Watch it here, but it's uncomfortable without the old boy, who turned 89 in March.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Why it's not a coincidence the polls now favor Hillary
Because Trump touted his poll successes throughout the primaries. So, poll now to make him look like a failure. A simple strategy. Don't measure opinion, shape it!
Pick the target . . . easy, there's only one in this circumstance.
Freeze it . . . attack him from all sides, media, academia, Congress, Hollywood, donors, Democrats, Republican establishment. Keep up constant pressure from every angle.
Personalize it . . . never talk about the issues he talks about, about all the people thronging his appearances, only talk about the man, how "unfit" he is, what a clown he is, how inarticulate, offensive and classless!
Polarize it . . . caricature him as if he didn't belong, like he was beneath us, you know like Mar-a-Lago Club didn't belong in Palm Beach. Treat him like people who work for a living, not like one of us. Accuse his movement of being violent, outside the mainstream, while having your thugs do actual harm to his supporters.
Make him and them feel all alone, like strangers in their own country.
Friday, August 12, 2016
Trump thanks Gen. Hayden and the fifty for coming forward so everyone can know who the foreign policy fuck-ups are
From Spengler, here, who points out that it's bad enough that the emperor wears no clothes, but the empire has no tailors, either:
Trump responded, “The names on this letter are the ones the American people should look to for answers on why the world is a mess, and we thank them for coming forward so everyone in the country knows who deserves the blame for making the world such a dangerous place.” That is exactly correct. He might have added that they are incapable of learning from their mistakes and doomed to repeat them if given the opportunity.
Hillary: A border fence for me, but not for thee
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| This ten-footer surrounds Hillary's entire property in New York |
Story here.
The 2015 cost of Medicaid expansion for 10 million people: $63.66 billion
As reported here:
In a recent report to Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the cost of expansion was $6,366 per person for 2015, about 49 percent higher than previously estimated. ... An estimated 9 million to 10 million people are covered by the Medicaid expansion, and many of the remaining uninsured are likely to be eligible if their states accept. Most of the new Medicaid recipients are low-income adults.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Anti-Trump Macy's closes 15% of stores (about 100) after sales decline six quarters straight
From the story here:
Neil Saunders, CEO of research firm Conlumino, said the Macy's store closures are "sensible," but largely the result of a "self-inflicted defeat."
Not a conservative A. Barton Hinkle complains Trump is not a conservative
Here.
What he means is Trump is not a libertarian. To Hinkle, Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois is a "leading intellectual light" of conservatism.
There he goes again, Bogarting that joint.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
If Rush Limbaugh had done this good of a job defending Trump during the primaries, maybe the GOP would be more unified today
I'm referring to Rush today playing the audios of both Clinton and Biden actually talking about Obama being shot, either during the 2008 primary, in which case Hillary would have been the last man standing, or if Obama came for Biden's guns.
Bloomberg poll shows Hillary at +6 in August, but in June she was . . .
. . . +12 . . . and +18 in March.
Just words from Hillary: Survivors of sexual assault have the right to be heard, the right to be believed
Unless you're a 12-year old girl from Arkansas, or someone who accused my husband, or . . ..
Video here of some remarks made last September in Iowa, during which she is quoted as saying:
"Today I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault," Clinton said. "Don't let anyone silence your voice. You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed and we're with you."
In 1975 Hillary Clinton laughed about getting a plea deal for this 12-year old girl's brutal rapist
And Bush-Republicans openly advocate a vote for Hillary?
Kathy Shelton, now 54, quoted in the story here:
A child rape victim says she cannot forgive Hillary Clinton for defending her rapist in court 40 years ago, saying the Democratic presidential candidate attacked her credibility despite knowing that her assailant was guilty – and later laughed about it in a taped interview. ...
In a lengthy interview with the Daily Mail Online, Shelton said Clinton is 'lying' when she claims to be a lifelong defender of women and girls. ...
'Because after laughing on that tape, [Hillary's] pretty much stuck in knowing that she lied, knowing that it happened to me. And that tape's out there to be listened to by anybody.'
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Trump rallies continue to dwarf Hillary rallies, but the left thinks "voter intensity" for the two is about equal, and low
Reported in The Nation, here, for what it's worth:
In 2012, 60 percent of Obama backers supported him “strongly” (the comparable figure for Romney supporters was 38 percent).
You’d be forgiven for thinking that this election has seen voter “intensity” reach new heights. However, a July poll found the level of “strong” support was about equal for both Clinton and Trump—and strikingly low: Pew found in that poll that “fewer than half of both candidates’ supporters said they backed their candidate strongly,” with 45 percent each. The equal proportions suggest intensity is not going to skew the poll results this year.
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