Ralph Nader pretends he has a choice
I think Sabrina Salvati has a good take on this one
Here's the key passage from Nader's statement. I'm not into the Bezos Post, so I'll quote from The Hill:
“I know the difference between fascism and autocracy, and I’ll take autocracy any time,” Nader said in a telephone interview with the Post. “Fascism is what the GOP is the architecture of, and autocracy is what the Democrats are practitioners of. But autocracy leaves an opening. They don’t suppress votes. They don’t suppress free speech.”
Here one thinks that Nader is starting to make claims that he can't back up. Fascism was something Donald Trump would like to imitate but is too lazy to do much of anything to create. January 6, 2021 was a sick joke: a real fascist coup looks like September 11, 1973.
Joe Biden is a transformative President. He has transformed the business world into an entity which distrusts the United States and the European Union. He's made the "Left" of the United States and the European Union into a new version of the global Right. All the nice liberals love them some Caspar Weinberger-style neoconservative politics now. His proxy war against Russia has led to the deaths of at least 310,000 Ukrainians for no significant reason, and may eventually grant us World War III. The Team Biden-inspired wars on Russia and China have strengthened both nations while weakening Europe, though if you dare to criticize such wars you will be called a "Putin puppet."
I might add that poverty went up 60% from 2021 to 2022, a statistic that puts the lie to all of the "the economy's doing fine under Biden" talk. Watch as Team Biden runs on "the economy."
Eventually, the Joe Biden transformation will give us a world ruled by BRICS in which the US has become a frustrated resident of the semi-periphery and in which much of Europe sinks into the Third World. It will be an authoritarian world, with a lot of closed societies. Thanks, Joe.
Contrary to what Ralph Nader says, Joe Biden loves censorship; in fact, his team is likely to do more in that regard than any Trump team would do simply because Trump is really lazy. Also contrary to what Ralph Nader says, autocracy does not leave you an opening. Oh and he's going to "help Biden" -- yeah, that'll work. Supporting Joe is -- as far as I can tell -- the best way to help Donald Trump, 'cause let's all develop Trump Derangement Syndrome and pledge allegiance to a guy who can't campaign effectively, who is significantly behind in the polls, and who has nothing to promise anyone. But, really, it's beginning to look like Ralph Nader has become another example of the complete atrophy of political imagination of which Cornelius Castoriadis complained.
On a cheerier note, here's Norman Finkelstein:
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Nader is an idiot
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Just what does he think censorship is? Or all the other ways that Biden has taken to deny us our rights like when he wrote the patriot act and is going after Americans that don’t agree with what the government is doing? Calling everyone who questions the election or the response to the Rona epidemic a domestic terrorist.
Trump didn’t create a ministry of truth. Biden did. I really want to know exactly what Trump did that was fascist. And don’t say that he tried to overthrow the government. I’d think that would be hard to do without the help from the military which he didn’t use. In fact he offered the military to protect the capital on 1/6, but Pelosi turned him down. Just so fcking tired of people thinking that Trump was something he wasn’t.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Trump TALKS fascist you see
Let's not sleepwalk into another Trump presidency." Key sentence:
That's the main theme of Molly Jong-Fast's piece in Vanity Fair, "So, you see, it's what he says that incites Trump Derangement Syndrome. His Supreme Court appointments, his tax cut for the rich, Louis DeJoy, and the CARES Act sucked, to be sure, but these acts pale in comparison with what comes out of his mouth.
As for Molly Jong-Fast, here is her conclusion:
Team Biden would like to have it both ways, you see. The country is doing great under their rule, according to them, but at the same time we're sleepwalking into disaster.
Now, if you really want to see panic, I would recommend reading the millionaire pundit Cenk Uygur. I await Uygur's change of tune if and when Trump is convicted and becomes incapable of campaigning behind bars.
"If genocide is not a deal-breaker for you, there is something wrong with you." - Nick Cruse
My first thought
was that Nader either feels like he has to redeem himself before it’s too late by rewriting history, or he’s also deranged.
Norman Finkelstein makes a good argument for being opportunistic.
I NEVER thought I'd see the day
I am so freaking disappointed.
I am at a loss.
This does not make any sense short of them literally sticking some some kind of sci-fi body-horror-type macguffin in his ear.
Why bother speculating how?
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
masks and scales fall
for the love of money, there would be no love at all.
political expediency
some decisions are made to maintain the political beast
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
The Noam Chomsky effect
Oh well...the dems needed some sheepdogs this election as that role last time was done by Chomsky of all people.
Prominent left veterans say vote Biden-Harris, then keep organizing
And will they come forward again and endorse Biden over Trump?? My latest speculation is that Biden will not run and the DNC power centers will anoint Hillary Clinton over Harris. Saw some speculation that Michele Obama might be the preferred candidate if Biden cannot run.
How to gag a maggot on a shit wagon....
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
LOL!
Domestic politics failed under Bush II
Democracy lost its meaning in the US.
The obsolete Constitution made it all possible.
The only choice in Federal elections will always be the lesser of two evils.
No matter how you vote, the country is taking you somewhere that you don't want to go.
The most incarcerated people in the world were given the vote and told that they were free.
A.I. is designing and coding the robots that it will inhabit in service to the ideal of automation.
People cannot speak freely and organize themselves; their guns will be used to kill each other.
Domestic politics is a dangerous distraction that absorbs the people's energy and returns noise and confusion.
The People's destiny will be decided by the wealthy elite who intend to rule the world; they have no use for so many.
Only China that is working to empower people worldwide can stop them. This is the reason a big war is coming.
That's one possibility.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
Whoa
"and told that they were free"
serious stuff there Pluto
thanks
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
I might add --
that Cenk Uygur appears ready to take his complaint about Biden to the next level:
"If genocide is not a deal-breaker for you, there is something wrong with you." - Nick Cruse
Cenk Uygur
is lower than a snakes belly. Funny how some are sucking up to him again. Maybe markos has found a new crash test dummy.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
The point is --
"If genocide is not a deal-breaker for you, there is something wrong with you." - Nick Cruse
Cenk is really
RBN on Cenk:
"If genocide is not a deal-breaker for you, there is something wrong with you." - Nick Cruse
Nader makes
almost the same argument about the difference between fascist Trump and mere authoritarian Biden and he has only nice things to say about Cornel's GP candidacy. Like the GP, Nader only seemed to show up every 4 yrs during the presidential election cycle. He should logically endorse CW, but instead interposes some bureaucratic objection about the GP not being organized, which of course is true but shouldn't be a sufficient reason to withhold an endorsement.
Nader was always an odd duck, maybe he was 100% organic, maybe not. It's something writer David Halberstam (from the same smallish CT town) noticed very early on in Nader's career.