Summary

A Fox News host, Jessica Tarlov, highlighted Trump’s declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance.

Trump is “underwater on everything” including economy, federal workforce management, Ukraine-Russia policy, and trade relations with Mexico and Canada.

The polling slide comes amid stock market tumbles, federal worker layoffs, and trade tensions.

Tarlov noted that Republican members of Congress are facing hostile town halls where constituents are challenging them on federal workforce cuts, including at the VA. Some Republicans have dismissed these angry constituents as “paid actors.”

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    For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.

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    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.

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      He stopped penny minting. I’m sure he accidentally did one other good thing for the adage to be true

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        But the penny thing is still sinister and petty. He signed the bill to put new portraits on coinage, including a woman on the penny. Then he destroyed the penny so there still would only be men on coins.

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          Don’t tell him there’s been women on the $1 coin since 1979, and recently themed seasonal quarter reverses that alternate between illegible and just overly busy.

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      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.

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        This is one of my favorite comments ever, I’ve been saying this for years, the strong dollar economics was the best deal ever for us, and we are throwing it away. The rest of the world will be fine without us.

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        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.

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          There is a reason central banks are buying gold, and that it is making new all-time highs, and recently breached $3K/oz. They’re anticipating the demise of the dollar, and minimizing their exposure to the chaos from the U.S. and buying gold instead of U.S. bonds. Look for this trend to accelerate, especially once the U.S. reaches the point where it can’t sell enough bonds to finance it’s budget deficit, leading to a massive debt crisis and the collapse of the dollar. Gold is already on track to be up >50% this year (up 13.7% so far ytd), and the consistent rise in gold while stocks and other investments fare poorly will only fuel the stampede. I’m confident that gold will end 2025 over $4k/oz, and that 2026 will be even crazier.

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          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.

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    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.

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    “The president’s approval rating has been struggling for at least a month”

    He’s only been in office 53 days… so struggling 56.6% of the time… at least.

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    declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance

    Another Quinnipiac poll from last month determined 45 percent approved of Trump’s performance and 49 percent disapproved.

    So half of the people still approve of what he’s doing? How does such a small percentage even justify a news article with such a ridiculous headline? The US are so cooked it’s not even funny. Wake me when it’s at 90% disapproval.

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      What stands out to me is that they are making a big deal out if a small change…to a Republican approval rating. This is exactly the type of data they’d be holding up while screaming about how bad Obama is, for instance. Did feel odd using the tactic against their own, let alone god emperor Cheeto.

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        They’re probably trying to take control of the party back from Trump. They did push back against him during his first term, but fell flat on their faces and started losing viewers to Newsmax. Now they’re trying to back it with data. They’ve spent the last few decades training their viewers to ignore data, though, so we’ll see how that goes.

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      I would assume most people don’t pay particular attention until they are directly affected. Apathy across the West is a major problem.

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    I’m very sorry to hear this. In the past, the thing that a poor leader could do to remain in power was to start a war. Then the leader could spout all the “don’t change horses midstream” rhetoric to remain in power rather than being replaced. The only thing that will stave off war would be his incredible narcissism and refusal to believe “fake” polls. Once he’s convinced, however… who’s the lucky recipient of an invasion?

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    That leave - at least - 47% of nazis in the USA. Already too much, this country needs to be wipe out, with the exception of the First Nations, the real people to whom this territory belongs.