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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.
… 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.
How in the name of all that is holy can Krasnov have as high as 43% approval?
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%
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.
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.
Give it time.
Extreme right news junkets will tell trump’s followers how to inform the objectors that this is ok, and how it’s someone else’s fault.
Since his term began, my retirement has probably slipped about a year or so, and so much further to go.
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.
Too damn high.
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.
40% of people are in a cult, got it.
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.
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.
That is disturbingly high.
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.
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.
The free press is alive and well, for now at least. Don't be hyperbolic.