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As much as I like seeing the high disapproval numbers, I find it a bit disappointing how many people will turn on their president over gas prices. I mean, after all the insane shit this guy has pulled, all it takes is a buck or two more per gallon to turn them. We aren't even in a shortage situation. No lines. Nothing.
I think it’s more a case that the people for whom gas prices are A Thing have now joined all the people who already disapproved of him… so another 5% of the population, who believed his lies right up until there was no denying that his actions were hitting their pocketbooks.
But that's the point: the suffering of others, which they could prevent simply by voting, wasn't enough for them. It wasn't until it hit them in the pocketbook this way (after reduced healthcare and still-unmaintained infrastructure and tariff tax and, and, and) in addition to all this other ways it preventably hit them in the pocketbook already, that now they jump on board the harm-reduction bandwagon.
There are simply no more arguments for supporting this man that make sense logically; and there haven't been for 10 years (before his first narcissist orade if fools), of course, but the apology now needs to be a little more sincere.
As someone else put it: "I'm fine with rapes and pedophilia, but I draw the line at higher gas prices!"
What does that say about America? I think it's past saving to be honest.
Probably that the rural, least populated parts of the country hold a disproportionate amount of political power and this is a consequence of that. Well that and the deliberate defunding/deconstruction of our education system.
Nothing the rest of the world didn't already know.
Honestly it's the same here in France, and I suspect everywhere... Most people only give a shit about criminal/immoral behavior from the elite if it confirms their political bias. If it's their guy they'll wring their hands for a couple of seconds and go "oh well, what can you do? They're all the same anyways", or even outright defend them.
I fear you're right. It'd be foolish to think America has a monopoly on short-sighted, selfish dimwits. Rassemblement National and AfD polls bear sad testimony to this.
You're saving to be honest, but I'm saving for the invasion. We are not the same.
It has immediate impact and they cannot lie about the giant numbers in their face while they pump. Even the dumbest of people can grasp this.
This.
ICE kidnapping people doesn't affect them because they are special. They are in the in-group.
Why can't they grasp it when he boldly lies to our faces?
Honestly? I think for most they're too far deep in the right-wing Matrix to be able to tell truth from lies. Many people don't fully understand just how these people live in a completely alternate reality than the likes of you and me.
Yeah I get that. I just don't understand how gas prices are able to permeate that veil, while disappearing healthcare, people being abducted off the street and shoved into concentration camps, international pedophile rings, intimidation of the media, bribery, and white people being cut down in the street without consequences, etc. etc. remains firmly sequestered.
All of those examples are things they know about through the press and social media. So either they chose not to believe the lying press, or they get the content moderated in such a way that it all sounds acceptable. The latter of course takes having sick values, but not as sick as you would expect based on the info you get about what is happening in the world.
Yea. There are by now hundreds of valid reasons to kick that guy, and gas prices are the deal breaker?
Many Americans just seem to hate all other humans
I would say it's more pathological indifference, likely spawned from the idolization of "rugged individualism". I'm often reminded of a nearly decade-old article titled "I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People".