Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.0 / 56.0 | -15.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.1 / 53.1 | -8.0 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Republican +1 | 218 | 217 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.0 / 56.0 | -15.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.1 / 53.1 | -8.0 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Republican +1 | 218 | 217 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
97 responses to “Back to work.”
Jason posted this about me:
God is not about you, is not about your family, it is not about who you think deserves saving or mercy.
But then posted that he thought Trump deserved being saved by God.
Irony Meter explodes.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14880909/camp-mystic-houston-sade-perkins-blame-trump-whites-only.html
You almost have to respect somebody who says something hateful and still says F all y’all when kicked out over it. Almost.
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I am not normally a great fan of Victor Davis Hanson but his op ed this morning is excellent:
The Frightening Dream House of Mamdani
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Bitter – Regarding your struggles with Jason, perhaps God doesn’t cause bad things to happen or stop bad things from happening, but mostly helps us deal with the bad things that happen. God has clearly given you a great deal of strength to deal with the pain and tragedies in your life.
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BillW – Respectfully, I ask nothing of God and hope He just forgets about me.
Talk to those at HHR who believe that God did intervene to save Trump’s life when he was shot. I don’t believe that.
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This is the 1166th thread of the new HHR. Which means…nothing.
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But then posted that he thought Trump deserved being saved by God.
Irony Meter explodes.”
Wow, gets the intellectual dishonesty post of the day, even if still early
Bitter conveniently left this out:
“But I wouldn’t have passed judgment on God had it gone the other way.“
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– Respectfully, I ask nothing of God”
Zzzzz…..what a load of crap.
Bitter thinks God is about him and that God needs to comply with what Bitter thinks God’s role is in the Universe.
Like I said before, I don’t think God needs Bitter’s approval for anything.
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Zzzzzzz Jason said Trump deserved to be saved. I don’t want to believe in a God who values politicians over others.
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But Jason believes he can decide who deserves God’s intercession.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14882191/photo-entire-cabin-Camp-Mystic-girls-counselors.html
People apparently less worthy of God’s intercession than Trump.
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Jason said Trump deserved to be saved”
Yes. That is my personal opinion.
But I didn’t say God intervened, I made that clear by the next sentence.
If you want to quote me, provide the entire context.
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But Jason believes he can decide who deserves God’s intercession.”
Nah, that is a fabricated lie, never said that.
The only one here who thinks God needs to conform to whatever stupid rules you make up for him is YOU.
GFY.
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People apparently less worthy of God’s intercession than Trump.”
Zzzzzz…….
Bitter thinks he gets to decide who God should save or not.
And if God doesn’t act in the way Bitter thinks he should, then he attacks God.
I would seek professional help.
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After my niece killed herself, I stopped believing God saves anybody. I know most people at HHR disagree.
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Did I share3 this with you all earlier?
I forget.
THIS IS FOR 3 MONTH TIME PERIOD in TX
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NEWS IN NUMBERS
Nearly 80,000
Number of undocumented patients who were treated at Texas hospitals from December through February at a cost of $329 million, about 2 percent of all patient visits during the period, according to data released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Health-care advocates say the data excludes critical context, such as how much of that cost is actually paid by undocumented patients or how it compares to total unpaid hospital care costs.
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I saw something interesting in that link Bitter posted.
Look at the photo of the interior of the cabin, second one down.
It looks like the tops of the bunks were not flooded, there are still pictures with tape that look undamaged, and the sheets don’t look wet.
It make me think girls could have survived that room had they stayed on the top bunks.
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I stopped believing God saves anybody. I know most people at HHR disagree.”
Zzzzz…
I guess God “failed” because Bitter’s niece died.
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It make me think girls could have survived that room had they stayed on the top bunks.”
Not suggesting the right move was not to try to escape.
Just observing that anyone trapped in that room might have survived.
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I don’t know what I would have done in that situation especially in the middle of the night. But fleeing is entirely reasonable.
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God did not fail. I don’t believe God saves or does not save people. Both can be true.
I respect and admire people of faith like DW who believe they have a strong personal bond with God. I don’t.
