mimima
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Post by mimima on Nov 29, 2018 16:14:49 GMT
Kyle Griffin... “Trump considered reappointing Janet Yellen to serve as Fed Chair, but he appeared to be hung up on her height, WaPo reports. Trump told aides on the National Economic Council on several occasions that the 5' 3" Yellen wasn't tall enough to lead the Fed.” Oh thank goodness! I was afraid once he became king he’d start drafting handmaids. What a relief to know I’d be exempt! (I’m 4’10”) Oh, crud. I'm 5'5"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 16:44:39 GMT
link😀 From the Washington Post... “How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood” “From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump’s rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters. See, for example, the “Donald Trump: Finally Someone With Balls” T-shirts common at Trump rallies. But our research suggests that Trump is not necessarily attracting male supporters who are as confidently masculine as the president presents himself to be. Instead, Trump appears to appeal more to men who are secretly insecure about their manhood. We call this the “fragile masculinity hypothesis.” Here is some of our evidence. What is ‘fragile masculinity’? Research shows that many men feel pressure to look and behave in stereotypically masculine ways — or risk losing their status as “real men.” Masculine expectations are socialized from early childhood and can motivate men to embrace traditional male behaviors while avoiding even the hint of femininity. This unforgiving standard of maleness makes some men worry that they’re falling short. These men are said to experience “fragile masculinity.” The political process provides a way that fragile men can reaffirm their masculinity. By supporting tough politicians and policies, men can reassure others (and themselves) of their own manliness. For example, sociologist Robb Willer has shown that men whose sense of masculinity was threatened increased their support for aggressive foreign policy. We wanted to see whether fragile masculinity was associated with how Americans vote — and specifically whether it was associated with greater support for Trump in the 2016 general election and for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections. How we measured fragile masculinity
Measuring fragile masculinity poses a challenge. We could not simply do a poll of men, who might not honestly answer questions about their deepest insecurities. Instead we relied on Google Trends, which measures the popularity of Google search terms. As Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has argued, people are often at their least guarded when they seek answers from the Internet. Researchers have already used Google search patterns to estimate levels of racial prejudice in different parts of the country. We sought to do the same with fragile masculinity. We began by selecting a set of search topics that we believed might be especially common among men concerned about living up to the ideals of manhood: “erectile dysfunction,” “hair loss,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “penis size,” “steroids,” “testosterone” and “Viagra.” (With the exception of “how to get girls,” these are Google “topics” rather than individual search terms. For instance, the topic “erectile dysfunction” includes searches for “erectile dysfunction,” “ED” and “impotence.”) To validate this list of topics, we asked a sample of 300 men on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform whether they ever had or ever would search for them online. We found that scoring high on a questionnaire measuring “masculine gender-role discrepancy stress” — concern that they aren’t as manly as their male friends — was strongly associated with interest in these search topics. Although these men were not a representative sample of American men, their responses suggest that these search terms are a valid way to capture fragile masculinity. We measured the popularity of these search topics in every media market in the country during the years preceding the past three presidential elections. In the map below, darker colors show where these searches were most prevalent in 2016. We found that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as “erectile dysfunction.” Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as “breast augmentation” and “menopause.” In contrast, fragile masculinity was not associated with support for Mitt Romney in 2012 or support for John McCain in 2008 — suggesting that the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections was distinctively stronger in 2016. The same finding emerged in 2018. We estimated levels of fragile masculinity in every U.S. congressional district based on levels in the media markets with which districts overlap. Before the election, we preregistered our expectations, including the other factors that we would account for. In the more than 390 House elections pitting a Republican candidate against a Democratic candidate, support for the Republican candidate was higher in districts that, based on Google search data, had higher levels of fragile masculinity. However, there was no significant relationship between fragile masculinity and voting in the 2014 or 2016 congressional elections. This suggests that fragile masculinity has now become a stronger predictor of voting behavior.Notably, fragile masculinity was unrelated to support for female candidates in the 2018 elections, once we accounted for the fact that female candidates are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans. It therefore appears that fragile masculinity doesn’t reduce support for female candidates but rather increases support for Republican candidates of any gender. Here’s the takeaway
Our data suggests that fragile masculinity is a critical feature of our current politics. Nonetheless, points of caution are in order. First, the research reported here is correlational. We can’t be entirely sure that fragile masculinity is causing people to vote in a certain way. However, given that experimental work has identified a causal connection between masculinity concerns and political beliefs, we think the correlations we’ve identified are important. Second, it remains to be seen whether any link between fragile masculinity and voting will persist after Trump exits the national stage. We suspect, however, that Trump’s re-engineering of the GOP as a party inextricably tied to many Americans’ identity concerns — whether based on race, religion or gender — will ensure that fragile masculinity remains a force in politics.”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 16:48:32 GMT
Michael S. Schmidt..
