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 
109 responses to “I think it is Friday. New Year in the middle of the week is tough.”
El Supremo Comandante
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Was there an A-hole coup?
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Why would you think HHR doesn’t have its own Deep State?
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Because if HHR had its own Deep State, we would know about it.
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Well, at least Chicon would know about it.
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Just think, we could have some cool uniforms just like the “real” Deep State.
Maybe under the big DS in gold thread we could have “HHR Chapter” embroidered.
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Can we wave people into Jan’s house to break windows and steal stuff?
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The FBI just released information about the person who set out the RNC and DNC “pipe bombs” on Jan 6. Only four years after the fact. Draw your own conclusions as to why now release those details, but I find it fishy as hell. Jan 20th can’t get here soon enough
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Can we wave people into Jan’s house to break windows and steal stuff?”
As long at they are “patriots”, no problem.
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I don’t think the pipe bomber is Deep State.
If he was Chicon would have given us his name by now.
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This is an outrage, to leave Peruvian and Chilean food off the list.
“Ever wonder which country has the best cuisine in the world? If the popular travel and food website TasteAtlas is to be believed, it’s definitely not the United States. The site recently released its 2024/2025 “TasteAtlas Awards,” which determines several “100 Best” lists, based on food-related data in its database. This year, the site said it used “477,287 valid ratings for 15,478 foods.”
So who got the top spot? That would be Greece. Among the site’s top Greek foods, you’ll find a variety of pastries, pork dishes, and cheeses. Not surprisingly, Italy came in at the number two spot, followed by Mexico, Spain, and Portugal. Turkey, Indonesia, France, Japan, and China rounded out the top ten. As for the countries with the worst cuisine, you have Albania, Bolivia, Nigeria, Laos, and Nicaragua, or, at least, they took the bottom five spots of the top 100.
If you’re wondering if the United States made the list, it did, but it came in at number 13. Among the site’s top dishes for American cuisine are South Texas-style barbecue, rib-eye steaks, brisket, frozen custard, filet mignon, jibarito, poke, etouffee, and boiled Maine lobster.
As for the cities with the best food, Italy has six of the top ten spots. Naples, Milan, Bologna, and Florence make up the top four, while Rome comes in at number six and Turin comes in at number nine. Mumbai is number five, Paris is number seven, Vienna is number eight, and Osaka, Japan takes the tenth spot. “
I do agree that Greece, France, Spain and Turkey should make the top ten for countries. 6 Italian cities in the top of 10 cities for food? No way. And Lima, Peru has to be top 10.
I have never been to Albania or Laos. I do agree the food in Nigeria sucks.
Boiled lobster is a top US dish? Zzzzz….. anyone can take a lobster and throw it into a boiling pot of water. That is not cooking.
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Jibarito? Gimme a break.
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Sane_Voter said…The FBI just released information about the person who set out the RNC and DNC “pipe bombs” on Jan 6. Only four years after the fact.
Yep, including video. After four years they are seeking public help (they asked for the public’s help immediately after 1/1 in NO). I’m sure the timing just before Trump’s inauguration is a coincidence.
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How long until Bitter and Idiotus Jasonus start accusing Chicon and sane-voter with being Russian disinformation agents for pointing out the obvious?
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Idiotus Jasonus”
Zzzzz….
Albertus Idioticus has to borrow my memes?
What a moron.
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OA, Ostriches have a hard time noticing the fearful world around them with their heads buried in the ground.
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Hey moron, what is the “obvious”?
A friend wants to know.
And btw, is it your theory they are asking the public’s help to identify “Deep State” agents?
Maybe Chicon, with all his Deep State contacts, can help out.
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The FBI just released information about the person”
They did?
What was that information, as far I can tell it is another grainy video that doesn’t identify anyone.
Oh yeah, maybe 5″7′, that should eliminate all men in America over 5’10” and all females under 5″5′
Maybe the Deep State has more helpful “information”.
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I ran some facial enhancement technology on the face. It looks to me like its a guy with a grizzled almost white beard, 55+.
