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Interesting factoids. In the latest YouGov poll, Luigi's favorable rating is 20 % favorable, 43 % unfavorable But here's a breakdown among the oldest and youngest voters: 65+: 5 % favorable, 65 % unfavorable 18-29: 39 % favorable, 30 % unfavorable That speaks for itself. Elon Musk has a favorable rating of 48 % favorable, 40 % unfavorable among all voters. Not surprisingly, he is popular with conservatives and unpopular with liberals like me. Here is the rating broken down by oldest and youngest: 65+: 42 % favorable, 50 % unfavorable 18-29: 56 % favorable, 36 % unfavorable They don't break the age groups down by gender. But Musk has a 58/37 approval rating with men overall, and a 39/47 unfavorable rating with women. So I'm guessing strong support among young men is driving Musk's ratings up. This is a huge problem for Democrats. I think a good starting theory is that this is what we should have expected after years and years of preaching to young men about toxic masculinity. I don't think Musk is really offering them anything. Other than an unattainable fortune, and a government shutdown. But Democrats better deal with this. The idea that we could just wait for older MAGA voters to age out is no longer true. It has to be anger and alienation on the part of young men of every race.

Backlash builds as Elon Musk endorses Germany’s far right “Only the AfD can save Germany,” said the key Donald Trump ally. Which answers the perplexing question, is there someone I can respect even less than Donald Trump? Happily for Elon, all his political contributions are but a fraction of what he will make thanks to tax cuts and oligarchy.

Perhaps he is meeting with his therapist, to work on his mental health issues. I hope so, at least. But, probably not. Maybe he is meeting with a lawyer to make sure he doesn't get sued. Trump allies suggest Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker should be sued for calling Trump a ‘rapist’ Thing is, for the cruel and fact-free wing of MAGA, rape and sexual harassment are of no concern. Trump and Hegseth can grab whatever pussy they want. Sadly for @EmmetKruelty, it should be a pussy rather than a cock. That whole Gay thing is frowned upon, especially in the military. Sex with underage girls is just fine, though. It's not whether you do it that matters. It's that you are able to deny it, and then sue anyone who accuses you. I think @EmmetKruelty is probably just laying back to make sure it is okay to bully transgender kids and call Black women smelly and stupid. Other than that, all's well.

No. But I am concerned for @EmmetKruelty's mental health. He is disinterested in facts, and has problems with human relationships. Especially with Gay men who are not into Gay bashing.

Yes, and no. We are both partly right. First, there is no such thing as failure in Trump 2.0, in the sense that he won't run for office again. Steve Bannon, man child, has teased the idea that maybe he could run again. But he may be dead by 2028. And even if he is alive and healthy, my point is that the overwhelming majority of voters don't want Bad King Trump. Second, he got his ass kicked in both 2018 and 2020. So, yes, he is back. He will be in a position of great power. But it's not like voters gave him a blank check. At 49.9 %, he has still not won a majority of votes in any election. In two elections, 2016 and 2020, he won less than his Democratic opponent. Where you are correct is that he won 49.9 % of the vote in 2024 despite the mountain of reasons he should have lost. So then it comes down to: why did he win? I'm with Trump on this. He said he won because of high prices, and the border. It fits with a world in which 40 out of 54 incumbents that presided over COVID+ inflation got kicked in the polls. Trump was actually one of the first incumbents kicked out due to COVID in 2020. I think the polls overwhelmingly support this take. Lots of people held their nose and voted for Trump, despite Jan. 6th and his other indiscretions. Lots of other people, like Palestinian Americans, said I can't support either of these people. If there is a 49.9 % mandate - is not getting a majority ever a mandate? - it is to lower prices and control the border and help the working class. I don't disagree that appointing an incompetent Defense Secretary is bad. Or bringing back an incompetent border czar who let fentanyl flood over the borders and kill an unprecedented number of Americans. That said, in some ways Pam Bondi is worse than Matt Gaetz. The argument for confirming Gaetz is that he would have done exactly the same things. But it would have been more obvious - or transparent - because he is such a despised asshole. The nice thing about this situation is that all I have to do is hope Trump is more competent than during Trump 1.0. And that he appoints people who will actually be effective in helping the work class. If he instead wants to appoint alcoholic womanizing Gay bashers, that's his problem. That poll possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty posted above says that Trump is actually slightly less trusted than during his 2016 honeymoon. If the majority of America gets sick of him, like in 2018 and 2020, that's not my problem.

