Let’s assume that what he’s really focussed on isn’t winning this year’s election, a task he now realizes is beyond him, but creating a long-term Trumpian movement. A nationalistic, nativist, protectionist, and authoritarian movement that will forever be associated with him, but which also has the capacity to survive beyond him. A movement that in some ways would resemble other right-wing political parties around the world, such as France’s National Front, Austria’s Freedom Party, and the U.K. Independence Party, but which would also harken back to earlier moments in American history, such as the rise of the anti-immigrant Know Nothing movement of the eighteen-forties, and the formation, a century later, of the isolationist America First Committee, which sought a negotiated peace with Hitler.
Monday, August 15, 2016
The Most Popular Politician In The World Speaks
Narendra Modi's speech on Independence Day 2016: Here is the full text
This guy Modi is India's Deng Xiaoping. The Indian economy is being transformed.
2016 Self Styled Nixon Brings Watergate Before Getting Elected
The Daily 202: Can Trump chairman Paul Manafort survive new Ukraine revelations?
Trump is no mere buffoon. He is a foreign agent, looks like.
This is way bigger than Watergate. America's chief foreign adversary is in cahoots with the Republican nominee, looks like.
Is this really happening? So brazen!
Sunday, August 14, 2016
Hillary Will Get Bigger Bounce From The Debates
Hillary Clinton got a big boost from the convention. What happens next?
Hillary got a big, stable bounce from her convention. She should get a bigger bounce from the debates. If there are debates. The debates require Trump actually showing up.
90 minutes of policy talk. Trump can't handle. The most unqualified candidate in history is up against the most qualified candidate in history.
Donald Trump is going to make Rick Lazio look like a gentleman.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Bihar Prohibition
They tried it in the US in the 1930s, and they ended up with Al Capone.
But in India this might be more of a political pendulum swing. If you are going to ban beef, I am going to ban alcohol. Is it true that beef has been banned in Maharashtra?
Hindus not eating beef is totally understandable. But how can you ban beef in an entire state? That is like imposing one religion on members of another religious group.
I have been curious about the details and the logistics. How did they do it? What happened to all the alcohol the day the ban went into effect? Were they destroyed?
Bihar (or India) is not exactly known for great, efficient law enforcement. There is much corruption. So how well has the ban been implemented?
In America Nixon launched a War On Drugs. But today it feels like a way to bring back slavery upon the blacks. There are so many blacks behind bars for small drug offenses, it does feel like slavery is back full force. It has been a racist endeavor.
Domestic violence is a valid, serious concern.
But why do people drink? Why do people smoke pot? Why do people do drugs? Not all of it can be explained as bad choices.
I think in Bihar the number one reason people drink is because there is malnutrition. People are hungry. Also, the abject poverty and the pressures of life could be causing mental health issues. And by mental health I am not suggesting Ranchi levels. Mental health is a spectrum, just like physical health. Physical health does not have to mean cancer. It can also be a cough.
After ban, in a state of low spirits
Friday, August 12, 2016
Donald, Go To Brunei
Donald Trump would like to go on a "nice, long vacation" on November 9. That's what he said.
Donald, go to Brunei.
He might not know it's a Muslim country.
Virginia, West Virginia
Crazy Idea: Hillary Clinton Should Stop Campaigning Immediately Never interrupt your enemy when he is an ongoing garbage-star supernova of unprecedented incompetence.
I think it is fair to say if you don't know Virginia and West Virginia are two different states you should not be allowed to run for president. It should not be legal.
Just an opinion.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Donald Dumb Says Obama Founded ISIS
As in, literally. Obama founded ISIS.
After killing Bin Laden, President Obama started abhorring the vacuum, apparently.
Obama was born in Kenya. And if he founded ISIS, he must have done so in Kenya. Because there is no record he was born in Syria.
After he founded ISIS, he figured this is as good a time as any, and he converted. He became Muslim, and has been ever since.
But I am not sure he is a socialist. That would be Bernie. Bernie owned up to it.
So if he was busy founding ISIS, when did he create Obamacare? When and where?
It is very possible Obamacare has been written in Arabic. That is why Mitch McConnell doesn't seem to be able to read it. Neither Rudy Giuliani, who is a proud Non Muslim.
