Donald Trump Can't Win

Donald Trump can’t win.  This was driven home for me today.  Trump’s gender gap has turned into more of a Grand Canyon.  Trump can’t even win with white suburban women.  The percentages are astounding.  His latest scuff up with Cruz on the wives issue hasn’t made things any easier for him.  As the host says, there is no evidence connecting Cruz to these five women he’s supposed to have had affairs with, but there is plenty of evidence connecting Trump to the National Review article.   A new charge is now lodge that Trump is just uninformed and ignorant on the finer points of foreign policy- - ignorant of basic facts that Hillary could beat him over the head with.  Trump said something about selling fighter jets to Iran, which makes no sense at all.  (?)  He wants to bomb everybody and take their oil.   But there is another new issue of “Zombie delegates” and “Double agent” delegates.  Zombie delegates are those left over from Rubio and Christie and Carson.  It’s been said that Ted Cruz is much better with the “inside game” and apparently in Louisiana Cruz manage to weedle more delegates even though Trump won the popular vote.  The “rules” of the Convention will not be set till the convention actually takes place, and these can determine a lot about how for instance- - - Trump delegates don’t have to vote as Trump wants them to on other issues.  That’s why they’re called “double agents.

There is plenty of great news for Bernie Sanders.  He did a three state sweep winning victories in Washington State, Alaska and Hawaii.  Sanders scored 82% of the popular vote in Alaska and 76% in Washington over Hillary, and Sanders beat Hillary in Hawaii.  This is the decisive break in trend that Sanders has been looking for to say “The people have spoken in a decisive way” and should go a long way to narrowing his delegate gap, which had already narrowed a little bit already.  Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will be big tests for Sanders. 

It could be said that ISIS helped elected the Republicans in this country in 2014 because we were flooded with all these beheading videos in the media.  It was almost as though ISIS said "We have to show to the USA that we are the next big threat and for them to be afraid of in the West.  Along with the Ebola virus- - it was the PR campaign conducted by ISIS itself that insured Republican victories.  Why would ISIS want to elect hard liners here?  You'll have to ask them.  Last night I watched the Mc Laughlin group.  We learn today that a big part of the security problem in Europe is the common market aka the European Union.  They want to erase borders so as not to interfere with the entrance and egress of populations.  The trouble is with the developing nationalism of Europe their police departments aren’t cooperating with each other as they are now doing in this country.  It isn’t like it was before where a criminal was safe is he crossed the state line into another state.  With Europe there is little coordination between the various Security agencies.

If I worked as a waiter in a restaurant I wouldn't mind a pay boost from ten to fifteen dollars an hour.  If it meant I couldn't ask for tips that would be so much the better for me because I think fenegeling for a tip all the time would get tiresome.  However there is another more obvious side to the story.  Most resturant waiters and waitresses get used to the tips and expect them.  As Pat Buchannon says "It means they like the service of their favorite restaurant".  Now various localities are experimenting with hiking all of the menu prices twenty percent and then saying they don’t have to tip.  Of course even with a twenty percent hike in menu items, waiters will still be looking for that tip.  So it’s a bad deal for the consumer because right now the “proper” tip of 17% or 17 ½%   So the patron pays more money and he doesn’t have the satisfaction of tipping his favorite waiter for a good meal.  The bigger question is whether all of that money gets to the staff or gets pocketed by the owner in something called “administrative costs”.   That’s my biggest concern is that the staff might end up seeing very little of that money and if I tip directly I know who gets it.  Pat Buchannon agrees with me on this issue.  The third issue was the opium crop in Afghanistan.

I sneezed this morning at the table and Judy to my left asked me if I knew the story behind saying “God bless you”.   I asked if it had anything to do with exorcising demons.  She said “No”.  It has to do with the fact that sneezing was the first sign that a person was getting the Plague in Europe during the Middle Ages.  They knew you were going to die from it so saying “Bless you” was just a way of consoling them on their bad news.  So was life like “The Stand” back then where a cold turns into death?   I’d heard the story about how the song “Ring around the Roses” came to be.  It has to do with the London plague of the 1660’s and like the other one it ended in a fate of death. 

Finally we have the story from a couple of weeks ago about how John Erlichman of the Nixon administration came out and admitted that accusing the hippies of using marijuana and accusing Black people of using Heroin was a good way to discredit vast sectors of those voting democratic and liberal.  Now John Erlichman says "We knew it was a lie at the time, but it was strictly political".  It's quite an admission and to me it seems to be a bit of overkill.  Because drugs obviously are a problem and 45 years ago they were a more obvious problem than they are today because people hadn't heard of "over sentencing" and all this stuff popular now.  It was just "a problem" and I see no big thing about saying "Drugs are bad" as a way of shoring up your own supporters.  Maybe John Erlichman has gone soft in his old age.