In Dramatic Address from Normandy Beach, Biden Tells World "We Are Summoned" for Crusade Against Resurgent Fascism At Home and Abroad
President implies continuity from Hitler then to Putin & Co. now; echoes FDR's "rendezvous with destiny" and Eisenhower's "crusade in Europe"; stresses US responsibility for alliance system; This is tradition of country that never had a fascist government, never allied with fascism (unlike the USSR), and never appeased fascism;
In aftermath of criminal convictions, grievous damage to Trump's presidential chances begins to emerge: ABC News-Ipsos poll shows 49% of Americans want Trump to drop out, including 52% of independents, 67% of double haters, and a fatal 16% of Republicans; Morning Consult found that 54% of registered voters approved of the guilty verdicts, with 44% recommending a prison sentence and 49% calling for Trump to drop out, as did 15% of likely Republicans and 8% of self-identified Trump supporters;
a Reuters-Ipsos survey of 2,500 adults found 10% of Republicans and a quarter of independents reported they are less likely to vote for Trump; Even infamously pro-MAGA NY Times/Siena poll of registered voters grudgingly concedes a 2% drop in backing for Trump, reflecting a loss of 7% of his support, including over one fifth of his double haters; 46% approved of the guilty verdict; Trump's base turnout model is increasingly unworkable;
Anti-Trump protest votes in GOP primaries continue: he loses 9% in Montana and 15% in New Mexico; In South Dakota, Noem regime calls Trump unopposed, cancels voting and counting; New Jersey voters reject Trumps hand-picked senate hopeful;
Bannon due at federal penitentiary by July 1 for four-month term, taking him out of fall campaign unless he is rescued by Supremes; Navarro stays in hoosegow; Prosecutions of 52 fake elector conspirators ongoing in Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada; Giuliani disbarment recommended in DC;
But Georgia MAGA diehards temporarily block Fani Willis prosecution for most, but not all, of defendants; More contortions from Judge Cannon to slow classified documents case; Opinion on Trump's absurd immunity claim expected from Supremes later this month: brace yourself, for they are capable of any lawlessness;
Hunter Biden's Wilmington gun case a classic frameup by DoJ's Get Biden task force through Trump appointees Judge Noreika and prosecutor Weiss, whose choreography aims at mortifying president's entire family; Frameup depends on application filled out in several colors of ink with jury not allowed to see original, only copies; Weiss has no witnesses who saw Hunter using crack during time frame in question; No chain of custody for evidence means
FBI cannot guarantee that New York Post's infamous laptop was not tampered with when possessed by defendant Giuliani; Looks like 51 US intelligence chiefs were right after all in labeling this op as Russian disinformation; Hope resides in jury as reasonable doubt abounds; After covering Trump trial, bothsides media embrace railroading of Hunter;
Social science is aware of tendency of liberal democratic governments opposing fascist movements to ostentatiously fetishize hypertechnical formalisms of legal positivism; This dangerous tendency must be judiciously limited; Judge Merchan should imprison Trump now to show middle class that US constitutional government is far stronger than MAGA thuggery; Survival of the republic is the supreme law;
J.D. Vance calls Democrats fascists; this is warning that if Biden forces fail to apply this term scientifically to MAGA hooligans, Trump gang will abuse it for their demagogy;
There are no conservatives on US Supreme Court; Six are reactionaries who are literally turning the clock back to abolish long-held rights; Militant reactionaries who:
1. trample the Constitution and
2. perpetrate or support violence and political terrorism are not conservatives but FASCISTS;
Sotomayor weeps, but her tears do nothing for the victims of MAGA tyranny; Country needs justices fighting politically against the pro-Trump clique that is making the court a force for dictatorship; Justices must speak out clearly in public opposition against the reactionary majority
, with no more OMERTA' or etiquette of pseudo-collegiality, but rather open polemics; Liberal faction should have a weekly press conference like Congressional leaders of both parties; Supreme corruption thrives in silence;
Biden presses two-faced Netanyahu to implement peace plan his own War Cabinet endorsed; US dock-pier-causeway back in service, much to chagrin of Hamas, Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and western nihilists; Jayapal & Co. dodge responsibilities of governing, snipe at Biden's unavoidable border measures; Bowman in trouble for June 25 NY primary; RFK's support dwindles as his moneybags Shanahan proclaims identity of views with Tucker Carlson;
British invasion of US corporate media: Sir Mark (CNN) and Sir William (Washington Post) et al. control commanding heights of US media, along with Dame Anna, WSJ's Tucker, and Wapo's Winnett; Influx of cynics from Fleet Street, where methods of arch-reactionary Rupert Murdoch have dominated for decades; Qualifications include covering up pedophile TV star Jimmy Saville scandal at BBC and phone hacking scandal
that sank News of the World, great preparation for minimizing threat of MAGA; US media owners are buying propaganda support for oligarchical rule, appeasement, Malthusianism, anti-science, anti-Europe, hierarchical/stratified society with little or no upward mobility, and contempt for fate of US democracy;
Winnie didn't want it: Absurd D-Day commentary praising UK PM Sir Winston Churchill ignores his bitter opposition to cross-Channel second front in France in 1942 and 1943, with insistence on attacking mythical "soft underbelly" of Hitler's Festung Europa in Balkans; Soviets responded with secret June 1943 Molotov-Ribbentrop summit
(revealed by Liddel-Hart in 1971) to discuss separate peace; FDR's unconditional surrender statement at Casablanca was US bid to preserve Big Three unity; Families still mourn loved ones lost through Churchill's bungling of 1915 Gallipoli landings.
Authoritarian Modi in India and kleptocrats of ANC in South Africa suffer reverses; In UK, plutocratic austerity ghoul Sunac heads for defeat, but is Labour ready to govern?; In European Parliament vote this weekend, neo-fascist Identity bloc is split as leading AFD candidate's defense of Nazi SS freaks out Le Pen and Salvini; Plurality for von der Leyen's EPP centrists looks stable, but beware results for demagogues Wilders in Netherlands, LePen in France, Orban in Hungary, and AFD in Germany.
Flag Day is June 14: Fly Old Glory right side up as gesture of contempt for MAGA fascists on both sides of Capitol Hill! And remember:
Reactionary + Anti-Constitution + Violence = Fascism
@MichaelTalon That's a salute.
Garland postures but leaves top ten Congressional January 6 suspects at large while incorrigible
MAGA Mike names subversive security risks Perry and Jackson to House Intelligence Committee; Democrats must oust Speaker now to preserve alliances and national security;