Tariffs trump Obama

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"This dustup over Trump making the White House great again reflects Obama’s great regret that he made no history as president. In 8 years in the White House, Obama achieve nothing of consequence. As president, his sole accomplishment remains being the first black president." And the most uses of personal pronouns.

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"President Trump and Obama are campaigning hard ahead of the midterm election. Democrats need pick up only three seats to win back the House. The average swing in the past 5 midterms is a gain of 31.2 seats for the party out of power but Obama is sweating this one out.

"On Saturday, Obama was in Detroit campaigning for Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, D-Muslim Brotherhood. Obama said, “Abdul hasn’t called these tariffs, quote, unquote, ‘masterful,’ even as they’re killing manufacturing jobs right here in Michigan.”

"Also on Saturday, Audi CEO Gernot Döllner at a Trump rally in Georgia announced Audi will build an auto factory in Georgia that will crank out 200,000 premium SUVs a year.

"Döllner said, “First, I would like to thank Mr. President for your support and the great opportunity. It’s a fantastic opportunity for Audi, for the Audi team, and for America. We are planning to bring our biggest and most premium SUVs and produce them here in Macon, Georgia. This is a long-term investment because we believe in the American market.”

"He cited tariffs as a reason behind the decision. Last year, Trump tariffs cost his company $1.4 billion. The new factory will cost $4.2 billion. In three years it will pay for itself by avoiding tariffs alone." . . .

"I cannot think of another public figure whose defining characteristic is disdain and overweening condescension toward everyone. Obama is repugnant for a lot of reasons but his arrogance and disdain for others just make me want to smack him. He just is not a smart man. And he’s a willing carrier for Satan."  From the comments to the above post.

Tim Walz Turns Against Kamala and Embraces This Candidate

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"Harris was interviewed last week by CNN about Walz’s comments, and she said that she was unaware of them. She was, she said, still deciding whether or not to run for president." 

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"I've become friends with school shooters.”

"That was a real line uttered by Tim Walz during the 2024 vice presidential debate, which he entirely flubbed. In her book, 107 Days, Kamala Harris went after Walz — hard — for his debate performance. JD Vance, she said, was acting mid-mannered in order to counter Trump’s anger and insults. “When Tim fell for it and started nodding and smiling at JD’s fake bipartisanship,” Harris wrote, “I moaned to Doug, ‘What is happening?’” She continued, “I told the television screen: ‘You’re not there to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate.’” (RELATED: Kamala Harris’s Sad Book Tour Will Now Be Longer Than Her Campaign)

"Harris went on to confirm the veracity of the SNL sketch that aired the following weekend showing her (played by Maya Rudolph) watching the debate alongside her husband, Doug Emhoff (played by Andy Samberg), in disappointment and consternation. “While I did not in fact spit out wine, it was otherwise uncanny in its portrait of our evening,” she said.

"Many Democrats have attributed Harris’s loss to her selection of Walz as her running mate. On election night, campaign surrogate Lindy Li told Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich: “One of the things that are top of mind is the choice of Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate… A lot of people are saying tonight that it should have been Josh Shapiro. Frankly, people have been saying that for months.”

"Harris hasn’t done much to counter that narrative. Further, she wrote in 107 Days that her first choice for a running mate was Pete Buttigieg, but she thought the U.S. was too homophobic to elect a gay man as vice president.

"Buttigieg, she wrote, “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man…. But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.” (RELATED: Meet the Post-Biden Democrats: Biden’s Democrats)

"Many Democrats don’t want Kamala Harris to run for president again. Earlier this month, 20 Democrats told Politico that she is failing to define herself as a politician in the aftermath of her loss. Former South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges went after her, saying that Democrats want someone who is “fresh, new” and “I hear a lot of talk about that — ‘we don’t need recycled candidates.’” Harris, he said, “seems like more of the same to me.” . . .More.

Don’t Buy The Media Lie: Gas Prices Are Not Higher Under Trump Than Biden

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"This is the world we live in. One in which “journalists” don’t see their jobs as providing the facts, upon which Americans can draw their own conclusions, but rather as being flacks for Democrats, even if it means bending the facts and twisting the truth."

 

"This week, Reuters ran a story headlined: “Average price of gasoline during Trump’s term now exceeds Biden’s, as midterms loom.”

""It’s false, which Reuters itself admits in the same story. But who cares what the truth is, so long as it hurts Donald Trump?

"At the top of the report, Reuters says “The price of a gallon of regular gasoline has averaged $3.472 since Trump took office almost two years ago, edging out the $3.471-per-gallon average for Biden’s term, according to data from the AAA.”

"CNN and other news outlets ran the same story.

"But there’s a big, hairy, audacious problem with those numbers. They don’t take inflation into account, which is the only way to make meaningful price comparisons over several years.

"What happens when you do that?

""We got monthly gasoline price data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Like AAA, it shows that the average nominal price of gasoline is a tiny bit higher so far under Trump II than it was under Biden — $3.451 vs. $3.446.

"But account for inflation, and you get the opposite answer. The average inflation-adjusted price for gasoline under Biden was $3.89 a gallon. So far in Trump’s second term, prices have averaged $3.52 a gallon.

"That means the average real price for gasoline under Trump is 10% below what it was under Biden." . . .  More.

‘She’s really not messing around’: Giorgia Meloni ‘brings down the hammer’ on rioter thugs

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Hillary, AOC, and pretty much all Democrat women say America is not ready for a woman president. Someone beside their personal inadequacies must be blamed. I'm fine with a Margaret Thatcher, Golda Mier and perhaps a Georgia Meloni, which are hard to find in a nation that holds up Greta Thunberg and the purple-hairs as rocks of civilization. TD