Pussy Politicking
A tweet:
This notion that women should vote for female candidates insulting and wrong. I call that "vote your vagina." I wouldn't vote for somebody because they have earlobes; why should I vote for somebody because they have a vagina?
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) February 27, 2018
Sorry if I'm drifting your topic by posting here, though the topic is somewhat related.
Given the ongoing atrocity in Venezuela --
-- I will wager anyone $10,000 that if this exproriation happens, the body weight of the average South Afican will fall 15 pounds by January 1, 2022.Stipulations: You have to pony up the dough first. We'll let Amy hold it, your wager and mine, in a savings account. She can be trusted, and it'll only be about an hour of work for her. We can each pay her a $50 fee and let her keep any interest.
Ten Large, babe. Any takers?
Sorry for being cynical about this, but you laugh or you cry, and there will be plenty of time for crying. To know what's coming is like the joke from Austin Powers... Only instead of harvesting laughs in a cineplex at the mall, they'll create a generation or two of screaming, growth-&-development-stunted babies.
Another prediction/presumption: A thousand desks at the Pentagon are composing schedules & resources to get food to the foot of the Dark Continent on aircraft carriers, while our President & Congress have considered this not at all.
Crid at March 2, 2018 12:53 AM
Furthermore, the protectionist insanity from Trump on Thursday is almost precisely as corrupt as farm expropriation. He's more savage than man.
Crid at March 2, 2018 12:57 AM
I'm not sure why you'd blame Trump for this.
Long before this happened, many Trump supporters that I've seen have advocated for preferential immigration of whites from South Africa.
Several Trump supporting media outlets have released documentaries on White Genocide in South Africa over the last year.
Trump supporters are very well aware of what happens to Whites in non-White countries.
Snoopy at March 2, 2018 3:57 AM
Regarding Amy's article - Cate Blanchett: My moral compass is my vagina
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cate-blancett-moral-compass-vagina-the-present-a7618501.html
Snoopy at March 2, 2018 4:22 AM
Feminism has always been about retribution and restitution, not equality -
https://www.scribd.com/document/175344555/Feminist-President-of-the-National-Women-s-Party-Wanted-Women-as-Dictators-1922
Snoopy at March 2, 2018 4:26 AM
Violence and the suffragette movement -
https://www.historytoday.com/fern-riddell/weaker-sex-violence-and-suffragette-movement
Snoopy at March 2, 2018 4:28 AM
What really goes on in women's bathrooms -
https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/968803872998412288
Snoopy at March 2, 2018 4:30 AM
I can understand when you're only recently empowered, wanting people "like you" to gain high office and pave the way. But you need to be very choosy about whom you select to pave the way.
People tend to forget in their rush to laud Jackie Robinson as the first African-American to play in the modern major leagues that he was also an outstanding baseball player. Thurgood Marshall was an exceptional jurist. Colin Powell was a very good choice for Chairman of the JCS.
Condoleeza Rice was a whip-smart NSA and Secretary of State. Madeleine Albright was mediocre on her best days.
The 761st Armored, 332nd Fighter Group, 9th Cavalry, and 10th Cavalry amassed outstanding records, not mediocre ones.
Barack Obama, while a mediocre administrator, did have his plusses as a speaker and politician. But his overall ability as president was not at the outstanding level.
Picking mediocre people to be the first simply because they have the right skin color or plumbing leads to disappointment and recrimination. Feminists ignore this rule and expect that any idiot with a vagina is better than even an outstanding person with a penis.
That's definitely unfair. As Chris Rock put it, referring to blacks as NBA coaches, we'll have equality when mediocre black people keep getting hired to coach yet another team despite their consistent and entirely predictable failures at their last teams.
However unfair that is, when you're breaking down barriers and opening doors, you don't send the B-team.
Conan the Grammarian at March 2, 2018 4:47 AM
I love the smell of Intrasexual Competition in the morning, it smells like cheap dayglo hair dye and edible cookie dough
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-28/booth-babes-banished-car-shows-ban-scantily-clad-women-amid-metoo-fallout
Sixclaws at March 2, 2018 5:06 AM
Clearly, it's impossible to get into the next post. Sorry.
