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 
88 responses to “Friday thread. Deal with it.”
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ProfMJCleveland
SCOTUS still silent on AARP v. Trump, Alien Enemies Act case where it entered nationwide injunction in a non-existent appeal covering non-existence Plaintiffs. From law & order standpoint, it is quite outrageous.
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DAY 102
The stock market (S&P 500 index) was up for the 9th consecutive trading session today. As ZeroHedge noted early this morning,
Mission accomplished! The rise was fueled by an excellent jobs report: April payroll numbers were up, exceeding expectations. In addition,
The S&P 500 index has now erased all April losses. The index now stands above the level where the market closed on March 10. The index is up more than 12 percent from where it was 12 months ago.
The market now stands about 5 percent below the level on the last trading day before Trump’s inauguration. It stands at less than one-half of one percent below the level before Election Day 2024.
Not surprisingly, Trump’s popularity is holding steady, at 50/49, as reported by Rasmussen today.
Meanwhile, Democrats are fighting with each other over efforts to impeach Trump, again.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/day-102.php
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https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-500-and-nasdaq-set-to-extend-winning-run-as-key-jobs-data-looms?mod=home_lead
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/marco-rubio-slams-germanys-tyranny-disguise-afd-surveillance/
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But she says there is another side to the story. Maybe she is related to Eric Dondero and the other driver is a Democrat.
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It would be great if they could pass this –
Donald Trump unveiled his budget proposal blueprint – or “skinny budget” – for the 2026 fiscal year, which would include a $163bn cut to federal spending, eliminating more than a fifth of the non-military spending excluding mandatory programs, according to a release by the Office of Management and Budget.
The proposed budget would raise defense spending by 13% and homeland security spending by nearly 65% compared to 2025 enacted levels, according to the office. Non-defense spending would be reduced by roughly 23%, the lowest level since 2017. It is thus very much in line with the second Trump administration’s efforts to drastically shrink the size of the federal government through staffing cuts and office closures, and its aggressive anti-immigration agenda.
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OMB just dropped the 2026 Budget Request. You all should read it.
Fiscal Year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request
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Beat you by a minute, Bill!
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People have lives? Bastards.
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I was a bit disappointed that the reduction in spending was only $160 billion. I was hoping for a Doge-inspired cut of $1-$2 trillion.
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I’m disappointed there aren’t ANY cuts to defense spending. There is so much FWA that could save billions, and then add the useless or near useless programs that contractors hoodwink I’ll informed Senators and Representatives with (I always default back to the LCS class of ships, but there are so many others across all the branches). But I also get that DoD is a sacred cow, and too many people on both sides of the aisle freak out if you dare to touch that fourth rail (SS occupying the 3rd).
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I am usually opposed to cuts in defense spending, but I will defer to GF on the waste and useless programs. I understand that there are probably a lot of useless bases in the US that could be eliminated but the representatives from those districts will always oppose it.
I think we need to invest in more ships and more technology especially “space warfare”.
I agree that $160 billion is not enough but it is probably what is possible and what Congress has already signaled to Trump it is willing to go along with.
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The market now stands about 5 percent below the level on the last trading day before Trump’s inauguration”
Wow.
I guess the Cult is celebrating it is not 10 percent.
Everything is relative.
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Note the Cultists, who when the stock market was tanking, said the stock market didn’t matter and f–k the retirees whose pensions are invested in it. NYC and Chicon morons were here deriding people that have 401k’s as elitists and parasites.
Now that it has made a comeback, the Cultists talk about it day and night.
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US to settle with Ashley Babbitt’s estate.
Good.
Now fire the guy who shot her.
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Job numbers are up by 436,000. The stock market is up 2,800 points.
Two weeks ago all the media pundits were talking “the sky is falling/the market is crashing”.
They rightly ask, “Where are all those media pundits now that the market is not only up, but its way up?”
