Friday, September 09, 2016

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?

Thursday, September 08, 2016

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?

Wednesday, September 07, 2016

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.