Once again, men find excuses to blame women when men behave badly. Trump and much of MAGA are hardened misogynists. Whose fault is THAT? The misogynists who raised THEM. Meanwhile Nick Fuentes is training men to rape women and end our rights to our own bodies.
As long as you think this way, you'll keep pushing men away from the left. Also do you really think that 56% of young men are just searching excuses and are POS? Isn't this essentializing?
Yeah just like the majority of WOMEN voted for trump, heres and idea pull your head out of your ass and stop blaming MEN for you problems. The government took away YOUR rights not MINE so why do I have to fight for YOU? You got this right? Your better than us anyway right? YOU get out there and get a gun and YOU fight for it, YOU rebel, YOU do it, or shut up. I will NOT be fighting for YOUR rights, I've seen what you do with them...
I am proudly one of the 91% of Black Women who organized, phone banked, marched, and VOTED FOR HARRIS. Ninety-one percent of us! We knew...and saw what was coming.
My husband and I are a married Gay couple who took advantage of early voting to make our voices heard for VP Harris (although the incredible did happen and some of us LGBTs actually voted for the Dumpster Fire, which we shall NEVER understand). Even now we are stunned that we did not win; it seems incredible that he is going to be in office again and all I can say is we had best be prepared to fight for our rights.
I don't either, or the women who voted for a rapist and anyone of color who voted for a racist 🤔 and young men think tRump is a strong man? Not hardly and who votes for a convicted felon?
You get your fucking arrogance out of your ass where your brain and your ignorant assumptions come from and understand that only old uneducated women who can't get pregnant and c who are brained washed by a patriarchy that has oppressed them for decades, voted for Trump! Stop blaming women for creating a world of wars where children and women pay the price of your greed and stop blaming women for creating a country of evil men where they not only take away the rights of all women but is them who are the entire problem and the reason why your daughters can't ever be consider to fit as Presidents but also why your daughter is now going to not get medical attention and left to die if she gets pregnant and her fetus died in her belly! The government didn't take our rights you all did when you voted for a Nazi that will also take your money and your rights! Have some respect for the mother who brought you to this world and respect all women who are the creators of all of you ungrateful greedy entitled men who do nothing but cry like the manipulative abusers you are! Good quality men didn't vote for a racist and will fight for us and will get the love and respect of women!
You are all such fools, you assume I voted for Trump? Just because I hate the Democrats? The fact that I hate the Democrats doesn't mean that I can't hate the Republicans more?
You guys accuse Trumpers of being in a cult, and they are, but so are you!
You talk about abortion, why is abortion still even a question? At no point in the last 50 or 60 years have the Democrats controlled the presidency Congress and the Senate and the Supreme Court? So why didn't they codify it into law? Why just leave it sitting on an old court case that could easily be tossed out? Why leave it as 'strong precedent' instead of fucking LAW!? Why not make it the law federal law?
Do you remember last year when the immigration bill came through and Trump said "don't pass it we want to run on it" and you guys got so upset?
Do you remember that? It never occurred to you that the reason that abortion hasn't been codified at a federal level is because the Democrats want to run on it?
They're playing games with you and you are allowing it. The Democrats are the exact same party that the Republicans were in the mid 90s they have moved far, FAR to the right. There is no Liberal Party, there is no party for you and me.
They're playing games with you and you are swallowing it hook line and sinker, the social issues do not freaking matter social issues are going to straighten themselves out. All this we're going to codify whether gays can have rights or whether gays and trans should exist do you think they're just going to stop existing if they change the law? No they're not so those things are going to work themselves out because that's how social issues work so why are you getting so upset about social issues that don't matter?
Joe Biden had a chance to make it where Medicare could fight for price fixing on all drugs he did one, one out of 10,000 you call that progress? That's a SOP to make you feel better and shut up Bernie Sanders while corporate money runs amok. The rich get richer the poor get poor and you fall for it..
He had a chance to do what he said he was going to do and pay off student loans and he didn't do it. You know what he did he did something he knew the courts would strike down, he knew when he did it! Everyone at the time was saying THIS WILL NOT WORK you can't do it with these funds it's ILLEGAL and it won't work so when it was struck down, as well all knew it would be what did he do? He didn't go back to the drawing board and say OK let's try it a different way he said 'up tried and failed ha ha I guess you still owe that money!'
