Rev Left Radio - UNLOCKED: COVID-19, Contradictions, and the Dictatorship of Capital

Episode Date: March 17, 2020

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Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. So for today's Patreon episode, I'm going to talk a little bit about the coronavirus. I'm going to read some articles about it, about the response to it by the terrible U.S. government. I'll give some ideas for things people can do in their communities to help or things people can do just completely online. and I'm going to talk about some other things like sanctions, price gouging, and some solutions that are taking place around the country. So we're going to touch on a lot of different things. It's sort of going to be haphazard. I haven't really fully laid out an outline or anything.

So I'm just going to sort of riff on a lot of different things and bring up as much as I can. Hopefully help people sort of come to a better understanding of what exactly is happening and things we can do to combat it or help our neighbors, etc. First thing I want to do is I want to plug our organization's fundraising drive. So our local organization, the Nebraska Left Coalition, is conducting its annual spring fundraising drive. And 100% of the money that we get through these fundraisers, they go into supporting our mutual aid programs, our autonomous food networks, our organic garden that we grow, and our financial assistance programs to the most vulnerable people in our community. especially in the face of an outbreak, especially in the face of a possible recession,

these sorts of programs that local organizations use to go out and meet people's needs are becoming increasingly important. So if you're in a position where you have a few extra dollars laying around and you want to help a good cause, I will link to that fundraiser in the show notes to this episode. Any amount helps. A dollar here, a dollar there.

Again, 100% of it goes to funding these programs. And if you've listened to this show long enough, you know about Nebraska Left Coalition, you know I'm a founding member, you know this is a solid organization that does as much good work as we can in our community. So again, if you have the privilege of having a few extra dollars around, you want to help some on-the-ground organizing efforts, this is a great way to do it, and we really appreciate it. Another thing, though, that I've been thinking about doing, and me and my family are going to do this in the next coming days, is to think about interesting ways in the belly of an outbreak,

that people can do to help other people. It makes it difficult, right? Because you don't want to come into contact. You don't want to be going around knocking on neighbors' doors and shaking hands and doing all of that because you could possibly be a vector for the virus. But one thing that I've sort of thought about and we're going to do with our family

is just make a sign, right? Make a sign that says, are you elderly? Are you immunocompromise? Do you need help running errands? We live in this neighborhood. Here's our phone number. text us if you'd like us, you know, people that are healthier, not immunocompromised, text us if you'd like us to run errands for you.

You know, obviously we do that for free. There's no cost. Make that very apparent. But just these little ways of helping your neighbors without having to go knocking door to door might be a wonderful idea to help people. Definitely, if you live in an apartment building or you live in a neighborhood, there are elderly people. There are immunocompromised people that live around you.

And putting out a sign that a lot of people in your neighborhood can see would be a great way to reach people. They could text you instead of having to come meet you. You could drop off their groceries on the front porch, have them pick it up, right, depending on how nervous you are. And you should be nervous when it comes to not passing it on to people that could be, you know, immunocompromised. So there's a way to help people without actually having to put them in any danger.

And that is one way that I've come up with to help in a local sort of way that you can just do by yourself. You don't need an organization to do this. This is just something you could do on your block or in your apartment building to help people run those errands, right? Elderly or immunocompromised people need help going to the grocery store. That might be more dangerous for them than it is for you. So that's an easy way that you could help. But today I want to talk about, I want to read some articles from the New York Times, actually. Just about how the government's response here is a complete and utter fucking failure. Everybody listening to this will obviously know that this, you know, this state, this government in the United States is run by and for, the rich, the corporations, the capitalist class, and everything that,

emanates out of it has to get the okay from the capitalist class and this bill that has passed through the house this coronavirus bill that is you know being lauded for its bipartisan support is really a testament to just how little the government gives a fuck about working and poor people and just how outsized of a say that the capitalist ruling class has and even an emergency crisis like the one we're going through right now so i'm going to read this article i'm going to talk about a lot of stuff in between articles but I'm going to read this article first, and this is from the New York Times. It was put out yesterday, March 14th, and it's entitled, There's a Giant Hole in Pelosi's Coronavirus Bill.

The subtitle is, the legislation passed by the House doesn't actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers. So I'll read this article. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday night celebrated the coronavirus legislation that passed early Saturday as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected by the pandemic. She neglected to mention the first. fine print. In fact, the bill guarantees sick leave only to about 20% of American workers. Big employers like McDonald's and Amazon are not required to provide any paid sick leave, while companies with fewer than 50 employees can seek hardship exemptions from the Trump

administration. If you are sick, stay home, Vice President Mike Pence said at the news conference on Saturday afternoon. You're not going to miss a paycheck. But that's simply not true. Sick workers should stay home, but there is no guarantee in the emergency legislation that most of them will get paid. The White House and congressional Republicans who insisted on the exemptions as the price of bipartisan support for the legislation bear the primary responsibility for the indefensible decision to prioritize corporate profits in the midst of a public health emergency. Instead of pressing executives to support a comprehensive sick leave law, President Trump held a Rose Garden pep rally for corporate America on Friday.

afternoon, showering praise on chief executives of big employers, including Walmart, Target, and Walgreens. But House Democrats also failed to act in the public interest. Paying sick workers to stay at home is both good policy and good politics. Why not pass a bill that required all employers to provide paid sick leave and then force Republicans to explain their objections to the public? The bill does require some employers to provide full-time workers with up to 10 days of paid leave, but the requirement does not apply to the nation's largest employers, companies with 500 or more workers who together employ roughly 54% of all workers in the country. After a Waffle House employee tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this month,

the company refused to promise it would pay other sick workers to stay home. Under the new bill, it would qualify for the big company exemption. Would Mrs. Pelosi please explain why the House decided not to require Waffle House to protect its workers and customers by paying for, sick leave? The legislation also provides some compensation for workers who need to take longer leaves under the Family and Medical Leave Act, but this too excludes workers at big companies. And the bill allows the Labor Department to grant hardship exemptions to businesses with fewer than 50 employees. That category includes another 26% of the workforce, meaning that fully

