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Young Voters Turn on Trump, Disapprove of Big Beautiful Bill; Limited Evidence of Increasing Manosphere' Views or Male Loneliness Epidemic
youthpoll.yale.edu

... The Yale Youth Poll, an undergraduate-led research project at Yale University, today released a new poll of young American registered voters (aged 18-34) and the general registered voter population. The poll sampled 3,426 registered voters, including 1,706 voters aged 18-34, allowing us to compare views across generations.

Fielding was done by Verasight, and results were weighted for age, sex, race, education, and party identification. The survey was conducted in English, and the margin of error after weighting is 1.7 percentage points for the full sample and 2.4 percentage points for the youth sample.

Young voters now overwhelmingly disapprove of Trump's job performance -- a stark shift from what YYP found in our spring 2025 poll. Looking ahead to 2028, Gavin Newsom and JD Vance lead their respective presidential primaries -- but a majority of Republicans would vote for Donald Trump in the GOP primary if he were able to run for a third term.

A plurality of Democrats want their party to moderate ahead of 2028, while a majority of Republicans think the GOP needs to focus on turning out its base.

When asked whether men or women should take the lead on various roles in heterosexual relationships -- such as making more money, handling household chores like cooking and cleaning, and providing childcare -- voters mostly have gender egalitarian views.

The youngest voters (aged 18-22) are slightly more likely than the overall electorate to express conservative views on gender roles. ...



Some background info ...

Behind Trump's 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
www.pewresearch.org

... A study of the 2024 election, based on validated voters.

In his third run for president in 2024, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris by 1.5 percentage points overall, winning 312 Electoral College votes and the national popular vote for the first time.

Trump won with a voter coalition that was more racially and ethnically diverse than in 2020 or 2016, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of the 2024 electorate. ...


[lots of details in the article]


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In the meeting with Ellison were Salim Said, co-owner of the Safari Restaurant in south Minneapolis, and Ikram Mohamed, a consultant for Feeding Our Future. Both eventually faced federal indictments for their alleged role in the scam. (Said has been convicted on 21 counts of fraud, while Ikram is awaiting trial.) Ellison assured his guests that the money would continue flowing through FOF. It was the state government, which Ellison in theory represented, that would soon be on the defensive, the attorney general told them. "[Governor Tim] Walz agrees with me that this piddly, stupid stuff running small people out of business is terrible," said Ellison. "Let's go fight these people," he declared, "these people" being rightfully cautious state officials. Ellison suggested that Salim "send the names of all these people who are hanging on by a thread" " the Somali businesses and nonprofits that existed at the public's expense, many of them through fraud " so that he could personally needle senior bureaucrats into restoring their funding.

Pardon the Gaslighter type post, but I found this passage of the article incredibly insightful on how the "patronage" works in MN, possibly more States.

The RW focuses on the Somali's but IMO this type of "system" probably permeates the US governments (local,city, county, state, fed). The Somalis are just doing what everyone else is doing.

Its not an indictment of Somali's but of the system itself. The purpose of these NGO type units was to avoid governmental fraud that existed in the 1930-40s. You can read all about this transition in the book "WhyNothingWorks". But now its appears its been subverted into a patronage system of spoils.

Now you can defend the fraud with narrative inducing arguments but this only leads to the corrosive mindset that "taxpayers" are suckers.
America needs to face this fraud epidemic or your system is over in a very short period.

"Link?"

I know you'll probably just ignore this, like you did with the earlier link to the Carter Center, but:

www.amnesty.org

The state authorities who have held power since at least 2014 have committed grave and massive human rights violations, including possible crimes against humanity, and have led the country into a complex humanitarian emergency that has pushed more than 25% of the population to flee Venezuela, leaving their homes and families behind.

The months leading up to this election have been marked by incessant attacks on civic space, tens of arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, reprisals against businesses and contractors providing services to opposition figures, and arbitrary and abusive administrative measures.

We are calling in the strongest possible terms for the immediate and unconditional release of all people arbitrarily detained for political reasons in the country, including Roco San Miguel, Javier Tarazona and Carlos Julio Rojas.

Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International.


english.elpais.com
Amnesty International has warned that forced disappearances in Venezuela have escalated following the presidential elections on July 28, 2024, and have become part of a systematic pattern of persecution against government dissidents.

On Tuesday, Amnesty International Secretary General Agns Callamard called for the International Criminal Court to advance investigations into crimes against humanity in the South American country, documented since 2014, and urged the international community to support the pursuit of justice through the use of universal jurisdiction in human rights cases, as Argentina has already done.

Rush and Fox only sh@rt3d into existence because of the repeal of the fairness doctrine.

Your major shifts in thinking, management and exercise of power came during the boomer years.

That beloved stat of CEO to average worker earning? Relatively consistent through the 60s when it was the Silent Generation and tail end of the Greatest Generation running things. When things like pensions were the norm, loyalty was a two-way street and one salary could provide for a household.

But that ratio begins ticking up once the 30 and 40 something Boomers start moving into upper-level and executive management during the 70s and 80s. It only accelerates from there.

www.businessinsider.com

Now guess when cost cutting and price reduction by offshoring began...

Yup. In the 60s it began with larger firms but took off in earnest during the 70s and 80s with significant acceleration during the 90s and 2000s as jobs became less about hands manufacturing and production work and more about computers and tech. Also under...Boomers.

Who drove the breaking of our politics in the 90s with the "Contract with America" and the winner takes all political warfare model? Gingrich Republicans. Again, boomers.

Who oversaw the massive expansion of college costs along with simultaneous reductions of education spending? Boomers.

Name me a major shift in our societal approach to overall wellbeing and care for future generations that didn't happen under boomer leadership.

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