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Donald Trump Evaluation

08/12/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Donald Trump is allegedly all of the following:

  • Lacks intelligence.
  • Con artist
  • Fraud
  • Ignorant
  • Lies constantly.
  • Racist
  • Trump is an autocrat.
  • Trump is a traitor.
  • List of criminal charges against Donald Trump.
  • Donald Trump killed 400,000 (or more) Americans.
  • Trump is self centered, only concerned about himself. (book:  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump …)
  • Trump may be in a psychotic spiral. (Bandy X Lee MD).  (book:  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump …)
  • Trump exhibits arrested development. (Bandy X Lee MD)  (book:  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump …)

Trump’s political plans:

  • Trump supports the plutocracy.
  • Plutocrats are normally autocratic.  They are concerned about themselves.
  • Trump is still running for the presidency so he can stay out of jail.

 

The problem is many Americans fail to analyze properly, to calculate the positive and negative issues to vote with intelligence.

The Financial Times did an article “What makes Donald Trump irresistible”. 

They call it “the Trump factor”.  

Following is a list of factors;

  1.  Grit
  2. Spectacle
  3. Nostalgia
  4. Faith
  5. Economics

Note how the Financial Times, above, list contrasts shockingly with his significant list of negatives at the beginning of this article.

The Financial Times article seems to reveal the utter lack of many Americans to properly evaluate the many factors associated with  the large number of personal detriments vs attributes of Donald Trump.

Properly Done: One would hope that each American citizen would take note of all positive and negative aspects of Donald Trump and place a value on each and then come up with a plus or negative TOTAL result.  Instead, the Financial Times article seems to reveal incredibly simple minded, flawed, approach by many Americans.  This apparent lack of conducting a good analysis by many Americans may lead to the ruin of the United States!

 

RECOMMENDED READING:

  • The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President – Updated and Expanded with New Essays Hardcover – March 19, 2019. by Bandy X. Lee (Author), Jeffrey Sachs (Foreword), Robert Jay Lifton (Contributor), Gail Sheehy (Contributor), & 37 more
  • Few Americans Express Positive Views of Trump’s Conduct in Office.  PEW RESEARCH CENTER, (80% of the public describes Trump as ‘self-centered’)

  • AMAZON list of books about Donald Trump.
  • Financial Times, What makes Donald Trump irresistible

 

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Posted 8-12-2024
More content added:  8-13-2024; 8-16-2024

Posted by Score Card


Commentary, Federal Government, News, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Donald Trump, List Trump's failings, PEW RESEARCH CENTER, The Financial Times
Quality Information Sources Revealing Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump.

Quality Information Sources Revealing Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump.

07/11/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

WEBSITE:   American Civil Liberties Union

How Donald Trump’s Election Lies and Other Anti-Voter Policies Will Continue to Impact Our Democracy

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BOOK:  The Top 300 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Vote for Donald Trump: (even if you are a lifelong Republican)  Amazon Paperback – September 29, 2020

by Greg Geisler (Author)

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WEBSITE: Common Cause

Donald Trump Should be Disqualified

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WEBSITE:   LANCASTERONLINE

Why evangelical Christians should not vote for Trump

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POSTED: 7/11/2024
Updated: 7/12/2024

POSTED BY: Score Card


Book Reviews, Book Stores, Books, Commentary, Legal & Law, News, Opinion, Politics, Survival, TOP STORY, United States of America, US Government
Donald Trump a criminal?, Donald Trump as a mob boss, Donald Trump is a criminal., Donald Trump is a felon., Donald Trump is a traitor
A Rather Long List Of Reasons Not To Vote For Trump

A Rather Long List Of Reasons Not To Vote For Trump

07/07/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

The following list of reasons to not vote for Trump was pulled out of a single website article, listed next.

The full list of 100 reasons to vote NO on Trump

When I came across this website article, and I reasoned that I could not do any better.  So I picked out only some items that I felt had good reasons, valid and punch.