Mine too. Trump is a narcissist and pathological liar. So it is always a fight between Trump v. Trump. Or, you could say, between the adults in the room, which would now include Susie Wiles, versus the man children like Steve Bannon and Pete Hegseth. Trump loves to play them against each other. And fire them when they disobey or he just gets bored. If Trump could be King, it would resolve the problem. But I think he knows he can't be King. Although he will keep testing the limits. If only he were born in Russia! So it's going to be a constant struggle. Geez. Somebody should have warned us, right? 😉 If you can stand 14 minutes of News Nation and Bill O'Reilly, I think this covered some of the turf vert well: This video is about King Trump seeking political retribution, as opposed to King Trump suppressing freedom or transparency. But they all fall into the basket of Trump being Bad King Trump. Trump is a feral political animal who can read polls. And if he forgets, he seems to be willing to let people like Susie Wiles remind him. So part of the reason Trump won is there is NOT a majority of Americans who really think Trump will be Bad King Trump. There's a very clean 48/47 split in that poll about whether these things Trump says should even be taken seriously. That means they have to kind of forget about January 6th, Because that is the clearest example of Bad King Trump. What is clear is that there is not a lot of tolerance for things like jailing his political opponents. If he is Bad King Trump, there will be an overwhelming reaction against it. If Trump instead focuses on the border, in a manner that is actually competent, he'll get a much more positive reaction. I don't know where @EmmetKruelty falls on the autism spectrum. But we know he is in the far low end of the extremism spectrum. Only 22 % of voters, the crusty MAGA base, would not be bothered if Trump sought retribution on his political opponents. This is why @EmmetKruelty has a real problem with facts, and human relationships. He does not understand that Gay men don't like the idea of a Gay basher taking away hard won LGBTQ rights. @EmmetKruelty actually loves the threats, and anti-Homo Hegseth gets him hard. In public. Here. It really is quite embarrassing. I think O'Reilly is right that Trump will disavow retribution, as he already has several times. Meanwhile, he will seek retribution wherever he thinks he can get away with it. Like with ABC and Ann Selzer. It will be intended to have, and will have, a chilling effect on freedom of speech. O'Reilly is also right that Trump is appointing a band of merry cock suckers, where getting down on your knees to kiss it is far more importance than competence. That in itself suggests there will be less transparency. Because he will be surrounded by people who value loyalty above all else. But therein lies the rub for Trump. I am actually rooting for anti-Homo Pete Hegseth to be confirmed. It's probably 50/50 whether he will be. And I don't like at all to think about the consequences, for Gays or for the military. That said, I don't like to think about the consequences of Trump 2.0, period. So if they want to wage a holy war for loyalty and get an anti-Gay womanizing alcoholic to fuck up the Dept. of Defense, let them. Anti-Homo Hegseth will be surrounded by all kinds of people, some of whom might be Gay, prepared to expose his every fuck up. Trump, like @EmmetKruelty, has a real problem restraining his cruelty and bullying. So the other consequence of Hegseth being in charge, as opposed to someone like Jim Tillis or Mark Esper, is he will reinforce and encourage all Trump's worst behaviors. Anti-Homo Hegseth, while undesirable, is likely a path to Trump failing quicker. I think Mark Halperin is right about one very important thing. Trump wants to be remembered as a consequential and effective President. So, on the one hand, he is capable of actually listening to be pragmatists like Susie Wiles. He is also capable of listening to Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, which has already ended badly for him. The process is self-corrective. It is democracy. And I don't think Trump can end it. Trying to, like more Jan. 6th, will just expedite the end of Trump instead.

