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SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Craters to 33% in New AP Poll, Whopping 67% Disapprove
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33% is still shockingly high
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29% of voters voted for him in 2024. It's literally just his cult supporting him at this point--he's lost the entire rest of the country. Finally.
1/3 people support the pedophile in chief. Lmao. Let that sink in. "Craters" lol
MAGAs would eat his poo if he told them it was lobster, and accuse us of treason for not eating the "lobster."
sone of them would forgive him raping their young daughters and say it must have been gods will.
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"Craters" 
Journalist looks at a slow genty downward slope....
Looks like your screenshot is a month out of date (arc)
Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump's overall job performance, down slightly from 38% last month.
Whether a 5% drop is "slightly down" or "cratering" is a pretty subjective thing, but that's a sharper decline than we have seen previously.
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This happened to me yesterday and might help explain why his approval is still so high:
I'm in my 40s, sitting in a waiting room, waiting to consult with a doctor about the ol' snip-snip. The room is filled with aging boomers and gen-x of all walks of life. I mean, the next youngest patient in this room is probably 20-years my senior. Some random guy down the seat row on the other side of the room is talking to someone, presumably his wife but maybe an older female child, about mutual family and friends and the goings-on. I'm ignoring everything as usual until I hear, 'I know you don't like tRump...' My ears perk up.
He goes on to talk about finding these tRump coins online and inquires into whether some acquaintance of theirs, or their offspring, might like one. I can't really hear the woman's response, but she clearly doesn't want to talk about this now, in this place, and within easy earshot of every soul in the room.
He reiterates that he knows that she doesn't like tRump, but this is about someone else and if she thinks the coins might make a good gift. I still can't hear the whole response from the lady, but she mentions the AI Jesus post. Dude seemed clueless as to what she was talking about. He says, 'no, I hadn't heard about that'. She goes on to explain how much it upset people and the backpedaling he tried to do to sane face with Christians.
Here's a dude buying tRump coins as gifts like a dude might buy a sports team's merchandise, not knowing the shit that's actively perpetuated by that sports team. It's clear that most are not on tRump's Twitter clone for infantile adults, but likely only see the posts that some Facebook groups want them to see. Whatever echo chamber these people are siloed in is going to great lengths to isolate that 33% from the real shit tRump does.
I hear you and I want to acknowledge that people are complex and many otherwise good people are caught in these echo chambers doing or supporting bad things.
That said, it's no fucking excuse to not educate yourself and stay up on the news.
No excuse, but that anger seems to only exacerbate the issue. For what its worth, i think the information age has created a huge curse of knowledge between generations and social economic groups and social media is being weaponized to increase this phenomenon
The "curse of knowledge" is a cognitive bias where experts or informed individuals fail to accurately imagine what it is like not to know something, assuming others share their level of understanding. This leads to poor communication, teaching difficulties, and overestimating others' knowledge. It differs from the Dunning-Kruger effect, where people with low ability overestimate their competence.
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...not knowing the shit that’s actively perpetuated by that sports team
I may consider this reasonable if the Doctor Jesus thing was the odd thing the child rapist had done but we are literally talking about 2 scandals per week at minimum. What you saw there is not a man who is out of the loop, what you saw in display was one of the true American values: "willful ignorance"
The MAGA slogan: Don't bother me with facts, my mind is made up.
like cement: thoroughly mixed and permanently set
When all you consume is garbage like Fox News and Newsmaxx, you never see like 95% of the shit he does.
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Seems to high.
That’s a bit more than the number of people who voted for him. So technically he’s doing better than before he went into office.
Still too high approval.
That is the shocking part.
Not that shocking when you really think about it. Nixon had 24% approval when he resigned. Since then entire right wing media networks have been created specifically to ensure republicans don't have to suffer the same accountability. That's to say nothing of the countless bots on social media.
Think about how much money and influence is being focused on keeping Trump and the GOP palatable until the midterms, then remember that only 1 out of 3 people are actually being fooled into thinking he's doing a good job.
33% of Americans approve of:
Child trafficking and rape
Collapse of rule of law
Shifting the tax burden entirely onto the poor
Mass kidnappings of minorities and dissidents
The building of concentration camps
Illegally kidnappibg foreign leaders
Raping developing countries of their resources
Unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal wars of aggression
Bombing of little school girls
Genocide of Palestinians
Genocide of Hispanic Americans
Genocide of anyone not white
Rampant stagflation
Collapse of any semblance of the American dream
And that's just scratching the surface
But surely the leopards won't eat my face.
I hope those people burn in hell.
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The News:
33% are plain dumb.
