It’s difficult to know where and how far the Democrats’ mania to ‘get Trump’ will go from here. And to many of them I suspect it’s far from being a ‘puppet show’ despite all objective conclusions to the contrary. They are (mostly) all profound believers in a ‘massive Russian conspiracy’ to successfully distort the 2016 election, which is the only takeaway they got Mueller to enthusiastically admit to yesterday. As you correctly observed, the fact that there has never been any evidence to support that extremely shocking assertion, and the fact that the Republicans never went there yesterday (other than to wave the Fusion GPS truth bomb around lackadaisically) is almost as good as the evidence gets that both parties are in on the production of divisive ‘bread and circuses’ the American serfs love to chew on. Still, I believe the Democrats largely believe their own fabrications (which bodes ill for them next year). Nuts, ain’t it?

It’s pretty obvious that Trump has the attention span of a gnat. And, that his advisors are cowards and sycophants. So what about Trump’s short-term play to devalue the dollar do you find surprising?

Sounds good to me. Not our job to try to rig everybody else’s elections. We’re too busy already rigging ours; to ensure that we’re not given any real choice.

Mental illness, drugs and/or a criminal history.

Very well said. But it needs to be stated (as a reminder) that any large scale nuclear exchange may well contaminate the atmosphere with enough radioactivity that Earth will be uninhabitable for most life forms for tens of thousands of years.

No fan of Trump, but you’re wrong. California doesn’t like her (as evidenced by the last poll). No national independents would vote for her. Assuming Democrats constitute 30% of the real electorate (likely to vote), Harris only gets 20% since few center-left or leftist Democrats would vote for her. Trump has his core voting block of 20-25% of the electorate and you know he’d probably pick up at least 20% of the independent vote (should a corporate Democrat/hand-picked Hillary candidate get the nomination), and Trump wins. But Harris getting the nomination is extremely unlikely as it stands.

Normally, I appreciate his show but who made him the point of the spear when it comes to the legality of American citizenship? I thought we had a system of laws addressing that. But I guess attacking either of the two Muslim women in Congress is potential monetary ‘gold’ for his show, just like Maddow attacking Trump over the last two years with her idiotic meme about ‘Russian Collusion’. Disappointing though because I thought he was better than being just another member of a brainless mob clamoring for ‘foreigners blood’ because why? She’s not an Anglo-Saxon, a German or a Jew, or anything but apparently an Arab.

“However, it seemed to me that a country that can name a brand of eye glasses for Helen Keller distinctly bears watching. There is no telling what it might do. ” Hilarious!

You must consider the location. 1) San Francisco is culturally somewhere other than ‘Northern California’. 2) It’s it’s own small nation of smug castaways from other places in the country and ‘twenty-something’ apolitical FANG company millionaires who drive Teslas and Audies. It’s the land of broken toys. Nobody with any political awareness lives there or comes from there. It’s all a big ‘anything goes’ human stew that frequently smells like human shit. And there is no political courage because it’s all such a closed little culture that everybody who lives there knows they’ll be shunned by their associates and friends, have property vandalized and probably lose their job(s) if they stray from the ‘everything white or straight is wrong’ lesbian/antifa crowd’s mantra.

Diagnosis of the pathology is important to figuring out how to address it. Knowing that Israel and Israelis are coming from a psychological place of entitlement, exceptionalism, cruelty and racism is extremely important. It won’t have occurred to most people, at least in America.

Whenever ‘anti-semitic’ symbols are publicly-employed to ‘terrorize’ a large well-established Jewish enclave in the US and no perpetrators are identified, the first place to look for suspects should be the members of the existing Jewish community. It’s frequently a ploy to generate sympathy, or hatred against their perceived enemies, and in this case to obtain ‘shake down’ money.

“No longer available on Amazon.” Bezos the Magnificent moonlighting as a SJ censor? You be the judge.

Because the inference is that she didn’t get to her present position based on actual merit. As in ‘It’s not who you know, it’s who you blow’.

I’m an affluent American consumer and I need 5G like I need a hole in my head. This is just more BS hype to boost sales of discretionary ‘plastic crap’ that temporarily fills the emotional and mental voids that living in a low quality crony capitalist welfare state creates.

Colombia is a NATO ‘partner’, not to be confused with a NATO ‘member’.

Apparently, worm-level historic revisionism is still alive and well as #The Anti-Gnostic proves. Richard Nixon WAS as responsible for the quagmire in Vietnam, as say LBJ was, only different. Without going into timelines and details of troop and bombing mission numbers suffice it to say that it was under Nixon and Kissinger that Laos and Cambodia were carpet bombed https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-bombs-cambodia-for-the-first-time.

All those countries are doing is whistling past the graveyard by emulating the American business model of fleecing the citizens by diverting tax dollars from infrastructure to sluicing it towards weapons manufacturers all the while pummeling their populations with neoliberal mind-swill convincing them that the Russians are the source of all their problems. The People are waking up now (as evidenced by the Yellow Vests of France, and the rise of the AFD in Germany), and the unimaginative and imperceptive ruling class better be packing their ‘go bags’.

It looks like it’s going to pass at some point, but it also looks like everybody is going to ignore the illegal law as a big “F_ck You” to the same people who try to shove this pile of heresy down the American People’s throats. Passing visibly unconstitutional and unenforceable laws isn’t just bad public policy, it’s a form of treason. But the schmucks on Capitol Hill are going to have to figure that out for themselves, quite possibly the hard way.

Nothing about your hypos comes even close to explaining Building 7.

I agree with your assumptions re: the power of identity politics, but disagree with your conclusions as they might pertain to the general election. The independent vote (which identifies most closely with traditional American values) is the largest voting block in America by a wide margin. That doesn’t bode well for an unreformed Democratic Party known for disenfranchising actual progressives and being ‘in the bag’ for Wall Street. Populism is being wildly underestimated by both parties (which is strange considering events in Europe), but my guess is ignoring or underestimating it’s effect will injure Democrats more than Trump in 2020.

Meanwhile, ranks of independent voters (decline to state party preference) swell mostly parasitizing the Democrats numbers as actual progressives leave the party in droves. What constituted 43% of the electorate in January 2015 is probably now around 50% of the entire electorate if not more. Loyal Democrats are definitely NOT going to dictate the results of 2020.

And Palin did so much for McCain’s ticket. LOL

Public universities are not ‘controlled by’ the voters (i.e., the UC is “controlled” by a committee called the Regents), but definitely funded by the voters, and built by the voters. An even greater point of distinction. De facto Affirmative Action (aka ‘reverse discrimination’) WILL be rooted out here in California, again, once it’s exposed thanks to this lawsuit.

You apparently specialize in spewing fact-free gibberish. Got any other millennial nonsense you wish to share?

A lot of jawing over something which is very ‘black and white’. The law couldn’t be more clear. And a publicly funded university like UC has to be much more transparent about their admissions data than Harvard does. If the UC is caught intentionally violating a very clear law it won’t go well for a number of people in high places in California.

I don’t think that it’s anything other than a desire to use small words so the minority is more likely to understand what whitey is talking about. It’s all about wanting to be understood and has little to nothing to do with trying to get down to the minority’s intellectual level to make them feel less inferior.