Dumb Trump poll. No Fetterman. Maine: No outrage?
A dumb Trump poll
The media hates Donald Trump. Again and again fake news stories appear to misinform the public. An example is a recent poll conducted by two of Trump’s media favorites, the Washington Post and ABC News. The mainstream media trumpets the following headline or some variant – here is the one from Politico: “Most Americans say Trump is mentally, physically unfit to serve effectively: Poll.” “The Washington Post/ABC News/Ipsos poll found that 59 percent of U.S. respondents indicated Trump does not have the mental sharpness it takes to lead the country. Comparatively, 55 percent of surveyed U.S. adults said Trump is not in good enough physical health to serve as president.” “More than half of respondents, 54 percent, said they do not believe the president is a strong leader.” Most? The poll was conducted online April 24-28 among 2,560 U.S. adults nationwide. Note that the conclusion from asking two thousand people (political affiliation?) a set of questions (not revealed) is “most Americans….” Pardon me but this is a crock.
I have said that Trump’s rants, rages and chaotic behavior have called into question his mental fitness – although I have friends who brush them off as “only for show.” But not in good enough physical health? Not a strong leader? They must have been thinking of Joe Biden instead. Don’t they remember during the campaign when Trump said he was “working his a— off” while Biden was convalescing in his basement? Biden was the weak leader. Certainly the same cannot be said of Donald Trump. I could list a lot of characteristics of Trump but “not a strong leader” is not one of them. This must have been a “Trump poll for dummies.”
Fetterman is not a republican (thank goodness)
Once again, totally uniformed folk are agitating for John Fetterman to switch parties. Say it isn’t so! Fetterman’s voting record would make him by far the most liberal republican senator, making Collins and Murkowski look like Marsha Blackburn. Fetterman votes with Trump only 28 percent of the time. Although that is by far the most by any democrat senator, it certainly makes him no conservative. In fact, Fetterman is one of the most liberal senate democrats albeit it a sane one – which seems to keep getting rarer and rarer these days (see Graham Platner). He is a throwback to democrats like Scoop Jackson, Jack Kennedy or even Tip O’Neil. If Fetterman were a republican he would drive most of republicans of all stripes crazy. Let him keep making his fellow democrats crazy instead. Fetterman’s liberalism is shown in his Freedom Index score which is an abysmal 6. Compare that to Susan Collins whose 39 is the lowest among the republican senators. BTW, Fetterman’s score is lower than that of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders! Warren’s score is a 14. Even Bernie scores a 26. The lowest is Alex Padilla’s 1. The highest is Rand Paul’s 96. I wonder if those wanting Fetterman to flip parties are aware of the entirety of his voting record?
https://freedomindex.us/us/legislators/session/14/chamber/S
Trade agreement? What trade agreement?
Donald Trump has just trashed his own trade agreement with the EU. He had negotiated an agreement where there would be a 15 percent tariff on their stuff coming to the US (which we consumers pay) versus no tariff on our stuff going over there. Then out of the blue, he reneged and said that the tariff on European autos will be 25 percent. In one fell swoop, the president has shown that his word is worthless. If an agreement can be changed on a whim, then why have an agreement in the first place? Businesses on both sides of the Atlantic cannot plan with any certainty. Maybe this is Trump’s way of paying back our (once) European allies for not participating in his Iran war. He has also said that he is pulling a 5,000 troops out of Germany. I think that will leave only 30,000. I am certain that the Europeans are not just going to take it and will probably revisit any agreements that they had with Trump. This is actually just a continuation of the distain that Trump has for Europe, Europeans and virtually every leader including his former friend Giorgia Meloni. Trump has hardly any friends left in Europe now that his buddy Viktor Orban has been ousted.
Maine: Why no outrage?
In the democrat primary in Maine for senate, the governor Janet Mills was running against a 41 year old oyster farmer named Graham Platner. BTW, you farm oysters? Should be a piece of cake for Mills, right? Wrong. Despite being endorsed by Chuck Schumer, the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee and establishment democrats, Mills dropped out of the race. Shockingly, she was behind in the polls by double digits and her campaign was running out of money. The oyster farmer had garnered the endorsements of the far left of the party including Bernie Sanders, AOC and Elizabeth Warren.
Platner is a marine corps veteran, a Maine native and a college dropout whose platform focuses on issues near and dear to the hearts of the left: housing affordability, universal health care, labor unions, anti billionaires and ending U.S. involvement in “pointless” wars. Ah, sweet music to the ears of the left. However, Platner has no business being the candidate from a major party much less a US senator. He has a nazi death camp tattoo on his chest. Oops! He has also told raped women they were at fault, “has become a communist,” said all police were “bastards”, called rural people “racist and stupid”, supported Hamas, called Maine lobstermen “pieces of s—t”, among other niceties.
Now you would think the media would be outraged and would be running negative piece after piece attacking Platner. The tattoo would be reason enough especially because Platner had lied about it, saying that he didn’t know it was a nazi tattoo when in fact in 2019 he referred to it as “totenkopf” – “death head” commonly associated with nazi Germany. Oops again.
The lack of outrage is of course because Platner is a progressive democrat. If he were a republican, he would have been run out of the race. But no. He is a democrat whose antisemitism seems to be the flavor of the month for the left. So what if he is a communist? Didn’t Bernie honeymoon in Russia? What about the other statements? Other than the comment about raped women, they are aligned with those on the democrats’ far left. The democrats may rage about Trump as Hitler but they are full of it and they know it. However, here is a real life nazi-sympathizer in their midst and they endorse him for the US Senate.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren has called Platner “her kind of man”. When asked about the tattoo she responded “So, as you rightly point out, he has apologized. He’s out meeting with the people of Maine every single day so they can evaluate not who Graham Platner was, but who Graham Platner is today.” Then she said “I want us to be the party that actually delivers on lowering costs and that expands opportunities. And that’s what Graham Platner wants to do. And I’m there to stand with him and to help in that fight.”
So I guess if you are a democrat, the past doesn’t matter – only what you say today is important. Of course, that applies only to the left. I could cite dozens of examples of elected republicans run out of office for statements and/or actions from the past. Remember Trent Lott? Remember the different treatment for Virginia’s Ralph Northam whose photo in blackface while in college surfaced? The same is true for Platner. No outrage from the media. No outrage from the democrats. Just getting an antisemitic leftwing kook elected is all that matters. Do you seriously want these people in charge of the country?
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