Avery
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It’s disqualifying from office - if proven true (his faithful will say it’s fake news of course), it’s probably the pinnacle of how horrible he is.
His ethical compass isn’t broken - it just doesn’t exist.
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It’s disqualifying from office - if proven true (his faithful will say it’s fake news of course), it’s probably the pinnacle of how horrible he is.
His ethical compass isn’t broken - it just doesn’t exist.
The Thriller
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He pretty much said the same thing about John McCain.
The Thriller
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That’s included in the article. Have you read it yet?
I agree with most of this. But I will do anything to remove trump. He is 1000x tines worse than Biden.
The Thriller
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What’s wrong with his eyes? What drug or drink would do that?
Also, his dad is talking about banning tik tok while promoting a competitor? Ummmm.
Also, his dad is talking about banning tik tok while promoting a competitor? Ummmm.
The Thriller
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Remember how during the Republican convention they whined about cancel culture and how Donald values freedom of speech? Good times.
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Why Trump Supporters Can’t Admit Who He Really Is
Nothing bonds a group more tightly than a common enemy that is perceived as a mortal threat.
www.theatlantic.com
Fear strengthens tribalistic instincts, and tribalistic instincts amplify fear. Nothing bonds a group more tightly than a common enemy that is perceived as a mortal threat. In the presence of such an enemy, members of tribal groups look outward rather than inward, at others and never at themselves or their own kind.
The danger of this mindset—in which the means, however unethical, justify the ends of survival—is obvious. And so in this case, Trump supporters will tolerate everything he does, from making hush-money payments to porn stars and engaging in sexually predatory behavior, to inviting America’s adversaries to intervene in our elections, to pressuring American allies to dig up dirt on the president’s opponent, to cozying up to some of the worst dictators in the world, to peddling crazed conspiracy theories, to mishandling a pandemic at the cost of untold lives, to countless other ethical and governing transgressions. Trump is given carte blanche by his supporters because they perceive him as their protector, transforming his ruthlessness from a vice into a virtue.
In my experience, if Trump supporters are asked to turn their gaze away from their perceived opponents, and instead to focus and reflect on him and on his failures, they respond in a couple of consistent ways. Many shift the topic immediately back to Democrats, because offering a vigorous moral defense of Donald Trump isn’t an easy task. It’s like asking people to stare directly into the sun; they might do it for an instant, but then they look away. But if you do succeed in keeping the topic on Trump, they often twist themselves into knots in order to defend him, and in some cases they simply deny reality.
“Motivation conditions cognition,” Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, wisely told me. Very few Trump supporters I know are able to offer an honest appraisal of the man. To do so creates too much cognitive dissonance.
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Idiocy like this is what will get Trump re-elected. I hope the far left are ready for another ****** 4 years, because it will be their fault.
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US academic is suspended for using the Chinese word for 'um'
Professor Greg Patton was lecturing on use of 'filler words' at the University of Southern California when he mentioned Chinese expression 'neige'.
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On August 27, 2019, President Donald Trump held a 41.3 percent approval rating and a 54.2 percent disapproval rating, according to FiveThirtyEight’s poll tracker. During the 365 days that followed, Trump became the third president impeached by the House of Representatives; America assassinated Iranian general Qassem Soleimani; more than 200,000 Americans died from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus; the unemployment rate rose from 3.7 percent to 10.2 percent; the US banned incoming travel from Europe, China, and Brazil; an estimated 12 million people lost health insurance coverage; Trump pardoned Roger Stone, who was facing jail time for dirty tricks on the president’s behalf; and George Floyd’s murder sparked a nationwide movement protesting for racial justice — to which officials responded by tear-gassing demonstrators in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, so Trump could pose for a photograph holding a Bible.
That is, of course, a bitterly incomplete list of a grimly consequential year in American history. But you’d never know it simply by following Trump’s poll numbers. On August 27, 2020 — one year later, and the day Trump used the White House as a backdrop for his convention speech — FiveThirtyEight had Trump at 42.2 percent approval and 54.3 percent disapproval. Everything had happened, and politically, nothing had mattered.
According to Gallup’s presidential approval database, President Ronald Reagan’s numbers bounced from a high of 68 to a low of 35 percent during his tenure. George H.W. Bush peaked at 81 and bottomed out at 29. Bill Clinton ranged between 73 and 37 percent. George W. Bush touched 90 percent and fell all the way to 25 percent. Barack Obama’s band was narrower but still stretched from 40 percent to 67 percent.
