The right-wing, anti-working class policies of the Democrats have handed Trump the presidency. But the tasks after January 5 are fundamentally the same as before it: Building a mass movement of the working class based on the perspective of Trotskyism. socialism2024.org
Reasons why Harris lost:
#9: Overseeing the arrest of of thousands of peaceful protesters opposing the Gaza genocide, while claiming that constitutionally-protected free speech promotes "disorder."
#10: Biden adopted a "let it rip" policy on COVID-19, leading to the deaths of nearly 1 million Americans.
CDC director Rochelle Walensky said that it is "encouraging" that disabled people died, in an open embrace of eugenics.
Trump's election is the disastrous outcome of the deliberate repudiation by the Democrats of any programmatic orientation to the working class, which Clinton called as “a basket of deplorables” & Biden called “garbage.”
@DavidNorthWSWS As @DavidNorthWSWS explained, "Trump’s contempt for democratic principles and the 'rule of law' can claim numerous precedents in the actions of earlier presidential administrations, both Republican and Democratic."
#11: Biden's war abroad was paid for by a war on the working class.
He spent trillions on the US military and war all over the world. He pledged, "defending freedom will have costs for us as well, here at home" in the form of falling living standards.
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There is a huge amount of noise on the issue of internet censorship that is drowning of the signal.
These are the facts.
In 2017/2018, the Democratic and Republican parties launched a campaign to censor the internet.
This bipartisan campaign resurrected a term used by Hitler's Nazi party, "Lügenpresse," rebranding it as "fake news."
As Hillary Clinton write in her 2017 memoir, “WikiLeaks… helped accelerate the phenomenon that eventually came to be known as fake news.”
In this Orwellian concept, the true, verifiable documents published by Wikileaks that exposed US war crimes and efforts by the Clinton campaign to sabotage the sanders campaign, were the archetype of "fake news."
On Friday, Johns Hopkins will shut down its COVID-19 tracker.
This is the product of a systematic campaign launched one year ago by the Biden Administration aimed at "conditioning Americans" to live with COVID-19 by shutting down data reporting.
Do not be "conditioned."
On February 4, 2022, we explained the White House's modus operandi:
"The motto is: Hear no deaths, see no deaths, speak no deaths. But people keep on dying."
We warned of "systematic campaign to end reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths."
It started with the White House encouraging states to end daily reporting. Then came the end of HHS case/death reporting. Then the CDC ended daily reporting. And now Johns Hopkins is shutting down.
In his book, @mattwridley says the same thing, explaining that there does not exist a "preponderance of evidence" pointing to either accidental release or genetic engineering.
. @RaheemKassam, the fascist ideologue and an architect of the January 6 coup, is gloating about the fact that the White House and US media have embraced the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory, which he helped invent. 1/
. @RaheemKassam served as the co-host of the War Room: Pandemic podcast that was a nerve center of the January 6 insurrection. Before the January 6 committee heard Bannon's declaration that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow," the screen flashed to Kassam. 2/
But few know that the podcast at the heart of the January 6 insurrection was created to promote of the Wuhan lab lie. 3/
One year ago, The White House initiated a systematic, planned campaign to end daily COVID-19 case and death reporting, whose aim was to dull public awareness of COVID-19 in order to "condition Americans" to accept perpetual mass infection and death. 1/
The campaign began in early January with discussions between the CDC and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists of a directive to "would direct states to limit daily case reporting." 2/
This shift was facilitated by a media campaign to bring COVID-19 disinformation into the mainstream. @dleonhardt wrote absurd lies like, "Covid now appears to present less threat to most vaccinated elderly people than the annual flu." 3/
Biden has just said the world was on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
How did things get to this point? A short primer👇
In March 2021, Ukraine's military and civilian leadership approved a plan for retaking Crimea by military means. Ukraine "will move forward in the deoccupation of Crimea," said the head of Ukraine's National Security Council.
In November 2021, the US and Ukraine ratified a joint "Charter on Strategic Partnership" that stated the "United States does not and will never recognize Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea," effectively endorsing Ukraine's plans to retake Crimea by military means.