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[Crusades]

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqnemxwvx/

Welcome back. 

[mtmkjr, BSN]

Kafka Fan44 said:

The public still loves him as he won the popular vote.  You will always have some edgelords or Anti-American parasites who criticize the Republican platform of work ethic, personal responsibility, and love for the greatest nation in the world.  

At his PEAK of his popularity, he still had less than 50% of the vote,  edging out Harris by less than 1.5%.

And now he is in a downward slide, with only 42% approving and 53% disapproving. If you defend him by saying "The public still loves him as he won the popular vote" then I'm curious if you would you apply the same logic to his current poll numbers?

What you call anti-American parasites and edgelords are now the majority of the country who disapprove of his reckless destructive actions.

 

[toomuchbaloney]

HiddenAngels said:

This will be interesting since Harvard is now suing the Trump Admin.  

Do you think that incompetence will be their defense? 

[Kafka Fan44]

mtmkjr said:

At his PEAK of his popularity, he still had less than 50% of the vote,  edging out Harris by less than 1.5%.

And now he is in a downward slide, with only 42% approving and 53% disapproving. If you defend him by saying "The public still loves him as he won the popular vote" then I'm curious if you would you apply the same logic to his current poll numbers?

What you call anti-American parasites and edgelords are now the majority of the country who disapprove of his reckless destructive actions.

 

"Reckless destructive actions"?  Maybe destructive for the current foreign invasion and the treasonous politicians aiding the illegal immigrant crisis.  As for approval rating it depends what you read.  Most of his policies are still popular.  Like others I am disappointed in the speed at which people are being deported and government cuts are occurring as this is a crisis.  He still hasn't addressed the elephant in the room, Medicaid which budget has swelled to $600 billion federal and $300 billion state yearly.  Something needs to be done or its going to rob the future from our children.

Most sites have him in the high 40% approval rating, higher than Biden was at this point in his Presidency.  April 15th article "A Harvard-Harris poll shows that President Trump's top policy proposals remain wildly popular with the public.

Harvard-Harris surveyed 2,286 registered voters on April 9 and 10. They found that Trump's approval rating was above water by two points, 48 percent approving to 46 percent disapproving. The poll also found that his agenda is embraced by a majority of the public. This is despite the billions of dollars corporations are spending through fake media outlets like CNN and CBS to manipulate public opinion against the MAGA agenda."

[toomuchbaloney]

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-23/homeland-security-immigration-termination-notices-deportation

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An email sent to a U.S.-born immigration attorney said, "Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you.”

The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that some emails may have been sent to unintended recipients.

Multiple citizens have received this email notification.  Trump's administration is sloppy.  

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mtmkjr said:

At his PEAK of his popularity, he still had less than 50% of the vote,  edging out Harris by less than 1.5%.

And now he is in a downward slide, with only 42% approving and 53% disapproving. If you defend him by saying "The public still loves him as he won the popular vote" then I'm curious if you would you apply the same logic to his current poll numbers?

What you call anti-American parasites and edgelords are now the majority of the country who disapprove of his reckless destructive actions.

 

I would remind you that he also flipped all 7 swing states. The first for a republican in decades.  

[Crusades]

Beerman said:

Meh, they're using him as a political pawn as is the administration.  There's no  practical reason for these Democrats to travel to El Salvador to see him.  When he eventually comes back, they'll have a parade for him.  

The guy has an actual deportation order.  He's had due process.  Where Trump went wrong is ignoring the order to stay it.  The order to stay the deportation based on the guy's supposedly fear of danger by a gang that is a rival of the one he supposedly doesn't belong to.  He didn't get due process on that aspect of it.  That is wrong, but hardly the injustice of the century.

They've slowly leaked more info on this guy.  I'm hoping they have more.   They're letting the Dems solidify their support of him, get their photo ops,  bring him back to be celebrated.   They he'll get his due process where the rest of the story will come out.

So quickly they forgot about George Floyd. 

Democrats have an affinity of elevating and idolizing criminals. Using them as the moral higher ground. It's hilarious.  Except for the pons I guess. 

Does this mean they have moved away from exploiting the holocaust victims by calling everyone Nazis? Nah. Doubt it. 

[heron, ASN, RN]

toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-23/homeland-security-immigration-termination-notices-deportation

Multiple citizens have received this email notification.  Trump's administration is sloppy.  

Then there's the indigenous people who have been picked up. I have read estimates of between 15 and 45 Navajo are being detained. They are'nt the only nation being hit, I would bet.

What this administration is doing has nothing to do with immigration enforcement. It's ethnic cleansing, pure and simple.

[Beerman, BSN]

heron said:

Then there's the indigenous people who have been picked up. I have read estimates of between 15 and 45 Navajo are being detained. They are'nt the only nation being hit, I would bet.

What this administration is doing has nothing to do with immigration enforcement. It's ethnic cleansing, pure and simple.

I see months old reports of around 15 people being questioned and/or detained.

I'm curious as to how you  equate that to ethnic cleansing?

[toomuchbaloney]

heron said:

Then there's the indigenous people who have been picked up. I have read estimates of between 15 and 45 Navajo are being detained. They are'nt the only nation being hit, I would bet.

What this administration is doing has nothing to do with immigration enforcement. It's ethnic cleansing, pure and simple.

Isn't it interesting to watch people defend this unconstitutional policy while claiming to value law and order and the constitution? They don't seem to care that the administration is ignoring court orders.  It's fascinating.  

[toomuchbaloney]

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/23/nx-s1-5366685/trump-populism-right-wing-world-canada-australia

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Donald Trump's initial ascent to the presidency inspired right-wing populist politicians around the world, many of whom sought to emulate his anti-establishment and anti-immigrant messaging. But in his second term, Trump's aggressive trade policies and confrontational stance toward America's allies are threatening to turn that populist wave into a dangerous undertow.

Now the "Trump bump" that populist candidates had anticipated is turning into a "Trump slump." In some countries, including those facing national elections soon, political leaders who've advocated a homegrown style of MAGA are suddenly scrambling to distance themselves from the U.S. president.

It appears that the old fascist's approval ratings and popularity are falling in many places except in Trumplandia.  It seems that it's the Trump economic policy (that our republican voters seem so attached to) that is driving the movement away from Trump.  Interesting.  

[toomuchbaloney]

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-americans-will-be-caught-up-trump-immigration-raids

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"It's really everyone — not just noncitizens or undocumented people — who are in danger of having their liberty violated in this kind of mass deportation machinery,” said Cody Wofsy, the deputy director of the Immigrants' Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

If due process isn't required to detain someone or put them in a detention camp or prison, then anyone could be detained.  

[Crusades]

heron said:

Then there's the indigenous people who have been picked up. I have read estimates of between 15 and 45 Navajo are being detained. They are'nt the only nation being hit, I would bet.

What this administration is doing has nothing to do with immigration enforcement. It's ethnic cleansing, pure and simple.

Right... ... how will they detained and deported Indigenous people? Give them a drive across town? LOL. This is ridiculous