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u/awhunt1 Sep 05 '26
I mean, it is the explicit goal of this administration, so, yes.
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u/Companero_basurero Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
Approx. 25-30 percent of American adults are MAG-gots. So, if the nearly 90 percent figure cited in this study is accurate, it means that well over half of all MAG-gots actually believe that corruption is rife in the US govt. And yet, they still cling to their Orange Lord and Savior. That's loyalty for you.
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u/Big77Ben2 Sep 05 '26
Theyāre fine with it if itās in their favor.
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u/cmwills29 Sep 05 '26
They're just being told it's the other side who's corrupt, and they believe the projection wholeheartedly
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u/Big77Ben2 Sep 05 '26
That and theyāre literally ok with certain things.
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u/Neveronlyadream Sep 06 '26
They're okay with certain things so long as those things are only theoretical to them.
Which makes them bigger assholes. If they personally had to deal with all the things they're fine with, they would (and have) throw a fit and claim it wasn't fair or just or legal.
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u/xTechDeath Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
The funny part is itās not in favor for them but Trump just distracts them with something shiny.
Tariffs, Epstein files, Iran war, job creation, gas and grocery prices. We were trending green in every economical metric before he took office and now heās fucked it all up and they just lie down and cast their praise like idiots
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u/Beautiful_Nobody_344 Sep 05 '26
We could publish a story stating illegals vote republican and this whole thing would be over.
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u/GabeFoxIX Sep 05 '26
It's not that, it's that the magats think that all the corruption is on the dems side
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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty Sep 05 '26
Sky is blue
But if orange man says otherwise you better believe some red hats will too.
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u/Successful_Mine8352 Sep 05 '26
Interesting. Who's in charge of the government?
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u/mschnittman Sep 05 '26
As Mark Twain said, it's easier to fool someone than convince them that they've been fooled.
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u/CueAnon420 Sep 05 '26
I find it surprising that Trump had people so wound up over govt corruption that they literally thought someone named 'Q' would lead a purge that brought those infidels to their death,,,
And now - crickets. Apparently, they don't really believe in the values they claim to have when they learn the call is coming from inside their own house.
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u/xTechDeath Sep 05 '26
Holy shit I forgot about the Q shit. It was such a big movement too. Idk whatās more embarrassing the j6 shit or them all falling for Qanon lmao only a psycho idiot would believe that shit
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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco Sep 06 '26
Embarrassing?
Oh honey, no. They don't care it was nonsense. They never cared. It just gave them an excuse to hate people they already hated.
Sure, they might believe it in the moment. But they don't actually care if it's nonsense. They won't feel anything at all if you prove it is. They'll be on to their next blatantly-nonsense excuse for hating people before you finish the sentence.
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u/CriticalDiscipline4 Sep 05 '26
What this means is it like thereās like half of that number who are Trump supporters who know Trump is corrupt and are generally OK with it so long as Trump hurts the people they hate
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u/Oplopanax_horridus Sep 05 '26
To be fair, they only think that because of all the recent corruption.
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u/mikefjr1300 Sep 06 '26
They actually believed a lifelong con and grifter was going to drain the swamp.
He did right into his bank accounts.
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u/Spiritual_Success_50 Sep 06 '26
Geeā¦. all the Trumps became multi billionaires and his donors doubled their fortunes. Even young Barron is said to be worth 100+ million.
And we were up in arms about Hunter Biden getting paid a million for a (possibly made up) job
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u/chargoggagog Sep 05 '26
Hereās the thing: Republicans have always believed that to be true, Democrats havenāt. Republicans are okay with Trump being corrupt because they believed Biden and all Democrats are corrupt. Iād bet dollars to pesos that itās Democrats making this a much higher number.
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u/Content-Benefit-888 Sep 06 '26
And Trump did that in just 12 short months, thatās how corrupt he is!
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u/SuspiciousTheory2633 Sep 06 '26
They're not even hiding it, they're just saying "this is Biden's fault" while stealing tax dollars.
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u/powderfields4ever Sep 07 '26
The other 10 arenāt paying attention because everyday they admit to a new crime.
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u/Big77Ben2 Sep 05 '26
The problem is that too many of that 90% are ok with it as long as it benefits or at least doesnāt hurt them.
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u/FinishEmbarrassed619 Sep 05 '26
Theyre pretty above board besides pay to play pardons, blatant breaking the law, blatant ignoring the courts, insider trading and rampant criminality
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u/Aggressive_Craft_981 Sep 05 '26
I have always believed the government was corrupt, just never thought they would be this open about it.
