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 
121 responses to “Stock Bloodbath or Not So Bad Monday? We’ll see.”
When people say Trump supporters hate Reagan or dont support free trade, they show their ignorance of history and the current economic system that has developed in the decades since Reagan was president.
At the time of Reagan, trade was primarily free and their was no China as a big global economic power. Nixon (with the first Bush as his China man) FLOODED this country with cheap imports especially textiles. My father had built his own textile company – two knitting mills and 5 independent outlets stores in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The Triad of NC, where I have lived all of my life, had lots of textile mills, small and large. These were wiped out within 2 decades. Same thing happened with other industries throughout this country.
Other counties, under globalists Like the Bushes and Clintons, did everything they could to see the US out in the name of free trade to other counties. Other countries imposed VATs and tariffs causing our exports to dwindle. Manufacturing companies in our country shipped their production over seas and our economy shifted from a production based one to a service based one. A man could not make enough money to support a family where the wife stayed home. Women entered the workforce in a greater degree, the need for childcare (pay for by the government) exploded and the family unit deconstructed.
What Trump is doing is RECIPROCAL Trade…you tariff us, we tariff you. Drop your tariffs, so will the US. Only fools can not see this.
Because so many people make their money in service industries and have their money invested in stocks that are doing well because of their INTERNATIONAL FOCUSED enterprise, they are experiencing some hardship and will over the next 6-12 months. For companies that adjust and move their production back to the USA, they will thrive, those that dont, wont.
God bless Trump. Reagan would approve.
Free trade is awesome and the best. Unfortunately, the US is the only country playing by those rules. The others have taken advantage of the globalists and charge. Let THEM drop their tariffs and VATS and then we will see free trade. Until that happens, God bless Trump and his efforts to MAGA.
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Women entered the workforce in a greater degree
True. Not all women just wanted to be moms their entire life. Both can be true.
My wife is an excellent mother AND attorney. It would be unfortunate if she could not be both.
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Free trade is awesome and the best.”
Should of stopped there.
The rest is protectionist drivel promoted by the “AFL-CIO conservatives”
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hat Trump is doing is RECIPROCAL Trade…you tariff us, we tariff you. Drop your tariffs, so will the US. Only fools can not see this”
BS.
“Reciprocal” is only a part of it, and even then based on some voodoo formula based on voodoo data. In addition to that, there are a bunch of blanket and unilateral tariffs.
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Jason and I think Reagan was the best President of our lifetimes. Trump said Bill Clinton was the best President of his lifetime and that Hillary would be a great President.”
Hey, each to his own.
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“Reagan was the greatest President of my lifetime by far”.
You mean comparing him with Clinton, the two Bushes, Biden or going in reverse to include Carter and Nixon”
We can make it easy.
Best President 18th Century – Washington
Best President 19th Century – Lincoln
Best President 20th Century – Reagan
Best President 21st Century – GWB (Trump can overtake depending on his 2nd term)
Best President overall – Lincoln
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Jason’s list is pretty close to my take except Washington was best overall in my opinion and the best 21st century president is Trump except GWB can overtake him depending on Trumps 2nd term performance. All differences close calls, though.
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Fla, I enjoyed your writing over the weekend…..
Washington had it easy, he only had a portion of one other Presidency to deal with in the 1700’s!
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Buyers stepping up today, for now.
Big Joe
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Some of the most ferocious rallies take place during bear markets. We’ll get those this time too. It’s a great trader’s market ..
Big Joe
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Prediction:
If the market goes down, the Cultists will say the stock market is irrelevant and “f–k’em, let them eat cake”.
If it goes up, Trump is a genius and the stock market is extremely important.
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Market is only down 400 points.
That is a good day compared to the last few days.
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Or, perhaps, that the economy is one aspect, and the stock market is one slice of the economy.
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One aspect of the nation….
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oahodges – great opening post for Monday.
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The best analogy I’ve heard that puts the stock market in context is the dog-walking analogy.
The economy is the owner, the stock market is the dog. The dog can get overly excited, get way ahead of the owner, fall behind, zig zag, throw a tantrum, or even be chill and walk along side the owneretc. The owner is steady and calm and knows where he/she is headed. Eventually the dog and owner arrive at the same destination.
