Fuckin’ big media. Continually bobbing cat toys up and down just above our heads so we swipe like fools. Bring back truthful journalism again, not big media.
Does reading a “trump low in the polls” article or two every day make you feel better or optimistic?
Not at all
Oh no the polls lmao.
Meanwhile citizens are murdered in the streets. Glad THE POLLS are going to fix that real fast
“Failure” and “gone too far” are understatements and give the impression it was all by accident.
Project 2025 is 50% complete. That is not a failure.
Yeah, it’s like plans to attack Greenland is to far, but until then everything was fine.
There are a lot of people who are just now realizing, with the threats to Greenland, that the rest of the world won’t be coming to save them.
No shit, multiple people really do believe that NATO is supposed to be policing US internal politics, and liberating them from the orange turd.
It’s only now starting to dawn on them that the rest of the world will defend each other from the US, but they won’t save the US from itself.
There are too many interests external to the US that would stand to benefit from it’s collapse, beyond those that are actively trying to orchestrate it.
Uh… and what exactly are these americans doing about it…?
Sharing angry rehearsed AOC videos on Reddit and writing “wake up america 😡”, aren’t they brave? Isn’t that the greatest opposition you’ve ever seen?
Protests are becoming more frequent around here, even in the cold Southerners are not prepared for. This weekend I drove under a FUCK ICE protest on an overpass, with a FUCK ICE sticker on my car, to a store and passed a panhandler with a giant FUCK THE POLICE sign. Then my Mexican neighbors reached out to thank me for putting the sticker on my car. I feel a sense of alignment around me. I’m in Arkansas of all places. (I’m omitting quite a bit of anti-trans shit this weekend but that’s another story).
I’m a school bus driver and I drive across multiple freeway overpasses each day. On most days these have protestors with temporary signs up on the fences facing the highway traffic. The problem is I have no idea whether they’re pro-Trump or anti-Trump since I only see the backs of the signs. One time I could make out “Jan. 6” on one of the signs (this was on January 6th, natch) but I don’t know whether they were remembering the good old days or not.
There’s a guy on an overpass many mornings with a cardboard sign that is unreadable from the ground, I know what it says because I drive by him above (Deport Trump), but we do need some workshops on “how to make your sign readable because it’s worthless without that simple thing.”
Visual perspecitve is a hell of a thing. People don’t realize just HOW BIG overpass signs are and how big the lettering needs to be such that it can be read from the highway at highway speeds. USDOT recommends 16" high letters for highway overpasses.
we do need some workshops on “how to make your sign readable because it’s worthless without that simple thing.”
https://www.evergreenresistance.org/events/20250901/Overpass-Bannering-Tips.pdf maybe pass that around?
Why link this article instead of the CNN article all the info actually came from?
Disastrous poll shows Trump’s White House return is a ‘failure’: Americans say he’s ‘gone too far’ … and then added “but whatcha gunna do? I’m sure someone else will save us.”
There’s a literal post right now begging for the US to be invaded and its full of americans cracking the shits at people telling them to grow the fuck up and fix their own problems
Just 42% of respondents said Trump’s second term has been a success.
I’m not sure 42% approval is a disaster. In Europe that wold be an amazing result. Even in USA with all the gerrymandering, voter suppression laws and constitution in general giving advantage to red states that could be enough for them to win another term. Definitely enough to stop democrats from getting anything done.
We told you. God damn it, we voted against this. People forgot in 4 years why we voted him out!!! They all can go get bent!!!
I mean the Dems trying to run a genocidaire who could barely speak coherently probably didn’t help matters
Man, here at france, patrs has burned for way less than this.
I hope they eventually wake up and see that the only way to stop this obvious dictatorship forming is torches and pitchforks. But modernized.
I legitimately cannot comprehend polls where people who voted for Trump in 2024 changed their minds.
Trump- “Hey I’m going to do all this terrible shit”
Voters- “I’m going to vote for Trump presumably because I like his platform”
Trump- *does exactly what he said he was going to do*
Voters- >:(
I recently overheard a conversation between two people complaining about how, after the election, their friends unfollowed anyone who followed Trump.
Their argument was “I only voted for one issue. It’s not like I have time to know everything.”
It was an aggravating interaction, but also a strong reminder of just how ignorant the average voter is.
I only voted for one issue.
Hm, I wonder what that was.
Regardless, it’s not like someone is going to spend four years on one issue.
