WASHINGTON, D.C. — Immigration has risen to the top of the list when Americans are asked to name the most important problem facing the nation — edging out the government, which has been the top issue each month since January 2017. The 22% of Americans in July who say immigration is the top problem is up from 14% in June and is the highest percentage naming that issue in Gallup’s history of asking the “most important problem” question. The previous high had been 19%.
But oh my gosh, what about Russia?
Once the press conference furore was over, the poop hit the fan as the left-leaning world attempted to out-signal one another’s virtue as to the “treasonous”, “surrender” that had occurred.
The internet, especially Facebook where idiots and morons come post unwitty memes, became ‘full’ of “Trump” and “Treason” chatter – more so even than when he joked in July 2016 about Russia having Hillary’s missing 30,000 emails.
Once again – the “Russia, Russia, Russia” cries drowned out any sane discussion of the end of cold war 2.0 started by Hillary and Obama, Syria, the economy and Israel (Jerusalem).
Despite Democrats’ unending focus on Russia and the media’s constant collusion chatter: few Americans care, because they have jobs to do, work to do, families to care for…and they just might want to have fun. You have wonder what kind of loser dolts are really that obsessed with Donald Trump? Go figure.
As the latest survey from Gallup shows: when asked what the most important problem facing the nation is, Russia did not even warrant a 1% – and worse still, it is declining in importance from there:
As David Sirota noted, “Gallup recently did a poll of what Americans say is the most important problem facing the country. One finding: the percentage of Americans saying “Situation with Russia” is the most important problem is literally too small to represent with a number. ”
So with all that energy expended on the Russia collusion deal, let alone former FBI Director Comey’s insistence that ‘anyone voting Republican is anti-American’. But, we are reminded of what James Carvell said during the Clinton campaign, it’s all about the economey. Steve Bannon summed it up at CNBC’s “Delivering Alpha” conference: The Democrats abandoned the American worker.
LOL, Wayne, if you are going to report something why don’t you report on the whole article? The poll was taken on July 11th. before the summit. https://www.dailywire.com/news/33279/gallup-polls-show-americans-couldnt-care-less-joseph-curl
I guess this could be defined as fake news, by the omission of certain facts. What you are reporting is not necessarily wrong, its just deceitful. Maybe this article should have been held until the next poll
Note: C’mon man! Of course, the poll may change…when the new one is released NEXT month. Really?
If you think there will be a significant change in that number AFTER the summit, you’re mistaken. Well, maybe it’ll double to a whole percent. If the news media was ever consumer driven, it isn’t now. What they’re reporting doesn’t represent what people are interested in. It represents the agenda they want to push. And repetitively hammering people with stuff they don’t care about isn’t going to make them care more. It’s going to make them tune out.
Well stated!
Obviously Wayne, then what is the sense of this article??? Where you prepared to follow up on this article?
See what I’m getting at, Wayne?
Note: Of course! And we’ll do it just for you.
This article is entirely consistent with my experience of people’s opinions, even after this summit which really was very much a non-event, despite all the hype about it by the inside-the-beltway crowd.
Nobody care about the Russians.
HO-HUM, a great big nothing burger!
Consider, for example, the New York Times story “Time to Sell Penthouse. The Russians Have Cash” by Alexei Barrionuevo on April 3, 2012:
More than 200 real estate brokers and lawyers, many of them among the most ambitious in the Manhattan real estate world, filed into an Off Broadway theater last month for three hours.
The subject of the gathering was not art, but money: specifically, how to sell multimillion-dollar properties to clients from Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe.
While the brokers sipped wine and nibbled cheese, a panel of lawyers and a banker reviewed some of the biggest sales made to Russians, including the $188 million spent on properties in Florida and New York by trusts linked to Dmitry Rybolovlev, who made billions from potash fertilizer; the $48 million that a composer, Igor Krutoy, paid for an apartment at the Plaza Hotel; and the $37 million spent by Andrei Vavilov, a former deputy finance minister, on a penthouse at the Time Warner Center.
