While working out on my elliptical yesterday, I saw something very ironic on cable news. I usually watch recorded reruns of two and a half men, which if you watch two episodes fast forwarding through the commercials you generally get a good 45 minute work out or so.
But when I turned on the television it was on cable news and they were streaming a Joe Biden "rally" and the subject happened to be prescription drugs. I heard Joe Biden promising that he would lower prescription drug prices if he was elected President. He talked generically about how high they were and how they had to be brought under control. He didn't offer any real tangible manner in which he would do so, however. He just made some generic statement about negotiating better with the pharmacy companies.
I turned on Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer and worked out.
About forty five minutes later I turned off the DVR recording and it went back to cable news. This time the President was on and as irony would have it, he was also talking about prescription drug prices. The difference was that Trump wasn't making any promises, we was explaining how under his leadership, the powers to be have negotiated pricing down considerable. He provided names of the people and companies who were responsible for the negotiations (as he likes to to: "fantastic man, wonderful company, amazing negotiations, etc, etc, etc..."). He also provided real numbers about how much some of these prescription drugs were under Obama/Biden and how much they are today. While it doesn't come as a shock to me that many of these drug prices have lowered, you wouldn't believe it by the way the issue is covered in our media.
But this highlights the difference between the two candidates.
One, who has been in politics for 47 years, including 8 in the White House, and is still making promises about things he will do (which are all things he never got done in his first 47 years). There is very little in specifics, and almost no reason to believe he will actually get any of it done because he has no real plan other than to make generic promises.
The other, literally got into politics by becoming President and has done everything from lower prescription drug prices, to lowering taxes, to lowering illegal immigration, to renegotiating our trade deals, to getting NATO countries to pull their weight, to bringing back blue collar jobs, to being nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes three different times for negotiating international peace agreements.
One is a man of bluster and promises. A typical politician loved by the political class.
The other is a man of bluster and action to back it up. A man hated by the political class.
Which type of man is your man and why? Think about it...
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One of these two men has been president the last four years.
The number of empty promises he has made and broken are multitudinous.
Many of the Obama-Biden accomplishments are now being imperiled by Republicans.
Ain't a-gonna let dat happen.
Nominated for impeachment:
GOT IT.
Nominated for Peace Prize:
DIDN'T get it.
(Some nominations are sometimes a joke.)
https://filmdaily.co/news/trump-nobel-peace-prize-memes/
Hitler and Mussolini were also nominated and didn't get it.
Trump nominated three times.
And didn't get it three times.
This was completely ignored 6 weeks ago
Trump Signs New Executive Order On Prescription Drug Prices
Trump Signs New Executive Order On Prescription Drug Price
CALI SAYS:
This was completely ignored 6 weeks ago
JAMES SAYS:
Could this be one reason why? (from the article):
"President Trump signed an executive order Sunday that he says lowers prescription drug prices "by putting America first," but experts said the move is unlikely to have any immediate impact."
________
In other words, it was just one more failed, ineffectual attempt at campaign window dressing.
Immediate you stupid fuckstick
God damn you are dumb
REUTERS REPORTS
Putin Rejects Trump’s Criticism of Biden’s Son
3:24 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump’s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election.
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So even Pooty is desperately trying to get ready for a Biden presidency.
2:45
Sure, so you think it wasn't a campaign move?
He's been promising it for years.
And I'M the dumb one?
Of course. The Nobel committee doesn't give it to Republicans
No dumbass if he could’ve broken contracts with drug makers that would have been a campaign stunt
You aren’t smart pederast, you can’t think beyond what is spoon fed you
Also, the "immediate" Trump-ordered arrests of Biden and Hillary by Barr and Wray aren't happening.
LOL
American voters said...
Trump nominated three times.
October 25, 2020 at 1:50 PM
James said...
And didn't get it three times.
You dumb fuck he was nominated for 2021.
They have just started with the process.
He may even get nominated for more.
And he may not win them in 2021, it's a very political organization.
But fuck are you stupid.
