Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.6 / 55.6 | -14.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.5 / 52.1 | -6.6 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
Trump Job Approval
| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.6 / 55.6 | -14.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.5 / 52.1 | -6.6 |
| GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
128 responses to “Last week of the year. Will the scandals in Minnesota be investigated?”
Will the media continue to argue that mentioning this story is racism?
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At least AI didn’t botch the creation of fireworks and “Happy New Year.”
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We dodged a bullet not electing Quemala-Doltz.
Tim Walz Calls Journalist Nick Shirley a “White Supremacist” for Reporting on Millions in Somali Daycare Fraud
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But Tina, Walz appears to be in a position to get away with all this. No media coverage, nothing to see here, everyone just moves along to focus on how evil Republicans are going into the 2026 election.
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I know that the scandal has ‘exploded’ in places like the Bongino Report. But the majority of Americans still know nothing about it.
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Well, AOL’s number one story they have up is the” best way to cook broccoli”. so do not expect AOL to have any stories on the $8+Billion fraud in MN.
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Bitter and DW,
I hate to drop this on you at the end of the year, but I need to let you know…
Beginning in 2026, all the poems, funny jokes, etc. that I post here…
…I will be requiring that you pay me twice the amount you are now paying me for each post.
Hope the governing board will approve.
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We had a Christmas season soiree here on Saturday afternoon.
We host another one here for 12 people today. There WILL be games (plus a quiz) and prizes, including lottery tickets and $2 bills.
We go to another thing tomorrow on Tuesday.
And another on Wednesday.
I think that is the last one….for THIS season…
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That Chicago/49ers game was something to watch.
My compliments to the producers and directors of the game.
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The board approved it Walt. But only on the condition that you keep posting the poems, funny jokes, etc.
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Wait…an update on CNN where they now have a headline on the daycare scandal:
“How daycare became more expensive than college”
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Walt, that game added to my grey hair. My blood pressure also rose sharply.
As Danny Glover said in lethal weapon, “I am too old for this sheot.”
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Tina – I thought the total score was going to hit 100 since neither team was playing defense. Good win for the 49ers and it also keeps the Eagles alive for the 2 seed if they win and the Bears lose next Sunday.
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Walt – We were going to pay you 3x your rate but thank you for agreeing to 2x.
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BL, I don’t recognize anyone on the 49ers defense. Too,many injuries. They are down to second and third/fourth (practice squad) stringers.
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Our 45 year old son has always been a big 49ers fan. I was working upstairs and had the game on TV and I could hear the son and his up and down reactions during the game as he watched it downstairs.
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https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/29/whoa-wtf-is-this-somali-daycare-receiving-126-million-in-ccap-funding-n2423313
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The MSM is doing its best to save Walz and Ilmar.
Will it be enough.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/12/29/drew-holden-thread-media-deliberately-dismissed-mn-fraud-story-n2423307
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Something happened in woke football?
The San Francisco Flower Children won?
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Walt is trying to shake us down?
i guess the A-holiness here is getting to him.
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Tina – The Niners staff is doing a great job but injuries keep adding up. The Packers are also getting decimated with injuries. People ask what is wrong with the Eagles offense. 3 starting members of the O-line on crutches is part of the reason.
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Walt has been involved in shady practices for eons. He invited Julius Caesar to lunch with Brutus and it was no coincidence that some extra “guests” showed up.
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3 starting members of the O-line on crutches is part of the reason”
I am going to invest in the companies that make those little blue tents the woke NFL uses on the sidelines, sounds like they will need a lot more of them.
The new protocols calls for benching players with hangnails, cat scratches and hay fever.
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If we give in to Walt’s sordid attempt to shake us down God knows what he will ask for next year.
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God knows what he will ask for next year.
God is also afraid of Walt. Walt was there before the universe started.
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WTF?
There are 539 childcare centers in Washington state that list Somali as the primary language. Most don’t even give a street address.”
