1/ Trump's and Hegseth/Heydrich's statements at the meeting today, denouncing the "enemy within" and calling for US cities to be used as "training grounds" for military violence follows a definite logic. Consider the events of the past month:

https://twitter.com/DavidNorthWSWS/status/1973090742856741182

2/ On September 4, Trump met with top oligarchs in the White House, at which Trump pledged to “make it a lot easier” for the assembled billionaires, and the billionaires extolled Trump's “incredible leadership.”

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1/ The re-election of Donald Trump signifies the violent realignment of American politics with its underlying social reality.

A thread:🧵 2/ This is a society dominated by staggering inequality and ruled by a capitalist oligarchy.

This realignment is expressed not only in Trump’s appointments, but in the Democratic Party’s swift embrace of the incoming regime.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has issued a throughly hypocritical statement posturing as a critic of the Democratic Party. Sanders has a long history of channeling social anger behind the Democratic Party.

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https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1854271157135941698

2. From his initial political career as mayor of Burlington, through his long tenure as a US Senator, through his two presidential campaigns, Sanders has postured as "left," while supporting ruling class interests and US imperialism. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

1/ These are the basic issues the Democrats and Republicans aren’t talking about in the 2024 US elections.

A thread: 🧵 2/ With Election Day less than three days away, the 2024 presidential race is laying bare the reality: both major parties are driving the United States and the world toward catastrophe.

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The ongoing COVID-19 #pandemic has revealed the profound failures of the capitalist system in the United States and internationally. The pandemic exposed a #healthcare system in deep crisis, starved of resources for years, and subjected to the whims of profit-hungry corporations. #2024election 2/ Nearly 1.5 million people have died in the US alone, and tens of millions more continue to suffer from the long-term effects of the virus. Globally, over 27 million excess deaths have been recorded since the pandemic began, and every day an additional 6,000 people die from COVID-related causes.

The Socialist Equality Party (@SEP_US ) is the only party in the 2024 election that offers a scientifically grounded and socially progressive program to combat the pandemic, rebuild the healthcare system on socialist foundations, and defend the interests of the #workingclass.

🧵1. At the Holocaust remembrance event today, Democrats and Republicans joined hands in exploiting the tragedy of the Holocaust to justify US support for the the genocide in #gaza. Here Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson compares students protesting the genocide to Nazis. 2. Johnson outrageously compares the cultivation of Nazi ideology in Germany universities, encouraged by the state and ruling class, with the protests against the ongoing massacre of Palestinians, which have been met with brutal police repression. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

1. Israel’s assault on #Rafah has begun. Some 1.7 million Palestinians have been driven to the southern city and now confront a coordinated assault. Who knows how many are now being slaughtered?
2. Hamas accepted ceasefire deal earlier in the day. Israel rejected it, and now, with US supplied bombs, diplomatic and political support, they are carrying out "final solution" of Palestinian question.

🧵1. The arrest Thursday of more than 100 students at Columbia University for protesting the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attack on democratic rights. wsws.org/en/articles/20… 2. As the Socialist Equality Party candidate for president, I call for a mobilization of the working class to defend the persecuted youth and demand that all measures taken against them be revoked.

🧵1. Among the guests at the dinner hosted by Biden for Japanese PM Kishida on Wednesday was #UAW president Shawn Fain. Fain joined chief executives and military-intelligence officials in an event to cement the US-Japanese preparations for conflict with China. 2. Amidst a field of flowers and silk butterflies, Fain supped on dry-aged ribeye alongside Amazon CEO Bezos, JPMorgan CEO Dimon, BlackRock CEO Fink, CIA Director William Burns, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the butcher of #Gaza. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

🧵1. The statement by US Congressman Tim Walberg that the US should treat #Gaza “like Nagasaki and Hiroshima” expresses the homicidal criminality of the American ruling class as a whole. 2. Wahlberg, the Republican representative from Michigan’s 5th Congressional district, simultaneously reveals what is happening in Gaza and the logic of the US-Israeli genocide.