And ignorant.
Chris Raab
@ChrisRaab3
Look at which county just turned red for in-person early voting.
https://twitter.com/ChrisRaab3/status/1320017318152425474
WOW, Miami-Dade is now RED !!!
First off, the President has executive authority to do a lot of things, using executive orders and working with the Senate majority leader he can do things that a Senator or Vice President can do.
Trump promised that the Mexicans would pay for the wall. Second, there is about 7 miles of new walls.
Trump delivered on some big 2016 promises, but others unmet
WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s broken his pledge never to take a vacation or play golf for pleasure. His plan to update the nation’s infrastructure has become a running punchline and he’s dropped his threat to throw Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl out of a plane without a parachute. But behind the drama, chaos and tumult that has defined President Donald Trump’s administration, the president has fulfilled a wide range of promises he made during his 2016 campaign.
It’s a theme that will play a major role in the upcoming Republican National Convention, as the president tries to convince a weary nation that he deserves a second term, even when millions of Americans have been infected by the coronavirus, the economy is in tatters and racial tensions are boiling over.
“I’m the only candidate that gave you more than I promised in the campaign. It’s true. I’m the only one ever, maybe ever,” Trump said at a rally in battleground Arizona last week.
Back in 2016, Trump was criticized for failing to release detailed policy plans akin to those of his rival, Hillary Clinton. What Trump did do was lay out a vision for a new America — one driven by a nationalist self-interest and disregard for Democratic norms.
In the years since, Trump has acted on that vision, making good on his nativist immigration rhetoric, tearing back regulations on business and transforming America’s role in the world by abandoning multilateral agreements and upending decades-old alliances, cheered on by many of his most loyal supporters and generating great alarm among his critics.
But will that matter when more than 175,000 Americans have died and more than 5.5 million have been infected by a virus that has hit the U.S. far harder than other industrialized nations?
“I think the golden egg of Trump’s reelection effort is going to be the promises kept, such as getting two Supreme Court justices in power and keeping America out of foreign wars like Afghanistan and Iraq,” said Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian at Rice University. “The problem he has is that his COVID response wasn’t on the ballot in 2016 and he’s gotten poor marks on how he’s handled the pandemic. So that’s put a wrinkle in his promises kept talking points.”
Arguably Trump’s biggest impact has been on immigration.
While Mexico never did pay for the “big, beautiful wall” Trump pledged to build along the 2,000-mile southern border — the signature promise of his 2016 campaign — the project is now underway, with 450 miles expected to be completed by the end of December. (Only a sliver of that, however — just 4 miles — has been built along stretches where no barrier stood before.) And Trump has succeeded in fundamentally transforming the nation’s immigration system, despite resistance from the courts and little cooperation from Congress.
Using more than 400 executive actions, according to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Trump has effectively shut down the asylum system at the southwest border and slashed refugee admissions. At the same time, Trump has imposed a slew of new restrictions on legal immigration, with the pandemic spurring many more. With so few visas being processed and immigration fees collected, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has all but run out of money and is about to furlough large swaths of its
Thomas Kaplan
@thomaskaplan
With nine days until Election Day, Biden has no in-person events today and his campaign has called a lid.
just one virtual concert tonight...
Can't get any more low energy
And can't say he is studying for the next debate...
Some specific promises on immigration went unfulfilled: Trump failed to create a new “deportation force,” never met his pledge to deport millions, didn’t end funding for sanctuary cities that don’t cooperate with immigration authorities and didn’t move to end the constitutional right to birthright citizenship. But he did clamp down on “catch and release” of immigrants in the country illegally, enhance background screening of migrants and move to suspend immigration from a host of majority-Muslim nations — an evolution of the Muslin ban he floated during his campaign.
“They have used the tools that the executive branch has on immigration really to their ultimate extent. And they’ve been successful,” said Doris Meissner, the director of the Migration Policy Institute’s U.S. Immigration Policy Program and a former commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. “And you know, in many ways remarkably so because there’s been very stiff resistance all the way.”
