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Humiliation, Resentment, and “Rank in Society” Play Important Role in Psychology of Trump Backers, but These Factors Find Fertile Terrain in 50% to 60% Decline in US Standard of Living Since Nixon Presidency; Globalization Has Contributed Decisively to Immiseration; Time to Lay Out Full Economic Recovery Plan, Including New WPA to Create 40 Million New Jobs with Cash from Federal Reserve – a Vital Terrain Where Trump Cannot Follow
Democratic Platform Endorses Davis-Bacon Act Labor Standards for Infrastructure and Other Projects That Get Federal Funding; This Law Guarantees Union Pay Scales for Federal Contracts Even in Union-Busting “Right to Work” States
Breaking: US Treasury Sanctions Andrei Derkach of Ukraine, Source of Anti-Biden Dirt for Rudi Giuliani and Various Republican Senators; GRU Operatives of Russian Fancy Bear Military Intelligence Are Reportedly Attacking Biden Campaign Accounts and Personnel
He Slams Trump’s Failure to Deliver on Election Promises to Working People, Inflicting Instead 4.7 Million Jobs Losses, Recession Since Late 2019, and 500,000 Fewer Jobs Created Yearly Than under Obama; Rate of Offshoring of Federal Contracts Has Doubled, with Merchandise Trade Deficit at All-Time High
Biden Demands 10% Tax Penalty for Sending US Jobs Overseas, and No More Tax Deductions for Expenses of Moving a Runaway Shop; Made in America Tax Credit of 10% for Domestic Production, Including Revival and Retooling of Existing Plants; Approach Recalls JFK’s Highly Successful Investment Tax Credit
Warren, Michigan, Where Biden Spoke, Is County Seat of Macomb County, and Has Long Been the Classic Test Bed of the Reagan Democrats, the Stratum of Blue Collar White Workers Whose Alienation from Democrats Has Wrought Untold Damage on US; Warren Hit Hard by Recent Closure of GM Transmission Plant on Trump’s Watch; Today’s Speech Is Step Away from Identity Group Formula, and Towards a New Democratic Majority Advancing Mass Traction Economic Demands
At High Point of US Unions in 1940s, One Third of Private Sector Was Unionized; Today, after Thirty Years of Globalization, Only 7% of These Jobs Are Unionized; Biden Stresses That Future Production Will Be Done by US Workers of UAW, IBEW, and Other Unions!
With No Relief Funding in Sight, and Waves of Evictions, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies Imminent, the Trump-Powell Bubble May Be Starting to Deflate; NASDAQ Already Down 10% from Highs Reached Three Days Ago
Business Genius Trump Has Presided over Squandering by His Campaign of $800 Million of His Initial $1 Billion War Chest with Little Gain in Polling; Officials Claim Extravagant Spending Was the Only Way to Limit Trump’s Loss of Popularity Amidst Pandemic and Economic Breakdown
Biden Has Overtaken Rival Thanks to $360 Million in Contributions during August, an All-Time Record; Don’s Donors Paid for His Impeachment and Legal Costs, and for $11 Million in Super Bowl Ads to Match Bloomberg’s; Trump’s Own Television Ads Have Largely Gone Dark over Recent Weeks; His Staffers Promise Big Crescendo; Has Trump Given Up on Michigan?
Trump Reeling as Backlash against His Slander of US Armed Forces Spreads; But Is Trump Really a Peace Angel? Not If You Count His Genocidal Dirty War in Yemen, and Not If You Can Hear the Alarms of His War with Iran
House Oversight Committee to Grill Postmaster General DeJoy on Reported Campaign Finance Violations!
Rioting, Looting, and Arson Are Lawlessness, Not Protesting, and Should Be Prosecuted, Was Message Monday in Pittsburgh, Refuting Trump’s Law and Order Lies; Wednesday Speech Showed How to Safely Re-Open Child Care, Schools, and Day Care with a Ceiling of 7% of Family Income; In Kenosha on Thursday, He Displayed Classic Presidential Dignity in Pursuit of Reconciliation; On Friday, Biden Slammed Trump’s K-Shaped Recovery, with Affluent Rising while Middle Class and Working People Fall; If Trump Tries to Enforce “Protecting the Vulnerable” aka Herd Immunity, Many More Families Will Lose Loved Ones
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi Hospitalized with Covid – Possibly the Most Famous Victim So Far
Trump Slanders of US Armed Forces as “Losers” and “Suckers” Confirmed by Several Media, Including AP and Fox News; Bush 41, McCain and POW-MIAs Also Derided by Benedict Donald; November 2018 Ceremony at US Military Cemetery at Aisne et Marne, France Was Attended by Numerous Allied Leaders, but Not Don, Who Nevertheless Found Time for Putin; Trump’s Documented Brutality in Case of LaDavid Johnson, Killed in Niger in 2017; Incidents Like These Should Make It More Difficult to Line Up Military Units for Don’s Coup d’État Plans; He Should Resign in Disgrace Right Now, and Take Moribund Republican Party with Him into Oblivion
Russian Bots Join Trump Attacks on Biden’s Fitness and Mail-In Ballots; Meddling Comes in Midst of Putin Rampage Now Including Attack on Dissident Navalny Using Chemical Weapons; Still No US Reaction to Bounties Paid to Kill GIs in Afghanistan
Best Wishes for Labor Day!
