He continued in a similar, ranty vein, “Don’t believe the Radical Left’s Fake Poll numbers. They are Crooked and Corrupt, just like the Country Destroying Dumocrats are Crooked and Corrupt. VOTE REPUBLICAN FOR GREATNESS IN AMERICA!”

Fresh data from CNN puts his approval at a meager 34 percent, matching his post-Jan. 6 trough, while a new AP-NORC poll has him tied at a post-2017 low of 33 percent. Quinnipiac paints an even grimmer picture, dropping him to a career low of 32 percent.

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    Crazy that 34% still approve of him but I guess realistically it cant get that much lower considering 10% will always be contrarians and 20% is about amount of americans that actively want to destroy the American project. for context I’m not an american

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      If you look back at Nixon’s numbers, even as he resigned in total disgrace, it will tell you a lot. The teaching of that history might lead one to believe it would be at or near zero approval, but that’s not the case.

      I doubt that Americans are all that unique in this by the way. I bet every country has their base of anti-intellectuals who want to see others being hurt (esp. women, POC, gays) and to give the finger to people that know more than they do, have more education than they do, etc. - AKA, the group of people these dumbasses call “elites”.

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        If you look back at Nixon’s numbers, even as he resigned in total disgrace, it will tell you a lot.

        Everything Nixon did was weak sauce compared to Trump. I don’t understand why Nixon was so vilified, his framework for healthcare was eventually adopted as Obamacare, he signed the SALT treaty with Russia, he opened up trade with China, he tailed off troops from Vietnam war supported by Kennedy and Johnson. He ended the draft (started by Johnson) , he started the EPA, he declared war on cancer, increased the NIH, increased CDC…no president increased this spending until Clinton.

        Big fucking difference from Trump’s accomplishments, which in his second term are still zero. Literally cannot list one positive action from Trump.

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    Rule proposal: no putting Trump’s age near the front of the headline unless it’s the headline for which we’re all waiting.

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      That’s the very least of my concerns. Dude could be 40 or 90 for all I care; the real problem is that he’s an incompetent asshole with malignant narcissism, and always has been.

      I’m sure there is a reason Bret Easton Ellis had his characters in American Psycho constantly referencing and idolizing Donvict.

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    He hadn’t had a stroke so far, so the polls are still not bad enough.

    Apart from that, how can a third of the country still not grasp what is happening?

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    Due to the ongoing usa political powerbroker shenanigans, about 1/3 of the american population gave up on the american dream well before trump came on the scene. Once trump started spewing his sweet lies he had them hook, line and sinker. To reiterate, american greed and “business” caused all of this madness then trump came along and capitalized on it.

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      REPUBLICAN

      VOTERS

      LOVE

      RAPING

      CHILDREN

      AND

      GENOCIDE

      Everyone who ever gaslit you that this wasn’t the case was wrong.

      Republicans are, at their very best, the parents who know their kids are being raped by an adult, and punish the kid for speaking up about it because it embarrasses them and they rather the child rape happen in the dark.

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      Turns out the people who are quickest to say something is unamerican are also the same people who will ignore American values like the Pledge of Allegiance and the US Constitution just to “win.”

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        The Pledge began as a marketing gimmick:

        As branding expert John Gorman outlines, the pledge began with an initiative from The Youth’s Companion, a Boston-based magazine looking to expand beyond its religious roots. To reach a broader audience, the editors launched a nationwide effort to place American flags in public schools, offering them as incentives for new subscriptions.

        Not such a great example of “American values”, or perhaps since it started as a corporate marketing gimmick it’s a perfect example.

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      They don’t know or understand what he’s doing. They just know he’s a republican and that’s why they support him.

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      They’re locked in a decades-long cycle of abusive extraction.

      American religion, politics, economics, and ecology are reaching the limits of an unsustainable system that only knows how to extract wealth and power. The Soviet Union collapsed for similar reasons. Above all, that form of government collapsed under the weight of propping up The Party’s false reality and its debts to the truth. Real operating principles flow from hard-learned evidence, experience, and wisdom. Societies simply cannot operate indefinitely from convoluted principals engineered to benefit only the few. This is the flaw in the philosophy behind modern conservatism - it’s fundamentally abusive.

      People stick with the devils they know. When long-term planning is negated by the cognitive load of navigating abuse, it can be almost impossible to adapt to new sustainable modes of thinking and living. When the house of cards collapses, those unable to adapt cannot be saved.

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      It’s probably those that think it’s liberal media lies (I was going to use slander but they probably don’t know the meaning of the word) and he’s doing a good job at sticking it to the Democrats.

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    too fucking bad. evil sack of orange shit deserves much worse for all his crooked acts

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    It’s worth pointing out that there were other polls done in the same time span and the polls cited here were the most negative ones. Based on Nate Silver’s polling tracker, the last ten polls showed approval ratings in the 32-44% range, and the three polls cited are the lowest three in that bunch.

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    Okay, so the media is ownsd by the right wing, as is the administration and supreme court, and all the tech billionaires, BUT for some reason the polls are owned by the leftwing?

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      Facism 101: the enemy is both strong enough to be feared and weak enough to ignore at the same time.