A Chimp For Prez

Donald Trump is male chimpanzee.

Trump’s Shock And Awe Campaign

Trump’s psychological profile is that he is a third rate bully. During his business career he not only stiffed his many small vendors, he also stiffed big bankers. He would perform lousy on his bank loans, then go to the big bankers and say, guess what, unless you lend me more money you just lost the money you already gave me, and they would give him more money. He bullied his way through the Republican primary. "Little Marco," and calling Jeb Bush "a disgrace to his family." His Republican opponents lost by thinking he will take Poland and then stop there. I guess we can let him have Poland.

What Trump does is very well though out and he has honed it over a lifetime. He is really really good at it. And he thinks it works. Look at the Trump towers. Look at how many votes he collected in the primaries.

And now he is unleashing shock and awe on Hillary. Going after a Gold Star family can feel irrational to everyone else, but not to Trump. That is what he does. His rape comment during the Commander In Chief forum was more of the same. And now he is asking Hillary to ditch her bodyguards "and let's see what happens."

Japan has the most strict gun laws, there is no right to bear arms in Japan, but the Japanese prime minister moves around with a thick circle of armed bodyguards.

But then there is absolutely no logic to his wall either. It is not about logic. This is psychological. To his diehard supporters that Trump feeds their hate is a full course meal. They just need to watch him do obscene things. It is like a Horaldo Riviera Show, only in the form of someone running for president. You are not expecting college tuition, or health insurance, or a job from Riviera. This is narcissism feeding on narcissism. This is a piranha feast of racial hatred, misogyny and xenophobia.

This is more like FDR confronting Hitler and less like Barack Obama confronting Mitt Romney. Romney's "takers" comment was classist, but I never thought he was a fascist, a danger to the very republic. It is the genius of the Founding Fathers that they actually saw Trump coming, and now he is here. Americans did not fear a fascist takeover even in the 1930s, although anti-semitism was pretty rampant.

This is the first time in American history fascism is so close to becoming possible. Trump has rallied a crowd that seeks allegiance to no one and nothing but the person of Trump. "I alone can fix it."

In this 2016 election the very republic is at stake. And that argument has to be made to the thinking public.

Trump Does Not Understand Government Structure

Trump's political dig on Yellen more dictatorial than presidential | TheHill

Attacking federal judges, Supreme Court justices and now the Chair of the independent Federal Reserve: every time this guy speaks he is capable of hitting a new low.

Beyond The Pale, A New Low

This tops the rape comment he made at the Commander In Chief forum.

Trump: Clinton's Bodyguards Should Disarm And See What Happens To Her

the insinuation of gun-related violence against a rival is unprecedented in modern presidential politics.

Trump: Never wrong, never sorry, never responsible - The Washington Post

What makes Donald Trump such a singular figure — in modern politics and, perhaps, ever — is his refusal to take ownership of the outrageous things he has said and done.

It is the essence of his leadership style, the defiance that exasperates his foes and makes his supporters love him all the more. The one thing that is consistent about him is inconsistency.

Not only does Trump refuse to apologize, he blames others for his own actions. His campaign staff may claim to speak for him, but he will leave even his aides twisting when it suits his purposes.

“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said, falsely, in an appearance at his newly opened luxury hotel, which is just a few blocks from the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.”

“I fully think apologizing is a great thing, but you have to be wrong,” Trump told “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon a year ago. “I will absolutely apologize sometime in the distant future if I’m ever wrong.”

“Don’t believe the biased and phony media quoting people who work for my campaign. The only quote that matters is a quote from me!” he tweeted in May.

To Trump and his supporters, his refusal to apologize is yet another measure of his strength as a leader. He wears the scorn of a legion of media fact-checkers as a badge of authenticity.

“One of the things that we all are used to in this business is dog whistles, but the thing that we’re not used to, and I’m finding it very difficult to getting used to , are the howls of wolves,” Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), the dean of the caucus, said at a news conference.

‘Mr. Trump Is Beyond Repair’ : Political Wire

At least on national security, I believe Mr. Trump is beyond repair. He is stubbornly uninformed about the world and how to lead our country and government, and temperamentally unsuited to lead our men and women in uniform. He is unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief.

Race tightens in projected U.S. Electoral College vote: Reuters/Ipsos

Polling aggregators, which calculate averages of major polls, have shown that Clinton’s lead over Trump has been shrinking this month. The most recent individual polls put Clinton’s advantage at 1 or 2 percentage points.

