The War Against White America

I was wondering when Donnie Snowflake would get back to fighting the war against White America.

Look at that Black guy. He took some white kid's place!

He did go to that Carrier Air Conditioner factory in Indiana to rescue those 800 jobs, and he did get about 500 coal miners jobs in a mine. So his war against unemployment is going well. And he keeps going to places where lots of white men show up for rallies, but really, where has he been when it comes to college admissions?


Well, now we know. He's got his good friend Jeff Sessions sending in Justice Department G men to probe and intimidate colleges about their admissions of Black, Hispanic, undocumented terrorists instead of  good White, Christian Americans.




Kris Kobach, protecting you against ethnic cleansing of Whites

He's soul mate out there in the great insane state of Kansas, Kris Kobach, has observed there is a war against White America going on, launched from over our Southern Border by dark skinned Mexicans who aim to carry out ethnic cleansing of all the White Americans. Louie Gohmert and Joe Arpaio can't hold back all those invading hordes by themselves.
I have to ask: If you were a marauding darked skin Hispanic from Latin America, would you go try to cleanse in the state of Kansas? Have you ever seen the movie "Infamous" based on Truman Capote's novel, "In Cold Blood"?  That place is just empty spaces and open fields--it makes Wichita Falls in "The Last Picture Show" look like Gay Paree. Kansas is just bleak. Why would you want to maraud in Kansas?


But back to the point: Donnie Diva has to ride to the rescue to save the White people.

If they need any advice on where to start, I'd send them to the Cornell University Medical College, now known as Weill Cornell, after Sandy Weill, a Wall Street robber baron gave them $150 million (which for him was lunch money) to get Cornell to name their medical school after him.

Even the bricks are white at Cornell

Cornell for decades was the bastion of white upper class men.  There were 90 students in each class, 4 women and 86 men. Most of these were selected because they were the sons or nephews of alumni, and that place was just as WASPy as you could get.  Jews were expressly forbidden.

But when Sandy Weill got rich enough, he decided it would be a good joke for him, a man of Jewish ancestry, to buy himself a medical school which formerly excluded people like him.  Jews not good enough for you blue bloods? Well, I'll just take control and see how superior you are then.
But then, sometime in the late Twentieth century, somebody at the school decided if they were going to owned by a Jew, they ought to go full Monty and just admit all sorts of non Christian, even non White people. Shoot the moon.
They even opened a branch in Qatar, which is somewhere in the Muslim Middle East.  Donnie Diva's got no use for Qatar,  even though we have a big military base there. Seems Saudi Arabia's got some grudge against Qatar and that's good enough for Donnie Dubious after the wonderful time he had in Saudi Arabia, where they really know how to throw a  party and they gave him a nifty sword and they know how to treat women in that country. They have still harems there, in case you were wondering. Which just goes to show not all the good ideas in the world come from America.

Anyway, to get back to the war on White America:  all those dark skinned students have displaced all the blondes and real Americans who wanted to go to Cornell medical school. They've had to find other places. 
My own son, who happens to be White and male had to settle for Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.  As it turned out, he had a wonderful time there.  But he never even got an interview at Cornell, despite his astonishing MCAT score and his great grades and his wonderful recommendations. I called up some of my old friends at Cornell, who still fester in various departments, and was told, variously, "He's got into a way better school, across town," and "He's a bit too pale for current tastes at Cornell" and all like that.

Personally, I'd be okay with "blind" admissions to medical school, and to college. It might work like those auditions   at Lincoln Center, where they put up a curtain and you play your violin or cello behind the curtain and they chose you no matter what your color or your gender or your gender preference, based just on the sound you make.

But when you are talking about glittering prizes, like college and medical school admissions, they haven't yet figured out how to do the equivalent of the curtain thing.


"Qualified" in America hasn't meant "capable and good at the job you are seeking" but it means you have the right color, look, family background.


If that isn't a meritocracy, well then I don't know what is.

Something to Believe In

Watching "Leftovers" I had a revelation about the Republicans.
You know how Barack Obama said there are people who cling to their guns and their religion, and like the "deplorables" comment, that was just too close to the bone and it was used to cement the resentment against him, and later against Hillary.

Well, in the episode I saw tonight, Second Season, Laura, has freed herself from a cult formed after the great disappearance of 1/10th of the world's people. The cult embraced nihilism but Laura finally realizes it is possible to do something to confront big problems in life, and she embarks on a program to rehabilitate the nihilists. 

But liberating people from the cult does not solve their problems. Laura has the  epiphany that while she has been able to help people who sought salvation in a cult of nihilism, she had been unable to help them find what they were really seeking in the cult in the first place: Something to believe in.

Nobody knows what to believe about the disappearance, about the departed. And the randomness of the culling is what bothers people. If it could happen to those people, chosen for no apparent reason, just randomly, then it could happen to me. It's the unnerving feeling I had as a new intern on the wards of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases--all these people, living their lives, not smokers, no apparent reason and then, poof! They're gone, or on their way out, just random, no explanation. 

In "Leftovers" there's a cult which says it's coming for all of us, just stop trying. This is familiar to anyone listening to Republicans: Oh, there's nothing to be done. 