Right now, the dog has been set off by something .. it’s the tariffs.
Big Joe
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This weekend someone threw a rock from an overhead bridge onto a Tesla critically injuring a pregnant woman. This is the direction the rampaging, angry Dems have been going. It’s also a political wave of violence historically discussed in an article by Jonathan Turley:
”There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them see as absolving them from the basic demands not only of civility but of legality.
They are part of a rising class of American Jacobins — bourgeois revolutionaries increasingly prepared to trash everything, from cars to the Constitution.
The Jacobins were a radical group in France that propelled that country into the worst excesses of the French Revolution. They were largely affluent citizens, including journalists, professors, lawyers, and others who shredded existing laws and destroyed property. It would ultimately lead not only to the blood-soaked “Reign of Terror” but also to the demise of the Jacobins themselves as more radical groups turned against them.
Of course, it is not revolution on the minds of most of these individuals. It is rage.
Rage is the ultimate drug. It offers a release from longstanding social norms — a license to do those things long repressed by individuals who viewed themselves as decent, law-abiding citizens.
Across the country, liberals are destroying Tesla cars, torching dealerships and charging stations, and even allegedly hitting political dissenters with their cars.
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https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/07/the-american-jacobin-how-some-on-the-left-have-found-release-in-an-age-of-rage/
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thanks, chicon. You should’ve joined the party’. I appreciate your posts as well.
Big Joe, You’re my kind of guy. It’s still too early for me to move capital into indexes. Still way too overvalued. I’d need to see significantly more of a retrenchment. People forget how high P/E ratios really are in a historical context. However, I’m trickling in some funds to a few quality individual stocks on my watch list that have hit my yield targets. Reserving most for when the dust settles.
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The market today reminds me of a Mexican jumping bean – bouncing all over the place, even occasionally going from red to green.
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Members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board were “unfired” on Monday after a federal appeals court reversed itself.
Regarding the legal technicalities, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia originally sided with the Trump administration on a 2-1 vote in late March. The case was then deemed important enough to warrant an en banc review, meaning the entire slate of judges heard the case. That has now led to a 7-4 decision against the administration.”
I hope Chicon is ok with an appeal to SCOTUS, but maybe just try to impeach the appeals court instead.
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Fla, this is an incredible option seller’s market. <1-delta 0DTE options are very expensive, a seller’s dream. I’m loving this.
My other portfolio (long term, passive) is not looking great but i’m not selling. I’ll add more once volatility settles down and we start climbing back. I’m not looking to find the bottom, that is for the gamblers. I’ll be happy to add when we are on the way back up with low volatility. Today’s rebound does not count because vol is still sky high.
I figure, if you’re willing to buy on a 10% drop, why buy when the market is falling. Instead, wait til it bottoms and is climbing, then buy at that same price when its on its way up. Nothing is guaranteed of course. It’s all a big game. DCA (dollar cost average) is still king for most people.
And great point about P/E ratios. Despite the fall, the S&P P/E is still elevated. There’s more room to fall, doesn’t mean we will of course.
Big Joe
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janzam
April 7, 2025 at 10:40 am
oahodges – great opening post for Monday.”
Isn’t it quaint and heartwarming that the Reagan haters, Putin lovers and AFL-CIO conservatives agree with each other 100% of the time?
Goebbels was a blood thirsty Nazi, but you can’t deny that his theory that if you repeat lies often enough people will believe them was correct.
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Exactly, Big Joe. Love the dog walking analogy as well.
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Big Joe, You’re my kind of guy.
Gayest post of the day.*
*An HHR tradition.
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The new MSM definition for the tariffs:
“The Trump Tax”
This time they are not wrong.
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Jason squealing = Trump is on target.
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In 1980 and 1984 I would have voted for Reagan over Trump. In both 2016 and 2024 I would have voted for Trump over Reagan (in and at their peak years of course).
I’m an independent voter that easily saw that Reagan was right for the time and Trump the same here.
But I also can see a cult following in Trump supporters (especially MAGA) and also can see Kool-Aid drinking Reagan supporters.
Both can be true as someone here says often.