Trump stumbles after surge in polls | TheHill

Trump has seemed to slip back into his primary-election style, stirring up controversy and lashing out at critics as he rode a wave of quickly improving poll numbers.

“Take their guns away,” he said. “She doesn’t want guns … let’s see what happens to her. Take their guns away, OK? It’d be very dangerous.”

Democrats erupted in anger. Clinton's campaign called on GOP leaders to denounce the comments, and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted to Trump that "blood will be on your hands" if a supporter killed Clinton.

“When Trump is not on message and stirring controversy, he seems bored,” GOP strategist Nino Saviano said. “The media, for its part, doesn’t feel that much different.”

“He got the new management team in and they pinned him down for a few weeks, but it was inevitable he’d go rogue again.

“He just doesn’t have the discipline to stay within the game plan. It was inevitable he’d go back to bad Trump.”

Black Dems rip Trump as 'racial arsonist' over 'birther' controversy | TheHill

Gore, Sanders, Warren: Vote Clinton, not third-party | TheHill

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's bad week has ended and her resurgence began Friday. 

Clinton's September slump may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Democrats because the Clinton campaign had fallen victim to overconfidence, but that has ended.

Gore, whom I predict will campaign in Florida, among other states, is the most ideal person in the world to warn those who deplore Trump but are tempted to vote for Stein or Johnson that a vote for these two candidates could elect Trump, as votes for Green nominee Ralph Nader in 2000 almost certainly elected President George W. Bush, leading to all of the problems that followed.

I have long argued that there is a progressive populist majority in America waiting to be born. That is why Sanders topped Donald Trump by large double-digit margins in virtually every poll taken when Sanders was running for president. That is why Elizabeth Warren is such a beloved figure in progressive circles, along with Sanders, which is demonstrated again in her current battle with Well Fargo after more than 5,000 employees apparently ripped off bank customers.

The Clinton slump has ended and the Clinton resurgence has begun. 

Warren Must Perform The Attack Dog Role

Senator Elizabeth Warrior is best positioned to perform the attack dog role. This guy Trump is not your regular candidate. This dude is fascism's ugly face for the 21st century. This is not a Mitt Romney, not a McCain, this is no Bob Dole. This is not even Richard Nixon.

The Republic itself is on the line. The question is not who do you want for president. The question is, do you want to keep the republic or no?

Elizabeth Warren seems to be the only person in either party who knows utter precisely how to attack Trump. She hits bull's eye every single time.

Let Hillary run for the White House. Let Elizabeth Warren do it because she wants and deserves a Senate majority. Begs the question, where is Nancy Pelosi when you need her? She needs to be crisscrossing the country on behalf of people who are trying to take the House. The Pelosi fatalism is not working.

Fuhrer Trump

This is how fascism comes to America

Because it did not immediately and fully embrace Trump, because a dwindling number of its political and intellectual leaders still resist him, the party is regarded with suspicion and even hostility by his followers. Their allegiance is to him and him alone.

Michelle Obama's Pop Off

Read Michelle Obama's First Campaign Trail Speech for Hillary Clinton 

We also need someone who is steady and measured because when you’re making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off.

Warren Will Be A Lighthouse In The Senate

Warren: Warrior
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warrior

To dig deeper into the DOJ’s reasons for going easy on the alleged wrongdoers, Warren dispatched a letter the same day to James Comey, asking the FBI Director to release all interviews and other materials “related to the FBI’s investigations and prosecutorial decisions regarding these referrals” to the DOJ. It’s interesting that Warren stated that the highly unusual public disclosure of such information is justified because of a recent precedent: the release of records about Hillary Clinton’s email system. If the email release was justified by “intense public interest,” as the FBI stated, then according to Warren, the same standard applies to its investigation of the financial crisis.

Prohibition In Bihar

Raghuvansh Singh Asks For Repeal

Mr. Singh told The Hindu in an exclusive interview that the new law levying a communal fine on villages and the arrest of entire households where alcohol has been found goes against the “spirit of jurisprudence”.

Barack Obama Born Again As Per Trump

Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Now he has been born again. Barack Obama has had a second birth on the beautiful island of Hawaii. And the world has Donald Trump to thank for it. How does it feel, Mr President, to be born again?

