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The Words and Wisdom of Donald Trump

Love him or hate him, you have to admit that he has a lot to say.  However, I think all his English teachers are turning over in their graves after reading the sentence below.  Yes, it–technically–is only a single sentence.

IF HE BECOMES PRESIDENT HE’LL SAVE THE WORLD BY TALKING THE BAD GUYS TO DEATH!
 

Queen vs. Donald Trump

Queen IS not  happy with The Donald.  That’s because his campaign continues to use “We Are the Champions” as its theme song despite repeated demands from the group to stop. Their reason is that it’s their long-standing policy not to allow what they call “Queen music” to be used as part of anyone’s campaign.

Yesterday Queen tweeted this:

An unauthorised use at the Republican Convention against our wishes – Queen

They haven’t decided what to do about the situation. However, I can see the headlines now if Trump becomes President–QUEEN SUES U.S. PRESIDENT IN INTERNATIONAL COURT OVER CHOICE OF MUSIC.
Okay, so it isn’t THE Queen, but it makes for good tabloid news.

 

Trump Has a Sense of Humor

Donald Trump went on Jimmy Kimmel’s show and demonstrated what a good sport he can be, joining in on a laugh at himself. Kimmel presented a children’s book that he “ghost-wrote” for Trump and read it aloud to him.

Whether you like Trump or not, this is cute and shows a sporting side of Donald Trump that we seldom see.

He even read it to his own granddaughter.

 

 

Here’s the video:

 

 

CA, Immigration, Violent Crime, and People who will Save Us

I don’t like outsiders coming into California and telling me what’s wrong with my state, especially when they haven’t done their homework.  I’m galled by Donald Trump’s telling us how bad the violent crime is in California and attributing it to our immigrants.

According to the CATO Institute’s Immigration and Crime–What the Research Says, “Between years 2000 and 2005, California cities with large inflows of recent immigrants tended have lower violent crimes rates [emphasis mine] and the findings are statistically significant.  During the same time period, there is no statistically significant relationship between immigration and property crime.”

The American Immigration Council  says this in The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States: “For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born, and high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crime and property crime [emphasis mine]. This holds true for both legal immigrants and the unauthorized, regardless of their country of origin or level of education.”

CNN reported in Immigrants and Crime–Crunching the Numbers that “numerous studies going back more than a century have shown that immigrants—regardless of nationality or legal status—are less likely than the native population to commit violent crimes or to be incarcerated. A new report from the Immigration Policy Center notes that while the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. more than tripled between 1990 and 2013 to more than 11.2 million, ‘FBI data indicate that the violent crime rate declined 48%—which included falling rates of aggravated assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Likewise, the property crime rate fell 41%, including declining rates of motor vehicle theft, larceny/robbery, and burglary.’”

A GAO (U.S. Government Accountability Office) report shows an increase in immigrants arrested, but for immigration violations, traffic violations, and drugs, not for violent crimes.  “Based on our random sample, GAO estimates that the criminal aliens had an average of 7 arrests, 65 percent were arrested at least once for an immigration offense, and about 50 percent were arrested at least once for a drug offense. Immigration, drugs, and traffic violations accounted for about 50 percent of arrest offenses. About 90 percent of the criminal aliens sentenced in federal court in fiscal year 2009 (the most recently available data) were convicted of immigration and drug-related offenses.”

I did my own bit of homework, all by myself.  Trump and others like him have teams of people to do it for them.  But they don’t care about the truth; they care only about sound-bites and riling us up against each other so they can jump in and say, “Trust me. I’ll save you.”

Go away and leave California alone.  We don’t need your type of “saving”!

 

 

Debatable Entertainment

I watched the whole Democratic debate!  I wasn’t able to get through any more than an hour of the Republican debate.  What was the difference for me?  With the Republicans, I lost patience with rudeness, name-calling, ethnic/sexist comments, and basic back-alley fghting.  I was learning the candidates’ personalities but not their stands, plans, and views (except, of course, that all democrats–especially Hillary Clinton–are unintelligent, evil demons).

The Democrats were far different.  They showed respect for one another, even when they had a direct-confrontation disagreement. They attempted to stay on-topic most of the time.  They showed a friendly rivalry.  Actually, to me, they seemed like people who wanted to win us over with what they felt are their strengths, not entertain us with an episode of “Political Tuesday-Night Fights.”

The elections are far enough away to allow time to win the minds and hearts of voters.  But unless the Republican candidates stop acting like spoiled, unruly children, this voter won’t bother trying to listen to them any longer.

Even The Donald is no longer entertaining.