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In 1980 and 1984 I would have voted for Reagan over Trump. In both 2016 and 2024 I would have voted for Trump over Reagan “
No surprise here.
Most of the R electorate went from conservative to populist.
Nobody denies that.
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Trump is on target”
I guess if his goal was to tank the stock market in 5000 points, you have to agree he is basically on target.
I give credit where credit is due.
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Why would you vote for Trump over Reagan? Ever.
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Only Jason and Bitter have remained pure.
Like Reagan and his original party, the lament about how their party left them.
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I looked it up. Dow is down 7500 points since December 4, 2024. I will stop looking.
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Buying opportunity.
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How are you doing, Phil?
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Bitter, thanks for filling me in on that HHR tradition.
Jason, is that your last name or are you paying homage ? I believe yupanqui was a great Catholic artist from Peru or Bolivia. I think I have a replica of something he did lying around in the garage somewhere. From what I remember researching, he had a great background.
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Catholic? Puhhhhhleeeze…..
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (flourished 15th century) was an Inca emperor (1438–71), an empire builder who, because he initiated the swift, far-ranging expansion of the Inca state, has been likened to Philip II of Macedonia. (Similarly, his son Topa Inca Yupanqui is regarded as a counterpart of Philip’s son Alexander III the Great.)”
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I am a true blue blood.
Suck it, lesser beings.
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Another great Victor Davis Hansen essay critiquing the Trump agenda and tariffs.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/07/the-poverty-of-the-criticism-of-trumps-agenda/
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Bitter, you’re still working, buying regularly as part of your payroll deductions (just make sure you increase your contributions as part of the over 55 year old catchup provisions). For those in the accumulation phase, like yourself, you are dollar cost averaging down. This will payoff when you finally retire in the next 30 or so years (or not as you pass away at your desk, leaving the pile of equity to your beneficiaries. They’ll be most happy though with your regular buying now)
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Like Reagan and his original party, the lament about how their party left them.
Chicon”
Zzzz…
Nothing is forever. Lyndon Johnson got 68% of the vote in WV in 1964. Trump got 70% in 2024.
No lament. I am perfectly resigned to the fact the R party no longer represents the ideals that attracted me to it when I first came to America.
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Fed meeting today? Interest rate cuts?
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Jeez, lost another one. Clem Burke, the drummer from Blondie just died. RIP. Great band. I first saw them at CBGBs back in the day.
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I would listen more to a real businessman like Ackman than a political hack like VDH.
Bill Ackman:
“Trump should announce a 90-day timeout to negotiate new deals, Ackman suggested. Without that pause, he warned, the U.S. will launch an “economic nuclear war” that may cause business investment in America to “grind to a halt,” markets to crash and workers across all sectors to lose their jobs.
“The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president — in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress — are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for,” Ackman said.
“The president has an opportunity on Monday to call a time out and have the time to execute on fixing an unfair tariff system,” Ackman concluded. “Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter. May cooler heads prevail.”
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I’m finding some of the stock wisdoms shared by posters like Big Joe and Fla2025 interesting to follow. However, although we do have a stock portfolio, it has mostly prospered by luck rather than any kind of expertise on our part. IMO, playing the lottery is equivalent to trying to get out ahead in the stock market. That’s why my husband and I invested more in income property, as it’s more of a hands-on risk – one where we applied a sweat equity type of energy to make a successful go of it. Nonetheless, I always enjoy learning about the tips employed by people engaged in another type of investment.
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A time out would show weakness and result in other countries holding firm. Jason loves this idea because he hates tariffs.
We’ve also heard for a few months now that uncertainty on tariffs was hurting the markets. Now we need more uncertainty?
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Bill Ackman earlier wrote a column praising Trump’s agenda. Now he is getting shaky with the sizable downturn in stocks. VDH, however, has a better historical perspective of how roller coaster markets don’t necessarily say you’re on the wrong fiscal path. In fact, changing any major paradigm often involves going from a worse position before it gets better.
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Lincoln was not the best president ever.
WAs not even the best in the 19th century.
James Monroe gets that check mark.
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Walt has voted in every Presidential election so his opinion carries weight.
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Jason loves to mention that Trump gave $ to Dems for years, and further enjoys jabbing posters on the same topic.
