54% of Americans are about to find out that their insurance companies will no longer cover their Hopium prescriptions.
CNBC is a mouthpiece of the billionaires just like fortune
It’s helpful to remember that news reporting on anything involving numbers is usually relying heavily on hyperbolic horse shit.
Here is the “source data” (LOL) for this: https://pos.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FI14730D-CNBC-AAES-Q4.pdf
There are some key points that really matter here:
- What method was used to select the “1002 adults nationwide”? This is not described. Was it people with landlines that skew heavily older and conservative? Was it an even mix of blue and red states? IOW, was it even really random? I could not find this information anywhere.
- This polling was conducted by an outfit named “Public Opinion Strategies” (appropriately, POS). Since we apparently can’t know what sampling method was used (please! correct me if I’m wrong), we can maybe derive something from the either the organization doing the polling or the data itself. 2a: The data shows a slight shift to identifying as Republican (42/39). Anecdotally we can maybe surmise that people who say they are “strictly independent” may lean right-wing. Other demographic info suggests a slight bias toward older and less educated. 2b: In 2024 POS has been heavily used by Republicans. You can find this data on Open Secrets. Basically every single entity that gave them money that I looked up is Republican.
So, tl;dr until any poll can tell me their methodology and confirm that their sampling is truly random I’m just going to laugh at the “conclusions” made by the media.
Where did they hide that link? It’s not in the article or the link the article points to when referencing the survey. Not surprising they want to hide it considering how speculative they are in their extrapolations.
It wasn’t in the article or anything the article referenced. I had to dig for it. And yeah, not surprising at all.
While it’s just a poll and should be met with healthy skepticism, this is also where we are at as a nation. If you’re horrified by the result of this poll, me too, but that’s an illustration of how much work needs to be done. Now is not the time to wallow or wring our hands or rend our clothes. Now is the time for action. Things won’t get better without your help.
Ok. How do people help?
We did this last time around, and absolutely nothing I did, no volunteering, going door to door, signing petitions, protesting, having “rational” conversations, etc., made a dent. Nothing.
So what do we do here when they are fully and openly fascist and have all 3 branches of the government fully under their control?
Have you tried a bake sale?
/s
Where is the survey data? The article link just points to more articles editorializing.
If they just asked 1000 people willing to answer a survey from an unknown caller that’s not exactly the heartbeat of a nation.
They just make shit up now, that was what the majority of pollsters were doing in the lead up to the election
News conglomerates owned by the rich exist to manufacture consent.
54% of 1000 ppl. Majority of 300+ million. Yeah this seems totally legit and not bait.
🤡
And yet, only 22% voted for him… hmmmmmmm…
A little low sample size. Standard is 2000 and any more is wasted effort.
Are these the same Americans that don’t know that the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, but want different things to happen to each? Fuck us all.
Yup. Buckle up buckaroos.
Got an email from HR this morning to make sure that any employees who were late had it noted on their time cards and any one who had to leave for doctors visits had the proper doctors note upon return.
It’s been years since we’ve been requiring any of this sort of stuff but suddenly we are going to start dicking the employees again and not just here.
My wife told me, she was told by a friend in HR that her company that they anre about to start rolling out some pretty draconian rules for employees (right out of the Project 2025 playbook).
Prepare to enter the Fuck Around and Find Out stage my friends.
Being late and needing doctors notes are draconian? Are there more serious things HR is saying they will be rolling out?
Wait until you get an adult job where they don’t treat you like a criminal/thief/moocher by default.
yeah…this is a little out of touch.
Doctors note is a bit extreme unless it’s a repeat issue. Being late for work and it being an issue is hardly “draconian”. Hard to take complaints seriously when this is what the sky is falling is supposed to look like. I’d save terms like that for overtime being removed, workplace protections being stripped, nlrb being overturned, not “I can’t just show up whenever”
Fr lol. Bro is mad his work is basic
Oh yeah, I need to buy those solar panels before Jan 20, thank you for reminding me.
Please buckle your seat belts and keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times. We are now entering the “Find Out” portion of the ride. God luck.
They voted for him so yes that would be the case.
The percentage of ‘prepared to support’ went slightly down from 56%to 54%, which is 2 percentage points or around 4%.
The percentage of ‘not prepared to support’ went up from 36% to 41%, which is 5 percentage points or around 14%.
The numbers are still kind of unbelievable, but at least the trend points into the right direction.
Well, isn’t Trump the one who loves the poorly educated?
Although he is dumb as fuck, he understood that part.well. America is asking for it.
That’s generally what happens when you win the popular vote.
Barely.
América is officially a country of scum
