• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      29% of voters voted for him in 2024. It’s literally just his cult supporting him at this point–he’s lost the entire rest of the country. Finally.

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    That’s a bit more than the number of people who voted for him. So technically he’s doing better than before he went into office.

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    1/3 people support the pedophile in chief. Lmao. Let that sink in. “Craters” lol

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    “Craters”

    Journalist looks at a slow genty downward slope…

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        no, it’s the same exact slope, and it’s 0.9% not 5%. it’s a minor error bar on a long downward trajectory. He hasn’t changed trajectory, if you want to say it cratered, you need to something that’s changing the trajectory. less than 1% is just a continued shitty slide.

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      Can’t believe it kinda recovered early last summer. Wasn’t that when he was flipflopping on tariffs? The tariffs the gov now needs to pay back after businesses raised prices to compensate for them?

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        lot of people love what ice is doing and are happy to suffer any minor inconvenience over that, a significant portion of them also like watching the moral outrage from the libs as a bonus

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        That’s when he was going to send out those tariff checks out of thin air. It worked during Covid so he figured he would try it again.

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        it’s the same 1% drop you see in the rest of the graph. His approval is bad, but that .9% is no crater.

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    This happened to me yesterday and might help explain why his approval is still so high:

    I’m in my 40s, sitting in a waiting room, waiting to consult with a doctor about the ol’ snip-snip. The room is filled with aging boomers and gen-x of all walks of life. I mean, the next youngest patient in this room is probably 20-years my senior. Some random guy down the seat row on the other side of the room is talking to someone, presumably his wife but maybe an older female child, about mutual family and friends and the goings-on. I’m ignoring everything as usual until I hear, ‘I know you don’t like tRump…’ My ears perk up.

    He goes on to talk about finding these tRump coins online and inquires into whether some acquaintance of theirs, or their offspring, might like one. I can’t really hear the woman’s response, but she clearly doesn’t want to talk about this now, in this place, and within easy earshot of every soul in the room.

    He reiterates that he knows that she doesn’t like tRump, but this is about someone else and if she thinks the coins might make a good gift. I still can’t hear the whole response from the lady, but she mentions the AI Jesus post. Dude seemed clueless as to what she was talking about. He says, ‘no, I hadn’t heard about that’. She goes on to explain how much it upset people and the backpedaling he tried to do to sane face with Christians.

    Here’s a dude buying tRump coins as gifts like a dude might buy a sports team’s merchandise, not knowing the shit that’s actively perpetuated by that sports team. It’s clear that most are not on tRump’s Twitter clone for infantile adults, but likely only see the posts that some Facebook groups want them to see. Whatever echo chamber these people are siloed in is going to great lengths to isolate that 33% from the real shit tRump does.

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      …not knowing the shit that’s actively perpetuated by that sports team

      I may consider this reasonable if the Doctor Jesus thing was the odd thing the child rapist had done but we are literally talking about 2 scandals per week at minimum. What you saw there is not a man who is out of the loop, what you saw in display was one of the true American values: “willful ignorance”

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      I hear you and I want to acknowledge that people are complex and many otherwise good people are caught in these echo chambers doing or supporting bad things.

      That said, it’s no fucking excuse to not educate yourself and stay up on the news.

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        No excuse, but that anger seems to only exacerbate the issue. For what its worth, i think the information age has created a huge curse of knowledge between generations and social economic groups and social media is being weaponized to increase this phenomenon

        The “curse of knowledge” is a cognitive bias where experts or informed individuals fail to accurately imagine what it is like not to know something, assuming others share their level of understanding. This leads to poor communication, teaching difficulties, and overestimating others’ knowledge. It differs from the Dunning-Kruger effect, where people with low ability overestimate their competence.

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        These people barely understand that different news sources exist. They just learn things from “the TV”.

        “Social Media? I think my nephew told me about that once in 2014, but I can’t remember what it is.”

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        it’s no fucking excuse to not educate yourself and stay up on the news.

        you mean watch Fox news on the TV?

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      I have definitely heard the “I know you don’t like tRump…” intro to a statement from his supporters (who happened to be family or friends) at least a few times before. It’s too early for me to analyze the commonality right now.

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        It’s lampshading to deflect negative reactions.

        “I said I know you don’t like him, you don’t need to keep repeating it.”

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      The only future for the world is the fact that most Boomers will be dead in the next 10 years.

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    Ready for him to lose midterms, have the Reichstag burn down, and have him declare an emergency.

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    It’s not going to get much lower than this. About all that’s left are the total morons that wouldn’t change if Trump himself had a gun to their child’s head, as well as the criminal sociopaths who appreciate the corrupt MAGA environment that makes their occupation so easy and lucrative.