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But if I were a betting man I would bet a lot of them get government money.
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Imagine what these numbers might look like if the MSM was NOT covering for him…
“We found a very high level of awareness of the frauds among Minnesota voters, and also a high level of concern: 68% said that fraud would play a role in their vote for governor in 2026, with 50% saying it would play a major role.
As for Tim Walz, 56% said he did not do enough to prevent fraud, while 34%–loyal Democrats!–said he has done enough. More significantly, by 61% to 39%, suburban voters–in Minnesota as in most states, where elections turn–say Walz hasn’t done enough to prevent fraud.”
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34% of people in MN think Walz has done enough to prevent fraud!
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If these MN voters were Germans in Germany, and the year was 1944, 34% would say that Hitler was doing enough to protect the lives of Jews.
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At least 34% of Jews in Germany probably thought they could survive Hitler.
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Hunter Biden, Man of the Year
https://freebeacon.com/men-of-the-year/2025-man-of-the-year-hunter-biden/
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The original goal of denying Jews rights in Germany was to make life so difficult that they would emigrate.
However, even after the Nuremberg Laws many Jews stayed. Heck even after Kristallnacht there were Jews who could have escaped and didn’t.
Of course, Jews that just emigrated to surrounding countries were later rounded up just like the Jews in Germany.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15419417/california-home-owner-threatens-sue-bear-squatting.html
Damn. Even bears have squatting rights in California.
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It’s weird that the 3 stooges ( Messi, rube Paul, and traitor green alagae) are silent on the Mn fraud,
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I saw the interview of Zelenskyy on Special Report. I thought he was excellent; he’s now sounding like a President first rather than a general first. Very impressive, imo.
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Did he wear a suit, or pjs?
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Putin is a KGB thug and mass killer but Putina likes his suits.
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Apparently 3I/Atlas has left a parting shot at me.
For several days, I could not print from my Chromebook as the device insisted it did not recognize my printer (though they have been friends for years and the printer always printed what my Chromebook told it to). I worked for several frustrating hours trying to resolved the problem…working with my chromebook, working with the printer, working with the wi-fi thingamajig…mad and frustrated and then just gave up.
A Christmas season miracle is that my printer is now, TODAY, again printing what I tell it to again.
Hal E. Lewya.
My Chromebook was also acting up and keys were not working right, the lightest touch would cause the screen to jump to some other thing .
Other odd things as well…Damn 3I/Atlas
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15420329/bourbon-distillery-bankruptcy-ohio-kentucky.html
Uh oh. Jason hardest hit.
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Nineveh News:
California Judge Luna See has issued an emergency injunction that will hold all California billionaires under house arrest to prevent them from leaving the Golden State, while court appointed attorneys will be granted temporary control of all billionaire assets to ensure the same assets are subject to the forthcoming one-time 5% wealth tax.
Billionaire Willis Cape confirmed he had planned to leave California. “I would have to take out massive loans to pay the tax, given the assets are tied up in investments, payroll for 5,000 employees, as well as real estate which is not easily or quickly liquidated,” Cape said.
But labor unions see the 5% tax as the rich finally starting to pay their fair share. Union boss Willie Work praised the tax saying, “These billionaires are lying to everyone. They sit on bundles of cash for their chairs, they wallpaper their houses with money, and have so much of it, they can even line their birdcages with tens and twenties. Now the rest of us can start to benefit just a little from all their excess wealth. Hopefully, if we get bolder leadership in our state we can push this 5% to 15% or 20%, and instead of it being a one-time tax, we could make it annual or even semi-annual.”
One California lawmaker, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that the 5% wealth tax must be passed, and all billionaires must be held accountable to pay it, simply because California has already spent the money they expect to raise by the tax.
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It’s hard to parody California. In fact, had that been a real news story, the California lawmaker wouldn’t have bothered to hide behind anonymity.
