82% are extremely or very concerned about inflation, down from 89% in January

Wow, that's some world-class spin, there... "only 82% think the economy's getting worse" is not really all that good a number... I mean, just sayin'...

-CW

And did we even mention the dang technicals!?

JL ;)

Wow... and this correlates to even more job losses for American citizens (unless they are offered the chance to emigrate along with their jobs).

For Subaru, it’s cheaper to build and ship cars out of Japan than deal with the political whiplash of US trade policy.

The Art of the Deal is apparently the Trumpian political whiplash caused by the uncertainty and chaos resulting in (among other things) more offshoring.

Suburu sold over 17,700 American-built vehicles in Canada last year, but now they'll just build them in Japan and ship them to Canada.

Make Japan Great Again!

Oh, wow. That's going to spiral into thousands of job losses (unless something changes).

A $1 billion hit in Kentucky.
A $1-plus billion hit to agriculture nationwide.

The memes being circulated on social media in China! I hope CW writes about those; they're hysterical.

Trump repeatedly claims China is negotiating with US. Nope! China is negotiating with nations not named America.

the knicks game was wild at the end.

I know, right!?

with half a second left, the clock operator gifted the pistons with a chance to tie or win, by starting the clock as soon as the ball hit the rim, instead of after someone touched it.

Brunson intentionally misses the second FT the buzzer goes off... wait, what? Absolute nuts.

JL

It's always been a source of great amusement to me how ya'all just LOVE the polls that say what you want to hear...

It's always been a source of great amusement to me how you profess repeatedly and over and over ad nauseam your claims to know what everyone else thinks and feels when you can't and you don't.

Yet ya'all COMPLETELY ignore the polls that say what ya'all don't like..

I will not profess to speak for everyone, but I do not completely ignore polls and would wager no one else here does either. The ridiculous repetitive claim is actually provably false via the archives to your left.

I have saids it before and I'll says it again...

No offense, but there's a name for that admitted repetition.

Polls in general are good for only one thing. Showing the biases and attitudes of the poll takers..

False.

Having said that, you are not being factually accurate on what the poll says.

Now you cherry-pick the parts you like after having falsely claimed the poll is only good for one thing.

As an aside to Liz... Don't worry. It's easy to ignore trollings..

However, demonstrably not as "easy" as stopping the performance of it.

1. Economic mayhem
this is probably the biggest driver of the poll numbers. people have noticed that prices are going up. and anyone who has watched even a little bit of news knows about the president's policies and their contribution to that situation.

2. Violating the Constitutional order
this probably works in donald's favor, at least among his base. except among people with real conservative principles, they LIKE that he's breaking the rules, especially if it hurts the people they hate (liberals, immigrants, trans-people, "elites," etc.)

3. Destroying the US's global standing
There's almost certainly a bit of cognitive dissonance on this issue. destroying USAID is too far away for most Americans to notice. However, donald's ham-handed flip-flopping on Ukraine, Gaza, and tariffs, along with his team's deportations, defense leaks, and generally embarrassing themselves in almost every diplomatic interaction worldwide, a few independents who care about such things must have noticed.

4. Destroying the US government's ability to serve its constituents.
Anyone who files taxes or receives social security must at some point become aware that those services are not working the way they're supposed to. Anyone who was let go, re-hired, re-fired, or repurposed, along with those who they've left behind to do multiple times the work, has certainly noticed. not to mention anyone involved with government-funded research, teaching, student loans, medicare, medicaid, airlines, disaster relief, weather forecasting or banking.

That is what your [unnecessary insult] progressive Democrat[sic] so-called "leadership" is telling you what to think about [unnecessary capitalization] Trump's awesome 2nd term..

it's not necessary to be told whether or not to believe your own eyes, ears, grocery receipts or bank statements.

denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

JL

China can just buy their pork from Spain

$1 billion project derailed

Thanks Trump.

the knicks game was wild at the end. with half a second left, the clock operator gifted the pistons with a chance to tie or win, by starting the clock as soon as the ball hit the rim, instead of after someone touched it.

JL

Yet ya'all COMPLETELY ignore the polls that say what ya'all don't like..

I have saids it before and I'll says it again...

Polls in general are good for only one thing. Showing the biases and attitudes of the poll takers..

Having said that, you are not being factually accurate on what the poll says.