“Guiliani attacks Mueller in statement: "It is hardly coincidental that the Special Counsel once again files a charge just as the President is leaving for a meeting with world leaders.. [Mueller] did the very same thing as the President was leaving for a world summit in Helsinki."
Well if trump & friends weren’t so corrupt, this wouldn’t be an issue now would it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 16:50:51 GMT
Brian Schatz..
“We are demanding the Inspector General investigate underpayments and missed payments to 360,000 veterans. This is a full-fledged scandal that harms people who put their lives on the line for our country, and it’s against the law as well. W/@derekkilmer”
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 16:53:23 GMT
link😀 From the Washington Post... “How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood” “From boasting about the size of his penis on national television to releasing records of his high testosterone levels, President Trump’s rhetoric and behavior exude machismo. His behavior also seems to have struck a chord with some male voters. See, for example, the “Donald Trump: Finally Someone With Balls” T-shirts common at Trump rallies. But our research suggests that Trump is not necessarily attracting male supporters who are as confidently masculine as the president presents himself to be. Instead, Trump appears to appeal more to men who are secretly insecure about their manhood. We call this the “fragile masculinity hypothesis.” Here is some of our evidence. What is ‘fragile masculinity’? Research shows that many men feel pressure to look and behave in stereotypically masculine ways — or risk losing their status as “real men.” Masculine expectations are socialized from early childhood and can motivate men to embrace traditional male behaviors while avoiding even the hint of femininity. This unforgiving standard of maleness makes some men worry that they’re falling short. These men are said to experience “fragile masculinity.” The political process provides a way that fragile men can reaffirm their masculinity. By supporting tough politicians and policies, men can reassure others (and themselves) of their own manliness. For example, sociologist Robb Willer has shown that men whose sense of masculinity was threatened increased their support for aggressive foreign policy. We wanted to see whether fragile masculinity was associated with how Americans vote — and specifically whether it was associated with greater support for Trump in the 2016 general election and for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections. How we measured fragile masculinity
Measuring fragile masculinity poses a challenge. We could not simply do a poll of men, who might not honestly answer questions about their deepest insecurities. Instead we relied on Google Trends, which measures the popularity of Google search terms. As Seth Stephens-Davidowitz has argued, people are often at their least guarded when they seek answers from the Internet. Researchers have already used Google search patterns to estimate levels of racial prejudice in different parts of the country. We sought to do the same with fragile masculinity. We began by selecting a set of search topics that we believed might be especially common among men concerned about living up to the ideals of manhood: “erectile dysfunction,” “hair loss,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “penis size,” “steroids,” “testosterone” and “Viagra.” (With the exception of “how to get girls,” these are Google “topics” rather than individual search terms. For instance, the topic “erectile dysfunction” includes searches for “erectile dysfunction,” “ED” and “impotence.”) To validate this list of topics, we asked a sample of 300 men on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform whether they ever had or ever would search for them online. We found that scoring high on a questionnaire measuring “masculine gender-role discrepancy stress” — concern that they aren’t as manly as their male friends — was strongly associated with interest in these search topics. Although these men were not a representative sample of American men, their responses suggest that these search terms are a valid way to capture fragile masculinity. We measured the popularity of these search topics in every media market in the country during the years preceding the past three presidential elections. In the map below, darker colors show where these searches were most prevalent in 2016. We found that support for Trump in the 2016 election was higher in areas that had more searches for topics such as “erectile dysfunction.” Moreover, this relationship persisted after accounting for demographic attributes in media markets, such as education levels and racial composition, as well as searches for topics unrelated to fragile masculinity, such as “breast augmentation” and “menopause.” In contrast, fragile masculinity was not associated with support for Mitt Romney in 2012 or support for John McCain in 2008 — suggesting that the correlation of fragile masculinity and voting in presidential elections was distinctively stronger in 2016. The same finding emerged in 2018. We estimated levels of fragile masculinity in every U.S. congressional district based on levels in the media markets with which districts overlap. Before the election, we preregistered our expectations, including the other factors that we would account for. In the more than 390 House elections pitting a Republican candidate against a Democratic candidate, support for the Republican candidate was higher in districts that, based on Google search data, had higher levels of fragile masculinity. However, there was no significant relationship between fragile masculinity and voting in the 2014 or 2016 congressional elections. This suggests that fragile masculinity has now become a stronger predictor of voting behavior.Notably, fragile masculinity was unrelated to support for female candidates in the 2018 elections, once we accounted for the fact that female candidates are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans. It therefore appears that fragile masculinity doesn’t reduce support for female candidates but rather increases support for Republican candidates of any gender. Here’s the takeaway