Please help protect the United States to remain a Democracy!   Vote Democratic.
Following is a long list of alleged reasons why Trump is unfit to be president:

  • “A major league narcissist, probably a sociopath …”
  • Some “seeing him as a megalomaniac.”
  • “Some see him as delusional,…”
  • “ His position on health care reform is so vapid that it amounts to gibberish.”
  • “He is the definition of inconsistency.”
  • “ A loose cannon, who throws out outrageous positions.”
  • “Specializing in personal attacks, he insults and demeans.”
  • Trump “has a language deficit and a limited vocabulary. Some experts put his language at 6th grade level.  He specializes in incomplete sentences.”
  • “His combination of tax cuts and spending proposals would sharply increase the federal debt.”
  • “ His focus is always on doing whatever it takes to win, not on doing the right thing.”
  • “ He has disrespected multiple women in a coarse manner.”
  • “With disapproval ratings of nearly 70% of the overall electorate, he will a hard time being elected president.”
  • “He blurted in a debate that he would condone torture of terrorist suspects and the killing of their family members, both violations of international law.”
  • “Trump has trouble with math.”
  • “Trump called the North Atlanta Treaty Organization (NATO) “obsolete”.
  • “Trump uses mockery as a standard form of insult.”
  • “When he makes a big goof, he doesn’t correct it.”
  • “Some of his statements are so absurd…”
  • “ He wants to be unpredictable…”
  • “He is self-destructive.”
  • “His facts are so off as to be absurd.”
  • “He confuses reality and image…”
  • “Trump cheats at golf, big time.”
  • “His flip-flps on issues keeps growing in number.”
  • “Whether he fully intends it or not, his campaign brings out the dark side of the American electorate,…”
  • “He is sketchy on conservation and the environment.”
  • “He fear mongers on alleged American weaknesses and vulnerabilities and uses McCarthyism tactics to smear his opponents.”
  •  “Trump’s “attention span was so limited that it is impossible to discuss problems with him in any detail.”
  • “Trump is uncoachable.”
  • “Trump’s attention span is so short that it left him with “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.”
  • ““I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes, there is an excellent possibility that it will lead to the end of civilization.”
  • “None of the 45 economists who have advised the past eight presidents, Republican and Democrat, support Trump.” “… things could be worse. And I fear they would be under Mr. Trump.”
  • “Grossly under-prepared for the critical debate, he broke all the rules, interrupting and overriding his opponent and moderator repeatedly. His disorderly mind caused him to miss the point of questions. In short, he covers up for an undisciplined mind with bluster, repetition and theatrics.”
  • “He is oblivious to the truth”

(Keep your No-Trump reasons coming to me at this website or to [email protected].)

The full list of 100 reasons to vote NO on Trump

 

Posted 7/7/2024.   Posted by Score Card


Commentary, News, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Donald Trump, John Torinus, Reasons not to vote for Trump
Sheer Curtains Are Not Understood As Their Impact Upon Airflow And Cooling Your House.

Sheer Curtains Are Not Understood As Their Impact Upon Airflow And Cooling Your House.

07/05/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Our house uses sheer drapes to cover most of our windows which are mounted on runners that are mounted above the window and close to each window.  Some times they are used with another heavy fabric curtain which are mounted on runners on the insides of each window and seldom closed.  The heavy side drapes are visually pleasing to look at like putting a border on each side of each window and the sheer drapes fill in the middle.  My wife loves to close the thin inside sheer curtains to totally cover the windows, even during the summer.  Here is the problem this creates.  Sheer drapes lets quite a lot of light through but blocks airflow.  It is my belief that sheer drapes will impede air flow to the degree the sheer fabric is tightly or loosely made.  The proof is simple.  Any breeze flowing through a window that has sheer drapes will move out of the way.  If you want to cool your house at night pull all the drapes away from the window opening including the sheer.  My wife does not like to do that so my trick is to take the two ends of the left and right sheet and butt them together in the center.  When there is no wind flow then the sheer drapes close.  But if there is any outside airflow into the room, the two independent sheer drapes will separate because they have been MOVED apart at the middle of the window by the outside airflow.  The obvious down side to this method is when there is any breeze that moves the sheer drapes apart, people could see into that room.

 

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Posted 7-5-2024
Posted by: Score Card.


