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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 33% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -6. (see trends).

Trump’s overall job approval rating is now running ahead of where Barack Obama’s was at this stage of his presidency.

McParadigm wrote:The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.

tragbigzanda wrote: I have to say that it feels like I've crossed over to a feeling of near-ambivalent numbness just in the last week or so

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.

Yeah, I have to say that it feels like I've crossed over to a feeling of near-ambivalent numbness just in the last week or so. I'm still holding out hope that Mueller is going to come through with some serious charges just as we're heading into the mid-terms.

tragabigzanda wrote:

McParadigm wrote:The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.

Yeah, I have to say that it feels like I've crossed over to a feeling of near-ambivalent numbness just in the last week or so. I'm still holding out hope that Mueller is going to come through with some serious charges just as we're heading into the mid-terms.

4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.

4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.

This isn't the first time there's been talk of sending US troops to the border.
Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.
In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.
Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.

4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.

Strat wrote:

4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.

This isn't the first time there's been talk of sending US troops to the border.
Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.
In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.
Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.

Bi_3 wrote:

Strat wrote:

4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.

This isn't the first time there's been talk of sending US troops to the border.
Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.
In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.
Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.

That is a totally reasonable thing to do as countries have a right to protect their borders from invasion.