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Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
Least popular, but not unpopular enough to vote against.
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Doesn't matter; we are still infected with the donvict cancer.
So he’s more popular this time than last time
Why?
Because information literacy is at an all time low, and people are easily seated by propaganda on their doom rectangles.
And this time, the entire digital media complex is on his side: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, Amazon.
Because the electorate is about 51% morons and self-interested people willing to let the country burn for tax cuts that will only benefit about 5% of them.
And yet he still got re-elected. We are the dumbest nation comprised of the most idiotic people to ever exist in history.
Let's just hope that we don't use that position to terrorize other nations further than we already have
Lame duck (maybe), so I don’t think he cares about popularity. He’s pushing out EO’s as fast as he can, and many of them are idiotic.
The fact that he isnt even less popular than his last election scares me. The guy has proven himself time and time again in the spotlight to be evil, moronic, really any negative adjective you can think of, and he still has supporters. More, even. How? *
Because people in this country have the memory of a fucking goldfish. I'm sure it's going to drop hard in a week.
And the thing people are most upset about is renaming the Gulf. What in the absolute fuck?
Trans people are attempting to flee the country fearing for their lives
...and the thing people care about is the fucking Gulf of Mexico getting renamed
That’s the whole point. Deflect real controversy with stupid sound bites.
I need to know the content of the footnote.
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Maybe some of those people who he's not popular with should have fucking voted.
is this another one of those famously accurate polls we were subjected to during the election?
There were a whole lot of low-info voters and certainly a lot of idiots fell for that gEnOcIdE jOe nonsense, too.
People think that "politics doesn't matter" or fall for the "bothsides" thing honestly think it doesn't matter if someone like donvict gets into office...and unfortunately all of us are likely to find out...
He won with 1% of the vote, 35% of eligible voters stayed home.
Yeah, that was my point.
But … the last guy who was not even on the ballot is as old as Trump. And eggs are expensive. And another country is waging war, sorry, gEnOcIdE. And Kamala sounds foreign and I don’t know what she would do because I prefer to revel in ignorance instead of finding out myself.
I agree that there is genocide happening. I also understand that the guy who got elected is actively in favor of it and wouldn't lift a finger to stop it if everyone in the country begged him, while the person who lost was trying to balance millions of conflicting priorities (and sadly those dying are not the top priorities) and the result isn't what I want. There are other things to consider after you realize you're not going to get what you want.
Especially this previous election, since they're about to write the tax laws AGAIN which won't expire for another decade.
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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Also, until the Democratic party engages in serious reform that throws out the old leadership who keeps collaborating with fascists, slashing our safety nets, and throwing taxpayer money ~~and~~ at private for profit organizations we're going to keep getting these waves of fascists taking over every other election
e; autocorrect is reactionary /s
Doesn't matter. The GOP hold all three branches of government and will do whatever he tells them to do.
Fun thing about the GOP is that they are all rats waiting for the ship to sink. The minute they see that trump is weaker/unpopular among their base, they'll jump ship and try to sell him out
I'm waiting to watch Tea Party 2.0. If donvict dies or in some other way the spell breaks like it did under Dumbya....they'll pretend they "never heard of her" when it comes to donvict, and you suddenly won't be able to find any Republicans.
That's until they find their next China White to mainline. They ain't gonna settle for the likes of Romney and Jeb, that's for sure. They'll need someone even worse than donvict. They went from Ronnie Raygun - who was just fucking awful already, to W (arguably worse, though he probably did less damage than Ronnie Raygun), to diaper donvict.
Don’t give me hope
I don't know how viable that actually is, a decade of Trump flags and Trump shirts and Trump merchandise, and decades of Trump branding everywhere before that. The Trump cult is in too deep.
The GOP winners will probably be the ones that poach the Trump brand as "we are Trump's chosen ones to carry out Trump's vision for America", until his cultural significance wanes.
I honestly think there will be spontaneous dancing in the streets or wherever people are at if they learn of donnie's passing.
I hope his old age makes his life extremely difficult.
Ngl, I hope he dies. Soon.
Would it make a difference? His VP is a white supremacist, too, and his party still controls both chambers.
Cults of personality don't transfer power well, generally. I think that is why Project 2025 was such a big deal for them since it gave structure even when trump dies.
This. The demons behind Project 2025 that hate democracy and hate the Constitution are trying to get as much rammed through as possible because they know he won't last forever and the likelihood of finding another stooge that has sway over the stupid people like donvict does is not great.
Vance? Elon - even if he could run - Vivek? LOL, give me a break, they have zero charisma.
And these stupid people won't go back to methadone like Jeb or Romney - they got pure China White as donvict and were mainlining his hatred. I'm not sure if the qons will be able to find another donvict. A whole lot of stupid people saw his dumb game show and really do think he's a businessman, and that "businessman == good".
It's not even the businessman thing though. That is just a smokescreen for the fact that he is racist. Mark Cuban is objectively a 50x better capitalist businessman than trump ever was. He campaigned for Harris and all of the "strong businessmen best" people completely did a 180.
It is 100% only hatred and wanting certain people to die and every single other thing they say they care about is a smokescreen as proven by their own actions. Like how now the price of everything suddenly doesn't matter, because the "right" people are getting hurt.
Just like how DOGE doesn't actually go after inefficiencies like the extremely corrupt and inefficient military contractor sector but instead goes for things that hurt black people more like school lunches for 6 year olds.
And the VP is already third in command. Fifth if you count Putin and Thiel.
His death would provide America's favorite gender-neutral toilet, so that's something.
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Note approval ratings in the USA start with Truman so this is the lowest approval rating period.
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