IKR? These people wanted to pretend they were picked on, the poor dears, for espousing small government, personal responsibility, waging war on “socialized medicine”, trading wicked memes about “Going Galt” or how the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
No, it’s always about them wanting to force people to host the worst versions of what a human being might say on their private platforms - spreading xenophobia, anti-gay, anti-trans, misogynist hate speech, or spreading outright lies about, oh, I don’t know, a pandemic.
Gosh, I wonder why what offends conservatives the most is when people want to disassociate from them for this last stuff? I mean, if it’s not a central plank of their movement and their platform?
They wrap it all up as freedom of speech, forgeting how fucking stupid they sound while desperately wishing the concept of hate-speech would go away except when they try to use it by saying that “cis” is a slur because these people have two malfunctioning braincells at best.
I think a lot of them heard what they wanted to hear. Certainly few wanted to read anything about Project 2025, even though it was a click away. Or voted with their “tribe” and know next to nothing about that tribe’s decades long platform, Taco’s specific agenda, Project 2025’s agenda, or the conservative “movement” that underlies all of it.
Or they were simply racist AF and thought all the undesirables were going to be whisked away as if by magic and without any kind of visible consequences like women shot and children gassed. Or they thought he “didn’t really mean it” but he’s a miracle-worker on the economy…
But that’s because Trump speaks in open ended words like - freedom, patriot, illegal. People create their own narrative for what those words mean, and apply it to Trump and then are surprised that their definition doesn’t match trumps… I mean they can’t know everything right? /s
Oh don’t worry, most of them who voted for him a third time are still cheering on the leopards with glee as all the smart-ass minorities and democrat-run areas get what’s coming to 'em!
I went and looked at the profile of a real life trumper who is no longer a friend, on a social media site that I also mostly avoid, and they are openly supporting ICE.
Their justification is literally “imagine if you or your loved one was killed by an illegal” after listing a random list of names of people who were supposedly killed by “ILLEGALS.” But it’s a 3-paragraph post written by somebody who seems to think they are very clever for coming up with a weak metaphor for “imagine if somebody got some shit instead of you” so it’s probably just a copypasta from some grifter they follow.
There was also a manual out. You didn’t even need to listen to him, you just had to read…
That’s the thing. They aren’t so good at the whole reading thing.
I really feel that this latest poll will finally start the fire that burns his “Whitehouse of doom” down. /s
Slightly negative poll numbers + strongly-worded letter = REVOLUTION!
Don’t worry, once they gain control over the last few independent news outlets and restructure social media algorithms they’ll be able to manipulate public perception to the point where they have broad public support. Especially when the ai bots wear the opposition out by convincing them they’re alone in their left wing views. Tech bros are ready to destroy democracy for profit.
Here in the UK, we were promised millions per week for the NHS, better jobs and “oven ready deals” to replace our relationship with the EU. Over 50% of people who voted fell for that bullshit. Some are upscaling to the further right Reform (UKs equivalent to MAGA). Telling bold lies will fool too many people, again and again. We cannot sit back. The motivated gobshites will vote us into oblivion.
I cannot imagine being such a dimwit as to be one of the people just now waking up to this.
I mean…did these people really not see his first term? Did they really think that the only reason he failed in his first term was because of Covid?
"What do you mean? Covid happened under Biden, as did anything else bad that happened during Trump’s presidency. "
Unironically have had to walk people through the timeline because they seriously believe covid entirely happened during Biden’s term.
The first round of covid stimulus checks that went out had trump’s fucking signature on them. He insisted that it be on there.
Do they not remember crowing about “not cashing the check if you hate him so much?” Because I fucking do.
Or all of the BS with pseudoscientific treatment of the week? Including injecting bleach and UV light?
Oh, that’s just what they need to do to maintain mar-a-lago face.
And for those that think you’re joking. The showdy is often relevant.
I forgot about the O’Reily clip. Impressive levels of cognitive dissonance that people go through to justify their feelings on events. I’m still baffled that people can misremember basic timelines facts involved with one of the biggest disruptions of people’s lifetimes that only had happened a few years ago. Realizing how fictional people’s memories were about even recent major events made it a lot more understandable how people were so easily manipulated in to thinking a billionaire conartist was somehow going to try to help them this time.
No wonder the same bunch think Biden had “the worst economy”, LOL. Cannot even recall basic recent history.
