
"If anything, Trump has proven that laughter is far more powerful than fear — and that is a lesson his adversaries should carry with them into every future fight."
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls #JimmyKimmel
/4
#Tag
"If anything, Trump has proven that laughter is far more powerful than fear — and that is a lesson his adversaries should carry with them into every future fight."
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls #JimmyKimmel
/4
"In recent days new polls from the Associated Press, Gallup, Quinnipiac, Reuters, and The Economist all show Trump’s approval rating in terrible shape. The polling averages show the same. He’s in the toilet on specific issues too: On the economy and trade he’s polling in the thirties, and he’s deeply underwater on immigration, his 'best' issue.
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater #polls
/18
https://newrepublic.com/article/201031/trump-weak-failing-president-brutal-new-polls-confirm-it
"If anything, Trump has proven that laughter is far more powerful than fear — and that is a lesson his adversaries should carry with them into every future fight."
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls #JimmyKimmel
/4
Trump's approval rating as of today, per G. Elliott Morris:
54.4 per cent disapprove
42.1 per cent approve
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls
/5
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=false#§how-popular-is-donald-trump
"If anything, Trump has proven that laughter is far more powerful than fear — and that is a lesson his adversaries should carry with them into every future fight."
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls #JimmyKimmel
/4
"Trump’s attempt to silence Jimmy Kimmel only ensured that more Americans heard the jokes, more people saw through his insecurities, and more recognized that the emperor has no clothes. Kimmel’s Tuesday night viewership exceeded six milion, around three times what he received before this fiasco."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls #JimmyKimmel
/3
"In Donald Trump’s world there are weeks and then there are weeks. This one was a doozy. From declaring war on Tylenol to an escape with an escalator, Trump surpassed himself with his gaffes, outlandish statements and unhinged stunts – many of which involve decisions with real world consequences."
~ David Smith
#Trump #fascism #dementia #ApprovalRating #polls
/2
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/trump-tylenol-autism-turkey-united-nations-pam-bondi
"Friends, his neofascism and his dementia are both in plain sight.
Americans — including independents and many Republicans — are appalled by what we’re seeing
His polls continue to drop."
~ Robert Reich
Trump does care about polls. He also wants to distract us in every way possible from the Epstein story. Fascism doesn't care, though, that it represents a minority of people, as it uses force to try to cow us.
Did you know I built Polls into Stories when I originally released the feature 4 years ago, but at the last minute I decided against enabling Poll support because it wasn't polished enough?
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/2895
I was waiting for the right time.
Now that time has come. 😎
While developing the initial version of the #polls for #ActivityPub#WordPress plugin, I so often got reminded to the preamble words of @gancio from @lesion
"Building software means taking a stand, making decisions, choices. These choices start from a precise look at reality, from specific needs and ends implementing specific features, choose default values, simplify some flow and patterns while making difficult others."
It's just a tiny poll plugin, but there are still decisions to be made: For example, when to reveal the poll vote counts, to whom, and when to reset the vote counts (e.g. when changing the type from single choice to multiple).
There are many flow patterns that I don't consider worth striving for. Please help me by leaving some comments on the scenarios you can imagine.
I brought this to #SocialHub on the #Polls #FEP discussion thread.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-9967-polls/4885/14?u=aschrijver
While developing the initial version of the #polls for #ActivityPub#WordPress plugin, I so often got reminded to the preamble words of @gancio from @lesion
"Building software means taking a stand, making decisions, choices. These choices start from a precise look at reality, from specific needs and ends implementing specific features, choose default values, simplify some flow and patterns while making difficult others."
It's just a tiny poll plugin, but there are still decisions to be made: For example, when to reveal the poll vote counts, to whom, and when to reset the vote counts (e.g. when changing the type from single choice to multiple).
There are many flow patterns that I don't consider worth striving for. Please help me by leaving some comments on the scenarios you can imagine.
While developing the initial version of the #polls for #ActivityPub#WordPress plugin, I so often got reminded to the preamble words of @gancio from @lesion
"Building software means taking a stand, making decisions, choices. These choices start from a precise look at reality, from specific needs and ends implementing specific features, choose default values, simplify some flow and patterns while making difficult others."
It's just a tiny poll plugin, but there are still decisions to be made: For example, when to reveal the poll vote counts, to whom, and when to reset the vote counts (e.g. when changing the type from single choice to multiple).
There are many flow patterns that I don't consider worth striving for. Please help me by leaving some comments on the scenarios you can imagine.
