You reap what you sow. 
I am pleased to report plunging support for the Gestapo tactics of Trump administration and ICE.
-34 Points on Immigration, -28 Points Overall
Trump’s Immigration Approval Drops to Record Low
I am pleased to report common sense is surging across the board. Please note Trump’s Immigration Approval Drops to Record Low
Just 39% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, down from 41% earlier this month, while 53% disapprove, the poll found. Immigration was a brighter spot for Trump’s popularity in the weeks following his January inauguration. In February, 50% approved and 41% disapproved.
Some 58% of poll respondents said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have gone “too far” in their crackdown, while 12% said they had not gone far enough and 26% said the agents’ efforts were “about right.” About nine in 10 Democrats said the agents have gone too far, compared to two in 10 Republicans and six in 10 independents.
The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Trump’s overall approval rating sinking to 38%, tying the lowest level of his current term as it dropped from 41% in the prior Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted January 12-13.
Only 39 percent approve. That’s 39 percentage points too many.
But given MAGA support alone would be in that vicinity, the rest of the country has had enough.
Voter Support for Trump’s Immigration Strategy Is Eroding
The Washington Post comments Voter Support for Trump’s Immigration Strategy Is Eroding, and the GOP Know It.
A critical bloc of voters has taken a look at the harsh tactics deployed by federal agents in cities far from the U.S.-Mexico border and said: That’s not what I had in mind.
And today, most still favor strong immigration enforcement. But they feel the Trump administration is focusing its immigration resources on the wrong targets, and on the wrong border.
“Securing the border and removing people who are a threat or have a criminal record is common sense and popular. What voters are now seeing goes far beyond that mandate, and as a result, the public opinion pendulum is swinging back,” said Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican pollster whose firm has done deep-dive research on immigration.
In other words, Americans voted in 2024 to stop the daily flow of thousands of undocumented migrants crossing the Mexican border, but the majority did not cast their ballots in support of masked agents storming neighborhoods, and detaining people — including citizens — who lack a clear connection to violent criminals.
The New York Post’s conservative editorial board published a piece on Sunday written directly to Trump that began saying it was “time to de-escalate in Minneapolis, Mr. President.”
“However noble the mission is to rid the country of the ‘worst of the worst,’ the broad support for it is now ebbing fast,” the New York Post wrote. “Mr. President, the American people didn’t vote for these scenes, and you can’t continue to order them to not believe their lying eyes.”
Indeed, as Soltis Anderson’s firm, Echelon Strategies, found, the tactics deployed by ICE agents, Customs and Border Patrol officers and others are so unpopular that they threaten to poison the political well for Trump and Republicans on an issue once seen as among the strongest for the GOP.
“No matter where you stand on immigration enforcement, the shootings show that what the country has been doing is not working,” Rep. Michael Lawler (R-New York), one of the most politically vulnerable Republicans, wrote in a New York Times oped with a headline calling on the GOP to “Wake Up After Minneapolis.”
Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds
A New York Times/Siena Poll says Voters Are Split on Deportations but Disapprove of ICE, Poll Finds
61 percent of all respondents and 71 percent of independents think ICE has gone too far.
Just 36% of voters approved of how ICE was handling its job; 63% disapproved.
And that was before Ice murdered Alex Pretti and the asinine statements by Noem.
Fox News Poll
Fox News reports 59% of voters say ICE is too aggressive, up 10 points since July
While more than half of voters approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing on border security, a new Fox News survey finds a majority disapproves of how he is handling immigration and a growing number view the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s tactics as “too aggressive” — including significant portions of the president’s coalition.
In addition, there is disagreement about how well ICE is carrying out its core mission. Twenty-nine percent of voters say ICE’s enforcement practices “almost always” reflect Trump’s pledge to focus on illegal immigrants with criminal records, 25% think that happens “most of the time,” 19% say “sometimes,” and 27% “not very often.” More Republicans (45%) than Democrats (17%) and independents (15%) think ICE is “almost always” keeping the pledge.
