cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39549356

A new poll found more Americans are unhappy with Donald Trump's stances on the economy and cost of living, with almost twice as many saying the president has helped raise prices rather than lowering them.

In a Yahoo/YouGov poll conducted Nov. 21-24, 49% of respondents said Trump's actions since taking office for his second term in January have raised prices instead of cutting them. That's a nearly two-to-one ratio to the 24% who said he's done more to lower costs.

The survey also found more Americans (38%) blame Trump for inflation than his predecessor, former President Joe Biden (31%), despite the now-president campaigning on the economy during his successful 2024 presidential bid.

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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

24% of the country being so stupid they believed the party's command to ignore the evidence of their lying eyes is, unfortunately, progress

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    All I can read this as is that 1 in 4 Americans are still delusional.

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    [–] 104 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    So nothing’s changed. Still 1/3 of the country accepts this man’s lies eagerly

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    The absolute floor is maybe, maybe 22%. That's the cult that will always follow him.

    • Hiding Epstein files
    • No affordability

    And what's sitting on the edge right now

    • New useless (for working class Americans) invasion of a third world country

    I would guess the polls are written with some bias in questioning and we hit an absolute low in polling of just under 30% if we have direct air "support" in Venezuela. If he dares to actually put boots on the ground there officially then no poll phrasing can keep him above 25%.

    Another drop would be a public support of Israel (apart from maybe with Iran as that's for some reason ok with Americans). But any large news story of Israel acting hostile to its neighbors enough that even the New York Times has to report it, well, shits quiet in Israel for a reason right now. Trump doesn't want to lose more favor with the MTG portion of his party that are on the right side of history for all the wrong reasons.

    Edit: not to say Israel isn't continuing genocide and settlement expansion. It is. But it's being careful to not hit the point that liberal media would be forced to report it. The recent execution video in the west bank was apparently not enough for the western media to care.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    The clown still having a ~39% approval rating is absolutely insane

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    That's probably about right - Nixon left office in utter disgrace, according to the general mainstream narrative. However, nearly 1 in 4 Americans still approved of him at that point (24%). And that's when the media was thought to be "liberal", LOL.

    These days the media is even LESS "liberal" than it was back then due to the blatant disinformation campaign launched in the wake of Watergate: Faux, hate radio, Breitbart, and the brosphere on podcasts and Youtube, not to mention the amount of delusional copium that is permitted on social media platforms like Xitter and FBIBook, etc....so I'd be genuinely surprised if Taco's numbers went below 24%.

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    [–] 28 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Well his whole campaign was about tariffs AND lowering prices. The two don’t mix, America! This is not new news.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Well, his all of his campaigns were about assuring his voters that nothing going wrong with the country was there fault in any way and they wouldn't have to change their behavior at all to fix it. Tariffs was just something he fixated when he didn't know how to deliever.

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  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    It doesn't matter what Americans say anymore. Trump can't run again. If he manages to hold on to power past Jan 2029, he won't need popular opinion (or votes) to do it.

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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Trump can’t run again.

    Really?

    in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote.

    -Trump on July 27, 2024

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Exactly, if Trump is still President past Jan 2029, he won't need an election to do it. We won't have to vote!

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Say what you will about Trump, but he delivers on his campaign promises. Albeit with a monkeys paw.

    Of course, his supporters thought he was exaggerating or talking hyperbolically. They believed him when he claimed to never know about Project 2025. And maybe he really didn't, who knows. Its pretty clear he doesn't know wtf he's doing or even where he even is most days. He talks out of his ass constantly. But they find that endearing, I guess.

    Its funny, the same people worried about a shadow government, rounding up citizens for FEMA death camps, poisoning our water supply, etc...elected us a guy who did and does all those things. Proudly, even.

    Personally I think a political leader, while they should be likeable (I mean, that should be a bare requirement to even get anywhere in politics in the first place), they should also be composed, professional, respectful, and even if they disagree with you, do so receptively and constructively. He is none of these things, and they think that makes him great. Really it just makes him a baffoon and makes the entire country a laughing stock.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Soggy corpo middle manager types are unelectable anymore

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    Now that the Right Wing Authoritarians (RWAs) got a taste of the China White that is the likes of Taco, they aren't going back to the methadone like RMoney or Jeb! or Lil Marco, that's for sure.

    They got a taste when McCain's people picked Palin. That was just a prelude of the stupidity, incompetence, and pure nastiness that was to come.

    They'll be looking around for someone else they feel has Fuck You Money and also Says What I Think (meaning, they say racist and misogynist things). Along with some cover story about how they are Good At Bidness (TM), because they always go for some of the very stupidest ideas, and one of the very most idiotic of ideas that so many Americans cling to no matter how ridiculous is that The Country Should Be Run Like a Business. Because, something something, argle bargle, "efficiency". 🤦‍♂️

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    What planet do the 30% who responded that things are cheaper live on?

