https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...

<The 2016 election taught us polls are not everything. The surveys wrongly predicted now-President Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton in an electoral landslide. That said, the gap in those election polls was never nearly as wide as the gap between those who approve and disapprove of Trump.

Since his inauguration, Trump has yet to break 50% in FiveThirtyEight's summation of presidential approval rating polls. He has hovered between a 40% and 45% approval rating since the beginning of February.

Gallup, a longtime presidential pollster, pegged the president's approval rating as low as 35% at the end of March.

Gallup has compiled all of its approval rating data going back to President Harry S. Truman. That data shows Trump> <<<<has had the lowest approval ratings>>> during his first 100 days of any president in the last 72 years.>

The Orange Gremlin couldn't break 50% and Biden thus far hovering close to 57% after almost 100 days in office.

Trump, the greatest president of our lifetimes...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Le Not So Grand Orange= the GOAT!

So who would believe that this party genuinely supports limited government?>

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/...

The Republicans for lack of reasoned discourse have been reduced to accusing others with a differing opinion of being "socialists and libs."

They tossed their conservative ideology into the trash heap <a long time ago> and exacerbated it when they went full blown fascist under Trump.

The GOP platform (as was already noted) was as empty as a fart in the wind.

Screaming MAGA doesn't cut it any longer.

Better than under the previous clown-ship at least...

<Geoff Bennett@GeoffRBennett · Apr 26

CNBC: Biden's 100-day stock market performance is better than any of his predecessors going back to at least Dwight Eisenhower>

<Federal Investigators Search Rudy Giuliani’s Apartment and Office

Prosecutors obtained the search warrants as part of an investigation into whether Mr. Giuliani broke lobbying laws as President Trump’s personal lawyer.

The search warrants mark a major development in the long-running investigation against Rudy Giuliani.

Federal investigators in Manhattan executed search warrants early Wednesday at the home and office of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who became President Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, stepping up a criminal investigation into Mr. Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the investigation said.

The investigators seized Mr. Giuliani’s electronic devices and searched his Madison Avenue apartment and his Park Avenue office at about 6 a.m., two of the people said.

The execution of search warrants is an extraordinary action for prosecutors to take against a lawyer, let alone a lawyer for a former president. It was a major development in the long-running investigation into Mr. Giuliani and a remarkable moment in his long arc as a public figure.

As mayor, Mr. Giuliani won national recognition for steering New York through the dark days after the Sept. 11 attacks, and earlier in his career, he led the same U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan that is investigating him now, earning a reputation as a hard-charging prosecutor who took on organized crime and corrupt politicians.

In recent years, however, his image has been sullied by his effort to help Mr. Trump to dig up dirt in Ukraine on President Biden’s son and Mr. Trump’s repeated attempts in court to overturn the results of the 2020 election with baseless claims of widespread fraud.

Mr. Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert J. Costello, called the searches unnecessary because his client had offered to answer prosecutors’s questions, except those regarding Mr. Giuliani’s privileged communications with the former president.

“What they did today was legal thuggery,” Mr. Costello said. “Why would you do this to anyone, let alone someone who was the associate attorney general, United States attorney, the mayor of New York City and the personal lawyer to the 45th president of the United States.”

F.B.I. agents on Wednesday morning also executed a search warrant at the Washington-area home of Victoria Toensing, a lawyer close to Mr. Giuliani who had dealings with several Ukrainians involved in seeking negative information on the Bidens, according to people with knowledge of that warrant, which sought her phone.

Ms. Toensing, a former federal prosecutor and senior Justice Department official, has also represented Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch under indictment in the United States whose help Mr. Giuliani sought.

The federal authorities have largely focused on whether Mr. Giuliani illegally lobbied the Trump administration in 2019 on behalf of Ukrainian officials and oligarchs, who at the time were helping Mr. Giuliani search for damaging information on Mr. Trump’s political rivals, including Mr. Biden, who was then a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The United States attorney’s office in Manhattan and the F.B.I. had sought for months to secure search warrants for Mr. Giuliani’s phones and electronic devices.

