Most of the country, including 1/3 of Republicans, less than 100 days in: This is a massive fuckup. Very smart AP/NORC folks: Just as expected! - ThreadSky

chrisgeidner.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Most of the country, including 1/3 of Republicans, less than 100 days in: This is a massive fuckup.

Very smart AP/NORC folks: Just as expected!

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tinkb333.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yet, he's selling 2028 hats. We need to nip this idea of an unconstitutional third term in the bud.

feralcat.bsky.social•20 days ago

Incredibly deceptive framing.

wonkette.bsky.social•20 days ago

well I mean ... yes!

markbrandriss.bsky.social•20 days ago

The fact that he got 49% of the vote, but only 39% think he's doing a good job, means a LOT of people must not be getting what they expected. Unless 1 in 10 people voted for him because they expected him to do a terrible job.

markbrandriss.bsky.social•20 days ago

Though to be fair, the other 90% is indeed "most". So I guess it's factually correct. All that's missing is the entire context of everything in American politics and society.

mightybattlecat.bsky.social•20 days ago

In fairness a lot of people DID expect a massive fuckup but it’s disingenuous not to say that’s what everyone expected.

319e17th.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is a massive fuck up and it’s the massive fuck up I expected.

dj1au.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's like I voted for him and I'm not going to say I regret it no matter what.

kenaaron.bsky.social•20 days ago

If the election were held again tomorrow, do you think the results would be different?

thatmillie.bsky.social•20 days ago

Absolutely.

wolv022.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hey, "Massively fucking up" and "as expected" are not mutually exclusive. They even work as two halves of the same sentence! "Massively fucking up, as expected."
(But yeah, the headline and the subhead feel like very different framings.)

dkremn.bsky.social•20 days ago

If 90%+ of Republicans voted for this clown and now only 68% think he is doing at least a good job, that is a 20%+ drop in his own party. That is a major shift IMHO!

pronounced-ing.bsky.social•20 days ago

"Our expectations were very low and indeed, he is fucking up just as expected!"

moxiecotton.bsky.social•20 days ago

100% this. It’s going exactly how I expected it to. I thought he would send us careening towards fascism and he did. I’d have been shocked if he was just another doddering old man president who talked a lot but didn’t do anything

kokomojoe.bsky.social•20 days ago

I expected a complete disaster and an absolute dictatorship.

So they aren't wrong.

alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social•20 days ago

I didn't vote for him but this is worse than expected. He was a bumbling idiot the last time but this time thanks to Project 25 he's got some awful people with an actual plan to destroy the USA as we've known it.

davebrowne.bsky.social•20 days ago

Credit to the AP for saying the "Trump alarmists" were 100% correct afterall.

dealfatigue.bsky.social•20 days ago

Then why the gas lighting, Chris?

danielrigal.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well, I expected him to fuck up but I'm very surprised to hear that all the people who supported him did too.

helenkennedy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well it's as *I* expected it would go

chrisgeidner.bsky.social•20 days ago

I mean, I get it. It’s still malpractice as framing.

helenkennedy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh natch. I was joking.

chrisgeidner.bsky.social•20 days ago

To be clear, since I’m seeing a lot of it: “Well, I did expect this” is not an answer.

It’s horrendous malpractice as framing because it tells you *nothing* about what people think about what’s happening. That’s the literal job!

benny6toes.bsky.social•20 days ago

It doesn't tell you nothing though. It actively lies to the reader.

Because he won both the ec and the popular vore, it actually suggests hea doing well - the opposite of what the polling shows.

It's madness!

benny6toes.bsky.social•20 days ago

*popular vote plurality

obregonia.bsky.social•20 days ago

I think their "real" job might be to represent things in ways that get clicks and discussion. And this certainly (unfortunately) does that. :/

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•20 days ago

No no no, I'm pretty sure the job of a journalist is not to look outside and see if it's raining, but rather to simply say that "the weather today is as expected"

leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's also probably wrong. Doesn't sound like the independents who handed him a win got what they were expecting.

hoffmorris.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is the same thing polls headlined in February. I would answer this question "Yes," too because this is everything Project 2025 said they would do. Every disgusting, deplorable thing.

finance111.bsky.social•20 days ago

I'm watching a show about the camorra
Wondering what trump is going to w the tariffs
What's he going to w the tax records
Imagine he starts a giant protection racket

asteroidnova.bsky.social•20 days ago

Their job is propaganda, dude. Their job is to manufacture consent. It's to build and maintain a narrative.

elliottness47.bsky.social•20 days ago

Wait til we invade Greenland and annex Canada and go to war against Panama and also empty Gaza for a Trump resort.

auroraerratic.bsky.social•20 days ago

Has any president since such polls were taken been below 40% 100 days in? I don't think so.

I feel like that should be the takeaway.

& FWIW he's worse than I expected...and I expected pretty damn bad.

rbnyc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Agreed but in our fantasy world since it's AP there is a subversive editor writing a headline confirming things are going as we would/should have expected.

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