Current Events > Trump: 53% approval (plus add 9 points?)

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ledbowman
02/10/20 7:07:47 AM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax
02/10/20 7:12:33 AM
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The approval from Republicans is crazy. Democrats will need extremely high support for their candidate in those few key states to beat Trump

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solosnake
02/10/20 7:13:25 AM
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Two party system is garbage.

Team red vs Team blue.

How sophisticated

Why cant people just run on their ideas and eliminate party lines?

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
02/10/20 7:15:10 AM
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solosnake posted...
Two party system is garbage.

Team red vs Team blue.

How sophisticated
Allowing another party now would just mean the current party that didn't have people split off from it would always win everything

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solosnake
02/10/20 7:16:32 AM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
Allowing another party now would just mean the current party that didn't have people split off from it would always win everything
There shouldnt be any parties at all. People should vote and run on what they agree with, not because they identify as team red or team blue. Its fucking dumb

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Funkydog
02/10/20 7:18:07 AM
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solosnake posted...
There shouldnt be any parties at all. People should vote and run on what they agree with, not because they identify as team red or team blue. Its fucking dumb
Sounds like you hate AMERICA

When did you sell your soul, commie? In the land of FREEDOM and CHOICE we blindly follow our parents parents parents political leanings.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
02/10/20 7:19:46 AM
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solosnake posted...
There shouldnt be any parties at all. People should vote and run on what they agree with, not because they identify as team red or team blue. Its fucking dumb
But what will single issue voters do when more than one candidate agrees with them on their issue?

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Sonic Cannon
02/10/20 7:20:24 AM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
Allowing another party now would just mean the current party that didn't have people split off from it would always win everything
This is a problem with plurality/fptp elections, not a necessary result of democracy. If you want this to change, you need a proportional system, multi-winner electorates or at least ranked voting. Otherwise it's spoiler effect all the way down.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax
02/10/20 7:23:57 AM
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Sonic Cannon posted...
at least ranked voting
I don't know what everything in your post meant, but I'm in for ranked voting

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uwnim
02/10/20 7:24:30 AM
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We either need to outlaw political parties, or change our voting system to make more than two parties be viable.

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solosnake
02/10/20 7:25:59 AM
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The other thing, and this is probably more controversial, but i think the general population is almost too dumb for democracy to work. Like i dont think people should be allowed to vote sometimes

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP
02/10/20 7:26:54 AM
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are we witnessing Americas downfall live? this is exciting.

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UnfairRepresent
02/10/20 7:27:01 AM
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Being proud of 53% approval is something else
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ledbowman
02/10/20 7:29:25 AM
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Why is he asking for approval rating welfare

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CyricZ
02/10/20 7:31:41 AM
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solosnake posted...
The other thing, and this is probably more controversial, but i think the general population is almost too dumb for democracy to work. Like i dont think people should be allowed to vote sometimes
Thanks Ben Shapiro.

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ledbowman
02/10/20 7:41:14 AM
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UnfairRepresent
02/10/20 8:14:28 AM
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ledbowman posted...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1226847711703584768?s=19

How badly they did?

You were impeached...
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karlpilkington4
02/10/20 8:16:33 AM
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Thanks Nancy!

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KillerSlaw
02/10/20 8:22:25 AM
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solosnake posted...
The other thing, and this is probably more controversial, but i think the general population is almost too dumb for democracy to work. Like i dont think people should be allowed to vote sometimes

How very antifascist

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scorpion41
02/10/20 8:28:18 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Being proud of 53% approval is something else

Considering how polarizing he is, and the fact that his approval was well below that before the impeachment, thats actually a hell of an accomplishment.

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ALIEN_WORK2HOP
02/10/20 8:29:53 AM
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KillerSlaw posted...
How very antifascist

at what point do you say that people are too dumb for democracy though?

Republican voters are electing guys who think climate change is bullshit. They are literally putting the entire human race at risk because they dislike brown people.

Then again, Trump is doing his best to get rid of democracy anyway. So maybe we won't have this problem much longer.


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Dat_Cracka_Jax
02/10/20 8:32:48 AM
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ALIEN_WORK2HOP posted...
Republican voters are electing guys who think climate change is bullshit. They are literally putting the entire human race at risk because they dislike brown people
What does climate change have to do with racism?

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Solid Sonic
02/10/20 8:34:36 AM
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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...
What does climate change have to do with racism?

He's saying that racist motivations are what inspire people to vote for Republicans but in doing so it also endorses those who think climate change isn't real.

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KillerSlaw
02/10/20 8:35:38 AM
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Never mind you guys have definitely convinced me some shouldn't be allowed to vote due to stupidity

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NatsuSama
02/10/20 8:37:47 AM
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How adorable, hes proud of a 53% approval....with Republicans. Republicans have long time ago evolved into the Cult of Trump. It's more of a shocker it's taken this long for it to get to 53% with Republicans.

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Anticyclonic
02/10/20 8:44:36 AM
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solosnake posted...
Two party system is garbage.

Team red vs Team blue.

How sophisticated

Why cant people just run on their ideas and eliminate party lines?