Now he’s here touting the opinion of Bill Ackman, who……donated to Dems until 2024.
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”“Trump has done something that we don’t agree with but there’s a reason why people are behind him on this,” a spokesperson for the Prime Minister said in a statement to the outlet.
“The world has changed, globalization is over and we are now in a new era. We’ve got to demonstrate that our approach, a more active Labour government, a more reformist government, can provide the answers for people in every part of this country,” the statement concluded.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/06/world-news/uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-set-to-admit-trumps-tariffs-are-popular-report/
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lots of informative articles today:
”Trump’s focus isn’t on the stock market; it’s on the 10-year bond market. In any event the stock market is grossly inflated thanks to the fiat money Biden pumped into it and investors’ fear that the real economy (works and factories) had no value. It was a casino. Trump knows the casino cannot last forever, so now is the time to force it back to reality, while lowering America’s debt.
Paired with lowering the debt on the financial side, Trump is also using Musk and DOGE to cut spending. If we spend less, we accrue less debt. And of course, the tariffs themselves will bring in revenue. As a reminder, before the 16th Amendment was passed, the government was funded entirely by tariffs and a few excise taxes on specific goods”
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/ignore_bill_ackman_s_concerns_trump_s_economic_plans_are_genius.html
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Retlaw, totally agree about Lincoln. Didn’t Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation only applied to states that had already seceded from the Union and didn’t really cover the border states?
Further, I was disturbed by Lincoln’s personal feeling about the black race in general-according to his letters he sent…thought that the black race was inferior to the white race, wanted the slaves all to return to Africa, was against black people holding political office, was against inter-racial marriage, and so and so on.
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So Lincoln was like 95% of whites at the time. Lincoln also pushed for the complete end of slavery by the end of the war. Fredrick Douglass recognized that Lincoln was pushing for advancement of blacks. My main issue with Lincoln is that he wanted to let the South “up easy.” I think the traitors should have gotten the Carthage treatment.
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Jason wrote – Prediction:
If the market goes down, the Cultists will say the stock market is irrelevant and “f–k’em, let them eat cake”.
If it goes up, Trump is a genius and the stock market is extremely important.
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What’s funny is you can flip that as well.
Trump haters will only attribute the declines to him , not excessively overvalued P/Es and possibly irrational overselling.
And when the market goes up, the never Trumpers will say his policies and any economic revitalization that may result had nothing to do with it.
That’s why it’s way too early to call balls and strikes on this. We need to see how it all plays out. In the meantime, market declines are a fact of life and a time when lots of money can be made as well as lost. By way of perspective, the last few crashes, particular the covid crash in 2020, is where I did extraordinarily well. I’m hoping this is the same .
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Washington was wildly popular and was being pressured to stay a third term. He gave the keys back for the good of the Republic. He walked away when he could have been a figurative King, preserving the ideals of this new republic. . That alone gets him my vote even though he did so much more.
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Well, I had kin from upstate NY that died at Shiloh. And he wasn’t part of the 95% of whites that believed that way.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts indefinitely blocked a court order requiring the return of alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia by midnight tonight.
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Good job, Chief!
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Remember, the free passers said it was all random.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/whoa-senator-schmitt-floats-judge-boasberg-may-have/
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Breaking 70 countries now want to re negotiate tariffs.
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I don’t know why the fed chairperson is rushing to cut rates now. He tried to assist quemala last year by cutting, even though inflation was still rising.
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Not to cut rates*
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that’s F’ing hilarious, Tina!
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Classless as always. Of course, the Cult loves it.
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Russian hoaxer and Pondilla.
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Love that thing with the Dodgers. He’s got all the tariff stuff going on, in addition to Joe’s Ukraine mess and now direct talks with Iran, and he’s still busting chops.
Extra credit that it gives his haters The Vapors.
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Chicon, Bitter isn’t a hater. He’s just a teetotaler with no sense of humor.
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Love that thing with the Dodgers.
That they lost 2 of 3 from the Phillies? I love it, too.
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Tina wrote – I don’t know why the fed chairperson is rushing to [not] cut rates now. He tried to assist quemala last year by cutting, even though inflation was still rising.