Here's a worthy read.
"The Bitter Truth About Fighting Chronic Pain Without Opioids"
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-bitter-truth-about-fighting-chronic-pain-without-opioids/
Amy Alkon at March 2, 2018 6:06 AM
FFS.
If this kid's keeping a *diary*, she's got more to worry about than publishing opportunities!
http://www.businessinsider.com/hope-hicks-diary-could-land-major-book-deal-2018-3?r=UK&IR=T
This administration could still collapse in less than two years. Dare to dream... And brush up on your spelling of "subpoena. "
Crid at March 2, 2018 6:07 AM
> not sure why you'd
> blame Trump
Read the comment. I'm not blaming him for South Africa, I'm blaming him for a similarly oblivious, and similarly self-destructive, incomprehension of elementary economic principle.
Crid at March 2, 2018 6:09 AM
Can't wait for the inevitable debate about admitting white African refugees.
This would be a disastrous move by the ANC, but not without precedence. Mandela was the only influential ANC-ite committed to South Africa as a nation and not to vengeance. His death left the hotheads in charge.
Zimbabwe should be an object lesson for them, but they can't see that. Like Bernie Sanders' "democratic socialism," this time they'll get it right.
Conan the Grammarian at March 2, 2018 6:10 AM
"Ten Large, babe. Any takers?"
Nuh-uh. Bad odds. As Reynolds says, they are about to experience a run of "bad luck".
"Furthermore, the protectionist insanity from Trump on Thursday is almost precisely as corrupt as farm expropriation. "
I sense some cold political calculation there. When I saw that yesterday, my first thought was, "why steel?" I know, from having priced it a few years ago, that steel is already pretty darn high these days. And there isn't much of a domestic industry left to benefit from tariffs -- even if prices go up, the cost of environmental and other regs makes domestic producers uncompetitive with offshore.
A domestic sector that would really benefit from a tariff is the fabric and garment industry. A bunch of the cotton we grow is exported to offshore mills. When you are exporting raw materials and importing finished goods, you're a colony. But you know why that won't happen? Because it would make prices for those goods go up. Everyone has gotten used to the idea that they can buy Chinese-made clothes at Wal-Mart and Target, dirt cheap. A tariff in those areas would be immediately felt at the retail level. Both the retailers and the consumers would scream bloody murder.
Raw steel, on the other hand, isn't sold much at the retail level. It mostly goes into buildings and goods, and so changes in the price of steel aren't directly visible to the average Joe. All the consumer knows is that there's a wide field of increases on the prices of various goods and services. They may grumble about it, but for the most part they will dismiss it as inevitable general inflation.
So who wins with this play? To be honest, I'm not sure. Unlike, say, the tax cut, it's not something that's going to put money into a lot of people's pockets. As I said before, except for a few specialty sectors that won't benefit from this (in fact, it may make their costs go up), there isn't much of a domestic steel industry these days, so there aren't workers who are going to benefit. I doubt that it's going to re-bootstrap the industry; steelmaking requires a lot of investment to get something up and running, and the regulatory obstacles are still daunting. Trump could lose two years from now and the new President might reverse the tariffs, and/or impose further regulation. The industry is going to require a lot more long-term political stability before it starts moving back onshore.
My guess is that this was just intended as a sop to the Trump base. Once Trump figures out that the base doesn't care, and the economic impacts are pointed out to him, this will all disappear in a few weeks.
Cousin Dave at March 2, 2018 6:34 AM
Anyway, now that we have thoroughly hijacked Amy's topic... Voting with one's vagina strikes me as problematic. If the voting method involves punch cards, it seems to pose a danger of paper cuts in a place where one would particularly not want same. And if it's those old-fashioned machines with the levers, that seems both awkward and rather unsanitary.
Cousin Dave at March 2, 2018 6:37 AM
Trump tends to rely too much on the advice and counsel of fellow CEOs - which is fine in and of itself.
But CEOs, while they do understand economics, are concerned more with the welfare of their company and their industry over that of other companies and industries, or the economy as a whole.
