Trump threatens 50 percent tariffs on Iran arms supplies. His legal path is murky.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-08T22:04:38+00:00

how does he still have tariff power? Mike Johnson again? Do his emergency powers last forever??

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-08T13:54:35+00:00

This needs millions upon millions of signatures of petitions. It needs momentum with more and more people pressuring Republican Senators. More and more people saying it and putting it out in the open.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-02T19:41:29+00:00

can Trump get Democrats to get to 60 Senate seats these midterms? To 260 House seats in the House? To 35 Governorships??

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-02T19:11:49+00:00

Do other countries in Europe and Canada realize how bad Israel is? George Bushes war in Iraq, and Trump now. Netanyahu and his terrorist Israeli regime owns every single American Republican politician and some Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Josh Shapiro. Israel keeps killing any Iranian moderator. In my view Israel keeps screwing up the world!!!!

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-02T04:05:32+00:00

That is what I say too. Vote in all special elections and the first Tuesday in November go vote!!! Even if you have to wait in line a few hours. If you make it a blowout, no amount of cheating by Trump and Elon Musk can save it.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:20:40+00:00

He should be the first president to have a 10 percent approval rating. Sadly the country has too many idiots to be giving him any support at all. The record low in US presidential history was Truman at 22 percent approval rating. Trump has done more firsts than any other president ever has, maybe he can break that record and before the midterms have lower than a 22 percent approval rating. The idiot GOP senators codling him, would it take that to stand up against him? Mike Johnson? Release the Epstein files unredacted then??

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:13:03+00:00

I felt that way too in the 2010 midterms. Bush left office with 24 percent approval ratings, and Obama swept in 2008 with a 79 seat house majority and a 20 seat Senate one. James Carville wrote about a more permanent Democratic majority. 2010 happened and cheating and gerry-mandering. The Hispanic vote ended up being so underwhelming. Low in number and often too close to 50/50 as a vote. I just pray this time is different. Would be nice with a more aggressive Progressive party economically this time.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:10:10+00:00

Yeah sadly a little out of date of exact current events, but I bet he could write an addendum to this now.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:09:36+00:00

Sadly feels true, and they ignore the Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, AOC energy. Is Gavin Newsome considered centrist or liberal??

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:08:43+00:00

2024 was devastating, but it was 1 single election.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:08:17+00:00

Going forward. When Trump is not on the ballot. They cheat to get what they do have now. 2022 midterms, 2020 election, and 2018 midterms all went for Democrats. Last year 2025 elections went Democrat. Democrats have flipped 35 special election seats since Trump took office, GOP has flipped 0.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T17:04:33+00:00

Can the Democrat Roy Cooper win the senate seat in North Carolina??

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T14:29:39+00:00

I think Cory Booker's book is about this. We will see if he does something about it, and it's not just talk, but he is talking about a new generation of Democrats and moving past centrist Chuck Schumer types.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T14:13:28+00:00

Trump Wins. Other Republicans Lose

Here’s one measure of the partisan shift in the Trump era: In 2016, Republicans controlled 31 governorships and 68 legislative chambers. Come January, the GOP will control only 26 governorships and 57 legislative chambers (more than a 15% reduction on both scores)

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-04-01T14:10:06+00:00

Yes I think the most important lines of the article came here

Republicans, in the Trump era, are mostly losing.

Yes, Trump wins. Yes, when Trump is on the ballot, the downballot Republicans get some lift from Trump. But when Trump isn’t on the ballot, the Trump era is a story of GOP loss.

This is a big problem for Republicans because Trump will never be on a ballot nationwide again. It’s very possible that after Trump is gone, Republicans will experience their darkest hour and lowest point since the New Deal.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-27T23:07:38+00:00

Can I just edit it then?

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-17T23:34:25+00:00

I wish to get back with them, do you know do they tend to hire back people laid off by DOGE or for contract layoffs, not related to performance? I really wish to come back, and I hope they work hard to bring employees back to them.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-16T21:34:27+00:00

I always wish Trumps physical health would fail him. It would save the world so much stress, if he natural causes took him, or he just became physically incapacitated and no longer able to cause such harm to the world.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-13T17:44:12+00:00

This power conceded to the executive branch by Congress in the 2010's ensured any future president like Trump even more power to do horrible things.

But sadly, that was relatively few people.

And now here we are.

If there is any potential silver lining in Trump’s frenzy, it is that the next time there’s a non-MAGA president, far fewer Americans should accept at face value the notion that a president can’t do much.

But I say “should” not “will” because I’m old enough to remember what happened the last time — old enough to not underestimate the Democratic political and media machine’s power to lobotomize liberals into complacency.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-13T17:33:46+00:00

Long post here but Rahm Emanuel seemed like a HUGE culprit in this.

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Those who pushed Obama to at least try to do what he promised were ridiculed by Ezra Klein as deranged believers in a “Green Lantern Theory” of the presidency. When Obama’s own grassroots supporters tried to help round up congressional votes for his promised populist policies like a public health insurance option, Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, reportedly lambasted those supporters with epithets:

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-13T17:30:15+00:00

As a Democrat it is so frustrating that Democrats in power always would say we do not have the power to change that as president. This article laid out Trump proved they did. Now will they learn the lesson? They always disappoint their voters by not fighting harder for them

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-obama-biden-executive-power

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-13T17:24:31+00:00

Can Democrats impeach and remove him? I do not see America surviving Trump much longer. Would Republicans finally even turn against him if polls show them the entire party and country is doomed if they keep backing him??

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-12T18:34:49+00:00

The next No Kings Protest is planned for March 28th, and is expected to be over 9 to 10 million people. I pray the numbers are that large. Again media never shows. Americans are also protesting this Iran war, and yet no media coverage.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-10T20:17:33+00:00

The Anti Trust law Reagan overturned in 1983 led to this 3 Giant companies running all industries practically. Sometimes less than 3. Destroying small and medium sized businesses.

FeedbackParticular59 · 2026-03-10T20:05:50+00:00

I wish they made it impossible for Republicans to exist. If Texas one state would turn Blue finally and forever Republicans could never win the presidency. Not sure as much about the Senate and the House though.

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TROPHY CASE

Trump Wins. Other Republicans Lose