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Yeah, but the Dem numbers seem to be mostly a result of Dems being mad at Dem leadership for being too passive, not an indicator that there's some mass defection to the GOP underway.
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This isn't law enforcement. It's an attempted carjacking.
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His overall approval rating is a net 4 points WORSE than it was in their last poll in April, which was taken during the market freakout in the wake of the "Liberation Day" tariffs.
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He's also -16% overall on job approval (38% approve vs. 54% disapprove). This is a net 4 points WORSE than his approval rating in their last poll in April, which was taken in the immediate aftermath of the "Liberation Day" tariffs and market freakout.
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And his overall approval is -16 (38% approve vs. 54% disapprove). That's a net 4 points WORSE than it was in their April poll, which was taken in the immediate aftermath of the "Liberation Day" tariffs and freakout in the stock and bond markets.
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Even if you look at just Los Angeles and leave out the rest of California, the homicide rate in Arkansas is still 40% higher.
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Basically, a frail and kind of pathetic old man that leaves the viewer justifiably shaking one's head and wondering, "Why did so many people worship this guy?"
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I like Martin Sheen's version of Lee in the movie Gettysburg. Sheen portrayed him as neither a dignified and gentlemanly tragic hero nor a cartoonishly evil villain, but rather as a doddering fool blinded to the obvious by a stubborn, arrogant belief that he was favored by divine providence.
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Something something art of the deal something.
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Actually they don't go up -- he gets the 55% by adding his 30% on top of the already-existing 25%.
So what he's *really* announcing is a deal in which....nothing changes. Because it's not a deal, it's just a framework to keep talking about a previous framework to a potential deal
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So woke!
He's *pretending* to restore the Confederate names, but he's not actually doing that, and he's just hoping his supporters are too dumb to notice (which is perfectly on-brand for him).
So take that, libs! Boom, owned! 💥
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The hilarious thing is Trump isn't renaming the base for Robert E. Lee -- he's renaming it for Fitz Lee, a Black soldier from the Spanish American War.
He's also renaming the base formerly known as Fort A.P Hill for three Civil War veterans of the *Union Army*, including one who was Black.
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He's also renaming the base originally called Fort Lee (for Robert E. Lee) to honor Fitz Lee, a Black soldier from the Spanish-American War.
I'm drowning in all the wokeness!
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Take that, libs! Boom, owned! 💥
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...hoping his supporters will be too dumb to notice (which is perfectly on-brand for him).
I mean, in one case, he's literally renaming a base that was once named for a Confederate general with the names of three Civil War *Union Army* Medal of Honor recipients, one of whom was Black!
So woke!
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🙄 Of all Trump's attempts at trolling, this is surely the lamest to date.
He's not really restoring the Confederate namesakes. He's just *pretending* to restore them by renaming the bases with the names of other U.S. military figures who weren't Confederates but have the same surnames, and...
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And with Trump having thrown down the gauntlet and threatened to arrest Newsom, every day Newsom continues to walk free and speak he makes Trump look that much more like a little bitch.
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And with Trump having thrown down the gauntlet and threatened to arrest Newsom, every day Newsom continues to walk free and speak he makes Trump that much more his bitch.
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The administration’s over-the-top response is reminiscent of the Bear Patrol on The Simpsons -- an episode that was, fittingly enough, about a dirty politician demonizing immigrants to deflect attention from his own mismanagement and corruption.
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The administration’s over-the-top response is reminiscent of the Bear Patrol on The Simpsons -- an episode that was, fittingly enough, about a dirty politician demonizing immigrants to deflect attention from his own mismanagement and corruption.
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Alabama's murder rate is nearly twice that of L.A., while Louisiana's and Mississippi's are nearly 2.5 times higher.
Time to send the Marines to Mississippi to keep order!
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Also, that "city of criminals" has a murder rate that's equal to or *lower* than 20 states in the U.S., 13 of which are solidly or deeply red states: Oklahoma, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Alaska, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Uh-oh, he's CONCERNED. A gesture so empty only Susan Collins could admire it.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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I doubt there are many MAGAe on the fence. The "Don't know/Not sure" component likely includes a lot of less engaged people who just don't follow the news as closely. Note that it's a poll of adults, not RVs or LVs, so it likely picks up a bigger chunk of less engaged people than an RV or LV poll.
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Ugh...decent-*sized*, not "sixed."
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Maybe they're just filming another sequel to Die Hard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILjq...
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And now that Trump has thrown down the gauntlet of arresting Newsom, every day that passes in which he *doesn't* arrest Newsom makes him look more and more like Gavin's little bitch.
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Alabama's murder rate is nearly twice that of L.A., while Louisiana's and Mississippi's are nearly 2.5 times higher.
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That "city of criminals" has a murder rate that's equal to or *lower* than 20 states in the U.S., 13 of which are solidly or deeply red states: Oklahoma, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Alaska, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Alabama's murder rate is nearly twice that of L.A., while Louisiana's and Mississippi's are nearly 2.5 times higher.
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That "city of criminals" has a murder rate that's equal to or *lower* than 20 states in the U.S., 13 of which are solidly or deeply red states: Oklahoma, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Alaska, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Every word you've posted here is spectacular bullshit.
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Meanwhile, from the same poll, approval numbers for Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines to LA are underwater (-7 and -13, respectively), while Gavin Newsom's approval is +5. All have decent-sixed "Don't know/Not sure" components, though: 17%, 19%, and 27%, respectively.
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By the same token, I'd gladly go to the border and trade every Republican in Congress for the first 273 migrants in line, because odds are at least one of the migrants will end up doing something beneficial to the U.S., while the odds of Rs in Congress doing that are zero.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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Yes, it's ominous. But at the same time, I think this take is almost certainly correct:
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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That, and he's worried that he's going to lose the lawsuit that Newsom and Bonta filed against him. Which he probably will. Trump's federalization of the National Guard pretty clearly violated the federal statute that he cited to justify it.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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What an absolute goddamn fool Bill Cassidy is. This was a career-defining vote for him. His legacy now and forever will be one of cowardice, along with a lot of unnecessary and preventable illness and death.
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