It's all you get if you could see it:
"Democrats are wary of a 2016 repeat as Trump tries to divert attention from coronavirus pandemic" by Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff, August 29, 2020
By one significant measure alone — the cratered economy — history shows that President Trump’s reelection is a long shot. Think Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992. Pile on widespread civil unrest and the deadliest pandemic in a century, two crises most Americans believe he has handled poorly, and by traditional standards Trump should be toast this November, yet as the party conventions wrapped up last week and the fall campaign (such as it is, with coronavirus still raging) is set to begin, Democrats feel anything but confident in the outcome even though their nominee, Joe Biden, remains solidly ahead in the polls. To them, Trump looms like some horror movie villain who just keeps coming no matter how much is thrown at him.
Finally facing their fear, huh?
That is where the turn-in came, and before continuing I will relay my take on whether an election is stolen or not. I know I have a piece buried way back in this blog that went back quite a ways, but I will use 1968 as a jumping off point.
The basic questions when it comes to American presidents and the voters, insomuch as we have a real choice which we really don't as the candidates are preselected and screened by ruling ma$ters, are peace and prosperity. If a president brings them or has them, they win.
So in 1968, there was neither peace nor prosperity and Nixon wins office. Four years later, he wins an overwhelming reelection as Vietnam was perceived to be winding down and the economy is stagnant, but not worse.
By 1976, the economy was going south due to inflation even though the war had ended. The opposition party wins the White House in the form of Jimmy Carter, who loses both pillars due to runaway inflation and the Iran hostage crisis and thus is defeated by Reagan in 1980.
By 1984, it was morning in America, the economy was on the upswing and the wars had gone covert. It carried H.W. Bush to victory in 1988, but by 1992 the prosperity aspect had been lost so despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and victory in Iraq, the compromised Bill Clinton was elected.
By 1996, Clinton had both pillars in his favor. The economy was growing again and military action was minimal and couched under humanitarianism. That should have led to a Gore victory in 2000, and may well have; however, George W. Bush assumed office and within that year a fateful September morning changed the world. Eighteen months later, the United States invaded Iraq.
By 2004, Bush had lost the peace pillar and likely lost to John Kerry before the polls went down in Ohio with Kerry ahead 3. When they came back online hours later, Bush was ahead by 3 and had won the electoral college.
That set the stage for 2008 and the repudiation of Bush, who by then had lost the prosperity pillar for his party bas well, dooming McCain. Obama was elected president; however, by 2012 he had also lost not only the prosperity pillar but the peace pillar as well after Libya and Syria. Romney should rightfully have been president, but Obama won election.
That leads us to 2016. The same conditions that held sway in 2012 had been exacerbated, and Trump must have swamped Hillary Clinton so badly to eke out an electoral college win seeing as the Democrats under Obama have become masters at vote fraud, most likely in reaction to the unforeseen and surprising Bush thefts, and why they are so concerned about mailed ballots (all the better to fraud you with as the phone banks fill them out).
Since then, the world has literally been turned upside down. None of the tried-and-true methods or rules apply anymore, and that leads me to the 2020 election before us. Do to that changing dynamic, the forecast calls for Trump to win in a landslide with at least 320 electoral votes if not more. Democratic strongholds are now in play thanks to the city-sacking rioters as Trump support firms up in the South, Midwest, and Rust Belt. It seems counterintuitive, but that is the world in which we now live.
As for after the election, the shit still hits the fan. If the Democrats steal it, the communi$ts take over and I end up dead in a reeducation camp. If Trump triumphs, then Democratic activists will burn down the cities and the COVID vaccinations will still lurk in the near background. You can swear loyalty to the Chabads, but they will you take it and kill you anyway.
Fear was a theme of the Republican and Democratic conventions as the parties and their nominees offered competing views of the biggest threat facing the nation: the protesters in the streets or the virus in the air.
Biden tried to calm people worried about the future, as the pandemic claims more than a thousand American lives a day.
“United we can, and will, overcome this season of darkness in America,” he said in his acceptance speech, blaming Trump for much of it. “We will choose hope over fear, facts over fiction, fairness over privilege.“
Trump tacked in the opposite direction. He sought to stoke anxieties not about the path of the pandemic, which Republicans cast as mostly vanquished, but the trajectory of the nation under Biden.
“This election will decide whether we save the American Dream, or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny,” he said.
With convention TV ratings off from four years ago, and two already well-known presidential candidates, the scaled-down party gatherings the past two weeks are unlikely to have changed the minds of many voters, said Michael Steel, who was an aide to former House speaker John Boehner, a Republican.
The race, he said, will hinge on the dominant factor in American life right now: the virus.
“Both parties are making a huge bet on what the coronavirus pandemic is going to look like by Nov. 3,” Steel said. “The president is betting on relative normalcy and the stirrings of an economic recovery. Biden is betting we’ll still be overly concerned and eager to embrace public health measures.”
We are already tired of tyrannical lockdowns, Joe.
