How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are The Same

Both are aggressive bullies who fly into rages when challenged on sensitive subjects. In the case of Trump, the documentation could fill several tomes. With Biden we've seen it whenever a journalist has dared raise the subject of his son Hunter Biden's incredible deal with Ukrainian gas company Burisma, obtained while Biden was vice president of the U.S. and the Obama regime's point man on Ukraine. Hunter was appointed to the corporate board with "compensation" of $50,000 a month, "earning" a total of $3 MILLION over his five year term. The only reason Hunter left the board, by his own admission in a television interview, was because of the harmful appearance it created as his Dad ran for president. Father Joe bullies reporters by shouting them down until they drop it. We also have videos of BIden's reaction to citizens who raise the issue politely. He lashed into one such unfortunate gentleman by calling him a "liar" and "fat" and challenging him to a push-up contest. On another occasion a Democrat tried to broach the issue of climate change and Biden testily told him to vote for somebody else. This was a man who said he'd vote for Biden!

Both are chronic liars. Trump lies more frequently, and more obivously. But many of Biden's lies are also quite obvious.

Both lie consciously. Biden's staff has on several occasions that have been reported in power establishment media, privately told him things he was saying publicly were not true, and he just kept saying them anyway- proving he's a conscious liar. Here's one example:

 

And this from a guy who opposed school integration and whose best buddies in the Senate were the worst arch-segregationists of the Deep Southf! Most galling.

Biden has variously claimed to have been in Afghanistan and Iraq "28 times," "29 times," and "over 30 times." His staff, and thus definitely Biden himself, know those are fibs:

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., is a Great Storyteller in the mold of Ronald Wilson Reagan. That is to say, he shamelessly fabricates emotionally manipulative tales. Like Reader's Digest magazine, the stories are crafted to provoke certain feelings in the unsophisticated portions of the populace. Also like the aforementioned rag, and the fascist racist Reagan, there is an underlying reactionary agenda most of the time.

One story Biden has been feeding the credulous crowds of his supporters as he campaigns for president has a tenuous connection to reality. It involves his allegedly pinning a medal on a military member. Only the way he tells it, he either has a terrible memory, or he's a virtually uninhibited liar and bullshit artist. As the version he's been reciting in a heartfelt style has been consistent in each telling, we can exclude memory problems as the explanation.

Here the Washington Post gives priority to the fact that the tale Biden tells as he tries to manipulate people into making him president is "moving," but false. So they genuflect to the military, and give Biden props for telling a "moving" story. In other words, they praise the con. Because if someone is moving you with falsehoods, that's a con job. It's a cynical emotional ripoff, at the very least, and if he takes your money or your vote, he's adding iinjury to insult.

And the Man Who Would Be President is lying to get his hands on the levers of power. What might such an unethical and ruthless person do with the power? Clearly he cannot be trusted.

Except the power establishment WANTS Biden to win. He's "moderate," unlike the extremists Sanders and Warren.

In his self-aggrandizing War Story, Biden didn't just get one or two facts wrong, or some minor ancillary details. Every important fact was flatly false. 

NBC "News" is even worse in soft-pedaling Biden's chronic mendacity. They deem his cynical story "inaccurate," when the correct description is "pack of lies." Here, I'll show you:

"Appears to be incorrect." That's from the Post story. At least the headline wasn't so mealy-mouthed, and correctly called it "false." But it wasn't because Biden was honestly mistaken. You don't get EVERYTHING wrong by ACCIDENT unless you are in advanced senility. Here's some of what NBC and the Post deem to be "inaccurate" and (apparently) "incorrect":

[Washington Post, August 29, 2919.]

They put the most self-serving of Biden's lies last, "his own role in the ceremony." That's the most important part of the story Biden is flogging, in terms of Biden impressing those he's duping with his lies.

But with Trump, the Washington Post and various broadcast media (especially NBC's MSNBC) are willing to call a spade a spade and call many of Trump's lies "a lie." The Post even keeps a running tally of what it deems Trump's "lies." Although that list of putative falsehoods probably includes things Trump actually believes, which means they aren't lies, but are false.

Both men are egomaniacs. In Trump's case, there are also obvious narcissistic personality traits.

Both treat other people as inferiors whom they can abuse to indulge their own impulses. 

Trump has a record as a sexual predator, something he has even boasted about. Biden has a thoroughly documented history of molesting women by inappropriate touching, stroking, grabbing, and sniffing. He also does this to children of both genders.   [1]

Politically, both are reactionaries who completely support U.S. corporate oligarchy, bourgeois class dictatorship, U.S. imperialism, and a grotesquely swollen military industrial complex that enforces all of the preceding.

This is the choice of candidates for president in 2020 that the Democratic Party poohbahs and the corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") want to force on the American voting public.

Unfortunately most people are sheep. Being ovine, they won't even vote for the alternatives on the ballot, such as the progressive Green Party or the Libertarian Party, the party of laissez-faire capitalism. Until that changes, there is no hope for improvement in the structure of U.S. society.

Meanwhile, the people in the rest of the world will have to establishment governments in their own nations committed to opposing U.S. global domination. Of course, where that has happened, the U.S. has made sure to overthrow such governments, as it has done in Bolivia and Ecuador most recently, and has it has been trying to do in Venezuela under the current president and his two predecessors. (Trump, Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, and George W. "The 9/11 Mass Murderer" Bush.) Too bad Europeans are too feckless to make the necessary changes in their own countries.

1] To watch video of just some of the many times Biden has used other people as objects for his own gratification, see Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses.

For more on Biden, see Latest Whopping Trump-Level Lie by Joe Biden (this one is truly unbelievable);"No One Is Above The Law," Except Untouchable Joe Biden; and Joseph Biden Is ACTUALLY Guilty Of What Adam "Shifty" Schiff Accuses Trump Of. For Biden's segregationist history, type the word "Biden" in the search box on my blog webpage.
 

 

2020 Presidential Election Now Guaranteed To Prevent Any Change In The U.S. System

Well, the dominant bourgeois elites have gotten their way once again, as they always do in all their elections.

There will be no chance of systemic change resulting from whoever wins in November.