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Big court decision. Medicaid is ripe with fraud, as are the other entitlements,
@nettermike
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A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration can resume sharing location data about undocumented immigrants receiving public health insurance benefits with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, starting next month. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria’s ruling is a victory for President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation agenda as it allows ICE to use Medicaid data in deportation cases beginning Jan. 6. The agency had been blocked from doing so for months amid a legal challenge from blue states. “The sharing of such information is clearly authorized by law and the agencies have adequately explained their decisions,” Chhabria wrote in a seven-page order. The decision marks a significant setback for California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 of his Democratic counterparts, who sued in July to prevent the Trump administration from using Medicaid data obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services to target immigrants. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federal Medicaid programs, but California and other blue states — Illinois, Colorado, New York, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, as well as Washington, D.C. — allow some people to receive state-funded benefits through their Medicaid implementation programs regardless of immigration status.
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I’m sure there will be a perp walk on the Minnesota fraud stuff. Some time will be needed, though; white collar crime cases are complex.
Looks like Nick Shirley has started a trend in other states, too. Kudos to him.
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Tina thinks its fine that Putin murders, maims, tortures, exiles, kidnaps, displaces innocent Ukrainians by the hundreds of thousands and millions and commits heinous war crimes doing it.
As long as he wears a suit!
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Tina doubts Saddam Hussein had chemical and nuclear weapon programs?
Of course, she also believes in the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Deep State, so no surprise really.
[Moderator note: The post referred to here was removed because it was BUNU stealing Tina’s handle]
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I wonder if Tina believes Atlas is interfering with Walt’s printer?
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Holiday Travel Chaos in Europe As Authorities Forced to Shut Down Chunnel”
Green energy to the rescue!
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Bunu fooled me that time.
Apologies to Tina.
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The fraud by the Somalians will be tediously tried, with some convictions, and then life will go on unchanged. Such side rails as law and order, scrupulous oversight over funding, legitimate audits do not exist anymore in this country. Instead we have lapsed into a chronic state of fraud and corruption that is more acceptable and not exposed by the press when it is done on behalf of the Dems. Nonetheless, the abuse of taxpayer monies is seen in almost every institution and level of our government. And, as long as we can easily print money, who cares how large our debt grows!
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Bunu doubts Saddam Hussein had chemical and nuclear weapon programs?
Of course,he also believes “only 800k” Jews were killed in the Holocaust and Massie. Rand Paul are conservatives, and Iran and Hamas are regime models for the world.
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And, as long as we can easily print money, who cares how large our debt grows!
That’s what Trump thinks.
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Some of the Somali fraudsters will be prosecuted, but I doubt Walz and the MN official enablers will.
I hope I am wrong.
Most of the Somali fraudsters are US citizens, and if their citizenship was legally granted they can’t be deported.
Better they go to jail rather than spending their haul in Somalia.
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Bunu thinks Ron Paul, the King of Pork, was a fiscal conservative.
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According the Texas Independent, Paul was one of only four House Republicans to break with his party’s earmark moratorium in 2011: “Paul sent 41 earmark requests totaling $157,093,544 for the 2011 Fiscal Year” and “For Fiscal Year 2010, Paul requested 54 total earmarks, adding up to $398,460,640 in pork that the former presidential candidate sought to bring home to his district.”
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“Bunu doubts Saddam Hussein had chemical and nuclear weapons programs”
Well, at one time he (Hussein)….along with Algeria, Libya, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Iran, Ukraine, Kazakhstan among others pursued a nuclear weapons program. But in 1991 after the Gulf War UN inspectors dismantled any remnants of the program and found no actual weapons or stockpile.
But the foolish George W. Bush administration led by a more foolish Dick Cheney totally rejected the findings and foolishly got America into war based upon a lie. They never did fess up to worst foreign policy blunder in American history after our invasion found nothing.
