I don’t think much will improve any President’s polling for the forseeable future- Trump really is a Rubicon-crossing. Politics is completely tribal now- and I expect Dems would defend a left-wing Trump now wholeheartedly, not out of love of corruption, but out of pure fear of another Republican.
I suspect that is why Trump’s base is sticking with Trump- it’s either fear of another Obama, or they hate us so much they just want to hurt people like us at any cost.
Early on, Solov’s prediction seemed to be coming true. “Breitbart News is the #45th most trafficked website in the United States, according to rankings from Amazon’s analytics company, Alexa.com,” they wrote on January 9, 2017. “With over two billion pageviews generated in 2016 and 45 million unique monthly visitors, Breitbart News has now surpassed Fox News (#47), Huffington Post (#50), Washington Post (#53), and Buzzfeed (#64) in traffic.” A month later, the site had even greater cause to celebrate. “Breitbart News is now the 29th most trafficked site in the United States, surpassing PornHub and ESPN,” they crowed…
Just a few months later, the numbers have a different story to tell. As of May 26, 2017, according to Alexa.com—the same web-ranking analytics company that Breitbart drew its numbers from in January—Fox News is the 64th most-trafficked site in the country. Huffington Post is at 60. Buzzfeed is at 50. The Washington Post, on the strength of a series of eye-popping scoops, is at 41.
Breitbart is in 281st place.
(Part of that is Breitbart monkeying with the way they report numbers - they basically inflated them from December to the end of April - but both it and Fox are also experiencing real declines.)
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And it’s really awesome.
Ah, The Oatmeal at its most self-indulgently insufferable. Anyone who actually needs to read all that won’t have the patience for it. The backfire effect can be explained and demonstrated far more concisely (and without The Oatmeal’s nauseating art style).
God dammit, where’s the like button? And why do I want to use it more now that it’s gone than when it was here?
Why?
Why?
Why!
See? These guys just demonstrated it in two concise posts. Bravo, chaps.
I don’t believe you!
Unfortunately, The Oatmeal’s description of how the amygdala works is woefully lacking.
Ironically, when anyone prefaces a statement with “From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense,” they are usually committing the same error that The Oatmeal warns against.
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I had never heard of the backfire effect or theoatmeal.com I thought it very humorous.
AND I REFUSE TO APOLOGIZE.
The Oatmeal is generally hilarious, ya humorless jagoffs. Sheesh.
I think some people had their humor centers surgically removed.
Better get a jump on it, while we still have insurance.
They have done a videogame about Trump!
God damn it I saw that video yesterday and it looked right up my alley but then you had to go ruin it for me by posting it in this thread!
Sorry.
Rumours are that Trump was following the world leaders in italy in a golf car. But theres not photos of it. This was my second option.
And yea, looks like a good fun game. Wish it release in all platforms.
Because he was the only person there who didn’t allow his country’s reporters in.
I dream many nights that I’ll wake up, and discover he had a heart attack.
It appears theres a police car stuck inside the white house. Or thats what these mysterious lights look to me.
Maybe trump is watching a movie with a lot of explosions?