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1 minute ago, wildcat09 said:

What I find interesting about this in particular is that it's not new. I'm nearly 40 and by the time I was in high school women were largely competitive with men in school and most jobs. The exception that held out the longest was at the executive level.  Me Too really scared the shit out of executives, particularly media executives, and they manufactured a backlash that has pushed us back 50+ years, all so they can grope women at the office. 

Me too was a factor, I'm sure. But I think 2 other developments fueled the feminist backlash. First, young misogynists got their Rush Limbaugh figures in Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Second, the ability of losers (what we used to call incels, and we really should insist on doing that again) to connect with each other in large groups and form a groupthink that led them to absurd conclusions.

Corporate America was always going to be brake on feminist advances, but they couldn't put it in reverse without the help of masses of meatheads and gamers, not to mention the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads.

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10 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

It's almost cliche to say at this point, but it really is remarkable how the Republicans seem to be governing with no concern towards electoral ramifications.

Because they don’t plan on having them. 

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It's almost cliche to say at this point, but it really is remarkable how the Republicans seem to be governing with no concern towards electoral ramifications.
Ramifications? For today's GQP?

Repeat after Brisket: the cruelty is the point! They really believe that the policies will hurt everyone they don't like & somehow exclude themselves.

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Posted
3 hours ago, C-Man said:

American Pride Slips to New Low

Pride among Democrats tumbles, while independents also hit new low, more than offsetting increase among Republicans

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692150/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx

I'm at the point where I actively cheer against all USA national teams in everything. Because if any of those athletes had any sense or pride in their country they would refuse to represent this piece of shit as constituted. 

If there's a way to have negative national pride I'm there. 

Posted
6 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Or they're intimately familiar with the history of midterm elections.

 

Then it would be the first time in our history that a political party just gave up on an election cycle in exchange for a once in a generation terrible piece of legislation.  The cuts to things in this bill will reverberate for decades. 
 

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26 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

It's almost cliche to say at this point, but it really is remarkable how the Republicans seem to be governing with no concern towards electoral ramifications.

Yeah, it's as if there aren't going to be any more elections.  

Nothing about this administration sounds like they have any intention of going anywhere in 3.5 years 

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23 minutes ago, softlynow said:

Me too was a factor, I'm sure. But I think 2 other developments fueled the feminist backlash. First, young misogynists got their Rush Limbaugh figures in Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. Second, the ability of losers (what we used to call incels, and we really should insist on doing that again) to connect with each other in large groups and form a groupthink that led them to absurd conclusions.

Corporate America was always going to be brake on feminist advances, but they couldn't put it in reverse without the help of masses of meatheads and gamers, not to mention the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies and dickheads.

I think that analysis is backward, though. When it was mostly meathead and/or incel shit it wasn't serious. It was the buy in and promotion from the mainstream media that gave the backlash legitimacy in the eyes of much of the public.

There's a reason that conservative activists are always trying to get the New York Times to cover issues, and not just to cover them but to frame their coverage in a particular way. Steve Bannon, Chris Rufo, etc. understand the legitimizing impact that has for their propaganda well beyond the number of people who actually read the Times.  For this, the elite media circles didn't even need to be pushed, they sprinted to endorse the backlash.  

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Posted
4 hours ago, bolverk said:

Dem "proud to be an American" has plummeted since 2016, while Indies are more of a slow erosion, but they're getting to the same place.

The table showing party affiliation by age cohort is really telling.

 

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5 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

I'm going to a July 4 party hosted by a Dem that will have many MAGAs present.

The hospital will be having a July 4 party later that same evening.

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Posted
53 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

Then it would be the first time in our history that a political party just gave up on an election cycle in exchange for a once in a generation terrible piece of legislation.  The cuts to things in this bill will reverberate for decades. 
 

If this bill can undo prior legislation then there is no reason a future bill couldn’t undo this one.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, berlinerbaer said:

If this bill can undo prior legislation then there is no reason a future bill couldn’t undo this one.

True enough. One thing that has ground my gears about Congress for the last couple of decades is a seeming refusal to revisit, repeal, and revise legislation. Except trying to repeal Obamacare of course. 

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2 hours ago, tchookem said:



 

 


This is what does it for me. I point to Jan 6th as the biggest watershed moment. I mean, how could anybody vote for him after that? AND... there are hundreds of smaller moments that should have doomed the movement forever. It didn't happen, and it didn't happen because these people we want to see as decent and smart just are not. They are either gullible to the point of stupidity or apathetic to the point of being horrible.

Any attempt we make at trying to explain their choices is us just hoping that they could be good people because we care about them more than they care about us. Chances are they are going to let us down.

 

Best post ive seen in a loooong time

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1 hour ago, Pancho said:

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but it like Michael McCaul said on Face the Nation this weekend..

He says Republicans will vote for the bill because "they know that their jobs are at risk, not just from the president, but from … the American people, our base back home, will not reelect us to office if we vote no on this."

