Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "TheDC Shorts" channel.

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  8.  One Word  Did you actually look at the date of the poll? It's from January 31 of this year. Trump's approval ratings were at near record highs with our strong economy and increasing opportunities for black workers in general. The numbers have slid since then, as would be expected, with approval ratings now about 35%. You have to be careful of using Rasmussen numbers as being indicative of the election results as well. They only poll respondents who say they are "likely voters" in the next election. In other words, people like you and me, and our opposite numbers in the Democratic Party. Democrat likely voters will never vote for Trump, the same as Republican likely voters will never vote for Biden. The results leave out the 8% to 10% of people who are undecided, and they will be the ones who swing the election, just as they did in 2016. Those undecideds, when looking at other polls that don't asks the likely voter question, are generally less approving of Trump, and black are usually in the 20% to 25% range. I'm well aware of the Leave movement among blacks, but how many votes they really add for Trump are a big question mark now. While I hope those voters line up on the Trump side again, a collapsing economy won't help matters. How much it may hurt is an unknown now since we're too far away from the election, and how much improvement or, God forbid, even deterioration from where we are today is also an unknown. I'm hoping the Republican party is working on spending a lot of time, money, and effort on influencing those undecided voters because we'll desperately need them to win.
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  33. Go look up the Hong Kong flu of 1968 if you want to see a real pandemic. It was my first year as a respiratory therapist. We had patients lined up in cots in the hallways of my 400 bed hospital and 5-10 people a day were dying. I was working 13 hour shifts seven days a week. about 100,000 people dies in the US and somewhere between a million to five million worldwide. You want to know how we handled it? We didn't do anything more than treat it as a little worse than normal flu, and here's why - Said an Associated Press report on Dec. 27, 1968: “Deaths attributed to the Hong Kong flu more than doubled across the nation in the third week of December. ... Official figures for the week showed roughly 500 more ‘pneumonia-influenced’ deaths recorded in 122 cities.” The story ran on page 24. Hong Kong flu eventually would kill 100,000 people in the United States. The media wasn't a 24/7 affair then, there was a war in Vietnam, and there was a Democrat in office that wouldn't be helped by stories about this pandemic. What little was reported was downplayed because we we didn't have a president roundly hated by the media. It was a much worse flu than COVID-19, and it killed a lot of people, but, just like today, the vast majority that got it felt like crap for a week, got over it, and, unlike today, life went on. What's happned today is leftists are using a pandemic to create waves of hysteria and panic aided by a willing media for only one reason - to unseat conservatives like Trump and Boris Johnson. If the US President was a Democrat named Johnson and the UK Prime Minister was a Labourite named Harold Macmillan, this would all look very different.
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