Fake news gotta fake I guess.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114439107916833647
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As an A-hole, I thought the Delco Pooper story would generate more discussion.
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A little humor for a Saturday morning –
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I did not like trumps post of his image as the pope.
Weird and over the top. Saying this as a Catholic.
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ii am kinda bummed. WVU baseball has even tearing things up…and then lost to Marshall University. A day or so ago. Boy from my hometown of Hedgesville wv, Kyle West, is a starting outfielder.
Off for oue two day drive to Wisc. To see family.
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More Saturday morning humor –
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=414673
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Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
…In the meantime, we have become a type of squatter nation where our inefficient legal system is being used to make a mockery of our laws.
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Bitter to tell us that Turley is unqualified in 3…2….1…..
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Souter 2.0 has allowed the district courts to run the country.
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Germany, Britain, and many of our other European allies have slid into a form of woke totalitarianism that would be unheard of just a short 10 years ago. Except for the well funded militarily and expansionist goals, they are becoming more like Russia than ever before –
”A British Royal Marine has been arrested for “terrorism” after criticizing diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) policies, warning that lowered training standards for female recruits could endanger lives. The elite commando’s public statements have sparked a controversial crackdown under the UK’s Terrorism Act.”
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/british-royal-marine-arrested-for-terrorism-over-criticizing-dei-policies/
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The late David Horowitz , having been part of the radical left, had incredible insight into their tactics and motives, and more importantly, how to counter them. He will be sorely missed. Here is an essay of his from 2020 which is a relevant now as it was then –
excerpt – “The “social justice” radicals still have the best slogans. They call themselves progressives but are actually reactionaries. They call themselves liberals but are actually bigots. They say they’re for peace when they are organized for war. It is always the same war: to bring down the United States of America.
Thanks mainly to their growing influence, we live in extreme times, where things are not what they are made to seem, and monstrous accusations are leveled at individuals without restraint. As a result, we live in an atmosphere of intimidation, where people can lose their livelihoods, their careers and even their lives if they get on the wrong side of leftist crusaders. That is a terrible thing to have to say in this once free country, but it is something that has become too obvious to deny.
For 30 years before he descended the famous escalator in Trump Tower to declare his candidacy for the White House, Donald Trump was a well-known public figure. Everybody in America knew who he was. In all those 30 years, no one ever referred to him as “Donald Trump, host of ‘The Apprentice’ and white supremacist.” Nobody ever said “This is Donald Trump, New York builder and white nationalist.” That only happened when he ran against the Democrats.
In fact, all three of Trump’s predecessors as presidential candidates – Bush, McCain and even Romney were denounced as racists by the Democrats. Vice President Joe Biden told an audience that included many black Americans that if elected, Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, “are gonna put y’all back in chains.”
Why do Democrats take such a low road as a matter of course? They do it because it is effective, and because the Democrat Party has a dirty secret to hide. Democrats control 100% of every major inner-city in America, and have for 50 to 100 years. Every killing field — Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis – is 100% in the hands of the Democrats. Every injustice in these inner cities – real or imagined – that policy can affect, Democrats are 100% responsible for. Every rotten school system, which year in and year out fails to provide mainly black and Hispanic kids with the basic tools they need to succeed is 100% controlled by the Democrat Party and its teacher unions who without exception put the interests of the adults in the system in front of the kids. Including keeping schools closed during the Covid-19 pandemic while demanding more money for themselves.
Trump represented a major threat to the Democrats’ corrupt inner-city empires and – worse – to their electoral power base. Consequently, when Trump asked inner city blacks “What do you have to lose by voting for me?” the Democrats lost no time in demonizing him. They did so in the most dehumanizing terms possible – launching an all-out war to destroy him as a white nationalist, white supremacist, Hitler. In this lethal atmosphere, which has lasted for four years, the first black President of the United States this week again called Trump – and by implication his seventy-three million supporters – racist.
