The weirdest fucking thing is that before the election, Republicans were desperate to NOT have Trump as their candidate. But now they enthusiastically beat their drums to the collapse of the country
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What's propping him up then, all the Gen Y and Gen Z males?
You skipped a whole generation there.
Gen X doesn’t do anything.
gen x supported him larger numbers this time.
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Holy shit, I get that polls don't always tell a complete picture, but this dude lost 10 points of approval ratings with boomers in a single week.
I find it baffling that there is still a double digit percentage of people who think the orange retard is a good president after these 2 months of nonstop disasters.
Will never get lower than 33% even if he starts shooting kittens on live tv.
I heard those kittens were eating people's pets.
Kittens are clearly not wearing suits.
Nor can they talk to say thank you.
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Take the Plunge!!!
Yessss Republicans keep grabbing that 3rd rail. Clutch it tighter!
Republican Utah Senator John Curtis said on Meet the Press on Sunday: "We're not being honest when we look people in the eye and say we're not going to touch [Social Security]. If we don't touch it, it touches itself. You know that, right?
Social Security would've been fine if they didn't keep raiding it for spending money :(
Scrap the damn cap
Scrap the cap! Scrap the cap!
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“Number of baby boomers plunging”
These people are a rapidly diminishing factor
So? Who cares. How does this matter in any way at this point?
Who cares now? It's only 2.5 months in, and so much PERMANENT damage has already been done. Nobody will ever trust the US again. The only time his approval ratings will matter is if he tries to declare himself President or push through allowing him to run for a 3rd term.
His ratings could be 0% with every demographic, and the Republicans MIGHT vote to impeach him.... maybe. And maybe his ratings might matter a little in TWO YEARS during mid-term elections. But that is two more years of him looting and pillaging and destroying the country.
It does matter, but I agree with the consensus that a massive amount of damage has been done, and will continue to be done.
Everyone who did not vote, or who voted for Trump, has let their nation, their friends, and their families down. America is in a state of descent and degradation.
Dictators don't ask for another term.
Well, you see, the boomers are finally having a generally harmful and cruel policy/leader/platform they've supported for decades because it makes them feel validated... actually affect them personally in a negative way, so now the lizard brain is activated, and they become angry.
The narcissist can't actually empathize, only sympathize. A narcissist is the only person that exists, every one else is all 'other people'.
Yes, I am speaking generally, obviously not all boomers are like this... but boomer is a mindset, a mindset of privelege, inherent superiority, coddling, demanding respect far more than you deserve, never being wrong or needing to learn anything and update your world knowledge, and always, always, offering useless, ineffective advice in a condescending, infallible tone.
... It's just that that mindset is more common in American boomers than any other generational cohort.
https://www.scarymommy.com/boomers-more-narcissistic-than-millennials-study-says
Journal Link:
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpag0000379
Actual Full PDF of study in (via?) google scholar:
Give it time, and I bet younger generations will surpass them by a country mile. Most likely skipping Gen X since they grew up pre-digital like the boomers, but were completely ignored and lived nearly all their lives in the shadow of boomers.
Why? Well, partly because of their numbers, but I see quite a bit of narcissism in younger generations, and unlike the boomers who, yes, grew up in a media that showered constant attention and praise on them and their outsized numbers, media is now entirely tailored to make it all about the individual.
I don't see any reason to believe that human nature won't fall prey to this in younger generations...if the boomers were steeped most of their lives in algorithms trained on maximizing engagement, they would be even worse. Now imagine a new group of people that have been fed that their entire lives...
You very, very obviously didn't read the paper or even the article summarizing it.
Basically, what the paper found is that all groups, regardless of birth era... their narcissistic traits lessen overtime as any individual ages.
But also... Boomers are still, as in, after doing most of their ageing... more narcissistic than any other generational cohort that came after them.
Meaning they were even more narcissistic in early adulthood than they are now, that level of narcissism leveled off a bit as they aged... and they are still more narcissistic than younger generations, despite younger generations having not aged out of as much of their narcissism.
Its a longitudinal study, which means that they looked at studies that tracked psychological narcissism scores of the same individuals over many decades, in addition to running all the proper math to come to statistically significant conclusions.