At the same time, there is a backlash against the agency’s methods. Fifty-nine percent of voters characterize ICE as “too aggressive,” a 10-point increase since July 2025. This sentiment is increasingly defined by a shift in the center: the perception of ICE as too aggressive is up 14 points among Whites without a college degree, 19 points among moderates, and 22 points among independents. A similar shift is seen among right-leaning groups, including Trump voters (+9 more aggressive), Republican women (+14), and non-MAGA Republicans (+23).
Latinas for Trump (Not Anymore)
There are two ideas here. Handling the border and deportations.
Nearly half (49 percent) of non-MAGA GOP thinks ICE is too aggressive.
I am increasingly confident Republicans will lose the House.
That is also the opinion of “Latinas for Trump.
Please note ‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown over the last year has gone from uncomfortable to untenable for Ileana Garcia, a Republican state senator in Florida.
A Transportation Security Administration officer at the Tallahassee airport overheard her speaking Spanish and asked whether Ms. Garcia, who was born in Miami, was an American citizen. She worried for the first time that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents might stop her son, a young adult, because he looks Hispanic. Constituents have asked her for help finding immigrant relatives arrested by ICE.
Ms. Garcia, 56, has had enough. The Republican Party is in trouble, she said in an interview, predicting that it will lose this year’s midterm elections if the White House does not soon reconsider its harsh immigration enforcement tactics.
“We should not be afraid as a party to speak up, to course correct,” she said. That was before Saturday, when Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old I.C.U. nurse who was protesting in Minneapolis, and federal officials sought to portray him as a “domestic terrorist.” Ms. Garcia said she was “dumbfounded.”
“It’s gone too far,” she said. “What happened Saturday was abhorrent.”
What a little-known state senator in a state that no longer appears to be a political battleground thinks might seem of little consequence. But Ms. Garcia, who is Cuban American, was once such a true believer in President Trump that she went all-in on his 2016 campaign, leaving her career in Spanish-language media to co-found “Latinas for Trump,” a national organization that drew attention at the time.
She then moved to Washington to work for Mr. Trump’s first administration, in the public affairs office of the Department of Homeland Security, which enforces immigration laws.
Back then, Mr. Trump was focused on closing the U.S.-Mexico border and building a border wall, both policies she supported. Now he has gone much further, Ms. Garcia said. She blamed Stephen Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, for tactics that include yanking people out of cars and trying to remove children who crossed the border on their own from foster care homes and deport them.
“I do think that he will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller,” she said of Mr. Trump.
Ms. Garcia has been speaking out for months in social media posts and statements to local news outlets. She received death threats in June after condemning the Trump administration’s mass deportations as “unacceptable and inhumane.”
She sees herself as a truth-teller within her party. Too many of her fellow Republicans are scared to say how they feel, a self-censorship that frightens her. “It’s almost like the stories that my mother would tell me of what she lived in Cuba, and we’re seeing it here,” she said.
Trump is losing normies on immigration
Let’s now turn to the person everyone loves to hate.
Nate Silver reports Trump is losing normies on immigration
Americans might want more border enforcement, but they don’t want ICE agents killing civilians.
Yesterday, a U.S. border patrol agent shot and killed a 37-year-old Minnesota man, Alex Pretti, for the crime of … actually, it’s not clear why he was killed. Pretti was an ICU nurse who was filming a confrontation between an immigration agent and two civilians.
Below, My Sentiments Exactly
That would be my hope, but I don’t think he sees prison.
Unmask the Gestapo
Impeachment proceedings against Kristi Noem are likely going nowhere now, but there will be impeachment after the Midterms.
Of course, the Senate would not convict. However, I still bet she is gone by the end of the year, one way or another.
Trump took his best polling issue and trashed it with Gestapo tactics.
Independents and Latinos will break hard against Trump. And if Democrats can somehow energize Zoomers, it could be a well-deserved bloodbath for Republicans.
I will still have a hard time voting for any major party, and will vote Libertarian again.
Polymarket House and Senate
For those who don’t believe any polls (except those in alignment with their personal views) let’s discuss Polymarket Midterm Betting Odds.
Polymarket has an 82 percent chance of Democrats taking the House, and 36 percent on the Senate.
The former is my guess too, the latter perhaps a bit too high, but now easily possible.
Republicans rate to lose the House, and at least a seat in the Senate.