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u/Dazzling_Winner_773 Sep 05 '26
Do I believe that 90% of people believe this? I can't believe 100% of people don't believe. Swampiest swamp that ever swamped. Bunch of scum sucking lampre.
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u/Remote-Instance680 Sep 05 '26
I guess the 10 percent are those who are benefiting from the corruption...
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u/Obvious-Muffin2787 Sep 05 '26
All you had to do was vote for the sitting Vice President.
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u/jredgiant1 Sep 05 '26
The thing is some of us believe corruption is the billionaire president grifting the American taxpayer, and others think itās SNAP benefits.
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u/ImplodingBillionaire Sep 05 '26
I fucking hate this bullshit because it plays right into republicans playbook.
You know what they run on as a platform? āThe government is corrupt and will just steal your money!ā Then they get elected and prove it.Ā
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u/model-citizen95 Sep 05 '26
50% believe this
40% have admitted this but itās fine because Obama was worse (apparently)
10% donāt understand what corruption actually is
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u/Enough_Turnover1912 Sep 06 '26
Widespread?! It's systemic. Getting rid of this degenerate is first. Going after ANYONE who benefited is second.
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u/broke_cowboy Sep 06 '26
98% of government doesn't care. They know we're to passive and lazy to do anything about it. People heads used to roll over taxes.
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u/FullConsideration556 Sep 06 '26
Ohh Come on now!!! What about DOGE??? I thought Muskrat was going to find and get rid of corruption!!
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u/buckthorn5000 Sep 06 '26
The problem is that MAGA will insist this is because Trump finally brought all the corruption to light and revealed how bad the swamp is.
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u/DTM-shift Sep 06 '26
Widespread? I'd say it's 90% concentrated at one particular address in Washington, DC.
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u/Legal_Package_8270 Sep 06 '26
90% of people have no idea what happened before the world was colonized by corporate ward nation state banking cartels...
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u/Sammy_Dog Sep 06 '26
Trump is likely more corrupt than all previous U.S. presidents COMBINED.
The vast majority of people don't really know how bad it is, including most ardent Trump haters.
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u/SuperbDetective914 Sep 06 '26
It started on January 20th, 2025. Laws and rules no longer mattered.
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u/Yaozong1 Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
90% of Americans don't believe in the same corruption, though. For instance, I don't believe the civil service is corrupt. I don't believe election results have any material levels of fraud or manipulation.
But I do believe Trump, his family, and his cronies are making crazy money on actual factual bribes, noncompetitive bids on government contracts, Ponzi schemes, and market manipulations. I believe Trump is one of the biggest liars in human history and is poisoning people's minds against democracy and the rule of law. I believe he is maliciously prosecuting people. I believe Trump and his allies are doing race-based gerrymandering and race-based purges of voting rolls. And I believe Trump did set afoot an insurrection on 1/16/21 and is capable of doing so again--as evidenced by pardoning numerous insurrectionists.
How many people believe (a) vs. (b)?
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u/LobstaFarian2 Sep 06 '26
One of my favorite quotes to see was when Mike Johnson claimed something along the lines of "Americans just dont trust the Government nowadays...." to prove his point. The Republican controlled government that he represents and is largely responsible for.... that government.....
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u/Several_Cancel5815 Sep 07 '26
Somebody remarked that he doesn't even take a salary and I was laughing to myself, saying, "Fuck a salary. I'd take that $2.2 billion he made last year over a salary any day." LMAO. Of course there's corruption. It's Donald Trump, for crying out loud.
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u/No_Laugh710 Sep 07 '26
Absolutely Taxes and campaign contributions should be stopped until the blatant theft of tax dollars is stopped
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u/Warm_Safety_9550 Sep 08 '26
Donald added $11.6 trillion to the national debt so far. He has slashed budgets for education, libraries, infrastructure, national parks, the Veterans Administration, SNAP programs, the Environmental Protection Agency, and healthcare among others. But his personal wealth went from $2.1 billion in 2020, to $6.5 billion in January of 2026.
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u/Gainztrader235 Sep 05 '26
If you donāt agree, you are uplugged and not paying attention.
Gallupās newest number is actually 89%, not 90%: nearly nine in ten Americans say government corruption is widespread, including 83% of Republicans, 90% of independents, and 91% of Democrats.
