Americans Have Never Hated Being American More, New Poll Finds
By: Robert McCoy (The New Republic)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
A new poll finds American pride is at an all-time low ahead of Fourth of July.
As fireworks will rocket into the sky this weekend, national pride has, under Trump, sunk to its lowest point in recent memory, per a new Gallup poll.
Since January 2001, the polling firm has asked Americans whether they are proud to be an American, and this year's results—published with the Fourth of July on the horizon and the semiquincentennial a year away—have proven to be the most dismal on record.
Only 41 percent of American adults reported being "extremely" proud to be an American, and only 17 percent were "very" proud, according to Gallup. Twenty percent find themselves on the less-proud portion of the spectrum, saying they are "moderately," "only a little," or "not at all" proud (19, 11, and nine percent, respectively).
Only 36 percent of Democrats report being very or extremely proud to be an American, a 26-point drop from last year. The only other time when less than a majority of Democrats were proud was in 2020, during a global pandemic.
Independents' pride—which has steadily declined since 2001—is also lower than ever, with just 53 percent being very or extremely proud.
Meanwhile, Republicans, 92 percent of whom are very or extremely proud, are as chipper as ever. Members of the GOP have consistently floated around that figure, only dipping below the 90 percent mark in 2016 and 2020-2024.
According to Gallup, there is a significant generational divide in national pride: The younger the generation, the less likely than the previous it is to be very or extremely proud to be an American.
From 2021 to 2025, just 41 percent of Gen-Z adults and 58 percent of millennials were very or extremely proud, Gallup reports, whereas that figure for Gen X, Baby Boomers, and the Greatest Generation is 71, 75, and 83 percent, respectively.
In his inaugural address, Trump promised that his "top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free." Perhaps the best that can be said of his presidency is that he's delivered to his base on that first promise.
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We have a couple people here on NT who are constantly asking what the big deal is with Trump, "get over it' is what they say. Who is he hurting?
Here is the answer. Trump has damaged American society to the degree that more people than ever hate being Americans. That is not "nothing", it is a national tragedy.
Where does it say Americans hate being Americans? I see that the seeded article is saying there's less pride, but I don't see anything about hating being American.
I still love being an American. I just want my country to be better
The writer of the seed should have used some other word than "hate". It obviously triggers some people.
What should we do now , ask people exactly what they mean by "hate" ?
I doubt anyone could be that precise.
Why would HATE trigger some people?....
I hate when people say that.
Because their peers require them to hate, but they know, intimately, that hate is wrong. Cognitive dissonance at a painful level.
Hello, Fellow Numbskulls, this is Jonathan Livingston Pigeon-Poo, "Doctored", straight from the street and not from the police, with a word of advice.
If you still support "Dirty Diaper Donnie," you may need a Mental Health Check-Up. But, please don't ask RFK, Jr. for his advice. Like "Dirty Diaper Donnie", the former 14-year Heroin addict, is as nutty as a FRUIT CAKE.
I suspect that both are, and sucking from the same twisted font.
I'm of two-minds about RFK, because he clearly needs to rein in the vaccine fearmongering doubting, but he MAY have a decent rapport about the quality of (ultra-processed) food and the cost of medications.
There is no doubt that Trump and RFK are wrong to mess with the Affordable Care Act participants. . . .people will die from that. We just have to hang on for the duration.
Not a shocker. Not with the full court TDS press the progressive left has had on the last eight or so years. Not with so many impressionable lemmings out there.
Main thing I’m ashamed of in this country is how many Americans have their heads up their butts. Look how many of you voted in a babbling puppet like Biden and defended him to the bitter end. Then you almost voted in a giggling moron who never received one primary vote.
That is sad. Very sad.
Either one of them was better than a traitor.
The only people who dont know Trump is a traitor are the people who dont want to know.
Traitor?
In whose universe?
Opinions do vary. Greatly in this case. “Reason” left the progressive barn the moment Trump came down the escalator nearly ten years ago and hasn’t been seen since.
She gone …..
In every universe
Only in the the universe of the triggered
There are many, predominantly low-income Americans, who mistakenly believe that a selfish, SUPER RICH, spoiled rich BRAT, is going to give a rat's patuta about them!
