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For Next Time, Memo to Trump
If there is a next debate (you say no, but it depends on whether you’re ahead or behind in a month, and a fair choice of moderators being offered) it won’t be for a few weeks or so, leaving you, Trump, plenty of time to tidy up some of the missed opportunities from the first debate. Try some of these ideas. They’ll work on the trail, too.
For any of Kamala’s new programs under her “opportunity economy,” such as tax cuts for small businesses and a measly $25k for first-time home buyers (the average house costs $412k, so Kamala’s offer is only about half of the down payment. But try things in California where the average housing cost is $793k) punch back with “You’ve had three years, why haven’t you just done it?” and follow-up with “And how are you going to pay for that, with tax increases on the middle class?”
One of your most effective points in the first debate was in your closing statement, when you asked Kamala rhetorically why she did not initiate any of her special programs as Vice President. The question should next time be aimed directly at her, as it puts her in a real bind; either she can admit as VP she did very little and had power enough to do even less, or throw Joe under the bus and claim he stymied her initiatives. It is win-win for you. In addition, the question drives home the larger point of tying Kamala to the Biden administration. Harris needs badly to show something to the public to give them a reason to think she would be different than the last four years. She is desperate not to run as the pseudo-incumbent, all that “turn the page” and call for change stuff she borrows from Obama 2008, and you should be equally desperate to hold her to what has and has not taken place these last four years. Reminded the public the Biden-Harris administration created all the major issues Harris raised as problems (economy, immigration) during the debate.
On the economy, remind people food prices rose 5.3 percent under your administration while in Biden’s first three years food prices increased, conservatively, by 20.3 percent.
Almost 50 percent of Americans think the U.S. economy is in a worse state now than it was when Biden-Harris took office in January 2021. It’s true; the Census Bureau released an update earlier this month on income, poverty, and health insurance in the United States. Income-wise many Americans were still not quite better off than they were in the last pre-pandemic year, 2019, nor necessarily even than they were in 2020. In the latest Times/Siena poll, Harris trailed you by 13 points on the economy, the issue that matters most to voters. It’s one of the main reasons why she’s tied and not ahead of you in the race overall.
Create a simple app that calculates what groceries would have cost four years ago. People plug in their current register tape numbers and are told what a similar basket of goods would have cost under your administration. It actually looks like someone had once done most of the heavy lifting on this one already. One of your official Super PACs launched a website (now defunct) named “Biden-Mart” that let users compare Trump-era grocery prices to current costs under Joe Biden’s administration. Biden-Mart.com, published by the Make America Great Again Inc. PAC, featured an interactive grocery checklist encouraging users to “check off the items… to compile your weekly grocery list and see how much more expensive your bill has become under Joe Biden.” There were over two dozen common food staples to choose from, including coffee, dairy products, and a variety of different fruits and vegetables. For example, a two-pound bag of apples, two pounds of ground beef, seven lemons, one gallon of milk, and one pound of sugar and coffee each totaled $30.07 — a killer 57.11 percent increase from the $19.14 it cost during your administration. Egg prices remain 72 percent higher today than when Biden entered office in early 2021. Biden-Mart used data mostly from the United States Department of Agriculture so it should be relatively quick to reconstruct the app.
And build a separate app that calculates gas and mortgage costs. It will remind people during your first three years in office, food prices rose by 5.3 percent as wages soared past them at 12.7 percent growth. Wages have not kept up with food prices during Biden-Harris. It is one thing to talk about inflation as this percentage or that, quite another to reach into a voter’s pantry and hit them with a specific dollar amount. As the Harris-favoring New York Times wrote “Optimistic words and some admirable proposals aren’t enough to overcome the discontent and anger that a large majority of Americans feel about the economy.” Harris word-checks “freedom” with abandon, but never mentions freedom from debt, from living paycheck-to-paycheck because of inflationary practices under Biden-Harris. Harris, as vice president, cast the tie-breaking vote economists point to as the cause of inflation — the ironically named “Inflation Reduction Act.” Remind the people they deserve better.
The Biden-Harris administration admitted some 21 million aliens, dramatically more than under the Vietnam War evacuation and the Mariel Boatlift combined. Will you Kamala admit another 21 million under a Harris administration? Talk about what that number means; in 2021, there were around only 3.66 million live births in the United States.
Focus on narrative, personal stories about ordinary Americans unfairly burdened by unchecked migration. Never mind the dogs and cats, Springfield, Ohio, a semi-rural town of only some 60,000 people, ended up playing host to 15,000 Haitian immigrants. They overwhelmed the city’s medical and social services systems to the point where the governor had to send in state troopers and millions of dollars as a palliative. Still the poverty rate for the city is 22.7 percent, well-above the state average of 13.4 percent. Fatal car accidents in Springfield increased four-fold last year, due to a surge of Haitian migrants unfamiliar with U.S. driving rules.
