Though it was nice of Americans to offer their support to the French after ISIS’ terrorist attacks against Paris last week, surely Parisians remember that, not so recently, Americans were deriding them as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” and renaming French fries “freedom fries” merely because they were smart enough not to join our invasion of Iraq?
Political analysts note that there aren’t any Gen X-era big-name Democrats following Baby Boomers Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. They anticipate that leadership will skip Gen X from the Boomers to their Millennial children. Meanwhile, middle-aged Gen X whites are suffering increased mortality reminiscent of the post-Soviet collapse during the 1990s. Turns out that a lifetime of neglect and contempt by those older and younger is having an effect.
Jeb Bush said that, if he had a time machine, he would go back in time, find baby Adolf Hitler, and kill him. Will these theoretical ethical dilemmas become normative in the political ritual of running for president?
The case against Bernie Sanders is that he’s too far left to be electable. Now, however, Hillary Clinton is stealing all his ideas, like opposing the TPP and Keystone XL pipeline. Shouldn’t that make her unelectable too?
Ben Carson has a portrait of himself hanging out with Jesus at his house. What if the other candidates had similar images of themselves with those most important to them?
When police officer Charles Gliniewicz was found dead, right-wingers blamed Black Lives Matter for creating an atmosphere in which it was open season on cops. Then it turned out he was corrupt, an embezzler, and had staged his suicide to look like he’d died while on duty.
Now that heroin has become a “white” person’s drug, the establishment has changed its approach from harsh sentencing designed to lock them up and throw away the key, to treatment and leniency.
FBI Director James Comey says that police are going easy on crime because they’re intimidated by Black Lives Matter protesters watching them in case they hurt a black person.
Democrats ridicule Republicans for their top two presidential frontrunners, the blowhard Donald Trump and the somnolent ignoramus and proto-fascist Ben Carson. But when you stop to think about it, how is the outwardly cool calm and collected Barack “Kill List” Obama less nutty than Trump or Carson?
Hillary Clinton lied when she said Edward Snowden could have received whistleblower protections under federal law. Or is she just totally ignorant?
