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So nothing’s changed. Still 1/3 of the country accepts this man’s lies eagerly
The absolute floor is maybe, maybe 22%. That's the cult that will always follow him.
And what's sitting on the edge right now
I would guess the polls are written with some bias in questioning and we hit an absolute low in polling of just under 30% if we have direct air "support" in Venezuela. If he dares to actually put boots on the ground there officially then no poll phrasing can keep him above 25%.
Another drop would be a public support of Israel (apart from maybe with Iran as that's for some reason ok with Americans). But any large news story of Israel acting hostile to its neighbors enough that even the New York Times has to report it, well, shits quiet in Israel for a reason right now. Trump doesn't want to lose more favor with the MTG portion of his party that are on the right side of history for all the wrong reasons.
Edit: not to say Israel isn't continuing genocide and settlement expansion. It is. But it's being careful to not hit the point that liberal media would be forced to report it. The recent execution video in the west bank was apparently not enough for the western media to care.
The clown still having a ~39% approval rating is absolutely insane
So many European elected politicians would love to have such a high rating... I'm always surprised at the high numbers in the US.
It doesn't matter what Americans say anymore. Trump can't run again. If he manages to hold on to power past Jan 2029, he won't need popular opinion (or votes) to do it.
Trump can’t run again.
Really?
in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote.
-Trump on July 27, 2024
Exactly, if Trump is still President past Jan 2029, he won't need an election to do it. We won't have to vote!
Say what you will about Trump, but he delivers on his campaign promises. Albeit with a monkeys paw.
Of course, his supporters thought he was exaggerating or talking hyperbolically. They believed him when he claimed to never know about Project 2025. And maybe he really didn't, who knows. Its pretty clear he doesn't know wtf he's doing or even where he even is most days. He talks out of his ass constantly. But they find that endearing, I guess.
Its funny, the same people worried about a shadow government, rounding up citizens for FEMA death camps, poisoning our water supply, etc...elected us a guy who did and does all those things. Proudly, even.
Personally I think a political leader, while they should be likeable (I mean, that should be a bare requirement to even get anywhere in politics in the first place), they should also be composed, professional, respectful, and even if they disagree with you, do so receptively and constructively. He is none of these things, and they think that makes him great. Really it just makes him a baffoon and makes the entire country a laughing stock.
Soggy corpo middle manager types are unelectable anymore
Now that the Right Wing Authoritarians (RWAs) got a taste of the China White that is the likes of Taco, they aren't going back to the methadone like RMoney or Jeb! or Lil Marco, that's for sure.
They got a taste when McCain's people picked Palin. That was just a prelude of the stupidity, incompetence, and pure nastiness that was to come.
They'll be looking around for someone else they feel has Fuck You Money and also Says What I Think (meaning, they say racist and misogynist things). Along with some cover story about how they are Good At Bidness (TM), because they always go for some of the very stupidest ideas, and one of the very most idiotic of ideas that so many Americans cling to no matter how ridiculous is that The Country Should Be Run Like a Business. Because, something something, argle bargle, "efficiency". 🤦♂️
He'll need to be dead. That should be the ONLY acceptable result for anyone in a third term.
They wanna talk about third term abortions? Let's show em.
He’ll need to be dead.
This quote has me worried for what comes next. And has since the election.
Although I remember hearing it closer to October when they had the debates.
It’s the quote that substantiates every American training with a long gun.
Well his whole campaign was about tariffs AND lowering prices. The two don’t mix, America! This is not new news.
Maybe not to the rest of us, but it is news to the MAGA crowd!
"Adding things make thing go up big? No, ugg, add thing make thing go down small" -the average tRUMP supporter
cHiNa wIlL pAy tHe tArIfFs. Also, tariffs are not taxes, bro!
They could mix if done in very specific ways, but there's no way in hell Trump could do that. I'm not even sure anyone could do that anymore.
Who are these 24% of people that think Trump has lowered prices?
Those are the people that voted for him. Remember that 64 percent of the voting age voted in 2024. 49.8% of the voters were for Trump and 48.3% for Harris.
49.8% of the 64% of those who voted is about 32% of the total voting population.
Of those, majority still believe him.
So if 2:1 believe he raised prices, that actually tracks, given that 1/3 voted for him, 1/3 did not, and 1/3 did not vote.
66% didn't vote for him or 2:1.
The real issue is that those 1/3 that didn't vote, could have helped prevent this. Hope they learn, some will, but who knows.
Many are disenfranchised for some reason or another.
And I love they’re getting what the voted for.
I meant to say Disfranchised: That means they can't vote, and in the US that's often for systemic reasons. Don't like that Black people can vote? Make having a felony disqualify you from voting and disproportionately police and prosecute black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
Dumbass redhatters that could be living in a tent and wondering where their next meal is coming from, but so balls-deep in the Faux-fic and so filled with hate for most of America that they are chugging any copium about Taco.
What planet do the 30% who responded that things are cheaper live on?
The 30% that are always against society progressing
hmm interesting point. They can afford the new price so it's an advantage to them. A new way to keep the poor down.
There are the poor and destitute amongst that 30% too, they tell themselves that things aren't more expensive because it will challenge their understanding of the world
They also just blame someone else. “Things are more expensive but they’d be worse if My Guy wasn’t in charge” is a big angle for these morons.
Planet dumbfuck of the Magasphere galaxy. The only verifiably flat planet.
The amount of people I see on facebook calling the polling bullshit is insane. Everyone just writes it off as only dems being polled, etc etc. I know facebook is an absolute shitshow to begin with, but how much of these piles and piles of comments are just propaganda bots doing their thing?
A lot are propaganda bots. I don't trust a damn thing on Facebook, even the ones saying opinions I agree with.
Bots, bots everywhere.
Do not read, nor listen to anything on FB other than your family & friends actual personal posts. Not repost, memes, etc.
How do the bots infiltrate people's social circles? Like who is seeking out and befriending these bots? Maybe I don't understand how FB works as I stopped using it like nearly 20 years ago.
Citing or referencing Facebook was the first issue here.
doesn't matter, literally nothing matters as long as Fox, Newsmax, OANN, etc. exist, because the cult will still live in a different reality
We needed a poll for this? We really are fucked.
Yes. To cite facts you need data. You can't base it on feelings or anecdotal evidence.
He endorses the self enrichment of the capitalist class. Their self enrichment is nothing but blood money at this point. Logically him and all his policies are just free game on looting American families by any means necessary without ethical government regulation. The lack of ethics and accountability has been bad for a long time already in this country but now it’s gloves off. We either revolt or end up in a pedo-tech bro feudal dictatorship as serfs who they allow to live as long as we’re useful.
He's lowered the lost of living for the parasite class that only takes, they now no longer contribute to the society they are economically pillaging
Welcome to the pedoeconomy.
Go ahead and slant the CPI reports too you fucking stupid idiot. The only people that care about the fucking things are people on wall street. Most people shop for their own groceries and can see with their own two eyes that prices are increasing. All but the most devout of your cult members can tell you that you're full of shit and inflation is still terrible.
