To understand the visceral appeal of Donald J. Trump, watch this short video...
I need you to watch this short video from start to finish. (Don’t worry, when Putin speaks in Russian, there are English subtitles.)xYouTube VideoDid you catch Putin’s first words?“You ran around like...
View ArticleWhy is a "high-priced" Cigna lobbyist raising money for Hillary Clinton's...
In 1993, Hillary Clinton was spot on when she bemoaned“high-priced lobbyists who get paid to keep everything the same” in our barbaric, grossly-expensive health care non-system.xYouTube Video It’s...
View ArticleI want to blow your mind about unemployment in the United States of America.
In the absence of a consolidated welfare state, United States politicians love to obsess about the unemployment rate — unemployment, after all, means no health care, no money for education, no money...
View ArticleElites dismissing the pain and suffering of the marginalized is how you get...
Despite horrific socio-economic inequality, execution-style killings of black people on an almost daily basis, and the fact that over 30 million Americans still cannot visit a doctor when they get...
View ArticleBaton Rouge Police: Property Rights Are Only For White People (Videos)
Property rights are fundamental to the “American Dream”— indeed, the “right to pursue happiness” actually refers to one’s right to own property. (Of course, originally, that also meant the right for...
View ArticleHillary Clinton is going to lose if she keeps using this playbook.
(I wish I didn’t need to qualify my diary, but as a former Bernie partisan in this community, and based on the first comments I’m seeing below, I suppose it’s necessary. No, this diary is not “Bernie...
View ArticleSorry, Hillary and Michelle, America still sucks for a lot of people.
Because I’m not a big fan of racist reality television stars leading a country of 320 million (mostly) decent people, this tweet from Hillary made me cringe:xâÂÂI donâÂÂt understand people who...
View ArticleStudy finds U.S. teens increasingly turning to sex work in order to combat...
Teenagers in the United States are increasingly turning to sex work in order to be able to acquire enough food to eat, according to a new study from Washington D.C.’s Urban Institute, the Guardian...
View ArticleDemocratic Party politicians need to stop calling America the "greatest...
This diary starts with the United States Tennis Association. Yes, you read that right. A few weeks ago, they accidentally played Germany’s Nazi-era anthem before a U.S.-Germany match and, as you might...
View ArticleNo, LePen isn't going to win in France. Because France already has excellent...
I’ve seen a lot of handwringing around France’s upcoming presidential election. Will LePen win and put a final nail in the coffin of the so-called “West”? I doubt it. Of course, the “centrist” pundits...
View ArticleSorry, Hillary Fans, the Lesson of Macron's Epic Success is More Bernie 2020...
Update: As expected, I’m being attacked as an idiot and told that I don’t understand anything about either U.S. or French politics. I’m also being told it’s unfair to compare French politics to U.S....
View ArticleI wrote the diary for why a "Jon Ossoff" would lose last summer. He lost. We...
Last summer, after Hillary’s campaign released one of their first adverts — kids watching Trump say mean stuff — I wrote that simply attacking Trump as “being an asshole” would lead to a big Hillary...
View ArticleActually, it's okay for the Democrats to talk about something other than...
Judging from the mainstream media and the social media accounts of most Democratic Party politicians, one would think that the only atrocity of justice currently occurring in the United States is the...
View ArticleThe future of the United States is in a strong and free North American Union
Leaders from 16 Asian countries — including Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea — met in Tokyo on Sunday to continue working towards the creation of the world’s largest trading bloc, one...
View ArticleAtlanta police charge woman hit by tractor-trailer truck in impoverished...
If you get hit by an 18-wheeler in Atlanta — notorious for its hostile pedestrian environment— the police will make sure you suffer — even more, that is, than the pain of being hit by a giant truck.On...
View ArticleThe business model of U.S. health care is fraud
Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” And the U.S. health care non-system — really a dysfunctional phenomenon of market failure more...
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