This is the great irony of the Trump era: It has never felt like more is happening, and yet American political opinions have never been so immovable.
“If you went into Trump’s presidency thinking he’s a racist, sexist, xenophobic, immoral, narcissistic, corrupt, and incompetent person — beliefs held by most Clinton voters — then there’s literally almost nothing he could do to change your mind,”
“If you see Trump as ‘the protector of Western Civilization,’ as Charlie Kirk called him the other night at the RNC, or the protector of white America, as Desmond King and Rogers Smith have called him, defending cherished (white Christian) American values from atheist, left-wing socialists who want to take your guns and put Cory Booker in charge of diversifying your neighborhoods, then there’s almost nothing that would make you abandon him,”
Trump is such a gleefully polarizing figure — so contemptible to those he offends, so heroic to those he defends — that minds were made up on him before he ever stepped into the Oval Office. Moreover, Trump is a limited figure: He doesn’t switch strategies, adopt new tones, adapt to new circumstances.
If you had told me, a year ago, that a pandemic virus would overrun the country, that 200,000 Americans would die and case numbers would dwarf Europe, that the economy would go into deep freeze and the federal government prove utterly feckless, I would’ve thought that’s the kind of systemic shock that could crack into public opinion. I’m not saying I would’ve predicted Trump falling to 20 percent, but I would’ve predicted movement.
The stability unnerves me because it undermines the basic theory of responsive democracy. If our political divisions cut so deep that even 200,000 deaths and 10.2 percent unemployment and a president musing about bleach injections can’t shake us, then what can? And if the answer is nothing, then that means the crucial form of accountability in American politics has collapsed. Yes, many of us are partisans, with a hard lean one way or the other. But the assumption has long been that beneath that, we are Americans, and we want the country governed with some bare level of competence
www.vox.com
Trump was 100% correct when he said that he could shoot someone in the middle of times square and not lose any supporters.
This is the biggest problem with politics in america today. Our country is WAY too partisan. Doesn't matter anymore if the president is doing a good job or bad job. Only thing that matters is what party he/she belongs to. Its quite sickening to me. We are no longer a country of united states of americans..... We are a country of democrats vs republicans in what seems to be a lead up to a civil war. God help us all.
That is, of course, a bitterly incomplete list of a grimly consequential year in American history. But you’d never know it simply by following Trump’s poll numbers. On August 27, 2020 — one year later, and the day Trump used the White House as a backdrop for his convention speech — FiveThirtyEight had Trump at 42.2 percent approval and 54.3 percent disapproval. Everything had happened, and politically, nothing had mattered.
According to Gallup’s presidential approval database, President Ronald Reagan’s numbers bounced from a high of 68 to a low of 35 percent during his tenure. George H.W. Bush peaked at 81 and bottomed out at 29. Bill Clinton ranged between 73 and 37 percent. George W. Bush touched 90 percent and fell all the way to 25 percent. Barack Obama’s band was narrower but still stretched from 40 percent to 67 percent.
This is the great irony of the Trump era: It has never felt like more is happening, and yet American political opinions have never been so immovable.
“If you went into Trump’s presidency thinking he’s a racist, sexist, xenophobic, immoral, narcissistic, corrupt, and incompetent person — beliefs held by most Clinton voters — then there’s literally almost nothing he could do to change your mind,”
“If you see Trump as ‘the protector of Western Civilization,’ as Charlie Kirk called him the other night at the RNC, or the protector of white America, as Desmond King and Rogers Smith have called him, defending cherished (white Christian) American values from atheist, left-wing socialists who want to take your guns and put Cory Booker in charge of diversifying your neighborhoods, then there’s almost nothing that would make you abandon him,”
Trump is such a gleefully polarizing figure — so contemptible to those he offends, so heroic to those he defends — that minds were made up on him before he ever stepped into the Oval Office. Moreover, Trump is a limited figure: He doesn’t switch strategies, adopt new tones, adapt to new circumstances.
