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Trump gets highest job approval rating of presidency: Poll
President Trump scored the highest approval rating he has ever gotten in office, according to a newly released poll.
Forty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump's performance in the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey, two points higher than his previous peak early in his presidency.
Despite the upswing, more people still disapprove of Trump's job performance. He polls at 53% in this regard and two and a half years of a majority disapproval is a record for any president in modern polling.
A majority of independents disapprove of Trump's job performance. Overall, 34% approve of Trump's job performance while 54% disapprove.
One of Trump's strengths comes in his handling of the economy, for which 51% people approve. Negative opinions prevail for his temperament and handling of other issues, including taxes.
Overall support for impeaching Trump is 37%, the same as it was in April.
The poll, produced by Langer Research Associates, was conducted by landline and cellular telephone from June 28 to July 1 in English and Spanish. The sample size of 1,008 adults and the survey has a margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points.
Forty-four percent of Americans approve of Trump's performance in the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey, two points higher than his previous peak early in his presidency.
Despite the upswing, more people still disapprove of Trump's job performance. He polls at 53% in this regard and two and a half years of a majority disapproval is a record for any president in modern polling.
A majority of independents disapprove of Trump's job performance. Overall, 34% approve of Trump's job performance while 54% disapprove.
One of Trump's strengths comes in his handling of the economy, for which 51% people approve. Negative opinions prevail for his temperament and handling of other issues, including taxes.
Overall support for impeaching Trump is 37%, the same as it was in April.
The poll, produced by Langer Research Associates, was conducted by landline and cellular telephone from June 28 to July 1 in English and Spanish. The sample size of 1,008 adults and the survey has a margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points.
A Liberal's paradise
“A liberal’s paradise" would be a place where everybody has
.. guaranteed employment,
.. free comprehensive healthcare,
.. free education,
.. free food,
.. free housing,
.. free clothing
.. free utilities
.. and only law enforcement has guns.
And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist in the USA:
It's called Prison
....Joe Arpaio
.. guaranteed employment,
.. free comprehensive healthcare,
.. free education,
.. free food,
.. free housing,
.. free clothing
.. free utilities
.. and only law enforcement has guns.
And believe it or not, such a place does indeed already exist in the USA:
It's called Prison
....Joe Arpaio
I have messed everything up!
Remember that blog I wrote, where I said I would be honest with my friend? Well, that has come around to bite me in the rear.
She wrote me today, saying that in order to forgive me completely, I would have to be honest with her, about her phone. She values honesty above everything else.
I wrote her honestly, saying that what I did with her phone was beneath me. It was stupid, irresponsible and it would forever haunt me. I am not going into details, so you don't have to ask. Just know that I messed up big time.
I now have to write her a list of everything I am going to be honest about, which is a lot. From how I truly feel, to why I actually did what I did to her phone. I didn't hack it, bug it or tracked it, though, so those things are not even up for consideration.
The fact is: I love her. Truly, I do. Which is why I am kicking myself over and over for doing what I did. I will have to write her a very, very, VERY long message, explaining myself in detail. Holding nothing back. This is the only way I can make sure I am absolutely, 100% honest with her. I don't want to wake up one day, and not have her to talk to, which is something that can very much happen if I am not careful. I asked her about the things she left here. I offered to send them to her, but she wants to pick them up. I am not sure it is a great idea, which I will have to explain to her in the message.
Sidenote: ANY comments to this blog, that I find stupid or childish, WILL be deleted!
She wrote me today, saying that in order to forgive me completely, I would have to be honest with her, about her phone. She values honesty above everything else.
I wrote her honestly, saying that what I did with her phone was beneath me. It was stupid, irresponsible and it would forever haunt me. I am not going into details, so you don't have to ask. Just know that I messed up big time.
I now have to write her a list of everything I am going to be honest about, which is a lot. From how I truly feel, to why I actually did what I did to her phone. I didn't hack it, bug it or tracked it, though, so those things are not even up for consideration.
The fact is: I love her. Truly, I do. Which is why I am kicking myself over and over for doing what I did. I will have to write her a very, very, VERY long message, explaining myself in detail. Holding nothing back. This is the only way I can make sure I am absolutely, 100% honest with her. I don't want to wake up one day, and not have her to talk to, which is something that can very much happen if I am not careful. I asked her about the things she left here. I offered to send them to her, but she wants to pick them up. I am not sure it is a great idea, which I will have to explain to her in the message.
