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Trump latest: Half of Americans now believe economy is worse in president’s second term
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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Lets not be hurtful and drag drugs into this. The kind of stupid that believes him is a whole 'nother level of intoxication that requires no drugs
Its hate and desperately believing Trump/Republicans are "Santa"
I follow a devout Christian woman on Facebook who is tangentially acquainted to me, and she believes that Communist Muslims are dressing up as Verizon workers and planting bombs or something all over the country to cause a worse disaster than 9/11. This is being signal boosted by disgraced general Michael Flynn and conservative influencers.
Of course, it’s not real; so when it never happens they will just praise LORD and SAVIOR Donald Trump for stopping these evil Democrats.
Old people really cannot believe that anyone would just lie like that. They really just fall for whatever they’re told.
It needs to be illegal.
It’s hard to make a “you are required to be truthful” law without it being the sharpest double-edged sword possible. But I agree, there should be consequences. peepoSmile
Like they have a basically reactionary and anti-principl'd polar opppsite propoganda media environment that is insular and creating an anti-reality political over all hellscape thats radicalizing traumatized and deeply damaged and often deranged Volks.
Its literally Russian state media for America