Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.6 / 55.6 | -14.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.5 / 52.1 | -6.6 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.6 / 55.6 | -14.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.5 / 52.1 | -6.6 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
74 responses to “Post what you want. No free lunch. Both can be true.”
Hello?
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Limited access today, so just posting here a new University of Texas poll of Texas.
Trump 48
Biden 41
2/2-2/12
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https://www.aol.com/cougar-attacks-5-cyclists-washington-211620648.html
I tell you, these older, sex driven women are getting bolder and bolder.
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The article said there may have been a second cougar. Damn. They are working together.
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Hi Bitterlaw,
Did the defense in the Fani Willis disqualification hearing in Judge McAffee’s court present enough evidence last week to enable the judge to disqualify her from the election interference case?
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howdy. Quiet holiday Monday
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Hello, Marv. I have not followed the shenanigans closely. A judge can force a recusal of counsel or even a mistrial got the appearance of impropriety. It would seem that this case would fit that. However, such a move would likely be appealed and delay the case – likely to Trump’s advantage. I think the DA should have stepped aside and said, “You don’t want me? Ok, mf-er. Let’s see how you like my replacement.” and then fast-tracked the trial.
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Hey Vic,
How goes it for you today? We haven’t had the chance to chat lately. If you recall, we tried to meet up at the CPAC meeting in Orlando back to 2011, but our paths never crossed.
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Marv – My wife and her sisters are going to Hawaii in a few weeks. I will find out which island and ask for your recommendations. I will be at home working so don’t send her anywhere she will find a replacement for me.
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Thanks Bitter,
The legal analysts on TV who are sympathetic to Trump seem to think that a Willis recusal would make a trial prior to Election Day impossible. The entire prosecutorial process would start de novo. Furthermore, those who have already plea bargained, such as Sydney Powell, would have a good chance of having their case vacated without the possibility of further prosecution.
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Bitter,
If Mrs Bitter and her sisters go to Oahu, I will have some recommendations for you to pass along to her.
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Hey Jan and Tina,
I watched the dust up on this forum lately, but if you left here, you should come back. We’re basically all on the same team. We all want Trump to win, we agree that illegal immigration is harmful, we agree that Putin is a bad man and we all agree that China is a geopolitical and military threat to both Taiwan and the United States.
It appears to me that the passionate discussions and disagreements here center around just exactly what we’re supposed to do about these issues.
The floor is open for discussion.
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Marv – Respectfully, Tina and Jan do not think Putin is a bad man. They view Zelensky as the villain prolonging the war.
They can post or not post. They are not banned and it is their choice.
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Marv, great to hear from you. The jet is available this week as I am on a special assignment.
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Haley won’t say if she will support Trump if she loses the GOP nomination
https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1759518187530383709?s=20
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Bitter,
With regard to the Russia v Ukraine War, it would be most helpful if the non-US NATO nations would step up and increase their commitment to their respective defense budgets. Also, they should provide at least half of the money and material to aid Ukraine while Ukraine can still fight. The US seems to be bearing the majority of the financial burden while depleting our stockpile of both tactical and long range weaponry.
At the current level of non-US NATO nation commitment, I expect that Russia will beat Ukraine, no matter how much aid the US provides. Also, unless Russia directly attacks US military personnel in the region, Ukraine should not expect direct US military involvement in the fight.
It is highly unlikely, in my opinion, that other NATO nations will enter into direct military conflict with Russia in order to drive Russian forces out of Ukraine.
My best guess is that no matter how much aid is provided to Ukraine, Russia will annex the Donbas Region, or Donbass as they call it. Apparently that was their primary objective in the first place. Not a good outcome at all, but probably the most likely, in my opinion.
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Marv- Russia will not stop until it annexes all of Ukraine. Why would it not take everything when Ukraine falls because Americans betray it?
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All those opposed to military aid to Ukraine will also abandon Taiwan when China attacks.
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“All those opposed to military aid to Ukraine will also abandon Taiwan when China attacks.”
