Why I’ll never eat lunch in many a town again
TODAY, I’m going to continue to discuss the election results just to see how many more disappointed
Hillary Clinton supporters will cancel lunch with me.
When I left off last week, I was calling for — excuse this radical idea — equal treatment under the law in the form of a special prosecutor to investigate the possible crimes of Hillary and Bill Clinton. A special prosecutor really won’t be needed because there are already investigations underway, but appointing an investigator just for them will make Hillary and Bill feel, you know, special.
I use the phrase “possible crimes” only because I’m feeling generous and a little naive today. And I would think that Hillary — who was nearly indicted twice — would jump at this idea.
She can’t be a champion of the little guy and the underdog, as she claims to be, while allowing people like me to think that she is a crook who got away with stuff that ordi- nary people wouldn’t have.
But that’s not where this column is going today.
Today, in an attempt to get uninvited to lunch with more folks, I’m going to share some ideas and opinions.
I’ll start by talking about the people in what is called the Mainstream Media, or as the Alternative Internet Media (AltMedia) call them, the MSM.
The No. 1 villain here is the NBC family of Democratic Party organs, whose campaign reporting was very diligent — in avoiding the wealth of bad news about Hillary that came from WikiLeaks’ hacked e-mails and using any and all droplets of negative information against Trump.
Objectivity? Nah. The news industry apparently saw a greater good in stopping Donald Trump.
Polling organizations also did a terrible job.
As I and my readers have learned from my years of investigations of the Census Bureau, most Americans don’t like answering questions when nosey opinion takers come calling.
That was one strike against the pollsters, who called this election so inaccurately. The poll takers’ strike 2 was that they assumed Democratic voters would come out in much larger numbers to vote than they did.
Why would they have? Bernie Sanders, who fought Hillary in the primaries, made her look bad. So it was clear that lots of Democrats had no loyalty to Hillary.
The polling organizations also skewed their surveys to include too many Democrats and not enough Republicans and independents. So it’s not surprising that the polls predicted Hillary would be an easy winner.
Ironically, that caused many Democrats, who weren’t enthused by their party’s choice in the first place, to stay home on Election Day.
Plenty of recent immigrants would rather not have more immigrants come to the US.
When my grandfather arrived in America from Italy in the early 20th century, he got a job with the New York City Sanitation Department. And if you asked Grandpa Crudele if he would like a lot of new immigrants to come to the country, I’m sure he would have said no. He would have been worried about them taking his job.
Today’s workers aren’t any different.
Nobody I know wants dangerous immigrants. Don’t get me wrong, legal immigration is important (and I’ve written a full column on this) and will turn out to be one of the cures for the current economic malaise.
But until there are enough jobs to go around, even legal immigrants are not going to be welcomed with open arms by their own countrymen.
People in Philadelphia, St. Petersburg, Fla., and several other cities were probably thrilled to be treated to free mini-concerts by Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and Jay Z — but it wasn’t entirely a good thing.
Hey, free concerts are great! I probably would have gone myself.
But think of the deeper message it gave to voters about Hillary, who arranged these musical extravaganzas. It told voters that Hillary was special and not only can hang out with people like that but also can get them to come to her rescue.
In a campaign in which voters were rebelling against the establishment, pissed at people with privilege and power, and feeling annoyed that the economy has left them behind, was it really smart for Hillary to parade around her fancy music industry and Hollywood friends? I don’t think so.
Hillary’s own e-mails never came out during the last weeks of the cam- paign, as I expected — but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist, despite the fact that she tried to erase them.
As I’ve said, the National Security Agency was hacking the Russians when the Russians were hacking Hillary’s computer server. And the NSA, as I explained earlier, has already offered Hillary’s e-mails to the FBI.
All Trump’s FBI has to do is ask, and the NSA will deliver all of Hillary’s secrets.
James Comey, the soon-to-bereplaced FBI director, now has no fans among either the Democrats or the Republicans.
And the way I hear it, Comey is set to snag a big, low-profile job with a Wall Street bank. Consumer banks like Citigroup should think twice about hiring a guy who’ll bring them nothing but bad vibes with customers of all political persuasions. Next up, I’ll tell you all the things President-elect Trump is about to do wrong — like considering naming another Goldman Sachs executive as Treasury secretary.
I guess that’ll do it. I better start brown-bagging lunches because I doubt I’ll get invited to many on either coast. I wonder how the ribs are in Cleveland.