They were completely fine with screwing everyone else over, fucking up the planet so long as the chief consequences didn’t hit until AFTER they died off, but now that their Social Security is on the chopping block they’re finally noticing.
Does he care about approval rating anymore? If he stays in power, it won’t be though an election.
He needs enough support that his most rabid fans will keep calling into congress with death threats if they don’t let Trump do whatever he wants. The calls to congressional offices asking them to do fucking anything will drown those out.
Active duty service members look at how much veterans benefits are being cut–things they were planning on having for themselves later–which means the military isn’t a reliable path to maintaining indefinite power. If Hegseth goes down, then they’ve thrown away any chance of controlling the military. He was supposed to be The Guy for that.
He’s got ICE and maybe the FBI. Those can cause havoc on individuals, such as Gaza protesters and green card holders, but they’re too small to grip the entire nation.
A lot will come down to city police and county sheriffs throwing in their support.
Who cares now? It’s only 2.5 months in, and so much PERMANENT damage has already been done. Nobody will ever trust the US again. The only time his approval ratings will matter is if he tries to declare himself President or push through allowing him to run for a 3rd term.
His ratings could be 0% with every demographic, and the Republicans MIGHT vote to impeach him… maybe. And maybe his ratings might matter a little in TWO YEARS during mid-term elections. But that is two more years of him looting and pillaging and destroying the country.
Well, you see, the boomers are finally having a generally harmful and cruel policy/leader/platform they’ve supported for decades because it makes them feel validated… actually affect them personally in a negative way, so now the lizard brain is activated, and they become angry.
The narcissist can’t actually empathize, only sympathize. A narcissist is the only person that exists, every one else is all ‘other people’.
Yes, I am speaking generally, obviously not all boomers are like this… but boomer is a mindset, a mindset of privelege, inherent superiority, coddling, demanding respect far more than you deserve, never being wrong or needing to learn anything and update your world knowledge, and always, always, offering useless, ineffective advice in a condescending, infallible tone.
… It’s just that that mindset is more common in American boomers than any other generational cohort.
https://www.scarymommy.com/boomers-more-narcissistic-than-millennials-study-says
Journal Link:
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpag0000379
Actual Full PDF of study in (via?) google scholar:
Give it time, and I bet younger generations will surpass them by a country mile. Most likely skipping Gen X since they grew up pre-digital like the boomers, but were completely ignored and lived nearly all their lives in the shadow of boomers.
Why? Well, partly because of their numbers, but I see quite a bit of narcissism in younger generations, and unlike the boomers who, yes, grew up in a media that showered constant attention and praise on them and their outsized numbers, media is now entirely tailored to make it all about the individual.
I don’t see any reason to believe that human nature won’t fall prey to this in younger generations…if the boomers were steeped most of their lives in algorithms trained on maximizing engagement, they would be even worse. Now imagine a new group of people that have been fed that their entire lives…
You very, very obviously didn’t read the paper or even the article summarizing it.
Basically, what the paper found is that all groups, regardless of birth era… their narcissistic traits lessen overtime as any individual ages.
But also… Boomers are still, as in, after doing most of their ageing… more narcissistic than any other generational cohort that came after them.
Meaning they were even more narcissistic in early adulthood than they are now, that level of narcissism leveled off a bit as they aged… and they are still more narcissistic than younger generations, despite younger generations having not aged out of as much of their narcissism.
Its a longitudinal study, which means that they looked at studies that tracked psychological narcissism scores of the same individuals over many decades, in addition to running all the proper math to come to statistically significant conclusions.
… Thats a lot of words to say: Found the boomer.
Did you know being overly defensive is a prime trait of narcissism? They call it ‘hypersensitivity’ in the study, a maladaptive form of narcissism.
You would if you’d read any of the sources.
But you didn’t, which … makes also sense for a narcissist.
‘Willfullness’ is another defined narcissistic trait the study goes over, which is basically the extent to which you feel you must impose your ideas and beliefs on others.
Its a lot easier to be willfull when you just entirely disregard facts that are inconvenient to your opinions.
Anyway, I’ll take the actual science over a boomer providing factually baseless, useless conjecture, in a condescensing tone, based on a hunch, without evidence.
Thanks for proving my point!
(PS, the incredibly narcissistic people you see on social media all the time are always in your face because the algorithms automatically select for and hyper promote and popularize the most egotistical and narcissistic personas, due to their propensity to turn their own lives into drama filled reality tv plot lines, all on their own!)
(Its the algorithmic method of automatically producing soap opera / reality TV grade slop, because outrage and drama are the most effective ways to draw a large audience.)
(Its entirely unrepresentative of the 99.99% of people who use social media and never go viral, an actual perfect example of the selection bias that you apparently do not think that you, as a social media user, are subject to … despite you describing how social media algorithms tailor the content they serve to each individual, specifically.)
It does matter, but I agree with the consensus that a massive amount of damage has been done, and will continue to be done.
Everyone who did not vote, or who voted for Trump, has let their nation, their friends, and their families down. America is in a state of descent and degradation.
I find it baffling that there is still a double digit percentage of people who think the orange retard is a good president after these 2 months of nonstop disasters.
Half of American adults have literacy skills at our below the 6th grade level. That’s functional illiteracy for an adult. They can read the individual words, but they don’t grasp the full meaning of them or together if it’s anything more than surface level.
They don’t know wtf is going on around them.
Will never get lower than 33% even if he starts shooting kittens on live tv.
55+ are steeped in that fox news cycle, some people have reported thier maga family member, older have it on 24-7.
Many of them think that Fox is “too far left” and now opt for OAN, NewsMax, and similar, which are so much worse.
yea i suspect younger than boomers opted for OAN, newsmax and grifters, like peterson, shapiro, musk, and,etc, Also they are drawn to Right wing videos on Youtube as well. adjacent grifters including incel coaches/pickup artists.
From the article, it was a 10% drop in approval ratings from boomers, compared to <3% drops among other groups (who already had a lower opinion of him)
