My View by Silvio Canto, Jr.: 10/11/18

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Thursday's show: A chat with Bob Parks about the Kavanaugh effect

Thursday's show:

A chat with Bob Parks about the Kavanaugh effect

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Thursday's video: Kavanaugh and the US Senate races

Thursday's video:

Kavanaugh and the US Senate races

GOP looking good in the US senate: https://t.co/cQ5fgUGIg2 via @YouTube
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 11, 2018

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Is Brazil ready for Bolsonaro?

Down in Brazil, the voters finally got to vote and Jair Bolsonaro almost won the presidency on the first round. You need 51%, and he got 46%.

He proved the polls wrong.

We now move to the second round and he looks very strong, according to David Unsworth:

Sunday, October 7, was an earthshattering moment in Brazil, with the “Trump of the Tropics” riding high, as he buoyed unknown Congressional candidates into power, and swept out establishment politicians of leftist and centrist parties.

Dilma Rousseff, the former president, couldn’t even get elected to one of Minas Gerais’ three Senate seats.

An unknown candidate named Wilson Witzel rocketed to the head of the pack for governor of Rio de Janeiro, while Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo Bolsonaro became the most-voted deputy in Brazilian electoral history, racking up 1.9 million votes in Sao Paulo state.

I agree with Unsworth that Bolsonaro is in a very strong position. He clearly has touched a nerve with his views on crime and privatizing some state enterprises. He is also connecting with the evangelical voters, who fear that “family values” are under siege from the culture.

My small disagreement with Unsworth is that Bolsonaro is fighting a “deep state” and a voter bloc in the north largely dependent on government services.

Furthermore, the left is on full panic mode, basically telling Brazilians that Bolsonaro will impose military rule, shut down the assistance checks, and turn into some Brazilian version of General Augusto Pinochet.

I am optimistic that he will win the second round. At the same time, I hope that each and every one of that 46% that voted in the first round come back for a second time. And I hope that they persuade a neighbor or co-worker who voted for someone else to change their vote for Bolsonaro.

So let’s see what happens. Nevertheless, the Brazilian Trump is shaking things up, like the real Trump up here.

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13 years later and the earth is still around.......

Here is a little trip down memory lane:

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to a grim conclusion regarding the rapid warming of the earth, should people not band together to give more power over to the government in order to turn the tide in the fight against climate change. The report definitively concluded that climate change will completely destroy the earth by 2005 if we do not take action now.

"We've run all the numbers, and it's absolutely clear: every inch of dry land on the planet will be totally submerged by the year 2005," said one member of the panel. "This is an absolute scientific fact."

Absolute fact?

Add this to "18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Since the Very First Earth Day."

I love the earth and clean air as much as anyone else. However, many of these predictions were motivated by something other than good sense.

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Ted Cruz up 9 again in Texas

Many of our friends around the country are following the US Senate race between Senator Cruz and Representative O’Rourke.

According to the latest poll, Senator Cruz is starting to build a strong lead or 9 points.

Back in March, I said that Senator Cruz would win by 10 points. My prediction was based on actual vote results in the Texas primary and the political landscape.

Senator Cruz will be re-elected and that’s good for the country.

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