Sidenote: ANY comments to this blog, that I find stupid or childish, WILL be deleted!
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Nikki Haley On Political Rivals -
Excerpts from her speech at the Al Smith Dinner. Governor/Ambassador Haley displayed a knack for humor...
..But @ 2:20 in the vid she becomes serious and offers her observations & opinion on how one's political rivals should be regarded.
..But @ 2:20 in the vid she becomes serious and offers her observations & opinion on how one's political rivals should be regarded.
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Still trying to win 2016. No chance 2020. Better try for 2024.
Still trying to win 2016. No chance 2020. Better try for 2024.
PRISONER GETS CREMATED ALIVE AFTER HIDING INSIDE BODY BAG TO ESCAPE FROM JAIL
A detainee’s attempt to escape from the Jessup Correctional Institution in Maryland ended tragically Yesterday, as the man who was hiding inside a cadaver bag was accidentally cremated alive by county morgue employees.
41-year old Gary Smith had served 18 months of a 12-year sentence for a series of armed robberies committed in 2014 and had been in Jessup for only five months, after attempting to escape from the Brockbridge Correctional Facility earlier this year.
Mr. Smith allegedly took advantage of the demise of another detainee, somehow disposing of the body and hiding inside the body bag himself in order to fool prison security and leave the perimeter of the prison.
The first part of his plan worked perfectly, but unfortunately for him, he seems to have fallen asleep or lost consciousness during his transport to the county morgue.
It was only when they launched the cremation process and heard horrifying screams that the staff noticed something was wrong, but it was already too late.
The director of the Howard County Morgue’s Medical Examiner’s Office, Terence Anderson, described the horrifying screams that he and his colleagues heard.
“There was so much agony and pain in his voice, it was blood-chilling! We hurried to shut everything down, but he was totally carbonized before we could do anything!”
Mr. Anderson says it’s surprising that the detainee didn’t run away before the cremation, saying he’d been left alone on a stretcher for more than three hours before the process began.
“I find a bit of comfort in thinking he wasn’t only a criminal, but probably not the smartest one either… but I still feel guilty about how this turned out.”
The Howard County Sheriff’s Office and the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services have announced a joint investigation to determine the exact circumstances of Mr. Smith’s escape and death.
Accidental cremations of living individuals are rather rare across the United States, with an average of only seven cases reported annually.
In most of these cases, the victims are comatose hospital patients misidentified as dead by the medical staff.
Mr. Smith’s case is considered “extremely concerning” by the state’s Medical Examiner’s Office which also launched an internal investigation to make sure that this kind of accident doesn’t happen again.
You have just read a satire article.
41-year old Gary Smith had served 18 months of a 12-year sentence for a series of armed robberies committed in 2014 and had been in Jessup for only five months, after attempting to escape from the Brockbridge Correctional Facility earlier this year.
Mr. Smith allegedly took advantage of the demise of another detainee, somehow disposing of the body and hiding inside the body bag himself in order to fool prison security and leave the perimeter of the prison.
The first part of his plan worked perfectly, but unfortunately for him, he seems to have fallen asleep or lost consciousness during his transport to the county morgue.
It was only when they launched the cremation process and heard horrifying screams that the staff noticed something was wrong, but it was already too late.
The director of the Howard County Morgue’s Medical Examiner’s Office, Terence Anderson, described the horrifying screams that he and his colleagues heard.
“There was so much agony and pain in his voice, it was blood-chilling! We hurried to shut everything down, but he was totally carbonized before we could do anything!”
Mr. Anderson says it’s surprising that the detainee didn’t run away before the cremation, saying he’d been left alone on a stretcher for more than three hours before the process began.
“I find a bit of comfort in thinking he wasn’t only a criminal, but probably not the smartest one either… but I still feel guilty about how this turned out.”
The Howard County Sheriff’s Office and the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services have announced a joint investigation to determine the exact circumstances of Mr. Smith’s escape and death.
Accidental cremations of living individuals are rather rare across the United States, with an average of only seven cases reported annually.
In most of these cases, the victims are comatose hospital patients misidentified as dead by the medical staff.
Mr. Smith’s case is considered “extremely concerning” by the state’s Medical Examiner’s Office which also launched an internal investigation to make sure that this kind of accident doesn’t happen again.
You have just read a satire article.
Why the Democrats Will Never Win Back Trump Voters
Their cartoonish image of the President’s base dooms them to failure.