No no no!!! Covid happened under tan suit Obama. /s
The majority of my coworkers have casually stated the last week, “I don’t agree with the way this is all happening.”, but still overall support the agenda and hold their line. It’s a combination of ignorance and stupidity. They’re just fascists without even knowing. I live in a deep red area and from what I can gather when I hear talk out in the street, most people are either completely unaware or excited “they’re taking America back.” There is no convincing these people. I have tried for years and years, and when they seem to hear you and begin to digest what you’ve said, they come back the next day more sure than before that Facebook and Fox keep them informed. Many of them can’t tell you what the three branches of government are or how many Senators there are or provide correct answers on the simplest of civics questions.
It’s truly incomprehensible to most blue/libs that magas and conservatives are genuinely and permanently deranged cultists
They really believe it’s possible to use words and logic to convince them of things, hence the poster being confused why they aren’t convinced of anything
Because our elected officials refuse to talk like this and many constantly stress how bipartisan they try to be with everything. Saying “about 35% of this country are raving psychopaths who can not be compromised with and must be disempowered” is not an easy feel good campaign message but it’s what people need to hear.
Yeah it’s incredibly dangerous to simply ignore or pretend that these are rational people to negotiate with
They certainly aren’t negotiating with us so I’m not sure when these compromise is king types will realize this is a kill or be killed situation
Anyone who says “reach across the isle” in the primary is an automatic no. These people are not interested in governing. They are openly hostile.
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear’s work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.
^ Maybe we should prevent this sort of thing, no?
A huge chunk of Americans either don’t pay close attention or get their news through heavily propagandized sources.
A majority of Americans polled in the survey – 58% – characterized Trump’s first year of his second term as a “failure,” according to the poll.
Just 42% of respondents said Trump’s second term has been a success.
Imagine how dim the 42% must be.
From my experience living in the US, I would say “dim” is an incorrect characterization. Supportive of corruption, crime and dishonesty is IMO a much more accurate characterization.
21% of American adults are functionally illiterate. I wonder if that 42% has all of the 21%?
The 42% are locked on Fox News.
The majority of Americans have significant, legitimate material and social grievances that cause them real duress. Most are surrounded by a curated low-information media environment and society that reinforces punching down, zero sum in-out group thought, scapegoating, etc. And the only official political choice they’re ever allowed is between two preselected corporate stooges.
I think we’re the dimwits if we’re confused as to why Trump has so much inertia.
I would disagree (not from the US, but I have lived there, travelled extensively and have American friends who I speak to pretty regularly).
The “low information” environment is a choice (especially nowadays). Scapegoating is a choice. A two party state is a choice. Even the unaddressed material and social grievances is a choice. US is rich enough to solve all these issues with no problem at all.
The real issue is that a significant portion of Americans support corruption, crime and believe lying is good. While at the same time parroting tedious polemics about “freedumz and shiiit”.
And on top of that the majority of the voter base of the centre-right opposition is fundemantely opposed to anti-corruption, anti-crime and governance (in terms of real outcomes, not words). Most of them are simply too well off to risk rocking the boat (until it’s too late).
While this is a gross generalisation, there is a reason why the following stereotype is applied to Americans:
There are no poor people in the US, just soon-to-be billionaires
The majority of Americans have significant, legitimate material and social grievances that cause them real duress.
And yet, most of the grievances that Trump bleats about are neither significant nor legitimate. “THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS AND CATS!!!”
Quit pretending those fools are reasonable and have anything behind their hatred besides stupidity.
And the only official political choice they’re ever allowed is between two preselected corporate stooges.
Go on, say that both sides are the same.
At some point over the years these rage-blind takes stop being cathartic and start becoming an apologetic distraction from the institutions that prefigure our social issues in the first place.
zero sum in-out group thought
Curious what you mean by zero sum in this context.
The conservative fallacy that the sum of all positives and negatives in the world is always zero, therefore good cannot be had by all and must always be had at someone else’s expense.
The old “I don’t really win unless someone else loses.”
Thanks.
The people who support Trump after even 2018 are literally so cognitively disabled, I would genuinely submit for consideration that those people are as true to NPCs as possible.
Your average cockroach is more capable of self reflection and complex critical thinking than your average Trump supporter.
Bacertia is a better candidate for holding its own personal, and expansive personal thoughts than a Trump supporter.
ChatGPT is more capable of hallucinating genuine human empathy and emotional intelligence than a Trump supporter.
Cosmic background radiation is more grounded to Earth than a Trump supporter.
