I hate anything that tries to straddle the issue and make everyone happy….kinda like the straddle Trump did in Charlottesville when he said there were “good people on both sides”……
Now 2020 candidate Beto is trying to make everyone happy….his straddle is on the Middle East problems…….
The video of Beto O’Rourke in New Hampshire dancing around without answering an IfNotNow member’s question, “Would you commit to putting direct pressure on the Israeli government to end the occupation?” is now nearly two weeks old.
But it is worth watching/reading for how little O’Rourke says in four minutes– while making it a point to blame “both sides” for violence and bad leadership when the context was, atrocities experienced by Palestinians.
Palestinians have their land stolen….homes demolished…..crops destroyed…..water confiscated…..children killed and maimed…..
Israelis get cash from US and live in luxury…..and that’s suffering?
Beto is a putz…..he was a flash in a pan from Texas…..he needs to stay home and work on Texas….he is NOT ready for Prime Time….the Middle has too many pretenders.
I have NO use for Beto and neither should any American that has a conscience.
I enjoy history and American history particularly….as a nation we have been through so much and we are still evolving…some say devolving…..the series written by Maj. Danny Sjursen is an excellent look at history from a slightly different perspective than mainstream.
Sjursen has taken the readers from the early days of this nation to the days of yore that we now live in……to help my readers I would like to give them the series so far……
Please take some time and get caught up on the series……
Maj. Danny now looks at the Bush 41 years……
His vice president was everything Ronald Reagan was not. The Hollywood actor in chief had far less political qualification “on paper” than his 1980 Republican primary opponent, George H.W. Bush. Though Reagan oozed optimism and soothed the American people with his confident, digestible rhetoric, he was certainly no policy expert or Washington insider. Bush was both. He was a man born of privilege, scion of a prestigious, wealthy family and son of a Republican U.S. senator from Connecticut, Prescott Bush. However, the mid-20th century was different from our own time; it was an era when affluence and social standing didn’t obviate a sense of duty to country and family honor. Bush, like so many thousands of the other members of the American aristocracy, volunteered for the U.S. military in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
I was not a supporter of Bush and worked hard to try and defeat him….he was replaced by Clinton…..and I cannot take credit for that for I was not a Clinton fan either.
But all that aside….I almost long for the discipline and issues of those days…..of Bush 41…… for we have nothing but slogans, insults and Tweeting….
MSNBC is once again trying to control the electorate…..the mouth of PA, Chis Matthews, is so concerned about the “S” word that he injects it into his nightly broadcasts at every opportunity. (Should qualify him for a gig with FOX News) Matthews tries to create the news not report it.
Have you noticed that those that earn the big bucks are the ones most afraid of the trend in American politics…….especially these so-called experts and pundits that earn 6 figures or more…..and the only people not concerned are the people that are suffering everyday with the system as it is……
Conservs are concerned that the US will become a “socialist” state if everyone gets health care….and yet they turn a blind eye to corporate socialism….and yes we can call it like it is….
For example…..Red States, long have hated the dread of socialism depends on government handouts more so than Blue states….
Conservs know nothing of socialism short of the lies of their party, the GOP….plus the morons in Congress have started a totally worthless endeavor….an “anti-socialism caucus”
“Just received approval from the House for the formation of the Anti-Socialism Caucus,” Chris Stewart, a Republican politician representing Utah, said on Wednesday.
“This caucus will defend individual liberty & free markets and highlight the dark history of socialism.”
Most of what the voter will hear is bullsh*t and lies…..but most have made up their minds as to what is “socialism” and NO amount of facts will change their mistake in thought.
I have been saying that out leader Trump should STU about everything but the economy for he could claim all success there but instead he chooses to go about running that tireless uninformed mouth to everyone’s chagrin.
Well that may not be an option now……seems the economy is slowing down according to some of the latest reports……Trump may well have missed the best opportunity to hawk his economic prowess….
This week, much of the story that the White House likes to tell about its economic record fell apart.
It’s not just that growth appears to have slowed, though it has. On Friday, the Commerce Department reported that the country’s gross domestic product expanded at a middling 2.1 percent annual rate during the the second quarter, down from 3.1 percent over the first three months of 2019. This was only a preliminary estimate, a guesstimate really; the government will gather more data and revise that number in the coming months. But it was clearly worrisome to Donald Trump, who tried in vain to put a glass-half-full spin on the news while also placing blame for any weakness on his nemeses at the Federal Reserve.
But not to worry Trump supporters he will do what he ALWAYS does….make stuff up and lie his ass off.
But for a closer look at the economy……
Economists noted that business capital investment, which has been strong for the past two years, fell at a 0.6% annual rate in the April-June quarter, the first decline in three years. That weakness likely reflects, at least in part, a reluctance by businesses to commit to new projects because of uncertainty surrounding President Trump’s trade war with China. Indeed, most analysts think the US economy could slow through the rest of the year, reflecting both global economic weakness and the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. That is one key reason why the Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut interest rates next week and to signal that it may further ease credit in the months ahead.
It may be too late for the president to use the economy as a political prop….you snooze you lose……