As for Donald Dumb, he has no faith, because faith requires reading. A book.
The First Female President Must Be A Really Big Deal
I have been astounded reading some of the commentaries.
I think Indira Gandhi was the first Indian Prime Minister I became conscious of. And I was Barack Obama’s first full time volunteer in New York City. To be honest before that 2004 convention I did not imagine I would see a black guy in the White House in my lifetime. But it happened and he has been astounding, but even then I felt bad that Hillary had to be running at the same time.
As far I am concerned Hillary is the women's Barack Obama. She will be the first and she is talented. 93% of blacks voted for Barack Obama. Why aren't 93% of women voting for Hillary? How about 83?Even 73 would be nice. Wake up, women.
For me Barack Obama was about 500 years of world history. The only thing he needed to do for me personally was get in there, plant the flag, and I personally had no other expectations. For women it ought to be about 5,000 years of history.
God has given the women of 2016 the astounding gift of the most incompetent man to ever have run for this office. And women are still so subdued, it is astounding.
More astounding are some of the members of the commentariat. It is being suggested the only reason to vote for Hillary is that otherwise the republic might not survive. I guess that takes the sting out of the idea of the first woman president for some people.
This is not because India is a less sexist country. It is the most sexist country in the world, Indira or no Indira. This is not a East West thing. Look, Angela Merkel and Theresa May, and Europeans have managed to say every possible wrong thing about Google.
So what's going on? What is it about America? It feels like breaking some kind of a sound barrier. I am expecting to feel the thud.
Never mind we have a woman president now but at least the republic survived!
Golley.
Hillary gets pilloried for running for office, for doing what politicians do. If she were a swimmer at the Olympics, people would be like, I don’t like her, look at her, she is moving her limbs, and you can't trust her, she has the goggles on, why would you have the goggles on unless you are hiding something?
Donald Trump: Lucifer's Change Agent
Sexism Is 100% Lucifer, Sexism Is Satanic
Donald Trump is Lucifer lunging for the nuclear code. The truth is in black and white.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
This Is Secret Service Territory
Donald Trump knows he has lost this election and he intends to be a bad loser.
Donald Trump Suggests 'Second Amendment People' Could Act Against Hillary Clinton
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote on Twitter that Mr. Trump “makes death threats because he’s a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.”
Former Secret Service Official: Donald Trump Is ‘Pretty Close to the Edge’ | TIME
A presidential candidate is not above the law. Trump just sent a message to tens of gun owning mentally unstable people to at least make the attempt. My knowledge is this is illegal. The Secret Service needs to do its job and have a sit down with this guy.
One-in-five U.S. Republicans want Trump to drop out: Reuters/Ipsos poll | Reuters
NYTimes: Donald Trump’s Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide
Democrats: Trump costing GOP in key House districts - POLITICO
Trump’s loaded words fuel campaign freefall - POLITICO
“You aren’t just responsible for what you say; you’re responsible for what people hear,” said former CIA director Michael Hayden during breaking news coverage of Trump’s comments on CNN.
Republican nominee engaged in so-called stochastic terrorism with his remarks about "Second Amendment people" and Clinton
Donald Trump uttered perhaps his most outrageous – and dangerous – ad-lib yet. And that's saying something for a campaign in which he's criticized John McCain for being a prisoner of war, characterized Mexicans as rapists, called for banning Muslims from coming into the country, picked a fight with a Gold Star family and urged Russia to hack his political opponent. ..... given what we know about people taking up arms in this country, there will undoubtedly be some people who think he was serious and consider the possibility. ....Stochastic terrorism, as described by a blogger who summarized the concept several years back, means using language and other forms of communication "to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable." .. we can predict that there could be a presently unknown lone wolf who hears his call and takes action in the future. .... Trump puts out the dog whistle knowing that some dog will hear it, even though he doesn't know which dog.
.... He has 1) demonized her whenever he can by calling her "Crooked Hillary" and constantly degrading her; 2) organized a convention around which the central theme, repeated over and over, was that Clinton is a criminal who needs to be locked up, clearly using fear and moral disgust as motivators; and 3) is now using violent metaphors (or "jokes," if that's what you think his statements were) against her, just short of an explicit call to arms. Now we just have to hope that #4 doesn't come about – that violence does not erupt.