• bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    I just perused approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

    But it’s a lot. Independence and Democrats so much less so that his overall approval rating is like 38% last I checked, nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

    Remember towards the end of his first term he was around 40%, and Biden was at 40% for 3 years and did nothing to change that.

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      nevertheless. His base is solid behind him.

      That’s what Fox News, AM radio and this lovely new crop of manosphere jerkoffs are all put on the air to do. Create this cult.

      Propaganda works. Usually only in one direction, usually only on most people. Add some evil-science military psyop characteristics and yeah. You get that.

      If our billionaire ‘free’ press could get to breaking that down, that’d be great kthx.

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        The Internet has just totally changed things, the crazies, the kooks, the cranks, prior to the internet they would say something crazy and be ostracized for it.

        Now they get online they find a million other people that believe the same thing. And those Rich billionaires are using those crazy people for their own ends

        The only answer is for us to organize and counter use those crazy people against the people trying to use them against us, that’s the truth and we can do it. But obviously there’s a lot more to it than that.

        Obviously mass media was a thing before this and a huge problem, I was just illustrating away things have changed but you’re right Fox News well first of all they are the devil, or at least the voice of evil, but the entire reason we have ended up in this place. Not just them but you know that the worst obviously. Or they were.

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      approval ratings in reuters this morning, he is 80% support amongst Republicans, which is down.

      Let’s just cut our losses and all agree the USA experiment is a failure. Just split it up.

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        If only, that would solve a lot. Got the Eastern corridor, the upper midwest, the southeast Deep South Southwest and west.

        Unfortunately leaving the union is not an option I seem to recall something about a group trying to do that at one point and they were prevented from doing so.