Back in the day, in the 1940s, poor folks idolized "Bonnie & Clyde", too.
Buddy ….. can you spare a dime?
Of course that dime is now worth like 2 bucks …..
Most of that downturn came from the disastrous Biden regime, better known as Obama 2.0.....the auto-pen presidency
I've never been more proud to be an American as the stench of progressivism is washed away.
It is taking a lot of scrubbing to get the job done
There are positive aspects to both conservatism and progressivism, but either can be taken to extremes. What we are seeing in government today is not a positive conservatism. It is bigotry, ignorance, and cruelty - and enabling it all: corruption.
Todays’s example is the eagerness with Republicans rush to raise the debt ceiling by 5 Trillion dollars. There is nothing conservative about that, but going along with it will help these corrupted politicians seize or hold power and wealth.
Just a fine distinction here: I would say that the "bigotry, ignorance, and cruelty" were in the service of corruption. He is just plain mean person who is corrupt. Add whatever gilding to that you want.
Greg, why don't you tell us a little about yourself so we can better understand your point of view?
No, per the poll, democrats have never hated being Americans more. They are loyal to their party. They are proud to be Americans only when in control. Turning Americans against America is the goal of many of their educators, but it’s really only taken root among the cult members.
any objective person with even the tinniest bit of wisdom and historical knowledge understands how lucky they are to be Americans.
This is understood. Especially if you are an American straight white male. And the coup de gras, being an American straight white Jewish male.
Bad juju according to many of our hate filled friends on the left. Very bad ….
Believe it or not, many Americans dont like having their country embarrassed by their president on a constant daily basis. Trump is a buffoon, it is evident in his actions, his thoughts and in his mental illness.
MAGA doesnt care, and that is the tragedy. This is all written in stone and will never not be the case for the rest of our lives.
And yet, you were fine with the buffon from the previous four years. Radio silence on all his fuck ups. Which tells the entire story here for you ……
Yes, we are very fortunate to have been born Americans. So what? Is that supposed to excuse this travesty?
Some of them not even then.
There will always be the extremist contingent that can't work through their white liberal guilt. They are committed to the idea that we should all be ashamed of everything from the natives we never fought to the slaves we never owned to the poor we never took money from to the student loans we never took out.
I guess you are concern free then.
After all, you think Trump is a minor irritation not worth caring about. .
I guess it is a 'labor of love' to persist in living like it is 1776. . .er '79 for some conservatives.
No one alive today has the slightest idea of what was like to live in 1776. Unless of course you are 250 years old.
The thing most Americans should be ashamed of, imho, is the Convict 34 times convicted felon who bragged of grabbing pussy, palled around with Epstein, incited an insurrection to try and thwart our peaceful transfer of power after promoting a proven LIE that the 2020 election was stolen from him, an individual that was found in a civil case to have sexually assaulted a woman who he continued to berate and owed some $80,000,000.00 Million Dollars to, an incessant LIAR, truth manipulator and American Constitution Hater!
This is why Americans aren’t very proud lately
You're going to have to come up with more than that if you want to impress MAGA. /s
It's in the record-keeping. And apparently, so-called "Orginalists" love trying to clamp down on the future.
Speak for yourself. Myself I’m more ashamed of all the Americans who looked the other way as who knows who was running the government the previous four years. Then voted for a giggling idiot who received exactly zero primary votes.
But hey, they created a new charge category of Misdefelony. Outstanding!
Folks who simply read about history and therefore think they experienced it, can be dangerous lot. Very dangerous.
Lite commenting leaves much to be desired and since that comment is not PITHY I am compelled to discount it.
I am guilt free about things I never did, absolutely.
Still not joining your hysteria club. Keep me posted on its achievements, though.
I am. IMHO means just that. I'm reacting to poll numbers, stating Americans aren't very proud lately. Ive stated mo opinion as to why I think that is. I was taught not to be proud of being a criminal, or voting and,or supporting one. Biden is history, any thoughts on that great big beautiful Bozo the Clown you and so may others wish to brag about...?
We have THE current national leader as someone who tried to overthrow his own government, and people are supposed to be proud of this ? Its totally ridiculous and a big part of the reason why Americans are less proud to be Americans than previously.
