2016 comparisons
The Troll in Chief strikes again.
Won’t someone please think of all the undocumented visitors who have died from systemic racism instead?
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How dare they not inact rules that do not jive with the laws that are on the books! Do what (I think) is right, not what’s legal!
I’ll never buy that targeted anti-discrimination rules dont covertly endorse the discrimination of those not covered by those rules. As that article reports, they say they are against all discrimination - and calling out only a certain group is inherently discriminatory.
I’ve dealt with it personally - “That’s right, I’s is queer, and y’use just gotta deal with it and not dis cri min ate!”, when literally no one cared, if anyone even knew, until they started getting all in our faces… A lot of times it’s not about treating everyone the same, it’s about making subgroups feel special.
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November surprise? Flip the remaining 100 electoral votes?
The people in that video are insane. They cheer when Trump says he, Melania, and his son got covid?!?
Fire Fauci? Sure, who would want an infectious disease expert in the midst of an infectious disease pandemic?
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“The stock market has a fairly reliable track record: Since World War II, when the S&P 500 fell in the three months leading up to the November vote during a presidential election year, the incumbent president or party of the outgoing president has lost the election 88% of the time.”
That’s confusing correlation with causality IMO. Bad economies lose elections for incumbents, deservedly so in the minds of voters, and the stock market reflects those poor economic conditions. Currently the market is reflecting some combination of lockdown policies and central bank intervention. If you think that’s your model for voters, try to figure out how may people will vote against Lockdown Joe vs for Free Trillions Stimulus Joe. Certainly without the virus, I think Trump would have been unbeatable due to his economic performance.
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Speaking of economies, here was an economists take on the various other economists endorsing or criticizing Biden’s economic plans.
Now, the Biden plan at its core consists of a sharp rise in tax rates, pushing many marginal rates well past 50%, a pledge to both spend and via unions and other regulations deliberately increase economic “wedges,” and to deliberately use more expensive but less carbon-emitting energy. Such a plan might be defended as an important sacrifice of economic growth for greater equality, or for environmental benefits not quantified by GDP, or for social justice. Indeed “less growth but more equitable” might – might – be a defensible position. But just how does it produce “economic growth that is faster?”
The signatories turn economics on its head. OK, they have Nobel Prizes, I don’t – maybe all the standard signs of the effects of economic policies are wrong. But how? The offer no analysis, no mechanism, no quantification, and not even citation to others who have done so. Just their “belief” and authority as Nobel Prize winners. Or is it just their moral judgement and partisan feeling, no less sincere, but not any more special than yours and mine?
I wonder how old Cindy feels about Kamala. Because if Biden wins we will be seeing Kamala, a purebred San Francisco Democrat, in the big chair sooner than later.
There are several worries for me should Biden prevail tomorrow. But Kamale is the largest. She is a cocksure liberal who will stop at nothing to infect my country with the socialism she champions. She is a threat to my freedom and liberty well north of anything Biden brings to the table. And she is a lightweight not up to the task of being POTUS.
I detest Hillary Clinton. She is a horrible drunk. But Hillary at least had the background (full term Senator, Secretary of State, First Lady) to be POTUS. Kamala’s qualifications are not close to that. She is manifestly unqualified and could do permanent harm to America.
Observation
Watch what they do, not what they say.
It is a concern for me, as a Trump supporter, that President Trump yesterday held a rally in Rome, Georgia. What the hen is up with that!!
Trump should not be needing to campaign in Georgia. But his campaign felt the need nonetheless. This is not good at all.
To have any chance for victory Trump must sweep the south. This includes Texas, Florida, of course Georgia, and with any luck North Carolina.
I am hearing good things out of Iowa. But that does not change requirement for a sweep in the south. However I am buoyed by the Iowa news to the extent it might portend good outcomes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio as well.
Pennsylvania? Who knows how those clowns are gonna vote? And we won’t even learn their outcome until the weekend! Bunch of zeros.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, for the first time since 1972, has endorsed a Republican POTUS candidate! They are backing Trump, but not before kicking him in the nuts and sticking a hot poker in his eye!! Here is what they have to say:
“He’s unpresidential.”
“He’s crude and unkind.”
“He’s just not a good man.”
These things, and much worse, are commonly said of President Donald Trump. His personality totally eclipses his record.
So we, seemingly, have him on the dunk tank, ready for a very cold bath.
Let’s play dump the lout.
But is this really what it’s about?
Isn’t the real question whether he has been taking the country, and the economy of this region, in the right direction these last four years?
Can we separate the man from the record?
We share the embarrassment of millions of Americans who are disturbed by the president’s unpresidential manners and character — his rudeness and put-downs and bragging and bending of the truth.