Dumb, Evil, potato, potahto
1 in 3 still support convicted felon, religious extremist, suspected pedo and known war monger who oversees creation of ICE and extrajudicial killings (domestic and foreign) whilst screwing the majority.
Don’t forget rapist!
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rape-carroll-trial-fe68259a4b98bb3947d42af9ec83d7db
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Ready for him to lose midterms, have the Reichstag burn down, and have him declare an emergency.
It's not going to get much lower than this. About all that's left are the total morons that wouldn't change if Trump himself had a gun to their child's head, as well as the criminal sociopaths who appreciate the corrupt MAGA environment that makes their occupation so easy and lucrative.
Neither one of those groups is going to abandon MAGA to any great degree. We might get to 30%, or perhaps one or two points lower, but that's about it.
So work on those people around you who are close to quitting, or have recently quit. We don't want them going back, or digging in deeper. They are doubting MAGA right now, so show them what's going on now, while they are slightly receptive.
"I don't like how he put a gun to my kid's head, but I do like how he puts guns to the heads of other children."
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CRATERS 4%!!!
Well I guess this one is actually a different number, so that's nice.
33% of Americans are so fucking stupid. They're happy to hurt themselves knowing that democrats will also be hurt. It's weird and sick.
Catholics leaving the church because they follow that shitgibbon over the friggin POPE is insane. Really shows they didn't read that book they kept waving at everyone...
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The bar has fallen hasn't it? Dubya had a lower rating and he at least handled himself with more decorum than Trump even has the capacity for. This 33 needs to drop below 20.
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Who, exactly, is shocked by these numbers? Even Tucker Carlson is flipping.
You know you've fucked up as a republican when even Tucker won't back you anymore. I mean, that dude is the lowest of lowlifes and even he is like yo man this is too far...
What's shocking is that there are still 33 % of people who approve.
Have you met Americans? About 50% of the people in rural America that I grew up with are the dumbest people. Poor as crap, but keeps voting against their best interest. I'll never understand it
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New lows/highs in polling are definitely worth reporting, but we also shouldn't overinterpret individual polls. Nate Silver's approval tracker still has Trump at 39.3% approval, just below the 40% line.
So what I'm trying to say is: It's still much much worse than y'all think. High costs of living, cruelty towards immigrants and non-white citizens, blatant corruption, wars, and all that together doesn't even move the needle that much.
The last tanker of oil was said to have reached port a couple days ago. Our buffer is gone. Let’s see what happens. Will paper prices meet the real price? What about food prices? Next month should be interesting.
Do the 67% disapprove enough to do something?
It appears that Europe is similar, with 64% disapproval (from Pew, pick your own source).
When will they do something?
(yes, you could list what they have done, and I could list what Americans have done, but let's pretend up until this point they have all done "nothing", as you can't possibly hold the USA to a higher standard than all of Europe without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe)
If EU stopped using the US dollar for trade, for example... that would be very influential, don't you think? There's much more the EU and/or NATO could do.
Meanwhile, EU can't even be bothered to stop buying Russian oil, gas, fertilizers, etc.
(yes, you could list what they have done, and I could list what Americans have done, but let's pretend up until this point they have all done "nothing", as you can't possibly hold the USA to a higher standard than all of Europe without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe)
There's a couple things I love about this paragraph:
1: "without admitting that the USA is more capable than all of Europe"
We're literally talking about how 67% of Americans disapprove of their own leader and still can't escape American exceptionalism
2: It quietly implies that Europeans who disapprove of Trump (the leader of a different country) are equally responsible for doing something about it as actual American citizens.
3: it neatly avoids all the facts that Europe has done things that are effective, even if it does not remove Trump from power, while Americans gather at their "we don't like Trump" conventions once every couple of months where they stay out of the way and don't cause too much trouble before cleaning up nicely after themselves and getting back to work on Monday.
4: Despite the inescapable American Exceptionalism it is still the fault of everyone else for not cleaning up their mess for them.
It’s always 30-something percent in support, every poll.
If we somehow survive this, 60%+ of Americans should file a class action lawsuit against Fox News for causing and contributing to such widespread destruction of our democracy.
Media is consolidating into the hands of right wing billionaires, now CBS and CNN are in those same right wing hands. If it keeps goign there wont be any left wing mainstream media.,
As dire as our situation is becoming, I actually feel generally sanguine about our podcast system. Chuck Todd points this out frequently, as he blames/thanks the corporate authoritarianism for him leaving NBC to start his own podcast. I didn’t care much for him on Meet the Press, but I actually like him a lot now and, more importantly, appreciate his insight and intuitions.
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