Trump's Approval

Trump's approval rating is the same as Obama's was at this same time in his presidency, and yet if you listen to the media you'd think Obama was Jesus Christ who is loved by all and Trump is Hitler and everyone wants to see him hanged.

Both Obama and Trump were in the low to mid 40% approval in their third year. Furthermore, since the widespread polarization of America we've seen the past several decades, NO ONE can get more than say 55% approval (If we look at this chart, W Bush got a higher average approval than Obama, and Clinton higher than him, and HW Bush higher than him. The ONLY president since Kennedy who received 60% approval or better, was George H W Bush. Everyone else got below 60%, which would be a failing grade. At 70% Kennedy is the highest since polls were taken, making C- the highest grade any president has ever gotten in a century.)

It's the same trick they did in 2004. Bush and Kerry had the same grades in school, graduated with the same GPA at the same position in their graduating class, and yet the media portrayed Bush as so brutally retarded he couldn't breathe and walk at the same time and said Kerry was the most brilliant intellectual who ever ran for office. (Both Bush and Kerry went to Yale at roughly the same time, and got roughly the same grades, so it's a good enough metric to measure them both by equally.)

The media are obviously living in an alternate reality. I don't believe it's just all propaganda, I think they really are insane. The head honchos in the media really know what they are doing and hire people with schizophrenia who are hallucinating the world to appear like the media want to portray it. You don't have to tell people to lie if they believe the lie to be true, they will gladly proclaim the lie to be truth without any sort of top-down direction.

The same is true for popular vote. The highest percentage of the popular vote any president has gotten since records have been kept (1824) was LBJ, who got 61%!

Johnson, FDR, Nixon, and Warren Harding (remember him? Me neither), were the only presidents to get 60% of the popular vote. Only 4 presidents got elected on a D- of popular support. Popular vote means jack shit.

There have been 14 presidential elections since the death of Kennedy, of them 5 electoral victories lost the popular vote: Donald Trump, George W Bush in 2000, Bill Clinton both times, and Richard Nixon in 1968 (who would go on to win one of the largest electoral landslides ever in 4 years).

For all the shit people talk about Republicans losing the popular vote, former Democrat darling Bill Clinton lost the popular vote twice! Bill Clinton got only 43% of the popular vote in 1992, much lower than Trump in 2016.

It's the same thing with approval ratings. You take a sample of a thousand people and extrapolate that to explain the thinking of 350 million people? Bullshit. You're making it up. You're inventing data to suit your agenda.

I hate that I actually have to defend the Republicans so much, because I can't stand them. I hate both political parties, but the media and academia lie so much I feel the need to balance the universe.