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No. I failed my niece. GFY
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Tragic choice in the dark. They could not know the water would stop rising or that cabin would not be swept away. A lifetime of horrible What If for their families
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Right. No way to know, you have to try to get out.
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failed my niece”
Neither God nor you “failed” anything.
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Breaking…
Federal district Judge orders sun to begin rising in the west, as the judge feels rising in the east is racist.
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Not sure what demographic will be attracted to Musk’s new party.
Never Trumpers are essentially Democrats now, and hate DOGE too.
I don’t see him as a new Ross Perot because Perot’s strength was his personality and his status as a candidate, his party was irrelevant.
Third parties are traditionally weak in America, and they only break through somehat when they have a “name” to lead them (Anderson, Wallace, Perot, Nader, etc.)
Since Musk is not running himself (not even eligible) I think his party is destined to be on the fringe.
Having said that, he has virtually unlimited funds, so maybe that will be the difference.
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Interesting.
Looks like Biden was told by his team to commit political suicide.
I always thought Biden agreed to a debate after being goaded by Trump and while speaking off the cuff, and then it was too late to put the cat back in the bag.
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1942180212831052197
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I think some of the Never Trumpers will be back in the GOP when Trump is gone.
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Unfortunately I think that Musk’s goal is to hurt Trump in the mid-terms to get back at him, and given the scant margins of victory in many races, just stealing away the Pauliacs that will follow him (because he’s essentially an offshoot of that movement. Kill the government, cut all services, legalized drugs, no oversight, no one to tell them what to do) to have an effect on the races.
It’s also a giant temper tantrum and to try and show he is more powerful than the President of the United States.
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“”As Mediaite reported, Christina B. Propst, a Houston, Texas pediatrician, gloated about the 82 victims of the Texas flooding in Kerr County, saying they voted to gut FEMA and got what they deserved as a result.
These victims included 28 innocent little children.
“May all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,” she wrote. “Kerr County MAGA voted to gut FEMA. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”
People recoiled, and were so upset by this pediatrician’s harsh social media comments that she was first suspended and then later lost her job.
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I don’t.
That train left the station long ago.
Check out any Never Trumper site….Bulwark, Dispatch, Lincoln Project, whatever.
They were no longer anti-Trump, they were openly pro-Kamala. They were not critical of ANY of her far left agenda, they adopted it.
Kristol, Longwell, Conway, Schmidt, Brooks, Boot, Cheney, Kinzinger, etc are all, to quote Kristol, “Democrats now”.
They oppose BBB. They oppose any energy policy that is not about global warming They are pro-abortion all the way to term. They oppose deportations. They favor lawfare against not only Trump, but against anything that is conservative.
Do you think any of them would support anybody who succeeds Trump. They all hate Vance, Rubio and DeSantis, and you can bet one of these will be the nominee.
They are not coming back because there is no ” back” to come to.
90%+ of the R party supports Trump, that has been constant for almost 10 years.
The Never Trumpers that did not come back by now are never coming back.
Bet on it.
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There was a time that I lamented the loss of these former Republicans.
No longer. Good riddance.
I don’t think their ideology can ever “fit” the R party again.
And I say this as someone who is not happy with the current ideology of the R party.
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and were so upset by this pediatrician’s harsh social media comments that she was first suspended and then later lost her job.”
Anybody who still has her treating their children must be ok with her saying the children deserved to die based on how Kerr County voted.
The sad thing is, there will probably be such parents.
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Bad things happen to good people.
Good things happen to bad people.
Dying is a given for the living.
Becoming too embittered about tragic circumstances in our lives only makes acceptance and moving on more difficult.
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They are not coming back because there is no ” back” to come to.
Both the democrat and Republican parties have reconstituted themselves into something different from their old selves. The Dems have embraced a more Marxist ideology, based on being dependent and obedient to a more centralized intolerant type of governance. Republicans, in contrast, detest too much bureaucracy, constraints on their freedoms, rules and regulations, appealing more to those wanting to run their own lives. The demographics have also radically changed with the working, middle classes of all nationalities voting in bigger quantities for Republican, while the elite, well educated, Wall Street types are shifting over to the Dems. The anti-Trump contingencies fall more into the dem camp now, and IMO there they will stay in the near future.