This fleshes out the wonderful song which plays at the opening of every episode in the second season, which says we are all afraid of going back to where we came from before we were born. There's that deep fear we all live with of not knowing how the universe works or our place in it.

And, you know, I think that's what Donnie Dubious offers people. It's why he has that unctuous Lee Greenwood sing that gooey song before his rallies: 

If tomorrow all the things were gone
I'd worked for all my life
And I had to start again
With just my children and my wife

I'd thank my lucky stars
To be living here today
Cause the flag still stands for freedom
And they can't take that away

I could just puke every time I hear that and see the tears streaming down those bloated, stupid faces of the audience.

The song which opens "Leftovers" is haunting.

Some say that they're comin' back in a garden
Bunch of carrots and little sweet peas
I think I'll just let the mystery be

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they they all came from
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go
When the whole thing's done
But no one knows for certain
And so it's all the same to me
I think I'll just let the mystery be

Once upon a time, Democrats said there was something to try. They called it the New Deal. Said it would work, or at least it might work, but as Roosevelt said, it's better to try something, anything, even if it doesn't work, rather than being frozen into inaction by the fear of failure. 
What the Democrats need is that cleansing hug, that something people are looking for.

I don't know, maybe Bernie knows what it is.
Maybe the thing people want to believe in is it is possible to help people at the bottom. Republicans have basically said the same thing since Herbert Hoover: "There's just no helping it." 
They look at health care, pensions, you name it and they say government can't help. 
I heard a Republican Congressman talking about Obamacare and how it was really just a souped up version of Medicaid and well, there are just all those able bodied people out there who want free health care without working for it--as if Medicaid is for slackers.
And I thought, this guy does not understand the Obamacare Medicaid went to working people, to people who had jobs but no health insurance. Private enterprise did not provide the option. Government had to act, and did, finally. 

Maybe we can make people believe that. Government can help.
Oh, I know Reagan and the nine scariest words in the English language: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Very cute. Ronnie could always deliver a good line. Everyone laughed, even some Democrats.
But the fact is, Reagan was offering the ultimate in Republican nihilism: Nobody can help you, certainly not the government. You're on your own. 
But the fact is, when FEMA swoops in after a hurricane, when Social Security saves people from poverty and when Medicare saves the elderly ill, nobody's laughing. 

 FDR said it, four score and seven years ago: when ideology paralyzes politics into frozen inaction, when government ceases to make any effort to save its citizens, then we are staring failure in the face and we must do something.  We must dare to try something new. 
As our problems are new, so we must strive to think anew. 
Anything is preferable to surrender.

Finding Our Herblock: Pia Guerra

At the depths of the McCarthy era, when Tail Gunner Joe was terrifying every liberal with a past, when anything he said was inhaled by millions of Americans as received truth, when lies became the norm, a wonderful cartoonist, an accomplished artist at the Washington Post began drawing McCarthy, always with a dark five o'clock shadow looking unappetizing and scurrilous.

Herblock

And people took heart, came out of the their crouch and began to stand up.

Sadly, Herblock is gone, dead and gone, but there is a spiritual heir, Pia Guerra, who has captured the essence of today's man of the hour, Donnie Diva, the drama queen, who sees dark threats everywhere, from which he must rescue us.

She sees him as infantile, as we all do, the great amplifier.

She sees him for what he is and for what he is not.


And she sees the damage done.


We need to see more of her, and less of him.

The Next Act

So three Republican Senators finally figure out what voting for the Republican pout would do to the country:  Alaska's Mirkowski knows what it would do to her state which as been sucking on the government teat since it was born; Susan Collins has enough neurons rubbing together to know destruction of a hamstrung system is still worse than no system at all and John McCain may have come to Jesus when he had to face the fact that health care is important to actual human beings.

That did not stop the Senators from West Virginia or from Kentucky or from South Carolina voting for the assassination of the ACA, but to paraphrase Lincoln, you can count on some Republicans to be deplorable all the time, and you know some will be deplorable some of the time, but you can't count on all the Republicans being deplorable all the time.


Of course, Donnie Dubious tweeted that Collins, Mirkowski and McCain let the country down, which once again displays his uncanny ability to hone the big lie--these were the three who did the very opposite, who saved the country from driving right off the cliff, but in Snowflake speak, that translates into they acted against the best interests of their country.


And then Dubious ate breakfast, and forgot all about it and tweeted:

Departing for Long Island now. An area under siege from #MS13 gang members. We will not rest until #MS13 is eradicated. #LESM

Say what?

Oh, right in the best Apocalyptic absurdity Republican mode, the conspiracy train moves on.  The new most threatening host is not the Syrian hordes or the North Koreans or the Iranians but the gang members of MS#13.

