Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
“Corona is a black light and America is a cum-stained hotel room,” comedian Megan Amram colorfully tweeted a couple of weeks ago. Her observation has only grown more accurate since.
The corporate cronyism of America’s political system has been highlighted with a massive kleptocratic multitrillion-dollar corporate bailout of which actual Americans are only receiving a tiny fraction. Instead of putting that money toward paying people a living wage to stay home during a global pandemic, the overwhelming majority of the money is going to corporations while actual human beings receive a paltry $1,200 (which they won’t even be getting until May at the earliest) at a time of record-smashing unemployment.
America’s capitalism worship has been highlighted with Wall Street Journal headline “Dow Soars More Than 11% In Biggest One-Day Jump Since 1933” running at the exact same time as “Record Rise in Unemployment Claims Halts Historic Run of Job Growth — More than 3 million workers file for jobless benefits as coronavirus hits the economy”. Stocks are booming, Amazon is surging, and mountains of wealth are being transferred to sprawling megacorporations, while actual human beings are terrified of what the future holds.
America’s joke of a healthcare system is being highlighted as uninsured COVID-19 patients are racking up $35,000 medical bills and even insured COVID-19 patients are looking at out-of-pocket expenses in excess of $1,300. Combine this with the millions of Americans getting thrown off of employer-provided health insurance and you’re looking at a huge number of people who will avoid getting tested and avoid treatment as much as possible. Both heads of America’s two-headed one-party system have spent decades forcefully creating this dynamic.
America’s income and wealth inequality is being highlighted in a nation suffering from all of the above problems while most Americans were already unable to afford a mere $1,000 emergency expense. A one-time $1,200 payment to a population already stretched that thin guarantees that millions will be plunged into crushing debt and destitution in a nation with a historically unprecedented billionaire class raking in even more unearned wealth.
The insanity of America’s war machine has been highlighted as awareness grows during a global health emergency that government military spending negatively impacts government healthcare spending and the US has the most bloated military budget on the planet. Now as journalist Max Blumenthal explains this war machine’s escalating hostility toward China is causing Americans to needlessly die of the virus.
America’s fake political system has been highlighted as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee completely vanished for a week and then returned to deliver an embarrassing string of befuddled interviews upon his return, reminding the nation once again that the Democrats are running an actual, literal dementia patient for the most powerful elected office in the world. Biden will of course be running against an incoherent reality TV star who only last week decided that the virus is indeed a real problem which needs to be seriously addressed, and who now already wants to begin rolling back the inadequate measures his administration implemented far too late. The debates between two men who don’t understand what they’re doing and can’t string a sentence together between them will soon be broadcast around the world for all of civilization to behold.
America’s lying mass media are being highlighted with propagandistic lines that would make Kim Jong Un blush, like The New York Times claiming today that “the American medical system is unsurpassed and its public health system has a reputation as one of the finest in the world”. We can safely expect US media to get even more demented as they expands their hysteria-inducing new cold war propaganda campaign against Russia to China as well.
America’s murderous sanctions machine has been highlighted as the US continues ramping up its economic warfare against Iranian civilians, with thousands already dead and potentially millions to follow due to Tehran’s inability to access necessary equipment, medicine and resources during the pandemic. The Trump administration has not eased the sanctions during the outbreak, and has in fact added to them, because killing Iranian civilians has always been the goal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has gone on record to say that the objective is to make Iranian civilians so miserable and desperate that they overthrow their own government.
So basically everything crazy about America is being amplified to absurd caricatures of its own insanity and highlighted for everyone to see. There’s a lot of ugliness coming out into the light as a result of this virus, which may end up being one of its few perks for everyone. As they say of both viruses and governments, sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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caitlin johnstone is an america hating leftist twit who occasionally stumbles over bits of the truth but this ain’t one of those times–
CJ is “Based & Red-pilled” 4the most part…& 4u F.F.s (vid reference here-start @3m45s & play for 8 secs):
&4 th’ rest o’u FFs (dif’r’nt ref this time =>F#¢k F@¢e$)here’s a very “based & redpilled” clip 4ya:
First Fake News. War of the Worlds 80+ years on…
Even during a rapidly spreading viral pandemic, you’ve got to have your priorities straight.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/27/donald-trump-dhs-starts-to-import-85000-h-1b-graduate-gig-workers/
Are we tired of all the ‘winning’ yet?
top-down, bottom-up. That’s how you destroy the lower-middle and lower classes. H1b takes the lower-end tech jobs, while Mexican and Central American illegals take other jobs that “Americans just won’t do”. H1b replacements/displacements shove those Americans who would otherwise do those jobs downward in jobs & income. That displaces those below them, who then are forced to take the jobs of those below them. This continues until Americans run up against the wall of Illegal Immigrant labor which has already displaced the low-tier Americans. Then, said Americans get on the Welfare rolls because they have little choice — not because they can’t or won’t work, but because the jobs they’re qualified for have been filled either by illegals or other Americans displaced by H1b replacements.
