When will the media get a grip and explain to the American people what is really happening? Could they please just explain precisely how Trump won the nomination. To be absolutely clear, his success had nothing to do “with the economy – stupid”. This assertion is all quantifiable, it is not an opinion. But today it has simply gotten much worse—quantifiably worse.
Only 16%? of Trumpeteers have clue? Could that really be true? How tragic.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me…”While the sane will be judged by the company we keep.
Well I had already proven (see bottom of this story, that 67% of GOP voters are some combination of sheer ignorance and bigotry, but the pied piper of bullshit and hate, Donald Trump, is successfully separating the gullible wheat from the hateful chaff. Trump has now created a whole new category of stupid—a sort of super duper category where only 16% of the 67% of GOP voters who were always going to vote for the most absurd nasty candidate (hence the final showdown between Trump and Ted Cruz), where only 16% of these voters have the foggiest notion of right vs. wrong, fact vs. falsehood, math vs. myth.
Apologies to Sam Cooke:
There were only sixteen, only sixteen
But we can see them just so
They are still too stuck to fall out of love
With America’s absurdist Foe
Why did they give their hearts so fast
Will it ever will happen again
But this rueful band of sixteen
their brains are shrinking in pain
Only 16% of Trump voters think that if Hillary Clinton wins the election, it will be because she got more votes than Trump. More specifically, 69% of Trump voters think that if Hillary Clinton wins the election it will be because it was rigged,
Only 16% of Trump voters think that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are not responsible for Humayun Khan’s death.
48% of Trump voters think that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton deserve the blame for Humayun Khan’s death too.
Only 11% of Trump have a positive opinion of the Khan family.
42% who disagree with the sentiment that Hillary is the Devil and 17% who aren’t sure one way or the other.
40% of Trump voters think that ACORN (which hasn’t existed in years) will steal the election for Clinton. That shows the long staying power of GOP conspiracy theories.
47% of his voters say they saw the video of Iran collecting 400 million dollars from the United States, even though Trump ended up admitting it didn’t exist.
31% of them also support building a wall along the Atlantic Ocean to keep Muslims from entering the country from the Middle East.
52% are opposed to that idea.
The 67%
StupidParty Disciples. The 67% who are Mooching off our brains.
- 49% Believe Acorn stole 2012 election. PPP 2012.
(With no funding, Acorn dissolved in 2010)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/acorn-republican-voters_n_2239298.html - 65% Believe higher taxes (on people earning >$400,000) impact them. (Pew Jan. 8, ’08)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/153947/americans-split-whether-taxes-rise.aspx - 68% Do not believe in evolution.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-2917719.html - 58% (creationists) Believe the planet to be less than, say, 10,000 years old. (Gallup)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/americans-believe-in-creationism_n_1571127.html - 69% Between 2009 and 2011 refused to believe that Global Warming had begun. *(Gallup)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/161714/republican-skepticism-global-warming-eases.aspx - 58% Believe Global Warming is a hoax. (PPP 2013)
http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/04/poll-58-republicans-believe-gloabal-warming-hoax/ - 75% Believed Iraq was providing substantial support to al-Qaeda. Oct 21, ’04 (after 9/11 Commission Report)
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/87.php - 70% Believed Saddam attacked on 9/11.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no-saddam-links-to-9-11/ - 63% Believed—even in 2012—that Saddam had WMDs.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/21/504201/poll-republicans-iraq-wmd/ - 51% Are “birthers.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49554.html - 57% Believe Obama is a Muslim
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/22/scary-new-gop-poll.html - 66% Believe Obama is a socialist.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/22/scary-new-gop-poll.html - 24% Believe he may be the Antichrist.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/americans-believe-obama-anti-christ-global-warming-hoax_n_3008558.html - 71% Believed in poll “skewerism” before the 2012 election.
http://whttp://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/02/unskewed_polls_pollsters_manipulating_data_to_favor_Obama - 67% Believe video games are a bigger threat than guns.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-67-percent-of-republicans-think-video-games - 84% Was their approval rating for G. W. Bush. (April 2013)
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/poll-george-w-bush-approval-rating-2013-90484.html?hp=r1 - 44% Believe armed insurrection might be necessary to protect their freedoms.