That wasn't an accident that wasn't a joke and you fell for it!
The justice system WAS weaponized! It's easy to prove because here's the thing if they truly thought that Trump was a criminal, and he clearly is, why didn't they press charge on him way back in February of 2020?
It doesn't take four years to build a case so why did they wait until election season to start the machine rolling? Because they thought that that would be the most advantageous to their campaigns. It wasn't about justice it was a game and they absolutely weaponized the system and a lot of people saw through it. You didn't because it's YOUR side of the cult.
If they had been serious about it and pressed charges back in the very beginning he would have already been in prison! He would have already been a felon and probably been unable to run in most states but no they waited why did they wait do you stupid fucks never think about that? Why did they wait?
They absolutely were weaponizing the justice system and I've said for the last four years you are playing with fire! This is a clown show on both sides and is the right the worse of two evils maybe maybe not but the fact that you fools cannot see that you're being played is mind boggling.
Frankly I am mystified that anyone voted for Trump at all. He boasted about grabbing women by the genitals, mocked a reporter with a disability (and I would have thought THAT little performance would finish him, but I guess I was wrong), he mismanaged the Covid pandemic so egregiously that over a million Americans died, and what is possibly the worst, he pandered shamelessly to world leaders that Reagan would never have given a second though to except to make sure they stayed at a distance.
Now I didn't like Reagan much, and I have not voted for a single Republican since Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Now I doubt I shall ever vote Republican because far too many of them are batsh!t crazy, criminally stupid, nuttier than my great-grandmother's fruitcakes, and more toxic than a bottleful of cyanide capsules.
As for those of you who voted for the Dumpster Fire, when his "policies" (if you can call them that) come back to bite you in the arse, don't bother crying to me or anyone else who saw what was coming because you voted for him so you will be getting what you voted for.
I raised my sons myself in the 90's and early 2000's and now I'm raising my autistic grandson. They have seen me work twice as hard as a man to get half as far. I don't understand how more young men don't see how hard it is women, Mom's, across the board. My boys are polite, giving and try to help when they see others being taken advantage of. That is a real man. Standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves and giving people a fighting chance. A real man has integrity!!!!
Shut up, women voted for him over 50% too, we in the ACTUAL left are tired of the lies, tired of the corruption, tired of the PRETEND liberalism, tired of the support of genocide, tired of the political correctness, tired of the reverse racism, tired of being BLAMED for the fake lefts corporate submission, tired of the FAKE lefts silly outrages and nonsense. GTFO with your 'real man' how the hell would YOU know what it takes to be a 'real man?' Want me to tell you what it takes to be a 'real woman?' No it's only ok when you lecture US, shut up, we don't want your opinion or your idiot lecture.
So basically half. Given the horror of the ERA being gutted and various reproductive health care methods being gutted, yes: White women should have voted overwhelmingly against Trump. They left us (Black women) hanging. So much for Women's Rights.
The liberal policies you decry are what make it possible for you to live and work in this country without fear. The "Republican" you just voted in is about to take away everything of that he can. Feel better now?
I would love to talk with you. I'm estranged from my siblings and it hurts a lot. I'm slowly getting back with my little brother and older sister, but my big brother won't reconnect. I'm from the bible belt midwest and have been traumatized by Trump for so long. And them, not so much. At all. My parents didn't raise us this way. It's been really hard.
Ok so how do you expect ME to help you? I don't know what the fuck is wrong with people on BOTH sides, fake liberals who only care about stupid social nonsense and people on the right who are just straight up fucking crazy and voted for a child rapist? How do you expect ME to bridge that gap?
Trump won young men because he speaks like them and blows microphones. He called Kamala a "cum bubbler". And he knew exactly what he was doing. I was naive enough to think that the people would be just as disgusted as myself and my peers but that was not the case. He said and did everything wrong and won by a landslide. HOW?
Nope, you are right, where was the voice of the people? If there had been a primary we could have seen where the people stood and behind Kamala was not where they were, CLEARLY.
Oh shut up, they said the same thing about trump last time and what did he do? Jack crap. Our nation is stronger than one idiot want to be dictator. He's going to stoke out in the next year anyway.
