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Remember: We need immigrants because robots will soon be doing all the jobs. twitter.com/kausmickey/sta…
Monthly Archives: June 2016
26 Is Trump the Devil We Know?
Obvious point: Trump’s obsessive, unfiltered tweets seem to offer a direct view into his mind. We may like what we see, we may not. But at this point, many voters probably feel like they know him, the way they might know their archetypal crazy old uncle.
Hillary’s tweets are written by committees. In speeches, her personality is masked. Nobody can feel like they really know what’s going on in her mind.
Trump is the devil we know. Hillary is the potential devil we don’t know. Voters often pick the former over the latter.
P.S.: 1) That’s another reason why it would be fatal for Trump to start waffling on his signature commitments: build The Wall, renegotiate trade deals, etc. It would not only alienate those who liked those commitments — it would also mean (even to voters who don’t care about The Wall) that we don’t really know him after all, that we’re in uncharted territory. 2) Hillary could be saved from the troubling fear that we don’t really know her deepest thoughts and impulses if voters conclude she has no deepest thoughts and impulses. There’s no devil there. Devils don’t live in vacuums. …
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Pre-96 welfare was “wreck, creating dependency.” @NickKristof doesn’t want 2 go back-so why “wrong” 2 want 2 reform? nyti.ms/1WUhEVg
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Good point. If Hillary’s been on such a brilliant roll why is she flat in the polls realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/pr… twitter.com/Osloweknownas/…
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Compare calm York washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-a-r… with near-hysterical @nytimes nytimes.com/2016/06/14/us/…
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I mean, you can still be for gun control, pro-Obama and against Trump while recognizing what this was … twitter.com/kausmickey/sta…
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Shocking/alarming that 29% of Dems think Orlando was act of “Islamic terrorism” vs. “domestic gun violence,” no? gallup.com/poll/192842/re…
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SO YOU’RE TELLING ME HE’S GOT A CHANCE … //Politico Insiders: “Trump’s Orlando response was terrible” politico.com/story/2016/06/…
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Breitbart Ranked #1 in the World for Political Social Media breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/1… PS: What’s surprise #3 thehill.com‘s secret?
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Byron York: Trump is transitioning washex.am/1UBo89w
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“Media coverage is likely to be more adversarial.” Ya think? So adversarial they’ll get bored with being adversarial washex.am/1YvwL7b
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“Trump’s expected to do at least as poorly with minorities as Mitt did.” Really? Not by everybody … hotair.com/archives/2016/…
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Trump “is at just 73 percent with Republicans.” Room to grow! hotair.com/archives/2016/…
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Laszewski: Obamacre no fun for the 1/2 of individual market that’s unsubsidized forbes.com/sites/robertla… How would Hillary fix this?
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Bold VP choice … twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian…
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Seems wrong, as CW (esp. wishful anti-Trump CW) often is. We’re barely in first quarter of an NBA game twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
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It IS interesting that while Ryan supports Trump, Ryan’s id … sorry henchman @dansenor tweets to undermine him gotnews.com/paul-ryans-neo…
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Breitbart gets results. Shouldn’t have to, if Twitter corporate culture really was committed to free speech. twitter.com/LibertarianBlu…
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Another seemingly preplanned Buzzfeedish NYT overresponse to what Trump actually sayid nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/…
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Not how I read it but maybe aides saying different. He sez ‘I was right’ but formally restates pause in milder terms twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
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They could run Alexa. She’s very popular. Might put CA in play. twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
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Trump drops Muslim ban, blames “radical” Islamists, not Islam. NYT reports on anti-pluralist speech he didn’t give nyti.ms/1tmjvWf
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Trump: “wages for our workers haven’t budged. In almost 20 years.” Even in terrorism talk he makes wage-boosting case vs. mass immigration
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1st noticed new NYT print-BS mode after Vegas debate. NYT said rivals had united vs Trump Muslim ban. They hadn’t nytimes.com/2015/12/16/us/…