Our data suggests that fragile masculinity is a critical feature of our current politics. Nonetheless, points of caution are in order. First, the research reported here is correlational. We can’t be entirely sure that fragile masculinity is causing people to vote in a certain way. However, given that experimental work has identified a causal connection between masculinity concerns and political beliefs, we think the correlations we’ve identified are important. Second, it remains to be seen whether any link between fragile masculinity and voting will persist after Trump exits the national stage. We suspect, however, that Trump’s re-engineering of the GOP as a party inextricably tied to many Americans’ identity concerns — whether based on race, religion or gender — will ensure that fragile masculinity remains a force in politics.” Have said this for 20 years - since the gingrich/reagan etc. days. They are losing their power to rule over everyone else and they HATE it and fear it - fearing the rest of us will treat them as they've treated us - ignored, sidelined, pushed out of power, etc. The GOP and right-wing religions give the promise of the strong daddy (in the sky or in the white house) who will save them from the uppity women, browns and gays. They clutch those promises like the leaden lifesavers that they are. They will follow them down to the bottom of the ocean rather than let go, and take a ride on a rising boat built on equality.
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samantha25
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Post by samantha25 on Nov 29, 2018 16:56:12 GMT
Check this out, Trump's business firm's attorney:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS: This is a firm that's done work for Trump's businesses.<br><br>It's happening, everyone. Right now. Get informed as fast as you can on the background of what's going to be the most stunning set of revelations in US political history. Playing on your TV now through 2019. <a href="https://t.co/tqPno28MQV">https://t.co/tqPno28MQV</a></p>— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1068185093641068545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 16:56:59 GMT
trump...
“Based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to Ukraine from Russia, I have decided it would be best for all parties concerned to cancel my previously scheduled meeting....
....in Argentina with President Vladimir Putin. I look forward to a meaningful Summit again as soon as this situation is resolved!”
Now if this was President Obama, he would have the meeting if for no other reason then to tell Putin to knock it off when it comes to the Ukraine. But trump is too much of a coward to bring this up directly with Putin.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 17:05:58 GMT
Chickens coming home to roost day?
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pyccku
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Post by pyccku on Nov 29, 2018 17:09:29 GMT
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 29, 2018 17:10:00 GMT
Check this out, Trump's business firm's attorney: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING NEWS: This is a firm that's done work for Trump's businesses.<br><br>It's happening, everyone. Right now. Get informed as fast as you can on the background of what's going to be the most stunning set of revelations in US political history. Playing on your TV now through 2019. <a href="https://t.co/tqPno28MQV">https://t.co/tqPno28MQV</a></p>— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1068185093641068545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I don't know how to fix the twitter link, but it's the offices of Edward M. Burke, Chicago alderman. His law firm did tax work for Trump for 12 years. Feds showed up this morning, asked everyone to leave, and put brown paper on the doors / windows. (doing a bit of secret Christmas decorating, maybe? lol!) ETA: lol- here's one of the comments on the Twitter thread: "Is the brown paper to protect the windows when the shit hits the fan?"
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 29, 2018 17:17:28 GMT
Chickens coming home to roost day? 🎶🎶 Brown paper packages tied up with strings... These are a few of my favorite things! 🎶🎶
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flute4peace
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Post by flute4peace on Nov 29, 2018 17:25:50 GMT
I have a question. If Manafort violated his plea agreement with Mueller, aren’t there major consequences?
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pyccku
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Post by pyccku on Nov 29, 2018 17:28:49 GMT
I have a question. If Manafort violated his plea agreement with Mueller, aren’t there major consequences? Yes. There are a bunch of charges he'll be hit with (things that were part of the plea agreement) and more property to be seized.
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Just T
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Post by Just T on Nov 29, 2018 17:30:02 GMT
Chickens coming home to roost day? 🎶🎶 Brown paper packages tied up with strings... These are a few of my favorite things! 🎶🎶 I'm a bit surprised this isn't on the news. It seems like a huge thing.
