Is there corruption in Washington? Is there corruption in both parties in Washington? Are career politicians among the most corrupt people in Washington? Does politics breed corruption? Do career politicians stick together and cover for the system?
Every four years Americans come to a political fork in the road. Usually we have to choose between two career politicians for president. In the past thirty years many of us have had to vote against the more corrupt politician. That’s why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016.
This year Americans will have to choose between career politician Joe Biden and Donald Trump who is not a politician much less a career politician. That’s why Donald Trump won in 2016. He doesn’t act like a politician, he doesn’t talk like a politician, and he doesn’t set or execute policies like a politician. Career politicians and bureaucrats that rule their little kingdoms don't like President Trump, and they have all been part of the resistance movement from day one.
The corrupt media have worked hand-in-glove with career politicians and bureaucrats to portray President Trump as a (fill-in-the-blank)-ist person rather than covering his accomplishments. Three different groups have nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work opening up relations between Israel and UAE, Bahrain, Serbia and Kosovo, and last week Sudan. What will happen to these new relationships if Biden is elected?
Before coronavirus, President Trump’s economy employed a record 159 million workers. According to FOX Business, the unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent (lowest in 50 years), and “hit record or near record lows for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, women, people with only a high school education, the handicapped, and veterans.”
In 2019 Americans saw more job openings than the number of unemployed workers. The poverty rate hit an all-time low of 10.5 percent. Income inequality decreased in 2018 and 2019. Trump’s slashing taxes for everyone and cutting oppressive federal regulations on businesses and industries created the biggest booming economy in modern times.
Median household income rose substantially more during Trump’s first three years in office than under eight years of Obama-Biden. Some estimate median household income has risen by more than $5,000 under Trump, five times higher than Obama-Biden accomplished in eight years. A new study from the Hoover Institution predicts median household income will drop $6,500 under Biden’s economic proposal. What will happen to our recovering economy if Biden is elected?
Joe Biden has been in Washington for 47 years! He is 78 years old, and will be the oldest president to take office if elected. He is the epitome of a career politician, and he has promised to take America back to the good old days of politics as usual. Do Americans want more interference from the federal government? Or, are voters willing to let President Trump bring our economy back to record highs?
The coronavirus pandemic has been tough for everyone. Biden supporters and the media … but then I repeat myself … have consistently blamed Trump for mishandling the crisis. Yet, the only national plan Biden has put forth was essentially what Trump has already done! We are likely to see a hundred-million doses of covid vaccines by the end of 2020! Do voters want more politics with Biden or more production with Trump?
Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.
76 comments:
Trump told his plan to Woodward: he would not pass on to the American people the warnings he was receiving as to the danger of an airborne virus, 10 times more deadly than flu. Instead he refused to wear masks and scheduled mask less, crowded rallies in the middle of the pandemic. Some plan!
Biden called President Trump "George" on Sunday. On Saturday he couldn't remember how many grandkids that he has.
He is the candidate that the left wants to have possession of the nuclear trigger. What could possibly go wrong?
The left will then try to invoke the 25th Amendment, kick Biden out of the Oval Office, and put their puppet Marxist progressive Harris in there.
Then the Revolution v2.0 begins. Buy ammo, lots of ammo.
Trump does not have an ethical, moral or religious bone in his body and appears to be the most corrupt president in history. He does not deserve the opportunity to serve 4 more years. He does deserve an extremely long time incarcerated in our finest prison.
@9:48
That's a bunch of malarkey!
You need to put down the AR19!
You dogfaced pony soldier!
Spot on! It's not a popularity contest and the stakes are too high to go back to pay-for-play politics.
I didn't vote for Trump 4 years ago; I voted against Clinton. There's a difference. Yes, Trump has been good for the country, but if he gets defeated he has only to look as far as the nearest mirror to see why. He is his own worst enemy. His abrasive personality and the great things he has done for the US are not mutually exclusive. There must be someone that can deliver the latter without the former. Obviously, that person, whomever it may be, will not be on the ballot next week. Therefore, next Tuesday I will again not vote for Trump; I will vote against Biden.