In other areas, Trump’s record has been more mixed. On health care, Republicans in Congress did repeal the Obama-era individual mandate forcing people to buy health insurance, but he failed to replace the Affordable Care Act with an alternative, despite frequent promises to present his own plan.
Undercover Huber
@JohnWHuber
Cloture invoked on ACB 51-48. Confirmation vote tomorrow. Cocaine Mitch for the win
Now we are rolling !!!
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
No one cares about Hunter Biden’s Hookers and Crack (though it would be a big deal if it was me)
Americans care that he sold access and influence and held money for his then VP father. They care that the Democrat nominee is the most compromised candidate to ever run for office!
FACT CHECK: TRUE
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Washington Post admits they no longer do journalism:
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1320372388786327552
The legacy media was sold to the richest man in the world who is trying to have the most power too.
We will find out if he was successful Nov 3rd.
And boy does he love China too as a major supplier.
He has devastated bookstores, malls and downtowns throughout America.
Aided by a virus...
As was all big tech including the vaccine king, Microsoft's Bill Gates.
Americans care that he sold access and influence and held money for his then VP father. They care that the Democrat nominee is the most compromised candidate to ever run for office!
And it’s looking like Hunter and the Big Guy helped the Chinese stealth fighter program
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
2016: FBI pushes a hoax to frame Donald J. Trump.
2020: FBI hides evidence to protect Joe Biden.
Spot the difference?
Wray must go. And an outsider brought in
Top was totally corrupt.
With just 10 days until the election day. Poll after polls shows that the voters trust the Democrats on the pandemic.
Charlie Cook says that the Democrats can get 4 Senate seats.
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
When Joe Biden was vice president, 60 million Americans were infected with the H1N1 swine flu.
If that virus had been as lethal at the coronavirus, nearly 2 million Americans would have died.
Maybe more as they stopped testing.
Why didn't Joe stop it ???
Why did he leave the stockpile empty for all his remaining years as VP after using up the PPE ???
Was that science ???
Are "reporters" asking ???
Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
Here is an email where the son of VP Biden tells his partner to buy a burner phone from 7/11 or CVS while outlining his plans for the Ukraine
'The contract should begin now - not after the upcoming visit of my guy'
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1320405732248924161
Burner phones ???
Common for drug dealers and criminal behavior.
Wouldn't think they would be normal for board members to discuss Ukraine, and the upcoming visit of his "big guy".
Say it ain't so Joe !!!
Funny he showed up and had the prosecutor fired.
What a coincidence.
John Cardillo
@johncardillo
@JoeBiden says “I am going to be a president for all Americans,” then in the next sentence calls the Trump supporters outside his rally “chumps.”
Well he was trying to be transparent.
And he was.
Today Trump runs significantly better in the electorally decisive states than he does nationally. The difference between Biden sweeping all of them, or barely enough to win, could end up very thin.
Moreover, narrow Trump victories in more conservative-leaning battlegrounds such as Georgia, Iowa and North Carolina could limit his party's losses in Senate races. In 2016, every Senate contest went to the party of the presidential candidate carrying the state. In any case, no one believes Democrats can match the 12-seat Senate gain that Reagan fueled for Republicans in 1980.
The 2016 effect
The third reason analysts shrink from predictions of a blowout for Democratic nominee Joe Biden is simple skittishness. Their failure to anticipate Trump's 2016 victory makes them reluctant to trust their instincts and polling evidence now.
"Everybody has PTSD from four years ago," Sabato says.
National 2016 polls actually ended up close to the mark. But some surveys in key battlegrounds underestimated the size of the working-class electorate. Those errors, combined with Trump's strong finish among late-deciding voters, produced his Election Day shocker.
Polls could be off again this time. Of course, there's no guarantee that errors would underestimate Trump's support now; in President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, polls underestimated his margin of victory in key states.
The pandemic is this year's big X-factor
One uniquely hard-to-fathom variable is the effect of the pandemic on voting patterns. The huge volume of ballots already cast by mail and in-person early voting point toward mammoth turnout.
