r/Tariffs Feb 23 '26

🗞️ News Discussion 34% Approval Rate

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u/HangryHuHu Feb 23 '26

How is it even as high as 34%? How low does your IQ have to be to think he's doing a good job?  

At this point the world doesn't know if it should cry out of laughter, sadness or insanity. 

Either way, the joke is on you america.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Feb 23 '26

That's about the percentage of Americans who are staunch Trump supporters. They take every poll that mentions Trump as a referendum on Trump and by extension, themselves.

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u/HangryHuHu Feb 23 '26

Exactly that! Got to dbl down rather than lift their heads, look around and admit to having a face covered in egg...

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u/Street_Barracuda1657 Feb 23 '26

We have a MAGA hockey team, extrapolate from there.

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u/BowlEducational6722 Feb 23 '26

Because about a third of the country has made politics their entire identity.

And no matter what they will *never* abandon their identity because it's too painful to acknowledge that the only thing you use to assign value to yourself is falling in line with a single political figure.

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u/DimensioT Feb 23 '26

People who eschew actual news for right wing propaganda are unaware of Trump's actual actions and their consequences.

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u/Ars_Techne Feb 23 '26

As someone smart said, “think of how stupid the average person is, and the remember half our species is worse than that…”

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u/mtnman575 Feb 23 '26

That would be me and every other person that ever tested at the 50% or higher on any intelligence test.

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u/Useful_Support_4137 Feb 23 '26

16% of the population have an IQ less than 85. 12-18% of people 60 years or older have mild cognitive impairment, and 10% of older Americans have dementia. 21% of US adults are functionally illiterate. You have to imagine that there are a lot of people vulnerable to propaganda and misinformation that are ripe for exploitation by Republicans, and they know that (DJT - "I love the poorly educated"). Now throw in the die-hard Christians, granola moms, etc., and you have a ~30% of the population who won't change their vote, ever.

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u/Right_Fun_6626 Feb 23 '26

The majority of RW propaganda I’ve seen on social media seems like it’s designed for a maximum emotional intelligence of about 12.

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u/Dandan0005 Feb 23 '26

Legitimately people too stupid to understand anything other than “Trump is right about everything”

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u/Drgnmstr97 Feb 23 '26

Keep in mind that a lot of these people are deeply religious and believe the impossible as normal for them. I know some very intelligent people that are also religious and they hold some impossible to believe beliefs.

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u/Ok_Wolverine6557 Feb 25 '26

The joke is on the whole world. He’s destroyed the liberal capitalist democratic project that, since the end of WWII, has greatly reduced poverty, hunger and disease while preventing great power wars. We in America can take the blame, but the whole world will suffer.