... Thats a lot of words to say: Found the boomer.
Did you know being overly defensive is a prime trait of narcissism? They call it 'hypersensitivity' in the study, a maladaptive form of narcissism.
You would if you'd read any of the sources.
But you didn't, which ... makes also sense for a narcissist.
'Willfullness' is another defined narcissistic trait the study goes over, which is basically the extent to which you feel you must impose your ideas and beliefs on others.
Its a lot easier to be willfull when you just entirely disregard facts that are inconvenient to your opinions.
Anyway, I'll take the actual science over a boomer providing factually baseless, useless conjecture, in a condescensing tone, based on a hunch, without evidence.
Thanks for proving my point!
(PS, the incredibly narcissistic people you see on social media all the time are always in your face because the algorithms automatically select for and hyper promote and popularize the most egotistical and narcissistic personas, due to their propensity to turn their own lives into drama filled reality tv plot lines, all on their own!)
(Its the algorithmic method of automatically producing soap opera / reality TV grade slop, because outrage and drama are the most effective ways to draw a large audience.)
(Its entirely unrepresentative of the 99.99% of people who use social media and never go viral, an actual perfect example of the selection bias that you apparently do not think that you, as a social media user, are subject to ... despite you describing how social media algorithms tailor the content they serve to each individual, specifically.)
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We’re “Boomers” the main problem in this election? Were they the Trumpers…?
Voters 50-plus put their weight behind Republican Trump over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. These voters favored Trump over Harris, 52 to 47 percent, according to AP VoteCast.
They were also a majority of the electorate, though that number differs slightly depending on the source. AP VoteCast, which starts surveying voters a week before Election Day in order to capture early voters, reports that voters 50-plus constituted 52 percent of the electorate. Traditional exit polls, which survey people as they leave the polls on election day, put that number at 55 percent.
Middle-aged voters were especially influential in tilting the election to Trump. A commanding 56 percent of voters ages 50-64 cast ballots for Trump, with 43 percent voting for Harris, exit polls show. The candidates were tied at 49 percent among voters 65 and older. The two age groups together comprise well over half of the national electorate, meaning they provided the critical difference for the returning president-elect.
Trump improved his performance among voters among those 50 to 64 by 4 percentage points from his previous presidential run in 2020, exit polling shows.
“The older voters showed up,” says Republican pollster Bob Ward, a partner with Fabrizio Ward who teamed up with a Democratic counterpart to conduct AARP’s bipartisan preelection surveys this year. “It was big, and we didn’t see any surge of younger voters coming out in full force…. It’s the reason why Trump is now the president-elect.”
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White male boomers leaned right, but most categories were 50/50 split: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls
With the exception of the Christians.
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Last time I checked they actually voted for Harris. It was Gen Z and Gen X that voted for Trump
Gen X
Hey, someone mentioned us!
that voted for Trump
I guess it's true that people generally grow conservative as they get older, but come on guys, we were better than this. Plus both Gen-X and Boomers knew about Trump and his shit long before he became political. Did all the ones voting for him as some better choice get dementia or something? I never forgot how the first times he tries running for office even as a Democrat it was more of a joke than anything else. Still is, but Jesus, people bought it hook, line, sinker, pole, boat...
Go look up how lead poisoned our generation is. No one should rely on Gen X for shit. We failed the country this past election for sure.
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Gen Z still voted Harris. I think the news was just that the youngest generation typically breaks for Democrats far more than they did this time and a higher percentage voted Republican than they normally do.
18-29 was 51/47 Harris. 30-44 was 50/47 Harris. 45-64 was 46/52 Trump. 65+ was 47/51 Trump.
So Gen X did vote Trump, but so did Boomers. Gen Y and Gen Z voted Harris.
Not sure where you're checking, but it seems like you're misinformed
Young people were more likely to vote for Harris compared with all other age groups, according to CIRCLE.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/11/08/2024-election-young-voters-data/76115224007/
Thanks for providing correct numbers, is been a long time since I looked.
LOL so already low approval ratings plunge further
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Republican Utah Senator John Curtis said on Meet the Press on Sunday: "... If we don't touch it, it touches itself."
Texas about to outlaw social security as porn!