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senseandsensibility's JournalRecent Reuters/Ispos poll is full of really bad news for poor trump
One result that I haven't heard too much discussion of is his rating on "cost of living". I
prefer that term to affordability. I mean, just living now is so expensive thanks to trump and voters are getting it.
His rating on cost of living is twenty two percent! And I think it could still fall further. There is nothing happening that will improve the costs for Americans. All they're getting from this administration is "watch us eat cake". 
It's the centennial of Route 66
The hubby and I listen to Sirius radio in the car, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and the dedicated Motown station. We can always find something good to listen to. Today we kept hitting different versions of Route 66 even a Chuck Berry version that we had never heard before. I had noticed that it was the google doodle for today. Found out it's because today is the 100th anniversary. 
Pretty cool.
All these white men Cabinet officials standing around behind trump
for hours as he bloviates and lies is really weird, as Garrett Graff just noted on bluesky. Some of them have important jobs. It's bizarre.
But I think it does serve an important purpose. It is propaganda for the low information voter. They don't know he's lying, and they don't know what he's talking about. But they see important looking white dudes standing around behind him, guffawing at his "jokes" and nodding at everything he says. So subliminally, it sends the message that he is likeable and interesting and telling the truth.
Sad, but I think there are significant numbers of people who fall for this.
Hegseth claims that the ceasefire means that the sixty day deadline
in which trump has to seek approval for an undeclared war does NOT expire tomorrow! It's on hold! Indefinitely!
There is nothing in the statute that supports that. The Dems at the hearing are not buying it.
Doesn't mean all the R's won't go for it, of course. Any excuse will do for them to continue to cut the American people out of this process, and I hope the Dems raise holy you know what.
I had to pat myself on the back the other night
The hubby and I watch Jeopardy every night, and of course he gets way more questions right than I do. But that's okay. Doesn't bother me a bit. 
However, if there is a rare fashion or current politics category watch out!
Anyhoo, the other night there was a question about the trump administration's immigration policies. It was something like they have limited refugees from all the countries in the world except one. Which one? I'll be some of you know, too. I felt pretty good about myself for getting it right when none of the three contestants, including the impressive Jamie knew the answer!
Feel free to post the answer if you know it. And also, we record Jeopardy and watch it together but we are currently two or three episodes behind, so no spoilers please!
There's a CNN CA Gov. debate next Tuesday, and all I can say is
I hope this one further limits the field. Some Dems need to drop out. In fact, they should have after the last debate.
My hope is that after this debate Becerra will lead, but Steyer's money is hard to compete with. Why can't more of the candidates under ten percent do what Betty Yee did, and drop out for the good of the party?
Hey, here's a NYT focus group interview of trump voters that you might actually like!
NYT is famous for doing the maga in diner stories and focus groups with trump voters where it has been caught interviewing Republican operatives and not identifying them as such.
But according to Southpaw on bluesky, in their most recent focus group of trump voter, 9 out of 12 voters wish they'd voted for someone else.
I have two feelings about this. Good, Better late than never. And then, OMG, what took you so long?
CNN's "interview" of Jim Jordan just now was a good example of R lying
with no pushback. Jordan claimed to Phil Mattingly that Democrats have a "grand plan" to flood the country with undocumented immigrants.
Phil just sat there. I'm sorry, under no circumstances is that journalism. And under no circumstances would a Dem be allowed to pull that.
It's this simple, apparently. Rs can lie. Dems can not. In fact, Dems aren't even allowed to be "mean". Yesterday when Hakeem Jeffries called trump's "press secretary" a stone called liar and responded to her vicious attacks, the panel on CNN was clutching its pearls.
Some DUers have been and are asking how we got here. This is how.
Lawrence's show last night was epic!
First, he did not start with the WHCD shooting. He rarely follows the narrative of the rest of the corporate media No, he started with the chyron "It's too much work", and proceeded to rip trump for complaining that the war he started is too difficult. He then contrasted his whining with FDR, who despite being in a wheelchair, traveled extensively during WWII, in the days when traveling was much more grueling than it is now. As Lawrence reminded us, FDR never complained, although he was actually doing the traveling and negotiating, that it was too much work.
His second block was about the shooting at the correspondents' dinner. He contrasted trump with Ronald Reagan, who was actually shot at in the driveway of the same hotel where this week-end's attack took place. He mentioned that Reagan never suggested that he needed more security after that, let alone a tax payer funded ballroom. He also pointed out that Reagan attended the WHCD seven more times at that very hotel after a shooter attempted to kill him there.
Quite a withering contrast between trump and FDR, of course. But I was surprised at how
statesmanlike even Reagan was compared to this buffoon. The above facts are available to any journalist or news organization who wants to use them, but I find that Lawrence is unique in his willingness to do so. And that, of course, is just one of the problems with the corporate media's coverage of trump.
Lindsey is introducing legislation to make taxpayers pay for the ballroom
He says there will be some kind of "customs tax" to help cover the cost. 
That's after the taxpayers shell out 400 million. No word about all the private donations that have ballyhooed for months. Guess those went elsewhere or never existed?
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