I had not taken seriously the possibility that Donald Trump could win the presidency until I saw Matt Lauer host an hour-long interview with the two major-party candidates.
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Moderator's Sexism
Last night the moderator acted sexist through his regular interruptions of the woman candidate.
Devoting a full third of the time to emails! The FBI cleared her of any wrongdoing. Whatever happened to rule of law?
What's up to giving Trump the kid glove treatment? The guy blatantly lied on Iraq.
There was no vetting of Trump’s temperament.
It was lopsided and sexist.
Hard Core Racist, Hard Core Sexist
Clinton on Trump: 'Everything is a game' to him
"What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" Trump tweeted.
Donald Trump is hard core racist. And he is hard core sexist. Unrepentant. At the deep end.
How Trump Will Show Up For The Debates
The unbearable stench of Trump’s B.S.
Hillary 2016 should hire Fareed Zakaria as a consultant (or read his article online for free) to prepare for the debates.
The guy does not lie. That is a different phenomenon. You have to know the difference between that and what Trump does. It is called bullshitting. There's a difference.
Going to the White House in 2016 is about how to tackle a bullshitter. How times have changed.
The only rescue is the debate format. I don't see how even a bullshitter can avoid talking policy. But I would never underestimate a bullshitter's capacity to do the one thing he is very good at, which is to bullshit. The guy is super confident about his ability to bullshit his way through every policy topic. He is also counting on simply looking male, his definition of presidential.
Begs the question. What exactly is he planning to do? What theatrics are to be expected? How do you "look" male?
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Donald Trump’s Racism Is A Heart Disease
Anti Semitism is a different strain of the same virus. As is sexism. Racism is a heart disease. Spiritually speaking. It is not a bodily ailment. The reference to skin color is superficial. It is not about skin color.
It is not in the mind. Or Donald would use his mind. He would read. He would ask around. He would do data analysis. He would face the facts. But he is doing none of that.
It is not at the level of the soul. If he were to pray to God, God would guide him in the right path, but he does not pray, not to God.
Donald Trump's racism is a heart disease. Its roots might be in Satan worship (Satan says hate each other) but that which drives Donald to do what he does, and say all the hateful things, all that is because he has a heart disease. Racism is a sickness of the heart.
This dude actually sent people, private investigators, to Hawaii when he launched his sick birther campaign. If it were a mental inquiry he would actually be interested in Obama's birth certificate. But it was not a mind looking for facts. Donald was driven by his heart, his sick heart.
Racism is a heart disease that looks only for facts that fit. But the facts are highly unnecessary. Racism is its own fact. It does not really need external facts.
The pus is coming out. Hopefully the race relations wounds will heal in the aftermath. In North Carolina somebody started a Racists Anonymous. Go national with it.
It is not like he does not use his mind at all. That part of him is a scam artist. Through his racist talk he has bundled up people who he intends to rob in broad daylight with his tax cuts.
Education, Health: The Costs Are Supposed To Go Down, Dramatically
The costs for education and health are supposed to go down, dramatically, like the prices on computers have gone down over the years.
All educational materials can be digital and free. The education framework that America uses not even Henry Ford could recognize. There is a need for a fundamental update.
Lifelong education means you should be able to plug in any time, anywhere.
Universal high school education means putting the material out there and letting all seven billion people access it.
That also applies to community college and vocational training and college itself. All the way to cutting edge research.
These are not arguments against teachers and learning communities. We need many many more teachers. But these are teachers who fully embrace digital. They are in person but they can also be online.
Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will mean creativity and people skills are now more important than ever before.
There is a need for a fundamental rethink on how education gets served. Broadband and education are the new infrastructure. Pouring 500 billion dollars into concrete and steel because some white guys decided to buy into racist venom is going backwards in time. But 50 additional billions into education would be nice.
You could put 10 billion into a basic Universal Basic Income program. That would be cheaper than 500 billion into concrete and steel.
Infrastructure has to be built. But for infrastructure reasons. Not as a job creation program. Not jobs of yesterday. The same folks could be absorbed into jobs in solar power. That would be legitimate infrastructure.
Health has to start with wellness. Then the free basics. And that would be the way to keep the costs down in an otherwise exploding sector.
But instead of wellness you have capitalism run amok. Nutrition is in poor shape. There is much unhealthy eating. Exercise, yoga and meditation are in short supply. America should import as many Indian yoga instructors as it has software engineers.
Access to credit has to reach the lowest income brackets. Right now the barriers are largely racial and irrational.
Donald Trump For Political Target Practice
I have begun to tune into the US election a little more. I have not liked the early September tightening of polls. It might still smell like a Hillary victory but I am not going to be happy about anything but a landslide.
And so I have decided to take Donald Trump for political target practice. The guy is a feather weight political boxer. That is my reckoning.
The Mexicans just got lucky.
The first black president has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams on the race relations front. Men of Trump's worldview used to run empires. Eight years of Barack Obama and Trump is a caricature. The guy is a total clown.
