He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.

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[–] [S] 194 points 2 months ago (33 children)

How can 1/3 of Americans think this child rapist is doing a good job?

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  • [–] 115 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

    It's simpler than that. To them, "communists" and "socialists" are the same, and it's anyone that doesn't think businesses should be able to do anything they want, and any person non-conforming to their personal view of "normal" isn't even human. While most will not, some will even admit both of those publicly.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    See: "The Case for Fascism" youtube video just released by Steven Crowder. No need to watch it to give them more views, but it's fucking crazy. You can watch all kinds of reaction explainers on it.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The American Fascist Right was clearly on the wrong side when they publicly called Mister Rogers an "evil, evil man" back in 2007 (notably, 4 years after his death).

    https://mashable.com/video/fox-and-friends-mr-rogers-evil
    https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-blame-mr-rogers-25e2e90ff05/
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-fred-rogers-evil/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Isn’t it funny that every older generation accuses every younger generation of being weak and spoiled? This time, they wanted to scapegoat a national treasure, who did more for kids than any of their bullshit trickle-down, bootstrap, hate-filled policies.

    To these cretins, they’re constantly living in fear and anger about society being on the verge of collapse, unless people buy into their hyper-masculine, violent, parternalistic and ultracapitalist worldview.

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    REPUBLICAN

    VOTERS

    LOVE

    RAPING

    CHILDREN

    AND

    GENOCIDE

    Everyone who ever gaslit you that this wasn't the case was wrong.

    Republicans are, at their very best, the parents who know their kids are being raped by an adult, and punish the kid for speaking up about it because it embarrasses them and they rather the child rape happen in the dark.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Turns out the people who are quickest to say something is unamerican are also the same people who will ignore American values like the Pledge of Allegiance and the US Constitution just to "win."

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 2 months ago*

    The Pledge began as a marketing gimmick:

    As branding expert John Gorman outlines, the pledge began with an initiative from The Youth’s Companion, a Boston-based magazine looking to expand beyond its religious roots. To reach a broader audience, the editors launched a nationwide effort to place American flags in public schools, offering them as incentives for new subscriptions.

    Not such a great example of "American values", or perhaps since it started as a corporate marketing gimmick it's a perfect example.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    He hates women, black people and minorities in general.

    He's loud, crass, obnoxious.

    He's tacky.

    He's petty.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    They’re locked in a decades-long cycle of abusive extraction.

    American religion, politics, economics, and ecology are reaching the limits of an unsustainable system that only knows how to extract wealth and power. The Soviet Union collapsed for similar reasons. Above all, that form of government collapsed under the weight of propping up The Party’s false reality and its debts to the truth. Real operating principles flow from hard-learned evidence, experience, and wisdom. Societies simply cannot operate indefinitely from convoluted principals engineered to benefit only the few. This is the flaw in the philosophy behind modern conservatism - it’s fundamentally abusive.

    People stick with the devils they know. When long-term planning is negated by the cognitive load of navigating abuse, it can be almost impossible to adapt to new sustainable modes of thinking and living. When the house of cards collapses, those unable to adapt cannot be saved.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It's probably those that think it's liberal media lies (I was going to use slander but they probably don't know the meaning of the word) and he's doing a good job at sticking it to the Democrats.

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