This thread is still new, so I will add it right here. Spring is in the air where I live, so it reminds me that Pitchers and Catchers are starting to get ready….
Name the country or state:
Map data ©2016 Google, Rudy Mezzy
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 |
Waiting for DW’s next mystery location.
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
64 responses to “Waiting for DW’s next mystery location.”
First…will put one up soon.
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Added the contest to this thread. Remember, you get one guess until I open it up for round two if needed. Which US state, or which foreign country is shown?
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Williamsport PA
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Correct. The iconic field of the Little League World Series.
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BillW knows his little league baseball.
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Tried to set that one up for you Bitter, but you must have been away.
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….and Jason must have been out feeding his llama. Sorry I took your question, Bitter.
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I thought about using an image of US-15 coming down the hill toward the Little League International building on the right, but that would have been easy too.
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Homan said Joy Reid is dumber than a box of rocks.
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I have been to Williamsport. Their Little League Museum is worth visiting.
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I think the Little League Softball championship is in Oklahoma.
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good morning. Seems I’m going to have to come on much earlier in the day to win against all of y’all brilliant people.
sooooo. I’ve been pretty quiet lately. Traveling a lot, work and the young ones have limited my time, but I’ve been watching what’s going on with Trump. I haven’t read the thread from yesterday so my opinion won’t have been based on what anyone here has said…though I truly wish airports would stop broadcasting cnn. I believe they constitute 90% of their viewership.
so, while I agree with some of what Trump has been doing, I feel like he’s going too far to feed his ravenous base. Freezing all government programs??? I believe the constitution gave the purse strings to congress. I actually like that he’s eliminating DEI programs (btw I can tell you firsthand that a lot of companies have completely shut down those programs in the last 30 days with a speed I didn’t expect), but why be so vocal about it.
he won NOT because of the base, but with a coalition that included disaffected black and Hispanic Americans. If we want a long term shift there needs to be some delicacy/nuance with these rollouts or else perception becomes reality with these voters.
let’s win long term by being more strategic and less bombastic…
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Damm it, I knew that, I used to drive by it a lot.
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he won NOT because of the base, but with a coalition that included disaffected black and Hispanic Americans. If we want a long term shift there needs to be some delicacy/nuance with these rollouts or else perception becomes reality with these voters.
let’s win long term by being more strategic and less bombastic…
You are not a Cultist. Thus you are a commie RINO traitor.
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lol. Let me polish my horn
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or is it horns
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I was wrong. It is in North Carolina. The college championship is in Oklahoma.
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is the men’s college championship still in Nebraska. I thought I heard they may start rotating it…or already did.
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I think I have driven by the Little League property in South Williamsport at least 30 times in my trips north. However, I have stopped going that way in recent years since they put in a bypass bridge over the Susquehanna between Shamokin Dam and Lewisburg, meaning both Lewisburg and South Williamsport can be bypassed saving 25 minutes or so on my trip.
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There are lots of scenic drives out there, but US-15 from Harrisburg north to Corning, NY is a great one.
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“You know, we spent three days, you know, debating … trying to debate that President Musk gave a Nazi salute — of course he did!”
Tim Walz
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is that really still a thing. Is waltz still pushing that idiocy. So now you can’t raise your hand without it being a salute?
next time anyone wonders why Harris lost…reference waltz comments and you’ll know.
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Going through some old photo albums of my childhood.
I thought you guys would like to see this one of me and some of my pals back in the day.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=955114160156006&set=a.481075117559915&cft%5B0%5D=AZXxOxHvLsTMsSh9T0XO6p-Dm0CEPZvpveww_ZYkFhro5DfOYtLrnUb6sCZGBm6DAC2w-Wa2Pg0P3C2WptwoG4zxKIIujvnw62D6niKWh9WIhDInYEG2zfBL5roxYXGbGx2Bpp6NFQ4xbT_KJRxnkgEH3UQDYubHid27rIoo4tZVYzBNnDiulm_ySjgeRLpkXJObAbBo93434OnSZqgHjlghWSO9vC674GbYoZpqTXW3_Q&tn=EH-R
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Here is a Tim Walz Nazi salute:
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Vic, Trump is doing what he said throughout the campaign. He’s been a well-known change agent since coming down the escalator, and he was elected twice. I’d say he was twice elected because he’s a change, not despite being a change agent.
Most polling of the transition is positive; CNN just had a segment saying Trump is more popular now than at any time during his first term.
