The Kids

Trump Debacle Shows Why Kids Should Not Run The Campaign

In Trump’s case, over-reliance on his kids is a reflection of both his narcissism and deep insecurity (which, I suppose, is at the root of the former). He believes he knows it all. Professionals are “stupid” and “incompetent.” (Some are, but he cannot distinguish between the stupid and the smart, the incompetent and the expert.) He has not the patience nor the capacity to learn policy or master the fine points of political strategy; he therefore is loath to interact with professionals who’d figure out that he, in essence, is a fraud woefully uninformed about anything beyond his own business.

Talk Of Lost Emails

George W Bush White House "Lost" 22 Million Emails

Most troubling, researchers found a suspicious pattern in the White House email system blackouts, including periods when there were no emails available from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. “That the vice president’s office, widely characterized as the most powerful vice president in history, should have no archived emails in its accounts for scores of days—especially days when there was discussion of whether to invade Iraq—beggared the imagination”

Hillary 2016, About Time

Mom Daughter Tampon Text Exchange

What kind of man/men will stand the idea of Donald Trump representing them?

Sexism Has To Be Confronted Head On

Women should not seek combat roles, or roles in the army, period, otherwise, of course, they will get raped by fellow soldiers, said Donald Trump.

A judge somewhere echoed him one or two weeks later. He demanded of a rape victim, "Why did you not keep your knees together?"

That is the Zika virus of extreme sexism spreading through media fluids.

But it went unanswered by Hillary 2016.

I know how this works. I have experienced it for racism on a smaller stage.

First you are in denial. He could not have said it. How could he have? He was on national television. But oh he so did.

Then you wish to avoid the mud. I don't have to stoop to his level. He got down and dirty. I don't have to get down and dirty. I am better than him.

Then you hope others also disapproved of it. They perhaps did.

Finally you hope others will fight on your behalf. After all you seem to be sitting on a billion dollar team. But nobody does. Because, well, you are supposed to be the standard bearer. Unless you charge there is no fight. Everyone is looking at you.

"Every time I think about Trump I get allergic," said Hillary, coughing, a few days after Trump’s rape remark.

A lot of people thought she was a slick politician making lemonade out of lemon. The coughing was proving to be inconvenient.

But that is the most accurate diagnosis of what happened on 9/11. Hillary was seen collapsing.

Treat her for pneumonia, yes. Assign an aide who makes sure she drinks three liters of water per day, yes. Do all that.

But confronting sexism is the top agenda item. 160 million women don't need to see a woman take it. They can and have been doing that on their own, no thank you. 160 million women (and plenty of men) need to see the first woman president give back as good as she gets. Trump’s sexism has to be confronted head on.

Trump's rape remark, if you mull about it enough times in confusion and indecision, can weaken your immune system. It is biology. That is what happened. And that is not something to feel shame for. That is an opportunity to empathize with all those young women who respond to a relentlessly sexist media with eating disorders. There are too many of them.

Hillary knows foreign policy, she knows health care, she knows minimum wage, but does she know how to confront sexism head on? Will she display it?

Trump’s rape remark was no fluke. He knew what he was doing. He knew the impact it will have. It was as precise as George Bush I sending guided missiles into precise windows in Baghdad.

Sexism is an ideology. It is like communism. It is well thought out. It is well structured. It has widely understood codes and symbols and persistent myths. It drags everybody down. It is Satanic. It strikes humanity at its most fundamental diversity, that of gender.

Hillary becoming president is different from Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, the women in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, even Merkel and May. She is having to wade through this gender churn, which, tackled right, will be good for the cause of gender equality everywhere. But not if it is not confronted. Head on.

Trump can use rape as both a racist and a sexist weapon, at the same time. He thinks he can use it against both Mexicans and women. He thinks rape is a double edged sword that works for him both ways. He has to be proven wrong.  

Trump is a high school bully pretending to be a presidential candidate. That is all there is to it.

And now you have a Kentucky Governor threatening violence. The Zika virus has been spreading. Kentucky seems to be the New York City of the Republican Party. That would be the second prominent sick mind in one state. Despite the threat of violence the dude still does not beat Mitch. Two deplorables.

Barack Obama has sex appeal. Mitch McConnell has none of it. That is what makes him so dangerous.  

Lucifer can touch and make sick. Lucifer can also speak and make sick. But Lucifer is neutralized through confrontation.

