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Trump least popular newly elected president since Second World War – except for himself
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Remember a week ago when he had his highest approval rating ever when he took office?
Well, that sure was quick. The goldfish have remembered why we got rid of him in the first place.
He's the only President to never reach 50% approval, yet he's been elected twice.
That's all the evidence you need to know that our election system is broken.
The important thing to remember is that this doesn’t matter at all. If you’re a progressive who is overwhelmed by the state of affairs and looking for a hint of good news, this aint it.
This will affect nothing
Least popular, but not unpopular enough to vote against.
About 29% of Americans voted for Trump. If we look only at the people who voted, then about 49% voted for him. Stop trying to make it seem like it's the people's fault. The electoral system is clearly broken.
Ummm those that didn't vote are also responsible. It IS the people's fault. But they shouldn't see it that way. Either they are ok with fascism or actively crave it. Apparently the majority of us are fascists or think we are.
You're working off of an extremely idealized view of the electoral system.
No I'm not. I'm also not saying it isn't broken. What I'm saying is usually the more people that vote, the more democratic it gets and that people who don't care enough to even figure out who's running in elections are NOT blameless.
Yes, they are. A system that allows a candidate who didn't even get half the votes to run the country is fundamentally broken and not participating in it, for whatever reason, doesn't make you at fault. It's the orphan crushing machine all over again.
From what I read it was about 32% of eligible voters voted for him.
That's excluding all the people who are ineligible to vote. He got 77 million out of 340 million population. That's only roughly 22% of all Americans voted for him if my math is correct.
The electoral system is broken.
But people in swing states stayed home. The buck stops there.
There's also mounting evidence that many of them didn't actually stay home.
This needs to be its own post, if it isn't already.
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 swayed 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.
This is what I keep saying to my friends when we argue politics
We can no longer just say that Dumpster Don is an idiot
We can now say that the entire US is one giant collective idiot
The nation is dumb .... so is it any wonder that they have a dumb leader?
It makes me so sad. I live here and I feel constant shame, anger, depression. I always say the right is filled with hate, but I find myself hating and it bothers me. I try to understand everyone.
But we're reaching the point of how much tolerance should intolerant people be shown? And I'm over it personally, fuck anybody who voted for him/not at all and fuck him too.
Let's just hope that we don't use that position to terrorize other nations further than we already have
Maybe some of those people who he's not popular with should have fucking voted.
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...
'Fell for'
I'm sorry, it's a very simple conclusion that the genocide will be worse under Trump. There is quite literally no way you can interpret otherwise - he has made it very clear what his plans for Israel are.
They didn't 'fall' for anything, they're just fucking stupid. They didn't think, at all.
I try to give some the benefit of the doubt - there are a few that genuinely do seem to think that "both sides" is a valid position.
But yeah, a whole lot of voters demand that the Democratic Party gives them a pretty pretty pony and if they don't get one, they will then proclaim just how extremely moral it is for them to be extremely selfish in their unrealistic demands and will loudly sit out or cast a "protest vote". All of us are incredibly impressed, of course. Many of this same bunch will now proceed to the next step where they sit their with arms folded, adopting this "I told you should have listened to us" attitude.
If not sitting around with this smug attitude, they'll put on a Pikachu face for all the horrible shit donvict and the qons will do to America, but probably forget all that come the next election, where they will demand a pony from the Democrats again, or they will withhold their vote. 🤦♂️
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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.
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