http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/upshot...e-war.html

Quote:Hillary Clinton has built a commanding lead over Donald J. Trump in national polls, but she still has one big weakness: white working-class voters, especially men.

Even now, she is underperforming any recent Democratic candidate among white voters without a college degree.
It’s a very different story from 2008, when Barack Obama built a big national lead by attracting white working-class voters in states like Wisconsin and Indiana.

Instead, Mrs. Clinton’s gains come from big margins among well-educated voters and an electorate that’s much more diverse than it was even a decade ago...



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/upshot...e-war.html

You will recall that Fremont was the first Republican Presidential candidate, in 1856; he lost more or less respectably to James Buchanan, as Trump will now almost certainly lose more or less respectably to Hillary Clinton.

But what if, in 2020, a basically similar candidate - stressing slamming the door on immigration and free trade; i.e., an advocate of Malthusian rather than Darwinian economics - wins the GOP primary again, and this time around, also the general election because that candidate will not have the personal baggage that Trump has?

In that case, 2020 could be the same four-way screaming match as 1860 - with the laissez-faire Republicans bolting the party and running a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio as an independent, and there also being a schism among the Democrats, with the socialists no longer willing to play second fiddle to the neo-liberal globalists, as they are doing in this election.

Then "Trump 2.0" wins.

... But Clinton is the one who can't be trusted on policy.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/22/busine...mp-europe/

Quote:I think we've all become aware of the fact that our cultures and economics are intertwined. It's a complex mosaic that cannot be approached with a simple formula for the correct pattern to emerge. In many ways, we are in unchartered waters.

The good news, in one respect, is that what is done affects us all. There won't be any winners or losers as this is not a competition. It's a time for working together for the best of all involved. Never before has the phrase "we're all in this together" had more resonance or relevance.

My concern is that the negligence of a few will adversely affect the majority. I've long been a believer in the "look at the solution, not the problem" theory. In this case, the solution is clear. We will have to leave borders behind and go for global unity when it comes to financial stability.

Quote:Europe is a terrific place for investment. I am proud to have built a great golf course in Scotland after searching throughout Europe for five years for the right location. I've seen many beautiful places.

The future of Europe, as well as the United States, depends on a cohesive global economy. All of us must work toward together toward that very significant common goal.

The 2T started with late "British Invasion" rock, and quickly moved into Hippie Rock / Psychedelic Rock. Acid Rock / Heavy Metal and Prog welled up nearly simultaneously. Then came Punk, Post Punk, New Wave (and Metal never stopped). Lots of good tunes from the 2T.

Here's an album I think Rags might like:

#IOT   OK, it's one of the latest fads.  Yeah,  it's right up their with mood rings and pet rocks wrt actual utility.  
It's also the hotbed of "all your appliances are, belong to us. - H3x0rs"

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/h...berattacks


http://www.securityweek.com/over-500000-...rai-botnet

Telnet is evil, man.

I ran into this absolutely hilarious blog by a 22yo architecture student that makes fun of McMansions and other houses with terrible, tacky design. Her comentary has me laughing my ass off.

Clinton was excluded, probably on the basis that she'll never be able to show her face in public again if she blows this one.

https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/up...ines-1.pdf

GOP: 
Pence - 13 
Ryan - 11
Kasich - 11 
Cruz - 10 
Rubio - 8
Trump - 7  
Cotton - 1

DEM: 
Warren - 16
Kaine - 10 
Cuomo - 6
Booker - 5


A.) Fucking LOL, the current Republican nominee is in fifth place and losing to his current running mate in first. That might give Pence ideas about sabotaging things this year.

B.) The fact that a boring white dude like Kaine is in second on the Democratic side ought to give those alt-righties who believe that the Democrats are becoming a minority-only Party pause.

C.) Liz fuckin' Warren. If the GOP had nominated any other candidate, and the Court weren't on the line, it'd almost be worth taking a loss.

