Again… WHY DOES HE HAVE AN APPROVAL RATING?
Accepting this normalizes unelected officials having authority.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
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Those are rookie numbers. It’s not at 0% yet.
My dyslexia made me see 14% for a sec and I got excited
Why would we have an approval rating for a non elected official?
I'm pretty sure any public figure can have an un/favorability rating. There's no rule that says you can only poll the favorability of elected officials. Taylor Swift has a favorability rating.
Guys, my approval rating is at 76% as an unelected cat owner.
I wonder what my approval ratings are.
I approve of you.
He should be arrested
He's an illegal immigrant who lied on citizenship documents thus is committing crimes in America. According to this administration he deserves to be in cecot concentration camp.
he deserves much much worse.
Why did they hang Toxie? o.0
This motherfucker was not elected. His approval ratings do not matter because nobody voted for him. Jesus fucking Christ.
Not to defend Musk or Trump, but this is literally what Trump campaigned on. Trump said he'd be dictator on day one, and that Musk would be in charge of gutting agencies. Anyone who is surprised by their actions after months of projecting their plan is naive and/or ignorant.
Yep and the media's general complicity with this aberration of a government, even citing an "approval rating" of someone who bought and forced their way into an illegitimate position.
I agree but that's irrelevant. The public's approval of a person only matters if that person was elected to a position by the public. Musk was not elected, so his approval ratings amongst the public do not matter.
Talking about his "approval rating" legitimizes Musk's "role". Not Senate-confirmed, unlike the departments he's decimating. And after the damage is done, they're going to sweep him out of there next month and say "he doesn't even work here anymore!"
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Alternative headline:
"38% of Americans are so addicted to NewsMax, Fox News, and OAN that they can't stop sucking the toes of billionaires to "own the libs", even as he cuts billions of dollars for them and the veterans, children, poor, sick, and needy."
Millions of people will die for the sake of Hairplug Himmler's fragile ego and masculinity.
Don’t forget his own source of propaganda, twitter.
*Xitter
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Elon Musk’s job approval
It's phrased in such a way that I'm reminded of politician's approval ratings, but he's not an elected official. Are there polls to determine the approval of persons appointed to position by the U.S. President, or are we talking about his approval as Tesla/Space X is concerned?
We need a French solution to the Musk problem.
That reminds me, I need to sharpen my guillo...uh, apparatus.
When a group of his AI company's investors sue to block the AI company's purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.
Is Trumps plan to have someone around him so universally despised that he looks good by comparison?
Reminder, he is not an elected official approval ratings don’t mean shit for this POS.
If it translates to massively less Tesla sales, then it means something. Tesla's valuation is so stupidly high because of musk. The big financial institutions are betting on him because they've done very well by him in the past. If tesla crashes and burns hard enough, his toxicity will spread to all his other ventures as well and his bullshit smart guy persona will be left in the dust.
Agreed hopefully this is just the beginning of the downfall of musk.
FWIW, approval ratings don't matter for elected officials either. They have some meaning for a couple of months leading up to an election, sometimes.
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41% supports this man. Its 2025. Iq levels have dropped significantly in America. Brave New World is on the doorstep.
Ok so where's my soma hookup? Far more like 1984 in my opinion.
I know, it's terrifying.
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Shit, now he will never win another election
You say it as if there will be an election
There never was. Pretty sure that's the joke. No one elected him. No one nominated him for anything. No one confirmed him.
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41% still think he's doing a good job. Wow. Just... wow.
"But if I don't lick boots, who am I?"
- Bootlickers
I really hope he's stupid enough to fail to understand that this is why most of the ruling class is smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public. He's the best advertisement of all time for "Billionaires do not deserve the wealth they have". Keep talking Musky.
why does he have an approval rating at all. he's just there hanging out and messing stuff up.
He doesn’t even wear a suit!
He deserves far worse
This is just the beginning
How is this cunt able to walk the streets?
why do you think he wears his toddler son as a helmet?
Jesus fucking christ the stock is 282 right now. That is a 5% gain just today. What the actual fuck.
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Deny, depose, deport his ass. SpaceX -> junior division of NASA. Tesla, new CEO. Do whatever with the rest. Nationalize all stock, people making < $50_000 get a dividend
Given that both Elon Musk and I have a combined wealth of $330B, why does nobody care about my approval rating?
On a serious note, I always thought approval ratings were reserved for politicians. But I guess I don’t understand lots of things.
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