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I Know You Are But What Am I?
What we really should be concerned about is that one of them is going to win.
Do you remember when CNN and MSNBC had psychiatrists on 24/7 talking about Trump having Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
I dislike Trump. He should not be running for anything; he could not manage his way out of a paper bag, but he was their guy for some reason. What does that tell you about tens of millions of Americans?
What are the myriad of systemic and structural preconditions that have led the United States to this point? (We ask this question every four years during each histrionic “constitutional crisis.”)
If everything is "cool" and wonderful in "The City on the Hill," then why not relax and vote for your guy? #Winner! Things will be grand. We don't have a care in the world. Your candidate can beat the other candidate in a boxing match or a round of golf. Domestic and World issues “be gone!” your candidate demands it.
Of course, DJT is a con man, a criminal, a cad, a fool, and an ignorant jackass; check the lineup on your streaming services; Americans are obsessed with gangsters and petty criminals. Where is Dirty Harry when you need him?
Joe and Donald are both corrupt, but for whatever reasons, the DNC and the RNC have decided that that's what the American people need and want, so a certain percentage of Americans are going to the polls to vote for one or the other. Apparently, most people believe that's okay.
If you have the time, just for fun, review U.S. politics after WWII—heck, since after the Revolution. Was it not always, to some extent, a bloody shyte show? America has been making war since the armistice. People have been fighting in the streets for one thing or another for the past eighty years.
It's easier to imagine the end of The United States than the end of rapacious neoliberal capitalism.
So relax, enjoy the dance, or rearrange the furniture. Crack open a bottle, pop a pill, delve into your favorite addiction, and let sleeping dogs lie.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment
The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution says that if the President becomes unable to do his or her job, the Vice President becomes the President (Section 1) or Acting President (Sections 3 or 4). This can happen for a short time if the President is just sick or disabled for a short time. It could also occur until the end of the President's term (the President's time in office) if the President dies, resigns, or is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office[1]".
The Twenty-fifth Amendment also says what should happen if there is a "vacancy" in the Vice President's office (meaning there is no Vice President).
The Amendment, a pivotal moment in U.S. constitutional history, was ratified by the states and became part of the U.S. Constitution on February 10, 1967.
The Twenty-fifth Amendment has been invoked (used) six times since it was added to the Constitution. Section 1 has been used once; Section 2 has been used twice; and Section 3 has been used three times. Only Section 4, which involves the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet declaring the President unfit for office, has never been used, though it was considered twice.
Look, I know DJT is an evil man (or God’s instrument). I don't like him, but that doesn't mean Joe hasn't been corrupt his whole life. His son has some problems, so what? His son is a Democrat, and DJT Jr. is a Republican, so depending on which team you identify with, one is worse (or better) than the other.
It's more than tragic that Americans can't find better leaders to rely on. Why is that?
If Americans demand illicit drugs and the free market provides them, then the politicians declare a War on Drugs, and the money keeps flowing, and everybody wins. I'm amazed that big business (not for lack of trying) hasn't found a way to cash in on addiction treatments and, instead, left the business of fixing people's addictions to vitamin pill pushers and complementary and alternative medicine. Whether pharmaceuticals (many of which were invented to solve preventable medical conditions) or proxy wars, what's good for corporate profits is good for the world—only the pathologies remain, jeopardizing the health of all living creatures.
US AGAINST US—Like A National Version of Kramer vs. Kramer
Indictments against Joe go back decades. Politicians and major Players of The Grate Game rarely get more than a slap on the wrist and as much shame as a deluded narcissist can feel.
From The Comitty of Oversight and Accountability
Summary
Chairman James Comer and Oversight Committee Republicans are investigating the Biden family's domestic and international business dealings to determine whether these activities compromise U.S. national security and President Biden's ability to lead with impartiality. Members of the Biden family have a pattern of peddling access to the highest levels of government to enrich themselves, often to the detriment of U.S. interests. We are committed to following the Biden family and associates' money trail—consisting of many complex, international transactions worth millions of dollars—and providing answers to the American people. The American people deserve to know whether the President's connections to his family's business deals occurred at the expense of American interests and whether they represent a national security threat.
Evidence obtained by Committee Republicans reveals Joe Biden lied to the American people about his involvement in his family's business schemes. The Biden family business model is built on Joe Biden's political career and connections with Joe Biden as the 'chairman of the board.' Biden family members sold access for profit around the world to the detriment of American interests. If President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they are impacting his decision making, this is a threat to national security. The American people deserve transparency and accountability about the Biden family's influence peddling. With the new Republican majority, Oversight Committee Republicans will continue pressing for answers to inform legislative solutions to prevent this abuse of power.