Russia is going to have thousands of people in the United States government for 4 years probably more...... Honestly Mark if you don't feel like thinking just go back to sleep and shut your dumbass up
YES yes I have and nothing that matters to me has changed. I hear all this 'it's the end of the world babylon has fallen! OMG OMG OMG...' And what changed? Nothing for me so that is why you lost, you can't keep screaming that the end is nigh and then end never comes. You say that trumpist are a cult (and they are) but your side is NO FUCKING BETTER! maybe YOU should shut YOUR dumbass up?
Blah blah blah 90% of that will never happen and the 10% that is will be blocked in the court. Nothing ever really changes but the rich get richer the middle class shrinks and more and more people slide into poverty. Meanwhile, both sides scream into the wind about all they are going to do for you and I while Nancy still insider trades to millions, trump steals everything not tied down, the democrat cowards use the 'justice system' as a weapon and the republican zealots use the 'justice system' to attempt to impose christian sharia law. Neither side is for ME so why should I fucking care again?
Apparently Biden too much of a fucking coward to do what needs to be done .... He has immutiny and he's just sitting around the house and welcome a dictator.... FUCK YOU BIDEN 🖕
I'm pretty disgusted right now. My son and I have a great relationship, and his dad was a mess so we separated early in our marriage. I taught my boy to be strong in real ways: try your best and be proud you did, treat others with honesty and care, speak to people respectfully even if you disagree. His crowd is a lot like him. He voted for Kamala. But you, David, don't want to believe that parenting any child, especially a young Black male, is hard work and a responsibility that changes communities. I taught my son to be a Wonderful, Respectful Human. Maybe that is what most of these other young men are missing.
I have an acquaintance with a son in his mid-20s who is struggling in every possible way. He quit college and has struggled to find a job. He still lives at home. He doesn't have a girlfriend. His mother's comments - "he can't find a gf because they won't date short guys". He can't find a gf "because it's a fad with young women to pretend to be bi". Nevermind the fact is that the problem is he doesn't want to date a bi girl, not that they won't date him. It's all just poor excuses. So what are we supposed to do? Continue to mollycoddle these man children? The last thing he needs to worry about is finding a gf, he needs to get his act together. This is just one example coming from people I know. You figure out a way to make these guys care more about women, I will get all behind it. I'm not insensitive to the serious obstacles that face our young people but I do not support throwing women under the bus in order to gain the support of people that easily swayed by the argument that their lives will magically be better if they dominate women. I don't think you're wrong about needing to reach them but as a woman I am too busy trying to protect my sisters. I am doing zero heavy lifting on this one. I am too disgusted.
WTF are you talking about? How and WHY does he 'need a gf?' Every woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle and every man needs a woman like he needs to be shot in the head with an elephant gun! He needs a job and a direction, the last thing he needs is some nagging expense hanging around his neck pissing away his money and giving him a hard time! Women are way WAY overrated, get on with your life and worry about YOU stop worrying about some skank.
And you (female) need to stop telling people what it takes to be a man. How the fuck would you know? I don't tell you how to be a woman so what the fuck do you think gives you the right to tell ANY man how he should act?
Sounds like you don't know either so I guess we're even. Although of the two of us I am probably the only one who is happily married, so there's that. I'm also not the one cursing about it. Cursing at me has the opposite effect of shutting me up btw.
I cuss cuz I like it too, but I'm not cussing at you. Your cussing AT me is meant to cow me and it won't. Interesting that you bring my gender into it because I suspect you talk to everyone like that when you hope to shut them down. But it does also seem like misogyny comes very easily to you.
I think you need to reread what I wrote. Nowhere did I say a gf would solve anything. Quite the opposite. It's his mother who thinks he needs a gf. I think he needs to get his s**t together first.
This is a perfect example of how progressives have completely failed to grasp basic rhetorical practice while the right wing has mastered it. Today the art of political persuasion has the right wing depending on emotion, while the left wing attempts to use logic. (There's no wonder that Ronald Reagan was called "the great communicator;" he and his descendent ilk have mastered the art of having people act against their own best interests and be thrilled while doing it.) As far as the recently-demonstrated majority goes, it's much more satisfying to gripe about the price of eggs two years ago than it is to contemplate the fact that inflation has been mostly brought under control and that the economy is stronger now than ever before.
