When the UK last had a moron setting everything on fire she was outlasted by a lettuce.
Americans need to up their game.
Sadly the US system is not designed to oust the president that easily. It would be a first if Trump was removed from office due to the impeachment process, removing the prime minister is a much lower bar.
Impeachment should theoretically work but when the system was put in place it didn't account for an entire political party turning fascist
Impeachment should and still would work, my point was its a higher threshold than most processes to replace the PM in the UK.
It actually did, the south was entirely fascist for it's entire existence, they literally designed the system so the south could always veto the rest of the country combined no matter what, hence the 3/5 compromise giving them power in the house and the structure of the senate.
Sadly there isn't any equivalent to a non-confidence vote in US politics.
You suggesting a cabbage?
How strong is your cabbage game?
He's not underwater where it really matters, physically.
Right? Now do his head.
He has a positive approval rating in both houses of congress and the Supreme Court.
Also among mentally unstable billionaires.
Which is all that matters in reality.
Am I the only one who thinks 53% of people disapproving of his performance is actually a pretty good record for him. This number should be in the 90's.
You have to take into account that at least 30% of the total are likely "Trump is sent by God and is devinely inspired and therefore can do no wrong" crowd. So when his disapproval number hits 70% that's as high as it'll go.
Except I thought he was only elected by 31% of the public and at least a small portion of them are turning against him too. Remember a lot of people didn't vote.
I think if you give it a month or two that number is going to change significantly. Most people haven't really started to feel/see the consequences of his actions yet, and there is a bit of a lag.
This is very optimistic for the devotion behind a cult. People are already used to sacrificing for an oligarch.
I hope you're right and it ends this whole shit show.
I mean none of this matters he was popular on one night and that is all that counts.
Approval ratings only impact elections
Yes and no. It's really hard to boast about your "mandate" when a large and still increasing portion of the population publicly hates your guts and thinks you're doing a shit job. It's not enough by itself to meaningfully hurt him, but it does make him look bad and undermine his leadership. It is bad for his image, and image is an important component of power.
It's also bad for his ego and could potentially lead him to behave even more erratically in ways that are ultimately self-destructive. Narcissists famously don't do well in the face of being perceived negatively. The worse his ratings get, the more humiliating it will be for him. It is important to hurt their morale at every opportunity, even if it's not nearly enough to stop them on its own. Demoralized, defensive MAGA will always be a weaker foe than energized, popular MAGA.
Idk I've always noticed he doesn't give AF about reality. He just lies and if called out he just doubles down on his lies until he breaks the electorate and he gets elected again.
I used the same strategy to hide that I was smoking weed to my parents.
He's a narcissist. Trust me, he cares. Yes, he will lie. He will lie to the world and to himself. Because he literally CANNOT cope. But that isn't going to serve him. The more he lies to the world, the more deranged he will look, and the more he lies to himself, the more he will crash out mentally and self-destruct.
Until suddenly they impact everything.
'He's underwater on everything' - except the one way that matters the most.
His next plan will be to start a war
Invading panama
Or Greenland, or Canada, or Mexico... Truly a winning strategy to threaten everyone all at once. 🙄
Oh for sure, but he's said to draw up plans to get Panama. So right now that's the most "real" one
My money is on Mexico, he has been placing brigades with Strykers and whatnot on that border. Whatever the case, still stupid and evil.
Shit. I hope those extra soldiers on the border that Mexico sent are enough deterrent
So this greentext might actually come true?
with his fucking cottage cheese brain he'll demand plans for invading Panama and then immediately invade Brazil
I don't see him starting a war without complete control of the military. While they are working on it, firing leadership, changing rules and policies, the military still has the power to say no to Trump, which is bad TV. Trump is also a bitch as seen by the wishy-washy way he approaches tariffs, he hates actual action because he just wants good TV and bad policy makes for bad TV.
On the one hand, I support a politician who does the right things despite public opinion. Fuck approval ratings. On the other hand, how can a single person be wrong about fucking everything? Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I mean depends on how you look at it. In many ways, the world NEEDS to get off it's dollar addiction. Having a hegemonic currency isn't great for humanity as a whole. And Trump is doing the very best I've ever seen at helping the world cure itself of this problem. Not great for USA, but an important step for how geopolitics will work moving forward. Unless you meant doing everything wrong for Americans, then yes, Trump is awful.
It’s pretty destabilizing globally too. I don’t see the dollar addiction going anywhere; it’s just changing currencies.
We really don’t need China or Russia (or KSA or EU) calling the shots globally either.
Not sure it will change. The global south and more importantly BRICS has created a system where local currencies are used. It's basically a currency swap. If this can be extended to all nations there won't be a currency hegemon at all. Of course while it's been working well for the countries that are doing it, it's hard to say what the effects would be on a global scale. Still, we should work towards it. Note I am not talking about the BRICS currency, which is not real. Not even sure why it gets brought up at all.
*Edit. This is an article about the expansion of China's currency swap deals.
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-push-currency-swap-with-29-countries-worth-550-billion
Note that while this is about China, all BRICS nations are making currency swap deals with each other. It's just easier to find articles about China doing this because China is so massive.
People when the world's most illiterate celebrity does all of the dumb, racist shit he says he is going to do:
I wonder - what is the actual audience for approval rating polls?
The folks most affected by high prices or mass layoffs are probably struggling too much to have the time or inclination. Around 30% of the country didn't even show up for the election, they probably won't show up for these.
Who does that leave us with? Can we really assume that '47% approval' translates to '47% of all Americans approve'?
Hell must be freezing right now with FoxNews even calling out Trump. With tumbling stock market, I did not think that "voting with your wallet" actually works.
I am more curious as to what will Democrats do next in light of Trump admin's first hundred and more gaffes. Will the Democrats learn from their mistakes and reform? Or will they exploit Trump's gaffes like during Covid, but learn nothing and the Republicans will field someone worse for the next election (assuming there will be a next election)? Or, at worse, will Democrats continue to enable Trump like they are now with Chuck Schumer?
What's absolutely crazy is he just signed an EO to get rid of USAGM...
For those who don't know, that's basically the propaganda arm of the US government and has been for a very long time.
This is probably the most surprising thing so far for me, I really thought he'd expand that to do more work domestically to counteract all the bad press and approval loss his actions are resulting in.
Like, I get why Putin doesn't want the rest of the world to like us, but it's just crazy they're getting rid of USAGM instead of just changing the propaganda it spreads.
Actually kind of relieved to see it shut down, this is a weird morning.
he's very dumb
Genuinely, though, it is hard to gauge at times which actions are:
It is genuine chaos. But overall, the effects are pretty disastrous, no matter what exactly causes which actions.
I'm looking at Trump as a Russian agent who was assigned to dismantle the US government. Everything he does makes sense when you look at it that way. And it's horrifying.
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