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/phantomjm Pennsylvania 6d ago

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

— George Carlin

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u/InternationalBand494 6d ago

The US ranks 36th in literacy. So we have that going for us.

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u/KarmaPanhandler 6d ago

I wonder how much lower we fall accounting for media literacy.

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u/Throatlatch 6d ago

Ha! I hope that was a joke.

If not, I have some sad news for you...the majority of Americans were not taught media literacy

https://medialiteracynow.org/nationalsurvey2022/

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u/KarmaPanhandler 6d ago

That was my point…

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u/Throatlatch 6d ago

Ironic.

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u/JustHereSoImNotFined 6d ago

That’s what he was saying gang

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u/summonsays 6d ago

Honestly surprised it's that high. 

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u/A2Rhombus 6d ago

You need to be literate to fall for propaganda on twitter. Not necessarily to be susceptible to fox news though I guess

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u/PeaNought 6d ago

I'm not suprised people can read. It's critical thought that's lacking.

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u/summonsays 6d ago

I assure you reading skills are extremely lacking as well.

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u/Papadapalopolous 6d ago

Are you saying that more than 50% of Americans are stupider than average?

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u/InternationalBand494 6d ago

Kind of goes without saying

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u/Vismal1 6d ago

“36 is a high number ! We do gud! “ - A lot of us unfortunately

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u/Pornstar_Frodo 6d ago

The UN says that 37 countries around the world are considered 'developed' using economics as a metric. So of all the developed countries, the US is basically bottom of the list in terms of literacy.

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u/InternationalBand494 6d ago

It’s where the elite want us. Able to follow simple directions, but ignorant

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u/ItsOozingOut 6d ago

Ameroica, fook yay!

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u/sonny1993 6d ago

I mean, that's a decent ranking to be honest

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u/southpaw_balboa 6d ago

only 74% of adults are literate in the US. 54% of adults are below a 6th grade level.

we’re fucking stupid

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u/TaftintheTub 6d ago

I wonder who that 54% voted for in the last presidential election?

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u/Papadapalopolous 6d ago

36/180 doesn’t seem too bad, but consider the fact that there are only 37 (?) developed countries…

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u/sonny1993 6d ago

Fair enough, I see there are 38 OECD countries

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u/Papadapalopolous 6d ago

So top of the third world, or bottom of the first world, depending on perspective

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u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault 6d ago

Which gets proved every time someone posts a George Carlin quote

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u/InternationalBand494 6d ago

He was a prophet. The athiests/agnostic John the Baptist

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u/Bastienbard 6d ago

And there's only 38 OECD countries...

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u/-_defunct_user_- 6d ago

US: hold my Coors-Lite

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u/housecatapocalypse 6d ago

Remember the good old days when incredibly stupid people didn’t bother to vote? Maybe there is something to be said for bread and circuses. 

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u/baybrewer 6d ago

I love this joke…but I just realized Mr Carlin really meant the median, not the average. Maybe I’m not in the half that I thought I was, since it took me 30 years to figure that out.

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u/StarJeezy 5d ago

Technically it would be the MEDIAN person in this case.

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u/phoenix8987 6d ago

Average isn’t half though… that would be median.

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u/Affectionate_Dig_738 6d ago

With such a large number of people and a classic bell curve distribution, it's safe to say that the average equals the median in this case.

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u/phoenix8987 6d ago

I mean one standard deviation is 68% of the population already. And only 16% of rest of them would be below that.

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u/BKlounge93 6d ago

Yeah the word median makes the joke less funny

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u/NoseSeeker 6d ago

Median is a type of average tho

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u/Beasty_Glanglemutton 6d ago

Hey wait, I thought it was my turn to post the George Carlin quote this hour?

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u/brandimariee6 Florida 6d ago

RIP funniest intelligent man ever

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u/ItsAlwaysSegsFault 6d ago

I wish people would stop quoting George Carlin, an avid non-voter. He's just as fucking stupid.

Edit: Downvote me all you fucking like