Perhaps Trump would have been better off releasing all the Epstein files than bombing Iran
Perhaps Trump would have been better off releasing all the Epstein files than bombing Iran– politicalbetting.com
Harry Enten: "There is no floor for Donald Trump… Donald Trump is just so freaking unpopular."Quinnipiac -20 points. Yahoo/YouGov -21 points. Verasight -23 points. Ipsos -26 points. All of these are term-two record lows. Foreign policy approval rating hits a term-two low at… pic.twitter.com/Gtq7kkJxoT
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That's a different point from him losing swing voters though and on course to be hammered in the mid-terms.
Then I would have been first, and beaten you by 30 seconds.
Not a usual channel of mine to watch but I've had the first book on 1177 BC on my radar for a while, and Eric Cline's 103 minute video about the Late Bronze Age Collapse is very interesting. And maybe relevant because there's a surprisingly strong trade network that ends, with some powers diminished and others wiped out entirely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=choxcHXhZhE
* pun intended
What's meant is that it's quite hard to predict just how low his approval rating might go.
If some sort of uneasy peace is agreed with Iran, then his ratings would likely get a small bounce; if this drags on, then they could go a lot lower still.
Just checked gas prices in the states and a gallon which was $3.10 a month ago is now $4.11. Last week it was $3.96 so another 3% increase... Now gas price was something Trump used against Biden in 2024, it's going to hurt when it's used against him in the midterms...
Mike Johnson: Tonight we have created a new award. We are going to do something we've never done before. We will honor him with a new award. He is the first ever recipient of the America first award. That is this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the golden era.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2036951988043473179
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I’m sure any ground incursion will be as successful and well thought out as this incursion.
By this stage of the Iraq conflict the US and its allies had taken Iraq and Baghdad had fallen.
What does the US have to show now. Hormuz closed to most traffic and all their bases in the region destroyed.
POTUS47 has been a disaster.
Yanks are well and truly F****d , no chance of winning anything other than a phyrric victory and that even unlikely. Trump and his horrible bunch have shat in their own pants.
Donald Trump Jr. bought into a company. 3 months later, his dad's Pentagon handed them $620 million in taxpayer dollars. Democrats forced a vote to subpoena Don Jr. today to come clean about this shady deal.
But Republicans blocked it and even shut down the hearing to protect him.
https://x.com/NRDems/status/2036952027700277681
Hunter Biden isn't sufficient deflection even for MAGA, these days.
Trump will be remembered as the worst ever US President. Warren G. Harding is cheering him on....
Trump's "victory" is a new major source of revenue for Iran...
A key point is a large part of his base saw him as anti war and that he would help battle rising prices under Biden (largely a consequence of Russian action, not his, but voters aren't that discerning). When he has taken action that so unambiguously goes against both points, it's no surprise he loses support.
There's perhaps a lesson there in not starting terribly planned, unpopular wars. It'd be great if Trump learnt that lesson for the rest of his term, alas I suspect he'll just go after an easier target next time...
A possible prognosis is that Iranians will flood the border with Türkiye and onto Europe. Another immigration crisis. At the same time, the oil price will stay very high with all the economic effects that will have worldwide. Oil companies and Middle Eastern potentates will be rolling in even more money (as well as those consulting/investing for them).
Then there are the vulture capitalists who will make a ton of money either by buying distressed assets or taking strategic positions in companies. I mentioned a year of so ago that Berkshire Hathaway stored up €350bn in cash when Trump won. Perhaps they knew bargains would be plentiful early on in this presidency.
And good morning, everybody.
Cheapest diesel was Aldi in Leeds at 165.9p. Most expensive was one of the motorway service stations at 198.9p
Mostly c.175p
Everything we buy and eat has diseasal in the supply chain. So the price is going to go shooting up.
Greedy buggers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5TSUWtWjNw
So he is focusing on his legacy. If he achieves regime change in Iran that would be a major thing for the history books and he is still giving his base what they want in terms of tariffs and deportations
‘The limp, damp baguette’
‘nicolas sarkozy, france’s once tough on crime president, having a truly extraordinary time in prison…’
https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/2036977025114652855?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Did someone suggest him for leader?
He's more inept than Trump!
A long read but essential reading IMHO, on the inherent in-built failures associated with substituting technology for human judgement. Inevitably Palantir is involved.
Edit italics fail.
Dobbs was in 2022.
Abortions in 2025 - 21% up on 2020.
Perhaps if they want to reduce abortions, tackling things like affordability and healthcare might have a bigger impact.
She needs to temporarily reduce fuel duty, paid for by the additional VAT, to stop the country grinding to a halt. And if that causes Ed to resign that should be regarded as a bonus by all sane people.
But, just to ask the question, does Trump have other ways out for himself and his family apart from clinging on until he dies and then leaving the family and cronies to fight their own battles?