80% of workers in this country may not be able to cash in on Ms. Pelosi's rhetoric. Democrats began this process in the right place. The first draft of the coronavirus legislation included a permanent change requiring employers to allow every worker to earn up to seven days of paid sick leave and a temporary change allowing any worker to take up to 10 days of sick leave during a public health emergency. The final draft includes only a pale shadow of those sensible requirements. The paid sick leave requirement is narrowly focused on the coronavirus. It does not even require paid sick leave.

during future pandemics, a contemptible signal that political leaders are already committed to not learning the lessons of this one. Some large employers have announced voluntary grants of paid sick leave for workers affected by the coronavirus, but such voluntary policies are an inadequate substitute for legislation. Many large employers have not announced any changes. Many of the policies that have been announced are considerably less generous than the requirements of the House legislation, and employees at those firms can hardly enforce corporate compliance with the news release. It's also true that big employers are generally more likely to offer standard sick leave benefits. Roughly 86% of workers at big companies get some kind of paid sick leave

according to federal stats. But few workers in the United States are eligible to take 10 days of paid sick leave. And the low-wage workers who can least afford to stay home without paid leave are precisely the workers who are least likely to qualify for those standard corporate benefits. Companies should be required to provide paid sick leave to every worker as a standard cost of doing business and they certainly should be required to do so in the midst of a pandemic. The House's failure to require universal paid sick leave is an embarrassment that endangers the health of workers, consumers, and the broader American public. So here we have legislation coming through in a middle of a pandemic and it has to be filtered through the prism of

Republicans who are just proxies for corporate America and of course the Democrats are not exempt from this, their donor class is also filled with capitalist ruling class agents. So both parties, beholden to corporate America, have to make emergency bills suitable to their interest first and foremost, right? It has to make the capitalist class happy, and only then does it have any chance of being passed. This country is a fucking joke. Now, I want to read another little article from the New York Times, and the same day it was

written yesterday, and this one is called The Companies Putting Public Profits ahead of Public Health. As the coronavirus spreads, the public interest requires employers to abandon their long-standing resistance to paid sick leave. So I'm going to read this short article as well. Here we go. Most American restaurants do not offer paid sick leave. Workers who fall sick face a simple choice. Work and get paid or stay home and get stiff. Not surprisingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in 2014 that fully 20% of food service workers had come to work at least once in the previous year while sick with vomiting or diarrhea. As the new coronavirus spreads across the United States, the time has come for restaurants, retailers, and other industries that rely on

low-wage labor to abandon their parsimonious resistance to paid sick leave. Companies that do not pay sick workers to stay home are endangering their workers, their customers, and the health of the broader public. Studies show that paying for sick employees to stay home significantly reduces the spread of the seasonal flu. There's every reason to think that. it would help to check the new coronavirus as well. A large number of companies in recent days have announced one-time changes in policy, promising paid sick leave to workers who catch the coronavirus specifically or who are quarantined for it.

House Democrats announced an agreement with the White House Friday evening on legislation that would let some workers affected by the coronavirus take up to 10 days of paid sick leave, partially at public expense, an emergency corrective that is urgently necessary to slow the spread of the virus, as well as to limit the resulting economic damage. But such a temporary change in the law is also grossly insufficient. It would amount to a brief suspension of the harsh and dangerous reality that most low-paid workers cannot afford to stay home when they are sick.

What happens when the next pandemic arrives? The only adequate remedy is to permanently require paid sick leave for all workers. Throughout history, outbreaks of infectious diseases have often served as catalysts for overdue changes in the social contract, including the creation of public health authorities and water and sewer systems. Congress needs to take the broader lesson from this pandemic and passed legislation mandating that every worker can earn up to seven days of paid sick leave. Corporate executives need not await a change in the law.

Plenty of profitable companies already offer paid sick days, making a mockery of arguments about the untenable expenses. And Americans looking for a place to eat or shop can protect their health and encourage executives to do the right thing by shunning businesses that refuse to provide paid leave. Companies have long sought to obscure the details of their sick leave policies, but the New York Times has attained new data from the Shift Project, a nationwide survey of tens of thousands of retail workers conducted by the sociologist Daniel Schneider of the University of California, Berkeley, and Kristen Harkneck of the University of California, San Francisco.

The Shift Project data, from its most recent surveys in 2018 and 2019, provides a look at the benefits offered by individual corporations published here for the first time. This makes it possible to name names. The vast majority of workers at large restaurant chains report they do not get paid sick leave, except in the minority of states and cities where it is required by law. The list of malefactors includes the giants of fast food, like McDonald's, Subway, and Chick-fil-A, as well as sit-down restaurants like Cracker Barrel, Outback, Steakhouse, and the Cheesecake Factory. And it's not just restaurants.

The data also shows most workers at the supermarket chains, Wegmans, Kroger, Meijer, and Giant Eagle reported that they did not get paid sick leave. So did workers at retailers, including American Eagle, Victoria's Secret, and The Gap. Some major retailers, though, like Costco, Home Depot, and the supermarket chain Aldi, have long offered paid sick leave as a standard benefit. Since the coronavirus arrived in the U.S., however, only one major retailer, Darden restaurants, which owns chains including Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse and employs 170,000 hourly workers, has taken the lesson and announced that it will henceforth provide paid sick leave on a permanent basis.

After an employee at a Canton Georgia Waffle House tested positive for the coronavirus, the company said it would continue to pay the employee and quarantine coworkers, but a spokeswoman said the company would not commit to offering similar benefits to other workers affected by the coronavirus. The company declined to comment on its existing paid leave sick policy, but 99% of surveyed Waffle House workers said that they do not get paid sick days. Asked whether customers might reasonably be concerned about eating at a restaurant that refuses to pay sick workers to stay home, the spokeswoman said the company expected six workers to stay at home. And would Waffle House commit to paying workers for acting responsibly?

