It does not appear that the herd is going to be all that thin in the September debates.
Category: Politics
“Michael Avenatti Says He’s 50/50 On Jumping Into The Presidential Race“
There’s the guy we need!
Yes, this story is dated August 3.
The Russian social media bots have gone crazy with love for Tulsi Gabbard
She is exactly what Russia wants in an American leader – an isolationist
However …
It appears that the surge of interest in Gabbard after the second round of debates may not have been artificially augmented by bots, at least not to any significant degree. “Twitter told Recode that its initial investigations into the matter did not find any significant evidence of bot activity amplifying hashtags around the debates.” On the other hand, an independent analysis by the Wall Street Journal disagreed with Twitter’s claim, especially as it applies to negative opinions about Kamala Harris.
Politico/Morning Consult took polls before and after the debates, and nobody moved more than the margin of error.
Only four candidates moved at all, and all moves were statistically meaningless:
- Biden dropped from 33 to 32
- Warren increased from 13 to 15
- Harris dropped from 12 to 10
- Buttigieg increased from 5 to 6
So I guess you might fairly conclude: (1) if nobody won, that’s a win for Biden; (2) if nobody generated any excitement, that’s a win for Trump.
Will they just crown Hickenlooper tonight and cancel tomorrow’s debates?
Note: the hippie chick is also on tonight. Will she channel the power of Venus and wave a magic wand?
“John Hickenlooper Celebrates Finally Polling At 2 Percent By Urging Us To Giddy Up“
Loops is on the move!
I’ll be serious for a moment. Although I ridicule Loops constantly, the fact is that I have to give him a tip o’ the Hatlo hat (there’s a reference so obscure Dennis Miller would have to look it up). He’s now tied with Beto and Booker, and nobody would have predicted that a few weeks ago.
Or ever.
Continue reading “Hickenlooper fever – catch it!”The seal ridiculed him for his love of Russia and golfing
Instead of reading E Pluribus Unum, it read “45 Es Un Titere.” (“45 is a puppet”)
You know things are bad when the people you hired to help you get elected say. “Please, fire us!”
Although, in all fairness, they probably don’t know which candidate he is.
The only thing I know about him is that he’s a sorta pugnacious bald dude. If Central Casting determined the role of each individual, Delaney would be the junior high football coach who also has to teach two history classes even though he majored in Phys Ed.
40% of the country agrees with Trump’s assertion that “‘Progressive’ Democratic Congresswomen” should “go back” to their countries.
Three of the four were born in America. The other did not come from “her country,” but from a refugee camp in Kenya where her family had to live for four years when she was a child.
40%!
Five years ago I would have guessed that 5-10% of Americans would support a statement like this, which is not only racist, but stupid. (Exactly which country should they go back to?)
40% !
I probably disagree with more than half of the positions Ilhan Omar has taken, and strongly disagree with some of them, but she’s an American, she certainly has the right to those positions, and she was elected by people who knew her positions and sent her to Washington to further them.
That’s a pretty unlikely group. What could they have in common? The day was October 27, 1986, and they were all honored by the Ellis Island Honors Society for different reasons, all centered around their ethnic origins, as a celebration of the American diversity symbolized by Ellis Island. Trump was chosen as a man of German heritage who benefited New York City as a developer.
An Oct. 16, 1986, New York Times article lists Trump as a recipient, with ‘German, developer’ alongside his name. ”
(Hillary Clinton has also received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.)
Hilariously enough, a Facebook meme has claimed that the society was honoring Trump for his contributions to the black community! You can’t get much farther from the truth. In reality, the Trumps’ most significant contribution to the black community was to refuse to rent to them. An undercover government agent caught the Trumps red-handed in blatant discrimination. When cornered by the feds, Trump’s manager on the scene said, “I’m only doing what my boss told me to do — I am not allowed to rent to black tenants.”
Trump has disingenuously claimed that he settled the case for “zero with no admission of liability,” which conveniently twists the intent of the actual settlement, which read “without adjudication of the merit and without any admission as to the existence or absence of liability,” and which forced the Trump organization to jump through many hoops to prove that it intended to comply with the law. In layman’s terms, the ruling was “We won’t talk about the past at all. The important thing is that you do the following in the future.”
So it’s not likely that a guy caught red-handed practicing racist housing discrimination would be given an award for his progressive racial policies!
“Donald Trump and his press secretary were directly involved in discussions that led to an illegal hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign, according to the FBI. The new disclosures raise the possibility that Hicks lied to the FBI. Hicks told an agent in an interview that ‘she did not learn about the allegations made by Clifford until early November 2016′”
(In April 2018, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about the hush money payment to Daniels.)
There will still be 20 debaters, consisting of 19 losers to be chewed up and spat out by the love god, Hickenlooper.
Interestingly, only 30% of Americans feel the comments were not racist, but Trump’s approval rating is about 45%.
In other words, about a third of Trump’s supporters acknowledge that he is racist, and support him. (Perhaps that is WHY they support him, although that is just speculation. There is no evidence to support the position that all of those people approve of him because he is racist. Many or all may feel that they approve him for other reasons, in spite of his racism. Neither case gives me much peace of mind.)
His strong core of racist supporters, or supporters overlooking his racism, doesn’t surprise me. At one point Trump’s only issue was Obama’s Kenyan birth, and that issue was pure racism in that there was never any evidence of any kind to support it or any legitimate reason to believe it. So back then, 100% of his supporters were in his corner because he was racist. That number must be below 100% now, so I guess you could view that as progress in some twisted way.
“A November 1992 tape shows Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago laughing, pointing, and discussing young women dancing at a party. Trump is seen gesturing to a woman and appears to say to Epstein, ‘Look at her, back there. … She’s hot.’ Epstein smiled and nodded. The party took place the same year that Trump a private party with Epstein and more than two dozen ‘calendar girls,’ who were flown in to provide them with entertainment.”
Trump dancing – quite the groovy hepcat!
I forgot that Trump had the Groucho eyebrows back then.
“What would you do if the president said, ‘I am a racist. That’s why I said it.’ What would you do? Would you still support him as president?”
Kobach paused. “Uhm. I don’t know.”
Chris Cuomo kinda went ballistic on that answer, but I have to say it’s refreshing to get it out in the open.
“Hickenlooper offers something different in crowded Democratic field: A detailed history of his sexual conquests.”
How did I miss this back in March? Turns out Loops is a babe magnet.
As Conan noted, “Apparently, his signature move was giving women ‘the Ol’ Hickenlooper.’”
Interesting. I heard some “expert” on a radio talk show declare that there has never been a case in history in which there is such a gap between somebody’s fund-raising and their poll numbers. Obviously Mayor Pete has lots of enthusiastic and prosperous adherents, but is not yet resonating throughout the mainstream.
In other polling news:
“Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) fell to zero percent support in the latest poll.”
You never go full Hickenlooper.
Post photographer Jabin Botsford was there and took photos of Trump as he transferred the notes into and out of his jacket pocket.