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Trump approval:
Approve 50, Disapprove 45
Trafalgar group
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Suddenly the “Quality Learing [sic] Center” in Minnesota is a buzz of activity with cars now in parking lot and kids going in. Locals affirm they presumed it was closed and abandoned, and the activity today is new.
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Kid going into the “Quality Learing [sic] Center” in Minnesota says to mom (translated from Arabic), “Mom why do I have to be here today?”
Mom: “Shhh, you were ordered here because this place is supposed to exist because we are stealing billions in taxpayer money that gets funneled to our Somali community. Then we give part of it back to the Democratic Party so they can keep getting elected and keep covering up this money laundering scheme.”
Kid: “Dad, why do I have to be here today? I like it better when I stay with Grandma!”
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New pole
BREAKING:
@trafalgar_group Nationwide
@realDonaldTrump Approval Poll (12/26-12/27) 50.2% Approve 44.6% Disapprove
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dw got it first. 2nd pole
Jl partners
48-52
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Trump has rebounded in those poles.
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So the pollsters who were the best in 2024 have Trump’s approval at:
+9 (insider advantage)
+5 (Trafalgar)
+1 (RMG Research)
-3 (Big Data)
-9 (Quantus)
-10 (Rasmussen)
-21 (Atlas Intel)
I find these numbers fascinating, given the overall accuracy of these pollsters against all the battleground state polling 14 months ago.
Obviously Trump cannot be both +9 and -21 at the same time. My analysis of the AtlasIntel data leads me to believe that their sample of Republicans is heavily the old Bush/McCain/Romney manifestation of the party. The ones who hate Trump but are not Democrats. AtlasIntel simply didn’t find any MAGA sample at all in their polling. They must be presuming that MAGA is done, and the GOP is back to what it was in 2012.
Obviously, IA and Trafalgar see a completely different electorate. Whether or not MAGA voters ever vote again, this is a job approval poll, and these voters are getting what they voted for, meaning AtlasIntel is simply not working to include these voters in the sampling, meaning they are trying to weigh their poll to be predictive of the outcome of 2026. Trafalgar and IA are reaching these voters, but this may not transfer into them actually showing up and voting without Trump on the ballot.
All of these numbers scream to me of the need for Trump to rally his base for one more election, getting them out in droves so he can continue to deliver in the final two years of his presidency. Trafalgar and IA polling shows that they are out there–they still exist and they approve of what they voted for in 2024. Just get them to the polls and the GOP will hold the house.
But if AtlasIntel has them pegged correctly as no shows, then the job approval that matters is closer to their numbers and the GOP will end up losing house control, probably with fewer than 200 seats. A blowout.
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DW, my hunch is he’s somewhere between RMG and Big Data.
Regarding Big Data, I followed Baris for awhile on X. He is a full isolationist who is mad that Trump is way too involved in foreign affairs. I doubt his thumb is on the scale, but strong bias can unintentionally impact survey results.
I hope you’re well.
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DW, one more thing…
The voters who are least likely to vote are MAGA types. Trump is doing rallies and talking affordability constantly. The MAGA voter wants to see more from the Republicans actually on the ballot before they’ll turn out in big numbers.
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Widespread fraud in Mn and you know the local officials, including Doltz and the AG a Soros acolyte, were n the take.
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/2006091693259636775
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“The MAGA voter wants to see more from the Republicans actually on the ballot before they’ll turn out in big numbers.”
Then they are dumb and dumber. If they are waiting to see more from Republicans, then they have no clue about the dangers posed by Democommunists. If AOC, Jeffries, Omar, and Newsom isn’t enough to drive MAGA voters out to the polls so these commies can be stopped, then they are beyond hope, and as a result, so is the nation.
Its not that hard. You just schedule a time, drive to a building, walk in, vote straight R down the ballot, and then go home. If MAGA does that, they save the nation. If they don’t, then the whole nation becomes the California fecal matter show.
