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The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history

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123 points harambae | 4 comments | 04 Jul 25 06:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.898s | source
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rokkamokka ◴[04 Jul 25 07:19 UTC] No.44461980[source]▶
Strike dollar from the title and it'll still be true...
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the_third_wave ◴[04 Jul 25 08:45 UTC] No.44462537[source]▶
Approval poll numbers seem to indicate a plurality of US voters agree with much of what the current government is implementing and for the first time in a very long period the majority of US voters seems to think the country is on the right track. You may not like what Trump and his crew are doing but most people did not like what your preferred candidates were doing and planning to do. Given these numbers I'd say "your democracy" (which is a constitutional republic but I'll just borrow some of the oft-heard rhetoric from the "democratic" party) seems to be functioning quite well and certainly a lot better than under the previous regime when approval numbers were abysmal.
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buckhx ◴[04 Jul 25 11:25 UTC] No.44463544[source]▶
What are you talking about? The admins current net approval rating is -6.9% https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil... Biden was at a +5% net rating at this point in his term
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mensetmanusman ◴[04 Jul 25 11:51 UTC] No.44463720[source]▶
Approval ratings are just measures of partisanship. Ideally it drops to zero. The fact that it was nearly 40% for a leader experiencing dementia-like symptoms confirmed this with political theoreticians.
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mindslight ◴[04 Jul 25 15:42 UTC] No.44465501[source]▶
Biden had a team around him to work with, plus the general separation of responsibilities of independent agencies. So nominal "Biden" was doing just fine regardless of the one man. This time we're getting the full dementia experience from a manic mad king who has already driven away anyone that might tell him no.
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1. mensetmanusman ◴[05 Jul 25 13:23 UTC] No.44472642[source]▶
So these polls are about the idea of Biden and not the person? That also supports the idea that polls don’t matter.
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2. mindslight ◴[05 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44473258[source]▶
Yes, polls are obviously about the administration's actions. And people's opinions of administrations are obviously important - even more so with politicians' tendency to promise everything while campaigning, then focus on different things when actually in office. And this effect is even more pronounced with Trump's signature blend of contradictory word salad and shameless direct lying.
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3. mensetmanusman ◴[05 Jul 25 17:25 UTC] No.44474168[source]▶
So it doesn’t matter if Trump lies then? because the idea of Trump is to lower taxes, protect rural jobs via manufacturing tariffs, prevent millions from cutting in line?
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4. mindslight ◴[05 Jul 25 19:37 UTC] No.44474987{3}[source]▶
I'm not interested in another Gish gallop. I recall a previous exchange with you which you just dropped once I started digging into the superficial talking points.