Donald Trump: No Heart, No Soul, No Brain, Fat Body

There, I just fat shamed The Donald.

Devastating

when it comes to Christian men still supporting Trump, “Disappointed seems like too soft a word. It’s devastating.”

A Really Really Bad Student

Donald Trump is like a really, really, really bad student on his way to sitting for a final exam, a seventh grader with zero preparation sitting for a SAT, and potty mouthed, extremely, completely, shamelessly bad mannered, so bad mannered the parents have taken a cue from Elvis and left the building instead of owning up to as to whose child this might be.

Russia, America And Global Stability

The ideological tussle lasted almost seven full decades. The capitalism communism tussle defined the 20th century. It is said only the Bible has been circulated more than Lenin's works. The decades after World War II were stark, primarily due to the nuclear angle.

The dog eat dog capitalism that Lenin theorized against was much tempered by FDR who responded primarily to the Great Depression. Stalinism was basically authoritarianism. The basic human rights, the basic freedoms, freedom of religion are the bedrock. The economic part of it did not work either. Ends up free enterprise is fundamental. Property rights are basic.

But Russia has always loomed large in Europe even during the era of Tsars. By geographic size it is still the biggest country in the world. The Russians would like to believe they are a major power in the world. They would like their geopolitical pull to be felt. Between them America and Russia continue to have most of the nuclear weapons in the world. And Russia has a defense industry that looks for buyers all over the world. Saber rattling is good for business.

The ideological tussle is not final, it never is. American democracy is not a finished product but a work in progress. And the economic paradigms it has been functioning in will soon prove inadequate. The world is about to enter an unprecedented era of major productivity gains largely driven by technology. The capitalism communism tussle was liquid water physics. The era of steam physics is right round the corner. New political and economic paradigms will be needed. And such theoretical work should never be tied to nationalism of any culture or country. Was Einstein's theory of relativity Jewish? Nope.

Is Russia a democracy? Is Russia a market economy? Is Putin a new Tsar? Russia is not a democracy like the ones in Western Europe, obviously. And Russia does not seem to have a hard nosed focus on economic growth like China. At some level Russia would like a status of equals relationship with the United States that it thought it had during the Cold War, based primarily on the fact of its large nuclear arsenal and a still impressive military.

Saudi Arabia is no democracy by any stretch of imagination but America seems to do business with it just fine.

There is a fissure. Russia, Pakistan, China and North Korea form one ideological belt, America, Europe, India and Japan form another belt. Democracies and non democracies have a tendency to needle each other. But it is not clear cut. Russia and India have a friendship that is unique.  That is a good thing. That perhaps is a safety valve lest things go a little out of hand between Russia and the West.

China is not a Saddam dictatorship. It can be argued China has campaign finance reform that American progressives wish they had.

America has campaign finance reform to do. Race relations in America are in a sorry state. So it is not like America has a perfect political system. The gender churn of the 2016 race is a global spectacle.

Jobs are being lost in all countries to automation but there are demagogues in many countries who are busy channeling the resultant anger in the direction of other countries.

The technological innovation is about to speed up so much it will not only ask for new political and economic theory it will also upend the geopolitical map of the world. Understood well it can be for the collective good of all humanity. Russia and America cooperating with the end goal of a nuclear weapon free world is what is best for the general welfare of the ordinary citizens in both those countries.  

Nuclear technology is decades old. Showing off nuclear is like someone bragging about an early mobile phone in this era of smartphones. Nuclear is not the next big thing. It is old technology. The next is nano and bio.

Syria and Yemen make both America and Russia look bad, as if it is okay for a large number of innocent people to die while the big powers of the world play their geopolitical chess games.

Syria is top of the list. The world is failing Syria. Who violated the ceasefire? America? And if the American military action was a mistake, were the Syrians and Russians invited for detailed briefings and verifications?

The Arab world is in turmoil. It is a world primarily struggling with itself. It is a culture asking for validation. There is an aspiration for freedom and democracy where you can kick the can down the road but not forever.

I read Tolstoy's War And Peace cover to cover during what would be the freshman year in the American high school system, Class 9. That is all I did an entire vacation. The mind was blown, to say the least. Compared to it novels of western literature started looking like little short stories. Then I read Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment and the mind was blown all over again. The mind was blown a third time with Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years Of Solitude.