There will be no second chances, or anything like that. We are barely holding on by a thread. One more national wipeout, and the thread is forever broken.
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Atlas Intel……and……..3I/Atlas
Is there a connection between Atlas Intel very bad numbers for Trump and
…3I/ATLAS?
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Could it be said that Trump broke the D party?
Could it be said that Trump broke the R party?
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POTUS ELECTION TOTAL VOTES TOTAL REGISTERED VOTERS
2000…………………….105,405000…….129,549,000 81.3% turnout
2004…………………….122,295,343……142,070,000 85.9% turnout
2008……………………..131,313,820…..146,310,000 89.7% turnout
2012……………………..129,085,410…..153,160,000 84.3% turnout
2016……………………136,669,276.……157,596,000 86.2% turnout
2020……………………159,770,000.……168,308,000 94.92% turnout
(4,270,000 of the total votes went to candidates other than D or R)
2024……………………154,477,578…….173,854,000 89% turnout
(@ 2,919,000 of the total votes went to candidates other than R or D)
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In 2020–there were 23,100,000 more votes cast than in 2016
In 2020–there were over 10,000,000 more registered voters than in 2016
In 2020–there were only 9.6 Million reg. voters who did not vote; in other years was 25MM, 19.8MM, 15MM, 24.1MM, 19.4MM
in 2020–there was a 94.92% turnout of registered voters. (which I find hard to believe)
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YEAR Trump popular votes Dem total votes
2016 62,984,836…………………65,853,514 (H.R. Clinton)
2020 74,223,975…………………81,283,501 (Biden)
2024 76,917,038…………………74,441,439 (Kamala)
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Comparing 2016 and 2020 elections:
Trump got 12 million more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016.
But there were only 9 states Trump won in 2016 and won again in 2020 with a HIGHER VOTE MARGIN than his Dem opponent in that state:
(Alabama, Ark, FL, SD, TN, TX, UT, WV, WY)
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The following states gave Biden a lot more votes than they gave Hillary Clinton:
TX–1,383,000 more votes for Biden than votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016
CA–1,035,700
FL–793,000
NY–688,000
WA–6324,000
GA–596,000
MI–536,000
PA–532,000
AZ–511,000
NC–505,000
CO–466,000
NJ–460,000
VA–432,000
MA–387,000
IL–361,000
MN–350,000
MD–308,000
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Biden beat Trump by 13MM votes
Biden’s margin of victory of Trump in the following states was:
CA–5,100,000 (Kamala margin of victory in 2024 over Trump was only 3,250,000 votes)
NY–2,000.000
MA–1,200,000
IL–1,000,000
MD–1,000,000
WA–785,000
NJ–725,000
CO–440,000
OR–390,000
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CALIFORNIA
total presidential votes cast
2016–14,181,604
2020–17,501,360
2024–15,865,475 (I FIND THIS DROP STRANGE; KAMALA is also FROM CALIF.)
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Learing Center Employee of the Month
https://x.com/Prisonmitch/status/2005432379066941522/photo/1
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he MAGA voter wants to see more from the Republicans actually on the ballot before they’ll turn out in big numbers.
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LOL
Let’s see what the morons will “see” when Newsome or AOC get elected.
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Biden beat Trump by 13MM votes“
Huh, no.
It was roughly 7 million.
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Biden supposedly had 81.2 million votes, trump 74.2 million.
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Foreign Marxist judge loses again. She has been overturned 3 times. 2 times on this matter.
https://www.reuters.com/world/court-allows-trump-backed-cuts-planned-parenthoods-medicaid-funding-22-states-2025-12-30/
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The other numbers Walt posted are correct.
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The MSM gets away with calling child mutilation and partial birth abortion “health care”.
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Walt, perhaps not strange in California. Quemala underperformed badly in the ca ag race that she barely won Her Marxist counterparts did better.
However, going into 2028, she can be useful in defeating Nuissance, who is a disaster.
