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Beerman, BSN · Feb 10

mtmkjr said:

30% voted for him and are assumed to be within that 53%. Fill in the rest with people who didn't vote at all or are politically unengaged. Remember all those people who don't know what the three branches of government are...

Maybe you have a point.

That study you cited that said only 39% of people could name three branches government was from 2019.

Do you remember who won that next years election with a record number of votes?

https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/americans-civics-knowledge-increases-2019-survey/

Beerman, BSN · Feb 10

mtmkjr said:

30% voted for him and are assumed to be within that 53%. Fill in the rest with people who didn't vote at all or are politically unengaged. Remember all those people who don't know what the three branches of government are...

A few weeks ago you asked us to watch a video made by Ezra Klein (no bias there, I'm sure) in which he to make a point referenced a poll that showed a 46% approval rating.

What do you suppose is the reason for increase in just a few weeks of the uninformed and politically unengaged?

chare · Feb 10

A Majority of Americans Can't Recall Most First Amendment Rights

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Less than half of Americans can name most of the rights protected under the First Amendment and under two-thirds can name the three branches of government, according to the Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, released annually since 2014.

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Tweety, BSN, RN · Feb 10

Out of 240 million eligible voters 32% voted for Trump. He took 49.8% of those that voted and got the popular vote. There's no telling how many of those 90 million that stayed home would have voted. My guess is the election would have turned out the same because it seems pretty spread out across the country. The voter turnout seems to be just a bit higher than prior elections, but not has high as 2020.

I don't think there's a connection between voter turnout and the question "do you approve of what Trump is doing". HIs approval rating was similarly high at the beginning of his last term. Biden had his highest numbers at the beginning of his term as well.

Trump is doing what he said he would do and I'm not surprised that people are approving of this, especially the deportations.

Musk, not so much.

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U.S. adults were less sure about Musk and his "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) having control over government operations and spending, with only 23% saying he should have "a lot" of influence and 28% saying he should have "some" power, while a combined 49% believed he should have little to no control over the government.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/02/09/trumps-approval-rating-at-53-in-new-poll-but-americans-are-less-sure-about-elon-musk/

toomuchbaloney · Feb 10

mtmkjr said:

30% voted for him and are assumed to be within that 53%. Fill in the rest with people who didn't vote at all or are politically unengaged. Remember all those people who don't know what the three branches of government are...

And throw in a big dose of trust that the media isn't just telling you a version of what Trump wants you to hear. This is the same media that couldn't quite tell the truth about Trump's pathologic lying or truth about his dangerous incompetence during a global pandemic or truth about his attempt to overthrow an elected government. They sane washed his crazy and belligerent behavior at every opportunity. It's remarkable that people think they can trust that same media to tell the truth about Trump's popularity knowing that those poll numbers are very important to the crazy conman. That need for approval and admiration is a key symptom of NPD.

toomuchbaloney · Feb 10

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/10/gold-hits-record-high-as-trump-announces-tariffs-on-steel-and-aluminium

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/g-s1-47656/trump-tariffs-aluminum-steel-imports

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What's more, because the tariffs initially applied to steel and aluminum but not products made from those metals, they put U.S. companies that make things like nails or wire baskets at a competitive disadvantage. Researchers estimated that the tariffs cost the U.S. some 75,000 manufacturing jobs.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the new steel and aluminum tariffs Trump has proposed would replace the earlier tariffs or be added on top of them.

Who cares that these same tariffs resulted in lost jobs last time around? The mentally ill president has a single minded fixation on tariffs.

mtmkjr, BSN · Feb 10

Beerman said:

A few weeks ago you asked us to watch a video made by Ezra Klein (no bias there, I'm sure) in which he to make a point referenced a poll that showed a 46% approval rating.

What do you suppose is the reason for increase in just a few weeks of the uninformed and politically unengaged?

Are you suggesting that if a majority approve of the presidents actions that means he's right in what he's doing?

I would disagree with what he's doing even if he had 75% approval. It doesn't change that he is carelessly destroying our government and disregarding the Constitution to achieve his goals.

--> All made possible because of his years of "fake news" and sowing mistrust - yet they believe his lies and propaganda.

Beerman, BSN · Feb 10

mtmkjr said:

Are you suggesting that if a majority approve of the presidents actions that means he's right in what he's doing?

I would disagree with what he's doing even if he had 75% approval. It doesn't change that he is carelessly destroying our government and disregarding the Constitution to achieve his goals.

--> All made possible because of his years of "fake news" and sowing mistrust - yet they believe his lies and propaganda.

No. You're deflecting now.

I simply posted a link to a poll that shows Trump with a 53% approval rating and favorable scores on other questions within the poll.

You and @nursej22 claim that all those favorable ratings are only from Trump supporters. I then pointed out that you both have also in the recent past gone out of your way to say that less than a third of the country voted for him and that means far more people are against him than for him.

You seem to have now realized the contradictions in your arguments and want to change the topic.

Beerman, BSN · Feb 12

NRSKarenRN said:

Per President Musk ....

The NTSB chooses Elon Musk's X to update the press on plane crashes

Raw Story 2/1/25

This is not right': Outrage as major government agency accused of 'breaking the law'

"Per President Musk"??

I thought Trump was a dictator...

toomuchbaloney · Feb 12

Beerman said:

"Per President Musk"?

I thought Trump was a dictator...

He's a weak, mentally ill man who wants to be dictator and is using his authority to consolidate power in the person of the chief executive. Trump is manipulated by younger, ambitious fascists. We even watched the old guy defer to the younger fascist and get upstaged in the oval office yesterday.

You never thought Trump was a dictator, you thought he was a strong leader, right?

Crusades · Feb 12

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CNN commentators expressed shock over President Trump's high approval ratings in his return to the White House.

Harry Enten, the network's senior data reporter and political analyst, noted that Trump's approval numbers for his first three weeks in office have already exceeded those during his first.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Just 11 days, Donald Trump had a net positive approval rating" during his first term, Enten said during a segment of Monday's "CNN News Central" with co-anchor Sara Sidner.

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Enten then noted, "Every single day of Trump's second term so far, he has been on the positive side of the ledger. Twenty-one days, all three weeks. That's already 10 more days than it was in his entire first term!”

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Trump's approval ratings have surged to historic highs, marking a stark contrast from his first term, according to a new CBS News poll.

Trump has reached a 53% approval rating, according to the poll — a level he never consistently saw during his previous stint in office.

In April 2017, only 46% of Americans believed he was following through on his pledges, but by February 2025, that number had surged to 70%.

Trump's approval rating in New York reached 41%, matching his highest-ever level in the deep-blue state, according to a Siena College poll released last week.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/media/cnns-harry-entin-stunned-by-trumps-high-approval-ratings/

Pretty good for an old demented crazy guy!!

mtmkjr, BSN · Feb 12

Crusades said:

https://nypost.com/2025/02/10/media/cnns-harry-entin-stunned-by-trumps-high-approval-ratings/

Pretty good for an old demented crazy guy!!

The majority once cheered for the wrong side of history