That's a matter between us and our associates, she said. Importantly, large numbers of workers at companies that offer paid sick leave reported that they did not get paid sick leave. At Chipotle, for example, workers are eligible to take up to three paid sick days beginning the day they are hired, but 20% of surveyed Chipotle workers said they could not take paid sick days. Walmart, by far the nation's largest private employer, extended paid sick leave to all employees in February of 2019, but only 73% of the Walmart workers surveyed since then said that they could take paid sick days. Mr. Snyder and Mrs. Harknet said that workers often are unaware of sick leave policies

or feel unable to take advantage of them. Managers exercise considerable power over scheduling and hours, and the researchers said that workers in interviews often express concern about the consequences of requesting a sick day. Chipotle conceded in 2017 that a norovirus outbreak centered on a Chipotle in Stirling, Virginia, was caused by a sick employee who should have been sent home. New York sued Chipotle last year for violating worker protections, including the city's sick leave law at five locations in Brooklyn. In February, New York finds Chipotle for firing a worker who took three sick days. It's not enough to have an official.

policy, Ms. Harkinet said. It has to be a policy that people feel they can actually use. A federal law mandating paid sick leave is necessary because the coronavirus is just an instance of a broader problem. Neurovirus, a major cause of food poisoning cases, sickens some 20 million Americans each year and kill several hundred. Outbreaks often are traced back to sick food service workers, prompting the CDC to recommend paid leave as a corrective. The spread of seasonal flu and other diseases is greatly exacerbated by sick workers. Paid sick leave is standard in other developed nations, and 13 U.S. states, beginning with Connecticut in 2011, have passed laws requiring employers to offer paid sick leave.

Some large cities have two, including New York City, Chicago, and Washington. That has allowed researchers to examine the real-world costs and benefits. The results set to rest many of the arguments long made by retailers, restaurant owners, and other low-wage employers. Paid sick leave is effective. A recent study found that requiring paid sick leave reduced cases of influenza by 11% in the first year after a new law took effect.

It's also relatively inexpensive. In another recent study, researchers calculated that providing paid sick leave cost employers an average of 2.7 cents per hour of paid work. They also found no evidence that the laws led employers to hire fewer workers or to reduce wages or other benefits. Perhaps the most powerful counterpoint to the industry's dire predictions

is the simple fact that some profitable companies provide paid sick leave already. While most fast food companies insist that they can't afford to pay sick workers to stay home, it is a standard benefit at In-N-Out Burger, for example. Alongside the supermarket chains that effectively encourage sick workers to report for work are those that pay sick workers to stay home, like Fred Meyer, stop and shop and Safeway. Democrats initially proposed including a permanent sick leave requirement in the coronavirus package, but business groups raised their eyebrows and Republicans insisted on its removal. It is a decision for which Americans should hold businesses accountable.

If we work sick, then you get sick. Chipotle workers chanted during a recent protest. They're right, and companies have a duty to make sure that stops happening. So that's the end of that article. And again, what do we see here? we see this liberal approach to the problem. Well, maybe we should boycott, they call it shunning businesses who don't do this. You know, companies have a duty trying to appeal to company's sense of moral duty to do this.

Companies don't give a fuck about that. I think maybe some level of high degree shaming in this one instance and this one outbreak might be useful. But again, the moment this outbreak stops or is contained, these things will drop away faster than you can imagine. So we see here on both the companies and their own personal responsibility like in this article or the government and their personal responsibility in the article previous that neither capitalist America nor the state is going to provide the adequate amount of really social packages and safety nets required to stop the spread of this coronavirus. And we are on a trajectory to look just as bad, if not worse, than Italy.

And a part of that, many reasons, a part of that is the terrible leadership from on high, which I'm going to get to in a second, with this Atlantic article that breaks down how President Trump specifically has fucked this up. But really, it's a widespread problem. And what is happening is that this coronavirus, no matter how bad it turns out to be in the end, is exposing every contradiction in our society. It is exposing every rotten, decaying structure of this capitalist, social order, from healthcare to just the way the state operates, how it continually must serve the interest of capital over everything else, the complete lack of leadership, the inability of the government to be able to marshal its forces to help out American people in this time of outbreak and pandemic. And importantly, and I think this is really important to remember,

undocumented immigrants, right? What is the entire Trump administration and the support behind Trump really firmly premised on the targeting the harassing the intimidation the arresting the brutalizing of immigrants one effect of that outside of the actual effects of you know children in fucking cages and these understaffed underfunded detention centers where you know an outbreak like this will tear through it outside of all of that is the effect of forcing undocumented immigrants into the shadows by any reasonable you know sort of estimate we have 10 to 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country. Every single one of them is aware of ICE. ICE is pulling people out of hospitals to take them into detention centers. ICE is getting people at work, deporting them so their

children come home and don't have parents anymore. How is that going to be exacerbated during this pandemic? When you have people who are scared to go to the hospital to get help, even if they fucking could, which this bill coming through Congress makes sure they really can't, right, because it says you have free testing maybe but definitely not free treatment so these you know undocumented immigrants are going to be in the shadows scared to come out scared to get the help they need scared that ice is going to kick down their door any minute and that's going to continue the the development of this coronavirus and on top of that you have just this inadequate response by the federal government for the people that are documented and so a huge chunk of just regular poor and working Americans are going to be left out with no real way

to quarantine themselves or stop going to work. So in every instance, this entire society is really being unmasked and shown to be the fucking disastrous, rotten, evil system that it really is. How bad this virus gets? I don't know. How much the pressures will mount up on this system? I don't know. But it's certainly going to be very ugly for the next few weeks.

And given the response so far by the government, I do not think that, you know, we should be overly optimistic about the government coming to do really anything to stop the spread of this. And that's going to put more, you know, sort of obligations on the shoulders of every single one of us to help ourselves, to help our neighbors, to stay informed, et cetera. In LA right now, actually, in an interesting development, there's homeless mothers with children, right, are taking over empty houses. They're basically squatting in houses during this pandemic because They don't want to be out on the streets having this virus spread through their families. So they're actually taking it upon themselves to go and inhabit houses.

