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A third of those assholes look at the Trump family and say that’s cool but did you know about Hunter?
That’s because they’re not hiding it anymore since there are no consequences to the corruption.
The 11% must have their head parked up their ass, since donnie is doing the billion-dollar cash grab right out in the open.
And I bet about thirty+ percent or so of the 89% are thinking of Hunter’s “laptop” or Obama’s latte salute or tan suit or long form birth certificate or whatever the fuck, not the egregious shit this admin is doing.
You can buy early access to the President’s tweets
with the openly expressed purpose of using them as insider information to guide investments… they are not even pretending it’s for any legal purpose
And that probably doesn’t even make the top ten in the list of corrupt shit he’s done this year.
The most concerning thing about this stat, is when you realize roughly 30% of Americans are so mentally ill from propaganda that they believe him and his fascist cronies are the “goodies” fighting corruption.
Imagine being such a galaxy brained conservative that in just over a year, you went from constantly talking about Epstein to not wanting to talk about it at all now while watching the Republican Party actively covering it up, because something something “the Democrats”.
The something something is that they’re very open to and easily swayed by propaganda due to the nature of their belief systems and they genuinely thought democrats were the primary group susceptible to damage from Epstein revelations and investigations, prosecutions, but once it dawned on them that they were conned by the con man they sent to harm people they dislike, they got embarrassed and decided to move on to the next talking point they were handed. The problem is republicans don’t have great and convincing talking points at present that don’t point back at them in negative lights, so they are sticking to the old cultural warfare battles like trans, communism, gays, think of the children, Muslims, etc, but the economy has collapsed so hard already that their core base can’t ignore it and just parrot those cultural talking points while enjoying poverty that mostly affects their enemies and only somewhat their own lives.
It’s weird to see people that were soooo galvanized by this shit, especially during donnie’s first failed term, and were on Parler, deep in the Pizzagate thing, then the Qanon thing, bought into the “save the children” psyop, etc.
I mean, for some, it’s nearly all they wanted to talk about during Covid. And during the run-up to the 2024 election. It was practically their identity.
Only to have all that excitement fizzle out.
It’s kind of like talking to birthers. So many of them were just so sure that somehow, all their endeavors to “expose” Obama because the “liberal media” didn’t “properly vet him” (lol) was going to mean he was going to be impeached in his first term. Or at least, the voters wouldn’t be fooled the second time. And then he had two terms.
Same thing: suddenly the birthers are almost nowhere to be found. These days, trying to find someone that will admit (at least in public) to being into Qanon or being a birther, is about as hard as finding someone that voted for W sometime after 2008…it’s almost like the conservatives are great at falling for complete horseshit, never learning anything, and never owning up to it.
I figure it’s why their brands of Christianity are so popular despite losing ground with younger generations, because they don’t have to admit they’re wrong about their faith if it turns out to not be truth, they’re just dead. It doesn’t matter to them if they fucked everyone and everything over with their beliefs, cause they’re gone and their wake of destruction doesn’t follow them personally. No need to be embarrassed and pretend you never believed it.
They’re not even bothering to hide it anymore.
90% say they will vote for the same people they’ve always voted for in order to help end the corruption.
The corruption in 3rd world countries is way better because at least it’s local. You bribe local police and they spend the money in the community.
Our money is just going into some asshole’s Bitcoin wallet
To be fair a lot a lot of develping world corruption goes to their national politiicians, and they like to move to london after they lose position. Or the US. London caters to them.
They actually do spend money on infrastructure projects, it just gets stolen. But yeah a lot of the corruption is local, and stems ultimately from not paying government workers living wages, and not prosecuting corruption.
But that’s neither here nor there with these fucking gangsters running the US.
99.99999% fify
I’m in n the 11% that doesn’t believe corruption is all that wide spread. But I do believe incompetence is.
Incompetence is definitely a factor but not nearly as bad as the corruption coming from the top. When you have billionaires lavishing the president with money and gifts in exchange for favors how can that be anything but corruption.
Is this Hanlon’s razor? I would argue that it’s not that they don’t know, it’s that they don’t care, but it’s still fucked up either way.
Perhaps you could define what you mean by widespread? It’s pretty clear to me that corruption is present in every level of US government.
Everything is for sale, and the executive branch is running a literal protection racket to business, favours and bribes for government actions, selling pardons, and so much else.
