I'm just throwing this out there, but has he maybe tried not being an absolute piece of shit?
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That's crazy talking! We have other solutions: banning polls, cheating polls, outright faking polls. There is no alternative here!
Besides, at this stage, if he was to ask what he could do to make things right, he would get a range of answers from "resign" to "kill yourself in the most painful way you can".
I'm planning to celebrate when he drops through 30%. He can do it, I have total faith in his virtuosic incompetence.
He's been "fuming", "exploding", "blasting", and "slamming" for several years now. Fuck mainstream media
Daily beast is garbage.
The one thing I like about the Daily Beast is that they always put his age in the title. I always read that as "here something else this old motherfucker did"
Yeah. Every other headline is about how Trump MELTED, or CRASHED OUT, or left SHITTING IN HIS DIAPERS.
Wake me up when Trump is in jail or sleeping forever.
Bullshit. He could care less. All it is is an indicator his misinformation etc is working just dandy.
Yeah, 'tied with 2017' and this is supposed to be news. The only news here is that 30% of the electorate remain idiots. I'm kind of dead curious to see what the world would have to look like for them to gain even the tiniest shred of awareness. Unfortunately, we might actually get the chance.
Crazy that 34% still approve of him but I guess realistically it cant get that much lower considering 10% will always be contrarians and 20% is about amount of americans that actively want to destroy the American project. for context I'm not an american
Oh it finally moved from 40% to 35%? Amazing. Probably exclusively due to gas prices.
Only things that affect them personally. Not even their kids, as evidenced by their antivaxxer indulgence. Just them.
If you look back at Nixon's numbers, even as he resigned in total disgrace, it will tell you a lot. The teaching of that history might lead one to believe it would be at or near zero approval, but that's not the case.
I doubt that Americans are all that unique in this by the way. I bet every country has their base of anti-intellectuals who want to see others being hurt (esp. women, POC, gays) and to give the finger to people that know more than they do, have more education than they do, etc. - AKA, the group of people these dumbasses call "elites".
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I hope that when he dies, he will know he was unloved his whole life. Especially the last 10 of them.
I can guarantee you that he won't, because as a narcissist, his brain is utterly incapable of even forming such a thought.
There's still people that approve of him?
80+ million of them. It reminds me of the George Carlin quote: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Many. I haven't seen any signs of his support waning where I live. Same signs, flags, bumper stickers, etc. Even the Trump 2028 crap. And if you read the comments on my local newspaper's website, you'll hear plenty from them.
His current obsession with the threat of "communism" really seems to be resonating with them.
How can 1/3 of Americans think this child rapist is doing a good job?
Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.
btw "communists" are just any people who think the health insurance industry is fucked and way too expensive, and that all people deserve to be treated equally, and that the ultra wealthy shouldn't have as much power as they do.
Has nothing to do with actual communism but the far right propaganda machine is trying to poison any of these ideas with a radioactive word to anyone who remembers the red scare in the 1950s (which, btw, was also a complete bullshit witch hunt because workers were getting too many rights at that point and starting to cut into potential profits of the ultra wealthy cancerous tumors).
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Their separation from our reality is total and goes back many years. It’s not like they lived the same life but just this morning decided “nah that child rapist guy is ok.” For years they have been hearing from totally different information sources (I use this term loosely) a totally different narrative. It’s just one partisan witch hunt after another to them. None of it is real.
The fuller and more interesting version of your question is how 1/3 of America came to live in an alternate reality. I think we know most of that story but it is the real phenomenon at the bottom of this
I have seen two different people recently with a trump 2028 yard sign, and wearing a trump 2028 shirt. People are evil morons.
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Rule proposal: no putting Trump's age near the front of the headline unless it's the headline for which we're all waiting.
I actually kind of like it. Nobody ever shut up about how old biden was even though his admin did all the work. Trump is a much worse -- sorry, I mean "hands on" leader, so his age is even more relevant. When he acts like the petulant baby he is journalists should absolutely remind everyone that he's a geriatric.
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As long as outlets like the Daily Beast keep talking about him and keeping his name out there he is getting what he wants. You want to hurt Trump, one of the best ways is to not pay any attention to him.
I find it almost unbelievable that 30+% still support him !?
And 30℅ were on the fence about putting an impeached rapist with a history of self enrichment and grifting into the highest office in the land. Apparently they were ok with it.
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He hadn't had a stroke so far, so the polls are still not bad enough.
Apart from that, how can a third of the country still not grasp what is happening?
A third of the country has been denied adequate education and services because the inequitable distribution of resources towards affluent urban versus poor rural areas.
Democrats have failed to significantly improve the material conditions in some of the poorest areas of the country, so a lot of rural voters feel betrayed and would rather go with the guy who is a outright greedy jerk, than the politician who talks out of the side of their mouth, while still obeying their corporate masters.
That's not entirely true though. Biden got through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill that invested heavily in developing rural electric and internet. He also supported the USDA ReConnect Program, and several other initiatives. Many of these things that Democrats helped pushed through were celebrated as "wins" by Republican Representatives.
What were they expecting?
Edit". I will say that more investments should have been made in education, but I will always say that we don't invest enough in education.
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Unless this results in a Democrat landslide so substantial that they sweep every Senate seat up for grabs and win huge in the House, I cannot see this being the end of Trump. It would need to be a more substantial result than this year's Hungary Parliament elections which awarded Magyar a two-thirds majority that could undo the damage Viktor Orban did upon the state.
Donald has been impeached twice. Both impeachments failed because you need a two-thirds majority in the Senate to convict. A third impeachment will probably fail unless the scenario I outlined above does happen by some absolute fluke.
If anything, Trump is far more likely to be removed via the 25th Amendment. He's 80 years old, showing worsening signs of dementia, and I can definitely see the cabinet trying to convince him to stand down and let Vance salvage their chances for 2028. That is unless Trump chooses to challenge their attempts to invoke the 25th Amendment, in which case it goes to Congress. A two-thirds majority will then be needed in both houses to remove Trump.
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My god seeing that the us president is 80 makes me fucking sick. I hate it here.
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unparalleled respect and success throughout the World
Uh… that’s one way to say it. Unparalleled.
The big question is how far will the non-senile members of his administration go to keep the midterms - and if the Democrats will actually impeach and remove if they do manage, in spite of themselves, to get the power to do so.
Bro they got a dead guy they’re pretending is alive, they’ll do anything.
Still too high.
matching his post-Jan. 6 trough
WTF happened in the interim? Fucking bird brains forgot about all the impossibly stupid shit he did and said?
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Wait, what? How did his approval rating shoot up to 34%? It was at 29% last time I checked... We need to get that percentage back down below 30!
Any number greater than zero is a clear symptom of a failed society and state.
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