Or the slaughterhouses and meat packing plants that employ migrant children. Talk about individual victims of migrant street crime in New York City, showing photos of a Midtown overtaken by homeless and drug users. The latter ties also in Harris’ time as a prosecutor and Attorney General in California where, same as in New York, many criminals who should have been taken off the street were given bail or simply released in the wake of “woke” law enforcement post-Floyd.
Whenever possible, follow Ronald Reagan, who at the close of his 1980 debate against President Jimmy Carter, asked simply “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” It is a rare American who will be able to answer unequivocally yes. The ones who say “no” are likely to be among middle-of-the-roaders who can swing your way in November.
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Rich Bauer said...
1Memo to PVB: The old SENILE dog can’t learn new tricks. His cortex is cooked. He only knows one trick: FEARMONGERING. If you have been watching his recent performances (of course you haven’t), you would know this.
SO NO, THERE WONT BE ANOTHER DONNIE DEMENTIA HORROR SHOW. As the demented one has said repeatedly, NO MAS.
10/2/24 8:49 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
2The Great Racist has lost the Great Race
Donnie Dementia has turned down the chance to appear before 67,000,000 viewers at another debate and millions more on the 60 Minutes show. For a guy who craves attention, good or bad, he is running scared of letting the voters see Harris humiliate him AGAIN. But to reject 60 Minutes indicates he knows his time is running out.
MAGA follows this idiot because he sells himself as STRONG MAN. Afraid to face a black woman DD will lose many authoritarian voters. But the old horseface will not win if he doesn’t show.
10/2/24 10:33 AM | Comment Link
John Poole said...
3PVB- You’re holding back while saying Trump should hit harder. “……migrants unfamiliar with US driving rules.” Rules? We don’t follow no stinkin’ driving rules. Rules are for swaggerless unskilled folk.
10/2/24 10:45 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
4VD Dance got reamed out by Donnie Dementia today for not keeping the Big Lie alive when he told the nation at the Walz debate he wanted to forget about Jan. 6 and not talk about rigged elections. Today he changed his position-SHOCKING. He now says of course the election was stolen. Guess he got THE MEMO. Here is the memo Peter should write for AM CON:
I have no sympathy at all for the rioters, or for the president who encouraged their shocking crimes. I supported the second impeachment of Trump precisely because he stoked the mob’s rage, and did not call them off at the first opportunity. What that mob did at the Capitol was as close to a desecration as is possible in a secular building. Every one of those people who went into that building knew what they were doing was wrong, or should have known. It is right to hold them accountable.
Ashli Babbitt is no hero, and a victim of only herself. Before she even arrived at the Capitol, she was a crazy person, driven by her own rage. She has been made an ex post facto martyr by the Right in the same way that violent druggie George Floyd was made a martyr by the Left. But in Floyd’s case, he didn’t deserve what happened to him. In Babbitt’s case, I don’t see where the Capitol Police officer who shot her had a choice. Ask yourself, conservative: if that had been a Black Lives Matter mob invading the Capitol, and Babbitt had been a BLM activist barreling through a locked door into a chamber where members of Congress were sheltering, would you blame the cop for shooting her? If that January 6 event had been a Black Lives Matter riot, every white conservative in this country would know exactly what to think of it. To hell with double standards, on both the Right and the Left.
Peter won’t have any difficulty getting AM CON to print it. After all, it was written by his boss Rod Dreher,
10/3/24 4:31 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
5Trump: Folie a Deux
Many critics have compared Joker: Folie à Deux, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last month, to the Trump debate as tough to watch with his unrelenting cruelty and overindulgent me me me. As voters start to weigh in ahead of the election, it’s pretty clear which side of the coin they collectively fall on, and the mean Vance cat lady is taking some brutal hits. Audience and voters alike are clamoring to know who wears more eyeliner: Jokers Lady Gaga or VD.
The VD-DD ticket has polled in at 48%, but it’s in the independent women reactions where the ticket is really taking hits. Women don’t want Pussygrabber touching their abortion rights, and the mean catlady VD freak is as popular as a STD.
In case you haven’t wasted your money on the musical Joke on you, here is the not-so-happy ending:
Joker wanders through Gotham and encounters Gaga outside his old apartment, but she rejects him for renouncing his Joker persona and reveals that her pregnancy was a lie. As she leaves, the police apprehend Arthur and return him to Arkham. The next day, another patient approaches Joker and begins to tell him a joke. When he gets to the “punchline”, the patient, revealed to be a disillusioned former fan of the Joker, repeatedly stabs Joker in the stomach. As Joker bleeds out on the floor, the patient begins carving a smile on his face while laughing.
Bad art imitates bad life: DD will be rejected by VD, who like DD has no loyalty to anyone. VD has already rejected DD’s abortion lies. DD will go to jail. Keep smiling.
10/3/24 10:30 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
6Memo to Harris: Fear, the great equalizer
To counter Donnie Dementia’s fear campaign of ridiculous accusations like Haitians eating cats, the Harris campaign is bringing out its own fearsolage of DD 2.