In 2018, the pattern of turnout increases favored Democrats. No one can be sure how much of today's early surge reflects fear of catching the virus at crowded Election Day polling places, as opposed to disproportionate enthusiasm for either side.
Yet there are suggestions in late-campaign polling that Trump could face something resembling a Carter-sized defeat after all. Dave Wasserman, a leading expert on House races, says surveys in competitive districts show a consistent swing of eight to 10 percentage points away from Trump.
Wasserman has also calculated what the national standing of Biden and Trump among key demographic groups, if it held across battleground states, would imply for the outcome. That calculation shows Biden, like Reagan 40 years ago, winning more than 400 electoral votes.
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2020: VOTERS vs POLLS
Voters will win if it's a fair fight.
Scares the dems to death.
It's 2016 all over again. On steroids.
And if the voters lose America will become a banana republic to match is banana republic justice system.
No excuse for Flynn to still be under prosecution.
And only by a judge.
The same judge incidentally that was just "randomly" assigned the Fitton FOIA lawsuit...compelling the FBI to respond to Judicial Watch request to produce 2015 McCabe/Strzok/Page FBI Text Messages. They have still refused...
Transparent...
And swampy including the judge.
POLITICO:
GOP Senate Majority Besieged on Multiple Fronts
5:02 pm
“Democrats began the 2020 election cycle with only a narrow path back to the Senate majority. But entering the final week before the election, there are competitive races everywhere.
“Republicans are scrambling resources into red and purple states alike — from Kansas and South Carolina to Iowa and North Carolina — cutting down Democrats’ massive financial edge and hoping for a late-breaking turn in their favor, similar to four years ago. But their defensive posture underscores just how broad the playing field is, with nearly a dozen Republican senators in various levels of danger, and only two Democratic seats at risk.
Kansas Newspaper Backs Biden
4:48 pm
The Topeka Capital Journal, which endorsed Donald Trump in 2016, is retreating:
“The gamble didn’t work out. But that election is past,
and a new one approaches.
Unlike Trump, Joe Biden has nearly five decades of documented public service, as a senator and vice president.
He has served ably and honorably over that time.
We do not agree with all of his proposals or actions over those years.
We doubt that he does either.
But he has always been open and forthright with the American people.
He has always appealed to our better selves.
“In these difficult times,
after four years of chaos and confusion,
the United States needs a steady hand.
We endorse Joe Biden as the next president.”
AAAA-MEN!
HONESTY IN A CONSERVATIVE PAPER!
What a ringing admission of what a poor president Donald Trump has been.
He simply "didn't work out." On MANY levels.
An admission by a paper that once endorsed him!!!
During his 2016 campaign, Trump made a lot of promises and has continued to make promises ever since.
Now, Trump is asking for voters to give him four more years, so it’s only fair to take a look at those promises and see what he actually did (or didn't do) in his four years as POTUS. After all, aren’t we supposed to judge our political leaders by what they DID rather than what they SAID?
Let’s keep in mind that Republicans controlled both the House and Senate during Trump’s first two years and they still control the Senate, so passing legislation would be no problem if Trump and the Republicans truly wanted to do so.
So let’s take a look at the facts and see how Trump really did on all the major issues:
HEALTHCARE:
Trump promised that within his first 100 days in office he would repeal and replace Obamacare with “something terrific.” In 2017, Trump told The Washington Post that he was close to completing his health care plan and that he wanted to provide “insurance for everybody.” Over the last 3 ½ years, Trump has said over a dozen times that the plan was coming in “two weeks.”
Instead, since Trump took office, 7 million Americans have lost their health insurance and he has asked the Supreme Court to strike down the ACA (Obamacare) in the middle of a global pandemic with no plan to replace it.
PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS:
Trump promised to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions.
Instead, Trump and the Justice Department are trying to repeal the entire Affordable Care Act, which would instantly remove all protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES:
Trump promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs and said drug companies are “getting away with murder.” They still are. Drug prices continue to soar.