So, US steel company CEOs want tariffs on imported steel. Car or airplane CEOs, concerned about the cost of steel, may not.
What's best for the country is not always what's best for GM.
Conan the Grammarian at March 2, 2018 6:42 AM
The only quibble I have with Crid's bet is the timing: I think it will happen sooner than later. But no, I'm not taking the bet. Do I look ugly AND stupid? don't answer that.
If I were a were a Afrikaner farmer with a vengeful streak, I might plow my current crop under, buy salty agricultural products and salt the fields. Just for spite. Then get on a big ol' jet airplane and fly away.
But in Philly, this is what happens when people can opt out of taxes: they opt out of the tax.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/03/philadelphia-soda-tax-fizzles-brings-in-13-million-less-than-expected/
I wonder how the same is going in Seattle?
I R A Darth Aggie at March 2, 2018 6:58 AM
The police and their ability to put ordinance downrange.
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/video-murder-suspect-draws-65-rapid-fire-shots-police-after-firing-them-twice
65 rounds from the cops, 2 from the perp, and No injuries were reported in the shooting. Well, that's fortunate for the innocent bystanders (if any).
I R A Darth Aggie at March 2, 2018 7:06 AM
By god I'm not voting for any pointy eared elvish. No vulcans neither. No lobes no vote! If you don't exist you shouldn't hold office.
Cousin Dave, I also read the Trump tariffs as a negotiating ploy. Very few in the US benefit. And if you are aiming for the corruption angle Trump's business interests are actually hurt by this. So it looks like him mouthing off just to shake things up. Kinda like his arguments with Boeing last year. What he publicly talked about wasn't the issue. It was just an excuse to get a negotiating team to give him a visit.
Ben at March 2, 2018 7:43 AM
Government "analysts" never calculate changes in behavior when estimating the effects of a new tax or regulation. So, the revenue collected by the government always increases.
Take any government estimate with a very large grain of salt.
Conan the Grammarian at March 2, 2018 7:51 AM
Maybe you're doing your children an injustice? emphasis mine, but my pap would have backed up my teachers fully would not have tolerated for a moment any aggressiveness on my part. I guess that's what you mean when you say "white privilege".
https://nypost.com/2018/02/26/florida-lawmakers-reject-assault-weapons-ban-approve-bill-allowing-teachers-to-carry-guns/
I R A Darth Aggie at March 2, 2018 7:54 AM
The Broward Sheriffs Office looks pretty broken from here. I wonder how this stacks up against the other 66 sheriffs offices in Florida?
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/03/01/broward-county-state-attorney-dozens-investigations-sheriffs-office/
I R A Darth Aggie at March 2, 2018 7:57 AM
More on South Africa. The situtation there is more complex than they appear from a distance. They have forgotten (or never heard) of the Klingon proverb that tells us that revenge is a dish best served cold.
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2018/03/is-south-africa-going-way-of-zimbabwe.html
I R A Darth Aggie at March 2, 2018 8:14 AM
> inevitable debate about
> admitting white African
> refugees.
That is some seriously brilliant foresight.
> Then get on a big ol' jet
They best have saved enough for an airline ticket, because the farm will no longer be theirs to wager.
> I sense some cold political
> calculation there.
You credit him very, very highly. He seems insensate to the genuine political interests of other human beings, including his wives and children.
Crid at March 2, 2018 8:14 AM
IOW, we ought not expect from him political insight or calculation nourished by the last 15 months. As Kagan put it more than a year ago, "Trump is not a learning animal."
Crid at March 2, 2018 8:16 AM
"Trump is not a learning animal."
Unlike Obama, who learned that he could increase armed drone attacks by a factor of 10 and his anti-war voters would ignore it.
Unlike Hillary, who learned that she could claim complete ignorance of top secret government computer security practices even after she was briefed on same and her voters would ignore it.
Unlike Bill Clinton, who learned that he could leave a trail of dead bodies and molested women in his wake and his voters would ignore it.
Unlike Ronald Reagan, who could squander the opportunity for nuclear disarmament in favor of a fantasy militarization of space and his voters would ignore it (and spend countless billions to support it).
