A fantastic big question: If Trump isn’t a Russian spy, why does “The Deep State” hate him? If Trump isn’t bad for American interests, why do the people who want American hegemony want him gone?
Category: Thursday
Democrat’s Biggest Problem is Disloyalty
From throwing adulterers under the bus (Edwards, Spitzer, Clinton) to Bernie’s refusal to join the party to the shameful case of Obama refusing to pardon Don Siegelman–AL draws a common link between seemingly random instances: Democrats don’t show loyalty to each other. He also explains why red state Democrats feel so abandoned, many choose to…
Kim Jong-Un Will Be a Bad Influence on Trump
I’m less worried their planned meeting (which China seems hell-bent on preventing) will go sour as I am that Kim Jong Un may rub off on an impressionable Trump; who might take a liking to killing opponents, monopolizing media, hoarding the state treasury, and God-like status among citizens.
The Looming Impeachment: GOP Wants Democrats to Do it
AL explains why a Trump impeachment may FINALLY be here, and why the GOP wants Democrats to do it–and suffer the blowback.
What is Coastsplaining?
AL details his life-long struggle against Coastsplaining–and how most of the issues coastal liberals talk about (from immigration to abortion to guns to income inequality) actually affect “flyover country” more directly. Then, I propose that Trickle Down Economics got its earliest start in Plantation Economics.
Does Trump Like Being President?
Before he gets impeached, AL dives deep into a deceptively-simple question to wonder if Trumpland (where more than half the country hates you, and the other 40% loves you) isn’t really heaven for Donald–the most talked about man in the world.
What is Pretty Privilege?
AL wonders why we don’t hear more about pretty privilege, and wonders if it’s really worse to be desired by gross people than to be gross and undesired.
How Social Media (and Reality Shows) Re-wired Millennials
I explain how reality shows and especially social media changed millennials, turning us into our own hype men/women and making us crave acceptance or fame by creating a version of high school that never really ends.
Millennials Don’t Suck (OR Why Millennials Aren’t Spoiled)
I explain why millennial-hatred is no different than how baby boomers were hated by the greatest generation, and how we might eventually hate the next generation’s habits. Then, I coin the phrase “The Degeneration Generation” to explain how millennials are actually less wealthy, less educated, underpaid, and not expected to live as long as their…
How Citizens United Changed the Democratic Party Too
AL explains how the Citizens United decision changed not just the Republican Party (more dominant and corporate-beholden than ever) but is responsible for the Democratic Party’s hard swerve towards social issues. At a time when Democrats vowed to get serious about economic issues, they’re mostly discussing Dreamers, transrights, Confederate Statues, gun control, and Me Too–an…
A Kamala Harris & Mark Warner Ticket Would Win in 2020
Why Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate to take on Trump (who doesn’t handle criticism from black women well) in 2020, noting similar winning Democrats age, experience, and ambiguity. Also, her best strategy to win the nomination and why Mark Warner is the best VP to win the general election.
How Liberal Movements Keep Failing
Why do all liberal movements experience such mission creep? What is it about the heart of liberals—always well-meaning in the beginning, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions—that keeps drifting to America’s most puritanical instincts? Why can “Occupy Wall Street,” “Black Lives Matter,” Sandernistas, the #MeToo Mafia, and other solid movements not…
With Lewinsky, #MeToo Movement Drifts Further Into Infantilization
I’m not sure there’s a woman alive I feel less sorry for than Monica Lewinsky. And before you start in that I’m slut-shaming her, keep in mind that I fully respected her decision to sleep with the President…until she didn’t, retroactively slut-shaming herself after listening to the rightwing’s and some women’s insistence for two decades that she…