https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/trump-campaign-trail-coronavirus/index.html
By the time he strode out to the strains
of Lee Greenwood on Saturday evening into a partially-full Bank of
Oklahoma Center, the event had devolved from a triumphant return to the
campaign trail after a 110-day pandemic-forced absence
into something else altogether. The launch of a new assault on former
Vice President Joe Biden fizzled, replaced by recycled grievances and
race-baiting. The sparse crowd was a reminder that many Americans, even
Trump's supporters, remain cautious of a pandemic that continues to rage
in places like Oklahoma, where cases are spiking, even if Trump is
ready to move on.
it is very hard to have campaign in themiddle of a pandemic, and even elections are not a good idea. can they delay elections for a few months under American constitution?
ReplyDeleteAt least Donald Trump is trying to campaign the old fashioned way.
ReplyDeletePart of Joe Biden's standing in the polls is that he is perceived as the anti-Trump. He is perceived as a safe candidate to support since he was Vice President of the U.S. for eight years.
Conceivably, just about any of the dozens of other candidates who ran in the primaries would be in the same place in the polls right now.
The danger to the Biden campaign is that Biden was out of office and politics for almost four years. He's an unknown in many ways. So Biden absolutely must build on his lead at this point by revealing his policies and who will be in his cabinet. Treading water, or even dipping slightly, is not an option for him.
There is almost nothing Trump can do to make his poll numbers lower. Not true for Biden. Almost every move he makes is fraught with danger. The month of July is critical. Who will Biden pick for his running mate?
Someone gay and Black and almost Marxist is a safe bet for him. Does he have the gumption to really do that? We'll find out.
Torah thought on Haftorah for חקת
ReplyDelete“Jephthah the Gileadite was an able warrior, who was the son of a prostitute. Jephthah’s
father was Gilead; but Gilead also had sons by his wife, and when the wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out. They said to him, You shall have no share in our father’s property, for you are the son of an outsider [lit. another woman.]. So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the Tob country. Men of low character gathered about Jephthah and went out raiding with him. Some time later, the Ammonites went to war against Israel. And when the Ammonites attacked Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah back from the Tob country. They said to Jephthah, Come be our chief, so that we can fight the Ammonites.” (Judges 11:1-6).
Hertz Chumash p.664 comments:
“For eighteen years Israel had now groaned under the cruel yoke of he Ammonite (1128-1110 B.C.E.). Who and where is the man capable of leading his brethren against the Ammonites? Here the Haftorah opens. It tells the story of Jephthah, the rugged and ruthless warrior but noble patriot and tender hearted father, whose victory over the enemy was overshadowed by a terrible sorrow. The Sedrah gives the account of Israel’s clash with the Amorites. The Northern part of the Amorite kingdom had formely, it is assume, belonged to Ammon. This forms the connection between the Sedrah and Haftorah.”
I support Trump’s efforts against China’s currency manipulation and China’s dumping. I have a forthcoming new book chapter. Bravo Trump and bravo Netanyahu. I agree with Caroline Glick “Israel must fully implement its sovereignty plan with US backing as quickly as possible and without conditions or apologies.”
Impossible. We'll simply do the best we can. Each State runs its own election. It's a system run by and dependent on volunteers at the local precinct level. These volunteers are highly dedicated and serious.
ReplyDeleteGenerally schools and government offices are closed down and rooms in those schools and government buildings are given over to the election volunteers to set up the voting booths.
There is "early voting" in many locales where someone can go and vote before the election. In general, anyone can request a mail-in ballot. Those ballots are now tracked in databases a voter can access online to ensure their vote was counted.
Probably mail-in voting will just be expanded and simplified this year.
No matter who wins, the other side will allege fraud in the way the mail-in voting was handled. Expect renewed conflict in the months to come up to and through the election. Exciting times we're living through. Riots, lootings, burnings, uncontrolled crime, economic devastation, plague, with unrelenting ideological and political warfare.
I trace much of the unrest back to the President's speech to the United Nations last year. He shouldn't have promoted the LGBTetc agenda to the whole world in that address. But he went there, anyway. He set in motion spiritual forces that have destabilized his reign.
The way he'll win is when the Democrats do even worse and elevate the LGBTetc agenda to the top of their platform, using the advancing of degeneracy as a raison d'état (no idea if I'm using that term right) to raise money and garner votes among those who have no difficulty in destroying the country as long as it means taking revenge on Trump and his followers. The Democrats' cynical focusing on satisfying the will of that segment of the electorate whose perverse cravings can never be satisfied will turn off swing voters and lead to Trump's re-election.