Related Posts
January 7, 2026: Trump’s ICE Gestapo Kills a US Citizen in Minneapolis
The only question is whether the charge should be voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.
January 9, 2026: No, ICE Is Nothing Like the Gestapo, Except When It Is
Some readers objected to my use of the word Gestapo to describe ICE. Let’s investigate.
January 14, 2026: Four Native Americans Kidnapped by Ice, Held in Former Concentration Camp
Four Oglala Lakota tribe members (aka Oglala Sioux) were kidnapped by Ice. One released.
January 18, 2026: We Are Now Bearing the Poisoned Fruit of Trump’s Self-Proclaimed Morality
Trump says his own morality is the only check on his power.
January 26, 2026: The Anatomy of a Murder by ICE, and Team Trump’s Defense of It
Here’s a timeline of the murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
January 28, 2026: Noem Invokes the Nuremberg Defense, Blames Trump and Stephen Miller
Well, this is a fun development.
Polls now back my posts. The midterms cannot come too soon.
The 34 percent of latinos that came to the country legally, worked hard and earned a good living. They don’t want their income undercut by a flood of illegals, encouraged to break the law by corporations that want cheap labor, union membership, and progressive voters.
Gutfeld said it best:
“If you want to cry about the plight of murders and rapists, do it on your own time.”
Zero Hedge has a story about CNN showing a Washington Post poll slide which stated “voters favoring a govt effort to deport all 11 million”
2016: 38%
2025: 56%
Mid terms are coming fast and things aren’t looking so good. What is Trump to do?
Unfortunately, bomb Iran is the most likely answer.
Pew poll today spells disaster for Republicans in mid term
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/01/29/confidence-in-trump-dips-and-fewer-now-say-they-support-his-policies-and-plans/
Soon, no one will have supported any of this. But many of us will remember those who actually did. They’re the fake Americans among us, who lack the basic values that made the nation great.
What has to be most worrisome to Trump in the poll is the decline in Republican support.
So time to declare Pew biased and do their own poll!
34% Latino/Hispanic support for Trump is better than their support for Romney in 2012 which was 27%.
Recall the election was not called for Obama until midnight on election day.
Trump has about 28% from Latino/Hispanic in 2016 election day polling.
18% of Blacks support Trump currently according to CNN latest polling.
Consider Trump only won about 15% of the Black vote in 2024.
And finally consider all this after all the bad press on immigration enforcement from the Democrat media like CNN and ABC News.
Let’s hope you’re right.
Hypothetical: If there was a prison break at a high security prison in Mexico, right next to the border, and those prisoners incapacitated ICE agents on the way in to the United States would you all be cheering? Refuse to extradite? Because that’s basically the position people have taken, with some of the details changed.
Sanctuary governments are refusing to release criminals in US prisons, who are there after appearing before a judge for commintting a crime, who are in the USA illegally… governments are refusing to release those people to ICE agents for deportation, which is not extradition, but might as well be.
Think about it, instead of being told what to think.
For minor crimes only. Do your research before you post stupid stuff. Hell the dumbasses at ICE deported a criminal illegal here in Cali to Venezuela that was part of the ring that stole $100 million in jewelry, biggest US jewelry heist ever. He isn’t coming back. The folks that had their jewelry stolen are furious.
see the 10th amendment for the public school grads. but perhaps the MAGA cult wants to do away with state and local representations altogether and let the greatest family of all time rule the empire, completely. long live pax dumbfuckistan.
You wouldn’t extradite. Box checked.
Now, what if it was North Koreans in amphibious vehicles rushing beaches with all their military gear, but with no weapons? Guess what? Your ( flawed ) logic still applies. Congratulations. You officially qualify as a member of the Democrat party.
are you 12 years old ?
Co’mon man he’s 13 and a half.
Right back at you, buddy.
you still naive, enough to be caught up in red v blue team. what a wanker.
Quote from article: That’s not what I had in mind ….
More accurate thing would be that they had no discerning mind in the first place.
Anybody who voted for Trump or who thought both parties are bad but chose Trump as the lesser evil ….well …. You just weren’t paying attention or informed enough or just plain maga hardcore.
