3/31/18: In a recent poll only 33% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 approve of the job the president is doing.
Make America Great Again, c. 1960.
Luckily for Republicans, people in this age bracket turn out to vote at far lower rates than old codgers with walkers.
More ominously, for the GOP, 47% of the younger demographic say they’re paying greater attention to politics since Trump was elected. More than 7 in 10 say Trump “doesn’t reflect my personal values [emphasis added].” What! No pussy grabbing! No hating on Mexicans! No banning LGBT soldiers from the military!
Come on young people! Make America Great Again, c. 1960, when America was 90% white, interracial marriage was illegal, and you could ban people of skin tones you didn’t like from eating in your restaurant.
Also, women knew their place, which, among other things, meant no opportunities in sports.
But lots of chances to be secretaries!
Other poll findings paint a grim picture for President Trump. Six in 10 young Americans think he’s “mentally unfit,” 62 percent believe he’s “generally dishonest” and 63 percent consider him “a racist.” Almost 7 in 10 favor a pathway to legal status for DACA recipients and others brought to the country illegally as children.
Finally, 6 in 10 young Americans want the government to take steps to address climate change. This probably has something to do with the fact that all the old people who don’t believe in climate change, like the president himself, will die off relatively soon. The young know they may be stuck living on a planet where the damage becomes acute.
With that depressing future in mind, 55 percent of those
polled favor legalization of recreational marijuana.
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Cloned pets (explained below). |
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FORMER ROCK STAR and draft-dodger Ted Nugent – also a major fan of President Trump – decides to wade into the discussion of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
It really gets Ol’ Ted riled up to think that surviving students are protesting against gun violence. On The Joe Pags Show, Nugent lets rip:
The dumbing down of America is
manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these
kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids
lies. I really feel sorry for them because it’s not only ignorant and
dangerously stupid, but it’s soulless.
[He went on to say] to attack the good,
law-abiding families of America when well-known, predictable murderers commit
these horrors is deep in the category of soulless. These poor children, I’m
afraid to say this and it hurts me to say this, but the evidence is
irrefutable, they have no soul. ... These children can’t be critical of any of
the propaganda that they’re fed and that’s just sad.
I would doubt it “hurt” Nugent to say the survivors of the bloody slaughter were soulless. I can say it hurt me to listen.
Ted is also a board member of the N.R.A.
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Get that fish a chin-lift! |
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, for today: We have fresh proof that the Top 1% don’t have enough money to spend and desperately need tax cuts.
The Asian arowana, popular with fish-collecting enthusiasts, can sell for as much as $300,000. Known as the “long yu” (or “dragon fish,” in Chinese), most go for a few hundred dollars. The most “attractive” can go for tens of thousands, including that aforementioned arowana, sold reputedly to a Chinese communist official for six figures. Kenny Ng, a premier cosmetic surgeon – for fish – operating in Singapore, will give your arowana an eyelift ($90) or a chin-lift ($60) if you think it might help.
Of course, in desperate times – say if you were trapped in your house by zombies – the fish might save your life.
You could always eat it if you were starving.
This is probably more than you can say for Barbara Streisand and her dogs, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlett. Both are cloned from her deceased pet, Samantha, a Coton de Tulears breed.
Cost per clone: $50,000.
Then again, I guess, if you were desperate, you could make Miss Violet breakfast and save Miss Scarlett for lunch.
Again, assuming, zombies.
Bring on the tax cuts!
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