According to @cygnal
President Trump Job Approval:
- Approve: 50%
- Disapprove: 48%
2026 Generic Ballot
🔴 Republicans: 47%
🔵 Democrats: 46%
1,500 LV; 2/4-2/5
Here is this afternoon’s Where is This? puzzle. Be the first to name the state or country shown below, one guess per person:
Map data ©2023 Google
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
114 responses to “GOP with slight edge in generic 2026 ballot”
Illegals are good.
-free passer
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Trump should not have control over the executive branch. Let the judges check him and run it.
-free passer
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A shot in the dark guess – Wyoming.
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Not Wyoming
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Trump has now talked with both Zelenskyy and Putin about bringing the war to an end. He diplomatically ended his Truth Social entry with “God bless Ukraine and Russia.” There is a meeting taking place in Munich with Zelenskyy, Rubio, and Vance to further discuss details of ending the war.
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Bitter says…Tariffs are bad except for Trump’s tariffs.
Not true. Reagan’s tariffs were good. Right?
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Trump Admin claws back the $59 million from fema given to house illegals.
This is really disgusting. A disaster agency aiding and abetting illegals.
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Winslow, Arizona?
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Not Arizona.
LEAVITT: Outlets in this room have been fearmongering the people into believing there is a “constitutional crisis” at the White House. But the real constitutional crisis is taking place among judges, who abuse their power to unilaterally Trump’s basic executive authority. They are acting as activists. This is part of a concerted effort – it’s nothing more than weaponizing justice against President Trump. 77 million Americans voted for this president, and each injunction is the abuse of the rule of law and attempt to thwart the will of the people.
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Said by nobody at HHR.
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Said by nobody at HHR.
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Those were bad, too. Tariffs and trade wars are bad for customers and employees. Is that clear enough to you?
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Minnesota
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Not Minnesota
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North Carolina
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“the real constitutional crisis is taking place among judges, who abuse their power to unilaterally Trump’s basic executive authority. They are acting as activists. This is part of a concerted effort.”
Absolutely.
I asked earlier if all three branches are “independent”? Seems like the position of some is that only the judicial branch is independent, and that the executive is subservient to the judicial.
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not north Carolina
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Said by nobody at HHR
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Bitterlaw
February 12, 2025 at 1:01 pm
Tariffs are bad except for Trump’s tariffs.
Leftists are bad except for Trump’s Leftists.
I love HHR.”
The Cultists have no more “conservative” principles to sell out, what are they going to do….
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I’d love to read the comments here if a federal judge issued a restraining order one year ago compelling the Biden Administration to cease funding to Ukraine immediately, and preventing all US personnel from communicating with anyone associated with the Ukraine.
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Alasker?
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I realize that I have only been back on HHR for a few months, but it seems like there is a distinct lack of patience among some of the posters. I have been waiting for a conservative swing in the government for 50+ years, and I couldn’t be happier with what has happened over the past three weeks.
It takes time to dismantle structures that were assembled starting in the 1960s, and since these actions will ruin the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people, it is only natural that they will fight with all their strength. They will employ every tactic that they can to stifle or delay the changes that will force them to find a new way to make a living.
If you have confidence in the direction we are now headed, why argue about whether a judge puts a barrier in the way – one that will certainly be knocked down? Just grap a bag of popcorn and enjoy the show!
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Not Alaska…but I can see what your are seeing there. At exactly 4:00 p.m. we will open this up for second guesses.
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This is incredible….
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/02/12/covid-insanity-12-year-old-relative-of-vp-vance-denied-heart-transplant-because-she-is-unvaccinated-n2185497
No Covid vaccine? No heart transplant…
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There is a church in the pic, a bit rustic, and the street is clearly 5th Avenue, so it sounds like a normal decent sized community, but the street isn’t paved. There are pine trees and deciduous trees. But the mountains in the background like Appalachia–but they are not. The For Sale sign is in English, which is maybe a clue.