No one in their right mind would actually support a war with China if push comes to shove though. blowing up TSM is best you could hope for.
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Hi DW,
Thanks for the jet, but I have a dentist appointment this week.
Also, irrespective of whom the Dems eventually nominate, I expect that President Trump will win. I also expect that he will win by a margin sufficient to overcome their anticipated ballot fraud.
A second Trump term will provide a lot of drama with great entertainment value. I expect that he will be largely successful implementing the core of his agenda items. Restoring the US military to absolute superiority over all potential enemies is job one, in my opinion. He should start that project by eliminating all forms of DEI, “social justice” programs and everything else that the left has foisted upon the military. The sole mission of our military is to kill the enemy and blow up their stuff. It seems that our current senior DOD leadership has forgotten that.
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Bitter,
Putin appears to believe that NATO nations are weak and indecisive. He is right about that. To counter that, NATO nations need to stop pussy-footing around and prepare for a large scale air, land and sea war to defend Ukraine. If they do that, there may not be a large scale air, land and sea war over Ukraine. So far, NATO nations don’t appear to be doing much more than prolonging a war that Ukraine most certainly will lose, absent direct NATO involvement in combat action.
Another fact that is apparently being overlooked is that historically, Russia always wins a land war over territory which they believe is rightfully theirs. Tough pill to swallow, but, that’s the way it is for now.
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The Philadelphia Flower Show is coming up, I hear Bitter ordered a new sweater for the occasion.
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Jill Stein should be able to steal away some Biden voters with this agenda.
I am tempted to send her a check.
https://www.jillstein2024.com/news
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Hi jason,
How have you been.? Haven’t had a chance to chat with you lately either.
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Russia always wins a land war over territory which they believe is rightfully theirs.”
Zzzzz.. … Russia believes all the ex-Soviet Republics and Iron Curtain countries are “rightfully theirs”.
None of it is rightfully theirs, starting with Ukraine.
But I would certainly favor a much more aggressive stance against Russia in Ukraine.
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Hey Marv
Great to see you.
I am well thanks
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Re: “aid to Ukraine”
The amount of money the U.S. spends on Ukraine aid translates to a little over 5 PERCENT of the total budget allocated for Defense. This money must go towards the Department of Defense.
Of this 5 PERCENT that is spent from our military budget on Ukraine, 90 PERCENT of THAT is spent WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. It goes to building or replacing weapons for the United States Armed Forces to protect the United States and that also of course creates many jobs for a lot of Americans.
The weapons we are sending to Ukraine would not be as effective in protecting America than the ones we are building or replacing them with for our own use.
Another fact is that European countries, combined, are sending TWICE the amount of aid to Ukraine than the United States is.
If Ukraine loses because the U.S. has abandoned it, that could mean China will take over Taiwan. It could also mean that Putin will move into a NATO country such as Poland or the Baltics. Some think Putin can be trusted and he won’t do that, but can we be sure?
There is an old saying called “pennies on the dollar.” We are virtually spending pennies on Ukraine now as compared to the amount of money we will have to spend if the U.S. is fighting a shooting war against Russia. No Americans are dying now fighting for the U.S. against Russia. Why would we want to take the chance of having to send them to fight Russia when what we are trying to do now in helping Ukraine is so much smarter and so much cheaper?
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My best guess is that no matter how much aid is provided to Ukraine, Russia will annex the Donbas Region, or Donbass as they call it. Apparently that was their primary objective in the first place.”
I don’t agree. Russia did not have 100k dead and lost hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment and become an international pariah to get the Donbas region, which it already partially occupied anyway. They could have just invaded the Donbas and declared victory and defended a much smaller border against any Ukraine counter attacks.
Their objective was to decapitate the Ukrainian government and install a puppet regime like the one in Belarus. Having failed at that, a full scale invasion was Plan B.
But total annexation of Ukraine, militarily or politically, is the objective.
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I agree. The aid to Ukraine is a drop in a bucket, we have gotten a huge bang for the buck by stopping the Russians in Ukraine….the Rs in Congress who oppose it are foolish and naive.