Trump Is The American Brexit

World War II ended. So ended the British Empire. Brexit is the second dose of the double whammy. It is not the young Brits who went all out for it. These are retired seniors who can't fathom how the Polish can be called white, or Italians. The Brits are saying, you don't understand. The British Empire is really, truly over. We are a little bigger than Ireland, and a lot bigger than Iceland, but that's about it. Don't be dragging Greenland into this conversation.

Donald Trump is the worst nightmare of Americans who still happen to think America is the number one country. That is why pretty much the entire Republican security establishment is officially behind Hillary. They see an avalanche cascading down Mount Everest. Trump wants to dismantle NATO. Putin is not on record wanting to dismantle NATO. You have to wonder.

To say you are going to build a wall on the Mexican border is, strictly on practical terms, kind of like saying you are going to bring back Tupac. You might agree or disagree with the idea, but it just is not in human capacity to build the wall. That just so happens to be Trump's number one agenda item. And that is why Trump 2016 needs to be sued like Trump University is currently being sued in a few different states. The wall idea is out and out a fraud. The very idea is scam. This is worse than someone trying to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. That bridge is much smaller and it happens to exist. But Trump is doing it. He is from Queens, not Brooklyn. He doesn't care.

Trump himself doesn't believe the wall can be built, or he would have tried to factor it into his budget. But no, according to Trump Mexico is paying for it. That is like saying to those to be executed through lethal injection, go buy your own syringe. The Mexican president has made it absolutely clear: "We are not paying for that f______ wall!"

The how part is even more ridiculous. How, according to Trump, is Mexico going to pay for it? Because Mexico has a trade deficit with America. That is like saying China has a trade surplus with America, and so the US government should go build the road from Beijing to Berlin that the Chinese want built. America has a trade deficit with China but that doesn't mean the US government owes the Chinese government money. The US government does owe the Chinese money, but that is borrowed money, not trade deficit money. If you have to explain this much to someone running for president, you should be accused of insulting that person's intelligence. Hello. Anyone upstairs?

So you have a ridiculous idea wrapped in another ridiculous idea all wrapped up in yet another ridiculous idea, like those Russian dolls. That is the central plank of Trump 2016. If Donald Trump does become president that will be a clear signal to the world America is tired of being the number one country. Trump is Boris Johnson times 10. At least Boris is aware he is a clown.

Not all concrete in the Trump Towers of the world is enough to build a wall on the Mexican border.

Number two is immigration. Trump doesn't like it. He is against it. He is not for it at all. He is opposed to it. Do you get it?

This is like China saying, ban the communist party. Or North Korea saying, conduct the next test on Kim Jong Il. Or India saying, banish all the gods. Or Brazil saying, the soccer party is over, no more soccer. Or Jamaicans saying, no more partying. Immigration is the very definition of America. No soccer, no Brazil. No immigration, no America. His real slogan is Make America Vanish.

His third agenda item is to rob "the poorly educated," as he puts it, in broad daylight. You light up the racial fires under poor white bottoms to get them to vote against their own economic self interests. You call Mexicans rapists for six, seven, eight months, and then you unveil your tax cuts for those who don't need it plan. By then it's too late. The poorly educated have already pledged allegiance. The white working class. Man does not live on bread alone, but on Satan's hate speech.

Damnit, Hillary. Don't be scaring people with these tightening polls. It is about the madman and the nuclear code.

Mitch McConnell is yet another fallen angel. That guy owes his leadership position among Republicans to his racism and racism alone. The competition is, who is the most racist among us? That would be Mitch. Give him the gabel.

Racism is a heart disease, spiritually speaking. Mitch McConnell has put the US constitution into the acid tank by not letting the president make the nomination to the Supreme Court. He is another guy who has not read the US constitution. And now Mitch has single handedly scuttled the criminal justice reform that both parties and even the Koch brothers (a political party in their own right) had agreed on. Yes, defer to the leadership. He is the most racist among you. Black folks are in jail, which is where they belong. That's right. And Lincoln imagined free blacks. No, he didn't.

Mitch McConnell is the Jesse Helms of Kentucky. Jesse looked down upon Africans because everyone in America looked down upon him. The guy had nowhere to go.

And Trump, the king of fast food, is supposed to be healthy? Trump would like French fries (freedom fries) with that.