genuinely remarkable polling result given how much the media has been promoting him and pushing the idea that he is popular and has a mandate to govern. trump enters office as an unpopular lame duck
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I guess Trump's like AI in that you can get every single billionaire and top-level propaganda outlet 100% onboard and it still doesn't work if it…doesn't work.
jan 17, 2025, 5:27 pm • 2 0 • view
There’s no mandate. T2.0 is a train wreck for us and a billionaire dream.
jan 18, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Those underwater numbers will only get worse.
jan 17, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
There’s a significant number of these people that don’t like Trump because he *isn’t conservative enough*. There’s virtually no evidence that moving left helps democrats. Signed, a leftist
jan 17, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The Democrats are center-right, anything else will ignite a third red scare because the American population has been trained that way.
jan 17, 2025, 9:57 pm • 0 0 • view
We agree.
jan 17, 2025, 9:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Conservatives are a largely unpersecuted bunch, while the left has people like Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
jan 17, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
You can make statements like how the idea of 15 minute cities rejuvenates small town economies and keeps the American dream alive, but because mainstream politics has the backing of people who have a nested interest in sucking money out of local economies, it leads to nobody talking about it.
jan 17, 2025, 10:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Agree
jan 18, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m surprised he hasn’t threatened jail time for the pollster
jan 18, 2025, 5:31 am • 0 0 • view
Wonder how the media polls? I’d guess as bad or worse
jan 18, 2025, 9:44 am • 0 0 • view
The more people see him and his stunts, the less they like him. Don't explain (lecture), show; as some great novelist/story teller whose name escapes me once said. Actually, give Trump enough rope (coverage) and he'll hang himself.
jan 17, 2025, 10:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Dictators don't need to be popular.
jan 18, 2025, 5:09 pm • 4 3 • view
we do need to recognize some of this disfavor is from his own supporters who are like "why hasn't he declared the Fourth Reich yet"
jan 17, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
But hey, as long as Mark and Elon and the media companies are happy, fuck the rest of us, right?
jan 17, 2025, 9:49 pm • 3 0 • view
True... but many Dem politicians (not the base) agree with, and or bought and paid to support, many of the policies anyway. Also, they're spineless so polls don't matter when the alternative is the orange man might not smile upon them next time. Do all Dem politicians have rejection sensitivity?
jan 18, 2025, 12:50 am • 0 0 • view
He still won
jan 18, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
He also enters as a feeble, old man who can't handle 60-100 hour work weeks. The media certainly doesn't care about that either.
jan 17, 2025, 4:26 pm • 11 2 • view
I don't think he turned in more than 15 hours of work per week in his first term.
jan 18, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
He managed over 400 rounds of golf in his first term. That’s stamina!
jan 17, 2025, 4:47 pm • 6 0 • view
He also cheated heavily at those games.
jan 17, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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jan 20, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Surely the first office holder to *enter* the Presidency as a lame duck rather than reach it part way through?
jan 17, 2025, 10:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly start fighting. Start defending our constitution stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt they are evil people. They will never be anything but evil people they’ve shown us this time and time again so quit playing nice.
jan 18, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
His approval rating is going to plummet as fast as $DJT did last year
jan 17, 2025, 4:54 pm • 0 0 • view
He won by one of the narrowest margins in political history so the only person talking about a mandate is Trump and his MAGA morons.
jan 18, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 1 • view
In general I think for Dems, evanluate any actions on whether or not you taking them helps put the words "Lame Duck" next to Trump's name. LAME DUCK LAME DUCK LAME DUCK LAME DUCK LAME DUCK
jan 17, 2025, 4:24 pm • 153 3 • view
If Dems use the word Lame Duck a few times you know damn well trump will be triggered into tweeting "NOT a Lame Duck!" over and over again which is how the media will be forced to start talking about it.
jan 17, 2025, 4:43 pm • 41 1 • view
The Dems won't do jack shit because they're all paid by corporate entities to ensure a Republican win.
