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So many unreachable people in this country. 43%? How the fuck could it be above 10% is the mystery.
And 37% still approve of his "economic leadership"? WTAF?
And 37% still approve of his “economic leadership”?
"You know, I saw MadMax back in the day and it seemed like the lads were having a lot of fun."
Edit: Since this is not a meme sub: You know as well as I do that this many people genuinely believe Trump when he says this is somehow good for the US. The quote I've commonly read in connection with this is "finally the other countries will be paying their fair share!".
They do not understand and the understanding they have has been formed with propaganda for decades.
American politics has been so far from it's idealistic roots in democracy and supplanted by the wealthy for decades if not a century or longer. Allowing businesses to fund campaigns openly in the 70s has to have been a big tipping point and why we have allowed it is bizarre to me. We have basically no media today that isn't highly politicized one way or another. Bezos has altered his media to fit whatever party furthers it's business goals... like most oligarch owned businesses following suit whether or not they are media.
I don't think things can be changed anymore though. I think pandora's box opened at some point and it can't be shut again without tearing civilization down.
Anyone else concerned that a felon rapist who is crashing our economy still has a 43% approval rating?
That 43% is wannabe felon rapists who wish they could crash the economy.
How in the name of all that is holy can Krasnov have as high as 43% approval?
… I can’t believe 43% support shithead.
i cant believe the other 57% are so useless. screw them. cant even get a majority or dont even vote. americans are pathetic. democratic party is a joke. i can easily believe 43% are with shithead. where should they have learned any better? may nancy pelosi keep inside trading, chuck schumer lie about gaza.... just shit people everywhere.
USA has a lot more crazy people than I ever suspected.
This lack of realization when faced with reality is way beyond any worst case scenario I ever imagined.
I thought most of the people who voted for him, simply didn't believe the warnings. Turns out they actually support that shit?!?!
You can thank the poisons of religion. They care about dying and going off elsewhere than EVERYTHING on Earth.
I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush's ~~no child left behind~~ Pass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.
That's why I'm not just an atheist but an anti-theist.
I feel like I looped basically all the way around on that. Went from religion bad, to religion should be a personal thing and anyone can believe what they want, to actually no religion is behind so many harms that I don't think that I can support any of it.
They never face reality, we allowed malignant propoganda to spread and take over a huge chunk of our media presenting a false reality to many who don't have the media (or functional) literacy to understand when they're being manipulated. Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level - they can read the words, but the full nuanced understanding is beyond them.
Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level
Is this factual? Because if that's true, that's extremely bad, even shameful for a rich country like USA.
Yes, that is factual. There's a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.
Too damn high.
40% of people are in a cult, got it.
Something like 7% to 13% of poll responses are just trolling anyway (look up Lizardman’s Constant) and can’t be trusted. Assuming that ALL the trolls are voting to help Trump, we can see how many people unironically thinking that Trump it’s good.
So a minimum of 43% - 13% = 30% of people are legitimate cultists.
30% of people are legitimate cultists.
I find the 33/33/33 rule works. 33% of people just like authoritarianism during this period of history. I'm not sure if that's a constant or because of the current climate making people stressed and weird. But they feel safer when someone says they're going to take control and fix everything and they feel like they don't have to think about it beyond that. They will agree with anything their in group says because it soothes them. These are your cultists.
Another 33% are just checked out. They're stressed in the same way, but instead of turning to an authoritarian to fix the problem they just bury their head in the sand. They feel like they're too small to fix anything so why even try. These people sometimes still vote if its convenient enough and are complete wildcards when they do because they really have no clue what's happening. They vote on vibes. This is also where trolls tend to sit.
That just leaves just 33% of people who are paying attention and either aren't stressed and have the emotional bandwidth, have interest, or have the persistence to pay attention even when stressed to try and do something to stop the authoritarianism (even if that's just vote).
This leaves 1% which is the literal 1% trying to pull the strings.
I think the male members of them would seriously cut their nuts off, get some black sneakers and chug some poison if donvict told them they need to catch a ride on the Hale-Bopp comet.
Hey don't slander Do like that. At least he was a true believer and joined them. We all know that Dear Leader wouldn't
most of them would say he was joking. because they're a professionally fuckface whisperer.
the ones that did as asked would get vaguely appreciation of their loyalty from trump himself.
43% of responders are idiots
Bush II had an approval rating around 25-30% at the end of his time in office. Consider that the bottom for how many people will still support a complete and obvious failure.
IIRC, that was about the same numbers as when Nixon got on the helicopter to fly away after resigning in disgrace. There are qons that treat their party the same way they treat their favorite sportsball team.
It doesn't matter what "their guy" does, they are with them. Seriously, donvict could be caught throwing lit puppies into traffic and he'd probably still have 25-30% with him. That's probably about the only truth donvict ever said when he talked about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
After today's market reaction, that's gonna drop even further...
Maybe it will plummet in a free fall nosedive to a staggering 42.5%
Already seeing copium on outlets like Faux where this is being compared to austerity during a war where you take it up the ass for a cause bigger than yourself....which is what, exactly? Who knows? For the glory of fat old donvict? But the magoffs lap this up.
Down 4% today so far. Retirement fantasies evaporating. Probably good news for 20 somethings, they can buy more and if they survive the climate change famines, water wars, genocides, and non-renewable resource shortages, those shares will probably be worth a lot.
It would be if I could afford to invest into retirement rather than making sure that I have enough money that when prices go up I can still buy food.
I don't think we can trust the polls since there's no free press in USA anymore so as far as I'm concerned it's US government regime propaganda.
That is disturbingly high.
Don't about things you can't change. Like who is the president. You don't actually vote for a president, the electoral college electors do. You literally vote to suggests to these random fellers who to vote for. Then, they vote for whoever the fuck gave them the new shiny car.
Our election process sucks, but it's not because of faithless electors. The vast majority of times it was because the candidate died before the election.
Since 1900, there have been only 16 faithless electors who defected for individual reasons
How about your vote is worth 1/56th or something like that in comparison to my vote just because you live in the wrong state. Or how about you are the one gay guy in a straight community so your vote on any gay related agenda means nothing. How about that?
...yea that sucks. Like I said, our election system sucks. All I pointed out is your assertion that electors are getting new cars in order to vote against the wishes of their state isn't really a thing.
About 44% too high.
Ugh, I just realized this fuck wit will be president of our ruins for the 250th anniversary.
So I've still got about even odds of encountering a fucking idiot when I meet someone.
Remind me why I should ever leave the house.
Higher than biden’s average. Yes, you should be alarmed
To be fair (not that fairness is warented in this case) it is significantly lower than biden's at this point in time.
I'm pretty sure the lowest it could go is around 35% that's when you get to the lizard alien people who think they are sending kids to mars to harvest adrenochrome out of them.