Trump's Legacy

[tonyhays 86]

Art of the FAIL

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

[kallend 2,106]

The Secret Service has requested an additional $60 million in its next budget: $27 million to protect the president’s wife and son in their three-floor penthouse at Trump Tower in New York, where they live instead of the White House, and $33 million for additional travel costs.

The average family of four in the United States pays about $4,000 a year in federal income taxes. That means the entire tax bill for 15,000 families for the year will go toward these additional protection measures for Trump. And the Secret Service is just a slice of the overall expense. Figure in costs incurred by authorities in Florida and New York, the Pentagon and others, and costs related to the Trump sons’ international business trips, and we’re well over $100 million a year.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[billvon 3,068]

Latest Trump approval ratings:

Approve 36%
Disapprove 57%

Lots of #tregret out there.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

Even the Kremlin may have #tregret, since they are now threatening to release US Intel if more evidence of Trump-Russia connections come out.

[kallend 2,106]

billvon

Latest Trump approval ratings:

Approve 36%
Disapprove 57%

Lots of #tregret out there.

It's OK, Betsy DeVos is working to produce a new generation of poorly educated voters who'll be easy to scam into voting against their own interests.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[kallend 2,106]

billvon

Latest Trump approval ratings:

Approve 36%
Disapprove 57%

Lots of #tregret out there.

So Donald's approval represents all adult Americans with IQ < 94

The GOP controlled Congress, otoh, is approved only by those with IQ< 85.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[ryoder 1,590]

billvon

Latest Trump approval ratings:

Approve 36%
Disapprove 57%

Lots of #tregret out there.

Comparison with other US presidents for the first year in office:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-beating-previous-presidents-at-being-unpopular/

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[TriGirl 333]

Saw a report on CNN last night -- the anchor was talking to a group of five Trump supporters. Four of them gave his performance thus far an "A" (one even said if he had a marker, he would add a plus). The fifth gave him a B.

All five said their satisfaction was because he was "trying." One was very adamant that the Muslim ban should be implemented.

They gave him a total pass on ethics, experience, truthfulness, diplomacy, temperament ... but he's trying to implement the policies on which he campaigned, and for which they voted, and therefore is doing a bang-up job.

Just...

Wow.

See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus

Shut Up & Jump!

[billvon 3,068]

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Saw a report on CNN last night -- the anchor was talking to a group of five Trump supporters. Four of them gave his performance thus far an "A" (one even said if he had a marker, he would add a plus). The fifth gave him a B.

I saw a similar interview with Trump supporters. At one point the interviewer asked one supporter if all the lies bothered him. His answer was "not really; I know what he meant even if he didn't say it exactly right." In this way Trump can be all things to all supporters; no matter what he says, his supporters hear what they want to hear.

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billvon

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Saw a report on CNN last night -- the anchor was talking to a group of five Trump supporters. Four of them gave his performance thus far an "A" (one even said if he had a marker, he would add a plus). The fifth gave him a B.

I saw a similar interview with Trump supporters. At one point the interviewer asked one supporter if all the lies bothered him. His answer was "not really; I know what he meant even if he didn't say it exactly right." In this way Trump can be all things to all supporters; no matter what he says, his supporters hear what they want to hear.

and this is the really frightening part. If it was any other country in the world one could still shake ones head and move on. I guess you get the rest of my thoughts...

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle

dudeist skydiver # 666

[billvon 3,068]

GREAT news for Trump! A different polling organization finds him at a much higher approval rating - 40%! Still dropping, of course.

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March 30, 2017
Trump, Ryan Both Hit Record Low Approval

PPP's newest national poll finds Donald Trump's approval rating falling to its lowest level yet in our polling. Only 40% of voters approve of the job he's doing, to 53% who disapprove.
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And even better news for Trump - Ryan is even lower than he is! Barely one in five approve of the job he's doing. Someone is less popular than Trump!

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This issue has made Paul Ryan into the most unpopular politician in the country. At the start of the Trump administration he had a 33% approval rating, with 43% of voters disapproving of him. Now his approval has plunged to 21%, with his disapproval spiking all the way up to 61%. Ryan's particularly seen his image crater with Trump voters- what was a 53/23 approval rating with them in mid-January is now negative at 35/41.
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But this may make Trump send sad tweets:
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The upshot of last week's health care debate is that the Affordable Care Act is now the most popular it's ever been in our polling, with 52% of voters approving of it to only 37% who disapprove. By contrast there is only 23% support for the American Health Care Act, with 56% of voters in opposition to it. Asked which of the two plans voters prefer, the Affordable Care Act wins out by 21 points at 49-28. At this point just 32% of voters think the best path forward on health care is to repeal the ACA, with 62% saying they'd rather keep it and fix whatever needs to be fixed in it.

Our new poll gives a clear picture of just how damaging continued revelations about Russia could be to Donald Trump's political standing. As it stands a plurality of voters- 44%- think Trump's campaign team worked in association with Russia to help Trump win the election for President. 42% don't think it did, and another 14% are unsure. We find that if evidence comes out that proves conclusively that members of Trump's campaign team worked in association with Russia to help him win the election, 53% of voters think he should resign to only 39% who believe he should continue to serve as President. Already 44% of voters support impeaching Trump to 45% who are opposed to impeachment, and these numbers suggest that more Russia revelations could very well lead to majority support for impeachment.

Voters are taking the issue pretty seriously. 62% support an independent investigation into Russia's involvement with the election, to only 28% who are opposed. That's an outgrowth of 60% of voters believing that Russia wanted Trump to win the election last year, to 22% who think it wanted Hillary Clinton win. (Although among Trump voters, 41% say Russia wanted Clinton to win to only 26% who say it wanted Trump to win.) Just 39% of voters consider the Russia story to be 'fake news,' to 48% who say it's not. And as we've consistently found in our polling both Russia as a whole (13/64 favorability) and Vladimir Putin specifically (9/72 favorability) are very unpopular.
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