Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 54.9 | -12.9 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.3 / 50.3 | -4.0 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 54.9 | -12.9 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 46.3 / 50.3 | -4.0 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
70 responses to “This is the 1,200th post of the new HHR!”
Phoenix INDEED!
Well done, Bitterlaw!
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Thanks, NYC. Time flies when the fighting continues.
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The lifeboat launched in May of 2023.
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News in Numbers$36,293Projected per-student spending in New York for the 2024–25 school year, nearly double the national average. The state’s consistently high education costs are driven by rising salaries, pension obligations and expanded state aid, and have increased 21 percent since 2020–21.
Aug. 6, 2025
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7.2%Increase in the share of New York City public school students meeting the state’s proficiency bar in reading after two years of major curriculum reforms. This spring, 56.3 percent of third through eighth graders scored proficient or better on English Language Arts exams, erasing last year’s “implementation dip.”
Aug. 12, 2025
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The decline in tourism to Las Vegas this year, with visitor numbers, convention attendance and hotel occupancy all down …
Aug. 11, 2025
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7.2%Increase in the share of New York City public school students meeting the state’s proficiency bar in reading after two years of major curriculum reforms. This spring, 56.3 percent of third through eighth graders scored proficient or better on English Language Arts exams, erasing last year’s “implementation dip.”
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30%Increase in the average U.S. residential electricity rate since 2020, following years of modest growth. Utilities cite deferred maintenance and grid upgrades for extreme weather as key drivers, but researchers warn artificial intelligence could further accelerate costs — potentially adding up to 25 percent in some states by 2030 due to rising data center demand.
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Can the HHR treasury afford a medal or at least a framed “Award of Merit”
I will even kick in $1.
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Start your HHR 1200 thread Saturday with the week in pictures –
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/the-week-in-pictures-democrats-all-in-for-crime-edition.php
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On the previous thread, certified moron FLA2025 made a number of false statements.
First he is too stupid to discern between a cut and paste quote and something I wrote.
US. wholesale inflation surged unexpectedly last month, signaling that President Donald Trump’s sweeping taxes on imports are pushing costs higher.“
I did not write this, it was a direct quote.
Alas, contrary to FLA2025’s assertion that the basic laws of economics and the laws of supply and demand no longer apply under Trump, higher taxes (tariffs) do translate into higher costs.
I know FLA2025 was salivating on the prospect of getting a Nobel Economics Prize for his novel theory that higher costs don’t impact prices, demand, or profits, but reality sometimes interferes with fantasy.
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Also both Tina and certified moron FLA2025 (“Tina is right”) were completely wrong on the USAID paymenyd issue.
What really happened was that the Trump administration had to eat crow and pay the contractors who had already completed work.
There is no “contract dispute” when you just have a blanket order that you are going to stiff the contractors and refuse to pay ANY of them for ANY work done. That is not a “contract dispute” that is a direct violation of contract law and completely illegal.
No amount of smoke and mirrors and attacks on “foreign judges” (has Tina answered Bitter’s question on whether a foreign born judge is “less American” than a native born judge yet?) changes that.
The contractors who completed work were paid and the sordid attempt to stiff them failed. THAT is what is important.
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https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1956642399343559001/photo/1
Let’s see. If Trump really does come up with a peace agreement that is acceptable to Ukraine I will be the first (well, maybe after Hillary) to recommend him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Of course, I see ANY agreement that rewards Russia with illegally occupied land and does not seek reparations to rebuild Ukraine and justice for the perpetrators of war crimes against Ukrainian civilians as a win for Rusisia and a loss for Ukraine, the West AND the US.
However, there are bad bad agreements, and worse bad agreements.
Hopefully, this agreement will not be as bad as bad could be.
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Hey Jason, you’re a dick –
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Also, it is a fallacy to claim that “tariffs do not impact services”.
The components that comprise the cost (and, sorry FLA2025, the price) of a service could very well be impacted by tariffs.
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LOL
FLA2025 gets all his fake “economic theories” from the Internet.
I know, I know, he claims that his theory that costs don’t affect prices, demand or profits was “invented” by him, but even that is not original, it is just ignorant trash he regurgitates here.
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FLA2025, who is always here raging against “village idiots” and “dicks”, etc., call other people “angry”?
You gotta love it here.
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Good one
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Huh, there was supposed to be a picture there.
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Anyway, it was the one of Pritzker joining the police force in the hopes of getting thrown a sandwich.
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If a car costs $3,500 more because of the tariffs on components and the customer pays that $3,500, how did tariffs NOT impact the consumer?
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Yep, Jason is definitely Dick from the Internet. He’s also too stupid to figure out how to post an image. Being a stupid dick is no way to go through life, LOL!
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f a car costs $3,500 more because of the tariffs on components and the customer pays that $3,500, how did tariffs NOT impact the consumer?”
It’s the miracle of FLA2025’s novel theory of economics (borrowed from whatever bottom feeding cesspool sources he is addicted to).
