{"id":19625,"date":"2016-01-27T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=19625"},"modified":"2016-01-28T07:29:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:29:15","slug":"19625-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=19625","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying: Trump Dumps Fox (Well Maybe), Weak Mexican Peso and Good Ole Boy Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Raul Hernandez<\/span><\/h2>\n

Notebookventura@gmail.com<\/span><\/h2>\n
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\"FoxTrump Skips Fox’s GOP Debate<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The monster that Fox and the GOP created is skipping their GOP debate<\/span><\/p>\n

No surprise.<\/span><\/p>\n

They snickered, winked and nudged each other when Trump raised his Obama birther theories and questioned Obama’s faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he was always good for laughs.<\/span><\/p>\n

They loved “The Donald.” He was witty and delightful and charming. His coarse remarks simply spiced up the conversation. The Donald was telling it like it is. Speaking his mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump was comic relief on Fox. A big ego, yet harmless. He wagged his tongue and made ignorant, fact-free remarks. But this colorful character gave them a lot of chuckles. Trump was just being Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Along the way, The Donald even became pals with Bill O’Reilly, who often defended him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Donald
\u201cYou know, it really doesn\u2019t matter what the media write as long as you\u2019ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” \u2014 Donald Trump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They loved “The Donald.” His star power.\u00a0Fox profits were up. Ratings soared, and CEO Roger Ailes<\/strong> loved it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump’s recent spat with Fox’s Golden Girl Megyn Kelly<\/strong> was being packaged like the Ali-Frazier championship fight. The GOP debate rematch would send ratings through the roof and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ailes was salivating.<\/span><\/p>\n

The billionaire lapdog that Fox groomed, cuddled and loved was finally paying off in record ratings and ad dollars. But then “The Donald”\u00a0turned against them. He raised his leg and p*ssed on their debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the anticipated big ratings have fizzled. Frowns.<\/span><\/p>\n

But that could change. Trump could show up at the debate after all, his campaign staff suggested today<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s Trump 24\/7 on CNN and MSNBC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Megyn
“Television is a service, but it’s also a business.” \u2014 Megyn Kelly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC \u2014 through “roundtable discussions” \u2014 are milking the Trump-Kelly sideshow for every ounce of ratings, often gently mocking Fox and Ailes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The talking heads are shamelessly dissecting and analyzing Trump’s crass, crude and nasty remarks that come from the cesspool between Trump’s ears as though they are deciphering hieroglyphics, trying to unlock some kind of Egyptian enigma.<\/span><\/p>\n

They want the rest of the country to understand what Trump real means, often speculating on his ‘brilliant” political moves. A few suggesting that he is a political Napoleon.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not that complicated. Want to know what Trump really means?<\/span><\/p>\n

Buy a dictionary or better yet buy the\u00a0National Review<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and read how some Republican heavyweights describe The Donald:\u00a0<\/span>“vulgar,” “charlatan,” “racist” and \u00a0America’s George Wallace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican Michael Medved<\/strong> wrote in National Review:\u00a0“Worst of all, Trump\u2019s brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Some Republicans are sounding the alarm and warning sane Americans that Trump is dangerous and “crazy.” \u00a0Most of the country knows that.<\/span><\/p>\n

So why is Trump polling high in the Party of Lincoln. <\/span><\/p>\n

It’s really not that complicated. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of the most obvious reasons: Evangelicals are outraged that gays are allowed to marry. \u00a0Religious zealots are pounding this message home on Sundays: America is on a fast-track to hell and Obama is the anti-Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also the racists and the fearful see the changing demographics \u2014 the browning of America \u2014 and are terrified about illegal Immigration. Also Obamacare. Muslim immigration. \u00a0Black Lives Matter. The P.C. Nazis are on patrol in the Land of the Easily Offended.<\/span><\/p>\n

Worse, whiny liberals who bitch about everything and often sound like a cat being lifted in the air by its balls. Group hug. :)<\/span><\/p>\n

And of course, there is a black man in their White House who they don’t see as being user friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n

America’s snake-oil salesman, well, he is giving this country a political enema at his campaign rallies to cure whatever ails the nation \u2014 like it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Applause, cheers, whistles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peso Takes a Financial Plunge<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"MexicanThe Mexican peso is on a downward slide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who cares, right? <\/span><\/p>\n

All this means for Americans is more bang for the dollar in Cancun, Acapulco and other Mexican resorts. Cheaper cab fares and hotel rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

A story in the El Paso Times newspape<\/a>r last weekend stated: “At some retail outlets in Downtown El Paso and\u00a0Ju\u00e1rez the peso is also already\u00a0trading at 19.10 to the dollar, and since the beginning of the year\u00a0the Mexican currency had declined by 6.1 percent.”<\/span><\/p>\n

And, “The devaluation is hurting the purchasing power of Mexican citizens who shop in El Paso stores and the stability of businesses with Mexican contracts that are pegged to the dollar.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The article is accompanied by a photograph presumably of a Mexican woman holding a box of food items and walking by a Banorte Mexican bank that has the peso exchange rates posted on the bank window.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nice photographic images but not the entire story.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Americans believe that trade with Mexico simply entails streams of older or poor Mexicans \u00a0such as the one depicted in the El Paso Times photo who cross the border, spend a few dollars on mom and pop stores and go back to Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the fact is that U.S.-Mexico trade is much more complicated. It involves billions of dollars in trade and many, many jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. and Mexico Trade<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mexico was the United States’s second largest goods export market in 2013, according to the U.S. Treasury Representative.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The federal agency reports that U.S. goods exports to Mexico in 2013 were $226.2 billion, up 4.7% ($10.2 billion) from 2012, and up 132% from 2003. It is up 444% since 1993 (Pre-NAFTA).<\/span>
\n U.S. exports to Mexico accounted for 14.3% of overall U.S. exports in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

The top export categories in 2013 were:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n