McCamy Taylor
McCamy Taylor's JournalDems, Don't Run a "Purity" Candidate Against Giuliani and the Russian Mob
Obama got lucky in 2008 when he ran as a 'purity" candidate, because GOP nominee John McCain was also a "purity" candidate, meaning neither side would fling mud.
That was then and this is now.
TGP---Trump/Giuliani/Putin---have proven that they will break the law in ways that even Dick Nixon could not imagine in order to trash their opponent's character---meaning that if the Democrat's strength is their POE--"Purity of Essence" (nod to Dr Strangelove)--that candidate will go down in the general election like George "Acid, Amnesty. Abortion" McGovern (nod to Robert Novak may he burn in Hell for all eternity) in 1972.
Yes, I know how Democrats like to fall in love with their nominee--but get real here. We are not nominating a prom queen. We are attempting to take back control of our country from Russia. This is very literally a matter of life and death in ways that no election has been before, because we have never had a president so obviously in the employee of a major political rival nation. Russia will consider Trump's job "well done" if, he leaves office in 2024 with the nation plunged into another Great Depression with gun toting fascist vigilantes on ever corner and maybe with a couple of Chernobyls thrown in for fun.
To all the Susan Sarandons of the world who think that your white privilege will keep you safe no matter who you help get elected this time around--don't. Just don't.
Yes, I know that Democrats are supposed to run campaigns based upon positivism and not upon fear. But how can any sane person look at the shit show in DC and not be scared shitless? This really is an election too big to F up, and if it takes a brokered convention to get the Russia Mob out of the White House, then lets start brokering.
My Heart Belongs to Beto, But I am Giving my Vote to Bloomberg
Because in a Citizens United United States, only the independently wealthy can be independent. Call it the Kennedy effect.
Oh, lest we forget how we got into this mess, here is what I wrote in 2010 about Citizens United. Please, tell me my crystal ball was wrong. Please. And what the fuck? Why is this blog of mine saved on Pravda of all things????
http://pravda-constitution.blogspot.com/2010/02/mccamy-taylors-journal-democracy-in.html
Corporate “citizens” are more equal than union “citizens.” No wonder Congress failed to vote on the Employee Free Choice Act, even when they had a clear 60 vote majority in the Senate. Now, they will blame that woman from Massachusetts for their failure to follow through on their promises to labor, the same way they will blame her for their failure to do fuck about health care.
Bought and sold, that describes our Congress, our president, our Supreme Court. Welcome to the New Federalist United States. If it seems strangely familiar, that might be because it resembles Mussolini’s Italy, a land where corporations ruled and everyone else paid.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini ...
What happened to the Neanderthal?
What happened to the Neanderthal?
Here is a hypothesis based upon three observations.
1) Our Neanderthal genes all come to us from through the male line (suggesting Neanderthal women plus modern human men did not equal healthy babies)
2) Neanderthal were much more likely than stone age modern humans to practice incest. Incest, as we all know, is something modern humans are hardwired to avoid. If two children who are not blood relatives are raised together, chances are they will not have a sexual relationship later in life. If you consider genetic disease prevention strategies common in Africa such as sickle trait and thallesemia trait (both of which protect against the great scourge malaria) i.e autosomal recessive traits which are great if you have just one copy of the gene but lethal if you have two, then obviously modern humans benefit from genetic diversity and die out if they become inbred. However Neanderthal DNA hardly changed at all ( compared to modern human DNA) over a hundred thousand years. And the race thrived for hundreds of thousands of years without genetic diversity. And incest did not doom them to extinction. Humans did.
3) What parts of Neanderthal DNA survived and were incorporated into modern humans? I.e what was the best part of Neanderthal, the part that made modern humans better, too? Their immune systems. Neanderthal were just naturally resistant to a wide variety of diseases. The same genes gave them autoimmune diseases, too. But in the days before antibiotics, infectious disease resistance was the key to survival.
Now, put these three observations together 1) Neanderthal women could not successfully breed with modern human men but modern human women had no problem breeding with Neanderthal men 2) Incest and lack of genetic diversity was actually better for the Neanderthal than genetic diversity and 3) Neanderthal had an extremely strong immune system, and what do you get?
Neanderthal women had such strong immune responses to foreign proteins ( derived from foreign DNA) that their best chance of having successful pregnancies was if they mated with someone who had a close matched genome (i.e their brothers). If they attempted to mate with someone whose proteins/DNA were extremely foreign, their bodies would react to the fetus as if it was a deadly infection, spontaneously aborting it. Or creating antibodies that would doom any subsequent pregnancies by the same father. So Neanderthal women who mated with modern human men in the new more open more diverse societies would have had serious infertility issues. But if Neanderthal women decided to stick to their brothers and somehow a gene like sickle cell trait slipped into the family from the newly arrived Africans, that would also impair the Neanderthal women's ability to successfully procreate, too.
I think that this might be the math that eventually led Neanderthal to disappear except as a few genes in our modern human DNA.