And that's a wonderful thing. And left organizations in L.A., I don't know if this is happening, I hope it is, should come to their defense, right? When these spontaneous things arise, like, you know, homeless families taking over houses, that's a perfect opportunity for the left to defend them, right? If you have an organization that can be marshaled to defend these people to help get their messages out, to make sure that they have the food and stuff required so that they can stay in those houses, all these things become incredibly important. So with a rotten government that is not going to give a fuck about the lowest and most vulnerable

amongst us, who capitulates to capital's interest above all, it's going to be our duty as people on the ground, our organizations, or as individuals, to pick up the slack, to help one another out. And one thing that the government should absolutely do, this would possibly prevent an economic recession, but this would require, you know, not listening to the capitalist class, so good fucking luck. But this would be an emergency UBI. The quickest and best way to make sure that people of all industries, of all levels, even unemployed, gig economy, low-wage workers, or in big corporations, the best way to ensure that they all can stay home and slow the spread of this disease

or hospitals are not overwhelmed is to give every single American a paycheck, an emergency a UBI. Put cash in people's hands. Bush did this in 2008. I don't think it was as widespread as this needs to be, but there's already examples of this happening and working in practice. Hong Kong right now is thinking about doing the same thing to help slow the spread. Other states, especially in some Nordic countries, have experimented with the UBI outside of the context of a pandemic. Of course, the number one advocate of the UBI, fucking Andrew Yang endorsed Biden over Bernie, even though now he's saying that it's very clear that Medicare for all is the necessary step we need to take to not only address this issue, but to address

future pandemics, which are almost certainly going to be worse than this one. So it's just, it's sort of exposing these opportunists and these careerists as well, like Yang and Warren, who are really just showing their true colors and are despicable human beings, even though in some cases they have, you know, the right answers. And what makes them so despicable is precisely that they know enough to know, right? And they still don't give a fuck. They're still voting or, you know, endorsing Biden or in Lauren's case, not endorsing anybody, which is just a de facto endorsement of Biden. So it's really grotesque. But, you know, that aside, an emergency UBI would be one huge plank of solving this problem. And I want to read a graphic that has five demands that would, you know,

this would be sort of a, the most robust response that could possibly happen right now. So this is not going to happen, but this is the sort of measures that needed to be, that need to be taken in in this outbreak and in future ones. And this is five demands. One is free health care. So free testing, free treatment, and accessible free health care for all people. The second one is no work. Suspend work obligations, guarantee food stamps, paid sick leave for all people that could also

come in the form of a UBI which allows people to stay home, pay their bills without having to go to work. That would be huge. Number three is no paying and no debts. So suspending rent, mortgage payments, utility bills, loan repayments, foreclosures, evictions, and even parking enforcement so that people do not have to worry, regardless of they get a UBI or not at this moment, of being kicked out of their house and made homeless because they can't go to work because they're sick and then they can't pay their rent, right? The number four is free prisoners, right? End bail for jails. People sitting in jails right now, you know, these basically germ factories that viruses can just explode in.

A lot of these people have not been proven guilty. They just don't have enough money in their pockets to afford bail. So they're sitting in jail cells for crimes they may or may not have committed in a system that says you are innocent, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty, but they are sitting in jail cells even without being proven guilty simply because they don't have enough money. Ending bells right now would be a great way to help this. Deactivating ICE would help alleviate some of the problems when it comes to undocumented immigrants in this country and the fear around going to the hospital.

knowing that ICE agents are going to be there ripping you out of that hospital bed and throwing you into a fucking jail cell, releasing detainees on the border in these detention camps already and stopping all sweeps of homeless camps. And then the number five demand is homes for all. So open up unoccupied homes of which there are many more than there are homeless people, opening up those homes to anyone, any families, any individuals who need them. That would do a huge, huge benefit to getting people off these streets, getting people out of these tent cities where, you know, people that don't have homes, let alone health care, are squashed into tents under fucking, you know, interstate off ramps.

And viruses like in prisons or detention centers will just explode through those populations. So those are five demands that if the government was fucking serious about helping people and making sure that people were okay, they would be doing at least some of those things. And the bill coming out through Congress that needs to be passed by the Senate doesn't do shit. It will not do anything at all, except allow these politicians to stand up, pat themselves on the backs and said, hey, we did something. And even better than that, it was bipartisan. Ooh, the favorite buzzword of the fucking media. Bipartisan. Disgusting. I also want to talk about sanctions really quick. For people that don't know, and maybe this is important to give a little

one-on-one, because we hear the word sanctions all the time, but what are they? Well, sanctions are when the U.S. and the EU passed laws to ban, block, or restrict trade to a specific country, group or individuals when they do not comply with U.S. foreign policy. Currencies are devalued and inflated when sanctions are levied, international credit rate needs tank, and countries are pressure to stop doing business with the targeted countries. The first sectors affected are generally medicines, the cost of food, power, water treatment,

and other essential human needs. Because the United States holds trade, banking, and military dominance over most of the world, sanctions have killed millions of vulnerable people. sanctions violate international law, the U.N. Charter, Geneva and Nuremberg conventions because they target civilians by economic strangulation, creating famines, life-threatening shortages, and economic chaos. If you want to learn more, you can go to sanctions kill.org. But that is precisely what's happening in places like Venezuela and places like Iran. These are countries like any other country in a global pandemic that need to provide medicine and treatment for their people, but, because of U.S. sanctions are unable to get the basic necessities that fill up hospitals and

allow countries to respond at least somewhat adequately to crises like this. So not only is America at home throwing its poor and working people to the fucking wolves, throwing its undocumented workers to the fucking wolves, but is actively preventing other countries from meeting the needs of their people in this crisis. What is a bigger terrorist organization than the U.S. government? Who is more of a rogue state on this fucking planet than the U.S. government? This is becoming a mechanism by which we can see just how fucking corrupt and evil the U.S. government is, unobstured by ideological narratives and fancy, flourishing ideas about shining cities on top of the hill and empty buzzwords like freedom and democracy.

It is being exposed 100%. The emperor has no clothes. If nothing else, this is an opportunity for us to look to our loved ones and point this out. Look at what's happening. Not only is America throwing its own people to the wolves, not only is America have no response to contain this virus in its own country, but it's actively ensuring other countries don't either. You know, and whatever your critiques of places like China may be, China's response has been

much better. It's on the decline now. And it's actively sending out health workers to other countries to ensure that they can adequately deal with their situation while the U.S. is imposing sanctions on those countries, right? I mean, this is the evil fucking empire. And if people still can't see it, I don't know what it will take to really reveal the system for what the fuck it is. This shit is disgusting. Let's move on. One more article. And now this is from the Atlantic. We all know the Atlantic sucks a lot of times. It's called the Trump presidency is over, which is certainly not. But what this does, it's a liberal