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Looks like Beotchy and Souter made messes again in the Chicago national guard case.
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Yeah, they can’t decide on the narrative..
“Shitlibs are bouncing between “There is no fraud, it’s all just racist lies” and “The fraud has been under investigation for a long time, this isn’t new” Just pick a lane already”
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The Somalis didn’t dew nuffin.
It’s all racism.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15424013/Colorado-Senator-Ben-Nighthorse-Campbell-dead.html
RIP, Senator Campbell.
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Campbell was a motorcycle riding Senator from a time Colorado was not a blue state.
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Too bad.
“Former Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona says he has dementia, withdraws from public life”
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The Learing Center suddenly had kids yesterday.
Another “day care” was broken into, all records stolen.
Coincidences happen.
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“Coincidences happen.”
Or put another way, they play to win. At all costs.
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I also saw the story that Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK’s granddaughter, died at 35 from cancer. She leaves behind her husband and 2 young children. Cancer sucks and is nonpartisan.
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Not only cancer but something diagnosed when she gave birth to her second child. Some doctor noted her white cells were too high, ran more tests. Then her doctor told her “I can keep you alive for maybe a year”.
But of course she needed to politicize it and use it as a prop to take cheap shots at her uncle.
As Rahm Emanuel famously said, never let a crisis go to waste.
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New Big Data generic ballot poll:
Republicans 44
Democrats 49
No good spin for this one.
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DW said “Then they are dumb and dumber. If they are waiting to see more from Republicans, then they have no clue about the dangers posed by Democommunists.”
Lol, blame the voters for not liking what a candidate offers. “I know you want a bunch of stuff done that we’re never gonna do, but you should vote for us anyway because the other guy is worse” is not very appealing.
But that is what the GOP establishment playbook appears to be. Very similar to 2010 & 2014. The very popular Obama wasn’t on the ballot, but told the electorate to get out and vote Democrat anyway. Didn’t go so well then, so the GOP wants to do the same. Good luck with that.
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To put it another way, DW, let’s say you are put in charge of winning the House for the Republicans in 2026. You have evidence that a portion of the base that elected Trump is not excited to vote in November. What’s your plan to turn that around? I doubt you believe that shaming them into voting will work. So, what’s the plan?
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Tip for when the last second of 2025 sand runs through the hour glass tonight…
LIFT YOU LEFT FOOT JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT.
That way, you start the new year on the right foot.
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either vote Republican or see the lights turned out in the shining city on the hill. Waiting for perfection from the GOP before staying interested in voting is beyond stupid. The party belongs to Trump anyway. The old Bush establishment is dead and buried, but the few that are left are the ones voting. MAGA voters have the party, but keep blaming the establishment. If they really wanted to save the country they would show up and vote to save it.
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You have evidence that a portion of the base that elected Trump is not excited to vote in November. What’s your plan to turn that around? I doubt you believe that shaming them into voting will work. So, what’s the plan?”
I say the plan is if they want to stay home and elect Democrats be my guest and GFTs
If they think the Dems will make them more “excited”, they are even stupider than dumb and dumber.
I vote for isolationists and protectionists up and down the ballot not because I am “excited” about them, but because the alternative is to elect Marxists.
The “non-excited Cultists” can make their own decisions on how “excited” they have to be.
No free lunch.
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If they really wanted to save the country they would show up and vote to save it.”
Nah, they rather whine about it, wahhhhhhh, the mean GOP-e doesn’t want to listen to us, wahhhhh…
F–k’em.
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I doubt you believe that shaming them into voting will work.”
Zzzzz…
Here is the deal.
If they need “shaming” they are really too stupid to begin with.
Maybe with Rs in power the cultists only get 80% of what they want.
With Dems in power they get 0%, and what they already got gets taken away.
If you need to be “shamed” to understand that, you are one dumb m’fer.
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DW said….”keep blaming the establishment.”
