We keep hearing endless condemnations of Hillary for the 1996 welfare reform – with which she had absolutely nothing to do whatsoever and which has been unfairly maligned. One side blames Hillary for Bill’s sex life. The people who are supposed to be on the opposite side blame her for his work life. She just can’t win.

Yet we never hear anything about how badly Bernie Sanders – and mind you, not Bernie’s wife, daughter or aunt – bungled on the VA scandal. Because it’s so much more crucial to bash Hillary on somebody else’s actions.

Yeah, no sexism here at all. None.

Have you heard that CNN will be holding the next Democratic debate in Flint? This is good because it’s time we dropped the soundbites everybody heard a hundred times before and talked about Flint.

This is a phenomenon we will be seeing more and more often until we finally awaken to its deadly consequences: Snyder, Rauner, these spoiled, useless rich brats who are lazy and stupid beyond what words can describe. They get elected to governorships and people start dying off because these freaks know nothing but corruption and grift.

The only way to put an end to this insanity is to talk about the crimes of these animals and make them as widely known as possible. And I hope that a debate in Flint will attract people’s attention to what’s been happening.

The real danger of nominating Hillary is that many passionate Leftists feel such a rabid hatred towards women that they will easily convince themselves that Trump or Cruz are a lot more Liberal than Hillary. And their passionate dislike of immigrants will help.

Actually, they have already started making the “Trump is so progressive” argument.

“Feel the Bern” is the most talented campaign slogan I’ve ever heard. It’s memorable, it transmits the enthusiasm the candidate’s supporters are feeling, it’s perfect.

It’s very curious that the most anti-capitalist candidate is the best at branding. The rest of slogans can’t measure up at all. Hillary’s “Ready for Hillary” (has she changed it yet?) does have meaning but it’s gauche and kind of forced, like the candidate’s famous laugh. The campaign should have taken the idea and worked much harder on the wording.

The sadly notorious “Jeb!” is trying to make an important point (he’s not some nameless Bush, he’s an individual in his own right!) but coupled with the candidate’s vapid personality and non-existent support, the exclamation mark sounds pathetic.

Trump’s “Make America great again” sounds whiny and as if it were coming from a spoiled rich brat. (Oh, wait. . .) The candidate hasn’t been elected anywhere but he already tells us what to do.

Of course, the most embarrassing slogan is Ted Cruz’s invocation of transrectal ultrasounds (“TRUSted.) The slogan underscores the general impression that the candidate has something large permanently stuck in his anal cavity.

What the rest of the slogans are I don’t even know because they are lazy and generic.

And one more post on intolerable trauma. Remember the white police officer in Chicago who showed up at the apartment of a mentally ill black teenager? The policeman killed the teenager, killed a neighboring grandma, obviously claimed self-defense, it’s an old story we’ve all heard many times. But here is a curious new twist.

The policeman is suing the family of the dead teen for $10,000,000 claiming that he was hugely traumatized by the event. The event being him shooting the teenager and the grandma while being paid to do his job of policing.

No, seriously.

We often hear about young people freaking out and declaring themselves hugely victimized by non-existent offences, but this is something that older people do, too. A 47 – year-old Italian man claims to have been victimized by a few dirty plates:

A man from Lazio is taking his wife to court for “mistreatment of the family” because she did not cook or clean enough, Italian media reported on Thursday. The 40-year-old woman from the town of Sonnino has been charged with “mistreatment of the family” due to what her husband describes as “poor management of the household chores”. The charge could result in a jail sentence of up to six years.

Victimization has turned into such a badge of honor that people literally run around desperately looking for a reason to present themselves to the world as victims.

Within the consumerist model, the only satisfying contact is the one we have with inanimate objects. Other human beings have a will of their own, and thus, any encounter with an actual person is fraught with the danger that our desires might be thwarted. A consumer sees that as the greatest injustice and rebels.

People who battle their mother- and father-in-law in reality want to battle their parents but don’t dare to. In-laws are “parents for dummies” or “parents light” and going after them is a less scary, easier version of rebelling against the actual parents.

Fathers- and mothers-in-law who battle their children’s spouses are playing out an unconfessed incestuous scenario. It doesn’t involve any sex. It’s all about seeing their own children as substitute romantic partners.

When the incestuous scenario on one side and the thwarted rebellion on the other side come together, painful, protracted battles that span decades ensue.

P.S. This isn’t about me, these are general musings. I saw my mother-in-law twice on Skype and she was very cordial yet indifferent. Which works perfectly for me.

The question of the night: will Trump make a comeback or sink himself even deeper?

Stay tuned!

19:17 – Carson forgot he needs to keep walking? That’s embarrassing.

19:18 – they FORGOT about Kasich? This is so damn embarrassing. What a fiasco. What’s happening? Is everybody drunk at this debate?

19:20 – these questions have already been asked verbatim. Is everybody having a neurological episode?

19:22 – Cruz needs to stop scratching the podium. It’s making him look even more creepy.

19:26 – I’m not surprised somebody in Carson’s campaign died. Probably died of boredom.

19:28 – Cruz’s explanation of the Carson debacle makes him look weak and dishonest.

19:30 – Rubio is pouting already and asking everybody not to vote for Biden. Who is not running.

19:33 – Christie hit Rubio hard with the barb about his canned 30 – second responses. Rubio tries to defend himself and the audience boos him down. I like!

19:39 – Cruz sees no difference between North Korea and Iran. And this is the caliber of politician we have running for president.

19:46 – Trump’s foreign policy is more dovish than that of any Democrat. He’s completely opposed to any foreign involvement. He’s only aggressive in internal affairs.

19:52 – Cruz lays out the creepiest deportation scheme ever. The fellow is ill, folks.

20:00 – is Cruz reviving the death panels myth? What a piece of ugly Canadian trash.

20:05 – Trump is a bleeding Liberal, people. A stupid one, but a Liberal. He hates the wrong kind of immigrants but that’s the only departure I’m seeing, and it’s not a huge one.

20:16 – Rubio is right: Republican governments do tend to be very limited intellectually.

20:39 – Trump seems to have brought a single supporter who claps for him amidst silence.

20:42 – the Ham woman looks drunk.

21:14 – why are we talking about the draft all of a sudden? It’s ridiculous.

Two inventive young women have been using Tinder to attract voters to Bernie Sanders. Tinder kicked them off the app  but it’s still very cute that they were doing it.

We are coming from our yearly visit with our accountant, and I’ve got to say, once again, how eminently modest federal taxes are even on high earners. It’s a bloody shame to complain about taxes in this country.