fuck

[-] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah but you can’t trust anything he says that’s just trump

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 4 points 3 months ago

LOL.

So basically Democrat voters.

Alternative title: "More than half of Americans are idiots"

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Anyone else see the headline and think, "Nah, he was 100% involved, where'd they get this halfsies shit?"

It took me a second, ngl.

[-] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

Only 49%?

[-] human@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A stunning new poll shows a whopping 71 percent of Americans say President Donald Trump knew about former pal and currently deceased Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes against underage girls — and a wide plurality say he was “involved in” those crimes.

So that's 71% that said he broke the law and contributed in some way to the abuse whether by direct action or by not reporting what he knew.

That's actually really high. It would be tough to get 71% of Americans to agree on what day of the week it is.

Edit: Looks like it's a YouGov survey, and the article cites a second YouGov survey as corroboration, so I'm not sure how scientifically rigorous this is.

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I regularly do YouGov serveys and I also believe he's guilty

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

More Americans believe in ghosts than believe trump wasn't aware and complicit in Epstein systematically trafficking and raping children...

Edit: Looks like it’s a YouGov survey, and the article cites a second YouGov survey as corroboration, so I’m not sure how scientifically rigorous this is.

Huh?

It's got more than enough participants and everything seems by the book...

Is this one of those things where people got turned into science deniers because pundits interpretations of other polls didn't turnout true?

That's like saying Doppler radar is untrustworthy because when it was a 50% chance of rain, it didn't rain at your house...

The science wasn't wrong, you just never understood what it said. And rather than take an opportunity to learn what you misunderstood to stop the misunderstanding from happening again...

You're just staying ignorant and now no longer believe any of the science because you don't understand.

Why?

Why does science denial seem like the best path to you?

[-] ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Have them listen to Sascha Riley's interview and repoll them, it will be 100%. Epstein was the middle man, it was Trump's crimes.

[-] ScrumpyDumpleskin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

George Carlin - "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that..."

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

LOL, it's only at 49%?

And only 71% think he knew? I wonder if that 29% is the Sarah Palin/Nixon Resigning Floor.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I don't exactly understand the final reference, but I wonder if it's the same as "30% of Germans still thought they were the good guys after WW2"

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I got the Sarah Palin Floor concept from The Professional Left podcast. It's what they call the part of the conservative base that will support Republicans and conservatives no matter what. I think they used this term when Donvict's approval ratings went to 37%.

That number is pretty close to the same polling that Nixon had on the day he resigned - 27%.

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

That reads like party lines.

Also "currently deceased" is a hell of a way to describe someone.

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

So 51% say he wasn’t even involved

[-] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Trump scored the highest, with 49 percent saying he was involved versus 28 percent who said he wasn’t — a 21-point spread.

I'm guessing 30% are a bunch of NPCs who've never formulated a critical thought in their lives.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Only 49%? I guess they only asked half the class?

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

The others might be so deep in their echo chamber that the survey question was the first they ever heard of any Trump involvement

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago

Based on trump math, the pedophile rapist piece of shit is 400% in those files.

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