Sorry gang, but that Geneva conventions stupidity by Trump has me now again upset enough to get on yet another Trump-mocking blog. This will be short. Lets do a song to serenade our foreign policy genius and other pearls of wisdom from this soon-to-be-greatest-loser in US political history. To the tune of Abba's classic Waterloo lets sing
Waterboard
(song revised lyrics to Waterloo by Abba)
My my, at decency the right wing did surrender
Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way
That Nazism book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself
Waterboard - Cheney was right, we can win the war
Waterboard - promise to torture you for evermore
Waterboard - couldn’t escape to a safer shore
Waterboard - And then I will make it even more
Waterboard - finally facing Guantanamo
My my, they tried to hold me back but I was stranger
Oh yeah, and now it seems my only chance is calling up the press
And how could they think to refuse
They feel like they win when they lose
Sexism - Megyn defeated I won the war
Sexism - promise to love women ever more
Sexism - abortions need punishing yes its true
Sexism - women are ugly and silly too
Sexism - my daughter so hot, her I’d wanna screw
Geneva conventions to hell
We’re treating them all far too well
Donald Trump - couldn’t escape if I wanted to
Donald Trump - Vodka and steaks are no more with you
Donald Trump - University scam is in court in June
Donald Trump - ignorant fools will still vote for you
Donald Trump - finally facing our Waterloo
wow, wow, wow, wow
Donald Trump - the man Donald says he is talking to
Donald Trump - his daughter so hot, her he’d wanna screw
(above for comedy purposes mostly - and of course to mock the mental midget who goes by the name of Donald Trump - by Tomi T Ahonen/HatRat - and no Trumps were killed or even waterboarded in the preparation of this joke. This song parody may be freely shared)
NOTE - I am working on a James Bond script sequel to SPECTRE and we know who the next Bond villain is, its obviously TRUMP. The 007 parody script is half way done entilted 007 Man With the Golden Hair - you'll find all the Bond staples from his car to his babes to the nasty henchmen of the megalomaniac Trump ie Chrischristie, Huckabee and Santorum. If you want to help contribute to the ending parts of the story, our comments section is open, its a collaborative effort. But yeah, a significantly longer joke piece mocking Trump is 007 Man With the Golden Hair.
This blog usually deals with tech, media and mobile topics (ie like smartphones). But if you want my analysis - with polling data and deep analysis of demographic etc stats - of why Trump will lose by 20 points in November, read this. And if you want to see am I any good about this political side, check out how I predicted the scenarios of possible deadlocked GOP convention here.
You thought Trump never had a chance.
Are the women of Cologne, Hamburg, or Sweden safe if they don't wear burkas?
How are things in Brussels and Paris? Or even Calais.
Since you will have to convert to Islam and approve of things like Female Genital Mutilation, Sharia law, etc. you may as well write a post justifying why you prefer all of the above in your own Country so feel free to bother about a country in a different hemisphere and what one person campaigning merely suggests.
Trump is the immune response to an infection. Failure to identify the infection won't stop it.
Posted by: tz | March 31, 2016 at 03:01 AM
@tz
"Are the women of Cologne, Hamburg, or Sweden safe if they don't wear burkas?"
Yes, they are. Have a look at the local news.
@tz
"How are things in Brussels and Paris? Or even Calais."
Actually, this would have been a "typical" year in the 1970s with its many terrorist organizations. So for me, it is not that traumatic.
But "no one will get in" is obviously useless as all the terrorists were legal citizens, and many were even born in Belgium/France. As such, these crimes were not very different from the Oklahoma bombing or the Newtown shooting in the USA.
@tz
"Since you will have to convert to Islam and approve of things like Female Genital Mutilation, Sharia law, etc."
Genital mutilation is not so much an Islam thing, as a sub Saharan African thing (see map).
http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/prevalence/en/
It is also not an Islam thing, it is also practiced by non-muslims. It is older than Islam and the is is nowhere to be found in the Islamic scriptures.
