• nthavoc@lemmy.today
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        He has good jeans to handle all of that incontinence. The best jeans. Jeans like you have never seen before.

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      You’d think people would know this already, seeing as he was already fucking President once and all, with even then totally predictable and insane levels of corruption and incompetence. Somehow that record never really came up during the election, amazing.

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        the MSMs were working 24/7/365 sanewashing him since he lost in 2020, it had a positive effect on his image, because he was getting free press 24/7+ putin backed right wing grifters were helping hammering the messaging in young men voters too.

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      He is. And we let him be president. What’s that say about us?

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      I hate to say it (I really hate to say it), but I don’t think Trump is incompetent. I think he has different goals than you think he does, and is executing them successfully.

      I mean, obviously he’s a profoundly stupid person, but he’s some kind of idiot-savant that manages to succeed at his criminally evil goals despite that. Might be why all the dipshits admire him so much, come to think of it.

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        His goal is to stay out of prison, which he’s 100% successful at.

        Why do you think Vance is doing all the traveling and trump plays golf all day? He doesn’t care. He got a get out of jail free card already.

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        A useful idiot. He is manipulated by those around him to achieve self-serving goals.

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        People on the east coast tend to think of civil war in terms of of north south instead of east west. Gavin Newsom straight up declared California a “Nation State” last time Scump tried pushing California around, and he’s right California is the world’s fourth longest economy. As a Coloradans, I’m feeling less and less rapport with east coast shenanigans. Everyone east of the Mississippi can take their north south shit and shove it. Colorado’s a headwaters state with more oil in our shale that the whole of Saudi Arabia. What the fuck do we need with Alabama?

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    Kind of amazing on the break out seeing how much republican poll support he’s still getting.

    NEW Economist/YouGov Apr 20-22 % who approve | disapprove of Trump’s job performance

    U.S. adult citizens 41% | 54%

    Last week 42% | 52%

    Start of term 49% | 43%

    • Democrats 7% | 92%
    • Independents 30% | 59%
    • Republicans 86% | 12%
    • Men 45% | 49%
    • Women 37% | 59%
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      He’ll start losing Republican support as soon as small businesses start getting crushed by this tariff insanity.

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        I have a feeling that only when fox news starts saying he is bad, will the republican supporters also get on board. They don’t see what fox don’t want them to see. USA has a propaganda problem.

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        not really, maybe amongst the older republicans, but the gen xers, millneanls and Zs still support him.

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      Well, he destroyed the federal government, and he’s locking up brown people while trampling all over their constitutional rights. Naturally, the Republicans love him.

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      Yes, I’m very surprised. Not because he’s dropping, but because the disproval rate is 54%, with 41% still approving of his job thus far…

      What in the seven hells is wrong with Americans!?

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        A critical lack of empathy for their fellow man. Americans have had the concept of “fuck you got mine” so engrained into them, couple this with their overall lack of intelligence and you can see how a grifter promising them everything won the nation.

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        I think there’s a few reasons.

        • People are tuned into propaganda. I get exposed to it once in a while and it’s abhorrent. Arguing, yelling, and just a deluge of lies. It pretends to be important. It pretends to be news. But really, it’s more like 1984’s 2 minutes of hate diluted down and stretch out so people can get their fill whenever they want (or for older people, just consume it constantly).

        • For many less politically-involved people, they are still emotionally and culturally tied to their political “team”. For many, it’s easier to just go along with the shifts in the party than to change identity.

        • People are lazy/busy/uninterested. People generally don’t want to learn about economics, history, politics, sociology, psychology, etc. This leaves a huge hole for someone like Trump to say and do the things he’s been doing without his uneducated base calling BS. I took 2 100-level economics electives long ago for my degree and saw right through his tariff lies because this stuff isn’t that complicated.

        • Messaging. The right-wing messaging is mostly half-truths and all-out lies, but they are incredibly effective at getting their messaging out and believed. A lot of it is just repetition, repetition, repetition. The left really needs to get their shit together. I’m not looking for propaganda like the right is doing, but the Dems started loosing so badly because the right would grab an issue like a rabid Chihuahua and just not let go. Benghazi is a perfect example. Fix the messaging – keep is simple and just repeat it forever.

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          Today i learned about the DRD4-R7 gen; titled “Discoverer gen”, because it’s likely the main factor for out-of-afrika

          • the further away the population, the more have it, while mammalia other than human only change habitat if forced
          • globally 20% have it
          • “booster” for dopamine
          • dopamine mainly responsible for emotion intensity; by extension, how interesting something is or how quickly they’re satiated by stimulation (sex included)

          Conclusion: for 80% of humanity is the drive to discover/learn new things weaker than their lazyness.

          This explains so much.

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        I live in Trump country. A lot of these people are living in an alternate reality where trans people and immigrants are lurking behind every corner to take their kids and women and the economy is in shambles but in a way that only impacts white middle class Americans.

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      I am not from the usa. And i am suprised his graph made it above the 0 line.

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      I’d really love it if, instead of them suffering, we could just get everyone to stop suffering.

      We focus way too much on the “people getting what they deserve” aspect of politics and then it consumes our rhetoric to a point where we overcorrect and put more effort towards punishing bad things than building good things.

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      What? The poll said 86% of Republicans strongly or somewhat approve of Trump right now.

      I’m still sad anyone would even vote for that goon. I truly worry for my countrymen who voted for him, they’re naive, dumb or full of incredible hate and malice - none of which is good.

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    Still not below 40%, so Schumer’s going to keep saying “Democrats can’t take any action.”

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    I’m sure we’ll be hearing a thoughtful introspective acknowledgement prompted by this information soon and not some all caps ‘FAKE NEWS!1!1’ proclamation.

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    So…his approval rating is now worse than his own approval rating? Who was the 2nd worst president?