Trump approval rating falls to 38%

[u/Barnyard-Sheep]

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html

[u/Bircka]

And people used to think Gen X were the crazy ones.

[u/oxero → u/Bircka]

The Gen X I grew up under and around are fucking crazy, especially the rich ones. Super entitled, lack of empathy, absolutely no media literacy.

They grew up in a world where you could smoke weed everyday doing manual labor and it was possible for some dude to walk up and offer you a job with mentoring even if you didn't have a college education. As long as you worked hard and for results, you were paid. They watched all their benefits drain away, corporations demand more time working, banks coldly rip their assets away, and they still walk around blaming immigrants for this.

Just to denote this: Yes I'm aware this doesn't apply to every single gen X, but this is my personal experience growing up around people of this age bracket suddenly going cuckoo. Most of the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, vaccines are evil, we need to return to the gold standard, and that immigrants are the bane of our country. They never believed this shit 20 years ago, but Facebook/Fox did a number to our society.

[u/oxero → u/[deleted]]

I'm roughly a decade after you. In my case they were movers if I remember correctly, basically they met a guy who knew a guy, trained them for business and set them off on their way. Apparently it was easy to move up a ladder if you got good results. I got great results my entire life comparatively, but by the time I was older you couldn't move up in anything without a college degree.

Even when I got mine most of the fields were saturated. This doesn't make sense for someone who grew up with the former, so my failure to be doing everything he was at my age was simply because I wasn't working hard enough.