What are you talking about?
You mean that our democratic system worked? Again?
Despite how ridiculously and irrationally emotional so many of us are?
You mean that we can disagree about what decisions should be made or who should be making them, but we still move forward?
I have no time for this.
might want to check on that part
I did.
Still moving forward.
Your laissez-faire attitude toward a traitor is quite something to see.
He is the president. He will be the president for another 3 1/2 years or so. Nothing either of us can do about that now.
It would be really unhealthy to live all that time in a constant anxiety attack. The meds alone would ruin the kidneys.
So.... still not joining your hysteria club.
BTW, what have they accomplished since the last update?
Thinking people care what you think, is often a mistake. Especially in this place.
So was Trump in 2020. And yet, the left threw a four year temper tantrum on him. In fact, it never stopped.
you’ve got zero high ground here. None
Yeah I was brought up with morals. Not the Christian morals that the MAGAs claim
I had a very good conversation with Jack (yes, truly!), a little while ago. It made me dig into the sources of my empathy, and the social conscience that anyone with any empathy must have.
Sunday school. The stories of Christ loving the poor and weak.
I wonder about the childhood source for adoration of cruelty...
‘He will be the president for another 3 1/2 years or so’
And that, my friend, is a major triggering point of the left.
I am curious as to how loud the yelling at the sky will be when Vance gets elected in 2028
Un fortunately, they are forced to care, otherwise they would not be 'thinking'
Just because there is a check mark,
doesnt mean it was checked next to the F, cause far more evidence it was checked next to the R. And it is checked at the S tart, over and overtly, again and again, as 'thinking' individuals No When is When and need not to Re Start, cause it's so not sweet, asz so many show over and over, how Re Tart
Yea, and of course it had NOTHING to do with Trump and Cumps' LIE about a stolen election, as people around him lost their Law Licenses and went to jail, where he would and should be, if not elected my mental defected
Please elaborate on where from empathy springs up in humans. . . because some here are desperate to pretend that they have no public or social feelings. . . that they are disaffected. Hell, even our SCOTUS demonstrates feelings for the "machines" they opine about every year.
Just this week, I asked some here (conservatives) to inform us as to how they make moral decisions using "what" authority. . . they ditched the question repeatedly and 'ran.'
Easily forced eh
thats a personal problem
very apropos
Lawfare is their game
life will never be the same
Democrats own it
Hey, CB, I am back in the Saddle again. It's good to see that you're still here.
Hi! Hey! Howdy "Cowboy!" That's how glad I am to see you too!
I was. . . wondering. . . 'bout those nurses and their pill bottles and a mix up! (Chuckles.)
Seriously, I am so very happy you are doing alright enough to stop and come 'in'!
Are you OKAY?!
(Now pick up you load! And get to work on it!)
It's a fascinating question, isn't it? Please understand that I have absolutely no education in this area; I have ideas, but they're nothing more than that.
Homo sapiens is a gregarious species - our ancestors have lived in clans since at least as long as we can find traces. Being part of a clan means collaborating. That may be enforced by the strongest member of the clan, or may be a thoughtful means for leveraging individual strengths. The strongman doesn't need empathy, but the second case is greatly simplified if there's a natural tendency to feel sympathy.
Homo sapiens also has a very long period of gestation for an animal our size, and then a ridiculously childhood / adolescence, when care is needed. (Some think menopause is a way of obtaining non-childbearing caregivers.) Empathy is an obvious plus.
"Where does the love of cruelty come from?" is an equally fascinating question.
I, too, was brought up with morals, and the Christian morals, without modification, are usually good enough. Most people, including MAGA, think they are moral, believe they are moral, in principle, will probably fight you if you say they are not moral. But they are moral only up to a point. When you tell them that Jesus said to love everyone as you would love yourself, it is fine if saying it is as far as you get. When you start reminding people that these rules apply in all situations that they get a bit testy. Most people, IMO, would like to observe morals from afar, rather than observe the strictures that those morals apply to their daily life.
It is far easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk.
