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What amazes me is that there are still people who look at what Donald Trump has done in his life, what he has said and done to become president (twice!) and what he's done since taking office. They look at all this, take a big huff of their own farts and say "I approve of this"
I can't imagine that it takes anything less than a very special kind of cognitive disability to be intelligent enough to use twitter, but dumb enough to support this petulant, stroppy, bafflingly stupid man-toddler.
There has been a concerted effort for the last 15 to 20 years by the alt-right to court young disillusioned men and women using divisiveness and the slowly declining status quo as a lever.
Doesn't matter that the insanely wealthy right wing is primarily responsible for pushing the deterioration, it only matters that the insanely wealthy liberals in the government haven't done anything substantive to stop it.
For reference, see Nancy Pelosi's fucking dedicated ice cream fridge she showed off in an interview to seem relatable.
How it got to any measurable levels in the first place is the real mystery.
Joe Rogan
This discontent does not appear to be translating into strong support for Democrats. The Quantus poll suggests that young voters are feeling politically homeless, with 43 percent of Gen Z voters saying that neither party represents American values.
Welcome to the “party”…
Why does his approval rating matter? Even if those stats are valid?
Right? I see all of these "appeasement" style pieces trying to get us to feel some sort of vindication. It's all bullshit.
Newsweek is a blight, and deplatforming it would improve anywhere it's found
Those stats might affect the adoration of his groupies, and how many are re-elected.
Most horribly of all, we have Vance thinking he can step into the big orange footprints to be ordained next. We can’t have that weasel elected. It would be more of the same but more evil, less self-centered gibberish
If you didn't recognize what he was after the disaster that was his first administration, all his admission of what he said he would do, and then still either voted for him or didn't vote because you didn't recognize the repeat threat he was and couldn't get off your fat ass to vote to prevent him from taking office, I'm sorry, but you're in the group of people who can't handle responsibilities of being a fucking adult.
too late for post-nut clarity, kids. he's not just a person he's a cultural moment y'all embraced and is going to take a lot more of a "well maybe he's not that great for the economy" to unfuck ourselves from. how about some introspection about why we're attracted to narcissists or so deeply spiritually moved by shitty tough-man antics? where's that political analysis?
Yeah. But they saved Gaza.
/s
Too fucking late man. Dudes already in office wrecking the country..
Dumbasses needed to see him do it live rather than google the existing data on how disastrous his last term was. Last time he was in office, they were listening to Baby Shark. "It happened 5 years ago so that's ancient history. I've got better things to do, like doomscrolling Tiktok for 8 hours"
The people who support Trump en masse are not really represented here. His dedicated base absolutely love everything he is doing. Especially the immigrant Holocaust he has started.
His polling numbers dont matter. Either he cannot run for president again or he fucks up the government bad enough to allow him to, in which case the vote is going to be rigged AF anyway.
If he hasn't had a heart from all the hamberders by the next election cycle I guarantee he will run for president again and it'll be up to congress and or the supreme court to stop him. Depending on the make up of those to entities I think there's a chance they would stop him.
Rules for thee but not for me and all that.
IF it's from Newsweek, it's just a shitty clickbait title with nothing of actual substance in the actual article. Lemmy users need to stop posting Newsweek links, it is not a good source to trust.
And yet Gen Z still didn't do anything. Loud and proud, until it comes to actually doing anything.
Im gen z and I voted Harris. I also attended no kings Chicago. Not all of us are just sitting and watching this happen but enough are that it makes us look bad.
Man, the tiktok kids will do it, the weird Taylor swift fans band together are unstoppable. Turns out, it's all just internet bullshit. Who knew?
All he virtual fame points and karma farmed from raging on the establishment and the boomers, though...
/s you dumb kids
The fact that he ever had an approval rating with Gen Z is mind-boggling.
The polling numbers after the election were horrifying. GenZ are like the Hitler Youth of today. Not just voting Trump because their parents were Republicans and influenced their political outlook, but enthusiastically embracing Trump because of memes and TikTok, not actually considering the consequences carefully.
It's shameful, because even though most GenZ kids were not old enough to vote, they were almost old enough to vote back in 2016 when Trump took office the first time. It's not like they are looking back at the early years of politics from their childhood fondly, they were definitely old enough to be able to see how destructive he was.
He got a lot of gen z votes! Shit is Fucked up.
They get their news front social media and watch ufc
Gen Z was explicitly not taught how to read properly. It’s very difficult to not be conspiracist and think it was on purpose. Phonics was thrown out entirely for years. Teachers spoke up about it not working, and were forced to work the programs anyway.
Repeat after me: He doesn't fucking care.
Single issue protestors put in in office. Now they don’t like him there?
It doesn't matter.
Just wait about 20 minutes, Newsweek will have a headline about fascism and GenZ. I loath that clickbait factory.