PS. There is another, worst case scenario. Modern human women are more likely than men to develop certain autoimmune disorders and they do it after being pregnant. What if exposure to all the foreign DNA caused Neanderthal women to develop autoimmune diseases like Lupus? In that case, Neanderthal women would die at higher rates than modern human women, speeding up the extinction of their species.
Saint Beto
To tell the truth, I am relieved. Beto is too pure, too idealistic to be a candidate. He can do more good for this country as a civil rights leader. He has a very promising future ahead of him. Carry the dream, Beto! I have faith in you!
Oh, and you will note that I am now an Elizabeth Warren supporter. Let's hear it for the next POTUS, Warren!
It must be said---AG Barr is the mob "enforcer" and is witness tampering.
The AG of the USA has many ways to make life miserable for witnesses to Trump's high crimes. He can comb through your taxes looking for mistakes that he can charge as criminal. He can check out your internet browsing history and demand to know why you look at porn online (I would add a lol here but this is too damn serious). He can launch investigations of your spouse, children, friends if he can not dig up dirt on you.
And once he finds anything that can be construed as a federal, he can jail you and threaten to send you to prison for years---unless you accept a plea deal that includes recanting your testimony against Trump.
If the dirt that the DOJ digs up is not criminal (such as your porn preferences) it can still be leaked to Fox to discredit your testimony. Better gird your loins, truth tellers. It is going to become mighty dangerous to try to be good a American citizen in the weeks to come.
Which brings me to my point--there are already grounds to impeach Barr. Alberto Gonzales was sent packing for doing less. Why is not the House taking care of Trump's Enforcer?
PS, while lawyers all know what Barr is guilty of, for non lawyers, he is currently engaged in obstruction of justice. By announcing a "criminal" investigation of a perfectly legal federal investigation and perfectly legal impeachment, he and Trump are telling the world "If you engage in this legal process, we will place you in legal jeopardy." The federal employees who are being called to testify have to hire their own lawyers. Now their legal bills are going to skyrocket.
Easiest Way for Trump to Make Money in the Final days of His Term of Office
is to sell nukes. We know Saudi Arabia would pay top dollar for them. Are the 50 nukes that got "left behind" intended to go to Saudi Arabia? It would be very easy to do. Now that the US military is not in charge of them, Turkey could have an "Uh oh!" moment. The nukes could be spirited away to Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia could repay Trump with a huge sum of cash in a secret bank account.
Ultimate Poll Tax: OHIO Tries to Purge 20,000 Dems for Not Voting in the Future
Here is the link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/ohio-voter-purge.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
And here is the quote:
In one case, a data mistake from an outside firm meant a large number of people’s names were set to be knocked off. Ohio’s 88 counties each used a different process of removing people from the rolls, an immediate source of headaches for officials trying to compile a statewide list.
And voting rights groups found an unexplained tranche — around 20,000 people — who had been marked to be purged because of inactivity in future election cycles, but were actually active voters in previous Ohio elections. These voters were in Franklin County, a Democratic stronghold in the state.
OMG! Now Democrats have to vote in the future in order to vote in the present??? But what if we do not have time travel technology? Is this supposed to be some kind of poll tax on steroids?
This Has to Be Asked: Is ISIS a Branch of the Russian Mob?
It is clear that ISIS is an organized crime family that only pretends to be concerned with religious matters. What does ISIS do to promote Allah and Islam? Nothing. Instead they kidnap, blackmail, rape, sex traffic, steal and sell antiquities.
Putin and the current Russian leaders are in bed with the Russian mob. So, what if turning Turkey loose on the Kurds is a backhand way of liberating Russian mob associates in Syria aka ISIS ?Maybe the money made by ISIS is all being funneled into Putin's gazillion dollar secret bank account.
Trump Shits in His Own Kitchen--Violates the "Bandit" Code over Kurds/Turkey
If you read my journals, you know that I think the reason why Trump keeps a devoted base is because he is perceived to be the "Bandit King" (think Robin Hood) an outlaw who breaks unfair laws in defense of down trodden mostly rural people. (Read Eric Hobsbawn's "Bandits" for more on the politics of banditry). This is, of course, bull shit. But that does not stop some folks from believing it. And that is why his base gives him a free pass whenever he breaks the law.
Well, don't look now, but he just broke the Bandit Law--big time. Loyalty is the most important "virtue" of a Bandit King. If you cannot trust the bandit King to be loyal, then his lawbreaking ways become a threat--to you.
Trump just betrayed a key political ally in the Middle East--the Kurds. Remember how Saddam was reviled for killing the Kurds? And they were not even Saddam's allies. Trumps has just proven what we in the opposition always knew--he is only loyal to his own financial best interest.
Expect massive defections from the up-until-now Trump alliance.
Genocide for Sale: Trump's Business Ties to Turkey
Why is Trump selling out the Kurds--over the objections of everyone including the Pentagon and members of his own party?
“I have a little conflict of interest ’cause I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump told Bannon during a Breitbart radio show. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers—two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two.”
From a 2015 interview during his campaign for president.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/reminder-trump-has-a-massive-conflict-of-interest-in-turkey/
Impeachment is too good for this serial killer. He should be tried in the World Court for war crimes.
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