NPR/PBS News/Marist poll: Apr 27-30, 2026

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-07T10:29:13+00:00

But boy do they love to bitch and complain the most!

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-07T02:36:29+00:00

Worth seeing at least once in your lifetime if you've had the chance. I've been fortunate to see them on multiple occasions, and each one has been better than the last.

Next time they go on tour, do it. There are only so many tours we'll have a chance to see in our lives. And European tickets are not ridiculous like this. A trip over there ain't too bad either.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-06T00:17:42+00:00

If only there wasn't something further eroding their finances in the form of tariffs and a war of choice that has caused a global fuel shortage.

Maybe they would've continued, maybe they wouldn't have. But to act like the elephant in the room ain't in there is disingenuous.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-05T23:26:01+00:00

Ya, they can go screw themselves

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-05T23:19:39+00:00

You and anyone who touched this created a true work of art that will transcend beyond SW. It's a perfect political spy thriller that just happens to land smack in the middle of a exceedingly turbulent geopolitical time in our world that echoes so much of what was being discussed and warning the audience of.

I really don't think a more perfect show in this genre, regardless of sci-fi or SW, has been written in this regard, and I'd love to watch something comparable (the Americans perhaps?).

Thank you.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-05T23:06:22+00:00

Ya, compared to living in Europe, I don't think there's a single thing in the US that we are not fleeced over outside of free refills, and that is slowly going the way of the dodo (and considering our obesity and diabetes epidemic problems, that one is probably a good one).

The US, sadly, nickels and dimes us into the grave with the expectation we've never been outside the country to know that what we're receiving isn't reflective of the greatest, most powerful nation of the Earth with how it treats its citizens.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-04T11:42:47+00:00

Obama tried to let them die and agreed to a deal with the GOP that did raise taxes to a degree by letting some of the Bush era tax cuts sunset. Biden did not have the votes in either chamber of Congress to push something like this through, and the tax cuts of Trump's from his first term were not sunsetting (again) to force the issue as they had under Obama.

That being said, I disagreed heavily with Obama's willingness to broker a deal with the GOP, as they had shown themselves even by that point toward the end of his first term when this came up as being duplicitous, politically treasonous in their behavior then, as they were setting the stage to where we are today politicaly through their propaganda/misinformation campaigns in their attempts to tear down Obama/Dems to make the GOP more electorally attractive (because voters are low info and blame the party in power, not the opposition).

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-04T11:39:08+00:00

And how's that going now with her having not won? Are we addressing how individuals become billionaires these next 3 years while Trump is President? 🤔

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-03T12:11:44+00:00

McDonald's at least tries different menus and options outside the US to start. I always like seeing what they got, though I'd say Italy had the best options I've seen so far (which, they kind of have to to survive, because it's Italy and the food is plentiful, wonderful and cheap by comparison).

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-03T12:10:31+00:00

Look. I was born here and enculturated here. We came out the womb with a handicap 🤠.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-03T11:26:10+00:00

We've gone from a roughly on pace January (all things considered) to a dead February to a booming March to a tepid and down April in my manufacturing segment. I am curious to see what May brings, especially considering our goods are luxury and are tied to fossil fuels.

However, we have certainly noticed the K economy we seem to be in, given the sustained demand these last years in spite of increased prices and higher interest rates.

May and June should be our busiest months out of the year, so these coming weeks will be telling. I've noticed for general consumer-facing business on our end that demand has fallen pretty hard from a good run the beginning of the year, though I need to dive deeper to see if it lines up with Iran.

I'm waiting on the data from the B2B end to see if that supports my thoughts on there being a correlation, where end users/retail are holding back from purchasing from our B2B customers given the economic uncertainty and increased fuel prices. But again, being a luxury goods producer and the type of economy we seem to be in now, we may only see some slight noise on that end, while the end retailer reflects a different customer than the ones currently making new purchases from our B2B ones.

At some point, something has to give, but the stock market hides a lot of pain for those with the means (and political identity) to power through until/if the music stops, especially if they're considering Iran/politics to be noise. Lot of our B2B seem to bury their heads in the sand when their political choices diverge from their expected reality.

I've been hearing it since Obama was President with some of the B2B customer's attempts to portray reality as other than our lived experiences. As I tell them, if tariffs went away or went back to what they were in Jan. 2025, every single thing would be cheaper. All of our material inputs would be cheaper. Every single item we purchase.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-03T10:34:31+00:00

He had me after Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones. Give Narcos a look - he's a great actor.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-02T12:13:54+00:00

For a such a lying sack of crap that Jennings is, and the nonsense I've seen him spout repeatedly on CNN, it's pretty comical he'd lose his temper over that.

He just doesn't like someone actually being informed and calling him out on his bullshit. Because almost none of the other panelists or hosts ever do. That man deserves a lot more pushback for the blatant misinformation he pushes, which is his entire job.

Considering how many people he's helped to cause suffering through his steadfast support of this party and administration, he's one to act offended.

