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I think he's smart enough, but intelligence is not the only determinant of success.

Temporarily for a month for Canada and Mexico. China has new tariffs

Meh. He'll use it as another distraction every month or whatever frequency he wants. Just like the Republicans would only approve stopgap budgets, so they can turn up the drama and claim some negotiating victories every time to just keep the lights on. It's all theater.

At 10%? I don't think so.

Basically appointing an investigator for fentanyl smuggling for Canada and sending troops to the northern border for Mexico.

Whenever I think "man, the people around me can't be that stupid right?" Then I get in my car and drive around for about 15 minutes and realize that yes in fact they are that stupid.

You have to stop and think, where are they getting the data? I'm not even sure if you call it confirmation bias, or journalists with guns to their heads.

I think that's all about who's doing the polling and how they are doing it: https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-approval-polling-average-works/story?id=117999010

Thats what happens when the average joe gets his news from Xitter or Fox News. They get rid of all critical thinking skills for the sake of owning the libs and freeze peach.

Trump could literally burn down their studio and Fox news would still spin it like “The democrats would have done even worse”

Trump said he was going to raise the price of Canadian and Mexican things by 25%, then he didn't do that.

Wouldn't that improve your opinion of him?

The fact that his approval rating still exists after that first term shows that he can do whatever he wants and his followers will still support him. It's a cult, nothing will change that.

I mean, he still manage to bring the very divided Canada together. Most people around me cancelled every US based subscription services they had, and people will pay attention not to buy americans products. The world needs to come together to bring this undereductaed and dangerous country down.

Trump has loudly announced his presence on the world stage and made sure nobody can ignore him. Starting with high or ridiculous demands is his way of getting concessions.

We don’t know what negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.

Trump has loudly announced his presence on the world stage and made sure nobody can ignore him. Starting with high or ridiculous demands is his way of getting concessions.

We don’t know what negotiations are taking place behind closed doors.

They have replaced their god with trump. Trump did it therefore it was good. Trump criticised it therefore it was bad. You're asking them to retain information and think logically and critically about it instead of cheering on their lying and very false god. All the statistics say that support for right wingers drops off heavily the more education you have. His supporters aren't the smart cookies. They like what he says and they like how he says it and he never tells them they're stupid. They're not fact checking him, that's what libs do. They're not libs, they're red blooded Americans. Trump can absolutely do no wrong in their eyes.

I do not think so. Even Fox news was calling him out for raising prices on ... checks notes ... almost everything. He didn't win on this, even to them.

At best he broke even. And there are other bribery / corruption cards for him to play using tariffs.

Yah, I think we'll start making progress again in this country when we all realize that most people don't care about facts, they just want stories.

Donald Trump's power has nothing to do with anything other than his flagrant disregard for reality and his chronic disorder that makes him just launch into stories about anything and everything. And not just stories, they're always ridiculous stories like you would tell children. This works because most people are again, children who want stories.

While Trump and his ilk have woven these epic stories of good versus evil and how rotten the enemies are and how great the good guys are, the left and the dems have been trying to quadruple down on being "civil" and producing charts and graphs and data to back their arguments. I get it, I used to think reality mattered to other people, but now I get it, that for the vast majority of humans, nobody really thinks.

I don't mean that as an "I'm smarter than everyone" statement, but a discovery about a fundamental quality of the human experience, which is people only think they think. What actually goes on for all of us, all day long, is we feel a thing, experience a sensation or emotion, and our brain writes a story to explain it. You believe this story because you tend to never doubt what you come up with in your head, but your brain doesn't naturally default to facts and logic, just ways to connect feelings and experiences. This is intrinsic to how our minds work and it's what let us survive ice ages and predators and apocalypses of ancient times. But in a modern, complex world with language and politics and technology, it just makes us more confused and wrong, which is why people tend to cling to people who can successfully create a narrative that weaves everything together in some sensible way. Not actually sensible, it just has to "feel" right and the brain will accept it even if you don't agree with the person telling the story. This is why there are so many people and institutions that suddenly feel like they've turned "pro trump" it's because we're monkeys and we follow our leader, especially when they can make enough of us follow a storyline.