{"id":14504,"date":"2020-05-03T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=14504"},"modified":"2020-05-03T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T18:37:23","slug":"biden-is-everything-the-democrats-are-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2020\/05\/03\/biden-is-everything-the-democrats-are-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Is Everything The Democrats Are: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Caitlin Johnstone<\/a> \u00b7 May 1<\/a> \u00b7 Medium.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Biden getting intimate with nearest available woman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden is not<\/em> an \u201cimperfect candidate\u201d for the Democrats. He is the perfect candidate, because he\u2019s everything the party is: Demented. Decrepit. Bloodthirsty. Corrupt. Cronyistic. Authoritarian. Reactionary. Rapey. He is exactly what they deserve. He is exactly what they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden is the Democrat\u2019s Democrat. He is the perfect representative of the party. They should even take it a step further and replace that donkey with Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden is to the Democrats as Trump is to the Republicans. Everyone\u2019s just wearing their true face now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re willing to sacrifice all principles, all sanity and all morality to get rid of Trump, what exactly is the point of getting rid of Trump?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know Biden is a liar. He\u2019s been pinged for lying his whole career. Everyone is trying to undermine the victim\u2019s character in order to discredit her while ignoring Joe\u2019s character. We know he lies. He also has a history of unwanted sexual advances. His story is not credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody actually believes that Biden didn\u2019t sexually assault Tara Reade. Nobody\u2019s actually confident that Creepy Uncle Hair Sniffer isn\u2019t a rapist, they\u2019re just pretending they are. I can understand saying \u201cIt\u2019s possible but unproven\u201d, but saying it\u2019s false is so gross and dishonest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re accusing Reade of lying for partisan reasons, when in reality that\u2019s exactly what they<\/em> are doing: they\u2019re pretending they believe Handsy Joe Biden is incapable of shoving his fingers into a woman without her consent, and they are lying. Out of pure partisan loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s funny how refusing to support a literal dementia patient who has been credibly accused of rape for the world\u2019s most powerful elected office is a very, very normal thing to do, yet people are acting like it\u2019s bizarre and freakish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which looks more likely to you? (A) That Reade seeded a bunch of vicious lies about Senator Joe Biden in the 1990s with the intention of someday sabotaging his presidential bid in the distant future for some reason, or (B) that a powerful man sexually assaulted a woman?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s so weird how Joe Biden is a spent piece of leftover 1970s beltway flotsam made of plastic donor class dinner parties and AIPAC lobbying but everyone\u2019s all pretending they like him as a person and stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no fact-based and intellectually robust arguments for working within the establishment to manifest revolutionary agendas, but there are a lot of highly effective intellectually dishonest arguments for why it\u2019s okay for you to pretend otherwise and go back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey destroyed the economy over a virus, but the narrative about the virus is completely fake!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps. But so is the narrative about \u201cthe economy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terence McKenna once said \u201cWe are led by the least among us. The least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.\u201d Can\u2019t think of a better illustration of this than having Donald Trump versus Joe Biden competing for the most powerful elected office on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey remember when Trump provoked a missile retaliation that led to scores of injured US soldiers by assassinating Iran\u2019s top military commander for no legitimate reason, lied about the whole thing, and then suffered no consequences or political repercussions of any kind? Good times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats are so fucking stupid and ridiculous that the Krassenstein brothers are still<\/em> a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of humanity\u2019s worst atrocities have been legal. Genocide. Slavery. Torture. The fact that you can squint at the imprisonment and extradition of a journalist for exposing US war crimes in such a way that makes it look \u201clegal\u201d does not mean it isn\u2019t unforgivably evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s always about power. Power comes before everything, including profit, which is why you see escalations against nations who\u2019d be very profitable to continue trading with and why critics of US foreign policy are attacked far more aggressively than critics of its domestic policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manipulators understand that wealth control is a means to power and not an end in itself; that\u2019s why you see things like Zuckerberg hurting his own profit margins by making changes to Facebook which make the platform less fun to use but shore up establishment narrative control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Power trumps profit every time. Manipulators are driven ultimately by the desire to control as many humans as possible to the greatest extent possible. Money is a useful tool for accomplishing that, but in a pinch they\u2019ll swap it out for military\/police force or censorship etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wealth is a narrative construct and can be gained or lost or made obsolete in a new narrative paradigm. Elite manipulators understand that it\u2019s hard, nonconceptual control over hard, nonconceptual objects that gives them their actual alpha status over the rest of the humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA newly democratized media environment has made it difficult for people to distinguish fact from fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Oh no! What do we do?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCensor everyone except authoritative news sources.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Authoritative news sources? Like who?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe ones who lied about Russiagate and all the wars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a general rule, indie media should not attack other indie media. If you\u2019re not punching up, you\u2019re punching down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People ask me \u201cWell, what should we do? How do we fix this thing?\u201d And of course my only possible answer is, \u201cDo what I\u2019m doing! Or your version of it.\u201d Of course I\u2019m doing the thing I think we should do to solve the problems of our species. Why would I be doing anything else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revolution is an inside job. This is not an egoically pleasing fact, but it is a fact. It\u2019s much more fun for egoic mind to believe both the problem and the solution exists in other people, but in reality the changes you can make in yourself will have far greater effects on the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are vast, vast depths within all of us, and we are capable of making vast, vast changes to those depths. We are in fact far more capable of doing this than we are of changing the outside world through force of will. And interestingly when we do this, we do<\/em> change the world. And we do it far more efficaciously than we can by trying to will it to conform with the noises in our babbling thinky brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WRITTEN BY<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin Johnstone<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerrilla poet. Utopia prepper.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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