I agree with you, in theory and ideally.
Realistically though, do you really see the average American going through the effort of turning off their reality tv or whatever long enough to do the thinking and researching required for this?
I think the reason we're in this mess in the first place is because the answer is no...they won't. People like keeping things easy so that they can get back to their lives. People like only having to think "Well they're a Democrat and I like Democrat so I vote." or "My friend, Billy Bob. told me that this guy has no chance of winning and that I shouldn't vote for him"


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Solar_Crimson
02/10/20 8:46:55 AM
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Allow for more than two political parties.
Get rid of the Electoral College.

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solosnake
02/10/20 8:52:47 AM
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Anticyclonic posted...
I agree with you, in theory and ideally.
Realistically though, do you really see the average American going through the effort of turning off their reality tv or whatever long enough to do the thinking and researching required for this?
I think the reason we're in this mess in the first place is because the answer is no...they won't. People like keeping things easy so that they can get back to their lives. People like only having to think "Well they're a Democrat and I like Democrat so I vote." or "My friend, Billy Bob. told me that this guy has no chance of winning and that I shouldn't vote for him"
I agree with you as well, thats why i kind of think people shouldnt even be allowed to vote.

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karlpilkington4
02/10/20 8:54:52 AM
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I don't get why Republicans rally behind such a shitty person. So many people literally worship this guy, and take any criticism levied at him as a personal attack. Its gross.

No one worships him. These silly exaggerations dont help your cause.

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CyricZ
02/10/20 8:58:25 AM
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If you want smarter voters, make the effort to educate them. Pay attention to the next generation. Play the long game.

If you want fascism, put "intelligence" restrictions on voting and watch as turnout magically disappears.

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Rexdragon125
02/10/20 9:02:18 AM
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CyricZ posted...
If you want smarter voters, make the effort to educate them. Pay attention to the next generation. Play the long game.

If you want fascism, put "intelligence" restrictions on voting and watch as turnout magically disappears.
Too bad the GOP hates education

Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes: Lower Cognitive Ability Predicts Greater Prejudice Through Right-Wing Ideology and Low Intergroup Contact
http://theconstitutionalistblog.com/wp-content/uploads/Dark-minds_Republican-thinking.pdf

Cognitive ability, right-wing authoritarianism, and social dominance orientation: a five-year longitudinal study amongst adolescents
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?&article=2164&context=hbspapers

Conservatism and cognitive ability
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.599.1603&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Does Lower Cognitive Ability Predict Greater Prejudice?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963721414549750

Cognitive ability and authoritarianism: Understanding support for Trump and Clinton
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10026.1/8451/Trump%20and%20authoritarianism%20PAID%20revision_submitted%20Oct%2026%202016.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=n

Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167212439213

Republicans don't like critical thinking itself. They don't just want people to be bad at math... They want people to fundamentally not be able to logically criticize indifference as a concept. Straight-up 1984 doublespeak.
Knowledge-Based Education We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html

An obvious contributor to the declining education level within the GOP is the partys hostility toward higher education
https://www.alternet.org/2018/03/republicans-are-becoming-less-educated/
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Machete
02/10/20 9:08:49 AM
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What's the point of education when there's guns?
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karlpilkington4
02/10/20 9:09:53 AM
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Machete posted...
What's the point of education when there's guns?

What a silly take.

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ledbowman
02/10/20 9:09:59 AM
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Gop don't want books, they want their kids to work in the same mine as their papi's papi

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Machete
02/10/20 11:51:32 AM
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karlpilkington4

Lmao
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UnfairRepresent
02/10/20 11:53:42 AM
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scorpion41 posted...
thats actually a hell of an accomplishment.

lolwut
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AlisLandale
02/10/20 11:57:31 AM
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Impeachment Hoax

I am choosing to register the fact that this is a blatantly incorrect usage of the word hoax that cultists will latch onto in the face of overwhelming evidence, as a joke.

Ha. Ha.

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karlpilkington4
02/10/20 11:58:21 AM
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Machete posted...
Lmao

Remember when you said I'd be suspended by now? lmao

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Tired-Insomniac
02/10/20 12:08:53 PM
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karlpilkington4 posted...
No one worships him. These silly exaggerations dont help your cause.

Just to save you some time, @M_Live

This guy is either one of those worshippers you described or a really shitty troll, so don't bother responding to him seriously.

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Odoylerules
02/10/20 12:10:20 PM
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womp womp

9 months from now people those numbers will go down drastically in both polls
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karlpilkington4
02/10/20 12:11:05 PM
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Tired-Insomniac posted...
Just to save you some time, @M_Live

This guy is either one of those worshippers you described or a really shitty troll, so don't bother responding to him seriously.

Nice false dichotomy, bud

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Tired-Insomniac
02/10/20 12:11:58 PM
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karlpilkington4 posted...
Nice false dichotomy, bud

lol

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burns112233
02/10/20 12:17:55 PM
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Poll: Biden beats Trump in head to head.

Fake news!

Poll: 50% approval rating.

I'm the greatest ever!

Oh, okay so only when it's good news it's real, but when it's not it's fake.
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Tired-Insomniac
02/10/20 12:22:35 PM
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burns112233 posted...
Poll: Biden beats Trump in head to head.

Fake news!

Poll: 50% approval rating.

I'm the greatest ever!

Oh, okay so only when it's good news it's real, but when it's not it's fake.

Welcome to the Trump Administration

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Machete
02/10/20 12:31:35 PM
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karlpilkington4 posted...


Remember when you said I'd be suspended by now? lmao


You usually are. This is the first time I've been wrong.
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