Presidential Candidate Donald Trump and his Twitter tweets (please see the above photo), in chronological order, since Mr. Trump became aware of the mass killings in Orlando. I also looked at his official campaign website – no official statement from him (other than the tweets in the attached photo). As opposed to the following from […]
Election / President Trump
An article from “The New Yorker”
An editorial from the “New Yorker” magazine’s website, dated today: In the rhetoric of Donald Trump, mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. It is hard to say which prevailed today as the Republican Party standard-bearer, a man who pretends to the most powerful political office in the land, tweeted this at his followers: “Appreciate […]
Mr. Trump and his comment regarding Elizabeth Warren
“Pocahontas”. Ok, I’m pretty sure President Obama has someone on his staff doing his Twitter remarks for him. I’m guessing that both Senator Sanders and Secretary Clinton also have people to do that kinda stuff too. (yes, probably both candidates have input and/or are consulted at times, before a tweet is twittered – but, my […]
NY Times Essay – Politics or Dictatorship
Thought Provoking essay from the NY Times. Thanks goes to Betty Bowersox for sharing. NYTimes link We live in a big, diverse society. There are essentially two ways to maintain order and get things done in such a society — politics or some form of dictatorship. Either through compromise or brute force. Our founding fathers […]
President Trump’s State of the Union Address – “unemployment”
President Trump stated tonight (once again) in his State of the Union address that there are “94 million unemployed Americans”. Let’s take a few minutes to dissect that number to judge the validity of that statement. There are roughly 323 million people living in the United States. If there were 94 million people unemployed, that […]