The real estate market in the United States may still be slumping, but its high end is enjoying a remarkable updraft, propelled by money flowing in from all corners of the globe, including from developing countries like Brazil, China and India.
But no group is consistently writing bigger checks than the Russians.
Over the past four years, Russians and other citizens of the former Soviet Union have signed contracts to buy more than $1 billion worth of residential real estate in the United States, according to estimates from lawyers and brokers.
The spending spree may just be warming up, given that $84 billion left Russia last year, with the Russian government estimating that up to 5 percent of that capital flight was being plowed into American real estate.
The number of billionaires in Russia and Ukraine has more than tripled since 2009, to 104, according to Forbes.
“The fact that everybody recognizes that the high end of the market right now is controlled by that buyer is definitely driving that interest,” said Edward A. Mermelstein, a lawyer with Rheem Bell & Mermelstein, which helped organize the seminar last month.
Jill Sloane, a broker with Halstead Property, said, “Everyone knows they are the ones with the big money right now.”
She added that when she heard that the penthouse at 15 Central Park West had sold for $88 million, “I knew it had to be a Russian.”
Many of the Russians seem determined to make names for themselves as conspicuous consumers.
After buying trophy apartments and houses, they often pour tens of millions of dollars more into remodeling projects by brand-name interior designers like Jacques Grange.
They also collect rare art and commission one-of-a-kind yachts.
Mr. Rybolovlev, worth an estimated $9 billion, has been involved in two of the biggest sales.
In 2008, a trust linked to him bought a 69,000-square-foot oceanfront home from Donald Trump for about $100 million — then a record in the United States.
In February, a trust linked to his eldest daughter, Ekaterina, 22, bought a four-bedroom penthouse at 15 Central Park West from the former Citigroup chairman Sanford I. Weill for $88 million — the most ever paid for an apartment in New York City.
Russian buyers usually know what they want — Central Park views in modern, full-service buildings with on-call concierge service are high priorities — but typically end up spending twice their original budget, said Jacky Teplitzky, a broker with Prudential Douglas Elliman.
A number of wealthy Russians are making an impression on the New York night-life scene, too.
They frequent the Japanese restaurant Nobu and drink at the Standard Hotel in the meatpacking district, brokers said.
Many are in their 30s and 40s.
They are obsessive about keeping in shape and are often seen with a series of female companions, Ms. Teplitzky said.
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Now, that is objective reality – the Russians are in this country because we want their money and quite truthfully, they like our democracy, which lets them live better over here than an ordinary American citizen.
People therefore think it is horse**** that the same Russians want to steal our democracy and take away our birthdays and destroy our way of life, which is what they are spending those big bucks to enjoy.
Then, by way of comparison, we have the NBC News story “Nielsen: ‘Foolish’ to think Russia isn’t still meddling in U.S. elections” by Julia Ainsley on 19 July 2018, as follows:
When pressed to say explicitly whether Russia favored Trump and Republicans in its influence campaign and in its hacking of Democratic party emails, Nielsen only said she agreed with the assessment of the Intelligence Community.
“Russia was absolutely attempting to interfere in our election systems,” said Nielsen.
Nielsen, however, said “it would be foolish” to think Russia is not still interfering with the U.S. electoral system.
“They have the capability, they have the will.”
“We’ve got to be prepared,” she said.
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THE SKY IS FALLING said Chicken Little.
And then there is the AP story “FBI Director Wray says Russia continues to sow discord in US” by Deb Riechmann and Desmond Butler on 19 July 2018, to wit:
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that Russia continues to use fake news, propaganda and covert operations to “spin up” Americans on both sides of hot-button issues to sow discord in the United States.
Wray stood behind the intelligence agencies’ assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election, dismissing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that his country was not involved.
“He’s got his view.”
“I can tell you what my view is,” Wray said at the opening event of the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
“The intelligence community’s view has not changed.”
“My view has not changed.”
“Russia continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day,” Wray said.
He said that while U.S. officials have not yet seen an effort by Russia to target specific election systems, it is aggressively engaged in influence operations to sow discord and divisiveness in America.