Morals are funny things. They can be very different things to different people. For example, let’s go to the basics. Do unto others as you would you have them do unto you. Problem with that is some seem to enjoy being treated like shit. Does that mean it’s moral to treat them like shit? Even though you don’t want to be treated like shit nor do you treat them like shit.
These days “morals” come down to stupid shit for some people. There are few good reasons to forsake good friends and family and yet, people do it every day for stupid “moral” reasons like who they voted for.
Yeah, people toot their moral horn all the time but to share another cliche ….. actions speak louder than words. So we agree on that. Look inward. Truly inward.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto YOU." Is not about how others WANT to be treated; it is about how YOU would like others to treat you-that do! If one is not a person who is "shitty" to people in general (in scriptural context (it matters here) Jesus was talking to his followers who would want good for people (not "shit"), then one can not be made to BECOME "shit" to suit others wishes. At which point, all things being equal, one would simply leave the other alone to his/her "shitty" state of being.
Do not overthink it.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto YOU. Because at the finishing end of the circle closing: Good is what this is about not "shit."
Or put another way for my well rounded friends on the left:
I’m not one over thinking or trying to spin it.
SOSDD
Absolutely! Jesus requires us to love everyone, even the poor, the shit-hole-country-natives, and MAGAs!
It's not easy, but that's what He requires.
Yes, that is so. Either that, or immersed in the Old Testament - eye for an eye mindset. Find what is properly good and do that unto others - is the Christian context of the saying!
A lot of folks here failing on that one. Know what I mean?
Nope and the accusation is pure projection on your part.
We can have that scriptural debate, but you will have to attend to setting it up (or not).
Among other specifications, He commanded His followers to welcome the immigrant. So... one may either follow Trump of follow Christ... but never both.
I don’t recall getting any commands from Trump. Regardless, it would only matter to the triggered if he did.
I capitalize "He" for Christ, and only Him.
Do you capitalize "He" for Trump?
I’m sure “He” wouldn’t appreciate being used as a political cudgel. Especially from people who likely don’t really believe or follow his teachings in the first place.
Next …..
Who follows "his' teachings?
I suggest you and Hallux start a new discussion to find out. Perhaps you’ll have an epiphany.
... and I'm sure that after 2,000 years 'He' is quite used to it.
So it another in a long series of 'drive-bys' (again). Got it.
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I get that many people have poor reading comprehension, but this is just sad. The poll doesn't show democrats hating America, it shows that fewer democrats are "extremely proud" or "very proud". To try and claim the growth of the middle section of "moderately proud", especially with the evidence showing the growth is mostly from the Gen Z'ers, is somehow proof Democrats "hate" America is just pure scum bag partisan bullshit.
The poll shows that just about all Americans are proud of our country, with just a small percent "not at all" proud. Trying to parse between "extremely" "very" "moderately" "only a little" and "not at all" is a ridiculous exercise and only serves to divide us further.
Personally, I'm extremely proud of my country, but I also recognize and accept that it's a long way from perfect and we've made a lot of mistakes, some of which I am not proud of. But recognizing and admitting our faults doesn't mean I'm not extremely proud of our nation. I think true pride can only exist when we are completely honest with ourselves and admit when we make mistakes so that we can work to fix them instead of pretending they don't exist which always ends up turning undeserved pride into a cancer that destroys one from within.
It is funny that comment 4.6 mentions Michelle Obama - a likely reference to her statement in Obama's first win:
Her words were reinterpreted by her critics to say that was 'not proud' of her country - instead of what she actually stated "I' m REALLY proud of my country. . . .'
Now then, for the first time in my life, as a black male, I am NOT PROUD of my country , because it is going backwards in this administration's and its MAGA base bedevilment of what our citizenry, and the world by extension, has come to respect and love about the U.S.A.: It's stability. But, let me be clear:
I do not hate my country.
We are all talking about the 'shakiness' of the foundation of the county at this point and time. As we are shocked to realize that millions of our citizens want to turn back the clock by having this country effectively become isolationist , ' ingrown ,' and turning on itself .
The beauty of our country is its diversity. We have a 'proper' mix of intellect stemming from our open door policy which allows bright minds and diversification of developing and dealing with world-class problems -solutions. And, we have a so-called leader who wants to dismantle all that we love about ourselves as a nation of many people striving to become 'one' people . . . for profit as its own reward. . . national arrogance, and caustic belligerence.
