Saturday, September 28, 2024

North Carolina is Drowning

North Carolina disenfranchises its voters, and now they're floating away. God's punishment? Maybe?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1frqfvb/the_situation_in_western_north_carolina_is_dire/


More likely, it's another solid reason to believe the Climate Change Crisis is real. What will it take for them to see that better Democracy and some trust in science are good things?


Thursday, September 26, 2024

Donald Trump Admires Dictators like Vladimir Putin

Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead - The New York Times


Trump says, give Putin whatever he wants:

https://newrepublic.com/post/186382/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-ukraine


Trump says, Ukraine is dead and defends Russian invasion of Ukraine:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-ukraine-dead-dismisses-defense-russias-invasion-114133226


Trump wants Ukraine to give up and be taken over by Putin.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-signal-us-stop-ukraine-election-russia-volodymyr-zelenskyy-vladimir-putin/


This is the same Russia which is incompetent and dangerous.


Russia's military is incompetent. That makes it more dangerous. - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/17/russia-military-failing-dangerous/


Russian War Dead Tops 70,000

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr3255gpjgo


A factual comment from a Reddit.com discussion:


Explosion at Ballistic Missile Testing Facility in Russia, Two Dead; Radiation Spikes

https://www.theepochtimes.com/explosion-at-ballistic-missile-testing-facility-in-russia-two-dead-radiation-spikes_3034915.html

 

Russia was 'testing its Flying Chernobyl missile' when it exploded killing five - World News ... 

Russia was testing a nuclear missile when it exploded!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russia-testing-flying-chernobyl-missile-18904171


If Donald Trump's judgment is this wrong, how wrong could Trump be when he suggests we leave NATO (the greatest defense pact in history)?


UPDATE: U.S. Economy, Obama Economy

The economy which Pres. Obama inherited was deeply flawed (see gray bar on graph at left), but he and Democrats in Congress rescued it and set it on a great course.


When it was overcome, the economy took off. It didn't change when Donald Trump took office. He INHERITED a good economy.


The graph below shows it growing like a rocket — better than other major economies. Only the pandemic could slow it in 2020.


Now, compare that to the rhetoric from Donald Trump and other Conservatives who are saying the economy is terrible.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/apocalypse-delayed-trump-promising-doom-never-comes-rcna170151

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/business/gop-debate-economy-biden/index.html

3 days ago  https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/politics/trump-fear-economy-analysis/index.html


Vice-President Kamala Harris has criticized Donald Trump for his comments about the Federal Reserve reduction of interest rates. It appears that Donald Trump doesn't want lower interest rates or a stronger, growing economy.

5 days ago  https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2024/09/21/harris-campaign-hits-trump-on-fed-comments-before-economy-speech/

 

UPDATE

Today, Friday, September 27th, the economic reports have come out and it appears the economy is doing even better than expected. While Donald Trump says we're in awful shape, the inflation rate has gone down down down. Here's a link to the Financial Times article: https://www.ft.com/content/dd9f2a56-ba40-4ede-bf58-f30c0cee519d


Nobody can trust an opinion on the economy from Donald Trump!!! He lies.