Specter of “Herd Immunity” Grips Washington as New Obscurantists Gain Ascendancy in Trump’s Court of Miracles; Latest Panacea Involves Letting Covid Run Wild through Society in Hopes That Survivors Will Acquire Antibodies and Some Degree of Immunity; First Problem Is Terrifying Death Toll from Refusing to Contain Scope of Infections and Deaths; Second Problem Is That Any Antibodies and Immunity May Be Short-Lived, Leaving Society with No Net Gain After Extravagant Losses; Also, Cases of Short-Term Re-Infection Have Been Observed
Strategy Appeals to Malthusian Ideologues; Boris Johnson’s Reactionary UK Government Embraced Herd Immunity in Early March When BoJo Announced: “More Families, Many More Families Are Going to Lose Loved Ones Before Their Time”; Herd Immunity Interlude Is Still Factor in Britain’s Oversized 42,000 Covid Death Toll, Compared to Just 9,340 in Germany; Policy Changed with March 17 Imperial College Study Forecasting Hecatomb of Victims If Herd Immunity Were Pursued
Sweden Also Embraced Herd Immunity with Business as Usual and Rejected Effective Public Health Measures; Sweden’s Deaths per Unit Population Are Worse Than US, and Far Worse Than Neighbors Norway, Denmark, and Finland; Trump’s Attempt to Reduce Testing Is Coherent with This Analysis
Breaking: Niece Mary Trump Calls Don “Anti-American, Anti-Military Traitor” in Response to Reports of His Contempt for War Dead; Almost Two Decades after 9/11, World Geopolitics Have Flipped
Best Wishes for Labor Day from the American System to Listeners and Friends; We’ll be Back Tuesday, September 8
Biden’s Polling Lead over Trump Remains Stable After Both Conventions; Former PA Gov. Rendell Reports That Trump’s Race-Baiting Propaganda Fails to Gain Traction Among Suburban White Women; Violence vs “Law and Order” Is Only Remaining Staple for GOP Demagogy
Rather Than Focus on the Phony Apocalypse of Q-Anon and Similar Adolescent Trash, Americans Would Do Well to Mobilize against the Real Apocalypse of Dictatorship, Fascism, and Genocide, Which Could Start as Early as November 3; Don’t Look Now, but the One Trying to Peddle Untested Vaccine Is Now Officially Trump; And Beware Dr. Scott Atlas, Advocate of “Herd Immunity” Chimera
Gallery of Trump Spokespersons Resembles Casting Call for Sci-Fi Bond Villains; They Defend Trump’s Latest Tall Tale about Black-Clad Thugs on a Plane
Breaking — Trump’s October Surprise: Letter Sent to 50 States Ordering Preparations to Receive Non-Existent Covid Vaccine on November 1, Just Before Presidential Election; Harvard Medical Veteran Haseltine Calls Move “Very Unwise,” Says He Would Not Accept a Shot Resulting from Such an Irresponsible Rush Job; Adds That Leading Vaccine Candidates Must be Supercooled to -70°or -20°, Which Currently Is Not Practical; Notes That Authorities Lending Their Authority to Current Regime Ops Are Discrediting Themselves
It Gets Worse: Actuaries forecast That Trump’s Freeze on Social Security FICA Tax Would Lead to the Total Depletion of Social Security Trust Fund by Mid-2023, Triggering Devastating Benefit Cuts to Pensioners – a Decade Sooner Than 2033, as Anticipated
Is Trump Hoping to Appeal to Wall Street for Permanent Dictatorship Based on Trifecta of Destruction Including Social Security (2023), Medicare (Already Predicted for 2024), and Obamacare/ACA (Targeted by Texas-Led Lawsuit of State AGs)
Trump’s Latest Gambit of “Herd Immunity” Horrifies US Public, Will Become Another Huge Negative for Regime in November Election
Biden Pittsburgh Speech Condemning Political Violence and Naming Trump as Top Fomenter Reverberates Across Political Spectrum; Will Dems Get the Message?
