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 
56 responses to “Independence Week!”
Follow the exalted leader!
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AP
BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade talks with U.S. have resumed after Canada rescinded its plan to tax U.S. technology firms.
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Walz the Grand Marshal of the gay pride parade in MN.
I think it is part of the $40 million Dem strategy to appeal to men.
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I guess Tapper will have to write another book on how he was “duped” again…
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/06/30/oops-looks-like-jake-tapper-missed-another-story-this-time-about-zohran-mamdani-n2414941
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Max is an absolute superstar (and the Grayzone that punches above its weight) as the ADL chief claims he is a “major source of concern”
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Bunu, aren’t you late for your Final Solution workshop over at the American Nazi Party?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone
It’s Wiki but I don’t feel like reading Bunu’s trash site.
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Played bridge with the other group today.
I CAME IN SECOND! (won $3.00)
Been a long drought…
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Elections have consequences….
Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman vented Monday that he would rather put his toes in the sand than deal with a series of votes ahead of the expected passage of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“Oh my God, I just want to go home. I’ve already, my — I’ve missed our entire trip to the beach,” the hulking Fetterman groused to reporters.”
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Walt hasn’t been this excited about a game since he beat Helen of Troy in a strip backgammon match.
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Follow the science!
Michelle Obama says the ability to create life is the least significant function of a woman’s reproductive system.”
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When you are immortal, winning $3 at bridge adds up over the millenia.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14862601/Bryan-Kohberger-accepts-plea-deal-Idaho-murders.html
Oh well. I was looking forward to the death penalty.
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Diddy jurors complaining one juror is “not following judge instructions”.
Maybe Bitter can tell us what that might mean…
Is it a holdout for conviction or for acquittal?
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I have only seen snippets of this trial.
But from what I can see, the “trafficking” charge seems like BS.
Transporting hookers interstate? Zzzzz……
The guy is a serial abuser and a scumbag, that is clear.
Outside of that, the charges seem like a stretch.
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Was a motive ever given for this Kohberger guy to knife 4 people to death?
Another roommate says he walked right by her and did not attack her in the house.
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Motion to commit now 47-50 in the Senate, let’s let Fetterman go to the beach for Christ sake.
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Another motion to commit.
Danang Dick wants to send it back to committee to add provision that Qatar gift cannot be accepted.
Zzzzzz…
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Wes came up with Danang Dick.
I miss Wes. He was a moron on many subjects, especially History (not ignorant, he was very well read, just misguided), but he knew his movies and his cigars. He liked loose women, dry red wine, and rare steaks, nothing wrong with any of that.
He also was probably the most rigid and opinionated person at HHR, and that is an achievement. Challenge him on any of his views and you could be targeted for life. Nothing wrong with that either.
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Is it a holdout for conviction or for acquittal?
It could be that of he could be somebody who is trying to do things like make up other “crimes” or refusing to deliberate. Apparently, he is a scientist and may not want to follow the instructions of mere mortals.
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Dems going full Marxist.
Not a surprise, I am glad they stopped pretending.
Chris Murphy: The Democrat party should look at emulating Mamdani’s campaign — “We’d probably win a lot more elections.”
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My favorite fight with Wes was when he said I could not like the show The Walking Dead because I didn’t know it was based on graphic novels/comic books.
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Another recurring fight he had with you was that somehow you were to blame for corruption in New Jersey and abortion laws in PA.
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I started college in PA in 1986 at 19 and continued in law school in 1990. Somehow, I was responsible for all of it in 2 states.
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I recall a long-running Wes-Jason fight over some race in NC that always descended into Wes calling Jason crude names.
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Some of Wes’ set in stone positions:
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I recall a long-running Wes-Jason fight over some race in NC”
The NC GOP conspired to oust a sitting member of Congress (who Wes didn’t like).
He never forgave me for saying I thought they were wrong.
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While the votarama proceeds, C-Span shows Sunday’s debate.
Except they only show the speeches by Dem senators.
Unbelievable.
What is their slogan “Democracy in action.. or unfiltered” some BS like that.
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Vote to strip Medicaid from illegals only gets 56 votes.
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The funny thing was that Wes and I voted exactly the same for decades.
He voted for every R candidate except 2016, just like me.
And he voted for Trump in 2020 just like me.
No, he would not have voted for Trump in 2024 if he hadn’t passed, but before that we voted the same way.
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I have watched CSpan for years and have seen many Republican speeches. GFY
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I didn’t say they only show Dem speeches.
I aid that their coverage of the Senate vote today, which i have had on in the background, ONLY featured Dem senator speeches from yesterday playing all day. Its a split screen showing the vote and the speeches.
Finally now they have Tammy Bruce from the State Dept.
But not ONE Rep speech from yesterday.