82% are extremely or very concerned about inflation, down from 89% in January

PRESIDENT Trump is heading in the right direction on this... LESS people are concerned than when Basement Biden was totally fraking up the country...

According to the poll, Americans are feeling BETTER about the economy compared to how they felt about the economy in December under the Basement Biden/Headboard Harris junta..

So, all in all, the poll numbers are not as bad as ya'all are trying to make them out to be.. Even if a single poll was relevant to anything..

Which it's not.. :D

As an aside to Liz... Don't worry. It's easy to ignore trollings..

At least it is easy for me :D

I owe, I owe so off to work I go.. :D

Okay. Be that as it may and still, the Knicks won. ;)

I know, right!?

I've seriously seen polls that query something similar to: "Do you believe that water is wet?" With responses that fall in the range of:

* 80%: Yes
* 15%: No
* 5%: Unsure/No opinion

Then 20-ish questions later the query will be reworded similar to: "Donald Trump believes water is dry, do you agree? With responses that fall in the range of:

* 35%: Yes
* 60%: No
* 5%: Unsure/No opinion

You can also see this partisan dynamic within a very recent poll regarding Russia versus 2024, last year.

Pew Research Center, April 17, 2025

Republican Opinion Shifts on Russia-Ukraine War

1. How Americans view Russia and Putin

Here are several key takeaways about Americans’ views of Russia:

Half of U.S. adults see Russia as an enemy of the U.S., down from 61% in 2024. More Republicans see Russia as a competitor than as an enemy for the first time since before the Russia-Ukraine war started.

While most Americans – including majorities of Democrats and Republicans – continue to express negative views of Russia and Putin, smaller shares of Republicans express very unfavorable opinions of Russia and no confidence at all in Putin than in 2024. Opinions among Democrats have not changed much.

https://www.pewresearch.org/2025/04/17/how-americans-view-russia-and-putin/

I don't know about anyone else, but the same friends who argued vehemently with me that Mitt Romney was correct in 2012 about Russia being America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe" (when we were at that time obviously 10 years into the war on terror with thousands of troops in Afghanistan) are the same friends who insisted again in 2022 that Romney was right about Russia and are the same friends who insist to me now that Russia isn't our enemy. That's the partisan effect and the Trump-cult effect wherein they repeatedly change their views and give me whiplash while insisting they haven't changed at all and I have. *shakes head*

It's like CW called it: TDS... Trump Deification Syndrome.

JL

On the "right track/wrong track" question, 59 percent of the public is unhappy with how things are going.
Oh are they? Are they "unhappy with how things are going"? What the heck does that even mean? I hate hate hate this polling question, because it never even tries to notice that people can be unhappy in two different ways: unhappy because things are not even more right wing than they are, and unhappy because things are not even more left wing than they are.

Is 59 percent of the public unhappy with how things are going, because they don't understand why we don't already have a fascist dictatorship that will arrest and imprison all the liberals? or is 59 percent of the public unhappy with how things are going, because they don't approve of a fascist dictatorship and are longing for a restoration of democratically liberal rule that respects good government, the rule of law, and an idealistic U.S. administration that honors America's traditional role as moral example to the world?

Gee, tough one. The poll simply doesn't answer those questions.

Secondly, let's look at the polling result that "only 33 percent thinks the judges are 'unlawfully interfering with the president's constitutional authority.'"

Gee. From a polling perspective, I understand that 33% is really low. You can't win elections with 33%. Got it.

BUT. WHY WHY WHY doesn't it say that "Only ZERO percent thinks the judges are 'unlawfully interfering with the president's constitutional authority."? Really? One THIRD of the country thinks the president can defy and ignore the judiciary branch's rulings on his constitutional power? AND WE'RE ALL RIGHT WITH THAT because that means they can't win an election? How about, WE'RE NOT ALL RIGHT WITH THAT because a third of the country already buys into a fascist theory of US government?

JEE ZUS. Sometimes I just cannot read political blogs that rationalize everything into conventional narratives of 51% = good, and 49% = bad.

Y'all are making me laugh. :)

And this is coming from Fox News -- which is (obviously) tough for Trump supporters to spin as some sort of liberal news outlet.

I have multiple Republican friends (and family) who'll have no problems whatsoever spinning this faster than a levitated silica nanoparticle.

For instance:

* "Fox News has always had a fake pollster."

* "You can tell when Fox uses the legitimate pollster when Trump tells you they did."

Heh.