New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Half of Trump supporters believe QAnon's imaginary claims
A full 50 percent of President Trump’s supporters now believe the bizarre, false claims of the extremist conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
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Only half?? I would have figured it was all of them.
Also who are these 18% of democrats who either believe in QAnon or are open to it?
Also who are these 18% of democrats who either believe in QAnon or are open to it?
I'm not surprised that his supporters believe it, but I am bloody surprised that a majority think he's actually doing something about it.
The amount of effort it's going to take to deprogram these nitwits - thinking about it just exhausts me.
The thing is, most Qanon believers know that straight-out saying "Qanon" will make you look crazy, so that's why all they call their rallies "Save the Children" rallies rather than Qanon rally or whatever. And then the nay-sayers can be seen as not caring about children etc. etc.
I.e. the deplorables, I can't believe that Hillary was criticized so heavily for something that was and still is 100% true.
Facebook and other social media will soon pass Fox News/talk radio in terms of damage done to America.
The depressing thing is that these theories have been going on for decades in some shape or form. Two years ago I was involved in a research project analyzing 19th century political cartoons. One of the was critiquing James G Blaine from Maine who wanted to build a wall to keep the Chinese out. Not much changes
It's crazy. It was just a place to connect with Grandma and now Grandma has been radicalized.
Seeing what my old friends were up to has turned out to be totally not worth it.
WTF, USA. How did you reach this point?
I mean, we all have dumb people in our country, but that proportion seems way larger in USA. Is the education system that bad?
I mean, we all have dumb people in our country, but that proportion seems way larger in USA. Is the education system that bad?
I always wonder who these 4 or 5% of "democrats" who always seem to be lock step with trump supporters are.
conspiracy thought, but now for everyone
everyone gather around a Umbrella Man as he sings you a tale about the greys and their connection to the Coming race
don't forget your copy of the Turner Diaries on your way out
everyone gather around a Umbrella Man as he sings you a tale about the greys and their connection to the Coming race
don't forget your copy of the Turner Diaries on your way out
Yes. The education system is that bad, and deliberately so. We desperately need funding and an overhaul.
I'd be willing to bet money the other half is simply too embarrassed to admit they also believe.
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A lot of news articles on Yahoo are rehosted content from other sites, including right-wing sites of varying degrees of insanity. Ex. Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller is frequently found there. Fox News is frequently found there. Don't know if that's part of what gives it the impression of a tabloid, or if you're referring to Yahoo's own content.
You're right. It's the general impression that I get -- never took the time to distinguish the sources. Their front page will often have really stupid stories about celebrity gossip/some teacher that slept with a student/father who let a kid die in a hot car/spousal abuse/etc
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Getting worse all the time due to bad actors on the right. (Not that we don't have serious flaws apart from them, but they're making it worse.) One recent, particularly egregious example:
Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches 'The Left Ruins Everything' Assigned In Ohio School
PragerU videos were recently assigned in an Ohio classroom. Turns out, the right-wing site is looking to further its influence in K-12 settings.
It's only going to grow because of that town hall he gave.
This is always how it works with Trump. There can be an issue that Trump supporters are largely negative on... maybe split but a large number are against, and then Trump will come out and support the issue, and rather than his supporters distancing themselves from Trump, they change their mind on the issue, or think "Well the liberal media doesn't present it fairly, the media is really to blame."
We can go down the list of just about everything that would have scared conservatives off from a candidate or politician in the past, and today very very few will leave Trump, instead, they embrace an issue that they wouldn't have embraced before. That's the power of a demagogue and the decades-long assault on truth and facts.
This is always how it works with Trump. There can be an issue that Trump supporters are largely negative on... maybe split but a large number are against, and then Trump will come out and support the issue, and rather than his supporters distancing themselves from Trump, they change their mind on the issue, or think "Well the liberal media doesn't present it fairly, the media is really to blame."
We can go down the list of just about everything that would have scared conservatives off from a candidate or politician in the past, and today very very few will leave Trump, instead, they embrace an issue that they wouldn't have embraced before. That's the power of a demagogue and the decades-long assault on truth and facts.
the government bungling the Warren Commission certainly didn't help things
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Oh okay, I hardly ever go to the site itself looking for news, I only get linked there from other sources. It looks like their News page is a lot less tabloidy than yahoo dot dom.
I pretty much only go to Google and DuckDuckGo for search, so I forget how annoying some of these search portals are.
Wait, in a PUBLIC SCHOOL? with Public funds? Holy shit, even in my country that would be wrong in so many levels.Getting worse all the time due to bad actors on the right. (Not that we don't have serious flaws apart from them, but they're making it worse.) One recent, particularly egregious example:
Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches 'The Left Ruins Everything' Assigned In Ohio School
PragerU videos were recently assigned in an Ohio classroom. Turns out, the right-wing site is looking to further its influence in K-12 settings.www.huffpost.com
The plan of dismantling public institutions (in particular public schools) to push a conservative agenda is working like a charm in the richest country in the world. Not a good look for the rest of the planet, tbh.
It wasn't 100% true. She significantly undersold how many of them are deplorable.
Lmao
The Mueller report was supposed to actually be about bringing down dozens of Democrats involved in this stuff.
QANON is just about on the cusp of the mainstream Republican platform.
The Mueller report was supposed to actually be about bringing down dozens of Democrats involved in this stuff.
QANON is just about on the cusp of the mainstream Republican platform.
This is grotesqueGetting worse all the time due to bad actors on the right. (Not that we don't have serious flaws apart from them, but they're making it worse.) One recent, particularly egregious example:
Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches 'The Left Ruins Everything' Assigned In Ohio School
PragerU videos were recently assigned in an Ohio classroom. Turns out, the right-wing site is looking to further its influence in K-12 settings.
Fun Fact: Qanon organizers later changed the rallies to be "Save Our Children" rallies instead of "Save The Children" rallies because Bill Gates Foundation already has a campaign called Save The Children, and the Qanon interpretation of Bill Gates is that he is actually an evil mastermind looking to use the coronavirus to plant mind controlling chips in people via vaccine distribution.