Race is the Democrats’ nuclear weapon, deployed to destroy their critics and protect every corrupt urban Tammany Hall they have built and profited from over the last 100 years. This weapon was a gift from the radicals who successfully infiltrated the Democrat Party following their riot at the Convention in 1968. It is where the deep divisions that afflict us now began.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/david-horowitz-where-we-are-and-what-we-face-2.php
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Trump represented a major threat to the Democrats’ corrupt inner-city empires and – worse – to their electoral power base.
Zzzzzzzzz Trump made large campaign donations to Democrats in those corrupt inner-city empires.
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LOL, Bitter. You’re such a one trick pony. Trump’s increased vote share and his inner city popularity definitely posed a threat to Democrat control , as mentioned by Horowitz. He also made contributions to Dems prior to entering politics in furtherance of business interests. Both can be true.
Next up, bitter declares Horowitz to be a member of a cult, LOL!
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He also made contributions to Dems prior to entering politics in furtherance of business interests.
Zzzzzzzz How did his major contributions to Planned Parenthood further his business interests? 99% of the harm inflicted by the Democrats he funded had nothing to do with his business interests.
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90% of Republicans are in the Cult!
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I know, Bitter. It’s not like log rolling ever happens and contributions aren’t made to dem run organizations to curry favor with those dem politicians. Nah, never in that beyond reproach land known as PA and it’s not like Boston is a college town (hat tip Spinal tap) LOL!
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No. Wanting lower taxes, conservative judges, and a strong military were mainstream Republican ideas long before Trump. Isolationism, protectionism, trade wars, and trying to destroy NATO came in with the Cult.
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You either have conservative principles or you don’t. If you are conservative, you don’t donate to Leftists. Ever. Even if it hurts your business interests. Trump never had conservative principles so stop trying to justify his past. No redemption.
Stupid false comparison to Reagan during the New Deal in 3…2…1…
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Bitter said…..”trying to destroy NATO came in with the Cult.”
Striving to have the slackers within NATO increase their defense spending is trying to destroy NATO.
I don’t see the logic, but I guess that’s the mantra.
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Lol nato is destroying itself. They allow deadbeats.
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Nah, bitter. No comparison to Reagan needed. You have your principled absolutist’s view. Many others in the real world who have to do business in dem run cities have a different one. I wouldn’t doubt that Trump’s organization wouldn’t have put up a single building in NY without such contributions.
Speaking of reality, has your law firm made any contributions to politicians and organizations that meet your definition of “leftist “ or Democrat ?knowing a thing or two about how such firms work, I’d be surprised if they didn’t in your neck of the woods. How do you rationalize away that moral compromise ? After all, your labor is generating, in part, the revenue for those entities.
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You either have conservative principles or you don’t.
Paging, Mute 43 and Paulo Ryano
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My firm has 2 partners and 3 lawyers. I have no idea if they donate to any candidates.
Again, in the real world, Trump donated to hardcore Leftists across the U.S., not just in New York. I find that unacceptable. You justify it.
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politicians and organizations that meet your definition of “leftist “ or Democrat
Trump funded Democrats. Do Reid, Pelosi, the Clintons, Schumer, Durbin, etc meet your definition of Leftists? They meet mine.
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My firm has 2 partners and 3 lawyers. I have no idea if they donate to any candidates.
How convenient. Put your head in the sand and avoid any moral compromise, LOL! I bet if we run your law firm we’ll find some of those icky contributions you so rail against. Your principled bedrock is looking more like sand, LOL!
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Head in the sand? Do you ask your bosses about their donations? I mean, if you had a job.
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lol! We live in the 21 st century bitter. Have you run them? It’s all online. Or are you just playing dumb because you don’t want to know the answer? Also, what part of the word “firm” don’t you understand ? Have you run your LLC/pc or whatever?
