Liberal Redneck – Congress vs TikTok

So this is the second time I am writing this as the first time I lost everything due to … A sudden loss of internet and a dropping out of my entire comment on the video, which was against the government. Ron asked me if I thought it was deliberate and I am not such a conspiracy theorist yet … but it was weird timing.

The point I was making is he is correct that all our data is already collected by every social media, every news sites … if I don’t want to give a news site permission to all data on my computer or every other website I visit they block me. It is why I don’t post from them. And the same with one of my favorite news sources for in depth information, they demand others to register or pay with them, so I have stopped sharing them. Any way I won’t retype all I wrote, my hands are sore and I have so much more to get to. The video is here. If you want to see through the political attempt to hold down the progressive youth vote watch the video. Time moves on and societies progress. Hugs. Scottie

Why Another Trump Victory Will Be A NIGHTMARE

This very quickly went to being a right vs left talk about abortion and even teaching girls on how not to become pregnant. Again I ask why it is so vitally important for the fundamentalist Christian maga right to prevent young girls learning how to keep from getting pregnant or learning sexual educations about their bodies !!!! Hugs. Scottie

Why the political worldviews of young men and women are increasingly diverging | DW Analysis

To me as I listened to the video it became clear that the real issue is how a lot of this is driven on the male side from the era where men look at it as their entitlement to the best looking most attractive women they are attracted to, but can not have. So they feel women are the real enemy, rather than the system that is denying each gender of equality. Why do incels feel entitled to a female, a woman that is to please them as they demand / wish? Because for far too much of history that was how men were taught to look at women, taught that females were to be used, subjected to their whim, to keep them happy but not really a person like they are. They don’t see women as full humans like them. The day that men and women see each other as equal will be the day all this conflict dies. Hugs. Scottie

Young men are more likely than women to drop out of college, commit suicide, and support far-right parties. But while misogynistic influencers like Andrew Tate are correctly blamed for fueling the incel manosphere’s backlash against feminism, there is a lot more to this story than incels, culture wars and wokeness. From stagnant economies and unaffordable housing to fears of cultural obsolescence, young men are grappling with a myriad of challenges that seldom enter the public discourse. So what is really behind the growing political rift between Gen Z Boys and Girls?

In the video we talk to Richard Reeves, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book “Of Boys and Men” where he explores all the ways in which the modern male is struggling. Alice Evans, visiting scholar at Stanford University, who is travelling around the world to study this divide and makes the point that lagging economies, corporate algorhythms, and patriarchal mentality can explain this backlash. And Neil Shyminsky, Professor at Cambrian College and famous on TikTok as @professorneil, who sees in Influencers like Andrew Tate as a main threat.

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Why it’s hard for Americans to retire

This video starts out talking to people with higher incomes than most of the working public. Most make less than a living wage, are paid barely over the minimum allowed by law, some have short or weird day shifts requiring the hold of multiple jobs. Millions of people can not work to gain retirement. I was lucky, I worked a high paying job in my mid 20s to early 30s. That meant I get the same as my husband, who worked in low paying jobs and then as a CNAA in a hospital. Retiring at 67 and 3 months a man who after a 12 hour shift could barely walk and was worn out. Retirement shrank our income drastically but it saved his life I think. Only the high paid people can save, as the video says towards the end the rest of us need everything and more to survive. Life shouldn’t be a drudgery for most until death, and a grand time for the few, but in the US profit is king. Those companies need that retirement money for higher dividends and more profit for the wealthy. What the video doesn’t mention is those other countries pay more, have better social services, and much less costly medical systems for the public. Hugs. Scottie

There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings.

Vox sat down with people in our New York City studio to talk to them about the state of their retirement savings. By the standards of most financial experts, Americans are woefully behind on saving for retirement. The reason why is rooted in changes in policy to our retirement system with today’s result being a flawed design in how people set aside money so they can one day stop working. In this video, we interviewed four people about their level of retirement preparedness and two experts about the state of retirement readiness more broadly in the US. One culprit lies in changes to the country’s pension system, which sets the US apart from countries like Australia and the UK; these places have systems which help more people save more money for retirement.

CNBC: The salary a single person needs to live comfortably in 25 major U.S. cities

The salary a single person needs to live comfortably in 25 major U.S. cities
You’d need to make nearly $140,000 as a single person to afford necessities and retirement contributions, a new study finds.

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McConnell Walks Away | Trump’s Creepy Putin Infatuation | House GOP’s Russian Spy Scandal

Stephen puts aside politics to acknowledge Mitch McConnell’s big announcement, the former PM of Australia confirmed that Trump is obsessed with Vladimir Putin, and the star witness in the House GOP’s impeachment case against President Biden took bogus intelligence from Russian spies and was arrested for lying to the FBI.

The GOP Has A Plan! It Will Backfire!

The GOP Has A Plan! It Will Backfire!

Everything that Tengrain says is true. But it is not new. Remember Netanyahu pulled this during the Obama administration. Currently he brags how he has for decades screwed over the US government and how he can make the US congress / republicans do anything he wants. Why??? Well the Israeli government lobby in the US spends millions on millions on every congressional race, trying to get only pro Israel candidates elected. Yet while the ultra pro Israel lobby has billions of dollars to spend influences US elections, the US taxpayers give Israel about 4 billion a year plus all the military support they want. Does that make sense? To Israel, they see the US as an ATM they can abuse and take all they want. Hugs. Scottie

THE ATLANTIC: If Biden Wants to Win, He Needs to Talk About COVID

If Biden Wants to Win, He Needs to Talk About COVID
Health Ignoring the pandemic’s emotional toll might be worsening America’s national malaise. March 21, 2024 America is in a funk, and no one seems to know why. Unemployment rates are lower than they’ve been in half a century and the stock market is sky-high, but poll after poll shows that voters are disgruntled. President Joe Biden’s approval rating has been hovering in the high 30s. Americans’ satisfaction with their personal lives—a measure that usually dips in times of economic uncertainty—is

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An Uncomfortable Fact

An Uncomfortable Fact

I realize many people who come here also may go there. Roger is a well read accomplish author who is well versed on history and is up to date with much going on in the world. Please go to his blog and read his report on the Sudan crisis and the suffering of the people there. Man’s inhumanity towards each other knows no bounds or depth, but seems endless. Hugs. Scottie

NPR: A Florida man refused to sell his home to a developer. Now he’s living in the shadows.

A must read story of one man trying to save his home against big money developers who had the help of the city. Hugs. Scottie

A Florida man refused to sell his home to a developer. Now he’s living in the shadows.
Orlando Capote has been engaged in a two-decade struggle against developers and the city of Coral Gables to save his family’s home. But his success comes with a price.

Read in NPR: https://apple.news/AlW71f1Z8T22EgR81LqFgBw

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