If you had told me, a year ago, that a pandemic virus would overrun the country, that 200,000 Americans would die and case numbers would dwarf Europe, that the economy would go into deep freeze and the federal government prove utterly feckless, I would’ve thought that’s the kind of systemic shock that could crack into public opinion. I’m not saying I would’ve predicted Trump falling to 20 percent, but I would’ve predicted movement.
The stability unnerves me because it undermines the basic theory of responsive democracy. If our political divisions cut so deep that even 200,000 deaths and 10.2 percent unemployment and a president musing about bleach injections can’t shake us, then what can? And if the answer is nothing, then that means the crucial form of accountability in American politics has collapsed. Yes, many of us are partisans, with a hard lean one way or the other. But the assumption has long been that beneath that, we are Americans, and we want the country governed with some bare level of competence
Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?
The eerie stability of Trump’s approval rating, explained.
www.vox.com
This is the biggest problem with politics in america today. Our country is WAY too partisan. Doesn't matter anymore if the president is doing a good job or bad job. Only thing that matters is what party he/she belongs to. Its quite sickening to me. We are no longer a country of united states of americans..... We are a country of democrats vs republicans in what seems to be a lead up to a civil war. God help us all.
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Lol I just read this from Mike Pence: “I always tell people that to know President Trump is to know someone whose word is his bond,”
Holy crap thats some nonsense.
20,000 lies while in office as of July.
He averages 12 lies a day.
His word isn’t his bond.
He’s literally incapable of telling the truth.
He lies about everything, big and small.
Crowd size and Stormy Daniels, the place his father was born.
All lies.
Holy crap thats some nonsense.
20,000 lies while in office as of July.
He averages 12 lies a day.
His word isn’t his bond.
He’s literally incapable of telling the truth.
He lies about everything, big and small.
Crowd size and Stormy Daniels, the place his father was born.
All lies.
Beer
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Mike Pence is god damned Louis CK, John Mulaney, Bill Burr .... a modern day joke machine.
The Thriller
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LOL!!!
The dumbest are always Trumpers
The dumbest are always Trumpers
The Thriller
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Honestly, what’s the point of Mike Pence? In 2016 it was to capture the evangelical vote. Now that Trump has converted Evangelicals to be Trumpers and worship him, what’s the point of Pence? It’s not like there’s any evangelical who thinks, “yeah soooo porn stars and nonstop lying isn’t great. But as long as Pence is with him bobbing his head I’m totally for Trump!”
Beer
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Can anything change Americans’ minds about Donald Trump?
The eerie stability of Trump’s approval rating, explained.
This is the biggest problem with politics in america today. Our country is WAY too partisan. Doesn't matter anymore if the president is doing a good job or bad job. Only thing that matters is what party he/she belongs to. Its quite sickening to me. We are no longer a country of united states of americans..... We are a country of democrats vs republicans in what seems to be a lead up to a civil war. God help us all.
Truth. That's why it pisses me off when I try and call out both sides bull **** and get called far left and far right at the same time. I do my very best to look at both sides. And more often than not I realize both sides are ridiculously wrong. Biden and Harris are basically right wing shills but because they have Dem in front of their names they are getting a decent amount of support, but if you look at their policies and political history it's painfully obvious to see how full of **** they are.
And Trumpers. Oh my god. I can't even begin to explain how delusional and blind you are. It's not even close to defensible.
I just give up. There is no point in caring. Let everything fall where it may. There is no logic or common sense anymore.
NAOS
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Lol u just can’t seem to rank the power and effects of the things happening in the world. You get undone by the funniest ****.Idiocy like this is what will get Trump re-elected. I hope the far left are ready for another ****** 4 years, because it will be their fault.
US academic is suspended for using the Chinese word for 'um'
Professor Greg Patton was lecturing on use of 'filler words' at the University of Southern California when he mentioned Chinese expression 'neige'.
Beer
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Similar to Whats the point of Kamala Harris? She only appeals to a very small demographic that would be voting dem 100% of the time. Proves that Biden's only requirements were to find a woman of color who was willing to bend the knee to anything and everything.
Idiocy like this is what will get Trump re-elected. I hope the far left are ready for another ****** 4 years, because it will be their fault.
US academic is suspended for using the Chinese word for 'um'
Professor Greg Patton was lecturing on use of 'filler words' at the University of Southern California when he mentioned Chinese expression 'neige'.
by nominating HRC the first 4 years were their fault.