by Robert Tishkevich | Jan 29, 2017 | Politics
During the Presidential campaign, Trump voters demonstrated some of the most extreme forms of hypocrisy I ever saw. They held Hillary to the highest standards possible, and that’s ok because she was running for President of the United States. However, when it came to their boy Trump, standards went out the window. Trump was the first presidential candidate in approximately 40 years who refused to release his tax returns. He had a bogus excuse about this year’s return being audited. OK, let’s pretend that was a valid reason, then why didn’t he release previous years returns as Hillary did? Can you imagine the outrage from Trump voters if Hilary refused to release her tax returns? We would be hearing comments such as she’s a crook, what is she hiding, and this proves how dishonest she is. But Trump gets a free pass as his voters proclaimed tax returns don’t tell us anything. Really? Than why was Trump afraid to release his?
On many other issues, Trump was never pressed nor held accountable by his supporters. He refused to explain how he would replace Obamacare, he couldn’t explain how or why Mexico would pay for his bogus wall on the southern border, he couldn’t explain how he would eliminate ISIS, he wasn’t forced to prove his absurd allegation that President Obama was an original founder of ISIS. Trump instead proclaimed he knew more than our generals. He was never asked to prove that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States, he was never asked to explain how he was going to export 11 million illegal immigrants, and he was never asked to explain how Hillary was going to abolish the 2nd amendment and take away everybody’s guns. Of course you and I know a president doesn’t have the authority to abolish amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Do you remember how many times Trump voters and Trump chastised President Obama for issuing Executive Orders to meet his agenda? By the way, Obama issued far less orders than G.W. Bush. Trump’s been in office a little less than 2 weeks and he’s issued an array of Executive Orders. Trump supporters who are ecstatic over all of them. Aren’t they the same voters who vehemently protested President Obama issuing Executive Orders to advance his agenda? They said Obama was circumventing the Constitution and breaking the law by writing Executive Orders.Trump Double Standards are impossible to accept. But why do people engage in this type of activity? I think it’s fascinating that a Trump voter can take diametrically opposed positions on the same issue and never realize nor admit the level of their hypocrisy. What does that tell you about a Trump voter?
by Robert Tishkevich | Jan 23, 2017 | Politics
Is there anyone who prefers the archaic electoral college system over an election decided by the national vote total? By the way, I don’t believe the term “Electoral College” is in the Constitution. I think they’re referred to as “Electors”. In the 2016 election, Hillary won the popular vote by more than 3 million. Whether you preferred Hillary or Trump is irrelevant to me, this is a dumb system.
During a Presidential campaign, the candidates essentially ignore most of the nation and concentrate on what is known as “the swing states”. They include Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, among others. These states make up the only unknown in the election. All other states are either deep red or blue, so candidates completely ignore them. Do we want a large percentage of our country ignored during a Presidential campaign?
As for residents of a state which isn’t a swing state, they often feel their vote is wasted. If you live in a deep red state but want to vote blue, your vote essentially doesn’t count because you know the red party candidate will win the state. However, if the Presidency is determined by a national tally, then your vote has more meaning. In fact, every vote counts if we go with the popular vote.
Are you aware of the National Popular Vote Plan? It’s an effort to create an agreement among states that vow to elect the president of the United States using the national popular vote instead of the final vote count in each respective state. States who agree, will no longer cast their electoral votes for the winner in their individual state, but will instead cast them for the winner of the national vote. This is an attempt to bypass the complexities of amending the Constitution. Some believe only about a dozen key states need to agree with this new policy to seriously impact a 270 electoral college majority.
I’m sorry I can’t give credit to the author, but I copied the following points from an email message I received which I thought was fascinating. It highlights some very interesting statistics from recent Presidential campaigns.
In the 2016 general election campaign:
Over half (57%) of the campaign events were held in just 4 states (Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Ohio).
Virtually all (94%) of the campaign events were in just 12 states (containing only 30% of the country’s population).
In the 2012 general election campaign, 38 states had no campaign events, and minuscule or no spending for TV ads.
More than 99% of presidential campaign attention (spending on ads and visits) was invested on voters in just ten competitive states..