The conservative [1] Joseph R. Biden, Jr., a man with a pro-school segregation past, a man who ranted at his staff that he wanted to have a reputation as "tough on crime" (code for tough on blacks) and lived up to it by playing key roles in passing draconian laws through Congress, a man who added to the power of banks and credit card companies at the expense of the people of the U.S., who protected Clarence Thomas on his way to Supreme Court confirmation, a man who whipped Democratic Senators into line on Bush's invasion of Iraq- has now been anointed the winner of the Democratic Party presidential nomination with less than half the needed 1991 delegates.

Anointed by the corporate media and the Democratic Party establishment.

This is who the Democratic Party poohbahs covertly designated as the nominee months ago, just as they covertly designated Hillary Clinton in 2016. And how his nomination seems assured.iIth his victories in yesterday's primaries, Biden is on a glide path to victory over Senator Bernard "Bernie" Sanders. With the media ballyhooing his lead and his "momentum," many voters in the remaining primaries, sheeplike, will fall into line behind Biden, much like iron filings pulled by a magnet.

The establishment has all but declared Biden the nominee.



On the radio network owned by Michael Bloomberg Billionaire, the announcers claimed Biden has "an all but insurmountable lead" over the hated Sanders. (Biden has about 800 delegates now, Sanders 666 or so. 1991 are needed to win the nomination. Most of the almost 800 "superdelegates," party insiders and venal lobbyists chosen by the party, will also be for Biden. Every Democratic member of Congress and member of the Democratic National Committee are superdelegates.)

The notorious Jame Carville, who makes a living helping reactionaries in other countries "win" elections, called for cancelling the remainder of the primaries, declaring "This thing is over, it's time to shut this thing down!" Congressman James Clyburn, who herded the black primary voters of South Carolina into Biden's corral, called for no more Democratic debates.

After the previous round of primaries, Peter Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and even "Beto" O'Rourke, who had dropped out of the race long ago, almost simultaneously endorsed Biden, smacking of a conspiracy. Michael Bloomberg Billionaire did likewise, A few days ago, erstwhile candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker declared for Biden. The corporate propaganda system made sure to repeatedly broadcast their words.

Sanders only ever offered the illusion of the possibility of fundamental change. Seeking change via Sanders was like chasing the rainbow. It looks beautiful off in the distance, but you cannot ever grasp it. Sanders was always a political lone ranger, rejecting Ralph Nader's urging to form a caucus with other "progressive" Senators. [2]

Sanders has a comfortable relationship with the Democratic Party, which he is always at pains not to jeopardize. This is his fatal compromise with power. Thus in both his campaigns for president, he has treated his Democratic Party opponents for the nomination with kid gloves, and loyally thrown his full-throated support to the winners; Clinton in 2016, and this time it will be Biden.

The problem of how to change America is devilishly tricky, and worthy of a separate essay. The obstacles are enormous. To even seriously attempt it is actually a life-threatening endeavor, thanks to the murderous nature of this system.


The irony of Biden's apparent victory is that Biden has a lot in common with Trump- both are bullies, egotists, liars, and racists. Both men get violently angry when confronted with challenging questions or situations. We've seen this numerous times during the current Biden campaign. For more details, see "How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are The Same."

                               Pick which corporate-protecting imperialist you want, this is a democracy!

1]  I call Biden a conservative because he is a man dedicated to preserving the status quo. That is what conservatism actually means. I do not use the gaslighting propaganda political terminology of U.S. elites and their foreign lackeys. They use "conservative" as a euphemism for reactionary, to make noxious rightwing ideology and politics respectable and honorable, when it is antithetical to human values. And "ultraconservative" is their code word for fascist.

A bourgeois politician who is pragmatic and rational is labeled "liberal." Thus Senator Elizabeth Warren's sensible desire to regulate big financial institutions in ways that prevent them from being a threat to the stability of the capitalist system is deemed "liberal" or worse.

Neoliberal corporatist imperialists are called "moderate" or "centrist," meaningless terms in themselves.

2]  See "Bernie Sanders snubs Ralph Nader 15 years. 'Progressive' Senators refuse to unite."

Trump Is Right- Biden Is Stupid. (And Racist. Read On.)

Biden doesn't even have enough brains to hide his segregationist history. A few days ago he fondly reminisced about his loving friendships with the worst Southern racists in the U.S. Senate. He was free-associating to a crowd of rich swells in a swanky Manhattan hotel, hitting them up for bucks for his presidential campaign. We bragged that working with the likes of Senators James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, "We got things done!" (Awful things, of course.)

Other contenders for the Democratic Party's nomination for president jumped on the news, including Kamala Harris, Bill de Blasio, and Cory Booker, calling it unacceptable. Booker demanded an apology, which made Biden wax indignant:

"Cory should apologize. He knows better. There’s not a racist bone in my body. I’ve been involved in civil rights my whole career, period, period, period.”

If by "involved in civil rights," you mean opposing them, then sure!

Biden has a long history as a segregationist and as one of the worst enemies of African-Americans in the U.S. 

Biden has been a staunch opponent of what he calls "busing." Of course he doesn't mean that no school child should have to take a bus to school. No, the "busing" he has always opposed is busing to racially integrate schools. He even recently reaffirmed this position.

Biden adamantly opposed affirmative action, doing ANYTHING to try and undo the results of centuries of extreme oppression and economic exploitation, and racist discrimination right into modern times:

Notice how "hold the white man back" is in perfect sync with the notoriously racist reelection ad run by Jesse Helms showing a white hand crumpling up a slip of paper while a voice-over says "You needed that job, and you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority, because of a racial quota.  Is that really fair?" Not racist, Joe?

 So what IS the difference between "desegregate" and "integrate"? Not clear from this. What IS clear is that he opposes Affirmative Action. "Quotas" is the slur used by racist opponents of attempts to bring more African-Americans into places long closed to them, namely universities and white collar jobs. As far as "ensuring mediocrity," since only a select few blacks will be chosen, the best and most qualified ones will be picked. So that sentence ONLY makes sense if you believe all blacks are innately inferior to all whites!

Ohh, INTEGRATION is the "most racist" concept, NOT, say, Jim Crow laws,or lynching, or redlining, or government rules barring blacks from government benefit programs like subsidized mortgages and the G.I. Bill,  or "theories" of innate black "inferiority," integration is the most racist thing!

