"Whether it's Trump, congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats, respondents do not have much confidence in their elected leaders.

Overall, Trump gets just a 43% job approval.

His handling of immigration mirrors his overall rating, and people have even less faith in his handling of foreign policy (41%) or the economy (39%)."

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Yeah, but what a Great Guy he is! Just a wonderful human being, honest as the day is long, and a President that we can be proud of*!!

(*on alternate Tuesdays if he's not hawking his latest overpriced Chinese perfumes and phones and bibles and guitars and.... ad infinitum on Truth Social, betraying Ukraine for Vlad, or destroying democracy)

Anything for Vlad... who has Lil' Donnie's leash pulled up really tight.

So... Mao was Bart Simpson?

The interests of the People have quite literally become secondary, at best, to the interests of the wealthy people and corporations who give money to politicians to buy media time so they can keep their prestigious jobs.

For a couple of hundred years in this country that was rightly and legally called bribery.

ha! I had about decided not, but then you mentioned you thought he was, so I'm still not sure.

Mine was but a 'cunning plan' to draw him out, mwahaha!

"Trae Crowder Rant - Senate Passes Trump's (Very Stupidly Named) Big Beautiful Bill

Well the BBB inches ever closer to being enshrined as law...and hey, at least it's one of the worst pieces of legislation (and most blatant cash grabs) any of us have ever seen. So that's nice."

I always liked, "Mao se what?".

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Or at least enriching the already rich will Tinkle Down on them... like in the old Republican Economic Fairy Tales.

#4

He's usually up to his elbow in cow --------.

The Executive Order against holding elections while the US is being invaded by criminal thugs from Botswana is hot off the presses!

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that one made me go, Ewwww! and i know why.

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ok that made me laugh. i have no idea why.

An echo chamber for the already hard of hearing.

I mean, if you're just bound and determined to deport someone, deport Melania... and Diddy.

Otherwise, stfu.

As long as politicians in Gov owe more to their corporate donors than they do to the constituents of their Districts.... the beatings are going to continue.

Public financing of Elections, by corporations and the media in a democratic way; representing all voters, is still the single biggest fix that America needs. And we need it now.

I have to admit that increasing the Debt by something like 5 trillion dollars AND giving billionaires big tax cuts on the backs of the poor and the middle class (who will now pay more for their parents and children's needs, if they can)... is something wise Trumpers figured out as being in their own best self-interests and the interests of others and of the Country way before I did.

Congrats!

"Jimmy Swaggart's cousins are Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. They were all born in Ferriday, Louisiana, within a twelve-month span during the Great Depression."

There are Dentists in the South?

It was always going to pass.... gotta pay off the billionaire donors with tax cuts so they can afford a second yacht.

The end game is cutting the social safety net to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

Which has been Establishment Republicans policy for the last century or so

Sorry, Trumpers, they have made complete fools of you yet again.

"Let me make it clear that I don't harbor any idealized notion of politics and democracy," he said in a 2013 speech to NYU's Brennan Center for Justice, followed by a quip: "I worked for Lyndon Johnson, remember?"

But, he added in that speech, "there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That difference can be the difference between democracy and oligarchy."

Ultimately, he was right. And not just about that."

much more at the thread link

The Ugliness of Donald Trump

He should have been born a billionaire... this junta would love him.

JeffyMcCarthy will be his next sock name.....

"In a flurry of X posts several weeks ago, Musk had proposed starting a new political party.

That proposal resurfaced on Monday, when Musk said:

"It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country " the PORKY PIG PARTY!! Time for a new political party that actually cares about the people."