The GDP is not the only measure of greatness. The rat race of chasing the dollar is not the only meaningful life. In fact if the rat race is your only life it is not much of a life in the first place. Life has to have a higher meaning.

And if it is about wealth if humanity can conquer global warming it can take itself to an Age Of Abundance, an era that will make the America of today look like a Third World country. And it will be global. All world will have become one country long before 2050 anyways.

Both Russia and America should approach the present from that future. There is much common ground possible. There is much for the two powers to do together.

Russia is the country that gave political asylum to Snowden, the whistleblower who has ignited debate on privacy in the era of mass surveillance. Ends up the American state is as knee deep as the Chinese state when it comes to surveillance.

This debate concludes with a netizen bill of rights. The debate has not even started yet.

The Russian political system is itself an unsettled debate. The right system will give Russia good economic growth.

Putin has a modest background. Yeltsin basically handed over Russia to Putin impressed by his ability to execute, to get things done. In the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union Russia was in free fall. There were bread lines, for example. Putin stabilized the country. But in the process became a new Tsar. One hopes for the sake of Russia that is not the final reality.

Democracy is good.

This Is Surreal

Trump once said on the campaign trail that he would approve of torture as President, “even if it doesn’t work.” With four weeks left to Election Day, he seemed to be testing the proposition on the public. Unshackled, he flirted with unhinged and erased the emollient line between a campaign aimed at the base and one intended to debase.

When protesters gathered outside the party’s white brick headquarters on Capitol Hill, the organizer turned out to be Trump’s Virginia campaign chairman. One sign waved at the RNC offices read, Better to grab a p-ssy than to be one.

Election Day “could be the start of the real civil war,” warns Kevin Sheridan, a GOP consultant and former adviser to Ryan. “Not the end of it.”

Trump’s stump speech is a sort of jazz riff, and one of his favorite themes involves reciting the lyrics of an old soul anthem, “The Snake,” a parable about the dangers of showing too much compassion to strangers. To the delight of his Wilkes-Barre audience, he wove it into this rally. “Oh shut up, silly woman,” Trump quoted. “You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.” Trump uses the tune to illustrate the dangers of welcoming Syrian refugees. But it can also be read as a rebuke to the GOP for letting Trump into the tent.

GOP caucus campaign chief Greg Walden told lobbyists the same day that Trump could be a drag in every race around the country. 

It all points to a Republican civil war that is, if anything, just getting under way. “The fight you’re seeing now is a preview of what you’re going to see on steroids after the election”

“There’s going to be a schism” 

thrice-married playboy who once said he had never asked God for forgiveness

Trump has exposed the disconnect between evangelicals’ words and their political deeds. 

Trump is unlikely to recede from the spotlight. This campaign has cemented him as a star. GOP insiders from all points on the party’s ideological spectrum predict he may use his notoriety to launch a branded news outlet for his fervent fans.

Zhirinovsky: Russian Trump

Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war 

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric, told Reuters in an interview that Trump was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington.

By contrast, Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton could spark World War Three, said Zhirinovsky, who received a top state award from Putin after his pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) came third in Russia's parliamentary election last month.

Zhirinovsky, who said he met Trump in New York in 2002, revels in his similarities with the American businessman - they are the same age, favor coarse, sometimes misogynistic language and boast about putting their own country first. Zhirinovsky has even said he wants a DNA test to see if he is related to Trump.

"Most Americans should choose Trump because men have been leading for millions of year. You can't take the risk of having one of the richest, most powerful countries led by a woman president," he said.

"Victory for Trump would be a gift to humanity. But if Hillary Clinton wins it will be the last U.S. president ever."

Mozart And Einstein

Mozart and Einstein and Tesla would all be considered autistic if they were alive today.

Trumpanzee

Trump is the GOP idea of fireworks. All sorts of explosions are going on. It is quite a dazzling display.

If a chimpanzee were to threaten to grab your genitals, male or female, how would you feel? That is how the women of America are feeling right now. The sentiment is legitimate.

Trump is an unrepentant sinner on full public display. Parents across America could make use of this after all. Teach kids not to be the unrepentant sinner on full public display. That is the silver lining to the cloud.  

