People send me stuff. I got Facebook messages this past weekend inviting me to “like” both Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s pages. What I found most interesting was the HUGE disparity in likes and followers, and I thought it worth noting here.
See the highlights in the screencaps below:
Trump has 28,449,428 likes, with 30,249,329 followers, while Biden has 2,182,873 likes and 2,383,321 followers.
That’s greater than a 10 to 1 ratio in likes and followers between the two candidates. While there’s certainly nothing scientific about Facebook, the numbers themselves fly in the face of all these recent news polls that show Biden leading by widened margins in key states.
I think it’s more likely that conservatives simply don’t engage in polls, resulting in left-skew, just like in 2016.
Hopefully, Mr. Trump will win, and keep us out the madness that is (was) the Paris Climate Accord as he did not long after taking office.
And, thanks Mr. President, for reading WUWT:
The Democrats will not allow debates to take place.
The commenters have presented a lot of reasons why Joe Biden should not be president, but there is one reason not to elect him that towers over the rest: Joe Biden is a traitor to his country.
The Obama administration, with Joe actively involved, tried to rig the 2016 election, and when that didn’t work, they took a course of action to undermine the new Trump administration using the full power of the federal government against Trump.
Joe Biden and the rest of the criminals in the Obama administration tried to undermine the U.S. Constitution and the presidential vote and they all deserve to be marched off to jail for their criminality.
To allow this bunch of criminals back in the White House would be the heighth of stupidity. They would just resume their illegal activities and find a way to take our country away from us by rigging all future elections.
No, we don’t want a traitor and a criminal running the United States again. This is all Sean Hannity should be talking about. Forget Biden can’t put two sentences together. Concentrate on his treasonous behavior while he was in the White House. That ought to be enough to damn him for good.
True Dat!
He’ll sell this country out to the Chinese Communists in a heart beat.
Good sentiments as always Tom.
It would be nice to think that most of the country still thinks that way. I tend to be a pessimist about the direction of our culture and so sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised.
Your points illustrate some of the many reasons why any Democrat ticket is abhorrent to me.
Unfortunately the DemSoc base is about the ends justifying the means, and most of them have rejected any concept of moral absolutes. They will never be moved by this or even feel a twinge of guilt. To them, Obama did what he could to thwart the Russian takeover of our country. Or if they can’t really bring themselves to believe that, it’s their story, and they’re sticking with it. Every other detail is easily dissolved into that using the powerful solvent of the ends justify the means.
The most hopeful point might be that the 30-50% middle of the electorate who are not partisans, are focused on their lives and their families and friends. They ignore politics and the news most of the time. Maybe when they take a moment to weigh the pros and cons, they are going to decide that the Democrats have gone off the rails.
The Trump campaign should spend a bit of their funds on getting Biden to speak in public. That should clinch it.
A Put-Up Job
Growing evidence that officials involved in the Russia collusion investigation knowingly acted without cause is undermining our governing institutions.
https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/put-job?fbclid=IwAR2yHKgdj2k1PZm2QdlkZBYI9T0ByFboA6adzMoJJfzHNLQU_6t3SEl3FE4
No doubt Trump has more groupies. How that translates on election day is anyone’s guess.
I suspect a lot because of enthusiasm. Even the leftists have noted the “enthusiasm gap” at different times. This trucker has given more money to the Trump campaign than I have ever given to all other political campaigns combined during my life time. In my view, Trump stands between us and a harsh socialism. Between us and the elimination of true capitalism. Between us and and elections rigged for the left forever. Between us and a possible real shooting civil war.
I don’t believe that predicting election outcome is a valuable use of our time, unless we are psychics. Even then, psychics aren’t 100% right.
Having said that, I’ll give the Democrats a free tip on how to win the White House:
Americans have generally common sense views about politics. Keep immigration reasonable, keep illegals out, keep taxes lower, social programs are fine, foreign aid is fine, respect the basic freedoms, do not go into pointless wars, respect religion, radiate optimism. Put up a candidate who loves their country and who promises intelligent balances between military and other spending.
A lot of today’s Trump supporters were Clinton supporters in the 1990s.
Everything in your list of things that the Democrats must do, runs counter to a major plank of the Democrat platform.
it’s inconceivable that any genuine CAGW sceptic would not endorse Trump.
the only leader in the entire world willing to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord.
and such a significant leader at that.
it’s inconceivable that anyone would vote for Joe Biden seriously, no matter how hard the FakeNewsMSM protects him and churns out/or reports on unrepresentative polls, over-sampling Democrats, etc., hoping to manufacture opinion in favour of him. as, indeed they did in 2016 for Hillary.
go Trump. get the vote out, America. much of the world is depending on you.
