Sunday, July 2, 2017

BloggeRhythms

Today’s another where some simple numbers present a totally different picture of the POTUS’s popularity than the media will ever present to the public.   

To begin, Drudge posted a “Drudge Poll” asking “Should President Trump use socials?”

At present, results show that 75.07% (200,517 votes) are in favor of his “Tweets.” 

24.93% (66,417) chose “Delete.”

Whereas most often the percentage of respondants to polls is a mere fraction of those visiting websites, it can be assumed that the vast majority of those visitors generally share common beliefs and interests. And that means the next statistic has significant value because on Thursday June 29th, Drudge posted the following: “THANKS A BILLION! 
DRUDGEREPORT POPS TO #2 MEDIA TRAFFIC... PASSES GOOGLENEWS, CNN, FOX, NYTWASHPOST, HUFFBUZZ..”

Thus, if the audience poll participation assumption holds true, millions upon millions of Trump supporters who didn’t vote in the Drudge poll nonetheless believe he should continue his use of “socials.”

Joel B. Pollak picked up on the same theme today @breitbart.com, writing: “The conventional wisdom in the media, and even among many conservatives, is that President Donald Trump’s tweets are frustrating his policy agenda. But the opposite is true: his most controversial tweets are helping him.

“The conventional wisdom relies on the mistaken assumption that presidents must pursue their policy priorities by seeking support from the public at large. If that were true, it would indeed be best for Trump to play nice on Twitter.

“But in reality, because Republicans control Congress, and since they are prepared to use the Senate reconciliation process to overcome total Democratic obstruction, Trump merely needs to unite his own party to fulfill his agenda.”

From there, Pollak establishes the certainly valid case that a significant portion of the Republican Party has been hostile to Trump and his agenda from the outset. And that he cannot rally them whereas they’re not only split into different factions, but many cannot stand each other either. Thus, the “only way to unify them is to convince them that unless they fulfill their legislative promises on Obamacare and tax reform, they are going to lose the 2018 midterm elections, because conservative voters will stay home in droves.” And that unity can surely be helped by Trump’s tweeting directly to the voting public, as he’s does now.

Furthermore, “The president’s Twitter wars, like the one that exploded this week with MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, also boost the conservative base. Not because the base condones what he says — many conservatives do not — but because when Trump alienates the media and the Democrats, he must rely more heavily on his supporters. That makes the party base immensely more powerful in defining the president’s agenda and keeping it focused.

“The notion that Trump’s tweets take media attention away from his accomplishments is spurious. The media have no interest whatsoever in covering Trump’s successes. At best, [what] the MSNBC fight has done is displace the Russia story (probably not intentionally — Trump is not that calculating, and he has nothing to hide on the Russian front.)”

“There is another advantage in Trump’s tweets. From The Art of the Deal, through the presidential campaign, and today, Trump has shown that he uses a strategy game theorists call “massive retaliatory strike.” As Breitbart News explained last year, Trump “is friendly by default, but hits back hard if challenged.” As a deterrent, that strategy is most effective when it is consistent. And certainly Scarborough and Brzezinksi did enough to invite a response.

“Far from embarrassing the country, as the media suggests, Trump’s approach also puts America’s enemies on notice.”

Most interestingly, while the Drudge poll results clearly illustrate the public favorability of Trump’s direct interaction with them, followed by Pollak’s well-informed explanation of the logic involved, Maureen Dowd once again demonstrates how out of touch she, her publication and her audience are with the value of today’s communication technology as applied by Trump.   

Dowd continued her vendetta with Trump, writing @nytimes.com yesterday: “The 71-year-old president’s pathological inability to let go of slights; his strongman reflex to be the aggressor and bite back like a cornered animal, without regard for societal norms; his lack of self-awareness about the power he commands and the proportionality of his responses; his grotesque hunger for flattery and taste for Tony Soprano tactics; his Pravda partnership with David Pecker, the head honcho at The National Enquirer, which has been giving Trump the Il Duce treatment while sliming his political opponents, the “Morning Joe” anchors and Megyn Kelly — these are all matters that should alarm men and women equally.”

While the preceding paragraph is representative of the article in general, Dowd then shows that she’s either totally out of touch with Trump’s activities in office, or is presenting a total fabrication to her readers as she writes: “Trump is isolated in the White House, out of his milieu, unable to shape the story, forced to interact with people he doesn’t own. Even the staffers folding his clothes aren’t on his payroll.”

However, there’s another viewpoint regarding Trump’s work ethic that comes from supporters such as political commentator Michael Reagan who told Newsmax TV from the beginning: “President Donald Trump has not stopped to let "grass grow underneath his feet" since he took office last Friday and that will be a theme of his time in the White House.”

“Trump will not be taking much time off from work over the next four years, Reagan told "Newsmax Prime" host JD Hayworth.

"Now he's been sworn in, and he's not letting grass grow underneath his feet," Reagan said. "He was busy Saturday, he was busy Sunday, and of course now Monday, the first day of the work week, he's doing what? Meeting with leadership and Congress, meeting with unions, and signing executive orders in order to put people back to work in this country."

And that’s the way it’s been ever since.

As far as the Dowd article’s concerned, reader CWT from Houston commented: “Dowd is concerned because a television personality personally insulted the President, and he personally insulted her back? Seriously? Mika is in the rarified arena of MSNBC. Millions of people watch her show. She earns an exceptional salary, hundreds of times more than most ordinary men in the United States by a long shot. She hides behind her femininity and now has hurt feelings? At her strata of American television exposure and personal wealth, she doesn't get to do that. She operates where the movers and shakers, the important people operate. She attacked Trump. Trump defended himself. That's life. Get over it, or get out.”

Another reader abbeylou came from a different direction, commenting: “What did having Obama as President tell us about the voters? That we embrace Muslim terrorists; that we have no pride in country; that we want to get attacked again as we reduced our military to pre World War II; that we love liars and don't care that Americans are killed in Benghazi...in fact...we stopped their being saved. That it's fine to destroy evidence of felony cover ups; that it's fine to politicize federal agencies, that it's ok to sell uranium to the Russians at our detriment, that destroying government equipment with a hammer is fine, especially when they hold evidence of committed felonies, that ....that...that....TRUMP!!!! Make America Great Again!!!”

At the same time, some quick research on another subject shows that as usual, a very different picture exists than what’s presented in the MSM regarding reworking Obama’s health care tax.

While the MSM clamors that too much time’s been taken and therefore, Republican plans are a failure, according to the Obamacare website: “Obama’s Health Care Reform, commonly called ObamaCare but officially called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short, was signed into law on March 23, 2010. 

“ObamaCare’s reform of the health care system under the ACA has been an ongoing effort to improve the national health care system. Although reform has taken great strides under President Barack Obama, efforts to make health care better have been in motion for decades.

“ACA was signed into law on March 23, 2010. The law required that health insurance exchanges commence operation in every state on October 1, 2013.”

Which means that while reform had been “in motion for decades,” and it took almost three years to implement after being signed into law, Democrats, along with the MSM, claim that Trump’s 5 1/2 months in office is too long a time for any and all revisions.  

And that’s obviously another excellent reason for the POTUS to keep communicating directly with his supporters who certainly deserve the truth they'll never get from the left or the MSM.

That’s it for today folks.

Adios

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