Or the best non dumbass explanation I have for you is that you had MEGA business interests that didn’t care if the country and the constitution went to the dogs.
What did you learn from election denial, Jan 6, Obama birth certificate, the continuous attempts to mess with SDNY in 2019-2020 when Epstein was arrested and the women shenanigans? Did you really see a law abiding, constitution upholding, truth anchored leader who will uphold law and speak what is true? Really? I saw a bull shitter who will say anything and do anything to grab and hold on to power … and one who had no idea what America or the rule of law meant …..
If any of this was not already obvious to you already when you used your “mind”, then you (and we as a country) deserve this ignorance. This diarrhea will need to pass …. And hopefully, we will have the bedrock principles of America intact by then ……
And if your excuse was that Trump’s economy was great and Biden caused inflation, your ignorance further deserves this presidency.
As much as I admire Mish, i would also include his choice to write in himself in the same category of misplaced choices. May be he lives in a non swing state where his vote wouldn’t have mattered.
And yes, I know about the democrats and their stupid woke shenanigans and their unconstitutional actions, I’m still unfortunately having to say this about choices and consequences. We collectively deserve the, on average, ignorant choices we make.
I was paying attention. I live in California and see what leftist Democrats are doing to the state. My Cuban neighbor, who grew up under Castro, left for that reason in 2020.
I wasn’t going to vote for Kamala and her Maoist “…unencumbered by the past,” narrative. Also, VP nominee Walz was enthralled with Communist China, having visited several times and even bought a number of copies of Mao’s Little Red Book according to someone who accompanied him on one of his trips. NYC now has a socialist mayor who proclaimed that individualism is cold and collectivism is warmth. My former Cuban neighbor doesn’t see it that way, having experienced it.
Good for you, bud!
You own your choices. My point is that people don’t get to complain or cop out of their incompetence by saying “that is not what I had in mind …”.
As for you, sure, the 10% of democrats you pointed out are socialists and communists for the people.
And 90% of republicans are socialists and communists for corporations (who are people as we all know).
I’m tired of being in the 37% and 39% since forever. But of course, I’m not sitting here and complaining. I’m fixing that for the last decade converting wage income out …. But still make too much money and pay too much taxes to support the red states sadly … because who else loves socialism and communism?
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Trump said today that he wanted to drive interest rates down and home prices up. For some reason he believes it will create affordability. This is about as out of touch from reality as possible. Prices are the issue, not interest rates. They’d have to drop mortage interest rates down below 3% for it to be meaningful. Even then, it would create more unafordability. Got gold? … or silver???
Trump doesn’t care what he says or what happens. just as long as he’s in the world headlines each day. he is a nihilist. a showman. pt barnum crossed with adolph hitler……….the old movie “face in the crowd” sums it up.
in real life, do NOT tell family and friends how much gold you own. only bad things can come of that. i’ve seen this play out in hairy situations in life………….russia and a crashing r/e hood down 75%
I’ve mentioned this here before and I will again. Let me give the Trump followers and sycophants a reminder. Here in California in the 1990’s we were a swing state. Then came racist Governor Pete Wilson out of San Diego pushing Prop 187 which by today’s standards Federally is what is playing out. This energized the non-white mostly hispanic and immigrant non-voting population to get civically organized and vote against these policies. They created what essentially was an extinction level event for the Republican Party here in Cali by 2005. Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not happy about living in a state with a corrupt one-party system.
There are at least 10 states with large hispanic populations including obviously California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, and Nevada with many more with sizable hispanic hispanic and recent immigrant populations. It is now highly likely that within 10 years the Republicans will not be able to win a nationwide Federal election if the same pattern holds that occurred in Cali. This type of atrocious immigration enforcement we are experiencing now especially in the big blue cities may win a battle here and there but it will lose the war. Most of us are mostly on the conservative side and we are sage enough to know how this will play out long term….I for one am not looking forward to a 10-30 year ( luckily I’ll be dead by then) rule by a one-party system at the Federal level (Democrats).
50 state solution. we are going back to pre 1860 setup. same country. just states more important than feds for people. a yawn really. will be best, too. many states to choose from. like EU
Keep in mind that California is the 4th largest economy in the world…there is a lot of opportunity here but…..
