Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’
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I cannot imagine being such a dimwit as to be one of the people just now waking up to this.
I mean....did these people really not see his first term? Did they really think that the only reason he failed in his first term was because of Covid?
"What do you mean? Covid happened under Biden, as did anything else bad that happened during Trump's presidency. "
Unironically have had to walk people through the timeline because they seriously believe covid entirely happened during Biden's term.
And for those that think you're joking. The showdy is often relevant.
I forgot about the O'Reily clip. Impressive levels of cognitive dissonance that people go through to justify their feelings on events. I'm still baffled that people can misremember basic timelines facts involved with one of the biggest disruptions of people's lifetimes that only had happened a few years ago. Realizing how fictional people's memories were about even recent major events made it a lot more understandable how people were so easily manipulated in to thinking a billionaire conartist was somehow going to try to help them this time.
No wonder the same bunch think Biden had "the worst economy", LOL. Cannot even recall basic recent history.
No no no!!! Covid happened under tan suit Obama. /s
The first round of covid stimulus checks that went out had trump's fucking signature on them. He insisted that it be on there.
Do they not remember crowing about "not cashing the check if you hate him so much?" Because I fucking do.
Or all of the BS with pseudoscientific treatment of the week? Including injecting bleach and UV light?
Oh, that's just what they need to do to maintain mar-a-lago face.
The majority of my coworkers have casually stated the last week, "I don't agree with the way this is all happening.", but still overall support the agenda and hold their line. It's a combination of ignorance and stupidity. They're just fascists without even knowing. I live in a deep red area and from what I can gather when I hear talk out in the street, most people are either completely unaware or excited "they're taking America back." There is no convincing these people. I have tried for years and years, and when they seem to hear you and begin to digest what you've said, they come back the next day more sure than before that Facebook and Fox keep them informed. Many of them can't tell you what the three branches of government are or how many Senators there are or provide correct answers on the simplest of civics questions.
It’s truly incomprehensible to most blue/libs that magas and conservatives are genuinely and permanently deranged cultists
They really believe it’s possible to use words and logic to convince them of things, hence the poster being confused why they aren’t convinced of anything
Because our elected officials refuse to talk like this and many constantly stress how bipartisan they try to be with everything. Saying "about 35% of this country are raving psychopaths who can not be compromised with and must be disempowered" is not an easy feel good campaign message but it's what people need to hear.
Yeah it’s incredibly dangerous to simply ignore or pretend that these are rational people to negotiate with
They certainly aren’t negotiating with us so I’m not sure when these compromise is king types will realize this is a kill or be killed situation
Anyone who says "reach across the isle" in the primary is an automatic no. These people are not interested in governing. They are openly hostile.
^ Maybe we should prevent this sort of thing, no?
Imagine how dim the 42% must be.
21% of American adults are functionally illiterate. I wonder if that 42% has all of the 21%?
The 42% are locked on Fox News.
From my experience living in the US, I would say "dim" is an incorrect characterization. Supportive of corruption, crime and dishonesty is IMO a much more accurate characterization.
The majority of Americans have significant, legitimate material and social grievances that cause them real duress. Most are surrounded by a curated low-information media environment and society that reinforces punching down, zero sum in-out group thought, scapegoating, etc. And the only official political choice they're ever allowed is between two preselected corporate stooges.
I think we're the dimwits if we're confused as to why Trump has so much inertia.
And yet, most of the grievances that Trump bleats about are neither significant nor legitimate. "THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS AND CATS!!!"
Quit pretending those fools are reasonable and have anything behind their hatred besides stupidity.
Go on, say that both sides are the same.
At some point over the years these rage-blind takes stop being cathartic and start becoming an apologetic distraction from the institutions that prefigure our social issues in the first place.
I would disagree (not from the US, but I have lived there, travelled extensively and have American friends who I speak to pretty regularly).
The "low information" environment is a choice (especially nowadays). Scapegoating is a choice. A two party state is a choice. Even the unaddressed material and social grievances is a choice. US is rich enough to solve all these issues with no problem at all.
The real issue is that a significant portion of Americans support corruption, crime and believe lying is good. While at the same time parroting tedious polemics about "freedumz and shiiit".
And on top of that the majority of the voter base of the centre-right opposition is fundemantely opposed to anti-corruption, anti-crime and governance (in terms of real outcomes, not words). Most of them are simply too well off to risk rocking the boat (until it's too late).
