Admiral Beez
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What If Trump Decides Not to Seek a Second Term?
It's not as crazy of an idea as it sounds.
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AlbertC
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Trump 2020 campaign accused of ‘ripping off’ Nazi eagle logo
July 2, 2020
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July 2, 2020
Trump 2020 campaign accused of ‘ripping off’ Nazi eagle logo - National | Globalnews.ca
Critics say the Trump campaign's new 'America First' logo resembles the infamous Nazi war eagle, with a flag in place of the swastika.
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Monarch Butterfly
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Trump 2020 campaign accused of ‘ripping off’ Nazi eagle logo
July 2, 2020
Trump 2020 campaign accused of ‘ripping off’ Nazi eagle logo - National | Globalnews.ca
Critics say the Trump campaign's new 'America First' logo resembles the infamous Nazi war eagle, with a flag in place of the swastika.
The American Nazi Party was founded in 1959. Has undergone name changes. Guess some members could belong to more than one party. Wonder which of the main political parties they could be secretly endorsing (allegedly)? See link.
AlbertC
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Coronavirus is surging in Florida -- and so is anxiety over Trump's chances with senior voters
Friday, July 3, 2020
John Dudley, a retired banker, proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2016, excited at the prospect of sending an entrepreneur to the White House on a pledge to change Washington.
It's a vote he regrets, he said, and a mistake he hopes to correct in November.
"He blew it," Dudley said, not mincing words as he assessed Trump's first term. "We were so excited in the beginning. A businessman to run our country like a business and it hasn't happened."
The searing sentiment of Dudley, 77, illustrates one of the rising worries inside the Trump campaign: losing the senior vote, a reliably Republican constituency for two decades.
Here in Florida, people 65 and older made up 21% of the vote in 2016. Trump won that group by 17 points over Hillary Clinton. But now, one poll after another shows Joe Biden either tied -- or with an edge -- among senior citizens in key battleground states and nationally.
"We've got to get a new guy. Our President is erratic," said Dudley, who has largely voted Republican for nearly six decades. "All he's succeeded in doing is juicing up the stock market. Now that's gone to pot because of the coronavirus."
The worries over losing the senior vote come as coronavirus cases climb nationwide, four months before the general election. And here in Florida, summertime signs of anxiety are plentiful, as a record-setting 10,109 cases were reported Thursday. The administration's handling of the crisis was raised again and again during interviews with older voters -- a group more vulnerable to serious illness from coronavirus -- here this week. Several people pointed to the pandemic as only their latest disappointment of the Trump presidency, with some using words like "embarrassment" and "laughing stock to the world" to describe their view of the President.
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Friday, July 3, 2020
John Dudley, a retired banker, proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2016, excited at the prospect of sending an entrepreneur to the White House on a pledge to change Washington.
It's a vote he regrets, he said, and a mistake he hopes to correct in November.
"He blew it," Dudley said, not mincing words as he assessed Trump's first term. "We were so excited in the beginning. A businessman to run our country like a business and it hasn't happened."
The searing sentiment of Dudley, 77, illustrates one of the rising worries inside the Trump campaign: losing the senior vote, a reliably Republican constituency for two decades.
Here in Florida, people 65 and older made up 21% of the vote in 2016. Trump won that group by 17 points over Hillary Clinton. But now, one poll after another shows Joe Biden either tied -- or with an edge -- among senior citizens in key battleground states and nationally.
"We've got to get a new guy. Our President is erratic," said Dudley, who has largely voted Republican for nearly six decades. "All he's succeeded in doing is juicing up the stock market. Now that's gone to pot because of the coronavirus."
The worries over losing the senior vote come as coronavirus cases climb nationwide, four months before the general election. And here in Florida, summertime signs of anxiety are plentiful, as a record-setting 10,109 cases were reported Thursday. The administration's handling of the crisis was raised again and again during interviews with older voters -- a group more vulnerable to serious illness from coronavirus -- here this week. Several people pointed to the pandemic as only their latest disappointment of the Trump presidency, with some using words like "embarrassment" and "laughing stock to the world" to describe their view of the President.