Indeed. California is so well run that over half the kids in public schools can’t read or write at grade level and only 1/3 can do math at grade level. This is according to CA’s own testing via CAASPP.
Not to mention the 15k homes and apartment buildings that burned up last year due to incompetence at the state and local levels.
Then morons like this will spew 1/10 truths, call it the whole story and pretend Dems had no agency to fix anything despite them holding serve for 30 years in the state.
Would you like to talk about the financial status of CALSTRS and CALPERS? That’s a whole other level of idiocy and corruption in CA. It pairs nicely with the fraud happening with homeless NGOs.
news flash. CA is amerika. amerika is CA. the blue v red idiocracy is jawdropping. guess what kids. amerikans have a top layer of folks who can function in 21st skills of math and reading any language. the system is set up exactly the way the people want it. democracy works. always has. since plato penned “republic”.
Trump needs to remove all tariffs on Modelo.
isn’t it made in rochester NY
owners in rochester. made in CDMX. my fav city in north amerika.
Especially on the Negra Modelo!
I second that! Great beer! Good warm too!
US population growth slows as immigration declines, Census data shows
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-population-growth-slows-immigration-declines-census-data-shows-2026-01-27/
Uh…I’ve been telling you that for years now. Demographic…..Death…..Spiral.
What the article isn’t telling you is that there is no internal fix. The only fix is more immigration or let it all collapse.
I’m still waiting for all those robots and driverless cars and trucks.
ANTIFA has won the Many Sodas War (cause by Trump drinking too many diet cokes). The Siege of St. Paul has ended in a surrender to the liberal Somali supporting Lutherans. Despite below freezing temperatures, the ICE is melting away in Manysoda.
Gee, why would this be?!?
Preemptive pardon for Stephen Miller?
I’d bet yes.
Vigilante justice? I’d bet yes.
When taco screws up, that is almost 100% of the time, it prefers to do it in excess.
I don’t know how much Trump can watch the polls. The point was always the violence for the sake of violence. He knows who his supporters are. Remember BLM? If he de-escalates the violence, he risks losing MAGA and other Christians. If he maintains it, he risks losing the independents that decide the elections. He could have always just quietly removed millions like Obama did. That was a far more effective system because you didn’t have these giant convoys of armed nitwits running around being spotted. But MAGA Christians hated it because no one was getting hurt.
If I were Trump, I’d adopt Obama’s policies, call them his own (MAGA’s too dumb to know the difference), but have a weekly tally of people picked up and deported. Just lie and multiply the number by 10. And occasionally, kill a latino with lots of tattoos. A nice little wink and nod to the MAGA Christians!
MAGA is first, foremost and always a cult of personality. Emphasis on the word “cult”.
If Trump is for it, then they are for it. Until Trump is against it. Then they are against it, with the same fervor that they were for it, ten minutes ago before their hero changed his tune.
sounds like that would all work. how heinous, but true.
Yes. Let’s focus on two mistakes at ICE surrounding aggressive agitators, and ignore the hundreds of thousands of criminals rightfully deported. “Fair and Balanced” reporting.
Maybe civil rights and abiding by the Constitution aren’t important enough to you for those murders to matter, but they are to a lot of patriotic Americans.
Maybe the sanctuary governments should allow the criminals who are in the country illegally to be picked up from prison, where they were sentenced to be by mostly liberal judges. Then, no one who is living in the country legally, would have their rights violated, because the ICE agents wouldn’t have to resort to targeting criminals here illegally in public settings.
Next thing you know the Epstein files will come out and everybody will be focused on two mistakes by Trump with aggressive children, rather than all the good he has done.
Please enumerate these good things. Regale us with his achievements.
Nothing?
There are so many Trump accomplishments, I will just choose a small number:
Like I said, these are just three of the many accomplishments that came to mind, I’m sure others can add to the list.
You sir, are a droll comedic genius!
Thanks ET, glad you liked it
Oh, man, you could improve SNL with your talents!
The comments section has pitched a raging tent for irrational Trump hatred. Why be objective when people can enjoy the warm embrace of rage instead? It’s the same cries of nazi/fascist/dictator that happened from 2016-20.