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marv
great to hear from you again and have you back.
It stinks that we missed each other at CPAC that year. How have you been? Are you still in Texas. I saw something about Hawaii above.
I hope you’re back to regularly participate. Your analysis of the Ukraine is spot on. The donbass and it’s people have always considered themselves Russian and I believe, as you, that this was the goal, to annex it, not the rest of the Ukraine…BUT
something that people (like me) don’t take into account when talking about the invasion is that after the Ukraine split from the CCCP they consolidated all of the formed soviet military production into a company called ukronboronprom. This company manufactures a massive amount of arms (or did) including military and transport aircraft. Taking over all of the Ukraine means getting this capability back.
so I struggle at times wondering if Russian just wants donbass, or if it wants that as well.
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Jason,
I didn’t say that those nations are rightfully Russia’s. I said that they always win land wars that are fought over those nations, at least historically.
Putin perceived that NATO would not commit to a larger war to defend Ukraine. So far, he was right about that and I don’t see any indication that NATO nations are doing anything right now to effectively prove him wrong. There doesn’t appear to be any evidence that NATO nations will commit their citizens to a fight on Ukrainian soil and Putin is not dumb to attack a NATO country.
I will stick with my opinion that, under the current military and political situation, Russia will retain Donbas. Anything that happens after that depends upon who takes office in January 2025.
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Marv- Unfortunately for Ukraine, if Trump wins, it will be the end of Ukraine as a nation. Trump is a moron on this issue. His belief that he can end the war in 24 hours completely discredited him. While it won’t matter because Haley will have dropped out before the PA primary, I would vote for Haley over Trump because she understands America’s strategic interests. I also like that Haley tells Trump to F off
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Hey Vic,
Mrs Marv and I still live in DeSantis’s state. Texas is where I went to college and HI is where we vacation occasionally.
Putin will take back whatever part of the old Soviet Union that he thinks that he can get away with. Also, Xi would take Taiwan too, if he thought he could get away with it
Our next presidential election is probably the second, behind Lincoln’s, most important election in American history.
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Accurate analysis…I agree completely.
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Sadly, Trump caters to the anti-military isolationist wing of the GOP. This group seems to believe that the airplane and missiles can be un-invented.
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Putin wins if he keeps Ukraine out of NATO and out of the EU community.
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Bitter,
On a much lighter note, I have limited myself to only three favorite teams this season.
The Yankees, Dodgers and Marlins….in that order.
Also, I know for a fact that Lee only agreed to a truce with Grant. His alleged surrender was manufactured by the fake news media, which was active even back in 1865.
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Lee should have been hanged as a traitor.
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new biden EO gives $5000 stimmy checks (as long as you’re an illegal aliens)
https://twitter.com/MAGAMAN614/status/1759665444321927523?s=20
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Trump’s penalty could cause NY biz exodus to FL, as New York State becomes ‘legal banana republic’: expertsNY AG Letitia James and liberal interests in the state appear to be seeking a political ‘death by exposure’ of Trump, analysts said
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trumps-ny-penalty-cause-biz-exodus-fl-empire-legal-banana-republic-experts
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They are called Wing Cougars.
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Are Jan and Tina taking a vacation from HHR?
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I like the various opinions on the site. And the lively arguments.
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Tina said she was leaving because I would not ban her. Jan says I am an awful person. They can stay or go.
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Bitter,
High probability that Jan and Tina come back.
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I hope so. Tina has been here for forever and I appreciate Jan was willing to argue cordially. I don’t agree with everything she said, but it’s still good to have all views…except Bunu
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Where did everyone go? I show up here and want to chat, but suddenly everybody suddenly bails out.
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BTW, is Bunu really EPH ROVE?
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i will be back tomorrow posting as normal….for now two new polls.
Trump way up in Montana according to SUSA and Biden up 16 in Washington state according to PPP-D
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No. He has been Actoso, Bunu and PresidentPaul!!