critique basically of the president and Trump's response. And if nothing else, it's not going to offer you class analysis. It's not going to offer you materialist analysis. What this does, though, is just sort of lay out the information about how Trump administration specifically has absolutely fucked this entire response up. And, you know, it'll be a good thing to help you be informed on just how the administration is fucking this up. Maybe talk to your dad and your grandparents who might have soft spot for Trump and just reveal him for what he is. My grandfather, who, you know, I think voted for Trump in the last election, this whole coronavirus and the response to it has been sort of one of the things that have pushed him

in the opposite direction. Sometimes it takes these things to reveal it. And so for what it's worth, I'll read a part of this article from the Atlantic. The president and his administration are responsible for grave costly errors, most especially the epic manufacturing failures and diagnostic. testing, the decision to test too few people, the delay in expanding testing to labs outside the centers for disease control and prevention, and problems in the supply chain. These mistakes have left us blind and badly behind the curve, and for a few crucial weeks, they

created a false sense of security. What we know now is that the coronavirus silently spread for several weeks, without us being aware of it and while we were doing nothing to stop it. Containment and mitigation efforts could have significantly slowed its spread at an early critical point, but we frittered away that opportunity. They've simply lost time they can't make up. You can't get back six weeks of blindness. Jeremy Kondike, who helped oversee the international response to Ebola during the Obama administration, told the Washington boast recently.

To the extent that there's someone to blame here, the blame is on poor chaotic management from the White House and failure to acknowledge the big picture, end quote. Earlier this week, Anthony Fauci, the widely respected director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose reputation for honesty and integrity has been only enhanced during this crisis, admitted in congressional testimony that the United States is still not providing adequate testing for the coronavirus. It is failing, let's admit it, he added. The idea of anybody getting testing easily, the way people in other countries are doing it, we're not set up for that.

I think it should be, but we're not, end quote. We also know the World Health Organization had working tests that the United States refused and researchers at a project in Seattle tried to conduct early tests for the coronavirus but were prevented from doing so by federal officials. But that's not all. The president reportedly ignored early warnings of the severity of the virus and grew angry at CDC officials who in February warned that an outbreak was inevitable. The Trump administration dismantled the National Security Council's Global Health Office, whose purpose was to address global pandemics, we're now paying the price for that. We worked very well with that office, Fauci told Congress. It would be nice that that office was still there. We may face a shortage of ventilators and medical supplies, and hospitals may soon be overwhelmed, certainly

if the number of coronavirus cases increases at a rate anything like that in countries such as Italy. This would cause not only needless coronavirus-related deaths, but deaths from those suffering from other ailments who won't have ready access to hospital care. In some respects, the avalanche of false information from the president has been the most alarming of all. It's been one rock slide after another, the likes of which we have never seen. Day after day after day, he brazenly denied reality in an effort to blunt the economic and political harm that he faced. But Trump is in the process of discovering that he can't spin or tweet his way out of a pandemic. The president's misinformation and mendacity about the

coronavirus are head snapping. He claimed that it was contained in America when it was actually spreading. He claimed that we had shut it down when we had not. He claimed that testing was available when it wasn't. He claimed that the coronavirus will one day disappear like a miracle. It won't. He claimed that a vaccine would be available in months. Fauci says it will not be available for a year or more. Trump falsely blamed the Obama administration for impeding coronavirus testing. He stated that the coronavirus first hit the United States later than it actually did. He said that it was three weeks prior to the point in which he spoke. The actual figure was twice that. The president claimed that the number of cases in Italy was getting much better

when it was getting much worse. And in one of the more stunning statements that American president has ever made, Trump admitted that his preference was to keep a cruise ship off the California coast rather than allowing it to dock because he wanted to keep the number of reported cases of the coronavirus artificially low. Speaking about that attempt to keep the cruise ship off the shore, Trump said, I like the numbers. I would rather have the numbers stay where they are, but if they want to take them off, they'll take them off. But if that happens, all of a sudden, your 240 cases is obviously going to be a much higher number, and probably the 11 deaths will be a higher number, too.

On and on it goes. To make matters worse, the president delivered an oval office address that was meant to reassure the nation and the markets, but instead shook both. The president's delivery was awkward and stilted. Worse, at several points, the president who decided to ad-lib the teleprompter speech, misstated his administration's own policies, which the administration then had to correct. Stock futures plunged even as the president was still delivering his speech. Taken together, this is a massive failure and leadership that stems from a massive defect in

character. Trump is such a habitual liar that he is incapable of being honest, even when being honest would serve his interests. He is so impulsive, short-sighted, and undisciplined that he is unable to plan or even think beyond the moment. He is such a divisive and polarizing figure that he long ago lost the ability to unite the nation under circumstances for any cause. and he is so narcissistic and unreflective that he is completely incapable of learning from his mistakes. The president's disordered personality makes him as ill-equipped to deal with a crisis as any president has ever been. With few exceptions, what Trump has said is not just useless, it's downright injurious. The nation is recognizing this, treating him as a bystander, as school superintendents, sports commissioners,

college presidents, governors and business owners across the country have to take it upon themselves to shut down much of American life, without any guidance from the president. Donald Trump is shrinking before our eyes. The coronavirus is quite likely to be the Trump presidency's inflection point, when everything changed, when the bluster and ignorance and shallowness of Americans' 45th president became undeniable, an empirical reality, as indisputable as the laws of science or of mathematical equations. It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man

behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will make more desperate, more unbittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will only be a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over. That's the end of that article. Now again, you got a lot of sort of liberal analysis here. I'm not pretending it's anything more than that, but at least just for the basic facts of how Trump particularly fucked this up, it's maybe worth referring to. And we also have reports that Trump is refusing testing. He had dinner with Bolsonaro and an aid last week. We know now that coronavirus can be asymptomatic for

up to five days while still being contagious. So that fits within the time frame that President Trump met with these people. There's some speculation that him or Bolsonaro or both could have it. Of course, those governments are not going to release that, right? There's a long history in the U.S. of presidents having serious illnesses and keeping it out of the view of the American public, them coming forward and saying that they're going to reject testing for Trump is a way to just not ever have to face telling people whether or not, you know, he is tested positive or not. Bolsonaro, there's conflicting reports.

Some saying he had it and some saying he didn't. Bolsonaro's government comes out and says he's tested negative for it. You can trust those governments as much as you want. I don't put much stock in it. That's an interesting development that's going to play out. We'll see if these people get the virus and, you know, I hope they do. But this is the situation that we're in as a country. It's very bleak.

