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 
84 responses to “I like the pageantry and history of the Catholic Church. Yeah. I said it.”
I understand my Protestant friends disagree. Cream soda.
LikeLike
I don’t get out often. Earlier this week, I saw that flags were at half-staff for Pope Francis. Is Tina ok with that honor for a foreign leader?
LikeLike
When we visited Rome, the 2 things that impressed me most were gelato and the fact that a city could have absolutely no observable traffic laws.
LikeLike
2 more observations. The Tiber is not very wide. The Colosseum was amazing for its time but not nearly as big as Hollywood portrays it in movies.
LikeLike
I wonder if the reason that Deion Sanders’ son has not been drafted by a team is…Deion Sanders. That dude brings a circus to town wherever he goes. It reminds me of drafting players for little league baseball. I remember another coach said he liked a player but his mom was such a pain that he would quit coaching if that boy was assigned to his team.
LikeLike
Wake up, slackers.
LikeLike
Have a dose of funny memes with your breakfast, bitter –
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/the-week-in-pictures-fdc-red-no-40-edition.php
LikeLike
Don’t forget the Ace of Spades Saturday overnight thread –
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=414598
LikeLike
I like that is an hourlong walk from the Coliseum to the Vatican.
I like that any of those churches in medieval/renaissance/Baroque Rome has an old master. We walked into a church between Piazza Navona and the Pantheon and it had multiple Caravaggios.
LikeLike
I like that you can get a great cup of coffee and it wont break you.
LikeLike
Rome not being on a navigable river or coast limited its early growth.
LikeLike
Harry – My wife is Jewish so we visited the oldest Synagogue in Rome. It was an amazing building. It also had a small museum to Italian Jews in the Holocaust. Unlike the French who couldn’t turn in their Jewish neighbors fast enough, the Italians hid or sheltered most of theirs.
LikeLike
Will Chicon, NYC, janzam, Tina, and the other Putin toady sypcophant lapdogs follow suit?
“The son of a senior CIA official has been confirmed killed while fighting for the Russian Army in Ukraine. Michael Gloss, 21, son of CIA deputy director for digital innovation Juliane Gallina Gloss, was killed in April 2024 while participating in fighting in Donetsk Oblast.
Gloss became radicalized while attending College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, which offers exactly one degree program called Human Ecology. He was arrested during climate change and pro-abortion protests. His Instagram page features an American flag burning.”
LikeLike
Chicon, NYCC, janzam and Tina became “radicalized” at Gateway Pundit.
LikeLike
Bitterlaw
April 25, 2025 at 6:27 pm
The entrance to Deep State is under the grassy knoll in Dallas.”
Speaking of which, have any of the conspiracy theorists here been rewarded yet by block buster revelations from the JFk, RFK, and MLK files?
Rumor is the Deep State intervened and removed all the really incriminating () stuff to the Deep State caves.
LikeLike
The Jews were in Rome before the Christians were. Amazing to think about.
One of my favorite places to visit was a Temple to Mithras that was beneath the Barberini Palace.
The cult of Mithras was an early threat to the rise of Christianity. But today, is mostly forgotten.
LikeLike
Walt still has his Mithras sweatshirt.
LikeLike
The grifter is not appropriately dressed again.
LikeLike
I think Walt was in of the frescos in the Temple of Mithras.
LikeLike
What is KGB thug Putin wearing today?
LikeLike
https://images.app.goo.gl/tuFekDuq3B81zmBYA
I think the guy in the middle is Walt
LikeLike
That was before the concession stand opened for him to buy the sweatshirt.
LikeLike
Zelenskyy is rejecting any peace plans that doesn’t have Crimea returning to Ukraine’s rule. It’s a sticking point not allowing any peace in the near future, as Putin is just as adamant about not returning the territories already taken over. Consequently, it seems nothing will change the bloody day to day battles until the US walks away from supplying any more munitions to this tragic fiasco.
