“Well, we have some numbers that [NBC’s] Kristen Welker put up in a story about Donald Trump’s approval ratings for the economy and most of them are below 40 percent, lowest numbers he’s ever had,” co-host Joe Scarborough interjected. ”He’s all over the world, you’ve got a government shutdown, you’ve got 1 in 4, 1 in 5 Americans who depend on food assistance not going to get it.”

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 day ago

    He has already demonstrated that he de-registers non-Republican voters, in order to swing election-victories, from what I’ve read, & somebody was investigating a few thousand deregistrations at 1 single riding, in the Harris-got-beat election…

    He can declare the Democratic party a “terrorist organization”, & denaturalize all Democrat party members.

    Popularity is no-longer required, to win elections, in the US of A.

    Soft-dictatorship is what’s happening, now, but as soon as he can, it’ll turn HARD.

    Every possible escalation, his hidden-brain people will engineer for him.

    You are seeing the gradual snuffing of the US of A, by its president.

    There won’t be any constitution, once he finally unmasks the real-truth.

    It all comes down to how much balls he’s got, to be aggressive with his inevitable design, now.

    _ /\ _

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    7 days ago

    Airplane, woman, pipe cleaner, airplane, donkey… Shoot! It was dolphin! I’m just not presidentially smart like that.

  • mos@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    Can I get a reality check of why the approval numbers actually matter? Is it the midterms? He’s cemented power all over and is taking action basically without repercussion so what does an approval rating really affect?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      6 days ago

      Exactly, Germans tried to kill Hitler more times than the allied forces. Not caring about polls is a feature of Facism.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      7 days ago

      Midterms will matter if the cheating is just gerrymandering rather than straight up vote manipulation. If Republicans think they still need to get the most votes to win they’ll be looking at those sinking approvals among Republicans and get worried.

      And when action is taken against Trump where people have to choose a side the general sentiment will matter. Authoritarianism isn’t something that just happens and they now get to make all the rules. It’s constantly tested and even with a loyalist infrastructure in government it still relies on regular people following their rules.

      • mos@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 days ago

        Thanks I really appreciate it. I have to check the facts against my anxieties sometimes and the best thing to do is ask for help to do a reality check.