Drapes & Curtains (including sheer), Home Improvement
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News Sources Evaluated. (This web page may be expand as new information is revealed to the blogger.)

News Sources Evaluated. (This web page may be expand as new information is revealed to the blogger.)

06/29/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

When I started researching news sources I was surprised to find a number of web sites that presented large page boxes showing where major sources fit within their box according to horizontal and vertical criteria – rather clever!  You can view some different website boxes next.

WEBSITES THAT REVIEW NEWS SOURCES.  THE RESULTS ARE SHOWN IN PART BY SHOWING YOU GRAPHICAL BOXES – CLEVER:

  • AllSides Media Bias Chart
    https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
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  • News Media Across the Political Spectrum
    https://guides.library.harvard.edu/newsleans/thechart
    This chart is way more expansive and inclusive than AllSides.
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  • The Media Bias Chart ®
    https:///goshencountysd/GCSDLib/HSchools/Media-Bias-Chart-7.0_January-2021-Licensed-Copy-kqpxtc.pdf

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  • “Fake News,” Lies and Propaganda: How to Sort Fact from Fiction
    https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444

    This graphic box, is very limited in the number of news sources it shows but interesting.

 

SELECTED NEWS SOURCES:

  • MSNBC. “MSNBC is a news and political commentary organization that has been the focus of several controversies. It has been accused by academics, media figures, political figures, and watchdog groups of having various biases in their news coverage as well as more general views of a liberal bias. Most of these controversies took place during the 2008–2015 era.” Wikipedia. MSNBC is Score Card’s favorite evening new show because it is dedicated to protecting Democracy and thus not supporting Donald Trump

 

RECOMMEND PODCASTS:
The following list of podcasts does NOT come from any independent source but from this blogger, Score Card.  There are so many podcasts that it is hard to make recommendations based on independent reviews.

  • Background Briefing.
    https://www.backgroundbriefing.org/
    With Ian Masters who is a champion for continued Democracy.  This is Score Card’s #1 podcast because Ian Masters highly values Democracy and is working hard to keep it that way!
  • The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.  https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word
  • All In with Chris Hayes.  https://www.msnbc.com/all
  • The Rachel Maddow Show. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

 

NOT RECOMMEND AND ALLEGEDLY FLAWED NEWS SOURCES:

  • FOX NEWS.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News
    “Fox News has been characterized as a propaganda outlet. Its coverage has included biased reporting in favor of the Republican Party, its politicians, and conservative causes, while portraying the Democratic Party in a negative light.  Critics have argued that the channel is damaging to the integrity of news overall.[“. Wikipedia
  • SINCLAIR BROADCASTING GROUP
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

    “The company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations.”
    “The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported “fake news” in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC.”
  • TRUTH SOCIAL
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social

    “Owned by 
    Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American media and technology company majority-owned by former U.S. president Donald Trump.”
    “Use by right-wing extremists”.  ” Noah Berlatsky, writing for The Independent, described it as a “potential threat to democracy”

Truth Social has been described as an alt-tech[4][5][6] social media platform. Such platforms are popular among the alt-right, far-right, and others who espouse extremism or fringe theories, often because they employ less stringent content moderation than mainstream platforms.”

Review by FORBES John Brandon, Senior Contributor. “I Finally Tested Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ App And Here’s What I Discovered:  it’s essentially Twitter for conservatives, my one big surprise is that it appears to be an app designed to promote a future Trump campaign.”

 

NEWS BIAS STUDIES:

Knight Foundation study

“PERCEIVED ACCURACY AND BIAS IN THE NEWS MEDIA”

Are news organizations biased such that they promote an outcome that their customers should buy into?  This study definitely proves that this IS the case!  This study seems to say that each individual who has a political bias then views each news sources as biased to follow their political group.

https://knightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/KnightFoundation_AccuracyandBias_Report_FINAL.pdf (38 pages)

This study really covers how different groups of individuals who fall within a group of right vs left viewpoints believe each news organization is biased in a direction that their group believes..  And, gosh the differences are revealing!  Below is only one example of the study’s presentation.