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Scenes from (hopefully) bad Philly…
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1942299450405269537
Chicon
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In a way the split between Musk and Trump was inevitable. Two enormous egos usually can’t survive in the same room with each other for very long. In the beginning Musk was like an intern-in-training, learning what executive power and privilege was all about. He literally was seen with Trump everywhere he went. However, once the magic of internship faded I think he wanted more of what Trump has – international power and prestige. Opposing the BBB I think was more a vehicle to step away from Trump and try seizing some political power and a following for himself.
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After scrolling through Facebook posts, I am convinced people are dumber than ever.
“Trump caused the TX flood disaster.”
“Cloud seeding caused the flooring in TX.”
“The earth is flat.”
lots and lots of BS being posted that apparently people believe.
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Looks like a turd world, Chi.
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Bad things happen to good people.
Good things happen to bad people.
Which is why I don’t personally believe God plays much of a role in our lives. Why give us free will and then intervene?
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I think we have free will with the hand of God as an unexpected back up. To expect Him to intervene automatically, or when ever a request is put in, is taking such an intervention for granted. However, to alienate yourself from the possibly of His help, to distance yourself because He has failed to turn things around for you at an earlier time, is the same thing as holding a grudge towards God. I think you will only be the singular beneficiary of such recriminations.
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Anti-Immigration Protests Erupt in Mexico: ‘Respect My Culture’
PAUL BOIS
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I think we have free will with the hand of God as an unexpected back up.
If God is the backup, we don’t have free will.
I respect Jan’s faith. I don’t share it.
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BREAKING: Called. It. Judge enters TRO against defunding of abortion providers. 1/
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The commie foreign born judge is now the Congress/president
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80 year old storeowner shoots robber….
“He shot my arm off”
Oh well.
https://x.com/InternetH0F/status/1881673183557808611
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Breaking News – Foreign-Born Judges who are naturalized citizens are American citizens with the same rights as those of those who did nothing to become citizens.
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Oddly enough, I have never been shot because I don’t attempt to rob people or stores. Funny how that happens.
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Which is why I don’t personally believe God plays much of a role in our lives. Why give us free will and then intervene?”
Zzzzz….
Sophomoric and clueless “analysis” where once again is disappointed with God because somehow God doesn’t do Bitter’s bidding. Bitter wants to impute human characteristics to God, he wants a Superhero. Reminds me of the esurance ad, “that’s not the way it works”.God’s ways are not our ways comes to mind
In my view, God is omnipresent and omnipotent. But God, contrary to what Bitter thinks, is not a projection of humanity. Bitter wants God to be like Superman.
Epic delusion.
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Zzzzz I have repeatedly said I don’t pray (because everybody I pray for dies soon after), don’t expect anything from God and want to be left alone.
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I think Pam Blondis days are numbered. The binder stunt was beyond stupid.
Said from the beginning that she was overmatched and dumb.
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LOL
I told Tina long ago that there was no THERE with Epstein, that the conspiracy theory morons would be disappointed.
As usual, I am right.
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Once again the free passer cannot read,
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The binders and witness Janteen were fakes.
Both staged acts from Bionduh.
She needs to be fired.
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Would the last Trump appointee on Tina’s firing list turn out the lights.
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BOMBSHELL! DOJ Caught Cutting 60 Seconds from Newly Released Epstein 10 Hour Jail Cell Tape! What’s Going On? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/bombshell-doj-caught-cutting-60-seconds-newly-released Jeffrey Epstein worked for Mossad, and Israel are holding Trump as hostage, as they did with Biden, Obama, etc.
Is the only logic explanation
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https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1942045753452515716
Epstein met the prime minister of Israel 36 times in 4 years. He even flew to New York and SNEAKED into Jeffery Epstein’s house. Why would lsraeI’s head of state do that?
Trump is definitely on the list
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The most extensive NPC software update to date
https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1942200899859816893
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Drumf cedes 2 state question to Bibi referring to the war criminal as greatest man in the world https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1942370197098144128
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No matter how often Bunu changes his handle, the posts remain just as stupid and unhinged.
