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ATeam

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Gas prices getting lower here in Michigan too.
Gas prices will likely go lower on an ongoing basis due to:
  • Improved US fracking technology (producing huge improvements in shale output with same cost)
  • Increased EV use
  • Economic slowdown
  • Milder winters (affects refinery economics)

Gas prices getting lower here in Michigan too. Good, good. Solid Trump.
And if gas prices go up, will you say "Bad, bad. Flimsy Trump?"
 

muttly

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Gas prices will likely go lower on an ongoing basis due to:
  • Improved US fracking technology (producing huge improvements in shale output with same cost)
  • Increased EV use
  • Economic slowdown
  • Milder winters (affects refinery economics)


And if gas prices go up, will you say "Bad, bad. Flimsy Trump?"
If they go up, it would be against the historical norm of Trump’s presidency.They were low his first four years. Gas prices went high under Biden. And now in under a year the gas prices are low again while Trump is president. Under 3 dollars national average again like his last term. Must be just a coincidence.
 

muttly

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Which of these (or other factors) apply to $2.29 in Chattanooga?

In my Florida city, gas is higher this week than last week and much higher than $2.29 (tops $3.00). Why does FL gas cost more than Chattanooga gas? Referencing your implication, Is it because Trump loves Chattanooga more than he loves Daytona Beach?

Attached is AAA chart showing gas prices by TN county. They range from $2.368 to $3.002. Why is that? What factors influence gas prices by such a wide range within the same state?

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Looks like more of state issue than whether Trump likes Chattanooga more.
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ATeam

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If they go up, it would be against the historical norm of Trump’s presidency.They were low his first four years. Gas prices went high under Biden. And now in under a year the gas prices are low again while Trump is president. Under 3 dollars national average again like his last term. Must be just a coincidence.
Other than White House policy, what other factors influence gas prices in the US?
 

ATeam

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What Happened in Miami?

In a Tuesday runoff, Miamians elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, the first woman in the city’s history to hold the job and the first Democrat in 28 years. Higgins, a former county commissioner, defeated Republican Emilio González, an ex-city manager who had the glowing endorsement of President Trump, and Gov. Ron DeSantis, FL Senator Rick Scott, Senator TX Ted Cruz, FL Senator Ashley Moody and FL US House Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar.

The vote totals were decisive. Higgins defeated her Republican opponent by 18 points. When Trump won Florida in 2024, a big part of the story was the surprising amount of the Hispanic vote he received. Yesterday, non-Hispanic Higgins defeated Republican, Cuban-American Emilio Gonzalez.

What happened in Miami? Why did the Trump-voting Hispanics not turn out for the Trump-endorsed candidate? Why did they heed the endorsements of Trump, DeSantis, Scott, Moody, Cruz, and Salazar?
 
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ATeam

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What's Up With Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Long-time, prominent Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress and taking a turn away from Trump. She has made it very clear that she is not running for another office. What's up with that? What, if anything, does Greene's shift say about the larger MAGA movement?

Recent Greene quote:

“I feel very sorry for President Trump. I genuinely do. It has to be a hard place for someone that is constantly so hateful and puts so much vitriol, name-calling and really tells lies about people in order to try to get his way or win some kind of fight.”

Once upon a time Trump could do no wrong in Greene's eyes. What changed?
 

ATeam

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Trump's Health Hypocrisy and Future

Trump is upset with the New York Times coverage of his personal health. He calls it “seditious, perhaps even treasonous.”

With the ruthless way he went after "Sleepy Joe" Biden, Trump does not get a free pass from the same coverage.

Trump has been seen with swollen ankles, a drooping face on one side, a noticeable decline in his gait that suggests dementia, wandering around dazed at some public events, continuing speech issues, bruises, makeup and/or Band-Aids on his hand that suggest ongoing infusions of some sort. He disclosed he underwent an MRI and has taken multiple tests that gauge cognitive function. He has dropped out of public view for days at a time. He has fallen asleep in public six times in the last 10 days. His public schedule has been reduced. He no longer does press conferences standing up. He is seated at a table or the Oval Office desk -- perhaps to hide his ankles, or to compensate for balance issues, or because he is simply out of gas (stamina issues).

He and the White House claim Trump is in excellent health, which is obviously and sadly false. Trump's health issues are plain for anyone to see who cares to look with an objective eye.

I do not believe Trump will complete his term of office. He will either stroke out, die, or be removed by his cabinet under the 24th Amendment. He may also be impeached (again) by the House when the Democrats regain control, as expected in the 2026 mid-term elections. If so, and if Trump is still in office, the Republicans in the Senate may go along, having grown tired of tired, old, Trump.