1. Trump’s Sales tax increases will crush the Middle Class
2. Trump’s Tariff tax increase and inflation will crush the Middle Class
3. Trump’s National abortion ban..except for Melania (which should be a big relief for her secret service detail)
4. Trump will Pardon Jan 6 insurrectionists who were just tourists and Pelosi should have called out the National Guard to shoot them
5. Trump will begin Deportation of millions …only browns
6. Will Defund schools that have a vaccination mandate…. Because Polio has gotten a bad rap.
7. Give half of Ukraine to Putin cause it wouldn’t make a deal to
defeat Biden.
8. Hang Mikey Pence and all those late night wise guys
If these fearful MAGA MORONS fall for DD’s lies, then these truths will scare the shit out of them.
10/4/24 11:56 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
7Memo to Donnie: fear gets old…like you
DD is going back to the scene of the crime in PA DESPERATE to relive a fearful day. That is a big mistake. DD’s game plan is to keep his voters fearful, BUT Going back to Butler will DESENSITIZE his cult into thinking there is nothing to fear. He survived. It’s all going to be okay.
DD knows his cult is getting bored. Unless his team plants another bad shot lunatic in the audience and Elon is dumb enough to sit behind him, the crowd will get restless and leave. DD has shot his wad. He tried to get the hurricane victims to be afraid the gov wouldn’t care about red states. That ain’t working. Fear has a limited shelf life. The brain adapts. Deal with the threat or die. DD’s fear is desensitization. DD is desperate to come up with a new fear. Eating cats ain’t getting the cult afraid. Meanwhile, the Dems are successfully stoking the fear of GOP government controlling their freedom. That fear won’t end until DD meets his. Be very afraid. Vote the end of the GOP.
10/5/24 10:42 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
8The Cult gets baptized in Red States
Since the Cult believes DD is the Chosen One and the Cult is God’s Plan, they is confuzzaled why God decided to wash away their sins with 2 feet of rain in Carolina and Georgia. Simple. God got sick of them wallowing in DD’s shite. Time for a good ol biblical cleansing. And if they don’t clean up their act and stop hating his children, maybe another baptism will do the trick.
10/5/24 10:54 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
9Biden His Time: Memo to Trump
You ramble, you repeat yourself, you roam from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. You voice outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. You digress into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about your own “beautiful” body. You relish “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. You express fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when you mean Iran. As late as last month, you were still speaking as if you were running against Senile Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.
With Biden out, Mr. Trump, at 78, you are now the oldest major party nominee for president in history and would be the oldest president ever if you win and finishes another term at 82.
Peter concludes: Whenever possible, follow Ronald Reagan, who asked simply “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Ronnie was in downward dementia when he asked the question that should have been about himself. So should Donnie Dementia. Memo to Trump: QUIT.
10/6/24 1:52 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
10Stupid Hitler got some bad genes
Listening to Donnie Dementia aka Stupid Hitler using old Nazi-speak that migrants are contaminating our gene pool and were murderers because they had “bad genes” , maybe he should read a book about the murderers who wiped out the Jewish population in Europe…you know, Germans like him. DD may be right for a change. Deport all those with bad German genes….and begin with himself.
10/7/24 2:59 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
11Memo to Trump: Racists Elon and Tucker are killing you
Noted Racist: I made a joke which, I realize, I deleted, which is like no one is even bothering to try to kill Kamala because it’s pointless. What do you achieve? Nothing. Just find another puppet.
Bowtie Racist: It’s deep and true. Nobody’s trying to kill Joe Biden. That would be pointless,”
No one is trying to kill these two racists. They are too valuable killing Trump.
10/8/24 10:20 AM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
12Donnie Dementia, an unnatural disaster
While Repug governors in Georgia, North and South Carolina are expressing thanks to FEMA for help in cleaning the mess from HH, DD as per usual is throwing his crap in the wind that the federal government is AWOL. DD is a walking unnatural disaster with a record of incompetence in dealing with national disasters. DD is an ill wind that blows no good. Putin knows that.
10/8/24 9:17 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
13Now the fake news media says Trump had an inappropriate relationship with Putin. I always suspected Putin, but Trump too ?
10/10/24 9:25 PM | Comment Link
Rich Bauer said...
14DD Day: The supremes Rule We Don’t Need No Stinkin Elections
Given the Supremes recent ruling – if the Prez does it officially, it ain’t a crime- Senile Joe Biden has locked in coordinates for Bedminster and Maralongo for drones to deal with traitor Donnie D, a real national security threat. Storing top secret documents in his bathroom or sending them to Putin is sufficient grounds. And if MAGA wants to attack the Capitol again, Senile Joe has the military power as suggested by Donnie D. himself to deal with them.
Also, when Congress meets in a Joint Session on January 6, 2025, Vice President Harris will follow Donnie D’s suggestion that she will unilateral power to set aside the electoral college votes of states that you believe you had won, where she believes irregularities took place.
Thanks for all the great ideas, DD. Have a great day.
10/14/24 10:40 AM | Comment Link