LikeLike
“I like the pageantry and history of the Catholic Church.”
Does that include the part of history where the Catholic Church supported and condoned slavery?
LikeLike
Read a comment from someone of Facebook or somewhere where “we have gone from a president who could barely talk, to one that never shuts up.”
Hee hee
LikeLike
I was taking about the rituals, the martyrs, Saints, and church architecture. I should have been clear but since Wes is dead I thought it would be ok.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Jan calls for immediate Ukrainian surrender for 3 years and 2 months now. Shocking!
LikeLike
Interesting picture
https://x.com/DailyCaller/status/1916134527279501638/photo/1
LikeLike
the US walks away from supplying any more munitions to this tragic fiasco.”
Janzam thinks it is a “tragic fiasco” that Ukraine has not surrendered yet?
LikeLike
The grifter is not appropriately dressed again.”
Tina prefers how the invading war criminals dress….
LikeLike
I thought it was a kerfuffle by that mischievous prankster Putin.
LikeLike
Putin is just as adamant about not returning the territories already taken over.”
Do the Putinistas think Russia is entitled to the “territories” (Ukrainian sovereign land) “already taken over”.
Yes or no?
LikeLike
Interesting picture
No, it just shows Zelenskyy crashing the late pope’s funeral, trying to continue his relevancy by meeting with Trump and rejecting what he offered.
LikeLike
Zelensky is a world leader. Deal with it, Jan. Not sure that Protestant Trump, a twice-divorced man-whore, should have been there.
LikeLike
Entitlement has nothing to do with which flag Crimea flys. It’s been under the rule of Russia for over a decade with most of its citizens aligned as Russian. To demand it back now is delusional as part of any peace plan proposal. What it really indicates is how much Zelenskyy is ready to lose in order to not lose his own presidential position of power. Basically, Zelenskyy’s legacy will be one of myopic zeal, as he allows more people to be sacrificed under his watch.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Bitter, if Zelenskyy was a real leader, the bloodshed would have ended a long time ago. Also, the marital history of a leader has little relevance to their status and power on the world stage. Zelenskyy, OTOH, is a little man with little power managed by a big ego.
LikeLike
if Zelenskyy was a real leader, the bloodshed would have ended a long time ago”
LOL
Janzam hates Zelensky because he is a true Ukrainian patriot who has admirably stood up to Russia and kept it from being annexed.
By “war should have ended” Janzam means “Ukraine should have surrendered to my hero Putin”.
Btw, has Janzam said whether Trump was wrong yet?
“The United States calls on Russia to respect the principles to which it has long claimed to adhere and to end its occupation of Crimea. As democratic states seek to build a free, just and prosperous world, we must uphold our commitment to the international principle of sovereign equality and respect the territorial integrity of other states. Through its actions, Russia has acted in a manner unworthy of a great nation and has chosen to isolate itself from the international community.
LikeLike
Zelenskyy, OTOH, is a little man with little power managed by a big ego.”
He was big enough to thwart your hero big man Putin.
LikeLike
Entitlement has nothing to do with which flag Crimea flys.”
I see.
So Russia is not “entitled” to Crimea or any other territory it seized illegally.
But that doesn’t matter.
Got it.
LikeLike
trying to continue his relevancy”
Zelensky is the legitimate President of Ukraine.
Seems like he should be “relevant”.
LikeLike
So if Zelensky was a real leader, Putin would have turned the tanks around? Wow.
LikeLike
What will Putin’s legacy be? A lot of dead Russians on his watch.
LikeLike
What will Putin’s legacy be?”
Well, he has the undying loyalty of Tina, NYC, Chicon, Janzam, etc.
Should count for something.
LikeLike
About that picture taken with Trump & Zelenskyy seated and talking….
”This scene is staged by the control agents who control the Ukraine conflict, the intelligence community.
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the funeral of Pope Francis to pay their respects on the international stage.
