Gosh, that'd be convenient; here's hoping 🤞

Didn't he tell them to drink bleach for covid? Unfortunately no one really did.

I think you finally found a purpose for AI.

higher minimum wage and universal health care

Yet when you mention these, 70% of muricans' Pavlovian brains will yell Communist!.

They love authoritarianism, more than they love other people, democracy, anything. There's a certain amount of neural wiring involved, as people lean into it, their amygdala grows larger and their fear of "others" and "chaos" intensifies.

When I saw my mom posting a fundraiser for the Ice murderer's family last week, I realized a cop could beat me to death in front of her, and she'd tend to his bruised knuckles in apology. That was the very last straw, I don't know her anymore.

It's not even former allies. Denmark is a current ally according to treaties that are signed into US law. Sure the US is effectively no longer part of NATO but all of the official reasons for invading Greenland could be accomplished by Trump admitting some agreements made by past Presidents were actually good.

This is all because one deranged old child molester wants to put his name on the map and a whole bunch of people are too gutless to admit that's what's going on.

Republicans have come to their senses. They're not in denial anymore, they realized they're evil and they love it.

Alternative perspective, for what it's worth:

50/50 is actually comparatively huge. Considering everything else has been 90/10.

The first departure from your god-king is always the hardest. I expect for many, this is the first break, and will make any subsequent break mentally easier.

Also keep in mind that people who identify/lean Republican has taken a little more than a 10% haircut since January 2025. Any "republicans say" is an increasingly smaller subset of the total voting population... getting more concentratedly nuts as they boil off the more rational ones. Even with this more concentrated version of Republicans, it's STILL not popular.

Don't get me wrong, it's not GREAT... but there is a trend line. It's not moving as fast as it should, but it IS moving.

and they need to be stopped.

A full-on embargo would be nice, and ironic.
The caveat being a whole lotta world depends on AWS and such.

I'll be generous for a second and presume that the vast majority of Magas are racist but not directly evil, so to speak, just naive, dumb, and brainwashed by decades of poor education and fox news

Either way, once this is over I'd happily vote for taking away voting rights from anyone Republican. Not for being evil, but for being too dumb to be able to vote

25% of people being propagandised beyond reason is a high number, yes.

Hitting 75% agreement in US politics is honestly unusual today, so I think it's a good sign that Trump has domestic opposition on this one

People are made vulnerable to their idol going haywire - by the need to rationalize having supported him. Thus the 50% of Republicans who bluescreened with "great leader always correct". If they have time to read up on the issue, it will drop a bit.

Polls are the most reliable way to be disappointed in humanity.

You could probably poll 10,000 random Americans and find about 25% that would be in favor of eating lightbulbs and severing diplomatic ties with the magical land of Oz. That bottom 25% of Americans has got some real issues.

No, it really isn't.

Half of them, so ~1/6

Election years. They are trying to put the fixes in but aren't there yet. Look at 2020, they did all sorts of stuff they would never do in a non election year, like not totally fuck working people while giving all of our taxes to the rich. Instead giving some people a piece of a pittance as well.

It practically is. There's no reason any sane citizen with no stake would be for going to war against a peaceful ally. It's all smoke and mirrors.

no, through decades of propaganda they have been conditions either to think nothing will happen or something will "EVENTUALly" put a stop to it. thats why the protests if you call it that are largely ineffective, only a small portion of people are doing it.

No, they want to be thanked for their service and be good bootlickers

As we've been seeing, mostly the latter.
He's already ripped apart the 1^st^, 2^nd^ and 4^th^ amendments at least and no one seems to care, not even the military, who are supposed to defend it.

Be honest if aliens from space showed up and just abducted Trump and put him into space prison, how angry would you be about that?

It's not only trump, that's the sad thing. Trump is just a puppet, controlled by people behind the curtains. Look at this project 2025. There are plenty of powerful people who are pulling the strings of Trump and the next Republican candidate.

Long gone are the days when politicians were actually working for their voters. Now it is all about social media propaganda. And guess what, making education unaffordable works wonders for those people. They don't want rational human beings, they just want easy to control and manipulate sheep.

That sounds difficult. Let's just give one person all the power so there isn't any time wasted on disagreement.

Also, this would be a big burden on a random person so let's just give it to someone who really, really wants the power. Then, they can teach their replacement how to wield that power. That takes decades, so it should probably be someone close to them, like maybe their kid!

I think I just solved democracy!

Even if you pooped on a new one every day for 80 years, you'd only hit 29,200 porches. Alas, the shortcomings of human poop production hit hard in times like these.

It says "...Of Americans", so the optimist in me says "25% of people didn't know about or answer the poll."

Can the Lt ever find Greenland on a ma? Are people still falling for Lief Ericsson’s lies?

Don't atribute malice where stupidity fits. It's quite probable that a sizable chunk of those 25% didn't even understood the question.

Not really a facts based dig, it's not as if America has highly democratic elections or a system that actually wants people to vote

America is sending kids to deathcamps RN! wtf you on about?
We are witnessing DECADES of sending kids to private islands, abusing them, blackmailing them, etc..

Where have you been all these decades‽

So Iraq (twice), Afghanistan, Yemen, etc, etc, etc, etc those are all fine, but god forbid NATO?
Weird... i'd be condemning all... but then again, the US is a capitalist war economy, line must go up i guess.