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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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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 hours ago (13 children)

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

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 5 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] credo@lemmy.world 2 points 9 minutes ago

Assaults on education work

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 17 minutes ago

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.

[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 44 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 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).

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 48 minutes ago (1 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.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago (1 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.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 26 minutes ago

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/

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 hours ago

I have seen two different people recently with a trump 2028 yard sign, and wearing a trump 2028 shirt. People are evil morons.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 hour ago

It's a cult. Most will never stop believing.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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."

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 hour ago

They have turds for brains

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 4 points 2 hours ago

Because 1/3 of Americans what to rape children.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 hour ago

Because he wears a red tie or whatever the team colors are

[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

He "triggers the libs"

[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours 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.