Merkel, May, Hillary, Inada

Japan’s prime minister-in-waiting to make her debut in Washington

Unconscious Trump

There are several polls showing an unconscious Hillary is more qualified than a conscious Trump. I guess that puts to rest the dehydration issue.

Needed: Sexism Experts

This first pre debate is a major scare.

And you thought Trump says really amazingly hostile things about Mexicans because, well, they are over there in Mexico. And the Muslims are far away.

But I was absolutely stunned by his cavalier remarks about sex crimes. A Senate Majority leader made a racist remark years ago and lost his job. I am not one to rate racist remarks. All of them stink. But to compete with Trump that dude would have had to defend lynching.

The moderator spends the majority of his Hillary time pillorying her on emails. I wonder why the FBI cleared her of any wrongdoing. The FBI has no standing in Trumpland. It's not just the generals.

And the constant interruptions.

And letting Trump get away with his vacuous statements. Moderators are supposed to cross question and get to the bottom of things.

There are climate change experts. There are health care experts. I am sure sexism experts also exist. This is a public policy issue. The moderator's behavior needs to be dissected by the sexism experts.

There is a reason America has never had a woman president. You can't quietly sneak in a woman into the Oval Office and say, yeah, we did it, the sexism is gone.

Sexism has to be talked about. There was plenty on display in the pre debate.

Hillary 2016 needs to hire some specialists, some sexism experts. The campaign has to be seen fighting the blatant sexism. A moderator is a referee, not an enabler of the 21st century American Third Reich.

Give Emails A Rest

Washington Post Admits the Hillary Clinton Email Mountain Is a Molehill After All 

Emailgate has been investigated and reported to death. Unless some genuine bombshell drops, further leaks should be treated as obvious partisan attacks, not news, and further production of emails should be noted briefly on page A17. Let's not turn this into another Whitewater.

And with that out of the way, can we now move on to the Clinton Foundation? It's been investigated to death as well, and the only thing we've learned is that Doug Band needs to shut his pie hole a little more often. Aside from that, literally every shred of evidence points to (a) appropriate behavior from Hillary Clinton and her staff; (b) Bill Clinton leveraging his fame to raise money for charity; and (c) billions of dollars spent on worthy causes. Beyond that, you might find Bill's personal moneymaking enterprises a little off-putting, but that's all. So how about if we give the Foundation a rest too?

Debate Scare: Sexist Moderator

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.

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?

This Just Made My Day

“Can Donald Trump turn Texas blue?” @TheEconomist

Will The Penguins Take Him?

Send Donald Trump to Antarctica. Will the penguins take him?

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.

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.

Xi Jinping Cancels Nepal Visit

Assad Is Responsible For Syria Tragedy

When the people of Syria came out to peacefully protest in large numbers, Assad went after them like Hitler was going into Poland. It was like the Iranian regime in 2009. The response was so vicious, so cruel, so large scale. Armies are supposed to fight external wars.

Assad is responsible for the Syria tragedy. But he does not feel it because Syria is not a democracy.

Rajan Is Right

Raghuram Rajan, India's Departing Central Banker, Has a New Warning 

2008 was a wasted crisis. It was a crisis that could have helped the world take one big leap towards a knowledge economy. The world had an opportunity to shape globoeconomics, a new third dimension to the traditional micro and macroeconomics. Some new global institutions were needed. America needed a three trillion stimulus with much of that money ending on Main Street, but instead ended up with a much bigger monetary stimulus with all the money ending up on Wall Street, pretty much free.

If the interest rates stay at near zero for long enough, it is no longer a tool, is it? But what if that has been your only tool? Then you have no available tool the next time a big crisis hits.

Separation Of Nationalism And State

Just like the church state separation was enacted, there is a need to put in place a separation of nationalism and the state.

The nation state itself has to be reimagined.

The 2008 crisis was first and foremost a failure of the governments of the world. You can not globalize finance and not create a world government. Just like no government connected the computers of the world to the internet, finance globalized itself, spreading like a forest fire.

The kind of productivity gains that humanity has been fantasizing about for as long as there has been humanity are finally about to materialize and people are getting alarmed by it, because political and economic theory lag far behind the impending developments.

The heads of states of the world don't even have the political consciousness of the black marchers of the 1960s when they sought political equality.

Country after country across America and Europe are sprouting demagogues who are making all the wrong noise.

Political and economic theorists have to take the primary blame. And then the political leaders of the world.

