Online Public Relations Thoughts

 A fool and his money are soon parted.

If only the public sector had control over falsehoods as science appears to have. 

Trump is testing the loyalties of Republican Senators with this pick.  If he gets it through, he will have proven that the senators are lackeys of the White House -- a strong message to out-of-power Democrats.

President Biden welcomed President-elect Trump to the White House yesterday and spent two hours with him discussing national and international issues.  Biden wants to ensure a smooth transition to a man he intensely dislikes.  While the visit was in the tradition of the peaceful transfer of power, Biden might be whistling in the dark over the outcome, especially if Trump is seeking vengeance for his loss to the president in 2020.  Trump's radical appointments point in that direction.  There is little Biden can do unless he takes similar illegal steps that Trump used on Jan.6, 2021.  And, he won't do that.  Biden is a study in tragedy -- a competent president who is too old to remain in office.  It's clear now that he would have lost to Trump even if he did run and did not turn the campaign over to Harris.  Now in his declining years, he will have to watch Trump undo much of what he has accomplished.  Sad.

California growers are sending a message to President Trump about undocumented workers.  Do you really mean it?  Up to 70 percent of field workers in the state are undocumented and wholesale raids to round them up could destroy the state's agricultural production.  There aren't many Americans who would undertake such exhausting labor. They don't last in the fields while the Mexicans do. Reality is setting in for the new administration.  

The Army's response to a lack of recruits has been to establish a preparation program for individuals who would otherwise wash out intellectually and/or physically.  So far it seems to be working but it is too early to tell how these soldiers will act in the field once out of training.  i recall during my Vietnam days the Army was drafting unfit individuals because it was scraping the bottom of the barrel to find soldiers.  Basic training was difficult for the recruits as well as the drill sergeants who had to boot them through.  It was unclear how they responded once they reached the front, but the morale of the Army was rock-bottom low then and far from the all-volunteer professionalism of today. If the recruits of today work out, kudos to the army.  If not, the it is risking its preparedness. 

The analysis is in.  Trump won more voters without college degrees than Harris.  These are the very people whom inflation has devastated over the last four years and whose income has not kept up.  They were sending a message to Democrats.  You have forgotten us in your coalition of well educated citizens. Have the Democrats heard it?

This is the concession speech that former President Trump should have given four years ago, but didn't.  Now Americans will have to endure triumphalism and boasting for four more years.  It could be worse and it still might be.