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dissonant1's avatar

Regarding the Trump polling:

("Strong Plurality of Americans Oppose Attacking Iran):

https://sadat.umd.edu/sites/sadat.umd.edu/files/Questionnaire%20Prospects%20of%20War%20with%20Iran.pdf

And Trump is more popular in Israel than in the U.S. (shocker, that):

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trumps-approval-rating-higher-in-israel-than-in-the-us/

Of course we have learned that all polls are purposely conditioned and contextualized but I for one trust the intelligence of many poll viewers to properly assess and discern the biases and conditions applied to them. The disturbing part of these polls, to me, is how many reply "I don't know." Isn't that an indictment of our press and our governments?

Stephen McIntyre's avatar

I would say that one thing pointing to a possible attack is now moving the George HW Bush carrier strikeforce into the Middle East. As we have looked at before we have four carrier strikes forces that are for maintenance.

The Gerald Ford carrier strike force has been at sea way past its time for rotation.

So they don’t have a third carrier strike force to send into the Middle East. Everything we’ve got that’s available is now there.

So what did Trump and Netanyahu really talk about? As we have all agreed this has total disaster written all over it.

Personally I think Trump is finished. Putting aside his Zionist backers and the pressure that Netanyahu and Israel are putting on him, he is a ego, driven narcissist who at this point thinks he’s a Roman emperor and I think he would irresponsibly put us into harms way by attacking Iran.

At this point, Trump only sees what he wants to see, and that doesn’t include looking at the polling numbers and the reality of his situation and the state of the country .

I think he will lead us into total disaster in the Middle East, and I think he will be absolutely run out of office for it whatever legacy he thought he was going to leave is going to be one for the history books where he will be vilified as one of the worst presidents of the modern era.

aDoozy's avatar

"We discussed the tremdous progress being made in Gaza"...Trump wrote in his TS post about Netanyahu.

This utterly disgusts me. Genocide and ruination equal progress?

We see again the empty, dark souls of these two men.

dissonant1's avatar

Worst case for him and us but if it ends up this way he will have no one to blame other than himself (and secondarily his advisors and the Zionists, largely one and the same.) Deal with the devils indeed.

Joe's avatar

" Trump’s polling is a disaster—and getting worse. "

Those Numbers will No Longer be going downwards

.... Now they will be whatever Trump wants them to be.

Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings

The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades.

The New York Times

After nearly 90 years, the Gallup Organization will no longer track presidential approval ratings, which served as a steady way to measure Americans’ views of their elected leaders.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/politics/gallup-poll-presidential-approval-ratings-trump.html

aDoozy's avatar

We are being given tyranny, not liberty.

Alex's avatar

Never trust statistics that you haven't falsified yourself.

Not the first time, either, he fired the BLS commissioner last year for publishing results that made him look bad.

Mark Wauck's avatar

Good advice.

Marvin Gardens2's avatar

my theory's holding up well :-):

Trumpstein is stuck.

Leaving would be embarrassing.

And this war would sink both his ships and his precedency.

So they'll just sit there indefinitely :-)

See Venezuela

Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Like your way with words: "Trumpstein".

Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Ha ha! I like it, except that, to me, seeing "Trumpenstein" makes me think it sounds like "Trumpenstine" (long i sound). MarvinGardens2's writing of DJT's name sounds like trump-steen. I've no idea why this is....BUT, what do you think of "Trumpestan"?

As in a place---really, a state of mind---really, CHAOS!!!!! (There's a substack, here, called "Absurdistan"---great name for evil times, I think....same as that "discombobulator" evil weapon

aDoozy's avatar

He's been called Donigula, too.

He has also been compared to Nebuchadnezzar--King of Babylonia 650-512 BC.

Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Sure, go with "Donigula"; but for the comparison with Nebuchadnezzar would make one or both men 138 years old!

Alex's avatar

Devil's advocate, if Trump and Netanyahu had decided on the details of launching an attack, would he have put that out in a tweet, or would they play with ambiguity? Moving all that military hardware around isn't free, although looking at the markets, it seems the bets at least for February are mostly off (https://polymarket.com/event/us-strikes-iran-by, gold falling)

dissonant1's avatar

Even ambiguity is stupid and nihilistic in this case. But that is the question isn't it: Just how stupid and nihilistic are Trump and Netanyahu?

John Reed's avatar

Here, Here!! Spot on. Is the conclusion "Trump successfully stiffed Netanyahu", meant for deceiving the public?? While behind the scenes Trump just agreed to everything asked of him?? I'm at the point where I don't take anything at face value, and ESPECIALLY when it comes to those two.

Mark Wauck's avatar

I certainly would never advise taking either of them at face value. It is amusing, however, to think that Netanyahu has finally encountered a worse snake than himself.