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 
40 responses to “Walt raised an interesting question. If you could live in another era, when and why?”
The hard part is that life sucked for most people until after WW2. I would choose 1990. It was the year I met my wife the day before we started classes in law school. I would keep my wife but drop out in order to get certified to teach high school history OR gone back to school to become a meteorologist.
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Roman Empire — first!
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The Biden Era! I miss those days….
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I heart the Clinton era.
-freepassee
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Another better-than-expected inflation report. PPI declined 0.4% with core down 0.1%. Year/year final demand PPI 2.7%.
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I thought the late 70’s sucked and the 80’s were great. The contrast between the two was enlightening to live through for me.
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It is well past time for the muppet to cut rates.
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Trump loved Clinton as President.
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He thought Clinton was a great President and Hillary would make a great President.
But the Cultists don’t like it when you say he is the Mother of All RINOS.
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I think to be rich in the roaring 20’s would be fun.
But if you want to go back in time to live, ask to be healthy too besides rich.
Life without antibiotics could be rough.
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I heart the Clinton era.
-freepassee”
Damm, now Trump is a free passer? Nobody is safe!
“I think Bill Clinton was a great president,’” Trump said in the interview that was conducted shortly after the 2008 presidential election on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” program.
“You know, you look at the country then. The economy was doing great. Look at what happened during the Clinton years. I mean we had no war, the economy was doing great, everybody was happy. A lot of people hated him because they were jealous as hell,’” Trump said.
Asked about Hillary Clinton, Trump said: “I think she is going to go down at a minimum as a great senator.”
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Of course, you never know what he meant about “going down”
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This could be deep.
NYT: Kamala Harris, known for her deep knowledge and ability to articulate complex issues, is thinking about launching “an institute for policy and ideas.”
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https://protrumpnews.com/pharma-company-announces-big-investment-into-united-states/
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Very true! I may have confused him with an old poster named Dick. I think Colonel Dick Montana. Dick was pretty popular on the old HHR if I recall, lots of people liked Dick.
Big Joe
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I’m pretty sure NYCMike was a big fan of Dick.
Big JOe
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If I could bring my family and amenities and only be an observer, I’d love to hop around the old ancient civilizations. Ancient Sumer, Egypt, Canaan, China, Indus Valley, then moving over to the West with Carthage, Athens, Sparta, Pre-Columbian America.
All sound like interesting places and times, minus the endless wars, famines, atrocities, etc …
Big Joe
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Country Dick Morris. He claimed he retired from the oil industry because Biden was elected and disappeared.
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Dick Morris? GTFO, really?
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Long tweet. about the El Salvadoran “pa of the year”. Seems like a polite remand back to the district judge.
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1910698522497999016?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Solid analysis by Ship, Tina, thanks for posting it.
I predict option 2.
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Not that Dick Morris.
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The 1890’s in a town called Willoughby.
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That was a great judicial review of options noted by Shipwreacked.
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Good episode.
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Option 2 works. But the case is now gummed up
https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1910730066339713371?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Thi returns the r party to the coalition set up by Nixon and Reagan.
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This is a good synopsis of Iran’s current predicament.
Warning to Trump haters…..he gets some credit….
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/04/11/irans-supreme-leader-caves-n3801690
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It was Country Dick Montana. We were both partially right. Collectively, we got it done. NYCM to have a meltdown about Collectivism in …
Big Joe
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Since Jason has cited Mr. Ackman as an authority…..
Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
No gimp suit for me Cliff. If I were president, I would have started with a 90-day period for negotiations and then brought the hammer down.
By doing it President Trump’s way, the entire world and their citizens got to experience the visceral impact of what massive tariffs would do to their businesses, their stock and bond markets, and their economies.
From
@realDonaldTrump
’s approach, we were able to learn who are the preferred trade partners and who are the problems, based on who showed up early and what they offered, and who chose to retaliate.
Every country is now incredibly motivated to make a deal with us as quickly as possible to avoid the draconian consequences they will experience with no deal.
China has been isolated as a bad actor and every American company is immediately moving their supply chains out of China back to the U.S. or to trading partners of the U.S. who are likely to make favorable tariff deals with the U.S.
Time is not China’s friend. As more time goes by, more companies find other and better alternative suppliers outside of China. So China is incentivized to come to the table soon and to be reasonable in their negotiations.
The countries that showed up first and offered zero tariffs will now be rewarded with more business, motivating them to complete their deals with us promptly.
All of the above was accomplished with only a few days of market turbulence.
I am not concerned with whether this was
@realDonaldTrump
’s plan from the beginning. I instead focus on the outcome.
Looking at the facts objectively, the only word that comes to my mind is ‘brilliant.’
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That last line is gonna leave a mark for some….
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I said to myself I won’t type on my phone while fishing today since a few months ago I dropped one overboard. However, that’s Amazing poll Tina. Thanks for sharing.
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Ok. He was an interesting dude. I wish he would return.
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Wow, what a big turnaround for Ackman! This whole tariff episode is like a ping pong game – with the ball jumping from negative jitters to surprise over the “brilliance” of the byproducts of how the tariffs were orchestrated. Of course, all could change on a dime’s notice, but it’s still fascinating to watch.
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Excellent series of x posts within (about neocons).
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/04/11/thread-why-neocons-have-lost-their-credibility-n2411252
Money quote….”Rather than attempt to persuade, they admonish those who do not share their zeitgeist.
They are obliviously becoming what they hate.”
Hmmm.
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Been away today on a day trip.
My choice to go back into some decade of my life and live in those times, I would chose the 1980s.
Reagan recovery, America strong, financially much better off than before (yes that included the infamous 1st statewide teachers strike of which I was a regional leader), boys both growing and doing well in everything, youngest son not dealing with addiction issues he has been plaques with for 30 years, simpler times as the whackadoodle Muslims had not impacted America yet, teaching was still very enjoyable, great and memorable family vacations including 40 day trip across America, personal life much more satisfying…
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Bitter,
I appreciate you putting up this thread.
Thanks.
Now if we could just get DW to put up TNT instead of just NT…
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NT
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asdfasdfasdf test
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