While this is a gross generalisation, there is a reason why the following stereotype is applied to Americans:
Curious what you mean by zero sum in this context.
The conservative fallacy that the sum of all positives and negatives in the world is always zero, therefore good cannot be had by all and must always be had at someone else's expense.
The old "I don't really win unless someone else loses."
Thanks.
cognitive dissonance
The people who support Trump after even 2018 are literally so cognitively disabled, I would genuinely submit for consideration that those people are as true to NPCs as possible.
Your average cockroach is more capable of self reflection and complex critical thinking than your average Trump supporter.
Bacertia is a better candidate for holding its own personal, and expansive personal thoughts than a Trump supporter.
ChatGPT is more capable of hallucinating genuine human empathy and emotional intelligence than a Trump supporter.
Cosmic background radiation is more grounded to Earth than a Trump supporter.
These people are simply stupid beyond repair and shouldn't be respected as equals in any capacity.
i wonder if you are aware that you are brainwashing yourself. it's okay to cope, we all have to do it these days, but its best kept to yourself where it causes less secondary harm.
The only people brainwashing themselves are those so fucking stupid they think people who've gleefully supported Nazism for over 10 years now don't explicitly and knowingly support autocracy and genocide.
Maybe stop coping and pretending these assholes can be redeemed in any way and aren anything but a hostile enemy that'd see you and everyone like you die, and are currently making big strides to seeing that through.
The left loses when we constantly shoot our own balls off and attempt empathy and understanding to these sadistic sociopaths who've only ever demonstrated doubling down in that direction.
So get with reality or sit down and shut the fuck up, because people like you hold all real progress back. Stop cucking yourself to Nazis.
You don't know a fucking thing about me. You just want to work yourself up into a pseudoreligious froth. Because that's how you are coping with your fear and insecurity. But it's fucked up and it doesn't advance the goals you claim to care about. It's childish and harmful to those around you. Grow the fuck up and do something KIND for the world, if you're so fucking afraid of nazis, you coward (since we're apparently calling names now).
I know exactly what you are. You are like every other pathetic, fucking moronic leftist who wants to tuck their balls inside themselves and make peace with those gleefully supporting or outright committing atrocities to all the marginalized peoples you pretend to care about to virtue signal and feel better about yourself.
Wake up and join the rest of us in reality, you fuck. Stop with the Neville Chamberlain bullshit. You really want people to find the innocence in the party spearheading genocide domestically, destroying the rule of law entirely, sending the military into opposition cities to quell dissidents, destabilizing countries by illegally kidnappings their leadership, threatening NATO (of which two other member nations have nukes), and fundamentally destroying the economy for the benefit of delusional billionaires?
And you have the fucking audacity to disagree that these assholes aren't Nazis? The mother fuckers doing all of that, plus constantly spam fucking Nazi dog whistles to the public? Seriously?
Are you just stupid or are you stupid and on their side? You act like a fucking 1990's liberal, as if these people committing so many atrocities can be conquered and tamed with talk and strongly worded letters. Wake the fuck up and stop being so fucking pathetic. At least 1/3rd of the country is fully in support of the atrocities this pedophile piece of shit president is committing. They are a hostile enemy. Wake the fuck up for once in your miserable life. The world isn't a fucking fairy tale like you want it to be.
What's your favorite Obama war?
Give us a list of them so we can choose.
There's Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, & Somalia. Iraq and Afghanistan are carryovers from Bush, so those would be cheating.
Probably Libya then.
One thing worth considering, is that on a global/historical basis it is not unheard of for whole societies (strong majority if not overwhelming majority) to descend into degeneracy, chauvinism and corruption.
In a sense, this is not something specific to the US. These things unfortunately happen.
I see where you are coming from, but I think it's dangerous to give too much benefit of the doubt and to look at things as we want them to be, not how they are.
I don't disavow that potential. It's a real potential. It's a terrifyingly real potential. And shit like the comment above and the mentality it expresses certainly doesn't make that potential better.
I disagree with this framing.
I've travelled and lived for several years in many countries across NA (including the US), Europe and Asia.
One thing that I've learned is that it's important to keep an open mind, to look at the good things in a given society/culture and to not be overly judgmental. It's important to not frame thing in terms of expectations from another environment.
That being said there are limits to everything. Looking at the trajectory of American society, it is not unreasonable to speculate that their march towards a chauvinistic, corrupt plutocracy is not going to stop.