—CHAIRMAN JAMES COMER
Since taking the gavel in January, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability has accelerated its investigation of the Biden family's domestic and international business practices to determine whether the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors, President Biden is compromised, and our national security is threatened. Records obtained through the Committee's subpoenas to date reveal that the Bidens and their associates have received over $20 million in payments from foreign entities.
Below is a timeline that details key dates in our investigation.
The main points of interest are:
1) Romania: On September 28, 2015, Vice President Biden welcomed Romanian President Klaus Iohannis to the White House. Within five weeks of this meeting, a Romanian businessman involved with a high-profile corruption prosecution in Romania, Gabriel Popoviciu, began depositing a Biden associate's bank account, which ultimately made their way into Biden family accounts. Popoviciu made sixteen of the seventeen payments, totaling over $3 million, to the Biden associate account while Joe Biden was Vice President. Biden family accounts ultimately received approximately $1.038 million. The total amount from Romania to the Biden family and their associates is over $3 million.
2) China- CEFC: On March 1, 2017—less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office—State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to a Biden associate's account. This is the same bank account used in the above "Romania" section. After the Chinese company wired the Biden associate account the $3 million, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,692 over a three-month period in different bank accounts. Additionally, the CEFC Chairman gives Hunter Biden a diamond worth $80,000. Lastly, CEFC creates a joint venture with the Bidens in the summer of 2017. The timeline lays out the "WhatsApp" messages and subsequent wires from the Chinese to the Bidens of $100,000 and $5 million. The total amount from China, specifically with CEFC and their related entities, to the Biden family and their associates is over $8 million.
3) China- Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (BHR): More information will be provided in our upcoming Fourth Bank Memorandum.
4) Kazakhstan: On April 22, 2014, Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch used his Singaporean entity, Novatus Holdings, to wire one of Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca entities $142,300. The very next day—April 23, 2014—the Rosemont Seneca entity transferred the exact same amount of money to a car dealership for a car for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer would represent Burisma in Kazakhstan in May/June of 2014 as the company attempted to broker a three-way deal among Burisma, the Kazakhstan government, and a Chinese state-owned energy company.
5) Ukraine: Devon Archer joined the Burisma board of directors in spring of 2014 and was joined by Hunter Biden shortly thereafter. Hunter Biden joined the company as counsel, but after a meeting with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky in Lake Como, Italy, was elevated to the board of directors in the spring of 2014. Both Biden and Archer were each paid $1 million per year for their positions on the board of directors. In December 2015, after a Burisma board of directors meeting, Zlochevsky and Hunter Biden "called D.C." in the wake of mounting pressures the company was facing. Zlochevsky was later charged with bribing Ukrainian officials with $6 million in an attempt to delay or drop the investigation into his company. The total amount from Ukraine to the Biden family and their associates is $6.5 million.
6) Russia: On February 14, 2014, a Russian oligarch and Russia's richest woman, Yelena Baturina, wired a Rosemont Seneca entity $3.5 million. On March 11, 2014, the wire was split up: $750,000 was transferred to Devon Archer, and the remainder was sent to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, a company Devon Archer and Hunter Biden split equally. In spring of 2014, Yelena Baturina joined Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to share a meal with then-Vice President Biden at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. The total amount from Russia to the Biden family and their associates is $3.5 million.
Beyond this timeline, here are links to our First, Second, Third, and Fourth Bank Memorandums that provide detailed descriptions and show actual bank records and wires.
The above references are not even close to a comprehensive list of legal grievances logged against that side over the past fifty years.
I Am Not Affiliate With A Political Party
I don't care which side you are on. We need significant changes if we are going to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Finger-pointing is not going to cut it.
Let me suggest you read this to understand better where I am coming from.
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
If you are a citizen of "The West" and you think you live in a democracy, then take responsibility and make sure your leaders understand what you want. Of course, this assumes you are well-grounded in civics and know what you want.
Reactionaries and other ideological groups that support limited "democracy" by the elite (who are the ones that know what's best for people. Right?) will tell you to sit tight and let them fight it out, and you will all soon see who rules you. Do your duty as workers, clerks, service providers, data generators, consumers, taxpayers, and cannon fodder and be happy with your big box stores and your addictions and monster truck payments; you're damn lucky to live in "The West" where people are civilized. "The West" will eventually civilize the rest of the world; it has been working at it since The Age of Discovery—good things take time. Eventually, every city on earth will have a Burger King and a Ford dealership. Every town will have a woke, neo-Marxist university to fret about and an evangelical mega-church to save the world from those damn universities and their progressive educations.
For goodness sake, forget about mainstream and alternative media, books, and education—what good will any of that do? Grab a beer, a “joint,” a super-food shake, or whatever makes your day; turn on the game or your favorite streaming channel, or “navigate” to your favorite social media platform and enjoy the action. Or get yee to the mega-church and get yourself right with The End of Days. It’s all good.
All the best.