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Male panic!

Male Physical Decline: Masculinity Is Threatened | National Review

 

so tone deaf

 

Well there's your pivot. Time to buckle in.

 

That's where we disagree. I do not believe it's moral to pay more taxes than you owe to the Government.

 

Weird how Trump apparently felt too controlled by Manafort but is now saying whatever the Breitbart people tell him to.

 

Is it immoral for homeowners to deduct their mortgage interest?

 

I appreciated the follow-up.

 

the original study is a look at grip strength lmao such unnecessary posturing

 

Clearly he was trying to quote Marx and just forgot the second half of the phrase

 

FWIW:

corroborated by: Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

and also this is good:

Hillary Clinton stopped taking money from private prisons

 

The right to vote, for one:

 

I am not certain if you intended to write the word "riot", but when people ask why black folks riot, it is important to remember white people have dismantled every mechanism by which they'd be able express themselves. Violence , fear and destruction have become the only means to alert white folks to our presence and concerns.

 

I meant "right" - dumb fingers.

 

Is Donald Trump Actually Trying to Win?

Even if this is true, I disagree with describing him as a “protest candidate”. He is, fundamentally, a self-promotional candidate. He’s doing it to promote the Trump brand and increase his personal celebrity. His support comes from people who see him as a protest candidate, but Trump himself cares only about Trump, not immigration or Middle East foreign affairs or who’s nominated for the Supreme Court.

I found Cegielski’s bold claim credible right from the start. That could be wishful thinking on my part, because I don’t want him to be president. It’s easy to believe what you want to be true. That’s the sort of thinking that led a lot of Mitt Romney supporters (including Romney himself) to believe that because of “skewing”, Romney was going to beat Obama in 2012 despite the fact that all the major polls showed him losing. The basic idea is that U.S.-based polls are “skewed” in favor of Democratic candidates, and that when “unskewed”, you could see that Romney was actually winning. But there was never any actual evidence that the polls were skewed — Republicans bought into it simply because they wanted it to be true.

But to my mind, Trump’s entire campaign strategy makes more sense in this scenario. I think Trump finds being a candidate for president to be a lot of fun. He loves the big crowds and the sound of his own voice. He loves being on the TV news non-stop, and on the front page of every newspaper, every day. I think he’d find actually being president to be terribly boring. By all accounts, it’s a lot of work, even for presidents like Reagan and George W. Bush, who delegated smaller decisions and seldom concerned themselves with the intricacies of policy details.

 

The Intervention

In the staff room, Axelrod and Plouffe were aghast. Sitting with them, Obama’s lead pollster, Joel Benenson, muttered, “This is unbelievable.”

Watching from the set, the renowned Democratic style coach Michael Sheehan scribbled furiously on a legal pad, each notation more alarmed than the last. Reflecting on Obama’s interplay with the questioners, Sheehan summed up his demeanor with a single word: “Creepy.”

After 90 excruciating minutes, the Mock From Hell was over. As Obama made his way to the door, he was intercepted by Axelrod, Plouffe, Benenson, and the lead debate coach, Ron Klain. Little was said. Little needed to be said. The ashen looks on the faces of the president’s men told the tale.

I'd never read this before, it's all about the second Obama debate. Really fascinating stuff.

 

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.

We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.

“Both sides do it” or “There is plenty of blame to go around” are the traditional refuges for an American news media intent on proving its lack of bias, while political scientists prefer generality and neutrality when discussing partisan polarization. Many self-styled bipartisan groups, in their search for common ground, propose solutions that move both sides to the center, a strategy that is simply untenable when one side is so far out of reach.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/sports/olympics/sexism-olympics-women.html

The increased media coverage might be the reason for the increased scrutiny on why the words used to describe the women are still very different from those used to describe their male counterparts.

“We found things like men being described as fastest, strong, biggest,” Ms. Grieves said. “For women, it’s unmarried, married, references to their age. There is an inequality there.”

The Cambridge research team will soon deliver a new analysis based on what it found in Rio during this year’s games.

“It’s really hard to tell whether the language used is sexist or whether it’s isolated examples that people are picking up on,” Ms. Grieves said of the coverage so far. “It feels like there have been a lot.”

 

So Trump gained some ground today, any thoughts on why?