Self-loathing and possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty has a problem with facts, and human relationships. Especially relationships with Gay men who do not idolize Gay bashing alcoholics who attack LGBTQ rights. He's worse than anti-Homo Hegseth, who at least has a life. And three wives he possibly cheated on, so far. Here's what @EmmetKruelty did not mention. Either because he detests facts that don't fit with his weird idolization. Or he just does not understand them. That is an important fact that self-loathing and possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty seems incapable of processing. No surprise, people are actually slightly less trusting of Trump than during his 2016 post-election honeymoon. Geez. Wonder why? Poor @EmmetKruelty doesn't have a clue. He exhibits the same disturbing and mentally skewed behaviors that cause people to worry about Trump. I am praying to God that Trump is NOT like @EmmetKruelty. I hope he actually gets shit done that helps people. Like how about child tax credits rather than billionaire tax cuts? How about he convinces war criminal Bibi The Baby Killer to seek peace with Palestinians, rather than genocide? So I think there probably is a 54 % "mandate for Trump to do "effective" things that people actually like. If you define "mandate" that way, I'd be in THAT 54 %. But not the 54 % that sick self-loathing @EmmetKruelty has a hard on for, based on cruelty and Gay-basing by drunk assholes like Hegseth. @EmmetKruelty gets no credit for Trump's win, and all the credit for the same cruelty and incompetence and fact free bullshit that will possibly lead Trump 2.0 to fail, just like Trump 1.0 did. Doug Schoen had an interesting but somewhat vague article about new polling that seems to hit at the same idea: effectiveness, as opposed to trust. I think that sums up what is going on. With the key word being "effective". Republicans seem to do better when they can convince people government sucks, and is not to be trusted. So why not let us smash it to bits with alcoholic anti-Gay womanizers? But that is too blunt a conclusion. Because at the same time people actually did vote for Trump to do things effectively. And breaking the nation's military with a drunk anti-Gay alcoholic was not the plan. The plan does include lowering prices, and controlling the border. I'm happy to give new Trump appointees a chance to prove themselves, as I think a majority are. But when you rehire Tom Homan, who spectacularly failed to control the border and created a huge spike in fentanyl deaths of Americans, what I am supposed to think? When you rehire Peter Navarro, who killed hundreds of thousands of factory jobs in Trump 1.0, what am I supposed to think? I'm actually surprised how few areas there are where Trump has a real green light. Controlling the border is obviously one. So is "cutting my taxes". Wow. What a shocker! Cutting government waste is an endlessly popular but meaningless idea, since no one wants to cut government stuff I like. This bodes poorly for Trump's billionaire and corporate tax cuts. When you ask THAT question directly, people recoil from helping fat cats more. Even drilling for more oil, which was one of Trump's most popular ideas (child tax credits was one of Harris's more popular ideas) does not poll particularly well. When you get to the "revenge and retribution" agenda, like pardoning Jan. 6 insurrectionists, support evaporates completely. Same with tariffs. Trump's biggest 49.9 % "mandate" is to lower prices and control the border. Tariffs don't lower prices. Appointing a cruel and incompetent failure like Tom Homan, who let fentanyl rip, does not control the border. @EmmetKruelty has a basic problem with facts. These facts don't bode particularly well for Trump. He won't have much of a honeymoon. Joe Biden's approval rating, out of the gate in January 2017, was 56 %. We don't know where that is for Trump yet, since he is not POTUS yet. We do know his favorable rating on RCP is 49 %, a few points above his initial job approval rating of 47 % in January 2017. So Trump is on a very short leash. The best way for him to fuck things up is to do what self-loathing and possibly autistic @EmmetKruelty would like him to do. If he instead lowers prices, grows the economy, and finds someone who is not incompetent and cruel to control the border, maybe he could have a job approval rating of 50 %. We'll see.

Great! You mean he will actually do his job, instead of getting tens of thousands Americans killed, like last time? Woo hoo! Will he also apologize to the parents of the tens of thousands of Americans he got killed from fentanyl in Trump 1.0 by failing to control the borders? Will he tell Congress how he is doing in his job of protecting Americans from illegal immigrant killers and rapists, as opposed to killing tens of thousands of Americans and raping the truth? Btw, I'd listen to Rand Paul, and not have "soldiers" rounding up Jews maids and farm workers who Trump calls "vermin". It really is a bad look.

While it is always sad to see a self-loathing Gay man crushing on a Gay-bashing extremist like Pete Hegseth, I do feel we need to address @EmmetKruelty's mental health issues. So I called in the heavy artillery for consultation.

We agree!

