Bear Pit: now the sole domicile of politics at LuLa

[MattBurt]

“An NBC News poll released Sunday found 43 percent of registered voters said they want their vote for Congress this fall to send “a signal of opposition to President Trump,” a record high in the network’s polls since 1998.
Presidential protest sentiment is up from 38 percent leading into Trump’s first midterms in 2018, and from 35 percent who signaled opposition to President Joe Biden in 2022. It’s also higher than the 37 percent who voted to oppose President George W. Bush in 2006, during the increasingly unpopular Iraq War.”

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“Record share of voters motivated to oppose Trump in midterms, poll finds”
Scott Clement
The Washington Post

The surprising part is it is only 43%

[Rob C]

The surprising part is it is only 43%

Surprising? Perhaps, even more, it’s scary!

[digitaldog]

The surprising part is it is only 43%

The poll is specifically asking about sending a signal of opposition to Trump, so in that context, it alone is encouraging, considering who these voters can vote for in November. And the fact that it's a record since 1998 is encouraging as well. 35% told pollsters the same thing in 2022 with Biden, and we all know how that turned out. Hopefully, in a few weeks, it will be a landslide, and the current Republicans will lose control of the Senate. Then it gets real interesting for Trump.

[MattBurt]

The poll is specifically asking about sending a signal of opposition to Trump, so in that context, it alone is encouraging, considering who these voters can vote for in November. And the fact that it's a record since 1998 is encouraging as well. 35% told pollsters the same thing in 2022 with Biden, and we all know how that turned out. Hopefully, in a few weeks, it will be a landslide, and the current Republicans will lose control of the Senate. Then it gets real interesting for Trump.

I absolutely agree but I still expected or at least hoped that number would be higher.
Things do feel like they are turning toward sanity a little bit but it's going to take a long time to fix this mess.

[Robert Roaldi]

This reporter discusses Trump's lies, https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/politics/fact-checking-trump-10-years-lessons.

[digitaldog]

This reporter discusses Trump's lies, https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/politics/fact-checking-trump-10-years-lessons.

The biggest liar of all time is attention-starved, so now taxpayers end up with this lie:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/politics/white-house-trump-government-funded-ad

[Robert Roaldi]

The current hallucination from Trumpistan is that Canada will interfere in the US midterms. WTF?

They repeated that they don't need Canada and Mexico. Fine.

Michael Lewis's new book might be good, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3WDB_lQkqY, judging by the first segment in this interview.

[Rob C]

The current hallucination from Trumpistan is that Canada will interfere in the US midterms. WTF?

They repeated that they don't need Canada and Mexico. Fine.

Michael Lewis's new book might be good, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3WDB_lQkqY, judging by the first segment in this interview.

It’s the modern change to blatant shamelessness that’s so startling; politicians no longer appear to care if they are seen to be lying through their teeth - it’s taken as a given. But hey, read the local Spanish newspapers and discover that the disease has spread to Europe. Perhaps Trump learned the technique from the Scottish politicos: he’s got enough interests in that benighted land to have picked up a thing or three in the realm of shamelessness in between rounds of golf.

[Robert Roaldi]

It’s the modern change to blatant shamelessness that’s so startling; politicians no longer appear to care if they are seen to be lying through their teeth - it’s taken as a given. But hey, read the local Spanish newspapers and discover that the disease has spread to Europe. Perhaps Trump learned the technique from the Scottish politicos: he’s got enough interests in that benighted land to have picked up a thing or three in the realm of shamelessness in between rounds of golf.

I thought this was a good summary of Trump's lies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKBoH92pVA.  In a speech yesterday he said that Americans don't mind paying for diesel and what not. He also said that he doesn't mind if Los Angeles or San Diego get wiped out.

[Rob C]

I thought this was a good summary of Trump's lies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKBoH92pVA.  In a speech yesterday he said that Americans don't mind paying for diesel and what not. He also said that he doesn't mind if Los Angeles or San Diego get wiped out.

Well, yeah, if you can piss of enough people, destroy their interest or faith in the voting system, then you will probably find that only your own tribe will go to the trouble of voting, and make their voice heard. The percentage of people that refuses to vote is quite worrying; I think it should be made compulsory to use one’s vote.

[Robert Roaldi]

Well, yeah, if you can piss of enough people, destroy their interest or faith in the voting system, then you will probably find that only your own tribe will go to the trouble of voting, and make their voice heard. The percentage of people that refuses to vote is quite worrying; I think it should be made compulsory to use one’s vote.

When questioned why mortgages have increased recently, Trump said that Obama and Biden are to blame.

He also said that he could have had Biden and Obama arrested at any time. The charge was not clear.

Pete Hegseth wants to livestream a public execution. https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/politics/pete-hegseth-vows-to-make-first-firing-squad-execution-in-decades-public

He wants to buy Belorussian potash.

He wants to build a nuclear shelter under the east wing, if construction ever resumes. From whom is he expecting warheads? Russia?

He has failed to provide any evidence of immigrants eating pet dogs.

[Rob C]

"When questioned why mortgages have increased recently, Trump said that Obama and Biden are to blame."

"He wants to build a nuclear shelter under the east wing, if construction ever resumes. From whom is he expecting warheads? Russia?"

"He has failed to provide any evidence of immigrants eating pet dogs."

Clearly, the warheads will be aimed by Obama and Biden.

Just as obviously, the dog-eating evidence has been eaten. Waste not, want not.

[digitaldog]

Well, there is this development. Maybe that's why we haven't heard from the local sycophant?

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Moral deficit

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

Well, yeah, if you can piss of enough people, destroy their interest or faith in the voting system, then you will probably find that only your own tribe will go to the trouble of voting, and make their voice heard. The percentage of people that refuses to vote is quite worrying; I think it should be made compulsory to use one’s vote.

Very worrying indeed.

[Robert Roaldi]

Trump's press secretary Zacharia has been fired. I wonder if he will appoint a brunette now.

[kers]

...and now he lifts all the sanctions on Russia that were just installed in september with the Graham Act;
This man has no spine...

[Rob C]

Never mind spine, this guy is the greatest internal, existential danger the US has ever had to face. I wonder if the citizenry even knows that?

Where are the chaps in the white coats when the country really needs them?

Why does he badmouth Spain? Because it has successfully applied sanctions and embargoes on many Russian-owned mega-yachts, much to the discomfort of the various oligarchs who own them - the only cats alive who can apply any pressure (cautiously!) on Putin. I wonder if the average Russian living in a freezing tower block or candle-powered country cabin knows that, or has ever heard of Marbella. But hell, he can’t even cast an honest vote come election time: the candidates are Kremlin-permitted only. Washington, be warned!

[digitaldog]

Never mind spine, this guy is the greatest internal, existential danger the US has ever had to face. I wonder if the citizenry even knows that?

Many do, since the day he came down the gold elevator. Unfortunately, many do not:
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King
Even in these parts, we occasionally hear that sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.