I watched a newscast where someone was bragging on the robots that they used to replace people.
I will agree that the bail out structured is one sided but look what political animals assembled this bag of treats (shit) !
The lesson learned here should be dismantling our industries and shipping a huge majority of our production capabilities to China and other cheap labor countries was a disaster waiting to happen !
This action eradicated the tax base that supported the infrastructure and those benefiting played like a fine violin ! The music lulled all but a few into a false reality . Trillions of debt piled on the backs o minimum wage working people while trillions in profit lined the pockets of the connected elites and of course their government minions .
Who got their gains out of the stock market in the nick of time ? Not you not me but THE BIG CLUB MEMBERS . Now who is telling you not to run to the bank and pull cash out ? THE BIG CLUB MEMBERS that’s who !
That is why working Americans are being tossed a bone while the real distribution of the meat goes uninterrupted for now .
Wait and see the shit has not hit the fan yet ! Prepare to duck !
“The lesson learned here should be dismantling our industries and shipping a huge majority of our production capabilities to China and other cheap labor countries was a disaster waiting to happen !”
no surprise there, ross perot ran an entire presidential campaign on that subject back in the 90’s. he lost. and here we are.
I remember Obama talking about all the Hi-Tech jobs that would replace all the jobs being sucked away.
“all the Hi-Tech jobs”
yeah, but they imported indians to take those jobs.
His was the only political campaign for which I’ve ever volunteered. When it ended with such a comparatively small number of votes, I said to myself that before the decade was out I would emigrate. I did. To me, the handwriting was on the wall.
There’s an ad on here that entreats the reader to “Emigrate While You Still Can!”. I suspect when the dust settles from all of this, it will be much more difficult if even still possible. Nobody’s going anywhere right now.
“Nobody’s going anywhere right now.”
if america/the dollar goes down, will anyplace else remain to go? observing zimbabwe and argentina in their collapses it’s clear the only thing holding them up was international trade and the dollar and that without those they would have gone full mad-max. all the little hidey-holes and safe-spaces around the world are so only because they are at the fringes of a vast interdependent economic system without which they are unviable, and that vast interdependent economic system is breaking down.
So Johnson defers to Blumenthal who in turn defers to Tedos about how wonderful China has been
Still haven’t seen the arguement for why calling this a Chinese virus is causing needless deaths.
Fuck you Megan Amram. Fuck you Caitlin.
Give me an honorable death before the Medium.com bitch squad writes another column.
OT: Signs of unrest in China on Drudge Report. I said I suspected the Chinese quarantine was really to eliminate dissidents. I have no way to know what the unrest was before, if any. Is this more than usual? I don’t know. But the police have been physically challenged. Like I said, this would be a propitious time for regime collapse. Trade profits reduced before an economic shutdown. The next month will be telling I think.
http://shanghaiist.com/2020/03/27/urns-in-wuhan-far-exceed-death-toll-raising-more-questions-about-chinas-tally/
https://dnyuz.com/2020/03/28/coronavirus-crisis-awakens-a-sleeping-giant-chinas-youth/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162773/Chinas-coronavirus-epicentre-Wuhan-lifts-lockdown-travel-restrictions-time-two-months.html
“The next month will be telling I think.”
indeed. the chinese accept their rulers if those rulers are accompanied by order and material prosperity. if that material prosperity falters then the rulers are eliminated. modern china’s material prosperity has been both miraculous and based on a debt ponzi that puts the federal reserve fiat debt dollar to shame. with 1) unaddressed rebellion in hong kong and 2) taiwan still very strong and successfully resisting domination and 3) the rolling over of the chinese debt ponzi and now 4) the recent almost total economic shutdown and consequent financial disaster exacerbating the previous three conditions, things do not look good for the chinese communist party ruling class families.
“this would be a propitious time for regime collapse.”
well, given that china manufactures .97 of our pharmaceuticals (just to pick one example among many) a chinese collapse will result in quite a few casualties here.
Caitlin must have remembered what George Webb on his YouTube expose “Where’s Eric Braverman?” Would say something similar to what she ended her article with:
Webb often mentioned that his efforts hoped to “let a lil sunshine in and disinfect ” those dark crevices and actions usually hid in the shadows of supposed national security.
from mish talk:
“15.Whether or not we have a prolonged depression depends on the amount of corruption in Washington.”
hide under the table boys, it’s gonna be a LONG depression.
There isn’t a political, medical or any other system capable of reacting to any real crisis at any time. This will run it’s course and when enough people have been infected and recovered the virus will be remember not because of it’s severity but because of the insanity it caused.
nah, it’ll be remembered for the opportunity it provided to advance the subversion of america.