Why would Elmo care about his approval ratings? He’s not an elected official.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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Because he's a narcissist. He cant help but care.
he'll just run the poll on X and his narcissistic injury is healed.
He cannot stand people not liking him. He's a weird little dude that needs everyone to love him.
Nah, not everyone. He just needs a group of people giving him approval and recognition. His edgelord personality needs people hating him.
He lied about being good at video games to appear cool 😂
Exactly. He gets a hardon thinking about the people who believed him, which is like .1%. The rest think hes a clown but that obviously doesnt change his behaviour.
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He doesn't care about being popular or unpopular. He's the king now, he can do whatever he wants.
Oh idk, musk/zuck definitely have masculinity and self confidence issues. They have to buy their "man" card and seek approval from everyone. I think trump is similar, he's melted down before over dumb shit.
The entire point of Musk being so visible is to pin all the unpopular stuff on him.
Thing is that Bronzo the Clown looks like a cuck even to a redcap when you watch fElon and Hannity talking over him, or fElon and his kid in the WH doing more talking than Bronzo as he sits there looking like he's sundowning.
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Man, if Musk is tanking this hard, I am not sure he's going to get re-elected.
does it matter? 1) he wasn't even elected 2) he's already in power, so he doesn't give a fuck about ratings 3) he's not going to give up that power for anyone.
It gives Democrats an opening - in two years, if there are still elections.
I keep seeing this... folks really think we're gonna get to vote again.
Oh, you will. In the same sense that Russia has elections.
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Assuming they get off their asses and vote this time. Also they need to learn their lesson and focus on a few issues and more on working class American economic issues and less on identity politics.
Lol elections. You don't think they've planned for that? There won't be elections in 2 years. He's gutted half the government already.
Say it with me now: THEY DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT THE POLLS
So does "tanking" mean being laid in front of a tank and run over multiple times?
Because I can get behind this.
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Dictators generally don’t concern themselves with what their subjects think.
He doesn't care what people think as long as he has power. He could steer a ship into rocks, sink and his die hard supporters would blame Biden/Obama or anyone else.
MUSK ISN'T FUCKING ELECTED WHO THE FUCK CARES IF HE'S "TANKING" WHAT THE FUCK
That's the point isn't it? To pin polls on Elon.
Democrats on their way to do nothing for 4 year then have the most free possible election to do same shit as Trump in less unhinged then rince and repear
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Oh no! Wormtongue isn’t popular amongst those that didn’t vote for him?
Say it ain’t so!
43 percent support what Trump has done in his first month
43% would touch a hot oven burner
If Trump thinks in ratings, spread the word that ever since this musk character got introduced the ratings for the old Trump character are plummeting. If Elon is in the picture there is no room left for an old deal making business guy and they should write him out of the script. Although I bet ratings would skyrocket on this show if they had an episode where the tension between Trump and musk boils over while they are isolated in a bunker stuck with each other. Talk about great TV!
The polls mean nothing
47% to 51%.
HeS UnDeRwAtEr
MAGA will blame it on Obama.
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