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When did Bunu, or the insane anti-Semetic racist Paulic scumbag imitating him start posting here.
Oh wait, it might just be a dailykos leftist socialist
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you beat me to it Bitter. So glad I came back to see this pig here again.
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The great boomer noticing is beginning frens.
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Vic – Bunu has been here since close to the beginning. Maybe 2004 or 2005.
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Trump is on the Epstein list, but because Democrats are so compassionate, they kept it hidden, even during the 2024 campaign, and thru the last 5 months!
For sure!
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I guffawed at this earlier:
“Bitter conveniently left this out:”
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“Said from the beginning that she was overmatched and dumb.”
-Sorry, what happened now?
If you were a MLB umpire, people would say you have a quick hook!
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Vic – Did you or your sons know any of the victims of the flood?
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Glad to hear your boys are ok, VictrC. What a terrible tragedy that was. Nature has no regard for anyone or anything when it gets to have its own way.
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Bunu was pushing Ron Paul hard in 2008 and 2012. Nobody took the bait.
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In regard to Elon Musk, a third party, and the #BBB:
Are you guys really telling me that’s the best we can expect from a Republican Congress is a budget that is trillion$$ over budget?
The Republicans were not able to cut any more from that budget? Seriously?
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I know Bunu has been here since 05… I remember when he started posting under his original alias…little did we know. DW/Bitter did a great job of keeping him off the board for a long time. He is toxic and a horrible person
Mike – Sadly yes. My son went to camp there for years, and we know a number of families who lost kids in the flood, including classmates. A very close friend of ours fortunately picked her daughter up a day early (thursday afternoon) so she wasn’t there.
The irony is that many of those who died there would have been gone that afternoon back home, the camp at maybe 20% capacity and a new group coming in Saturday morning (Friday is transition day).
It’s very somber here right now
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Mike…with regards to cutting the budget, the biggest cut to the budget would come from interest rates going down. This fiscal year, interest on the debt is $774B. Yes, you read that correctly. We could gut every entitlement program there is and won’t come close to matching what could be done by Powell lowering rates.
It’s one reason he keeps it so high. Political. Keeping it high reflects back on the interest, which reflects badly on the administration. A cut of 100 basis points would cut the deficit $180B… let that sink in.
No way to cut that much from the federal government, especially that fast. I realize that a lot of Trump supporters think that we are going to be able to gut the federal government with no ancillary effects on the country…just a bunch of bloated fed govt employees without jobs, but it doesn’t work that way.
We are a nation of 325M people, not 2.5M at the time of the revolution. Governing that many people is a gargantuan job. Any change to the way we operate is going to have to be scaled over time, and will most likely come in not increasing year over year the budgets of agencies, programs, etc, not cutting.
That’s reality folks. I know some won’t like it
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Such a hard thing to endure. The families will never recover from these losses. Their dead children will be frozen at this age forever with no new memories or milestones. Time does not heal wounds.
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https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/07/07/mondays-final-word-n3804556
-Desantis, America’s best governor, talking about 34 states putting up a balanced budget amendment, along with Elon Musks help! Great idea!
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Terrible for those families, and the communities at large. Losing children is always tough, now the sheer numbers are simply overwhelming.
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In regard to Powell – YES, I think he tried to help Biden last year, and is anti-Trump/anti-Republican. Nature of the position. Government getting larger and larger gives the FED more and more power.
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Jeffrey Epstein worked for Mossad, and Israel are holding Trump as hostage, as they did with Biden, Obama, etc.
Is the only logic explanation”
Don’t we all think of Bunu when we are looking for “logical explanations”?
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Trump has committed to spending even more money in Ukraine today, and now hours after claiming there are no epstein files, he’s flying the war criminal bibi into the WH.
MAGA is starting to notice that this administration is the same as Boden.
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“MAGA is starting to notice that this administration is the same as Boden.”
-LOL!
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The one thing I am worried about with Trump is the fact that I have read 2 articles last couple of days saying that there are DC people pushing Trump to do an amnesty deal, with the reasoning that the Republicans will lose the midterms because of the strong enforcement methods being employed – that is the worst idea and I hope that Trump would shut it down as soon as possible.
