Summary
Trump’s approval rating dropped to 43%, the lowest since his January return to office, amid backlash over new tariffs and a mishandled military strike disclosure.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll found only 37% approve of his economic leadership, and 34% support his foreign policy.
A majority view his tariff hikes as harmful, while 74% criticized the use of Signal to discuss a Yemen operation.
The poll, conducted online with 1,486 adults, showed bipartisan concern and a 2-point decline since March, reflecting rising unease over Trump’s policies.
USA has a lot more crazy people than I ever suspected.
This lack of realization when faced with reality is way beyond any worst case scenario I ever imagined.
I thought most of the people who voted for him, simply didn’t believe the warnings. Turns out they actually support that shit?!?!
You can thank the poisons of religion. They care about dying and going off elsewhere than EVERYTHING on Earth.
I think the gutting of school funding, and the adoption of an idiotic non phonics based reading curriculum that was sold basically by some grifter over the last few decades is more to blame. Also Bush’s
no child left behindPass All the The Failing Kids Anyway plan.That’s why I’m not just an atheist but an anti-theist.
I feel like I looped basically all the way around on that. Went from religion bad, to religion should be a personal thing and anyone can believe what they want, to actually no religion is behind so many harms that I don’t think that I can support any of it.
They never face reality, we allowed malignant propoganda to spread and take over a huge chunk of our media presenting a false reality to many who don’t have the media (or functional) literacy to understand when they’re being manipulated. Half of Americans have a functional literacy below a 6th grade level - they can read the words, but the full nuanced understanding is beyond them.
Is this factual? Because if that’s true, that’s extremely bad, even shameful for a rich country like USA.
Yes, that is factual. There’s a reason newspapers are written to a 4-5th grade level, because adults need it like that.
Well unless I’m reading this wrong, it seems USA is doing pretty well compared to other OECD countries (age 15):
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d19/tables/dt19_602.50.asp
I’m not sure what these numbers are measuring, but it looks like less than 85% of schools in the US reported their data, could be a sampling bias there. Also, this is maybe at age 15, when many of the worst readers have already dropped out of school.
It looks like most countries have shitty literary levels, then. I was unaware other countries were just as bad. A quick Google showed a few results not quite in agreement saying the average for adults was 7th-8th grade in the US, or that half were below 6th.
I’m not saying you are wrong, more that it’s probably not that much better in other countries.
This research may be skewed, because they may not test on schools they know are doing poorly?