Obamacare: Blaming the Victim

Thomas Edsall, the best and most analytic of current journalists, writing in the NYT tells us how Donald Dubious plans to spin the collapse of Obamacare. He will claim it was doomed all along and nobody could save it.
This war, often operating below the radar, entails the use of a quintessentially conservative strategy, and the cooperation of Congressional Republicans. In a way, it’s pretty simple: You cut the budget, impose debilitating regulations, track the subsequent missteps and then attack the program as a failure
--Thomas Edsall , NYT
What Edsall details is how Trump and his accomplices are actually killing it with a thousand cuts--very much the chutzpah of the man who murders both his parents and asks the judge for mercy on the grounds he is now an orphan. In this case, you've got the Snowflake who is the captain of the ship watching the ship he has torpedoed going down, all the while  shaking his head, shouting, "Ships should avoid torpedoes!"
Healthcare is a winner for the Democrats.

After all the machinations about complexities of this Rube Goldberg creation we call Obamacare, patched together to satisfy the health insurance industry and various other constituencies, the country may now be willing to go for single payer, or Medicare -for-all option. This will happen if the Democrats let the Republicans fail spectacularly enough--once West Virginia, Kentucky and other dependent, low functioning states see the loss of health insurance for 30-40% of their people.

What is not a winner for Democrats is this whole issue of transgender rights. Trump is canny enough to know where he can stick a fork into the body politic of his base and get a yelp.  Ask any group of people what a transgender is and they cannot tell you; they just know these people are weird and they know they don't want these people showering in the locker rooms of public high schools with their daughters.
Way too complicated for the Democrats, who look like the panderers of old when they rise indignantly to the defense of transgenders. Most people are not transgender. Most people will turn away from you--at least for now--if you look absurd defending "transgender rights."


Just move on, Democrats. Go where the citizens are. They can understand health care.

Wait! We're Losing to These Guys?

When Susan Collins blurted out to Jack Reed her assessment of the Texas Republican who had said he would like to duel her with pistols the way Aaron Burr dispatched Alexander Hamilton, she, if anything, understated the obvious: "He's just so unattractive."


Now, I've been unwilling to say publicly what many of us must have been thinking: This Trump, his buddies, the whole lot of these pink puffy white guys (PWG's) are just so unattractive, why are they drawing such crowds, such adulation?


Now, I realize, this is very superficial and we ought not be judging people because of the way they look, but by the content of their character, by the content of their words, by their values.  But, still. When you get a right wingnut on stage and he's exhorting the crowd and they are responding with adulation and a huge roar--they are responding to more than just the reducto ad absurdum arguments these PWG's make.

Blake Farenthold

This is the guy who wants to shoot Senator Collins on the field of glory.

Alex Jones

This is the guy who says Sandy Hook was a government plot to take your guns away.

Bannon

This is the guy who says there is a sinister "administrative state" which wants to control every facet of American life.

Dubious

This is the guy who says the special investigator has no business investigating Russians but should be focused on all the crimes Hillary Clinton committed.

Rush

This is the guy who says Obama wanted to make Black boys and White girls shower together in locker rooms at public high schools.

Newt

This is the guy who says admitting refugees from Syria is like mixing poison pills into a bag of Skittles and putting them out for people to eat at a party--only some of them will kill you.

Kris Kobach

This is the guy who says voting fraud is rampant, that 3 million fraudulent votes were cast for Hillary Clinton and that Mexican immigrants intend to take over America and commit ethnic cleansing.






These are the guys who say they are all that stands between the White women of America who all those dark skinned aliens massing on the Mexican border.  These are the protectors of American female virtue.  These are the guys who will make America great again. These are the men who will give coal miners back their jobs, who will open up those assembly lines in the factories, who will protect America from the world.

Senator Collins (R-Maine)

Senator Reed (D-RI)

And here are the two Senators who chatted about these guys.

So here is the way the guy from Texas would deal with these two.

The Apocalyptic Style of the American Right

Did you know that Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster on the Virginia bank of the Potomac river?

that the moon landing and the Sandy Hook shootings were staged by the United States government?

that the Holocaust was staged, that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, staged by the federal government, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya to extraterrestrials?

 that Timothy McVeigh was framed for the Oklahoma City bombings, that fetal tissues from abortions are sold on the open market in China where they are a great delicacy in Manchurian restaurants?

that Rick Perry is a child rapist, that global climate change is a Chinese plot, that Hillary's various plots to profit from a child porn ring are well documented in those emails she destroyed?

that Barack Obama wants Black boys and White girls to shower together every day in public school locker rooms?             

 that Bernie Sanders wants to take away your guns? 

that ISIS is plotting to load up a huge wooden horse with terrorist soldiers which the Democrats will drag into downtown Omaha, unleashing a YUGE attack on America from within?

that Mexican Muslims are massing on the Rio Grande, poised to sweep across the border and take control of Texas and Arizona--they'll leave their comrades in New Mexico alone--where they will wage war on Christmas and begin a reign of ethnic cleansing across America, targeting White Christians? Oh, and that includes the rape of White women, who those dark skinned men just lust after?

Did you know there is a world conspiracy to subjugate freedom loving people to a world government which will arrive on black helicopters bearing soldiers wearing blue helmets and determined to deprive freedom loving people everywhere of their guns and their religion?


Well, if you didn't know that, then you have not been watching Fox News, listening to Rush and Newt and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and you are an ignorant twit.