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Epstein was worth at least $700 million, had a NYC brownstone worth $60 million, 2 Caribbean islands, a Palm Beach mansion, Paris apartment, private jet….
I doubt Mossad could afford to pay him a salary…..
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Trump should take the opportunity to do immigration reform, not because of the midterms but because he has the power to do it.
He should issue work permits to the Dreamers that are crime free and offer them a path to citizenship if they serve in the military for at least 3 years or are gainfully employed for 5 years.
He should issue work permits to those that have been here for over 10 years with a clean record and can show they have worked and paid taxes. After 5 years gainfully employed and crime free they would get green cards.
At the current pace in 4 years Trump will be lucky if he can get 2 million deported. That is only 10% of the 20 million. So while he has successfully closed the border, the deportation effort is a lot more complicated. And we are only 1 election away from open borders again.
Deportations should be concentrated on the most recent arrivals, criminals, and those already with deportation orders. There are several million illegals in that situation.
If you want to call that amnesty, go ahead. I call it winning after decades of losing.
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I am still deeply saddened that there seems to be nowhere where I can get good reporting on news and deep dive into all the sides of issues of importance. The degradation of the news media has sure been a steep ski slope. Bring of the facts has been replaced by talking heads skewing the facts or making sh!t up and acting like it is fact.
Social media has not been helpful, because there is no filter as to what is true and what is fabricated. All about trying to sway and more or less telling you what you should believe and how you should think. Very big push to hit your emotional triggers to maneuver you to think and act a certain way.
I am glad I am no longer teaching high school. I am glad I am no longer in the State legislature. I had to have good, trusted and fairly non-biased news sources to be effective in my jobs.
Feel frustrated that so many people believe so many things that are absolutely untrue.
Sad situation today.
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Axios on Monday published an astonishing report citing numerous Democrat members of Congress who say their voters want to see representatives literally willing to take a bullet to “protect our democracy.”
Biting my tongue….
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Jason – your proposal makes sense, and would help solve the problem and take this off the front page…and out of Dem playbook for elections to come.
I would add that citizenship could only be earned through military service. Others can earn their permanent residency.
Anyone who has come in the last three years is not eligible for the program.
20M are not going back, this is the best solution for the country. Of course, we have the all or nothing crowd who somehow think that we need to get rid of everyone.
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MAGA is starting to notice that this administration is the same as Boden”
I think more likely is that Bunu is starting to notice Trump is not Ron Paul…
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Bunu has been here forever. In the early days before he was Bunu he was Acroso. For a few years he was President Paul.
Famously, before Ron Paul got decimated in IA, he said IA was “Paul country”.
He also claimed Ron Paul was a lock because older voters had died off and all young people were Paulbots.
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I am still deeply saddened that there seems to be nowhere where I can get good reporting on news and deep dive into all the sides of issues of importance.”
What???
I get all my information here at HHR.
A lot of “deep” dives here.
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“Of course, we have the all or nothing crowd who somehow think that we need to get rid of everyone.”
-The proposals make sense. The timing does not.
Use DOGE to find fraudulent actors, if any illegal aliens used services that should not have been available to them, expose them publicly, along with an offer of amnesty if they leave the country on their own. Otherwise, they need to be held to account for the services they received under false pretenses. ICE should not be used to go after them. ICE, at this time, should strictly be used for those illegals who committed other crimes after coming here illegally.
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“ICE, at this time, should strictly be used for those illegals who committed other crimes after coming here illegally.”
If someone committed a real crime, and they were in jail do you deport them to then be scott free instead of jail time?
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We need self-deporters to greatly outnumber the ICE deported. That will increase the numbers appreciably. The increase in ICE agents from the BBB will have the beneficial side effect of increasing the number of self-deporters, as there are benefits to self-deporting vs. getting ICE’d.
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Can anyone here say that they have seen people with tattoos and the tattoos made them look more attractive?
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There have been, at one time or anothe, shark attacks reported in Missouri, Kentucky and New Mexico–no e of which border any ocean.
Believe it or not…
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software reprogramming for MAGA https://twitter.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1942428265441788211
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NT
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