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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 |
Where is This?
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
25 responses to “Where is This?”
I’ll leave it for soccer fans!
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Brazil
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Not Brazil
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Suriname
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Chicon – that list you made for Big Joe – he voted for and supported it the last 4 years. I can understand why he would want to memory hole it.
Meanwhile, those who support Trump and Republican Party governance are so far quite happy with what is going on.
Cheers!
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Suriname is correct.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/10/inflation-drops-to-lowest-level-in-four-years-2-4/
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A decent article on the current state of world trade –
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/09/trump-is-right-to-take-on-the-free-trade-fundamentalists/
Excerpt – As Michael Lind has pointed out, tariffs have long been a tool in the arsenal of advanced countries and remain so today. Other countries, including rising power India, levy tariffs of 70 to 100 per cent on electric vehicles (EVs) from China and elsewhere.
Europe, which screams the most about tariffs, has been reluctant to reduce its historically high protective barriers. Canada, a beneficiary of an almost $100 billion trade surplus with the US last year, has also been very protectionist for a long time. Canada recently levied an 100 per cent tariff on imported Chinese EVs and a 25 per cent surtax on Chinese steel and aluminium.
The critical need to restore US production became particularly obvious during the pandemic. Not only was the US dependent on certain chemical compounds, it also couldn’t produce basic items like masks, as that business had fled to China. I recall having to get masks through a friend from her cousin in Shenzhen, because none were available in California. Domestic production of personal protective equipment did eventually pick up, but only many months into the Covid crisis.
In many critical fields, America and increasingly Europe have become more dependent on Chinese goods. In 2023, the Middle Kingdom forged roughly half of the world’s steel and emerged as the world’s largest car exporter. It has invested heavily to take over aerospace from both America’s Boeing and Europe’s Airbus. It also accounts for more than half of all shipbuilding.
Ominously, unlike Japan in the 1980s, whose growth also threatened American industries, China is producing advanced military goods. The US is increasingly dependent on Chinese inputs for producing critical items like ammunition. If current trends continue, America, the only powerful military in the West, will have to ask the Chinese for help if we want to challenge its conquest of Taiwan and dominance of the South China Sea. This is clearly an untenable situation.
The critical issue now is how to accelerate a move away from Chinese industrial domination. The tariffs Trump introduced in his first term may not have made a huge impact on the US economy overall, but the annual rate of jobs being reshored did increase somewhat. Cumulatively, jobs reshored in recent years represent about five per cent of total US industrial employment. In 2019, for the first time in a decade, US manufacturing growth outpaced the growth in imports from Asia, noted a Kearney study.
If successful, Trump’s tariff policies could encourage even more firms to bring production back to the US. To date, the Trump approach has had some successes in luring – or really coercing – companies to reshore their production. Tariff threats have already prompted companies like Honda to scrap plans for shifting production of new car models to Mexico. Both pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Taiwan-based chipmaker TSMC have been persuaded to invest billions in US factories, when they used to ship their products from abroad. Tariffs, when combined with boosted defence spending, could help spur a revival of America’s ‘greater gunbelt’, in states where the defence industry is concentrated like Texas, Virginia and California. The growth of tech-savvy defence firms could prove essential to both the economy and national security.
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Hey Bitter, while watching ManU choke and blow their lead, I posted a comment and it’s stuck in moderation again. When you get a chance can you let it out? Thanks
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Approved.
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Incorrect.
Maybe you missed the post where I stated I was unaffiliated.
You’re better than this NYCMike. I followed your posts for years. You weren’t like this before.
Big Joe
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Supreme Court rules 9-0 against Trump.
Impeach them all!
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“NEW: Victor Davis Hanson just tore the mask off the Democratic Party—calling them out as elites scheming to kill America-first tariffs and bring back the globalist status quo.
This hits hard—and it’s exactly what many Americans have suspected.
VDH says the Democratic Party has long abandoned the middle class—and is now fully aligned with the billionaire class and dependent poor.
“The Democratic party is a party of the very wealthy professionals, the billionaire class and subsidized poor, and it abandoned the middle class 10–15 years ago.”
According to Hanson, their panic over Trump’s tariffs isn’t about policy—it’s about a return to globalist power.
“All the data show it’s the party of the very wealthy, and what they’re doing right now is they’re creating hysteria on the left so they can empower Europe, China and Japan and send a message: if you guys will just hold out, we are creating such anger and tension here, that you can win this trade war, humiliate Trump.”
“And then we can come back to power.”
“And we’re going to restore the globalized status quo. That’s what they’re doing.” “
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Bitter, how was PT?
Chicon
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Chi – I thought a man pressing down and measuring the strength and range of notion of my leg muscles would be more fun. I got to try crutches. Awkward and exhausting but doable. Long road ahead. Of course, going 2 blocks is a long road right now. Thanks for asking.
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Bitter, you’re a determined fellow, you’ll get there.
Chicon
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You’re better than this NYCMike. I followed your posts for years. You weren’t like this before.”
Big Joe is a nice guy, but his memory is failing.
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Walt, VDH has been deemed a moron by Jason.
Many still like him anyway.
Chicon
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VDH is an expert in the studies of classics, ancient warfare, and military history. He is not an expert on politics, economics, or trade policy. Both can be true.
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Retlaw, it’s old news. Hanson has been saying this for a couple of years now. People either see him (Hanson) as a political prophet or just dismiss him.
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Things have changed a lot in the last 25 years.
What are the things you miss most from that was the reality then, 25 years ago? (the year 2000)
How are we better off NOW than we were in the year 2000?
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I would have used the year 1960, but I realize few of you were alive then.
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Insulin pump. No law school loans. About to have both children out of college. More income. Technology much better. Conservative SCOTUS. Eagles have won 2 Super Bowls and Phillies have 1 World Series since 2000. I prefer 2025.
Miss from 2000? Eyes were better. My niece, my parents, and my wife’s parents were alive.
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Walt was kind. He could have started at 200 million years ago.
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TNT
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