These people are simply stupid beyond repair and shouldn’t be respected as equals in any capacity.
i wonder if you are aware that you are brainwashing yourself
One thing worth considering, is that on a global/historical basis it is not unheard of for whole societies (strong majority if not overwhelming majority) to descend into degeneracy, chauvinism and corruption.
In a sense, this is not something specific to the US. These things unfortunately happen.
I see where you are coming from, but I think it’s dangerous to give too much benefit of the doubt and to look at things as we want them to be, not how they are.
I don’t disavow that potential. It’s a real potential. It’s a terrifyingly real potential. And shit like the comment above and the mentality it expresses certainly doesn’t make that potential better.
I disagree with this framing.
I’ve travelled and lived for several years in many countries across NA (including the US) Europe and Asia.
One thing that I’ve learned is that it’s important to keep an open mind, to look at the good things in a given society/culture and to not be overly judgemental. It’s important to not frame thing in terms of expectations from another environment.
That being said there are limits to everything. Looking at the trajectory of American society, it is not unreasonable to speculate that their march towards a chauvinistic, corrupt plutocracy is not going to stop.
I would love to be wrong (it’s a disaster that the US has essentially turned into a mafia state), but to deny reality is the definition of cope.
“Comment above” referring to our ancestor comment, not yours. That comment just strives to paint a starkly black and white image, because black and white certainty (even if it’s wrong) serves the emotional needs of the poster. It does not offer any practical value against the slide into autocracy. It only makes things worse. Everyone should keep their coping to themselves, cope privately, and not inflict it upon others. We need to conserve our common spaces for better forms of thought.
The only people brainwashing themselves are those so fucking stupid they think people who’ve gleefully supported Nazism for over 10 years now don’t explicitly and knowingly support autocracy and genocide.
Maybe stop coping and pretending these assholes can be redeemed in any way and aren anything but a hostile enemy that’d see you and everyone like you die, and are currently making big strides to seeing that through.
The left loses when we constantly shoot our own balls off and attempt empathy and understanding to these sadistic sociopaths who’ve only ever demonstrated doubling down in that direction.
So get with reality or sit down and shut the fuck up, because people like you hold all real progress back. Stop cucking yourself to Nazis.
You don’t know a fucking thing about me. You just want to work yourself up into a pseudoreligious froth. Because that’s how you are coping with your fear and insecurity. But it’s fucked up and it doesn’t advance the goals you claim to care about. It’s childish and harmful to those around you. Grow the fuck up and do something KIND for the world, if you’re so fucking afraid of nazis, you coward (since we’re apparently calling names now).
I know exactly what you are. You are like every other pathetic, fucking moronic leftist who wants to tuck their balls inside themselves and make peace with those gleefully supporting or outright committing atrocities to all the marginalized peoples you pretend to care about to virtue signal and feel better about yourself.
Wake up and join the rest of us in reality, you fuck. Stop with the Neville Chamberlain bullshit. You really want people to find the innocence in the party spearheading genocide domestically, destroying the rule of law entirely, sending the military into opposition cities to quell dissidents, destabilizing countries by illegally kidnappings their leadership, threatening NATO (of which two other member nations have nukes), and fundamentally destroying the economy for the benefit of delusional billionaires?
And you have the fucking audacity to disagree that these assholes aren’t Nazis? The mother fuckers doing all of that, plus constantly spam fucking Nazi dog whistles to the public? Seriously?
Are you just stupid or are you stupid and on their side? You act like a fucking 1990’s liberal, as if these people committing so many atrocities can be conquered and tamed with talk and strongly worded letters. Wake the fuck up and stop being so fucking pathetic. At least 1/3rd of the country is fully in support of the atrocities this pedophile piece of shit president is committing. They are a hostile enemy. Wake the fuck up for once in your miserable life. The world isn’t a fucking fairy tale like you want it to be.
What’s your favorite Obama war?
Give us a list of them so we can choose.
There’s Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, & Somalia. Iraq and Afghanistan are carryovers from Bush, so those would be cheating.
Probably Libya then.
Im in Canada and have friends who believed his second term would be mostly as feckless as his first.
They didn’t understand how project 2025 meant he was going to be coming out of the gate with someone else’s agenda with all of the key players, including scotus in his back pocket. It all lined up to mean shit was going to go down fast and hard.
Look where we are one year in. 3 more years to subvert or nullify the next election.
These voters have 4 year memory capacity, at best.
The US was showing signs of a recession Sept 2019, 6 months before COVID really shut things down. Things weren’t going to be great for us, covid or no covid.