Sharia law is a rather nebulous concept. What people call the sharia law is almost always just a religious stamp on local customs. You confuse the drive to install an Islamic theocracy like Iran or ISIS/Daesh with practicing law.
Here for lay people:
The many faces of Sharia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/621126.stm
Here for those who rally want to know the details:
SHARIA INCORPORATED
A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/21170/file221087.pdf?sequence=1
@tz
"Trump is the immune response to an infection. Failure to identify the infection won't stop it."
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More like an autoimmune response. Trump is part of the exact same phenomenon as ISIS/Daesh and Al Qaida. This is a nationalistic fundamentalism that wants to isolate the natives/true believers from the big bad world outside.
As such, the populists and fundamentalists want the same thing: People should not mingle. Christians and Muslims, Black and White, Germanic and Slavic "races", they should all concentrate in their own ethnically purified homelands.
Trump is the natural ally of Daesh. When the USA expels all muslims and withdraws from the Arab lands, and Daesh expels all non-muslims, then there will be "peace". Daesh won't bother the USA, the USA won't bother Daesh.
Muslim fundamentalists target Europe exactly because in Europe Muslims can live in freedom and prosper. It is the likes of Le Pen, Wilders, and De Winter that want to make an end to the freedom and prospering of Muslims (and, sometimes, Jews and blacks).
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Posted by: Winter | March 31, 2016 at 08:50 AM
@Tomi
Is there a typo at the end of the 10th line? Shouldn't the last word read "stronger" instead of "stranger"?
@tz
In addition to Winter's answer I've got to ask you: are you genuinely concerned with the Muslim women's situation?
And Trump is not the immune response to an infection. He is a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived infection. Terrorists are on both sides of the isle. Most Muslims are not terrorists. But don't you worry, Trump is working hard to change that.
@magnamic
Your pain gives me pleasure.
@John Smith
Debates always give a chance to the challenger to come back, and Sanders is very far behind in the remaining states. Clinton is now debating whether to loose votes by giving Sanders a chance or by being perceived as a coward. It's a loose-loose situation for Clinton, she just doesn't know yes which is the lesser evil. No matter what, New York is going not only to reverse all of Sanders' gains in the previous 5 or 6 states, NY is going to send Sanders back on the ropes where he belongs.
Posted by: cornelius | March 31, 2016 at 03:39 PM
Hi cornelius
no, I meant 'stranger' as in Trump being deliberately strange...
Tomi Ahonen :-)
Posted by: Tomi T Ahonen | March 31, 2016 at 04:06 PM
Trump is doing his best to get hated by even more voters. In this case the minority of women who might consider voting for him.
The Daily 202: Abortion gaffe underscores why Trump would not put Wisconsin in play during a general election
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/03/31/daily-202-abortion-gaffe-underscores-why-trump-would-not-put-wisconsin-in-play-during-a-general-election/56fc082d981b92a22dc402c7/
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The new Marquette poll backs it up. Overall, 7 in 10 Wisconsinites view Trump unfavorably. In head-to-head matchups of Wisconsin voters, John Kasich led Clinton by nine points (49 percent to 38 percent) and Cruz tied her (44-44). But the Democratic front-runner beat Trump by 10 points (47-37). Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist without Clinton’s high negatives, beat Trump by 19 points (54-35) when those polled were forced to choose.
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In addition to the three-quarters of women who view him unfavorably, “so do nearly two-thirds of independents, 80 percent of young adults, 85 percent of Hispanics and nearly half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Those findings, tallied from Washington Post-ABC News polling, fuel Trump’s overall 67 percent unfavorable rating — making Trump more disliked than any major-party nominee in the 32 years the survey has been tracking candidates.”
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Posted by: winter | March 31, 2016 at 07:03 PM
Hey guys,
I found this article
http://prospect.org/article/why-hillary-wont-be-indicted-and-shouldnt-be-objective-legal-analysis
What do you guys think? Do we have any lawyers among us to give us an opinion on the article?