We don't know how bad this is going to be. I think if I had to take all of my knowledge about this case, which I've been studying very deeply over the last week or so, it looks like it's going to be on par to Italy, and that has been a catastrophe for the Italians. It could be worse, depending on how this bill comes through, if there's any other measures taken, what the individual responses of certain governors is going to be,

given the lack of federal leadership here, I also want to talk about something that we're seeing in society right now, which is there's two different aspects to it. There is the hoarding. You know, we see people throwing, you know, water and toilet paper in their grocery carts and, you know, lines around Costco and out the door, around the block of people trying to get necessity is really panic buying. We see fights, right, fights in stores over toilet paper and basic goods. It's very sort of scary reminiscent of many.

terrible movies that we've seen about pandemics and outbreaks growing up our entire lives. But I want to make a distinction really quickly between the people that are hoarding water and toilet paper, which again, we all know is to be incredibly irrational. Water systems are fine, right? They're not going to be poisoned by this virus by any means. Water treatment is still up and running. Toilet paper itself, if people weren't making a rush to go out and stack their carts full of it, there's no reason why toilet paper would stop being a commodity. we have access to and it's easy to make fun of these people easy to shit on them and in some cases they deserve to be shit on or made fun of but really what we have to understand is that this is a

psychological response from people trying desperately to have some sort of control over the situation you know the going out and buying a bunch of toilet paper and getting home and stacking it up in the corner of your house that is irrational and illogical on every fathomable level because this thing is not about rationality or logic. It's about emotions. It's about finding psychological relief. The person who stacks up their toilet paper in the corner of the room stands back and breathes for at least one moment a sigh of relief. It gives them some sort of tiny sense of control over a situation that they fundamentally do not and cannot have control over. So while we can be harsh and point out the irrationality of some of these behaviors and encourage people not to participate

made in them, hoarding water and hoarding toilet paper is just taking it out of the hands of other people who need it, right? If you have a hundred fucking cases of water or a hundred chunks of toilet paper in your house and somebody has zero needs to go to the store and they have kids and they don't have any at the store because some asshole has it all in their living room, you know, these things go on to hurt other people. And so we should make other people aware of this, but at the same time understand that it is a psychological response to a situation fundamentally out of people's control. Having said that, though, there's a different subspecies of hoarding that is disgusting and indicative of the capitalist logic, and that is price gouging.

That is these fucking snakes and worms who go out to their local stores, buy up all the products of an essential good, whether that's Lysol wipes or hand sanitizer, whatever it may be, and they hoard it all, right, go to multiple stores, buy up everything you can, and then sell it for four, five, ten, twenty times the price you bought it at to people who are desperate. I know on our local Facebook marketplace, somebody was trying to fucking sell a little bottle of hand sanitizer for $75. These people are parasites. They are operating under,

how can I profit off of this catastrophe? How can I use people's vulnerabilities and fears and need for social essentials, essential goods and commodities? How can I use that against them to enrich myself? These people need to be dragged out and beaten in the middle of the street. These people can only be wealthier people because to make the initial investment to buy up fucking 70 pallets of Lysol wipes or whatever the fuck, you need to have some capital to go out and buy all that shit.

So these are not poor, struggling people. These are well-off people profiting from the most vulnerable and poor amongst us. And we see time and time again this happening in crisis. We saw during hurricanes, people do this with water. Hurricanes are a situation unlike a virus where the water is a problem because you flood the water treatment plants, they can't purify the water. People's water gets shut down. And then you see people price gouging for the essential commodity of water. In some sense, this is just what capitalism does every day. Look at pharmaceutical companies and what they do with the cost of their

goods, right? They can inflate the price. They can fix the price. They can sort of work together to raise the price on goods so that they can profit, knowing that these are fucking essential. You know, people need insulin and epipens to survive. And so a capitalist can look at that, especially if they have a shared monopoly in that industry, and they can say, let's raise the prices on these goods because people absolutely need them. They can't opt out of buying them. It's not like, you know, buying a pair of shoes or something. You need this to survive.

And so we can take advantage of that need and we can inflate the prices and fix the prices and take advantage of people for our own profit. So what we see when it comes to people doing this on the ground level and crises is indicative of the overall capitalist logic that occurs every single day in our society. And here is just another example of that contradiction being sort of revealed for what it is and the society being revealed along with it. So just some things to keep in mind when it comes to our engagement around these issues and the way we think through it and help others understand it.

Again, if nothing else, this tells us that we have to have each other's back. and all of this is occurring with the backdrop of a presidential election happening right now. We see the Democrats putting up Joe Biden, coalescing behind him. The numbers are not in Bernie's favor. The Democratic debate tonight, which a bunch of centrist shills have tried to say, we need to cancel the debates, cancel the primaries, it's too dangerous. It looks like the debate is going to go ahead, and I think this is really the last chance for Bernie to expose Biden.

and have any chance at sort of overcoming the lead that Biden has and will continue to develop as more like right-wing states enter the primary and vote for Biden, as we would expect. This is the last chance, I think, for the American people to see Biden. Now that he is a clear front-rutter, this debate will have him up on stage for two hours talking, and that is going to be a huge benefit to anti-Biden forces. Bernie Sanders is going to be able to dismantle Biden's arguments and policy, and so we'll see how this takes place. one thing is clear and more people are recognizing this the basic policies that bernie sanders are

advocating for which are not by any means radical any stretch of the imagination these are center-left policies in most other countries these policies now more than ever are being shown to be utterly fucking necessary just to keep the society going um medicare for all paid sick leave funding child care all of these things are becoming more and more obvious that we need to do these things to take care of people. And at that exact moment, the Democrats are propping up somebody who throughout his entire career has been nothing but a proxy for the capitalist, for the credit card companies, for the big banks, who slashes social safety spending like Medicare and Social Security, who works with hardcore racists, who has an entire policy of being one of the architects behind

the crime bills of the 90s. They're putting up an incoherent, bumbling, reactionary, right-wing centrist in this crucial time, this crucial crossroads for our country, our continent, and our species. And tonight's debate is really the last chance that we can really move in any direction. A lot of people are saying, well, actually, look at the delegate numbers. You know, Bernie still has a big chance. Okay, nice. It's optimistic thinking. People should still go out and support Bernie.

