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Salon: Only Losers Voted for Trump(LOL)
newsbusters.org ^ | 3/9/2018 | Gabriel Hays

Posted on 03/10/2018 8:01:21 AM PST by rktman

We’ve heard lots of assertions from the media about who Trump voters are: poorly-educated, racist, and authoritarian-leaning. Now Salon is adding to the rich stock of disdaining assumptions.The Trump-voting conservative, says the site, is a washed-up, lonely loser whose disconnect from reality and the rest of society inspired him to spite the democratic process. Might they add he can’t get a girlfriend.

The clinicians over at Salon consulted a 2017 Gallup poll that stated that nearly half of U.S. states "saw their well-being scores decline by a statistically significant margin in 2017," while none of the 50 states "saw statistically significant improvement from the year before.”.

That includes, “an increase in experiencing significant worry on any given day,” “a decline in reports of receiving ‘positive energy’ from friends and family members,” “a drop in reports of liking ‘what you do each day,’ and “a reduction in satisfaction with standard of living (compared to peers.)”

While the Gallup poll did not necessarily break down the demographics as to which which half of Americans were feeling this way, leave it to Salon to point the finger at Trump supporters. I mean, who else would be experiencing the low T required to elect our generation’s next Hitler?

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deplorables; whaaaaa
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Oh, well "salon". Finally a piece with some credibility. Bwahahahahahahaha! So, who's laughing now salonites?
1 posted on 03/10/2018 8:01:21 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

NON print:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2018/03/09/salon-only-losers-voted-trump


2 posted on 03/10/2018 8:03:06 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Still not tired of the winning!


3 posted on 03/10/2018 8:03:33 AM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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I voted for Hitler. Just kidding!

But that’s how liberals think of Trump voters. The Great Unwashed.


4 posted on 03/10/2018 8:05:14 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever) I)
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To: rktman

Losers? Trump won; I’d say that qualifies us as WINNERS!


5 posted on 03/10/2018 8:06:04 AM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a Mental Cancer on Society! Pray for a cure for the diseased and damaged left!)
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To: rktman

I don’t use alcohol or use “recreational” drugs so how do you know if there is a decline in the “positive energy” you are receiving from your “friends and neighbors”. Is this some kind of wacky new age, millennial snowflake bullsh*t?


6 posted on 03/10/2018 8:06:44 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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But the guys and gals running around in pussy hats are A-OK with the betas at Salon. Get real. Democrats are the losers who can’t take care of themselves and have to latch on to the teat of government to survive. Trump voters don’t have to have safe places in which to embrace victimhood.


7 posted on 03/10/2018 8:07:23 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: rktman

I thought we were deplorables? Maybe they meant deplorable losers.


8 posted on 03/10/2018 8:08:24 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: txrefugee

Salon’s side lost so doesn’t that make them the losers?


9 posted on 03/10/2018 8:08:48 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: rktman

Pauline Kael, nutcake movie critic of Newsweek, in 1972 after Richard Nixon beat McGovern - “I just can’t understand how Nixon won; just everybody I know voted for McGovern”. Nixon won 61 percent of the vote, although I agree that the people Miss Kael knew on the Upper West Side of NY and Hollywood were probably not part of it.


10 posted on 03/10/2018 8:09:15 AM PST by laconic
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well, liberals have specially tuned “receptors”. Ahem!


11 posted on 03/10/2018 8:10:41 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Politically Correct

SNOWY!

(Still Not Over Winning Yet!)

While I wouldn’t say that I’ve been giddy, Trumps triumph resulted in a lightened step and a far more hopeful attitude for me and mine. It’s the left that has been the debby-downers - there hasn’t been a more pitiful reaction to an election since 1860.

More winning!


12 posted on 03/10/2018 8:10:50 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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13 posted on 03/10/2018 8:10:55 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Must be the half not part of the group which has raised consumer confidence to an almost 18 yr high.


14 posted on 03/10/2018 8:12:27 AM PST by billyboy15
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The progressives would have us believe that only 15% of the Trump voters voted for Trump because they support racism and misogyny and the other 34% were just duped and too dumb to know any better.

They want to ferret out the 34% and reeducated them.


15 posted on 03/10/2018 8:13:30 AM PST by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
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To: rktman

Still not tired of WINNING!


16 posted on 03/10/2018 8:15:10 AM PST by j_guru
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Funny how the gun grabbing dictator wannabes brand Trump as “authoritarian.” Pot, meet kettle.


17 posted on 03/10/2018 8:15:34 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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"I voted for Hitler. Just kidding!"

They claim he is Hitler, and are now begging him to confiscate guns. anyone else feel like the only mental illness that should be prohibited from gun ownership is VOTING DEMOCRAT???
18 posted on 03/10/2018 8:18:29 AM PST by j_guru
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To: laconic

Pauline Kael later acknowledged Nixon voters existed, thus:

“Where they are, I don’t know; they’re outside my ken. But sometimes, when I’m in the theater, I can feel them.”

She no doubt could sense evil vibes emanating from the Nixon people, alerting her to their presence.


19 posted on 03/10/2018 8:22:42 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Oh, well "salon". Finally a piece with some credibility. Bwahahahahahahaha! So, who's laughing now salonites?

Reading the Salon article breaks down as this: "People angry and unhappy with the current state of affairs in America voted for Trump. Trump won. Therefore, Trump voters are angry and unhappy."

Only the Left could spin this as a vindication of their policies.

20 posted on 03/10/2018 8:29:16 AM PST by Drew68
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