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On the one hand, I support a politician who does the right things despite public opinion. Fuck approval ratings. On the other hand, how can a single person be wrong about fucking everything? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
He stopped penny minting. I'm sure he accidentally did one other good thing for the adage to be true
He destroyed the American Empire too, but that feels like giving Hitler credit for shooting Hitler.
But he did it in the worst possible way, with massive avoidable collateral damage.
'He's underwater on everything' - except the one way that matters the most.
I’ll take “Things you can’t say on Reddit” for 200
But seriously, even if he was sleeping with the fish the r’s are still a huge a problem. He’s just the front guy, he’ll be replaced with another clown.
Sadly, yes. I mean, Trump knows he's 'close' to his grave and needs to leave some kind of legacy - even if it's the Hitler kind of one - his narcissistic self just wants to enter them history books as one of the big humans instead of 'another rich guy' as a footnote.
Pretty sure either Elon or Vance are already lined up for when the time comes. When Trump leaves the world, and when there's no longer actual rules preventing them from taking over and 'fixing' under martial law what big bad orange wrecked. At least according to them, that is.
No matter how bad what they're doing seems this is just the preparation stage. Things can become so, so much worse, and the more we let them consolidate power the tougher it'll be to fight it later.
Someone should start telling him no one has visited the titanic and he could be the first.
He just bought a Tesla, and with any luck that'll drown him like it did Angela Chao, the billionaire magnate whose brother in law is Mitch McConnell.
Angela Chao: Shipping billionaire intoxicated when she drowned in Tesla, police report shows - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898
The American taxpayers just bought a Tesla, you mean. Cheeto will never set foot in that, and he sure as hell didn't pay for it himself.
When the UK last had a moron setting everything on fire she was outlasted by a lettuce.
Americans need to up their game.
Sadly the US system is not designed to oust the president that easily. It would be a first if Trump was removed from office due to the impeachment process, removing the prime minister is a much lower bar.
Impeachment should theoretically work but when the system was put in place it didn't account for an entire political party turning fascist
Am I the only one who thinks 53% of people disapproving of his performance is actually a pretty good record for him. This number should be in the 90's.
You have to take into account that at least 30% of the total are likely "Trump is sent by God and is devinely inspired and therefore can do no wrong" crowd. So when his disapproval number hits 70% that's as high as it'll go.
What's absolutely crazy is he just signed an EO to get rid of USAGM...
For those who don't know, that's basically the propaganda arm of the US government and has been for a very long time.
This is probably the most surprising thing so far for me, I really thought he'd expand that to do more work domestically to counteract all the bad press and approval loss his actions are resulting in.
Like, I get why Putin doesn't want the rest of the world to like us, but it's just crazy they're getting rid of USAGM instead of just changing the propaganda it spreads.
Actually kind of relieved to see it shut down, this is a weird morning.
he's very dumb
Genuinely, though, it is hard to gauge at times which actions are:
It is genuine chaos. But overall, the effects are pretty disastrous, no matter what exactly causes which actions.
It’s narcissism all the way down. His sole motivation for anything is ego stroking. He lacks self esteem and the ability to value himself. His self worth only exists in validation from others.
Sounds like Elon is eliminating competition to his propaganda machine.
Get rid of all branches and implement your own with your own swamp creatures.
I'm looking at Trump as a Russian agent who was assigned to dismantle the US government. Everything he does makes sense when you look at it that way. And it's horrifying.
Is it crazy when they can just use companies like TruthSocial and Twitter?
People when the world's most illiterate celebrity does all of the dumb, racist shit he says he is going to do:
His next plan will be to start a war
Invading panama
Or Greenland, or Canada, or Mexico... Truly a winning strategy to threaten everyone all at once. 🙄
Oh for sure, but he's said to draw up plans to get Panama. So right now that's the most "real" one
with his fucking cottage cheese brain he'll demand plans for invading Panama and then immediately invade Brazil
I don't see him starting a war without complete control of the military. While they are working on it, firing leadership, changing rules and policies, the military still has the power to say no to Trump, which is bad TV. Trump is also a bitch as seen by the wishy-washy way he approaches tariffs, he hates actual action because he just wants good TV and bad policy makes for bad TV.
Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as "paid actors."
SOROOOOOOOOS!
shakes tiny fist
For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn't "underwater" just a "minor inconvenience".
declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance
Another Quinnipiac poll from last month determined 45 percent approved of Trump’s performance and 49 percent disapproved.
So half of the people still approve of what he's doing? How does such a small percentage even justify a news article with such a ridiculous headline? The US are so cooked it's not even funny. Wake me when it's at 90% disapproval.
What stands out to me is that they are making a big deal out if a small change...to a Republican approval rating. This is exactly the type of data they'd be holding up while screaming about how bad Obama is, for instance. Did feel odd using the tactic against their own, let alone god emperor Cheeto.
How long before Trump wants her fired?
I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?
The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn't even show up for the election, they probably won't show up for these.
Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that '47% approval' translates to '47% of all Americans approve'?
He has a positive approval rating in both houses of congress and the Supreme Court.
Also among mentally unstable billionaires.
Which is all that matters in reality.
Jokes on them, he's not doing this for the American people.
“I already got your votes. Fuck you.”
— Donald
Well, a month ago a majority still approved... so I guess it's a tiny minuscule progress? One eaten face at a time?
I mean none of this matters he was popular on one night and that is all that counts.
Can we stop bullying transpeole now and admit maybe it actually IS Trump that's the problem?
I wonder why he is doing just like he said he would.