From the monthly archives: April 2016
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No doubt conservative pundits here would see this as France being France, refusing to simply accept the neoliberal magic dust that they know is best for them, but it’s not that simple. It goes to the heart of things. French society does not value homeownership–in fact, getting mortgages there is deliberately difficult. Most people rent. But on the other hand, it’s virtually impossible to fire somebody from a job, and they tend to be well-paying thanks to strong unions. Most societies tend to differ on this question of where to provide stability and where to encourage initiative, and it’s not as though either is a perfect choice. It’s a trade-off, and different cultures find a mix?that works for them. But the equivalent to all this would be as if the US government suddenly cancelled the various subsidies it provides for owning a home. You’d probably see something similar to this, enough to make those Tea Party rallies look like afternoon tea. Hollande is no socialist, of course, but it often seems as though he has no identifiable principles at all, and even less political intelligence. I don’t really think the National Front is going to take over after him, but losing in the first round of the next election should be plenty humiliating.
I’m afraid I’ll be?piling on here: it says something about the political intelligence of Carly Fiorina that she jumps aboard the Cruz ship (sorry) the day after Trump essentially scuttled it?by?winning a handful of primaries by yuuuuge margins and putting himself on track to win the nomination. Unsurprisingly, there was an opening for first mate of the Titanic after it hit the goddamn iceberg.
You have got to be fucking kidding me:
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, desperate to alter the course of a presidential primary fight in which Donald J. Trump is closing in on victory, will announce Wednesday afternoon that Carly Fiorina will be his running mate if he wins the Republican nomination.
I can?hardly imagine a presidential ticket I’d loathe more. ?Aside from what, Stalin and?Mussolini?
Pathetic as John Boehner often was, he did manage to somehow engineer a permanent Doc fix and got Obama to give him?$2.5 Trillion in spending cuts for no reason. Some of the takes of him as some kind of secret master politician were silly then as now but those are real actual things. As opposed to nothing.
Biopics are almost always total garbage, from both historical and dramatic perspectives. Nearly all of them have to lie in order to shape a person’s life into a three-act structure, huge omissions are essentially required considering the constraints of a feature film, and interesting complications are brushed aside if they interfere with feel-good nostalgia (to name one example, I strongly doubt the Folsom Prison concert finally exorcised Johnny Cash’s demons viz. dead brother). The thing rides the line between respect and exploitation closer to the latter even under the best of times. But man, the Nina Simone biopic really sounds?risible even by those standards. I honestly don’t know what to think about some of the controversy around it–other movies (such as, you know, Malcolm X) have had to deal with the light skinned/dark skinned actor/historical figure issue?before. But?Malcolm X is fantastic, which is the point–if you’re going to court controversy, you damned well better?deliver in such a way that it obliterates all of that.
The contortions a non-white person has to go through to remain a part of the right’s gravy train are equally sad and hilarious.
My basic take on Bernie Sanders continuing to press home the Wall Street speeches and the generally poor foreign policy judgment of Hillary Clinton is that worries about general election damage are overrated–regardless of the outcome of the primary, this is going to matter if she becomes president. If Democrats generally don’t trust her on foreign policy and warmaking, then she maybe?won’t go out on a limb as often there. (Hope springs eternal, anyway, as I think “humanitarian” intervention is a core value for her, and one of very few issues she cares about enough to lose an election.) If her being close to Wall Street becomes a narrative, then she may feel it necessary to be a little tougher on them to show that she isn’t. This isn’t crazy talk either–HRC is basically the Democratic Bush 41 and?his weakness among party activists led to things like the Clarence Thomas nomination. Obviously I don’t want something exactly like that, but an equivalent would be nice.?And it seems unlikely that such things will turn an election between her and Trump/Cruz around in any event.
Image pulled from Regent University’s website.?
It’s been too long since John Kasich lectured women on how to live their lives. So he did it again. Nice.
Jerry Shepherd: Keep Howard Schultz off the ballot, any ballot.? Can he pass a test on the Constitution??? Does he know anything about...
Metavirus: At least when it came to someone like Ross Perot you got some fun Texas-twanged leprechaun moments out of him.? “Larry,...
lumpkin: Amazing that Schultz doesn’t see what a Quixotic farce his “candidacy” is. The board of directors at...
Lev: Pretty much. Also, these people clearly don’t understand how government works. It’s not like they could just present Trump with a...