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Sarah Palin was a bit of a dingbat, but she did warn that Democrats would lead us to death panels. You counter them, and you don’t get life saving healthcare.
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OPEN for second Guesses.
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Canada
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BillW says… “If you have confidence in the direction we are now headed, why argue about whether a judge puts a barrier in the way – one that will certainly be knocked down?”
Cases often take years to get to the Supreme Court. These myriad of cases could, perhaps, get expedited appeals, which could get it done sooner. Then, Trump’s programs can be implemented. Takes a big chunk out of a four year term. This is, of course, intentional. So, no, I’m not okay with it.
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These appeals will take days, not months or years. Follow the ’emergency docket’ at the Supreme Court.
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Days? We’ll see….
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The Cult would have been thrilled. I would have said file an Appeal.
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I hear that several appeals have already been filed.
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Trump today has made it clear that he is done with Zelensky and is interested in working with Putin to reach an agreement that makes Putin happy.
Hardly a surprise.
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Georgia?
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They can call it the Gateway Pundit Accords
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BillW said….I hear that several appeals have already been filed.
I hadn’t seen that, do you have a link?
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We have a new “anonymous” poster. I smell llama…..
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Here is one:
Appeals court denies Trump’s request to lift order … – ABC News
It will be appealed up the line to the Supremes, I believe.
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Here is another one:
https://www.borderreport.com/news/doj-appeals-block-of-birthright-citizenship-executive-order/
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Bondi has only filed 2 out of 12 appeals. She is not doing her job.
she is having a presser soon and is already 1/2 hour late.
She will continue to be a weak link here.
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Canada is a WINNER! Dawson City, Yukon territory
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Breaking charges against Hoegel and Leticia.
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Bondi was swearing in Tulsi Gabbard which made her late for the presser.
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SENATOR MAZIE HIRONO: “Due to the activism of conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr., public trust in vaccines has eroded, threatening lives.”
RKF might be a loon, but public trust in COVID vaccine eroded when people started dropping dead from it. I know of a few people. A good friend got the shot, and within days was in the ER with heart problems. Thankfully he survived.
That’s what eroded public trust. Not the loon RFK.
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Charges filed against Bragg
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I predicted that tat a year ago.
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Sorry, not bragg. But the ny dmv
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And Tina’s RINO list grows.
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I hope Trump issues the following EOs:
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One would THINK that the SS admin. would already have something in place to prevent someone from getting SS checks for 150 years.
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My trust in the COVID vaccine was damaged when I fell chronically ill; it was terminated when my daughter died.
The Democrat Party and all the Pinko adherents of the Branch Covidian cult can shove it deep and wide where the sun doesn’t shine as far as I am concerned.
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Walt, he got rid of paper straws.
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HOLY SHLIT! Pam Bondi files CHARGES AGAINST NEW YORK for protecting illegal aliens. That includes Gov. Kathy Hochul, A.G. Letitia James, and the state’s DMV commissioner.
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I would like an executive order forcing online receipts to all be ONE stinking page, instead of the way they always put 99% of the content on page 1, and then a line or page number or something small on page two, just enough to waste a sheet of paper.
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And once again, Dems forced to root for Hochul and the criminal illegal aliens in the face of majority public opinion.
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Conflict of interest? We’ll see in a few years….
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/12/federal-judge-hearing-trump-spending-freeze-called-him-a-tyrant-has-ties-to-ngo-getting-federal-cash-n2185514
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Another EO I would like to see…
–end February 17 being National Cabbage Day.
NO VEGETABLES, except for potatoes and possibly Lima beans, should have a national day.
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BTW, will all shrimp from the former Gulf of Mexico now be labeled as being from the Gulf of America?
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tina,
I thought he just got rid of the BAN on plastic straws.
I would think manufacturers could now produce paper straws and/or plastic straws.
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The Isolationist should tell Ukraine and Russia to settle their own dispute. He should tell the Middle East to sort out their own issues because we have enough oil and don’t need theirs.
