Blame All the Single Ladies - Cathy Young "It's the misogyny, stupid"

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Monday November 14, 2022 · 1:35 PM PST

2022/11/14 · 13:35

WHAT A FEELING 🎶 💃 pic.twitter.com/9zjcbenpmB
— Antifa made me do it! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@atldanja) November 13, 2022

Unmarried women in America are lost, miserable, addicted to SSRIs and alcohol, wracked with guilt from abortion, and wandering from partner to partner.

They are the Democrats’ core base now, and the Democrats will do everything possible to manufacture more of them.
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) November 11, 2022

Republicans in mourning are blaming single women for their disappointing performance in the recent election since that demographic voted against them at a 68% clip.

Cathy Young responds in The Bulwark www.thebulwark.com/…

Contrary to the “all they want is the right to kill their babies” rhetoric, women for whom abortion is the dominant issue tend to frame it not as a matter of their own right to get an abortion but as a “war on women” in which abortion opponents are motivated primarily by fear and hatred of female autonomy. I believe, despite being pro-choice, that this is far too simplistic an interpretation of right-to-life advocacy. But when conservatives respond to unfavorable election results with imprecations against single women and start to echo the more fetid corners of the online “manosphere” with slurs about “cat ladies,” it doesn’t exactly do a lot to rebut the charge that the right’s real agenda is to restore patriarchy and bring those pesky independent females to heel. “It’s the misogyny, stupid” is a message that comes through loud and clear.

Go ahead, Republicans. Demonize single women.

(Sorry about the short diary. When Republicans implode I love to share it).

Monument in Georgia bombed after GOP candidate calls for its destruction

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Wednesday July 06, 2022 · 1:27 PM PDT

2022/07/06 · 13:27

The Georgia Guidestones were bombed about 4am this morning. The Guidestones are a popular tourist attraction and received publicity recently during the GOP gubernatorial race:

The Guidestones became a political issue in the earlier Republic primary for governor as south Georgia teacher Kandiss Taylor, running against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, had promoted destroying the stones.

In Taylor's political messages, she urged "striking down Satan's Guidestones."

On Taylor's Facebook page on May 2, she announced: "I am the ONLY candidate bold enough to stand up to the Luciferian Cabal. Elect me Governor of Georgia, and I will bring the Satanic Regime to its knees— and DEMOLISH the Georgia Guidestones."

www.onlineathens.com/…

Satan, you know.

I’m about 30 miles away. When I need Satan he is never far away.

The Message of the Guidestones:

"Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature; Guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity; Unite humanity with a living new language; Rule passion, faith, tradition, and all things with tempered reason; Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts; Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court; Avoid petty laws and useless officials; Balance personal rights with social duties; Prize truth, beauty, love ... seeking harmony with the infinite; Be not a cancer on earth -- leave room for nature -- leave room for nature."
Georgia Guidestones English Translation

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Bloomberg: Despite Trump's nonstop bragging his GDP was the worst since the Great Depression

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Monday August 02, 2021 · 3:07 PM PDT

2021/08/02 · 15:07

How many times have you heard the Con Man declare that his was the best economy in history?

Well, most economists measure the health of an economy in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and now that the numbers are in we can measure his against other presidents.

GDP Growth Under Trump Was the Worst Since Hoover

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (charts are behind a firewall)

The final number for Trump’s full four years was 1.6% GDP.

www.bloomberg.com/…

Economic growth during Trump’s presidency was the worst of any administration since Hoover. Via @foxjust https://t.co/1irwIvREAI pic.twitter.com/sBjh78Cg5b
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) August 2, 2021

Now back to Bloomberg for some analysis on Democrats in general:

All of those top performers except Reagan were Democrats, which has not gone unnoticed by economists. Over the nearly 75 years for which we have reliable quarterly GDP and monthly jobs numbers, the growth of both has been markedly faster during Democratic presidencies than Republican ones. In 2016 the very eminent Alan S. Blinder and Mark W. Watson of Princeton undertook “An Econometric Exploration” of this phenomenon for the American Economic Review and came to the not especially helpful conclusion that:

the Democratic edge stems mainly from more benign oil shocks, superior total factor productivity (TFP) performance, a more favorable international environment, and perhaps more optimistic consumer expectations about the near-term future.