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So everybody who works for Trump’s companies is really a Dem fundraiser even if they don’t donate themselves? Damn
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Nitpicking donations to dem organizations and politicians in the past becomes a tiresome tirade. Today is today, and this country is not on the most stable economic ground. Those donations effect nothing happening right now. It’s the principles/policies bring applied today and onward that are of vital importance to remedying yesterday’s financial/moral mistakes.
We are paying over a trillion dollars interest on a debt growing almost a trillion dollars every 100 days. The BRICS are soon meeting for de-dollarization purposes. Our grid is insufficient in it”s ability to supply enough power because of all the green energy replacing more substantial energy sources, creating future blackouts maybe on the scope of the recent one experienced in Spain. So many troublesome aspects to our present and future status as a thriving nation, and all bitter can do is gripe about who donates money to whom decades in the past!
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That’s not even close to what I said, but you do you, bitter. Your small law firm and the managing partners are a completely different story and you know it, but it’s very convenient for you to remain ignorant of their activities, which are directly funded by your work in that little outfit. Keep that head in the sand, bitter so you can cast those stones without hesitation. Dont worry, I won’t out your firm and your partners activities. What a trip!
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Another pure conservative…..
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
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PBS’ “Conservative” David Brooks responds to Trump EO defunding NPR and PBS:
“Who’s more straight down the line than we are?”
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I did have to compromise my conservative principles to give Trump my vote 3 times but the Dem nominee is always worse. Thankfully, I will never have to do that again.
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Trump 2028! Unless he’s Pope.
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Voting for Trump three times, and then lambasting him 24/7, including for political donations of the past, seems more hypocritical than conservative.
In the meantime, adding to my post about current economic pot holes to focus on:
https://archive.ph/2025.05.02-173906/https://www.ft.com/content/912f861f-26c8-4bcd-aca0-75a09e5767cc
”Japan’s finance minister has publicly identified the country’s more than $1tn holdings of US Treasuries as a “card” in its trade negotiations with the Trump administration, in a rare baring of teeth by America’s closest ally in Asia.”
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Jan, it used to be that being unhappy with having to vote for a Republican who is not satisfactorily conservative was referred to here as being a deadender.
Times have changed.
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I had to compromise my conservative principles to vote for Media Whore McCain and Traitor Mitt.
Deal with it…..
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Nitpicking donations to dem organizations and politicians in the past becomes a tiresome tirade.
Hit a nerve?
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McCain and Romney were more conservative than Trump.
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Lies. A Deadender is somebody who supported a primary candidate destined to lose a General Election to send a message.
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That’s not even close to what I said, but you do you, bitter.
That is exactly what you said. You said that if my bosses donate to Democrats, I am complicit by earning them the money to do it. No different under your stupid thinking would be Trump’s employees making money for him to donate.
Again, how did Trump’s donations to Planned Parenthood further his business interests? I don’t recall him building abortion clinics.
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Hit a nerve?
Hardly. Just making a sad observation.
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McCain and Romney were more conservative than Trump.
Your examples of “conservative” are becoming more twisted as time goes on.
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Jan – When Trump actually pushes for a bill to lower taxes or appoints a conservative judge, I will praise him. His focus is on trade wars and rerunning the 2020 election.
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We are paying over a trillion dollars interest on a debt growing almost a trillion dollars every 100 days.
Remember to include the spending bills Trump signed in the debt. Of course, it may have been his evil hand that he does not control if you listen to NYC.
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What is Trump? Certainly not conservative.
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“stupid thinking”? LOL! You can’t be this dumb and call yourself a lawyer. It gives real lawyers a bad name, LOL!.
Your small law firm iis no comparison to a large organization and if you think that the contribution activity of this entity doesn’t reflect on you, keep telling yourself that so you don’t have to live with your moral hypocrisy. Moreover, a review of planned parenthood’s 501c contribution data does not reveal any records of a direct personal contribution by Trump to planned parenthood. The contribution appears to have been made through one of his corporate entities. That’s is why it is relevant to the purported attorney.and his own employers contribution history.