One thing I've noticed is that when Trump stays relatively quiet, his poll numbers improve.
9:48 is a Malarkest peddling the most un-American disinfo Malarkey I can imagine. We need to come together to solve our problems. This Malarkey of Division is not what America is all about.
"You dogfaced pony soldier!"
Also known as "George..ah..George".
Big money and criminals run this country, not the occupant of the WH. May very well be President Harris by Spring 2021.
Trump is lazy and dumb. While we pay for him to vacation at his golf club and hand control of the free world to his d list celebrity kids, America is burning. He is a disgrace to this country, his party, and to common decency. The republicans that have allowed him to happen and even supported his BS will regret their choices for the rest of their lives. The right is lost and will likely have to have a come to Jesus conversation to figure out if anything they previously stood for is worth saving.
Hopefully the Republican Party is already in the process of getting an acceptable candidate and platform for 2024.
Trump slashed taxes and incomes went up, but the deficit soared. It's simple math. Income goes up if you give everyone a handout; from the corporations receiving historic tax cuts to the the farmers who are receiving billions in subsidies to help them through Trump's "trade war."
Trump has only been successful in one thing in his life, bankruptcy, and he's working on bankruptcy #7.
He's bankrupting America to try to artificially boost the economy. During the "Greatest Economy in the History of the World" the deficit should not be increasing unless the greatest economy is a lie.
We'll be paying for Trump's "economy" for the rest of our lives, but just like with his bankruptcies, he'll walk out better off and leave hard working Americans holding the note on his empty promises.
Though, I expect a first term Biden presidency will all the sudden find a lot newly minted Tea Party Republicans clamoring about the national debt.
9:58, nice to see the democrats and left be the pillars of morality and ethics these days. A far cry from where they usually stand on a large majority of issues.
10:25. what happened to the Tea Party the last 4 years? It’s as if deficit spending and stimulus handouts are A-OK hunky dorey now..
I am truly convinced that the climax of human history is not very far away. Go ahead and talk about tin foil hats and such, but I believe that the current state of affairs in this country will not get better but will devolve into anarchy and the renewal of some form of slavery/indebted servitude. Just glad that my father who fought for this country (WWII, Korea and Vietnam) is about to pass. Also glad I have no grandchildren that will suffer.
@9:38: masks do little to prevent the spread of the rona. They do not protest the the wearer from getting it. Please look at the evidence before you try saying masks prevent the spread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BslFT9cKZwc
Me? I’m not gonna support joe because he is corrupt. He protected his pedo kid and used him as a Batman.
That, and joe is a racist.
Trump is not spending the money. Congress -- right and left -- has the spending problem. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
Kayne is looking like the best candidate....enjoyed "Gold Digger"....
Holy tits batman. Go downtown and to Raymond and look at the early voting lines. You are watching democrat fraud in action. Vote on Election Day like normal people.
When the winner is declared, if it's Trump, Biden will concede. What happens if Trump loses is going to be important to the country. Should he not properly concede and agree to peacefully transfer powder it will hurt this country.
@10:34am what happened to the tea party?
The democrats paid a bunch of antifa types to show up to tea party rallies with confederate flags and swastikas. The activist ADL added ghe Tea Party to their hate list so the media could call them a hate group and delegitimized the political group.
Sincw the worst sin you can commit today is to be labelled a racist, once the median labels a group "racist" you cant be associated with them if you have any type of career. And career people pay taxes. So you get the picture.
Just Google "ADL labels Tea Party Hate Speech"
Biden would have a mask mandate since we are into a record wave up, and the virus does not respect State or local boundaries--just the opposite of Trump who wouldn't wear a mask until he got Covid, schedules crowded maskless rallies and whose Chief of Staff Meadows admits they have "no plan to control the virus". So, no, Biden's plan is not the same as the plan that has left us 225,000 Americans dead and gone. Already voted for change.