Bloomberg.

Now that it is confirmed every single interview with any elected Democrat should begin with:

“President Trump’s economic record was the worst since the Great Depression”

That is how Republicans message. And I don’t want to hear about Covid. Obama had to deal with the Great Recession and six million foreclosures with a small $800 billion stimulus. Trillions were used to put out the Covid fire.

They win by fooling people that they are better on the economy.

Democrats should listen to Rahm Emanuel

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Tuesday March 02, 2021 · 5:19 AM PST

2021/03/02 · 05:19

Why do we continue to elect Republicans despite their shoddy track records? Rahm Emanuel explains: (March 1, 2021)

Take a split-screen snapshot of America’s two political parties. Congressional Republicans, having just witnessed President Trump literally sic a mob on them, have remained overwhelmingly loyal. Democrats are trying to build support for President Biden’s Covid-relief package by disparaging former President Obama’s efforts to save the economy in 2009. It’s a study in contrasts, and a master class in the relationship between messaging and politics.

Democrats need to tear a page from the Republican playbook. When interviewing for a job, you don’t lead with self-loathing. Democrats need to assert that they’ve got a record of success. If the GOP could claim that a past Republican president had created 20 million jobs, do you think they would disparage him as a RINO—a Republican in name only? If a GOP president had sparked the longest peacetime economic expansion in the nation’s history, do you think they’d label his efforts as “tepid”?

www.wsj.com/…

Yes, we hear the constant “self loathing” and criticism and most of it is unfounded. Each time a Republican majority leaves office amidst a cratering economy Democrats have a very short time to prove themselves to an angry nation.

And what happens?

Take the precedent that’s most frequently at issue today—the Recovery Act of 2009. Mr. Obama’s economic strategy not only prevented the Great Recession from morphing into a full-fledged depression, but sparked a record-setting recovery. The legislation he signed was far bigger than any previous stimulus bill and was as robust as Congress would allow. It was also only one part of Mr. Obama’s broader economic agenda, which included restructuring General Motors and Chrysler, investing in the early renewable energy industry, expanding healthcare coverage and stabilizing the financial system.

The Clinton administration was also a resounding success;

Take the Clinton administration. On the issues progressives talk most about today—job creation, poverty reduction, the list goes on—Mr. Clinton’s eight years often set economic records. During his tenure, the income gap separating the poorest and richest fifths of American families dramatically narrowed. The economy gained more than 20 million jobs. In 1995 Clinton was so intent on saving Medicare and Medicaid from cuts that he stood firm during a Republican-led government shutdown. Far from claiming that he was some sort of “Republican lite,” progressives should own Mr. Clinton’s accomplishments because they provide a foundation for what we want to do in the future.

If this were better known and reported on there would be no need for filibuster reform. Republicans don’t deserve to win.

Georgia farmers just found out Trump grifted them on his new Mexico/USA/Canada trade deal.

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Friday August 21, 2020 · 5:25 PM PDT

2020/08/21 · 17:25

Trump like to talk about his deal-making prowess (unseen so far as POTUS) and especially his “greatest ever” trade deals. Well, “deal” should be singular.

Unfair Mexican trade practices are undercutting Georgia farmers, driving prices below the cost of production and forcing some growers out of business, according to testimony given Thursday to federal trade representatives.

A dozen of the state’s farmers and elected officials said during a virtual hearing that Mexico is unfairly dumping low-priced produce, including berries, tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers, in the U.S. market. That’s making it all but impossible for American farmers – especially those in the Southeast – to compete, they said.

They urged the Trump administration to take action – or risk losing some American farms for good.

www.ajc.com/…

How can this be? We just got a new trade deal that would be the greatest ever for American producers!

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue confirmed Thursday that the protections had been on the negotiating table until the very end, but eventually “became a red line in the sand for the Mexicans.” The final deal did not include the proposed changes.

Members of Georgia’s congressional delegation – who voted unanimously for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement – and state agriculture officials have since pursued other forms of relief from the Trump administration.

