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[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

Just another company gargling Trump's mushroom-shaped member. America is so fucking embarrassing. Now I know how Russian's feel.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Will Gallup do an approval poll for a scooby snack?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 36 minutes ago

I get on a specific type of food bender when I'm smoking and got the munchies (it's currently carrots with home made Greek yogurt ranch🤤).

I call all my munchies scooby snacks, and they are a 10/10 every time!

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

But I wanna see how low it gets!

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's too small to measure, just like his...

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 30 minutes ago

I just saw the picture and I initially thought you were going back to the early aughts when we used to say simply "dick" as a dismissive. And I thought that was perfect.

[–] deliciEsteva@piefed.world 11 points 4 hours ago

He broke the scale and they can't afford a new one because of tariffs.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's genuinely insane how many people here really think it fell to 29%…

Gallup's last poll had it at 36%, and compared to prior and other surveys, that's already rather an outlier:

(And yes, I know Nate Silver isn't great, but that doesn't mean that the data is collected and accumulated in a good way.)

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

I love how his approval rating is above water until he actually starts governing. I need to sell snake oil to this country, because I could become filthy (emphasis on filthy) rich.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 hours ago

With a mortar launcher

[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

They want to stop measuring now so they can have time to rework some of their code.

No one ever thought they might need to use single digit numbers.

[–] troybot@piefed.social 142 points 12 hours ago (4 children)
[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

Don't forget, "Stop counting the votes".

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 43 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Or firing the jobs agency statistician because the numbers were so bad...

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago

And our whole governmental apparatus is dedicated to propping up a brain-dead, geriatric asshole's ego so people in power can steal more from us with zero accountability.

Which would be bad, but it gets worse, because propping up brain-dead geriatrics is a bipartisan effort now.

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[–] Decq@lemmy.world 182 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (9 children)

The fact it's still at 29% is mind boggling to me. How delusional or racist/pedophilical do you have to be to approve of this guy?

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 16 points 8 hours ago

29% is insanely low considering how much propaganda they spew and how much media they control.

I try to be "optimistic" because Trump is only going to make things worse, so even lower numbers are possible.

Even Truman was barely lower than this, though his were low because dipshit Americans fellated MacArthur who was a Trump-like figure in many ways. Fake bravado (he abandoned his troops in the Philippines when things got tough), shit talker who spewed bloodthirsty talking points (he wanted to drop 50 nukes on China during the Korean War), but wore cool shades and smoked a pipe, etc

Maga simply represents the shallow, indulgent narcissism at the root of American identity, especially in the shithole South. We've been like this for a long fucking time.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 36 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Based on my interactions, I think the delusional/pedophilic demographic is far outweighed by those who are simply deeply ignorant (no comment on racism).

It's not that they're ignoring the evidence about him, or even support him in spite of it (though that definitely happens too). They live in a bubble where they just never see any negative news about him. Their news sources either ignore those stories entirely, or spin them beyond all recognition. Whenever something negative gets too big, they're told it's fake news, or that the Democrats are doing it even worse.

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

This. They're told, e.g., that the Epstein stuff is all a smear campaign by Democrats. And they believe it because it's hammered into them and because of tribalism.

If my father believed Trump was involved with Epstein and the raping of children, he'd never have voted for Trump. But instead he's convinced that Trump is God-appointed to save America from those evil Democrats who want to corrupt kids with trans ideology. He's stuck in an algorithmically-secured propaganda bubble.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My in-laws are these kind of people. They voted for a lot of politicians, local and federal, because their church told them to because these politicians didn't support abortion. That's all they needed, no other policy or information required. If they questioned it they'd get ostracized from their church circle, so why bother.

If we chatted about these politicians. Typically they were not aware of the deeper topics and would genuinely be disturbed by them, but their responses always went back to, well I just can't vote for X they are pro-abortion and the church doesn't support that.

They need someone to tell them what to do and they cling to these groups because they have never been self sufficient.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You just described basically my mom's entire family.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Nothing like an imaginary problem/thought exercise used to manipulate voters. Think of the unborn babies! Of course, ignore all the actual living babies. God these people are so fucking stupid.

I was reading last night about the reversal of the EPA ruling on C02. They were using propaganda like the "religion of climate change".

That got my wheels spinning! Wait a minute. If it is a "religion" then don't you have to respect it!?

Truth is that could give a shit about your Magical Sky Daddy beliefs, they only care if it serves their purpose.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

They must have gold fish memories because it was Trump's apparatus that pushed the whole Epstein thing to begin with.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 40 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's mind boggling to me for a different reason, he has always had his cult locked in where he never dropped below 30something% no matter what he did. The fact that he actually lost some of the die hard "I'd forgive him for raping my daughter" croud is kinda wild.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

If I told you the population was 29% raving morons, you wouldn’t be surprised, would you?

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 66 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

there are a LOT of severely uneducated inbred racist bigots in this country. pretty much anywhere in the south, or any isolated rural area anywhere--that's what it is

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My incredibly racist late grandmother asked me in 2020 if I was voting for "the other guy."

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 27 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"no, i'm voting for trump because he's going to obliterate your medicare"

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

Don't worry. Her husband died in like 1985, and she lived off his government pension for 35 years.

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[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Even post-Watergate Nixon had 25%. I think no matter what he does it isn't going to drop below that, there's a subset of the population that simply won't adjust their opinion on of him.

Keep in mind a lot of people simply aren't paying attention and a lot of people have made MAGA a core part of their personality; to turn on it now would mean admitting that all their social media posts, financial contributions, merch, and ruined relationships were in vain. It's massively humiliating to admit to yourself and others that you were that overconfidantly wrong to hitch your wagon to a known conman rapist.

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[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 4 points 6 hours ago

It's incredible the shit these guys do

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

and he would have got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids....

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 27 minutes ago

He would've gotten away with it if he just stfu and retired a rich pedo in New York/Florida. But creeps can't help but tell the world.

[–] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 hours ago

It is sort of respectable, they did not fix the numbers instead.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 35 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So who owns Gallup, that’s making them do this?

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 31 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Gallup is an employee-owned corporation. i'm not sure where the funding for their presidential approval polling comes from

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago

Me either, but I'm sure that famously litigious Trump didn't threaten to sue them if they continued posting bad numbers like he's threatened anyone who hurt his feelings.

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