Politics/Religion Consolidated Megathread Extravaganza

[DKG]

Donald Trump's approval rating made strides in May when compared to the same poll from the month prior, widening the gap between Americans who are for and against him.

At the end of April, a joint national survey by InsiderAdvantage and Trafalgar Group showed that among likely voters, the president held a 2-point advantage in approval versus disapproval. The 1,200-person survey gave a 46% approval rating to Trump, while 44% of respondents disapproved, and 10% were undecided. However, the numbers seemed to only go up from there.

Fast-forward to Trafalgar's end of May/early June survey, and numbers in support of the president had significantly jumped among likely voters.

A whopping 54% of respondents either approved or strongly approved of Trump's job as president, while 46% disapproved or strongly disapproved.

[DKG]

The Democratic Party has apparently lost a lot more than face and confidence — it no longer has a stranglehold on the middle class, a critical demographic that accounts for roughly half the electoral pie.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten built up to this revelation on Monday, noting first that when it comes to the economy, Americans just trust Republicans more.

When asked which political party's views were closer to their own on the economy, 38% of respondents said the Republican Party in a CNN survey. Thirty-one percent said the Democrats' views were representative.

[Brent]

The Democratic Party has apparently lost a lot more than face and confidence — it no longer has a stranglehold on the middle class, a critical demographic that accounts for roughly half the electoral pie.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten built up to this revelation on Monday, noting first that when it comes to the economy, Americans just trust Republicans more.

When asked which political party's views were closer to their own on the economy, 38% of respondents said the Republican Party in a CNN survey. Thirty-one percent said the Democrats' views were representative.

No kidding. The Democrats and the NDP in Canada have lost the working class. In fact, they hate us.

I did something in the election I thought I would never do. I voted Conservative.

[Lokmar]

I HATE democRATs! We need to gas em along with kweirdos! FACT!

[DKG]

Senator Jon Fetterman breaks ranks and admits the truth about his party's radical position on the anti ICE.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents executed a number of lawful operations last week in California. Democrats were quick to demonize the federal agents and frame their operations as illegitimate.

Fetterman suggested in a message on Monday that Democrats' failure to condemn the violent and destructive acts committed by the rioters in Los Angeles was not only immoral but a self-own.

"I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration — but this is not that," wrote Fetterman in a message accompanying a photograph of a rioter standing atop a destroyed car and waving a Mexican flag while nearby other wrecks burned. "This is anarchy and true chaos."

"My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement," added Fetterman.

While poorly received by unhinged partisans like podcaster Keith Olbermann, Republicans welcomed the insight.

[DKG]

David Hogg was elected the Democratic Party's youngest vice chairman on Feb. 1.

This proved controversial among some of his fellow travelers, including an electoral loser who complained that the Democratic National Committee had violated its own DEI bylaws by not electing enough people with preferred immutable characteristics.

Despite the party previously stating that the election was "conducted fairly, transparently, and in alignment with the rules," party elites subsequently declared Hogg's election null and void, then removed him on Wednesday through a virtual vote of 294 to 99. Hogg was therefore put in the undesirable position of competing for a seat he won 130 days earlier but had stolen from him.

[DKG]

Despite a handful of Republican defectors, the House narrowly passed the rescissions package on Thursday which will slash $9.4 billion in spending.

The rescissions package cuts $8.3 billion in foreign aid, including some funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development, and cuts spending to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which uses taxpayer dollars to fund biased media platforms like PBS and NPR. The package passed with a 214-212 vote, with four Republicans joining 208 Democrats to vote against it.

The four Republicans are Reps. Mark Amodei of Nevada, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, and Mike Turner of Ohio.

[Thiel]

Despite a handful of Republican defectors, the House narrowly passed the rescissions package on Thursday which will slash $9.4 billion in spending.

The rescissions package cuts $8.3 billion in foreign aid, including some funds to the U.S. Agency for International Development, and cuts spending to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which uses taxpayer dollars to fund biased media platforms like PBS and NPR. The package passed with a 214-212 vote, with four Republicans joining 208 Democrats to vote against it.

The four Republicans are Reps. Mark Amodei of Nevada, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Nicole Malliotakis of New York, and Mike Turner of Ohio.

The words spending cuts are music to my ears.

[DKG]

Donald Trump left the G7 summit in Alberta early. Iran and Israel are the reason.

[Brent]

I'm hearing the words regime change coming out of Washington in regards to Iran.

[Brent]

Backed by nearly 200 groups with billions of dollars in collective resources, the No Kings protests on June 14 aimed to reignite defeated Democrats by mobilizing them against President Donald Trump. Yet, the rallies fell flat, with over 98% of Americans staying home, revealing a discouraged progressive base struggling to find footing.

[Oerdin2]

A modestly good ruling.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-rules-state-ban-gender-transition-treatments-minors-landmark-case

[Herman]

A day before the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Tennessee's ban on sex-change genital mutilations and sterilizing puberty blockers for minors, a Biden judge blocked the Trump administration from requiring passports to accurately reflect the holders' sex.

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement, "This is yet another attempt by a rogue judge to thwart President Trump's agenda and push radical gender ideology that defies biological truth."

"There are only two genders, there is no such thing as gender 'X,' and the president was given a mandate by the American people to restore common sense to the federal government," added Kelly.

[Brent]

Trouble looms for the president's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. When Democrats describe it as a plan to gut Medicaid and food stamps while bankrupting rural hospitals to benefit corporations, support craters. But when Republicans explain the reforms — cutting off benefits to illegal immigrants, purging the deceased from the rolls, and requiring work from able-bodied men who admit to spending most of their time playing video games — voters respond differently. Those policies poll at 82%, 86%, and 72%, respectively.

[Brent]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled a Clinton judge and delivered some bad news to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that might wipe the default grin off his face.

The appellate court rejected a Clinton judge's finding that Trump's activation of the National Guard in LA was illegal.