Posted on 08/30/2018 2:23:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
MSNBC hosts linked President Trump's approval rating with people who vote based on "whats going to give me more money in my pockets" on Thursday.
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle also said "a lot of people vote pretty selfishly" when it comes to supporting Trump.
While we could find or do find the presidents constant lying or lawlessness or reprehensible behavior morally unacceptable, a lot of people vote pretty selfishly, and they say, Whats going to give me more money in my pockets? Ruhle said in opening a segment with billionaire Tom Steyer.
Or whats going to make abortion illegal, or whats going to make sure that my Second Amendment rights stay the same, and clearly, that adds up to enough people that the president still has something akin to 40 percent of the electorate in polls," added co-anchor Ali Velshi.
Trump is currently sitting at 43.3 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of major polls, a 6.2 rise since December of 2017 before the GOP tax bill was passed. In a breakdown of respondents, his approval among Republicans is consistently high and consistently low among Democrats.
Steyer, though, pointed to enthusiasm he's seeing in voters opposing Trump that's helping to increase Democratic turnout in elections. He dismissed Trump's approval rating as "constant but at a low level."
"What we are seeing is great passion," he said, pointing to Florida's recent election. "And Florida is a perfect example, Stephanie. A seventy percent increase in Democratic turnout last Tuesday. What that says is, people are deeply upset with this administration, deeply upset with their policies, and deeply upset with their lawlessness.
Steyer, 61, is a former hedge from manager from San Francisco that has since become one of the most active Democratic donors in the country.
We vote selfishly ... But the left also does not understand why we vote against our own self-interest.
Am I confused?
Why is it that so many people needs to state that the government is giving you money back? The government is;5gicing you anything. The feds are CONFISCATING LESS OF YOUR EARNED INCOME.
Stephanie, you ignorant slut: we're tired of your boilerplate, deluded self-projection and Mirror Universe presentation of the facts. There is nothing 'selfish' about fighting to keep the fruits of our labors from being harvested wholesale so you and yours can keep buying the loyalty of the Parasite Class that you have not only created, but nurture in exchange for their slavish, cult-like worship. If you were stripped of your power, prestige, and influence, I think the lot of you wouldn't be bright enough to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were stamped on the heel. That's why SHTF and TEOTWAWKI scenarios are oddly appealing to me: you'd be one of the first to be dining on ashes while your cloistered little liberal world spins off its axis. Your legion of man-bunned soyboys and urban ghetto thugs will be sent back into the earth from which they came. Leaving nothing between you and us.
I see an idea here: “Deportables” versus “Deplorables”.
Deportables want freebies but hate America; Deplorables work for a living and love America.
Quite a nice contrast, don’t you think?
Liars
In a representative republic, am I expected to vote for someone to represent ME or YOU?
-PJ
Wonder how they feel about the leeches who want everything free but who don't want to do any actual work for it...they must despise them....right?
MAGA!!!
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