The key to keeping more of the black and brown votes is for Republicans to actually talk to them, address their concerns and ask for their vote. It worked for Trump.
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I hope you’re right. I’d like to see the coalition grow
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Vic, it looks to me that the coalition is bigger now than any time in the past 20 years, and perhaps 50. Could that go back? Sure. I’m a fan of politicians being authentic and trying to enact the stuff they ran on.
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with all due respect, the Reagan coalition dwarfed the current one, Reagan won in much larger numbers both in electoral and raw vote totals, so let’s not get first month of the term euphoria.
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Trump had more total votes than Reagan but that is what happens when population grows. Reagan had higher % and EVs.
Total popular vote is not a reliable measure of the merit of a President or Biden in 2020 would be the greatest President in U.S. history and George Washington would be last.
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Reagan was elected 44 years ago and re-elected 40 years ago. My comment on the current coalition should have said 20 years, perhaps 40 years (rather than 50). Reagan’s was indeed a broad coalition.
Between Reagan and Trump, the Republican coalition was far from a big tent. The tent is now bigger than it has been since Reagan. To me, that’s a good thing.
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Also, I think the total Republican vote for Congress was also strong this time.
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with all due respect, the Reagan coalition dwarfed the current one, Reagan won in much larger numbers both in electoral and raw vote totals, so let’s not get first month of the term euphoria”
LOL
The Reagan haters get torn a new a-hole.
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Reagan was elected 44 years ago and re-elected 40 years ago.”
Translation: let’s move the goal posts so we can erase Reagan from history!
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rump had more total votes than Reagan but that is what happens when population grows. Reagan had higher % and EVs”
Facts never matter to the Cultists.
Any mention of Reagan is somehow considered “diminishing” for Trump, so it must be censored.
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actually Chicon did say 20 years and then said maybe 50 so he’s not moving any goalposts.
he’s also correct. The last few presidencies have seen a very loose coalition, with lots of competing factions in them.
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btw. We should ALL stop with the Reagan comparisons, or getting hurt feelings when he is compared to Trump.
this is an entirely different world than it was 44 years ago, America has changed (much for the worse sadly…especially thanks to Obama who was the most damaging President to this country since Buchanan).
access to information, ease of transport, the way we communicate is so substantially different than 44 years ago when we didn’t even have cable Tv yet.
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actually Chicon did say 20 years and then said maybe 50 so he’s not moving any goalposts.”
Yes, he is moving goalposts because his intent is to remove Reagan from comparisons with Trump because “it was too long ago”.
He is deeply offended than anyone would remind him that Reagan won 49 states and much higher % of the vote than Trump.
No free lunch.
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Vic, Chicon hates Reagan and will always try to denigrate him.
I won’t let him get away with it.
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We should ALL stop with the Reagan comparisons,”
Why?
Just because he is viewed as somehow diminishing to Trump by the Cultists and thus has to be denigrated, forgotten, and disparaged?
No.
Besides, YOU were the one who brought up Reagan.
VictrC
January 29, 2025 at 11:34 am
with all due respect, the Reagan coalition dwarfed the current one, Reagan won in much larger numbers both in electoral and raw vote totals, so let’s not get first month of the term euphoria.
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Hey Walt, were grilled mammoth steaks tasty or did you mostly do mammoth tartare?
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I always put some of that Cajun BBQ sauce on the mammoth steaks when I cooked them.
BTW, I hear scientist are looking to bring back the dodo bird.
THAT was some sweet eating.
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How was T-Rex meat? Was it too tough?
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OK, poll explainers, explain this.
Trump job approval on Jan. 21 was 56A to 39D
A plus 17.
TODAY it is 52A-47D, a plus 7.
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Why the drop?
Does this just PROVE how bad public polling is these days?
The sudden drop sure does not match what I am seeing and hearing.
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OR is the drop REAL and it is due perhaps to:
–Trump goofiness over Gulf of America, wanting Greenland and Panama Canal?
or
–bad taste in mouth from the confirmation hearings of some of Trump’s nominees?
or
–because Trump is moving quickly and successfully on apprehension and deportations of the worst lot of criminal illegals and forcing Columbia to back down on return of illegals?
or
–because of Trump firing various federal workers like the ones who worked at DOJ under Smith, seeking to buy out and force retirement of others, ending security details for various folks, making claims about the CA fires that are not true, freezing/pausing all federal grants, etc.?
or
–continuation/acceleration of MSM ramping up negative stories about Trump and his first weeks, even if they are FALSE stories, such as the one that said ICE was going into schools n Chicago?
