6/18/17: A poll shows that
Congress has an approval rating of 12%. In other words, Trump isn’t the
least popular denizen of the swamp. In no poll during the two-and-a-half years
since the GOP took control of both houses of Congress has that esteemed body
had an approval rating above 23%.
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6/19/17: Trump enjoys tweeting so much he decides to tweet the same message twice. He’s excited about the special election in Georgia for Tom Price’s old seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. At 3:29 p.m. he gets his thumbs limbered up with: “Karen Handle’s opponent in #GA06 can’t even vote in the district he wants to represent....” and “On Tuesday, #VoteKarenHandel.”
God, what fun! At 3:34 he goes with “Karen Handle’s opponent in #GA06 can’t even vote in the district he wants to represent....” again.
At 3:35 Trump clinches the deal: “....because he doesn’t live there! He wants to raise taxes & kill healthcare. On Tuesday, #VoteKarenHandel.”
Handel does win the special election by a margin of 52% to 48%. Handel issues a special thanks to President Trump.
Trump then brags about his great victory – ignoring the fact that the same
district went for
Price in November 2016 by a margin of 62% to 38%. Still, for Democrats, a loss
is a loss.
BLOBBER’S
NOTE: When Handel runs for reelection in 2018, she goes down in a narrow defeat
with 49.5% of the vote to her opponent’s 50.5%.
Trump decides
to brag about something else.
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6/20/17: Trump hogs credit for bringing Otto Warmbier home from North Korea. He says Obama failed for eighteen months. The young man “should have been brought home that same day” he was arrested.
Trump works his magic and brings Warmbier back, whereupon the unfortunate young man dies. No one on the right notices that North Korea still holds three other Americans – and Trump can’t pry them loose. Normally, we would give a president a pass regarding complex foreign policy.
Trump, however, never
misses a chance to attack Obama or simplify
daunting challenges. (See: 6/3/18.)
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6/21/17: Ford Motors announces plans to build its popular Focus model in China, not Michigan.
Cheap labor = more money for CEO’s.
Meanwhile, the top five executives at Ford pull down $50 million combined in just one year.
The New York Times also notes that “veteran union workers in the United States” earn $28 per hour building cars for Ford. Most Chinese workers earn around $270 a month.
Cheap labor = more money for CEO’s.
In related news, Ivanka Trump and Jared
Kushner continue to profit from
their far-flung business empire. This includes shoe factories in China
where Ivanka-brand shoes are made. Ivanka and Jared’s income for 2016:
$195 million.
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6/22/17: Clearly, the man in the Oval Office is cogitating. On the first day of summer, the president realizes he can build the Great Wall of Trump and turn a profit! This is the kind of brilliance that made him such a success in the casino business.
Fox News reports on his plan to include solar panels. “Think of it,” Trump tells amazed fans at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “The higher it goes, the more valuable it is. Pretty good imagination, right? This way, Mexico will have to pay much less money, and that’s good. A solar wall. Makes sense.”
(No telling why Sean Hannity doesn’t
accuse the president of turning traitor and joining the “War on Coal.”)
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6/23/17: The latest iteration of the GOP Senate healthcare plan allows insurance companies to offer plans that drop coverage for maternity care, emergency services and mental health treatment.
The Association of Medical Colleges warns that the plan “will leave millions of people without health coverage, and others with only bare-bones plans that will be insufficient to properly address their needs.”
Senator Rand Paul still believes the plan is too generous. If he had his way, he’d cut coverage for bandages, splints, and blood transfusions. Who needs nurses? Give yourself your own damn shots!
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