Lie, cheat, steal, Trump does it all. The list does not end there. He is also a fast food glutton. Adultery was how he ended his first marriage and started the second. And he wants to kill people in large numbers, like Duerte.

Pride is his middle name: Donald P Trump.

He is Lucifer's very own agent. He preaches, hate your neighbor (Mexico).

Russia And The West Should Tone It Down

Russia orders all officials to fly home any relatives living abroad, as tensions mount over the prospect of a global war

This is a dangerous saber rattling, a foolish walk to the brink, an unnecessary distraction.

Russia and the West should move towards live and let live.

It would be unwise for the West to engage in triumphalism. On the other hand Russia should not expect the world to look the other way while it flounts the basics of global discourse.

British tabloids go into WWIII frenzy over reported pull-out of Russian officials’ relatives — RT News

PressTV-‘US-Russia tensions reach dangerous point’

"It is necessary to return to the main priorities. These are nuclear disarmament, the fight against terrorism, the prevention of an environmental disaster," Gorbachev said. 

In 2014, Gorbachev, who has rarely intervened in global affairs since 1991, accused of American "triumphalism" for fueling tensions what he warned could become a "new Cold War."

Donald Trump’s Words Create And Sustain The Glass Ceiling

Donald Trump’s words matter and they matter completely. The glass ceiling Hillary is about to break is composed entirely of such words. Of course the words matter. They are words of sexist bonding. They are sickening.

A female population that has found the idea of the first female president a little too abstract has finally found something to clutch onto and I am glad. Trump grabbing their genitals without permission is finally getting the message across. Women are rightfully offended. Plenty of men are offended. Why aren't all women offended?

Electing the first female president is not just about advancing one woman's political career. It is actually nothing to do with that one woman. It is going after every glass ceiling, the glass ceiling in Congress, the glass ceiling in the justice system, the glass ceiling in the media, the glass ceiling in the Fortune 500 companies, the glass ceiling in Hollywood, the glass ceiling in venture capital and tech entrepreneurship, the glass ceilings in India, and China, and Russia, and Japan, Africa, and, yes, Mexico. It has been long enough.

Sexism drags men down. Sexism drags women down. Sexism is a major drag, period.  

It is not accidental that Hillary Clinton is so qualified. She is super duper qualified. She is, frankly, over qualified. Average and below average men can get in and men down in the gutter can aspire but for women only being the most qualified candidate in history seems to count still. It is unfair but I will take it this one time. I hope the next woman president does not have to be this qualified.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. Citizens have to actively participate on a sustained basis for them to be able to see fundamental changes. And now is a remarkable opportunity to do so. Get involved and stay involved. Go vote. Stay engaged.

160 million women in America have to wake up for the three and a half billion women across the world. Genitals are being grabbed without permission in numbers that are absolutely confounding and offensive and wrong. Trump is defending all that sinful, criminal action.

Shame on Donald Trump. Unrepentant sinner that he is, of course he is irredeemable. Not even God can save those who don't repent. Sexism is sin. Racism is sin. All human beings have been created equal by the Creator.

The guy accuses Hillary of his sins. He blamed his birther movement on Hillary. He said Hillary Clinton is filled with hate. He accused Hillary of lying.

This guy has threatened to silence the media. He has now threatened to put his political opponent in jail. Idi Amin has come to America. This guy tops every fascist in history in terms of how close he is to power and how much damage he could do.

American airports are not Third World but one of its presidential candidates is. And I think I just offended the Third World, Duerte aside.  

This guy is not a Third World candidate. This is a candidate from hell, Lucifer's very own agent. And I mean that quite literally. The number one agenda item of this Climate Change denier is to push the planet past the point of no return. He could very easily achieve that goal in eight years, or less. Adolf Hitler has nothing on this guy. This is a hate machine that has lost control.  

And if this hate machine has 35% support across America that makes America quite a sinful country. Hate is not God's way.

The House Is The Only Insurance Against Trump

Hillary Clinton has to take the House. Taking the House is the only insurance against Donald Trump. This guy is so thoroughly sickening in every way he has to be defeated completely. Otherwise he is going to play the role of a really bad loser.

That House is within reach and I am glad Hillary 2016 is making all the right moves. She is making moves only an experienced hand could.