It’s funny to point it out and have people lose their minds in comments.
And the raging tent for irrational TWS comments is just as entertaining. I see you here daily reminding us how we all have TDS…lol.
Ultimately, it doesnt matter though does it? The Messiah will be gone in 1087 days then it’s open borders and flood gates fully open yet again for 8 full years and there’s nothing you can do about it. Nothin!
I already hear the weeping and gnashing of teeth, when aoc, or someone worse is elected. The worm always turns…
The weeping about Biden never stopped.
After what’s going on do you think even if the Dems regain control that massive waves of illegals are going to want to come here knowing what’s happening now could easily be repeated with the next Republican president?
I suspect it will take a while to rehab America’s image.
Go read Wolfstreet’s population view and that was before Trump started his anti-immigration hate. The post affirms what I’ve been saying, demographic death spiral.
Labor will have to be imported from somewhere or you’ll get the Detroitization of America, every city, big and small, in decay and decline.
Won’t matter to me one way or another….I’m moving to greener pastures. If Canada seals deals with EU and China, you may be better off in Canada.
Canada and all Western Countries plus a lot of the Asian ones (Japan, China etc) are in that same ‘spiral’.
In any case the longer term future looks very bright if the population drops in half or more. That would be back in line with population when I was born and things were awfully good then.
I imagine everyone would like twice as much of everything (land, water, food, clean air, housing etc). Wolf alluded to that when he talked about world pop when he was born (he and I are roughly same age).
Population density and freedom are inversely proportional. This is a positive development.
Why stop at half? But the issue is you’ll have all of America look like this…everywhere and you’ll have nothing but mostly old people too. No thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMV8-DPSs-8
Back in 1970 Florida was heaven. I lived there. It was wilderness and wild. Now it is too civilized.
i agree with your thoughts, but population declines don’t mean national suicide. many instances of this in our country and abroad. new england farms cleared out when erie canal was built 200 years ago last summer. new england adjusted and is a nice place to live for many………
Wolfstreet just posted an article yesterday about immigration. Maybe you should read it, and the comments.
Here’s a comment directly from Wolf Richter:
“Some controlled immigration is fine. Illegal immigration is not fine. It’s a form of wage repression, including wages of legal immigrants and people at the lower end of the pay scales.”
Why, yes. All civilizations always needed an underclass of cheap laborers. Over time, serfs, slaves, indentured, legal and illegal immigrants, illiterate, etc, were used to supply this need even before capitalism or socialism existed, but still are after their coming about.
Or China or the EU just about anywhere but the US, NK and RU.
You should consult with your team before altering doseage.
You better brush up on your Espanol and Chinese, hide the Hebrew, the new youth MAGA doesn’t like that language.
How many episodes of The View have you watched today? Be honest.
I only watch CNBC or Bloomberg TV all day long. Follow the money.
All day long? That explains the nonsensical propaganda you don’t question.
Please, it can’t be 1087 days, not one more day.
86/47 by whatever legal means possible. 25th, impeach or God. God would be quicker and could happen this afternoon….please.
Exactly, why don’t people just ignore state terror and government sanctioned murder when we could be discussing college football? Don’t people know what’s important?
He’s not going to sleep with you. You’re too old.
That your mind went to imaginary homoerotic fantasies of others is an odd projection…. even for you.
no. i think he knows who you are. probably watching you. the tech is pretty amazing for the spooks, now.
Like Ms. Julie from Romper Room. She always freaked me out with her magic looking glass, calling kids out in their living rooms.
ROMPER ROOM. just read that. very funny. made my morning LOL
Hush. Nobody is supposed to know about the cameras.
i monitor all my rooms in house and upload to the NSA as a proper good citizen. if they need to watch me masturbate and defecate, who am i, to argue. animal farm
What a moron you are, accepting outright murders as “collateral damage” to support your racist Gestapo views.
You are one disgusting human being.
once, humans embrace vile hate, it can feed and nourish them. it gets worse and worse over the years. so many examples in history. best to ignore hate mongers in real life and online life
They’re not gonna ignore us. They need to be stomped back into the muck they crawled out of.