I would imagine the FBI already knows this, so I am not going to sent it in.
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“ostrich”
New definition over at Gateway Pundit:
Anyone who doesn’t believe in fake news and stupid conspiracy theories.
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Is there video of their shoes. If New Balance sneakers, they have children and are at least 40 years old.
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I bet when Kash Patel auctions off all the Deep State assets (tangible of course, not human) he will be able to afford a new FBI bldg outside of DC.
I am definitely bidding on some shot glasses and ashtrays, I don’t think I can afford any of the good stuff like the bearskin hats, gold cuff links, fine china, and monogrammed towels.
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I analyzed the walk. His gait is somewhat slow, usually people planting things they are not supposed to are hurried.
It demonstrates confidence, or maybe he was just instructed not to be conspicuous.
Not sure how helpful that is.
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So maybe the Las Vegas guy was not a terrorist at all but it was suicide by truck?
That would be devastating to the Deep State crowd but could make sense.
That puts a bit of a different spin on his family life. Before this report, all we had were smiling pictures of him and his wife, with the reasonable assumption being they were still together. But if she left him over infidelity, that would go a long way in providing a reason for him to be suicidal.
It would also explain why someone with Livelsberger’s expertise on weapons and explosives would stuff some fireworks and gas canisters in the back of a steel-bodied truck and call it a day. If you assume he was trying to kill other people, that seems like a pretty big mistake. If you make the counter-assumption that he wasn’t trying to kill other people, though, then it all starts to make a lot more sense. Authorities are even looking into the idea that he chose a Cybertruck specifically because it would limit any collateral damage“
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His wife says he was pro-Trump. It might also explain why he didn’t drive the truck into the lobby’s glass doors and cause a much bigger fire and maybe kill a lot of people.
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Under an hour until the 1st speaker vote. How’s it gonna go?
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Jason sez….”His wife says he was pro-Trump. It might also explain why he didn’t drive the truck into the lobby’s glass doors and cause a much bigger fire and maybe kill a lot of people.”
He was so pro-Trump he rented an electric truck, drove it to Vegas from Colorado Springs, chose the Trump hotel from all the Vegas hotels, set the fuse so it would blow up at the front door, then shot himself in the head before it blew up.
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Interesting way to show support, I guess…..
Maybe he just cracked…
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It doesn’t make any sense that a Trump fan would shoot himself and then blow up his car in front of a Trump asset.
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Interesting. Not sure why he didn’t just shoot himself and not cause an explosion.
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Of course with our incurious FBI, who are only interested in hunting down people with misdemeanors for 4 years, I doubt any dots will be connected – maybe deliberately, like how feet were dragged in looking into the pipe bombs incident.
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Lol- yes, priorities are grandmas walking through the Capitol, but not the pipe bomber, especially since the pipe bomb was (cough cough) missed, when quemala was present.
“Over the past four years, a dedicated team of FBI agents, analysts, data scientists, and law enforcement partners has visited more than 1,200 residences and businesses, conducted more than 1,000 interviews, reviewed approximately 39,000 video files, and assessed more than 600 tips about who may have placed pipe bombs on Capitol Hill in January 2021,” said David Sundberg, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office, in a statement.l
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Has the secret service ever explained how they missed the pipe bomb at the dnc, when quemala was present there?
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His uncle also says he was a Trump supporter. Considering that it doesn’t really seem he was trying to do a lot of damage and kill a lot of people, maybe he just decided to kill himself and picked the Trump hotel for other reasons than to “attack it”.
“Dean, whose older brother is Livelsberger’s father, Roger, himself an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, said his nephew “loved the Army.”
“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country,” he continued. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty”
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I tend to believe he had nothing to do with the NO terrorist, Ft Bragg is a big place and it could be a coincidence they were both stationed there.
The M.O. of the the 2 events seem so disparate that I think they are not related.
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Jason – I see your point. However, too many people kill themselves. Very few cause explosions while doing it. It is a mystery.