I recently saw Washington state Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez interviewed by Chris Hayes, speaking to the facts on how this young female congresswoman won a second campaign over her MAGA rival, Joe Kent. Rep Perez explained that instead of relaying to her constituents the various positive legislations that the Biden administration had passed in the Capital, she focuses on issues facing her rural district, such as child care. Living on a dirt road herself and the fact that she and her husband had to drive 4 hours each day to access child care, for example, was one of many local issues that she embraced on a truely grannular level. This very down to earth Democratic Representative (who by the way owns and operates a local automobile shop) also advocates for expanded local skilled trades (electrician, plumbing, welding, etc.) training in district high schools among the many other locally pertinent issues she engages on. This Representative should be one of the primary role models for the refocusing of strategies that the Democratic Party needs to embrace going forward.
I recently saw Washington state Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez interviewed by Chris Hayes, speaking to the facts on how this young female congresswoman won a second campaign over her MAGA rival, Joe Kent. Rep Perez explained that instead of relaying to her constituents the various positive legislations that the Biden administration had passed in the Capital, she focuses on issues facing her rural district, such as child care. Living on a dirt road herself and the fact that she and her husband had to drive 4 hours each day to access child care, for example, was one of many local issues that she embraced on a truely grannular level. This very down to earth Democratic Representative (who by the way owns and operates a local automobile shop) also advocates for expanded local skilled trades (electrician, plumbing, welding, etc.) training in district high schools among the many other locally pertinent issues she engages on. This Representative should be one of the primary role models for the refocusing of strategies that the Democratic Party needs to embrace going forward.
We are in an age when might makes right. It has been in development for decades. The tipping point won't come to go the other way until after much suffering.
clever of trunp to align himself with musk. Musk is viewed as the pinnacle of american success. Musk did for the young white male what the apprentice did for white men and fake blondes.
Even if he is here illegally (he's not) or a white supremacist (he's not) he's objectively the greatest entrepreneur of the last 100 years. Dems losing musk due to their own hubris (not inviting Tesla to the EV summit, talking shit about him 24/7) was a huge loss and probably contributed to enough people turning off Dems to lose the election.
He wasn't invited to the EV summit because of his stance on unions. More recently, his embrace of Q learly indicated he's a moron. And no, he is not the "greatest" entrepreneur in the last 100 years. Whitewashing...good one....now go read a book
Young men worship muscle, strength, weaponry, attractiveness to women, competitive victory, extravagant wealth and the outward signs of it, .e..g expensive cars, clothes, jewelry, tattoos, gadgetry. Trump seems to have it all, so voting for Trump signals and validates their desires. He's their role model. No current Democrat can match that. Even the men, e.g. Newsom, seem weak and effeminate. One example stands in contrast. "Big John" Fetterman, and he won handily over Oz. There's a message in that.
This is really well put and insightful. I love how everything here is geared towards finding solutions and to being helpful to people, not hurtful. It's eye opening, liberating, and refreshing. Being able to see the full scope of things and embracing transparency carries such a freeing feeling, knowing I'm not allowing myself to be duped by wearing blinders to the world around me. Grateful for you David Pakman!
Once again, men find excuses to blame women when men behave badly. Trump and much of MAGA are hardened misogynists. Whose fault is THAT? The misogynists who raised THEM. Meanwhile Nick Fuentes is training men to rape women and end our rights to our own bodies.
But keep blaming women...
As long as you think this way, you'll keep pushing men away from the left. Also do you really think that 56% of young men are just searching excuses and are POS? Isn't this essentializing?
A lot of women raise misogynistic men, so those women who support that contribute as much as the fathers.
Yeah just like the majority of WOMEN voted for trump, heres and idea pull your head out of your ass and stop blaming MEN for you problems. The government took away YOUR rights not MINE so why do I have to fight for YOU? You got this right? Your better than us anyway right? YOU get out there and get a gun and YOU fight for it, YOU rebel, YOU do it, or shut up. I will NOT be fighting for YOUR rights, I've seen what you do with them...
I am proudly one of the 91% of Black Women who organized, phone banked, marched, and VOTED FOR HARRIS. Ninety-one percent of us! We knew...and saw what was coming.