If it’s moronic to make decisions based on 99.999% of the central data distribution, while trimming the outliers in the 0.001% tails, then yes, I’m guilty as charged, a moron.
I think your plan is better. Let’s make all decisions based on the 4.5 sigma tails of the data, ignoring the bulk, just like Trump.
PS You forgot to call me sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, islamophobic, and bigoted! LOL! Bonus points for the Nazi reference. My old Lebanese roomate I used to live with while I was working at a computer company in Fremont, CA with 90%+ native Chinese staff would vehemently disagree with you, BTW.
Moron tends to include those other things. It’s all inclusive stupid
Only smart people like you can understand and (inappropriately) channel those concepts, not someone like me with an IQ of only 50. Thanks for sharing your renowned liberal tolerance for my disability.
Two mistakes???? You must be living in an alternate universe!
Latinos make up between 30 and 40% of the US citizens in Texas. The upcoming elections might end the over 30 years of GOP control of both the executive and legislative branches in the state.
If only LBJ had lost in 1937 …
They’re getting more electoral votes this time too.
I would not be surprised if trumps election win boiled down to some very targeted algorithms on x. Think it was something like 2 percent in multiple categories with latino males being one. Thats why trump said he would not have got elected if not for musk. Thats prob why all the republicans are making purchases of social media sites like tiktok etc. plus lack of regulation of media sites which has been a discussion on the tech podcast for years. Under the guise of free speech.
If you are going to make that comment on the past election you should read the book Debunked?
I doubt you will because your mind is already made up. And then some.
Interesting…..
ZH: The killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last Saturday sparked national outrage – particularly when it comes to the 2nd Amendment and his right to carry while protesting. The incident resulted in two federal agents involved in the shooting being placed on leave, and the ouster of US border patrol chief Gregory Bovino as the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation drive.
While the circumstances of his death are still under investigation – many believe this gun went off after an agent took it off his body, spooking the shooter or shooters – he was known to federal authorities, and had suffered a broken rib during a violent confrontation with agents about a week before his death, CNN reported Tuesday.
Now, new footage appears to show Pretti armed and spitting at ICE agents before he smashes the taillights of their black SUV during a wild confrontation roughly a week before his death.
The video, verified by the BBC, captures what appears to be Pretti screaming at federal agents while they were driving away during a Jan. 13 protest. As their SUV leaves, he kicks the taillight – breaking it, causing agents to exit the vehicle and tackle him to the ground.
The agents continue to hold him down until he retreats and joins a crowd shouting at agents, as his gun is visibly tucked into the back of his pants.
Prior to the protests, Pretti’s parents specifically warned him against engaging.
“We had this discussion with him two weeks ago or so, you know, that go ahead and protest, but do not engage, do not do anything stupid, basically,” said Michael Pretti. “And he said he knows that. He knew that.”
While this changes nothing about an American’s 2nd Amendment rights, it certainly changes the narrative insofar as whether ICE agents identified Pretti prior to his death and considered him to have an elevated risk profile.
Well the narrative only changes if the ICE agents involved in the earlier confrontation were the same as the ones who killed him. But, since they disarmed him prior to killing him, I’m not sure the narrative changes that much. Maybe even makes it worse. Suppose they were the same bunch. They know he has a weapon, though he is not brandishing it. They get him on the ground, remove the weapon, then intentionally kill him, thinking, “no f’ing nurse is going to kick my car and live to tell about it!”. And sense he had a gun, they had a great excuse for killing a fellow American. MAGA loves this stuff!
It gives a hint of premeditation.
palantir is following all of us……….only a matter of time until they come for you. unless some states fight back against the feds. civil war 2.0. i lived in charleston SC a long time. shit happens.
Does not change the narrative of his execution one bit.
He engaged days earllier, and was tackled and given a courtesy roughing up
He did not engage nearly as deeply the day they murdered him, so what is the change in protocol that justifies them handling the situation differently?
Dey git mad.
The cold got to them.
The rage from commenters addicted to the dopamine hit is as helpful as a football bat.
Why are you making excuses for the murderers?
If you had participated in riots in the 60s and 70s you would instantly recognize this type of guy; consumed by rage, extremely reckless and with a hero wish.