The political landscape has to be thought anew. Global finance has to be reimagined. The world has been writing off trillions for lack of the right theoretical frameworks. Real lives are being impacted.

The political institutions are to meet political needs. A currency can't be a vehicle for nationalism either.

Nationalism is to do with culture, language, heritage, history, myths. It is not for political and economic institutions to meet those needs.

And, no, racism is not nationalism. Racism is racism. Racism is a heart disease, spiritually speaking. Racism is Satan saying hate each other.

God says love one another.

I vouch for separation of nationalism and state and separation of racism from the state. There should be zero tolerance for racism in the public sphere.

Donald Trump has a heart disease. He is a racist.

Hillary And The Idea Of Confronting Sexism Head On

Trump is boorish. The guy is a clown passing for a presidential candidate. I take one look at Trump and think America perhaps is a sliding power. This guy would be a joke as the Independence Party nominee.

Should not the woman wanting to be the first woman president take Trump’s sexism head on?

Trump is so incoherent and haphazard I am not sure it is even sexism. It is, but it is so much more. The guy is a sinbag. A bag full of sins.

When you get into a fight with the pig, you get dirty and the pig loves it. Going insult for insult would not be any meaningful fight against sexism.

Hillary is fighting. She is running for president. That is the fight. It is a daily grind, there is a fight every hour.

Putting one woman in the White House will not end the sexism. But 160 million women waking up will.

America is a democracy. The power is with the individual citizens, not the president.

Trump’s PVZ

Deng Xiaoping established something called SEZs in China, special economic zones.

Donald Trump has a PVZ, a policy vacuum zone. That would be his head, his skull. There is nothing going on there.

He also has a DVZ, a dollar vacuum zone. That would be his pocket. His net worth is four billion. His debt is 11 billion. The guy is swimming in the negative zone.

If you were in his position, would you release your tax forms?

The dude is proposing a 500 billion dollar "infrastructure" spend. It is not to create construction jobs for the people he insults by calling "the poorly educated."

He wants him and all his construction industry friends to go on corporate welfare. Trump’s corporate welfare for his cronies is going to exceed America's defense budget.

CWZ, corporate welfare zone, Trump’s proposed budget is CWZ.

Paths To A Clinton Landslide

"But the theory behind “fundamentals” models is that economic conditions prevail because most other factors are fought to a draw. In a normal presidential election, both candidates raise essentially unlimited money and staff their campaigns with hundreds of experienced professionals. In a normal presidential election, both candidates are good representatives of their party’s traditional values and therefore unite almost all their party’s voters behind them. In a normal presidential election, both candidates have years of experience running for office and deftly pivot away from controversies to exploit their opponents’ weaknesses. In a normal presidential election, both candidates target a broad enough range of demographic groups to have a viable chance of reaching 51 percent of the vote. This may not be a normal presidential election because while most of those things are true for Clinton, it’s not clear that any of them apply to Trump....... At various points, polls have shown Clinton drawing within a few percentage points of Trump — and occasionally even leading him — in states such as Utah, South Carolina, Texas, Alaska, Kansas and even Mississippi."

What A Clinton Landslide Would Look Like | FiveThirtyEight

Trump’s Wall

From: The Economist
The US-Mexican border stretches 1,989 miles, but the wall itself needn’t be as long thanks to the preponderance of natural borders like Rio Grande. Assuming a length of 1,000 miles (1,600 km) and a height of 40 feet (12 metres), Bernstein reckon that the wall would require $711m of concrete and $240m of cement. Including labour, the total cost of $15bn-$25bn is a bit more than Mr Trump's suggested $10bn. (Bernstein’s estimates presumably do not factor in Mr Trump’s construction expertise.)

Trump’s Full Speech On Immigration

Anyone with a skimpering knowledge of Politics 101, Economics 101, Geography 101, Wall Construction 101, Benefits Of Globalization 101, Productivity Gains Through Technological Innovation 101, No To Hate 101 will tell you Trump’s Wall is a wrong, hateful proposal. But the wall already exists. The Berlin Wall against inevitable globalization already exists in Donald Trump's mind.

In the modern era America started the trend of globalization. By now all world is on the bandwagon and rightly so.

But Donald Trump's hate is completely unhinged from facts and logic. He says Mexico will pay for it. How? Mexico runs a trade deficit with America "so we will use that money to get Mexico to pay for the wall." This guy obviously has no clue how trade deficits work.

That is like saying Obama is my pal, and he is going to pass a three trillion budget, and so I am going to get him to buy me Necker Island.