I can not recall a time in my life that I have actually felt so 'down' on the U.S.A, or afraid for her future ranking in the world order. 'Everything' about our direction and place in the world is up for review and that is truly remarkably dangerous.
Hey, man. It'll be alright
Sir, that is one of my all-time favorite songs from that era of my life. A classic!
‘They are proud to be Americans only when in control’
And they are Michael Obama
And on being Frank
A friend named Frank back in high school and college days had a reputation for being really blunt.
“Tom, you look like hell today. No offense,” he might say, grinning. We called it being Frank with you.
This morning’s Frank is Paul. Krugman. Bigots are back, he says bluntly.
MAGA likes that Donald Trump is blunt. Belligerent and bigoted, too. Trump grew up knowing his family’s wealth meant he could get away with doing or saying virtually anything and incur no consequences. He could shoot someone “in the middle of Fifth Avenue” and get away with it, he said himself. For the MAGA world, that feels like a superpower akin to being able to fly or bend steel. It’s a power they feel vicariously by touching the hem of his garment. For people who never evolved beyond race hatreds passed down from their parents, Trump freed them to express their darkest impulses without social opprobrium, at least within their own social circles.
Krugman writes :
While Tuberville looks like “an ignorant fool” even within a caucus filled with them, “his willingness to use dehumanizing language about millions of people shows that raw racism is rapidly becoming mainstream in American politics.”
Krugman continues:
The U.S. Supreme Court just allowed Trump to violate the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship until everyone stripped of theirs (it will be selective, naturally) litigates their cases in court. Legal resident status is meaningless now. Citizenship is meaningless now. I am a U.S. citizen by birth until Trump decides I am not and makes me defend it in court.
Should Trump’s bigly bill pass into law, it will massively increase funding for ICE brute squads to harrass Americans at random. Just because their focus now is on nonwhites is no consolation.
Krugman reflects:
He concludes, “Everyone who cares about keeping America America needs to take a stand against the resurgence of bigotry. Because the truth is that we’re all rats now.”
Let’s be Frank. Trump and his MAGA movement feel empowered to act like exterminators. If not stopped it could be just a matter of time.
MAGA is Kryptonite to freedom. Yet, America has strong democratic traditions, a friend reminds me, and individualist ones. That’s our superpower. The crowds surrounding swarming ICE thugs who arrive to disappear neighbors aren’t just saying no, but hell no. Silence gives the bigots license. Don’t be silent. We should be Frank about who they are and what they’re doing to this country.
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Have you fought dictatorship today?
TRUMP wants to be a "DICTATOR"! Beware, he is halfway there. He is a "DICK", and likes "Taters", according to my "sauces", Ghouliani and Steve Bunnions, "The Man Who NEVER BATHED"!
www.theatlantic.com /newsletters/archive/2025/06/trump-insults-americaagain/683384/
Trump Insults America—Again
Tom Nichols
Oops, he did it again.
On Sunday, President Donald Trump had a rambling conversation with the Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. It was a typical Trump performance: He leaned into his trademark edge-of-the-chair crouch and spooled off long strings of words that were only sometimes on topic or related to one another. (“They call it ‘magnets,’” he helpfully informed Bartimoro at one point when she asked about rare-earth minerals.) But when it came to China, Trump returned to one of his favorite themes: moral equivalence between the United States and authoritarian regimes.
Bartiromo noted that authorities recently arrested some Chinese nationals accused of smuggling in biological materials that could threaten the U.S. food supply. “We don’t know where that came from,” Trump said, waving away the arrests as possibly nothing more than the apprehension of a few “whackos.” Bartiromo pressed on: The Chinese have hacked “into our telecom system; they’ve been stealing intellectual property; fentanyl, COVID, I mean, you know, all of this stuff, so how do you negotiate with obviously a bad actor and trust them on economics?”
And then Trump went for it. “You don’t think we do that to them?” he said with a smirk. “You don’t think we do that to them?” he repeated as Bartiromo struggled during a few seconds of silence. “We do,” the president said. “We do a lot of things.”