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Towered
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Coronavirus is surging in Florida -- and so is anxiety over Trump's chances with senior voters
Friday, July 3, 2020
John Dudley, a retired banker, proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2016, excited at the prospect of sending an entrepreneur to the White House on a pledge to change Washington.
It's a vote he regrets, he said, and a mistake he hopes to correct in November.
"He blew it," Dudley said, not mincing words as he assessed Trump's first term. "We were so excited in the beginning. A businessman to run our country like a business and it hasn't happened."
The searing sentiment of Dudley, 77, illustrates one of the rising worries inside the Trump campaign: losing the senior vote, a reliably Republican constituency for two decades.
Here in Florida, people 65 and older made up 21% of the vote in 2016. Trump won that group by 17 points over Hillary Clinton. But now, one poll after another shows Joe Biden either tied -- or with an edge -- among senior citizens in key battleground states and nationally.
"We've got to get a new guy. Our President is erratic," said Dudley, who has largely voted Republican for nearly six decades. "All he's succeeded in doing is juicing up the stock market. Now that's gone to pot because of the coronavirus."
The worries over losing the senior vote come as coronavirus cases climb nationwide, four months before the general election. And here in Florida, summertime signs of anxiety are plentiful, as a record-setting 10,109 cases were reported Thursday. The administration's handling of the crisis was raised again and again during interviews with older voters -- a group more vulnerable to serious illness from coronavirus -- here this week. Several people pointed to the pandemic as only their latest disappointment of the Trump presidency, with some using words like "embarrassment" and "laughing stock to the world" to describe their view of the President.
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What is this obsession so many conservatives display with "running a country like a business"?
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AlbertC
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Never underestimate the influence of television. I remember watching an episode of the show Dirty Money on Netflix about Trump, and there would be crowds of college students from places like South Carolina who attended rallies in 2016 because they remember him being on the Apprentice TV show. And their reasoning would literally be like..."Yea he's a millionaire and I want to be just like him".
Which is hilarious because there was commentary from the actual makers of the Apprentice who mentioned that the show was obviously fictional and they had to jazz up the Trump character for the audiences. And that the missed point of the show was that it was ironic entertainment to have this washed up, multiple time bankrupt guy lead a large corporation.
Towered
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That's the one thing that you could argue that Trump has always excelled at - promoting his own brand despite a lack of substance.
Monarch Butterfly
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In Ontario, we have the long-term care centres run as a business, some privately-owned LTC businesses and some managed by LTC businesses, and most of the early COVID-19 problems happened there.
BubbleTea
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As an Ontarian, I would like to suggest that Ontario revert our slogan of "Open for Business" back to the old one.
Obviously the U.S. deserves that title the most after this pandemic.
Obviously the U.S. deserves that title the most after this pandemic.
Towered
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But oh no, the private sector is infallible!
Johnny Au
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From the Trump and Harris School of Economics:
One of the most important rules in economics is how to cut liabilities and maximize assets:
First, kill off the seniors. They're old and they're retired. They're going to die sooner or later, so kill them sooner. They are a major liability in terms of health care costs and they no longer contribute to society. If they have no heirs to inherit their assets, all their assets become your assets. Kill them indirectly so that you are not culpable for their deaths. Kill them by neglect. Kill them by spreading diseases such as COVID-19.
No wonder why some loyal Republicans for many decades decide to go with Biden this time.
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Admiral Beez
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WaPo Op ed by Trump's campaign head.
AlvinofDiaspar
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Brad Parscale? I guess he had a million votes waiting in the wings.
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AlbertC
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Trump's advisers are concealing how badly he is performing in swing states to keep him happy, report says
Jul 3, 2020
www.businessinsider.com
Jul 3, 2020
- President Donald Trump's campaign officials are giving him misleading assurances about how well his reelection campaign is going, a Republican source told The New York Times.
- Recent polls show Trump trailing in several swing states to Joe Biden, his presumptive Democratic challenger.
- Trump has refused to tone down his rhetoric in response to his decline in the polls, and top aides are said to fear he is headed for defeat.
Trump's advisers are concealing how badly he is performing in swing states to keep him happy, report says
Some campaign officials are more interested in keeping President Donald Trump happy than giving him honest information, The New York Times reported.