Posted by: cornelius | April 01, 2016 at 05:35 AM
@Cornelius
"What do you guys think?"
It is obvious that the hunt for Hillary has little to do with the legality of what she actually did. The analysis you link to looks comprehensive. The fact that after years of sifting through her emails, there have still not surfaced any smoking guns is itself telling.
But I am pretty sure anyone can be indicted in the USA:
Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything Is a Crime
http://columbialawreview.org/ham-sandwich-nation_reynolds/
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As Tim Wu recounted in 2007, a popular game in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York was to name a famous person—Mother Teresa, or John Lennon—and decide how he or she could be prosecuted:
It would then be up to the junior prosecutors to figure out a plausible crime for which to indict him or her. The crimes were not usually rape, murder, or other crimes you’d see on Law & Order but rather the incredibly broad yet obscure crimes that populate the U.S. Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like “false statements” (a felony, up to five years), “obstructing the mails” (five years), or “false pretenses on the high seas” (also five years). The trick and the skill lay in finding the more obscure offenses that fit the character of the celebrity and carried the toughest sentences. The, result, however, was inevitable: “prison time.”
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For instance, Martha Stewart's case fits perfectly in the above.
Posted by: Winter | April 01, 2016 at 09:29 AM
Wow, thanks Winter. That's exactly why I didn't want to become famous. I knew it :-) Scary though...
Posted by: cornelius | April 01, 2016 at 04:03 PM
Some more results on Trumps impopularity. If his goal would have been to destroy the GOP's chances and lose the presidential elections, he could not have done any better.
Donald Trump is now the least popular American politician in three decades
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-unpopularity-20160401-story.html
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Overall, that leads to a very large gender gap in perceptions of Trump. Among all women, 70% have a negative view of him, while among men, 58% do. Having a positive view are 23% of women and 36% of men, Gallup found.
If Trump wins the GOP nomination, a key question will be whether he can do anything to change those impressions. Usually, however, political candidates' images get worse, not better, during a campaign.
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Posted by: Winter | April 01, 2016 at 04:35 PM
And here is why Drumpf is running: He is an agent for the Democrats!
http://www.bustle.com/articles/151424-this-donald-trump-conspiracy-theory-will-put-your-tinfoil-hat-to-shame
http://peakenergy.blogspot.nl/2016/03/is-donald-trump-democratic-secret-agent.html
Its not Hillary, Drumpf is an Illuminati
http://allnewspipeline.com/Gingrich_Trump_Illuminati_Stunner.php
Reallity is so much better than all these tired old conspiracy theorists. Drumpf is better than fiction. You could not make this up.
Posted by: Winter | April 01, 2016 at 06:10 PM
Hi cornelius and Winter
Good stuff... now. That DC Madam sleazy attorney and the big revellation coming in the next 10 days or so. I've been digging around and the only one of the 5 candidates who has rumors - and there have been several - of any kind of sexual impropriety is.. Ted Cruz.
(Just in case you missed it - the old DC Madam scandal of the escort service madam who was convicted in 2007 and committed suicide in 2008 - her attorney has a list of 815 names of various DC area clients of that time (up to 2007) who had used the Madam's call girls and some political careers were ruined by the handful that were exposed back then but these 815 names have never been relased. The (ex) attorney (ie licence revoked) said that someone from the current 5 candidates is on that list (might be one on both sides of the aisle by the wording but probably is only one of 5) which would almost certainly end that candidate's career almost instantly. The Gary Hart / Herman Cain end to the political run.)
So yeah. It does seem now that its likely Ted Cruz. Before the story broke, Anonymous had been threatening Cruz. Now there is fresh dirt and someone has a page of calls to Texas and they suggest Cruz should be very worried about this DC Madam list. Meanwhile there was also that tabloid story of 5 times that Cruz had supposedly been unfaithful to his wife.
Now. First. It can be that the attorney is just bluffing or the 'big catch' is just some low-level operative on some campaign and he's hyped the story. Or that its say Bill Clinton which would not end Hillary's run but would take Bill effectively out of the surrogate role this year haha.