–Something else?
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BTW, several days ago, there was a news story here in WV about how ICE/WV officials now had 53 illegal aliens in custody throughout WV.
Not sure about what the body count of apprehensions is now…
My gut feeling in there about 500-1000 illegals JUST in my COUNTY of WV (Berkeley county pop. is about 175,000) and another 300-500 in Jefferson County next door.
There have been a NUMBER of high profile cases in my county about illegals and some high profile murders and other crimes there have committed HERE.
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I voted for Reagan twice. I have also voted for Trump three times.
Trump isn’t half the man Reagan was. Or communicator.
However, Reagan would not win 40 states today. If you believe he would you are delusional.
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I voted for Reagan twice. I have also voted for Trump three times.
Trump isn’t half the man Reagan was. Or communicator.
However, Reagan would not win 40 states today. If you believe he would you are delusional.
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A little south of me in VA…an ILLEGAL ALIEN
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Published: Jan. 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM EST|Updated: Jan. 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM EST
BRIDGEWATER, Va. (WHSV) – Officials have identified the suspect involved in Monday’s pursuit along Interstate 81 as a wanted man out of New York.
The Bridgewater Police Department was alerted to a license plate reader that identified the suspect, “who had recently committed a home invasion and stole a truck in Maryland,” Bridgewater Police Chief Phillip Read said in a release Tuesday. That suspect is Esmeraldo Martinez De La Cruz, 34, of Bronx, New York.
Officers located De La Cruz in the area of Dinkel Avenue and Hickory Lane in Bridgewater with his 4-year-old daughter in the truck, Read said. De La Cruz fled “at a high rate of speed” after officials attempted a traffic stop and he continued northbound on I-81 in excess of speeds of 110 mph, according to the release.
During the pursuit, De La Cruz began firing at officers. He was taken into custody near mile marker 300 in the Strasburg area. Read said there were no reported injuries, and De La Cruz’s daughter was unharmed and later reunited with family.
The chase at one point closed down parts of I-81 due to the police activity, causing traffic delays Monday afternoon.
De La Cruz was charged with the following offenses and taken to Rockingham County Jail:
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A Democrat has called for over half the nation to be executed for supporting Trump. Hung from the neck until dead:
Lenawee Dem Party Chair Calls for Death Penalty for Trump Supporters
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Trump isn’t half the man Reagan was. Or communicator.”
No argument there.
It doesn’t mean Trump wasn’t a good President and that he doesn’t have potential for any even better Presidency this time around.
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Vic, the point was that the current breadth of the Republican coalition is broader than at any point since Reagan. I believe you got that; despite the usual disingenuous crap from Jason, which only serves to diminish discussion.
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Chi is posting with 2 handles or we have a new poster.
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Not me. Why is it me who is accused?
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It had a Trumpy tone and was posted twice
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But I was wrong. It was not Chi.
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Walt, Mr. De La Cruz sounds like the type of person the Left wants here, for some reason.
I would guess the Judicial System in West Virginia will not be as kind as would New York’s.
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We should welcome nachatron.
“Trump isn’t half the man Reagan was. Or communicator.”
Does not sound too “trumpy” to me.
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Btw, welcome Trumpy or not.
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However, Reagan would not win 40 states today. If you believe he would you are delusional.
Maybe yes, maybe no. Trump won 31 states.
He was reasonably competitive in at least another 6, NH, NM, ME, VA, MN and NJ.
Conceivably against Biden he could have won those for like 37.
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New thread with new poll and contest
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Bitter – Compared to you most everyone else on here is “Trumpy”.
I’ve lurked in the shadows at HHR for over 15 years.
I agree with Vic that most of the back/forth banter (somewhat akin to a henyard) on here between Bitter/Jason vs Chi/Jan/Tina is useless as the same arguments are made in perpetuity.
But I do come here almost every day to glean the occasional tidbits that are of interest.
And I especially enjoy retllaw’s insight/humor.
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Bitter – Compared to you most everyone else on here is “Trumpy”.
I’ve lurked in the shadows at HHR for over 15 years.
I agree with Vic that most of the back/forth banter (somewhat akin to a henyard) on here between Bitter/Jason vs Chi/Jan/Tina is useless as the same arguments are made in perpetuity.
But I do come here almost every day to glean the occasional tidbits that are of interest.
And I especially enjoy retllaw’s insight/humor.
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Welcome, nchatron.
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NT
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