Fortunately, Trump’s not an isolationist.
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GF said…My trust in the COVID vaccine was damaged when I fell chronically ill; it was terminated when my daughter died.
That’s awful, GF. I’m sorry that happened to you. That was a dark era in this country; hopefully things have turned for the better.
Peace.
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If people want paper straws, they should be able to buy them. If people want to buy plastic straws, they should be able to buy them. Both can be true.
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Is this lawsuit against the NY Governor and AG retribution? Asking for a friend…..
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Should all judges, members of Congress, and all Federal employees be forced to swear loyalty to Trump?
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Good news on one of the cases….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-restores-trump-administrations-buyout-offer-federal-workers
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Tina, Maxine ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
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Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
If you think the fraud and corruption at USAID is bad, just wait until we see how our money has been spent on Ukraine.
Americans deserve an accounting of EVERY SINGLE tax dollar spent over there.
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Deserve an accounting? The US taxpayer? They’re supposed to keep the eyes closed and the wallet open. C’mon man.
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Zzzzzzzzz. Putina was opposed to all aid to Ukraine from the first day of the invasion. She has never condemned the invasion or expressed any sympathy for Putin’s victims
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No matter how much corruption, fraud, illegal pocketing of funds, weapons being sold on the black market is found to have happened with our aid, Bitter will continue being blasé, only wanting more of the same. I wonder if he handles his family’s finances in such a nonchalant manner?
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I’m not sure why the posters who favor unlimited support for Ukraine don’t want to know how much was siphoned off. Maybe if all the aid arrived, Ukraine would be in a better position.
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Zzzzzzzzz No matter how many Ukrainians were murdered, raped, injured, made refugees, and children kidnapped and takes to Russia, Jan will never stop hoping Putin had more victims.
I have made this clear from the beginning. It is a complex and ugly world. If there was fraud and abuse in military aid to Ukraine, I accept it as the price of saving millions of Ukrainian lives. The U.S. wasted billions of dollars a
year domestically without the return on investment of killing Putin’s invaders and war criminals.
Jan is truly heartless.
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GF,
So sorry for your loss.
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Because the people who are obsessed with claims of fraud and abuse don’t give a F about how many Ukrainians are still alive and free because of the military aid. They are heartless apologists for Putin and his war crimes.
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I remember when Chi pretended to care about opposing Putin. That didn’t last long. The Cult demands loyalty.
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Bitter is showing some of that posting “leadership” without hate and anger we heard about in the past few days.
It is very possible to support aid to anywhere and want to know where it went and how it is spent. In fact, it’s normal.
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Zzzzzzz. Given a choice between no aid to Ukraine (the Cult’s position) and aid with some level of abuse that kept millions of Ukrainians alive and free, I support continued aid.
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Here is one illegal aliens who is not incarcerated in WV in neighboring Morgan County. He was passing counterfeit $100 bills.
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“On February 9, authorities apprehended a fugitive with a history of fraud and burglary after allegedly utilizing counterfeit currency at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Berkeley Springs. According to the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department , Deputy B.K. Knotts responded to a report of counterfeit currency at the store on Union Street around 8:30 p.m. Upon arrival, he encountered a man who initially identified himself as Zabihullah Enayutalla. However, during the investigation, Deputy Knotts determined that the man had provided false identification and was actually Khaled Khaleeq. Authorities revealed that Khaleeq is a non-citizen in the U.S. on a work visa and was a wanted fugitive from Will County, Illinois. He had outstanding felony warrants for burglary and forgery and was wanted for extradition nationwide. Investigators have linked Khaleeq to at least one other counterfeit currency case in Morgan County. He was arrested on charges of being a fugitive from justice, obstructing an officer, and possession of counterfeit money with intent to utter. Khaleeq is currently being held at Eastern Regional Jail on bond as the investigation continues.”
