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Sorry for being gone so much. I’m having another bad week. :0/  The good news is that Dearest is feeling a LOT better!  He lost ten pounds during his illness, which looks good on him, so there’s that to be grateful for.  🙂

TRUMP APPROVAL: President Trump’s approval rating reached an all-time high of 45% in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. That’s up 1 point from their June poll. Of the last four presidents, only George W. Bush, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, had a higher approval rating than Trump at the same point in his presidency.

• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-approval-rating-reaches-record-high-in-poll-powered-by-republican-support

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UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS: Jobless claims have dropped to their lowest level — below 300,000 — in nearly five decades.

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19/u-s-jobless-claims-dropped-last-week-to-lowest-level-since-1969

JOB TRAINING INITIATIVE: So far, 23 organizations have committed themselves to President Trump’s new initiative to help foster job training programs for the 6.6 million U.S. jobs that are currently unfilled because nobody knows how to do them. Many of these require special skills, but not college degrees.

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/training-jobs-tomorrow/

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GLEELFUL SAVAGERY: “Social justice is a surveillance culture, a snitch culture. The constant vigilance on the part of my colleagues and friends did me in. That’s why I’m delivering sushi and pizza. Not that I’m complaining. It’s honest work, and it’s led me to rediscover how to interact with people in the real world. I am a kinder and more respectful person now that I’m not regularly on social media attacking people for not being ‘kind’ and ‘respectful’.” < THIS WHOLE ARTICLE IS WELL WORTH READING IN FULL.

• https://quillette.com/2018/07/14/i-was-the-mob-until-the-mob-came-for-me/

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STILTON SAYS: “Looking at the most recent news cycle, we feel that our nation has reached a crisis point which requires the services of an exciting new superhero. When alleged journalists lose their minds about Donald Trump and start screaming and foaming at the mouth, STFUman would suddenly appear with his trusty whiffle bat and thonk, thonk, thonk the hysterical newsperson on the noggin until either sanity or blissful unconsciousness was reached. … Frankly, we think this whole media uproar is another exercise in willful lunacy which is far more damaging to our nation than anything Russia could possibly do. We’d say even more, but we’ve got a lot of sit-ups to do if we’re going to fit into that spandex uniform.”

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GET ON YOUR KNEES, PEOPLE. The midterms matter. A new report warns that Democrats currently have 12 million more voters in the 31 states that require party registration to vote. The break down in states deemed to have “key battles” for control of the House of Representatives is roughly 40% Democrat vs. 28% Independent vs. 29% Republican.

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/report-democrats-hold-massive-party-registration-lead-over-gop

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