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    mass murder and industrial scale rape of children on epstein island (thats then used as bribery material by foreign powers) is bad, sure… but we all draw the line at gas over 3.96 a gallon!

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    But wtf do the polls keep talking about “hits a new low”? It’s been inching for a year now.

    That’s still 36% too many. Rapes/bombs children=> what more do you need to know?

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      Stealing taxpayer money? Eh at least a white guy does it. Doesn’t do his job and just plays golf? Eh, that’s so smart. Being a racist dictator? Good, actually. Raping children? Eh, that’s someone’s children. Bombing brown people? Good, nice. Gas prices go up? Wait a minute, now he does things that impact me directly? I’m gonna vote for him again, but boy oh boy.

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        But another 20% will still vote for the next Republican who is not Trump. Even though the systemic Republican incompetence that led Bush II into the Iraq War is exactly the same systemic Republican incompetence that led Trump into Iran War.

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        And that’s based mostly on a rural urban divide, where republicans in rural areas act like an outsider from the city.

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          Yea. I get that rural and urban areas have different issues and vote for candidates they hope will represent them best.

          The issue is that no candidate truly represents their constituents any more because they are funded by corporations whose agendas are directly opposed to both rural and urban citizens.

          Politicians campaign on empty promises and fool voters into electing them on false promises and policies and immediately pass laws that favor their financial donors instead.

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      Sample sizes can fuck anything up, you see if they included me the sheer gravity of my distaste for that man would wreck the scale.

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      It’s the same reason Trump got elected in the first place. These people absolutely don’t care about doing the right thing. They either do exactly as they’re told, or they are simply obsessed with winning. As long as their guy wins, they don’t care what he does.

      It’s insane.

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      Because the only media they consume is Fox News or something even further right. Just spend an hour watching it and you’ll understand why they live in a fantasy land.

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        Christian death cult wishing for the end of times so Jesus comes back.

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      I once heard it put this way. About a third of Americans will vote Republican, no matter what. About a third of Americans will vote Democratic, no matter what. What the last third does determines what happens.

      Not specific to Trump or his approval rating, but I think that the general principle applies.

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      To them it’s all about teams.

      They root for the home team cause they believe it’s about identity instead of ideas.

      The cold hard truth is that they want white nationalism at all costs

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      I would wager that most of them have very low income and very low levels of education. The mega rich are less than 1% of the population, and use their money to misinform the gullible into voting against their own interests

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    These are the highest fuel prices I have ever seen in my 53 years on this space rock. 100% avoidable. How anyone can still support this clown is beyond me.

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      FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON AND RISING LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

      plz end this man’s horrible existence it’s the main reason I don’t believe in a god.

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      I’m not especially fussed about fuel prices myself, but when you consider that Trump ran in significant part on isolationism and reducing prices — and Americans are disproportionately sensitive to fuel prices — this is kind of heading about as hard as one possibly can in the opposite direction, if you consider multiple interventions abroad, tariffs driving up prices, and now the fuel supply cut.

      If someone supported Trump based on those points, one imagines that they might not be entirely enthusiastic about the present state of affairs.

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        Fuel cost impact is not “at the tank” but at the price of things that require transport. Think, food…and basically everything.

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    It’s sad there were people who only voted for Trump for their own gains and now because of it their entire country will fall to pieces.

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      I’m convinced that ~30-35% of all living beings are complete and utter psychopaths, who are incapable of caring about anything that doesn’t affect them on a personal basis. Literally a third of all people going about their lives with no empathy whatsoever. I wonder what the evolutionary purpose for this is…

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        Probably those without emotions can take riskier and more damming roles of society and real the benefits while indirectly killing everyone else ask the way up the ladder and reproduce with several failed marriages. It’s like an asshole run and dump rogue like for them and they just love seeing the funny number ($) go up

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    New low so far. About 27% is the breaking point low. Most people aren’t hungry yet, but prices haven’t yet reached their peak.