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Interesting way to show support, I guess…..”
Zzzzzz….
Maybe he was a Trump supporter who killed himself for other reasons than to support or oppose Trump.
What a novel theory!
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jason – I see your point. However, too many people kill themselves.”
Actually, many people like to go out with a bang so to speak.
This guy knew explosives. He put firecrackers in the car. He didn’t seek a crowd or drive into the lobby.
As a terrorist he is an abject failure. If he wanted to draw attention to his suicide he was very successful.
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Under an hour until the 1st speaker vote. How’s it gonna go?
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Massey the deadender will try to elect Jeffries.
Everyone else will vote for Johnson.
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Jason says….”I tend to believe he had nothing to do with the NO terrorist, Ft Bragg is a big place and it could be a coincidence they were both stationed there.
The M.O. of the the 2 events seem so disparate that I think they are not related.”
I agree. They need to be sure of that, but that’s how it will play out, imo.
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In a nutshell…
Joe Concha:
“So what’s Massie’s plan after he defies the incoming president? Who does he think can be the next speaker? Where are the votes for this person? There is no plan. The election won’t be certified. Trump enters chaos. This is all about Massie’s ego & putting on a show. Nothing more”
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Mike Johnson is a weak House Speaker, full stop. However, there are few options available, at the moment, for the Republicans to do anything better than to reelect him in today’s vote. However, there appear to be a few Congress people absent, when taking the first vote, and don’t know if they were R or D.
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Jan, one D showed up late. There’s one missing member, who i assume is Matty G….
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Gaetz said he would show up if needed. Also, just heard that Biggs didn’t respond to his name when called. Why, who knows??
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Anyone who thinks Johnson won’t win can get rich at Polymarket he is at 94%
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Massie the deadender voted for Emmer who is a lot less conservative than Johnson.
Of course, Massie was never a conservative.
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A recent update:
”Several prominent prior holdouts cast their votes for Mike Johnson on the first ballot of the speakership election, including Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Eli Crane (R-Ariz.).
Other holdouts, like Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Michael Cloud (R-Texas), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.), did not answer when their names were called. Johnson can only afford one defection to hold his gavel.
ANTHONY ADRAGNA01/03/2025, 1:13PM ET
35 MINS AGO
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz won’t take his seat for this session of Congress, according to a letter the House clerk officially read into the record Friday.
It formally signals that Speaker Mike Johnson can only lose one GOP vote and still keep his gavel.
Democrats in the House chamber laughed and applauded as the letter was ready into the record. Gaetz (R-Fla.) won reelection to his seat in November, but opted not to serve again following his abandoned bid to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general.”
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I think they may go back to those not responding and ask them again for a vote. If this happens Johnson may get the vote. If not, then the drama begins….
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3 have voted for someone else. Unless they switch before the vote closes, it is on to round two….
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ps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Michael Cloud (R-Texas), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.)”
All voted Johnhson.
But there are the 3 who voted for others still.
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Johnson at 95% at Polymarket.
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I wonder if MTG was one of the 3 voting for someone else?
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No, not MTG…
House to take up second ballot — Norman, Massie and Keith Self vote against Johnson.
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Jan, thanks for the link. I just saw Norman, Self and Johnson walk off the floor to meet in private. Massie was in the scrum on the floor with them but did not leave.
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97%
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It’s a done deal but the deadenders have to do their thing.
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Hostage takers want to be bought off… zzzzzz….
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MTG voted for Johnson, I heard her during the voice vote.
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And Johnson just elected with 218 of 234; Massie mustache held out.
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218 its over
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Norman and self have “switched” votes to Johnson.
Mucho importante to have a speaker Johnson for Monday.
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Massie mustache held out.”
F–k him. Paulbot scumbag.
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The Speaker of the House vote today….translation-Trump won. Pure and simple.
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”Must have held out” 🙄
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I like this Johnson guy; seems like a good man. I don’t envy him dealing with the House.
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Johnson has been a very weak Speaker thus far. My expectations are very low.