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Tina, although appointed by President Trump, Powell is an establishment hack. He’s the genius that refused to promptly raise rates for fear it would encumber Biden’s drunken spending spree, calling the resulting monetary inflation transitory, even though everyone on the Street knew otherwise. His wonderful indecisive leadership gave us 2 years of the worst inflation since the 1970s. Trump should’ve removed him along with the other independent agency heads – like he did with the SEC and CFPB Chairmen.
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The Supreme Court has stayed Bozoburg’s TRO halting flights under the Alien Enemies Act. 5-4 decision.
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Trump should’ve removed him
Uh oh. Dissension in the Cult? I thought Trump was perfect.
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“Classless as always. Of course, the Cult loves it.”
-Bitterlaw, it’s not a case of “loves it”.
It’s a case of they deserve it.
This is not Reagan and Tip O’Neill here.
These are people who lied, cheated and colluded with other powerful people to DESTROY Trump, his family AND his businesses.
All of a sudden, when it comes to Trump, he should forgive and forget.
The South deserved Carthage.
California Senators deserve the noogie that Trump gave them.
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Beotchy goes with the leftists again. Yet, trump wins this round.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-backs-trump-deportations-under-1798-law-2025-04-07/
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https://x.com/ZitoSalena/status/1909268914254598346
-Great story about JD Vance’s mom!
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Chief Justice Roberts embarrassing himself now.
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Well said, NYC….
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No, it’s not Souter 2.0. It’s Beotchy, the “conservative law purfessor”.
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“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” the justices wrote of the challenge in U.S. District Court in D.C. “As a result, the Government is likely to succeed on the merits of this action.
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Sorry.
Roberts and Barrett doing the Strongbow Brothers routine now
I’ll take it.
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Bosoberg has no jurisdiction. He also cannot provide a class injunction for habeus matters.
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These judges are hysterical.
As noted, contract disputes = federal court of claims (Tucker act).
Habeuous cases – jurisdiction (must be heard in Texas re the Venezuelans returned
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Tina, was venue one of the topics that the HHR Legal Team challenged you about?
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The hr federal contracting experts kept telling me that Trump was stifling poo contractors and it was not a contract dispute at all.
Most importantly, the foreign Marxist jusead jurisdiction despite the federal,court of claims /tucke act.
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I am 2-2 with the lack of jurisdiction by the Marxist judges
Dept of education and the Bosoberg matter.
I guess his show cause hearing is also moot.
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I’m sure the HHR Legal Eagles will acknowledge Tina being correct.
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I am sure that Tina did not read a word Barrett wrote on this or any case. I am glad that Trump won but I love when a conservative Justice tells him to F off. Tina and the Cult think that Justices are there to vote along party lines.
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NYC – You speak Cult. Please explain to Tina that a naturalized citizen is just as American as…Well. You might not be the one to explain it.
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lol! Bitter does so much projecting that one of you is going to need to get him a bigger screen.
Hey bitter, instead of only posting to criticize your fellow board members, how about posting something informative, original, and useful. I for one would love to read Bitterlawyers daily legal take on things. Not that I think I’d learn anything from the local Philly lawyer, but it would be good for a few laughs. Give it a try, counselor.
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how about posting something informative, original, and useful.
Irony Meter explodes as nobody in the Cult has ever done more than paste the legal opinions of those who agree with Trump. Tina is the worst.
Why waste my 31 years of legal experience on the Cult who criticizes my ability as a lawyer almost daily? Maybe if Chi and Fla admit what they do for a living, I will reconsider.
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Bummer. I thought we’d finally get to see some of that State court legal acumen.
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Keep diminishing me. I am admitted in the state and Federal courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Why do people from Florida who are not lawyers express such ignorant criticism of me as a lawyer? Tgca was the same way.
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Hey bitter, instead of only posting to criticize your fellow board members, how about posting something informative, original, and useful”
LOL
This is from someone who exclusively posts Cult talking points and like janzam never had an original thought here.
You gotta love HHR.
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The hr federal contracting experts kept telling me that Trump was stifling poo contractors and it was not a contract dispute at all.”
Maybe Tina can tell us what the “contract dispute” was.
This should be interesting, because what we had was a blanket order not to pay contractors for work contracted and COMPLETED.
