Never before have Americans hated our choices of president as much
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 07/13/2024 - 1:56pm
While everyone is focused on the unpopularity of President Biden (for good reason), you could be forgiven for not knowing just how unpopular Trump is. When Trump left office he was already extremely unpopular.
The 34% job approval rating for Trump in Gallup's Jan. 4-15 poll is one point lower than his prior lowest single rating, registered on several occasions in late 2017. The first of these came in August 2017, as Trump was facing intense criticism over his unvarnished threats against North Korean aggression and his response to deadly violence by a white nationalist at a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia...
Trump is the only president not to register a 50% job approval rating at any point in his presidency since Gallup began measuring presidential job approval in 1938. Likewise, he is the only president who did not have a honeymoon period of above-average ratings upon taking office. His initial 45% job approval rating proved to be his high point for his first year as president.
Any competent candidate should be mopping the floor with Trump. Unfortunately, the Democrats decided not to give us that option. Instead we have an election that will be decided by who hates the other guy more.
If Trump’s and Biden’s net favorability ratings remain underwater through Election Day, 2024 will be only the second presidential election since at least 1980 in which Americans had a negative view of both candidates. The first was in 2016 — which also happens to be the only recent presidential election in which the two candidates were, on average, more disliked than Trump and Biden are now...
Thankfully, some pollsters ask respondents not just whether they have an unfavorable view of the candidates, but also how strongly they feel that way. And on this score, Trump and Biden are more evenly matched. According to a simple average of polls conducted in March, slightly more Americans have a strongly unfavorable view of Trump (43 percent) than have a strongly unfavorable view of Biden (42 percent), despite the fact that Biden’s overall unfavorable rating is higher.
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The elites like their candidates weak and malleable
And it works, because the more ridiculous they appear, the greater the ferocity with which they are defended.
“One of the things I love about the American people is that we can hold many thoughts at once” - Kamala Harris
Double haters, and I'd guess I'm one
A recent polster publishes the addition of negative and positive and very few people end up on the plus side of things, and that is part of the problem. There's no fire breathing populist on the left ready to step in and save the day.
It's like, "oh, don't like Biden? Try this Kamala Harris on for size"
Well, I just saw
an alert come by that someone took a shot at the Cheeto this afternoon- so there’s that.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Is it too much to ask
if someone could take out both Trump and Biden?
Not
funny.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Well Damn
when you’ve got the
Entire Media Complex blaring
nonstop Negative coverage of
LIES about the guy. . . then yeah
Trump is the only president not to register a 50% job approval rating at any point in his presidency since Gallup began measuring presidential job approval in 1938.
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Why would the media do that?
When the truth about the guy is so effing awful?
simple answer
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media and truth have a strained relationship
challenge accepted
start naming some Truths
they said about the guy
I can quote a shitton of lies for
Every Truth you come up with
FUUUUUUCK! ! ! it’s Assholes like You that
make me Defend this shitstain just in
the interest of Fairness! godDAMMNIT
I don’t even Like the fucker but
you People are bound and determined. . .
he’s the Sun that lights your Angst
he’s the rain that waters your despair
he’s the weight that crushes your Soul
I Get it but. . . just Stop let him Go
he doesn’t Have to live rent free in your head
he’s Not your shadow he’s not the boogeyman
he’s playing a Role
and They are playing us
see my comment on him being shot
you thought it was bad Before?
it’s gonna be Relentless
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Let's start
Trump University
Trump Foundation
General RE fraud
And then there are war crimes, war crimes and war crimes.
Notice that I didn't use any slurs, unlike you.
so while they
were lying about
russya collusion
good people on both sides
pee tape
entire Steele dossier
kids in obamas cages
whipping illegal crossers
first impeachment
J6 Anything
peacefully protest
Second impeachment
I got Moar. . .
It’s quite telling that you listed
None of These as Truth
meaning . . .?
and as cass states below
It’s a Fucking Show
Or as I say on the regular
What’s their Other hand doing
Below the table
You’re so busy projecting your own
traumas Onto trump, hence the unquenchable
Hate you display Every Time you write about him,
that you’ve blinded yourself to the Fact
that the system which Nourished trump
For Years
is The Problem
but hey! You do you and wallow in your pain
Unless they succeed Next time
say hello to your Worst Fears
a republican trifecta
yeah, You Built That
congratulations!
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Meaning
What does this mean? That nothing happened? That the rioters didn't attack the police?
I don't know what this means either. Do you mean this?
Since J6 happened, and the second impeachment was about J6, are you saying that Trump had nothing to do with J6?
I'm sure you do. But but I can't read your mind.
Good question.
Speaking of projecting...
I guess you answered your own question.
Caitlin on the Trump phenomenon
Caitlin Johnstone
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
Just watched the
Stormy Daniels documentary. Very informative. Worth a watch, especially WRT lawfare…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Fidel did it better
Which should be
a Huge Clue that
They’re OKAY with him
or he’d have been Toast his
First Four Years
yeah I’m done
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
none of us are 'done'
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till we be pushing up daisies
it is worthwhile to comment on
the present theater of the absurd
how else would we know others share
our thoughts?
thanks