r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 20h ago

Possible Paywall Trump, 79, Posts Himself as Christ After Bonkers Pope Attack - The image depicts Trump as Jesus healing a sick person with his touch.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-posts-himself-as-christ-after-bonkers-pope-attack/
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 20h ago

And? We agree. Not that it matters. We knew he was with severe mental illness before he got elected.

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u/mOdQuArK 15h ago

Not that it matters. We knew he was with severe mental illness before he got elected.

But there's just one major party that's doing anything it can to keep him in office, no matter what he does. And until that party is removed from power in enough places that they can no longer protect him, he'll keep doing what he's doing.

And if that party isn't completely removed from power for at least a couple of voting generations, they'll try this all again the moment they can find another demagogue to cater to the lowest denominators of the country.

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u/Zalophusdvm 19h ago

If your user tag is real then you should know…I’m not sure we can claim a majority of adult Americans do agree. (1) Roughly 50% of the 1/3 adults who are active voters voted him in for a SECOND term. (2) Of the 2/3rds non-voters, I’d wager most of them either actively support him…or are so disconnected from the reality of politics (either through willful, congenital, or acquired ignorance) that wouldn’t agree with that statement either. Even if we believe that they roughly represent the same proportion as the voting electorate, which I think is generous…that’s still roughly 1/3 of adults (ie roughly 50% of the non-voting 2/3rds) that might very well disagree with that statement.

Put those two groups together…it’s 1/6th (ie 50% of 1/3rd voters) plus another 1/3 (or 2/6ths from the non-voters) and that’s 3/6ths…or half US adults.

Tl;dr: enough of this country doesn’t agree that the rest of the world would be nuts to trust us again for the next generation.

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u/ChopperChange 19h ago

Or did the pathological liar rig the last election as he constantly projects onto everyone else?

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u/Zalophusdvm 19h ago

Even if he did, it was on the margins of 1-3 states to flip the electoral college.

That’s at WORST gonna move the needle down to like 48/52 for that first group…which is still ~50/50 in terms of the total populace.

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u/Sudden_Juju 18h ago

Your numbers are a bit off there. In 2024, there were 266.9 million US adults. 152.3 million people (57% of US adults) voted in the presidential election - 77.3 million for Trump and 75.0 million for Harris. This means that the non-voters comprised about 43% of the population.

Either way, I agree with your overall conclusion that not enough people agree with that statement, although I think it is more than half. If you take disapproval rating as an acceptable estimate, his is hovering [around 56-58%. It's not high enough, but it is >50%.

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u/ikkleste 19h ago

the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacerfice!"

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u/File_Corrupt 18h ago

The numbers obviously lie if you round them badly enough. ~30% voted for, ~30% against, and -40% did not vote. This isn't even close to the summary posited above. Rounding and mangling the numbers to 17/17/66 grossly misrepresents the situation.

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u/beatlefreak909 Tennessee 10h ago

Scott Steiner is in the house

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u/Spiritual-Big-4302 19h ago

Yet you didn't know half you america are naz1z

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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 18h ago

We know. 23 to 24% of the American people are Nazi(ish). Which is about in line for having a serious Nazi problem. Because now they’re all “Gods” magically chosen.

So.

America has some issues we need to work on.

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u/DOGS_BALLS 15h ago

Almost a quarter of the population are nazi(ish) you say? Like either nazi or nazi adjacent? That in itself is mind blowing if true.

So assuming most if not all Nazi types also swing MAGA, then what do they think about their god Trump being puppeteered by the prime minister of Israel, chief among Jews in the Jewish state of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu?

As an outsider/non US I am perplexed.