Let me be clear. The people around President Trump do not and did not align with this photo-op, it’s genuinely in poor taste and bad form given the nature of the background event, the funeral for Pope Francis. However, fearless President Trump knows exactly what this represents just as businessman Donald Trump knows how the seating is arranged in high stakes business negotiations; the sun at the back of the person wanting to be in the power position.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/26/the-awakening-look-carefully-at-this-picture/
LikeLike
LOL
So the Putinistas don’t think the picture says what the picture says?
Trump did not agree to the meeting or the picture? Really?
Putin toadies live in an alternate universe.
LikeLike
”This scene is staged by the control agents who control the Ukraine conflict, the intelligence community”
LOL
The Deep State?
LikeLike
Maybe the pro-Putin morons like Janzam can answer some of these questions…
“Not everything is politics. Michael Gloss came from a solid upper-class home. His parents were veterans; his mother was the first woman to command the brigade of midshipmen at the US Naval Academy. He had a privileged upbringing and participated in Boy Scouts and high school athletics. And yet, he became virulently anti-American, converted to Islam, though nothing in his writing would indicate it was a deep conversion, and believed he “might have just incarnated in time to defeat mortality AND the military industrial complex.”
How did he come to thoroughly reject his parents’s values and embrace a radical leftism? How did he abandon his own professed antiwar ethos and decide to join in the aggressive war waged by Russia against Ukraine? How did he completely reject American society and government as hindering freedom and head to one of the most repressive countries in the Northern Hemisphere?
This is the kind of thing that should keep parents awake at night.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Janzam hardest hit. Looks like Trump did learn something from the meeting with Zelensky.
“US President Donald Trump questioned whether Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a peace deal shortly after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday.”
In a Truth Social post sent as he returned from Rome after the meeting, Trump raised the prospect of applying new sanctions on Russia after its assault on Kyiv last week, questioning whether Putin is interested in peace.
“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump wrote. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’ Too many people are dying!!!”
LikeLike
A White House spokesman accompanying Trump said that the two leaders “met privately today and had a very productive discussion.”
Doesn’t look like anything was “staged”
LikeLike
The picture Janzam thinks is “staged”.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/trump-zelensky-peace-plans-st-peters-francis-funeral.html
LikeLike
The war is a fiasco because of all the deaths incurred that could have been either avoided or ended much earlier. Our weapon intervention has only aided and abetted the extensive human carnage on both sides. And, while Putin’s initial invasion started the war, it’s been Zelenskyy’s inflated sense of self importance that has dimmed his judgement to seek an end sooner. History will see Zelenskyy as more of a grifter than a courageous leader.
LikeLike
I went to the “Conservative Treehouse” to read the article janzam linked to.
Basically it says Trump and Zelensky are controlled by the Deep State.
Hilarious.
LikeLike
History will see Zelenskyy as more of a grifter than a courageous leader.”
LOL
Only among Putin toadies like you.
In the real world, he will be seen as the Great Ukrainian Patriot that he is.
LikeLike
Looks like Trump did learn something from the meeting with Zelensky.
Trump already was irritated with Putin’s Kyiv attack, and talked before the Zelenskyy meeting about sanctions and feeling Putin was being disingenuous about wanting peace. That meeting was nothing more than a Ukrainian photo op.
LikeLike
ecause of all the deaths incurred that could have been either avoided or ended much earlier.”
Zzzzz…
janzam thinks Ukraine should have unconditionally surrendered sooner?
Wow, what a surprise.
LikeLike
In the real world, he will be seen as the Great Ukrainian Patriot that he is.
lol…..
LikeLike
That meeting was nothing more than a Ukrainian photo op.”
Funny.
So you disagree with the WH and Trump who said it was a very “productive meeting”.
LikeLike
So according to janzam, Trump is now participating in “Ukrainian photo-ops”?
