No Hillary Clinton, This Isn't About You

In an upcoming documentary Hillary Clinton lashed out at Bernie Sanders:

"He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it."

HRC also won't commit to supporting Sanders if he wins the Democratic nomination. It's hard to see why HRC would revive her feud with Sanders. She only sounds petty, spiteful and obtuse. HRC has learned nothing from the 2016 campaign, and merely blames everyone and everything but herself. Or maybe she still believes that the Democratic party is her personal property. Maybe it's time we showed her the door.

Rock n Roll Was the Devil's Music

Rock n' roll was the devil's music in the figurative sense. It was one of the cultural trends of the past half century that led us to the hole were in today. Rock n' roll promoted a lifestyle of hedonism and consumerism. It was based around the worship of stars who engaged in anti-social and even criminal behavior. No wonder its listeners turned into oafish morons who never grew up mentally. Of course, the rock culture also promoted widespread drug abuse, across multiple generations. The funny thing is that when they are white we are supposed to feel sorry for them. We are supposed to feel sorry for a "working class" that doesn't actually work.

Rock started out as another white misappropriation of African-American culture. Unlike Jazz, which became an art form, rock never amounted to more than drivel. Maybe we should burn down the rock n' roll hall of fame and everything in it.

Trump the Terrorist and Warmonger

Trump's assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is ultimately a cheap political stunt to make himself look tough for the election. It actually shows how he and his gang are nothing more than criminals. Trump doesn't have any real foreign policy accomplishments to point to so he decided to start shooting missiles (in compensation for his limp penis.) Who ever believed that Donald Trump was a man of peace? Only a few idiot pacifists whom we can now ignore.

Trump Is Losing the Trade War

The New York Times recently published an article by Neal Irwin "The Most Important Least Noticed Economic Event of the Decade." Irwin points out that between 2015-16 there was a sharp slowdown confined to the energy and agricultural sectors. This slowdown also affected manufacturers who are related to those sectors (like Caterpillar.) The Federal Reserve tightened its monetary policy in 2015, which led to a slowdown in economic growth. This slowdown, however, was felt mostly in the interior of the country; the coasts were unaffected. It could still explain why "middle America" voted for Trump.

According to a new study by the Federal Reserve show that Trump's trade wars have caused further losses in factory jobs. Not the result Trump promised. Trump's tax cuts at the same time, have only produced a stock market bubble which will eventually burst. All bubbles will burst: you don't need a degree in economics to know that.

Reflections on the Election in Britain

Boris Johnson--islamophobe, racist, misogynist--led the British Conservative party to victory. There goes the theory that the Brits are so advanced on gender issues. Johnson won by appealing to uneducated, uninformed white males (sound familiar?) Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn was the target of a smear campaign that labeled him an "anti-Semite." Nobody sees any kind of double standard here. Apparently, in Britain you can get away with any sort of bigotry except "antisemitism." This is a clear case of selective outrage.

British politics are structurally and culturally different from American politics. It is difficult to correlate political trends from one country to another. One example was the British elections of April 1992, which George Bush I thought was going to guarantee his reelection. It didn't.

One gets the sense the Britain, like the rest of Europe does not have a future, but only a past.

Trump's Orangeface Explained

In an article posted on Vox "Could this be Trump’s orange makeup?" by Cheryl Wischhover it turns out that Trump's weird orange coloring comes from using a cosmetic called Bronx Colors which is made by a Swiss company. The stuff is unavailable here in the states. That is the reason that Trump needs a constant supply of new shirts because the stuff leaves stains on his collar.

The new line from congressional GOPers is that the impeachment inquiry is driven by mere "dislike" of Trump. It seems that Trump has dragged down the entire GOP down to his juvenile mentality: presumably, if you liked Trump, you would let him get away with anything he wants. Does Trump ever stop to think why people dislike him? That would take too much effort.

Call It For What It Is

The revelations around Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's anti-immigrant policies including family separations, show that his links with the so called "white nationalists." Miller is not only a racist, but a sadistic psychopath, who hopefully will meet a harsh reckoning someday. Miller, by the way attended Duke University, where he associated with neo-Nazi Richard Spencer. Keep that in mind since Miller likes to cry "anti-Semitism" whenever he is criticized.

The term "white nationalism" is nothing more than an attempt to disguise white supremacism. It is an attempt to camouflage the ugliness of Ku Kluxers and skinheads and make it seem respectable. White supremacism is the same vile garbage, no matter how they try to dress it up.