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           I Am The Fascist

I am me as you are me as they are me and we are all together.

See how they run when I show them my guns

See how they fly.

You’re crying.

 

Sitting on a gold plate

Waiting for my jet to come.

Locking up opponents.

Sucking up to Putin.

Man, you should have seen me kicking Muslim butt around.

 

I am the apeman.

They are the apemen.

I am the fascist.

Goo googa joob.

 

Expert texpert choking heatstroke

Climate change is really just a hoax.

We’ll burn all the coal

Put the ozone in a hole

Kiss your ice goodbye.

You’re crying.

 

Criminals are dead ducks

And all of my opponents, too.

Building up a great wall.

Immigrants are gone, all

Erecting lots of monuments to myself and me.

 

I am the apeman.

They are the apemen.

I am the fascist.

Goo googa joob.

 

Parody of “I Am The Walrus” by Lennon/McCartney.

The Rio Olympics, last night.

Our sprinters aren’t doing much right.

Kicking butt in the gym.

Kerri’s loss, it was slim.

Usain Bolt runs and runs out of sight.

Thank you for your interest in coming to the United States.  Please answer a few simple questions to establish your eligibility for a visa:

1. Muhammad was: (a) God’s prophet; or (b) the former heavyweight champion of the world.
2.  The wall will be built and paid for by (fill in the blank).
3.  The mainstream American media are:  (a) biased; (b) crooked; (c) disgusting; (d) all of the above.
4.  Barack Hussein Obama was born in (place name).
5.  Ivanka and Melania are (provide a number).
6.  Identify the developer who remade the Manhattan skyline and singlehandedly made New York the greatest city in the world.
7.  Hillary Clinton belongs in (fill in the blank).
8.  Vladimir Putin is:  (a) an elected dictator; or (b) a good friend to the US in the war against Islamic extremism.
9.  Terrorists and their sympathisers should be:  (a) tortured; (b) sent to Gitmo; (c) tried by military commissions; (d) all of the above.
10.  The new tax cut will:  (a) explode the deficit, cause interest rates to skyrocket, and cause a recession; or (b) create a growth spurt unknown in modern history.

The correct answers are:  1(b); 2. Mexico; 3. (d); 4. Kenya; 5. 10; 6. Donald J. Trump; 7. jail; 8. (b); 9.(d); 10. (b).  If you got all of these right, congratulations!  You are a true friend to America, and you are free to enter.

Warren famously said that he read the sports page before the rest of the paper because it described man’s accomplishments, while the front page was a catalogue of failures.  It’s hard not to think about that when you watch the Olympics and the rest of the news.

A mosaic is a work of art comprised of countless tiny stones of different colors, each in its own place.  White is the predominant color of a sheet of ruled paper; the colored lines are only there to provide contrast and definition to the blank spaces.

As usual, this is the most important issue in the 2016 election.

The Rio Olympics, day ten.

Rudisha wins gold once again.

Simone grabs the beam.

She’s not perfect, it seems.

And Felix falls short at the end.

With one notable exception, everything about Trump’s candidacy is an affront to the Christian Democrat faction of the GOP.  His flashy lifestyle, crass materialism, arrogance, bigotry, and antipathy to society’s “losers” are antithetical to the one world type of conservatism that the CDs espouse.  The exception is abortion; his earlier pro-choice statements notwithstanding, there is no reason to doubt that he would appoint judges who would restrict women’s reproductive rights to the maximum extent feasible, which is a matter of great importance to many CDs.

What’s a poor CD to do, then?  They can’t even avoid the issue by voting for Johnson, like the Conservative Libertarians.  My best guess is that the vast majority of them will suck it up and vote for Clinton, because while she may be pro-choice, she won’t endanger their lives, liberty, and property.

There is no denying that the most prominent figures in pop music today are  predominantly women.  The question is why?  Here are some tentative answers:

1.  Rock is dead yet again.  Great rock music is usually fueled with testosterone.  Most of today’s rock stars are old enough to rely on Viagra.

2.  Max Martin doesn’t write for men.  No elaboration necessary.

3.  TV singing competitions emphasize bluesy pop over rock and hip-hop and thus favor women.  Women and men win these competitions in roughly equal numbers, but the shows themselves emphasize genres that work well for female performers, which, I suspect, ultimately has an impact on the music that is played on the radio.

4.  Cirque de Soleil style live shows favor women over men.  Who wants to see some scruffy rocker change clothes five times during a set?

The Rio Olympics, day nine.

Simone in the gym doing fine.

Bolt prevails in the end.

You can’t touch him, my friend.

Van Niekerk’s foes ran out of time.

In light of the Olympics and the return of the NFL, it is high time for a sports analogy in my political commentary.

There are basically two kinds of NFL quarterback.  The best of the lot (Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Tom Brady) are playmakers;  the head coach puts the ball in their hands and tells them to find a way to win the game.  Competent, but lesser, quarterbacks are game managers; they are directed to work within the system, avoid mistakes, and let the rest of the team’s talent do the dirty work. Alex Smith and Teddy Bridgewater are classic examples of game managers.

Given his prodigious talents, the 2009-10 Democrat supermajority, and the necessities of the time, Barack Obama was a playmaker.  Given her far different abilities, a growing economy, and the likelihood of a GOP Congress, Hillary Clinton almost certainly will be a game manager, if elected.

And President Trump?  Think Carson Palmer in the NFC Championship game against Carolina.

Can you say “pick six?”

 

The Rio Olympics, day eight.

Michael Phelps’ last performance was great.

USA swim team rules

Over all in the pool.

Usain Bolt has a day left to wait.

Donald Trump doesn’t really care about the Republican Party;  he just sees it as a vehicle for his Presidential ambitions.  The GOP establishment, for its part, is locked in a shotgun marriage that will end abruptly after he loses.  And he will, barring some really compelling assistance from Assange and Putin.

The establishment will try to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the party nominee immediately after the election.  They will hope that Trump will simply vanish from the political scene without any further ado.  Given Trump’s character, that won’t happen;  he will denounce the establishments of both parties, claim that the election was rigged, and call for action in the streets, all of which will be hugely embarrassing to the party leadership and irritating to the GOP’s few remaining moderates.

Will the party split?  Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will do their best to keep the party united by putting the focus on Congressional resistance to Clinton’s agenda. They will probably succeed, but that is not a sure thing.   I would put the odds on a split at 2:1.

The Rio Olympics, last night.

Michael Phelps put up a valiant fight.

US men nip the Serbs;

Women kicked to the curb;

Ledecky just swam out of sight.

If Erdogan is reconsidering his alliances, his analysis would have to go something like this:

1.  The Russian Empire, which Putin is essentially wants to recreate, was the historic enemy of the Ottoman Empire, which is Erdogan’s dream state.
2.  The US and the EU have far more to offer Turkey from an economic perspective than the Russians do.
3.   The US and the EU agree with him that Assad should be removed from power.  Putin is Assad’s chief protector.
4.  On the other hand, Putin doesn’t lecture him about human rights.  In fact, he may aspire to create a political system that looks like Putin’s Russia.

This list strongly suggests that sticking with the West is the better deal, and that he probably just wants to keep his options open to force the EU and the US to stop complaining about him.  If he really wants to make himself a new sultan, and he’s willing to make concessions on Syria, however, the possibility of a realignment cannot be completely dismissed.

The Turkish man named Erdogan.

The Gulenists all want him gone.

He’s tweaking the West

Holds his cards to his chest

It’s hard to see what’s going on.