This dude actually sent people to Hawaii to do "research" on Obama's birth details.

Hate is its own fact. Hate is its own logic. Hate is its own reality. Donald Trump is proof.

In immigration speech, Donald Trump spurns softened tone and threatens Republican future - LA Times

Mexican president calls Trump's ideas 'a threat to the future of Mexico' - LA Times

Trump's Mexico visit stirs outrage: 'We don't want him' - LA Times   The anger crossed political lines. Members of the conservative National Action Party were as vociferous as people on the left. Margarita Zavala, a possible 2018 presidential candidate for the party, said Mexicans “have dignity, and we repudiate his speech of hatred.”......... Mexico City's local parliament declared Trump a persona non grata...........   “It feels like an insult,” said Elisenda Estrems, 41, an artist who was eating breakfast Wednesday morning at a Mexico City cafe. “The whole city will be up in arms. I hope they throw him out.”  ......... Mexican shops now specialize in yellow-haired Trump piñatas, ready to be smashed to bits. And the candidate is mocked in running jokes on social media and even in song......  Peña Nieto has been critical of Trump in the past, saying there is “no way” Mexico will pay for a border wall, and even comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler........  Some people suggested  Peña Nieto extended the invitation to both Trump and the candidate’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, but did not expect either to accept. It’s a tradition in some parts of Mexico, a kind of false hospitality that allows people to seem welcoming even when they’re not.

Not Confronting Sexism: Not An Option

A Clinton victory also promises to usher in four-to-eight years of the kind of down-and-dirty public misogyny you might expect from a stag party at Roger Ailes’s house.

As head of the Australian Labor Party, Gillard served as prime minister from 2010 to 2013. Her tenure was turbulent and notable for what Gillard termed in her exit speech the “gender wars.” What surprised the former PM most about the experience: that the sexist attacks grew worse as her time in office progressed. “I expected the maximum reaction to my being the first woman prime minister to come in the first few months,” she told me. “What I found living through the reality was that the sort of gendered stuff actually grew over time” as she tackled tough policy decisions. (Gillard too was derided as a “menopausal monster.”)

Then there were the two hecklers at a New Hampshire rally who waved signs and chanted, “Iron my shirt!” Clinton laughed it off, and the incident was reported mostly as dumbass 20-something guys acting like dumbass 20-something guys. But if someone had yelled an equivalently demeaning remark at Obama—like, say, “Shine my shoes!”—the public response likely would have been very different.

Why a Hillary Clinton Presidential Win Means a New Era of Public Misogyny - The Atlantic

Trump’s Rabid Racism

The dude talks about Blac (Black Latino Asian Coalition) people with the mouth of a mad dog. The world has changed under his very feet and he doesn't even know.

Last August, Trump took issue with Bush’s statement that many undocumented immigrants came to the U.S. as an “act of love,” seeking a better life for their families. “There’s no act of love. It’s tough stuff,” he said at an Aug. 25 news conference. “They’re gonna be gone so fast if I win, your head will spin.” Weeks later, during a raucous rally in Dallas, Trump railed against “anchor babies” and vowed to boot undocumented immigrants if elected president. “You people are suffering,” Trump told the Texans. “I’m in New York, but they’re in New York, too. They’re all over the place.”

Trump Should Lose Balance In The First Debate

Then never recover.

Hillary Clinton Piles Up Research in Bid to Needle Donald Trump at First Debate http://nyti.ms/2c3Q0Be

Her team is also getting advice from psychology experts to help create a personality profile of Mr. Trump to gauge how he may respond to attacks and deal with a woman as his sole adversary on the debate stage...... he can barely conceal his disdain for laborious and theatrical practice sessions.

To Hillary this is about the House, and cementing a new American majority, to last a generation, of progressive whites, colorful people, millennials, and women of all ages. This is not about the electoral college. Much is at stake.

I trust her to slam dunk it.

Trump Won't Prepare For Debate. Clinton Hunkering Down. | Daily Wire

Trump's just gonna wing the debates / Boing Boing

Clinton at fundraiser: 'I do not know which Donald Trump will show up' at debates - CNNPolitics.com

Sounds like she’s got this… | Balloon Juice

Nehru And The UN Security Council

When Nehru Refused American Bait on a Permanent Seat for India at the UN

One cannot underestimate how imminent Nehru and others felt a conflict of at least an equal degree to the Second World War was.