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Why do I sort of like Trump?

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I still can’t fully put my finger on why I sort of like Donald Trump.🙄 He says such vulgar, awful things. Bar maybe his opposition to new wilderness areas and gun control, I can’t figure out on much that we would agree with. I certainly disagree with him on international trade, international relations, climate change, or energy policy more generally. Trump doesn’t seem to have many good policy ideas.

That said, Donald Trump taps in my anger, and that of many Americans about the dysfunction in Washington DC, and the elitism of the establishment which seems to always know what’s right and proper without actually understanding the issue at hand. It’s great the technocrats seem to know what always is right, but there should be somebody in government challenging them and questioning what is right for our country.

Labor Day Weekend and Trump

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It’s rained the past three years on Labor Day Weekend. While no single storm can be linked directly to election of President Trump, the trend of rainy weather on Labor Day correlates closely with his election.

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.

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.

Trump has made more than 12,000 false or misleading claims – The Washington Post

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Trump has made more than 12,000 false or misleading claims – The Washington Post

President Trump’s proclivity for spouting exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods has continued at a remarkable pace. As of Aug. 5, his 928th day in office, he had made 12,019 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered.