Republicans compared to apex predators, Democrats to slow animals
A democratic researcher conducted focus groups consisting of swing voters. During these focus groups, voters were asked to compare Republicans and Democrats to certain animals. A pattern emerged after approximately 250 focus groups. Republicans were compared to apex predators like lions, tigers, and sharks. Democrats, on the other hand, were compared to slow animals like tortoises, slugs, or sloths.
From The New York Times:
After around 250 focus groups of swing voters, a few patterns have emerged, said the researcher, Anat Shenker-Osorio. Republicans are seen as “apex predators,” like lions, tigers and sharks — beasts that take what they want when they want it. Democrats are typically tagged as tortoises, slugs or sloths: slow, plodding, passive.
So Ms. Shenker-Osorio perked up earlier this year when a Democratic man in Georgia suggested that a very different kind of animal symbolized her party.
“A deer,” he said, “in headlights.”
The man had more to say.
“You stand there and you see the car coming, but you’re going to stand there and get hit with it anyway.”
Six months after President Trump swept the battleground states, the Democratic Party is still sifting through the wreckage. Its standing has plunged to startling new lows — 27 percent approval in a recent NBC News poll, the weakest in surveys dating to 1990 — after a defeat that felt like both a political and cultural rejection.
Communities that Democrats had come to count on for a generation or more — young people, Black voters, Latinos — all veered toward the right in 2024, some of them sharply. And unlike Mr. Trump’s win in 2016, his victory last year could not be waved away as an outlier after he won the popular vote for the first time.
The stark reality is that the downward trend for Democrats stretches back further than a single election. Republicans have been gaining ground in voter registration for years. Working-class voters of every race have been steadily drifting toward the G.O.P. And Democrats are increasingly perceived as the party of college-educated elites, the defenders of a political and economic system that most Americans feel is failing them.
Additional Reading:
Goldmacher, S. (2025, May 25). Six months later, Democrats are still searching for the path forward. The New York Times. Link. [The below Gateway Pundit Lake offers a workable link]
Taylor, K. (2025, May 27). Focus group participants describe Republicans as “apex predators”, Democrats as “tortoises, slugs, or sloths”: Report. Gateway Pundit. Link.
“Top democrats” are railing against this characterization of their party, when what they need to do is take a step back and realize this was a poll run by democrats, for democrats, and the call is coming from inside the house. What was it that Chinese fella said about never interrupt your opponent when they’re stepping on their dick… something like that.
Napoleon, Custer, one of those dudes…
“OH SHIT, where the hell are they coming from?” G.A. Custer at Little Big Horn
Dumbass was believing his own press releases.
Custer is still alive making a lot of mool shmoola on his custard stands. Same with Mr. Napoleon who has a chain of bakeries where one can buy his famous Napoleons. At the Little Big Horn, Custer actualy went through a portal and wound up with his Custard stand franchises in 20th century America. While in exile on Elba, Napoleon was abducted by the Purple people eater and transported to modern American while the Purple People Eater joined a rock and roll band. That’s the fact Jack and later Alligator.
And one for you: “Please Mr. Custer (I don’t want to go)”
You beat me to it …. but I added a link.
Custer made a killing selling Arrow Shirts…
Running around like a bunch of Indians!
That’s their ‘truth’.
Demonrats are sheep
Roadkill?
Throwing each other under their own bus.
Whatever floats their boat.
I give up. Whaat is this?
A dead skunk.
In the middle of the road.
Ach! You beat me to it! This stinks to high heaven.
You skunked me on that one.
Indeed.
Damned if that don’t stink!
Dead Skunk in the middle of the Road
Didn’t look left, didn’t look right…
They will never recover from Trump. The whole party might die and sunder in two.
That’s when you salt their fields and let them rot!
That would be a wonderful result.
I like that.
Oh FFS! They are ALL equally worthless to me! The Uni Party is alive and well, BOTH sides continuing their insanity of doing the same things over and over again, expecting different results…and the sheeple of this country are re-(s)electing them on the reg. In many cases because there is no real choice. The Republicunts had a clear mandate from “We, The People” back in 2016, with FULL control of the WH, The Con-gress, and a semi SCOTUS and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for two (2) years, then allowing the DemonRats to swing control back to demonrats in ’18. Followng this up with an obviously and blatantly stolen (s)election in 2020. 81 million votes my ass! Anyone that thinks that the Kongress Klown Kritters give one smidgen of a Tinker’s Damn about looking out for the best interests of this country, or the taxpayer’s money has just flat not been paying attention. These mofos are pussy footing around and allowing the grift to continue, unabated. Big announcements about investigations and changing the way things have been done over the last decades and NO progress on actually doing anything. If anyone of us were even accused of what some kongress kritters are suspected of doing, we’d be under the jail house. Our grubermint has been run by career politicians, kiddy diddlers, lying, cheating, stealing, crooked mofos for so long that most people have thrown their hands into the air and just given up. It is way past time to, spit on those hands, hoist a black flag and…Prepare…to start slitting throats. Our ancestors are spinning in their graves over what has been allowed to happen, but Hey…sportsball is still on every week and Joe Six Pack can still afford his beer…for now.
I’m finding food is half as much in Greece. Tips are something only tourists do, if you want a new leather belt or shoes you go to the leather shop and the guy makes it in front of you in a few minutes. It costs half as much as in the US, while being many times the quality. The lady needs a new dress? Go to the tailor shop and they will make one right up in an hour or two with 20 times the quality of anything China makes in a nice natural fabric instead of synthetic junk.
Where did we go so wrong?
A quarter of the population rides high efficiency motorcycles and I’ve seen two electric vehicles out of tens of thousands on the road. When you get 70 miles to the gallon on a 650 bike an electric car is a hard sell.
Did I mention the lowest murder rate in the world? I haven’t even seen anyone get angry yet. Not that they would, the food and wine is better, tastier, the women are thinner and better looking and people just try to get along. Also have yet to see two dudes with purple hair in dresses with enough piercings to build a car engine out of walking hand in hand down the street as attention whores.
Might never come back.
Yep!
And another one….
Prove me wrong…I’ll wait
“Members of The Congressional Oversight Committees…”
You may want to update with a panel which says “and no legislation to fix the problem.”
Spot on, Prior,…and there won’t be any “legislation to fix the problem”. Or any of the other problems. The Repugnacunts got an even stronger mandate this past fall from We, The People. People voted for Trump because that want things to change and all of the kongress kritters better realize that the tipping point is almost here and they’re wasting daylight. The Republicunts shoulda had legislation already drafted on the day Trump was sworn in and brought to floor for a vote the next day. I don’t expect anything to change, tho it would be nice if it did. Not for me, per se…I’ve had a fairly good run and don’t have too much time left. I do have concerns for my grandchildren’s future.
I have a Tee shirt with a Pachtderm and a mule on it and the words they both suck.
Needs:
Congressional amendment for term limits.
Federal law vice congressional rules that limits stock trading by congress critters and staffers.
From 2012 on, the Republicans campaigned on “repeal Obamacare!” and when they had the chance years later to roll out their alternative: they didn’t have one.
A very good example of the point I was trying to make, David. Lawd if we could just find us a pissed of JAL Wide Body Driver when we need one. (IYKYK)
The worthless mofos would burn it all to the ground just to rule over the ashes. Maybe THEY should be burned and have their ashes scattered. And let We, The People…Rule!
Bobby Lee nailed it. “…adventurous abroad and despotic at home…” And here we are.
That’s why I gave up on the Reps a couple or three decades ago. I started doing my own “fact checking” (it’s surprisingly easy, even without a journalism degree) and realized all that Rep. BS about “fiscal responsibility” and “small government” was indeed BS. They always had some excuse.
Lockheed profits are not to be lessened, Comrade Congressuberkinder.
Imagine being so dumb/corrupt/greedy (pick one or multiple, dgaf) that you’d need a replacement to 0bummer Care, or any other idiotic system of welfare for the medical mismanagement system.
Bullshit commie faux republican/con-servative bullshit is bullshit.
Incentives always equal outcomes.
Well, KoB,,, it would seem that we are “Birds of a Feather “!
If so then I consider myself in “Good Company”, Young Sir!
And this simple meme,,,, sums up why I have no faith in the DS and very little in the Rs!!!
Where’s Epstein’s client list????
NM. I already know!
I fixed it 3 times before I hit “Post Comment”
Ds!!!!!! As in Democrats!!!!! Fn Ds!!!!!!!!
Nothing is going to change…no one is coming to save you…
Prepare…
That pile of ammo really is the cats meow…
Cheaper Than Dirt has an AWESOME sale on the number between eight and ten mm!!
Lions, how about “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
By the Brooklyn NY Tokens 1961 on the RCA label.
When compared to Dogs, Republicans are the Rottweilers and German Shepherds while the D-rats are yapping Chihuahuas.
I prefer to think of RepubliCan’ts as jellyfish. Spineless jellyfish.
They float around, they look pretty. They go wherever the (political) current carries them. They may even sting you if you irritate them too much. Other than that, do nothing and they’re useless.