Learners all. We need more learners!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 2, 2018 8:48 AM
None of those people are President. Today.
Are you still angry with girlfriends from kindergarten, grade school, high school, and college, including the one from the Community College that you didn't even attend?
I do not understand those who say 'Trump's no worse than others,' or merely 'fulfills their trends.' Is that what you wanted? What's to admire about such a man?
Fucksake, people.
Crid at March 2, 2018 9:13 AM
I never said they were, I'm saying that fanboys and girls will ignore their hero(ine)'s eye timbers while pointing out Trump's motes.
I didn't have girlfriends in kindergarten. I was five. Girls were icky when I was five.
You don't have to understand them, Crid, simply understand that Trump is a blowhard and for anyone to spend their life reacting every time the man belches out a tweet is an utter waste of time. Ask if he is working to fulfill his campaign promises, if he is protecting the Constitution.
The idea that anyone who doesn't condemn President Not-Hillary is somehow a Nazi stooge just seems goofy - unless the aim is to scream a lot and develop a migraine.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 2, 2018 9:29 AM
> I do not understand those who say 'Trump's no
> worse than others,'
I love the man. Trump speaks more truth in a day than the mainstream media have spoken in the last half century.
Snoopy at March 2, 2018 10:06 AM
The comments section is nothing but pure gold.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/ex-google-recruiter-i-was-fired-because-i-resisted-illegal-diversity-efforts/
There's even someone defending this practice because Title IX.
Sixclaws at March 2, 2018 11:17 AM
Anyway, now that we have thoroughly hijacked Amy's topic... Voting with one's vagina strikes me as problematic. If the voting method involves punch cards, it seems to pose a danger of paper cuts in a place where one would particularly not want same. And if it's those old-fashioned machines with the levers, that seems both awkward and rather unsanitary.
Thanks for the laugh, Cousin Dave.
Beware the hanging chad, ladies!
Kevin at March 2, 2018 11:18 AM
I bet that's a bulletproof hairdo
https://twitter.com/alexbrucesmith/status/969335408310984705
Sixclaws at March 2, 2018 11:29 AM
This is one of those moments where replacing the male model for a female one would have been a good idea because, uh, package.
https://twitter.com/reason/status/969304275258982400
Sixclaws at March 2, 2018 11:33 AM
I never said they were, I'm saying that fanboys and girls will ignore their hero(ine)'s eye timbers while pointing out Trump's motes.
________________________________________
But for how long will the reverse be true?
https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-is-working-overtime-to-make-life-harder-for-the-working-class/
It's about a woman who voted for Trump partly because she believed him regarding employment issues.
lenona at March 2, 2018 11:47 AM
You honestly think they economy is getting worse Lenona? And you took that piece from The Nation seriously? It makes the assumption that Elliott can never find another job ever again. So any reduction in welfare is 'hurting the working class'. Except you aren't 'working class' if you aren't working.
Ben at March 2, 2018 12:07 PM
Now Gog, much like Crid I am very disappointed in our current president. After all the man cannot squirt vanilla ice cream from his left nipple and chocolate ice cream from his right. The fact that no president in history has been able to do this is irrelevant. As Crid said, "I do not understand those who say 'Trump's no worse than others,' or merely 'fulfills their trends.' Is that what you wanted? What's to admire about such a man?"
We need to demand more from our elected official.
Also, diet soda, tv, golf, and some other random stuff.
Ben at March 2, 2018 12:17 PM
"I wonder how this stacks up against the other 66 sheriffs offices in Florida?"
The Brevard County Sheriff, Wayne Ivey, has some sensible things to say here.
Radwaste at March 2, 2018 12:33 PM
It makes the assumption that Elliott can never find another job ever again.
_______________________________________
Where does it say that? What's wrong with anything the article DOES clearly say?
lenona at March 2, 2018 2:17 PM
"After all the man cannot squirt vanilla ice cream from his left nipple and chocolate ice cream from his right. "
I find your lack of faith disturbing ... and I'm creeped out wondering which of our future two-nipple Presidents will be able to produce a full carton of Neapolitan.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 2, 2018 3:26 PM
Not ice cream, ELEMENTARY INTEGRITY.