The merits or demerits of the bill are irrelevant, the politics say vote yes or get primary-ed.

Just get past the primary, and then coast to the general in their gerrymandered district.

It's fucked.

 

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

It's almost cliche to say at this point, but it really is remarkable how the Republicans seem to be governing with no concern towards electoral ramifications.

oh, but they are... primary elections. see post above.

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1 minute ago, yoladu said:

but it like Michael McCaul said on Face the Nation this weekend..

He says Republicans will vote for the bill because "they know that their jobs are at risk, not just from the president, but from … the American people, our base back home, will not reelect us to office if we vote no on this."

The merits or demerits of the bill are irrelevant, the politics say vote yes or get primary-ed.

Just get past the primary, and then coast to the general in their gerrymandered district.

It's fucked.

 

And then their constituents take it right in the ass, but by the time election season rolls around, they've been inundated so much by Fox News that Dems are the Debil that they forget the pain Dear Leader(s) caused and they again yank that R lever like they are starting a mower.

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1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

I think that analysis is backward, though. When it was mostly meathead and/or incel shit it wasn't serious. It was the buy in and promotion from the mainstream media that gave the backlash legitimacy in the eyes of much of the public.

There's a reason that conservative activists are always trying to get the New York Times to cover issues, and not just to cover them but to frame their coverage in a particular way. Steve Bannon, Chris Rufo, etc. understand the legitimizing impact that has for their propaganda well beyond the number of people who actually read the Times.  For this, the elite media circles didn't even need to be pushed, they sprinted to endorse the backlash.  

That may be how the infection spread to older losers, and it may be how many of us recognize this part of the disease, but the youngs don't care about the NYT. They doomscroll and listen to podcasts.

If Me Too is really the watershed moment, and it may be, I would see it akin to Reagan bringing the fundagelicals in from the political cold and giving them a permanent seat in the GOP boardroom. Millions of folks who were itching to make their backwards views a part of public life and discourse weren't radicalzied by Reagan, they were already there. Social media and bro-casters and others gave losers community, Me Too might just have shone a light on it and helped shitgibbon and co. bring them into the fold.

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Posted (edited)

Trump to visit 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center this week, source says

Won't attend funeral or even go to the DC memorial for the slain Minnesota Speaker and her husband (and dog) but will attend the grand opening of 'Alligator Alcatraz' this week.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ar-AA1HET5i

 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

 

If you elect me, I will send this cunt to the men's prison in El Salvador.  Everyone knows that hair style is what Vikings used when they raided Lindisfarne.   

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Posted
3 hours ago, Pancho said:

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In your letter you said you didn't love me
You said you're gonna leave me
But you could've said it better
Oh in your letter, you said you couldn't face me
You said you could replace me
But you could've said it better

 

Posted
5 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

The people still saying "the Trump supporters I'm thinking of are decent people, not racists" misunderstand racism. They think racist and they think someone in a Klan outfit. That's not how racism manifests itself for most people, though. It's more subtle than that. 

Absolutely this.  There is RACIST and there is racist.  Trump voters may not be 100% RACIST, but they are absolutely 100% racist at a minimum.

Posted
2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Worth pointing out that Japanese think American rice is trash, such that they might stop buying rice at all rather than buy American.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-rice-explainer-shortages-rising-prices-agriculture-6e21bc9017c8f6d8c0a1f179e50e975f

Japanese imported nearly 300 million dollars worth of rice in 2024.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/japan/rice

Maybe, in a country that eats a lot of rice, that is nearly nothing, as it is less than three bucks of rice per person. 

Posted
2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Daughter picked out a book to read the other day.

At least it has a happy ending. 
 

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The title kind of spoils it imo

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Posted
1 minute ago, Pancho said:

 

Says a woman who was literally tricked into eating dog food on camera.

Again...if you submitted a script/book idea with an exact, unembellished description of this timeline 20 years ago, you would have been ushered out of every possible room as being clearly insane and quite likely a danger to yourself or others.

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Eating with one's hand is a tell that they're from Africa?

The stupid is so fucking strong.  (Hey Laura, ask him why he doesn't eat with his left hand.)

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4 hours ago, yoladu said:

but it like Michael McCaul said on Face the Nation this weekend..

He says Republicans will vote for the bill because "they know that their jobs are at risk, not just from the president, but from … the American people, our base back home, will not reelect us to office if we vote no on this."

The merits or demerits of the bill are irrelevant, the politics say vote yes or get primary-ed.

Just get past the primary, and then coast to the general in their gerrymandered district.

It's fucked.

 

 

record of trump maga candidates in primaries vs established R's ?

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No thank you for your attention to this matter.   PASS

He is white trash. Most of this country is white trash, but he's in a special category.
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Posted
22 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

I fully expect him to have a garage sale at the White House

I volunteer to be the asshole who shows up the night before to see the goods early.



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