Rob Reiner: 30% of Americans...

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

30% of Americans don’t believe in vaccines, mask wearing, global warming, equal access to the ballot box. 30% of Americans think it’s ok to use deadly force to overthrow the government. 30% of Americans support Donald Trump. 30% of Americans have their heads up their asses.

[Blues Heron]

1. 30% of Americans is 100,000,000 people

[stillcool]

17. I thought it was voters...

although if they poll anyone who answers the phone, I can see why the polls are wrong.

[RVN VET71]

58. Then 50,000,000?

74,000,000 voted for the Fat Man in 2020, so maybe 1/3 of them have gotten wise?

But that 50,000,000 guess is still very disturbing. Horrifying, even.

[stillcool]

59. yeah...that number doesn't make me feel..

any better. But the idea had possibility.

[paleotn]

56. 233,333,333 Americans on our side.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. The POSITIVE end result.....

70% are actually SANE.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I agree with Rob Reiner

[malaise]

4. I think the number is much higher when it's not the US government

that is being overthrown

30% of Americans think it’s ok to use deadly force to overthrow the government.

There's a serious problem here - you can't support it overseas and not expect it to come home.

[Ziggysmom]

27. That's a very powerful statement. It really grabbed me and made me think and discuss it

with friends. "You can't support it overseas and not expect it to come home. ".

You nailed it.

[malaise]

41. It's clearer when you don't live in the US

I've lived what I see going on in the US. One party is pretending that the other party is not legitimate even when it controls the Executive and the Legislature and (for the most part) the media is siding with vested interests. .

[OneCrazyDiamond]

37. .

[ms liberty]

54. Wow. Powerful statement, malaise. Wish I could rec it. n/t

[dickthegrouch]

6. And just to be perfectly clear...

29.999% of them are the in all the groups cited.

[highplainsdem]

16. Yep.

[Shermann]

7. 30% of Americans are meatheads

Meatheads is the punchline he was looking for.

[certainot]

26. 25% of US adults say they often get their news from radio. that's most of it, and

points out the incredible ongoing stupidity of our orgs ignoring talk radio

[Walleye]

8. 30% of Americans hate and fear the other 70%

[empedocles]

10. Key

[malaise]

42. For one reason

What if they do to me what I've done to them or want to do to them

[Walleye]

46. Yep, I think you've got it. They can't imagine anybody with just morals and ethics

[malaise]

48. That simple

sadly

[DemUnleashed]

9. Yup!

Yup, 30% of our American population are deplorables!!

[SouthernDem4ever]

40. That's one big damn basketful

[Johonny]

11. Why does the media treat them as if they're 70%?

That's the real question.

[Ponietz]

30. Oligarchs are on cruise control now keeping the rest of us divided

It’s what people like Zuckerberg, Bezos, Murdoch, and Koch, want. Those 30% have been groomed and meticulously miseducated by deep, deep pockets.

[Corgigal]

12. Can we start a Fund Me

to fly these people out of this country? To whatever their DNA claims they are, send them there.
They don’t deserve what we offer anymore.

[highplainsdem]

14. Trying to imagine the European reaction to that...

[Corgigal]

15. They would pay us double to keep.

It’s a start.

[monkeyman1]

20. do 1 better - let's start a " let's fuck TFG FUND " ?

ALL MONEY GOES TO THAT ARE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF REPUBLICAN STUPIDITY OF LETTING PANDEMIC GET OUT OF HAND BECAUSE OF ONE MAN'S EGO ! THAT'S ABOUT ALL THE WHOLE DAMN REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL LIVE WITH ! MAY YOU ALL PARISH FROM THIS EARTH !

[kimbutgar]

13. And those same 30% don't realize the party they support wants to do away with social security

And Medicare. And only support tax cuts for the rich and not them!

We need to ge this message out to them and put every friggin member of the American Taliban to take the pledge they won’t get rid of social security or Medicare.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Don't steal from Medicare to support SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

Three spelling mistakes on one sign. Only two in the next:

[kimbutgar]

28. Exactly

So dumb they can’t even look at a dictionary to get the correct spelling!

[FakeNoose]

19. They've been brainwashed to believe that Social Security/Medicare is

... the same thing as SOCIALISM!

[kimbutgar]

29. It's always been with us.

[Evolve Dammit]

50. I always wonder(ed) that seeing Bush/ Cheney, McCain/Palin, Ryan/Romney, Trump/Pence signs in front

of houses/ mobile homes of very modest means. What in the world do you think they are going to do FOR YOU??? Somehow they believe in a party that has no interest in them at all, except for their vote. Eerily remarkable sort of lockstep.

[Evolve Dammit]

57. I can hear that. But it should be so obvious they will never have a pot to piss in. Many live

in abject poverty and can barely survive. I can't understand the distorted denial-ism. Maybe it's akin to why game shows and lottery/ gambling are so popular. I might just win?? If only they had a sense that the odds are like getting struck by lightning, but I guess they either can't or just don't care. at. all. Great to dream though, I guess. Sad. It's resignation and blind faith of sorts.

[IronLionZion]

21. 30% are fine with self medicating to get rid of parasites

and might get rid of themselves in the process. It's their Darwinian moment.

[spanone]

23. Thanks Rob!

[KPN]

24. Lol! Made my day.

[ffr]

25. Americans? I agree with all of it, but their labeling. They are anything but Americans

They are broken spiteful individuals, most of which are narcissistic money grubbers. They actually don't make any bones about it anymore. They're through with 'democracy.' It doesn't work for them. They're happy to see this country's institutions and norms die to suit their immediate needs.

[Blue Owl]

31. Yeah...

Could the MAGAts who calling other people sheep please stop taking the livestock medication? That'd be great...

[Tommymac]

32. That 30% has almost 50% Representation in Congress, and 6 out of 9 seats on the SC

THAT is the problem.

The majority is being ruled by the minority.

[marie999]

33. 30% is way too low. I put it above 50%.

If Trump had the backing of the military more than 50% of Americans would not have gone along with it.

[CCExile]

34. Serious questions...

Is this an abnormal percentage for any society, or Western society? Is this not the reason democracy was invented? Was democracy invented to keep a percentage of society under control to prevent bloodshed? Without bloodshed, won't the 30% always, periodically burst out in violence anyway, due to frustration?

[Johnny2X2X]

35. It's less than 30%

More like 25% at most.

[randr]

36. The 30% have been very adept at rigging the elections

The control they have today is due to our not paying attention. You must participate at every opportunity. Especially now that so many States are attempting to rewrite election laws.
Be Aware
Be Active

[colsohlibgal]

38. Exactly

27, 28, 30, whatever the percentage is it’s a minority and their brains are not working correctly, they would have fit in nicely with Hitler’s Storm Troopers, they are 21st Century Nazis.

[Martin68]

39. Yup.

[dchill]

47. Can't fault the math.

[flying_wahini]

49. Well their numbers are slipping.... Permanently. The rest have to learn it the hard way.

[birdographer]

51. Do they all HAVE to live in my town?????

[Dukkha]

52. P.T. Barnum referred to them as "marks"

Easily manipulated gullible tools who can be conned into anything.

[SMoss]

55. We let the 30% control the country

With undemocratic features in our system of government like the Electoral College, 2 Senators per State, the filibuster, and gerrymandering the 30% are controlling the country.