• Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Does reading a “trump low in the polls” article or two every day make you feel better or optimistic?

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    16 hours ago

    Oh no the polls lmao.

    Meanwhile citizens are murdered in the streets. Glad THE POLLS are going to fix that real fast

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    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.

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    20 hours ago

    “Failure” and “gone too far” are understatements and give the impression it was all by accident.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    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.”

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      13 hours ago

      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

  • GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    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!!!

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      15 hours ago

      I mean the Dems trying to run a genocidaire who could barely speak coherently probably didn’t help matters

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    20 hours ago

    Just 42% of respondents said Trump’s second term has been a success.

    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.

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      21 hours ago

      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?

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        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).

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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          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.

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            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.”

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    21 hours ago

    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.

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    22 hours ago

    I really feel that this latest poll will finally start the fire that burns his “Whitehouse of doom” down. /s

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    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.

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    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- >:(

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      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.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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        I only voted for one issue.

        Hm, I wonder what that was.

        Regardless, it’s not like someone is going to spend four years on one issue.

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            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?

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              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.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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      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…

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        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

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      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.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.world
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      There was also a manual out. You didn’t even need to listen to him, you just had to read…

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    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.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      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.