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This Really Smells Bad

04 Monday Nov 2024

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        Sometimes, putting two and two together, we get five or even more. Let’s see what number all this adds up to when we put what we know together for sure.

            One, the Trump organization tried to put a hotel with his name on it in Moscow and the deal didn’t go through. We don’t know why. Did Putin want too big a price like he gets from everyone else or does he know something we don’t?

            Two, we know there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian intelligence in 2015 but not enough proof to indict anyone. We know they hacked into the Democratic Party’s files, plans, and e-mails and gave them to Trump’s campaign.

            Three, we know Trump met with two high level Russian Diplomats with only an interpreter present in the White House. The law requires notes of such meetings so the interpreter’s notes were edited and then approved by President Trump himself. This was about two years after Putin’s pick for the Ukrainian President was kicked out and the Pro-Western Zelensky installed. The Russian supported rebels and Russians undercover troops took the Easternmost Provinces and landed troops in the Crimea. Trump withheld help that the Ukraine needed and which might have kept Putin from his attempt to capture Kiev. Trump gave Putin’s lie that it was governed by Nazis.

            Four, The Russian Media has been found to be flooding the social media with lies about anyone or organization against Trump and putting out many lies in his support.

            Five, Elon Musk is suddenly putting tens of millions into a PAC supporting Trump and going to his rallies after he met several times with Putin and other Russians. What was discussed neither side will say. Both sides now say their people were wrong and the discussions never happened.

            Six, we know that several American companies are still operating in Russia and/or buying Russian oil and fuel which was refined in India. These companies contribute to the Trump PACS.

            So two and two has added up to six and how many more points I don’t know since most of this is kept secret. The American Government and NATO have named Russia as an enemy and Putin has arrest warrants against him so he must be very careful on leaving Russia or being arrested. NATO is standing with America on supplying weapons to the Ukraine and Trump wants to withdraw from NATO. Putin’s cyber teams have been supporting Trump’s views on our pulling out of NATO and stopping help to Ukraine.

            President Trump’s state and security people have said they don’t think he should be President again. Maybe it doesn’t just smell, maybe it is a terrible stink!

Tariffs Are Inflationary

21 Saturday Sep 2024

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        I just bought a microwave to replace a decades old one. It is a little more complicated than the old one but cost less than half the old one cost. It will take a little while to become comfortable with it.

            After Menard’s rebate the cost will be about $98.00.  Let’s give Menards’s a small profit after expenses and say it cost them $85.00. Transportation to the Menards’ warehouse from the West coast harbor is $2.00. The shipping from China to the West Coast is probably $3.00. That leaves the cost to Menards at factory about $80.00. Now I don’t know if these numbers are correct but former President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated he would impose a 20% to 50% tariff on Chinese manufactured products. A 20% tariff would have added $16.00 to my price of $98.00. The cost would now be $114.00.

            Tariffs cause inflation when they are applied and raise the cost of products to all Americans and do nothing to punish China because no microwave is made here. If a product isn’t made here to compete with an imported one then it doesn’t create competition. It just costs more.

            Before income taxes the main source of income for the Federal Government was tariffs. In spite of what politicians say, decreasing or adding the cost to an import is a political decision. Reducing tariffs can reduce inflation or raising tariffs will increase inflation. Trump has talked about inflation – far from being the highest in his lifetime – but on his first day he would raise tariffs on all imports. Economists say that could raise inflation to over twelve percent. Think about the plans Trump spouts before voting for him.

Sympathy Vote

14 Sunday Jul 2024

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        I remember a Democrat who was running for Senator in Illinois. I remember the poll numbers showed him to be well behind his primary opponent. After Senator Charles Percy’s daughter was killed is numbers shot up and he won the primary and the general election.

            After Vice President Joe Biden’s son died of cancer many of his advisers told him he could not lose now. They told him people would feel sorry for him and vote for him. Because of being so distraught and not wanting to win that way, he backed out. That shows an immense amount of character.

The United States has a divided population. About a quarter is to the hard left with another ten percent left leaning. About the same percentages apply to the right. Those two total about seventy percent with the remaining people being called independent and voting for either party depending on their feelings that election.

Now we are faced with another incident that will probably cause a great deal of sympathy for former President Donald Trump and perhaps giving him enough votes in the Electoral College to become the next President. Currently all the swing state polls show him ahead but within the range of error.

How much will the sympathy for Trump add to his polling numbers will be impossible to tell since the poll will probably take place after the convention? Traditionally a convention will give a short term bump up before it settles back. Will this incident make a difference to Trump’s poll?  Because the gun was an AR-15 rifle, will Trump keep his support for allowing assault style guns? Good thing the kid didn’t have a bump stock!

When It Is Over

18 Thursday Apr 2024

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        Former President Donald Trump’s defensive plan is to stall all the trials until after the election. If he happened to win he thinks he would be safe for at least four years and then only if he can’t figure out how to extend his second term.

            Once he was indicted no time limit has an expiration date so he would still be in jeopardy when he left office. Maybe Trump is looking to pardon himself for all federal crimes and get the Republican Governors to pardon him for their state’s crimes. Both he and the Governors would pardon his co-conspirators so they wouldn’t be pressured to testify against him.