This one has to go down in the Annals of Disingenuousness. The point of school integration wasn't that some darkie had to "rub shoulders with my white child" (notice how he personalizes it about his child!) in order to learn, but that segregated schools for the descendants of slaves were deliberately made grossly inferior to those for the "white" population, starved of funds and resources. The 1954 Brown v. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education decision finally dropped the myth of "separate but equal" schools, a "legal doctrine" used to justify segregation, because reality overwhelmed it. An avalanche of facts, and the social pressure of the civil rights movement, forced the change in legal "reasoning."

Note: The Supreme Court, which was extremely tardy in recognizing and doing a thing to redress the gross repression and persecution of blacks in America, came out with the Brown decision in 1954. Here's Biden in 1975, twenty-one years later, resisting it and hewing to the segregationist line.

But guess what? You can always hire some amoral liar to lie for you:

Talk about turning reality upside down! Other than adamantly opposing school integration, and Affirmative Action, spearheading "crime" bills that increased the repression of black communities, and forming close alliances with the worst arch-segregationists in the Senate (the closest relationships with any of his Senate colleagues, the ones he rhapsodizes about to this day), what exactly has Biden done FOR civil rights? Huh Bill?

Biden did play a major role in imprisoning millions of blacks over the years by taking the lead in pushing extremely repressive "crime" bills through Congress. He even instructed his staff that he wanted to be known for this. (These days, he's presenting himself as a criminal "justice" "reformer." 

He was a key figure in the draconian punishments for possessing minuscule amounts of crack cocaine.

Stoking racial panics in the name of "fighting crime" has been a hallmark of Biden's Senate career.

Yet Joe Biden insists he doesn't have "a racist bone" in his body. But his ligaments, tendons, arteries, and veins sure seem racist.

Joe Biden may really believe he isn't a racist. He's the type of racist whose racism is so ingrained and unconscious that he isn't even aware how racist he is. But then, this is a man who never imagined that pawing, sniffing, hugging, and kissing strange women, children, boys, wouldn't be considered perfectly natural. After all, everyone ELSE does it, right? (Wrong.) How clueless IS Joseph Biden?

Pretty clueless. [1]

Lucky Boy! The Vice President of the United States wants to give you a kiss on the lips!

Biden is a throwback in time. Electing him president would be revanchist. And in policy terms, he would be no better than Trump (like Trump, he's for a reactionary Supreme Court, being the man who is more responsible than anyone for putting arch-reactionary Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.

Biden and Trump are much alike. Both are devoted first and foremost to promoting the interests of the richest people. Biden publicly defends billionaires- as if billionaires don't have enough protection. Both Biden and Trump are U.S. imperialists, of course. (They wouldn't have establishment support if they weren't.) Both are compulsive liars. And both are racists.

THAT is the choice the power structure wishes to offer the citizens of America in 2020. An unchanging and seemingly unchangeable status quo of imperialism, corporate oligarchy, bourgeois class dictatorship.

Unfortunately the flock of sheep that is the bulk of the American electorate refuse to even vote for the available alternatives that have managed through great effort to claw their way onto most state ballots (the Green and Libertarian Parties) that would at least try to change the system of power. So ultimately some responsibility for this anti-human system must be placed on them.

One more thing Biden and Trump have in common: Grossly inappropriate behavior. Trump on television expressed a desire to date (read: sleep with) his daughter Ivanka, just for starters. And of course grabbing women's vaginas through their clothes, forcibly kissing them, walking in on naked "beauty pageant" contestants- all things he's publicly boasted about doing or was captured on video boasting about. (His numerous affairs and payoffs to silence women he's used for sex he's not so eager to brag about.)

The bourgeois blatherariat insist Biden is the best Democratic candidate, a man hardly preferable to Trump. American Democracy, an Inspiration to the World!

"What, ME RACIST? Ya gotta be kiddin' me!"

 [1]  See "Joe Biden In Pictures: The Race for 2020!"

Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses- BANNED BY YOUTUBE

[This is a two-part essay. First I describe youtube's banning of it. Next is the original description that I wrote for it on my youtube channel.

THIS VIDEO CENSORED BY YOUTUBE (GOOGLE-ALPHABET CORP.), WHICH FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMED IT "VIOLATES YOUTUBE POLICY ON SPAM,  DECEPTIVE PRACTICES AND SCAMS." YOUTUBE CLAIMS THESE ARE "COMMUNITY GUIDELINES," AS IF YOUTUBE USERS THEMSELVES SET THE "STANDARDS" AND DO THE CENSORING. THAT'S DECEPTIVE. IT IS A CORPORATE DICTATORIAL IMPOSITION, BY YOUTUBE.

THE VIDEO HAD BEEN UP FOR OVER A YEAR AND HAD OVER 94,000 VIEWS BEFORE YOUTUBE KILLED IT. IT HAD BY FAR THE MOST VIEWS OF ANY VIDEO ON MY CHANNEL. MANY SIMILAR VIDEOS OF BIDEN PHYSICALLY VIOLATING ADULTS AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ON YOUTUBE. IN FACT, THE VIDEO THIS CAME FROM IS STILL UP ON YOUTUBE [SEE FOOTNOTE #1].

AS THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN DOWN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AFTER BIDEN WON THE NOVEMBER 3, 2020 ELECTION, IT WAS OBVIOUSLY DONE EITHER AT THE BEHEST OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY APPARATCHIKS OR TO PREEMPTIVELY APPEASE AND CURRY FAVOR WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BIDEN REGIME. (I AM NOT A TRUMPITE, I VOTE GREEN PARTY.)

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME YOUTUBE POLITICALLY CENSORED ONE OF MY VIDEOS. PRIOR TO THIS, THEY TOOK DOWN A VIDEO ABOUT ISRAELI GAS ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS. I APPEALED THAT, AND THEY ADMITTED IT DOES NOT VIOLATE THEIR SO-CALLED "STANDARDS," BUT THEY WERE AGE-RESTRICTING IT- EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT AT ALL GORY OR VISUALLY HORRIFIC. 

THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN TWO ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT CLAIMS AGAINST MY VIDEOS, IN ONE CASE IGNORING FAIR USE (YOUTUBE LETS OTHER CORPORATIONS DO THE CENSORING IN COPYRIGHT CLAIM CASES, AND JUDGE THE "APPEALS"!)- YOUTUBE'S POLICY IS TO PRETEND FAIR USE DOES NOT EXIST IN U.S. LAW! IN THE OTHER CASE SOME MUSIC INDUSTRY JACKASSES CLAIMED TO OWN THE COPYRIGHT ON DWIGHT EISENHOWER'S MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SPEECH! (I PREVAILED IN THAT RIDICULOUS CASE OF PURE HARASSMENT.)

YOUTUBE IS A REALLY FUCKED UP PLATFORM AND I WOULD GLADLY MOVE TO A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE, WHICH DOES NOT EXIST. YOUTUBE IS FUNCTIONALLY A MONOPOLY, AS IS FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. SIMILAR SERVICES HAVE TOO SMALL USER BASES TO BE GOOD FOR MUCH.

BIDEN'S PEDOPHILIAC IMPULSES.

Hard to see what other interpretation to put on his constant pawing, stroking, and outright flirting with girls from ages 6 to 13, and older. In one public incident captured on video, he repeatedly kisses a very young girl and whispers "Don't tell anyone." He is constantly stroking the faces and hair of other people's young children whom he has no relationship with. If he's not a pedophile, he's doing a great imitation of one! His behavior looks like classic "grooming" that pedophiles use to lure children into sexual relations.

All the incidents shown in this video occurred in official ceremonies being recorded on camera. One wonders what he has done in PRIVATE!

This is a segment of a video compiled by someone else on youtube. I consider it a public service, regardless of what the political motivation might have been for creating it. (He mentions in passing Trump's infatuation with daughter Ivanka, but not his boasting about grabbing women's vagina, his forcibly kissing them, etc.) Facts are facts, and this is video evidence. [1]

We don't know if Biden has ever in his life crossed the line into outright illegality with a child. Is touching a child's chest where there nipple is, for example, a sex crime?

Here's how I think his molesting of children can cause lasting damage. These girls are being conditioned to submit to and passively accept sexual molestation. In many of these scenes, the victims are the children of adult male politicians who are standing right there smiling broadly and not intervening in any way. One of these creeps is Senator Christopher Coons, who insists it wasn't "creepy" that Biden molested his daughter. What "message" does that send the girl? That she should consider being pawed by men as normal and acceptable. And if one day her passivity in the face of male aggression provides the opportunity for a rapist to lead her into a "compromising" situation, she will feel shame and guilt and blame herself, even though she'd been conditioned to passively submit and not resist male sexual aggression. (Coons is the junior Senator from Delaware, Biden's state. Biden was one of Delaware's two Senators before Obama gifted him to us as vice president for 8 years.)

What is also disgusting is the moral abdication of all the adults standing around with their biggest fake smiles plastered on their faces, willingly subservient to power in the person of Biden. They all pretend Biden is "just being friendly." Denial is one of the hallmarks of a morally corrupt and existentially decayed and decadent society.

In their "compromise" (sellout) to power, these people become accomplices to the crimes of those in power. (A microcosm of the relationship of millions of people to corporate tyranny and U.S. imperialism.)

Biden may prefer underage females, but he doesn't discriminate against adult women, who he also molests. The video references an article about the time Biden cupped the breast of a Secret Service man's adult girlfriend in 2009. The agent is described as shoving Biden and "almost hit" him, and being suspended for a week as a result. [2]

1] The video, "CREEPY UNCLE JOE,"  posted on youtube November 22, 2017, borrowed its title from a Washington Post story, "What are we going to do about Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?,"  2/18/2015. The Washington Post article has a video showing Biden molesting the wife of Ashton Carter DURING A PUBLIC SWEARING-IN CEREMONY!

2] "Ex-Secret Service Agent Claims Biden Engaged In 'Weinstein-Level' Groping," from infowars, admittedly not the most reliable source. But they have reported true information, so maybe...

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Racial Segregationist Joe Biden's Dishonesty on Full Display In Democratic Party "Debate"

In the second round of the Democratic Party's candidate "debates" (more like quasi-free-for-alls) on June 27,  Senator Kamala Harris of California challenged Joseph Biden Jr. on his anti-"busing" record, meaning in effect  his opposition to school integration. (The millions of kids who are bussed to school daily NOT for integration purposes doesn't bother the opponents of "busing.")

In his response, he continued his practice of blatant lying, which he's been doing starting just before he officially announced his run for the presidency:

"I do not praise racists, that is not true," Biden emphatically insisted. This is lying on a Trumpian level. Blatant, outrageous, in your face absolute inversion of reality. He has repeatedly praised the worst racists in the U.S. Senate. Either he's denying his own words, including of just a few days ago, when he lauded two of the worst Southern crackers to an audience of rich swells in the Carlyle Hotel in New York City whose money he wants for his campaign for president, or he's denying that the likes of James Eastland, Herman Talmadge, John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, were racists. Either assertion is absurd.

"I ran because of civil rights..." WHAT! There he goes again. Presumably he means ran for U.S. Senate, or maybe vice president with Obama. He also ran twice before for president, in 1988 and 2008.

Or maybe by "because of" he meant "in order to oppose civil rights." But I assume he runs for office because he's driven by personal ambition and a lust for power, and for Senator to defend and advance the interests of big banks and credit card companies, which are the main powers in his state, Delaware. This is the guy who got a law on the books forbidding the discharge of student loan debt by bankruptcy, among other awful acts.

Harris launched her challenge by relating her personal experience as a child, how "busing" was critical to her education and subsequent success. Biden replied that there was no problem because her locality was okay with busing. Telling Harris things worked out fine because her local government bowed to Constitutional law as set down in 1954 ignores the fact that the vast majority of U.S. localities ONLY integrated grudgingly, if at all, and only under pressure. And massive resistance continues to this day in many places, especially the South, where private all-white "academies" were created to ensure that pure "white" youth would not mingle with and be contaminated by "black" ones.

Biden disingenuously bellowed at Harris that he wasn't against "busing," he was merely against the Federal government mandating it. HE wanted to leave enforcement of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision to local city councils. But it is precisely BECAUSE such local "authorities" (and states too) adamantly REFUSED for DECADES after the Brown decision to integrate their schools, and continued to consign "black" children to grossly inferior ones, that the Federal government was finally forced to do SOMETHING. Biden denounced the 1954 Supreme Court decision, and opposed racial integration of schools for decades, indeed apparently until a month or so ago, when under pressure he suddenly belched out some mendacious, mealy-mouthed, revisionist rhetoric.

EVEN IF his abrupt change under political pressure were genuine (which there is no reason to believe is the case), his entire political history would have to weigh a hundred times greater in considering the man for the presidency.

In fact, in the debate of June 27, Biden took the segregationist position that it should be up to local government to integrate, NOT the Federal government. That is precisely the "states" rights" argument of Southern racists. However, this went unnoticed in the bourgeois blatherariat that is corporate media "commentary."

And the fact that, of all the Democratic Party hacks he could have chosen to be his vice president, Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama chose a segregationist, speaks volumes about the cynical, completely amoral character of Obama. And how thoroughly duped black Americans were and are about Obama. Not to mention his other supporters.

Biden insists he's not a racist ("I don't have a racist bone in my body") and his rival Democrats have carefully avoided saying he is. But what is a person who supports segregation? That is objectively racist. So whatever Biden's subjective consciousness is, however he "feels" about "black" people, he is objectively racist by his actions over decades of time.

And of all the U.S. Senators that he's known over a long career, the ones he chooses to fondly reminisce about are the very worst racists!

Some propagandists thought Harris crossed some invisible line of political propriety. Rachel Martin, a co-host of the "news" program "Morning Edition" on the U.S. government radio propaganda network NPR, said of Harris in a scandalized tone of voice that "she's making it personal" and "she's attacking his record on civil rights." Actually Harris was accurately describing his record of opposition to civil rights, and calling him to account for it. If you aren't supposed to talk about politicians' actual records of what they did and said, what CAN you discuss, Rachel? (NPR, "Morning Edition," npr.org, June 28, 2019.) Harris did preface her anecdote about her own childhood schooling by saying the issue was "personal" for her. It was NOT a "personal attack" on Biden, unless critiquing someone's political record is too "personal" to do!

Here's an extended quote of Biden from the debate, responding to Harris:


"It’s a mischaracterization of my position across the board. I did not praise racists. That is not true, number one. Number two, if we want to have this campaign litigated on who supports civil rights and whether I did or not, I’m happy to do that. I was a public defender; I didn’t become a prosecutor. I came out, and I left a good law firm to become a public defender. …" [That was a dig at Harris, who was a prosecutor and indeed later California state Attorney General, before snagging a Senate seat. She actually compiled a terrible record of repression, protection of police criminality, and imprisoning innocent defendants as state AG. But on the other hand, she did cut at least one criminal a break: Stephen Mnuchin, Trump's U.S. Treasury Secretary. Mnuchin controlled a bank in California, OneWest, of which he was CEO, which Harris' staff found committed 1,000 cases of mortgage foreclosure fraud, and estimated they could find another 1,000 if they kept looking. Harris killed the investigation into this racketeering bank. Mnuchin showed his gratitude with a $2,500 campaign donation to her. That makes Harris not just a political prostitute, but a very cheap streetwalker of a political prostitute.]

Biden again: "In terms of busing, the busing—I never—you would have been able to go to school the same exact way, because it was a local decision made by your city council. That’s fine. That’s one of the things I argued for, that we should not be—we should be breaking down these lines. But so, the bottom line here is, look, everything I’ve done in my career—I ran because of civil rights. I continue to think we have to make fundamental changes in civil rights. And those civil rights, by the way, include not just only African Americans, but the LGBT community." 

Oh shut up, man. You're no progressive. That's the segregationist line. Let the white racists choose whether or not to integrate.

"I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed. I did not oppose—" and then he stopped. 

Of course this is totally disingenuous, as I explained already.

Biden collaborated with the Southern racists in the Senate to pass his own anti-busing bills. That is what he's referring to when he says they "worked together to pass legislation." Biden even wanted to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban the use of busing for school integration. That is pretty extreme. 

Biden is a typical reactionary Democrat of the "old" school. He is the most rightwing of all the politicians vying for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. And THAT is why much of the "elite" establishment media keeps promoting him as the "front runner" with the "best chance of beating Trump." (Coincidentally, the line that he has the best chance of beating Trump is Biden's line too. Fancy that.)

The propaganda system always promotes the most rightwing politicians they think they can put over on the populace. 

Guess it's only "asinine" if it's to integrate schools. 

Kamala Harris Confronts Joseph Biden, Jr., on his opposition to "busing."

For more on this horrible segregationist's history of hostility to black advancement, see for example "When Joe Biden Collaborated With Segregationists," The Nation, June 6, 2019; 

"Jonathan Kozol on 'When Joe Biden Collaborated with Segregationists,'” DemocracyNow!, June 26, 2019; 

"Jonathan Kozol: Joe Biden Didn’t Just Praise Segregationists. He Also Spent Years Fighting Busing," DemocracyNow!, June 25, 2019; and 

"How Joe Biden worked with and praised a longtime opponent of civil rights," CNNPolitics, May 28, 2019.

Trump Forces Biden To Show Up At Autoworkers' Picket Line

Donald J. "Jackass" Trump operates on instinct. Thus much of what he does is impulsive. The vast majority of what he says are for an immediate advantage and represent no actual commitment. The amazing thing is that so many people fall for his obvious emotional manipulations year after year. They never learn from experience, or from facts. 

The UAW (United Auto Workers Union) is currently conducting a series of rolling strikes against the facilities of 3 car companies: General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). Trump did what he so often does, opportunistically and completely insincerely pretending to side with the workers. (All his policies, his actual actions, while president, were pro-capital and anti-worker, just as his entire business career has been anti-worker, including wage theft and racial discrimination.) He has repeatedly manipulated various groups of workers this way. (Remember his loudly braying bullshit promises to coal miners?)
 