Keep your fingers crossed that the next Prophets can beat these shitheads. Core Millies are getting pretty tired of shouldering these big fights alone and the Prophets can't come along soon enough.

http://www.vice.com/read/donald-trump-white-supremacy

Quote:...

Even if a Trump loss doesn't spark violence, reawakening outright racism can still have plenty of undesirable effects. Another branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Teaching Tolerance Project, works to help schools provide a diverse and equitable education. Maureen Costello, director of the program, says the "Trump Effect" is having a profoundly negative impact on schools nationwide. Costello explained that in the current climate students feel less constrained when it comes to acting on their worst impulses. Numerous racially inflammatory incidents among children are being chalked up to behavior first modeled during stump speeches and debates.


"Our mission is to fight intolerance," Costello said. "We began to notice news stories popping up in March about incidents at sporting events." Costello described a basketball game between a predominantly white school and a predominantly Latino school during which the white students began to chant about Trump's fanciful southern border wall. Costello said that if such behavior was on display in the gym, then it was happening in cafeterias and classrooms too. (Two such incidents occurred during basketball games in Indiana and Iowa, and another took place at a girl's soccer match in Wisconsin.)

This campaign season has seen an uncommon increase in the use of stereotyping—most of it by Trump, said Costello, adding that "this is something we, and most teachers, literally tell kids not to do. Any kid who reaches high school will have had several lessons explaining not to use a broad brush to paint minority groups."

Seeking to take the racial temperature of America's classrooms, Costello and her co-workers put a survey on theTeaching Tolerance website. The questions, the director said, were open-ended, and she stressed that her group's website heavily selects for people interested in nurturing diversity. Still, Costello was overwhelmed by the reaction to the survey. More than 2,000 teachers posted more than 5,000 comments, almost all of them decrying the impact the election was having. Many teachers reported increased hate speech, the taunting of minority students and discrimination against Muslims. A North Carolina teacher reported that her Latino students were carrying their birth certificates and Social Security cards because they were afraid of deportation. Other teachers reported even their African American students were fearful of being "deported back to Africa."

"I think there are rational reasons to be dissatisfied with government," Costello said. "We're in a period of enormous change. Look at technology, demographics. American schools will be 51 percent non-white for the first time in 2015/16. That transition is rough. There's always a reactionary movement away from that, and Trump has given that feeling a name: immigrants, Muslims. We're seeing a real disagreement about what American reality is. When you have people disagreeing on the fundamental nature of reality, those disagreements don't go away."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/201...s-is-more/

Quote:The expansion of choice is the cumulative result of decades of economic growth alongside social and technological change. Rising affluence has stoked demand for ever-more options. Technological improvements—both in manufacturing and information technology—have drastically lowered the cost of production while also introducing a flood of new gadgets to buy. Thanks to the Internet’s “infinite shelf,” businesses and services are accessible no matter how small or how far. Against this backdrop, cultural attitudes have grown more individualistic: With more choices come elevated expectations that every person can have something unique.

In recent years, however, the unbridled enthusiasm surrounding choice has cooled. More options inevitably mean higher production costs and risk making brands look unfocused. For consumers, evaluating all these options can feel more like a time-wasting burden than a privilege; the average American makes 70 decisions a day. In The Guardian, columnist Stuart Jeffries says what’s happening now evokes visions of The Simpsons’ Monstromart: a mega-supermarket whose slogan is “Where Shopping is a Baffling Ordeal...


http://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/201...s-is-more/

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ign=buffer

Quote:In nearly half of two-parent households in the U.S. today, children are raised by parents who both work full time. Yet most Americans say that children with two parents are better off when one of them stays home to tend to the family, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

The survey, conducted June 7-July 5 among 4,602 adults on Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel, found that 59% of U.S. adults believe that children with two parents are better off when a parent stays home, while about four-in-ten (39%) say children are just as well off when their parents work outside the home...


http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...ign=buffer