“If Facebook is any indicator” – Newsflash: It’s not!
“Who would ever take that seriously after this?” Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), told the Nation, referring to the United States’ handling of the pandemic. “This idea of America as this unparalleled and supremely competent global hegemon is over.”
175 days and counting…
The US was never a hegemon, and the only people think it was are just upset because they wanted their country to be one.
Well, it turns out that the Hillary Clinton’s, bought and paid for, Russian Dirty Dossier on Trump, originated at the Leftwing Think Tank, the Brookings Institute, whose head at the time was long-time co-conspirator of the Clinton’s, Strobe Talbot.
So Hillary created a Russian collusion lie about Trump, and Obama and minions used it to try to affect the 2016 presidential election and to undermine the Trump administration after he won. The only one colluding with the Russians were Hillary and the Obama administration.
Btw, Strobe Talbot is a real good buddy of Bill Clinton. At one point in their lives they were talking about the future of the United States, and both agreed that in 100 years there would no longer be a United States. Shocking, wouldn’t you say. That’s the way radical Leftists look at the United States, including Bill Clinton.
If Joe Biden were elected, we would just be putting the Clinton/Obama crime syndicate back in the White House. Only this time, they will correct their mistakes of the past, and will have a very good chance of making Strobe and Bill’s prediction that the U.S. will not longer exist,come true.
Attorney General Bill Barr will be testifying before Congress in a little over an hour (10am ET). It sounds like it’s going to be *very* interesting. The Democrats think they are going to browbeat Barr. Barr will make the Democrats look like the fools they are. I’m going to be watching. Barr will have a lot of interesting, pertinent things to say today about the criminality/treason of Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.
I’m clairvoyant.
The increasingly panic stricken Democrat hierarchy will replace Biden as the nominee.
Biden will not resist as his wife Jill is behind the final push to replace her husband.
If they replace Biden with anyone other than Barry Sanders, the left is going to revolt. They already believe that for the second time the DNC insiders stole the nomination from him.
I thought Barry Sanders retired from the NFL years ago.
Barry Sanders = An exceptionally talented football running back on a level few others reach.
Bernie Sanders = An unremarkable politician who has accomplished nothing.
And in stark contrast to the rioting Democrat mob, who does not donate, Trump has a nationwide army of volunteer fundraisers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/27/exclusive-silent-majority-trump-created-nationwide-army-volunteer-fundraisers/
Another interesting metric is the ‘what’s trending’ app on Dish Network. Fox news is the most watched program at almost any time of day, and if this is localized, Dish still thinks I live in the Bay area.
My daughter pointed out that active Facebook users skew older (more of a GenX+/early GenY channel), and Instagram and SnapChat trend younger.
Here’s data for Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube
Instagram Followers Instagram Posts
Biden 2.8 Million 592
Trump 21.1 Million 5699
Twitter Followers Twitter Posts
Team Biden 0.08 Million 4,800
Team Trump 1.9 Million 24,000
YouTube Subscribers
Biden 98 K
Trump 566 K
Don’t know what or where you got those.
Trump has 84 million Twitter followers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_Twitter_accounts
“Twitter Censors Videos of Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference”
The American people needs a party/White House that can get a single problem solved in real time.
US citizens are dying because of the HCQ lies and Lie campaign. This is not one lie. This is 24/7 pushing of the lie…
This is the big blob media blocking front line doctors, from telling a fact that they personally have observed to be true.
Front line doctors are risking their careers when they say it is fact the HCQ cocktail works and it is a lie that it does not.
In Democratic states Governors have threatened doctors with loss of their license to practice, if they speak up the HCQ treatment cocktail.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/28/twitter-censors-videos-of-doctors-capitol-hill-coronavirus-press-conference-locks-breitbart-account/
Twitter Censors Videos of Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference, Locks Breitbart Account
The HCQ cocktail works and saves lives and reduces organ damage and it appears the HCQ cocktail is the currently best available drug to treat coronal viruses and covid is a coronal virus.
And early use of the HCQ cocktail has been shown to reduce the spreading of covid by drastically reducing virus count
Which is no surprise as there is a 2005 paper, written by the US National Institute of Health, which the head of the FDCC is a director of, that notes that HCQ is an effective early treatment for coronal viruses.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
We report, however, that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells.
These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage.
In addition to the well-known functions of chloroquine such as elevations of endosomal pH, the drug appears to interfere with terminal glycosylation of the cellular receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2.