The final deal did not include the proposed changes. Trump caved again. Farmers lose.

Everything Trump touches turns into shit

Georgia farmers who testified said if additional actions aren’t taken, the state’s economy will take a severe hit that will reverberate up and down the economy, from local restaurants and suppliers to local and state governments that take in their tax dollars.

“Without the American farmer, there is no economy in rural America,” said U.S. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Tifton.

Everything Trump touches turns into shit

The perfect link/article to send to your wingnut "friends".

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Wednesday May 27, 2020 · 7:18 PM PDT

2020/05/27 · 19:18

Remember when wingnuts told you Obama “spent too much”?

From that capitalist bastion Forbes Magazine:

Trump Borrowing $3 Trillion For The June Quarter Will Exceed Obama’s Last 5 Years

www.forbes.com/…

If nothing else (and I mean NOTHING) the GOP was supposed to be fiscally responsible, right?

Well those of us who lived through Reagan and Dubya know that is a lie.

The total Federal deficit amount for Obama’s last five years in office, fiscal 2013 to 2017, was $2.85 trillion. The amounts going in reverse time under Obama were:

Fiscal 2017: $666 billion

Fiscal 2016: $585 billion, cumulative $1.25 trillion

Fiscal 2015: $438 billion, cumulative $1.69 trillion

Fiscal 2014: $485 billion, cumulative $2.17 trillion

Fiscal 2013: $680 billion, cumulative $2.85 trillion

Five years. President Obama reduced the deficit by half from the $1.2 trillion he inherited.

Today?

The U.S. Treasury announced on Monday that it now plans to borrow $2.999 trillion in the June quarter and $677 billion in the September quarter

Trump — everything he touches dies.

The REAL Misery Index

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Sunday April 12, 2020 · 6:11 AM PDT

2020/04/12 · 06:11

A For Sale By Owner and closed due virus sign is displayed in the window of Images On Mack in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Thursday, April 2, 2020. The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a stunning collapse in the U.S. workforce with 10 million people losing their jobs in the past two weeks and economists warn unemployment could reach levels not seen since the Depression, as the economic damage from the crisis piles up around the world. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Back in the 1980 presidential campaign Ronald Reagan found an obscure economic metric called the Misery Index that he effectively used to depict his then opponent (Jimmy Carter) as a failure. This measure simply combined the unemployment rate with annual inflation rate — no rocket science involved. But Americans understood it and Reagan and the GOP repeated it over and over again.

en.wikipedia.org/…

But during a real economic hardship inflation is not a useful indicator of misery because deflation is far worse. For instance oil/gas prices plummeted during the crisis of 2008 and are doing so now. It’s not that low gas prices are bad. It’s that when demand crashes and prices fall people lose jobs and every sector in the economy suffers due to persistent and low demand.

So throw it away. We need a new Misery Index that even Republicans understand. The Real Misery Index will be Unemployment plus Deficit as a percentage of GDP (the amount FUTURE taxpayers are on the hook for today’s misery. The annual deficit is forecast to hit 20% of GDP in 2020.

So add 14.7% unemployment to a 20% deficit and Trump’s Real Misery Index is an eye-popping 34.7%

Sources: Fortune and Forbes (those bastions of capitalism)

Real unemployment in the United States has likely hit 14.7%, the highest level since 1940

fortune.com/…

America Is On Track For A $4 Trillion Deficit In 2020. Should It Matter?

www.forbes.com/…

US GDP was 21.4 trillion in 2019 and is forecast to fall 6% in 2020.

www.conference-board.org/…

$20 trillion / $4 trillion deficit = 20%

By contrast President Obama left with a 4.7% UE rate and a deficit of 5% of GDP for a Real Misery Index of 9.7%.

Trump has a Real Misery Index of 34.7%!

Now if the “liberal media” would just do what they did in 1980 Joe Biden will win in a landslide.

Federal Reserve slashes rate to 0% as market futures renew freefall

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Sunday March 15, 2020 · 3:24 PM PDT

2020/03/15 · 15:24

Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program

The Federal Reserve, saying “the coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States,” cut interest rates to essentially zero on Sunday and launched a massive $700 billion quantitative easing program to shelter the economy from the effects of the virus.