My husband and I are a married Gay couple who took advantage of early voting to make our voices heard for VP Harris (although the incredible did happen and some of us LGBTs actually voted for the Dumpster Fire, which we shall NEVER understand). Even now we are stunned that we did not win; it seems incredible that he is going to be in office again and all I can say is we had best be prepared to fight for our rights.
I don't either, or the women who voted for a rapist and anyone of color who voted for a racist 🤔 and young men think tRump is a strong man? Not hardly and who votes for a convicted felon?
You get your fucking arrogance out of your ass where your brain and your ignorant assumptions come from and understand that only old uneducated women who can't get pregnant and c who are brained washed by a patriarchy that has oppressed them for decades, voted for Trump! Stop blaming women for creating a world of wars where children and women pay the price of your greed and stop blaming women for creating a country of evil men where they not only take away the rights of all women but is them who are the entire problem and the reason why your daughters can't ever be consider to fit as Presidents but also why your daughter is now going to not get medical attention and left to die if she gets pregnant and her fetus died in her belly! The government didn't take our rights you all did when you voted for a Nazi that will also take your money and your rights! Have some respect for the mother who brought you to this world and respect all women who are the creators of all of you ungrateful greedy entitled men who do nothing but cry like the manipulative abusers you are! Good quality men didn't vote for a racist and will fight for us and will get the love and respect of women!
You are all such fools, you assume I voted for Trump? Just because I hate the Democrats? The fact that I hate the Democrats doesn't mean that I can't hate the Republicans more?
You guys accuse Trumpers of being in a cult, and they are, but so are you!
You talk about abortion, why is abortion still even a question? At no point in the last 50 or 60 years have the Democrats controlled the presidency Congress and the Senate and the Supreme Court? So why didn't they codify it into law? Why just leave it sitting on an old court case that could easily be tossed out? Why leave it as 'strong precedent' instead of fucking LAW!? Why not make it the law federal law?
Do you remember last year when the immigration bill came through and Trump said "don't pass it we want to run on it" and you guys got so upset?
Do you remember that? It never occurred to you that the reason that abortion hasn't been codified at a federal level is because the Democrats want to run on it?
They're playing games with you and you are allowing it. The Democrats are the exact same party that the Republicans were in the mid 90s they have moved far, FAR to the right. There is no Liberal Party, there is no party for you and me.
They're playing games with you and you are swallowing it hook line and sinker, the social issues do not freaking matter social issues are going to straighten themselves out. All this we're going to codify whether gays can have rights or whether gays and trans should exist do you think they're just going to stop existing if they change the law? No they're not so those things are going to work themselves out because that's how social issues work so why are you getting so upset about social issues that don't matter?
Joe Biden had a chance to make it where Medicare could fight for price fixing on all drugs he did one, one out of 10,000 you call that progress? That's a SOP to make you feel better and shut up Bernie Sanders while corporate money runs amok. The rich get richer the poor get poor and you fall for it..
He had a chance to do what he said he was going to do and pay off student loans and he didn't do it. You know what he did he did something he knew the courts would strike down, he knew when he did it! Everyone at the time was saying THIS WILL NOT WORK you can't do it with these funds it's ILLEGAL and it won't work so when it was struck down, as well all knew it would be what did he do? He didn't go back to the drawing board and say OK let's try it a different way he said 'up tried and failed ha ha I guess you still owe that money!'
That wasn't an accident that wasn't a joke and you fell for it!
The justice system WAS weaponized! It's easy to prove because here's the thing if they truly thought that Trump was a criminal, and he clearly is, why didn't they press charge on him way back in February of 2020?
It doesn't take four years to build a case so why did they wait until election season to start the machine rolling? Because they thought that that would be the most advantageous to their campaigns. It wasn't about justice it was a game and they absolutely weaponized the system and a lot of people saw through it. You didn't because it's YOUR side of the cult.
If they had been serious about it and pressed charges back in the very beginning he would have already been in prison! He would have already been a felon and probably been unable to run in most states but no they waited why did they wait do you stupid fucks never think about that? Why did they wait?
They absolutely were weaponizing the justice system and I've said for the last four years you are playing with fire! This is a clown show on both sides and is the right the worse of two evils maybe maybe not but the fact that you fools cannot see that you're being played is mind boggling.
