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A June 27 poll from the Democratic group Priorities USA finds that an astonishing 48% of Americans haven’t heard about Trump’s landmark legislation. [...]

The Priorities USA poll found that only 8% of Americans could name Medicaid cuts as a detail of the bill. [...]

Although Democratic opposition isn’t surprising, KFF also found that 71% of independents and 27% of “MAGA Republicans” objected to it too [when informed about it].

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A March poll by the liberal group Data for Progress found that 44% of left-leaning voters would give the party a “D” or “F” grade for its handling of Trump. And support among the broader electorate isn’t any better. In April, Gallup found that confidence in Democratic congressional leadership had fallen to 25%—an all-time low.

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How did we let ourselves be ruled by morons?

Kyle Hansen, a 41-year-old IT professional in Wisconsin, said the measure would bring “absolutely beautiful, critical, important, and responsible fiscal changes that our overly bloated bureaucracy of a government is way overdue for, and in desperate need of”.

“The disgusting career politicians have been extremely fiscally irresponsible for many decades, and all the US citizens will pay the price for it. This needed to be addressed a long time ago, and finally there is a politician willing to be ridiculed for doing what is needed. It may not be what everyone thinks will be nice, fuzzy, and warm feeling, but it is the responsible thing to do,” he continued.

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the bill would increase the deficit by $3.3tn through 2034.

In New York, 60-year-old grandmother Dee said: “I believe this will greatly help heavily taxed middle class and lower class and lift us out of the debt we have been inundated with by the Biden administration!”

“This bill is a no-brainer! Americans first!” she added.

If you time traveled to the early 2000s and told me that the host of Fear Factor was one of the most important voices in American politics and the host of The Apprentice was a fascist president in his second term, I think I would've just walked into the sea.

They're lawyers and professors: a peacetime government. They don't understand yet that we're at war.

So, a small aside. I have to give some credit to Star Wars, of all things. I'm not really a fan, but after I watched Andor, I looked up wiki articles about what ended up happening to Mon Mothma, aside from that one appearance in Return to the Jedi. It turns out that once the Rebellion won, she became supreme chancellor. She was quick to renounce the powers of the Emperor and pushed an agenda of peace treaties and reconciliation with Imperial remnants. She wanted so badly for things to return to status quo and for the fighting to stop that she intentionally did not root out or hold imperial traitors accountable when the Rebellion won. In the fiction they make it pretty clear that this is what directly led to the destruction of the New Republic some years later.

This is so accurate and exactly what would happen if this boiled over into an actual civil war.

However, he admits his opinion has slightly changed recently.

"Somewhat it has just because I'm going through it," said Sahakyan. "I was very selfish before, but what I see now is there's a reason for [this immigration enforcement]."

Sounds like his support briefly wavered after his wife was kidnapped, then The Program kicked back in.

She supports Trump too

They should rebrand to be clearer:

Progressive Party Regressive Party Status Quo Party

Better yet...

Forward Reverse Neutral

This article is such an incredible takedown of Chuck Schumer. You get the sense that the author abridged some of his thoughts only in order to avoid writing a book-length review about how thoroughly he despises this book and Chuck Schumer, both personally and politically.

The deal includes $10 million to increase the daily wage for incarcerated firefighters, who earn $5.80 to $10.24 a day currently.

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