I would love to be wrong (it's a disaster that the US has essentially turned into a mafia state), but to deny reality is the definition of cope.
"Comment above" referring to our ancestor comment, not yours. That comment just strives to paint a starkly black and white image, because black and white certainty (even if it's wrong) serves the emotional needs of the poster. It does not offer any practical value against the slide into autocracy. It only makes things worse. Everyone should keep their coping to themselves, cope privately, and not inflict it upon others. We need to conserve our common spaces for better forms of thought.
I misunderstood. Apologies.
While I agree that a black and white approach isn't exactly accurate, you can get to a point where the situation becomes close enough to black/white as a matter of practical considerations (i.e. outcomes). Again, not something specific to the US, it can and does happen everywhere.
I am still clinging to the hope that the Americans will turn things around (i.e. no Obama "hope and change" while avoiding addressing crime and corruption), but it's becoming increasingly difficult.
And claiming that the overwhelming majority of the US far right is incapable of empathy (or that they are fundamentally supportive of crime and corruption) isn't factually incorrect to my knowledge.
Oh god you're still ball tucking to other people.
Hey please drop the bullshit "holier than thou" narrative.
You're pathetic and rather try to hold hands with Nazis than stand up to them. How very Nevillle Chamberlain of you.
And actually it is quite black and white.
There is zero nuance to mass kidnappings of brown people by white supremachists. Its indisputably evil.
There's zero nuance to destabilizing a developing nation for the purposes of your rich buddies raping it for resources. Its indisputably evil.
There's zero nuance to threatening to annex an ally's territory, again for your rich buddies to rape it for resources. Its indisputably evil.
There's zero nuance to befriending the CEO of elite pedophiles incorporated, and trafficking and raping kids with him for a decade, its indisputably evil.
And there's zero nuance to gleefully and openly supporting genocide, foreign nor domestic. Its indisputably evil.
The fact you can't the black and white nature of the evil of these crimes shows you are fundamentally morally bankrupt, intellectually barren, and untrustworthy with even the most basic and fundamental critical analysis of any serious situation.
Sit this one out, Jr. The adults don't have time to make kids like you feel better about their insecurities.
Im in Canada and have friends who believed his second term would be mostly as feckless as his first.
They didn’t understand how project 2025 meant he was going to be coming out of the gate with someone else’s agenda with all of the key players, including scotus in his back pocket. It all lined up to mean shit was going to go down fast and hard.
Look where we are one year in. 3 more years to subvert or nullify the next election.
These voters have 4 year memory capacity, at best.
The US was showing signs of a recession Sept 2019, 6 months before COVID really shut things down. Things weren't going to be great for us, covid or no covid.
A huge chunk of Americans either don't pay close attention or get their news through heavily propagandized sources.
Nothing has changed. The fascists still like fascism, they just wish eggs were a little cheaper.
Except there are fewer people identifying as Republican than ever before so that statistic doesn't mean all that much. When people go from approving to disapproving of Trump they just leave the GOP because it's a cult that is extremely hostile to dissent, so the ratio of Republicans who approve of him stays high while his popularity with the general public continues to go down.
Yep. Expect a whole lot of Sudden Independents. Or people claiming they belong to a non-existent party like
the teabaggers, oops, I mean the "Tea Party".Both of which will likely wait on the sidelines for a bit, too embarrassed to admit they are conservatives, and not principled enough to be liberal, but will likely continue to secretly vote Republican, if they vote at all. They just might not broadcast it so much.
The biggest indicator that a conservative is operating in this mode - when they talk about "both sides" and wave in the direction of something David Brooks recently said or wrote...
It's evangelicalism all over again. Having destroyed any plausible deniability that people are good despite, not because of, Christianity, their new goal is proving that every negative thing a socialist has ever had to say about American politics is, in fact, true.
Seriously, like, even once this is all said and done, I don't want to be lumped in with them. They've shown their true colors and they really clash with mine.
I'm happy I don't.
I don't want to leave them in sole control of the world's most deadly nuclear arsenal.
I legitimately cannot comprehend polls where people who voted for Trump in 2024 changed their minds.
Trump- "Hey I'm going to do all this terrible shit"
Voters- "I'm going to vote for Trump presumably because I like his platform"
Trump- *does exactly what he said he was going to do*
Voters- >:(
I recently overheard a conversation between two people complaining about how, after the election, their friends unfollowed anyone who followed Trump.
