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Ah yeah, double think
Winning the popular vote is being unpopular
Winning the election is losing the election
Not voting for Trump is voting for Trump
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
There are not 4 lights, but 5 lights
The stunlock continues and intensifies
Maybe some of those people who he's not popular with should have fucking voted.
But … the last guy who was not even on the ballot is as old as Trump. And eggs are expensive. And another country is waging war, sorry, gEnOcIdE. And Kamala sounds foreign and I don’t know what she would do because I prefer to revel in ignorance instead of finding out myself.
I agree that there is genocide happening. I also understand that the guy who got elected is actively in favor of it and wouldn't lift a finger to stop it if everyone in the country begged him, while the person who lost was trying to balance millions of conflicting priorities (and sadly those dying are not the top priorities) and the result isn't what I want. There are other things to consider after you realize you're not going to get what you want.
Doesn't matter. The GOP hold all three branches of government and will do whatever he tells them to do.
Fun thing about the GOP is that they are all rats waiting for the ship to sink. The minute they see that trump is weaker/unpopular among their base, they'll jump ship and try to sell him out
I don't know how viable that actually is, a decade of Trump flags and Trump shirts and Trump merchandise, and decades of Trump branding everywhere before that. The Trump cult is in too deep.
The GOP winners will probably be the ones that poach the Trump brand as "we are Trump's chosen ones to carry out Trump's vision for America", until his cultural significance wanes.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
And yet he still got re-elected. We are the dumbest nation comprised of the most idiotic people to ever exist in history.
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? *
And the thing people are most upset about is renaming the Gulf. What in the absolute fuck?
Trans people are attempting to flee the country fearing for their lives
...and the thing people care about is the fucking Gulf of Mexico getting renamed
Because people in this country have the memory of a fucking goldfish. I'm sure it's going to drop hard in a week.
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.
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 fact that even if all the non-voters voted for a mix of third parties, it would still net the same result under this system, tells you all you need to know about FPTP.
People really hate women presidential candidates apparently.
That must be it. No other lesson to be learnt.
Lol no. Studies have been done about this. The average voter doesn't give five shits if the candidate is a man or a woman.
3 chances at guessing what the average voter cares about.
Hint: it's not gender policies, pronouns or social culture wars
When the average voter doesn't give a damn either way while someone else cares deeply, but only in one direction, it makes the minority the most important demographic.
Let's say you have a choice between "A" and "1", and 98% of people don't care. But 2 percent care deeply and will vote based on the superiority of "A", while nobody votes based on their support of "1."
All else being equal, if one pay ignores the issue while the other adopts the platform of "A is great, and 1 is bad", the latter party will win the election.
That's how the GOP wins elections. They target single-issue voters: Gun nuts. Pro-lifers. Racists. Christian Nationalists. Relatively small groups that vote in lockstep without a significant equivalent group on the other side of the issue.
Sure: most people are pro-choice. But how many pro-choice Democrats would have changed their vote if Trump and Harris had opposite positions than reality on those issues but were otherwise identical? I certainly wouldn't have voted for Trump over it. But pro-life voters absolutely will change based on that single issue.
It's why every single time the Dems make that a central issue, they get slaughtered in the general election. Pro-choice Republicans simply don't prioritize the right to choose over everything else, so they keep voting red.
The Republicans are masters of finding and manufacturing single-issue voting groups that will vote against their own interests to achieve a goal the GOP doesn't actually care about.
Brilliant observation, thank you.
Your people are rock chewing stupid, that’s the big issue
As long as you need those "Rock chewing stupid" people to win an election, and you keep thinking of them as such, you will KEEP losing elections
Those "rock chewing stupid" people are LITERALLY American workers. You know, the people that for good or bad keep the country running?
And then democrats have the gall to call themselves the party of the worker man.
Pathetic
Doesn't matter; we are still infected with the donvict cancer.
I hope his old age makes his life extremely difficult.
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.
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.
They really do invoke the thought of a goldfish, don't they?