jan 17, 2025, 9:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Dems do not have the ability to do this. There is no opponent too disgusting and awful for their natural “we will compromise with the enemy so we can have bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake” instincts.
jan 17, 2025, 4:27 pm • 6 0 • view
Not to mention, every thing he promises will be solved on Monday and isn’t is a layup for Dems. Attacking him for being a loudmouth, over-simplistic, over-promising clown who can’t deliver is something they should do every day. And there is no downside to it.
jan 17, 2025, 4:55 pm • 2 0 • view
certainly worth a shot more than "my predecessor" or "tRump" resist crap
jan 17, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
would be nice, but instead they are going to concede every principle instead bsky.app/profile/reic...
jan 17, 2025, 4:32 pm • 4 0 • view
That creature defines human fecal stain.
jan 17, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
And the tariffs which will send the economy into a tail spin are only wish casting right now. Wait till they start to bite. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
jan 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
I fear a lot of the Dem leadership WANTS to be part of the Republican Fascist Party. Whatever they were before, this is what they are now.
jan 17, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
It has been truly a deranged lifetime to see how often leaders and citizens are pushing for a status quo that does not exist and can no longer exist.
jan 18, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
What does that say about Joe & Harris.
jan 18, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
The NYT is going to be pretty interesting to watch here; I think they spend the next two years floundering, and they'll be forced to pick a lane.
jan 17, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Staying the course as the WSJ-lite is no-man's land.
jan 17, 2025, 4:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Big news media has to SELL the Trump shitshow.
jan 17, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Very curious to know when exactly this calendar year that purple region GOP house members begin to feel the pressure of an increasingly unpopular national government. I feel like it won't be until this summer at the earliest, but a dam is going to break if they fuck the economy up too much too fast
jan 17, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Unpopular he is. Lame duck remains to be seen.
jan 17, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
F those people who will answer polls but didnt vote against him
jan 17, 2025, 5:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Almost as if you should take the poll *before* you create the narrative
jan 17, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Senior democrats believe that a greater proportion of Trump supporters can be won by pandering to the centre right than those they might lose by capitulating to the left on anything.
jan 17, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Democrats are too damn cowardly lately…. There are no LBJs or RFKs left to kick ass
jan 18, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
Why would Democrats fight? They are center right neo-cons that are closer to republicans and trump than people want to admit. Biden didn't fight for you, Harris wouldn't fight for you and the democratic party won't fight for you.
jan 18, 2025, 6:58 am • 0 0 • view
As much as I despise the Liar trump & how he sabotaged Biden’s presidency for four years and the stress directly assisted in Biden’s decline; let’s hope trump is a lame duck. Too make it worse, then theirs young Vance. WTF ARE we heading into.
jan 18, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
Still waiting for the Democrat (Pritzker? Shapiro? Some unknown?) who takes real pride, deeply-felt giddy joy in taking on Trump. They can remake the party, the country, the world.
jan 17, 2025, 4:21 pm • 28 1 • view
The Biden of old, say the 1990s Biden, coulda been that guy. That righteous cruelty for a good cause. Alas.
jan 17, 2025, 4:23 pm • 17 0 • view
It's Newsom. He has baggage that might keep him from the WH but he's certainly able to go toe-to-toe with Trump. Pritzker is also great, though not sure there's a big appetite in the party for a billionaire nepo baby.
jan 17, 2025, 4:30 pm • 4 0 • view
Nope, not Newsom. Let's shut that guy down now. Doesn't have the juice, and hopelessly compromised.
jan 17, 2025, 4:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Care to elaborate?
jan 17, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The Guilfoyle marriage is rife for ratfucking
jan 17, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 0 • view
I think she was a pretty normal person pre-2016, no? Regardless, as I said I'm unsure about his presidential prospects but he can certainly message well against Trump.
