Trump Job Approval

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Pollsters right in 2024:46.2 / 51.0-4.8

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Overdid it yesterday. Resting today.

87 responses to “Overdid it yesterday. Resting today.”

  1. My surgeon said I could start weight-bearing on my right leg as tolerated with the pain and using the walker. Made it out to a pharmacy and also dinner at a restaurant last night. The surgeon did not tell me that tolerable pain would set my leg on fire all night. Lesson learned.

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  2. take it slow and easy Bitter

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  3. Rosie O’Donnell is questioning the results of the 2024 election and calling for an investigation, claiming that Trump is best friends with a man who “owns and runs the internet” and that Kamala Harris was “filling up stadiums with supporters,” while Trump “was not able to do

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  4. elementary school cafeterias are now ‘stadiums’?

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  5. Dems are ‘getting destroyed’ as data show Gen Z ‘most conservative’ generation in decades-

    Ezra Klein suggested that Democratic assumptions about youth support have proven ‘completely false’ amid President Donald Trump’s return to power 

    New York Times columnist Ezra Klein spoke with a Democratic pollster Tuesday about how the dream of an ascendant Democratic majority is imploding as younger voters, especially White men, flee the party. 

    Klein interviewed David Shor, the head of data science at Blue Rose Research, a Democratic polling firm, for his podcast in an episode titled “Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won.” 

    When Klein and Shor reviewed numerous charts, including one headlined, “2024 Democratic Support by Age – Split by Race and Gender,” the pollster explained that in this chart in particular, “One thing you can notice is that among 18-year-olds, women of color are the only of the four [race and gender demographic groups] that Harris won. Trump narrowly won nonwhite men.” 

    The Times columnist seized on one “shocking” finding in the data that defies one of the Democratic Party’s core beliefs. 

    “I find this part of this chart shocking. I sometimes talk about narrative violations, and if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it was that young people didn’t like him. And Republicans had been maybe throwing away young people for generations in order to run up their margins among seniors,” Klein said. “But if you look at this chart, 75-year-old White men supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than 20-year-old White men

    “It is a real shift,” Shor agreed. “This is the thing I am the most shocked by in the last four years — that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the Baby Boomers, and maybe even in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative generation that we’ve experienced maybe in 50 to 60 years.”

    The data expert went on to discuss what he called “the scariest chart in this entire presentation,” which shows the massive and historically unusual polarization between young men and women. 

    “What’s crazy is that if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. Eighteen-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Donald Trump than 18-year-old women, which is just completely unprecedented in American politics,” Shor said

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/nyt-writer-says-dems-getting-destroyed-data-show-gen-z-most-conservative-generation-decades

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  6. laiming that Trump is best friends with a man who “owns and runs the internet” and that Kamala Harris was “filling up stadiums with supporters,” while Trump “was not able to do”

    Ridiculous.

    Of course, some of the people saying this is ridiculous also claimed the Dominion voting machines were being controlled by a server in Germany or agreeing with Sidney Powell that:

    POWELL: “The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion, were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come out.”

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  7. jason yupanqui Avatar

    Jasmine Crockett says Dem revolt against Schumer reminds her of what happened when “Biden was taken down.”

    “I’ve talked to some donors that are trying to get very creative, but I think that you know, it is a little bit reminiscent of what we saw happen to when Joe Biden was taken down.”

    Probably almost said “put down”.

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    Until this kind of thing is not viewed as “normal” and is again overwhelmingly ridiculed, there is not much hope for the country.

    “A growing trend in academic publishing is “positionality statements” where authors list all their intersectional forms of privilege/oppression. This one is particularly absurd. “All authors are cis-gender menstruating individuals who identify as intersectional feminists.”

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  9. Bitter, as I’ve mentioned, a friend had a tib/fib erector set put in. One day the surgeon said, “the leg is fixed, you can’t hurt it in therapy…push it”. Doesn’t mean there wasn’t pain – there certainly was – but it helped to be free from the concern of going back to square one.

    Keep pushing ahead, you’re doing well.

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  10. jason yupanqui Avatar

    Fox poll:

    65% think Doge cuts not “sufficiently planned out”.

    Most popular Trump policy:

    Banning men in women’s sports 68%

    Least popular Trump policy

    Taking over Greenland 26%.

    I actually think the US should buy Greenland, it is strategically important and has a lot of unexplored resources.

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  11. Looks like Jason and I are alone here….Jason, what are you drinking? I’m buying….

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    Dirty martinis…

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    Someone is really paying big bucks to “soften up” Shapiro.

    Billboards everywhere:

    “WE NEED A WORKHORSE. SHAPIRO IS A SHOW PONY”.