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pyccku
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Post by pyccku on Nov 29, 2018 17:31:53 GMT
I'm a bit surprised this isn't on the news. It seems like a huge thing. It's big, but the other stuff is slightly bigger. People are still trying to parse the whole Cohen thing.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Nov 29, 2018 17:32:08 GMT
I have a question. If Manafort violated his plea agreement with Mueller, aren’t there major consequences? Yes, I think there are-- the prison time he got was contingent on his cooperation, I think. I believe I heard they can re-try him on some of the charges if they choose to, but I didn't hear anything more than that yet.
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Just T
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Post by Just T on Nov 29, 2018 17:37:08 GMT
I'm a bit surprised this isn't on the news. It seems like a huge thing. It's big, but the other stuff is slightly bigger. People are still trying to parse the whole Cohen thing. There is so much, I have a hard time keeping up these days. It seems like something big is about to happen, but then I've been thinking that for a long time. LOL
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 29, 2018 17:39:56 GMT
It's one thing after another. The reporters can barely catch their breath before some new item is brought to light, or another Trump tweet is issued.
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flute4peace
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Post by flute4peace on Nov 29, 2018 17:55:55 GMT
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Sarah*H
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Post by Sarah*H on Nov 29, 2018 18:04:23 GMT
In keeping with the one thing after another, he just canceled his last 2 formal meetings at the G20 and will no longer meet with Turkey or South Korea.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 18:11:53 GMT
linkJohn Harwood.. “what all-GOP government under Trump has wrought: —no Obamacare repeal —no infrastructure plan —no border wall —no executive oversight —short-term tax-cut stimulus —long-term budget deficits —chaotic trade conflict —House Democratic sweep” From CNBC... “The all-Republican government will end as it began under Trump, in disarray”From the article.. *President Trump's all-GOP government ends a two-year run as it began, by struggling to govern at all. *Thus completes the chaotic circle of governance by Trump and the GOP Congress: fanciful promises, contradictory priorities, presidential provocations that Republicans won’t rein in. *Voters responded this month by handing the House to Democrats.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 18:13:53 GMT
Aaron Rupar...
“TRUMP, speaking to reporters outside the White House, says Michael Cohen is "a weak person. And by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. So he is lying about a project everybody knew about."
And who should we believe? Certainly not trump.
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lizacreates
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Post by lizacreates on Nov 29, 2018 18:22:34 GMT
I have a question. If Manafort violated his plea agreement with Mueller, aren’t there major consequences? Oh, yes. Many consequences, as a matter of fact. Do you wish to know what all of them are? (I, personally, have never seen anything like this, which is one of the stupidest things a felon can do.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2018 18:30:00 GMT
I have a question. If Manafort violated his plea agreement with Mueller, aren’t there major consequences? Oh, yes. Many consequences, as a matter of fact. Do you wish to know what all of them are? (I, personally, have never seen anything like this, which is one of the stupidest things a felon can do.) Do you think he lied because Trump has floated the pardon to him?
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pyccku
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Post by pyccku on Nov 29, 2018 18:46:39 GMT
Oh, yes. Many consequences, as a matter of fact. Do you wish to know what all of them are? (I, personally, have never seen anything like this, which is one of the stupidest things a felon can do.) Do you think he lied because Trump has floated the pardon to him? Yes. I think he took the deal with every intention of working as a mole to outsmart Mueller. But they forgot two very important things: 1. Mueller already knows everything. 2. It’s hard to outsmart someone when the two of you are Dumb and Dumber and the guy you’re trying to outsmart is pretty damn smart.
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Post by missmiss on Nov 29, 2018 18:52:00 GMT
I wonder what Rainbow and Lauren would say with all this information coming out while trying to spin this using Hillary or Obama.
Because you know Fakenews blah blah blah Hillary's emails etc...
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Just T
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Post by Just T on Nov 29, 2018 18:53:00 GMT
Do you think he lied because Trump has floated the pardon to him? Yes. I think he took the deal with every intention of working as a mole to outsmart Mueller. But they forgot two very important things: 1. Mueller already knows everything. 2. It’s hard to outsmart someone when the two of you are Dumb and Dumber and the guy you’re trying to outsmart is pretty damn smart.I think what I love most about Mueller is that he seems to be cool as a cucumber. With all of Trump's tweets about him, and the witch hunt, etc., he never ever responds; he just keeps plugging away doing his work.
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