Their argument was "I only voted for one issue. It's not like I have time to know everything."
It was an aggravating interaction, but also a strong reminder of just how ignorant the average voter is.
Hm, I wonder what that was.
Regardless, it's not like someone is going to spend four years on one issue.
IKR? These people wanted to pretend they were picked on, the poor dears, for espousing small government, personal responsibility, waging war on "socialized medicine", trading wicked memes about "Going Galt" or how the nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help".
No, it's always about them wanting to force people to host the worst versions of what a human being might say on their private platforms - spreading xenophobia, anti-gay, anti-trans, misogynist hate speech, or spreading outright lies about, oh, I don't know, a pandemic.
Gosh, I wonder why what offends conservatives the most is when people want to disassociate from them for this last stuff? I mean, if it's not a central plank of their movement and their platform?
They wrap it all up as freedom of speech, forgeting how fucking stupid they sound while desperately wishing the concept of hate-speech would go away except when they try to use it by saying that “cis” is a slur because these people have two malfunctioning braincells at best.
I think a lot of them heard what they wanted to hear. Certainly few wanted to read anything about Project 2025, even though it was a click away. Or voted with their "tribe" and know next to nothing about that tribe's decades long platform, Taco's specific agenda, Project 2025's agenda, or the conservative "movement" that underlies all of it.
Or they were simply racist AF and thought all the undesirables were going to be whisked away as if by magic and without any kind of visible consequences like women shot and children gassed. Or they thought he "didn't really mean it" but he's a miracle-worker on the economy...
But that’s because Trump speaks in open ended words like - freedom, patriot, illegal. People create their own narrative for what those words mean, and apply it to Trump and then are surprised that their definition doesn’t match trumps… I mean they can’t know everything right? /s
Oh don't worry, most of them who voted for him a third time are still cheering on the leopards with glee as all the smart-ass minorities and democrat-run areas get what's coming to 'em!
I went and looked at the profile of a real life trumper who is no longer a friend, on a social media site that I also mostly avoid, and they are openly supporting ICE.
Their justification is literally "imagine if you or your loved one was killed by an illegal" after listing a random list of names of people who were supposedly killed by "ILLEGALS." But it's a 3-paragraph post written by somebody who seems to think they are very clever for coming up with a weak metaphor for "imagine if somebody got some shit instead of you" so it's probably just a copypasta from some grifter they follow.
There was also a manual out. You didn’t even need to listen to him, you just had to read…
That's the thing. They aren't so good at the whole reading thing.
42% approving is way way too high.
Yeah this is the scary part. Idiots like Trump will always exist. The fact that so many Americans will follow an idiot is the worrying part.
Because so many Americans are irredeemable idiots
Apparently a lot of people in the US don't think mocking a disabled person to be "too far". Or raping children.
Fucking morons.
The US has a cancerous culture of selfish, self-centered narcissism and blind, feudal loyalty to money and those with money. No amount of monstrousness tugs the heartstrings until it impacts them personally. Slowly, those same selfish, evil, self-centered scum are realizing that the suffering they wanted to inflict on others impacts them. They will gain no self-awareness from this and learn nothing, continuing to metastasize even even after Trumpsolini is finally dead and rotting in the ground.
Keep in mind, before trump, the Republican standard was a guy who lied about another country having chemical weapons and harboring a terrorist to drag us into a war for the benefit of his oil-baron buddies and to make his daddy proud.
The only thing these polls demonstrate to me is that about 40% of the voters are morons and should be stripped of the right to vote.
A practice that has never gone wrong or been misused in American history! 👍
As someone who lives relatively near a "strategic target" that would be targeted by one to several ICBMs should Trump happen to have a particularly bad (but certainly not unthinkable) outburst one of these days, please know that I am saying this with as much restraint as I can muster:
I do not care what happens to MAGA, they must must stopped at any cost.
None of this shit is about looking good in the history books anymore. Trump is diving head first down a path that leads to WWIII. This is not a joke, this is not hyberbole. He's literally doing everything that Hitler did but with thousands of nukes at his absolute unchecked disposal. This is about the survival of human civilization, and any action that helps bring about the downfall of the Trump regime is a legitimate one. Unfortunately no-one is willing to admit it until billions die in a nuclear winter because a demented turd couldn't handle someone telling him no for once in his fucking life.