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not incarcerated should be NOW incarcerated…smh
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I’m not sure why the posters who favor unlimited support for Ukraine don’t want to know how much was siphoned off.”
Zzzzz……… Chicon loves to shill for his iconic hero Putin.
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The posters that supported the grift had been wrong for 3 plus years. Pretty much bypass all posts from them about foreign policy.
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Putina has supported Putin’s invasion and war crimes for almost 3 years. Truly one of the most cruel and heartless posters ever at HHR.
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I am very frustrated.
I cannot find any media reports covering the details of what DOGE I uncovering.
–DRUDGE absolutely sucks.
–the local newspaper is terrible.
–the news feeds on my AOL all suck
I want to read the details of what has been uncovered but can find no details.
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The US is right in sending military supplies and equipment to Ukraine.
The US should audit what it sends Ukraine. Both can be true.
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Given a choice between no aid to Ukraine (the Cult’s position) and aid with some level of abuse that kept millions of Ukrainians alive and free, I support continued aid.
Ukraine’s war with Russia could have been mitigated much sooner by either supplying the weapons needed at the get-go, or complying with the agreement forged a few months after the Russian invasion. Dragging out the war with aid packages resulted in hundreds of thousands more deaths, along with the physical destruction of the country.
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Walt, I find some of that info at redstate.com and the rest of the Townhall sites. And from Tina, for which I’m grateful.
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Walt:
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/government-waste-inefficiency-trump-doge/
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I cannot find any media reports covering the details of what DOGE I uncovering.
Supposedly, tomorrow Trump is going to list what DOGE has discovered. In a press conference today Trump said when reviewing 200 questionable expenditures DOGE dug out only 3 seemed reasonable to him.
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Jan – Who do you think you are fooling. You never supported any aid. You opposed all weapons to Ukraine. You only supported Ukraine’s surrender on Putin’s terms.
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From the article: $2.7 trillion in improper payments since 2003.
$200+ billion in 2022 and 2023.
I am sure they have not gotten to Dod yet and the money lost to the grifter
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Keep supporting Putin, Putina.
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I have felt, and posted as such, that Biden was complicit in starting the Russian/Ukraine War by not firmly warning Putin about the consequences should he invade. When the invasion did happen I think we blew our chances for diplomacy by not settling for an agreement that would have skirted all the death, disruption and misery that ensued in the almost 3 years of war. I’m not a warmonger like you are Bitter. I see little advantage in killing hundreds of thousands of people when there are other ways to achieve a better end. I also think that much of the aid you support has been squandered, serving to broaden corruption rather than directed towards helping the Ukrainian people.
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“The US is right in sending military supplies and equipment to Ukraine.
The US should audit what it sends Ukraine. Both can be true.”
-Exactly.
And those who claim that anyone who wants an audit is a Putin-lover is arguing with their head up their arse.
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““Should all judges, members of Congress, and all Federal employees be forced to swear loyalty to Trump?””
-I would be fine if they swear loyalty AGAINST Schumer and Jeffries.
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“Senator Hawley sounds like a “Cult Member”! The temerity of him to ask for an audit of the $$ given to Ukraine! Putin-Lover!
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The more that’s revealed about how the USAID operates, the worse they look.
”Trump’s OIG, which just took over USAID, published a report. It was unknown to the American public until now that there is a big legal loophole in USAID. Everyone can read that OIG report. John Solomon from Just the News published all of this.
But essentially, USAID can look the other way because there are no restrictions on its contractors regarding sanctioned money flows and terrorist financing—or at least, there are massive loopholes.
“The State Department can fund terrorist groups and get away with it in a way that no other US government agency can.”
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The level of waste fraud and abuse they are finding, frankly, is even higher than I believed, although I am not shocked by it.
It’s a pretty simple thing – when the majority of both parties are willing to overlook “aid with some level of abuse” then eventually you get where we are now – the level has probably reached 50% and more!
