• awrf [pup/pup's]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    7 hours ago

    trump-anguish The polls are coming in and they are STAGGERING folks! Many people are saying I have the highest numbers in the history of our Country. A beautiful 100% APPROVAL RATING! Many are saying it. The Fake News Media and the LYING Democrats are in total shock, they don’t want to report the truth! (WHICH THEY KNOW!) We are doing things that have never been done before. The Silent Majority is stronger than ever. WE WILL KEEP WINNING!

    -President Donald J. Trump. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    8 hours ago

    If the straw that broke the camel’s back was scam calls killing the poll industry because nobody answers their fucking phone I’m gonna laugh about it for a real long time

    • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      6 hours ago

      I used to work in a polling call center and this was a big problem. Not only did almost nobody pick up, but everyone who picked up was very on guard, and had to first be convinced that no, I’m not trying to sell anything, and no, I don’t want any of your personally identifiable information, and no, I’m not trying to trick you into sending someone money…

      I’m certain it badly skewed the polling results. Obviously I don’t have, like, real data about the personalities of the people I spoke to, but based on my interactions with them I would bet that only people who rate unusually high on openness and agreeableness actually complete polls.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    37·
    9 hours ago

    “Hey, we know how this looks but I swear it’s not like that. We just plumb ran out of pollsters shrug-outta-hecks Yeah, they all rage-quit after too many consecutive respondents said they ‘strongly approve’ of Trump’s pedophilia”

    • nasezero [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      6 hours ago

      My initial thought is, this is a subtle indicator of the capital class buying into the regime’s plans to transition from “liberal democracy” to just straight up naked oligarchy shrug-outta-hecks

      Edit: My second thought is, why not then just lie about the numbers? What does it fucking matter if they’re dropping the veneer of democracy anyways? shrug-outta-hecks

      • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        5 hours ago

        Well, normalization is a big part of how these things sometimes happen, and the crisis isn’t really acute enough for them to be able to swing an extremely drastic shift without getting country-wide riots and some more Luigis.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    8 hours ago

    The headline made me laugh out loud.

    PRESIDENT TRUMP SIR - YOU HAVE THE GREATEST STRONG AND POWERFUL APPROVAL OF ANY PRESIDENT IN HISTORY 10,001%!

    -–

    I first wrote “ANY PRESIDENT OR WORLD LEADER” as if Trump thinks of things that way. Trump is the world.