Under Mr. Trump, senior political appointees in the Justice Department repeatedly sought to block such a warrant, The New York Times reported, slowing the investigation as it was gaining momentum last year. After Merrick B. Garland was confirmed as Mr. Biden’s attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.

While the warrants are not an explicit accusation of wrongdoing against Mr. Giuliani, their execution shows that the investigation has entered an aggressive new phase. To obtain a search warrant, investigators must persuade a judge they have sufficient reason to believe that a crime was committed and that the search would turn up evidence of the crime.

Spokesmen for the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment....>

<....The investigation of Mr. Giuliani grew out of a case against two Soviet-born men who aided his mission in Ukraine to unearth damaging information about Mr. Biden and his son Hunter, who was on the board of an energy company there. Prosecutors charged the men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, with unrelated crimes in 2019 and a trial is scheduled for October.

While investigating Mr. Giuliani, prosecutors have examined, among other things, his potential business dealings in Ukraine and his role in pushing the Trump administration to oust the American ambassador to the country, a subject of testimony at Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial.

As he was pressuring Ukrainian officials to investigate the Bidens, Mr. Giuliani became fixated on removing the ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, whom he saw as an obstacle to his efforts. At the urging of Mr. Giuliani and other Republicans, Mr. Trump ultimately ousted Ms. Yovanovitch.

As part of the investigation into Mr. Giuliani, prosecutors have explored whether he was working not only for Mr. Trump, but also for Ukrainian officials or businesses who wanted the ambassador to be dismissed for their own reasons, according to people briefed on the matter.

Under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, it is a federal crime to try to influence or lobby the United States government at the request or direction of a foreign official without disclosing it to the Justice Department.

Prosecutors have scrutinized Mr. Giuliani’s dealings with Yuriy Lutsenko, one of the officials who helped Mr. Giuliani and his associates in their efforts to tar Mr. Biden while also urging them to work to get the ambassador removed.

Among other things, prosecutors have examined discussions that Mr. Giuliani had about taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in apparently unrelated consulting business from Mr. Lutsenko, which resulted in a draft retainer agreement that was never executed.

Mr. Giuliani has said he turned down the deal, which would have involved helping the Ukrainian government recover money it believed had been stolen and stashed overseas.

As the investigation heated up last summer, prosecutors and F.B.I. agents in Manhattan were preparing to seek search warrants for Mr. Giuliani’s records related to his efforts to remove the ambassador, but they first had to notify Justice Department officials in Washington, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Federal prosecutors must consult Justice Department officials in Washington about search warrants involving lawyers because of concerns that they might obtain confidential communications with clients. The proposed warrants for Mr. Giuliani were particularly sensitive because Mr. Trump was his most prominent client.

Career Justice Department officials in Washington largely supported the search warrants, but senior officials raised concerns that they would be issued too close to the election, the people with knowledge of the matter said.

Under longstanding practice, the Justice Department generally tries to avoid taking aggressive investigative actions within 60 days of an election if those actions could affect the outcome of the vote.

The prosecutors in Manhattan tried again after the election, but political appointees in Mr. Trump’s Justice Department sought once more to block the warrants, the people with knowledge of the matter said. At the time, Mr. Trump was still contesting the election results in several states, a legal effort that Mr. Giuliani led, those officials noted.

Wednesday was not the first time that a personal lawyer for Mr. Trump was the subject of multiple search warrants. In 2018, the F.B.I. searched the offices of Mr. Trump’s previous personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, who later pleaded guilty to campaign finance and financial crimes. Mr. Trump called that raid a “disgraceful situation” and an “attack on our country in a true sense.”>

<<tower of babble....Please stay on the line and enjoy this 40 minute flute solo....>

They invaded the attorney-client relationship as we were defending against the phony impeachment. These prosecutors violated the laws, not me.
If again, nothing is done, you could be next.>

Rudy Ghouliani is blaming <"Liberals," Biden, and people full of envy> over what is currently happening to him, but if the <DOJ in 2019> covertly obtained access to his iCloud and the man in charge of DOJ at the time was <Bill Barr,> what in the hell is Rudy smoking?