Drain the swamp! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-drain-the-swamp/2020/10/24/52c7682c-0a5a-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html
If Trump is the one spending all the money, then why is it that the Democrats are the one holding up the stimulus package bill because he isn't willing to bump the funding up to an even more outrageous amount to include all their pork in it??
It looks like Trump's questioning of mail in ballots is going to backfire. He so far behind on early votes in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that he would need over 75% of the election day voters to win on average. Early voting is giving Republicans concerns in Texas and Georgia.
I'd like to hear some of you "scholars" list 3 positive/good things Joe or the Ho have done since being elected. Suspect all I'll hear are crickets.
@11:51, how in the world can early voting in person at a courthouse be fraudulent? I voted early, and the process was very strictly monitored and regulated.
President Trump is a corrupt, dishonest, malignant narcissist whom history will remember as the worst President in our country's history. There is zero point zero chance that he will be given the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is a joke that anybody nominated him for it.
I agree with Kingfish that every time he opens his mouth, his approval ratings go down because everybody is reminded of who and what he is. He would be better off going radio silent until Election Day versus hosting multiple super spreader events where his adherents jam together, mask-less
Once he loses and leaves office in January, he will be indicted, probably by multiple prosecutors, and will go to prison, finally closing this incredibly sad chapter in our country's history.
The author is a serial liar from the far right. There is zero chance that 100 million doses of an effective vaccine will be available by the end of the year.
Leftists will be so much better off if they accept the obvious premise that Trump is God's Chosen President.
Trump is an uneducated illiterate buffoon. The second verse is Trump is going to die an old man in prison. How soon you forget or maybe you don't watch anything other than Fox news and don't know, 11 people surrounding Trump were given prosecutorial immunity back around the Cohen trial. 117 sealed indictments showed up on Pacer from that court that week. The old comptroller that's been at the Trump business since Trump's daddy was alive was one of them. Prosecutorial immunity doesn't work unless the subject has a big sword hanging over their head that the government can threatened to swing unless they cooperate in prosecuting their target. Immunity isn't granted unless the person has high value testimony and a willingness to cooperate. 117 sealed indictments.
And if any of you Republicans wish to bet... I'll give you a day or two to take your EBT card to Kroger and buy some whole ribeyes. I'll accept those at 60% marked price for wagers.
Any accountants on here? If so then you know fat boys constant cry about a 4-year audit and he can't release the taxes is a blatant lie. Trump won't release the taxes because he doesn't want you rubes to know that he has a huge negative net worth. Trump has no education. He could not score 40% on a standard GED. in his mind and yours the only thing that separates you from him is the self created myth that he's rich. without that he's just like you drunk uncle that tried to stick his finger in the dog at the family reunion.
Hide and watch, Trumpanzees. The ride is about to get rough for a lot of people
"Holy tits batman. Go downtown and to Raymond and look at the early voting lines." Same goes for Madison County at the Circus Court building. They actually think they are doing something, other than standing in line.
"Once he loses and leaves office in January, he will be indicted, probably by multiple prosecutors, and will go to prison,". Don't believe that will happen. Will set a dangerous precedent for follow up holders of positions such as his. If this happens I will wonder why others like him (Both R & D's) haven't been indicted, tried and convicted. There are, contrary to Nana Nancy's proclamation, people who are above the law.
After reading these comments outloud, my bullshit meter is so deep in to the red, I may never get it out.
@11:54 He will probably concede defeat a lot better than the Democrats have the last four years.
KF makes a very good observation. If Donald Trump could shut up he would probably win in a landslide, but his constant lying, exaggerations, bragging, insults, etc. make his own supporters look silly trying to "explain" what he really meant. He will go down as the first president in history whose words could not be taken seriously.
Our government is completely controlled by globalist central banker occultists with a 3000 year plan.
The plan includes the mass brainwashing of each generation into participating in the complete destruction of every geneticly distinct race on the planet by misceginating everyone into global homogeneity with a borderless, consolidated, one world currency and one world government.