But if these numbers keep going in the direction that they're slated to go in, there's very little sort of mathematical way that Bernie can overcome. it and win unless something radically changes and perhaps this virus is going to be the thing that radically changes perhaps people staying home are going to be more likely to tune into this debate see Biden for what he is and we'll see how hard Bernie goes at Biden you know this is the time to press the gas not the break for Bernie to really expose Biden for who he is if Bernie wants any chance to get in and implement even the slightest policies one thing is clear regardless of where you stand on electoralism regardless of where you stand on Bernie Sanders it's clear

that having him in the position of Trump right now would be a huge asset. It would be huge when it comes to fighting this coronavirus, giving people the help they actually need, working and poor people, not just the capitalist class, and not just a section of the working class, but all people. And, you know, just having the bully pulpit in the hands of Bernie instead of Trump would make the difference in, we'll see, but possibly millions and millions of Americans' lives, not to mention the lives overseas. And I'm not sure if Bernie would lift sanctions, but he would certainly have more pressure on him from the left

than anybody like a Biden or Trump will ever have to lift those sanctions. And so you'd hope that he'd do better on that. But again, the American Empire is crumbling. It's in a state of decay. This is what's happening. My one piece of advice, if they do get Biden through and it's Biden versus Trump, I think we have a responsibility as people to the left, of Joe Biden as working class people to not vote.

There needs to be a boycott election. Whether you stay home or you go out and vote for Gloria Lariva, those are the two things that I think every person on the left needs to do. Because this is what the trick is. The Democratic Party knows that no matter how much the left cries and moans and screams and complains, they will fall in line because the other guy is always going to be worse. So the Democrats never have to appeal to the left because they know. enough of them will shut the fuck up, get on their knees, and go vote for whoever the

fuck the Democrat Party vomits up because it's better than Trump. And until the left stops playing into that, until the left says, you know what, fuck it, we're not going to vote for the lesser of two evils. We're going to withstand our vote. We're going to show you that in order to win elections, you actually have to appeal to our fucking interests, not systematically undermine the only working class candidate we've had in our entire lives, you know, not shit and mock us, not degrade us on your media shows if you want our votes you have to actually

fucking earn them. The only way they'll ever get through their fucking heads is if we say we're not going to fucking vote for a Republican even when it's Joe Biden and he calls himself a Democrat. At what point are you just a Democratic Party rank and file member if no matter how much you complain and moan

and criticize the party, you still go into that voting booth and vote for their candidate. Are you being a radical? No, you're just being a Democratic Party liberal and you can say all this shit and they'll throw it your face. If you don't vote for Joe Biden, you're privileged. This is the privileged discourse and this is how it's weaponized against the left. You know, you're privileged if you don't vote for this bumbling racist asshole corporate sellout who is in any other rational system would represent

the far right wing of the political system. In any rational system, Joe Biden should be so far right that he doesn't even qualify to be in the Overton window of acceptable ideas and opinions. But in this disgusting right-wing country, he has put up as the progressive challenger to Trump. It's fucking disgusting. Don't go out and vote for these motherfuckers. Don't. Yeah, it'll mean four more years of fucking Trump. But if anything, Trump's bumbling nature, his inability to do anything, to get things passed.

Yes, he'll appoint Supreme Court people possibly if a person, you know, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dies or something. But overall, Biden would be actually better at, at Maine. maintaining the corporate capitalist grip over the American imagination. He would be a soothing face to some. Who these people are must be radically decreasing moment by moment, the more you hear Joe Biden talk. But if anything, he would just be better at being a snake, right? He'd be better at deporting people without.

We saw what happened with Obama. Obama stacks his cabinet full of Wall Street ghouls. He increases deportations more than any other president in the world. He puts the drone program on fucking steroids. and nobody really cares because he's a nice face that can talk a coherent sentence. What Trump does is sort of pull that illusion back. You know, he reveals the absurdity of the system, and by so doing, pushes a lot of people to start looking for alternatives one way or another.

So I don't actually think the argument that Biden will be so much better than Trump really holds water. He'll be worse in certain ways. He'll be better in some ways, but on the most shallowest of ways, right? he'll be able to get more things sort of done that helped the ruling class in a way that isn't so bumbling and incoherent as Trump because it's not really Biden being the frontman. He'll have this whole team of Obama and Hillary Clinton type ghouls in his cabinet that will really set the agenda and carried it out. So even if Joe Biden can't keep a coherent sentence for more than 30 seconds, his team will

be the snakes in the grass that can actually do the things that under Obama were done, but with little to no resistance, right? and that almost makes him in some ways a more dangerous candidate than President Trump. But then again, the odds are, is that Biden, if he won, would just go on to lose to Trump in the general election. Biden is a terrible candidate. He is the exact mistake they made with Hillary just plus Alzheimer's, right, and minus the identity politics that Hillary could leverage to her benefit to some extent. So that's the actual probability is that Biden,

would just lose to Trump. And then, you know, the Democratic establishment, no matter what happens, we'll blame the left, right? If Biden goes on to lose to Trump, just like in 2016, when Hillary lost to Trump, the establishment would turn around and say it was the Bernie bros that didn't vote. It was the left that didn't vote. So no matter what happens, they're going to shit on the left. They're going to blame the left.

And so we should keep that in mind as well. I do want to read like a little tweet thread that I tweeted out right when it became pretty clear that Joe Biden was, in lieu of some, you know, miracle was going to take the primary. And I'll just read that for you really quick. And it sort of reiterates what I've been saying. I said, if you are anywhere to the left of Joe Biden or are a member of the working class, you have a social, political, and moral obligation to not vote for him. The Democratic Party is just as much an enemy to you as the GOP is, and to still support them after all of this is Stockholm syndrome, in my opinion. The Democratic establishment treats

the left in our class like dog shit because they know we will always vote for them out of fear of the other guy. As long as you keep playing right into their hands with that shit, you help perpetuate their power and control. Don't do it. Fuck them. It's time we give up on the electoral farce. The only path forward in the short amount of time we have left before eco-dispopia is to build power outside the system, to challenge and confront it militantly as an organized discipline force of buy and for our class and its allies. Both major political parties fucking hate you. They hate your families and they couldn't give a shit about your future. If this election cycle hasn't proven that to you, I don't know what will. To get on your

