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Some of the News tRump Doesn't Want Us to See: July 16, 2025 edition: with Poll [1]
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Date: 2025-07-16
The MSM has mostly not been doing the job we would like them to do, by promoting tRump’s distractions and not the real news tRump doesn’t want us to see.
So, let’s take a look at some of the stories, and give them more attention.
If you have more to add, please put them into the comments!
tRump’s immigration policy is really unpopular
Attitudes toward immigration have changed. He’s underwater! Hayes Brown, MSNBC
I wrote last month about Trump’s weakening numbers on immigration. While it was still his “strongest issue” in June’s NBC News poll, it was still not an overwhelming seal of approval from the electorate. Other surveys conducted during and after the protests in Los Angeles and the harsh federal response showed those numbers slacking further as the spotlight shone on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s widening scope. If those polls were a tremor, the survey that Gallup released Friday has the potential to be a political earthquake. In the face of a constant barrage of dark rhetoric from the White House, Americans showed themselves across multiple questions to be more open and accepting of immigration than they have been in years. For the past 50 years, Gallup has measured Americans’ preferred rate of immigration based on three options: “should immigration be kept at its present level, increased or decreased?” Last year, 55% of Americans said that immigration rates should be decreased. Now, that number has dropped down to 30%, the same as it was in 2021, when those rates began to climb. Another 38% of Americans think it should be kept at the same level, up from 26% last year, and 26% think it should be increased — a 10-point jump from the same time in 2024.
Here’s another stat from that
x New Gallup poll: A significant majority — 79% — of respondents said immigration is a "good thing" for the U.S. today. The share who said it's a "bad thing" dropped from 32% last year to 17% this year. — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T22:30:19.112Z
I think people are getting a better real look at immigrants and are comparing them to the current maladministration.
x This right here about sums it up. Trump and crew can lie all they want but they are pulling people off the streets, people of colour just to kidnap them even the ones following with the law, even the ones with no criminal history. with no due process and send them to concentration camps. #FuckIce — Maple Mama (@maplemama20.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T16:15:15.316Z
The Details in Big Ugly Bill.
Given that people kind of like immigrants now, let’s take another look at that big ugly bill. Money for Medicare? Medicaid? SNAP? No. But money for deportation and detention centers. Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera
All told, the bill passed by the House and Senate earmarks about $170bn for immigration and border enforcement funding. That, according to the American Immigration Council (AIC), represents the “largest investment in detention and deportation in US history”. Of that money, $45bn will go to new immigration detention centres for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security that oversees immigration arrests and the detention of individuals already in the country. ✂️ Much of that money is likely to go to private companies, the Brennan Center added. Private firms already oversee about 90 percent of detention centre capacity and will “reap major financial benefits” from the new bill, the analysis said. [All bolding mine]
In a podcast I heard how the 45 billion for the new detention centers should be contrasted with a recent federal budget (either 2021 or 2023) which had about 12 billion allocated to invest in affordable housing. At a time when people are having trouble finding reasonable housing.
Other things that we know about in that bill:
x Under the Big Ugly Bill that President Trump signed into law a week ago, about 270,000 veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth will lose their food assistance each month, all to fund tax breaks for billionaires. — Rep. Adam Smith (@adamsmith.house.gov) 2025-07-13T23:18:17.215Z
Here’s a breakdown of the tax breaks for Maine:
x Republicans say the tax breaks in their Big Ugly Bill will benefit everyone. But here’s what @mecep.bsky.social data actually shows: The top 1% of Maine households (those making $817,400+) will get an average tax cut of $34,000 in 2026. And the poorest Mainers? $30 a year. Thirty. Dollars. — Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (@pingree.house.gov) 2025-07-11T13:12:43.372Z
And, with the addition of tariffs and the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, that “savings” in taxes of 30 dollars is wiped out many, many times.
Inflation was up in June
x U.S. Inflation Accelerated in June as Trump’s Tariffs Pushed Up Prices The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7 percent from a year ago, as the global trade war started to bite. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b... — mtnthai (@mtnthai.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T12:53:55.821Z
Tariffs, which are paid by Americans, are impacting prices.
This should be important because many voted for tRump because they believed he was going to lower prices.
Trump screwed up fema (and other government services)
They are noticing the problems in Texas.
x Senator Chris Murphy called it—DHS broke by July. What does Kristi Noem do? Fires FEMA call center workers the day after Texas floods, while funneling cash to ICE. Priorities, right? Because helping flood victims is clearly less important than immigration enforcement drama. — Isabel Santos (@isabelsantos.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T09:36:38.501Z
They should also remember the crashes because of what was done to the air controllers. The slowdown in responses by social security.
Epstein-TRUMP Cover-up!
I’m amazed that this is impacting the maga base so much, because how could they not know that the convicted felon is a rapist? How could you expect tRump to release these details when he and Epstein were pals? Oh, and when Epstein died in prison, tRump was president. Despite Hillary Clinton’s capabilities, she did not sneak into the prison and somehow ninja a man who must be much larger than she is into committing suicide.
Like many, I assumed most of this outrage was hypocrisy on the part of maga. However, the maga base was never particularly good at logic; I just did not realize how bad they were. Also, they seem to exist in information silos.
x Trump has misread his base a few times in the past - he bragged about Warp Speed on vaccines at a couple rallies and got jeered, but he backed off quick & stopped talking about it. But now he is misreading them bigly on Epstein & farm worker visas - which aren’t trivial to them. — Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-07-13T00:46:16.415Z
x Mystified as to why DOJ’s withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump’s base? It’s simple. 👉 A third of MAGA Republicans are QAnon. 👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles. prri.org/spotlight/th... — George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-07-13T10:25:40.768Z
To be fair, I think we are getting a reasonable amount of attention on this matter. And I think we need to press it more because this seems to be
Trump and the trump regime are taking bribes
We heard so much about Hunter and the Biden crime family (nothing about them recently, although perhaps that it is because they got pardons from President Biden just before he left — don’t blame him for that).
But tRump has been taking bribes. I’m not going to link to them all, because they are legion. There’s the jet from Qatar. There’s the cryptocurrency. There’s Elon Musk with the campaign contributions, and all the government contracts.
And there’s Paramount.
x This can't be buried! The Trump/Paramount settlement could be bribery in plain sight. Trump himself seemed to tie settlement to FCC review of the unrelated Paramount merger. This contradicts FCC chair Brendan Carr. Read more in my @talkingpointsmemo.com op-ed. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/media-c... — Michael Sozan (@michaelsozan.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T13:21:51.370Z
Trump’s cognitive decline
This is difficult, because he has always said lots of stupid stuff, but there’s always more. He seemed to think the Declaration of Independence was a happy document between the colonies and Britain, when it was just the opposite. He wondered about taking over the airports in the Revolutionary War. He called the prime minister of Japan “Mr. Japan.”
And now we have this:
x This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985. — Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T02:24:43.414Z
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I’m including a poll, because I like polls, and other people like polls too. But a single question is limited. I am asking which story is most damaging to tRump. I’m not asking variations that would also be interesting: which is the MSM ignoring? Which is most dangerous to the US? Which story should the Ds focus on in campaign ads? If you want to answer these, please elaborate in comments.
Thanks for reading!
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