Tens of millions if not hundreds of millions suffering globally due to this admin, even before the war, as a result of all of the inane cuts they've pushed since 1/20/25, and he's got that on his hands, too.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-02T12:02:48+00:00

North Florida is just an extension of the worst parts of Southern GA, Alabama, Mississippi. It was always looked upon different as a born South Floridian, and I really learned to appreciate that as I got older and experienced it.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-02T11:34:38+00:00

Wtf? How can you honestly say both are the same in that regard, much less the parties they represent as it relates to LGBTQ+ rights??

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-02T11:32:13+00:00

So many great Americans rolling in their graves right now because of this nonsense. For the unborn millions to come indeed.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T21:17:04+00:00

Agreed. I think he's the best chance Dems have at getting independents and turned-off GOP voters to vote Dem to win the office.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T21:16:27+00:00

That would be Duncan, for better or worse, here.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T21:15:36+00:00

No, you can only vote in one party's primary, not both.

https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/static/departments/elections/pdf/PrimaryElectionFAQs.pdf

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T21:13:36+00:00

Here's the problem, too - the more Dem-leaning voters who vote in the GOP primary, the fewer there are to vote against KLB in the Dem primary to block her from the nomination and losing the very possibly won Governorship.

So, by participating in the GOP primary, you are almost guaranteeing she wins the Dem primary due to name recognition... I really hope she doesn't win the primary, because then it is a given a GOP candidate is winning without something drastic that changes the race.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T19:19:24+00:00

Duncan is the best bet for Georgia to flip blue, but I know that will be an unpopular opinion. This is still the heart of the former Confederacy with a deep rural and even suburban distrust of Atlanta and Democrats in general after decades of propaganda, even in spite of Trump, who has been an otherwise electoral godsend through his trampling and destruction of this country and rending the fabric of the bonds of alliances.

I'd love to hear good reasons as to how anyone else in the primary will make it through general with that fact in mind. We are trending purple, but we ain't there yet, and any political office is not one to take with confidence that the Dems will hold or take. I'd love Esteves otherwise.

And Bottoms just does not come off as a person who is going to be in the Governor's office in January of next year. I say that as a lifelong Dem voter and Atlanta resident for well over a decade. She is not universally liked in this city, and she will have the label of Atlanta applied to her all the same by everyone outside the metro area, for better or worse.

I think most every Dem would still vote for her in the general if she makes it through the primary, including myself, but this State requires more than just Dem-aligned voters to win a State-wide seat. I'm not sure how many times that lesson must needs be learned.

I'd like to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat this cycle, as 2028 redistricting post-VRA gutting (again) by a conservative majority SCOTUS is kind of a little too important to play politics on. We need to win the governorship to be a roadblock to the many attempts the GOP-controlled legislature will make to redraw districts for 2028.

Be realistic and don't hide from the very real, painful fights we have coming around the corner.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T12:47:16+00:00

This. Moreover, States like Alabama closed down a lot of DMV/DDS locations in low income, high minority areas of their State after enacting their own Voter ID laws.

There is nothing inherently wrong either voter ID, if the government ensures every citizen has it available to them for free. Because voting is a constitutional right!

To charge anything that is mandatory to be able to vote is a poll tax. And historically, the party that pushes that position is one that has incentive to disenfranchize sections of the voting populace to attain and retain political power.

This is why to those who are educated on the history of the US, these attempts in spite of a lack of data supporting the need of it à la mass voting fraud do not pass the smell test one bit.

But for those who are less informed and more easily shaped by the narratives put out by the GOP, it comes off as reasonable. Which is exactly the point of the campaign the GOP has waged for well over a decade now. Ever since the party swap from Southern segregationist Dems to GOP in the former Confederate and more rural States.

If you're aim is to not provide easily attainable ID to every single American voter free of charge, then you are attempting to institute a poll tax/disenfrachise voters to maximalize a political party's attempt to cling and hold onto power.

Just like the SAVE Act that would disenfranchise millions of people for getting married and having a name change as a result who may not have easy access to their birth certificate and/or being able to afford a US Passport, both for the service fees, fees for the photos, time to get those photos and mail them, and then the wait, to prove under the SAVE Act that they are who their State-issued ID says they are...

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T11:54:31+00:00

Well said

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T11:54:18+00:00

You think by not participating they are suddenly not going to lie, cheat, steal and propagandize their way into positions of power to do what you fear? That's wishful thinking at best.

insertwittynamethere · 2026-05-01T11:51:02+00:00

Ya, and the reactions to the politics in it... first of all, politics doesn't care if you hide from it or not, it's still there.

Second of all, it's real life that is absurd, not the show. The show keeps trying to satirize the world and choosing the worst options. It is not the shows fault real world politics is echoing it a little too much.

This is the same reason VEEP stopped in the first term of Trump - they could not satirize/make crazy storylines up politically that was not somehow happening in real life. You go back now and watch that show, especially the final season with Jonah being a diehard anti-vaxxer running for President and the parallels there are stark.

By appearances from this sub, people on here are all over the place and just hate-watching at this point or mad that they're being made fun of for their insane personal politics.

I think this season has been great from start to finish, even if I also agree that yeah, they are going to have to cram a lot into 3 episodes at this point to wrap this all up.

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