This is Sunday July 7,
2019 and it’s Ringo’s 79th birthday and also the first days of the
running of the bulls in Pampalona, Spain.
It’s after one thirty and I’ve been fighting drowsiness all day. It’s just something to talk to the doctor
about. It’s time we covered the Trump news. I now believe that the odds are at least
fifty-fifty that President Trump will be elected again given the media coverage
and the trends we have seen before. The
economy has never been stronger with the addition of another 250,000 jobs last
month and unemployment at 3.7%, which ties a fifty year record. The economy most often is the leading factor
on whether a president will be re-elected or not. President Trump has risen to 44% in the
polls, which is an all time high for him and in his mind it’s worth
celebrating. It doesn’t matter whether
53% of the people disapprove of his performance in office given the trend that
nobody liked him in his own party four years ago but he still got nominated and
elected. The right wing cabal still
rules even though they are a decided minority.
Of course the US Senate is Gerrymandered ALL of the time, not just in
certain states. This means it takes a
very small percent of the US population to vote these republicans in in order
to hang on to power. You will have the
courts making favorable rulings for Trump and of course you have kicking off
voters off the rolls and also closing democratic polling places. You have “caging” where they call you up and
if they think you’ve moved they assume you’re illegal and they kick you off. It’s funny how Chris Matthews didn’t even
talk about Trump’s performance last Thursday with that parade and speech or
whatever it was. I missed everything because
I was either out watching fireworks like normal people or else it was endless
earthquake coverage. All I know is Trump
said something about the British taking over the airports in America in
1775. He blamed this blooper on his tele-prompter. Trump has a God-given talent of blaming
anything on anything. And people buy into
his line of bullshit. Now Trump is once
again saying that Joe Biden is a lost cause even though he is still leading in
the polls, both against the President and his democratic contenders. Trump is like a wild animal. He sees just a glimpse of weakness and he
goes in for blood.
As you know Southern California has had two major earthquakes in two days. The first was 6.4 on the rictor scale and the other, the larger one, is 7.1 magnitude. The first occurred at 10:33 o the Fourth of July and the 7.1 was Friday evening at 8:19. I didn't even feel the shaking of the first quake because I was outside smoking, but I sure felt the shaking of the second one, which lasted over a minute. Both struck the town of Ridgecrest and caused moderate damage for its size. It's kind of a bummer just digging out from one and another bigger one strikes. Both quakes have received heavy air play on the network news outlets and even on the BBC news. It's rare that a 6.4 earthquake will be a foreshock to an even larger quake. They said it was a nine percent chance of happening but it's something that's almost never happened before. Both quakes were the largest California has experianced in the past twenty years. If you've been following these quakes you know all about them anyhow, but perhaps a few readers of this haven't been following that closely.
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