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davidcorn.bsky.social • 8 days ago

Imagine if the election were held today.

The latest @reuters.com didn't identify a single issue on which more voters approve of President Trump's stewardship than disapprove of it.

www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

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wolfgangsanchez.bsky.social•7 days ago

Imagine if Trump voters voted without rejecting the evidence of their eyes and ears.

lynn101.bsky.social•8 days ago

Why can't we? The majority of the country is in sync & even Republicans know we are living under a complete incompetents' rule. There really needs to be an amendment to the Constitution to enable the country to recall an incompetent President.

mood4today.bsky.social•7 days ago

It's called impeachment. These R's that you say realize the incompetency will never give up their lust for power and admit they screwed up. FFS they couldn't even come up with a viable candidate to run against him in the primaries!!

lynn101.bsky.social•7 days ago

Impeachment doesn't work because of arcane Congressional & Senatorial rules. Not laws just rules. I am talking about the power of direct vote. Put it to the people & let them them have a vote of confidence. If he loses he & his entire government is out.

mood4today.bsky.social•6 days ago

Great idea in theory. Impossible to implement. Do you think MAGATS will switch votes? We can't even blame the electoral college this time around. He won the pop vote by 2.2M. Not to mention he would never accept the results. Dems need to get their shit together for mid terms with new blood.

toddgoldsbie.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yet a plurality of American voters wanted this, so take some responsibility.

ak771.bsky.social•7 days ago

They would all vote for him again. That's the American electorate.

itsjamiem.bsky.social•8 days ago

oh..they still would vote for him.

jaydad4.bsky.social•8 days ago

And it was all so predictable last fall. *sigh*

saschavykos.bsky.social•7 days ago

Maga eould still vote for him.

They'd either accept it because it hurt black people more or they'd gleefully burn down their own houses to ruin their neighbors' property values.

Or some combination thereof.

Do not apply logic to people fueled by hate and revenge for imaginary slights.

mischamouse.bsky.social•8 days ago

Sadly, my family would probably still vote for fascism.

rappacord.bsky.social•8 days ago

Imagine if 77M (or some % of them) had sorted through the disinformation and listened to what he was saying during the election! He’s doing what he said, what 100’s of his former administration warned us about when no one with integrity is stopping him. United States of Stupidity & Hate!

shipperxphile.bsky.social•8 days ago

He would retain many of those voters bc it’s the cruelty they liked.

pampalmeresq.bsky.social•8 days ago

But, many of the have already become victims, or fearful they soon will be victims, of his cruelty, e.g., loss of Medicaid, potential SSA & Medicare benefits, SNAP, to name only a few.

pmsbiker.bsky.social•8 days ago

For many, that is still better than voting for a Black woman.

pampalmeresq.bsky.social•8 days ago

I hear you, and, sadly, you are 💯 Spot-On.

tccschreiner.bsky.social•8 days ago

Imagine if people saw Trump holding a Q&A and then decided to dance to music he was allowed to play for 45 minutes like Barney The Dinosaur, and then thought "Jesus fuck what is wrong with this guy"

karmaispatient.bsky.social•8 days ago

She tried to tell us
Some didn't listen
Some stayed home

deaconwife.bsky.social•8 days ago

He would still win if running against the same candidate.

minouroufail.bsky.social•8 days ago

Pretty decent numbers for a man destroying the country whose economy six months ago got called "the envy of the world".

The voters did this.

archie-doodle.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah, but he had 45 plus percent convinced they were living in a dumpster fire.

minouroufail.bsky.social•7 days ago

No sympathy.

bunniejojo.bsky.social•8 days ago

How is the disapproval not higher in everything

sporb.bsky.social•8 days ago

Hi from Canada; your elections are just another US-American grift. #sorry

chriswoodwriter.bsky.social•8 days ago

kelmoonface.bsky.social•7 days ago

Imagine if voters weren’t racist and sexiest.

drjohn2026.bsky.social•8 days ago

we need a presidential recall process for when congress is full of cowards

dkremn.bsky.social•8 days ago

So Biden's approval rating (at one time) was 45% wasn't so bad after all, but the National press made it sound catastrophic.

jackiesk.bsky.social•8 days ago

He'd still probably win, they'd think however bad, Kamala would be worse.

sdmairs.bsky.social•7 days ago

Americans used to be known for ingenuity and innovation. Now we are known for being easily duped.

walterdragon.bsky.social•8 days ago

Americans would still vote the same way because they will accept absolutely anything before supporting a woman for president.

archie-doodle.bsky.social•8 days ago

I have always questioned this. Then, yesterday, I listened to my 75 y/o step father angrily yell “bitch” twice at a female law and order character bc of the way he perceived her giving direction to male subordinates.

rashaverak58.bsky.social•8 days ago

I’m imagining all the damage he can do between now and the midterms.

ajs1977.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's hard to imagine America ever voting for a woman to be President, however qualified and experienced she might be for the role and the responsibility.

