"Trump's mass deportation is backfiring

Trump has managed to become this unpopular on immigration despite historic lows in border crossings. And the data suggest that's largely tied to deportations and ICE.

To wit:

59% overall and 66% of independents disapproved of Trump's handling of deportations, according to the Quinnipiac poll.

56% overall and 64% of independents disapproved of the way ICE was doing its job, according to Quinnipiac.

54% overall and 59% of independents said ICE has "gone too far" in enforcing immigration law, per the Marist poll. (Even 1 in 5 Republicans agreed.)

Americans disapproved 54-45% of ICE conducting more raids to find undocumented immigrants at workplaces, according to a Pew Research Center poll last month."

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The Gallup Poll at the thread link is a single newer poll and... the 3 point spread you note is an Average for over a month beginning 6 weeks ago.

"Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who also appeared on CBS, said there is also growing consensus on Capitol Hill and among European officials about tapping some of the $300 billion in Russian assets frozen by Group of Seven countries early in the war to help Ukraine.

Rubio said Friday that some of the U.S.-made weapons that Ukraine is seeking are deployed with NATO allies in Europe. Those weapons could be more quickly transferred to Ukraine, with European countries buying replacements from the U.S., he said."

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Trump is, as usual, the last one in the room to understand what's going on.

"But this year, even among Republicans, views on immigration have grown significantly rosier " 64% of Republicans now believe immigration is a good thing, a 25-point jump from June of 2024.

The fraction of Republicans who think immigration should decrease has fallen from 88% to 48% in that time span.

Trump's immigration policies are broadly unpopular, with just 35% approving of his handling of the issue, according to the poll."

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Yum... tasty Trumper tears!

No one could have predicted that kidnapping citizens, legal residents, non-criminals, and others just because of their skin color... and shipping them to Somalia would prove to be unpopular, even with Republicans.

Yes, but can they sing?

Speaker Mikey being a Christian is certainly a myth, according to Christian teachings.

BBQ pits

(who edits these things?)

#27

Some MAGAs are burning their Red Caps in their BBQ on YT... Heffy is having his Traitor Trump Cap bronzed.

"China helped build the drones now hitting Ukraine"Bloomberg traces the parts

Despite denials, Chinese engineers and hardware are inside Russian weapons used across the frontline.

Chinese drone parts in Russian weapons are helping Russia expand its drone war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. Documents reviewed by Bloomberg show Russian firm Aero-HIT partnered with Chinese suppliers and engineers to mass-produce combat drones now used across the frontline."

He left them some paper towels......

S'riously?

How else would any responsible US admin react to the alliance between Russia, NK, China, and Iran?

Oh, wait.... that COULD be a problem considering the current admin.

Ah, good. Then perhaps 5 other states will have lawmakers of both parties who tour the place... and are outraged at the inhumane conditions they find, just as in this case.

per #9

"There is a lot that remains hidden. But there are some things we know.

Epstein installed hidden cameras in his opulent residences and on his private Caribbean island, Little St. James, to capture his high-powered friends engaging in sexual romps and abuse of teenage and underage girls and boys.

The recordings were blackmail gold. Were they part of an intelligence operation on behalf of the Israeli Mossad? Or were they used to ensure that Epstein had a steady source of investors who funneled him millions of dollars to avoid being outed? Or were they used for both?

He shuttled underage girls between New York and Palm Beach on his private jet the Lolita Express, which was allegedly outfitted with a bed for group sex. His coterie of famous friends, including Clinton and Trump, are recorded as traveling on the jet numerous times on released flight logs, although many other flight logs have disappeared.

Epstein's videos are in the vaults of the FBI, along with detailed evidence that would rip back the veil on the sexual proclivities and callousness of the powerful.

I doubt there is a client list, as Attorney General Pam Bondi claims. There is also no single Epstein file. The investigative material amassed on Epstein fills many, many boxes, which would bury Bondi's desk and probably, if collected in one room, dominate most of the space in her office."

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Trump Is Now Less Popular Than Joe Biden AND Hillary Clinton

According to a new YouGov survey from the second quarter of this year, Donald Trump has become one of the least popular politicians in country, falling behind BOTH Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.

In fact, Trump is behind all former living presidents and even his own Vice President, JD Vance. The survey shows that most of the most popular politicians are all Democrats, which seems odd considering the results of last year's election.

Herr Mucks is like the Wizard of Oddballs behind the Grok Curtain.

Thanks, Trumpers!

Americans will long remember your contribution to our demise.

The drone footage is amazing! Very ASMR.

Also:

"Jul 9, 2025
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the third thing the educated Elite
has done and this may not please you is
we produced Donald Trump

uh some people think Donald Trump
is a populist Donald Trump and Elon Musk
went to the University of Pennsylvania
and Ivy League schools and became
billionaires

JD Vance went to Yale Pete
Hegseth went to the Princeton and Yale
Steven Miller went to Duke Fox News types like
Laura Ingram went to Dartmouth and they represent the
educated Elite

and the key factor of the
educated Elite is that they're not
pro-conservative they're anti-left

they don't have a positive
Vision, a conservative vision for society

they just want to destroy the
institutions that the left now
dominates and this means in the first
place they're astoundingly
incompetent

I have a lot of sympathy
with what drove people to vote for Trump
but I'm telling you as someone who's
on the front row to what's happening do
not hit your wagon to that star

thank you you're supposed to boo

(tidbit from the above link)

Here's what one of the last of the Real Conservatives thinks about the Trumpism that the Oligarch Elites have created and or funded:

It also leaves children without their parents, and grandparents without their children.

Blaming the victims is the go to move of every scam artist ever; who will tell you that if the mark wasn't so greedy or so dumb or so something else... they would not be victims of the scam.

Trump is very good at blaming the victims.... he seems to actually enjoy it.

#28

Well said. Quoting a propagandist's propaganda is hardly convincing.

And there's really very little debate among scholars.

The Britannica link in #12 is reflective of almost all such scholarship.

I watched some of this Fascist Gangster's testimony at his Hearings, and he is the very definition of a crooked lawyer; one who can't play by the rules. At all.

Look at his picture... he's a pathetic lying snake.

Lawmakers decry 'horrific' conditions at Alligator Alcatraz

OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) " What was meant to be a surprise inspection turned into a tightly managed tour, but what Florida lawmakers saw inside Alligator Alcatraz left them horrified.

Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain - Shea Stadium 1971