Media treatment of Trump vs Hillary:
* Worked for a Japanese company. Still deal with Japanese customers.suppliers, banks. They are genuinely negative on Trump which is understandable, as his rhetoric calls out inherent bias of Japanese US trade deals. But ironic that even though Trump rhetoric and immigration proposals are considered “extreme” by RightThinking People, Inc., trump’s views are to the left of Japan’s current immigration policy.
It’s hard to treat Japanese views credibly. It’s all “for me , but not for thee” hypocrisy. Japanese people say to me, “we should open up our immigration system”. They jest (lie), of course. They are so dang polite, its impossible for me to call out their bs.
Seems that Japan is resigned to take their lumps from terrible demographics with high taxes , slow economic growth, piddling bond and stock returns, inefficient markets (job, rice, agriculture), turbulent yen exchange rate, etc. But poisoning the demographic well is an absolute non starter for Japanese. I admire their collective decision.
Why doesn’t Trump play this “see what our allies do” card more? Trump should say….
“I want the same immigration policy as our crucial allies Japan, S. Korea , Israel. Are you saying our friends in those great countries are racist ????”
By the way Steve. That video is perfect example of peculiar Japanese infantile pop culture. Quite gay actually. I can never treat a Japanese colleague seriously after he comes to work with a hello Kitty iPhone case….
* Great video!
Trump’s numbers look like they’re tanking.
I don’t want to fall into a trap of saying the polls are wrong. But a post-Orlando slide seems really odd to me. Even Steve was calling it Trump’s luck again.
The left’s rhetoric has been transparently bad, while Trump’s responses were spot on, in my opinion.
Obama was clearly rattled by Trump, but he did score some good points. Trump replies that Obama was more mad at him than the shooter. Perfect.
Then a poll says only 25% approved of Trumps response to Orlando, but then another poll found that 50% support the Muslim ban. Go figure.