war against women, huh?

hrmmn.

we're all doomed.

i've never understood why he didn't just admit it. he should have reacted in libertarian terms and made a point about privacy and personal freedom.

the only person in the world that has a right to judge him on this is hillary.

"how will you answer the charge from hillary clinton..."

ask her to marry him?

trump wouldn't deny it, though.

"yeah. i had sexual relations with that woman. so what?"

and a lot of people - myself included - think that's exactly what clinton should have done.

"the war against women", as i understand it, is a term that comes out of the left, and is meant to describe the republican party's attacks on abortion in certain states, mostly in the deep south. google tells me that the republican party recently pressured trump to change his stance on abortion.

i think a part of the misunderstanding is this idea that warren is a populist, quasi-socialist type. rather, she's a relatively conservative new deal capitalist that wants to recreate a regulatory system that will prevent capitalism from cannibalizing itself. in a more enlightened period, she would have been a centrist, liberal democrat - not the type that gets a lot of union support and runs on fiery anti-establishment rhetoric, but the type that wants to make relatively minor changes to allow for more accountability and ultimately gets most of her support from what is a different sector of wall street. elizabeth warren is very much a wall street democrat. she's just a different type of wall street democrat. but the current spectrum has reached the point where this once dominant ruling clique now barely exists, and voters are only vaguely aware that it even ever existed.

the truth is that clinton is within this same clique, and their differences are much smaller than their agreements.

the truth is also that the anti-regulatory, reaganomics clique on wall street actually despises clinton with every inch of their being. this is the clique that poured billions into obama's campaign to beat her.

so, why did she say this?

there's not a conniving, calculated reason. it's just an honest assessment. and, i agree with her. but that's so unusual in american politics that it didn't even cross your mind.

so, what's he going to do if you decide to go anyways?

behead you?

there's certain things that governments can pass laws on and certain things they can't. anybody who wants to get there will get there...

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-proposes-travel-restrictions-1.3184703