What was the “dispute” exactly?
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There was no “contractual dispute”
There was an unilateral and arbitrary decision not to pay contractors for completed work.
This is a gross violation of contract law and should not stand.
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Houston chokes away the game too….
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You can’t have 16 seconds and not even get a shot off….geezus.
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Houston outplayed Florida for 80% of the game but couldn’t finish the job.
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Beotchy goes with the leftists again.”
So communist traitor Roberts came through?
Who wouda thunk?
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Congratulations to Florida. My wife wins second place $$$ in her office pool.
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One of the senators humiliated at the ceremony celebrating the Dodgers by Trump refusing to name them was Adam Schiff. Knowing this I totally applaud the rebuff. Schiff deserves that and much more – such a scum bag that he is.
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Jason – GFY. Why should the government have to pay its bills to American companies for work already completed? Globalist mf-er.
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Bitter, you’re frequently calling people “cultists,” like me who you disagree with. And, yet you become so defensive when someone like Fla2025 gives you your own medicine. Why?
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Florida put its defense at the arc and dared Houston to shoot. Houston did a terrible job and Florida made a critical block.
With everything guarded outside, Houston could have made a quick cut to the basket for 2 and then fouled Florida as soon as it inbounded. It
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Because I can prove you are in a cult by your posts. None of you knows me as a lawyer or my work in thousands of cases.
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I just hope Jason did not lose Lupita in a bet tonight.
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Jan – Would you like it if I accused you of malpractice as a nurse?
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Since Houston was only down 2, going for 3 against a defense set up around the arc was unnecessary. Cut to the basket and hope to get fouled on a made shot.
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terrible job and Florida made a critical block.
With everything guarded outside, Houston could have made a quick cut to the basket for 2 and then fouled Florida as soon as it inbounded. “
The fact is they had the ball twice in the last 30 seconds. The first time they squandered it out of bounds.
The second time, according to the sports talking heads, they were going for the “win”.
Not sure that was a great strategy, if true. When the national championship is on the line, seems to me you go for the money play, which was 2 points and OT.
The fact is when you are running out of time you don’t want to risk getting boxed on the sideline, which is what happened. They couldn’t make a good pass to anyone open at that point, but in any case the guy who jumped up should have released the ball. Even if it wasn’t a good look, you could get an offensive rebound for 2, there was enough time.
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Bitter, I don’t recall demeaning your professional integrity during a debate concerning our political differences. However, you, OTOH, have labeled me an uncaring nurse when we disagree on Ukrainian aid packages. So, what’s the difference when Fla2025 humorously chides you about your legal aptitude as a lawyer?
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I just hope Jason did not lose Lupita in a bet tonight.”
I didn’t bet the game, odds sucked.
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“have labeled me an uncaring nurse”
“Uncaring” is way too generous for a despicable person who has zero empathy for the innocent Ukrainian victims of you hero Putin’s war crimes.
You would be the type of “nurse” who would have aided Mengele in his horrible experimentation atrocities against Jews.
GFY.
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disagree on Ukrainian aid packages”
LOL
Is that what you are doing shilling for Putin and spewing lies about Zelensky?
“Disagreeing on aid packages”.
janzam will be hard to beat as HHR clown.
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Jason – GFY. Why should the government have to pay its bills to American companies for work already completed? Globalist mf-er.”
Sorry, I forgot contract law doesn’t apply if Trump doesn’t want it to.
You might have to go back to law school for a refresher.
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Fla2025 has responded jovially several times, both with jason and Bitterlaw, and is always met with the usual claptrap from the Philly A-Holes.
I haven’t seen such sensitive creatures since grade school.
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“You would be the type of “nurse” who would have aided Mengele in his horrible experimentation atrocities against Jews.”
-This is the type of comment jason makes. Judge for yourself.
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A little levity:
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/yoga-trauma
“In January a woman named Roma Abdesselam went to a yoga class on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Yoga is of course an ancient spiritual discipline, invented in India, that allows you go to Trader Joe’s in extremely revealing pants.”
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NYC must have forgotten how offended he was when MD used to say he only had a job because it was a family business and he was unqualified to work anywhere else. NYC did not consider that to be jovial.
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TNT
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