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I hated Tina’s stupid nicknames. After Trump lost, she added nothing but conspiracy theories and terrible legal theories from Gateway Pundit. Every Republican made her RINO list except Trump. Her support for Putin and hatred of Zelensky was over the top.
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i lost track of the referents to all of Tina’s nicknames other than the obvious ones like President Demented
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marv
I have a sick boy today normally I post
More recently but he’s really sick and just getting back from the dr. The life of a single parent
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Vic,
Sorry to hear about your son, I hope that starts to get better soon.
Are you in Texas?
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Vic – I hope he feels better soon. Take the night off. Just check in to make the last post of the night.
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Bitter,
Do you have a site visit counter? If so, how much activity per day.
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Here’s biden. definitely walking like a normal human it seems
https://x.com/simonateba/status/1759653137026003249?s=20
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Reports tonight of Haley campaign suspension tomorrow.
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JeffP,
What is source of the reports
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I get one every month. There are between 70-100 posts per thread.
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Test
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Speculation from several “sources” with speech at Clemson tomorrow on state of Presidential race. It would not surprise me if she did. The GOP is determined to ride Trump.
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Bitter,
What I wanted to know is whether or not you are able to track the number of monthly views of this site by people who do not post something.
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JeffP,
Okay, thanks.
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https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-nikki-haley-announces-speech-on-the-state-of-the-race-fueling-rumors-of-a-potential-exit-cmc/
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I wish Trump would say Putin is a cold blooded KGB killer with Navalny’s blood on his hands. He won’t. Both can be true.
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That’s a HUGE mistake and demonstrates what a pu**y Trump is. I am tired of his pandering.
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Marv
I am in Texas full time now. I don’t know why I thought you were still in Texas, I forgot you were in Florida. I get out that way a bit, I was in Tampa two weeks ago.
Bitter – thanks! the oldest had a 103.8 fever and it seems has developed Asthma, It has been a very hard couple of years for him, and he’s taken everything very hard. Working with him to hopefully get him over it all.
He won’t comment on the killing. Sadly.
To those who say he will pull out of Ukraine in 24 hours, that was hyperbole, he’s not pulling us out of Ukraine or NATO any time soon.
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Texas Senate
University of Texas
Cruz 46
Allred 32
so much for Texas turning Blue. Definitely not going to happen. People here are really pissed off with the Dems. Every time I go to the grocery store I hear it and see it.
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Asthma is a pain and scary but not uncommon in children. I have had players with it. Just keep an inhaler with him. He will get through it.
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Bitter. Thanks. He had problems with some allergies when he was 4 but grew out of them. I believe the stress of all of this has taken a hard toll. This summer when he had to spend significant time at the other house he went from 75lbs to 58lbs. He almost got hospitalized.
I’ve his inhaler now and will bring one to school tomorrow. Thanks for the advice
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VictrC …thanks for your travel feedback. I have an update…
Qatar Airways just changed out our plane from BOS to DOH … A350-900 with no Qsuites. We are bummed out about it. Booked with AA miles so we looked into switching to Etihad 1st out of IAD with connection from Abu Dhabi to Doha…but no availability for the dates we need. Our DOH to CDG flight will be Qsuites at least as a daytime 7 hour flight that will be good to experience anyway.
My now 24 year old son was hospitalized when he was 9 for asthma. Inhalers helped him until he finished HS baseball.
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Jeff. That really stinks that they are running you over on that equipment. You can ask them to change your routing because of the change, maybe do the jfk Doha or Chicago Doha route. If you do Chicago you will get the 777 which has larger seats.
the non qsuite a350 operates about the same “herringbone” seats as American Airlines and are still comfortable. Better than most other business class seats and about the same as etihad (btw – flying etihad isn’t the greatest experience. Not as much entertainment. No liquor. Etc)
thank you for letting me know about the asthma situation. He’s pretty bummed, but it makes sense. He’s had so many respitory illnesses the past two years. Hopefully he’ll outgrow it, but for the time being it will be inhalers.
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last post of the evening
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