The new fed funds rate, used as a benchmark both for short-term lending for financial institutions and as a peg to many consume rates, will now be targeted at 0%-0.25% down from a target range of 1% to 1.25%.

www.cnbc.com/…

The Fed has pushed the Panic Button. Futures are getting hammered.

The amazing thing is that banks are flush with capital. This is nothing like 2008.

Well, So It Goes

(thanks to Kurt Vonnegut)

The Netherlands has universal health insurance — and it’s all private

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Thursday February 13, 2020 · 5:13 PM PST

2020/02/13 · 17:13

How the Dutch harnessed the market to cover everybody.

(Title and all quotes from www.vox.com/...)

Jan 2020.

Everyone on private insurance? It must suck, right?

According to Vox:

The average cost to a Dutch citizen for health insurance is about 1,400 euros, or $1,615, annually.

That is low! What about the poor?

People with lower incomes get additional government assistance to reduce their payments.

Is everyone covered?

The system has more or less delivered universal coverage. More than 99 percent of Dutch people have insurance; people with conscientious objections are exempted from the mandate to buy insurance.

Deductibles must be high, right?

The annual deductible is today capped at €385 ($429)

That’s all? What if you want a lower payments in exchange for a higher deductible?

although people can choose to pay a lower monthly premium in exchange for a higher deductible — up to €885 ($980).

How does this system stack up with other Western democracies?

The Netherlands has built one of the highest-quality health care systems in the world, ranking third globally on one measure: a quality and access index on avoiding preventable deaths.

Wow. So it is very “tightly regulated”, Vox says. Are doctors suffering from low pay?

They make about $120,400 on average, compared to the $211,800 an average US primary care doctor makes.

Beautiful.

Open thread for the Academy Awards

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Sunday February 09, 2020 · 5:35 PM PST

2020/02/09 · 17:35

Brad Pitt just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

He said the Academy gave him only 45 seconds to speak but that is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton to testify.

I NEED TO FORGET PRIMARY SEASON FOR ONE NIGHT.

Thank you for indulging us movie fans.

"Warren’s Big Bet on Medicare for All Is Not Paying Off"

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Wednesday November 27, 2019 · 6:59 PM PST

2019/11/27 · 18:59

www.thedailybeast.com/…

The senator’s decision to back single-payer health care has long been considered by establishment Democrats as a self-inflicted wound, one that would prove to be a massive weight on her in a general election should she get there. One senior Democratic Party member—who is philosophically supportive of Warren’s candidacy—said he was “dumbfounded” by her decision to align herself so closely with the proposal. “She’s completely boxed herself in,” the member said. “I just don’t see why she did it or how she gets out of it.”

So forcing 160 million Americans off their primary health care plan is not popular?

You don’t say!

So now Senator Warren’s poll numbers are collapsing?

A new national Quinnipiac University poll of the Democratic primary field showed Warren slipping dramatically, down 14 percentage points from their survey one month prior. And tucked into the survey was a possible explanation as to why. The pollsters tested support for Medicare for All and found that only 36 percent of the public said it was a good idea (52 percent said it was bad) compared to March 2019, when 43 percent said good idea, while 45 percent said bad.

It seems like the more people learn about MFA the more they dislike it.

“I think it’s that Medicare for All is poison,” said a senior aide to another 2020 Democrat. “It is fucking poison. You touch it, you turn to dust.”

It is far better to discover this now than discover the same in November 2020.

Biden fading fast in polls! Now holds only a 7.2% lead over nearest rival!

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Saturday November 02, 2019 · 6:28 PM PDT

2019/11/02 · 18:28

Polling Data

Poll	Date	Biden	Warren	Sanders	Buttigieg	Harris	Yang	Klobuchar	O'Rourke	Booker	Gabbard	Steyer	Castro	Bennet	Spread
RCP Average	10/17 - 10/31	27.6	20.4	17.0	7.1	4.7	2.6	2.0	2.0	1.9	1.7	1.0	0.6	0.5	Biden +7.2

As Kos says “Stick a Fork in Him!”

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