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Countdown 58 Day Election California 28 days until early voting UNEMPLOYMENT and ECONOMIC DATA AUGUST 2020 THE BUREAU OF ECONOMIC STATISTICS (BLS) AUGUST DATA –Jube Rat ANALYSIS The 8.4% BLS official unemployment rate represents 13.6 million individuals unemployed is a deceptive statistic.  This number excludes the following numbers gleaned from the official BLS data I think should be considered as unemployed.  The 13.6 million  excludes the 7.0 million that want a job. BLS summary below shows: “These individuals were not…

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Countdown 59 Day Election California 29 days until early voting A NEW THERAPUTIC DRUG        It is curious why Trump would promote the unproven plasma therapy that has very little evidence of doing any good and this new therapy that has evidence of real benefit.  Could the answer be that the studies came from the World Health Organization that Trump has refused to provide funding because the WHO refused to go along with his false rhetoric about China and…

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Countdown 60 Day Election California 30 days until early voting TRUMP  and “LAW AND ORDER”      The abundance of negative information creates a need to update items I wish I had time to explore further, yet not having the time.  I see a need to at least summaries these facts for now. So I have written about the mishigas Trump hath wrought. Trump is attempting to claim the mantle of being the “Law and Order” president. Since his inaugural…

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Countdown 61 Day Election California 31 days until early voting TRUMP’S TRIP TO WISCONSIN    Hanlon’s razor is conveyed as: Never attribute malice that which is adequately explained as stupidity.  The Trump notion as the “Law and Order” president is at best an illusion. This deception can be demonstrated by Trump’s uninvited trip to Kenosha, Wisconsin even after repeated requests for him not to come.  The eruption of protests by Black Lives Matter in Kenosha WI began with the violent…

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Countdown 62 Day Election California 32 days until early voting STOCK MARKET SURGE   On March 23, 2020 the markets hit the bottom in the greatest market decline in history. The Market turn around was on the day when the Fed announced their first ever round of large purchases of assets, corporate and municipal debt, and interest rate depressing moves.  As a result of the massive influx of cash the markets surged.  The market has recovered as a result and…

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Countdown 63 Day Election California 33 days until early voting TRUMP      Donald Trump is the anthesis of the father of philosophy Socrates.  Socrates was said to say: his ideas are not his own, but his teachers’. He Is said to have mentioned several influences.  The term, “Socratic paradox” can also refer to a self-referential paradox, originating in in what was said of Socrates’s utterance, “what I do not know I do not think I know“, often paraphrased as “I…

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Countdown 64 Day Election California 34 days until early voting TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY   Trump has only one true unfettered action he has sole responsibility, Foreign Policy.  The Constitution gives him the responsibility for representing the United States in all foreign affairs.  This makes Foreign Policy the one true test of his success or failure as president.  After 3 ½ years here are some of the current actions Trump has taken and the current status.  This looks at current status…

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Countdown 65 Day Election California 35 days until early voting TRUMP’S ELEPHANTS      During the republican convention there were two elephants in the room the first is covid-19 pandemic. The second elephant was the racial disparity and the lack of equal justice with shooting and killing of unarmed black people. The first elephant in the room was never fully discussed in the republican convention, one member of trump’s cabinet had spoken of the pandemic in the past tense. the…

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Countdown 66 Day Election California 36 days until early voting TRUMP’S PARTY             The conventions are finally over, and what would one say about the two events?  There was both hope and grievance on display. The best quote of the republican convention was Trump saying:  “we can never have a situation where things are going on as they are today”  One party was putting on a picture of what could be and the other glossed over what is…

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Countdown 67 Day Election California 37 days until early voting TRUMP MAGIC     The FDA is under intense pressure to OK the coronavirus vaccines with emergency authorization with pressure coming directly from Trump.  Hann’s organization the FDA is responsible for the issuance of the emergency authorization.  Will Hann buckle under pressure?  The administration has sunk vast resources in the development and manufacture of potential vaccines.   Trump and his cronies and aids are pushing for swift progress and as a…

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