Observations

1. Negative reporting against Trump or anybody for that matter (like Rep Cortez) is not necessarily bias; it may well just be accurate . Trump says so many inaccurate things, that pointing that out , while  negative reporting , is not bias.

 Bias is when someone still  supports something that is  factual wrong. I don’t believe CNN, NYT,WP or WSJ does that. 

2. Law enforcement is inherently conservative , so accusing the FBI of conspiring against Trump and the GOP is nonsense. Rosenstein, Mueller and even Comey ( remember his role with John Ashcroft ) are all solid Republicans. I know for a fact that it was FBI agents in NY office that actively worked to torpedo Hillary. 

3. The absolute best person  on cable news is Shepard Smith. He tells it like it is in the face of great vitriol from Fox viewers. 

4. Remember that the term Fake News originally referred to stories like the notorious Pizza Gate story which lead to an almost tragic shooting . In other words completely made up on the Internet. 

Trump turned the concept on its head and applied it to all news that doesn’t agree with him. Quite a trick if you actually think about it.

5. Read the Fifth Risk if you want to learn about the true value of the so called Deep State. 

6. Of course none of this today is very new. 

All governments have embedded bureaucracies. Some were based on merit like the Chinese Mandarin system , others political patronage. 

Elites have always been around ie. Patricians v. Plebeians. Just human nature.    

The Illuminati is just a convenient myth, like the Protocols of the Elder Son’s of Zion.    

Bush 41 v. Trump

Bush 41 v. Trump-  Comparing service to our country prior to election as President.

Bush 41:

Decorated Navy fighter pilot

Congressman

Ambassador to China

Director of CIA

Vice President 

Trump :

Nothing

End of the GOP

With or without Trump, the Republican Party is finished on the national level.

Without Trump, they lack the energy and appeal ( indeed the mania) to bring out the masses needed to win elections for an otherwise minority party.

No other Republicans have sufficient charisma , for ill or good.

The Trumpkins, who hate establishment Republicans, will abandon them .

With Trump, the GOP will be a pariah party. Adding to the growing Democratic base and natural constituency will be thoughtful decent Conservatives and moderate sensible Republicans  who are repelled by Trump and his GOP sycophants.

Either way the GOP as a party is toast.


Eric

Disappointing jobs news for Trump

No this isn’t a misprint .

The jobs report was positive and that doesn’t help Trump’s campaign tactics.

Given the nature of his base ,Trump understands that good news isn’t very exciting to them.  He knows they’d rather be frightened and driven by hate.

If the jobs report was bad, he could  blame it on the scary prospect of a  “blue wave” of Democrats taking over the Congress and plunging the economy back into the abyss with skyrocketing jobs losses, plunging stock market losses, destroying 401k and so on. You get the picture.

Now that would have been more to Trump’s liking. He knows how to exploit that scenario. 

Good news? Meh

Eric

The Real Media Bias

Trump and his supporters are constantly complaining about media bias against Trump in comparison to Obama's media coverage.

 

As to reporting on the economy however, the opposite in fact has been true. Sadly a large part of the blame can be attributed to Sanders/ Warrens and the Progressives.

 

By every measure - GDP, jobs created, unemployment, wages, and the stock  market - the Obama economy was at least comparable to what's been  happening since Trump took office.

 

Yet we are told that the economy is now at last roaring and that things have gotten so much better economically, all thanks to Trump.

 

Trump says it so, the GOP says "amen", and the media reports it as gospel.

 

Part of the blame belongs to Sanders, Warren and the other Progressives . Notwithstanding the strong recovery under Obama, they still focused on the fact that wages had not increased much. The media also  emphasized this one negative.

 

Well guess what, they haven't gone up much under Trump either, but that hasn't stopped the GOP from bragging the great economy.

 

Even Obama himself is partly to blame, at least when it came to the stock market. He refused to tout, let alone take credit for, the skyrocketing stock market under his tenure.

 He apparently bought into the Progressives' argument that the stock market only benefited rich people, and that it would unseemly to tout its success.

Trump and the GOP have no such inhibitions, and it turns out most Americans apparently agree with them given their 401k, pension funds, mutual funds etc. have done well.

Notwithstanding the real facts, the Trump and GOP narrative is that things are so much better now than under the disastrous Obama administration.

It's just not true, and the media has been relatively quiet about that. Now that's what I call media bias.

Lie-gate

Adam Schiff coined this perfect decription of everything Donald Trump.
Now the phrase Lie-gate needs to go viral.

Whoever may read this , pass it on.

Let’s hoist Trump on his own petard .

Russia Probe- Back to Basics

The Russian investigation is about Russian Illegal interference in our Presidential election.  

Let’s not forget that is the basic inquiry. 

Not collusion, not obstruction of justice - those are follow on matters. 

The basic Russian investigation therefore is not a witch hunt or a hoax.

Trump is trying to obfuscate this basic issue with this repeated assertions of “no collusion “.  That’s not the basic issue of the investigation. 

Trump objects to the entire Russian investigation in our election because it put the legitimacy of his election into doubt. 

He’s right; his election was not legitimate. 

Whatever happens with Mueller probe, that conclusion will not change no matter what Trump claims. 

Eric