kentuck
kentuck's JournalHow much faith do you have in the polls?
There are polls showing Joe Biden ahead of Trump by double-digits. Do you believe those?
The subconscious fear is that the polls will be off just as they were in 2016.
But, for some, an even bigger fear is that the majority of this country believes like Donald Trump. A terribly negative view of our people and our country. Lies, name-calling, character assassination, even criminal acts, are OK if you can get away with it. It is something to celebrate.
Donald Trump is just a symbol. It is his followers that are scary. I still want to believe that our country is basically a good country, not one that puts children in cages and closes our door to those that are looking for a better life.
At this time, I do not have a lot of faith in these polls.
Trump says these mass murders are a mental health issue?
He says we need more institutions. There used to be many more people in our institutions.
All that may be true, but how do you find the mentally ill if there is no background check? How do I know you're not crazy when you buy a gun over the Internet or at a gun show? Why not have a ten-day waiting period so relevant organizations could investigate the gun-buyer to see if he was disqualified from owning a gun? The "red flags" that are being debated would be automatic disqualifiers. They could be expanded to include spousal abuse and/or a criminal record.
How else can we pinpoint the "mentally ill" that Mr Trump talks about?
It will be interesting to see what the NRA thinks of Mr Trump's plan?
I hope he can sell it to them.
How much difference could a Democratic House, Senate, and White House make ??
They could vote down the filibuster rule for legislation in the Senate. They could pass everything with a simple majority. They could have something similar to the First Hundred Days of FDR.
They could repeal the Trump tax cuts and put a minimum tax on all millionaires in this country.
They could re-institute all the regulations that were unwisely done away with.
They could give new powers to the FBI to investigate the Russian influence within our elections and put a few guilty people in jail.
They could create a jobs program to plant a hundred million trees and to clean up our parks and streams.
They could invest in a new Green Energy Plan. We could be self-sufficient in energy without having to use fossil fuels.
They could expand the Supreme Court to eleven members if Trump's appointments became too political in their decisions.
They could pass a trillion dollar infrastructure bill to begin rebuilding Americas infrastructure.
They could make healthcare and education as benefits for all Americans.
They could pass a bill to educate more doctors and nurses for our aging population.
They could protect Social Security and Medicare with a small surtax on every trade made on Wall Street.
They could re-build the Flint Water System and make it a model for all of America.
There is a lot they could do if they only had the Senate, the House, and the White House and the will to do it.
Trump's economic record is one big con
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/18/trump-economic-record-one-big-lie/<snip>
President Trump came into office promising some fabulous yet unspecified health-care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. No plan existed; every plan Republicans came up with managed to reduce the number of insured. Trump promised never to cut entitlements; his fiscal 2020 budget proposal would have done just that.
Trump said he’d bring back manufacturing. In fact, it slowed and now has slumped. (“Manufacturing has slowed amid global uncertainty,” NPR reported earlier this month. “That’s one of the reasons the Federal Reserve gave for cutting interest rates this week.”)
Trump said he’d get tough on drug companies. He hasn’t. He said his tax cut would be aimed at the middle class, deliver $4,000 a year to the average American family and permanently boost business investment, pushing growth above 3 percent. Nope, nope and nope.
The tax cut greatly favored the rich and corporations, no $4,000 raise materialized, business investment tapered off, growth is below 3 percent, and the deficit ballooned. Trump is incapable of being embarrassed, but you’d think all those conservative think tanks, saner White House advisers (e.g. former adviser Gary Cohn) and supply-side theorists who pushed all this would be just a little sheepish.
From Easy Rider:
The best strategy against Donald Trump is to put him on the defensive.
As we have seen many times, that is not hard to do.
If anyone says anything negative about him, he has to respond. He just can't help it. That is his Achilles heel.
If the Democrats were to copy Trump's tweet strategy and put out a tweet every morning, they could control the narrative and he would have to respond. Like a leopard, he cannot change his spots.
For example:
Democrats could make a statement about how Trump stole the good economy of Barack Obama and is about to drive it off the cliff. Obama created more jobs in his last 30 months in office than Trump created in his first 30 months in office. That is a fact.
The next day, they could make a statement about how Trump has not kept his promises. He did not build a wall. Mexico did not pay for it. He did not put Hillary in jail. There are less coal miners in Kentucky today than the day he took office. Everybody did not get a $4000 tax cut. The billionaires got a tax cut and most of them put it back into their stock buy backs.
The next day, they could remind people that Trump is a puppet of Vladimir Putin. He loves Putin more than he loves America. He doesn't work for America - he works for Donald Trump. He is a big, fat blowhard.
And so forth...
Every day they could come out with a statement that would get under his skin. And he would have to respond. That is the way to take on Donald Trump.
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And the best response of all is:
He likes to call names. He is like a twelve year old on the school-ground. He's a big, old Baby! 
Knowing that the next day he will come out and call names.
And the Democrats can say, "See, I told you so." What more proof do you need?
Are the Russian "bots" busy again?
Not that the Trumpsters need them. They are more than capable of coming up with their own "clever" memes and jokes. They know how it works now.
But I have noticed an uptick on FB of ridicule jokes about Mueller's failure to prove anything on Trump. And more posts about what a great job Donald Trump is doing as president. The political propaganda is strong.
It feels like deja vu, all over again.
As if by design, the Mueller investigation seems to have died from lack of oxygen? Nobody talks about it anymore. Trump scolded a reporter a couple of weeks ago for bringing it up in a question. "You don't really believe that stuff, do you", he asked?
This seems to be their strategy, to totally discredit the Mueller Report by making jokes about it.
The Tramp on the Street
Is MSNBC going thru some big shake-up?
I sense that they are in the process of making some big changes.
Maybe it is just giving time off to their regulars so they can enjoy the summer?
Maybe their ratings slip is causing them to change their recent liberal lean?
But, going back to Phil Donahue, and Keith Olbermann after him, they have not hesitated to throw their liberal voices overboard.
This may not be what's happening but don't be surprised.
Former Congressman, Joe Walsh, says he has "not ruled out" running against Donald Trump himself...
...if nobody else steps up?
The former Republican, appearing on Reverend Al's Politics Nation, still called himself a "conservative", but did not consider Trump a conservative. He was very critical of Trump and said no one should accept the lying and the cruelty of Donald Trump as the head of the Party, paraphrasing.
He mentioned that William Weld was running against Trump, and former Rep. Mark Sanford was seriously contemplating running. He expected that there would be more challengers to Trump.
It looks like Trump's political world is going to get much more interesting?
Walsh also said that we need someone that can look Trump in the eye. He did not believe the issues that the Democrats are talking about was the best way to fight back against Trump.
If he feels that strongly about it, I would encourage Mr. Walsh to throw his hat in the ring.
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