My sources in the images.
https://jannagnoelle.com/2015/11/30/making-rent-in-the-middle-ages-medieval-mondays-4b/
Poll with Preface
We're often told that taxes/rents (often the same thing in a feudal manor) for medieval serfs was crushing, and that we should be grateful under capitalism.
I've been lucky to dodge housing rents/mortgages for awhile, but that's not available for most, and I'm thinking to when I lived a "normal" American life. I was lucky if rent was less than half my monthly income, and typically I was paying far more than half my income just in rent or mortgage, not counting taxes. This was true even back in the late 1990s when I paid $400 for a 2-bedroom apartment. That was about 50-60% of my minimum wage income.
(I'm including mortgages in this, because 90%+ of any 30 year mortgage in the first years is going to interest, NOT to owning, so it is a form of rent, and most people refinance or move before they pay significant principle.)
Today I looked it up, and generally rents/taxes for an unfree medieval serf (next step up from a slave) were around 50% of their labor, plus incidentals for special occasions. In exchange for "rent" they received many benefits that taxes provide, like policing and military protection. (This percent went up in times of war.)
In pure terms of rents+taxes, it doesn't seem like we're any better off, and in fact as of 2025 it seems like we're much worse off.
Now that I've biased you, the post contains the poll.
Poll with Preface
We're often told that taxes/rents (often the same thing in a feudal manor) for medieval serfs was crushing, and that we should be grateful under capitalism.
I've been lucky to dodge housing rents/mortgages for awhile, but that's not available for most, and I'm thinking to when I lived a "normal" American life. I was lucky if rent was less than half my monthly income, and typically I was paying far more than half my income just in rent or mortgage, not counting taxes. This was true even back in the late 1990s when I paid $400 for a 2-bedroom apartment. That was about 50-60% of my minimum wage income.
(I'm including mortgages in this, because 90%+ of any 30 year mortgage in the first years is going to interest, NOT to owning, so it is a form of rent, and most people refinance or move before they pay significant principle.)
Today I looked it up, and generally rents/taxes for an unfree medieval serf (next step up from a slave) were around 50% of their labor, plus incidentals for special occasions. In exchange for "rent" they received many benefits that taxes provide, like policing and military protection. (This percent went up in times of war.)
In pure terms of rents+taxes, it doesn't seem like we're any better off, and in fact as of 2025 it seems like we're much worse off.
Now that I've biased you, the post contains the poll.
As William Kristol points out, the public is resisting Trump. But elites are not.
A new Quinnipiac poll shows him witwh a 54% disapproval rating. 64% of voters say they would prefer giving most undocumented immigrants a pathway to legal status. 56% disapprove of the way ICE is doing its job, 55% disapprove of sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles, and 60% disapprove of sending in the Marines.
#Trump #polls#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations #elites
/4
What we've learned is that they will willingly usher in fascism to protect their power and privilege -- just as German elites did as Hitler rose to power.
#Trump #polls#BigBeautifulBill#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations #elites
/6
"Nearly half of registered voters—49%—said [in the Quinnipiac poll] they do not think democracy is working in the United States, while 43% say it is. Sixty percent of those who do not think it is working told Quinnipiac pollsters they blame Republicans, while 15% blamed Democrats. Twenty percent said they blame both parties."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump#Quinnipiac #polls#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations#BigBeautifulBill
/7
Only 29% approve of the "big, beautiful bill."
What's wrong with elites like corporate media and Wall Street tycoons and bankers? Let's start with the word "greed." The more imperative deep structural change becomes due to unprecedented economic disparities, the more entrenched and recalcitrant they become.
#Trump #polls#BigBeautifulBill#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations #elites
/5
What we've learned is that they will willingly usher in fascism to protect their power and privilege -- just as German elites did as Hitler rose to power.
#Trump #polls#BigBeautifulBill#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations #elites
/6
As William Kristol points out, the public is resisting Trump. But elites are not.
A new Quinnipiac poll shows him witwh a 54% disapproval rating. 64% of voters say they would prefer giving most undocumented immigrants a pathway to legal status. 56% disapprove of the way ICE is doing its job, 55% disapprove of sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles, and 60% disapprove of sending in the Marines.
#Trump #polls#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations #elites
/4
Only 29% approve of the "big, beautiful bill."
What's wrong with elites like corporate media and Wall Street tycoons and bankers? Let's start with the word "greed." The more imperative deep structural change becomes due to unprecedented economic disparities, the more entrenched and recalcitrant they become.
#Trump #polls#BigBeautifulBill#ICE#LosAngeles #immigrants #deportations #elites
/5
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