“So,” Bartiromo asked, “that’s the way the world works?” Trump shrugged. “That’s the way the world works. It’s a nasty world.”
As a card-carrying expert who taught international relations for more than three decades, I can affirm the president’s assertion that we do, in fact, live in a nasty world. But as a patriotic American, I have a bit more trouble with the idea that the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China are just two bad kids on the playground.
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In my many travels to university campuses over the years, I have often heard that America is only one of many horrendous regimes in the world. Usually these pronouncements came from students trying out new intellectual clothes in the safety of an American classroom, or from radicals on the faculty for whom anti-Americanism was a central part of their academic credo. And I know, especially from studying the Cold War, that presidents in my lifetime did a lot of shady, immoral, and illegal things. But I have never heard a president of the United States sound like a graduate student who’s woozy from imbibing too much Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn.
This isn’t the first time that Trump has resorted to this kind of embarrassing equivocation. In early 2017, then–Fox host Bill O’Reilly asked Trump about U.S. relations with Russia and how he might get along with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He’s a killer,” O’Reilly said. “Putin’s a killer.”
Trump bristled—and rose to Putin’s defense. “There are a lot of killers,” Trump said, with the same kind of half-smiling smirk he deployed at Bartiromo. “We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”
Of course, Trump’s only consistent foreign-policy principle during the past 10 years has been to side with Russia whenever possible. But leaving aside his obsession with Putin, the president’s smears on his own country are not the result of a deeply considered moral position, or even some kind of strategic big-think. Principles are inconvenient, and if they get in the way of winning the moment—the news cycle, a trade negotiation, an argument with a reporter—then they are of no use.
Indeed, Trump has shown, over and over, that he has no real ability to make moral distinctions about anything. Perhaps nothing illustrates this vacuousness more than Bob Woodward’s report that when Trump decided to run for president, an aide told him that his previous pro-choice stances and donations to Democrats would be a problem. “That can be fixed,” Trump said. “I’m—what do you call it? Pro-life.” As Groucho Marx is rumored to have said: “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them … well, I have others.”
But there is also a laziness in Trump’s casual slanders against America. If Trump admits that the United States is a far better nation than Russia or China, with a heritage of liberty and democracy that imposes unique responsibilities on America as the leader of the free world, then he would have to do something. He would have to take a stand against Russia’s military aggression and China’s economic predations. He’d have to take the hard path of working with a national-security team to forge policies that are in the long-term interests of the United States rather than the short-term interests of Donald Trump.
Likewise, when Trump depicts America as an unending nightmare of crime and carnage, he’s not only trying to trigger a cortisol rush among his followers; he’s also creating a narrative of despair. It’s a clever approach. He tells Americans that because the world is nasty, all that “shining city on a hill” talk is just stupid and all that matters is making some deals to get them stuff they need. Meanwhile, he paints America as something out of a medieval woodcut of hell, implicitly warning that he can’t really extinguish the lava and the fires but promising to at least put on a show of punishing some of the demons.
This nihilism and helplessness is poisonous to a democracy, a system that only works when citizens take responsibility for their government. It is a narrative that encourages citizens to think of themselves as both scoundrels and victims, crabs in life’s giant bucket who must claw their way up over the backs of their fellow Americans. The modern global order itself—a system of peace, trade, and security built by the genius of American diplomacy and the sacrifices of the American armed forces—is, in Trump’s view, one big criminal struggle among countries that are no better than mob families. In his world, the United States isn’t a leader or an example; it’s just another mook throwing dice against the wall in a back alley.
Some people support Trump because they want certain policies on immigration or taxes or judges. Others enjoy his reality-TV approach to politics. Some of his critics reject his plans; others reject everything about the man and his character. But none of us, as Americans, have to accept Trump’s calumnies about the United States. We are a nation better than the dictatorships in Moscow and Beijing; we enjoy peace and prosperity that predated Trump and will remain when he is gone.
We live in an America governed by Trump. But we do not have to accept that we live in Trump’s America.
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you post this picture when the ‘deporter in chief’ deported a record number of illegals by using ICE to do it?
