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@SenatorHick -- I want you to stop. Put down the phone. Find a trusted adult. Because what you just did is the single most spectacular self-inflicted political wound I have witnessed in a very long career of watching elected officials step on rakes. You posted a poll. To mock someone else. Let us look at that poll together, Senator, since reading comprehension appears to be giving you some difficulty. The ballroom: 28% support. Congress -- YOUR institution, YOUR workplace, the body YOU belong to: 10% approval. Gallup. April 2026. Not satire. Not a typo. TEN PERCENT. You used a 28% poll to dunk on someone while sitting in a 10% institution. The ballroom you are laughing at is nearly THREE TIMES MORE POPULAR than you and every colleague you share a building with. Democrats in Congress specifically have an 18% job approval rating -- meaning the American people, by a ratio of nearly 5 to 1, would rather have the ballroom than have YOU doing your job. You posted this. Voluntarily. On the internet. Where numbers are visible to everyone. That is not a self-own. That is performing surgery on yourself without anesthesia and then posting the video. Now -- "illegal war." You used constitutional language, so I am going to treat you like an adult, which may be more charity than you deserve. Article II makes the President Commander in Chief. Article I gives Congress the power to DECLARE war. An undeclared executive military strike is not illegal -- it is the same authority Carter used in Iran in 1980, Reagan used in Grenada in 1983 and Libya in 1986, Clinton used in Kosovo for 78 straight days without a single congressional vote, Obama used in Libya, Syria, and Pakistan, and Biden used in Syria and Iraq. Multiple times each. Senator, please produce for me the date and bill number of the War Powers Resolution you filed for any of those operations. I have a pen. I am ready to write. Nothing? Remarkable. It is almost as if your constitutional principles are activated exclusively by the letter in parentheses next to the president's name. That is not law. That is team sports dressed up in legal vocabulary. A poltroon in a suit remains a poltroon. Now the ballroom itself, since you included the chart and clearly did not read it: $400 MILLION IN PRIVATE DONATIONS. From U.S. businesses and individuals. It says so on the graphic you attached to your own post. You are furious that private citizens voluntarily spent their own money renovating the president's house. PRIVATE. MONEY. Not a dime of taxpayer funds. You, a sitting United States Senator, burned a Saturday posting outrage about Americans exercising the right to donate their own money to a cause they chose. I genuinely cannot tell if this is the most spectacular display of misplaced priorities in the 119th Congress or if you are simply running on fumes and spite. The elevator is not just stuck between floors -- I am starting to think someone removed the cables entirely. Let us review what @SenatorHick accomplished today: posted a poll that mathematically humiliates his own institution, called a constitutionally standard executive military action "illegal" without citing a single statute, complained about private citizens spending private money, and managed to make the ballroom look like the reasonable option by comparison. If brains were dynamite, Senator, you could not produce enough of a charge to dislodge the wax from your own ears. Quinn's Law Number Five: when liberalism conflicts with reality, reality must give way. You looked at 10% congressional approval and decided to post jokes about someone else's 28% poll. That is not a joke. That is a cry for help dressed as political commentary. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for the United States Senate. It deserves a commendation and a formal written apology. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who can read a bar chart without accidentally proving the other side's point. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this -- every share helps. COMMENT below -- what is less popular: Trump's ballroom at 28%, or Congress at 10%? Do the math and tell me. 👇John needs your help! JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump