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.
“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.
Apparently a lot of people in the US don’t think mocking a disabled person to be “too far”. Or raping children.
Fucking morons.
The US has a cancerous culture of selfish, self-centered narcissism and blind, feudal loyalty to money and those with money. No amount of monstrousness tugs the heartstrings until it impacts them personally. Slowly, those same selfish, evil, self-centered scum are realizing that the suffering they wanted to inflict on others impacts them. They will gain no self-awareness from this and learn nothing, continuing to metastasize even even after Trumpsolini is finally dead and rotting in the ground.
Keep in mind, before trump, the Republican standard was a guy who lied about another country having chemical weapons and harboring a terrorist to drag us into a war for the benefit of his oil-baron buddies and to make his daddy proud.
Oh no the polls lmao.
Meanwhile citizens are murdered in the streets. Glad THE POLLS are going to fix that real fast
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?
Was there an option in the poll to say he’s a traitor and a pedophile?
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.
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.
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.
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.
His first term was a failure, I don’t even know how to describe his second so far.
The definition of success depends on what the goal was. If the goal was to establish a fascist dictatorship, wreck the economy, and make people afraid, he is a success
It’s a success. If you go by all the stuff he said he’d do during his campaign and the stuff he’s gotten done so far, well, then he’s actually pretty successful. And look how far he’s gotten in just one year. Fucker is basically immune to the law.
You would have to have done some serious pretzel logic to believe Trump is delivering what he said.
End Ukraine War day one? Absolutely not.
End war in Gaza? Isreal is still regularly blowing up people in their one-sided cease fire.
Close the border? This racist dog whistle worked I suppose. Less illegal border crossings. I am personally surprised anyone would want to come to the US right now so it is a mixed bag.
Make the largest deportation event ever? Honestly Biden and Obama are going to be hard to beat especially now that no one wants to come here.
End birthright citizenship? This is straight out of white supremacist’s playbooks. He has not accomplished this yet thank goodness.
Impose tariffs to improve economy? He has certainly imposed and withdrawn and then reimposed and then re-withdrawn a lot of tariffs. This has made him and his cronies very rich but it has generally hurt everyone else. I think in the next year we will begin to see how devastating they have been to the economy.
End inflation and lower prices? Absolutely stupid promise that no administration could hope to make happen. It is simply out of their power so it was stupid to even say this and it has not been fulfilled.
Make government more efficient? This has been one of the worst failures of any administration in history. This administration fundamentally misunderstanding of the agencies they slashed shows a profound lack of judgement. They are beyond inept and probably criminally negligent.
Ban transgender people in Sports? Considering it was never actually a problem it is hard to say you can be successful in solving an imaginary thought exercise. Having said that the conservative have spent a huge amount of time passing laws around this subject instead of governing real and important issues.
Eliminate the Education Department? This is one of those promises that should have never been made. The federal government is required by law to provide services for children with disabilities amongst many other critical programs. While this administration has been successful in greatly disrupting it, without having any alternative plan, they have not and cannot be successful because of numerous laws. This is once again tantamount to criminal negligence.
Cover IVF? Weird promise, has not been delivered but could in the future.
Pardon Jan 6 rioters? Stunning success except for the fact many have been locked up for additional crimes. That one pardon has now literally lead to thousands of crimes that this administration is now culpable for. Bizarre decision to subvert US law.
End DEI? While the administration can’t stop the spirit of DEI since it is American in value, they have certainly made any mention punishable by firing thus violating everyone’s right to free speech. Truly a bizarre move because if the government can just randomly decide DEI bad why not anything else without justification. Promise kept though to best of their intolerant little hearts.
I can’t see success here, but they have kind of accomplished some things. They are so spiteful and incompetent I will be surprised if it can last. Their legal counsel is inept, their leaders are barely functional, and their agenda is anti-human. Not really a winning combination.
Unless you are benefitting from the pump and dump schemes this administration seems to love so much I don’t think there is anything to like. Even their extremists are turning on them. They got a limited lifespan unless they can pull off something they seem incapable of.
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
Meanwhile, project 2025 is ongoing. They’ll discard him once they’re done having him absorb all the outrage and providing plenty of distraction.
I have been saying that for a year, alot of people think trump set up all this himself. There is a ton going on by people we are not seeing. Trump is a tool.
I feel majority of americans are in some sort of collective self destructive delusion. Thats the only way you can explain trump presidency - people didn’t vote for him, they voted for self harm because they’re sick.
Spend a half hour watching Fox News and you can see the alternate reality that magats are living in. My personal exposure to Fox News is an occasional accidental glance at the TV screens at the gym and even just from that it’s obvious what’s going on.
Lol, what? No, we don’t say he’s gone too far. We say he’s a criminal who shouldn’t be in office in the first fucking place. Get the fuck out of here with your standard political opposition speak.