The Archetype of the President as Provocateur: Nixon, Having Failed to End the Vietnam War, Needed to Gin Up Demagogy for the 1970 Congressional Vote; His Solution Was to Schedule a Speech in San Jose California and Then Proceed to Bait a Crown of 2,000 Antiwar Protesters; Were Outside Agitators Hired to Mimic an Attack on Nixon; Chief of Staff Haldeman’s Diary Admitted That Nixon Wanted the Attack; Stage Set for Defeat of Dem Candidate McGovern Two Years Later; The Lesson for Today’s Protesters: Don’t Accept Provocations and Don’t Go Violent!
“Rioting Is Not Protesting. Looting Is Not Protesting. Setting Fires Is Not Protesting. None of This Is Protesting. It’s Lawlessness. And Those Who Do It Should Be Prosecuted; Violence Will Not Bring Change. It Only Brings Destruction, It Is Not What Dr. King or John Lewis Taught. It Must End. Fires Are Burning — and We Have a President Who Fans the Flames”
Get This Message Quickly to Feckless Democratic Officials in Washington, Oregon, and Other States Who Have Failed to Confront Mercenary Wreckers; Trump Refuses to Condemn Violence and Murder Provided They Are Carried Out by His Own Fanatical Supporters; Acting as Provocateur in Chief, He Plans Trip to Kenosha Tuesday Despite Urging from Mayor and Governor to Stay Away
Military Times Poll Finds Biden Leading Trump by 6% Among Active Duty US Military; Democrat Is Ahead by 43% to 37%; In 2016, Trump Had Led This Survey by 20 Points; 47% Don’t Like Don, with Officers More Critical Than Enlisted Troops
As Death Toll Mounts, Trump Backs “Herd Immunity” Quackery Peddled by Incompetent Advisors
Biden Won’t Ban Fracking on Privately Owned Land, and So May Win Pennsylvania and Other States; Ultra-Left People’s Party Convention Full of Calls to Boycott Biden; In Tuesday’s Massachusetts Primary, Rep. Kennedy Better for Senate Than Green Ideologue Markey
Twenty Whoppers: Trump’s Dinner Menu or a Catalogue of His Falsifications in Acceptance Speech?
As Counterpoint, Commitment March at Lincoln Memorial Marks 57th Anniversary of “I Have a Dream” with Realistic Demands for New Era of Voting Rights and Police Reform Advanced by Martin Luther King III
At Beginning of Final Push for White House, Calls for Democrats to Shut Down Violent Anarchist Vandals and Provocateurs Who Are Trump’s Most Precious Resource and the Greatest Threat to Biden-Harris; Don Lemon of CNN Gets It, Thinks Democrats Have “Blind Spot” on This Issue, and Offers Draft of Tough Speech for Biden; Some Dems Attempt to Evade Issue
As Labor Day Approaches, Biden Should Campaign on Strong Program of New Deal Style Mass Traction Economic Demands Including Immediate $15 Minimum Wage, Job Creation on Scale of WPA, $600 per Week Extra Jobless Benefit for Duration of Trump Depression, Post Office Support, Saving Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, More Money for Food Stamps and School Meals, Passage of HEROES Act; Make Wall Street Pay the Costs
Breaking: 23.8 Million Viewers Watch Trump Acceptance Speech, Fewer Than the 24.6 Who Watched Biden Last Week; Don’s Viewership Down 25% from His 2016 Acceptance; Trump Regime Cancels Briefings to Congress on Russian and Other Election Interference; Democrats Must Go Beyond Mere Indignation!
Reality-Based Community Fights Back: Biden Shows That Trump is Rooting for More Political Violence, Pouring Gasoline on the Fires of Conflict; Pandemic Is Out of Control with 185,000 Dead and 15 Million Unemployed, Highest Since Herbert Hoover Depression; Biden Condemns Violence from Any Quarter; Harris Takes over Typical Vice-Presidential Chores of Countering Republican Falsifications
US Intel Officials Have Warned That Russian Interference into US Vote Is Aggressive and Ongoing; What Form Is Their Meddling Taking Tonight?; Giuliani Lauds Trump’s Work Ethic in Raving Speech!
“Promises Made, Promises Broken”: Trump Has Not Delivered on His Bombastic Promises to Improve Real Wages; Here Too, His Performance Falls Short of Obama’s Record; Pandemic of Homelessness Made Worse by Housing Deficit of at Least 12 Million Units to Be Paid for by the Federal Reserve over Next Few Years – Somebody Tell Sanctimonious Ben Carson!
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