You guys are addled. You can't help but fall into bitterness, lowballing expectations at every turn. This isn't about forward motion, or demanding baseline performance from government, in any way. It's about projecting your cynical teenage resentments and nothing else.
> Trump speaks more truth
Across America, it's still early in the weekend. By what alcoholic delusion could you imagine history is being written in such terms? "Truth"? You're gonna piss your mind away over "mainstream media"?
Pathos overwhelms
Crid at March 2, 2018 3:49 PM
As a rule, tiny dogs aren't good for much, but....
Crid at March 2, 2018 3:50 PM
Iowa the Hawk feels the power of Trump's illiterate truth.
Crid at March 2, 2018 4:03 PM
"It's easy!"
Does anyone remember a sparky little commenter here named "brian" from a few years ago? I didn't realize we were getting a preview of Donald Trump. Amy would describe some terrible corner of the human condition, some desperate realm of murky torment and suffering, and a few of her visitors would offer humble affirmations of sympathy and allegiance for our fellows in distress.
And then "brian" would begin a comment with 'Simple! you just have to...' And then drop two clipped sentences of trite wisdom from a cereal box. "It's easy!," says Trump.
I had no idea "brian" would one day be Commander in Chief.
Crid at March 2, 2018 4:31 PM
Gay Paree!
If you remember this, and I hope you do...
Crid at March 2, 2018 4:43 PM
...Then you'll love this.
Crid at March 2, 2018 4:44 PM
Ah yes, the Deux Chevaux. It was an ugly car. However, it has, over the years, gained a certain charm.
Conan the Grammarian at March 2, 2018 5:06 PM
Hosed the link. Here it is: Deux Chevaux.
Conan the Grammarian at March 2, 2018 5:08 PM
Sheesh, kid... No reason to be a prick about it.
Crid at March 2, 2018 5:44 PM
Sorry about the music, but after all these years, I still wonder what it would be like with those handlebars.
Crid at March 2, 2018 6:46 PM
Hmm....
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/290152/
I R A Darth Aggie at March 2, 2018 7:32 PM
Wuntwun. I know, 9 (Nine[!]) HP.
But still.
Especially if there's a midcentury continental jazz combo following me as I scoot through town at high-framerate motion.
("Pixelated" used to describe lower framerate shooting for higher-framerate playback. Nowadays all the dictionaries and glossaries use that word for digital artifacts.)
Crid at March 2, 2018 9:52 PM
Lenona there was so much wrong with what that article said. How can you not see it?
How was Trump "Making Life Even Harder for Working-Class Women". Even the subheadline was "His administration has already made workers, especially women, poorer, less secure, and less safe." And how did he accomplish that?
Apparently he failed to force a private company to keep one lady's job. Not much of a 'women'. After all only one woman was mentioned. And it flat isn't the job of the president to do that. In fact it would be grossly overstepping his authority and unethical for him to do that.
Any other ways Trump was making things harder for working-class women?
"The Labor Department has indicated it wants to give states greater leeway to drug-test unemployment recipients". This woman is on drugs? Also, if you are on unemployment you aren't working. Hence you aren't working-class.
"Under new guidance issued by the Trump administration, Indiana has become the second state to implement a work requirement for Medicaid recipients." Once again, not working-class.
After that was something about tips that was entirely speculative. Then "the Trump administration is pushing to expand work requirements and also make deep cuts to the program." Once again, welfare class not working class.
"The Trump administration isn’t contesting a judge’s ruling against" an overtime rule change from the Obama administration.
So you've essentially got an argument that this woman will be on welfare for the rest of her life and those cuts to welfare are going to ruin her life and the lives of other women. So once again, if you are on welfare and not working you aren't 'working-class'. Next, these changes are gender neutral. They affect men just as much as they affect women. The only real argument for Trump making life harder for the working class is his trade war stuff. And that didn't get mentioned because it happened too recently. February 8 article and such.
Ben at March 3, 2018 8:48 AM
At the same time, when it is all male panels making decisions about womens' health, it feels... troubling...
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Vote policies, not genitals or skin color.
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