Exactly. The establishment is not willing to do the things their base wants. Yet they believe they are entitled to their votes.
I believe the better approach to keeping the House and Senate is for the House and Senate to do the things their voters want.
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but you should vote for us anyway because the other guy is worse” is not very appealing.”
Ok, so let the even worse win.
Brilliant strategy.
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to do the things their voters want.”
Zzzzz….
The congressmen and senators don’t just represent their “base”, the represent the entire district and state. They are not beholden to the most extreme wing of their base, and they don’t just get elected with that vote.
I would like my Rep to advocate for free trade, vote against stupid tariffs and trade wars, and to fight for aid to Ukraine. Neither is going to happen. I could whine and stay home.
But he will vote for a myriad of other things in my interest.
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Jason said….”I would like my Rep to advocate for free trade, vote against stupid tariffs and trade wars, and to fight for aid to Ukraine. Neither is going to happen. I could whine and stay home.
But he will vote for a myriad of other things in my interest.”
That’s fine. You are free to vote for who you want, for whatever reason you want. So is everyone else. I’ll ask you the same question I asked DW: if you’re put in charge of keeping the House and Senate, how would you go about doing so?
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“I believe the better approach to keeping the House and Senate is for the House and Senate to do the things their voters want.”
You wait in vain to get everything you want. Instead you will get everything you DON’T want including a communist government that will never be repealed.
You are like the guy on the sinking Titanic who sees a chance to get into the final lifeboat, but you look it over and decide the vessel doesn’t quite have all the luxuries you want, so you announce that you don’t want that seat. You will wait for the White Star line to send along a luxury liner with all the amenities you demand. When they send that, you will happily get on board.
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But of course she needed to politicize it and use it as a prop to take cheap shots at her uncle.
If I get a fatal diagnosis, I am going scorched earth on everybody. I will write my own obituary and ask my wife to post it here.
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It’s white peoples fault.
-Tim Doltz
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You will wait for the White Star line to send along a luxury liner with all the amenities you demand. When they send that, you will happily get on board.”
Yep, Chicon is sitting at home waiting for Chicago and IL politicians to “give him what he wants” before he will go out and vote.
I hear that is working out really well for him.
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I have already outlined my plan for keeping the house in 2026. Trump must nationalize the election, and get out there in EVERY key swing district and hold as many rallies as needed to explain the facts of life to the otherwise dumb and stupid wing of the MAGA voter. I am not saying all MAGA voters are dumb, but the purists who hold out for perfection and the ignorant who think both parties are the same need to be educated about the facts of life. Only Trump can get through to these people.
I like the idea of holding a mid-term party convention. I like the idea of starting the advertising early and run it often. I like the idea of strategically targeting key districts. But most important, Trump must preach about his accomplishments because the media won’t do it. He needs to connect his accomplishments to the party as a whole. That he will sink or swim as the party sinks or swims.
Of course there also has to be continued success. Continue creating the environment that results in dropping gas prices, which will in turn bring down costs of food and other expenses.
Finally, the GOP has to run quality candidates. Candidates who are a good match for the district where they run. No more of this stupidity of running a far-right candidate who might be “pure” but would have no chance in a tightly contested purple swing district.
And I would also point out that the GOP should endeavor to put someone on the ballot in nearly every house race. Not that you fund every race, but at least have someone their given the Dem’s ability to be caught in scandal. Ed Durr ran such a token race years ago in New Jersey, and won. You never know when that sort of thing can happen, but if you have no name on the ballot, you can’t win.
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If I get a fatal diagnosis, I am going scorched earth on everybody. I will write my own obituary and ask my wife to post it here.”
Zzzzzz….
Her uncle and his policies and nothing to with her diagnosis. None, Nada. Zilch. Zero.
But it was an opportunity to use her own disease as a political prop to attack him
Does the fact you have a terminal disease get you off the hook for being a political opportunist?
Not in my book.