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  • [–] 20 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    The 30% that are always against society progressing

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    hmm interesting point. They can afford the new price so it's an advantage to them. A new way to keep the poor down.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    There are the poor and destitute amongst that 30% too, they tell themselves that things aren't more expensive because it will challenge their understanding of the world

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They also just blame someone else. “Things are more expensive but they’d be worse if My Guy wasn’t in charge” is a big angle for these morons.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I have seen the mush-brains sit there and imbibe outrageous whoppers like "Biden had a terrible economy and we have to wait while Taco with his brilliant Business Brain (TM) help us to dig out of the horrible mess Biden and his autopen left us" so I know they are capable of believing outrageously ridiculous horse manure.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    In the US at least, if you look at the entire TOP 30% of earners, the majority of that group would have five-figure incomes. Not destitute, but the exact kind of middle/working class incomes where people are getting beat down by prices.

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    [–] 24 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Who are these 24% of people that think Trump has lowered prices?

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    Those are the people that voted for him. Remember that 64 percent of the voting age voted in 2024. 49.8% of the voters were for Trump and 48.3% for Harris.

    49.8% of the 64% of those who voted is about 32% of the total voting population.

    Of those, majority still believe him.

    So if 2:1 believe he raised prices, that actually tracks, given that 1/3 voted for him, 1/3 did not, and 1/3 did not vote.

    66% didn't vote for him or 2:1.

    The real issue is that those 1/3 that didn't vote, could have helped prevent this. Hope they learn, some will, but who knows.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Many are disenfranchised for some reason or another.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    And I love they’re getting what the voted for.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    I meant to say Disfranchised: That means they can't vote, and in the US that's often for systemic reasons. Don't like that Black people can vote? Make having a felony disqualify you from voting and disproportionately police and prosecute black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Dumbass redhatters that could be living in a tent and wondering where their next meal is coming from, but so balls-deep in the Faux-fic and so filled with hate for most of America that they are chugging any copium about Taco.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    doesn't matter, literally nothing matters as long as Fox, Newsmax, OANN, etc. exist, because the cult will still live in a different reality

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    I think I saw Meidas replay some clip where some dipshit talking head or one of Taco's thugs were repeating - as recent as last week - this bullshit narrative in the Faux Cinematic Universe about how Taco is still having to "deal with" a horrible mess that Biden left poor Taco.

    I mean...where to even begin with this level of delusion. Yeah, the economy was in freefall under Biden. 🙄 And there was total chaos in the markets because every day different tariffs and trade agreements were being announced via a crappy Xitter knockoff site. 🙄 And Biden was spending every minute of every day finding ways to piss off our allies and so on....

    The Faux-fic stuff is incredible, especially when you watch some moron spout the same thing nearly verbatim later, without one single thought in their head. It's like they are just walking around with a few tracks in their heads (the latest updates from the grievance networks they have brand loyalty to) they can press play on and they repeat them.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    He endorses the self enrichment of the capitalist class. Their self enrichment is nothing but blood money at this point. Logically him and all his policies are just free game on looting American families by any means necessary without ethical government regulation. The lack of ethics and accountability has been bad for a long time already in this country but now it’s gloves off. We either revolt or end up in a pedo-tech bro feudal dictatorship as serfs who they allow to live as long as we’re useful.

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    [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    We needed a poll for this? We really are fucked.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Welcome to the pedoeconomy.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    The amount of people I see on facebook calling the polling bullshit is insane. Everyone just writes it off as only dems being polled, etc etc. I know facebook is an absolute shitshow to begin with, but how much of these piles and piles of comments are just propaganda bots doing their thing?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How do the bots infiltrate people's social circles? Like who is seeking out and befriending these bots? Maybe I don't understand how FB works as I stopped using it like nearly 20 years ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    He's lowered the lost of living for the parasite class that only takes, they now no longer contribute to the society they are economically pillaging

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    Go ahead and slant the CPI reports too you fucking stupid idiot. The only people that care about the fucking things are people on wall street. Most people shop for their own groceries and can see with their own two eyes that prices are increasing. All but the most devout of your cult members can tell you that you're full of shit and inflation is still terrible.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I appreciate reporters asking Trump about various concerns the people have, but some reporter or podcaster (if he goes on those any more) needs to all him if he is worried his inner circle is lying to him about things.

    Like relentlessly press it in every gaggle. Go on FOX and say you're worried about it. (Yes I know FOX is participating to an extent especially with "cities on fire.")

    The things he says certainly reflect his reflex to lie, but he's also saying things that don't reflect reality that he doesn't particularly "have" to lie about. It makes me pretty confident he's being fed false info.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    All the orange felon/rapist/liar has to do is make promises of prosperity to farmers and they will follow him anywhere. Farmers eat that shit up.

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