The U.S. government withheld effective syphilis treatment from Black men in the Tuskegee study even after penicillin became available. It conducted or sponsored unethical human-radiation experiments. It forcibly incarcerated Japanese Americans. The FBI ran COINTELPRO, infiltrating and disrupting domestic political and civil-rights groups, sometimes despite little or no evidence of illegal activity. Watergate involved political espionage, abuse of presidential power, and a cover-up. And today, a sitting president has reported more than $1.4 billion in annual income largely from private crypto ventures while in office.
None of that requires a conspiracy theory. Itās documented American history.
So when nearly 9 out of 10 Americans say corruption is widespread, the remarkable part may be that thereās still an 11% who donāt.
The historical examples are documented by the CDC, Department of Energy, National Archives, FBI, and Reuters.
The next sad part, is some think it only applies to their opposite political affiliation.
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u/SketchSkirmish Sep 05 '26
Itās not even a democracy anymore. Itās a boys club for the power hungry.
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u/caliboy559 Sep 05 '26
Local to the federal levels all controlled by lobbyists from businesses and other countries
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u/dowagersanddragons Sep 05 '26
"New poll reveals that 90% of Americans think that water is wet." Guess the other 10% can't read or write and are the 50% of illiterate poll takers who answered randomly and got it wrong?
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u/Old_Marzipan7782 Sep 05 '26
Your government naturally are inherently at least a little corrupt. Weāre not a little corrupt. Itās gotten to the point where so ridiculously over the top that they canāt even deny it at all anymore.
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u/Temporary-Ad8072 Sep 05 '26
Believe? It's out in thr open. Those who can't see it must be blind. Or partake in the corruption themselves
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u/Jehoke Sep 05 '26
Corruption is literally the only thing they actually do well. I mean they arenāt great at hiding it, but no one is stopping them so I guess it doesnāt really matter.
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u/hauntedhivezzz Sep 05 '26
The conservative think tanks that have been wanting to privatize government services for decades really hit the jackpot with 47 - itās not like he himself has the same goals, heās just that bad at his job.
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u/Ill-Error-9962 Sep 05 '26
Like government corruption is a new thing, itās just out in the open now.
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u/Wfflan2099 Sep 05 '26
Thatās the story being peddled by those who didnāt notice the Biden crime family getting paid off by the Chinese government. Didnāt notice.
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u/Cultural-Gas2246 Sep 05 '26
The fact that they only think it's now widespread is the sad part about this. As soon as the idiot family who does it all in the open leaves office, people will just return to assuming the corruption is all over and it's not as widespread.
The entire socio-political order is inherently and foundationally corrupt. It's all been founded on cronyism from the start. The entire state/government apparatus exists to serve at the pleasure and discretion of landed and extremely wealthy elites. Always has done. Ordinary people have a minute say in how things are done in their own country. Everything is decided by wealthy elites. All policy decisions.
What makes the current, idiot, ruling family "more corrupt" is that they openly play favourites between different corporate entities. And worse still they don't necessarily favour US based elites over foreign elites, like a good President should.
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u/Mikkel65 Sep 05 '26
There's always been corruption, but Trump's successful propaganda has convinced people that the current insanity is how it's always been. Trump is considered better because he is transparent about his corruption, and they think everyone before him was just as bad.
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u/Proud-Daddy-NJ Sep 05 '26
Of all administrationsā¦.you people that think this is all āthe other sideā and that goes for both sides are an embarrassment to this country.
I mean to not be able to think for yourselves is ridiculous. Because if either a) you believe itās just the other party or b) thatās all your algorithm shows then you are screwed either way
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u/nonubiz Sep 05 '26
I love how we basically hire these people to to stop corruption and they get so out of control stealing everything. Trying to shutdown our democracy and constitution. They try to usher in fascism and when we complain they throw their hands in the air and tell us itās up to the people they cannot do anything to stop it. Like what are we paying them for. They are all corrupt. But one side is way worse than the other by light years. There needs to be another word to describe this kind of corruption.
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u/Ordinary-Quote-5335 Sep 05 '26
Yup. This man don't care about USA. He's not from there. Germany... So when it ends with USA screwed , he will run and hide in another country
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u/Due_University_3977 Sep 05 '26
Wow elect a known corrupt felon and expect something different. MAGA fools
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u/Glass-Shelter-699 Sep 05 '26
How can that be? Wasn't one of his campaign promises to drain the swamp?
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u/lndubitablyMe Sep 05 '26
Only 90%? Fake news.