The American revolutionaries were described in exactly the same terms.
I wonder if that’s still taught in school, or if it’s been replaced with Bootlicking 101.
This might be the dumbest thing you’ve typed, and that’s saying something.
You just want to brag about the A++ you got in Bootlicking.
I was just over to my German friend’s House for dinner here in Portugal. They grew up in Germany, post WWII and heard FIRST HAND from Grandpa’s and Grandma’s what it was like there in 1942 to 1945. They said that Trump’s regime sounds just like what Granny described when they rounded up Jews in Germany. Granny and Grandpa were not Jewish, but they told Thomas, my pal, that it was just like this now in America.
I have a friend who grew up while a military junta, fully supported by the US, held the government in his country and he said the same. Though a naturalized citizen, he’s afraid of being detained, or worse, for merely having a slight accent. He now doesn’t leave home without his US passport.
What is this obsession of people with TDS of ranting about Trump’s ‘approval ratings’ to everyone all the time. It’s, like, every other headline on Drudge too. Besides these polls all being fake, WTF difference would it make anyway? You’re concerned about him? LOL
Did you notice that the orange gasbag is always bragging about his poll numbers? If the polls are fake then why does Metamucilini keep posting about them?
Are you that stupid?
Of course you are.
This is my first post on polls for a long time.
And in case you failed to notice, betting odds match the polls.
The polls are not fake, your TWS mind is.
The Poles are fine, especially around Paczki time coming up.
el Tedo have you ever believed anything that incriminates your beliefs? Summarily dismissing all polling you don’t like as false is about as anti-intellectual as it gets.
Pigs are simply not intellectuals.
They think he’s going to run again in 2027. The mouth foaming interest in polls makes no sense considering the last 10 years, but they’re the experts so they’ll be right at some point.
Trump will be as coherent as Biden in two more years, if not sooner.
Why, so Dems can cry about 25th’ing him again? Congress has no juevos to do much of consequence.
It should be much more obvious than that.
If he’s not coherent when he leaves office then he won’t be able to be charged with anything since he would not be fit to stand trial in the same way Biden wasn’t.
It’s a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card even if you have to fake it.
like the mobster who walked around the village in his bathrobe to fake being nuts………
you mean like an ‘elderly man with a poor memory’
If that happens, he should forever be referred to in the history books as “President Puddin’ Pants”
Pretend you’re not a loser for us some more.
Ingrates.
This will clear up once everyone that fails the paper bag test has been deported.
It’s a mystery why someone like Ms. Garcia supported Trump in the first place.
No mystery… she supported him for the same reason all the others did:
She’s a dumbass.
and pursuit of power. read the caro books on amerikan politics. power broker and path to power………
Lots of S Florida Cubans sit around all day watching Fox News.
They are stupid enough to think that Usonians care about them and embrace their cause.
sounds wonderful. talk about punishment.
Well it wasn’t Trump, it was the person referred to as “excrement” in the article above that is really responsible.
With tech starting to fall apart in the market, the rest is soon to follow right on schedule for the midterms.
A declining stock market will be very bad for top end consumer spending, and that is all that is propping up spending
Wouldn’t mind seeing a big reset on tech stocks to get a reasonable entry point.
Turning the clock back 26 years, Cisco is the ultimate example.
i loved that 90s tech bubble. rode it up and bailed when she started going down. trend following is so easy, really. who remembers
Mish just some observations. I think part of that top end consumers are late boomers and early gen x who have a combination their parents inheritance combined their own retirement accts
Maybe mixed in with some life is short thinking since covid.
I also hear of more parents taking steps to set up their kids lives beside education. First house etc. part maybe its harder for the kids to make it combined with the parents planning for the kids to take care of them as they age.
Their kids are in many cases adult kids. People with successful careers still being supported by their parents in some way. It’s crazy.
Just like the last 10000 years of human history. The post war us economy was an anomaly that made the boomers think they were super special.
what’s wrong with that. been going on for centuries in human primate society. ranchers used to gift their kids sections and build them houses. same as it ever was.
you need a reality check
That’s likely a part of it but I doubt that big.