The conventions highlighted the candidates’ different approaches to the pandemic and their standing in the race.
Democrats staged an almost completely virtual event. Biden and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, delivered their acceptance speeches in a nearly empty room in a Delaware convention center. On the final night, they and their spouses — all wearing masks — went outside and watched fireworks with socially distanced supporters who had viewed Biden’s speech on a big screen from their cars as if they were at a drive-in movie theater. There was no postconvention rally, as Biden has avoided in-person campaign events since the pandemic took hold, a strategy that has been accompanied by his rise in the polls.
Republicans, while taping most of their speeches with no audience, took more risks and staged three major addresses outside in front of crowds of mostly maskless supporters, with little social distancing. Trump’s acceptance speech featured more than 1,000 people packed onto the South Lawn of the White House. On Friday, Trump flew to Manchester, N.H., for an airport rally similar to other in-person campaign events he has staged in recent months to try to revitalize his lagging campaign.
He was just across the border so the Globe couldn't ignore him, and the Trump convention was much more reassuring to the American people than that weird show the Democrats put on the week before.
If virtual is the future, they failed.
“The two candidates’ chosen methods of campaigning reinforce their messages,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist who teaches at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley. “By campaigning in public in close proximity to voters, Trump is underscoring the progress he argues has been made in combating the virus. In being more careful and cautious, Biden is underscoring his message that things are much worse than Trump is letting on.”
That's not “hope over fear or facts over fiction,” Joe.
As the candidate behind in the polls, Trump needs to shake up the race. So the Republican convention largely ignored the coronavirus and focused on an issue the party hopes will motivate his base and resonate beyond: the flareups of violence in what have been mostly peaceful social justice protests around the country since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis three months ago and a broader rash of shootings in cities like New York and Chicago.
Keep deluding yourself and lying to us, Globe!
“Running on law and order and public safety, particularly in the middle of this unrest, is maybe Trump’s last best hope,” said Schnur. “The voters who are most open to a tough-on-crime message are seniors and suburbanites, and those are precisely the voting blocs that Trump has lost over the last several months.”
That is why Biden is belatedly calling for the violence to end.
Even Don Lemon has called for an end to it because it is "showing up in the polls."
A Pew Research Center poll released Aug. 13 found violent crime ranked just below coronavirus as a “very important” issue to registered voters, behind the economy, health care, and Supreme Court appointments.
“He can really effectively use that law-and-order message to get people who might be more afraid the next few months” to support him, said Wilnelia Rivera, a Boston-based Democratic strategist. “He might be doing things they don’t agree with, but his law-and-order message might make people feel safe where they live.”
He is preying on white fear, according to the Globe, even as most Americans have made up their minds as to which flag they fly.
Biden and Harris need to counter that message with a broad focus on addressing the inequities highlighted by the pandemic, which has hit harder in communities of color.
“They can’t be afraid to touch on the wedge issues, issues like immigration, issues like climate change,” she said. “Let’s have the hard conversations, understanding that can really galvanize people and motivate them to come out.”
Shoveling that garbage along with the identity politics isn't going to get it done, sorry.
Being more aggressive in the campaign will prevent Trump from setting the agenda, Rivera said. It will also generate more enthusiasm among an electorate that will face hurdles to voting during a pandemic, particularly people of color.
“If we don’t get people more motivated in this kind of environment, it’s going to be even tougher,” she said. “We know from previous vote-by-mail states that people of color are less likely to vote by mail because they trust it less.”
Why do they need to be motivated?
We were told Trump-haters are chomping at the bit to vote.
Although Biden is up by 7.1 percentage points according to the RealClear Politics polling average, that’s down from 9.3 percentage points a month ago, and Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, remains wary after Trump narrowly won Pennsylvania in 2016, despite trailing significantly in state polls.
Fast Eddie is famously known for corruption and being a Clinton crony.
Some voters are “almost afraid to admit to a stranger on the phone that they’re voting for Trump,” Rendell said. “He runs about four points better than he polls.”
It's the threat of left-wing thuggery and communist political correctness under which we live.
Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, another swing state that Trump won in an upset in 2016, expressed similar concerns.
“There is not a single Democrat that I have talked to — and I talk to a lot of them — who feel smug in any way,” she said on CNN after Trump’s acceptance speech. “Democrats know that in 2016 there were a lot of people who were not counted in any of those polls.”
And we vote.
Representative Katherine Clark of Melrose, a member of the House Democratic leadership, said she is confident in the party’s presidential ticket.
Voters are motivated by the stakes in the election, she said, and Trump’s law-and-order pitch — an echo of the successful 1968 strategy by Richard Nixon during another time of social unrest — isn’t as potent, because the suburbs have become more diverse. She pointed to Democratic success with suburban voters in the 2018 midterm elections. Most of the 43 seats that Democrats won from Republicans to take the House majority were in the suburbs, even as Trump tried to stoke fears of an immigrant caravan descending on America.