None of this can be justified. The president’s behavior often has diminished his presidency, and the presidency. Most Americans want a president who makes them proud.
We too prefer the first-class temperament and demeanor of a Winston Churchill, a Dwight Eisenhower, a Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, or a Barack Obama (whom this newspaper enthusiastically supported in 2008 and 2012). None of them are on the ballot this year.
Let’s look at the Trump record:
Under Donald Trump the economy, pre-COVID, boomed, like no time since the 1950s. Look at your 401(k) over the past three years.
Unemployment for Black Americans is lower than it has ever been, under any president of either party.
Under Mr. Trump, our trade relationships have vastly improved and our trade deals have been rewritten. Thanks to him, middle America is on the map again and the Appalachian and hourly worker has some hope.
Has Mr. Trump done enough for these struggling fellow citizens? No. But he recognized them. Maybe he was not articulate, but he recognized their pain.
No one ever asked the American people, or the people in “flyover,” country, if they wanted to send their jobs abroad — until Mr. Trump. He has moved the debate, in both parties, from free trade, totally unfettered, to managed, or fair, trade. He has put America first, just as he said he would.
He also kept his promise to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court of the United States. His third appointment, Amy Coney Barrett, is the best of all — a jurist whose mind and character and scholarship ARE first class. We hope she stands against both judicial and executive excess.
Finally, let’s talk about one of the most important concerns in this region — energy. Under Mr. Trump the United States achieved energy independence for the first time in the lifetimes of most of us. Where would Western Pennsylvania be without the Shell Petrochemical Complex (the “cracker plant”)?
Donald Trump is not Churchill, to be sure, but he gets things done.
He is not a unifier. He often acts like the president of his base, not the whole country. He has done nothing to lessen our divisions and has, in fact, often deepened them. The convictions and intellect of all Americans should be respected by ALL Americans, especially the president.
Has Mr. Trump handled the pandemic perfectly? No. But no one masters a pandemic. And the president was and is right that we must not cower before the disease and we have to keep America open and working.
He has not listened well to people who could have helped him. He has not learned government, or shown interest in doing so.
But the Biden-Harris ticket offers us higher taxes and a nanny state that will bow to the bullies and the woke who would tear down history rather than learning from history and building up the country.
It offers an end to fracking and other Cuckoo California dreams that will cost the economy and the people who most need work right now. “Good-paying green jobs” are probably not jobs for Pittsburgh, or Cleveland, or Toledo, or Youngstown.
It offers softness on China, which Mr. Trump understands is our enemy.
Mr. Biden is too old for the job, and fragile. There is a very real chance he will not make it through the term. Mr. Trump is also too old but seemingly robust. But in Mike Pence, Mr. Trump has a vice president ready to take over, if need be. He is a safe pair of hands. Sen. Kamala Harris gives no evidence of being ready to be president.
This newspaper has not supported a Republican for president since 1972. But we believe Mr. Trump, for all his faults, is the better choice this year. We respect and understand those who feel otherwise. We wish that we could be more enthusiastic and we hope the president can become more dignified and statesmanlike. Each American must make up his or her own mind and do what he or she thinks is best for the community and the republic. Vote your conscience. And, whatever happens, believe in the country.
First Published October 31, 2020, 11:23pm
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Only thing relying on a Biden victory is preservation of the elites in the deep state along with their bloated pensions.
Trump knows a whole lot more now than he did back in 2016. He understands the rot a whole lot better. If he wins the deep state elitists are finished!!
Right…
Spoiler alert: Every time he says “No one knew” before stating something almost everyone knew, that is simply code for “Trump never knew and just heard it”.
He’s a decrepit man with dementia who is simultaneously like a toddler with wonderment learning basic things for the first time. Learning new things is good.
The problem is he’s just as likely to hear nonsense from FOX, Russian propaganda (often from Putin directly), or conspiracy theories from Qanon and accept them all with wonderment as new “facts” he just learned! And they’re not even given equal footing, but they supersede actual facts and advice from respected people.
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Now now, no need to insult a guy for not keeping tabs on his son’s laptop…
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But Rudy isn’t the Donald’s son! 
And Putin is his “Daddy”. So, I’m not sure where you’re going with this.
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I listened to CNN the other morning (yesterday). The two host’s were interviewing 3 outright liberal democrats.
As hard as the guests tried they just had to admit that the Cuban Mexican’s in Little Havana would never vote for a socialist.
Also later last night I heard Marco Rubio talking (with profuse stamina) of Latino’s on this same socialist matter. He spoke of how Cuban refugees faced drowning, shark infestation, starvation, etc.
I predict Florida will go for Trump.