Frankly I am mystified that anyone voted for Trump at all. He boasted about grabbing women by the genitals, mocked a reporter with a disability (and I would have thought THAT little performance would finish him, but I guess I was wrong), he mismanaged the Covid pandemic so egregiously that over a million Americans died, and what is possibly the worst, he pandered shamelessly to world leaders that Reagan would never have given a second though to except to make sure they stayed at a distance.
Now I didn't like Reagan much, and I have not voted for a single Republican since Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Now I doubt I shall ever vote Republican because far too many of them are batsh!t crazy, criminally stupid, nuttier than my great-grandmother's fruitcakes, and more toxic than a bottleful of cyanide capsules.
As for those of you who voted for the Dumpster Fire, when his "policies" (if you can call them that) come back to bite you in the arse, don't bother crying to me or anyone else who saw what was coming because you voted for him so you will be getting what you voted for.
Wow. Who hurt you so bad? I feel for you. I'm sad that someone hurt you so much that you hate women in total.
Yeah me to but that is life my friend...
I raised my sons myself in the 90's and early 2000's and now I'm raising my autistic grandson. They have seen me work twice as hard as a man to get half as far. I don't understand how more young men don't see how hard it is women, Mom's, across the board. My boys are polite, giving and try to help when they see others being taken advantage of. That is a real man. Standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves and giving people a fighting chance. A real man has integrity!!!!
Shut up, women voted for him over 50% too, we in the ACTUAL left are tired of the lies, tired of the corruption, tired of the PRETEND liberalism, tired of the support of genocide, tired of the political correctness, tired of the reverse racism, tired of being BLAMED for the fake lefts corporate submission, tired of the FAKE lefts silly outrages and nonsense. GTFO with your 'real man' how the hell would YOU know what it takes to be a 'real man?' Want me to tell you what it takes to be a 'real woman?' No it's only ok when you lecture US, shut up, we don't want your opinion or your idiot lecture.
That is false.
52% of white women voted for trump in swing states, learn to fucking read a chart and stop LYING
So basically half. Given the horror of the ERA being gutted and various reproductive health care methods being gutted, yes: White women should have voted overwhelmingly against Trump. They left us (Black women) hanging. So much for Women's Rights.
The liberal policies you decry are what make it possible for you to live and work in this country without fear. The "Republican" you just voted in is about to take away everything of that he can. Feel better now?
Which ones exactly? TELL ME EXACTLY which policies I decried that make my life 'BETTER' in anyway?
I would love to talk with you. I'm estranged from my siblings and it hurts a lot. I'm slowly getting back with my little brother and older sister, but my big brother won't reconnect. I'm from the bible belt midwest and have been traumatized by Trump for so long. And them, not so much. At all. My parents didn't raise us this way. It's been really hard.
Ok so how do you expect ME to help you? I don't know what the fuck is wrong with people on BOTH sides, fake liberals who only care about stupid social nonsense and people on the right who are just straight up fucking crazy and voted for a child rapist? How do you expect ME to bridge that gap?
Trump won young men because he speaks like them and blows microphones. He called Kamala a "cum bubbler". And he knew exactly what he was doing. I was naive enough to think that the people would be just as disgusted as myself and my peers but that was not the case. He said and did everything wrong and won by a landslide. HOW?
He didn't win by a landslide but very thin margins. A very close race.
Franklin said "if we can keep it".... Looks like it's back to a monarchy for U.S..... Sorry Ben we FUCKED UP....
Idk anointing a candidate like a queen (kamala) seems more in line with a monarchy to me 🤷🏼♂️
Nope, you are right, where was the voice of the people? If there had been a primary we could have seen where the people stood and behind Kamala was not where they were, CLEARLY.
Okay you're just fucking stupid
Oh shut up, they said the same thing about trump last time and what did he do? Jack crap. Our nation is stronger than one idiot want to be dictator. He's going to stoke out in the next year anyway.
Russia is going to have thousands of people in the United States government for 4 years probably more...... Honestly Mark if you don't feel like thinking just go back to sleep and shut your dumbass up
YES yes I have and nothing that matters to me has changed. I hear all this 'it's the end of the world babylon has fallen! OMG OMG OMG...' And what changed? Nothing for me so that is why you lost, you can't keep screaming that the end is nigh and then end never comes. You say that trumpist are a cult (and they are) but your side is NO FUCKING BETTER! maybe YOU should shut YOUR dumbass up?