“To me, it’s a threat that we need to take very serious and respond to with fierce determination,” Wray said.
He said the Russians identify divisive issues, and through covert and overt operations, fake news and propaganda, they “spin people up on both sides of an issue and then kind of watch us go after each other.”
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How very weak that sounds, and people have trouble reconciling the actual fact that if the Russians really want to take over the United States, all they have to do is to buy it, since it is for sale to the highest bidders, who are often the Russians., with all this fear-mongering coming at us from the inside-the-beltway crowd who seem to be paralyzed with fear of the Russians.
HO ******* HUM!
The word ‘Russian’ is not working for them any more that the word ‘Racist’ did.
WOLF!!!!! WOLF!!!!!!!!!!! WOLF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen, and then some.
There is a real irony here, hearing the Democrats trying to jam “RUSSIAN FEVER” down our throats, because the American people did not want Hillary Clinton as president.
While we hear all this mindless screaming about what a big threat to us the Russians are because the Democrats and Hillary Clinton were stupid enough to let the Russians hack their websites, consider the Rasmussen Reports for Tuesday, July 17, 2018, as follows:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 73% of Likely Democratic Voters believe their party should look for a fresh face to run for president in 2020.
As for Clinton, 58% now believe she has been bad for the Democratic Party.
Democrats are closely divided over Clinton’s impact: 33% think she’s been good for their party, but 39% believe she’s been bad for it instead.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans and, more worrisome for Democrats, 63% of voters not affiliated with either major party feel Clinton has been bad for the party.
Only 40% of all voters believe America would be better off today if Clinton had been elected president instead of Trump.
While many Democrats and their allies in Hollywood and the media continue to attack the president in an unprecedented fashion, few voters think Trump-bashing will pay off for his opponents in the next election.
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And that is what this “RUSSIAN FEVER” hype is all about – Trump-bashing.
And here is Leon Panetta’s view of things Russian in a FOX News article by Jennifer Griffin on 27 June 2017, as follows:
Former Obama defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta says perceived “weakness” encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to direct cyber-attacks against the United States and interfere with the 2016 election.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Panetta responded to Washington Post reporting over the weekend that the Obama administration “choked” in response to Russia’s interference, even after the CIA told then-President Barack Obama the meddling was directed by Putin.
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Now, that is a curious set of words there – the Obama administration “choked!”
Why was that, one of course must wonder.
Panetta then goes on as follows:
“I think when [Putin] conducted the cyber-attacks in the United States during the last election, he felt he could get away with it, without any kind of response,” Panetta said.
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Why did Putin, who wanted Obama elected and then re-elected, feel he could get away with hacking the Democrat National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, without any kind of response?
Why aren’t Rosenstein and Mueller giving us any rational answers as to why that would have been, especially based on the testimony of Leon Panetta?
In that Fox article, Panetta said Putin took advantage of perceived American “weakness.”
That was during the administration of Democrat Barack Hussein Obama.
So why are we hearing this is all the fault of Trump, as we did from this same Leon Panetta in the Newsweek article “Former CIA Chief: Russia Must Have Something On Trump” by Harriet Sinclair on 18 July 2018, as follows:
A former CIA director believes the Russians must have a hold over president Donald Trump, given his recent behaviour towards Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Helsinki, Finland.
Speaking in an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday night, Leon Panetta, who served as CIA chief under former President Barack Obama and oversaw operations to take down Osama Bin Laden, suggested Russia must have some information on the president that intimidates him.
“There is no question that there is something here that intimidates the president of the United States,” Panetta told anchor Brian Williams.
“This president basically coddled Mr. Putin and it was clear that he was intimidated by that situation.”
“Whether the Russians have something on this president or not, no one really knows, but the way he behaves, there is a clear signal that the Russians have something on him.”
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Now, in light of Panetta’s comments a tear ago on 27 June 2017, that is partisan horse**** dribbling out of Panetta’s mouth, plain and simple.
So why the change of story?
More to the point, when is this farce ever going to end?
THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING, yeah, right!