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Massie is a genius MIT grad who actually wants to have a functioning Constitutional Republic. If you don’t value that your part of the problem.
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I’m glad, for reasons of cohesion & getting the new administration’s off to a better start, that Johnson was able to pull off a win. He could not have done it, though, without Trump’s unfaltering endorsement and working the phones to get others on board at the last minute. However, I don’t hold it against Massie to stick to his convictions as his “No” vote did not impact the outcome
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Johnson is fine. Not a flame thrower and understands he was elected to govern not grandstand. That is why the freedom caucus idiots don’t like him, although they thought maybe he was one of them when they engineered a coup against McCarthy.
He will work with Trump on his agenda, but he is not going to hold votes to fail and to send messages. I think he will have the balls to stand up to Trump when needed.
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Massie is a genius MIT grad who actually wants to have a functioning Constitutional Republic”
BS. He is a Paulbot moron who thinks the tail wags the dog.
He wants to hold 95% of the R caucus hostage to his extreme views just like Ron and Rand Paul.
Because he can’t get his way he throws childish tantrums and tries to send a message by electing a far left Marxist like Jeffries as speaker.
Constitutional republic my ass. He could start by learning a little about the Constitution himself, and that nowhere does it say a tiny minority of deadenders should rule the House.
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The Speaker of the House vote today….translation-Trump won. Pure and simple”
Yep.
Trump was smart enough to know that Johnson was the best he was going to get, and that another sh-t show in the House was just going to give the Dems ammunition to paint the administration as dysfunctional.
It bodes well for the future.
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I would tell Massie, it is fine and expected that you have convictions, but you also cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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I am glad some of the people who might have voted against Johnson fell in line. MTG, Chip Roy, my congressman Rick Perry (barely squeaked by in a red district because he is perceived as too extreme).
Massie is not a conservative, he is a semi-libertarian kook, he could be a bastard child of Ron Paul and Justin Amash.
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I would tell Massie, it is fine and expected that you have convictions, but you also cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
He can push for his ideas in the R caucus. He can make speeches on the House floor. He can give interviews. He can write books.
What he can’t, or shouldn’t do, is sabotage Trump’s agenda before he is even in office.
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Jason said….”He can push for his ideas in the R caucus. He can make speeches on the House floor. He can give interviews. He can write books.
What he can’t, or shouldn’t do, is sabotage Trump’s agenda before he is even in office.”
It’s a low bar, but this could be you best post ever….
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Johnson is “fine” only because he is not Jeffries. Otherwise, he has gone against his word on a number of occasions, including working with Jeffries and Schumer on a CR bill before Christmas that ballooned out to over 1500 pages of crap and pork the Dems wanted. His secretive collaboration on that bill is what sent so many in the Republican caucus over the edge, wanting him ousted as speaker. He is currently riding on a fine line to hold the line (and his promises) against the Dems continuous efforts to sabotage Trumps agenda.
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including working with Jeffries and Schumer on a CR bill”
LOL
It’s called governing.
Nothing wrong with that.
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BTW, because so many in the freedom caucus voted against the original bloated CR bill, it was whittled down to around a 118 page less egregious one.
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You speak loud Jason, but in the end are a weenie in opposing bad governance.
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Unfortunately Biden nixed the take over of US Steel by Nippon Steele.
The Dems are still beholden to the unions because the union leadership is still composed of Democratic hacks.
This would be an opportunity to modernize US Steel and make it efficient and competitive world wide, but instead the protectionist xenophobic morons want to make sure US Steel continues it march towards obsolescence and demise.
Not that Trump would not have probably nixed it too, but Dems did it first to ensure the money keeps flowing.
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t was whittled down to around a 118 page less egregious one.”
LOL
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His secretive collaboration on that bill is what sent so many in the Republican caucus over the edge, wanting him ousted as speaker.”
So many?
Like 3 out of 220?
Janzam is going to be a tough contendah for HHR Clown 2025.
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It’s a low bar, but this could be you best post ever….
