Month: May 2016

It looks like President Trump would get rid of the FBI and the CIA and rely on the National Enquirer for his intelligence.

Trump is right about one thing; if Ted doesn’t somehow win Indiana, he’s done. Barring some sort of deus ex machina, the perception of inevitability will become even more powerful than it is today, and Trump will have his 1,237 delegates before he gets to Cleveland.

That would be good news for the city fathers of Cleveland, but not for the rest of us.

1.  It’s Obama’s fault.  Given our vast economic and military power, any competent leader would be able to force the Iraqis to work together.  Yeah, right. How successful was George W. Bush in dealing with the internal political problems in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan?

2.  These people are hopeless.  Let’s get the hell out of here as fast as possible.  It probably wouldn’t take too long for a President Trump to reach that conclusion.  It would ultimately mean fighting terrorists at the water’s edge.

3.  Legitimate concerns about national security require us to be patient and do the best we can with imperfect actors over whom we have very limited control.   This is Obama’s position, and it would be Hillary’s, as well.  It would be nice if we could just drop a few bombs, make IS disappear, and withdraw from the Middle East, but the real world doesn’t work that way.

You’re not living in Germany in 1932.  The protests are tactically counterproductive, because they feed into Trump’s narrative, as well as being unnecessary.   Try assisting with voter registration drives or going door-to-door for Clinton if you really want to keep Trump out of the White House.

             Monochrome

When I think back on all the crap we took from Wall Street

It’s a wonder we survived at all.

And though our brand new regulations ain’t been tested yet

I can read the writing on the wall.

 

Monochrome

Give us your class war stump speech.

Tell us a win’s within reach.

Make us think J.P. Morgan lives again.

 

But the country is diverse.

Ignoring facts is perverse.

We’re lots of things, not one and all the same.

 

Parody of “Kodachrome” by Paul Simon.