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It’s interesting to see how much Biden slurs his words even on heavily-produced, recorded messages. That dude is old and incompetent. I can’t believe anyone would want him to be President again. And he has formally declared that he is running.
I’d looooove to see the Republican nominee debate Biden.
And now Maybelline is facing a boycott for throwing in with Dylan Mulvaney.
Maybelline faces boycott for partnership with Dylan Mulvaney
Some years ago, lesbian feminist professor Camille Paglia used the term “deviant” in connection with homosexual behavior, because, as she put it, homosexual behavior fit the technical definition of deviant. She was roundly condemned, sort of an early attempt at cancelling, but Prof. Paglia is a little too loud to be shouted down.
Not surprisingly, her thoughts on transgenderism do not conform to Progressive ideology:
“The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one’s birth gender for life…it is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender.”
What Feminist Camille Paglia Says About Transgenderism
Incidentally, she compares Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton…and not favorably:
“The horrible truth is that the feminist establishment in the U.S., led by Gloria Steinem, did in fact apply a double standard to Bill Clinton’s behavior because he was a Democrat. The Democratic president and administration supported abortion rights, and therefore it didn’t matter what his personal behavior was…and then in the case of Monica Lewinsky–I mean, the failure on the part of Gloria Steinem and company to protect her was an absolute disgrace in feminist history! What bigger power differential could there be than between the president of the United States and this poor innocent girl? Not only an intern but clearly a girl who had a kind of pleading, open look to her–somebody who was looking for a father figure.”
Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby | Salon.com
Anheuser-Busch is no stranger to being on the wrong side of social issues. Remember Carson King? On a fluke, he raised over $1M for a children’s hospital in 2019. Busch was offering to match the fundraising and even place Carson’s picture on Busch Light cans. Everything was good until a reporter found some racist tweets by Carson from 2011. Busch pulled the plug on the deal, with a good deal of backlash for doing so. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/carson-king-busch-beer-venmo-trnd/index.html
I remember that. I also remember that Aaron Calvin, the reporter who uncovered King’s ancient racist tweets (which King had done as a 16 year old) was himself exposed and fired from the Des Moines Register for his own offensive tweets:
Iowa reporter who exposed racist tweets fired for own tweets – BBC News
Seems Calvin’s own statements that mocked same-sex marriage, domestic abuse and included a racial slur. Cancel not, lest ye be canceled…
Remember when Bill Clinton had an “It’s the economy, stupid” sign on his desk? Dissatisfaction with the American economy and lack of hope in our economic future is now nearly felt by 7 out of 10 Americans.
And Joe Biden’s approval rating fell two points to 39% and his disapproval rating rose to 55%. Count me in the 55%.
Public pessimism on the economy hits a new high, CNBC survey shows
HSBC Bought the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank for 1 pound:
HSBC buys Silicon Valley Bank’s UK business, ending ‘nightmare’ for British tech
Here’s how Big Tech’s predatory culture fuels failures like Silicon Valley Bank:
Opinion: How Big Tech’s predatory culture fuels failures like SVB (mercurynews.com)
I think that phraseology is just marketing. They’ll play in the dirt easily and readily, like any other politician, and they choose the battleground whenever they can. Sometimes it backfires like crazy. Sometimes, it doesn’t. Sometimes, they underestimate (or overestimate) their constituents. Sometimes they don’t.
Candidly, I’d be on both ends of that graph. I used to be really proud to be American. Now…not really. Not most of the time.
A third point. Like Trump’s politics (for the most part), don’t like the guy. Would love DeSantis or Haley to be the nominee. Unfortunately, this only pushes Trump to the fore and emboldens him and his stature. Bummer.
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Same.
But I don’t see a candidate who has the charisma of Trump, and can sift the winning ideas and policies out of the personality chaff that Trump represents. Trump is fundamentally polarizing and unelectable, however much his ideas make sense. But DeSantis (or Haley, or Pence, or Youngkin, or Ramaswamy, or Cheney, or Noem, or…) doesn’t have the right mix. I don’t see any of them rising to the fore and beating the cadaver-like Biden, whose list of policy failures are arresting:
Rampant inflation with destroyed personal finances for Middle America. Border crisis and immigration chaos. Ballooning debt. Banking failures and banking crisis. Humiliating departure from Afghanistan and abandoning our allises and many billions of dollars’ worth of equipment there, to be taken over by the Taliban. Summer of domestic terror, defunding police departments and skyrocketing crime and violence in our large, Dem-led cities. Explosion of homelessness. Anti-American energy policies. Biden scandals with Hunter and his own retention of classified documents. Woke administrative state. No return to normalcy and portraying half the country — the Red half — as evil monsters (Biden took HRC’s “Deplorables” comment and really turned it into something).
I find this upsetting–will fly my flag more. one strange/ironic twist: Republicans and Democrats seem to value money equally.
I have a neighbor who hangs his American flag upside down. People from both sides of the political aisle tend to agree with the sentiment and they all think he sides with them.
BTW, begun drawing Social Security yet?
As noted, I won’t be drawing Social Security for
fiveseven more years. I did mention that, not only do I have to wait two more years longer than the generation before, but I also paid in at higher rates.What I neglected to mention was that, actuarially speaking, our live expectancy is considerably — considerably — shorter than that of our forbears. And here’s proof. In just a few years, the average American life expectancy has dropped by nearly three years. So in sum:
- My generation and I have to wait two years longer to get Social Security.
- We are paying in at a higher rate, and
- We will get it for three years less than the generation before us.
I get a dead link. You want a good microcosm of “free thinking” that does relate to Bari Weiss? Look at how Matt Taibbi has been treated since working on the Twitter files. You would think he is Rush Limbaugh based on the Dem reaction, and reality is he has been left-leaning for years.
There’s a number of left-leaning individuals who are expressing right opinions. Bill Maher’s been doing that for a while.
My favorite is dyed-in-the-wool lefty George Carlin’s take on political correctness (a term not invented by, but popularized by Josef Stalin):
Best line: “Political correctness is Fascism pretending to be manners.”
George Carlin – Political Correctness is Fascism Pretending to be Manners – YouTube
Perhaps in response to the multiple bank failures, continued inflation and yet another Fed increase, Biden’s approval rating in the most recent AP poll has dropped to 38%, his lowest since last July’s 36%. In January, it was 41%; in February, it was 45%.
Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll | AP News