It's not just one idiot that's the problem project 2025 haven't you been paying attention Mark?
Blah blah blah 90% of that will never happen and the 10% that is will be blocked in the court. Nothing ever really changes but the rich get richer the middle class shrinks and more and more people slide into poverty. Meanwhile, both sides scream into the wind about all they are going to do for you and I while Nancy still insider trades to millions, trump steals everything not tied down, the democrat cowards use the 'justice system' as a weapon and the republican zealots use the 'justice system' to attempt to impose christian sharia law. Neither side is for ME so why should I fucking care again?
NO, No, no!!! We are NOT going back to a monarchy… you and all of us need to fight back, don’t give in!!
Tell Biden to do his fucking job and we won't be a monarchy
Apparently Biden too much of a fucking coward to do what needs to be done .... He has immutiny and he's just sitting around the house and welcome a dictator.... FUCK YOU BIDEN 🖕
I'm pretty disgusted right now. My son and I have a great relationship, and his dad was a mess so we separated early in our marriage. I taught my boy to be strong in real ways: try your best and be proud you did, treat others with honesty and care, speak to people respectfully even if you disagree. His crowd is a lot like him. He voted for Kamala. But you, David, don't want to believe that parenting any child, especially a young Black male, is hard work and a responsibility that changes communities. I taught my son to be a Wonderful, Respectful Human. Maybe that is what most of these other young men are missing.
I have an acquaintance with a son in his mid-20s who is struggling in every possible way. He quit college and has struggled to find a job. He still lives at home. He doesn't have a girlfriend. His mother's comments - "he can't find a gf because they won't date short guys". He can't find a gf "because it's a fad with young women to pretend to be bi". Nevermind the fact is that the problem is he doesn't want to date a bi girl, not that they won't date him. It's all just poor excuses. So what are we supposed to do? Continue to mollycoddle these man children? The last thing he needs to worry about is finding a gf, he needs to get his act together. This is just one example coming from people I know. You figure out a way to make these guys care more about women, I will get all behind it. I'm not insensitive to the serious obstacles that face our young people but I do not support throwing women under the bus in order to gain the support of people that easily swayed by the argument that their lives will magically be better if they dominate women. I don't think you're wrong about needing to reach them but as a woman I am too busy trying to protect my sisters. I am doing zero heavy lifting on this one. I am too disgusted.
WTF are you talking about? How and WHY does he 'need a gf?' Every woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle and every man needs a woman like he needs to be shot in the head with an elephant gun! He needs a job and a direction, the last thing he needs is some nagging expense hanging around his neck pissing away his money and giving him a hard time! Women are way WAY overrated, get on with your life and worry about YOU stop worrying about some skank.
Life doesn't have to be so dark. Part of being mature is realizing that mental health is possible. You don't have to do life all on your own.
You need to stop trolling and work on your reading comprehension skills.
And you (female) need to stop telling people what it takes to be a man. How the fuck would you know? I don't tell you how to be a woman so what the fuck do you think gives you the right to tell ANY man how he should act?
Sounds like you don't know either so I guess we're even. Although of the two of us I am probably the only one who is happily married, so there's that. I'm also not the one cursing about it. Cursing at me has the opposite effect of shutting me up btw.
Did you suggest i might have some secret way to get a woman to shut up? No... Nobody does... I cuss cuz I like it.
I cuss cuz I like it too, but I'm not cussing at you. Your cussing AT me is meant to cow me and it won't. Interesting that you bring my gender into it because I suspect you talk to everyone like that when you hope to shut them down. But it does also seem like misogyny comes very easily to you.
A GF doesn't solve anything. It's up to him.
I think you need to reread what I wrote. Nowhere did I say a gf would solve anything. Quite the opposite. It's his mother who thinks he needs a gf. I think he needs to get his s**t together first.
This is a perfect example of how progressives have completely failed to grasp basic rhetorical practice while the right wing has mastered it. Today the art of political persuasion has the right wing depending on emotion, while the left wing attempts to use logic. (There's no wonder that Ronald Reagan was called "the great communicator;" he and his descendent ilk have mastered the art of having people act against their own best interests and be thrilled while doing it.) As far as the recently-demonstrated majority goes, it's much more satisfying to gripe about the price of eggs two years ago than it is to contemplate the fact that inflation has been mostly brought under control and that the economy is stronger now than ever before.
