It Is Not That Trump Is Good, It Is That Biden Was Just That Bad by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-01-24 at 06:28:10 )

It Is Not That Trump Is Good, It Is That Biden Was Just That Bad by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Donald Trump will go on to do many evil things as president, just as he did during his first term, but none of this will reverse the fact that Biden just spent four years advancing genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and authoritarianism. Reading by Tim Foley.

TikTok is back in the United States after a brief shutdown, reportedly because Donald Trump pledged to suspend the Biden administrations ban. A Gaza ceasefire has also finally emerged due to pressure from Donald Trump after Biden stalled for 15 months, and NBC News is reporting that the Trump administration plans on pressuring the Israeli government throughout negotiations to establish a permanent peace beyond the 42 days scheduled for the first phase of the agreement.

Remember this: it is not that Donald Trump is good, it is that Democrats are just that bad. Bidens completely unconditional facilitation of Israeli atrocities has actually been the exception rather than the norm among United States presidents, as Trita Parsi explained in Foreign Policy last April. From what we are seeing so far, Trump is just returning things to their horrible standard baseline.

Donald Trump will go on to do many evil things as president, just as he did during his first term, but none of this will reverse the fact that Biden just spent four years advancing genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and authoritarianism. The Democratic Party plays just as crucial a role in promoting the tyranny and abuse of the United States empire as the Republican Party does, and it is nonsensical to think of either of them as a lesser evil. The empire itself must end.

Do yourself a favor and spare yourself the indignity of thinking the ceasefire and suspending the TikTok ban indicate that Donald Trump is going to be a good president. You do not get to become the United States president unless the powers that be trust you to inflict the evils necessary for running the empire.

The system does not work. You cannot vote your way out of the tyranny of the empire, and the president is not going to save you. Donald Trump will do many evil things as president, because that is what United States presidents do.

Do not believe me?

Then watch and pay attention. And learn the lessons you failed to learn last time.

It is possible that Donald Trumps term will constitute another swing from Bush-level depravity to Obama-level depravity.

It is not normal for the United States empire to be as openly depraved as it has been in Gaza.

Normally its evils are much more well-disguised, because it is in the empires interests to preserve its image in the eyes of the western public.

You only see the really in-your-face acts of monstrosity when a coalition of forces within the swamp are able to seize on a rare opportunity to shove them through, as we saw in the wake of 9-11-01 and again in the wake of October 7.

The rest of the time, the empire likes to be a lot subtler about its abuses, like it was during the Obama administration and the first Trump administration.

Starvation sanctions. Staging coups. Secretly arming proxy forces. Drone assassinations. Covert ops. It prefers these means over the Hulk Smash ground invasions like we saw during George W Bushs first term, and the overt genocidal atrocities like we saw during Bidens.

The Zionists, war profiteers and empire managers seized on the rare opportunity presented by October 7 combined with a senile lifelong Zionist in the White House to push through agendas in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon that they had wanted to push through for years, but they greatly damaged the empires propaganda interests in the process.

We can expect the empire to try to move its ugliness out of the spotlight as swiftly as possible in the coming years and attempt to restore its false public image as a force of good in the world, while continuing to advance its psychopathic agendas in sneakier ways.

Young Americans can take the same lessons from the TikTok ban that they have taken from Gaza: that they live in a tyrannical dystopia, and that the Democratic Party is not their friend.

To be clear, when you hear people saying that United States lawmakers voted to ban TikTok in order to shut down criticism of Israel among young people, it is not some antisemitic conspiracy theory; they have openly admitted that this was in fact what they were doing. Legislators like Chris Murphy, Mitt Romney, Mike Gallagher and Mike Lawler are all on record saying they supported the ban because of the prevalence of pro-Palestinian content on the platform.

One of the most politically interesting developments in recent days has been United States of Americans flocking to the Chinese app Red Note in response to the looming TikTok ban and interacting with people in China for the first time in their lives with the help of translation technology.

If you had asked me last month what country I wish ordinary United States of Americans would start communicating with at mass scale, I would have said China without a moments hesitation. If this keeps up it is going to cause some real problems for the empire propagandists down the track.

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