recount

One has to wonder what the Clintons have promised Jill Stein for her to stir up all this recount business.  Moreover, what do they expect from it... Maybe they just want to screw with The Donald to the point where he proves, even to his converted, that he is totally unfit for the office.

Prediction:

They will fail.

I want to be President

What it feels like but without the happy ending:
minute 18:37 to 19:45




Of course a similar scenario is what Trump was inciting while he was running...  And now, apparently, actually winning the presidency is just not enough for him:

"I want the popular vote"

one more prediction

Trump will make Hilary and the Clinton foundation look positively honest

conflict, what conflict?

The Thing About Getting Old: part one

Yesterday the Ranting Economist was watching CNBC, as he is wont to do when he comes home from work, and the talking heads “du moment” were discussing the new Snapchat glasses.  One of them was wearing, testing, and testifying about one when I looked up from whatever corporeal haptic thing I was doing and said, not wistfully but objectively, “I am finally old.”

I am finally old because I could give a fuck about Snapchat and its glasses.  And isn’t that what old means: to no longer give a fuck about young people’s entertainment forms and to pay attention to them only in so far as their stock value is concerned?   … Though I have no doubt that the youth of today who dream up these platforms are themselves thinking of valuation while most of the users just want to have fun as they become one more set of statistics at which to direct ads to… 

So I’m old, not proudly but matter-of-factly, and it’s not all that bad.

The Future

Donald Trump will spend a great deal of the next four years

tweeting about all the ways the media has wronged him.

mark my words

Lets just hope he does not jail its members 
as so many of the world leaders he seems to admire do.

What now?

Now that Leonard Cohen is dead, who's gonna keep us honest?





I guess it's up to that other old jew...

The protests are unfair?!!!

Trump tweets that the protests against him are unfair.  Here is a man who has no conception of what he has just done by winning this election. For the first time I am politically very afraid, and I was born and lived under a dictatorship until I came to this country.

Desenfranchised Shmenfranchised

The truly disenfranchised in this nation are those of us in the great middle who are always faced with having to make a choice between the devil on the right and the devil on the left.  Voting in a country where no one is willing to compromise about anything has become a most unpleasant Sisyphean task.  I am so tired of voting for the person I find less unpleasant and only likely to infringe on some of my rights instead of all of them.  We have been doing this for decades and all that has happened is that people have become more polarized and uglier while the country and the planet have literally been falling apart.  I am really sick and tired of it; and now with Trump in office I fear the parties will only get even more polarized with the left trying to win by going Warren and Sanders way, and god only knows where the right will go next (!).  I'm just sick of it.

good morning america

holy shit