The Truth About "Illegal Aliens"
The 11 to 16 million hard working undocumented workers are the underbelly of the American economy. They are the precise reason why America is not Japan. America has needed a steady flow of immigrants through its history to keep chugging along.
Immigrants also come to the very top. Stop immigration and America is no longer an entrepreneurial country. Only the enterprising bother to come to America. It is by definition.
And so anti immigrant bigotry and hate speech is nothing but ungratefulness.
America always has been a country of immigrants, period. Immigration is the very definition of America.
Send Donald Trump to Antarctica. He does not belong in America.
Monday, September 05, 2016
China's Only Future Is Political Reform
Barack Obama Deliberately Snubbed By Chinese
The best course is - - best as in best for the Chinese Communist Party - - that the CCP takes steps towards political reform. That means enshrining free speech and religious freedom into the Chinese constitution. Chinese nationalism is 100% in the mind. The Chinese also have a soul, just like everyone else. Then the CCP could offer two candidates for all major offices like president, governor and mayor and the people would vote and choose. So far so good. The CCP is still the only political party.
Otherwise the pressure will keep building. The Soviet Union was invincible and impenetrable until seemingly overnight it no longer was.
God has created human beings with free will. The human soul longs for the basic freedoms. It might or might not be in America's powers to see that to fruition beyond American shores. But God has Total Power. With God all things are possible.
But so far the indication is the CCP does not have the slightest intention to go in the direction of fundamental political reforms. It is wedded to the status quo. It feels like a till death do us part scenario.
In that case the pressure keeps building up until there is an explosion or implosion. The forces at march are to do with technological innovation. The Chinese can engage in only so much social media and ecommerce, only so much in global travel, only so much in rise in income before the spiritual thirst takes over. It is the most powerful force in all creation.
Barack Obama is not a weak black president Senate Republicans act racist towards. America has not seen a more powerful president, because America has never been in a more powerful position in absolute terms. The Chinese per capita income is seven times smaller with zero chances of achieving parity because you can't compete with free speech with lack of free speech. But the CCP doesn't care. With its political monopoly it only cares about the absolute GDP. It feels like it has swung past America. Warning: speed breakers ahead.
Senate Republicans and Donald Trump be damned. If Barack Obama could run for a third term he would easily win.
The American political system is a work in progress. There is campaign finance reform to do. Race and gender relations can be much better.
But the worry in China is a better state citizen relationship. How about no oppression? How about freedom? How about just being able to talk?
A tarmac insult is not something China can afford. A big chunk of China is still a Third World country.
Barack Obama could not have been elected president if he did not have street fighter political instincts. He has been a once in a 50 years kind of president. The Chinese should not underestimate this guy, not now, not a year from now, not 10 years from now.
In Nepal the Chinese have shown they don't know how a multi party democracy works. It is possible the Chinese "intelligence" is clueless about the idea of a US president in the final months of his office. The American democracy can look like a mess. It is by design. That is what free speech looks like. But the American state is as organized as any state can be at this point in time.
The Chinese people might be able to overtake America but that will never happen under the CCP monopoly, by definition. But the Chinese state itself has a shelf life of max 35 years. Before 2050 all world will have become one country. And yes, it will be a democracy.
But in the meantime we face a reality where China is a major trading partner to all major countries. That means there will be no major war. But the ideological tussle is very real and it is playing out most visibly in the South China Sea.
Authoritarian regimes, if they were to not make outlandish territorial claims, would collapse from within. Democracies have safety valves. If you are in power and you mess up, the opposition will blame you. But in an autocracy, that mechanism is missing. And so those in power project and create external threats. So the masses can vent their anger from time to time. That explains South China Sea.
And Arunachal Pradesh.
America and India now are what America and Britain used to be. But this is a temporary arrangement until all world is one country.
Barack Obama might have a tarmac problem, but looks like the CCP has existential anxieties as a political entity. The Chinese people will see through it all soon enough.
You do not end up in Barack Obama’s position from where he started, in Hawaii, without a birth certificate (source: Donald Trump), unless you have street fighter political instincts. It is not possible Obama got slighted and did not even notice. What the "secular" Chinese might not have noticed is the "Christian" Obama forgave, because he kept his eyes focused on the big picture. The big picture is global warming. And he decided to be "his brother's keeper." That is also the reason he brought up democracy and human rights. A democratic China could surpass America, the CCP political monopoly has a self imposed glass ceiling. So, obviously, he is not worried China might some day surpass America. Because he is "his brother's keeper." That happens to include the Chinese.
To a lot of people who work or spar with Obama, he comes across as "smarter." It is not biology. It is that he is higher up on the spiritual ladder. He simply sees more. By the grace of God.
Forgiveness is the turf of the strong, and I don't mean big defense budget strong.
You will know the Chinese "got" religion when they forgive the Japanese and the British.
China’s handling of the president’s arrival has created a narrative that the Chinese snubbed him. The reality, American officials say, is both simpler and more complicated.
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