    “HE SAID HE GET SH-T DONE. PA HAS A $3.7 BILLION DEFICIT”

    About a half dozen others attacking him on school choice, energy, and other issues.

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  14. jason yupanqui Avatar

    How many grills did George Foreman sell?

    No cheating.

    18.5 million

    43 million

    100 million

    How much did he sell the rights to the grill for?

    $39 million

    $97 million

    $138 million

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  15. Dirty martinis? Gin, I hope. I’m in.

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  16. 43M and 138M?

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  17. The Americas is a great show with stunning video of wildlife.

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  18. WTF! There is a frog in the Andes that can freeze solid at night and come back to life when it thaws out the next day!

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  19. Just watched the end of the Maryland/Colorado State basketball game….a good game. Not a big March Madness fan but love good games like the earlier Florida/UConn game today.

    And I do not skin in this game, per say. But didn’t the shooter for Maryland at the end of the game should have been called for ‘traveling’?

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  20. Traveling being called against the higher ranked seed in basketball is almost as rare as treasure on Oak Island

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  21. Flood the sc. make beotchy and Souter work.

    ricLDaugh

    BREAKING: This week, the Trump administration is going to the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse “many” of the nationwide, activist injunctions imposed by single district judges. Stephen Miller said that there have been a whopping ~30 injunctions in *just* the last 8 weeks. “Time for the Court to act to stop lawless injunctions,” says DOJ Chief of Staff

    @ChadMizelle47

    . This week, Trump sent a message to Chief Justice John Roberts: “If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!”

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  22. SCOTUS does not have to kiss Trump’s ass. It is part of a separate branch of government.

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  23. If you are bored and want to stir things up:

    –Call in sick to various places where you do not work, and tell them you will not be in today.Then call the same places back that afternoon and ask to speak to (your own name).

    –Call places that deliver food and place an order, but only speak in pig latin. And tell them the only money you have to pay for the order is Canadian.

    –Try to catch wild animals of various sizes and put clothes on them.

    –Get a contest going as to whether the 1928 NY Yankees or the 2012 Dallas Cowboys were the better team.

    – Sit by the side of the road in a fake police uniform and look serious as you hold up and point a hair dryer at cars that drive by, and then pretend to be talking to someone on your cell phone at the same time.

    –Get some orange cones to close off main thoroughfares and redirect traffic onto various side roads on some “detours”.

    –Sit in a lawn chair with a box of balloons and string and ask people to help you get to Florida by blowing up balloons and tying them to your lawn chair.

    –Carrying a clipboard and wearing a Civil Defence hard hat & yellow vest, go door to door in your neighborhood to tell them a Bigfoot has been spotted in the area, and tell them you have been sent there to take their statements.

    –Do a telephone poll and ask people what they would like to do about the weather. 

    –Go to WalMart, set up a table, and use a small bull horn to remind people they are not to turn their clocks up OR back one hour this month, while you also pass out flyers saying the same thing.  And the next day, go back and try to get people to sign a petition to force the government to MANDATE everyone turning the clocks back one hour EVERY MONTH so we have extra time to do more stuff, or at least get an extra hour of sleep every month.

    –After it rains, put on a raincoat and hat and sit in a lawn chair next to a small highway pothole with a fishing rod and line dangling in the water-filled pothole. Take along a stringer with 5 good sized fish on it to hang off your lawn chair.

    –Attach a fake crank on the front of your car. Put your arm in a sling and pretend it is injured.  Park near shopping areas, Then beg people to help you by turning the crank so you can get the car started and then drive home. 

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  24. Walt, the fishing out of the pothole was especially good.

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  25. Walt has perfected pranks after more than 4 billion years.

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  26. Alas, some excellent pranks went the way of the dodo bird when caller ID arrived….

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  27. The dodo bird is extinct but Walt is still here.

    Care to explain that, Walt? Did the dodo bird taste like chicken?

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  28. jason yupanqui Avatar

    100 million grills, $138 million for the rights

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    A favorite was calling a house repeatedly asking for Mr. Lopez. After a dozen angry “there is no Mr. Lopez here”, we would call and say “This is Mr. Lopez…any messages for me”?

    Yes, we did have phones on the Altiplano. It was a black wall phone on the kitchen (?) wall. I remember our phone had 6 numbers.

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    Jason had 1 of the 2 phones in Machu Pichu? Elitist.

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    . This week, Trump sent a message to Chief Justice John Roberts: “If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!”

    Maybe Roberts will a message to Trump to remind him that the SC does not “fix” things for the Executive Branch, it rules on the constitutionality of the actions of the other 2 branches.

    Some, but not all, the attributions of the Supreme Court. I think the Cultists are forgetting some of them.

