Ah, you’re arguing irrelevance rather than inaccuracy. Carry on.
Maybe this election, but when Obama got elected the right didn’t do anything like burn him in effigy, pretend that he was going to institute martial law, or question whether he was a citizen.
Well whoopty doo for you. I was responding to the OP that talked about Trump’s popularity and claimed the pollsters are fucking up “again”. National polling isn’t worthless on those subjects.
Then I guess that would mean there is a small but significant percent of Trump supporters that DO know shame.
No, I quite blatantly argued both. My post is easily read in black & white. You simply interpreted from my post what you wished to interpret.
Yes, and Trump’s popularity among large swathes of the American populace is not an issue. It is worthless what Trump’s popularity is among San Diegans. The pollsters are fucking up once again. Pollsters would be little better polling what Germans think of Trump as they would be polling Californians.
What nonsense. California being the #1 economic engine of America means Trump needs to pay attention to the voters there too. So far he’s been a complete nincompoop.
Yeah “Once the element of anonymity is added” Trump is able to vote for himself !
So fucking what? Why are you even addressing me? I didn’t argue how important German San Diegans’ opinions matter. Why don’t you tell the OP how meaningless Trump’s popularity is?
Hell, he goes well beyond not caring what Californians think; he’s hell bent on hurting California. In part, because of sanctuary cities, but mostly because we didn’t vote for him.
But you don’t see that response from those who voted for him, do you? It’s a nice inversion: the Democrat leaders talk nice and their supporters are arseholes; Trump talks trash and his supporters keep quiet.
And the press has indeed been pretty much Trump’s enemy. And those coastal elites have sneered at those who voted for him.
Except that’s hardly true; his supporters are gloating sadists.
Pretty much the entire world sneers at them, because they* deserve* to be sneered at. And to be hated.
And the press leaned over backwards to downplay how bad he was and get him elected.
I see that you have posted to this message board, and that must be a nice trick to have posted without having been online at all since the elections. Well done!
Quartz, seriously, this is literally delusional.
Trump doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing, because he doesn’t know shit about governance. He clearly didn’t learn about that in school–probably because he was too busy kissing himself in the mirror and sucking the dicks of his Russian classmates.
Instead, he’s surrounded himself with craven, sycophantic opportunists (and I would include his own children in that category) who will screw the American people at the drop of a dime–either to cash in big bucks or for their own twisted ideological ends. Trump is so mentally lazy that he basically just echos the last person he’s heard, so all these opportunists are in a clusterfuck to get into that position.
If Trump has any popularity now it’s among two types: people who don’t understand what’s really going on, and who still fall for his bullshit PR campaign, or reactionary nationalist who just want to make America white again.
Even a lot of Republicans secretly don’t like him–they just put up with him to get what they want.
Some individual states were off a bit but for the most part the polls were accurate (certainly on a national level). Out of 125 million votes cast, 80,000 in three states swung the election.
My sense just from judging from the social media around me is many Trump voters have buyers remorse already. A few outright admit it. Others, and I admit this is me being arm chair psychologist, seem to know deep down they voted for a terrible person but he was their guy and to admit it admits making a mistake so they cling to it with both hands and scream out loud how great he is (it was similar to how they latched on to Palin in 2008).
And of course there is about the 30% or so who really do like him because he won’t hurt them. He hasn’t and won’t help them either but he hasn’t hurt them and their team won and that’s all that matters.
And another case in point.
Not round here they didn’t.
Well, I’m not a Trump supporter. (Hint: I’m not American.) That you label me such and treat me accordingly is another case in point.
Except, as you know, lots of people voted for Trump to keep the presidency out of the hands of Hillary and the Democrats. So they chewed off their own leg to escape the trap.
That doesn’t mean they approve of Trump, or like what he does, or think he’s a decent human being, or think he’s trustworthy, or think he’ll enact policies to benefit them rather than the 1%.
Not to mention all the people who voted for Trump who DIDN’T think he was going to do all the things he said he’d do. What was that phrase? They took him seriously but not literally.
So no, lots of people who voted for him didn’t think he was actually going to build a wall on the Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. Lots of people didn’t think he was going to repeal the ACA. Lots of people didn’t think he was going to start a war with Iran.
They just thought he said those things to seem tough and signal that he was going to have the right attitude towards Mexico, or health insurance, or the Middle East. They thought it was all signalling and pillow talk and hyperbole. Like, you know, Trump is famous for.
Amazingly enough, people who endanger the world tend to attract a lot of resentment.