This may negatively influence the virus-receptor binding and abrogate the infection, with further ramifications by the elevation of vesicular pH, resulting in the inhibition of infection and spread of SARS CoV at clinically admissible concentrations.
Anthony,
This is probably why WUWT got deplatformed. I know that guilt by association is a fallacy but the alignment of climate skepticism with the most corrupt, venal, unpresidential liar ever to slime his way to the US Presidency leaves no room for debate on the scientific issues when they are warranted.
Wait a minute. Bill Clinton served from 1993 to 2001, and Clinton II lost in 2016.
Who’s aligned with whom and when . . . ???
Your vile post fits well with cancel culture. I am holding back a suitable ad hominem, but you do not deserve that level of correction.
I don’t need correction. You are projecting because you are filled with hate
Wow: You’re lack of ability to make a cogent claim is telling. Your need for correction stands.
It really is amazing how devoutly leftists believe the lies they tell each other.
When it comes to liars, even Democrats were amazed at how good a liar Clinton was.
When it comes to venal, nobody can top Obama.
When it comes to corrupt, nobody is within a light year of Lyndon Johnson.
Also only a leftist would consider it just to have someone de-platformed for having the wrong political views.
I didn’t say I agreed with deplatforming. I just said that it was likely to be a reason.
The rest is bigotry and projection on your part.
John A: The denial within your response is akin to how your people are causing the riots. The LEFT-ist mayors and congress people [and you] will not come right out and say, “Please burn and riot, kill cops, throw bricks” But they do what you do, which is fully support, endorse and enable the behavior.
You need to think about the things you say before you post. My lord, just say what you mean and mean what you say…
I do not believe in polls and I do not believe in likes.
What I do believe in is intimidation – as in the intimidation of saying you are conservative and will vote for Trump. And the woke going after you to make sure you lose your job (But then Goya is doing well).
SO while I am not part of likes or follow, polls or non polls (I do not answer phone calls from numbers not in my address book, and I am not part of fakebook or twits-R-us), I am part of the invisible.
That is voting for Trump. I voted for him in 2016 for a single reason. He was not part of the establishment. I did not expect him to do well. He exceeded my wildest expectations. So while 2016 was a vote against the deep state, 2020 is a vote FOR Donald Trump.
There is a fake David Middleton? Or maybe a David Middleton II? Freaky, man.
Donald Trump will win because Joe Biden will lose. What goes on with the Democratic Party? All they had to do was select a likable, credible, competent and reasonably scandal-free candidate who was not also Bernie Sanders and they picked Mr. Biden. Joe Biden is so hopelessly inept that I will be surprised if he hasn’t been replaced as the candidate before September.
Biden, it so happens, is not so scandal free. Think who he was VP for, and who covered for him? The media.
I so hope Kamala Harris is his running mate… It will quell my fear that Obama will run as VP to protect her husband and the media will full on blitz how wonderful that is. Dangerous times we live in.
Michelle Obama is not being considered for VP. And what would she be covering for? Despite the GOP’s best efforts there have been zero indictments of Obama’s Administration but like Hillary Clinton lots and lots of mud thrown and none of it stuck.
By contrast, Trump’s aides and supporters have been indicted numerous times and Trump himself has been caught running a fake University, is banned from running any charity after stealing from a charity that was supposed to benefit children with cancer and was indicted as a co-conspirator with his former lawyer Michael Cohen.
Please explain what “conspiration” that was.
Hint: there is only a conspiration against President Trump, aided by the Justice System.
Since basic rights can be suspended under any pretext now (the flu being a ridiculous pretext), President Trump would be right to suspend the elections until things are cleared up, notably until all the ploters are in jail. That may include most of the FBI top levels, the DOJ and the judicial branch, as well as the entirety of the Dem party. (Just like during WWII, making sure people of Japanese decent couldn’t interfere with the war effort was warranted.)
@niceguy: Sorry I used your comment to respond to J.A.
@ur momisugly John A: You wrote: “Michelle Obama is not being considered for VP. And what would she be covering for?”
You know exactly the answer to your question.
@ur momisugly John A: You wrote: “Despite the GOP’s best efforts there have been zero indictments of Obama’s Administration but like Hillary Clinton lots and lots of mud thrown and none of it stuck.”
I will explain this one, because you are not bright enough to know. The GOP is not indicting anyone. The DOJ is investigating Obama’s cabal. And that no leaks are coming out speaks the integrity of Trump’s DOJ vs the Obama cabal.
That I needed to teach this to you, deserves a thank you. Please, I am begging you to thank me.