    Judicial Review:

    The Court has the power of judicial review, which allows it to determine whether laws or actions by other branches of government are constitutional. 

    Constitutional Interpretation:

    The Supreme Court plays a crucial role in interpreting the Constitution and ensuring that its principles are upheld. 

    Protection of Civil Rights and Liberties:

    The Court protects the rights and liberties of citizens by striking down laws that violate the Constitution. 

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    RIP, Mia Love.

    Daughter of Haitian immigrants, and first black Republican woman elected to Congress, she was a rising star that seemed not to fulfill expectation.

    Notable was that she lost her first race to Congress by 768 votes 0.3% (the L got 6,400) and her last race by 694 votes (0.25%).

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  33. jason yupanqui Avatar

    How it works: Lawsuits against the federal government start in a district court — there are more than 600 district-court judges — then can move to an appeals court, then the Supreme Court.

    • In the old days, district courts’ rulings only applied to the parties before them. But since the beginning of the Obama administration, those judges have become increasingly willing to say their rulings apply nationwide — the same scope a Supreme Court decision has.”

    I have given my opinion on this.

    I think you call them “district judges” for a reason.

    I think SCOTUS could determine the district judge rulings are limited their district and the plaintiffs in the case but not to the entire country and class of plaintiffs, just like in the “old days”

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  34. Trump -52% approval per Ras.

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  35. GFY. It is vital that Trump respond to all paintings.

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  36. BREAKING: The Trump administration just asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order to rehire thousands of federal workers – AP If the Supreme Court denies this request, Trump would have to bring back some 16,000 federal workers. The original order was from a San Francisco judge.

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  37. GFY. It is vital that Trump respond to all paintings.”

    Have any of the Cultists complimented Trump yet for sacrificing valuable golf time to ensure the dignity of the Presidency is preserved by monitoring all Presidential portraits in every state (and territory)?

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  38. The original order was from a San Francisco judge.”

    Was he a “foreign” judge?

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  39. Did the people whining about Elon Musk attending cabinet meetings complain when Jill and Hunter Biden attended those meetings?

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  40. Hunter Biden’s beleaguered former business partner, Devon Archer, will receive a full and unconditional pardon, President Trump revealed exclusively to the New York Post.

    The president promised Archer the pardon when they met at the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia Saturday night, an encounter arranged by another former Hunter Biden associate-turned-whistleblower, Tony Bobulinski.”

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  41. look also at his role on the fisa court during the Russian hoax as well as his family members roles in ngos.

    EricLDaugh

    🚨 JUST IN: Congressman Jim Jordan announces the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to grill Judge Boasberg next week over his activist injunctions and political history. “We’re gonna have hearing on all of that. Judge Boasberg – it starts to look like it’s totally political.” “You got this judge making this crazy decision – ‘turn the plane around, bring the bad guys back to America.’” –

    @Jim_Jordan

    Jordan says Sen.

    @ChuckGrassley

    may also hold hearings.

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  42. The Liberals have pulled even with the Conservatives in the Canadian election polls.

    Unfortunate, Pierre Polievre would have made a great partner for Trump.

    Instead, Trump screwed him by imposing the stupid trade war, and is risking having Trudeau’s party win again.

    Great strategy there!

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  43. will hold a hearing to grill Judge Boasberg next week over his activist injunctions and political history.”

    Zzzzz….

    Boasberg is not going to be impeached.

    You read it first here.

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  44. Even if you get all Rs to vote for impeachment, which I doubt, you will never get 2/3 of the Senate to go along.

    The Dems will portray Boasberg as the victim at the hearings, ask him softball questions, and he is not going to divulge anything damaging to himself.

    So IMO, a waste of time. Plus, a precedent for the Dems to go after conservative judges when they regain power in the House, which could be as early as 2026.

    A better strategy is to get SCOTUS to limit the scope of rulings of these judges.

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  45. At this very moment the DC Appellate Court is hearing oral arguments from the Trump Administration as to whether a lower court can ‘dictate executive power’-actually my words. “Can deport using the 1798 wartime law”

    The Court is made up of three judges….one appointed by Bush (W), Obama and Trump.

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  46. Tesla stock up 10% today. I almost bought some on Friday. Procrastination is not always conducive to riches.

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  47. Last night I mentioned that in the final moments of the Maryland/Colorado State game that I believed that the shooter with the winning shot had traveled.

    Now, today, it is the top story on CBS Sports.

    https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/did-derik-queen-travel-evidence-experts-split-on-marylands-thrilling-buzzer-beater-vs-colorado-state/

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  48. Is it okay to call a man “Queen”, even if it his name?

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  49. I watched the play several times.

