Biden’s approval numbers are lower than any president at 100 days since 1945, save Gerald Ford in 1974 (after his unpopular pardon of Richard Nixon) and Donald Trump in 2017.
Difference between Trump & Biden is entirely due to polling mix skew: 33% Dems, 24% Repubs, 35% Indies.
America fundamentally continues to be a conservative nation (all Democratic victories arise from media, academia, and ignorant sports and entertainment complex putting their collective partisan thumb on the scale). See next tweet for data.
Question: "Generally speaking, would you say you favor (smaller government with fewer services), or (larger government with more services)?"
[Even with the pandemic necessitated gusher of free money, free vaccines, and the like, Americans prefer smaller govt.]
And the partisan media is striving hard to make excuses for Biden. "Intense partisanship is holding Joe Biden to a tepid job approval rating," the media tells us.
As if "intense partisanship" had nothing to do with Trump's ratings.
America is a right-of-center country at its core. Always has been, and always will be, so long as it stays a constitutional republic.
Why, you ask? Well, look no further than its very founding. Go through the Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, and try to find anything that strikes you as left-of-center, even the least bit. I bet you won't.
All leftist thinking is injected into our body politic by elites in the media, academia, entertainment, and so on, by people who are so secure in their perches that they will never have to suffer the consequences of what they advocate.
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People who are financially most brutalized by the government in America are the ~6 million Americans who make between $200K and $800K a year and report their incomes honestly.
They pay and pay and pay for everything, and never catch a break.
You will rue the day you start earning above $200K, unless you have a way to cross into the millionaire territory in a few years. If you have no reasonable chance at becoming a millionaire, stay in the 'low-income' territory. You'll get more free govt goodies than you can count.
Once you cross over into the $200K-$800K territory, you will be the one paying for all those free goodies others get. The very rich don't pay for much, not because they cheat necessarily, but because there just aren't that many of them.
It is even worse for people making more than say $400K a year before retiring. I know of a friend (family of four) who just turned 65. To his utter surprise, his health insurance cost for the whole family went UP, now that he had to find individual insurance plans for 3.
Even his own health insurance cost didn't go down, despite the 'free' Medicare. With the surcharges (because his income was too high two years ago) Medicare slapped on him, he is barely break-even on his medical and drug coverage compared with his old employer insurance plan.
And the drug plan coverage under Medicare is a nightmare. Who designed this draconian system and how on earth are our senior citizens ever able to negotiate this dragnet? One has to choose between hundreds of plans by guessing what medications one might need next year. How?
1. 'The Science' of Climate Change is Far From Settled
"Both research literature and government reports state clearly that heat waves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years."
2. Direct excerpts from recent published research or assessments of climate science published by the US government and the UN:
📌Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century. ...
3. Two more:
📌Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was 80 years ago.
📌The global area burned by wildfires has declined more than 25 percent since 2003 and 2020 was one of the lowest years on record.
WSJ: By a large margin, Americans oppose the idea of increasing the number of justices serving on the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s according to a new nationwide survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy.
2. The survey also finds little support for ending the legislative filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
Poll participants were asked the following question:
3. A full 65% of respondents said he should not, while just 31% said that he should and 4% weren’t sure. It’s no surprise that 95% of Republicans oppose the plan to expand the court, but independents in the survey also resoundingly rejected the idea, with a full 72% opposing it.
"Income inequality" is a fancy phrase invented by those who are always looking for ways to malign free market capitalism in America. While I understand the emotional tug of that phrase, please know that this phrase is fundamentally dishonest.
2. What matters for the economic wellbeing of a society is not a static picture of income distribution, but a dynamic picture over time of income mobility. Starting at the bottom rung is never a problem, so long as there are no artificial impediments to moving up the ladder.
3. At some times and places, there have been whole classes of people who lived permanently in poverty or in luxury. But, in the United States today, the percentage of Americans who fit either description does not reach beyond single digits.
1. WSJ: Michigan Woman Defies State Travel Advisory
This is a delightful gem from WSJ. Enjoy!
Lansing resident sensibly visits vaccinated father who lives in Florida, where protection of seniors is prioritized.
2. At least one Michigan resident has had it with the state’s seemingly endless series of aggressive and ineffective restrictions and recommendations against individual liberty.
3. And she just might inspire a nationwide revolt against Covid rules that continue to burden citizens in many states—even after the administration of more than 213 million vaccine doses nationwide.