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Buzz Lightyear

Buzz Lightyear's Journal
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March 29, 2019

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March 29, 2019

Pennsylvania shocker poll: Buttigieg ahead of Beto and Kamala

Biden leads with 39%, followed by Bernie Sanders with 20%.
Warren is third with 11%. Not a bad poll for her.
Buttigieg with 6%.
Beto and Harris follow.
The best news is that several Democrats Lead Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, including both Biden and Sanders ahead of him by 10%.

Poll conducted fully after the Barr Letter.



http://emersonpolling.com/2019/03/28/pennsylvania-2020-biden-leads-democratic-field-biden-and-sanders-lead-trump-by-10-points-in-general-election/

March 28, 2019

If the Mueller report is not released, Pelosi should move to impeach

When Nancy Pelosi said she was inclined not to impeach Donald Trump, she said it in a context where no evidence of a crime existed yet.

And now, we have a report that may contain the answer to whether Donald Trump obstructed justice.
The house of representatives has the authority to determine whether obstruction of justice occurred.

In the absence of this report, Nancy Pelosi should move to open impeachment hearings against the president of the United States.

March 28, 2019

Donald Trump fails to receive a Barr Letter bump in YouGov poll

Today Donald Trump is at 39% among adults and 42% among registered voters.

He is usually around 40-41% among adults and
between 41 and 46% I’m on the registered voters in this poll.

It is not good news for Trump that all these positive headlines about the Barr letter failed to persuade the public into believing that he is no Putin puppet.

His new attempt to destroy Obamacare cannot be helping him either.

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/2mfom0aqd4/tabs_Trump_Tweets_20190326.pdf

March 27, 2019

Alabama poll: Biden 42%. Sanders 13%. Harris 12%

O'rourke 10%.
Booker +9%.

Conducted March 20-23. LV.
https://docsend.com/view/ursdyec

March 27, 2019

NY Times: Complaints of police abuse against black residents during Cory Booker's Newark tenure


Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker, had swept into office in 2006 pledging a safer city through zero tolerance on crime. And while killings actually rose in his first year, over the next three they fell to historic lows. Yet grievances against the police were piling up in the city’s black wards, with allegations of racial profiling, unlawful stops and excessive force. The A.C.L.U. and local activists pressed for reforms, complaining about pushback from Mr. Booker, whose administration was promoting the plunging homicide rate.
And when the A.C.L.U. finally went public with its plea to the Justice Department, the mayor went on WNYC radio, telling an interviewer that the petition was “one of the worst ways” to bring about meaningful change. “We don’t need people who are going to frustrate, undermine and mischaracterize our agency,” he added.



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Ultimately, the Justice Department intervened at the A.C.L.U.’s request and Mr. Booker came around, calling the investigation a “win-win” for the city. That inquiry would document a pattern of unconstitutional behavior by the Newark police: Three-quarters of pedestrian stops failed to meet the legal criteria, and blacks were at least 2.5 times more likely than whites to be stopped or arrested. The police department remains under a Justice Department consent decree.


More: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/us/politics/cory-booker-newark.html
March 27, 2019

Proposal: We paint Trump as betraying the Venezuelan opposition

This is a good opportunity to get the votes of Cuban and Venezuelan exiles and immigrants in Florida.
Reports say that Russia just put 100 troops inside Venezuela.
Being the Putin puppet that he is, Donald Trump will probably do nothing about this.
This will in turn upset Venezuelan immigrants and there a Cuban friends, and they will be much less likely to vote for Donald Trump.

Unless Donald Trump finds a way to kick those Russians out of Venezuela, which I highly doubt.

March 27, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn (Bernie's "UK alter-ego") at 18% favorability (71% unfavorable)

Jeremy Corbyn’s favourability with the public is lower still, with 18 per cent of people surveyed holding a favourable view of him, compared to nearly four times that number (71 per cent) who have an unfavourable view."

https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/25/corbyn-may-less-popular-ever-9013839/

Less than two years ago, Sanders praised Corbyn for sharing his goals and views. This is an exchange between Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn:

"What has impressed me -- and there is a real similarity between what he has done and what I have done -- he has taken on the establishment of the Labour party and gone to the grassroots. And he has tried to transform that party and take on a lot of establishment opposition.

"That is exactly what's taking place in the United States and what I'm trying to do with the Democratic Party," he continued.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/07/13/britains-corbyn-i-got-my-ideas-from-bernie-sanders/

This CNN article calls Corbyn the Sanders "UK alter ego":

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/world/bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn-election/index.html

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