If it helps ease your anxieties at all, I don't believe ww3 or nuclear annihilation is the likely future. We've seen nuclear superpowers dance recently, nobody wants to use the things. The fuckers at the top, the ones with the actual power, not orange dumpster man, they like the slow burn. Get the resources, grind up the people, make that green. They don't want the world to end, there's too many kids to molest.
Do not get me wrong, I do agree with you otherwise. I do think there's a strong possibility of civil war though, at least in some capacity. It might even be the best situation, get the rot out.
Well obviously a thermonuclear war is not good for business. However do not make the grievous mistake of thinking that Trump is a mere pawn in the oligarch's game who can be relied on to act rationally in their self-interest. He's done their bidding aplenty, but he's also doing a lot of stuff that weakens him, his buddies, and his country, just because he's so fucking dumb and vain. Like invading Greenland, a country he already had full access to for military purposes and that US companies were always welcome to exploit for minerals. His generals are literally using every trick in the book to try to redirect his attention away from Greenland because the US has literally no interest – military, financial, or geopolitical – in it. Literally the only explanation for this fixation of his is that Greenland looks big on a Mercator projection and that makes his tiny dick hard.
M.A.D. only works when all actors:
Number 1 is in doubt with Trump because he and his cult spend a lot of time in a made-up reality. I can totally see some war hawks explaining to him that the UK and France don't have the nuclear capacity to glass the entire continental US outright, and Trump interpreting it as "we're untouchable" because he's not into concepts such as "nuance". To a degree the same is true of a dictator like Putin or Xi Xinping who are also surrounded by yes men who purposefully feed an enabling narrative (see also: Putin's decision to invade Ukraine because he thought he could get away with it).
Number 2 is simply completely incorrect. Trump is so unpredictable even his own administration can't guess his next move – they're constantly acting on his latest rant and doing a poor job of pretending it was part of the plan all along. I'd love to believe that he can be deterred by the thread of M.A.D, but I'm unfortunately too acutely aware of the news to lie to myself like that. That's the main difference between him and Putin – I can actually believe that Putin will only act in what he believes to be his self-interest, and he knows a nuclear exchange ain't it.
I agree with that conceptually, but I think one thing you might be assuming is that control of Trump is all from the same team. We know that there's a high likelihood that he's compromised by Russia, we know that he's loyal mostly to money. It might be easier to point out institutions that don't have power over him.
What I'm getting at is the things he does may not be random, rather we just don't know who or what is motivating them. The recent stuff for Greenland might be just a bunch of wind that Russia decided might take the interest and support away from Ukraine. Not to say he's a 5d chess player or anything, more that he's just willing to jump for the highest bidder.
Above all, he's selfish to the core. He takes things only as far as he can get power out of them. I have complete faith that he wouldn't ever do anything that could endanger him one bit. He can be safe in his big ivory tower, but the second nukes start being on the table, I'm expecting him to fold.
Anyway, my motivations aren't to argue a point or anything. I might have incompatible views to you and that's honestly fine, I'm more offering a possibility that might be more hopeful. There is a solid chance that the world will get through this little dip into fascism, come out the other end, and recover.
I realize you're probably not serious, but, still, voter disenfranchisement is both a slippery slope and a tactic employed by those everyone calls fascists. Two wrongs do not make a right and all that.
Well, look where it got us.
Re-education camps might be more appropriate.
Education is all that's required, these people come from a place of ignorance.
After all you've witnessed, you still think a good book is all it takes to reach these people? That's wild.
"Failure" and "gone too far" are understatements and give the impression it was all by accident.
Project 2025 is 50% complete. That is not a failure.
Yeah, it's like plans to attack Greenland is to far, but until then everything was fine.
There are a lot of people who are just now realizing, with the threats to Greenland, that the rest of the world won’t be coming to save them.
No shit, multiple people really do believe that NATO is supposed to be policing US internal politics, and liberating them from the orange turd.
It’s only now starting to dawn on them that the rest of the world will defend each other from the US, but they won’t save the US from itself.
There are too many interests external to the US that would stand to benefit from it's collapse, beyond those that are actively trying to orchestrate it.
So, ‘disastrous’ in the sense of clickbait headlines, but in practical terms, A-OK.
Uh... and what exactly are these americans doing about it...?
Sharing angry rehearsed AOC videos on Reddit and writing "wake up america 😡", aren't they brave? Isn't that the greatest opposition you've ever seen?