And I say this as someone who did not support RFK for this position. But I know a sordid hit job when I see it.
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DW is under the mistaken impression that the Cultists care about any of that.
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“DW is under the mistaken impression that the Cultists care about any of that.”
They SAY they care, but they don’t. If they cared, they could demonstrate it in a tangible way, show up and vote GOP to save the country.
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PPP poll | 12/18-12/19
Kentucky Senate
(Charles Booker internal)
🟥Andy Barr 49%
🟦Charles Booker 38%
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🟥Daniel Cameron 46%
🟦Charles Booker 39%
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🟥Nate Morris 41%
🟦Charles Booker 40%
If you are a Dem who hired PPP-D to give you an internal, and they can’t give you a lead, its pretty hopeless.
Barr is likely to get the nomination as a sitting congressman. Cameron was a former AG, Morris is unknown–a pro-Trump businessman whose campaign web page calls Mitch McConnell trash that needs to be taken out.
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Andy Barr supports Trump’s agenda, but that’s not good enough for Morris.
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Not in my book.
Some A-holes take a higher road. The section of my obituary about Jason is already written.
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So is everyone else. I’ll ask you the same question I asked DW: if you’re put in charge of keeping the House and Senate, how would you go about doing so?”
I would run on contrasting Trump’s agenda vs. the Dems agenda.
I would run on low taxes, energy independence, strong military, immigration, and anti-woke, just to name a few things.
I would encourage the meme that a strong tide lifts all boats whether they are die hard MAGA boats or not.
What I would NOT do is promise a tariff driven trade policy, isolationism from America’s interests abroad, America is an island, or xenophobic/anti-legal immigrant rhetoric because while those ideas might be popular among the Cultists, they are self defeating for the country.
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The section of my obituary about Jason is already written”
I made Bitter’s obituary?
Suck it, lesser beings.
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Not only will I be mentioned in Bitter’s obituary, I will have my own SECTION.
I can’t say I don’t deserve it, although modesty is one of my best virtues.
I can see it now “I want to thank Jason for making my otherwise dull life so much more interesting, etc. etc. etc.
Actually, Bitter, if you want I can suggest kudos that you might not have thought about yet, in case you deem it not yet a finished product.
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Barr is not sufficiently MAGA for the cultists.
That being said, he is the best candidate Rs could run if you want to ensure the win.
Don’t give me the well KY is a red state, run any crackpot you want, that is why Beshear is governor.
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I would tell the Cult that unless they want Speaker AOC in 2026 and President AOC in 2028 they need to vote for the GOP – even the ones they don’t like.
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Tucker Carlson Suggests That Israel Committed 9/11 Terror Attack”
Bunu hardest hit, he was sure it was GWB.
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I like my Titanic analogy. Had the person who spurned the lifeboat REALLY wanted to make it to New York and then get all the desired amenities, the person would vote to get into the lifeboat, endure the momentary discomforts, and then in New York he could advocate for White Star to improve their amenities, and he could press for better lifeboats.
But its hard to make any difference or advocate for anything when you are fish food at the bottom of the ocean.
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I had missed this story. Apparently, top women’s tennis player Aryna Sabalenka played against a male professional ranked #671 in a “Battle of the Sexes.” She lost.
But the left says there is no difference between men and women and its just a matter of your imagination. Just let your Disney film fantasies be true and ignore the reality of science.
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Food prices dropped sharply and clothing is dropping.
https://x.com/truflation/status/2006360004685910330
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Huge improvement in the right track wrong track (at start and end of the year):
https://x.com/TomBevanRCP/status/2006382587694981476
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and clothing is dropping.”
Where? Where??
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Wishing everyone at HHR Phoenix a Happy new year and a fabulous 2026. Traveling in this cold weather stinks and I can’t wait to get back to sunny South Florida in the new year. I hope Trump and the Republicans read and implement DWs plan above for the midterms.
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