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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.

Video by Christian Caurla

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.

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

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

QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

Wow how do these rejects get elected?  Sex is the fault of the woman?  That is not how it works.  Tell him it takes more than a woman to make a baby.  Guys are taught to want sex all their lives, and from puberty they’re told not to masturbate but to find a girl.  But girls are property of daddy and they are told not to have sex to preserve their value.   WTF.  If boys / men get to enjoy sex, why can’t girls / women?  Hugs.  Scottie

 

March 9, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

 

The Arizona Mirror reports:

A bid to make birth control a right in Arizona that was a top policy priority for Gov. Katie Hobbs has stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature and is likely dead.

Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.

“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” he said, implying that, if women hold aspirin between their legs, they won’t be able to have sex and risk pregnancy.

Heartland Signal reports: 

Borrelli’s comments echo those made by late Wisconsin pastor and former GOP mega donor Foster Freiss. In 2012, while Freiss was the head of a super PAC that backed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Freiss contended that women putting aspirin between their knees was a cheaper alternative to contraception.

In 2001, Borrelli plead guilty to a domestic violence charge. His then-wife’s child told police he witnessed Borrelli rapidly punch his mother three times in the mouth before shoving her to the ground.

Borrelli said he only plead guilty to keep custody of his children, and he later blamed his wife for the incident, claiming she was having a “stress-induced meltdown.”

Borelli, an election denier, first appeared here in 2021 when he and several other Arizona lawmakers spoke at a QAnon convention organized by a man who had just approvingly posted a link to a neo-Nazi film. We heard from him again last year when he tried to force Arizona to discard all voting machines.

 

Ninja098012 days ago

Yet no talk about men controlling themselves, fancy that.

Bluestocking  Buford12 days ago

None of these yahoos make even the slightest effort to encourage men to take more responsibility for their own sexual behavior even though men are usually the ones who are more sexually eager due to the influence of testosterone (and even then, using that as an excuse really only goes so far!). They don’t even bother encouraging men to use condoms more often even though condoms actually have many advantages over most female forms of birth control. Condoms are relatively reliable when used correctly, aren’t difficult to find, aren’t difficult to use, don’t become less effective if you gain or lose weight, don’t cost much, don’t have any potentially dangerous side effects, don’t have any restrictions for age and/or existing health conditions, don’t require administration or authorization from a licensed medical professional, and don’t require much advance planning like most female forms of birth control do — and they have an double advantage in the sense that they help prevent the transmission of STDs.

Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

It’s amazing the number of people who refuse to believe that sometimes things go wrong. That’s why abortion is healthcare, not every fetus is viable. Some of the ones that are born, don’t survive either.

Todd20036  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

It’s not about whether abortion is health care or not

It’s about whether women have any rights or not

Franciscan  Todd2003611 days ago

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

Franciscan  Todd2003611 days ago

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

Sister_Bertrille  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

As we saw in Texas in the case of Kate Cox and her ectopic pregnancy, it doesn’t matter. They don’t consider anything to be life threatening.

Lizard  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

And every time, it’s none of their fucking business. I get what you’re saying but there’s also nothing wrong with having sex.

Todd20036  Lizard12 days ago

It’s none of their business. And a clump of frozen cells is not a child

And a rapist is not a legitimate father

But to the MAGAts, women are inferior to men

Just as gays are inferior to heterosexual and blacks are inferior to whites

Randy503  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

What’s amazing is that most of the anti-abortionists think women are sluts who get what they deserve.

Karl Dubhe IV  Randy50312 days ago

Until it’s their wife, sister, or daughter that needs one. Those are moral abortions, of course.

Franciscan  Karl Dubhe IV 11 days ago

The Christian religion is apparently based on the premise that women are by definition sluts, since Eve in Genesis disobeyed God and accepted advice from a serpent.

jimbo65 12 days ago

Oh the aspirin between the knees bullshit again. Only thing these sexist fucks hold sacred is their access to Viagra.

What, me worry?  jimbo6512 days ago

Indeed. If these christian freaks really believe that it’s all up to the gods, then they should ban drugs like viagra.

paganheart  What, me worry?12 days ago

I am still waiting for the day that a pharmacist refuses to fill any prescriptions for Viagra or Cialis unless the man is wearing a wedding ring, or produces a marriage license, or signs a sworn affidavit saying they will use the drug only to have sex with their wives. I want to see the heads of a few right-wing males explode.

Todd20036 12 days ago

This is where we are. We are staring down American fascism

It’s here. It’s already a foot hold in the red states

It’ll come to the blue states if the federal government falls

Uncle Mark’s Luck Charms ☘️ 12 days ago

“But honey, I’m feeling romantic. This is your 30th headache this month. Why don’t you use that aspirin between your legs to make your headache disappear.”

*wife thinks a divorce attorney would do a better job at making her headache disappear.*

Uncle Mark’s Luck Charms ☘️ 12 days ago

15 years ago, this Neanderthal would have been sent back under his rock, but Trump/MAGA has emboldened their misogyny, allowed them to use their “religious freedom” to spew this garbage in the public square, and encourage even more wackos to spew their hateful, medieval views

Wash Rinse Spin Dry Fold12 days ago

INCOMING RANT

How is forcing women to continue with an unwanted pregnancy not an economic concern?

I can’t wait for these old white, white haired men and women who agree with them to die out but I know there is a crop of them right behind on the conveyor belt.

Contraceptives a.k.a. birth control are not just prescribed for birth control.

Here again we have elected officials who know nothing about the medical field making laws regarding women’s bodies that they know nothing about. Here again we have one of these old dinosaurs yapping about women not needing birth control if they weren’t promiscuous.

Lizard  Wash Rinse Spin Dry Fold12 days ago

Someone will pay for those unwanted babies! Just not them. You know, after they’ve killed off SNAP and other social safety net programs.

Buford 12 days ago

Funny how they get away with ignoring the fact that it takes two people to be promiscuous when making a baby… and funny how nobody points out that, if women must be forced to endure a pregnancy, men should at least be financially responsible for that same pregnancy.

 

 

No More Religious Exemption For Hate Speech In Canada

I love this.  The hate preachers in the US desperately need to hear this message.   He says spreading hate and inciting attacks on others is not the message Jesus wanted his people to spread, that is not freedom of religion.  It is so refreshing and wonderful to hear the message that this Rev. is talking about.  Makes me remember the Jesus I was once told about as a child.   Hugs.  Scottie

White-opia – The MAGA Secession Paradise!

For all the Trump fans who keep talking about seceding from the US – this is the way….