But if I'm wrong, Trump still wins even if he loses. Joe Biden's Presidency will be undercut by the Left who will accept nothing less than the actual execution of Donald Trump and at least the imprisoning of his followers. Obviously, Biden will not be able to satisfy those whims, either. This will lead to massive demonstrations against him with
the mob hoping social unrest will force his hand. His Presidency will thus fail as President Biden grapples to simultaneously uphold the Constitution and rein in the new phase of rioting which will make this Spring's protests seem like frat parties.
Trump is so smart. See https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-coronavirus-will-reshape-world-trade-11592592995?mod=markets_lead_pos10
ReplyDelete“The world economy grew at a healthy pace in 2019, but trade declined, in part because of Trump administration trade policies aimed at China and other U.S. trading partners.”
Trump fights brilliantly against currency manipulations, dumping, and government subsidies that distort international market prices. E.g. “Governments have been using subsidies to prop up domestic businesses through the shutdowns. Some of the most contentious trade fights of recent years—pitting the U.S. against the EU, and nearly every major country against China—have centered on market-distorting government support for industry.”
Trump does support efforts to help the health sector and to better national security: “In the weeks after the pandemic hit, at least nine separate bills were introduced in Congress aimed at curbing American dependence on foreign medical goods, six with sponsors from both parties. Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin has introduced legislation aimed at treating the health sector more like “a homeland security asset.” The Trump administration has said since May it is considering imposing tariffs or quotas in the name of national security on various products, including mobile cranes and materials used to make electrical transformers and aerospace and defense equipment.”
how does this show Trump's brilliance?
ReplyDeleteBiden doesn't have to campaign Trump is boosting Biden every time he speaks or acts stupidly or corrupt - which is quite often.
ReplyDeleteDaas Torah “how does this show Trump's brilliance?”
ReplyDeleteTrump understands about currency manipulation and dumping. I quote from my forthcoming book chapter: Globalization: Alternative Pricing:
Currency manipulations are acts of buyers and sellers of a country’s currency to alter its market value to achieve a desired purpose. Currency manipulation seen today is similar to dumping, the selling of goods to a foreign market at a lower price than sold in the domestic market. The renown Professor Jacob Viner writes2 “Dumping may be maintained for long periods where its objective is to obtain the economies of full utilization of existing production facilities while charging a high price at home.”
John M. Clark [1] writes3 on dumping: “From the point of view of the foreigner, the chief objection to dumping arises from the fact that the cheap supplies cannot be relied on forever. Otherwise producers and consumers alike could adjust themselves to the blessings which the legerdemain of cost-accounting conjures into their laps, and the nation would be richer by the use of goods whose overhead costs they are not required to pay. When the goods which are dumped are raw materials, foreign producers may fatten their profits by using them, and perhaps sell the products back to the country from which the materials came. Producers who have to compete against dumping feel a grievance, especially as their markets are flooded at just the times when demand is weak and their efforts at stabilization are hampered. If the foreign country wishes to be self-sufficient it may be worth while for it to bear the immediate sacrifice involved in excluding goods which others wish to dump on them.”
Bolton is an idiot. Bolton says about Trump: “I don’t think he’s a conservative Republican. I’m not going to vote for him in November--- certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden either.” That’s idiot talk. Trump talks smart.
you are a rare example who thinks Trump "talks smart" the rest of us think he sounds like a moron
ReplyDeleteWorked for Hillary.
ReplyDeleteThat strategy of just coasting on the numbers the experts crunch in their models did just fine for her.
Polls are scientific. What could possibly go wrong!
The point being that Gerald is an economist who publishes on the subject. So if what Trump says about currency manipulation doesn't make sense to you, it doesn't mean Trump is the moron
ReplyDeletethe point being Trump is still a moron especially concerning economics : China will pay for tariffs and Mexico will pay for wall. If you want to decide who is the bigger expert concerning Trump's intelligence a PhD in economics or psychology the answer should be obvious!
ReplyDeleteLol, what a poor experimental design. If Trump gave a speech on the special theory of relativity, and a psychologist didn't understand a word, that says nothing about Trump's intelligence.
ReplyDeletebut if he were talking about something connected with being president and clearly did not understand it it means he is not fit or intelligent enough for the job
ReplyDelete. He could be intelligent but not fit for the job. He doesn't understand environment, or security matters - eg north Korea.
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