CASINO CHARADE

Why does it not matter who wins the presidential election on 5 November? The roulette wheel will keep on spinning and bets with public money will multiply

 

By Sidney Hey

Phile the US elections are just around the corner, Americans themselves seem rather apathetic towards the event. It is nothing new for anyone to say that the political elite in Washington live in a parallel dimension to the reality of their citizens and Donald Trump has long since shown himself to be no redeeming envoy who will fight the system and solve its problems.

For her part, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is in no better place. Her inconsequential role as vice-president of a senile and corrupt old man like Joseph ‘Joe’ Biden is compounded by her cataract of contradictions and unbelievable positions she exposed in television interviews that more than infuriating her own have already disheartened the few gullible supporters the system has left. Even Obama himself, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning charlatan after mass CIA assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, is confounded by the nonsense Harris has spouted.

But Harris's discursiveness is not only part of his lack of knowledge of the issues his administration has been involved in but of stupidity of his own making. On foreign policy Harris also emphasised his stupidity, while maintaining the pro-Israel line guaranteed by any White House hopeful. When she claimed that the most dangerous enemy for the US was Iran, there were more than a few who almost gagged. What the hell is this woman saying?

Here both Republicans and Democrats will follow the same geopolitical agenda and that means, global instability will continue with their outsourced support through NATO for Ukrainian fascism trying to buy time with hilarious peace plans, for the Zionist ambitions of the criminal regime of Benjamin Netanyahu and with it war. And let's not forget the horrible legacy that accompanies Kamala Harris, marked by her administration's collaboration in the genocide in the Gaza Strip and the military cooperation with Israel that tears the Democrats' discourse to shreds. So get used to it and expect continued escalation with the Russian Federation, China and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

How much money has it cost to support Zelensky's Ukraine and Netanyahu's plans?

Trump also brings with him an additional danger and that is his personal dislike of China and, as we have seen before, he can push for any kind of dirty measures to screw up the Asian giant's trade. The current situation in the Indo-Pacific makes this danger even greater, as the Biden administration is handing him a powder keg that needs only to be lit. Washington's constant provocations through its tactical pawns such as QUAD, SQUAD, AUKUS and the instigation of Tokyo to propose a ‘NATO’ in the Asia-Pacific region are part of what Moscow called ‘growing geopolitical tension around the world’ and has therefore begun to intensify its naval exercises with China such as ‘Ocean 24’ with a staggering deployment of naval air forces from both countries.

Or just look at the latest Chinese naval exercises in tone with the island of Taiwan that have further heated up the already tense relations between Washington and Beijing. There is no doubt that more than a message to the island and a fine-tuning of its armed forces, Beijing is telling the US that the situation on the island has nothing to do with its electoral calendar.

However, one pretends to view this reality, whether one or the other is the next president of the United States of America, the reality of US citizens will not change, let alone that of the miserable ass lickers of the hemisphere and certainly not that of EU employees. Of course, Canberra will follow suit.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are like two roulette players betting taxpayers' money that will break the bank of a recessionary economy propped up by spending that accrues galactic levels of public debt. This is well known to the bankers and the lords of ‘Wall Street’ who are already putting on their life jackets in the face of the very possible turnaround of the US economy. The latter is not an exaggeration given the way interest rates have been lowered by the FED, the disguised increase in inflation through contraction (with a reduction in quantity and quality of products) and the increase in job insecurity.

The supposed antagonism that the establishment media such as CNN, ABC NEWS, MSNBC, FOX and all that rubbish, present between Trump and Harris is only for internal consumption and certainly very few consume it anymore. Both are part of the ‘system’ and as such play by its rules and incentives. The assassination attempts on Trump were not an ‘attack on democracy’ as presented by the paid media charlatans of the establishment, they were part of a settling of scores between factions within that same sewer system.

Both are a repetition of old recipes and, at best, a continuation of the warmongering economy that has brought the world closer to the abyss of a possible nuclear conflict. Let's see how each of them will create more instability in the midst of a neoliberal financial system that is dying and that the same black Establishment bosses are seeking to kill.

While Trump would seek to impose an economic nationalism based on protectionism and tariffs on goods from abroad, especially Chinese goods, Harris, according to her, seeks to improve incomes for all without asking where the money will come from? If you look at this scenario from perspective you will see that both are part of the populist virus, only each is a different variant as damaging and out of touch with reality as Joe Biden's head.

Harris bluntly bases his arguments for economic improvement on more spending and more spending. What would that mean for the bloated US public debt figures? More trillions of computer-generated dollars, since everyone knows full well that there are no paper dollars or gold in the Treasury Reserve to back up all that printing. Nor does she explain how she will solve the housing crisis and the unemployment drama that is sinking American workers.

That's why the White House should be hearing: ‘No more!!!’, all bets are off...the house wins...the citizens lose.