“Whatever Donald Trump is doing in office, in the minds of Latinos it is not working. They have turned against him in massive, massive numbers,” said CNN data chief Harry Enten on Monday.

Enten pointed out that Trump was nearly tied with 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris with Latinos on immigration, where the former vice president enjoyed a 2 percentage-point advantage over Trump in October 2024.

Now, Trump has a -38 net approval rating with Latinos on immigration.

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    He…doesn’t…care…

    He only needed to get voted in once (well…twice…the first was a trial run). He used the time to take control of every single lever of power through cronyism or outright criminality. Votes don’t matter because no matter what the votes say, the people controlling the election will simply say “Trump won”, and when the legal argument against the obvious election rigging gets to the supreme court, they’l affirm it. This is by design.

    Or, also possible, Trump will simply not have an election using an excuse of “we’re at war” or whatever.

    He doesn’t need you. He doesn’t want you. You can all die for all he gives a shit, so long as he and his rich friends keep making money off the presidency.

    There is no “voting” your way out of this bullshit.

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      The only way there is going to be a 2028 presidential election is if they carry that motherfucker out feet first before then…

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      It would be nice if MAGA could admit that the pedophile shit is hurting them. Im skeptical that it is honestly.

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        You have to remember, conservatives somehow can wildly object to multiple things in the GOP platform but still vote R up and down the ticket as long as they agree with just one thing.

        Pro-life? Better vote for the pro-life people who are all about zero gun control, mandatory death sentences, and no government supported prenatal care - not to mention fucking over immigrant kids/splitting up families!

        Love hunting with guns? Better vote for the gun loving people who also want to sell off our national forests, remove all environmental protections, and privatize our parks.

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            Not just “pedophile”, but “child rapist who was close friends with the most notorious child sex trafficker in modern history and transparently had him murdered to cover it up”.

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    I find it hard to feel any sympathy for Latinos who voted for Trump in 2024. This guy’s whole platform in 2016 was being racist towards Latinos and he stops saying overtly racist shit for just a bit during the election and people fall for that? It kind of stretches my imagination to think of how someone could be that stupid.

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      This isn’t restricted to just Latinos, but when some of a cultures core values are toxic masculinity and machismo, those will always take priority over putting a woman in charge of anything.

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      Reminds me of the south park episode from 2016 or 17 when people were mad president garrison was fucking people to death and he was incredulous because that was his whole campaign.

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    I fucking wish these people didn’t have to learn the hard way… “We” were telling them he’d do this, he was telling them he’d do this, but who know what they were thinking to believe it wasn’t going to go down like this…

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      Voters are lazy. I would assume it’s because they equated his first four years to prosperity (it wasn’t) and assumed it would be more of the same.

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        Few groups hate “illegals” more than immigrants. They did it the “hard way” so it shouldn’t be easy for anyone else.

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        Idk how anyone would say the first 4 years were prosperous. When he left office we weren’t allowed to leave our house or stand closer than 5 feet to each other and people were freaking out about having to wear masks. People were hoarding toilet paper. That doesn’t seem prosperous to me

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          Pretty sure that Donvict and Pence were throwing rallies with the slogan “promises made, promises kept” in 2020, too. I kept thinking - really, they promised THIS? A worldwide pandemic that they completely screwed the pooch on?

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          Yeah, but we all got checks with his name on them and told we don’t have to care about the “weak” in our community if it inconvenienced us. Also racism and sexism and “faith” are back in the open . Isn’t that worth it?

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      I would assume they were happy to close the door behind them, when it comes to immigration. I think they did not expect their friends and family would be deported.

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    I hate reporting these days, reporter phrases it like a giant unsolvable mystery.

    “Whatever Donald Trump is doing in office, in the minds of Latinos it is not working. They have turned against him in massive, massive numbers,” said CNN data chief Harry Enten

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      Agreed, it’s such a punt. Why do any actual political analysis when you can just look at data. Why directly criticize trump for empowering a fascist paramilitary, weaponizing it against good, hard-working people looking for a better life, and immiserating hundreds of thousands of people by tearing families and communities apart. You can just point at Spanberger '25 being +22 compared to Harris '24. Fuck CNN.

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        Data means nothing to those who don’t know how to read it, and even if they do know how they ask the wrong questions still. Fuck CNN.

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      I wonder what could possibly be the reason they don’t appreciate being kidnapped by federal agents because of their race

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      Sure, but why would he give a shit? They’re doing everything they can to make sure he doesn’t need a single vote to stay president.

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          Sure, but that would mean letting the people they hate and blame for everything bad ever happening to them, stay in the country. When the end goal is racial purity, you can’t half ass it and let a bunch stay. That would invalidate everything they’re trying to accomplish.

          Hitler’s “pure” Germany wouldn’t be pure with a bunch of jews living their best lives either. The harassment of the latino population is very important to them, it’s not the end goal, but it’s the first and very necessary step in the lunatics’ plan.

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          Its absolutely not guaranteed they can compromise the midterms enough to prevent the complete collapse of their coalition.

          But if their coalition collapses Trump won’t be able to execute his platform. Hence, the coup. The GOP is betting on being the ruling party of Trump’s fascist dictatorship. Also like the other person said, the goal here is a white America; the immigration thing is just an excuse.

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        Some internet digging points to an instagram page for Humaid Abdulla Albuqaish, who appears to be a rich and Middle Eastern version of Tiger King.

        …I’m not super confident on that, as the pics on the linked page don’t look quite like the dude in the gif; but maybe a 10-years-younger version of the dude just looked that different?

        Anywho, if that is the dude, the footage is most likely of a pet, and the situation staged to produce the short.