LOL. Yes, my weak self-loathing Gay Jew who supports genocide and Gay bashers. You are really the enforcer of Donald Trump. What a joke! In fact, you are really a self-loathing Gay man who spends hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours of your useless time alienating Gays and minorities you do not know. And who don't want anything to do with you. Woo hoo! And by not taking kindly to threats, do you mean elections? 2018 House elections; Democrats 53.3 % of the vote, Republicans 44.8 % 2020 Presidential election: Democrats 51.3 % of the vote, Republicans 46.8 % I think it is the autism or self-loathing that makes you euphoric about how you actually won one, with 49.9 % of the vote. I think it is your autism or self-loathing, or maybe just your stupidity, that prevents you from seeing this is not a mandate to be cruel and stupid. Or bash Gays. Or bash transgender kids. Is it autism? Is it stupidity? You must have some self-awareness. Anyway, while I have compassion for your mental health issues, you should at least try to understand that Trump won a plurality of the vote - not a majority - because people were sick of inflation, pissed about the border, and blamed it on Biden. Pursuing cruelty and sexual harassment and Gay bashing and incompetence simply was not part of the mandate. So go ahead and threaten Gays, and women, and smelly Blacks, and liberal Jews. You're just helping Democrats like me lay the groundwork for 2026.

Please. More! More! More! The bottom line is very simple. You are the self-loathing Gay Jew that Trump had to throw red meat to and keep motivated to win. You are not an independent thinker. You are cruel, basically. There is a separate group called Independents. They want Trump to do something about prices and the border. Picking on women and Gays in the military is not what they elected Trump for. So, please. I beg you. Celebrate your cruelty. Celebrate your stupidity. Get down of your self-loathing knees and proudly idolize and extol a Gay-bashing alcoholic incompetent womanizer who most Americans don't know or don't like. Roy Cohn would be proud of you. But he'd still go for the hot young Aryan types, as far as cock sucking goes. So sorry. Don't blame me or call me anti-Semitic. Some of my best friends are liberal Jews. Joni Ernst has a primary in 2026. Thom Tillis has a primary in 2026. He probably won't run, since he is sick of the bullshit. Susan Collins has a primary in 2026. Please, Democrats would love to win those seats. Tear the shit out of them with your cruelty and stupidity. TRUMP 2024 MAGA ALCOHOLISM IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH INCOMPETENCE IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH OPPOSING WOMEN IN THE MILITARY IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH OPPOSING GAYS IN THE MILITARY IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH HOMOPHOBIA IS A STUPID AND UNREASONABLE REASON TO NOT CONFIRM HEGSETH

What have you got against women and Blacks? Really? But thanks for throwing in one White male with the two Asians and three French hens. You're not playing identity politics, are you?

Typical Trump, following the dogma of a self-loathing Gay Jew like @EmmetKruelty Roy Cohn. Trump sues Iowa pollster over survey that showed Harris ahead It makes sense if you follow the cruel and untruthful logic of a self-loathing Gay Jew like @EmmetKruelty Roy Cohn. You can lie all you want. If anyone else doesn't kiss your ass, attack them. It's ironic with Selzer, of course, since she has a reputation for being honest and ethical. As well a history of being the canary in the coal mine saying that Trump was going to win Iowa in 2016 and 2020. And since Trump himself has a history of slathering praise on her, when she says what he likes. Donald Trump celebrates Iowa Poll lead as he rallies for caucus support December 14, 2023 Sadly, but not surprisingly, Trump's attacks on Selzer and ABC suggest we are in for four years of retribution and revenge. I'm worried about @EmmetKruelty. He likes to spend hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours, and hours of his useless time pretending he is Trump's enforcer. If Trump pushes a Gay-bashing incompetent alcoholic womanizer, @EmmetKruelty will reliably push a Gay-bashing incompetent alcoholic womanizer. What will @EmmetKruelty do to enforce this one? Does he own a gun? I'm not really a fan of "Free Luigi." He did kill a guy. We're not going to have to live through a "Free @EmmetKruelty" campaign, are we? His autism and lust for Gay-bashing right wing action figures is more than enough for me.

What have you got against women and Blacks? Really? But thanks for throwing in one White male with the two Asians and three French hens. You're not playing identity politics, are you?