Two-thirds (176 of 253) of the general-election campaign events, and a similar fraction of campaign expenditures, were in just four states (Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Iowa).
Over 87% of both Romney and Obama campaign offices were in just the then 12 swing states. The few campaign offices in the 38 remaining states were for fund-raising, volunteer phone calls, and arranging travel to battleground states.
by Robert Tishkevich | Jan 18, 2017 | English Expressions
I don’t know if other cultures do this, but Americans are obsessed with using redundancy in our daily conversations. Some of my friends use the following expression, I need cash money. Wouldn’t the word cash convey the same message? We also use words which are unnecessary. For example, people say things such as she gave birth to a baby boy (as opposed to an adult boy?). He was shot in broad daylight (as opposed to narrow daylight?) Why do we do that?
Here are some examples and I’ll let you figure out why they are redundant or if they’re examples using unnecessary words. Some of them are obvious, but a couple require thinking.
| 12 Midnight/12 Noon | Absolutely Free |
| Acute Crisis | Added Bonus |
| Advance Warning | Cold, Hard Cash |
| Difficult Dilemma | End Result |
| Famous Celebrity | Filled to Capacity |
| Final Outcome | First of All |
| Front Headlight | Future Plans |
| Ink Pen | Joint Collaboration |
| Meet Together | Past History |
| Past Memories | Perfectly Legal |
| Plan Ahead | Poisonous Venom |
| Rear Tailight | Saw It With My Own Eyes |
| The Reason Why | The Same Identical Thought |
| Unexpected Surprise | Written Down |
by Robert Tishkevich | Jan 17, 2017 | Politics
These words are difficult to say, but Donald Trump is our new President. Hillary was a terrible candidate who never connected with the voters. I get that, but at least she was qualified for the office.
Our new President is in no specific order:
- An egomaniac of epic proportions
- A pathological liar, he wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked him in the face.
- Trump would say ABC on Monday, DEF on Tuesday, and on Wednesday he would say GHI, while denying he ever said ABC or DEF earlier in the week. Then a reporter would say, we have you on video tape saying ABC and DEF. Trump will then deny it again while verbally attacking the reporter.
- This may be his worst character trait, he’s never wrong. Trump will never admit he made a mistake about anything, it’s always someone else who was wrong or they’re attacking him.
- The above means he has no respect for facts and the truth.
- Trump believes every right-wing conspiracy theory
- He portrays the national press as his enemy. Smart people understand Trump does this because he doesn’t want the truth about him exposed. He understands that If he vilifies the press, his supporters won’t listen when the press exposes Trump lies and devious actions. They will instead react by ignoring the storying while saying Trump was right, the press is out to get him.
- He isn’t a very bright man and appears to be incapable of analyzing complex issues.
- He’s a 70-year-old man who acts just like a high school bully. He will be the perfect role model for American Male high school bullies.
- We know what he thinks of women. Our wives, girlfriends, and daughters should shudder at the thought of a Donald Trump Presidency.
- He refused to release his tax returns and he repeatedly refused to provide specific answers to most of the questions about his vague policies. He did that when he was a candidate. Who knows what he’ll do in the office?
- That means, Trump supporters elected a President but they don’t know what he’s going to do. They have no idea what his health care plan will be, his policy on illegal immigration, ISIS, etc.
Trump said the election was rigged and trashed the polls. Remember, that’s the same guy who at every one of his primary rallies, bragged that he was number one in the polls. But when he’s behind in a poll, suddenly they’re rigged.
In the end, we learned the polls were not rigged because he won the election. In addition, Trump never stopped whining about the press attacking him. What he didn’t tell his supporters is the press got him elected. You might ask how did the press get him elected. The answer is obvious to anyone who understood what was going on. From August 2015, until election day in November of 2016, Trump was headline news in the national media 24/7. I’ve never seen a candidate get so much free press coverage in my life. He was on the news all day and night 7 days a week, non-stop.
At the same time, the same national press brought up Hillary’s Email Scandal every day as if nothing else was happening in her campaign. That’s when I figured out Hillary was in big trouble. So instead of attacking main stream media, Trump should thank them.
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