The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 33% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -6. (see trends).
Trump’s overall job approval rating is now running ahead of where Barack Obama’s was at this stage of his presidency.
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.
McParadigm wrote:The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.
Yeah, I have to say that it feels like I've crossed over to a feeling of near-ambivalent numbness just in the last week or so. I'm still holding out hope that Mueller is going to come through with some serious charges just as we're heading into the mid-terms.
McParadigm wrote:The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.
Yeah, I have to say that it feels like I've crossed over to a feeling of near-ambivalent numbness just in the last week or so. I'm still holding out hope that Mueller is going to come through with some serious charges just as we're heading into the mid-terms.
McParadigm wrote:The volume of stories and speed of discussion have sort of reached a level where it’s hard to do them justice in a thread like this. There are multiple Pruitt stories out, a president who made wild claims about NATO and Mexico and said that only very stupid people don’t want us to be friends with Russia, a prison term for a lawyer who lied to Mueller to protect his client, multiple right wing conspiracy sites going full salvo after David Hogg, new legal opposition to the census question, and Dr Jill McCabe (or as Fox and Friends calls her, “a nurse”) speaking out. And those are a few of the developments from the last 20 hours.
Yeah, I have to say that it feels like I've crossed over to a feeling of near-ambivalent numbness just in the last week or so. I'm still holding out hope that Mueller is going to come through with some serious charges just as we're heading into the mid-terms.
I don't relate at all...I’m more upset as time goes by. But I also regularly start to come here with news or topics and go “why bother?“ The normalization campaign has succeeded. Stories that would define or destroy any other politician no longer warrant much discussion. They just sink, here and elsewhere.
And it’s not that I think people are just tuning it out, it’s just become too much. I often wonder if some of the stories would receive more attention if they had their own threads, but then that becomes almost spammy.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm totally terrified, and the Sinclair stuff really is a nasty harbinger of where we're at. But given that nothing seems to stick to the guy, and there doesn't yet seem to be any real alarmist reaction coming from the congressional majority, I just feel like the only two options out are 1) violent protest or 2) Bob Mueller. I'm holding out hope for the latter before I am ready to suit up for the former.
4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.
This isn't the first time there's been talk of sending US troops to the border.
Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.
In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.
Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.
4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.
He’s had a lot of Fox news and other personalities telling him in recent days that his base is upset that he doesn’t talk tough on immigration anymore.
4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.
This isn't the first time there's been talk of sending US troops to the border.
Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.
In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.
Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.
That is a totally reasonable thing to do as countries have a right to protect their borders from invasion.
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."
4/5 wrote:Is the militarization of border patrol a real thing? I saw a headline but I'm too numb to click.
This isn't the first time there's been talk of sending US troops to the border.
Under President George W. Bush, a border deployment of the National Guard known as Operation Jump Start started in 2006 and lasted two years. The operation sent more than 6,000 troops to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to repair secondary border fence, construct nearly 1,000 metal barriers and fly border protection agents by helicopter to intercept immigrants trying to enter illegally.
In 2010, the Obama administration deployed National Guard troops as part of a border protection plan.
Officials in 2010 said up to 1,200 National Guard troops would be in place along the US-Mexico border for up to a year to assist US Customs and Border Protection with surveillance and intelligence gathering while the agency worked to hire additional staff.
That is a totally reasonable thing to do as countries have a right to protect their borders from invasion.
Yea i can't be too upset about it. It makes more sense than a fucking wall.