            One question is why would he be free from any trial if he won in November? He would not be president until January 20’s inauguration. What happens if he is found guilty? It will probably go to the Supreme Court.

            Another question is; if Trump is found guilty after the election but before January 20 and sentenced, does his Vice-President get sworn in as President? Back to the Supreme Court I suppose.

            So many questions; if he won but none if he loses the election. Let’s hope he loses and the country’s legal system isn’t put into greater disrepute! The three Justices he set on the Supreme Court have shown their loyalty to him so far. The Judges lied repeatedly during their confirmation hearings so they can be counted to always vote in Trump’s favor.

Politics Over Patriotism

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

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“Déjà vu all over again” and “history repeats itself” are two sayings which apply to Donald Trump’s claim to be able to quickly settle the Ukraine and Russian war. I laughed when he said it. Then I remembered past similar situations.

The first was former President Richard Nixon during his campaign against former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey. He said he had a secret plan to end the war within months. What we didn’t know is his people had been talking with the North Vietnamese. Whatever the plan was, it didn’t work.

The next scenario was former President Ronald Reagan’s people talking with the Iranians about keeping the hostages until he was sworn into the Presidency. They were released that day.

Former President George Bush II campaigned that Americans could handle money better than their government so he would cut taxes. Remember, former President Clinton was paying off the National Debt which was definitely more responsible than the people who were increasing their debt. His cuts started the huge increases in National debt.

Now Donald Trump says he can talk with his friend Putin and end the Ukraine War. He has pressured the Republicans in the House and Senate to reject an immigration bill with everything the Republicans want so he can use it in his campaign.

During the next eight months over a million more people will come across the Southern Border because the current laws can not stop them as per the Supreme Court during Trump’s administration. The Pandemic gave Trump a legal reason to close the border. When the pandemic died out the courts took away Biden’s authority. Trump says he could stop it but that will require passing a law that he couldn’t get passed during his term.

Putin’s Plan Is Working

31 Wednesday May 2017

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Why are the Russians being so aggressive with their Internet “Disinformation” here and in other countries? I think the reason is now obvious. Trump said many times over the years that the United State should not be in NATO. The Russian social media campaign against Clinton was about her great support of NATO and its mission against Russia. Putin wants NATO to be broken up so they won’t be mutually supporting each other.

NATO and the European community have imposed sanctions on Russia, Putin, and some of his friends for invading Ukraine. The Ukraine was the second invasion by Russia. The first was Georgia when Russia lopped off a third of the country and it only got lip service. Now he is threatening Estonia, so NATO sent a brigade to it and the other Baltic States. His plan is to take back the Warsaw Pact countries. Then with a weakened NATO perhaps he takes the rest of Europe by coercion and from within by internal dissention.

The short game is to keep us from defending Eastern Europe. A secondary purpose is to create so much dissention here that our attention will be inward. The playbook for this strategy was written in 1930s Germany. A few radical right people took control of the government and we know what happened. Like it or not we have to stand together against Russia within NATO.

Who Really Won The Election?

16 Wednesday Nov 2016

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Let’s hope every single one of those people who voted for Donald Trump are as happy in a few years as they are now. I saw an interview with him many months before he became a raving lunatic.

What he said was almost opposite of what he raved for the last few months. He sounded like a New York City moderate Republican. In fact, he sounded a lot like former Mayor Bloomberg – his good friend. Before he started his rants, I thought he might have been another Kasich.

So who will be in the oval office, the one who will restrict gun sales, promote international relations and trade, raise taxes to pay for infrastructure and pay down debt, or continue with what he raved later?

TRUMP RIGHT AGAIN

30 Sunday Aug 2015

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Donald Trump speaks the gut feelings of most people because he is not politically correct. He talks of what is wrong but seldom gives the root causes of problems the visibility needed.

He talks about illegal immigration like a wall is going to stop it. It might reduce the number somewhat but not end it.

The problem is one of numbers. The world’s population is growing at about 85 million each year. The 7.3 billion now will be over 9 billion by 2040 and over 12 billion by the end of the century. Twelve billion is optimistic and heavily dependent on birth control being widely available in Africa, Central American, Near East Asia, and Mid-East. This means religious leaders are going to have to stop trying to outgrow each other. The world does not have resources to provide for them. The odd point is the more people make, the more resources they use.

If Trump wants to really stop illegal immigration he needs to push birth control and better, safer conditions in their countries. Look at Europe’s problems with millions flooding into Europe this year. This is a problem now and will be huge in the coming decades. I think it is a cancerous situation for Europe.

Democrats are pro-birth control and Republicans are against it. Trump, who was a Democrat and is now a Republican, is for it. Even showboats can have a valid point.

Incidentally, the other 16 hopefuls don’t know how to comment on Trump’s Anchor Baby statement. Is it because one of them claims to be an Anchor Baby? Cruz’s parents supposedly drove across the Canadian border so their son could be a Canadian and an American citizen. Is his pedigree questionable? That’s a birth certificate Trump should question.