In that event, you can be sure opportunist JD Vance will be working hard behind the scenes to hurry that result along.
 
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ATeam

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Trump and the Economy

If Trump is such the business genius, why do so few American's approve of his handling of the economy?

"Only 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how Trump is handling the economy, the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. That is down from 40% in March and marks the lowest economic approval he’s registered in an AP-NORC poll in his first or second term." Source: AP

31% is a pathetically low number. What changed? This used to be one of Trump's strongest issues.
 

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Trump's Health Hypocrisy and Future

Trump is upset with the New York Times coverage of his personal health. He calls it “seditious, perhaps even treasonous.”

With the ruthless way he went after "Sleepy Joe" Biden, Trump does not get a free pass from the same coverage.

Trump has been seen with swollen ankles, a drooping face on one side, a noticeable decline in his gait that suggests dementia, wandering around dazed at some public events, continuing speech issues, bruises, makeup and/or Band-Aids on his hand that suggest ongoing infusions of some sort. He disclosed he underwent an MRI and has taken multiple tests that gauge cognitive function. He has dropped out of public view for days at a time. He has fallen asleep in public six times in the last 10 days. His public schedule has been reduced. He no longer does press conferences standing up. He is seated at a table or the Oval Office desk -- perhaps to hide his ankles, or to compensate for balance issues, or because he is simply out of gas (stamina issues).

He and the White House claim Trump is in excellent health, which is obviously and sadly false. Trump's health issues are plain for anyone to see who cares to look with an objective eye.

I do not believe Trump will complete his term of office. He will either stroke out, die, or be removed by his cabinet under the 24th Amendment. He may also be impeached (again) by the House when the Democrats regain control, as expected in the 2026 mid-term elections. If so, and if Trump is still in office, the Republicans in the Senate may go along, having grown tired of tired, old, Trump.

In that event, you can be sure opportunist JD Vance will be working hard behind the scenes to hurry that result along.
Really going to do that Wiley Coyote thing again? “Walls are closing in”. You’ve been prognosticating Trump’s health demise for almost a decade. At some point his health will give out. That’s not expert analysis. It happens to all of us eventually.

But consider Trump had to endure the slings and arrows of his enemies. The Left tried to put him in jail on concocted nothing cases and made him sit in a cold az courtroom for weeks. Then they desperately tried to take him out by violent means. That didn’t work either for them fortunately.

Yep, Trump walked the walk and took the blows of his enemies.Russia collusion hoax and phony impeachments. All the while campaigning like a work-horse in three election cycles. Then as president it’s constant work and jetting to other countries in much different time zones and then back again.

So at some point your “expert” health analysis will be correct. And we’ll hear you fart about how you eventually called it. But rest assured, Trump went through the gauntlet in politics for 10 plus years. Most people would have withered on a vine much earlier than that.
 
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Indiana Republicans Rebuke Trump

In another clear sign that Trump's influence is fading, the Indiana state legislature voted to kill the state redistricting effort Trump, Vance and US House Speaker Johnson directly lobbied to pass. Before the vote, Trump conveyed his usual primary-challenge threads and social media screeds. This Trump defeat is especially noteworthy as Republicans hold a super-majority. They have the power to pass anything they want to, and they used their power to rebuke Trump.
 

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A Growing Number of House Republicans No Longer Fear Trump

The US House voted to restore federal-worker union rights that Trump had stripped away by executive order. In that vote, 20 Republicans joined Democrats to get it easily passed.

Twenty Republicans. Union Rights. Trump Repudiation.

Things are changing on the Hill. I wonder why?
 

ATeam

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More Trump/Epstein Info

More info about Trump's involvement with Jeffry Epstein has come to light. With tens of thousands of Epstein files to be released, the truth will eventually come out. It must be some pretty important truth given how hard Trump is fighting to keep it under wraps.

This is another example of Trump's fading power. Every single Republican in the US House (except one) and US Senate voted to release the Epstein files over months of furious opposition and pressure from Trump. Trump only flipped to favor the vote when it became clear it would pass over his objections.

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ATeam

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More Evidence of Trump's Declining Power

During the Oct-Nov government shutdown, Trump demanded that Senate Republicans invoke the "nuclear option" to end the shutdown and push through Trump-favored bills. That is, he wanted them to use the power they have in the Senate to eliminate the filibuster. Specifically, he said, "Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!"

Even if the face of Trump's use of large caps, the Senate Republicans ignored his demand.
 
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