EXAMPLE:

    • DEMOCRATS RATED MOST OF THE MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS AS BEING ACCURATE, EXCEPT FOR FOX NEWS AND BREITBART NEWS.
    • REPUBLICANS RATED MOST OF THE MAJOR NEWS ORGANIZATIONS AS INACCURATE, EXCEPT FOR FOX NEWS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND BREITBART NEWS

This might help explain why the support for President Biden and Donald Trump is so close to being equal.  Truth fails to prevail because too many Americas fail to understand what the truth is and maybe fail to value truth.

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POSTED JUNE 29, 2024
POSTED BY: Score Card


Internet Sites, News, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
All In, AllSides, Background Briefing, Fox "News", Knight Foundation, MSNBC, news sources evaluated, SINCLAIR BROADCASTING GROUP, The Last Word, The Rachel Maddow Show, TRUTH SOCIAL
Trump Is Not Qualified

Trump Is Not Qualified

06/24/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

I researched why Donald Trump might not be qualified to be the next president of the United States.  This blog article offers the reader some solid proof that Trump is not qualified.  There is quite a long list of web sites covering this issue.  I was first impressed with a USNEWS article, which I believe changed their original article.

Not Qualified to Be President

Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee but is not presidential material.

For some reason, the article may have changed from just being a list that I copied and used to a more politically safe article.  I then used the Bulwork article shown below to provide you, the reader, a list view.

100 Reasons Trump Is Unfit to Be President  A timeline of Trump outrages. 

Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

 

I decided to pick only items that I wished to include in this blog piece that I got from the USNEWS article.  They are shown/listed below.  I then added web site pages under each claim made against Trump that attempted to prove each claim.  And, let me tell you, for each listed item you can find a LOT of support for that viewpoint!

 

  • “lack of experience”

    Donald Trump is the only US president ever with no political or military experience

     

  • “terrible temperament”

    Trump’s temperament has become his own worst enemy

     

  • “serial lying”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/01/president-trump-made-19127-false-or-misleading-claims-1226-days/

 

  • “insane policy proposals”

    Trump’s Tariff Would Cost the Typical American Household Roughly $1,500 Each Year

  • “Trump is the crass misogynist who insults women, over and over.”

Our President Has Always Degraded Women — And We’ve Always Let Him

  • “Trump does not care how outrageous his statements or policy suggestions are because he is channeling the country’s anger, not their common sense.”

‘No Blame?’ ABC News finds 54 cases invoking ‘Trump’ in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.

  • “insults he has thrown at his opponents and their families like a school yard bully. If you did this in the workplace you would be fired.”

The 598 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List

  • “He would be clueless when entering the Oval Office, who has spent zero time thinking about the substance of governing, who knows nothing about what he would confront his first day in office.”

Trump’s Clueless Abdication of Presidential Responsibility

  • “At the end of the day, this is the dumbing down of American politics.”

Donald Trump and the dumbing of America

  • “the debasement of our democracy”

Donald Trump’s Debasement of American Democracy

  • “the unraveling of not only the Republican Party but what we have, for over two centuries, called leadership.”

The Fall of Trump: Unraveling the Fabric of the Republican Party

 

  • Donald Trump is not qualified to be president

Donald Trump Should be Disqualified

 

  • “he has neither the knowledge nor the temperament to fill that office.”

Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president

  • “His views are dangerous, destructive and demeaning.”

Trump’s racist policies have been even worse than we feared

  • “There is no other way to put it: Donald Trump would be a disaster as president. There would be absolutely nothing “great” about his presidency.”

A 2nd Trump presidency would be a disaster for America. And it might not end there.

 

SUMMARY: “Donald Trump is not qualified to be president, he has neither the knowledge nor the temperament to fill that office. His views are dangerous, destructive and demeaning. There is no other way to put it: Donald Trump would be a disaster as president. There would be absolutely nothing “great” about his presidency.”

 

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Posted: June 24, 2024
Updated: June 25, 2024
Posted by: Score Card


Federal Government, Politics, Survival, United States of America, US Government, Warnings
Donald Trump a failure, Donald Trump as a mob boss, Donald Trump lies, Problem with Donald Trump, Trump not qualified

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