    Neither one of those groups is going to abandon MAGA to any great degree. We might get to 30%, or perhaps one or two points lower, but that’s about it.

    So work on those people around you who are close to quitting, or have recently quit. We don’t want them going back, or digging in deeper. They are doubting MAGA right now, so show them what’s going on now, while they are slightly receptive.

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      “I don’t like how he put a gun to my kid’s head, but I do like how he puts guns to the heads of other children.”

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      It appears that Europe is similar, with 64% disapproval (from Pew, pick your own source).

      When will they do something?

      (yes, you could list what they have done, and I could list what Americans have done, but let’s pretend up until this point they have all done “nothing”, as you can’t possibly hold the USA to a higher standard than all of Europe without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe)

      If EU stopped using the US dollar for trade, for example… that would be very influential, don’t you think? There’s much more the EU and/or NATO could do.

      Meanwhile, EU can’t even be bothered to stop buying Russian oil, gas, fertilizers, etc.

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        (yes, you could list what they have done, and I could list what Americans have done, but let’s pretend up until this point they have all done “nothing”, as you can’t possibly hold the USA to a higher standard than all of Europe without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe)

        There’s a couple things I love about this paragraph:
        1: “without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe”
        We’re literally talking about how 67% of Americans disapprove of their own leader and still can’t escape American exceptionalism

        2: It quietly implies that Europeans who disapprove of Trump (the leader of a different country) are equally responsible for doing something about it as actual American citizens.

        3: it neatly avoids all the facts that Europe has done things that are effective, even if it does not remove Trump from power, while Americans gather at their “we don’t like Trump” conventions once every couple of months where they stay out of the way and don’t cause too much trouble before cleaning up nicely after themselves and getting back to work on Monday.

        4: Despite the inescapable American Exceptionalism it is still the fault of everyone else for not cleaning up their mess for them.

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    The last tanker of oil was said to have reached port a couple days ago. Our buffer is gone. Let’s see what happens. Will paper prices meet the real price? What about food prices? Next month should be interesting.

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      33% of Americans approve of:

      Child trafficking and rape

      Collapse of rule of law

      Shifting the tax burden entirely onto the poor

      Mass kidnappings of minorities and dissidents

      The building of concentration camps

      Illegally kidnappibg foreign leaders

      Raping developing countries of their resources

      Unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal wars of aggression

      Bombing of little school girls

      Genocide of Palestinians

      Genocide of Hispanic Americans

      Genocide of anyone not white

      Rampant stagflation

      Collapse of any semblance of the American dream

      And that’s just scratching the surface

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        I know it’s not an excuse, but I doubt they all know and knowingly support all of this. There’s plenty of people utterly un- or misinformed about what’s going on in the world or inside the US. There was this video recently where they interviewed beach-goers about the Iran war. They barely even knew what a war or Iran was.

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            Because you can’t dismiss 30% of a population. They need to at least partially be taken along, just because they’re too many to just declare war on.

            Let’s declare war on a more manageable percentage and definitely without compromising core values. So we gotta pierce the bubble of the misinformed, but defeat the ones who misinform out of malice and self interest.

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          I know the video you’re talking about.

          I doubt a bunch of random fuck beach going horny frat bros are the best metric for measuring gauging the degeneracy and malice of the average right winger.

          We’ve far exceeded the point where MAGA ignorance and MAGA malice have converged, and are one in the same. Behind them is a river of blood that only grows.

          And when confronted with reality, invariably they will choose to reject reality, rather than come to terms with their actions. They are all simply evil, ignorance or intention be damned.

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        Not that shocking when you really think about it. Nixon had 24% approval when he resigned. Since then entire right wing media networks have been created specifically to ensure republicans don’t have to suffer the same accountability. That’s to say nothing of the countless bots on social media.

        Think about how much money and influence is being focused on keeping Trump and the GOP palatable until the midterms, then remember that only 1 out of 3 people are actually being fooled into thinking he’s doing a good job.

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      Based on what? Even Nixon bottomed out at 27%

      People need to get a grip on the fact that at least a quarter of this country are shameless white supremacists.

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      If we somehow survive this, 60%+ of Americans should file a class action lawsuit against Fox News for causing and contributing to such widespread destruction of our democracy.

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        Media is consolidating into the hands of right wing billionaires, now CBS and CNN are in those same right wing hands. If it keeps goign there wont be any left wing mainstream media.,

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          As dire as our situation is becoming, I actually feel generally sanguine about our podcast system. Chuck Todd points this out frequently, as he blames/thanks the corporate authoritarianism for him leaving NBC to start his own podcast. I didn’t care much for him on Meet the Press, but I actually like him a lot now and, more importantly, appreciate his insight and intuitions.

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        We really need a way to hold these people accountable. They know they are manipulating people and lying.