 

But merely spouting off and once again pretending to be a defender of the working class was enough to force president Joe Biden to schedule a trip to have his picture taken at a UAW picket line. (Previously the White House maintained a determined silence on the question of whether Biden would show up at a picket line in a display of solidarity.)

Biden has rebranded himself as "the most pro-union president in modern history." (Notice that qualifier, "modern history.") Given that U.S. presidents almost all represented capital, not labor, such a boast isn't saying much. In fact, just saying it makes him one of the most "pro-union" presidents in history. The only labor-management dispute he actually took action in, as opposed to just making pronouncements, was the railroads, in which he used Federal power to force the workers to swallow a crappy deal that still leaves them very overworked and with no right to sick days.

The current UAW head, Shawn Fain, is a genuine labor leader, not a self-serving, corrupt betrayer as so many union heads in the U.S. have been. He has no use for Trump, and Trump as usual with people who resist being his sycophants, verbally abuses Fain. Trump is supposed to go to Detroit (but not necessarily to a UAW picket line, where he won't have a controlled crowd who he can rely on to cheer him) on September 27. BIden is scheduled to beat him to the punch and join a UAW picket line for the media to document on September 26, to publicize his claim to being The Most Pro-Union President. (TM).

Another one of Biden's reelection shticks is "Bidenomics," whatever that is. Unfortunately for Biden and the Democrats, that buzzword isn't having the desired effect. Democratic politicians and Biden cabinet members publicly boast of Biden's legislative results and cite economic statistics constantly. So far it seems the public doesn't hear them. The latest poll has 30% of respondents approving of Biden's handling of the economy, 64% disapproving. [1] Which is unfair, since the president of the U.S. doesn't control the economy- the Federal Reserve, which sets interest rates, and Congress have far more effect on the economy.

Biden spent decades in the Senate spearheaiding legislation that harmed average Americans, especially the working class, to give more power and wealth to the finance industry- banks and credit card companies. He saw to it that by law, student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. It can follow a person to the grave. 

He took the lead in pushing through draconian "anti-crime" laws that targeted the lower classes, especially African Americans, who he accused, in what should be an infamous speech on the Senate floor, of potentially hitting his mother in the head with a lead pipe. [2] He was a staunch opponent of so-called "forced busing," meaning school integration. His closest allies and avowed best friends in the Senate were the worst Southern segregationists.

And while mentioning The Crimes of Biden, we can't omit one of the worst things he did that has caused and is still causing lasting damage: the elevation to the Supreme Court of the mediocre, corrupt, bitter, extreme reactionary Clarence Thomas. As the Senator who chaired the Judiciary Committee for Thomas' confirmation hearings, Biden blocked corroborating witnesses for Anita Hill from testifying, and privately advised Democratic Senators not to believe Hill. This enabled Thomas to be narrowly confirmed by the Senate. [3] 

Regarding Thomas' corruption: he has received millions of dollars worth of favors and gifts from billionaires while a high court "Justice," which he kept secret. Thomas lives the life of a multimillionaire for free, courtesy of his billionaire patrons, whose economic interests he protects at the court.

 Invariably, I have noticed, extreme reactionaries and fascists are personally corrupt. Since they completely lack normal moral values and are unrestrained in their behavior, this seems  inevitable. Samuel Alito, the other most extreme reactionary on the tyrannical high court, has also been exposed as corrupt. We owe gratitude to ProPublica for exposing the venality of these two evil people.

But reactionary Democrats doing a political burlesque pretending to be progressives is typical of them. They are absolutely shameless about it. When he was Governor of New York state, the rightwing bully and sexual miscreant Andrew Cuomo once asserted that HE was the MOST progressive politician in the state!

In my experience, 99 times out of 100, when you scratch a liberal, you find a reactionary right under the surface.

1] ABC News/Washington Post poll just announced as of this writing.

2] See the video, "Biden's Racist Rant Promoting One of His Numerous Crime Bills," In the video, Biden refers to blacks as "they" and "them." I don't think he meant Albanians or Martians. To broaden and deepen your political and historical understanding, you need to view more videos at the Jason Zenith channel.

3] Biden's despicable role in Thomas' elevation to the dictatorial high court was documented years ago in the book "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas," by Jane Mayer and  Jill Abramson. Both were reporters at The Wall Street Journal at the time.

Mayer went on to become a staff reporter at The New Yorker uber bourgeois magazine, and  Jill Abramson became the first female top editor at The New York Times, the self-styled power establishment "newspaper of record." So these two cannot be dismissed as leftwing "conspiracy theorists." And yet this information has been completely suppressed by "the" media, by simply never mentioning it. Thus another taboo truth. 

For a series of articles exposing the corruption of Thomas and Alito, go to the ProPublica website.

Joseph Biden, Closet Pedophile

There's a lot that any normal human being would despise about "Joe" Biden. Let's bulletpoint them:

• He's spent his entire political career in the U.S. Senate and as Vice President of the U.S. working to increase repression in America. Examples are numerous. He was behind a number of draconian "crime" bills. He created what became the PATRIOT ACT, the architecture for a more complete police state. He's anything but "nice." The compulsive, giddy smile is a Big Lie in itself, a cynical politician's gimmick to dupe the easily duped.
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• He's a lifelong racist. Two of his closest allies and "friends" in the Senate were the arch-Segregationists and fascists Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, with whom he pushed repressive "bipartisan" legislation. His speeches attacking "busing" for school integration, and demands that "predators" (black muggers) be locked up sounded like George Wallace.
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• Of course he's an imperialist. Imperialism is criminal behavior on a national scale. It is all about subjugating other people and taking their resources and exploiting their labor, by force and violence. "Modern" imperialism, or neo-imperialism, works by the installation of client or puppet regimes that are subcontracted to do the dirty work of repression, their "security services" trained by the CIA and U.S. military and funded and armed by the U.S. (In the case of oil states, the client regimes pay for the U.S. "aid" in subjugating their own populations.)
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• He's an aggressive political agent of the banking and credit card industries. His state, Delaware, is where many of these businesses are based. One of his crimes against the citizens as part of his service to his masters was passage of "bankruptcy reform" that tightened the screws on average people seeking bankruptcy protection, and making it impossible to discharge student loans through bankruptcy, making former students indentured servants. These industries lavishly fund his canpaigns, and if this evil creep ever "retires" from politics, he will be rewards with millions of dollars in corporate board seats, no-show "jobs," and grossly inflated "honoraria" to drone through banal, platitudinous speeches.

