Summary
Trump’s approval rating dropped to 43%, the lowest since his January return to office, amid backlash over new tariffs and a mishandled military strike disclosure.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found only 37% approve of his economic leadership, and 34% support his foreign policy.
A majority view his tariff hikes as harmful, while 74% criticized the use of Signal to discuss a Yemen operation.
The poll, conducted online with 1,486 adults, showed bipartisan concern and a 2-point decline since March, reflecting rising unease over Trump’s policies.
This is an budding authoritarian government where the polls don’t matter.
40% of people are in a cult, got it.
Something like 7% to 13% of poll responses are just trolling anyway (look up Lizardman’s Constant) and can’t be trusted. Assuming that ALL the trolls are voting to help Trump, we can see how many people unironically thinking that Trump it’s good.
So a minimum of 43% - 13% = 30% of people are legitimate cultists.
30% of people are legitimate cultists.
I find the 33/33/33 rule works. 33% of people just like authoritarianism during this period of history. I’m not sure if that’s a constant or because of the current climate making people stressed and weird. But they feel safer when someone says they’re going to take control and fix everything and they feel like they don’t have to think about it beyond that. They will agree with anything their in group says because it soothes them. These are your cultists.
Another 33% are just checked out. They’re stressed in the same way, but instead of turning to an authoritarian to fix the problem they just bury their head in the sand. They feel like they’re too small to fix anything so why even try. These people sometimes still vote if its convenient enough and are complete wildcards when they do because they really have no clue what’s happening. They vote on vibes. This is also where trolls tend to sit.
That just leaves just 33% of people who are paying attention and either aren’t stressed and have the emotional bandwidth, have interest, or have the persistence to pay attention even when stressed to try and do something to stop the authoritarianism (even if that’s just vote).
This leaves 1% which is the literal 1% trying to pull the strings.
Honestly I’d bet the “too stressed to care” make up only a few % of the middle 33%, and that the middle is more representative of a different kind of ignorance. I’m talking about the people who were born reasonably comfortable and never found history, science, or politics interesting. People who devote most of their time and personality to things like sportsball, video games, or social media. People who choose to watch bottom-barrel reality tv unironically. Basically the “centrists” who don’t really know how anything works, ignorant of pretty much everything outside their niche education or profession, whatever’s spoon fed to them, and the mainstream media.
That is disturbingly high.
43% of responders are idiots
Bush II had an approval rating around 25-30% at the end of his time in office. Consider that the bottom for how many people will still support a complete and obvious failure.
I don’t think we can trust the polls since there’s no free press in USA anymore so as far as I’m concerned it’s US government regime propaganda.
Especially polls with less than 1,500 people surveyed
1500 is enough if the survey is properly randomized. I know that sounds crazy, but it’s true. You only need about 1000. Math is wild.
https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/guides/statistical-significance/determine-sample-size/
the randomization is the hard part though.
…conducted online.
How many of those people are American? Or people, for that matter?
The free press is alive and well, for now at least. Don’t be hyperbolic.
About 44% too high.
Ugh, I just realized this fuck wit will be president of our ruins for the 250th anniversary.
Happy thoughts my dude.
Japan is sending us some new cherry trees for our birthday. (I know its more complicated than that, but take the little moments when they happen)
That’s really nice. I wish I could write a letter to thank Japan. Thank you for thinking of us Japan. ❤️
Will they be tariffed? Government holds them until the people pay 10% of their value to get them planted?
We need to take that away from him. Ignore whatever fascist shit he plans and throw giant rogue celebrations everywhere. I hate people but I will show up to counter celebrate democracy just to take away from his unearned prestige.
Alternatively, we can make it a great anniversary. A reenactment even
Make America George’s Again
USA has a lot more crazy people than I ever suspected.
This lack of realization when faced with reality is way beyond any worst case scenario I ever imagined.
