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jmfinizio

Trump finishes with worst first term approval rating ever - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Donald Trump's approval rating stands at 33%, while his disapproval is at 60%.
  • 38% approval rating and 59% disapproval rating.
  • It turns out that the insurrection at the US Capitol last week did exactly that.
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  • Heading into January, Trump had a 44% approval rating to 53% disapproval rating. That was not significantly different from his 45% approval rating going into the election.
  • It means Trump will be the first president in the polling era to end his first term with an approval of below 40%
  • He has certainly made Republican lawmakers less leery of distancing themselves from him.
  • Before Trump, the previous lowest approval rating for a president at the end of his term belonged to Jimmy Carter. He remains the only president besides Trump to finish his first term with an approval rating below 50%.
  • He did not try to reach out to Democrats, nor did he try to achieve non-partisan or bipartisan goals in his final two months.
  • What we do know is that Trump may have thought he could escape the post-election period without damage. He thought wrong.
jmfinizio

Opinion: Call out Trump's big lie - CNN - 0 views

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  • They focused on blaming President Donald Trump and the appropriate way to hold him alone accountable.
  • But many, citing the President's speech during his "Save America Rally" moments before the riot began, claimed there was no evidence of incitement and that the President was just doing his patriotic duty by encouraging his supporters to use their voices.
  • While Democrats were rightly enraged by the actions of the President at the rally just before the march on the Capitol, each speaker should have spent more of their limited time at the podium to remind their colleagues and the American public of the lie that sparked this fire.
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  • While focusing on process and what was in the best interests of the country, they chose to ignore the claims made about the legitimacy of the election.
  • To this day, the vast majority of elected Republicans have not acknowledged the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
  • Going forward, everyone in Congress needs to be accountable for the big lie.
  • It is not an understatement to say our democracy rests on this. Whether Trump is convicted in the Senate is also an important symbol of accountability.
cvanderloo

Broken New Year's Resolutions? Time To Reframe Your Health Goals : Shots - Health News ... - 0 views

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  • This year, it's OK to give ourselves a break, says Dr. Rachelle Scott, director of psychiatry at Eden Health, a concierge-style health care start-up with offices in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
  • "There are days we're just getting up and showering and, you know, just doing basic activities of daily living. And that's OK,"
  • A Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll conducted in mid-July 2020 found 53% of adults in the U.S. reported that their mental health has been negatively impacted due to stress over COVID-19. That's up from 32% in March.
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  • And then there's the added stress of recent racial unrest and political riots at the U.S. Capitol. "You've got the chronic COVID-19 [stress] response and then you've got the acute layer on top of that,"
  • a lot of Millennials who define themselves by their productivity and their ability to hustle. Because of the pandemic, many of them are now isolated from family members, out of work, or juggling small children who are learning from home.
  • Science suggests that small acts of kindness — like actually listening to someone else — can make them feel loved and supported.
  • Try practicing gratitude, which improves our relationships and is good for our hearts.
  • If you've got a big goal, consider breaking it down into smaller parts. "Break it down into 12 steps so that the beginning of each month is an opportunity to continue to work on that goal,"
  • Choose something specific, short-term and positive, agrees Randi Kofsky
  • "Goals are not a program we follow," Kofsky adds "They are not a task master. They are a destination. When we map out the path to take one step at a time, goals become our guide in the process."
  • With all the stress we're carrying right now, "just meeting ourselves where we're at is important,"
aprossi

House impeaches Trump for 'incitement of insurrection' - CNNPolitics - 2 views

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  • House impeaches Trump for 'incitement of insurrection'
  • The House voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time in a swift and bipartisan condemnation of the President's role inciting last week's riot at the US Capitol.
  • The House voted 232 to 197 to impeach Trump
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  • Ten Republicans, including the House's No. 3 Republican, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, joined all Democrats to impeach Trump for "incitement of insurrection."
  • "We know that the President of the United States incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion against our common country,"
  • "There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution," Cheney said.
  • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that Trump "bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters,"
  • In the Senate, McConnell is not planning to bring the Senate back for a trial before January 19, meaning the trial won't begin until Trump is out of office and Biden has been sworn in.
  • Pence sent a letter Tuesday saying he would not seek to invoke the 25th Amendment as Democrats had urged, and Trump is not considering resigning.
  • After the House vote, Trump released a video statement calling for calm as the threat of new riots -- which Trump said he'd been briefed on by the Secret Servic
jmfinizio

Opinion: Donald Trump is going home a loser - CNN - 1 views

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shared by jmfinizio on 14 Jan 21 - No Cached
  • There are killers, and there are losers.
  • Throughout his life, the President has seemingly operated with that conviction
  • the President has seemingly operated with that conviction
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  • if you don't screw the other guys, they sure as hell are going to screw you.
  • That's how Trump appears to have run his businesses -- burning bridges almost everywhere he's gone
  • Trump has routinely and scurrilously lied and sold his self-serving version of events and conspiracy theories.
  • No president, in the long history of our republic, has ever been impeached twice
  • Now five people are dead and our democracy wounded by the coup attempt the President of the United States incited in a las
  • There should have been more Republicans who crossed party lines
  • He will leave office within a week, not as an honored former president but as the disgraced and selfish provocateur of a seditious uprising.
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