It’s an article of faith among Democrats that the President’s base consists primarily of white working class voters without college degrees, and that they must be won back in order to beat Trump in 2020. This is why Elizabeth Warren inflicted that cringe-making, “I’m gonna get me a beer,” video on a long-suffering electorate. It is why Joe Biden, who reputedly enjoys a special rapport with blue collar voters, is the frontrunner for his party’s presidential nomination despite his penchant for gaffes and plagiarism. Thus, during this week’s Democratic debates, the candidates will devote considerable effort to courting the “deplorables.”
This will, however, be an exercise in futility because everything they believe about Trump’s base is false. Their view of this large and growing segment of the electorate is distorted by a myth concocted primarily by the media to explain away a deeply uncomfortable reality — that Trump possessed a better understanding of the public mood than did the professional political class. They were unable to abandon their preconceived notions about Trump and his supporters, despite easily accessible contrary data. The belief that his message was resonating only among the working class was debunked by Nate Silver as early as May of 2016:
It’s been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump’s candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites.… But the definition of “working class” and similar terms is fuzzy, and narratives like these risk obscuring an important and perhaps counterintuitive fact about Trump’s voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump’s voters are better off. The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000.
That figure wasn’t merely above the national median household income, it was higher than the median income for Hillary Clinton’s supporters. Silver went on to point out that the general portrayal of Trump’s voters as uneducated also failed to conform to the facts: “About 44 percent of Trump supporters have college degrees… higher than the 33 percent of non-Hispanic white adults, or the 29 percent of American adults overall, who have at least a bachelor’s degree.” Blue collar workers were a real and valuable cohort of the President’s supporters, but the financial and educational make up of his base was more complex than most acknowledged.
Yet, even a guy as smart as National Review’s Kevin Williamson succumbed to the Never Trump delusion that Trump’s supporters were a bunch of white trash losers. In an essay published in the spring of 2016, he snarled, “Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.” Even after Trump won the Republican nomination, the legacy media, the Never Trumpers, and the Clinton campaign clung desperately to their belief that his supporters were a contemptible collection of irredeemable, uneducated homophobes, xenophobes, and racists. They were, as Clinton famously phrased it, “a basket of deplorables.”
It’s an article of faith among Democrats that the President’s base consists primarily of white working class voters without college degrees, and that they must be won back in order to beat Trump in 2020. This is why Elizabeth Warren inflicted that cringe-making, “I’m gonna get me a beer,” video on a long-suffering electorate. It is why Joe Biden, who reputedly enjoys a special rapport with blue collar voters, is the frontrunner for his party’s presidential nomination despite his penchant for gaffes and plagiarism. Thus, during this week’s Democratic debates, the candidates will devote considerable effort to courting the “deplorables.”
This will, however, be an exercise in futility because everything they believe about Trump’s base is false. Their view of this large and growing segment of the electorate is distorted by a myth concocted primarily by the media to explain away a deeply uncomfortable reality — that Trump possessed a better understanding of the public mood than did the professional political class. They were unable to abandon their preconceived notions about Trump and his supporters, despite easily accessible contrary data. The belief that his message was resonating only among the working class was debunked by Nate Silver as early as May of 2016:
It’s been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump’s candidacy as a “working-class” rebellion against Republican elites.… But the definition of “working class” and similar terms is fuzzy, and narratives like these risk obscuring an important and perhaps counterintuitive fact about Trump’s voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump’s voters are better off. The median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000.
That figure wasn’t merely above the national median household income, it was higher than the median income for Hillary Clinton’s supporters. Silver went on to point out that the general portrayal of Trump’s voters as uneducated also failed to conform to the facts: “About 44 percent of Trump supporters have college degrees… higher than the 33 percent of non-Hispanic white adults, or the 29 percent of American adults overall, who have at least a bachelor’s degree.” Blue collar workers were a real and valuable cohort of the President’s supporters, but the financial and educational make up of his base was more complex than most acknowledged.
Yet, even a guy as smart as National Review’s Kevin Williamson succumbed to the Never Trump delusion that Trump’s supporters were a bunch of white trash losers. In an essay published in the spring of 2016, he snarled, “Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin.” Even after Trump won the Republican nomination, the legacy media, the Never Trumpers, and the Clinton campaign clung desperately to their belief that his supporters were a contemptible collection of irredeemable, uneducated homophobes, xenophobes, and racists. They were, as Clinton famously phrased it, “a basket of deplorables.”
The Left ruins everything
From the Boy Scouts to literature, from the arts to universities: the left ruins everything it touches. Dennis Prager explains.
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