But now there's even more. At least, more that I just discovered. Not that it was never reported by "the" media. Just that it has received nowhere near the attention it should have, so it is not common knowledge.

Joseph Biden is apparently a closet pedophile.

Sounds crazy? Of course it does. You've been subjected to years of propaganda promoting "Joe" Biden, Regular Guy, by the corporate oligarchy's media, because Biden is beholden to the corporate oligarchy and loyally serves their interests inside the outside the U.S.

So you need to watch a video compilation of his startling behavior molesting children, in public. Just watch. [1]

"The" media (the propaganda bullhorns of the corporate interests Biden fronts for) has been energetically promoting this tired old warhorse of imperial capitalism for president. They have even pushed the preposterous notion that he is "more popular" among "progressives" than Bernie Sanders! Excuse me: Sanders had and has a huge popular following. He has done extraordinarily well raising funds from average people to run for president in 2016 and now 2020 Biden, on the other hand, ran for that office twice, in 1988 and 2008, and both times his campaigns crashed and burned almost at the beginning of the process. (For instance, he came in fifth in Iowa in 1988 I think it was, and Iowa is the "first hurdle" the bourgeois media erects for candidates. Iowa and New Hampshire, both small, lily white, and very reactionary states, are set as the first bars to overcome to ensure that candidates for president have to be rightwing.)

So this is a fine time to take stock of who this creature really is, behind the affable "regular Joe" mask.

"Joe" Likes 'Em Young!

And it looks like he swings BOTH WAYS!

1] The video is: "Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses."  And read the essay there, which goes into the complicity of the parents of the children and what it says about the moral corruption of the U.S. power system. There are also links to articles on Biden's propensities to molest children, and adults too, including from the Washington Post. The Post article was written as an imaginary intervention called to try to get Biden to stop molesting women. which is "meta" since the article, published in 2015, seemed to have exactly the same purpose as the fantasy intervention- to warn Biden he better stop pawing women and a girls and sniffing their hair and rubbing their faces.

Michael Bloomberg Billionaire's Very Expensive Ego Trip Ends in Humiliation

World's Eight Richest Man spends over half a BILLION dollars ($500,000,000+, five hundred millions) on advertising to try and buy the presidency of the U.S.and only wins the Democratic Primary in American Samoa. And has to share the spoils with Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who gets one delegate from Am. Samoa. Bloomberg promptly drops out of the running. (At the same time "endorsing" Joe Biden, for what that's worth. I'd reckon not much.)

"Hey Mini Mike, you're a Loser!" [The goon with the shaved head on the right is Bernard Kerik, erstwhile henchman to Rudolph Giuliani, convicted felon whose crimes were just wiped off the books by a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.]

In the first and only debate with the other contenders for the Democratic Party nomination for president, Bloomberg showed himself woefully unprepared to mix it up with people who weren't sycophantic towards him. For years, Bloomberg has been surrounded by courtiers, opportunists, fawning "journalists" (propagandists of the capitalist system) and people sucking up to him in hopes of scoring a handout. So when Elizabeth Warren asked him pointed, predictable questions about the awful sexism inside his company, and his personal misogyny, he was flummoxed. Nor has he been successful in whitewashing his blatantly racist police repression of black and Latino males, the massive violation of Constitutional rights by the "stock and frisk" program which saw 5 million illegal street frisks in New York City, which Bloomberg ruled for 12 years as a Republican mayor. (One in a thousand of these degrading, brutalizing attacks on minority males results in finding a weapon. Many more found marijuana, justifying an arrest.) A Federal judge eventually found the practice illegal, as they were not based on a particularized suspicion of those being thrown up against walls and having their pockets gone through. They were targeted by race.

The smarmy chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, did nothing to adjust his candidate debate rules to prevent the elimination of both black candidates (Kamala Harris and Cory Booker), the sole Latino, and the only Asian (Yang), but changed the rules to allow Bloomberg to participate in a debate, by removing the minimum requirement to score a certain percentage in polls, and to have a certain number of donors. Bloomberg was allowed to have just one donor- himself. He'd have been better off if Perez had kept him off that debate stage!

Dependable Party apparatchik Perez is applauded by his master.

Now with his mountain of loot (estimated around $60 billion) half a billion lighter, Bloomberg can go back to buying influence and puff piece "reporting" about himself. The man showed off his vanity, conceit, and self-regard, insisting he and he alone could take on Trump, he and he alone was competent to run the U.S.

Apparently his self-vaunted competency didn't transfer to running a campaign for president. But the various "consultants" and media "experts" and operatives can smile at their newly-swollen bank accounts, as can the media companies that ran his ads.

Now the Democratic Party and its corporate media allies are going to shove Joe "I Love How Your Hair Smells!" Biden down our throats. Unless Bernie Sanders goes to the convention with an absolute majority of delegates, he's finished. The 700 or so "Superdelegates"- party hacks and lobbyists primarily- are solidly machine loyalists who will go almost 100% for Biden. Elizabeth Warren hasn't done better than third in any state so far, including in her home state, Massachusetts, which she currently represents in the U.S. Senate! (Peter Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out on successive days and immediately endorsed Biden, an obvious sign of a conspiracy by the Democratic Party hierarchy and rich donors. Only Tulsi Gabbard, who is totally marginal, is left along with Warren, Biden, and Sanders.)

Here are your choices under bourgeois "democracy." Now VOTE!

Biden spent his years in the Senate fighting school integration, passing draconian "crime" bills that made the U.S. the number one prisoner in the world- with 4.5% of the world's population the U.S. has 25% of the total global prison population!- greased the skids for the awful Clarence Thonas to score a lifetime perch on the Supreme Court, pushed hard for the Bush regime invasion of Iraq, assiduously promoted the interests of big banks and credit card companies at the expense of everybody else, and much more awfulness.

For how loathsome the segregationist, warmongering, tool of finance, mass imprisoner of blacks Biden is, type "Biden" in the search box on this webpage. Also see video Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses.