Under FLA2025’s theory concocted by people from the bottom of the gene pool of “economists”, higher costs magically disappear somehow from entire supply chain and don’t impact prices, demand, or profits.
I can’t wait until FLA2025 moves on to dismantling the laws of physics, there should be some major impact there.
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buy a used car instead of new, and the property tax on it will be less anyway
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congrats to Bitter for creating the HHR-Phoenix edition.
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https://wvmetronews.com/2025/08/15/physical-altercation-between-restaurant-employees-leads-to-both-suffering-stab-wounds/
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Grifter to dc on Monday.
Hide the silver ware.
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Buy a car made in the us and no tariff.
The euro sheot should be built here anyway.
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Jason, the famous internet Dick, who misinterprets everyone’s comments as an absurd absolute and then attacks (see above), ignores the fact that Japanese automakers are lowering their prices and absorbing the tariffs. This is offsetting domestic imported parts price related increases and, on the aggregate, not materially impacting auto price inflation as of yet., which was the previous point I made. This is why the month to month auto related components of CPI is not materially increasing. But hey, that’s what the internet Dick is famous for.
For everyone but the HHR village idiot –
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/10/companies/japan-carmakers-export-price-cut/
“Japan’s automakers slashed the prices of their models exported to the U.S. at a record pace, in a sign that companies are sacrificing profits to remain competitive as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs hit cars.
Last month, the export price index for vehicles shipped to North America plunged 19.4% from a year earlier on a contract currency basis, the biggest drop in records going back to 2016, according to the Bank of Japan’s corporate goods price report Thursday.”
https://sherwood.news/markets/japanese-carmakers-are-indeed-eating-the-bulk-of-trumps-tariffs-at-least-for/
“ The president’s stance, they said, betrayed his basic ignorance about how tariffs work…But it was too simple of a story, implying a near automatic pass-through of tariffs to higher consumer prices and ultimately inflation. That story ignored another potential. It’s quite possible that some part of the tariffs would, indeed, be more or less paid by foreign producers who are worried that high tariffs would make their goods too expensive for Americans, costing them market share in the US. One solution: they could cut their prices, essentially paying for some of the tariffs by reducing their profit margins. And that seems to be what some of the world’s most sophisticated exporters, Japanese automakers, are doing. Goldman Sachs analysts following the Japanese economy recently spotlighted this chart showing the plunge in the price of Japanese passenger car exports to North America compared to prices in the rest of the world.”
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Buy a car made in the us and no tariff.
Most cars made in the U.S. have some degree of foreign components.
Good to see RINO Hunter Tina has expanded into deciding what cars people should buy and punishing those who don’t follow her commands.
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The euro sheot
I am sure BMWs and Mercedes, etc. are not sheot.
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Just check their reliability records and costs to service.
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U.S. produced cars do have some foreign components.
However, if produced in the us, no tariffs.
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I hope the grifter is not binging this weekend.
Hopefully, us aid or the state dept (or a deviant from the euro community) did not send him any blow.
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Yes, I trust Cn and N and Sulfur Bolton for telling us details about any peace negotiations. Nothing has yet leaked.
A difference between the 1st admin and 2nd.
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Demented was such a mess that he allowed the “incursion” from the get go.
ck Poso
@JackPosobiec
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Putin just stated publicly that it was Biden’s escalation in Ukraine that led to the war breaking out. Confirmed it wouldn’t have happened if Trump in office
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Zzzzzzzzz Putin lead to the war breaking out. He gave the order alone.
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I hope the grifter is not binging this weekend.
Tina is either in recovery or has family members who are. She is obsessed with making allegations of substance abuse.
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Putin just stated publicly that it was Biden’s escalation in Ukraine that led to the war breaking out.”
And of course Tina, who considers Putin her God, believes anything he says like it is the Gospel from Heaven.
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Jason, the famous internet Dick”
It’s nice to be recognized!
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I give Putin a pass on displacing 10 million people, killing, raping, exiling, kidnapping and torturing hundreds of thousands and bombing homes, hospitals and schools because Biden made him do it.”
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One solution: they could cut their prices, essentially paying for some of the tariffs by reducing their profit margins”
Wow, the certified imbecile now admits there might be SOME consequence to increased costs?
In other words, maybe the laws of economics and supply and demand are not completely revoked yet?
Hallelujah, that is some progress, it means even an idiot can learn something.
Of course, he probably thinks companies can operate with zero or negative profit margins, so we are not there yet.
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More misinterpreting posts and angry responses from Jason the internet Dick., who’s too stupid to figure out how to post images, let alone understand what others have written. Yep, he’s the famous Dick on the internet ! .
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Jason, the famous internet Dick
I don’t feel comfortable giving an A-hole points for that.
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I feel bad for the certified imbecile who was so sure the basic laws of economics and supply and demand no longer applied, and now forced to admit, even if, in a convoluted way, that there is no “magic” in the real world of business.