Secondly, it can be anyone of the five. Of the 5, Bernie and Hillary were in DC at the time up to 2007. Cruz had been in DC up to 2003 then moved back to Texas, so he could be on the DC Madam's infamous list and could still have used her services the many times Cruz came to DC to argue in front of the Supreme Court. John Kasich was in DC earlier but had moved out to Ohio where he was an investment banker so if its Kasich, his use of the prostitutes would have been close to a decade prior to 2007. And Trump, well, he was never living in DC but visited the city at times, and would seem like the type of guy who wouldn't mind paying for expensive hookers if he felt like it but in terms of proximity he's the furthest geographically. Obviously Hillary could be woman or man (I don't know if the DC Madam provided male escorts too, but can't see why not, it was her busines to provide prostitutes) and a woman escort would add a wicked gay twist to the Hillary option - but also - it could be theoretically that Hillary was ordering women for Bill, who knows exactly what kind of marriage they have haha.
But of the 5 (excluding Bill) the only one that has any whiff of sexual scandals is Ted Cruz and there are several instances of them. It would seem therefore - as that attorney wrote to the Supreme Court that this information is crucial for US voters to know before they cast their votes - whoever it is, that person's political career and run for the nomination in 2016 will be over essentially instantly. And boy would that now utterly tumble the race.
If it is Cruz and lets say the info comes out after Wisconsin has voted - Cruz might quit the race overall - then do his delegates become free agents and how would Trump and Kasich split them up. Kasich would obviously get the non-Trump vote for the last races and end up likely with more delegates than Cruz has now, but could Kasich get to more than Trump? Even if he received the majority of Cruz's delegates, I think its unlikely Kasich can get to more than Trump. And a Trump facing only Kasich - who won't attack Trump (much) could be taken apart by relentless Trump attacks and Trump might clinch.
Then what if Cruz only suspends but doesn't quit - so he can hold his delegates and not give too many to Trump. But Cruz would be done in any case.
What about Marco Rubio. He has more delegates still today than Kasich. If Cruz quits, would Rubio suddenly jump in and say - wait, I've won more than Kasich and I have more delegates, I will come and resume my candidacy..
Its REALLY like a Reality TV show now. We know in the next episode one of the 5 remaining candidates will be eliminated, suddenly, in an unanticipated extra rival-elimination round. Like a hand grenade being passed from one person to the next with the pin removed and having an unknown duration fuse. It will kill off someone.
But whichever of the 5 it is (gotta be Cruz, a distant second to me is Bernie - or else its 'just' Bill Clinton, not Hillary) that is a total change to the race the moment the news breaks.
Gosh I'm again out of popcorn.. Just when we thought this race had seen it all (lets abandon NATO, lets get Japan and South Korea to develop nukes, lets punish women for abortions..) now this.
PS - very often the political leadership has known about the sex scandals in the past. Its possible the Republican leadership know this about Ted Cruz and either were willing to look the other way - or perhaps even more nephariously - they wanted Cruz to take out Trump, then they'd spill the beans on Cruz to bring in their guy (Kasich or perhaps Paul Ryan)
PSPS - for me I'm totally European about sex scandals, they have no relevance to how you are able to govern and I wouldn't vote for or against someone because of one. But we are looking at the US electorate and they won't forgive this haha. That career is instantly over. (although if its Trump, his core supporters probably would remain, only he'd fall from 40% to something like 25% and lose the remaining races, if he didn't quit)
Tomi Ahonen :-)
Posted by: Tomi T Ahonen | April 01, 2016 at 07:44 PM
hi everybody
Just in case you didn't notice, I just posted the next of my articles in the election series. Now that the brokered convention (contested, deadlocked) has become the most likely outcome on the GOP side, I mapped out the scenarios for each candidate. Lets move the current discussions also there.
Tomi Ahonen :-)
Posted by: Tomi T Ahonen | April 02, 2016 at 03:49 AM