SOCIAL SECURITY:
Trump promised he wouldn’t “cut Social Security like every other Republican”
Trump’s latest budget includes Billions in cuts to Social Security.
MEDICARE:
Trump promised “I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.”
Trump’s latest budget includes Billions in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid while America is in the midst of a pandemic.
ELIMINATE THE DEFICIT:
Trump promised to eliminate the federal deficit and balance the federal budget.
How did he do? Trump has increased the federal budget deficit every year he’s been in office and currently is running the largest federal budget deficit in American history.
For context, the last POTUS who actually balanced the budget (and left a record surplus was Bill Clinton. Bush then spent all the money on wars and tax cuts and created a recession and a record deficit. The last Republican POTUS who actually balanced the federal budget was Eisenhower in 1959. Again, look it up!
TAX CUTS:
Trump promised that he would cut your taxes and that the super-rich would pay more.
He did the exact opposite. In 2020, the richest one percent will receive a total of $78 billion in tax cuts from the Trump-GOP tax law. That’s about the same amount as the entire bottom 80% of taxpayers will get.
79% of the tax cut benefits white taxpayers, while only 5% benefits black taxpayers.
As a result of Trump’s tax cuts for corporations, 91 Fortune 500 companies paid NO corporate income taxes in 2018. 379 other Fortune 500 companies paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 11.3%.
PAY RAISES:
Trump promised that the average American family would see a $4,000 pay raise because of his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
It never happened. Nothing trickled down. Wages for most Americans have barely kept up with inflation.
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS:
Obama created more jobs than Trump. Period. And that’s not even counting COVID-19. During the final 3 years of his presidency, Obama added 1.5 million MORE jobs than Trump added in his first 3 years in office. the lost years kputz?
Trump said corporations would use their tax cuts to invest in American workers and create more jobs and increase wages.
They didn’t. Corporations spent more of their tax savings buying back shares of their own stock than increasing workers’ wages.
Troll
Why Trump could face a Jimmy Carter scenario
Analysis by John Harwood
Updated 4:26 PM ET, Sun October 25, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/politics/election-2020-trump-carter-scenario/index.html
TWO EXCERPTS FROM THE ARTICLE:
Elected in 2016 with just 46.1% of the vote, the President has remained unpopular overall throughout his term. But despite the pandemic, economic downtown, racial unrest, and Trump's erratic and provocative behavior, his loyal supporters have kept his job approval from dipping much below the 42.5% floor of late last week in the fivethirtyeight.com polling average.
"Trump is the worst President ever -- I can't imagine historians will spend more than 10 minutes debating that," says Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. But "he really has developed a rock-solid base."
That's largely because present-day polarization has left the GOP far more ideologically homogenous than Carter-era Democrats were.
Can that rock solid base keep Trump from experiencing the kind of landslide defeat Carter experienced?
The article goes on to admit that that solid base is indeed significant, but concludes:
Yet there are suggestions in late-campaign polling that Trump could face something resembling a Carter-sized defeat after all. Dave Wasserman, a leading expert on House races, says surveys in competitive districts show a consistent swing of eight to 10 percentage points away from Trump.
Wasserman has also calculated what the national standing of Biden and Trump among key demographic groups, if it held across battleground states, would imply for the outcome.
That calculation shows Biden, like Reagan 40 years ago, winning more than 400 electoral votes.
________
WOW!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/2020_elections_electoral_college_map_no_toss_ups.html
And this STILL has not changed:
NO TOSS UPS ELECTORAL VOTE MAP
======BIDEN 357 TRUMP 181!!!!
and if Biden should win Texas,
===========BIDEN 395
=========close to 400!!!!
This is 1996 all over again. Incumbent president with good economic results but questionable morals vs Washington elder statesman with little actual results to boast about over 40+ years and a mediocre, uninspiring candidate.
Look ay all the huge Trump crowds lately. Silent majority is showing up.
oh we're going to be SO surprised when Trump wins!
I don't think so.
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