Oh he's bleeding independents. I misread that. It cheered up me for a second.
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All I see is 1/5 of independents are racist pieces of shit.
Whoa there! Don't go seeing things like they are. Thats nearly 100 percent unpopular depending on what you see.
Who are these "independents"? Because if they're dumb enough to float over to fascism on a whim, we need to have a talk.
A majority of registered voters in the US have no party affiliation actually.
"independent" rarely means leftist. It usually means "Republican but not proud to wear the label", like libertarian.
After Harris went AWOL after the election I now consider myself an independent leftist, I don’t belong anywhere right now, dems hate that I think is bullshit harris isn’t leading a resistance and I’m obviously not conservative, at all, so… I’m an independent for right now, I think a lot of people are right now but haven’t embraced it.
Ditto on Harris. This shows that she wouldn’t have been a good leader. My eyes are on AOC now.
I've been calling myself an independent since the election.
I would consider myself one as well, but there's not that many of us
Oh no a new poll shows fascism isn't popular?
There was a different AP/NORC poll (arc) released the same day that showed this basic dynamic but with the partisan ratios even more out of whack
What a mamby pamby headline -- "trump is killing the economy, turning the country into a police state regime and independents kinda are noticing"
WTF ?? 40+ % agree with him? How can this country be like that?
ANYONE who supported him or voted for him or helped him get elected is a racist, a bigot and/or a misogynist--- I don't go for this "oh, a lot of people didn't know what he would do" bullsh!t.
This is why I tell people MAKE A LIST of everyone you know or know of that helped this madman, soon enough a lot of them are going to try and pretend they didn't and we can't let them.
I want to see the Latino community take revenge of these morons who helped him get elected. I want the families of these people snatched off the streets confronting them. I want to see these morons who helped him get elected because Joe Biden wasn't reacting the way they wanted on Gaza to go to Gaza and explain to them that they had to show Biden who was boss and help a man who wants to see them all dead become President.
40% is more than the amount of people who voted for him…
Thanks, Madame Defarge.
WTF ?? 40+ % agree with him? How can this country be like that?
These 40% of people simply don't see any criticism of their Dear Leader, they self-select their media sources and those sources tell an entirely different story. I call it the Conservative Cinematic Universe....
That's completely ridiculous! Not all 40+% are people that worship Trump! A significant portion couldn't care if Trump lives or dies, but they like to see people hurt and/or they think they can profit from it.
If all we had to worry about were the cultists, Trump would be rotting in prison now.
They may not all consider themselves to be part of the Trump cult, but they all believe that the Conservative Cinematic Universe is reality, and right now, it is all slobbering Trump's toadstool. So is there any real difference between a true Cultist, and someone who simply believes all the same lies?
How fucking stupid were these independents 6 months ago?
They aren't actually independents, they're just Republicans too embarrassed to admit it.
Just as stupid as they are today.
How fucking ~~stupid~~ racist were these independents 6 months ago?
Ftfy
Fucking stupid as hell
Almost as stupid as Gavin Newsom saying deportations were a distraction from tariffs and Dems shouldn't talk about them because Republicans were strong on that issue
Slightly stupider than all the "I'm NoT vOtInG fOr GeNoCiDe" dumbasses.
The solution to that is to not do genocide
single issue voting (or nonvoting) never ends well no matter how good the intentions.
especially when that single issue isn't even fixed by the other side.
They're incredibly naive people who think they have some defensible moral high ground because they didn't vote, but the truth is they've accomplished nothing and surrendered their vote to fascists. If they really cared they'd be out there calling their congressman and lobbying for a change in policy. Yes, this is hard, but no one said change would be easy. The only reason Biden won the previous election is because people went out and voted. The reason Trump won is because they didn't vote. And I bet these people will not take responsibility for his transgressions even though they are partly responsible. I cannot help but feel we deserve this pain because our population would rather take the hypothetical moral high ground over voting for the better candidate.
..but but but surely centrist hacks with zero integrity who cede the framing of every argument to fascists are the future of the party!!
Definitely make every political move you do based upon focus groups and polling, because people definitely love sock-in-the-wind, flip-flopping political creeps with no actual values!
They have the memory of a goldfish, but they aren't evil.
And the backbone of a slug.
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