Dan Lipka Web Log

The economic disaster of COVID-19 is being completely masked by a strong DOW and trillions of dollars pumped into the economy by the federal government. The Dow Jones industrial average does not reflect the economy, but only the most successful and largest companies in the world. It does not reflect anything about the millions of small  and medium sized businesses around the country. In fact, during COVID, the largest businesses have thrived because they are getting the business lost by the closures of the smaller businesses. It is said to be the most significant transfer of wealth ever (from small businesses to large ones). But there isn't panic, even though 30 million Americans are unemployed. 30 million! Unemployment benefits (and extra money provided by the Federal Government) only last so long and a disaster is looming.  It is only a matter of time before the lack of wealth, among regular people, will trickle up to the larger companies, causing them to cut back, lay off worker

I believe that, four years ago, Hillary Clinton lost because she choose to embrace the left as opposed to moving to the center. She neglected independent voters because she was overconfident and wanted a presidential mandate to implement very progressive policies. The left did support her, and she got 94% of Democrats to vote for her, but she only got half the votes from Independents. And here is the thing, THERE ARE MORE INDEPENDENTS THAN DEMOCRATS (OR REPUBLICANS).  About 40% of the total population considers themselves Independent.  https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx . Joe Biden may be a centrist Democrats, but he is not acting like it. The Republicans now refer to him as "Joe Biden and the radical socialists" and he is not saying otherwise.  All he needs to say is something like this... "Yes, there are some Democrats that have very liberal ideas, but I am a centrist and so are most Democrats. In the primaries, the Democrats overwhelming choose

 Who lost World War II? Population Germany          Japan      Russia           Jews Before War 69 71 188 9.5 After War 62 68 163 3.5           Died 7 3 25 6 % of Population 10% 4% 13% 63% Note: All population numbers are in millions. Other countries with high percentage of deaths (above 10%) are the eastern European Baltic states. The United States was at .32%. Almost all of the Western European Countries were less than 2%. 

Just a little thing that I noticed, but I've seen a pattern that foxnews.com does not add the option to comment on articles that do not fit into their overall political narrative. For example, today they wrote a somewhat objective article on the police shooting of Jacob Blake, but no place to comment. https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-involved-shooting-in-wisconsin-prompts-violent-protest-report Interestingly, another article on foxnews.com about the rioting/protests that followed the shooting did include a place for comments (there were over 10K comments in a short period of time). https://www.foxnews.com/us/kenosha-car-dealership-riot-protest  

As I previous wrote, you can be sure that if Donald Trump accuses someone else of something bad, it is probably something that he was already doing first. For years, he had been attacking the integrity of the voting system and widespread voter fraud. Yet, nobody realized that he is probably trying to execute his own plan to do whatever it takes (including voter fraud) to win re-election. This is 100% consistent with his past actions and personality. To further increase the odds that he will solicit massive voter fraud is that it is a win-win for him and Republicans. If this effort is not caught, than there could be thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of illegal voters for Trump. But if it is caught, that will validate Trump's case that there is massive voter fraud and that elections cannot be trusted. It would also further Republican's efforts to make it harder for people to vote. Furthermore, is there is fraud, Biden will sue and demand action, which at that point would lead t