Poor bastard is due for a lot of disappointments once he gets out of mommy’s basement into real life, if ever.
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Belated congrats, Bl. Mean this as my first post this am.
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Good to have you along for the ride even with the fighting, Tina.
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Jason, the Dick on the Internet with more misinterpretations and ridiculous delusional posts. No need for A-Hole points, Bitter. He’s just the Dick on the Internet, and everyone on this board can see how truly stupid he is on a daily basis. He’s the gift that keeps on giving. I just feel bad for his llama. Imagine being owned by someone dumber than an illegal alien who thinks you can put food stamps on a letter. Let me know when the dope figures out how to post images on the thread.
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I don’t feel comfortable giving an A-hole points for that.”
Cheap bastard.
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I understand why the certified imbecile is bitter, angry and depressed.
It happens when you live in a fantasy world and reality hits you in the face.
But in his case he can always retreat into his parent’s basement and pretend the money they support him with is created from magic.
So all is not lost.
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No need for A-Hole points, Bitter.”
Zzzz…
A-hole points are only given and received by A-holes, so butt out (pun intended).
GFY.
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someone dumber than an illegal alien”
Anyone doubt there are a lot of illegal aliens smarter than FLA2025?
No?
Didn’t think so.
But hey, illegal aliens, nothing to write home about, that is a very low bar.
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Bitter has a lot to look forward to.
NFL goes Woke: Minnesota Vikings unveils new male cheerleader. Whilst the Carolina Panther’s is bringing back transgender cheerleader, Justine Lindsay for next season.
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Well I’ll be damned. Jason, the Dick from the Internet, figured out how to post a selfie! Maybe there’s hope he can learn how to read and understand posts after all. Nah, don’t hold your breath.
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LOL, Fla. Nice to see some worthy pushback.
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He’s at it again, Jan. Jason, the Dick from the internet, is a well known moron. What’s funny is everyone can see it but him. He thinks he’s a freaking genius when he’s dumber than a box of rocks, LOL.
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Sit tight, Jan. He’ll take your comment out of context next. He is Jason, the Dick from the internet, after all.
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It’s amazing how the comments mirror each other between Jason and Dick. Uncanny to say the least, but very amusing. I wonder if Scott Adams, the comic strip writer, is following the HHR blog to get his inspiration for the Dick character from our character, Jason?
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Jan, Jason is definitely Dick from the internet. Here’s the extent of his economics knowledge-
Yep, that’s definitely Jason, the Dick from the internet, LOl!
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Everybody knows Jason, LOL!
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FLA2025, a certified imbecile who thinks the laws of economics have been voided by Trump, gets kudos for his posts from janzam the Putin toady lapdog.
A match made in heaven.
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Actually, I believe in the basic laws of economics and supply and demand.
The imbecilic moron who thinks costs are never reflected in prices, demand or profits is FLA2025.
Well, actually, to be fair, he finally admitted maybe they might be reflected in profits.
But it took a couple months.
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wonder if Scott Adams, the comic strip writer, is following the HHR blog to get his inspiration for the Dick character from our character, Jason?”
I inspire Scott Adams?
I really should retire.
My influence know no bounds, what else could I aspire to?
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My wife decided on a last minute trip to New York to see Jackson Browne perform tonight. Our summer concert series continues.
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They still have cheerleaders? My last significant NFL memory is the Philadelphia Eagles routing the Chiefs on the way to winning the Super Bowl.
I used to know an Eagles cheerleader. She was also an attorney. Really.
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Jason, the Dick from the internet with more misinterpretation, comments taken out of context, and ridiculous, angry comments. It what he does. He is the HHR village idiot after all. Everyone is familiar with Jason the Dick’s work –
Funny, though, I thought he was much fatter and shorter Dick than that selfie he posted above.
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Jason, the Dick from the internet wrote – what else could I aspire to?
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How about getting an education and being less of a Dick?
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Jason, the Dick from the Internet, figured out how to post a selfie!”
It really does not show my best side….
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There you go, Jan. Even Jason acknowledges he’s the Dick from the internet!
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”I am sure BMWs and Mercedes, etc. are not sheot.”
Beemers are fun for a while, but the maintenance costs are outrageous, and if you don’t do the maintenance, you will pay dearly down the line for it. They are true to their racing heritage, and you need to baby them along the way.
New Benzs are cr@p, and I hate to say it, even the new diesels aren’t worth the money. I still drive my 1972 4 cylinder diesel, though, and that little engine keeps going, even when the oil is low. Hard to say how many miles are on that engine since the odometer only has five digits, but I’d conservatively say at least 350-400,000 miles.
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I had my Jeep Liberty for 166,000. Then the engine kept smoking no matter how often it was fixed. The Jeep Cherokee that replaced it is fine but I am still not driving right now.
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My buggy has at least 200k miles on it. Not sure about the horse.
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NT
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