By the way, it's obvious from his confusion, garbled speech patterns, and incredible memory lapses as he's been campaigning (can't remember Obama's name at times) that Biden is in the early stages of senility. It's Reagan redux if he's elected.

Joseph Biden doesn't dwell on what he has wrought.

Joe Biden In Pictures: The Race for 2020!

And what a racy race it is, if you catch my drift!

Everybody wants Joe to be the Democrats' nominee for president. ("Everybody" meaning anybody who's anybody living in the reinforced titanium bubble for the elite and protected by the world's most powerful military and secret police machinery.) Joe's a pillar of the political establishment who can be counted on to protect corporate oligarchy and U.S. imperialism.

And Joe Biden is a really gregarious, personable, downright likable guy, as this photo essay will show you!

Joe is renowned as quite the Ladies' Man Around Town. The Town being the Most Important Town In The World, Capital City of The Greatest Empire In Human History. Innumerable women from both high and not-so-high stations in society can attest to his winning ways with women.

DAMN you smell good Girl! -Biden follows diplomatic protocol with Brazilian president Dilma Rousseuf, the lucky recipient of Joe's attentions on the occasion of a state visit. Sure beats being tortured in a fascist dungeon under a military dictatorship set up by the U.S.! Let's call it our way of making it up to you, Dilma!

You're never too young to be the lucky recipient of Joe's "affection." He's just a loviin' guy with a "hands on" approach to life! (Oh, all those draconian "crime" laws he played the lead role in passing that doubled the prison population in a decade? Hey, everybody makes mistakes! And sure, he wrote the PATRIOT ACT, but everybody else voted for it! C'mon, gimme a break! Don't judge me by my political actions! Judge me by how I make people feel!)

Gimme a kiss, Loverboy! -Joe don't discriminate by gender! Easy to see why he came out for gay rights before that stuffed shirt Obama! (He's so "progressive"!)

Don't Believe The Children! -Senator Chris Coons swears his daughter was enjoying this! See? Just look at her face! She's lovin' it!! (Leaning away is avoidance behavior, you say? Naw, she was just playing hard to get!)

Bikers not cool with Biden messin' with their woman, but what can you do? Can't kick his ass 'cause, 

you know, Secret Service and all...

Up against the wall, bitch! -Petty Anita Hill still holds a grudge just because Biden didn't believe her testimony about Clarence Thomas in 1991 (and told the other Senators not to believe her, and blocked other witnesses from testifying, and let his Republican colleague "friends" publicly ream her out as a tramp and a hysteric and a fabricator), but Biden is so understanding that he's almost apologized to her, just 'cause he's running for president now. And hey, we got a great Supreme Court Justice thanks to Joe!

He may look Black, but don't be fooled! Underneath the skin is a white segregationist. (He hates affirmative action, for one thing!)

Submit to My Touch, All Ye Comely Lasses Who Come Before Me! Joseph R. Biden, Jr., magnanimously announces that he is Available to Be Our President in 2020. Rejoice!

I've got my eye on YOU! You're NEXT! -Looks like SOMEBODY'S gonna get poked! Might even be YOU! (Or ALL of us!)

When you're powerful, they let you do it! You can get away with anything! 

Biden 2020!

   The corporate oligarchic power establishment that rules the U.S. is trying to set up a contest for presidential power between a pussy-grabber and a man who grabs just about anything else. Trump, who in his own words, "grabs women by the pussy" because, as he explained to a cackling Billy Bush (yes, one of those Bushes, the dynastic ruling class criminal clan) "when you're a star they let you do it . You can do anything. Grab then by the pussy. You can do anything." And Biden, who had NO IDEA it wasn't perfectly within social norms to stroke, caress, sniff, and kiss strange women and children. I mean, all of a sudden that became unacceptable! Who knew you weren't supposed to do that? Why EVERYONE USED to do it! 

   Biden NOW claims he "gets it," even though it's obvious by all the verbiage he's crafted and said or had issued for him, definitely does NOT get it. Including making a joke out of it with his appearance before a friendly audience by using children as stage props and announcing that the child "gave permission" for him to hug him. As if a young child wouldn't be cowed and intimidated by a powerful adult "asking" if he could hug him. Not too many children acculturated in this authoritarian culture would say "No." The message was clearly, Oh you people are making a big deal out of nothing.

  Well, it certainly is less of a big deal than the career he's made out of passing repressive laws, exploding the prison population, voting for the invasion and destruction of Iraq, his racist alliances with the likes of Strom Thurmond, his vociferous opposition to school integration, and a lot of other vileness that has made the U.S. more oppressive and even more of an imperialist scourge around the world.

Latest Whopping Trump-Level Lie by Joe Biden

Biden says the reason Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama hasn't endorsed him for president is because Biden himself asked him not to.

Now, why the hell would anyone NOT want the endorsement of a popular former president of his own party?

Who knows? Biden didn't explain. He just did his usual thing of spewing out a bunch of words devoid of real meaning. Rather like Trump does so often.

But that's okay. Because he's obviously lying.

He also repeated another ridiculous lie he's been making repeatedly of late: that he never ever discussed the business dealings of his black sheep son Hunter with Hunter. This despite the fact that he flew Hunter on his official government jet, Air Force Two, to China with him when he was vice president, and on that trip Hunter finagled a bunch of sweetheart deals from entities connected to the Chinese government. And when Biden was in charge of U.S. dealings with Ukraine, Hunter just coincidentally was appointed to the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, with pay of $50,000 a month, a position he held for five years until resigning this past July, obviously because his father was starting his latest run for president. Hunter was paid a total of $3,000,000 for holding a title. He has zero experience in the gas industry or in Ukraine, at least when he was rewarded with this plum position.

Biden made his absurd statements, reminiscent of many of Trump's preposterous lies, in an interview on 60 Minutes, a TV 'newsmagazine" program on CBS, aired Sunday October 27, 2019.

If Biden manages to snag the Democratic Party's nomination for president for 2020, Americans will get a choice between two of the most mendacious men on the political scene.

Joseph R. Biden and son Hunter. Talking business? They're barely on speaking terms, 

don't you know!