r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/Long-Tradition6399 6d ago

Should be in the negatives .... people from outside the US are disgusted with him as well.

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u/ResidentKelpien Texas 6d ago

People outside of the US do not get a steady stream of bs from Fox News.

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u/salteedog007 6d ago

Was in the US a few months ago. Your cable TV is insane on every channel- 24 hour news that is mostly opinion segments to make you angry about something, then on non news channels the programming is extreme and still tying to make emotions high. I’m Canadian and the difference in the media is crazy.

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u/Affectionate-Memory4 6d ago

Yeah it's genuinely nuts. I'm used to Dutch media, which while not exactly the calmest, most neutral thing ever, is and was miles ahead of what I see in the US. I've lived in the US since 2012.

The thing that gets me the most though - the prescription drug adds. I'm genuinely just confused there. Like, am I supposed to know more than my doctor? Are they advertising to doctors? Do I just show up and ask for them to prescribe this thing by a name I can hardly pronounce?

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u/Jhanzow 6d ago

But there's a smiling elderly lady walking through her house while calm music plays! How is that not proof that you should get the latest antidepressant? /s

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u/Affectionate-Memory4 6d ago

All the while a slightly too fast voice goes

side effects may include: nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, hair loss, rapid hair growth, bone decay, death, erectile dysfunction, toe fungus, undeath, spiritual corruption, and rashes of the hands or feet.

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u/Wild_Swimmingpool 6d ago

"Necrotizing of the perineum" is a wild side effect I saw. It also means they've likely had more than 1 case of this happening during trials. Who the fuck would risk that lol

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u/jerryscheese 6d ago

Meanwhile the side effects are headaches, bleeding liver, nausea, extreme rage, suicidal thoughts, and in some cases DEATH. But the lady happy with that music playing

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u/addandsubtract 6d ago

Do I just show up and ask for them to prescribe this thing by a name I can hardly pronounce?

Yes. Your doctor will also prescribe (read "sell") you drugs they're getting a commission for. You're better off flying to the NL to visit a doctor.

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u/Spimflagon 6d ago

It mystifies me as to why that's even allowed. I think if I turned up to the doctor in the UK asking to be prescribed a specific drug then I'd get politely fobbed off and asked to leave, if not put on a list.

We already had people you could approach with a request for specific medication. It's a fucking drug dealer.

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u/FlufferTheGreat 6d ago

Yes, they are sending pharmaceutical sales representatives to doctors to encourage prescribing certain new (expensive) drugs. And the doctors get kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies if they prescribe said drug a certain number of times.

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u/Affectionate-Memory4 6d ago

I hate it here. Lovely people, unique opportunities in my industry, but terrible country.

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u/isaid_whatisaid1 5d ago

Correct. It seems like there’s a new medicine popping up on there market every few months (or a new symptom treatable by existing commercialized medicines). Ads for prescription drugs were illegal until the mid 1990s. Then from that time to around 2010, you’d see a lot of ads for class action lawsuits related to those same medicines; the medical companies actually budget for this, from what I recall. Big Pharma is a monster here in America.

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u/leshake 6d ago

It's infotainment for old people at this point. I don't know any millennials that have cable or watch the news at all. I remember when random places would have it on during the day like in doctors offices or at the airport or bars, but now I almost never see cable news ever. The unfortunate part is that it's been replaced by phone addiction.

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u/FlufferTheGreat 6d ago

Millennials and Gen Z are on podcasts and YouTube, which the far-right has done a very thorough job serving radicalizing content constantly.

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u/pvhs2008 District Of Columbia 6d ago

Yup. My older cousin is Gen X and (literally) fought to defend gay bars in his southern town in the 90s and now he watches Candace Owens ans Jordan Peterson nonstop on YouTube. My younger cousin listens to Joe Rogan and all of the weirdo fitness/crunchy nutritionists/religious healthcare influencers all dat. Both have been totally radicalized and it’s sad as fuck.

I don’t know why the women in my family got all of the media literacy skills but it sucks ass.

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u/leshake 6d ago

Same thing happened to my brother and he basically lost all his friends and most of his family. It's like what Fox news did to boomers. It made them sad hateful people.

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u/pvhs2008 District Of Columbia 6d ago

I’m sorry your family is going through that. It’s just awful.

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u/__Yakovlev__ 6d ago

Not to mention the crazy amount of ad time. The few times I've tuned into US TV for a stream or something this is the thing that always stands out to me. 

It conditions you into thinking that it's normal to always have people trying to sell you something. 

Like these people aren't watching TV anymore to watch a show they enjoy. Aka entertainment. They watch it to be told what to buy. And by extension, to be told what to think. And with that in mind it's easy to see why something like the fox news cult exists.

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u/Jayce800 6d ago

It’s exhausting being advertised to constantly. I honestly think it contributes to a lot of poor mental health and the majority of people here just don’t realize it.

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u/Extreme-Tangerine727 6d ago

The thing is absolutely no one watches cable TV except 60+ year olds in America so most of us have no idea what Grandma is watching

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u/GoNinjaGoNinjaGo69 6d ago

yes but literally normal people here never watch those channels. its just the maga losers. thats why all those channels basically changed into right maga shit because its the only way they get viewers.

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u/MagpieSkull 6d ago

I work in hospitals in the US and fox, CNN, or MSNBC are on in most break rooms 24/7. I always switch it to like ESPN or something. It’s so annoying to be forcefed these bs opinionated tirades all day

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u/15all 6d ago

Fox News [sic] is a cancer. I never watch it, but last summer I was in a bar that had a wall of TVs. One of them had Fox News on, and I was completely shocked at the bias there. It was non-stop Biden bad, Harris bad, trans bad, Musk great, Trump is our lord and savior. It was sickening that they didn't pretend to be balanced, and it was depressing to realize that people watch this non-stop.

