Donald John Trump...

...is a chump-- enough said.

Obviously, I won't stop there because I also think Hilary is the wrong choice.  Yes, she is the wrong choice but she is a known quantity-- not a wild card.  And before we move on-- I apologize for the name calling, but my fear of the damage Donald Trump's already wrought upon our country's standing in the world is upsetting to say the least considering that he hasn't even taken office yet. 

I say to you Republicans-- you have just over one week to mount a final, true offensive against Trump.  I implore you to throw everything you've got at him and split this party asunder if need be.  Use whatever tactics available to prevent him from getting the nomination (Minus violent ones of course.  I just don't want anyone to mistake my language to be interpreted as something else.)  All of these tactics will probably fail to prevent the nomination at this late stage, but the damage will be done and then once Trump is ruined maybe the healing and rebuilding can begin.  This will most likely guarantee a Republican failure to win the White House this election, but this is about playing a long game and winning the larger engagement not just this one battle.

Cop Violence in a Post-Racial(?) Society

What is it at the root cause of all these police shootings and why can't we stop the insanity?? We'll get to that but first-- I'm sure you've already noticed that I posted a picture saying "all lives matter". This isn't met to minimize the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement, but I feel that the statement "Black Lives Matter" already triggers people on different sides of the matter to have very specific reactions. Yes, saying "all lives matter" may do the same to some degree, but we cannot live in a post racial society as long as we continue to fight the same battles of the 60's and use statements meant to elicit very strong, often negative feelings in different groups for different reasons. Here's a decent video discussion posted by New Gingrich and Van Jones which was a good dialogue but doesn't really offer much in the way of advancing the conversation in my opinion, but it does explain what I said above pretty well. There are still residual consequences from the old days, but we must do what we can to finally separate ourselves from the past. The problem with doing so lies in the fact that people still hold on to the past and their feelings about it. This is keeping our country from being able to truly progress. Yes, feelings are important but uncontrolled feelings lead to more anger, frustration, and ultimately violence NOT meaningful change. Facts, backed up by strong but rational feelings are what will foster real, lasting change. I challenge everyone to comb through these statistics before making more judgements about the situation at hand or how to mitigate it moving forward. A few facts-- In 2015 there were 990 police shootings, nearly 75% of those shootings (730) were police being shot at or trying to protect citizens being shot at, 26% of the shootings (258) were perpetrated against non-hispanic blacks who make up between 12-14% of the population-- a delta of +12-14%, 50% of the shootings (494) were were perpetrated against whites who make up around 77% of the population-- a delta of -27%, and 9% of the shootings were against unarmed citizens. Is there a disparity?