The answer to how Trump has succeeded is really simple: He lies nonstop, and lying works. Sure, there are other factors in play—he tapped into and intensified a certain strain of profound proletarian resentment of liberal elites, and … well, that’s about it. But mostly, it’s the lies.
…And, to reiterate, Trump tells many such lies a day. He talks to the press two or three times a day most days, which probably adds up to what, 45 minutes, an hour? Spitballing it at one lie every two minutes, which may well be low, that’s around 25 factual lies a day.
I’d still rub it in on a tRump voter. They complain to me about losing Medicaid? I’d ask, “why are you so upset? This is what you voted for.”
I’m getting tired of saying this: no the fuck they aren’t. Trump’s approval rating is at 41% today, which is higher than it was a couple weeks ago.
I agree with the sentiment, but disagree with the polling.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin Show’s the Cheeto down
RCP shows him at least level with a few weeks ago, and way down overall.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
There are others as well, but basically, he’s beginning to hurt hard on some of the issues and that’s making midterms looks difficult for the Republican next year. It’s telling to me that he’s stopped his tariff crusade, especially lifting ones on food. Also did the ACA extension, in spite of being so against it that he wanted to remove the filibuster. His staff is desperate for big wins and he’s been stymied in finding them when the courts reject his deployments, curtail or.monitor his ICE raids, and even reject his parties gerrymandering attempts. Many many people are beginning to just ignore his histrionic, such as Ukraine and Europe, as well as China.
In essence, while I am not as optimistic as the article, as I think he’s got lots of damage to be done under the news radar (like gutting the edu dept), I do think the middle ground who voted him in (the middle 20% of voting Americans, not the conservative 40%, or progressive 40%) has come to realize the folly of their choice… Or begun to.
I want to see polling from the realestclearestpolling.com and if it doesn’t align with my expectations I’m going with bestestmostawesomepolling.com. I still have a few more. I’ll keep searching for more.
Everybody keeps saying, this, this latest shenanigan will be the one that finally wakes America up so they can somehow end this. And it never is. The camel’s back is vibranium.
Dumbasses so desperate for just a small hit of copium. You think that over the course of the last fucking decade, something would have sunk in for idiots to realize they’re being fed horseshit, but no. They’ll keep believing the house of cards is totally going to fall down any day now because they read some bullshit tweet and are too fucking stupid to look up facts for themselves.
Say four guys are sitting in a bar having a sports argument—talking about the upcoming college football playoffs, say. They begin by agreeing that Ohio State is the favorite because it is currently ranked number one in the polls, which it in fact is.
But one of them says: No, Texas A&M is number one. The other three look at him like he’s insane. They reach for their phones, they tap, tap, tap, and they show him the rankings. But he keeps insisting. Those polls are fake. It’s Texas A&M. Everybody says so.
The conversation stalls. The liar has “won” the argument. Not in the sense that he is factually correct; he is not. But he has won in two senses. First, he has shut down what might have been a rational, interesting, spirited debate that proceeded from shared factual premises. Second, he has forced the other three to waste time and mental energy debating a proposition that is not remotely up for debate, and in the process has succeeded in making himself the center of attention and controversy whom everyone else talks about.
Sounds like they should remove the liar from the bar. Maybe not beat the shit out of him and leave him in a sobbing pile of piss and vomit in the back alleyway, but certainly not just letting it slide.
Liars and such get by because people are too polite to do anything about it. This goes for other bad behavior, too.
Someone in my extended friend group got a divorce, and her ex-husband started acting like a creeper. He was bothering the other women in the group. Eventually, another dude in the group pulled him aside and said if he doesn’t behave, he can’t hang out with them anymore. The guy didn’t change, and now he’s out of the friend group.
Of course, there’s so many shitty maga-hats that maybe he went and found a new group of misogynists .
Everyday I’m amazed at the stupidity of the people surrounding me. It was always obvious
One of the craziest things I saw in the 2016 election was when they showed Trump voters messages from real New Yorkers who talked about their hometown boy.
New Yorkers hated him for destroying a historic building façade he’d sworn to preserve; they hated him because he called for the lynching of the Central Park 5; they hated him for the way he treated his first wife; they just hated him.
The Trump people thought that if New Yorkers hated him he must be good.
Press (X) to doubt
“Hey, libtards, you keep saying Donald Trump is dumb, but if he’s so dumb, how come he got elected president twice?"
Because his level of ignorance makes him relatable to voters who also don’t know anything. 🤔
This is the same thing that keeps getting people like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, MTG, and Boebert elected.
“They don’t know anything! They’re just like me!”
Kakistocracy
The fuck took so long?
Well, let’s see how much America is seeing it come time in mid-terms.
I remember hoping he would be enough for America to get corporate money out of government. It doesn’t look like we’re even close to it, and that it will something way worse for America to get there.
The Conservative/Nazi party really isn’t for anything besides lowering taxes for the wealthy, they’re just against whatever the other side wants.
Really wish we at least had a side against that side. Instead we’re stuck with a pro-genocide, pro overthrowing the Venezuelan government, pro corporate money in politics, against primaring the dem leaders in power party. I’m getting really sick of the “It puts the lotion in the basket, or else it gets the Trump again” party.
Surely they’ll get it this time.
