NYC hates Cuomo though. They hated him before the scandal.

I find the 33/33/33 rule works. 33% of people just like authoritarianism during this period of history. I’m not sure if that’s a constant or because of the current climate making people stressed and weird. But they feel safer when someone says they’re going to take control and fix everything and they feel like they don’t have to think about it beyond that. They will agree with anything their in group says because it soothes them. These are your cultists.

Another 33% are just checked out. They’re stressed in the same way, but instead of turning to an authoritarian to fix the problem they just bury their head in the sand. They feel like they’re too small to fix anything so why even try. These people sometimes still vote if its convenient enough and are complete wildcards when they do because they really have no clue what’s happening. They vote on vibes. This is also where trolls tend to sit.

That just leaves just 33% of people who are paying attention and either aren’t stressed and have the emotional bandwidth, have interest, or have the persistence to pay attention even when stressed to try and do something to stop the authoritarianism (even if that’s just vote).

This leaves 1% which is the literal 1% trying to pull the strings.

All these articles are pure hopeium. I check his approval rating daily hoping my country will gain some sense. His approval is higher than his first term. Half the population has has their brains turned to scrambled eggs by social media. And I get the irony of saying this on social media.

People are impressionable and the tech bros who control movement of information have fallen in line behind Trump. It’s going to be a bumpy ride y’all.

Exactly. After everything that’s happened, barely negative is pathetic. Its game over.

Democrats are pragmatically there for the money. They aren’t comically evil, but they are corrupt. They will throw an election before they ever give up AIPAC money and count on the next election swinging back to them. They get to sit back and watch the republicans be the bad guys and stir shit up for a few years. Then, when they get back in power, they fix the things that’s don’t make them money and look like he good guys but conveniently leave the unpopular policy the republicans enacted that makes them money and they don’t have to look like the bad guys. They just look incompetent. But they aren’t. This is all very purposeful. They love this dynamic. They benifit from it.

The democrats as they are for sure need to go. But we need to be more pragmatic ourselves about removing them instead of throwing elections to the republicans hoping it will teach the Democrats a lesson. Because it won’t. We need to focus on getting a foothold and changing the party. And that means turning out to vote in every election no matter what. Vote third party. Vote write in. Vote whatever. But sitting out of elections to teach democrats a lesson just isn’t going to do anything. It’s just throwing away the small amount of political capital most people have. If we don’t vote now its either corporate feudalism or civil war in the future.

If you have a pixel. I use calyxOS since I don’t and it’s a bit more secure than lineage.

Also, if you bought your phone through your cell provider, its probably not happening. The bootloader is probably locked. There miiight be some janky tutorials to get around it, but you might brick your phone. Ask me how i know.

The people related to immigrants are often voting constituents interested in their and their families rights if that’s what you mean. Immigrant do have constitutional rights. For example, you can’t just deny them freedom of speech or enslave them just because they’re non citizens. That would be wild.

Yup. I live abroad and pay no US taxes.

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I did that for years and then I emigrated because it didn’t work.

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They aren’t the same. But they don’t need to be the same for them to both suck and not deserve to be in power. But harm reduction is real.

OK. But what are you actually doing right now? What are any of us doing right now?

In understand cherry picking just fine. You only like the data that fits your narrative and it’s pretty obvious. Any thing doesn’t firt your narrative is “liberal” or an “outlier.” People like you always have excuses when the evidence doesn’t say exactly what you want it to.

Sounds like a lot of mental gymnastics for cherry picking.

No. I just don’t use truth social. And for 2.5 years after the 2020 election I didn’t hear anything about trump and it was glorious. And I pay attention to politics.

P.s. your real clear polling link has trump doing worse that 538, so maybe you should just stick to 538.

I used your specific 538 source ya goober. You can’t give a source and then cherry pick what i should read from it.

I heard didly from Trump for years until he started campaigning again. The GOP establishment turned their back on him after he lost the 2020 election. But sure. Unquestionable leader.

But you’re really just going to make up whatever definitions that suits your narrative. Trump was the unquestionable leader after he became a pariah but the VP is not at the center of politics at all. Absolutely wild assertions.

Im sorry, do we trust 538s polling average you cited again or not? I honestly can’t keep up with your gymnastics. What citations would you like to cherry pick again?

Ahh right. Being VP isn’t center stage but checks notes being nothing for 4 years still constitutes as center stage. Got it. You should try out for the Olympics.

Its not the highest. Its +5.3 when it was +8.2 a few werks ago. And its amazing you’re still trying to do so many mental gymnastics to brag about a temporary +8.2 approval rating.

I could probably go through the data and find someone with better approval at one point after years of being in politics. Hell, I’m pretty sure Bidens approval after being elected after being vp for 8 years and then on the campaign trail another 4 years was higher than +8.2 direactly after he was elected. But the premise of bragging about a temporary +8.2 approval rating is so stupid I’m not going to bother to make a real comparison and entertain it.

You heard it folks. People temporarily like trump a tiny bit more than they hate him and that’s ridiculously amazing. The bar is in hell.

It didn’t used to be normal that politicians were so hated and its weird to act like we should be happy about a politician most poeple hate.