A Thread 🧵 on the CDC's new anti-scientific "guidelines"

1. The Socialist Equality Party and my presidential campaign completely oppose the #CDC’s latest change to their #COVID19 isolation guidelines, which are totally unscientific. 2. On behalf of the Biden administration, @CDCgov is prostrating itself before the needs of Corporate America, just as it did under Trump. The World Socialist Web Site wrote this article last month when news first broke that the CDC intended to change its guidelines, which outlines the basic issues: wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The Times has published another article attacking China's Zero Covid strategy, which it describes as an "anomalous" campaign "as the rest of the world learns to live with the coronavirus."
nytimes.com/2022/09/07/wor… Through aggressive measures--in fact, basic public health policy to prevent mass infection--China has been able to keep deaths from Covid to about 5,000, compared to more than one million in the US, with a fraction of the population.

🧵A revealing exchange took place between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a closed-door session of the “Quad Summit” of the US, Australia, India and Japan held last week. 1/ According to a report published by the Press Trust of India (PTI), Biden “praised” Modi “for handling the Covid pandemic ‘successfully’ and contrasted India’s success with China’s ‘failure’ in dealing with coronavirus, according to a senior Indian official.” 2/

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This analysis, published by the US Military Academy in 2020--hardly a left-wing publication--documents the growth of neo-Nazi movements in Ukraine following the 2014 coup and their extensive international relations. 1/

ctc.usma.edu/the-nexus-betw… Neo-Nazi groups in the US and Europe, @TimListerCNN notes, are "preoccupied with the conflict in Ukraine, where a well-established far-right extremist movement and its associated militia have consistently engaged with and welcomed far-right ideologues and fighters..." 2/

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“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called ‘countries’ on territory that belongs to his neighbors?”

This is the question that Biden asked Putin yesterday, but it would be better asked of Biden himself.

1/ The “flagrant violation of international law” that Biden accused Russia of perpetrating is precisely what the United States has repeatedly done, with Biden directly and personally involved.

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🧵According to the latest data from the AAP, 24 children died from Covid in the US last week (excluding 4 states), or a rate of 1,248 deaths a year. 1,012 children were hospitalized, and 325,340 children were infected. 1/ Daily pediatric hospital admissions have soared to their highest levels on record, far above the previous peaks from the Delta variant. 2/

The incomparably stupid Thomas Friedman of the New York Times declares today that the lesson of the past two years of the pandemic and the climate change catastrophe is... that we need more Elon Musks! A thread 1/ Friedman hails the response to the pandemic, declaring that "when it really did feel like the world economy was ending: We fought back with the only tools we have that are as big and powerful as Mother Nature — Father Profit and New Tech." 2/

What is happening in the United States now is a fascistic insurrection to stop the transfer of power, instigated by Trump in an attempt to nullify the elections and overthrow the Constitution. 1/ The storming of the Capitol building in DC will also give an impulse to militias and far-right organizations in states throughout the country. Just this past October, a plot was uncovered to kidnap and execute the Governor of Michigan and other states. 2/

3,000+ people are dying every day! This level of death or higher is expected *for months* before a vaccine is widely available. Emergency action must be taken now! Non-essential production and schools must be shut down, with full income for all workers! #COVID19 Bezos and Musk have increased their wealth by $186 billion this year. The average worker would have to work *seven million years* to earn this amount. And there is supposedly no money to provide everyone with an income while this virus is brought under control! #COVID19

Initial thoughts on the election, a thread:

While we do not know the results of the election, the fact that it is this close is a devastating exposure of the Democratic Party, a right-wing party of Wall Street and the military. 1/ The Democrats had no policy to address the central issue in the election: the coronavirus pandemic and the mass social crisis that has been produced by the bipartisan policy of the ruling elite. There was no “New Deal,” just the continuation of the same. 2/

Most notable about the soporific #Debates2020 is that is being conducted as if this is a normal election, that it is not being held under conditions of a massive breakdown of political institutions of American capitalism. What is the reality? 1/ The president of the United States is actively conspiring to foment right-wing violence and override the results of the elections, depending on his position in the White House and control over the apparatus of the state. 2/