Protests are becoming more frequent around here, even in the cold Southerners are not prepared for. This weekend I drove under a FUCK ICE protest on an overpass, with a FUCK ICE sticker on my car, to a store and passed a panhandler with a giant FUCK THE POLICE sign. Then my Mexican neighbors reached out to thank me for putting the sticker on my car. I feel a sense of alignment around me. I'm in Arkansas of all places. (I'm omitting quite a bit of anti-trans shit this weekend but that's another story).
I'm a school bus driver and I drive across multiple freeway overpasses each day. On most days these have protestors with temporary signs up on the fences facing the highway traffic. The problem is I have no idea whether they're pro-Trump or anti-Trump since I only see the backs of the signs. One time I could make out "Jan. 6" on one of the signs (this was on January 6th, natch) but I don't know whether they were remembering the good old days or not.
There's a guy on an overpass many mornings with a cardboard sign that is unreadable from the ground, I know what it says because I drive by him above (Deport Trump), but we do need some workshops on "how to make your sign readable because it's worthless without that simple thing."
Visual perspecitve is a hell of a thing. People don't realize just HOW BIG overpass signs are and how big the lettering needs to be such that it can be read from the highway at highway speeds. USDOT recommends 16" high letters for highway overpasses.
https://www.evergreenresistance.org/events/20250901/Overpass-Bannering-Tips.pdf maybe pass that around?
His first term was a failure, I don't even know how to describe his second so far.
The definition of success depends on what the goal was. If the goal was to establish a fascist dictatorship, wreck the economy, and make people afraid, he is a success
It’s a success. If you go by all the stuff he said he’d do during his campaign and the stuff he’s gotten done so far, well, then he’s actually pretty successful. And look how far he’s gotten in just one year. Fucker is basically immune to the law.
You would have to have done some serious pretzel logic to believe Trump is delivering what he said.
End Ukraine War day one? Absolutely not.
End war in Gaza? Isreal is still regularly blowing up people in their one-sided cease fire.
Close the border? This racist dog whistle worked I suppose. Less illegal border crossings. I am personally surprised anyone would want to come to the US right now so it is a mixed bag.
Make the largest deportation event ever? Honestly Biden and Obama are going to be hard to beat especially now that no one wants to come here.
End birthright citizenship? This is straight out of white supremacist's playbooks. He has not accomplished this yet thank goodness.
Impose tariffs to improve economy? He has certainly imposed and withdrawn and then reimposed and then re-withdrawn a lot of tariffs. This has made him and his cronies very rich but it has generally hurt everyone else. I think in the next year we will begin to see how devastating they have been to the economy.
End inflation and lower prices? Absolutely stupid promise that no administration could hope to make happen. It is simply out of their power so it was stupid to even say this and it has not been fulfilled.
Make government more efficient? This has been one of the worst failures of any administration in history. This administration fundamentally misunderstanding of the agencies they slashed shows a profound lack of judgement. They are beyond inept and probably criminally negligent.
Ban transgender people in Sports? Considering it was never actually a problem it is hard to say you can be successful in solving an imaginary thought exercise. Having said that the conservative have spent a huge amount of time passing laws around this subject instead of governing real and important issues.
Eliminate the Education Department? This is one of those promises that should have never been made. The federal government is required by law to provide services for children with disabilities amongst many other critical programs. While this administration has been successful in greatly disrupting it, without having any alternative plan, they have not and cannot be successful because of numerous laws. This is once again tantamount to criminal negligence.
Cover IVF? Weird promise, has not been delivered but could in the future.
Pardon Jan 6 rioters? Stunning success except for the fact many have been locked up for additional crimes. That one pardon has now literally lead to thousands of crimes that this administration is now culpable for. Bizarre decision to subvert US law.
End DEI? While the administration can't stop the spirit of DEI since it is American in value, they have certainly made any mention punishable by firing thus violating everyone's right to free speech. Truly a bizarre move because if the government can just randomly decide DEI bad why not anything else without justification. Promise kept though to best of their intolerant little hearts.
I can't see success here, but they have kind of accomplished some things. They are so spiteful and incompetent I will be surprised if it can last. Their legal counsel is inept, their leaders are barely functional, and their agenda is anti-human. Not really a winning combination.
Unless you are benefitting from the pump and dump schemes this administration seems to love so much I don't think there is anything to like. Even their extremists are turning on them. They got a limited lifespan unless they can pull off something they seem incapable of.
Oh no the polls lmao.
