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All the orange felon/rapist/liar has to do is make promises of prosperity to farmers and they will follow him anywhere. Farmers eat that shit up.
We needed a poll for this? We really are fucked.
Yes. To cite facts you need data. You can't base it on feelings or anecdotal evidence.
To know how people feel about anything you need a poll.
Doesn't stop the orange buffoon from making shit up anyways.
What planet do the 30% who responded that things are cheaper live on?
Planet dumbfuck of the Magasphere galaxy. The only verifiably flat planet.
The 30% that are always against society progressing
hmm interesting point. They can afford the new price so it's an advantage to them. A new way to keep the poor down.
There are the poor and destitute amongst that 30% too, they tell themselves that things aren't more expensive because it will challenge their understanding of the world
They also just blame someone else. “Things are more expensive but they’d be worse if My Guy wasn’t in charge” is a big angle for these morons.
So nothing’s changed. Still 1/3 of the country accepts this man’s lies eagerly
The absolute floor is maybe, maybe 22%. That's the cult that will always follow him.
And what's sitting on the edge right now
I would guess the polls are written with some bias in questioning and we hit an absolute low in polling of just under 30% if we have direct air "support" in Venezuela. If he dares to actually put boots on the ground there officially then no poll phrasing can keep him above 25%.
Another drop would be a public support of Israel (apart from maybe with Iran as that's for some reason ok with Americans). But any large news story of Israel acting hostile to its neighbors enough that even the New York Times has to report it, well, shits quiet in Israel for a reason right now. Trump doesn't want to lose more favor with the MTG portion of his party that are on the right side of history for all the wrong reasons.
Edit: not to say Israel isn't continuing genocide and settlement expansion. It is. But it's being careful to not hit the point that liberal media would be forced to report it. The recent execution video in the west bank was apparently not enough for the western media to care.
The clown still having a ~39% approval rating is absolutely insane
So many European elected politicians would love to have such a high rating... I'm always surprised at the high numbers in the US.
The US has the best propaganda and dumbest people.
Having fewer parties is a big boost. So is the propoganda apparatus the right has.
That's probably about right - Nixon left office in utter disgrace, according to the general mainstream narrative. However, nearly 1 in 4 Americans still approved of him at that point (24%). And that's when the media was thought to be "liberal", LOL.
These days the media is even LESS "liberal" than it was back then due to the blatant disinformation campaign launched in the wake of Watergate: Faux, hate radio, Breitbart, and the brosphere on podcasts and Youtube, not to mention the amount of delusional copium that is permitted on social media platforms like Xitter and FBIBook, etc....so I'd be genuinely surprised if Taco's numbers went below 24%.
It doesn't matter what Americans say anymore. Trump can't run again. If he manages to hold on to power past Jan 2029, he won't need popular opinion (or votes) to do it.
Trump can’t run again.
Really?
in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote.
-Trump on July 27, 2024
Exactly, if Trump is still President past Jan 2029, he won't need an election to do it. We won't have to vote!
Say what you will about Trump, but he delivers on his campaign promises. Albeit with a monkeys paw.
Of course, his supporters thought he was exaggerating or talking hyperbolically. They believed him when he claimed to never know about Project 2025. And maybe he really didn't, who knows. Its pretty clear he doesn't know wtf he's doing or even where he even is most days. He talks out of his ass constantly. But they find that endearing, I guess.
Its funny, the same people worried about a shadow government, rounding up citizens for FEMA death camps, poisoning our water supply, etc...elected us a guy who did and does all those things. Proudly, even.
Personally I think a political leader, while they should be likeable (I mean, that should be a bare requirement to even get anywhere in politics in the first place), they should also be composed, professional, respectful, and even if they disagree with you, do so receptively and constructively. He is none of these things, and they think that makes him great. Really it just makes him a baffoon and makes the entire country a laughing stock.
And more recently, even he's admitted he can't.
Well his whole campaign was about tariffs AND lowering prices. The two don’t mix, America! This is not new news.
He endorses the self enrichment of the capitalist class. Their self enrichment is nothing but blood money at this point. Logically him and all his policies are just free game on looting American families by any means necessary without ethical government regulation. The lack of ethics and accountability has been bad for a long time already in this country but now it’s gloves off. We either revolt or end up in a pedo-tech bro feudal dictatorship as serfs who they allow to live as long as we’re useful.
When / how do we do the thing though?
Go ahead and slant the CPI reports too you fucking stupid idiot. The only people that care about the fucking things are people on wall street. Most people shop for their own groceries and can see with their own two eyes that prices are increasing. All but the most devout of your cult members can tell you that you're full of shit and inflation is still terrible.
Who are these 24% of people that think Trump has lowered prices?
Those are the people that voted for him. Remember that 64 percent of the voting age voted in 2024. 49.8% of the voters were for Trump and 48.3% for Harris.
49.8% of the 64% of those who voted is about 32% of the total voting population.
Of those, majority still believe him.
So if 2:1 believe he raised prices, that actually tracks, given that 1/3 voted for him, 1/3 did not, and 1/3 did not vote.
66% didn't vote for him or 2:1.
The real issue is that those 1/3 that didn't vote, could have helped prevent this. Hope they learn, some will, but who knows.
Dumbass redhatters that could be living in a tent and wondering where their next meal is coming from, but so balls-deep in the Faux-fic and so filled with hate for most of America that they are chugging any copium about Taco.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
They look at the price of eggs and forget everything else
I appreciate reporters asking Trump about various concerns the people have, but some reporter or podcaster (if he goes on those any more) needs to all him if he is worried his inner circle is lying to him about things.
Like relentlessly press it in every gaggle. Go on FOX and say you're worried about it. (Yes I know FOX is participating to an extent especially with "cities on fire.")
The things he says certainly reflect his reflex to lie, but he's also saying things that don't reflect reality that he doesn't particularly "have" to lie about. It makes me pretty confident he's being fed false info.
Welcome to the pedoeconomy.
The amount of people I see on facebook calling the polling bullshit is insane. Everyone just writes it off as only dems being polled, etc etc. I know facebook is an absolute shitshow to begin with, but how much of these piles and piles of comments are just propaganda bots doing their thing?
A lot are propaganda bots. I don't trust a damn thing on Facebook, even the ones saying opinions I agree with.
Bots, bots everywhere.
Do not read, nor listen to anything on FB other than your family & friends actual personal posts. Not repost, memes, etc.
doesn't matter, literally nothing matters as long as Fox, Newsmax, OANN, etc. exist, because the cult will still live in a different reality
I think I saw Meidas replay some clip where some dipshit talking head or one of Taco's thugs were repeating - as recent as last week - this bullshit narrative in the Faux Cinematic Universe about how Taco is still having to "deal with" a horrible mess that Biden left poor Taco.
I mean...where to even begin with this level of delusion. Yeah, the economy was in freefall under Biden. 🙄 And there was total chaos in the markets because every day different tariffs and trade agreements were being announced via a crappy Xitter knockoff site. 🙄 And Biden was spending every minute of every day finding ways to piss off our allies and so on....
The Faux-fic stuff is incredible, especially when you watch some moron spout the same thing nearly verbatim later, without one single thought in their head. It's like they are just walking around with a few tracks in their heads (the latest updates from the grievance networks they have brand loyalty to) they can press play on and they repeat them.