As for Trump’s contributions to Democrat run organizations, I’ve already explained it to you in my above log rolling comment. For those other than the naive, purported attorney, pay to play as it is practiced in dem run cities involves indirect contributions to NGOs, PACs, and organizations like planned parenthood, all controlled by Dems, particularly when contribution limits have been reached . Those entities then indirectly contributed to the politician, in an attempt to mask the pay to play aspect. Either that or the contribution is directed to those entities to curry favor with the dem politician because family and friends of the politician are employed by the recipient entity. That’s how it works in dem run cities. .
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Sure, they were…..
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Lol
McCain and Romney were more conservative than Trump.
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Fla – You are embarrassing yourself trying to justify your Trump worship. I would suggest you call me but you’re a p*ssy
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Bitter said….”When Trump actually pushes for a bill to lower taxes or appoints a conservative judge,”
Big tax reduction in the first term. Wants to add no tax on tips and perhaps social security and overtime. I know, the latter doesn’t impact Bitter, so he doesn’t care…..
He hasn’t appointed a conservative judge? If you meant that, you’re losing your battle against TDS.
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Fla – You are embarrassing yourself trying to justify your Trump worship. I would suggest you call me but you’re a p*ssy
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LOl!! I’m embarrassing myself said the guy who is so Trump deranged he can’t even comprehend how embarrassing he looks. If your partners or clients (assuming you have any) saw half the garbage you post, you’d be out on the street felating men for beer money, LOL!
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Not this term. He did in his first term. Try to keep up.
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They were conservatives and you admitted Trump is not a conservative. Are you really this dense?
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Bitter with threats again. You always know he’s losing an argument when you get the “call me if you’re man enough” post.
I always wonder what he’d say on the phone that he wouldn’t write here…..
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Chi and I used to get along. Then he joined the Cult. Oh well.
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Find out. 215 901-2041.
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Fla- How do you get that Trump taste out of your mouth.
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Here you are, Bitter. I await the praise you promised.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-makes-first-judicial-nomination-since-returning-to-white-house/ar-AA1E2qjA
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bitter -Fla- How do you get that Trump taste out of your mouth.
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Lol! I wash it away with your TDS tears. Keep crying ffor the next 3.5 years, bitter!
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Bitter’s leg must be feeling better. That’s good news.
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Here’s more info on Trump’s 1st judicial appointment:
May 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump announced late on Thursday his first judicial nomination since returning to the White House as he moved to appoint a lawyer serving under Tennessee’s Republican attorney general to a seat on a federal appeals court.
Trump said in a social media post that he is nominating Whitney Hermandorfer, who has clerked for three members of the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority, to fill a vacancy on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Lol lol lol.
happy hour or happy pills?
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Hey Bitter, is that your cell ph #?
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Good for Trump.
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He got my vote 3 times. No TDS here.
At least you admitted you do have Trump’s taste in your mouth,
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I’m on crutches now. The 5 hour ride to Pittsburgh for graduation makes my leg stiff.
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Yes. My identity is the worst kept secret on the internet. Except for Deep State.
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LOL! Ok bitter, sure. I guess that’s what constitutes an admission and an argument for a state practitioner in Philly. I believe you voted for Trump as much as I believe you have no clue about your law firms contributions. Keep those TD S tears coming!
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Enjoy the graduation, you deserve it.
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There is no nationalistic populist revolt going on in Australia!
“Labor’s Anthony Albanese has defied the so-called “incumbency curse” to be re-elected Australia’s prime minister in a landslide.
Official vote counting won’t finish for days, but Albanese’s centre-left government will dramatically increase its majority after the conservative Liberal-National coalition suffered a thumping defeat nationwide.”
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Enjoy the graduation, you deserve it.
Bitter, that’s hardly a comment made from someone who doesn’t like you. BTW, I ditto Chicon’s wishes.
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NT
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