I recently saw Washington state Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez interviewed by Chris Hayes, speaking to the facts on how this young female congresswoman won a second campaign over her MAGA rival, Joe Kent. Rep Perez explained that instead of relaying to her constituents the various positive legislations that the Biden administration had passed in the Capital, she focuses on issues facing her rural district, such as child care. Living on a dirt road herself and the fact that she and her husband had to drive 4 hours each day to access child care, for example, was one of many local issues that she embraced on a truely grannular level. This very down to earth Democratic Representative (who by the way owns and operates a local automobile shop) also advocates for expanded local skilled trades (electrician, plumbing, welding, etc.) training in district high schools among the many other locally pertinent issues she engages on. This Representative should be one of the primary role models for the refocusing of strategies that the Democratic Party needs to embrace going forward.
Thank you.
I wish I could say you were doing more than just polishing the brass on the Titanic .....Thomas democracy is over.
I recently saw Washington state Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez interviewed by Chris Hayes, speaking to the facts on how this young female congresswoman won a second campaign over her MAGA rival, Joe Kent. Rep Perez explained that instead of relaying to her constituents the various positive legislations that the Biden administration had passed in the Capital, she focuses on issues facing her rural district, such as child care. Living on a dirt road herself and the fact that she and her husband had to drive 4 hours each day to access child care, for example, was one of many local issues that she embraced on a truely grannular level. This very down to earth Democratic Representative (who by the way owns and operates a local automobile shop) also advocates for expanded local skilled trades (electrician, plumbing, welding, etc.) training in district high schools among the many other locally pertinent issues she engages on. This Representative should be one of the primary role models for the refocusing of strategies that the Democratic Party needs to embrace going forward.
Thank you.
Bravo to Rep Perez! Well done!!!👍
We are in an age when might makes right. It has been in development for decades. The tipping point won't come to go the other way until after much suffering.
It's about hero worship. Very
clever of trunp to align himself with musk. Musk is viewed as the pinnacle of american success. Musk did for the young white male what the apprentice did for white men and fake blondes.
Except Musk is here illegally. He is a white supremist from South Africa, not American.
Even if he is here illegally (he's not) or a white supremacist (he's not) he's objectively the greatest entrepreneur of the last 100 years. Dems losing musk due to their own hubris (not inviting Tesla to the EV summit, talking shit about him 24/7) was a huge loss and probably contributed to enough people turning off Dems to lose the election.
He wasn't invited to the EV summit because of his stance on unions. More recently, his embrace of Q learly indicated he's a moron. And no, he is not the "greatest" entrepreneur in the last 100 years. Whitewashing...good one....now go read a book
Which book? Liftoff? Rentry? Or the autobiography by Walter Isaacson?
I recommend reading all 3 before you form an opinion about Mr. Musk
No, I can form an opinion on him simply by what he posts and what he says.
Quite ignorant of you
white men.
Trump made inroads with non-white men as well.
Young men worship muscle, strength, weaponry, attractiveness to women, competitive victory, extravagant wealth and the outward signs of it, .e..g expensive cars, clothes, jewelry, tattoos, gadgetry. Trump seems to have it all, so voting for Trump signals and validates their desires. He's their role model. No current Democrat can match that. Even the men, e.g. Newsom, seem weak and effeminate. One example stands in contrast. "Big John" Fetterman, and he won handily over Oz. There's a message in that.
It took a whole paragraph for you to say America is a teenage boy
Someone like Arnold is a great example of a masculine role model who was Republican but supported Dems. Prob should leverage him a bit more.
This is really well put and insightful. I love how everything here is geared towards finding solutions and to being helpful to people, not hurtful. It's eye opening, liberating, and refreshing. Being able to see the full scope of things and embracing transparency carries such a freeing feeling, knowing I'm not allowing myself to be duped by wearing blinders to the world around me. Grateful for you David Pakman!
David, PLEASE stop showing his photo. We all know what he looks like. This part of the problem, everyone continues to show his pic and he loves that.
But even more, I hate that women and girls are stuck with these types of men, and their deathly laws, for the next four years.