I wonder why you didn’t s/
... because MAGAs were all over the media, defending the deportees' rights...
Trump said yesterday he would like to deport native born citizens who are "bad people".
He isnt even allowed to deport the next Jeffery Dahmer.
They were? You have verifiable proof of this?
Of course.
But I certainly won't just give it away. Much too precious.
Donnie should start with his wife, Melonoma.
Donnie and the MAGA LOONY TUNES never have proof about anything. They make SHAT UP!
Your emblem misspelled DNC they only got the "C" right, but in the wrong place. You know, the party the courts and embraces the antisemitic racists.
Dyslexic?
I dated DYSLEX. She got everything backward. It was a nightmare on Elm Street.
"Only 36 percent of Democrats report being very or extremely proud to be an American"
NO SURPRISE THERE!
One helluva angry lot there. Always pissed off about this, that or the other thing.
I'm guessing the last time they were happy was during the 2020 riots. How did Tim Walz's wife put it? She loved the smell of burning rubber?
I wonder how she would like it if it were her car tires burning.
There's no reason to be proud of America at this moment. There are many reasons to be ashamed.
"Being proud" without good reason is just mindless chauvinism.
What do you mean at this moment?
When were you proud of America ?????
Discerning people know Trump is a malevolent clown. Its hard to be proud of the fact that your country is led by a malevolent clown.
As is evidenced daily on this site.
I am a US Army combat veteran. You?
he stayed home
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I disagree. There are many reasons to be proud of America, even at this moment, starting with the fact that over half our nation refused to vote for the vilest convicted felon and admitted sexual predator that any party has ever put forth as a candidate for President. I'm proud of those who stood firm against a bully like Trump and his violent bully brigade who support him. Sure, there were just less than half who did vote for him, which was enough to secure the Presidency, but the majority of Americans can't stand the scum bag in the oval office, and that makes me proud.
I'm proud of what America has done to help our allies, I'm proud that we had, up until recently, been standing up to Putin and helping our ally in Ukraine fight rightwing fascism. Sure, that same less than half scum bags want exactly the opposite. They seem to want to support and defend Putin and rightwing fascism because it's apparently very close to their own rightwing conservative fascism. But I'm still proud of the majority of Americans who hate fascism with a passion.
I'm proud of those standing up for their rights over their own body, who refuse to accept the rightwing fascist crackdown on liberty that rightwing conservatives are trying to push through in their States as they try to force their religious beliefs on abortion into law.
I'm proud of those who refuse to just kneel to the knuckle-dragging religious bigots by standing proud as members of the lgtbq community who shouldn't have to hide who they are to be proud Americans.
I'm also proud of our men and women who tirelessly defend our freedoms day and night and are not allowing themselves to be divided along party lines, they defend all Americans regardless of whether they admit they support a convicted felon and accused child rapist or not.
Of course, I'm not proud of the religious conservatives who vilify immigrants, who attack women's rights because they believe their invisible wizard in the sky doesn't like it when women take control over their own bodies, who attack and vilify those of the lgtbq community or those who aggressively push back against the suggestion that black lives might actually matter. I'm not proud of the scum bags who support the incestual-Pedophile-in-chief who said he'd probably be dating his daughter if he wasn't her father and was accused of raping a 13-year-old. No one would be proud of those scum bags or their fucking useless piece of shit for brains President, but I'm very proud of the rest of America for putting up with them for so long.
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There's no reason to be proud of America at this moment.
America has done many fine things. America in now doing lots of stupid and / or evil things.
Opinions do vary. Mine is that yours is out there. Way out there.
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It's fascinating: fascists make no effort at all to respond to a Comment they disagree with; they simply attack the person who makes the Comment.
From Trump all the way down to our local fascists, there are no ideas, nothing positive. There's just a desire to destroy. Disagreement deserves condemnation, not response.
What’s fascinating to me is how some use of the term fascist.
Fascinating as hell.
All sides have their over-the-top descriptives ... none are fascinating.
Only to the dull minded. It is fascinating to see how many folks these days don’t have the slightest idea what a fascist really is. Likely a simple failure of public school systems ….
Then educate us, or are those who 'know' too dull minded to do so and prefer to just troll?