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Damm, next thing I know I will be getting a Deep State commendation.
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Mike Johnson is a weak House Speaker endorsed by Trump, full stop.
Fixed it for Jan.
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Hey look, Trump could become a RINO traitor to janzam just like Johnson did.
Nobody is safe.
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Speaker Johnson spoke of defeating the Administrative State. I wonder if that is a more palatable term to the ostriches…..
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Chi – I included you in the HHR Clown of 2024 Award as part of the Cult. You really should try to win it outright in 2025 but the competition will be tough.
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Yawn…..
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So, no Maga civil war? Mslsd, Cn and,n, and free passers are crushed
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Tina, Speaker Johnson vowed to rein in the Administrative State. All elected Republicans voted for this position. Ostriches hardest hit….
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Read an article from the realm of Higher Ed, which for the most part functions as the communist training arm of the Democrat Party. Apparently the Biden Admin has a complex requirement for data collection that colleges must report by Jan 15, and like 90% of schools are begging for it to be delayed because Trump’s dept of ed is promising to throw it out.
But Biden’s Dept of Ed is sticking it to their own constituents to comply on the 15th despite the huge administrative burden it puts on them.
So now its the Dems in position where they are “sending a message” with worthless actions that will cause pain and suffering to their own people, even though it will be flushed on January 20.
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Just you and Jan are crushed. You are the ones fuming about Trump’s support of the visa program.
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Zzzzzzzz The Cult believes in Deep State not Administrative State. Deep State is an alleged nefarious cabal. Administrative State is a bunch of lazy bureaucrats putting in time until retirement. Like Tina did.
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Bitter sez…Deep State is an alleged nefarious cabal.
According to you, Chief. As we’ve gone over countless times, your definition is not what is meant by most.
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Actually, it is what is meant by most believers of Deep State. Nobody would come up with a stupid nickname like that over a bunch of bureaucrats unless they were nefarious.
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What you all better worry about is the shifting of the magnetic north poll.
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This shifting would be like you driving around on a set of tires that are out of balance.
It upserts and throws off the earth’s Feng Shui.
This shifting is touching off all sorts of things from increasing earthquakes and volcano activity to making people do crazy things like becoming terrorists, blowing themselves up in of Trump hotels and voting Democrat.
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One day, both Bill and Hilary Clinton died. They had them both lie in state for a week at the Capitol building in D.C.
Then, the lawsuits started between Arkansas, NY, and D.C.
All three wanted them to be buried and lie in THEIR respective geographic locations forever.
But there was disagreement over where they lied the most when they were alive, so it affected the decision of where they would both lie in perpetuity.
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Comedy gold.
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Is the shifting North Pole causing the reign of terror by monkeys?
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I watched a report on the alleged increased risk of cancer from drinking alcohol.
My question is what is the increased risk of cancer from living long enough to get cancer instead of being eaten by a saber-tooth tiger, dying in childbirth or the bubonic plague like our ancestors?
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Mike Derino strikes again.
Ian Jaeger
@IanJaeger29
JUST IN: Ohio Republican Governor, Mike DeWine VETOES bill that would have protected doctors from losing their licenses if they disagreed with the CDC, WHO, NIH etc. Unbelievable!
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Any link for the law that was vetoed?
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Ohio governors can line item veto, so it was a specific provision in a much larger bill. Here is a link to the bill PDF. I believe it is section 9B on page 179.
https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_135/legislation/hb315/08_EN/pdf/
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Decent article describing the veto
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2025-01-03/ohio-governor-vetoes-medical-free-speech-clause-he-says-would-gut-states-regulatory-power
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Derino is a vaxxer and lock down Governor.
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Lol
NEW: Greenland seeks independence from Denmark as Trump is set to take office, hopes to acquire the island – The Hill
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“Is the shifting North Pole causing the reign of terror by monkeys?”
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Very likely.
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Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: Trump appoints Fox contributor Tammy Bruce as spokeswoman for the State Department.
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NT
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