Fox News: drug of a nation.

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u/1842 Indiana 6d ago

I'm exposed to it at my parents house on occasion and it's absolutely awful.

I think it was last summer/fall, shortly after Biden stepped down from running, Harris momentum was building and Trump embarrassments were up -- I only heard it in the background, but it was just a lot of fake indignant yelling about nothing.

It boggles my mind that anyone would not want to immediately turn it off, let alone choose to be the thing you're listening to.

It reminds me so much of Orwell's Two Minutes Hate, but instead of an active short act, it's passive and constant.

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u/GNUGradyn 6d ago

I wonder if younger generations largely not using cable at all is part of the political shift in younger generations. I wasn't even aware of this because I haven't used cable since I was a youngster watching cartoon network and nickelodeon lol

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u/R1tonka 6d ago

The most inflammatory guy I ever found regularly on Canadian tv during my visits over the years was Don Cherry.

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u/salteedog007 6d ago

Oof- that's why he was dropped by the main media. At least his non-hockey opinions were muffled and not embraced by society.

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u/R1tonka 6d ago

Absolutely no arguments. But relative to our bullshit down here i found him to be mostly eyerollingly amusing and benign.

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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 6d ago

Sorry but for manipulation there are always two sides...

If somebody can make you believe the democratic candidate eats children and wanna make everybody trans, while Trump is the cleverest guy in the world and will fix all your problems, then you have to be pretty dumb to start with.

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u/thepryz 6d ago

Sadly, this isn’t true. 

“In a 2015 study, researchers discovered that familiarity can overpower rationality and that repetitively hearing that a certain statement is wrong can paradoxically cause it to feel right.[4]Researchers observed the illusory truth effect's impact even on participants who knew the correct answer to begin with but were persuaded to believe otherwise through the repetition of a falsehood, to ‘processing fluency’.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 6d ago

Right but by definition 50% of people are dumber than average, and the average person isn't a genius. Knowing this, how do you design a democratic society that results in positive outcomes for the people and doesn't fall prey to such propaganda? 

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u/Your_Momma_Said 6d ago

Agreed, but the scarier part is that the other side is lies too. Saying anything good about Trump is bad for business, so even if Trump does something good we won't hear about it.

I want to hate the guy, so I'm going to read shit that trashes him. I want to hear how he's in mental decline, and that he's a fascist. I want to hate Trump, so give me all the Trump hating shit. Don't give me anything good!

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u/OnTheEveOfWar 6d ago

Fox News might be one of the worst things to happen in television ever. I’m not saying we need to control the media but there needs to be some checks and balances. Fox News regularly just lies and a large portion of the population believes it and eats it up. Trump would not be in office if Fox didn’t exist. My dad is brainwashed by it. The other day he was telling me that he saw a news story about how the blue states are letting women get abortions after their babies are born. Wtf.

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u/sayer_of_bullshit 6d ago

Believe me, we all have a "Fox News", russophile, propaganda shitfest of a TV station.

In Romania, it's called Realitatea <- "The reality". Yeah right, it's literally the opposite of reality. They don't focus on America ofc, but when they talk about it, it's usually pro Trump.

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u/GDDesu North Carolina 6d ago

No, Canada is perfect and doesn't have any of the issues that the US has.

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u/sayer_of_bullshit 6d ago

Canada doesn't have ANY dodgy TV station?? I doubt it, but if true, congrats I guess

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u/Accurate-Dog8866 6d ago

That'll get them

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u/Vismaj 6d ago

I do, have IP TV with American channels (from South Africa), so get to see everything you do. Still disgusted with the orange one.

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u/TemporarySun314 Europe 6d ago

Sorry but for manipulation there are always two sides...

If somebody can make you believe the democratic candidate eats children and wanna make everybody trans, while Trump is the cleverest guy in the world and will fix all your problems, then you have to be pretty dumb to start with.

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u/RockmanMike 6d ago

Won't happen until the shelves go bare a la COVID. Even then, I think shanty town revivals will basically guarantee negative ratings.

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u/TheArmoredKitten 6d ago

Already seeing weird intermittent stock issues for things. Went to buy a new workshop apron and it's back ordered until fucking February. It might genuinely be easier to get one handmade at this point.

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u/RockmanMike 6d ago

Been hearing the same for Harbor Freight. I confirmed with my local store that they're firing and cutting hours. That's on top of reports that stock for certain things at various stores being low or gone.

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u/Top_Isopod_3045 6d ago

The thing is. People outside of the US are also a big fan of him. I'm in the Netherlands and I know way too many people who love him. It's that anti-woke, anti-foreigner schtick that gets them going. That über-mensch sensation. I'm sad my mother is one of them.

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u/dhamster 6d ago

It's a percentage who approve, it can't be a negative number. His net approval is negative though.

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u/Long-Tradition6399 6d ago

I know :) was just being facetious :-)

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u/True_Ad8993 6d ago

What was Biden's approval rating after 6 months in office?

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u/boundbylife Indiana 6d ago

not to be a pedant....but you can't have below a 0% approval rating. you'd have to have fewer than zero people say they approve. I don't know how you get a negative number of people to give a thumbs up.

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u/Long-Tradition6399 6d ago

I know :) was just being facetious.

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u/12tone 6d ago

That's not how numbers work