I thought most of the people who voted for him, simply didn’t believe the warnings. Turns out they actually support that shit?!?!You can thank the poisons of religion. They care about dying and going off elsewhere than EVERYTHING on Earth.
That’s why I’m not just an atheist but an anti-theist.
They never face reality, we allowed malignant propoganda to spread and take over a huge chunk of our media presenting a false reality to many who don’t have the media (or functional) literacy to understand when they’re being manipulated. Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level - they can read the words, but the full nuanced understanding is beyond them.
Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level
Is this factual? Because if that’s true, that’s extremely bad, even shameful for a rich country like USA.
Yes, that is factual. There’s a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.
Well unless I’m reading this wrong, it seems USA is doing pretty well compared to other OECD countries (age 15):
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_602.50.asp
So I’ve still got about even odds of encountering a fucking idiot when I meet someone.
Remind me why I should ever leave the house.
Here at Lemmy we’ll deliver fucking idiots right to your computer.
The Real World: Idiots but I have to put on pants.
Lemmy: Idiots but I don’t have to put on pants.
Tbh this is why I like wfh.
Same.
I was exiled from Reddit. You have no idea how bad it can get until you’ve spent over a decade there. At least with Lemmy I don’t have to scroll through dozens of juvenile puns just to get to a discussion that is soon derailed by Russian propaganda trolls.
I still miss the guitar subs, though. The idiots tended to ignore them.
I mean you gotta get food or something
Instacart and DoorDash mean never having to talk to humans
Look at this guy, rolling around in cash
Back in my day us hermit types just did our grocery shopping after 9PM, this is a whole other level.
It was sweet just before the pandemic around here, with several places going 24 hour. Now they’ve all reverted back with no signs of it coming back. I miss my middle of the night shopping.
I love all the stores being closed when I get off work ):
I’ve found 7am also works
Eugh, daylight.
I’m willing and able to pay to not have to deal with humans.
I don’t think fucking idiots are evenly distributed, so the odds depend on where you go.
… I can’t believe 43% support shithead.
i cant believe the other 57% are so useless. screw them. cant even get a majority or dont even vote. americans are pathetic. democratic party is a joke. i can easily believe 43% are with shithead. where should they have learned any better? may nancy pelosi keep inside trading, chuck schumer lie about gaza… just shit people everywhere.
Higher than biden’s average. Yes, you should be alarmed
Anyone else concerned that a felon rapist who is crashing our economy still has a 43% approval rating?
That 43% is wannabe felon rapists who wish they could crash the economy.
Still has all the power in the world. What if it dropped to 20%, would that make any difference?
The republican congress members are still voted in. They can impeach if it gets bad enough
And what would be bad enough that they would choose to give up their dictator?
When the base is mad enough to throw them out if they don’t. The Florida special elections didn’t flip any seats, but they showed a 15-point swing away from the GOP in deep red parts of the state. That’s gonna make them sweat. Unless they can sufficiently rig the midterms or sway Trump off his current “crash the economy for lulz” trajectory, it may well be a bloodbath, and that’s the sort of math that starts peeling sycophants away from Trump.
They have a more controllable dictator in reserve. Thiel just needs to say the word.
Yikes.
Tell me… what happens if they impeach?
The executive stops even remotely pretending to operate by the rule of law?
Impeachment is easy, relatively speaking. A simple majority of the House can impeach Trump as they did twice in his last term. I believe the number is 7, of 220 Republicans in the house, would need to vote to impeach.
Getting a trial in the Senate to convict and remove, which requires a two thirds vote, would need about 20 Republicans, of 53 to vote to convict. I can’t imagine what would need to happen for that to occur. And even if it does, JD Vance is sworn in by Roberts as POTUS? I guess that means we’re in a world where Republicans think that’s better in some significant group.
I honestly see them 25th-ing Donny Dementia before that ever happens
OK ONLY 13% MORE AND SCHUMER CAN ENACT THE MASTER PLAN!!!
thats depressingly high.
