Posted on 12/09/2025 9:49:36 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
President Trump will head to Pennsylvania on Tuesday for his first rally in five months amid signs of growing anger among his supporters at a failure to bring down the cost of living.
Trump has touted the falling cost of petrol and eggs as evidence that his economic strategy is working and blames Democrats for talking about the “hoax” and “con job” of an affordability crisis.
Inflation remains at 3 per cent, however, the same as when he took office, and some staples such as beef and coffee are up much more than that. Polling for Politico suggests that 37 per cent of Trump’s Republican voters agreed they could not remember a time when things ever felt worse economically.
Trump’s approval rating has fallen steadily from 50.5 per cent at his inauguration to 42.9 per cent, according to the Real Clear Politics average of all polling.
… In a House by-election last week in a deep red area of Tennessee, the Republican won by nine points compared with Trump’s 22-point margin last year.
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i dont have doubts.
I do.
There is a direct relation to excessive regulation and high costs and also radical spending, and there is one item which was a specific promise during the presidential campaign.
Abolishing the Department of Education.
The promise is not kept - Nobody -Nobody- from the administration has gone to ask congress to pass an abolish bill.
They should be pushing more often to abolish agencies. That would reduce regulations reduce money spent because so much of what these agencies do is throw money around and thus reduce costs.
It is in fact all related. The bureaucracy to reducing costs/prices.
Radical spending/out of control debt.
DIRECLY RELATED to the failure to dismantle the massive unconstitutional portion of the federal gov't which spending drives an inflat3ed money supply and thus, higher prices.
MAGA and restoration of America's Free Constitutional Republic is achieved by LESS GOV'T and MORE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM from gov't.
There are so many reasons unconstitutional gov’t healthcare should be abolished.
Here is a sampling of reasons:
1) Gov’t takeover of healthcare is unconstitutional and, thus, illegal. Nowhere does the Constitution delegate power to the feds to meddle in healthcare.
2) See 1)
3) Gov’t healthcare puts your individual healthcare in the hands of distant, indifferent, and non-medial D.C. bureaucrats and politicians who of course as middlemen must be paid and, thus, increasing the cost of healthcare. The HHS bureaucracy has a budget of $1 trillion.
4) The highest quality, most affordable, and most available healthcare in the world is what we had in the voluntary cooperation DIRECTLY between doctor and patient before the gov’t muscled in in the 50’s and 60’s with its “helping hand” hand out and a hammer behind his back! As Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help’”.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4350455/posts?page=1
5) Gov’t hammer? What hammer? Forced vaccines, forced abortions, forced treatment all by distant politicians and bureaucrats who are not medical experts and do not know you personally.
6) Gov’t agenda vs. your own personal agenda. Who cares more about your health? You? Or some distant politician and bureaucrat who doesn’t know you from Adam and frankly couldn’t care less about you personally?
7) No one cares more about your health than you. Why in the world would you take your personal healthcare and your personal choices in the self interest of your health and wellbeing out of the hands of the DIRECT relationship between you and the doctor of your choosing who knows and cares about you, and instead put your healthcare in the hands gov’t politicians and bureaucrats who don’t know you, have the power to force you to do what they want, and who have their own agenda which includes “culling” the “overpopulation” - so gov’t has a bias toward death.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4350451/posts
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-1-killer-in-hospitals-isnt-a
8) “Healthcare” availability based on gov’t budgeting – a potential disaster. Long lines and long waiting time for procedures immediately available under free market healthcare directly between doctor and patient.
Ongoing government shutdown hinders healthcare providers during flu season
9) That is a short list. There’s more but why would anyone need more reasons? NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOV’T HEALTHCARE!!!
Trump is doing a good job overall. But everyone expects results overnight. Nothing new there - historically, the president’s party loses congressional seats in the midterms.
There is a direct relation to excessive regulation and high costs and also radical spending, and there is one item which was a specific promise during the presidential campaign.
Abolishing the Department of Education.>>> True dat. and i hold Vance responsible. No recission packages nothing. Hes the legislation guy coming from the senate.
Some level of creeping dissatisfaction might be related to our continuing involvement in the Ukraine mess. Trump himself set high expectations for negotiating a settlement to end the conflict yet it drags on. Some may also feel that he’s too focused on foreign problems instead of kitchen table issues. Rightly or wrongly, its probably costing him in terms of polling.
I’m willing to wait until the new year.
https://reason.com/2025/11/03/dont-want-ice-to-scan-your-face-too-bad-you-might-not-have-a-choice/
11.3.2025
Don't Want ICE To Scan Your Face? Too Bad, You Might Not Have A Choice.
The DHS is claiming the right to scan people without their consent—and that's just part of its growing cache of surveillance tools.
The Trump administration's immigration crackdown has put more federal immigration officers in public view and equipped them with new facial recognition technology. One of these tools is Mobile Fortify, an app that lets agents collect photos and biometric data like fingerprints on the spot—and people have no chance to refuse. With Mobile Fortify, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers can photograph anyone they encounter and run the image through Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases, including Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Traveler Verification Service, which stores photos of people entering the United States. Mobile Fortify performs an instant match and returns identifying details—such as name, nationality, and any deportation orders—while the photo remains in government files for 15 years, even for U.S. citizens.
While the quiet expansion of the surveillance state is troubling enough, a February DHS document recently obtained by 404 Media through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals that federal immigration agents don't allow individuals to consent before collecting this sensitive data. "ICE does not provide the opportunity for individuals to decline or consent to the collection and use of biometric data," the document states.
Then perhaps he can tell us why the government has further eroded our constitutional protections by building and maintaining a comprehensive surveillance structure to keep tabs on ordinary American's driving habits - again, without consent.
November 20, 2025
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.
Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over — often for reasons cited such as speeding, failure to signal, the wrong window tint or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.
Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years.
This isn't really on President Trump. These things have been in the works for a long time, and are all part of a larger arc - which is a world government entity with complete surveillance and control. A global matrix, a control grid. 24/7/365 surveillance.
The New Order assumes everyone is guilty, of something, - so we must be surveilled and managed, like a herd. The herd of humanity. Because our elite rulers, who aren't really elite at all - are so weak and cowardly that they cannot live in a world where they don't have absolute control.
Those movies about deranged tyrants desiring world domination - were accurate.
We have surrendered our sovereignty and our liberty. They will not be returning.
“We have surrendered our sovereignty and our liberty. They will not be returning.”
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Boiling frog.
I’m sure as hell not angry. Malcontents are the angry ones. They’re never happy to begin with, and nit pick constantly.
Well, I imagine that everyone who is here illegally would decline, and without that kind of data, figuring out who is here legally and who isn't could be rather tough.
I'm not sure of how you get around it. If you want strict enforcement of immigration law, you need a rapid, reliable way to determine if someone is here legally or not. And you can't have that unless they're able to identify people accurately.
The cat food I buy from my cats went up.
Illinois is at $3.24.
According to the Real Clear Politics average of all polling.
Yeah those 3AM polls don’t produce much.
Nope. Trump hits road to communicate directly with voters since the lying garbage media refuses to do their job
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