    If that kind of “traveling” was called in the NBA you would have a travel every minute of the game.

    I don’t dispute it might have technically been a travel, just that it is almost never called. Somewhat like “holding” in the NFL, which occurs just about on every play.

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  50. When the explanation is this convoluted, you know why it wasn’t called.

    “By rule, the dribble doesn’t end until there’s firm possession with one hand locked, but more times than not, with two hands. […] When he brings it back up, we don’t know if that’s fully possessed. If he bobbles that at that point, he could continue to bobble that basketball all the way to the hoop without a travel. So, you’ve got to wait until you can define firm possession. […] To me, it just really doesn’t jump off the screen as anything big.”

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  51. Is it okay to call a man “Queen”, even if it his name?

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    No.

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  52. However, I think its ok if the last name of the person is King and first name is Queen.

    It’s not ok if the first name is King and the last name is Queen.

    I hope it is clear now.

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  53. Travels in the NBA. They get progressively worse in the video

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  54. Check out the one at 1:35

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  55. Maryland was the higher seed. Refs aren’t going to call traveling in the last minute unless they are a Deep State ref and Trump was Maryland’s coach.

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  56. Sources tell me that Deep State wanted a Terrapin win, so no travel.

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  57. That’s right, Tina, we can’t clean up government because the employees may become traitors. We need to keep traitors on the payroll.

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    Sources tell me that Deep State wanted a Terrapin win, so no travel.

    Chicon”

    I would be more impressed by Chicon’s secret Deep State sources if the Deep State wasn’t so transparent.

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    If anyone is embarrassed about owning a Tesla you can give it to me. I will take it off your hands as a public service.

    No, no need to thank me, it’s what I do.

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  60. Say what you want about President Trump, but these televised cabinet meetings are outstanding and offer a huge contrast with the prior brain dead Biden administration. This came out in todays meeting –

    Here’s Secretary Brooke Rollins at the Cabinet meeting talking about the spending her department has cancelled to date thanks to DOGE. It included $600,000 being sent to Louisiana to study the menstrual cycles of transgender men. Again, this is the Department of Agriculture

    https://x.com/WashObserver/status/1904235143050711351

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  61. more here –

    DOGE found $330 million in SBA loans to children under 11 years old with the youngest being a 9-month-old baby who received a $100,000 loan. Who cashed these checks??

    https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1904226496887079130

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  62. FOLLOW THE MONEY: Is This the Real Reason the Left Is Freaking Out About the Department of Education?

    The NEA sent $420,000 to Sixteen Thirty Fund, between 2019 and 2021, for example. Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of the nonprofits established by the for-profit company Arabella Advisors, helped fund other activist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration.

    It also funded the Center for American Progress, which fed more than 60 leaders and staff into the Biden administration, and the Human Rights Campaign, which demanded the administration implement a laundry list of LGBTQ+ priorities. (By my count, the Biden administration implemented 75% of HRC’s demands.)

    The American Federation of Teachers gave $840,000 to Sixteen Thirty Fund from 2020 to 2023, $75,000 to the Center for American Progress in 2019 and $100,000 to Center for American Progress Action in 2023, among others.

    It’s grift, all the way down.

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  63. Zzzzzzzzz What is Trump doing about getting a new portrait in Colorado?

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  64. Obama Judge Whines That ‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’ Than Deported Venezuelan Gangsters

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  65. if I remember correctly, Kurt was a big proponent of Souter 2.0: He has made a mockery of the court

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  66. I appreciate exposing government fraud and abuse. I could not care less about Trump’s portrait. Both can be true.

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  67. The 3 Democrats running for the nomination for New Jersey Governor are running against Trump.

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  68. Said by nobody at HHR.

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    The 3 Democrats running for the nomination for New Jersey Governor are running against Trump.”

    Trump only lost NJ by 5, might not be a great strategy.

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  70. i read the Kurt Schlichter article.

    I like him but I found his article non-persuasive.

    Basically he says Roberts should go along with Trump or Trump will eventually decide not to obey the judiciary.

    Weak tea.

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  71. Waltz made an error. His job is now at stake. He leaked to the aatlamtic apparently. I did not trust him and was against his nomination.

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  72. “SCOTUS does not have to kiss Trump’s ass. It is part of a separate branch of government.”

    -Right now, any district court judge is more powerful than 1 SCOTUS judge. A SCOTUS judge needs 4 other Justices to agree with him/her when they make a ruling. You only need one district court judge to stop the Executive Branch in its tracks.

    Maybe SCOTUS should stop worrying about not kissing Trump’s ass, and just assert their own authority over their judicial underlings.

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  73. Too bad the GOP never put forth a plan to actually repeal and replace Obamacare.

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