Trump kicking ass.
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Putin Sees Only US Weakness in Ukraine
In Ukraine, summer is ending amid even more sorrow than earlier seasons have yielded since February 2022. The Russians are battering their way deeper into its territory, and Ukrainians are weary. More than 6 million have quit for a new life abroad, including some of the brightest and best educated, and the young desperate to escape conscription.Russian President Vladimir Putin can claim a substantial achievement. His assaults have worn down the will, the magnificent defiance, of the Ukrainian people. Almost all now recognize, as they did not a year ago, that they will be obliged to cede the east of their country to win any hope of peace.
india went out and bought more oil...then was included in a pow wow with china and russia.
anything this admin does is exploding with their foreign policy..
india said trump did not stop the india - pak conflict LOL
It's all been bullshit since day one. Slow Republican's finally starting to wake up. Took too long.
Blackwater types want to make big money going to risky places BUT they dont actually want to fight and die. This is a pike dream,
This Communist hasn't Had Much to Demonstrate About.
He Found a Little Rash , that's made Shake a Little.
He's Relocating to New York City.
That Way He can Vote For America's New Little Communist Voice.
The Big Liberal PUKE.
MAMDANI !
These are ex special forces.
It is more for protection / support
AEGIS, 5-6K
TRIPLE CANOPY 8-10K
GRARDA WORLD 120K
DYNCORP International 12-15k
blackwater / academi - 20k
plenty of corruption in china and russia...that is why the military leaders were removed.
trump is unhappy again about the war. The thing is he has not put banking and oil sanctions with russia...only talks about it
What banking and oil sanctions? they already stole $200-300 billion of their money, kicked them out of the banking methods - guess what, they adapted and are in better shape than if the war never started.
Then you have oil, nothing trump can do about it, people will buy oil if they need it and the price is right - trumps threats dont scare the people still buying it.
what about the US business that was in ukraine and russia...... they had to leave...it cost money.... so that is why russia lost 300 billion
russia signed the budapest agreement....so russia looses
comrade you don't know that the donald stopped 7 wars including 2 fist fights in DC ...the man is on top of things... china russia NK and india are weak
Russias money was that they had in banks, etc was frozen - which means it's been stolen, that's the money.
not stolen.... russia has to pay the US business that was destroyed in ukraine and taken from the us in russia......... Russia will never get their money because of this
No, they dont have to do anything, the US has no claim whatsoever to russia money, either legally or otherwise.
Foreign companies had lots of money in russia as well that will be taken too if russia doesn't get their money back.
It is a push... Russia knows the divorce happened... that's it no money will exchange hands...dumb move by russia...they thought ukraine would fall in 3 days
Interesting betting markets. When Trump took office, the prediction markets were around +300 he wouldn't finish his term. We are seeing a huge range; probably due to lack of liquidity. Polymarket says only a 6-7% chance he won't finish his term. But Ladbrokes is around even money. William Hill around 12/5, which isn't much different than initial +300.
OPEC+ agrees to increased output over the weekend. To you dumb fuccing liberals, that means demand is high in a growing world economy. Now go lick your popsicle fukkwads.
things are okay..... but not great. Cutting rates , lower jobs reports , consumer spending are indicators too .....
.....if things were great vegas would be running hot...
the S&P was much higher under joe biden.............. now about +11%........last year +20% these are facts
biden had back to back years of +20%........... not to mention growth of +25%
trump is not close to that growth
trumps lower stock market results would do better if the supreme court knocks down the tariffs.
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oil is down brent is -11.81% YTD
crude -13.53 % YTD
maybe this is why they increased oil output
Whole sale inflation down .1% for August. Trump making the left and the Fed look like bigger fools with big mouths full of hot air. Maybe Nadler in between changing his diapers would educate us on the matter.
Trump Is Not as Unpopular as His Opponents Think
In these polarized times, an approval rating in the mid-40s is not too shabby.President Donald Trump is not as popular as he claims. But neither is he as unpopular as his opponents might like to think.
That’s the simple explanation. Dig under the hood, however, and things get complicated.
I’m constantly asked to assess Trump’s political standing; it’s among the more consistent questions posed to professional political analysts. And — in case you hadn’t noticed — there is a ton of polling out there. But these surveys, many of them credible and worth considering, often spit out different data, allowing interested readers to draw different, sometimes contradictory, conclusions.
Veteran polling analyst Nate Silver, writing Sunday with colleague Eli McKown-Dawson in his newsletter, Silver Bulletin, explained: “Inevitably, there’s a lot of disagreement from survey to survey, not just because of statistical variation but because pollsters have long had trouble pegging down Trump’s popularity — and often underestimated it .”
