Posted on 06/05/2020 2:00:29 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Tired of all this WINNING yet? – In response to today’s incredibly May jobs report, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rocketed up by more than 800 points, closing above 27,000 for the first time since March. The Dow has now regained almost 85% of its initial losses suffered due to the insane response to the Wuhan Virus.
Meanwhile, the NASDAQ gained almost 200 points, closing at 9814, a new all-time high.
It’s key to remember that May’s jobs gains were achieved despite the fact that two of the nation’s three largest state economies – California and New York – remain mostly shut-down. Those two states, along with New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois, other Democrat dominated states that remain mostly closed, represented almost 40% of the national economy prior to the advent of COVID-19. If the Democrat governors of those states insist on maintaining their politically-motivated shutdowns into and through the summer, a good portion of that previous economic might will migrate to “free states” like Texas, Ohio and Florida.
While those of us in the free states would love to have the added economic might, the migrants who come with it need to leave their Democrat voting habits behind.
Because lies are all he has at his disposal. – Creepy Uncle Quid Pro Farty China Joe Biden, responding to today’s fantastic jobs report, told an audience that Hispanic unemployment had shot up to 37%. In reality, the rate among Hispanics dropped to 17.6%. But who’s counting, right?
Golly, who do you think might have done this (Antifa, BLM)? – A 600,000 square foot Amazon warehouse went up in flames today in Redlands, California. So, a whole bunch of cheap crap made in China is no longer for sale.
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Polls? What polls? – The latest Rasmussen survey finds that Black support for President Donald Trump has rocketed up to 40% as millions of African Americans have seen their neighborhoods looted, vandalized and burned by “peaceful protesters.” Funny how that works.
Meanwhile, a new YouGov poll finds that just 16% of those surveyed support the whole “defund the police” movement now being pushed by Democrat radicals in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and other big cities. From a piece in the California Globe:
Earlier this week, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced he was cutting $150 million from the police department budget and would give it to communities of color instead,” California Globe reported. Across the country, Democrats are calling for police departments to be abolished entirely or defunded.
Garcetti, who was photographed taking a knee in with black leaders, even said he will put a moratorium on adding names of people into the CalGang database.
Garcetti’s handlers and pollsters may want to reconsider. A YouGov poll found “despite calls by activists and protesters to defund police departments, most Americans do not support reducing law enforcement budgets. Close to two-thirds (65%) oppose cutting police force funding. Just 16 percent of Democrats and 15 percent of Republicans support that idea.”
The poll was conducted from May 29 – 30, George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, but before the worst of the rioting in America’s big cities.
The poll also found strong bipartisan support for more training for police officers on how to de-escalate conflicts and avoid using force: 94% support among Democrats; 83% support among Republicans. A similar number of Democrats (91%) and Republicans (82%) support outfitting all police officers with body cameras.
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Oh.
In related news, the loudmouths on the Minneapolis city council who were spouting off about de-funding the police on Twitter and in press conferences yesterday suddenly backed off, and were set to consider limited measures that would ban the police using choke holds and require by-standing officers to step in to stop fellow officers they see using excessive force. Those are common-sense measures that most Americans actually support.
As always, we see Democrats making every decision they make based on polling data. It’s pathetic, really.
If you want to understand the real reason why these retired generals and admirals dislike and fear President Trump, first understand that they all sit on boards of big defense contractors and are becoming fabulously wealthy doing that and writing books, like the one General James Mattis is hawking right now.
Now, consider the fact that today, President Trump announced that he will be pulling 9,500 U.S. troops out of Germany and bringing them back home, just the latest in his ongoing campaign to end such senseless and unnecessary wastes of billions of defense dollars all over the globe. We have had thousands of troops stationed in Eastern Europe since the end of WWII, ostensibly to protect Germany and other countries from an invasion by the Soviet Union, a country that hasn’t existed for 30 years.
Germany is a wealthy, industrialized country that is fully capable of paying for its own defense, and should be required to do so. But the military/industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about as he left office in 1960 continues to lobby hard to keep us spending hundreds of billions annually on these foolish endeavors.
Trump’s America first policies are not, as Mattis dishonestly contends, any threat to U.S. national security, but they are a threat to his and many other retired generals’ and admirals’ efforts to cash in at the ends of their careers.
I don’t at all like saying that about these men who have served this country for many years, but it’s the truth, and a damn sad one.
That is all.
Nice update for a Friday afternoon.
Who was the last Republican President to poll so high with black Americans? Eisenhauer?
Sorry, I should at least spelled Eisenhower’s name correctly. I was just a tot at the time.
Angeleños, on the other hand...
“President Trump announced that he will be pulling 9,500 U.S. troops out of Germany and bringing them back home...”
...where they soon may be needed.
The Dem polls are so bad Nancy had a 10 second brain freeze
What more proof do you need that the black radicals don’t give a rip about black people, who, obviously, would be among the first casualties of defunding the police?
Nice!
Mattis reminds me of the Yankee general McClellan who ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election as a Democrats. Think of it, the Democrats of that day wanted to end the war between the states and negotiate. Too bad he didn’t win.
Looks like Biden was 1% low on his estimate! :)
I 100% support the Biden idea of shooting below the waist.I think that would be funny to see. Maybe Biden could volunteer as the target using rubber bullets.
According to the History Channel series on Grant, which I just finished watching last night, McClellan’s negotiations would have included recognizing the CSA and returning all freed slaves, thereby turning all USA citizens into slave catchers for the CSA.
Bump
Oh wait, there may not be a downside to that after all. Imagine open season on antifa with no bag limit.
The Germans I meet at my Air Museum in the FL Keys love America and Americans.
Defund the police!!?
Who’s going to carry out all the Red Flag confiscations?? The Girl Scouts!!?
Nice...I think the Dems are going to be crying like little babies in November when you’ll see blue congressional districts flip...Donald Trump will be reelected...
You're thinking of Eisenhower's cousin, Ike Rutgerhauer.
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