Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.1 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.2 / 51.0 | -4.8 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
45 responses to “Saturday 12/28”
Jan said……If only Bitter/Jason would lay off of inflating comments…
George Bernard Shaw (I believe) would say…. “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
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Big Gubment Grifting
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“inflating comments”
Definition: anything that is not 100% Putin talking points or 100% litmus tested Cult talking points.
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“60% of Americans oppose HB-1 visas”.
I am actually pleasantly surprised 40% of Americans aren’t swayed by xenophobic isolationist protectionist propaganda and understand the value and benefits of this program.
Not to mention the fact most of the 60%, as Bitter said, probably don’t even know what it means.
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98% of the jokes told by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Saturday Night Live leading up to the election were all about President Donald Trump. 1,428 of the 1,463 political jokes targeted Trump, according to Media Research Center.”
But Rs are a threat to Democracy….
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Essentially, the “American First” crowd wants people in this country to have opportunities in securing high paying tech jobs”
Zzzzzzz…
Without the companies and the technology and innovation that creates high paying tech jobs, greatly fostered by the HB-1 visa program, there wouldn’t “high paying jobs” for anybody.
The America First crowd are a bunch of ignorant xenophobic isolationists who could care less about “opportunity”. If they cared about “opportunity” they would want America to be a world leader and exporter of innovation and technology, not an isolated backwater.
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Four years ago Elon Musk was a Democrat.
Instead of being pleased a guy of his wealth and intelligence and success has volunteered his time and effort and prestige to support Trump and help America once again become a world class economy, the Cultists now attack and ostracize him because he is not in favor of economic isolationism and protectionism.
Musk should tell the Cultists to GFTs. They don’t deserve him.
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Everyone who voted for Trump voted for the America First agenda. It ain’t like you didn’t know it when you voted. Deal with it.
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I have been here for over 15 years opposing isolationism, tariffs, protectionism, stupid trade wars and immigration deadenderism.
GFY.
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Everyone who voted for Trump voted for the America First agenda.”
LOL
I guess Elon Musk and Vivek didn’t get the message….
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Everyone who voted for Trump voted for the America First agenda.”
So everyone who voted for Kamala voted “America First” too?
The unions who funded her and all the liberals that voted for her are protectionists too. Trump didn’t invent tariffs, they have been part of the failed AFL-CIO agenda for 70 years.
For the last 70 years, it was the Dems who were against free trade and in favor of protectionism.
I guess they were “America First” first.
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Let’s not pretend “America First” is a new concept.
Protectionism has been alive and failing for decades.
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Awwww…
It’s getting harder and harder for any celebrity — even Taylor Swift — to move enough voters to sway an election,” Politico wrote.
During election night, Joy Reid expressed astonishment that Kamala was losing.
She said “She even got the endorsement of Queen Latifah, who never endorses anyone”!
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Everyone who voted for Trump voted for the America First agenda.”
Typical Cultist garbage.
Everyone who voted for Trump HAS TO support his agenda 100% or you are a traitor.
Zzzzzzz…..
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Trigger alert!
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So far Trump has indicated he is siding with Musk’s position on the H-1B visa controversy. However, Musk is emphasizing he favors giving such visas for “genius” performers, downplaying other tech workers coming over on their coattails.
https://archive.is/2024.12.28-192634/https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-trump-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/
”Musk said his passion for the issue stemmed from wanting America to remain competitive by attracting “the top ~0.1% of engineering talent” which he said was essential for “America to keep winning.”
People are not opposed to issuing work visas to exceptional foreign workers, but rather oppose the abuse of over-issuing them, where they take jobs away from equally talented Americans by giving them to people willing to take a lower wage. I think Trump will have to walk a fine line on this one, as he earlier railed against hiring cheaper foreign workers, arbitrarily replacing equally competent US workers.
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The h1b1 is ripe with fraud. And it was used to get lesser talanted workers. Reason enough to pause it or downscale it.
But the big gubment free passers are triggered
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If it’s limited to just what musk suggests then I am ok with it. But they need to get rid of a lot of the fraud associated with that program.
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Even though I am not a fan of Bob Dylan and can’t stand Joan Baez, I thought the movie A Complete Unknown was very good. It focuses on the period 1961-1965. The actors playing Dylan and Baez were very good and did their own singing.
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I’m not much of a movie guy, but I’m looking forward to that one.
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Tina, you seem to get the gist of the H-1B issue. I agree Musk’s “.1%” comment makes sense. However, the displacement of equally competent citizens by non-citizens is the big rub, and should be seen and handled far differently.
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Jan said….the displacement of equally competent citizens by non-citizens is the big rub.
Isn’t it up to the company to decide which is more competent?
Honest question because I don’t know the answer…. why would an American company not hire an American citizen over a foreigner, all things being equal?
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I will defer to Vic as he actually owns and runs businesses.
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Sounds good. It’s on my list.
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I have no idea what core beliefs the MAGA movement has at this point.
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I am now against banning tick Tok. I read that Biden’s beotch and Michelle Depends are for it.
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Just ask Tina.
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why would an American company not hire an American citizen over a foreigner, all things being equal?
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Foreign workers usually earn less than American workers. It’s all about the money…or, as they say “Follow the money.”
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One question being raised is why is the H-1B visa controversy being spurred on before Trump’s inauguration? It seems like an almost too conspicuous of a fight to be having right now. With the left delighted to see internal struggles brewing in MAGA, it seems worthy to speculate some of this divisiveness is being artificially fueled to deliberately split the roll Trump/Musk are on.
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south Korea plane crashed trying to land….181 on board, so far 1 pulled alive. It went beyond the end of the runway and slammed head on int a wall and exploded
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Answer, janz:
The people who hate us want us to hate each other
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https://www.themidwesterner.news/2024/11/results-show-donald-trump-accelerated-shift-of-arab-american-vote-in-hamtramck-dearborn-dearborn-heights/
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The deadenders are worried about “divisiveness”?
LOL
You gotta love it here.
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it seems worthy to speculate some of this divisiveness is being artificially fueled
So Elon and Vivek are trying to divide MAGA?
I will take “Posts that could have not have been thought through” for $2000”
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Not sure why you would put a wall at the end of a runway but still tragic.
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Cultists who call anyone who isn’t 100% litmus tested on board with EVERY point on Trump’s agenda RINO traitors are concerned about “divisiveness”.
There is no cure for that kind of hypocrisy and delusion.
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I will take “Posts that could have not have been thought through” for $2000”
Thinking is not a Cultist strong point.
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I am now against banning tick Tok”
Tina used to be against the CCP.
The Cult is “evolving”.
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“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump told the outlet in a telephone interview. “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B. I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”
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I am sure all the H-1B visas on Trump’s properties are “geniuses”.
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i had the same thought Bitter. At the end of runways are usually large grassy areas or water. Had their been a shallow pond instead of a wall, probably would not have killed 179 out of 181
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and just like that I checked the news and a plane in Norway skidded off the runway onto GRASS instead of a WALL and all survived
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Seems like he landed too far down the runway because at least in the video the distance he covered from touchdown to crash was very short. Usually in belly landings the plane doesn’t slide longer than the runway because of the friction.
In any case, the distance from the end of the runway to the wall does seem very short too.
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I have no idea what core beliefs the MAGA movement has at this point”
Do you remember what they were before this “point”?
Both are a mystery to me too.
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NT
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