Politics

I think Trump could be re-elected

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Similar to what we saw in 2016, the media is completely missing the fact that President Donald Trump may very well be re-elected in 2020:

  1. Incumbents often are re-elected because they are proven winners and known quantities to voters
  2. Don’t discount the ability of the Federal Reserve and the president to keep the economy healthy through the end of 2020 by manipulating the money supply and tarrifs
  3. Liberals think they are winning on the gun issue but they are also activating gun owners – both suburban men and rural folk to get out and vote too
  4. America while becoming more diverse isn’t necessarily becoming more liberal. Many Hispanics are quite conservative on abortion, and even guns for the more rural and agriculture connected ones
  5. Suburban communities often have a socially conservative undertone that’s being ignored by liberals – and not just taxes or race. A lot of suburbanites have hunting camps
  6. A lot of white liberals are not doing a good job at connecting with African American communities. Saying your for more funding for historically black colleges isn’t necessarily going to engage minorities.
  7. Race and dog whistles still work with many whites who fear losing what they’ve worked hard to earn
  8. The electoral college and US Senate bias towards the conservative leaning small and modest size cities in less populated states like Montana, North Dakota and Iowa. Even if a lot of the vote comes from the city, they are in a more conservative culture.
  9. Politicians, many of them who are conservative, draw house districts, set the time and manor for voting, set voter identification requirements
  10. Lastly, the liberal narrative we hear in New York and California may sound very different in Texas or the Mid West.

Quit listening to the news

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I often get tired of listening to the news and the liberal narrative that we must all be afraid of gun violence and we need more arbitrary restrictions on gun rights. I don’t need to hear such things so I just don’t listen to the news anymore. I’m glad I couldn’t hear the news while I was up in the wilderness due to valley blocking the radio signal.

Trump’s large union crowd at Shell was given the option of not showing up — and not getting paid | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Trump’s large union crowd at Shell was given the option of not showing up — and not getting paid | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The choice for thousands of union workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant in Beaver County was to either spend Tuesday standing in a giant hall waiting for President Donald Trump to speak, or to take the day off with no pay.

“Your attendance is not mandatory,” read the rules that Shell sent to union leaders a day ahead of the visit to the $6 billion construction site. But only those that showed up at 7 a.m., scanned their cards, and prepared to stand for hours — through lunch but without lunch — would be paid.

“NO SCAN, NO PAY,” the rules said.

Those that decided to sit out the event would have an excused absence, the company said, and would not qualify for overtime pay on Friday. The company has a 56-hour workweek with 16 hours of overtime. That means those workers who attended Mr. Trump’s speech and showed up for work on Friday meeting the overtime threshold are being paid at a rate of time and a half, while those that didn’t go to hear the president are being paid the regular rate, despite the fact that both groups did not do work on the site on Tuesday.

NPR

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Greenland Says It’s ‘Not For Sale’ After Reports That Trump Wants To Buy It : NPR

President Trump may have been joking about wanting to buy Greenland, if he said it, but officials there want him to know: The island isn't for sale.

Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, a Greenlandic politician, told Here & Now that she was "not surprised" by media reports that the U.S. president was interested in purchasing the massive, ice-covered island.

"It sounds a little bit like a joke because Greenland is not for sale," she said.

Surging in Polls, Warren Has Clear Path to the Nomination

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Surging in Polls, Warren Has Clear Path to the Nomination

In this phase of the 2020 Democratic presidential contest, there are a number of interesting story lines for political observers: the huge candidate field that keeps resisting its “winnowing,” the apparent indestructibility of front-runner Joe Biden, the constant fears about electability and Trump’s efforts to paint the Donkey Party as a bunch of socialists who hate America and love open borders, and the intermittently sharp elbows the candidates are displaying toward each other.

But the development that currently demands attention is the emergence of Senator Elizabeth Warren as something other than the candidate of policy wonks, dismissed as nonviable even among people who think she’d make an outstanding president. Her strong debate performances, a knack for organizing (based on her outstanding retail political skills), and the misfortunes affecting some of her rivals have combined to give her the clear path to the Democratic nomination that she really did not have in the early going.