Especially a woman of colour.
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mood4today.bsky.social•8 days ago

Hillary won the popular vote by almost 3M votes over the idiot. The Bernie camp (and Clintons campaign team) crashed that election mostly by voting for a different woman in the swing states.

infinitelyloopy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Imagine if the press had run stories about how ruinous Trump’s tariffs plan promised to be.

shinyroo.bsky.social•7 days ago

Nothing would change, unfortunately…

caeso-k.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why?

jonathanedward.bsky.social•8 days ago

That 30% won't be broken, MAGA continue to dig their heals in no matter how much Trump hurts them. Sad.

archie-doodle.bsky.social•8 days ago

All I can hear is “but I think he will be better for the economy.” Also, Biden F’d us by not acting on the border sooner. It gave Trump is biggest issue.

cabotthunem.bsky.social•8 days ago

Trump would still win. All those TRump voters only believe what they hear from him. Everything else is just MSM lies. Don't get me started on their reaction to data.

gojody.bsky.social•8 days ago

They’re going to try change strategy right before the midterms election. No longer attacking social programs and downplaying due process issues.

scottfenstermaker.bsky.social•8 days ago

And six months after, these would all be inverted, as American voters said to themselves, “Hey, I remember that Trump guy. He was a billionaire success story, wasn’t he…?”

susantraherne.bsky.social•8 days ago

musk's minions would do the same : change the one line of coding to flip the numbers

so-what-who-cares.bsky.social•8 days ago

Those dumb fuckers still wouldn’t vote for kamala

pooterheadpharms.bsky.social•8 days ago

Give it more time.
We'll have a nationwide study in Deep Regret. With no near-term possibility of change.

fhuddlestun.bsky.social•8 days ago

They would probably vote him back in office, thinking 'it will be different this time'. I've lost faith in the voters to make rational decisions.

archie-doodle.bsky.social•8 days ago

Or, this was all because of Biden. Leftover Biden problems. So many people lack critical and logical reasoning skills.

eddiethebulldog.bsky.social•8 days ago

The headline is that 45% are all for fascism.

tr007.bsky.social•8 days ago

Do you think countries negotiating trade deals with DJT see these numbers? lol

tkhiss67.bsky.social•8 days ago

The result would be the same.

adelpreore.bsky.social•8 days ago

Imagine if voters took their responsibility more seriously. 🙁

sharkman1963.bsky.social•8 days ago

It’s the ones that don’t vote. I’m more worried about.

adelpreore.bsky.social•8 days ago

Nothing in my statement exempts them.

lachmusstest.bsky.social•8 days ago

Many are excluded by the crazy US laws - which make it hard to impossible for many to be allowed to vote. 😖
It's always been the least democratic democracy on this planet and only getting worse.

itsmeandyp.bsky.social•8 days ago

All that chart shows me is that roughly 1/3 of Americans still APPROVE of everything he’s doing. I’m no mathematician but I bet those are all the folks who voted for him. Our 2-party and the Electoral College systems have finally resulted in a fatal catastrophe.

kab-fair.bsky.social•7 days ago

a poll taken in 1946 showed abt a third of Germans still supported hitler and they had been through a war, had been exposed to the atrocities, had heard the testimony of the Nuremberg trials and still supported him, you have cult members who commit suicide when asked by their leaders, it’s a cult

archie-doodle.bsky.social•8 days ago

If I recall correctly, that was his approval rating when he left office. Astonishing that people forgot what they thought about him.They couldn’t figure out that inflation resulted from global factors and thought bc we didn’t have inflation under Trump, he would be better. Stupid. Nd immigration.

sudhof.me•7 days ago

People accepted COVID as excuse for his performance last time, not realizing that it "saved" his presidency by pausing his agenda.

itsmeandyp.bsky.social•7 days ago

As an RN, it would have been WAY less HORRIFIC if he had killed conspiracy theories instead of touting them. He thwarted Fauci, CDC, WHO, FDA, masks, lockdowns & vaccines. He could have ordered US PPE and drug makers like 3M (N-95) and Pfizer to shift production, lower costs & speed ship. He didn’t.

sudhof.me•7 days ago

Oh, he did a horrible job. But it paused the stuff he actually wanted to do and congress pushed a very positively remembered stimulus package.

itsmeandyp.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yes. It’s very depressing to learn how stupid our country is. Again.

sudhof.me•7 days ago

We have family members approving of expectant parents in the family losing their government jobs; the brainwashing is intense. The only way is to mobilize enough to overcome that core support.

logan-5.bsky.social•8 days ago

All this dipshit had to do was inherit the Biden economy and do nothing.

He could have had the same job numbers, same record-high stock market, etc.

Then he could have screamed “I fixed it all!” and his supporters would be thrilled.

All he had to do was NOTHING and he couldn’t even do that right.

nikedomelon.bsky.social•8 days ago

What is truly astonishing is, all of what is on this graft was there prior to the election.
Intelligent, empathetic, common sense people knew it.
The other 77 million fall into one or many another of these categories:
Racist, low information, cult mentality, ignorant, wealthy,
Power hungry.
🇨🇦🇺🇦✌️

1brightcorona.bsky.social•8 days ago

When elections can be bought by billionaires, supported by the wealthy, backed by racist and disenfranchised,
like this past election.
I don’t think it was about the economy, laws, or the environment. I think it was about tearing apart all they hated.

benthere-2.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why are elections even being discussed?

If they actually take place,
there was so much voter suppression implemented that the results will be
Putin-esque.

Remember,
Fascist don’t surrender power

mistergreen024.bsky.social•8 days ago

Dems would still lose because this country is so deeply racist & misogynistic

wehrmanm.bsky.social•8 days ago

This is the impact of 2024 media sanewashing. What he's doing - and its popularity - are of zero surprised to people who paid attention, have critical thinking skills.

Media needs to self-reflect on why public failed to register any of this in 2024. Wasn't bc Trump hid *any* intent.

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