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/44-percent-republicans-think-armed-revolution-may-be-necessary-study- finds - 72% Believed—as of the 2004 election—that Iraq had or was developing WMDs.***
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/87.phpOct 21, ’04 (after 9/11 Commission Report) - 57% Believed the world supported G. W. Bush for reelection. ***
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/87.phpOct 21, ’04 (after 9/11 Commission Report) - 69% Believed G. W. Bush supported international nuclear-test-ban treaties. ***
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/87.phpOct 21, 2004 (after 9/11 Commission Report) - 87% Were unaware that Bush actively opposed labor and environmental standards in trade agreements.
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/87.phpOct 21, 2004 (after 9/11 Commission Report) - 62% In Ohio (not the silliest state) do not know whether Mitt deserved equal or more credit than Obama for Bin Laden’s death.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_OH_9912.pdf - 90% Are oblivious to the fact that 95% of the population had tax cuts at the time of the 2012 election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html - 22% In Mississippi believe in evolution, and 12% believe Obama is a Christian.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/03/other-notes-from-alabama-and-mississippi.html - 73% Believe raising the debt ceiling is for future expenditures; 54% Believe the debt ceiling is no big deal.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressional-connection/coverage/poll-most-americans-don-t-understand-the-debt-ceiling-20131008 - Who do Louisiana Republicans say was to blame for the poor handling of Katrina (and/or believe Hurricane Katrina occurred after Obama became president)?
29% Obama / 28% Bush / 44% Do not know (PPP poll 8/21/2013).**
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/obama-hurricane- katrina_n_3790612.html
- Only 22% percent of SP disciples believe Ferguson raises important racial questions.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/215413-ferguson-divides-public-along-racial-party-lines - 68% of StupidParty voters believe the President should be impeached for????* see below diagram for various reasons –
https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/07/14/one-third-americans-want-impeach-obama/ - 57% of Republicans want to dismantle the Constitution, and establish Christianity as the official national Religion, and only 30% oppose making Christianity the national religion.
A Public Policy Polling (PPP) national survey conducted between February 20th and February 22nd - Only 11% of SP disciples believe Obama loves America. This is a reaction to Giuliani’s sad statements and pitiful record regarding his own “family values”—a man who has many lessons to learn from Obama in that regard.
https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/02/24/obama-patriotism/ - 62% believe Obama is secretly trying to take away everyone’s guns.
- 44% of SP disciples believe that Obama is secretly trying to figure out a way to stay in office beyond 2017.
- News alert, Obama invading Texas: only 40% of Texas StupidParty disciples are not seriously insane morons–the few who do not fear an imminent Government takeover.
- 53 % of SP disciples believe that the unemployment rate today (2015) is worse than when Obama took office.
- 67% of SP disciples have a favorable impression of Ben Carson in spite of the fact that the following information is easily available to anyone.
- 65% of SP disciples would ban Muslims from the country.
- 75% of SP disciples think more Guns = more safety:
- 65% of SP disciples believe that Ted Cruz is a natural born citizen.
- 94 % of SP disciples, being constitutional experts, believed the healthcare mandate unconstitutional (although the Supreme Court begged to differ).
- 43% of SP disciples “would hypothetically support the military stepping in to take control from a civilian government which is beginning to violate the Constitution,” which is odd because of the small technicality that the military taking control of the government for “violating the Constitution” is, in fact, violating the Constitution.
- 63% of SP disciples say Obama has made race relations worse (compared with just 5% of white Democrats) because a Black person in the white house is just bad for race relations (I guess).
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/chart-obama-conspiracy-theories
Sammi Helivian says
Obama is not ‘secretly’ trying to take away guns from lawful gun owners, he and the Democrats and the media are overtly trying to do it. They don’t like the Constitution and subvert it whenever it suits them or gets in the way of liberal legislation.
Sammi Helivian says
Good grief, not a wall on the ATLANTIC Ocean, a wall for the southern border. “Wall” is a metaphor. Patrolling the border should work fine with modern technology. What we really want is an end to illegal immigration, which is corruption design to increase Democratic voting. We welcome legal immigrants, especially those who want to enjoy the unique freedoms that Americans have, such as our Constitutional rights.
Patrick Andendall says
1) Illegal immigration is not a plan to increase Democratic voting – so please do not spread falsehoods and make up ignorant bullshit. 2) If people do not want illegal immigrants then the solution is simple -punish companies that hire illegal immigrants. The fact of the matter is the America Business, the US Chamber of Commerce— want cheap labor and wants to blame the immigrants. They can not have it both ways. But the voter should know that immigration is actually good for the economy – not bad. With this basic information you can now proceed to have an informed opinion.