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Bear in mind that approximately half of the US (voting) population voted for this. It's not rational to believe that they perceive this in the same way you do.

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They voted for 2016-2020 trump. That was a very different trump from the one we have now.

They also voted for 2024-2028 Trump.

They voted for 2024 Trump hoping to relive 2016 Trump. Which makes no sense to begin with in my eyes, but sure. Times weren't as drastic back then.

The sinking of his polling numbers definitely suggest buyers' regret, though.

Trump is more popular than ever. Hegseth is incredibly well respected amongst combat vets.

By what metric? Show statistics, not your personal feelings.

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/explore/public_figu...

I'll even ask Gemini if that's your authority on matters. 8 don't see any metric where your statement is sound.

Elected officials aren't voted in by "approval rating", but by their popularity vs other candidates. "Approval rating" is not a real KPI.

The next poll of Trump's popularity will be the midterms. Until then all both of us have are feelings.

Dude, you said "more popular than ever". When questioned, you say "all we have are feelings"? That's a pretty weak answer, especially when the other guy's presenting actual evidence...

The GP gave statistics about approval ratings, but nobody is elected on their approval rating, so I wouldn’t call that “evidence”.

Elected officials are elected based on votes vs an opposing candidate. In other words popularity vs approval rating.

The first test of Trump’s popularity will be in the 2026 midterms.

By your logic, there's no way to measure popularity between elections.

Ergo: Trump can only be said to be heisen/un/popular until the wave function collapses in the next election.

Which means your original statement

>> Trump is more popular than ever. Hegseth is incredibly well respected amongst combat vets.

isn't valid. (Per what you claim to believe about the measurability of politician popularity)

>Until then all both of us have are feelings

Yeah man that's exactly what I said.

>Elected Officials

Hegseth isn't an elected official, so nothing I said about elections is applicable to him. I did make a claim about Hegseth being "well respected by combat vets" which you will notice is different from both "approval rating" and "popularity" and also not at all relevant to the YouGov poll cited above.

I love this exchange because you reject the notion of approval ratings and also insist that you have objective knowledge about popularity. It is great to see somebody seriously argue “the only true reality is the one that I, specifically me, imagine in my head” like this sort of stuff is exactly what the internet is made for

>Until then all both of us have are feelings

Literally I said the opposite

Exactly. All we have is your feelings because approval rating polls either do not exist or are wrong according to you.

I’m guessing it’s something like this page doesn’t exist https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump...

This page is wrong https://www.reuters.com/data/trumps-approval-rating-2025-01-...

This page exists but they actually just meant to write “more popular than ever”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-appro...

This page doesn’t exist

https://apnews.com/projects/polling-tracker/

And these are just made up

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/tru...

https://pro.morningconsult.com/trackers/donald-trump-congres...

https://americanresearchgroup.com/economy/

We know this is true because the guy is more popular than ever. It’s written right there on the internet. People don’t just post lies on the internet, that would mess it up for everybody

That's a lot. I'm sure it all means something real and actionable like you can make real world predictions that have material impacts based on all of that.

I’m just having fun reading your posts. It is like seeing a guy stumble and pour half of his slushie down the front of his shirt and then yelling “My cup has more juice than ever before! I now possess heretofore unseen amounts of this juice!!” like it is great to watch

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/source-i-made-it-up

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