GFY.
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Now they have a DOJ guy talking about the big HC fraud bust.
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Hillary Clinton’s BUST?
WTH?
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I think the big beautiful bill is is trouble of not passing.
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On a related note…about 10 years ago we were up visiting son and his farm family in WISC. He usually hired several full time workers and several more part time workers. We were all out picking beans or whatever I always was a working vacations when we visiting the farmer son) and I overheard two of these part time summer workers talking (they were both students at the local college). And the one was telling the other how he qualified for government SNAP benefits, and government food stamps and whatever and telling the other one how to go about doing the same thing. I did not think it was right for college students to be able to qualify for SNAP/food stamps. Still don’t.
Also, while driving down one of the main highways, we noticed a big field of (somewhat poor looking) corn that had not been harvested. Farmer son shakes his head and disgustedly says , “yeah that is so-and-so’s farm. It is a scam. That farmer does this every year. Plants his crop at the very latest possible time, doesn’t;t fertilize or anything. Then when he has a poor crop of corn he applies for and gets thousands of dollars in government farm aid every year due to his poor yield that he blames on drought, etc. If the USDA officials would investigate, they would find that farmers on either side of that scamming farmer got big crop yields because they planted it when they were supposed to, took care of it, etc. So with a little investigation they could tell his poor crop yield was not from drought. He just plants it at the wrong time and then does nothing to it, and then gets big bucks from the USDA for crop loss assistance
Just thought I would share these stories here.
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The Big Beautiful Bill is too big to not pass.
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They charged 312 people with health care fraud totaling $14 billion today. Dr Oz said a lot more still to come.
Lots of scams.
There guys actually bought US health care companies just to perpetrate the fraud.
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C-SPAn finally showing Lindsey Graham’s speech.
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Incredible match at the Club World Cup as Al Hilal beat Man City 4-3 after extra time to advance to the quarter finals.
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Major upset Al Hilal eliminates Manchester City
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Damm, sane voter beat me to it.
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Amazing upset. Al Hilal have never beaten a European team in a tournament until now. MC was the favorite to win the cup. What a game!
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I honestly can’t believe what I just saw. What a game!
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That was a good game. So was Fluminense 2 Inter 0.
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I thought Fluminense might be the Cinderella team but it could be Al Hilal.
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That clearance off the line near the end of regular time was incredible
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Incredible!
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Fluminase/Hilal game on Friday is going to be must see tv. I’m handing the grilling job over to someone else to watch this game
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Trump personally attacking Musk again. The Uniparty can’t help the out of control deficit spending … MAGA now owns it with BBB. Trump attacks those who want to be responsible with the national debt.
Just like Trumps first term out of control deficit spending will continue to explode our debt…leading to long term inflation.
This is bad Trump.
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Deficit spending has been going on for decades so I am not sure about the “long term inflation” part.
This is not rocket science. You either extend the tax cuts or you don’t.
If you believe extending the tax cuts is necessary AND good for the economy in the long run, then there is no alternative to raising the debt limit and hoping the resulting economy and revenues and spending cuts (1.6 trillion) narrows the. deficit in the future.
In my view, a $4.7 trillion tax hike now would kill the economy.
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Above post sums it up perfectly. We cannot allow those tax cuts to expire. The effect on our economy will be devastating. The big bet here is that we can grow ourselves out of this massive debt load. With the slim majority we have in Congress right now, this is the only play available. Prayers up that it works
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Mike Crapo:
Does anyone in America believe that if the Dems succeeded in enacting a $4.3 trillion tax hike they would use ONE CENT of it to reduce the deficit?”
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Breaking from Inca News:
John Thune says “WE HAVE A DEAL”
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Today I will do the lawn trimming (son mowed yesterday evening) and put the stain/paint on the deck.
It is only 88 degrees here now, so I am waiting til it gets a little warmer.
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NEW THREAD
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Janz,
(who posted “I am the perfect husband)…
As a college sophomore, my girlfriend (senior back at my high school alma mater) dumped me.
In my senior year in college, my college sweetheart (we were talking about how many children we wanted and what names to give our children) dumped me to go back to her old, long-time hometown boyfriend? She actually said on the night she kicked me to the curb that she wished she could still go on dating both of us. Apparently for a while after college she was dating me on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and him on M, W, F. I guess she took Sunday off to get her thoughts together.
And later my (now) wife, who I had dated on and off over a period of time, was previously twice engaged to her hometown guy and was engaged to him and making wedding plans when he sadly died in a car accident the summer I was traipsing around in Europe.
I think there is a good book/movie that could have been made about all this.
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It seems like women found me the second best choice more than once.
Guess it was those women’s loss.
Still, I am content and very thankful and satisfied with how things in life worked out for what was definitely the best result.
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