jan 17, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
The populace is feral now, you need to give up a bit of the rationality
jan 17, 2025, 4:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Newsom doesn't have pride in taking on Trump. He has pride in the idea that people will like him if he *appears* to take on Trump.
jan 17, 2025, 5:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Very well put
jan 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 2 0 • view
And this is almost certainly inflated by the natural "honeymoon" period that pretty much every President gets during their transition period.
jan 17, 2025, 4:24 pm • 5 1 • view
Or, the polling method is deeply flawed and shows the same errors or bias as the election did. Unsure how everyone hasn't learned their lesson about this.
jan 17, 2025, 10:02 pm • 0 0 • view
the unpopular president who became an unpopular former president is now an unpopular current president.
jan 18, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 1 • view
lol so when there wasn't a boogeywoman for the media to lie about and slander, it turns out people don't like Trump's ideas etc.
jan 17, 2025, 4:21 pm • 10 1 • view
The people, especially younger ones, are moving more to the left. They've grown up in a world where you don't even have to travel to be exposed to other cultures and viewpoints, and that kind of thing is a conservative's nightmare, because more exposure to other ideas is poison to conservatism.
jan 17, 2025, 10:14 pm • 5 1 • view
The media knows it. The Republican bigwigs know it. The Democratic "leaders" know it. And they will do whatever it takes to destroy it, because conservatism, and capitalism as a whole, relies on most people remaining isolated and ignorant.
jan 17, 2025, 10:14 pm • 2 0 • view
It isn't the "cultural exposure" that's driving them left. It's that they've been royally effed over by late stage capitalism in almost every aspect of their lives.
jan 17, 2025, 10:45 pm • 2 0 • view
Both play a part. After all, rural communities have been getting effed by capitalism for decades, but because they're largely isolated from other viewpoints, they're easily convinced that it's the natural way of things, or that problems are the fault of people who are unfamiliar.
jan 17, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
44% is huge and the highest approval rate any president has ever had in the history of the country. If Washington was alive today he could not beat that. Or Lincoln and many people say he was a great president.
jan 17, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
That's hilarious, I think he even managed a net positive approval rating for his first week or so in 2017.
jan 17, 2025, 4:24 pm • 7 0 • view
Democrats will take this information and do nothing as usual. They are LOSERS!
jan 17, 2025, 4:33 pm • 4 0 • view
He certainly waddles like a lame duck 🦆
jan 17, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
so? his Pentagon guy is up for violently repressing any protest. Nobody who voted for him is free to change their minds now.
jan 18, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
Pre-election polling failed (again) and I think it'd be extraordinarily hard to use it as a convincing argument. Plus, let's get away from polling-based values. It sucks.
jan 17, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
31% popular
jan 18, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
He's popular *among the media.*
jan 19, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
this is one of the key tenants of a trump admin. piss off literally everyone before you even get to the golf course
jan 18, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
People are just blaming him for their terrible decision to vote for him.
jan 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Dems capitulation to Trump is going to age badly
jan 18, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is less a lame duck… More a frozen turkey
jan 17, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
more like a lame dick
jan 17, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is popular among the oligarchs, but they are not America.
jan 17, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Shows the degree to which i think anyone to the left of serious conservative is completely tuning out all this bullshit and just sticking to their values, even if that means resisting trump by refusing to give him attention, the thing he craves the most (also ignoring MSM propping of him)
jan 17, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
The only "mandate" he has was to lower prices, on food, housing, and lower the deficit. Nothing else and it's not a mandate he won by 1.5%. Must be the smallest mandate ever. I still think we will find out there was some shenanigans as the numbers don't make sense. Number of people who voted.
jan 17, 2025, 11:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah @fetterman.senate.gov
jan 17, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Every Dem that is cowering in fear of Trump is misreading the moment extremely badly. They keep trying to recreate Obama? They might just be doing that - i.e. Obama was able to emerge via running against the Iraq War, which dogged Clinton during the 2008 Primary.
jan 17, 2025, 4:48 pm • 12 2 • view