knees, crawl into that booth and still vote Biden is fucking pathetic. And if someone has the audacity to look you in the eyes after all of this and tell you that if you don't vote for Biden, it's because you're privileged, spit in their fucking face. So that's my take. People didn't like it. A lot of more people loved it, depending on where they fell in the political spectrum. But that's sort of where I'm at right now. I would love to hear people's responses to that. Keep in mind that I've lived through all of this shit. What happened to a lot of people radicalizing them in 2016 over Bernie happened to me over Obama, right? I remember the John Kerry election when they gave these same arguments. I remember the Hillary election

when they gave the same exact arguments. So this is nothing new. to me. And even in the past, given all the shit I laid out, I was the one that went in and voted for the Democrat just to prevent the other guy. In 2016, I fucking held my nose, vomited inside of my shirt and voted for Hillary Clinton just because of the fear and devastation that a Trump presidency could possibly bring. So I understand that impulse. I understand harm reduction. I understand all of that. My only point here is that if we continue to operate with that logic, we will continue to empower these people. And these people go on to create the foundations, to lay the till the soil and prepare it for Trump-like figures, right? It's precisely these neoliberal

centrist policies which pave the way for people like Trump and other right-wing authoritarians or crypto-fascists to emerge. And if we continue to go back and clear the field for fascism to arise over and over again, the next fascist won't be as bumbling and mumbling and incoherent and narcissistic and myopic as Trump, right? You're going to get a snake with with eyes that don't blink next time. So I'd urge everybody that your moral obligation now as a leftist, if they get, if they get Biden past Bernie, is to not vote for him and to convince others to do it. Because who does the Democratic Party really care about? The center right, right? They try to find the independence that are sick of Trump. Because why? Because those people aren't guaranteed

to vote for the Democratic Party. So they need to go after them to get their votes. They know that the left will always vote for him because the other guy's so bad. So, you know, until we start saying no, and in fact, in order to get even our vote for anything, you have to meet our interest. Bernie was our compromise. Bernie was our compromise candidate. He's not what we want, but God damn it, you know, you could decrease a little bit of the, of the class antagonisms and the contradiction between the ruling and working classes.

If you got our candidate in there and he gave us some shit like fucking health care, can we please not die? You know, that was our compromise. And they're taking that away from us, and they still expect you to get on your fucking knees, crawl in that booth and vote for Biden. If you do it, that's on you, but that's a bad fucking look.

Now we're never. We don't have enough time to wait four, eight, 12 more years for another once-in-a-lifetime candidate to come along. We don't have time for any of that shit. Withhold your vote. Vote for Gloria Lariva. Show that you actually have to appeal to our fucking interest if you're going to get anything out of us.

And that's how it has to be. If we don't do that in a large enough scale, it's just going to be more proof that we don't need to appeal to the left because no matter how much they complain, they'll still fall in line at the end of the day. It's those 3% of never-Trump Republicans and suburbanite white women that we have to go after because those people actually don't vote for us, right?

They can actually go and vote for the Republicans or stay at home. And so those are the people we need to target while the left is taken for granted. So you keep playing their game. Their game's going to keep playing you. that's how it is all right so those are my sort of rushed thoughts on the coronavirus and a little bit of the election politics going on right now i know i sent an email out recently to all of our patrons talking about my flippancy in the early days of of the outbreak we didn't have the full sort of view of how this thing was going to go and so i was i was seeing as another h1n1 sort of fear tactic

by the media obviously this is different right we've never seen seen this sort of shutting down of society in our entire lives. I think when like the MBA and shit started shutting down earlier this week, people really started being like, oh shit, things are getting bad. And then we saw what happened to Italy and we see that we're on the exact same trajectory with even less of a coherent response from the federal government. You know, things are going to get bad. And this is not a time to panic. Most people listening, you know, assuming that you have a healthy immune system, you'll be all right. But the big problem here is stop. the spread and you have to self-quarantine and take yourself out of society so as to ensure

that you don't become a vector that can pass the virus on to people who won't be able to be as healthy and overcome it like you or I could possibly overcome it. So if nothing else, this is about other people. It's not about you specifically and how your symptoms are going to appear. It's about you becoming a vector. And again, five days of being asymptomatic. So five days when you can be passing on the virus being a vector without even knowing it. It's really irresponsible to do that. We have to pull back. We have to social isolate. We have to social distance precisely because we need to spread out the time that this virus is going to hit. Because if you spread out the amount of time over several months that this virus infects people, you'll have people that come around

the other side, slowly get healthy again and then become immune to the virus right away, assuming that this is like other viruses and that by getting inflicted once, you build up the immune response to prevent another one. And you create a condition in which the health care capacities of our country are not overwhelmed by shoving what could be six months of infections into one month, right? Then you have people flooding into hospitals, people not being able to have the capacity to deal with them, people who have other ailments try to get into the hospital can't because they're overwhelmed with coronavirus victims. And then you see lots and lots of deaths. You see that death rate explode. In some countries that have had good responses to the coronavirus, the

the mortality rate has been able to be kept fairly low. In other countries, where the response has been abysmal, you see that those rates rise to, I think, as high as 6% mortality rate in Italy. Where we are right now, Italy was two weeks ago. So if we're on that trajectory and all objective information says that we are, especially given the fact that this virus has been going around much longer than we've thought it's been going around, it's not going to be very fucking good over the next few

weeks and taking the personal responsibility to stay home if you're possible and help others if you're possible, right? Those two things I said in the beginning of the episode, donating to organizations that are doing the mutual aid work. You can do that from behind your computer, buy yourself at home if you have a few extra dollars, or if you're one of those people that have paid sick leave and you know you're not going to be out of rent or not be able to pay your bills. You know you're going to be more or less okay. You have some savings. Putting money into organizations that are doing that work is a crucial way that you can help and then putting up signs offering help without having to come into contact with people text me i'll deliver your groceries to you for free or you know whatever there's

ways and ideas that you can do that could help people in this time of need and you should try to be creative with how you can do it protect people help one another and try to be creative in this time because we're going to need that more than ever so that's our patron episode for today love and solidarity keep one another safe and i'll be back to talk with you soon Goodbye. Who says that won't believe? You look so tired, happy, bring down the government. They don't, they don't speak for speak for us.

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