Meanwhile citizens are murdered in the streets. Glad THE POLLS are going to fix that real fast
Some notes:
Speaks to the information bubble most MAGA/Conservatives live in. Right-wing media has been banging the "they're coming for you kids" drum for decades. According to them crime has always been terrible, and cities are the worst hellscapes for people to live. It ignores that statistics don't back this up at all, rural communities were/are-being devastated by opioids/fentanyl/meth, and actual per capita crime rates in big cities are generally lower than in smaller areas.
More right-wing media propaganda pushing the narrative that social media and the "main-stream media" (you know, as opposed to Fox News - the most watched news network in the US for over 20-years running) have been silencing conservative viewpoints. You know, viewpoints like:
So basically, social media is trying to point out bullshit, and conservatives are noticing that "bullshit" mostly covers shit they say. Not to say liberals don't also spout bullshit, but it doesn't tend to become planks in the national party's platform.
Not even touching this one. The safe part is covered above. Remember "Stranger Danger," anyone?
More right-wing propaganda. Same as the "free speech" bullshit above.
Ignoring that this man has never in his life given off either vibe, how does one expect to find any "unifier" candidate when the to predominant political arguments in the US are:
Conservatives are the ones that wore the "fuck your feelings" shirts.
They don't want a "unifier". They want revenge on everyone that ever made fun of them for saying and believing stupid shit. They want revenge on people smarter than them, more educated than them, and people with more expertise than them. And they love Donvict because they think he'll do it.
Well that's a horrifying statistic
This point alone is so obviously bullshit that it's likely just another one of their attempts at crazy making.
Thanks for writing this up. Excellent responses to this hogwash.
Meanwhile, project 2025 is ongoing. They'll discard him once they're done having him absorb all the outrage and providing plenty of distraction.
I have been saying that for a year, alot of people think trump set up all this himself. There is a ton going on by people we are not seeing. Trump is a tool.
Here in the UK, we were promised millions per week for the NHS, better jobs and "oven ready deals" to replace our relationship with the EU. Over 50% of people who voted fell for that bullshit. Some are upscaling to the further right Reform (UKs equivalent to MAGA). Telling bold lies will fool too many people, again and again. We cannot sit back. The motivated gobshites will vote us into oblivion.
In a sense the only part that matters in terms of the problem we face.
The hard core might be contracting a bit, but it is hardening as a result.
I'm not sure 42% approval is a disaster. In Europe that wold be an amazing result. Even in USA with all the gerrymandering, voter suppression laws and constitution in general giving advantage to red states that could be enough for them to win another term. Definitely enough to stop democrats from getting anything done.
Racism and entitlement. All you need.
Man, here at france, patrs has burned for way less than this.
I hope they eventually wake up and see that the only way to stop this obvious dictatorship forming is torches and pitchforks. But modernized.
Isn't that the average spread of Democrat versus Republican voters has been? About 52/48?
Actually, Gallup says we're 27% Republican, 27% Democratic, and 45% independent (arc. What's driving these numbers is the fact that the Republican party is a cult -
According to the article, Trump has very poor support from Independents and virtually none from Democrats, but is getting approval from 9/10 Republicans. I don’t know what to do with such deeply rooted tribal mentality.
Come to the realization this whole country should have come to back in the 1960s when they were actively recruiting KKK members and accept that there is no reforming the Republican party and that their organization must be shoved into the dustbin of history
Good news is fewer people self identify as Republican than basically ever before, so things are actually headed in the right direction with public opinion
Hyperbole aside…the fascists have already taken strong steps to suppress, disqualify and gerrymander away Democratic votes to extend the large advantages they already had.
Before Trump Dems needed to be +3 to win, when he was elected they needed +5…just to overcome Republican cheating. We’re looking at as much as a 10% margin required going forward.
42%, if that’s even a real numberr, coupd more than enough to secure a victory. This isn’t even accounting for the fact that Trump and his cult will just change the numbers if they lose.
How any U.S. military officer (not the Nazi ice assfucks) could look and think taking a military order for him is in the best interest of their country is a good idea is beyond me.
The guy says whatever comes out of his mind and changes it minutely after who ever he’s talked to.
I guess distraction from his life as a snuff film producer is high on the list right now.
The US military is made up of people who saw Abu Ghraib and said "Sign me up."
It's mostly made up of people who were unable to afford college or healthcare when they turned 18.
There's plenty of people in that situation who don't sign up. It's still a choice.
Narrator: but the Americans did nothing and let him go further.
