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mac
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Never has so much political capital been squandered so quickly, in service of an insecure dotard with a checkered past. Here's how swing voters are now looking at agent Orange.
Michael Finnegan (Los Angeles Times
| Quote: | Anthony Miles figured that Donald Trump, rich as he was, could not be bought off. Now he regrets voting for him.
“He said he was going to drain the swamp,” said Miles, 62, a computer programmer who lives in Middletown, Conn. “All he’s done is restocked it.”
Miles was especially appalled by President Trump’s appointment, since withdrawn, of a drug czar who took pharmaceutical donations as a congressman and wrote a law that thwarted federal power to punish companies that fuel opioid abuse.
A year after Trump stunned the world by defeating Hillary Clinton in one of the most consequential elections of modern times, the president is breaking records for unpopularity. Since World War II, no other president has scored Gallup approval ratings as low as Trump’s during his first year in office. He bottomed out last week at 33%. |
Keep whistling boys. The ladies have left the building.
| Quote: | | Northam won the female vote by 22 percentage points, eclipsing the 17-point advantage Hillary Clinton won in the state in her bid for the White House last year. |
55-43 in New Jersey--tighter because there was a Republican woman running for governor--who lost. I could go on, but you get the picture. |
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MalibuGuru
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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There are 34 Republicans, 15 Democrats, and 1 Independent holding the office of governor in the states.
Uhh, more than 2 to 1. |
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real-human
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| MalibuGuru wrote: | There are 34 Republicans, 15 Democrats, and 1 Independent holding the office of governor in the states.
Uhh, more than 2 to 1. |
Trust fund Koch brothers and so on that control what a billion in spending because of right wing voted for and supported by the right wing at every level, citizens united.
Koch brothers spending makes sorros look like a poor man, and Sorros is the one of the top dem funders. And that does not include right wing wackos like the the Mercers, amway and amway trust fund kids, walmart trust fund kids on and on. et al.
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real-human
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| MalibuGuru wrote: | https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-receives-honor-china-no-foreign-leader-ever-earned/
They all respect Trump, unlike Obama |
this isn't the China he said was not dealing with us fairly was it, the one that he has not done a thing too.
This isn't the China that supports North Korea in every way including mobile missile launchers that hide nuclear weapons.
they know to grab him by the pussy because he likes it makes him feel like a real manly.
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real-human
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| MalibuGuru wrote: | https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-receives-honor-china-no-foreign-leader-ever-earned/
They all respect Trump, unlike Obama |
also other than Russia, and maybe a handfull of other countries trump has a negitive favorability in most of the world. Only Bush was in the same league as trump in bringing the favorability of the USA down.
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vientomas
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| MalibuGuru wrote: | https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-receives-honor-china-no-foreign-leader-ever-earned/
They all respect Trump, unlike Obama |
You are such a rube...don't even know when you are getting worked...apparently, neither does the orange flip-flopper...ego clouds all...
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/9/16628008/trump-china-trade-fair-asia-trip-xi-jinping
Donald Trump, a man who said on his march to the White House that China was responsible for the “rape” of American workers, now says it’s actually the US’s fault that the two countries have an unbalanced economic relationship.
Speaking to business leaders in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Trump said that he felt US-Chinese trade relations were “very unfair and one-sided.” But when it came to assigning responsibility for the uneven dynamic, he pointed the finger at his own predecessors rather than at Beijing.
“I don't blame China. After all, who can blame a country for taking advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens?” Trump said, adding that previous US administrations are responsible "for allowing this trade deficit to take place and to grow."
The friendly language stands in stark contrast to his pugnacious rhetoric on the campaign trail, where he singled out China as the world’s greatest threat to American workers.
"We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country and that’s what they’re doing. It’s the greatest theft in the history of the world,” Trump said on his path to the White House in 2016.
China has put a great deal of effort into making Trump feel special during his visit, and it seems to be working.
Xi has honored Trump with what Chinese officials described as a “state visit-plus” that included an unusually elaborate greeting for Trump as he stepped off Air Force One, with soldiers standing at attention, children waving Chinese and American flags and chanting, “Welcome,” a delegation of Chinese and American officials, and a military band. Xi also invited Trump and his wife to dinner inside the famed Forbidden City in Beijing — an honor that a US president hasn’t been granted since the founding of modern China.
Ming Wan, a China expert at George Mason University, told CNN that Xi has sought to treat Trump “almost like an emperor."
Analysts say that’s no accident: Xi is trying to use displays of respect to soften up Trump as they go to the negotiating table over thorny issues like how to rein in North Korea.
“The Chinese believe that playing to Trump’s ego effectively will create breathing room on issues where they would otherwise expect to come under pressure,” Andrew Small, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, told me.
The Chinese also appear attuned to Trump’s penchant for trumpeting modest symbolic victories, and could be using that to substitute for or distract from more substantive talks that would force big Chinese concessions on the way their economy is structured.
While there are no signs of policy breakthroughs on structural issues like American access to the Chinese market, there have been flashy business deals. On Thursday the US and China announced $250 billion in business agreements between the two countries in the energy, technology, and aviation sectors. The numbers are still tentative, but among other things, Boeing is selling around $40 billon worth of airliners to China.
Those deals may seem on the surface like coups for Trump, but experts say they’re relatively minor moves unlikely to dramatically impact the serious trade imbalance between the two countries.
“I don’t think the deals will noticeably change the bilateral trade deficit,” Caroline Freund, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, told me.
As Bonnie Glaser, the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, summed it up on Twitter: “Big purchases, no new market access. Win goes to China.” |
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https://youtu.be/wALx4YrHDZA
Watch this speech starting around 4 minutes. You'll feel shame that you take the side of BLM and La Raza over Americans. |
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Philippine leader says media is spys and trump laughs...
and had said if they media do not say as he wants should be assassinated.
Trump high fives this hate... absolutely no human world values..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0CO8cueUb0
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Interesting. Trump's been busy making the tent smaller, and it shows:
| Quote: | BY ELI YOKLEY
November 15, 2017
Both have touted their blue-collar appeal.
But the 2020 Democratic primary field is far from cleared.
In a potential race between two national figures who tout their appeal to working-class voters, former Vice President Joe Biden would beat President Donald Trump if the 2020 election were held today, according to a new poll.
A Nov. 9-11 Morning Consult/Politico survey, conducted as the former Democratic senator from Delaware and two-term vice president prepared to kick off his book tour this week, found Biden with an 11-point advantage over the incumbent Republican president among registered voters, leading 46 percent to 35 percent.
Biden’s advantage in the hypothetical matchup was bigger among people who identified as having voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 than it was with people who said they voted for former President Barack Obama in 2012. Among Clinton supporters, Biden leads Trump 85 percent to 3 percent, while among Obama’s supporters, Trump trails 73 percent to 12 percent. |
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