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> What happened to the protests? The indignation? Get rid of this guy already you complacent fucks

I'm just reminding that this is exactly what Americans voted him to do. And in their opinion, the main problem is that he does what he does not effectively enough.



~70 million Americans voted for this out of ~350 million. Trump has a current approval rating of ~38% and approximately 60% of Americans think he's gone too far.


Are you deliberately trying to manipulate?

All the research clearly shows that higher turnout would have led to an even better result for Trump.

And the American polls are little more than a reflection of the less and less popular mainstream media's position and weakly correlate with what Americans actually do. We've already seen this twice in elections won by Trump: Americans follow the media, say how they disapprove of Trump, but then go out and vote for him.


I’m only aware of one data point: unlike comparable elections, the Republican won voters who did not participate in 2020. Sounds like you’ve seen other research?


There's nothing to manipulate. The majority of the US electorate is politically and literally illiterate. That's why their voting patterns are based almost entirely on the current economic sentiment, not the media.

Biden denied a worsening economic situation for the average American, and the response was Trump winning the election.

Trump has made the economic situation even worse, and his support is tanking. Which is why republican candidates are currently losing in landslides and we're breaking protest records.


> The majority of the US electorate is politically and literally illiterate.

Are you sure about that? Because it's hard to blame illiteracy on something that brings you 20 times more money (speaking of economic sentiment) than everyone else. It sounds more like malicious intent.


> Are you sure about that?

Yes: https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-liter...

> 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

> Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.

It seems like you're responding just to argue and not in good faith. You keep bringing up the average income disparity as if there are no economic woes in the United States. I'm not debating the massive privilege the US holds as an economic super power due to imperialist foreign policy. Feel free to respond but I won't engage with you further.


> It seems like you're responding just to argue and not in good faith.

It's a convenient position when the FACTS and MATH completely discredit your narrative that American workers are not actively contributing to what's happening because it's VERY beneficial (more than x20 benefits) for them.




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