Even respected polling averages — which you should absolutely heed more than individual polls — aren’t saying quite the same thing. The Silver Bulletin’s most recent average clocks the president’s job approval rating at 44.2%; the RealClearPolitics average is 45.9% and the Cook Political Report’s average is 42.9%. Yes, the numbers are similar. But mentally, 46% and 43% can feel much different — after all, elections have been decided by slimmer margins.
Either way, Trump’s “topline” job approval rating — the overall share of voters who approve of how he’s doing — is short of 50%, a vital sign that suggests poor political health for the president personally. And yet, to extend the analogy further, Trump is not flatlining. This November’s key off-year contests and the 2026 midterm elections may not go well for the Republican Party; historically, the president’s party loses ground in both. But it’s not necessarily a shellacking, or a thumping, in the making.
“I’d keep my eye on the toplines, which are bad enough that they might well cost the GOP the House, but not (yet) nuclear,” RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende told me via email.
To wit, Democratic candidates are favored in this fall’s gubernatorial campaigns in New Jersey and Virginia. And with Republicans defending a threadbare majority in the House of Representatives, Trump’s numbers don’t have to drop too far under 50% for Democrats to recapture the speaker’s gavel in 2026. (GOP mid-decade redistricting efforts underway in various red states could change that equation.) Total collapse is probably what would have to happen for Democrats to win control of the US Senate, where Republicans aim to grow their three-seat advantage.
But as I wrote at the outset: Assessing Trump’s political standing via these polls is complicated.
Although the president’s topline numbers remain relatively stable, crucial independent voters seem to be abandoning the president, with a YouGov poll for The Economist showing the president’s approval among them at a miserable 33%. On the other hand, a Fox News poll showed Trump with a decent 48% rating among Hispanic voters and a positive 55% approval among men ages 45 and younger. On the other other hand, the president is underwater on his handling of the economy.
“His base is solid as a rock,” CNN polling expert Harry Enten told me. Among Republicans, Trump’s ratings are sky high, in the high 80s to low 90s. That support is helping to keep Trump’s overall numbers afloat. In fact, he’s more popular — or perhaps we should say “less unpopular” — than he was in his first term.
“There is zero doubt that Trump is in a better position now than he was at this point in his first presidency,” Enten said. That might have something do with Trump’s second term unfolding more like a first term, as I detailed in this space earlier this month. But when Trump’s second “first term” is compared to his predecessors in their actual first terms, Enten finds the 45th and 47th president lacking: “Compared to every other elected presidency, he is in worse shape now than those other presidents were.”
Enten went on to explain that ultimately, it’s most accurate to compare Trump’s political standing so far in his second presidency to how his predecessors were performing in the polls at the same point in their second term. On that front, Trump is in better shape than those who came immediately before him. “Maybe the right baseline is comparing him to other second-term presidents,” he said. “In that way, he’s in a better position than George W. Bush and, arguably, Barack Obama.”
Such an outcome might seem improbable, given historical trends and the political headwinds buffeting the White House. But it was no less improbable in 2022, when Democrats managed to increase their Senate majority and come close to hanging onto the House amid President Joe Biden’s lousy 40% job approval rating and voters’ dissatisfaction with skyrocketing inflation, rising crime and the disastrous pullout of United States military forces from Afghanistan.
It’s why what I fear most in politics is certainty.
Watch as russians kill 2 ukes and hungry dogs start eating the corpses.
Watch as russians kill 2 ukes and hungry dogs start eating the corpses.
notice the russian attitude guy never mentions all the refineries getting blown up by ukraine
A fire or two at a giant refinery doesn't equate with "blown up". Most of these attacks have little effect on operations, maybe a day or two.
you are off on that...about 10% of the refineries are gone
russia cannot finish the war
Ha, ok.
Much or even most of the oil they export is not refined at all, it's called crude oil, it's refined wherever it goes.
no they have refineries look it up... comrade your information is hitting about 10% correct
I know, they are by far the largest country in europe/asia and both produce and refine a lot of oil. That doesn't mean that these attacks are doing anything but inconveience them a bit.
correct it will take a few months --to 2 years to fix...it depends how bad the damage is...and how many people russia has to fix it.
Russia strikes ukrainian energy(and other stuff) almost every day, they do that because almost everything can be repaired relatively quickly, they dont pretend that a few drone strikes "cripple" the enemy for months.
Everything you hear about these strikes on russian refineries, etc, is media theater.
