyone with a pulse not to know that the Biden Administration has funded it(without consent of Congress in some cases) and made the whole recent phase of desrtuction possible. If we were the greatest nation in the world (instead of the one with the most weapons of mass destruction), we would seek peace instead of funding war.
How many decades ago would that be?
I was wrong; the neocons are criminal enough and stupid enough to lead the US and lapdog UK to take on Iran (and Yemen) in a hot war.
We're in for some 'treatment' for this insanity.
This shows why the presidency needs to be eliminated as a position. At best replace the president with an AI bot. Every president from Woodrow Wilson onward has done more damage than good. They are worse than useless
Government has become a religion in USA with president its Pope.
Have a constitutional convention dissolve the government and form a direct democracy
Have 1 million representatives picked by lottery to vote on issues and serve one year terms one per lifetime
Eliminate Washington DC as representatives would stay in their homes and vote electronically
Eliminate cia fbi income tax and federal reserve
Life is simple
Less is more
The presidency doesn't need to be eliminated, it just needs to function as the Constitution stipulates. Their sole function is supposed to be to oversee the Federal government, which became grossly inflated under Lincoln then later under FDR.
No, one thing any student of the history of humanity learns is the inevitable corruption of all 'leaders'. There was a time when amerika's pols claimed to be the representatives of the people but that was just a cosmetic lie right from the get go as shown by lobbyists crowding the waiting room of washington's office looking for favours. This is how it has always been because before that kings were controlled by the elites around them who used their willingness/unwillingness to pay taxes and raise armies from their tenants & serfs to ensure that a king did 'whatever was needed'.
Voting for president changed nothing; whoever it is was awarded the status of a king yet was similarly constrained by his/her need for elites to keep paying taxes and supporting the leader's adventures.
Positions are always filled by sociopaths as they are the only human beings prepared to 'do whatever it takes' to get & keep their position.
We can fiddle around the edges introducing term limits or reforming the electoral college or any one of the kazillion other ideas ordinary people have put forward as a means of exerting control over their leaders but all ultimately fail as the sociopaths devise ways to game the system. It is a fruitless game of diminishing returns for us normal types who just want roads built, hospitals staffed and functioning, and the promise of a better life for their children from their leaders.
All of us ordinary normals remain in the same place we have always been, in the box marked afterthought by our erstwhile leaders.
Much better to just dispense with the leadership model and fine tune a system where a wide range of us normals ( the 99%) are represented in decision making in a way such as David Lentz proposes where it can be made impossible for elites to interfere in any meaningful way.
Actually, prior to the Lincoln administration, the Federal government answered to the states (see Tenth Amendment.) Congress was only in session for a few months/weeks every two years. The US attorney general represented the Federal government in lawsuits (Grant changed that.) Prior to 1850 and the creation of the Republican Party, there was only one political party of any significance, Andrew Jackson's Democrats. Jackson was opposed by Whigs but being in opposition to Jackson was their primary function, and they fell apart when he died. As far as a "history of humanity," that's a Nineteenth/Twentieth Century invention.
How american of you to imagine I was speaking only of amerika's leaders. I'm afraid you'll find my characterisation of humanity's leaders applies to every leader whose character I've checked out. (the early Roman emporers are a good place to start). Dig beneath the basic warrior hero crap that was common among the earliest leaders in recorded history and you'll see that parasites have always hung around power like flies around dog shit.
As for pre Lincoln congress, that doesn't refute what I wrote about Washington's lobby being chocka with 'lobbyists' who also crowded similar spaces in Governors' mansions and state legislatures.
YES to DIRECT DEMOCRACY.
If only...
Biden has much more endurance when it comes to evil than he gives himself credit for. He originates a lot of it, and I'm sure he could stand back and do nothing while any amount of it is taking place Why would anyone be surprised? He has always been an arch villain on the wrong side of every issue, and history itself. Just look at the tape of - what was it? an interview? an irrelevant and vengeful grilling of Scott Ritter for doing his job investigating the claimed disposal of Iraq's nuclear capability, and eliminating the rationale for the murder of a million Iraqis? Yeah, that's it. He also must have given the signal for Gonzalo Lira's arrest, torture and killing by the Azov's in Ukraine, the criminals who boast they are good at killing people because they enjoytorturing and killing people. It's all too disgusting - makes you ashamed of belonging to the same species. And yes, he is as responsible as Israel for genocide of Palestinians.
Let me see if I've got this straight. According to Genocide Joe's White House, the United States is incapable of persuading the Israeli government to stop a genocide.
Never mind the fact that dozens of governments in dozens of other countries have been blackmailed, bribed, pressured, sanctioned, couped, and outright invaded by the United States when gentle persuasion was ineffective.
Ah! I forgot that Israel has a superpower. It's called AIPAC.
What really comes out of war?
Money to the MIC.
Biden needs to be removed as well as Netanyahu and a pox on all the other nations who won't speak up!
This is an empire that assassinates J F Kennedy and Martin Luther King and leaves Biden in office!
The entire Biden presidency is a performance. Administration spokespeople pretend that Biden is in charge of things.
Is not Yemen's engagement on behalf of the victims of the crime of genocide consistent with their international obligation as a signatory to the International Convention on Genocide? If so, the US, already guilty of numerous such crimes, is now compounding its criminality, in attacking a sovereign state without any basis in law, including US law.
the tail is waging the dog of forever wars. Both are in sync...thier tune : force over dialogue and deplomacy in two part harmony. They are brothers in arms. And we be the ones that feed this rabid dog rather than putting it down.
Gaza is an Israeli controlled concentration camp for Palestinians displaced thanks to Israeli ethnic cleansing. It has now become a literal bombing range for the US equipped Israeli Air Force. It doesn’t get any more evil than this. The US has been the world’s most aggressive terror state for the past four decades. Our ruling class has lost all connection with a moral and civilized foreign policy. It has simply become a psychopathic and war mongering state that needs a radical regime change. No one should expect that this will be easy, no one should expect that this will be non-violent. A revolution is not a dinner party.
DeFace the Nation now tells us the toll on human life in Gaza is too high. Gotta get that toll under control. Lower the intensity. Do they mean like a set number of deaths, maiming & amputations per day of children & other non-combatants, with weekly & monthly quotas? Is there some fictive number of allowable war crimes that falls just below a threshold for genocide for an occupied civilian population? Horse apples.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds with todays western leaders
Thank you Aaron, for your clarity and understanding of the reality. I am very afraid that our co-belligerency and blind support and lack of judgment will allow Israel to continue its genocide and destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza ghetto. This is turning into another Warsaw, and the US is encouraging it with our illegal support in violation of not only International Law but our own national laws.