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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What I think is funny is the 7% of democrats who think he's doing a good job.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

JOSH So, if we're lucky, foreign aid's going to be funded for another 90 days at 75 cents on the dollar. No one who's ever said they wanted bipartisanship has ever meant it. But the people are speaking. Because 68% think we give too much in foreign aid, and 59% think it should be cut.

WILL You like that stat?

JOSH I do.

WILL Why?

JOSH Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."

The West Wing, Guns and Butter

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Think of stupid people as basically AI. They just copy what's around them and approximate an opinion without really understanding any of it. They're just followers.

They follow along when they're surrounded by Democrats, and then they move somewhere else and they're surrounded by Republicans, and they still follow along. They don't publicly renounce their old beliefs because they haven't actually put that much thought into it. It's all surface level.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 10 hours ago

You always find some weird, contradictory results in polls. Like people who say taxes shouldn't be raised, but also think there should be a higher inheritance tax. This happens so frequently that the lack of weird results is evidence of falsified poll.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 day ago

those are probably mostly maga turds who think they're secret agents or sumsuch by registering democrat and voting in their primaries.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There are brain dead on both sides of the aisle, unfortunately. Ever heard someone say something you vehemently agree with, then explain why they think that and it makes you question your own viewpoint coming to the same conclusion as that the dumb shit you just heard? Like "We need to tax the rich, because if you dont tax the rich, they can will buy up all of the beaches for themselves and we wont have any more sand to make glass with and I need new windows."

That 7% is probably a bunch of smooth brains saying "let him cook" thinking he is playing long con becuase he was a registered dem 30+ years ago and is tearing it all down to rebuild the leftist utopia they dream of.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago

Or people who hate society and are actually loving it that he's destroying it.

Or people who can't read.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago

Guessing they approve of his stance on Israel.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

probably NEVER trumpers.