Meanwhile in PedoGaetz news.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joel-...

This story just gets more amazing by every new revelation.

Tell you what: I got me that there vi-o-lin over in the corner. I'll play that boy a tune. Boo ****ing hoo.

<Biden: Scientific breakthroughs took us to the Moon — now we’re on Mars; discovering vaccines; gave us the Internet and so much more.>

A reasonable person could easily infer that Biden is saying that the US scientific accomplishments consist of landing on the moon, going to Mars (via probes and satellites) to study the planet, <and then> he mentions new vaccines being discovered, like the ones that are being used to combat covid.

But they try to make it as if he was saying that vaccines are being found on Mars.

How ridiculously stupid.

The nasty Trumpers are getting desperate to paint Biden in a negative light.

Transcript of entire speech here:

<<tower of babble....Piff piff, puff puff....>

Displaying his trademark serious, substantive and insightful commentary--must have learnt that on the short bus while getting lessons in his other calling card, that of depravity.

<<perfy boy> showed zero outrage over the following:

<al wazir: Pedophilia doesn't always harm the child.>>

First you arrogate the right, worthless douchebag that you personify, to disqualify my opinion on that--then say it never happened.

First 100 days of Donald Trump:

Apr 2017 Approval rate 41%

Romney: Aren't you embarrassed??

It is a threat to democracy. What he did on January 6 is a line that cannot be crossed.>

When you look at Cheney and Trump, you know one is a conservative, the other a stone-cold grifting charlatan.

At least she is being truthful and defending the constitution.

Thanks to the Orange Vomitus, today's "substantive" discussions of conservatives consist of: victimhood, imagined conspiracies of stolen elections, Mister Potato Head, being woke, and cancel culture.

The trainwreck party formerly called the GOP.

<GOP Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio) on Wednesday said that Republican lawmakers have the votes to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from GOP House leadership.

Jordan, in an appearance on Fox News, said that Cheney, the House Republican Conference chairwoman, "definitely needs to go," citing her longtime criticism of former President Trump.

"You can't have a Republican conference chair reciting Democrat talking points," Jordan told Fox News. "You can't have a Republican conference chair taking a position that 90 percent of the party disagrees with, and you can't have a Republican party chair consistently speaking out against the individual who 74 million Americans voted for."

Jordan added that he was in favor of ousting Cheney "three months ago," claiming that "you can't be the conference chair when you consistently speak out against the leader of our party and you consistently speak out against the positions that the vast, vast, vast majority of our party and our country, I think, holds."

House Republicans are charging ahead in their ouster of Cheney as head of the party conference. The move has been endorsed by top Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.), who say Cheney cannot remain in her top role if she will not embrace Trump's message or limit her vocal criticism.

Jordan on Wednesday said he believes "for sure the votes are there" to remove Cheney, predicting that the move will happen next week.

The Ohio lawmaker also targeted Cheney for attacking Trump on his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria, his strategy in Afghanistan and more.

Cheney, who was one of 10 GOP members of the House who voted to impeach Trump earlier this year, on Wednesday called on Republicans to move away from what she called a "Trump cult of personality" and vowed to continue speaking out.

"History is watching. Our children are watching," she wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post. "We must be brave enough to defend the basic principles that underpin and protect our freedom and our democratic process. I am committed to doing that, no matter what the short-term political consequences might be.">

Mayors, governors, and other local officials — once the bearers of grim news about the virus’s toll and strict rules for businesses — have joined in the newfound optimism, rapidly loosening restrictions.>

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...

Very good news indeed, and yet, you have ignoramuses out there complaining for months on end about wearing a face mask (violates my constitutional rights!) to protect themselves and others from covid-19.

We're in the 21st century and stupidity is still the guiding star of many a tool.