Theres that fucking 37-38% again who are beyond redemption.
And it’s so ironic that those are the same people who were the most vocal about focusing on Epstein.
These people are also the ones who supported shooting up a pizza place because of “Pizza Gate” but they’re now silent
The sooner more people realize that percentage is a lost cause the sooner we can start moving forward. That percentage will follow everyone else eventually. That’s what they do. They are not leaders.
Yeah? How do you suppose we go about taking away their right to vote? Last time I checked, that’s not going to happen. Nor should it. Yet, here we are.
They’re a symptom of the education nightmare, of disingenuous “news” media, poverty, social media echo chambers, and a cadre of other factors. Think any of those things are going away soon either?
The sooner we all realize that this country needs a reset, the sooner we can move forward.
You don’t need to take away their right to vote, just give a fair and proportionate voting power, which is a hell of a lot less than the voting power they have now.
It has nothing to do with how 30% vote. We already know how they vote. It’s about everyone else getting on the same page. It’s about priorities.
It’s also about land having votes instead of people.
I don’t get why you are downvoted?
When Lemmy dog piles, it’s contagious. I don’t know why it happens sometimes.
I kinda wish votes were displayed at the bottom of a comment instead of the top so people actually have to read the comment before voting instead of just bandwagoning.
Taco’s approval rating is now 31%, so that is hopeful.
So about the same amount of people who voted for him?
These asshole Republicans currently RUN all three branches of government. Who’s doing the hiding??
The goverment is hiding a lot here.
Because it’s that blaringly fucking obvious
Why is 38% so stupid?
Bear in mind, in these polls “Republicans” only comprise less than a third of the overall population. In the US it’s about equal proportions of “Republican,” “Democrat,” and “Unaffiliated” and only about 2/3 of the US population actually votes. Therefore, when you see "38% of Republicans believe XYZ, you may think that’s 19% of the total US population, but in reality it’s only about 12%. Still high, but consider that about 20% of the adult population can’t accurately answer the question "does the earth rotate around the sun, or does the sun rotate around the earth "
Well, of that 38%, probably 8% are undecided. That leaves 30%. Of that 30, as someone else mentioned, some of those are sheeple from religious stuff. The rest? They’re literally holding up Swastikas and chant “Jews will not replace us”. Maybe not all of them are supporters of the Nazi party. Some are probably just klansmen.
You’re basically looking at the evil underbelly of America. You know, Republicans.
Why are they all so fucking stupid?
Yeah, they’ve been doing that for a decade? Two? A while, let’s just say a while.
There will be a really upsetting documentary in 50 years or so (maybe)
Keep your eyes on Candice and Tucker. They gonna swoop in and scoop the movement from Vance when Trump dies.
I expect that when Trump dies the “movement” will shatter. One of the main things Trump has done is to make sure that nobody can follow him. Everybody who has stood up to him now either bows to him or is irrelevant: Desantis, Pence, Liz Cheney, Rubio, Cruz, Christie, etc. Nobody is going to follow Vance once Trump dies. Some fraction of Republicans still like Tucker, Oreilly, Candace Owens, etc. but some hate them with a passion. There’s no way that they’re going to unite behind them.
It’s already fracturing and I put that up to Trump’s significant decline. Mapping the fault lines now can give us perspective on how things will fall out, because I agree, once Trump goes this thing falls apart.
The unfortunate thing is that democrats will most likely use the fracturing to cement their power. What would be much better is if it was used to get rid of first past the post voting, to put rules in place so that government institutions are non-political, make gerrymandering illegal, get rid of the electoral college, reform campaign financing to get the money out, etc. Instead the democrats are going to think “it’s our turn at the trough” and try to do everything possible to ensure they stay in power and get paid.
I’m not even sure Democrats can take back power with a fractured right, and if the current form of the Democratic party did take power, it would do almost nothing to stave off the waxing fascism in this country.
The current leadership of the Democratic party is as core to how and why fascism is ascendent in this country as the actual fascists. It would have been practically impossible for what has already happened to occur with out this incredibly compliant “opposition” party, all the while with an electorate trained on ABWD media and a meme of “strategic voting” which never seems to accomplish its strategic goals.
With out a strong, vociferously clear opposing vision of what to be as a country; without accountability, not just for the past year, the past 10 years, the failures of the Obama bank bailouts, which set all of this into motion, there is basically no point in putting Democrats into power, because every unearned push back to BAU or failure to address the genuine pain people feel as a result of ** both** Democratic and Republican policies, these failed launches as a resituating normalcy only further entrench and embolden fascists.
the failures of the Obama bank bailouts, which set all of this into motion
I think it was more the temerity of Barack Obama for being born black that was a bigger issue.
As for the rest, of course Democrats will take back power if the right fractures. In a first-past-the-post system with only 2 parties that’s just what happens. It doesn’t matter how incompetently run the parties are, as soon as one leaves power, the other gains it. They may do nothing useful with that power, and it might just be a short time before it swings back the other direction, but they’ll have power when the GOP collapses.
Bankers needed to go jail for life and homeowners are the ones who should have been bailed out. If Obama had taken a Rossellveltian strategy, they would have ushered in an era of Democratic rule like was done post WW2 (when America actually got a taste of social democracy). That coalition lasted for almost 40 years after WW2 because it focused on making a material difference in people’s lives and expanding the sphere of civil rights.
Obama just, he’s not who he campaigns as.
What specific crimes did the bankers commit?
But do they believe that’s a bad thing?
Rephrased
BREAKING NEWS!:
Turns out that ONLY 38% of GOP are idiots.
Oh no no no, we really can’t say that yet. We need another statistic to say something like that: Is the government responsible for hiding info on Epstein run by democrats or republicans?
I would wager that a considerable amount of those 62% would answer that it’s Biden or Obama who’s behind the cover up.
Rephrased
BREAKING NEWS!:
62% of republicans believe Trump is hiding Epstein ties, but still actively support him.
Of course they are because most of them are oligarchs and they can’t turn down their money. 
Very close to the 67% milestone.
Hiding info about what? This is a meaningless stat bc people who answered in the affirmative could think they’re hiding stuff about whoever. A more meaningful question would be if they believe there’s a cover up about the melted orange one
Of that 62%, how many of them care in the least?
In unrelated news, 38% of Americans are considered mentally challenged on the global scale.
Mind you it says 62% of Republicans.
100% of those not up the arse of the orange cunt think he’s hiding people from the Epstein list.
Unrelated sir.
Not unrelated. You said “38% of Americans”, when it should’ve been 38% of republicans…
Epstein had such a massive network across business, entertainmer, and politics that there’a no way to figure out who and who wasn’t a diddler