“I think that 2018 showed us that suburban voters have changed from 1968, and they want an economy and they want a country that is more inclusive, and they want that in their representatives in the Senate, the House, and the White House as well,” Clark said.
But first, they want security from the mob even more than COVID, because the mob is an immediate threat rather than an "invisible enemy" and fraud!
Despite the limitations on campaigning caused by the pandemic, Clark said she is seeing great enthusiasm among Democrats, because they understand the importance of this election, and Democrats aren’t taking a victory for granted, she said.
“No, we won’t be able to relax,” Clark said. “We know they are going to do everything they can, that the true goal of this president and the administration and Republican Party at this point in its history is to retain power at all costs. We know what’s at stake for the American people.”
The retain power at all costs is a projection from her and her party as they take victory for granted again!
Will they never learn?
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Trump was joined on the front page by this feature:
Welcome to college! Please stay in your room. Alone
Nice to see the kid smiling at his own imprisonment, as I'm told by staffer Laura Krantz that "some unlucky students have to isolate for as long as 14 days. Draken Garfinkel, a 19-year-old Brandeis student from Arlington, was startled when university contact tracers called to inform him that a friend of his he’d spent time with recently had tested positive. Even though the friend eventually tested negative, Garfinkel was required to stay in his room for two weeks."
The Globe feigns concern for the kids as they help disable their futures.
Michael Gordon and the turnaround of Liverpool FC
Michael Silverman of the Globe Staff must be sucking up to the boss since John Henry owns the Liverpool FC as well as the Red Sox, while his wife is the managing director of the Globe.
It appears that the Globe is becoming an organ of exclu$ive reader$hip despite all pretensions otherwise!
An above-the-fold photo led me below the fold for these:
How an intimate wedding in rural Maine led to the state’s largest COVID outbreak
Hanna Krueger and Zoe Greenberg of the Globe Staff were lucky enough to attend.
For a Cambodian restaurant in Lowell, perseverance is the main ingredient
They catered the wedding, and its refuge owners are adapting and surviving with support, determination, and perseverance —as they always have.
Whatever Kara Baskin of the Globe cooked up, the stench is offensive given the state of restaurants in this state.
The rest of the slate is, as you can see for yourself, quite empty.
Looks to be there way of cutting me off, for I must be the only who person who does this. Strange how it didn't happen until I started questioning their weird advertisements possibly being a conduit for elite sex trafficking. It's actually censorship because as Reagan once said, "I paid for that paper, Mr. Bush!" It's allegedly part of the public record, not some proprietary information of the Fifth Column, 'er, Fourth Estate.
Related:
"President Donald Trump got a firsthand look Saturday at the damage from Hurricane Laura on a post-Republican National Convention trip that allowed him to use the trappings of his office to try to project empathy and leadership. During the slightly more than two hours he spent in the city, Trump met with officials and relief workers but not with any of the residents whose homes had been ripped apart in the storm. He did, however, get a good look at the extensive damage and the debris strewn across the city of 80,000 people, beginning with the bird's eye view from Air Force One as it came in for landing. His first stop was a warehouse being used as a staging area for the Cajun Navy, a group of Louisiana volunteers who help with search and rescue after hurricanes and floods. “Good job,” Trump told them. Trump then toured a neighborhood with Gov. John Bel Edwards and acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, making his way down a street blocked by felled trees and where houses were battered by the storm, one with its entire roof torn off. Trump has sometimes struggled with his role as consoler in chief, failing to project empathy when visiting places hard hit by tragedy and disaster. That includes in Puerto Rico, where Trump was photographed tossing rolls of paper towel into the crowd, which some saw as inappropriately playful, given the circumstances. During a trip to the Carolinas in 2018, Trump marveled at a yacht floodwaters had washed onto a family’s property, telling them, “At least you got a nice boat out of the deal,” and he was caught on camera telling a person he’d handed out food to “have a good time.” Other times, Trump has been a source of comfort. After a tornado ripped through Alabama last year, killing nearly two dozen people, Trump spent time with families who’d lost loved ones, listening to their stories and hugging them. Showing empathy has come more naturally for his Democratic rival, Joe Biden....."
Well, it would coming from a pedophile and pervert, but beyond that look at the way the AP savages Trump for being the comforter-in-chief.
He's using the trappings of his office to project empathy and leadership, as opposed to Obama who always meant it!
Didn't meet with residents, but met with hero volunteers doing the Democrat's job!
He struggles with empathy (like the left-wing haters the Globe calls mostly peaceful) but did offer it to Alabama for a change.
They pre$$ puts out this slop and then wonder why the people of America gravitate toward the president?
What empathy are they offering, other than daily diatribes and hatred against all who oppose them and glee at their suffering?
Also see:
In race for Fourth District seat, uncertainty has reigned
They have a choice of seven Democrats, and we shall soon see for whom they stuffed the ballot box.
Meanwhile, others are looking for ticket to Beacon Hill and if everyone's pay was revealed the inequity would become harder to hide.