In the end could he be satisfied with a deal granting immunity and wealth for him and his whole circle, in exchange for the USA getting a democratic country back? And could it be that if the choice were between a North Korean style Trump dynasty in perpetuity or a dirty deal to give him safety, the world and the USA would be better off with the latter.
Assuming for the moment that Trump is a deranged malignant sociopathic narcissist, which is a fair and cautious one to make, he won't actually care a bit about the world after his own day, whether it is destroyed or whether it prospers, it being outside his imaginative range.
It's a mix of disliking/not understanding the private sector, and fear that if they acknowledge there's a real problem (there obviously is) people will want *them* to do something about it. Much easier to just verbally abuse the private sector staff.
We'll see if the USA takes a step back, or heads further towards that precipice.
*legal* and safe abortion has been severely restricted in several states. We know from bitter experience that this is not the same as "ending abortion".
He certainly doesn't deserve comparison with Trump.
He desperately wants monuments. He is obsessed with his name on buildings. History remembers the victors and all that crap.
I hope he lives long enough to see all of that torn down, even if he and his family avoid jail for their actions
Archaeologist says find could be highlight of his 28-year search for final resting place of Louis XIV’s elite bodyguard
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/25/fourth-musketeer-dartagnan-discovered-in-dutch-church/ (£££)
Subject to DNA testing.
Perhaps unlikely, but not entirely unrealistic.
Explains why so many of them are 'retiring' at the next election
‘ I did not expect to find myself nodding along to Tzipi Livni, Israel's former, and hawkish, Foreign Minister. Yet here we are. She is right on this: A State that treats the rule of law as optional, and human rights as conditional on race or nationality, irreparably corrodes itself. The decades-long project of violently subjugating Palestinians has not only harmed its victims. It has consumed Israel, from within.’
https://x.com/epshtainitay/status/2036847103448867111?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
(The process to become an MP is better, because less fundraising is involved, but possibly not better enough.)
And you have to factor in GOP attempts to suppress the vote aswell as more vote rigging . The Dems need a blow out to nullify that .
Potentially another couple, if they're in very safe districts.
It doesn't happen overnight obviously, and it starts out with simple tribalism (to which no party is immune), but each compromise of principles eventually leads to abject subservience. And along the way there's been a steady weeding out of those who won't buy into MAGA.
CNN and much of the MSM are more willing to believe Iran’s lies than what Trump says.
This isn’t healthy.
We’re at war with Iran, yet many reporters trust Iran first.
No wonder we’re so split as a country. If you hate Trump, you want to always find him wrong. No matter what, when or where.
CNN owes its viewers, and the rest of the country, an apology.
https://x.com/AriFleischer/status/2036480949144150096
No, it really isn' healthy.
But line needs rephrasing to appreciate just how unhealthy it is:
Most normal people are (reluctantly or otherwise) more willing to believe Iran's lies than Trump's lies.
That's how low the US has sunk.
It's not Trump hatred (though I'm happy to admit to despising the guy). It's absolute disgust at the progression of his second term.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/24/terrorist-murdered-pensioner-gaza-charged-attaking-staff/ (£££)
Posted mainly for this detail at the end of the story: Alid’s asylum application was rejected by the Home Office three weeks after the killing. A monument to Whitehall efficiency.
Apologies, it was probably my comment that messed up the blockquotes for you.
How do you know that ?
She made Healy sound like that guy who went for the interview at the BBC in their IT department and was accidentally interviewed on live news about some big news story.
It is not a winnable war by anyone
It is a tragedy beyond belief that has sent an earthquake through relationships with countries throughout the west and middle east with no known outcomes and will take decades to resolve
A lot of anger in clickbait world about Cadbury. People have just noticed the decreasing cocoa levels. They're blaming the greedy company and saying thats why they're full of Palm Oil. Which totally ignores the gargantuan inflation in the price of cocoa beans.
And nobody yet understands what the impact of the war will be on food just from fertiliser prices alone. OK, farmers and the NFU do, but normals don't.
Even if the war stops today - and it won't, the price impact will be BAD. But it won't stop today.
Tell you what, I'll write a header.
At some point you'd have thought that enough senior Republicans would have put their hand on his shoulder, took him aside and said 'look, not this time' before all this kicked off. Yes he has presidential power, but no one is prepared to stand up to him. It is a cult.
The fact that more money is going to be flowing into the hands of the Iranians after this to get the straight moving again should cement his legacy now. There's more chance of a gold Trump statue still being standing in Tehran in 30 years time than there will be in Washington.
I subscribe to the view he has significant long term mental decline, but being a health issue, no one will talk about it. This is off the scale compared to his efforts as POTUS45. The reparations should paid to UK taxpayers who funded last years stats visit
Short to medium term prices are going to increase, no amount of solar and wind can offset that for us
After 20 years of bloodshed we scuttled out, leaving the country to the Taliban.
There is no filter, there are no lengths to which this man won't go to save face.