By 3020 we will resemble grey aliens more than humans and there will be radical factions of greys attempting time travel experiments to collect DNA from the past that would contain the distinct phenoytpes that were lost due to generational hybridization.
The masters of this diabolical plan are known as the Brotherhood of the Serpent, the Keepers of the Flame, and also known as the Illuminati.
But keep arguing over Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
2:17 Wrong. That's the trouble, his words ARE taken seriously.
He will go down as the first president in history whose words could not be taken seriously.
Really?
The first?
Anyone notice Trump has ignored Mississippi since Tater got elected, he must have figured out that he's smarter than Phil and doesn't want to have anything to do with him.
I actually wonder if he gives a rats ass about whether he wins or loses. Can understand that thought process. Goes out as a President either way and is one of those who will be physically protected year round on our dime for years to come. Can always play the news circuits.
I’m not voting for Trump. I’m voting against Biden. Granted Trump is an Ahole, but so is Biden. A vote for Joe ia a vote for Harris. He will be lucky to serve a year before resigning because of “medical issues”. It’s a real shame that these two are the best choices we have for President of this once great country.
" The right is lost and will likely have to have a come to Jesus conversation to figure out if anything they previously stood for is worth saving".
Not really.
I agree the Right has never understood with how to deal with the Left.
But to say the "Right is Lost" is a bit of desperation "panic" breakdown from the Left.
After all . . . within hours . . . the Right will install yet another Conservative Supreme Court Justice.
1:29 is day drinking, and heavily.
This country has lost all semblance of common sense.
Good Grief folks here are actually defending this level of ineptitude...After the Bush/Cheney Fiasco (Eye-raqi Freedom or something of the other) Oil Debacle that they no longer want to talk about, the GOP should just admit that they can't lead and are only good at obstructing true progress and stagnating Society.
The fact you think the Eye-raqi intervention was for oil, shows the simplicity of your thought process. Out of generosity I will give you a hint of the real reason. Use your google skills to discover what the most profitable enterprise in the world is. That was the reason for the Eye-raqi intervention.
In 8 days Trump and the Republicans will realize that they have awoken a Sleeping Bear. They will never recover. They think ACB helps there cause when it's going to be their undoing, simply over abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act.
Go ahead and throw up 🤮 Hillary!
You know if Trump is the failure that so many want him to be, how is it that he is able to get three middle eastern countries to sign peace accords with Israel? The rumor is there are more to follow. This is something his predecessors were not able to do. It seems the man is upstaging all of your previous politicians.
I agree 5:09, I don't really think that they will pack the court either. However look for them to pass laws protecting women's rights. I also think we are going to end up with some sort of quasi public-private insurance which will legally include a tax.
These are protections people really want.
The next administration knows how to use the "Bully Pupit" to get these enacted. It's just a matter of what they can accomplish in 2 years.
Trump is a failure.
Announcing peace deals which are not approved by the actual people but which are sham agreements is dangerous and is creating an arms race.
The timing is more than suspect and the substance of any deal is likely paper thin.
But keep reading trump steaks and university literature and believing how good they are.
Yes sir 6:51 the last time a U.S. president was this successful in brokering peace with Israel was the great Jimmy Carter and we've had peace ever since.
Wow! Peace in the middle east! How 'bout that Trump?
I'll not comment on Trump vs Biden. I will say that Daniel Gardner is thus far a far better columnist than Sid Salter or Bill Crawford.
KF, please keep this guy's columns coming.
12:59, you think Trump is God’s Chosen President? I think God is sending disease, storms and fire because we have elected him. (Of course you will deny it. You see the signs only if it suits you).
I often wonder what the acticle is about, I never read them.
It boils down to likability.
People like Biden and dislike Trump
When people realize they have lost their health care the GOP will be toast.
@ October 26, 2020 at 10:25 AM
"Trump slashed taxes and incomes went up, but the deficit soared. It's simple math. Income goes up if you give everyone a handout; from the corporations receiving historic tax cuts to the the farmers who are receiving billions in subsidies to help them through Trump's "trade war."
