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. 

Trump’s Racism

Trump has made racist comments like I have not heard coming out of a major politician. Going back to the apartheid era.

And then he says, I am not a racist. He attempts "outreach" to "the blacks," rehashing every possible black stereotype in the process.

There is a policy vacuum. It is his entire head. That hissing sound? It's the vacuum.

Men of Trump's worldview used to run empires, jail the likes of Gandhi, Mandela and Martin Luther King. In that case Trump is good news. He did not invent this racism. It has been going on for centuries. But what a caricature it has become! These are the dying embers of a once potent hate machine.

Anti-semitism is a strain of the same virus. So is sexism. God says love one another. Satan says hate each other. Trump has satanic impulses.

If anyone told you he is running for president, you have been misinformed! This dude never had a chance.

And the run has been detrimental to his various businesses. The foot traffic is down everywhere.

So why is he running?

Satan worship.

Just like those who truly worship God are not deterred by material setbacks, the truest Satan worshippers are the same way.

His daughter, reports say the person he loves the most, is Jewish, and that did not prevent him from tweeting an anti Semitic image. The likes of Reverend Jackson and the other dudes in Harlem be damned.

Somewhere in Idaho, Wyoming, somewhere over there the likes of Trump are migrating to form a community of their own. And you thought segregation was over!

It is the leftover neanderthal brain. It is biology. Got to be. Trump can't help it. Is there a surgery for it? Or no?

The worst part is this might not be over in November. This dude is going to keep showing up on TV for at least four more years. His title is he is the duly elected leader of the Republican Party, or whatever is left of it. He is keeping that title for four years. Who is to argue?

I Miss Policy Talk

Hillary Clinton is rolling out a comprehensive plan to address millions of Americans coping with mental illness. She's pointing to the need to fully integrate mental health services into the nation's health care system.

I am absolutely sick and tired of Donald Trump's insults. I wish the two candidates were sparring over policy.

The guy does not know policy.

Hillary Needs To Confront The Sexism

Trump’s new aim: Poison a Clinton presidency

But instead of engaging his conspiracy theories, Democrats respond by attacking his character.

Hillary confronted racism in her Nevada speech. She needs to confront sexism the same way.

The women of America (and the world) don't need to watch a woman get beat up with sexist propaganda. They need to see the woman fight back and win.

Sexism is an ideology, a worldview. It has to be confronted.

Donald Trump Is A Clown

Donald Trump is a clown. If he were to become president he would be a dangerous clown. But he is not going to be. And so he is a dangerous clown.

Donald Trump is the head of the Republican Party for the next four years, duly elected. Nobody can take that away from him. Until someone else becomes the Republican nominee for president, this guy is it.

He is going to lose but he is going to be the country's opposition leader. Nobody can take that away from him.

With Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan both slated to lose their leadership positions in Congress, it is not like there is going to be another claimant to the throne.

Brace yourselves. You are going to be seeing Donald Trump on TV for four more years, likely on his own TV network. This guy is going to make a billion dollars for having run for president.

Donald is Zhirinovsky. Donald Zhirinovsky. Putin sits in a glass house himself.

Pakistan Day Parade, India Day Parade

आज पाकिस्तान डे परेड को हो आया। एक हफ्ते पहले इन्डिया डे परेड था। अमिताभ तो नहीं आए थे। बिजी रहे होंगे। अभिषेक और योग रामदेव आए थे।

दो परेड देख के पता चल गया भारत के तुलना में पाकिस्तान काफी छोटा पावर है। अमेरिका ने साथ छोड़ दिया, अरब देशों ने।

तो भारत को बनता है बड़प्पन दिखाओ। बड़े भाई की तरह। Generosity. Bigness of heart. क्षेत्रीय शांति के लिए। Don’t try to rub Pakistan's nose in the dirt.

Mitch McConnell:More Dangerous Than Donald Trump

Donald Trump is never going to be president. But Mitch McConnell has been the reigning racist in the US Senate. The whole world is watching, but he doesn't care. McConnell dislikes the idea of the first black president so much, he has put the US constitution into the acid tank. What's up with no Senate hearings for Obama's Supreme Court pick?

Donald Trump is a racist. That is the only thing he is. But he is not in a  position of power. Although this dude might start a war somewhere without even getting elected.

Hillary Should Give A Gender Speech

Hillary gave a wonderful speech on race in Reno. It felt to me like she was reading out of a catalogue. Everything racist Donald has said and done, she read it all out loud. It is good to have it all in one place.

Hillary should now give a gender speech. The first woman president has to talk some gender.