All you need to know about the world in 15 minutes or less...
"Would you rather?" Be governed by a Bronzed Ego with delusions of strong-man grandeur or a habitual liar who would do anything to achieve power and who has shown a startling propensity to be unafraid to use it in ways that benefit her? In other words, we're f****d.
How the media views politics. - It makes a lot of sense when you realize the media views politicians in the same vein as they do celebrities. And media persons will suck up, debase themselves and do almost anything to kiss the ring of celebrity or power. Hence, the courtesan class.
There's flattering reporting, and then there's obsession. - The link to the left is the latter. If this was a book Fabio would be on the cover.
Rule One: Protect fellow members of the ruling class. - Once you're in, you're in. And no matter how bad you screw it up, or how incompetent or unlikable you are, if you network properly you'll never be without a gig. The disconcerting thing with this is that the Democrats aren't even trying to hide it anly longer. Which suggests they don't care what people think because they know the system has been rigged to sufficiently shield them from punishment or consequence. (Alternative theory: The population is too dumb to care)
Why Trump cannot win. - Being thin-skinned and being the President is not a good mix. Of course, it's also the case for why Hillary can't win, but that ship has sailed. Either way the country is screwed.
Black voters and the messiness of democracy. - This is the first, modern, election where some (not all, but some) black voters are starting to question their blind loyalty to the Democrats. Unfortunately, for them, they're coming to the incorrect conclusion that voting for a DIFFERENT white Democrat who's proposing more of the same shit that got them in this mess is the correct answer.
"Fact-check" journalism sucks. - It neither checks facts or provides answers. What it is from the beginning is a license to editorialize by reporters who have heretofore only done so through subterfuge. In short, it's what the media has always done, dressed up and given the Imprimatur of the Pulitzer.
Karlie Hay is the worst person in the world.* (*For the eight minutes that we're all supposed to hate her before we move on to the next supposed tragedy). Unsaid in all of this is that the begrudging acceptance of hip-hop culture by Caucasian youth should be a good thing. The problem is there's a lot not to like about hip-hop culture. (But we're not going to have that discussion during the eight minutes hate)
Why do we keep demanding apologies? It's a stupid tactical trick only done with the hope that the current victim of the eight-minutes hate will prostrate themselves in front of the mob to be publicly shamed. (Also the idea that, when Gold Star families talk we are to "shut up and listen" is a horrendous one. You can respect their sacrifice but disagree with their opinion. They are not immune to criticism after all.)
No, it's really not a shocker that the worthless editorial board of a middling regional daily endorsed the Anointed One early. - Trump committed, in their eyes, the worst sin in the world by calling for restrictions on the Media's 1st Amendment rights. This from an editorial board that supports curbing free speech rights for everyone else mind you. Not necessarily the wrong endorsement, but not correct either. (no surprise) The correct thing to do would be to not endorse at all.
It's always somewhat amusing when artists and the media discover the poor. - Then act as if none of us realize there are poor people out there. Of course, when you don't interact with the servant class and spend all of your time feting the ruling class things like poverty tend to fly under your radar.
Heck of a job GOP.
Heck of a job GOP.
Idiots.
If your sense of entitlement is centered on the Anointed One... Then you're probably doing the entitlement thing wrong. If your daughters needed Clinton to show them all things are possible then you're doing the parenting thing wrong. Above it all, our public education system has utterly failed us.
Black Lives Matters creates a platform. And it really boils down to "give us free shit" reinforcing the belief that what started out as a call for much-needed criminal justice reform has been taken over by the usual actors who are just looking for a bigger hand out. That's too bad.
As good a defense of the wealthy (and Wall Street) as you'll ever find. - Without the rich, we would not have nice things. That's not an opinion it's a fact. When the wealthy have stuff the less wealthy want it. That creates demand. This creates entrepreneurs who, in term, meet that demand driving growth. The nasty nature of modern politics is that many in the ruling class resent the ruled gaining limited access to the things they claim as an exclusive right. So, to stop this, they seek to limit market access through the power of law and regulation. The poor are kept poor and the (correct) wealthy continue to dine on peacock and Champagne.
The "war on marriage" - In reality, the ruling class would love for people to be single, and not carry emotional attachments to another above the State. Remember Julia? She was the ideal servant class citizen. Unmarried, wholly dependent on the ruling class for her physical and emotional well-being. Marriage is shown to change all of that.
Every election is "the most important election" if all you care about are elections. - Donna Brazile is a classic "fight" politician. She only sees the world through political wins and losses, and she truly believes that what she is doing is supremely important. In fact, politics, and elections, are nothing more than elaborately staged distractions, manna for the low-information ruled class to tide them over and make them feel a part of something. The best thing to do? Stop giving them money and don't vote, or vote 3rd party.
Our destructive "affordable housing" fixation. - How would putting a group of income-assisted families smack in the middle of the most expensive area of Houston help them out? Everything is higher priced in the Galleria area. It's a recipe for disaster. (Which is why our government is beginning to mandate it)
And finally....
Oil is back below $40/Bbl - It's more than a little ironic that those who mocked the "Drill baby Drill" movement (whose statement was that increased US drilling would lower oil prices) as pie in the sky business theory ("We cannot drill our way to lower energy prices" remember?) are now bemoaning the fact that it worked.
Nor, really, do they even give a backhanded acknowledgement that it worked.
Maybe the only thing in her political life that Sarah Palin got right. And she just glommed onto it, she didn't come up with the idea. That was created by actual people within the industry who are now victims of their own success.
