Convicted felon President Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday didn’t seem too worried about hoof-and-mouth disease currently ravaging Argentinian cattle, American soybean AND cattle farmers pissed off about the regime’s willingness to help a foreign country, or having to explain it all to CNBC’s audience. She’s pretty chill with it all, unlike Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, who reportedly is getting a lot of shit from her donors, ranchers in her state who told her that Trump’s plan to import Argentinian beef is “going to cost ranchers a lot of money.”
Neither of them held a candle to the dipshittery of the Trump voters who responded to this week’s Economist/YouGov survey which, for the first time that National Zero is aware of, split their sample and worded the same question slightly differently, A/B testing to hilarious effect. When asked “Do you approve or disapprove of the US government providing $20-40 billion in financial assistance to help stabilize Argentina’s economy?” 20 percent of respondents overall said the approve. When “US government” is replaced with “the Trump Administration” 21 percent of the other half approve.
So that part’s consistent. However the disapproval goes down from 56 percent on “US government” to 51 percent “Trump Administration” and this article already told you who’s responsible for that in the previous paragraph. On the first wording among Trump 2024 voters it’s 30 percent approve/48 percent disapprove/22 percent not sure for a net -18 approval, but when you call it a “Trump Administration” joint it’s 35 percent approve/40 disapprove/25 percent not sure for a net -5 approval, lol. Among Harris 2024 voters it’s 17 percent approve/71 percent disapprove on “US government” to 13 percent approve/72 percent disapprove on “Trump Administration,” net approvals at -54 and -59 percent, respectively, showing a considerably smaller shift with the wording.
Not Argentina-related but a potentially ominous sign for midterm turnout (redounding to the benefit of the party with the lock on high-propensity voters): Fucking 46 percent of independent respondents said “I would not vote” when asked which side they back on the generic ballot.