If Clinton wins, she’ll be the last president of her kind — pseudo-centrist neoliberal conservative Boomer coddler.

She won’t get a second term.

If Trump wins, he’ll be the first president of his type, since it is not credible that the US elect someone like Sanders when climate change and its associated dislocation begin to take their toll. The US, with no counterbalance like the former Soviet Union, will not lurch leftward.

No, it’ll be demagoguery and tyranny. Trump is the first exponent of this but will not be the last.

And the sad thing is, the US has a much better future under climate change than most other countries and regions. Europe will be destroyed by refugee crises and increasing Islamicization and radicalism on both sides resulting therefrom.

Africa will be little better. Most of Asia will starve.

The US will be better off, but not great. But even with a demagogue or two we won’t have the extreme refugee crisis of millions of people with Western-averse values overrunning public institutions and politics in general. We won’t starve. If worse comes to worst, we’ll take Canada and it’ll become the new breadbasket of the world due to plentiful water and the effects of climate change. (Oh, think that can’t happen? LOL OK then.)

But the world in the next 50 years will not be one of moderation, in climate or in politics. No matter what Clinton does (win or lose), she is the swan song of the status quo.

Wish that were a good thing.

Fucking Kevin Drum.

People are telling you that your statistics are bullshit…because your statistics are bullshit.

There’s no reason to link to the ECI in a piece rather than the actual compensation workers see in their paychecks other than to dissemble, distort and dissimulate. None at all.

And family income vs household income was also a “clever” trick intended only to deceive.

As I said, vote for Clinton if you like. It doesn’t matter much anyway. Climate change is the pressing issue, and no one is going to do a thing about that.

But it just bothers me to no end when there actual honest arguments to be made for Clinton and fucking putzy geriatrics like Drum can’t be arsed to make them, and instead they just tell Millennials that it’s only right and proper that they accept the abuse being dished out.

Worse than that, Drum is telling them that they aren’t even being abused.

Thinking a bit more about the below weight loss article, crash diets almost never work — that’s what The Biggest Loser is, and it doesn’t work.

No surprise there.

I think large weight loss is possible because I’ve done it, and have known other people who’ve done it. It’d probably look something more like this, however.

Doubt it will ever be possible to give people an extreme stubbornness injection, though. I’m not donating any of mine. I need it.

See also this comment.