LikeLike
Looks like Trump changed his tune somewhat since the “productive” meeting with Zelensky.
I call that progress.
janzam calls it a photo-op.
LikeLike
“It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’
Sounds like Trump might be on to the fact Putin is just stringing him along.
LikeLike
How did he come to thoroughly reject his parents’s values and embrace a radical leftism?
Kids are not necessarily rubber stamps of their parent’s values. Often times, in order to individuate and thoroughly detach from their parents, they purposefully go 180 degrees in an opposite direction. Late teens and the early stages of adulthood are often when they are the most vulnerable to leftism espoused by their peer group. If they manage to survive these young years many are able to recalibrate their views, maturing into more reasonable adults.
LikeLike
If you want to see how absurd the garbage Janzam reads, the “Conservative Treehouse” actually speculates that the Pope was killed so the intelligence communities could stage the photo-op.
“Was it really a natural death or was it the result of the IC needing a geopolitical event -like a funeral- to bring all of the principal actors together”
LikeLike
janzam is explaining why she is pro-Putin?
Okayyy….
LikeLike
Trump who said it was a very “productive meeting”.
If you haven’t noticed Trump calls most meetings “productive,” in order to give a positive slant to them (except for that one recent WH meeting where Zelenskyy was kicked out).
LikeLike
NYC will find a way to justify conspiracy blogs.
LikeLike
Tina did not answer yet whether she is ok with American flags at half-mast for Pope Francis.
LikeLike
You can tell janzam is having a bad day.
Trump has productive meeting with Zelensky.
Trump speculates Putin is taking him for a ride.
Russian general bites the dust.
“Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, the Deputy Head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, was eliminated this morning in the town of Balashikha to the east of Moscow, after a car bomb exploded as he walked past leaving his home. Adding him to the long list of high-ranking Russian military officials who have been assassinated since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.”
No wonder she is triggered.
LikeLike
Trump who said it was a very “productive meeting”.
If you haven’t noticed Trump calls most meetings “productive,” in order to give a positive slant to them”
So did janzam explain why she wouldn’t want Trump to have a great meeting with Zelensky?
LikeLike
“Trump calls most meetings “productive,” in order to give a positive slant to them (except for that one recent WH meeting”
Translation: Trump calls productive meetings productive, when they are not productive he doesn’t call them productive.
Got it.
LikeLike
Why do some on here spend so much time attacking others here, rather than speaking out against liberal insanity?
LikeLike
I suspect there are polls out there that support what I am about today.
There are probably 20% of people in the U.S. who think the Trump assassination attempt in Butler PA was staged and that Trump did not get nicked in the ear.
There is probably another 20% who believe that there was direct involvement in the assassination attempt by Joe Biden, FBI, CIA or some rogue group within the government.
They compare that with the 10% or more who think Elvis is still alive, we never landed on the moon, the earth is flat, etc…
Lots of people ignore reality.
LikeLike
Walt – We are not normal. You haven’t figured that out?
LikeLike
DNC chair telling vice chair Hogg to knock it off… forgetting that Hogg campaigned for the position saying that he could talk the talk, walk the walk and knock the knock.
LikeLike
We must respect the rule of law. Justices cannot be arrested,
-free passer
LikeLike
Zzzzzzzzz
LikeLike
Good news, Tina. For some reason I can’t label your posts so you won’t be getting the Bunu treatment.
LikeLike
lol
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re pathetic, Tina. Any Putin jokes?
LikeLike
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14648333/scientist-big-bang-theory-wrong-universe-beginning.html
Or they could just ask Walt.
LikeLike
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/frank-luntz-speaks-panel-trump-supporters-is-stunned/
LikeLike
Tina, ignore Luntz. This pollster is more wrong than right.
LikeLiked by 1 person
John, he is a stooge. 100% true
LikeLike
John – But Tina believes Tucker Carlson. Think about that. She believes Putin’s buddy.
LikeLike
TNT
LikeLike