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Lee Zeldin supposedly discovered a $20 billion slush fund at EPA, just released in last months after the election. Trying to claw it back.
Just a little “aid with some level of abuse” for the climate warriors!
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Found at Instapundit.com:
“HOUSE HAS DOGE HEARING BUT IGS NOWHERE IN SIGHT: House Subcommittee of Delivering Government Efficiency (DOGE – see what they did there?) convened its first-ever hearing on the Trump DOGE blitzkreig against waste and fraud. Special emphasis was placed by Republicans on the $200+ billion lost annually to improper payments, which is a huge part of the overall waste, fraud and abuse problem.
But what is quite possibly the biggest chunk of opportunity for making huge and permanent progress in cleaning up the national disaster that is the federal bureaucracy. What might that be?
The nearly 14,000 cost-cutting and efficiency open recommendations by Inspectors-General (IG) and 300 similar Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations being ignored by departments and agencies. As I report in The Epoch Times, nary a word was said by GOPers or Democrats. What’s up with that?”
-My main worry: Congressional Republicans will remain timid when it comes to cutting costs, fraud, waste and abuse.
THIS MUST HAPPEN NOW, in the first 6 months of the 2 year term, so that the next 6 months/year is aimed at pushing for lower tax rates and cheaper energy and food prices.
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Did anyone guess the picture puzzle? I missed it if they did.
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“If you have confidence in the direction we are now headed, why argue about whether a judge puts a barrier in the way – one that will certainly be knocked down? Just grap a bag of popcorn and enjoy the show!”
-Hi BillW,
Valid point, and the popcorn is popping EVERY DAY!
My worry would be that records could be destroyed quickly, and I want to catch the hands in the cookie jar, not after the cookies are eaten.
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Canada Sweden game was a pretty good game. Hopefully the one guy who had to get x-rays isn’t seriously hurt.
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https://x.com/maphumanintent/status/1889764376900698485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1889764376900698485%7Ctwgr%5E43d3f02f55df0f7d1796f61cec8ace2b39660d36%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F702384%2F
“How much of our defense and dual use article supply chains are managed by foreign freight forwarders?”
-We are not prepared for war with China.
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/the-enemy-is-china.php
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https://revolver.news/2025/02/president-bukele-says-activist-judges-destroyed-el-salvador-heres-how-he-stopped-them/
-Reposted from earlier.
Janz – not a proponent of doing what Bukele did. I don’t believe we are at that point at this time, and hopefully never get there.
Bitterlaw – what is that injunction bond (?) spoken about in that link? Is there such a thing? Why hasn’t it been used?
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“P.S. Website note from Holly the Assistant: Huns, we are quite aware that WPDE has been stupidly updating, and thank you for your efforts to inform us. There is not a darn thing the webmaster can do to fix commenting at this time: WPDE screwed up their code, and they are going to have to fix it. Sometimes it works on some browsers, sometimes it does not. Please possess your souls in patience, and we’ll look forward to seeing your insights when WPDE gets their code working again.”
-Looks like the recent issue was a WordPress problem. This quote was from another blog.
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You are painfully naive. Appeasement never works. There was no diplomatic solution with Putin before the invasion or after it started. There was only a proposal for Ukraine’s surrender. It is ironic that you claim to revere America’s Founders and freedom but have such scathing contempt for Ukrainians fighting for their freedom and national sovereignty.
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“It is ironic that you claim to revere America’s Founders and freedom but have such scathing contempt for Ukrainians fighting for their freedom and national sovereignty.”
Written like someone who gets his history from Bill Kristol rather than George Washington. Our first president expressly urged his countrymen and new nation to avoid foreign entanglements.
Time for neo-cons to accept you have lost your TDS-laced hated of American First principles and go join the Cheneys and the other LOSERS in the Democratic party.
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The Founders would all have been hanged as traitors at the end of a very short revolution without foreign military aid from France and Spain. Good thing those countries did not avoid foreign entanglements.
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