Thank God there are finally some sensible people commenting on this website!
Wish Mississippi had more like you!
"The great Jimmy Carter"if you typed that with a straight face, you aren't old enough to know about the Carter administration. The only thing great about the Carter administration were the failures, which, by the way still continue until today. The biggest problem with the mentally challenged left, beside having arrested development, is the echo chamber that is their environment. Not having the maturity to acknowledge the accomplishments of others leaves one lacking in intellectual development. I feel certain you wouldn't take my word on the failure of what you alluded to as being an accomplishment of Carter,ie, the Camp David Accord. I will leave you with a link to a member of your echo chamber, read for yourself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/19/loser-camp-david-accords/
The size of the Trump rallies reminds me of 2016. And the polls remind of 2016 as well.
@7:17
People voted for Trump because they already lost faith in the GOP. The GOP is milquetoast Romney the turncoat fool.
What you leftists still dont get is that the media didnt help Donald Trump win the last election and they wont stop him from winning the next one.
The only people who are drinking that poison koolaid the lying press is serving is you.
Your screaming and tears when he is reelected are going to be like music!
I hope y'all libtards know Trump is still visiting states and holding rallies and his support is absolutely enormous. He isn't speaking to empty amphitheaters.
Remember how they never showed how few people came to hear Hillary speak? Joe tried to hold rallies too and nobody showed up besides the press.
You libetals need to remember that Twitter is an insignificant sample of the population. And it is a hivemind echo chamber just like reddit.
8:30 It's called "tongue in cheek". You missed that one entirely. I know there was nothing great about Carter as president. I also know that the peace agreements are ultimately horseshit.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
When people realize they have lost their health care the GOP will be toast.
October 27, 2020 at 7:17 AM
Already lost my insurance years ago when I was forced onto Obamacare with nearly $1,000 monthly premium increases for the next few years even with a $13,000 deductible. Ditched it a long time ago and now basically self pay. No choice as there are no other options when your household income is the main factor determining premiums.
Trump scores real high with high school educated whites, the proof is right here.
The folks that think the polls are wrong are going to have a hard time on November 4th.
The mistakes that were made in 2016 were corrected by the 2018 election.
More and more with Georgia and Texas in play it's beginning to look like a landslide.
@11:01
Tell that nonsense to Beto O'Rourke
@10:56
You mean all those high earning tradesmen like plumbers, electricians, linesmen, etc., who never get laid off and have zero student loans?
Biden is the choice of white guilt suffering midwits and welfare queens who DGAF where the money comes from as long as they git they gibs!
Get a clue!
11:42 you talking about a guy like me with a trade who believes in unions who definitely will be voting for the Democrats.
Trump's crowd work at the chicken plant and build houses or do landscaping so they don't have to pass a drug test.
12:55,
You sound elitist enough to be a democrat, but too elitist to work a trade. Vocal elitist democrats that work trades seem to have accidents on the job that nobody witnessed. They don't last long. I've never seen it, I've just hear about Obama lovers that had real bad luck.
Sure, sure you're a skilled craftsman, in Mississippi, that belongs to a union, posting on a message board, in the middle of the day. Someone count the silverware before this guy leaves. Anybody that a tell one like that will definitely take something that isn't theirs.
@1:43
You said my sentiments exactly. @12:55 is likely a paper pushing city/state employee with tender soft hands who's job it is to make it harder for real workers to turn a profit.
Covid-19 readily available daily for Republicans at any Trump rally through Election Day. Pass it on!
@3:45
Really puts a dent in the MSM narrative that Trump is done for when he can pull off 3 rallies a day and PACK THE HOUSE.
Meanwhile Corrupt Joe Biden can't recall which administration is currently in the White House and Kamala somehow is making Sarah Palin look like the most intelligent female VP candidate of the 21st century!
To top it off, the democrat party is desperately grying to increase their turnout. I have received over 200 text messages from more leftists PAC's than I can name. The desperation is palpable.
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