I feel majority of americans are in some sort of collective self destructive delusion. Thats the only way you can explain trump presidency - people didn't vote for him, they voted for self harm because they're sick.
Spend a half hour watching Fox News and you can see the alternate reality that magats are living in. My personal exposure to Fox News is an occasional accidental glance at the TV screens at the gym and even just from that it's obvious what's going on.
Lol, what? No, we don't say he's gone too far. We say he's a criminal who shouldn't be in office in the first fucking place. Get the fuck out of here with your standard political opposition speak.
We told you. God damn it, we voted against this. People forgot in 4 years why we voted him out!!!!!! They all can go get bent!!!!!
I mean the Dems trying to run a genocidaire who could barely speak coherently probably didn't help matters
Does anyone really think the US isn't a one-party authoritarian state at this point?
Don't count on an election.
I'm baffled that some people still seem to presume this will end with the next election
I really feel that this latest poll will finally start the fire that burns his "Whitehouse of doom" down. /s
Slightly negative poll numbers + strongly-worded letter = REVOLUTION!
At this point, he's just an embarrassment. We need to hold him accountable and the world needs to stop censoring what's really happening.
Don't worry, once they gain control over the last few independent news outlets and restructure social media algorithms they'll be able to manipulate public perception to the point where they have broad public support. Especially when the ai bots wear the opposition out by convincing them they're alone in their left wing views. Tech bros are ready to destroy democracy for profit.
People say he's "Gone too far" because if we say what we really think we "Get a visit from the FBI."
Dear anyone who voted for Trump: we fucking told you so.
Let us take a moment to appreciate that this reporting is coming from a news website out of Alabama.
Why link this article instead of the CNN article all the info actually came from?
Fuckin' big media. Continually bobbing cat toys up and down just above our heads so we swipe like fools. Bring back truthful journalism again, not big media.
That poll primarily shows that a good third of the American public is still to dumb to understand what is happening.
Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’ .. and then added "but whatcha gunna do? I'm sure someone else will save us."
There's a literal post right now begging for the US to be invaded and its full of americans cracking the shits at people telling them to grow the fuck up and fix their own problems
Does reading a "trump low in the polls" article or two every day make you feel better or optimistic?
Not at all
In addition to "going too far", he's also too far gone.
Hes just plain stupidly evil. Even without comparing him to sunnier folks and times, he represents thr dregs of humanity
Let me know when they stop saying things and start doing them.
Watch the news from Minneapolis, lots of people are putting their asses on the line. The rest of the country is not stepping up but the locals are.
Does anyone think some hacker in thigh-high striped rocks is gonna take one for the team and leak the declassified Epstein Files?
Nobody will believe anything at this point no matter how it's releases. Tampering has made it all illegitimate as far as we know.
But I didn't think the leopards would eat my face!
Hey “The rest of Americans” who didn’t see this coming. The CEO famed businessman known for going bankrupt in his endeavors (including a casino), is running the newly established United States, Inc. I’ll assume you’re not smart enough to see it, but we’re going bankrupt. No one in charge cares about you unless you make them money. So when you can’t get food or water, you should have worked harder and been rich. But hey, no more trans and gays and brown people bringing in drugs or offending your easily manipulated eyes.
Honestly I hope the rest of the planet see this fall happen and takes out the billionaires by their checkbook. The ripple is huge here.
I JUST saw another article that said his approval ratings were fairly steady and line up with about what they were the first time around.
Statistics and numbers can be made to say damn near anythin.
Was there an option in the poll to say he's a traitor and a pedophile?
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The question is, how will this end?
We've seen what it took for Germany to get corporate money out of government, and quite frankly, I'd give the Germans a lot more credit than Americans. I think what Germans did is miniscule compared to what Americans will have to do.
It absolutely astonds me that people still believe polls when it comes to this shitbag.
If it were a presidential election I'm 99% sure he'd sweep again. Since it's the midterms and history is what it is, it remains to be seen what will happen, but I've stopped believing political polls were anywhere even remotely close to reality since 2016.
You mean when the polls kept saying the findings were within the margin of error and Clinton did get the majority of votes? Those polls were incredibly close to reality. It was people's interpretation of the numbers that were off.
There's strong reason to believe that the polls represented how people actually voted. If the outcome was different, that was due to fuckery.
I would love to believe that's not true, but it was very suspicious how Republicans have been overperforming polls mostly in states where they control the election machinery.