As much as I like seeing the high disapproval numbers, I find it a bit disappointing how many people will turn on their president over gas prices. I mean, after all the insane shit this guy has pulled, all it takes is a buck or two more per gallon to turn them. We aren't even in a shortage situation. No lines. Nothing.
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I think it’s more a case that the people for whom gas prices are A Thing have now joined all the people who already disapproved of him… so another 5% of the population, who believed his lies right up until there was no denying that his actions were hitting their pocketbooks.
But that's the point: the suffering of others, which they could prevent simply by voting, wasn't enough for them. It wasn't until it hit them in the pocketbook this way (after reduced healthcare and still-unmaintained infrastructure and tariff tax and, and, and) in addition to all this other ways it preventably hit them in the pocketbook already, that now they jump on board the harm-reduction bandwagon.
There are simply no more arguments for supporting this man that make sense logically; and there haven't been for 10 years (before his first narcissist orade if fools), of course, but the apology now needs to be a little more sincere.
It has immediate impact and they cannot lie about the giant numbers in their face while they pump. Even the dumbest of people can grasp this.
This.
ICE kidnapping people doesn't affect them because they are special. They are in the in-group.
Why can't they grasp it when he boldly lies to our faces?
Honestly? I think for most they're too far deep in the right-wing Matrix to be able to tell truth from lies. Many people don't fully understand just how these people live in a completely alternate reality than the likes of you and me.
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As someone else put it: "I'm fine with rapes and pedophilia, but I draw the line at higher gas prices!"
What does that say about America? I think it's past saving to be honest.
Probably that the rural, least populated parts of the country hold a disproportionate amount of political power and this is a consequence of that. Well that and the deliberate defunding/deconstruction of our education system.
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Yea. There are by now hundreds of valid reasons to kick that guy, and gas prices are the deal breaker?
Many Americans just seem to hate all other humans
Many Americans just seem to hate all other humans
I would say it's more pathological indifference, likely spawned from the idolization of "rugged individualism". I'm often reminded of a nearly decade-old article titled "I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People".
It's good to take a step back every once and a while, and remember that at one time we reported approval ratings...
There's a psychological effect coming into play here.
We need to go back to:
28% approve of trump
It hits 100% different
AKA 38% total idiots.
And if those idiots realized they were in the minority, they might feel shame...
They're dumb enough to see 62%, "trump" and that the number is higher and everything seems great.
They see a shrinking number that's how many agree with them...
Even they start to rethink their position, if nothing else out of cowardice.
We need to play to the audience, and in this context theyre all fucking idiots.
Partisan diehards simply know where their bread is buttered
Is it as simple as 38% approve and 62% disapprove? Many polls have something in the middle for “neither approve nor disapprove.”
In those polls, the disapproval rate can move without anything changing in the approval rating, and that’s worth reporting.
Just saying It isn’t entirely either/or.
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37% per the article
Wow, 25% of independents still approve of him. Insane.
I've worked in market research. It's just like the Internet. Bad faith respondents are very common and very eager and they all give exactly the same inane responses.
Maybe their brains are independent from their bodies?
How many years have I been reading this headline? Too damn many
No no. It went from 60% to 62% This is a historic event. Only 38% of Americans like his policies now. Only 38% would take up arms to defend him. Only 38% would kill you to protect the files. Only 38%
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Word salad headline. Lol. Can’t just call it straight.
Still way too high
Keep in mind that a lot of Americans are really stupid.
Americans are groomed to be stupid by the corporate media.
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Until he is dragged out of office, doesn't matter
Kicking and screaming, on television
I am here to promise you that conservatives will vote for the next one to come along.
And it's not like conservative candidates are going to get any better from here on out.
They're not the brightest, which we all know tends to correlate strongly with conservatism. I'll always remember the idiots in 2004 who voted for a second W. Bush term because "he made this mess, now he needs to clean it up".
That's like hiring an incompetent employee who messed up a mission-critical project and not only took no accountability, but verifiably lied about their actions, yet you continue employing them to finish the project.
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It doesn't matter. If he stays in power past Jan 2029, he won't need an election (or any popularity polls) to do it.
Been hearing weekly this for 10 years. Shut the fuck up
It's obvious that disapproval ratings mean nothing yet the media machine constantly spits that up. I guess it makes all of us anti-trump folk feel a bit better while the brazen pedophile stumbles ever upward.
It does. It reflects the general population's approval and therefore affects the decision making of politicians looking for reelection.
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None of this matters because at the end of the day the American electorate is just too stupid for any of this to count for anything.
They're always going to vote for the next hard R that will promise them that they'll make it all White and now you'll probably won't have a choice but to vote for the hard R in many states going forward.
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No one has ever seen (disapproval) ratings this high!
What do you think the bunker is for. Dude is not leaving alive. Let's hope he follows Hitlers lead and eats a bullet soon.
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I disapprove so much it should count multiple times.
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